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Lift Up The Standard Pt 1
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the program. Where are your host,
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Janine Jose and myself Matthew. It has been a while since we did
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the introduction to this, but today we're going to be continuing in the lift
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up the Standard series and it starts here in Isaiah chapter five. Now,
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Isaiah chapter five is a very complicated chapter and we've got a lot of ground
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to cover. But one thing is for sure. We need to pray ourselves
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into this and we need to pray ourselves out. So um, ladies,
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first, a man Jose, amen here, so please pray jan need Father.
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Our lives are busy and filled with obstacles, but you are sovereign overall.
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Open our hearts, our minds, our understanding of your word as we
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go through it, and sit in awe of your knowledge and your grace.
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Well, thank you, Father for this opportunity. Use it to teach us
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in Jesus name. Amen, Amen, Dedan, did you read this at
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all? Yes? I did? You did? Wow? You actually read
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it this time. That's that's awesome. I read it for she what's your
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opening comments about Isaiah chapter five? Like you said, it is a very
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complex, multilayered chapter, and I think without being immersed in the Greek and
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the Hebrew, perhaps it's difficult to get the full gist of it. As
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always, I would say, that's an as always, Yes, that that's
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that's never a case where it doesn't apply. What do you need? That's
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only because God's Word is not in English, right and it never was.
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And mitter of fact, you know, this is usually a shock of the
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system when I say this in the pulpit or in the classroom. It's not
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in Hebrew either, because Hebrews not don't have enough information that shocks them.
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Oh oh you mean, yeah, you teach a lot from the Greek.
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You must be talking about the Greek. No, that don't have enough either.
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It's a binary code, people. Let me say that again. God's
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Word is a binary code comprised of the Hebrew and the Greek. You have
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to put the two together. It's like ones and zeros in a binary code.
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So don't understand this that that is really only one of those layers.
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This is highly complex. I mean take note. I'm gonna say this again
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very slowly. Both Hebrew and Greek never had Arabic numerals, not ever,
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and sometimes that confuses people what's a numeral one, twos, and threes.
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Those are Arabic innovations made up by Fibonacci. Most people know the Fibonacci number.
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He's the one that came up with Arabic numerals in the early seven hundreds.
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Those were never in the Bible, God's Holy Word. Most of you
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are able to at least grab a hold of Revelation. When it talks about
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six to sixty six, you think in your mind. Oh, in Greek
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it says it has three numerals six. No, it doesn't half numerals.
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It has alpha numerics. It has three letters that equate two, six hundred
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and sixty six. So take note just what this chapter does. You all
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need to memorize the end time integers. Those end time integers are two thousand
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and three hundred from Daniel, thirteen thirty five from Daniel one thousand, tier
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and ninety from Daniel one thousand, two sixty, which is mentioned prophetically by
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Daniel. Daniel calls it times time and a half time, and another place
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it says it's time, times and the dividing of time. You need to
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know those in time integers. They are incorporated in here alpha numerically. I
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mean, this is just gonna blow your mind. The two thousand and three
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hundred sequence is in the Hebrew in verse five and six. It's also in
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verse ten. The one thousand, undred sixty integer is in verse seventeen.
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It's also in verse twenty five. The thirteen thirty five integer is in verse
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four and verse thirty. The one thousand, un ninety is in verse twenty.
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Now me just saying that, ladies and gentlemen, there is no odds
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that all those in time integers are incorporated into this one chapter like that,
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there is no odds. I mean, there comes a threshold. All mathematicians
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know this. If you have an odd that is one in a million,
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that's an impossibility. So Jeanine's saying this is highly complex is a gross understatement.
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So no one understand this, Ladies and gentlemen. God's word has a
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whole lot more information than what you're reading in the English, irregardless of translation.
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So who will say, what's your opening comments on Isaiah chapter five?
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So when I was reading this today, Matthew, there's a whole lot of
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pointers to stuff we've read in the Gospel, and so it kind of sounds
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similar to what you heard in the gospel. But but it's a little bit
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different, right, But throughout this whole chapter, it's it's like you can
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literally stop, go to the gospel and read something on that, come back,
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and then you get two verses down and you have to go right back
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to the gospel because you're like, hey, I remember, you know Jesus
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saying something about this, you know, throughout the whole chapter. So it's
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and I don't know, I don't know, I don't know the best description
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for it, Matthew, But it's just like, um, it's like saying,
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there's a reason why they were saying this about Jesus. There's a reason
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why Jesus said this. There's a reason why John the Baptists said this,
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and it's it's obviously it's prophetic. I'm not gonna say it's not prophetic,
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but it's more it's more like relaying information that unless you unless you know those
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alpha numerics, and unless you can remember what was being said in the gospel,
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you won't know to come back here and try to try to get more
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details about what's actually being said. Well, I've got to say this,
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you, Jesus is absolutely lutely preaching from this in Mark twelve. Amene.
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No, no, no, no, not a little bit. No no,
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no, no, no. Jesus is preaching from Isaiah chapter five.
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Yes he is. I will quote here. You will quickly see Jesus is
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quoting from this chapter. That's how important this is. Mark chapter twelve,
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verse one. And he began to speak to them in parables. A man
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planet a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a that under
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the wine press, and built a tower, and rented it out to Brian
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growers, and went on a journey. Ladies and gentlemen, he is directly
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quoting the parable of the vineyard. And I'll read it to you Isaiah chapter
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five. Let me sing now for my well beloved, a song of my
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beloved concerning his vineyard. My well beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hilt.
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He dug it all around and remove it stones. He planted it with
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the choices vine He built a tower in the middle of it. He also
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shooed out a wine vat in it. Then he expected it to produce good
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grapes, but it produced only worthless ones. Yes, ladies and gentlemen,
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Jesus is preaching exactly from this chapter, and he goes way out of his
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way in Mark chapter twelve to affirm this, using this very this very chapter
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Nieddah chapter five. That fulfillment theology is true. It's not debatable because if
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we read Mark chapter twelve through, he absolutely declares and they even know who
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he's talking about. Okay, verse twelve. I'm just just so you know.
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They knew exactly who he was talking about verse twelve, and they were
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seeking to seize him. And yet they feared the people, for they understood
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that he spoke the parable against them, and so they left him and went
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away. The Bible just told you, beyond any shadow of a doubt that
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Isaiah chapter five is targeting the Judaist. Yes it is, and they knew
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it. So we all need to understand what's going on here. So whatever's
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coming up in this chapter is exceedingly important. It's exceedingly important. So I
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hope everybody can wrap their mind around what I just said. Now, we
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could get lost in the data right now if I wanted to stop and just
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relaying to your cross references. And most of you are probably upset right now
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because you know the mainstay of this ministry is the New American Standard Bible,
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the ninety five update. You're probably get a little bit set because you can't
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seem to find Isaiah chapter five in those footnotes for Mark chapter twelve. You're
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setting there thing of yourself. Now, something ain't right, and I'll do
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it. I'll read off to you the cross references provided by the New American
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Standard Bible PSAWM eighty, The Song of Songs Chapter eight, Matthew twenty one,
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Matthew twenty five, Mark twelve, Mark thirteen, Jeremiah two, Jeremiah
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twelve, Mark twenty one, Luke twenty. If you need a hint,
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you ain't got it, lou somebody went way out of their way to make
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sure you did not know if you were a lay person that Jesus is preaching
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from Isaiah chapter five. I'm stating that with authority. So whatever is getting
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ready to be said in Isaiah chapter five, you better know and understand it's
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detrimental to your survival. But that's really all you need to know. So
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with that in mind, we're going to take a look at these at the
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stanza in question that we're going to be covering here, and it's just verses
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twenty six through thirty. I'm gonna read it, and we're gonna get Janine
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and Jose's comments. Let me say this again, Isaiah, chapter five,
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starting in verse twenty six, reading through to verse thirty. He will also
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lift up a standard to the distant nation, and will whistle for it from
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the ends of the earth. And behold, it will come with speech swiftly.
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No one in it is weary or stumbles. None slumbers or sleeps,
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nor is the belt at its waist undone, nor its sandal strap broken.
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It's our rows are sharp, and all of its bows are bent. The
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hoofs of its horses seem like flint, and its chariot wheels like a whirlwind.
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Its roaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions.
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It growls as it seizes its prey and carry feet off with none to deliver,
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and it will growl over it, and that day, like the roaring
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of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold there is darkness
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and distress. Even the light is darkened by its clouds. So this is
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where we get the idea that this stay endered. Whatever it is, this
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sign is pretty important. So Janine, let me get your comments on that.
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Who do you think he's talking about? He is he talking about good
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guys? Are bad guys? What sounds like the great and terrible day of
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the Lord? It sure does, all right, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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it does, Yes, it does. Now the problem is is that,
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you know, we have to accept something, ladies and gentlemen. The
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Assyrian false prophet is also at the behest of the Lord because he is God,
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and what he does he does with God's say so. And we were
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just told that whatever his mechanation is and his horde is absolutely supernatural and it's
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charged by God. And you not stop it, not with nukes, not
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with torpedoes, not with land minds. You are not stop it. Jose
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your thoughts on these verses, Boy, Matthew, when you read just that
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stands up by itself, it's sure sounds it's sure sounds like that acts that
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the Lord's brought. Um. I mean, it's it's pretty terrible picture he's
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painting here. You know what this this that nation is gonna do? Um.
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Yeah, that's that's a nice little puzzle there, I'm Matthew, it
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is. It is a nice little puzzle there. Yeah, I guess we
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would have to figure out the time frame that God's talking about here about when
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this destination comes in? What is what is that standard that signals it to
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come in? When that standard will be lifted up? Um, Now it
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does say right there in verse thirty on that day, and that's that's the
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triggered word for me when I see that that's him, Yes, the great
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and Terrible day of the Lord. Yes, that's that's that's the Lord God.
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That's right, he owes it. So at this point you would have
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to agree. Um, we would need to read the preceding verses to find
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out what's going on, because, believe me, Jose, you know,
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one of the most probably disturbing things that you've heard me say to the beginning
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is this that probably confused you when you heard it, because I don't talk
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like your priest, do I? Jose? What's that? I don't talk
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your priest talk, do I? No, No, Matthew, you don't.
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I've always stated that this to you from the beginning. God don't care,
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Jose. He's going to tell you because he don't care if you no,
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We're not amen right out and tell you you nine percent of the time
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we don't like that, Doe Jose, No, Matthew, especially when it
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comes to your you know, your mom finding cookie crumbs on your breeches and
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she asked you did you get in the cookie jar? And you're setting everything
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to yourself. I could lie right right ninety nine percent of the time,
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Ladies and gentlemen, your nature goes against God's law, so you need to
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accept it. God will come out and say He's impregnated things into this text.
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Not for Tom Dick, or Harry or Peter, Paula Mary. If
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you are saved through the Lord Jesus Christ, and you know you're on the
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island of Samoa, guess what Isaiah chapter five is for you personally? If
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you have been saved through the Lord Jesus Christ, he's talking to you.
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So who wants to read these verses? Because I read the stands itself,
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I think somebody else should read them. I will which one's all of it?
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Starting from where, start from the top. Give it to me both
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barrels, swear in the chest starting with the beginning of chapter five. Yes,
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it's the para all of the vineyard. Let me sing now for my
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well beloved, a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well beloved
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had a vineyard on a fertile hill, and he dug it all around,
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removed its stones, implanted it with the choicest vine He built a tower in
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the middle of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it. Then
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he expected it to produce good grapes, but it produced only worthless ones.
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And now own inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and
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my vineyard. What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have
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not done in it? Why when I expected it to produce good grapes,
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did it produce worthless ones. So now let me tell you what I am
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going to do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge and it will
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be consumed. I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground,
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and I will lay it waste. It will not be pruned or hold.
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The briars and thorns will come up. I will also charge the clouds
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to rain no rain on it. For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts
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is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his delightful plant.
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Thus he looked for justice, but behold bloodshed for righteousness. But behold a
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cry of distress. Let me interject right here. If you're wondering who he's
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talking about in verse seven, you need to read Romans Chattered nine through eleven,
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and there is no doubt who he's talking about. He's talking directly to
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you, the Christian who is redeemed through Christ the Lord. Amen, and
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you better figure this out right now. Before whatever event he's talking about,
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you will not get your latter rain. Do you hear me, Jose,
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Amen, be most readily assured. Verse six is going to happen, and
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it's going to happen before this day. Let me say that again, the
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latter rain blessing will not come before this event. Now he's getting ready to
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I mean, I'm glad that we read a little bit from Mark chapter twelve,
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because now you understand what Judah is. I'm going to say it very
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clean clergy. Let me say that again. I didn't say Methodist or Presbyterians.
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I didn't say classic Catholics. I didn't say Wesleyans. I said clergy,
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all of them. Janine, Yes, we don't have time for that.
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God just told me to shut up. Continue on the verse eight,
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Please woes for the wicked. Woe to those who add house to house and
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join field to field until there is no more room, so that you have
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to live alone in the midst of the land. In my ears, the
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Lord of Hosts has sworn. Surely many houses shall become desolate, even great
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and fine ones without occupants. For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one
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bath of wine, and an omer of feed will yield but an efa of
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grain. Woe to those who rise early in the mornings that they may pursue
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strong drink, who stay up late in the evening, that wine may inflame
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them. And their banquets are accompanied by lyre and harp, by tambourine and
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flute, and by wine. But they do not pay attention to the deeds
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of the Lord, nor do they consider the work of his hands. Therefore,
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my people go into exile for their lack of knowledge, and their honorable
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men are famished, and their multitude is parched with thirst. Therefore Chaol has
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enlarged his throat and opened its mouth without measure, and Jerusalem splendor, her
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multitude, her din of revelry, and the jubilant within her descend into it.
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So the common man will be humbled, and the man of importance abased.
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The eyes of the proud also will be base, But the Lord of
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hosts will be exalted in judgment, and the Holy God will show himself wholly
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in righteousness. Then the lamb's will grace says, they're in their pasture,
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and strangers will eat in the waste places of the wealthy. Woe to those
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who drag iniquity with the chords of falsehood and sin, as if with cart
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ropes, who say, let him make speed, let him hasten his work
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that we may see it, and let the purpose of the Holy One of
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Israel draw near and come to pass, that we may know it. Woe
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to those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light,
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and light for darkness, who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
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Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their
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own sight. Woe to those who are heroes and drinking wine, and valiant
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men in mixing strong drink, who justify the wicked for a bribe, and
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take away the rights of the ones who are in the right. Therefore,
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as a tongue of fire consumes stubble and dry grass collapses into the flame,
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so their root will become like rot, and their blossom blow away as dust.
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For they have rejected the law of the Lord of Hosts and despised the
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word of the Holy One of Israel. On this account, the Angel of
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the Lord has burned against his people, and he has stretched out his hand
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against them and struck them down. The mountains quaked, and their corpses lay
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like refuse in the middle of the streets. For all his anger is not
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spent, but his hand is still stretched out. Here. He will also
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lift up a standard to the distant nation, and we'll whistle for it from
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the ends of the earth. And behold, it will come with speed,
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swiftly. No one in it is weary or stumbles. No one slumbers or
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sleeps, Nor is the belt at its waist undone, nor it's sandal strap
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broken. Its arrows are sharp, and all its bows are bent. The
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hoofs of its horses seem like flint, and its chariot wheels like a whirlwind.
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It's roaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions.
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It growls as it seizes the prey and carries it off with no one to
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deliver it, and it shall growl over it in that day like the roaring
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of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold there is darkness
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and distress. Even the light is darkened by its clouds. Joy. Why
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there's the phrase that kept coming up. Matthew was swift and the booty speedy
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is the prey Amen, man, I mean I can't I that's that's just
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what I keep seeing here. And riddle meant Jose works from well, that's
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Isaiah, Isaiah aid if I if I believe that's right, We're not there
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yet, right. One thing, I noticed that this nation that he whistles,
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he's calling it like a dog. And it reminds me of what Shakespeare
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the line, one of the lines from Shakespeare, Um, cry havoc,
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and let loose the dogs of wars. And that's exactly what I seek here
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it um. The impression that you're getting from these verses is that these warriors
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are perhaps not human because they do not undo their belts, They never tire,
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their sandals are never undone or broken, so unlike a human army,
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where those things happen all the time. The bows are always bent, the
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arrows are always sharp. How could the bows always be bent? Well,
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if you have a crossbow or the lanyard, Okay, I'll give you that,
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although there's doesn't say crossbow. No, it does not, and I'm
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not certain if both were a weapon back in those days, and we both
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would agree. I don't care how strong you are. You're not gonna tread.
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You're not going to do any traveling and keep your bow bent the entire
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time, are you not? If you're human? No, can't do it.
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You can't. I mean, you realize that it was saying that it's
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bows were bent while it was driving the chariots. People don't do that,
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Geneva. No, they don't, especially when they're not in range. Right,
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if there's nothing to shoot at, why there's no point? So,
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Jose, do you think this is natural or well? No, I said
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that wrong, because supernatural can also pertain to people. Is this is this
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human or non human entities? Now that this I mean, if this is
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the Assyrian Matthew, if this is the acts in the Lord's hand, he's
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bringing an angelic hoast with him. Um, I'm taken over to Deuteronomy twenty
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eight, and boy, this this distant nation has not have good things said
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about it, not at all. No. Um. A nation of fierce
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countenance is also how it's described. Um. It will not show favor to
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the it will not regard the person of the old north shark favor to the
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young. Um. Yeah, you're redoter out of me twenty eight. And
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and what's talking about this distant nation. It's it's not it's not um.
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It's not coming to do nice things. It's not coming to play. Tiddley
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winks, No, it's not the peace Corps. And he's he's taught Lord's
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talking to his people in Deuteronutomy twenty eight. Yeah. He he says,
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this is what's going to happen for your disobedience. And this is absolutely it's
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absolutely what Isaiah chapter five just said, right right, God's hired out it.
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And you know, I need to be direct with you, but okay,
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you need to understand that what is overran the church now is lawlessness.
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Okay. They seem to have tricked the Western Church and the Eastern Church,
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ladies and gentlemen. Lawlessness is also known as antinomianism because that's from the Greek
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lawless. It's when you don't believe you have to follow the moral law to
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enter heaven. It's called free grace. So I need to be very careful
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to make sure you understand what just come out of my mouth. God the
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Father does not take kindly to his clergy teaching his sheep this. I mean,
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this is literally overran the church. Jose. Would you agree, Yeah?
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I would agree with that, Matthew. Yes. So everybody needs to
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know that right now. If you've been taught free grace, you're in for
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a world of hurt because God he don't here. And if you think He's
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going to permit a whore to marry his son, you are grossly mistake.
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A liar is a liar, Jose. A liar is not a Christian.
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Amen. If you will own a pornography website, you're not a Christian,
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Jose. Amen, Jane. If you're an accountain and you're skimming off the
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top and stealing from your customers, you're not a Christian. You're a thief,
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Janine. Right, I think there's a couple of people that need to
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mute their mic. I have a little lot of feedback that's not now.
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And then the other one six for one, thank you. He says that
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right, there in verse twenty. Whoa whoa to those who call evil good
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and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who
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substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. I mean, my gosh,
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they're even doing it to the beer. If you've been following the bud light
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controversy, I'm sorry I wasted my time, but you know, I mean,
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it's just indicative of what is happening, right, and some people that's
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not even how do I say that politely? Some people that have that are
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obviously not sanctified is taking high umbrage with it. It's very offensive to them,
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and they haven't been sanctified. Now, I'm not saying they're not Christians
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or not, because I'm sure if you ask them, they say, yeah,
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I'm a Christian. I'm a billy Bob, of course i am.
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You know. I was born in Kentucky. Of course I'm a Christian,
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you know. And so I'm not saying that. I'm saying that they're obviously
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not sanctified in their uncouth mannerisms. But yes, Janine, they're they're because
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this is offensive, Janine, because everybody knows this. I don't care if
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you go ask a Catholic. A Catholic will hold to the law, to
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the testimony. Every Catholic will tell you, of course you have to obey
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them moral law. Of course, abortionists aren't going to heaven. All right,
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You didn't understand what I said, right, Okay, Go ask a
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Presbyterian. Any Presbyterian setting in the peple will tell you, of course you
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can't rob banks and enter the Kingdom of heaven. But this is exactly what
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the clergy is doing. The clergy is doing this so that they can collect
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the ties of the wealthy. That's what I said. That's what I meant.
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And if you think God is going to tolerate it, you're in for
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a world to heart. Because just so you know, who has mentioned there
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in this chapter is Judah, who is mentioned in Mark chapter twelve as the
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Pharisees. You better figure it out. It's the clergy. Yes, So
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it doesn't matter, Janine, if you're going to an Episcopalian church, it
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don't matter. It's common knowledge that you must hold to the moral law.
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You cannot and the love of money is the root of all evil, but
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not all Just so you know that the reason why I said that ladies and
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gentlemen, don't think. Don't think that. I don't know that. Many
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pastors will teach that that as long as you're not stealing money, it's not
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a sin. So you can abort your babies, you can murder infants,
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you can rape little girls and still go to heaven because the Bible says the
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only thing you can't do is steal money. Look, I'm just here to
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inform you listen to my voice. You need to hearken to my voice.
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Lord. He's God and he is absolutely no respecter of persons, and you
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need to come to grips with this. The Bible repeatedly says that you're going
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to have to deal with him before you get to be entertained by his son.
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All the verses in the Bible say that, all of them, you
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get to go to the King's house and be entertained by the king, and
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he chooses who gets to go to the wedding ceremony. Imaginine, Amen,
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He don't say it a couple of times, as he jose, Nope,
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he says it every time. So it just needs you all to know that
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this day is coming. It's his day. Now. Reading this in context
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makes you think, well, what about the Book of Joel, and maybe
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maybe we should do something on Joel in the future, because well, the
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things described of Joel's army, which is four different when you read it in
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the Hebrew, it's four different types of entities and they ain't people. It
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brings remembrances to me of that army described in Joel, which, by the
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way, just so you know, God says that's his army, right,
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Jose, Yes he does. So. Janine, your comments, I think
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I'm commented out. Really really, you started me thinking about Joel, and
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I'm like, oh Joel, Yes, it's like, oh, shiny okay.
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You know, Janine, you're good with numbers, right, Yes,
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I'm gonna say something very calculated. Oh okay, I don't want your response
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on it. Indoctrination must be reinforced with lies. Edification is confirmed by facts.
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Everybody better figure this out. Whoever's in the pulpit, and I don't
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care who they are, or whoever is at the head of the classroom,
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you better figure out they're doing one of two things. They're either indoctrinating you
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or you're edifying you. Janet, your thoughts on that it is? It
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truly that black and white. I would say it would have to be because
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there's no metal ground it's holy or it's profane. That's right, there's there's
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no metal. Well yeah, sort of kind of part holy, part profane.
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No, No, that's im that's the issue with being human, because
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we were meant to be holy and instead we became profane through the sin of
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Adam. That's right. And the rest all of history is written, and
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the trust of it all is redeeming adams sin in all of us. That's
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right. We learned that in Hebrews, right, yes, and Genesis through
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the maps. Yeah. But I opened the Book of I happened to open
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my Bible. That just fell open to Joel. Imagine that chapter two.
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Imagine that, blow a trumpet in Zion and sound an alarm on my holy
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mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of
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the Lord is come. I mean, surely it is near. A day
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of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the
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dawness spread over the mountains. Well, you realize he's quoting from Isaiah chapter
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five. We just read that. Yes, it's the personal thing verse thirty
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and it will growl over it in that day like the roaring of the sea.
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If one looks to the land, behold there is darkness and distress.
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Even the light is darkened by its clouds. And that does not sound like
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a human army to me? What's us? Kose? Did you catch what
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God actually said there? Jose? Because if you, if you love riddles,
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you understood what he just said. Let me read it one more time.
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Even the light is darkened by its clouds, Jose? How can light
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be darkened only if you're covering up the light source? No, hovering it
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up does it make the light dark? Right? It just presents you from
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seeing it. So what is a actually being stated here? People? That
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the nature of light is being changed in that instance? Well, the best
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way we could relay this so that people are edified, it is very simple
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for an electrician, gen mean, you do know what a dimmer switches?
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Don't you? A real stat Yes? And tell me what is this thing?
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What does it do? Well, in a basic as it trottles back
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the power to the light. So you're saying it's a dimmer switch, yes,
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okay, Let that sink in, ladies and gentlemen, there's only one
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way to darken light, it's to dim it. And this is saying that
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whatever this cloud is, it absorbs hmm. It is saying that this cloud
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has the power to take the energy out of the electromagnetic spectrum. Oh oh,
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that's not a good thing. Good How would I define good? That's
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a very interesting way to put that good. Perhaps I should say it doesn't
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sound like it would necessarily be beneficial to a human being. I definitely,
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yeah, I would agree. You know what's interesting to me is is here
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in this verse in the alpha numerics has incorporated the thirteen thirty five sequence.
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Now I know what that means, Janine, I'm not like other people.
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I don't guess. I'm telling you I know what that means. I know
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exactly what that means. So can anybody remember what that thirteen thirty five pertains
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to? Jose? How about you? Yeah? Well, he's it's when
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when Dan speaks of Um. First she talks about the twelve ninety, and
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then he talks about um surviving past that to the to the thirteen thirty five.
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So that that space and time, that space and that space and space
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and time where where God's got everything going topsy turvy. And and you've got
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you've got to endure that, um, that time frame where we're not gonna
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be able to tell up from down. We're not gonna be able to tell
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what day, what day it is, what time of day it is?
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Or you know, um, heck if you if if that, if the
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light is not it's dark, and Matthew, how are we gonna be able
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to tell what time of day it is? Good point, Let's let's read
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this, Okay, you know what? I better read the verse before it?
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Wow, verse ten? I mean, surely all of you know what
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chapter I'm reading from anyway, verse ten. Many will be purged here,
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refied and refined. But the wicked will act wickedly, and none of the
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wicked will understand. But those who have insight will understand. From the time
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that the regular sacrifice is abolished and the obolionation of desolation is set up,
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there will be one thousand, two hundred ninety days. How blessed is he
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who keeps waiting and attained to the thirteen thirty five days. But as for
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you, go your way to the end. Lord, have mercy ready,
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gentlemen, do you understand what he said? You don't do you that's all
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right. I'll finish it anyway. Then you will enter into you rest and
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rise again for your allotted portion at the end of the age. Now,
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just so you know, the Lord was kind enough to tell you in Isaiah
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chapter five how long this was gonna last. You can take this to the
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bank, kose, Just so you know. Okay, Janine, I need
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you to be up to speed on this because there's coming a time. There's
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gonna be four, there's gonna be forty five days. You're have to pull
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your bootstraps up. Okay, Okay, So you don't need to be wishy
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washy, you don't need to have you know, you know, false hopes
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and delusions of grandeur. Janine, Now you know you're gonna be throttled for
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forty five days. Now you know I both know psychologically that's half the battle,
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right, It's yeah, once you're in a situation, what breaks most
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people psyche is there not knowing how long it's going to be, how long
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this is going to take, right right, which is why the psalms emphasize
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that our dependence has to be upon the Lord. That has to be our
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focus, that will get us through that hey man, Amen, especially if
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you know what he's doing, right, Amen, or even if you don't,
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you just know that it's his plan. You know, ladies and gentlemen,
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I could relay this to some you know, I need, I need
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to give jose a chance to speak, or what's your thoughts, No,
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Matthew, I mean it's everywhere. Everywhere this chapter takes you when you're trying
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to study it out. It's again, it's like you said, it's good
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reminding you what he says from the beginning, follow his law and listen to
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the testimony of his son. It tells us right here in this chapter in
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verse two, he expects good grapes, but he's getting worthless ones. And
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he's talking about the vineyard. He's talking about us. He's talking about the
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church today. Yes, just let me interject. He makes it perfectly clear
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in mark chapter twelve that this is all the laborer's fault. Yes, and
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the laborers is Judah, the laborers is the clergy. Go ahead. So
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he says in verse twelve that they do not pay attention to the deeds of
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the Lord, nor do they consider the work of his hands. So to
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me, Matthew, that's saying you're not doing the will of God. You're
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doing your own will. You're you're moving things and you're our orchestrating things um
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to benefit you so that you can you can feed while the rest of the
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flock starves. And I mean it's it's it's pretty simple. But God's just
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giving you immense details. And again He's repeated himself over and over and over
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and over and over. Just follow my law, listen to the testimony of
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my son, and everything will be all right. But you know there's a
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bunch of knuckleheads running around, Matthew. So that's just it's it's again.
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It ties it all into the gospels, right, That's that's what that's the
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gospel message over and over and over. Not my will be done, Lord,
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but yours. So I think that's what we need to take away from
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this chapter. Um, you know, the details blow. The detail that
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he gives us blow, prophetic details he gives us just blows me away.
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But that that's just the way Lord started off this chapter. That's that's the
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important part there, Matthews. And when you get to the desert, don't
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whine, I don't whine. Let me throw this in here real quick,
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because we've only got seven minutes left. Sometimes I have to cut to the
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chase, and we're going to talk about who the leaders are. Okay,
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not take note. It's perfectly obvious from the Exodus account who's numbered now.
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I'm sorry if you've never been told this before, but this is the people
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who is in charge. This is from Numbers chapter one. This phrase from
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twenty years old and upward, whoever is able to go out to war is
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in this chapter fourteen times. Verse three from twenty years old and upward,
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whoever is able to go out to war in Israel, you and Aaron shall
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number them by their armies. Was The next time is verse twenty. Now
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the sons of Reuben is firstborn, their genealogical registration by the families, by
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their father's households, according to the number of names, head by head,
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every male from twenty years old and upward, whoever is able to go out
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to ward? Janine, is this talking about anybody's grandmother? No, you
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need to understand what happens, and we don't have time to read all through
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this. We don't have time to go to Numbers chapter fourteen and have me
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explain it to you. All the people that were cursed, they died,
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every one of them. I swear you know what. I'm going to read
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a little bit from numbers chapter fourteen, but not the whole thing. So
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you need to hearken to my voice, because what I'm going to reach you
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is true. Verse five. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in
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the presence of the assembly of the Congregation of the Sons of Israel. Joshua
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was the son of None, and Caleb, the son of Jetna, of
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those who had spied out the land toward their closed and they spoke to all
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the Congregation of Israel, saying, the land which we passed through to spy
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out is an exceedingly good land. If the Lord is pleased with us,
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then he will bring us into the land and give it to us, a
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land with flows with milk and honey. Verse nine. Only do not rebel
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against the Lord, and do not fear the people of the land, for
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they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and
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the Lord is with us. Do not fear them. Verse ten. But
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all the congregations said to stone them with stone. Than the glory of the
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Lord appeared at the kind of meeting to all the sons of Israel. I'm
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gonna ask you a very stupid question, Jose. Did Moses and Aaron enter
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the Promised Land? No? You better get this straight, ladies and gentlemen.
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The book of numbers serves the reason. And if you don't understand that,
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he's saying that all the leaders will be numbered, and he just gave
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to you detailed instruction as to what was going to be the end of those
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leaders in Isaiah chapter five. And you can take this to the bank on
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his great day. Oh he's going to number them. Oh yes he will.
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Now, just for a further commentation. You know what. No,
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the Lord's tell him not to do that. I've given you too much information
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as it is, Janine and Jose, and I have shared with you tonight
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how you can survive this event because the Lord he is not happy when he
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gets here. And whatever is coming has the ability to dim light. So
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get it out of your head that it's an Apache helicopter that you can shoot
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down, or a tank that you can knock the track out off, because
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it ain't closing comments, Janine, Is that the outer darkness? Don't you
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love Janine? Jose, Janine, you amaze me how I had no intention
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of revealing that to anybody. Sorry, no, I'm not. You know,
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ladies and gentlemen. There you have it now, the sheep. No,
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I was at your closing comments. No, I think Janine summed it
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up perfectly and nothing I can add to that. Matthew, No, there's
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you know, yeah, that speriod at the end of the sentence, and
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of course I wait till the very last minute. Yeah, yeah, I
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know, yeah, yeah. But it's not the first time today that you
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you made sure that I did what was right, even though that's very private.
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Nobody else knows that. But ladies and gentlemen's not the first time that
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Janine made sure that Matthew did what was right. And that's a godly thing.
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Thank you for saying that. That blesses me. So you're welcome.
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You are welcome, well, ladies and gentlemen. If you want to find
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more stuff Patreon dot com. Matthew Miller, that's where you find me.
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Jose Price out of here, please, we're at the top of the hour.
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Dear Lord, I thank you and praise you for allowing us to gather
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together. Lord. I treasure these times where I can get together with my
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brothers and sisters and study your word. Lord, and I thank you for
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sharing us what you have stored in your word. Lord. I just asked
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that you open up the hearts of those that needed to hear this, that
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you helped bring those last sheet to your flock before your great day. Lord,
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And we just ask that you do all this to glorify you and to
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glorify your son. And we ask all this in the name of your son,
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Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen, Amen, Amen,
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and Amen. Till next time, as you have said, say that again,
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Johnnie, may it be as you have said. Amen, God,
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Blessing, God Speed, ladies and gentlemen, till next time.