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Let's turn to Isaiah chapter 16 as we

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continue our study through the prophecy of Isaiah.

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Now, in these next few chapters that we

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are covering here in Isaiah, behind the scenes,

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Assyria is arising as a strong, powerful military

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force.

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Assyria with its capital city of Nineveh is

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becoming extremely powerful and beginning to develop a

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tremendous army that will soon be on a

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campaign of subjugating the world.

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And so, the prophet Isaiah begins to address

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himself to some of the various countries round

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about, to Moab, to Syria, to Ephraim, and

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all because these nations, Egypt, Ethiopia, are to

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be in conflict and in battle with the

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Assyrians.

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And so, behind these next chapters, you have

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to see the clouds of war rising from

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Assyria as they are going to soon begin

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their sweep down into this area of the

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world.

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And Isaiah is addressing now the nations concerning

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the destruction that is sure to come during

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this Assyrian invasion.

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And the first nation that he addresses himself

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to is the nation of Moab, which is

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the present-day Jordan.

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It lies on the east of the Jordan

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River from Mount Gilead, actually, on south to

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Mount Seir.

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So, send ye the lamb to the ruler

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of the land from Selah.

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Now, Selah is the word rock, and from

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it the word Petra and the city of

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Petra, which happens to be in the area

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of Moab.

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To the wilderness unto the mount of the

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daughter of Zion, for it shall be that

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as a wandering bird cast out of the

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nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be

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at the fords of Arnon.

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Take counsel, execute judgment, make thy shadow as

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the night in the midst of the noonday.

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Hide thee outcasts, betray them not that wandereth.

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Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab.

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Be thou a covert to them from the

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face of the spoiler, for the extortioner is

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at the end, and the spoiler ceases, and

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the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

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And in mercy shall the throne be established,

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and he shall sit upon it in truth

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in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking

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judgment, and hasting righteousness.

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And then he begins his lament over Moab

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because of their great pride.

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Now, as we mentioned earlier as we were

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studying the prophecies of Isaiah, there's a unique

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characteristic in, well it isn't unique because it

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is in many of the prophets, where they

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will be talking about a situation that is

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close at hand, but there seems to be

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a dual fulfillment of the prophecy, and it

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reaches on out to another era, and it

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spans into another time.

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And so, there is often what we call

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the near fulfillment and the far fulfillment of

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this prophecy.

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Now, many Bible scholars in the far fulfillment

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of this prophecy, as God is commanding Moab

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to meet the wandering bird that is cast

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out of the nest at the Fords of

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Arnon, and to hide the outcast and betray

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them not that wanders, and let the outcast

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dwell with the Moab.

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There are many Bible scholars who see this

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in its fulfillment as yet to come, when

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in the midst of the seven-year period

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that God has yet to reckon to the

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nation Israel.

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For in Daniel the ninth chapter, the angel

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said unto Daniel, there are seventy-sevens determined

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upon the nation Israel, to finish the transgressions,

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to make an end of sin, to make

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reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting

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righteousness, and to seal up the prophecies, and

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to anoint the Most Holy One.

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Now, no one understands from the time the

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commandment goes forth to restore and rebuild Jerusalem

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to the coming of the Messiah, the Prince

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will be seven-sevens and sixty-two-sevens,

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and the walls will be built again in

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troublous times.

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But the Messiah will be cut off without

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receiving the kingdom, and the people will end

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up by being dispersed.

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Now Daniel said the Prince of the people

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that shall come will make a covenant with

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Israel for the seventieth week, or for this

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last week, this last period of seven years,

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but in the midst of the seven years,

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he will break the covenant and set up

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an abomination which causes desolation.

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Now, the disciples came to Jesus one day

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and they said, Lord, what will be the

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sign of your coming in the end of

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the age?

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And Jesus began to tell them the signs

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that they should watch for, the things that

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would be transpiring in the earth, which would

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be a warning to them that they were

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approaching the end of the age.

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And as Jesus is talking to them about

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the various signs, he does speak to them,

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talking again to the Jews, when you see

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the abomination of desolation that was spoken of

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by Daniel the prophet standing in the holy

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place, then flee to the wilderness.

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And if you happen to be on the

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roof of your house, don't even bother grabbing

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a coat as you're going through, just get

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out of there as quickly as you can.

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And if you are out in the field

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working, don't even return to your house, but

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get down to the wilderness just as quickly

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as possible.

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So the Lord is warning them that the

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sign of the abomination of desolation, now he

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said, now he that has wisdom will understand,

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because he said there is going to be

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a time of great tribulation, such as the

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world has never seen before, or will ever

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see again.

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Now we are told in the book of

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Revelation, chapter 12, that John saw these various

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characters or these various symbolisms.

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He saw a woman clothed with the moon

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and the stars, 12 stars and the moon,

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and she was travailing, ready to bring forth

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a child.

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And he saw this great dragon that was

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seeking to devour the child as soon as

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it was born.

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And he speaks of how the woman brought

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forth the child which was caught on up

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into heaven, to his throne.

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And so the dragon sought to make war

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against the remnant of the woman's seed, but

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God gave to her the wings of an

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eagle to bear her to the wilderness place

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where she is to be nourished for three

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From a prophetic standpoint, what this is all

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talking about is that God has one more

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seven year cycle to fulfill in the history

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of the nation of Israel.

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The 69 seven year cycles were fulfilled from

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the time of the commandment to rebuild Jerusalem

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to the coming of Jesus Christ.

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The 69 seven year cycles were fulfilled actually

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to the day.

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For in March 14, 445 BC, Artaxerxes gave

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the commandment to Nehemiah to restore and rebuild

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Jerusalem.

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And 173,880 days later, 483 years on

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the Babylonian calendar, 360 days to the year,

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Jesus on April the 6th, 32 AD made

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his triumphant entry into Jerusalem.

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Fulfilled right on the letter.

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But the angel said there are 77.

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Now Jesus in being cut off, the Messiah

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will be cut off, Jesus was cut off.

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But in being cut off, in his being

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cut off, he made through his death upon

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the cross, he made reconciliation for iniquity.

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He made an end of our sins.

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But he did not set up the everlasting

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kingdom, nor was the most holy place anointed,

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nor were the prophecies all fulfilled.

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So a part of those prophecies are yet

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remaining and they will take place at the

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end of the 70th seven year cycle.

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So there is one missing seven year cycle

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that Jesus, when he was talking to his

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disciples, declared that it was a yet future

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thing.

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When the church is taken out of the

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earth, it will then immediately give rise to

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the Antichrist.

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that it will pretty much coincide with the

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removal of the church.

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For that which hinders shall hinder until it

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is taken out of the way and then

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shall that man of sin be revealed, the

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son of perdition, who comes forth with all

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kinds of lies and deceit and guile.

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In Revelation chapter 4, you see the church

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taken up into heaven and I saw a

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door open in heaven.

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The first voice was as of a trumpet

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saying, Come up hither, I'll show you things

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which will be after the church things.

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And immediately I was caught away by the

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spirit into heaven and there I saw the

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throne of God and the emerald type of

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rainbow about the throne of God, the 24

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lesser thrones of the elders and the cherubim

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as they were worshipping God and the elders

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as they joined in the worship, falling on

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their faces and casting their crowns on the

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glassy sea, declaring the worthiness of God to

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receive the praise and the worship.

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And then in chapter 5, he saw the

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scroll with seven seals in the right hand

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of him that was sitting upon the throne.

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Heard the angels say, Who is worthy to

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take this scroll and loose the seals?

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The title deed to the earth.

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Who is worthy to take this title deed,

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to reclaim the earth?

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The day of redemption has come.

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Who is worthy?

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And John began to sob because no man

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was worthy in heaven, in earth, under the

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sea to take the scroll or even to

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look thereon.

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And the elders said, Don't weep, John.

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Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah

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hath prevailed to take the scroll and loose

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the seals.

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And John saw, turned, and he saw him

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as a lamb that had been slaughtered.

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And he saw him as he stepped forth

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and took the scroll out of the right

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hand of him that sat upon the throne.

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And immediately the 24 elders took little golden

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bowls that were full of incense odors.

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The prayers of the saints offered them before

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God.

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And they sang a new song, saying, Thou

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art worthy to take the scroll and loose

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the seals thereof, for thou wast slain and

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you have redeemed us by your blood out

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of all of the nations, tribes, kindreds, tongues,

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and people.

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And you have made us unto our God,

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kings and priests, and we shall reign with

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you upon the earth.

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The song of the redeemed church in heaven.

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Only the redeemed church can sing that song.

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That is not the song of Israel.

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It's out of all of the families of

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the people on the earth.

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That is not the song of angels.

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It's only the song of the redeemed church.

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Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us by

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thy blood.

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Angels can't sing that song, but they can

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sing the chorus, and so they join in,

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a hundred million strong plus millions of millions,

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as they sing, Worthy is the Lamb to

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receive glory and power and might and dominion

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and glory and thrones and so forth.

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But we sing the verse.

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And so we get into chapter six, and

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he opened the first seal, and the angel

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said, Come, and I saw, and a white

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horse with his rider came forth conquering and

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to conquer.

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The Antichrist, the revelation of the Antichrist, it

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immediately follows the glorious acclamation of the worthiness

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of Christ to take this scroll and loose

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the seals.

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So the introduction of the Antichrist upon the

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earth, and one of the first orders of

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business of the Antichrist as he is putting

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together the earth once again that has been

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ravaged by war when Russia invades the Middle

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East.

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So now he's starting to put the pieces

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together because Russia has been soundly and thoroughly

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defeated in her invasion of the Middle East.

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He starts to put the pieces together again,

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and the first thing he does is make

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a covenant with the nation of Israel.

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Now the Bible doesn't say that the covenant

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includes the rebuilding of the temple, but that

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is my own personal feeling and opinion, and

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it's very strong, that this covenant that he

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makes with the nation Israel includes their giving

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to them the privilege of the rebuilding of

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their temple.

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And when they rebuild their temple, they will

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not build it on the site of the

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Mosque of Omar, or that which is commonly

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called the Mosque of Omar, which in reality

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is the Dome of the Rock Mosque.

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I believe that they'll leave the Dome of

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the Rock Mosque intact.

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I believe that they will build a wall

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on the north side of the Dome of

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the Rock Mosque.

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And in that large area of some 15

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acres or so, they will make provision for

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the Jews to build their temple, which many

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of their scientists now believe is above the

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site of Solomon's temple.

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Just last June, one of the archaeologists and

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scientists in Israel came out with a very

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interesting article that was published in the Jerusalem

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Post, in which he declared and gave his

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findings for believing that the Temple of Solomon

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actually was north of the Dome of the

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Rock Mosque, which if they can prove and

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all which they are seeking to do, it

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will be a tremendous kind of a boon

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for those Jews that are wanting to rebuild

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their temple, because it means they can build

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it without having a holy war.

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All the Muslims of the world marching against

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them, because it would be very easy just

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to put a wall.

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And there is a verse in Ezekiel that

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talks about putting a wall along to separate.

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And in the 11th chapter of the book

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of Revelation, where the Lord gave unto John

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a ruler and said, now go measure the

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new temple and the courts.

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He said, don't measure the outer court, because

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it's been given to the heathen.

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And the Dome of the Rock Mosque stands

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in what would have been the outer court

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of Solomon's temple, if Solomon's temple was there

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on the north side.

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So, he'll make a covenant with the nation

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Israel.

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But in the midst of the seven-year

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period, after three and a half years, he

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will come to Jerusalem, and according to what

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Paul tells us in 2 Thessalonians, and Jesus

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spoke about in Matthew 24, and Daniel spoke

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about in chapter 9, he will stand in

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the rebuilt temple and declare himself to be

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God.

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And he will demand that they worship him

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as God.

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Now, according to the Scriptures, according to Jesus,

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this is the sign for the Jews to

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flee out of Jerusalem.

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Get out of there as quickly as you

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can.

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Because the Antichrist, the man of sin, is

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going to now demand that the Jews worship

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him as God, and though they had initially

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hailed him as the Messiah, at this point,

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they're going to realize that they were mistaken

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and deceived by this man.

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And Jesus said, get out of there as

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quickly as you can, don't bother taking anything

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with you.

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And according to Revelation, God will give to

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them wings of an eagle to bear them

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to a wilderness place where they will be

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nourished for three and a half years.

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And the Antichrist will send out an army

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after them, but the earth will open up

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and swallow his army.

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And so, we begin to see the prophetic

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scene take place.

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Now, where are they going to the wilderness?

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And where will they be fleeing?

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Here's where this prophecy of Isaiah begins to

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unfold.

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Send ye the lamb to the ruler of

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the land from Petra to the wilderness, unto

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the mount of the daughter of Zion.

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For it shall be that as a wandering

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bird cast out of the nest, so the

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daughters of Moab shall be at the fords

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of Arnon.

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Take counsel, execute judgment, make thy shadow as

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the night in the midst of the noonday.

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Hide the outcast, betray them not that wandereth.

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Let mine outcast, God says, mine outcast dwell

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with thee, Moab.

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Be thou a covering to them from the

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face of the spoiler or from the Antichrist.

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For the extortioner, the Antichrist is at an

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end.

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The spoiler ceaseth and the oppressors are consumed

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out of the land.

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And what will happen?

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And in mercy shall the throne be established

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and he, that is Jesus, shall sit upon

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it in truth in the tabernacle of David,

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judging and seeking judgment and hastening righteousness.

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Now, one further note should be made about

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this before we move on.

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And that is, the day that the Antichrist

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comes, or the man of sin, the son

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of perdition, the beast, or one of the

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many names that the Scripture gives to him,

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the spoiler, the extortioner, the day that he

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comes and stands in the rebuilt temple and

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declares that he is God in the midst

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of this seven-year period, the day that

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that takes place, it will be, from that

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day, 1290 days until Jesus comes again with

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his church to set up his kingdom upon

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the earth.

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So we're moving down towards these final sequence

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of events.

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We are reading constantly of Russia's threat to

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move into the Middle East because of her

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own oil needs.

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And that will be the event that will

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more or less trigger these final sequence of

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events.

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For as Russia moves in, God will soundly

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defeat Russia.

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It will give rise to the ten nations

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of Europe out of which will arise this

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man of sin who will make a covenant

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with the nation of Israel for seven years.

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But in the midst of the seven-year

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period, he'll break the covenant by coming into

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the temple, declaring that he is God, demanding

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that he is worshipped as God, stopping the

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daily sacrifices and prayers.

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And 1290 days later, Jesus coming again with

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the church to establish God's kingdom upon the

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earth.

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So, at this point, the Jews are to

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flee to the wilderness.

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God is telling Moab, open up your arms,

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receive them, cover them, keep them safe from

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the extortioner and from the spoiler and all,

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and hide them, don't betray them until this

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time of indignation is overpassed, time of great

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tribulation.

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So, and of course, until the king comes

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to sit upon the throne of David and

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to establish it in righteousness.

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Now, he turns to Moab at the immediate

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condition.

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Moab has been filled with pride.

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She is very proud, filled with haughtiness and

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is pride and is wrath.

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Now, notice pride, very proud, haughtiness, pride.

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These words in the Hebrew are all a

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little different, but they come from the same

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base or root word.

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It is like using the word boast, boastfulness,

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boasting, and the boaster and so forth.

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It's the same root word in the Hebrew

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as it speaks of the great pride of

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Moab.

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Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab.

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Everyone shall howl for the foundations of Kir

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Heretzith shall mourn.

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Surely they are stricken.

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And so it tells about how that this

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tremendous, the vineyards for which Moab was famous

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were going to be trampled under the soldiers

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that were to come.

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They would no longer be trampling, the people

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would no longer be trampling the grapes in

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the wine presses.

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Now, there was a cry that the people

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used to, as they would stomp the grapes

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in the wine presses, they would cry, Hey

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Dad!

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Hey Dad!

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Hey Dad!

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With every, Hey Dad!

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Hey Dad!

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Hey Dad!

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As they were stepping down the grapes and

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crushing them.

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And so the prophet is saying, this cry,

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Hey Dad!

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will no longer be heard in the wine

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presses, but it will be heard by the

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marching of the soldiers that are trampling down

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the vineyards.

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They'll be coming marching to the Hey Dad!

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Hey Dad!

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Hey Dad!

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And it will be not a shout of

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rejoicing, but a sound of the conquering armies

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of the Assyrians who shall destroy the marvelous

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vineyards of Moab.

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And in verses 13 and 14, he declares

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that this judgment against Moab will actually come

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within a three year span of time.

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And within three years, Assyria conquered over Moab.

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And as the result, Moab will become, though

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she was very proud and all, shall become

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very small and feeble.

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Now he turns his prophecy against Damascus, which

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of course was the capital of Syria.

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Now Syria and the northern kingdom of Israel

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had confederated together to stand against Assyria as

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Assyria became a very definite threat.

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Syria knew that she could not stand against

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Assyria alone, so she sought to confederate with

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Ephraim and Manasseh, the major tribes of the

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northern kingdom.

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And they were hoping by a confederation to

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stop the Assyrian invasion.

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And so he prophesies first against Damascus, but

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then he begins to weave in also Ephraim

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and Manasseh declaring that even through their confederation

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they will not be able to withstand the

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Assyrian invasion that they were going to, all

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of them, fall at the hands of the

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Assyrians.

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So the burden of Damascus.

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Behold, it is taken away from being a

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city.

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It is going to be a ruinous heap.

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The Assyrians are going to just smash down

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Damascus.

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The cities of Arar are forsaken.

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And in these places where the cities once

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existed, they will now be herding their flocks

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of sheep.

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And it will be so desolate that the

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sheep won't even be bothered by people.

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The sheep will be grazing in what was

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once the cities of Syria.

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The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim coming

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down now to the northern kingdom of Israel.

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And the kingdom from Damascus and the remnant

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of Syria they shall be as the glory

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of the children of Israel, saith the Lord

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00:27:41,740 --> 00:27:42,240
of hosts.

538
00:27:43,060 --> 00:27:44,540
And in that day it shall come to

539
00:27:44,540 --> 00:27:46,420
pass that the glory of Jacob shall be

540
00:27:46,420 --> 00:27:48,280
made thin, and the fatness of his flesh

541
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,460
shall wax thin, lean.

542
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,000
And it shall be as when the harvest

543
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,460
man gathers the corn, and reach the ears

544
00:27:55,460 --> 00:27:56,400
in his arm.

545
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:58,700
And it shall be as he that gathers

546
00:27:58,700 --> 00:28:01,240
the ears in the valleys of Riphim.

547
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,420
Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it,

548
00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:06,100
and the shaking of an olive tree, two

549
00:28:06,100 --> 00:28:07,320
or three berries at the top.

550
00:28:07,340 --> 00:28:10,580
In other words, God is declaring that the

551
00:28:10,580 --> 00:28:12,280
inhabitants are going to be destroyed.

552
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,920
It will be like the gleaning of an

553
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:16,720
olive tree.

554
00:28:17,140 --> 00:28:18,960
There will just be a few berries in

555
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:19,360
the top.

556
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:20,940
There will be just a few grapes left

557
00:28:20,940 --> 00:28:21,420
on the vine.

558
00:28:21,820 --> 00:28:24,340
But it's like the Assyrians have come through

559
00:28:24,340 --> 00:28:26,220
and harvested and wiped out the majority of

560
00:28:26,220 --> 00:28:28,400
people and just a few people remain.

561
00:28:28,940 --> 00:28:32,360
The Assyrians were extremely cruel people.

562
00:28:32,900 --> 00:28:38,980
According to the record of history, there were

563
00:28:38,980 --> 00:28:43,980
many cities which when were surrounded by the

564
00:28:43,980 --> 00:28:46,120
Assyrian army and it was obvious that there

565
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,740
was no chance of escape, much like Masada,

566
00:28:50,380 --> 00:28:54,420
the entire populace of the city would commit

567
00:28:54,420 --> 00:28:58,640
suicide rather than to be captured by the

568
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:03,220
Assyrians because they treated their captives so cruelly.

569
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,540
They would pull out their tongues.

570
00:29:06,060 --> 00:29:08,920
They would gouge out their eyes.

571
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:14,680
They would commit all kinds of atrocities against

572
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,120
the captives and so people were extremely fearful

573
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:22,720
of Assyria and would oftentimes, entire cities, you'd

574
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:29,220
have a mass suicide rather than being taken

575
00:29:29,220 --> 00:29:31,680
captive by these Assyrians.

576
00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:36,020
That is why Jonah did not want to

577
00:29:36,020 --> 00:29:40,700
go to Nineveh to declare the judgment of

578
00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:42,820
God because he was afraid that the Ninevites

579
00:29:42,820 --> 00:29:45,020
might repent and God wouldn't wipe them out.

580
00:29:46,300 --> 00:29:48,320
And so he had no intention of going.

581
00:29:48,420 --> 00:29:49,780
When God said, go to Nineveh and warn

582
00:29:49,780 --> 00:29:51,960
them my judgment's coming, Jonah took off the

583
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,260
other way because he wanted God to wipe

584
00:29:54,260 --> 00:29:56,040
Nineveh out and he was afraid if he

585
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,480
went and preached they might repent and he

586
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,580
knew God was gracious and merciful and God

587
00:30:00,580 --> 00:30:02,220
might relent and not wipe them out.

588
00:30:02,340 --> 00:30:04,280
So that's why Jonah took off the other

589
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:04,400
way.

590
00:30:04,420 --> 00:30:05,340
He was a true patriot.

591
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,740
He wanted Assyria, the Ninevites, to be wiped

592
00:30:11,740 --> 00:30:12,140
out.

593
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,980
In fact, you remember that Jonah was sitting

594
00:30:15,980 --> 00:30:21,060
out there pouting after the whole thing.

595
00:30:21,300 --> 00:30:22,120
God said, what's the matter?

596
00:30:23,220 --> 00:30:24,540
You have any right to be upset?

597
00:30:24,740 --> 00:30:25,780
You bet your life I have a right

598
00:30:25,780 --> 00:30:26,360
to be upset.

599
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:27,840
This is exactly what I thought was going

600
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:28,180
to happen.

601
00:30:29,460 --> 00:30:31,140
I knew you were merciful and gracious.

602
00:30:31,780 --> 00:30:34,980
I knew that they might repent and that

603
00:30:34,980 --> 00:30:36,560
you would forgive them.

604
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,320
Now you haven't wiped them out.

605
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:40,700
Boy, he was mad.

606
00:30:41,980 --> 00:30:43,600
And it's interesting what God said.

607
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:45,960
The reason why I didn't wipe them out

608
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,400
is because there are 120,000 little children

609
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,140
in that city that are so small that

610
00:30:51,140 --> 00:30:52,460
they don't even know their right hand from

611
00:30:52,460 --> 00:30:53,100
their left hand.

612
00:30:54,260 --> 00:30:57,640
God's mercy upon the children and for the

613
00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,300
children's sake spared the city.

614
00:30:59,980 --> 00:31:01,540
But we'll get to the story of Jonah

615
00:31:01,540 --> 00:31:05,060
later but that gives you...

616
00:31:05,060 --> 00:31:07,240
Here, you know, the whole thing is fitting

617
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:07,800
together.

618
00:31:08,540 --> 00:31:12,140
Assyria is getting ready to move against Moab,

619
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,620
getting ready to move against Syria and against

620
00:31:15,620 --> 00:31:17,900
the northern kingdom of Israel and they are

621
00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:18,660
all going to fall.

622
00:31:18,780 --> 00:31:20,520
The northern kingdom of Israel is going to

623
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,360
be left just a few people, just like

624
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,000
a few berries in the top of the

625
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,820
olive tree, just a few grapes in a

626
00:31:26,820 --> 00:31:29,980
vineyard that has already been harvested, just the

627
00:31:29,980 --> 00:31:30,700
gleanings.

628
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,820
At that day shall a man look to

629
00:31:33,820 --> 00:31:36,360
his Maker and his eyes shall have respect

630
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:37,940
to the Holy One of Israel.

631
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,800
Those that remain will be turning to God.

632
00:31:43,290 --> 00:31:46,010
He will not look to the altars that

633
00:31:46,010 --> 00:31:49,050
they have created, the worship of Baal and

634
00:31:49,050 --> 00:31:51,210
the groves and so forth that they have

635
00:31:51,210 --> 00:31:54,370
made, the false worship for which God's judgment

636
00:31:54,370 --> 00:31:56,370
came against them.

637
00:31:56,750 --> 00:31:59,050
In that day shall his strong cities be

638
00:31:59,050 --> 00:32:01,890
as a forsaken bough and the uppermost branch

639
00:32:01,890 --> 00:32:03,870
which they left because the children of Israel,

640
00:32:03,870 --> 00:32:08,890
there shall be desolation because you have forgotten

641
00:32:08,890 --> 00:32:10,310
the God of your salvation.

642
00:32:10,930 --> 00:32:12,770
You have not been mindful of the rock

643
00:32:12,770 --> 00:32:13,570
of your strength.

644
00:32:14,130 --> 00:32:16,890
Therefore, you shall plant the pleasant plants and

645
00:32:16,890 --> 00:32:18,530
shall set them with strange slips.

646
00:32:19,050 --> 00:32:21,010
In the day shalt thou make thy plant

647
00:32:21,010 --> 00:32:23,470
to grow and in the morning thou shalt

648
00:32:23,470 --> 00:32:25,550
make thy seed to flourish but the harvest

649
00:32:25,550 --> 00:32:27,190
shall be a heap in the day of

650
00:32:27,190 --> 00:32:29,510
grief and desperate sorrow.

651
00:32:29,990 --> 00:32:32,570
So because they had forgotten God, they had

652
00:32:32,570 --> 00:32:35,210
turned away from Him and were worshiping these

653
00:32:35,210 --> 00:32:37,950
other gods, the reason why God has allowed

654
00:32:37,950 --> 00:32:41,530
this judgment using Assyria as His tool of

655
00:32:41,530 --> 00:32:46,950
judgment to destroy Syria and the northern kingdom

656
00:32:46,950 --> 00:32:50,790
of Israel with its capital of Samaria.

657
00:32:54,100 --> 00:32:57,900
But yet, though Assyria is used as the

658
00:32:57,900 --> 00:33:00,520
tool of God's judgment, God turns His word

659
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:01,660
against Assyria.

660
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,740
Woe to the multitude of many people which

661
00:33:04,740 --> 00:33:06,220
make a noise like the noise of the

662
00:33:06,220 --> 00:33:06,560
sea.

663
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:08,740
In other words, the noise of their armies

664
00:33:08,740 --> 00:33:10,500
coming is just like a roar of the

665
00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:10,940
sea.

666
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,300
And to the rushing of nations that make

667
00:33:13,300 --> 00:33:15,020
a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters.

668
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,600
The nations shall rush like the rushing of

669
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,480
many waters, but God shall rebuke them and

670
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,240
they shall flee far off and shall be

671
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,240
chased as a chaff in the mountains before

672
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,060
the wind and like the rolling thing before

673
00:33:26,060 --> 00:33:26,660
the whirlwind.

674
00:33:26,940 --> 00:33:29,620
And behold, it even tied trouble and before

675
00:33:29,620 --> 00:33:31,140
the morning He is not.

676
00:33:31,260 --> 00:33:32,340
God will wipe them out.

677
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,840
In the evening they'll be there, but in

678
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:36,920
the morning they'll not be there.

679
00:33:37,060 --> 00:33:41,100
Now, here is a hint at the destruction

680
00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:42,960
of the Assyrians.

681
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,340
The Assyrians did come.

682
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,740
They did conquer the northern kingdom of Israel.

683
00:33:49,260 --> 00:33:50,760
They did conquer Moab.

684
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,540
They did even go down and conquer Ashdod

685
00:33:53,540 --> 00:33:56,360
and on down into Egypt and Ethiopia.

686
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,300
But they did not conquer Judah.

687
00:34:01,620 --> 00:34:04,780
Now, here in Judah as the Assyrians were

688
00:34:04,780 --> 00:34:06,700
coming and all and Hezekiah was the king

689
00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:08,679
and Isaiah was his counselor, he was saying,

690
00:34:08,820 --> 00:34:09,600
hey, don't worry about it.

691
00:34:09,659 --> 00:34:11,719
They're not going to conquer us.

692
00:34:12,540 --> 00:34:13,239
Now, don't be afraid.

693
00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:15,000
God is going to stand for us.

694
00:34:16,260 --> 00:34:17,739
Now, don't worry about it.

695
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:18,920
You're not going to have to fight this

696
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:19,120
battle.

697
00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:20,219
This is the Lord's battle.

698
00:34:20,580 --> 00:34:22,679
He's going to stand up and fight for

699
00:34:22,679 --> 00:34:23,139
us.

700
00:34:23,380 --> 00:34:25,560
And Isaiah was telling them, hey, you don't

701
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:26,460
have to worry about this.

702
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:27,760
God's going to take care of things.

703
00:34:28,620 --> 00:34:32,400
Of course, Hezekiah was busy building the tunnel

704
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,600
from the spring of Gihon over the pool

705
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,880
of Siloam to bring the water into the

706
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,520
city so that they would have water in

707
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,800
the city when the Assyrians invaded and cut

708
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:43,940
the city off and all.

709
00:34:44,940 --> 00:34:48,139
But yet, all the while, Isaiah was encouraging

710
00:34:48,139 --> 00:34:49,739
the king to trust in the Lord that

711
00:34:49,739 --> 00:34:50,500
God would deliver.

712
00:34:52,780 --> 00:34:55,540
And the Assyrians brought their invading army against

713
00:34:55,540 --> 00:34:56,220
Jerusalem.

714
00:34:59,270 --> 00:35:01,510
And they were making all of their threats.

715
00:35:01,750 --> 00:35:04,830
The Rabakshah said to the men, where is

716
00:35:04,830 --> 00:35:07,330
the God of the Sumerians?

717
00:35:07,430 --> 00:35:08,770
Where is the God of the Assyrians?

718
00:35:08,870 --> 00:35:09,710
Where is the God of the Egyptians?

719
00:35:09,890 --> 00:35:10,730
You know, we wiped them all out.

720
00:35:10,930 --> 00:35:14,010
Don't let Hezekiah lead you into a false

721
00:35:14,010 --> 00:35:15,990
trust of your God saying our God will

722
00:35:15,990 --> 00:35:18,150
deliver what God is able to deliver from

723
00:35:18,150 --> 00:35:19,570
the hand of the Assyrians and all.

724
00:35:19,870 --> 00:35:20,990
And blaspheme in God.

725
00:35:21,170 --> 00:35:23,090
And Isaiah said, just watch this now.

726
00:35:24,590 --> 00:35:25,790
God's going to take care of them.

727
00:35:25,850 --> 00:35:26,910
Don't worry about it, Hezekiah.

728
00:35:29,090 --> 00:35:30,930
Hezekiah took the letter and he spread it

729
00:35:30,930 --> 00:35:32,070
out before the Lord and he wept.

730
00:35:32,190 --> 00:35:33,470
He said, God, look what they're saying.

731
00:35:33,590 --> 00:35:34,890
Look what they're doing, you know.

732
00:35:36,980 --> 00:35:39,020
And an angel of the Lord went through

733
00:35:39,020 --> 00:35:41,360
the camp of the Assyrians and in one

734
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:48,410
night, he wiped out 185,000 of their

735
00:35:48,410 --> 00:35:49,550
front line troops.

736
00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:56,460
When the Israelis awoke in the morning and

737
00:35:56,460 --> 00:35:58,220
looked over the wall to see their enemy,

738
00:35:58,380 --> 00:36:00,880
they were nothing but corpses on the ground.

739
00:36:02,260 --> 00:36:05,260
In a night, in the morning, they'll not

740
00:36:05,260 --> 00:36:05,880
be there.

741
00:36:07,500 --> 00:36:09,620
And, of course, the Lord will get out

742
00:36:09,620 --> 00:36:13,060
into a little bit further where actually there

743
00:36:13,060 --> 00:36:15,300
are so many corpses that the birds and

744
00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:17,400
the beasts feed on them for a long

745
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:18,000
time.

746
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,660
You can imagine what a feast that would

747
00:36:20,660 --> 00:36:21,520
be for vultures.

748
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:27,600
185,000 carcasses to feed on.

749
00:36:28,620 --> 00:36:30,500
In the evening time, trouble.

750
00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:33,980
And before the morning, it's gone.

751
00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:34,920
They are not.

752
00:36:35,540 --> 00:36:37,420
This is the portion of them that spoil

753
00:36:37,420 --> 00:36:40,080
us and the lot of those that rob

754
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:40,220
us.

755
00:36:40,340 --> 00:36:42,900
This is God's judgment against Assyria.

756
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,740
Now in chapter 18, there are those that

757
00:36:46,740 --> 00:36:50,480
see the United States in chapter 18, but

758
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,700
it is rather far-fetched and I am

759
00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:58,020
sorry that my mind can't stretch that far.

760
00:36:58,020 --> 00:37:02,340
I cannot see the United States in chapter

761
00:37:02,340 --> 00:37:03,300
18.

762
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,720
Woe to the land shadowing with wings.

763
00:37:08,340 --> 00:37:10,800
And they point out that on the top

764
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,900
of the American flag, there's an eagle with

765
00:37:12,900 --> 00:37:13,320
wings.

766
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,220
So, shadowing with wings.

767
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,820
Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.

768
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:19,700
And, of course, we are beyond the rivers

769
00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:20,480
of Ethiopia.

770
00:37:22,180 --> 00:37:25,260
That send ambassadors by the sea in vessels.

771
00:37:25,420 --> 00:37:27,020
And, of course, the only way our ambassadors

772
00:37:27,020 --> 00:37:30,220
could travel to the other lands prior to

773
00:37:30,220 --> 00:37:32,900
the aircraft and so forth were by boats.

774
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,080
But it does say vessels of bulrushes.

775
00:37:37,660 --> 00:37:40,460
And I don't know of any ambassador that

776
00:37:40,460 --> 00:37:42,920
ever went out in a reed boat made

777
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,240
of bulrushes and pitched with tar.

778
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:52,180
Now, as I say, people can see and

779
00:37:52,180 --> 00:37:55,020
I can't, but people do see the United

780
00:37:55,020 --> 00:37:55,560
States in this.

781
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:01,800
What it is basically dealing with is Ethiopia

782
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:09,160
itself, which was making, which had sent ambassadors

783
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:19,020
to Jerusalem, to the king, to make a

784
00:38:19,020 --> 00:38:21,580
confederacy with them against Assyria.

785
00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:24,880
In other words, Assyria was conquering.

786
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:32,100
And these Ethiopian ambassadors, big, tall, dark-skinned,

787
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:37,240
handsome men, were there trying to get Judah

788
00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:41,700
to join with them in a confederacy to

789
00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:46,220
withstand this invasion from Assyria.

790
00:38:47,660 --> 00:38:55,000
And Isaiah was counseling against the confederacy not

791
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,840
to make a covenant with them, for God

792
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:00,260
was going to watch over them and take

793
00:39:00,260 --> 00:39:02,940
care of them and don't get involved in

794
00:39:02,940 --> 00:39:07,140
a treaty, a mutual defense pact with these

795
00:39:07,140 --> 00:39:08,220
Ethiopians.

796
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:09,440
So, woe to the land.

797
00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:12,400
God is pronouncing the woe that is going

798
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:17,060
to come upon Ethiopia that sends the ambassadors

799
00:39:17,060 --> 00:39:18,180
by the sea.

800
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,160
They came in these boats down the Nile

801
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:22,600
River from Ethiopia.

802
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,420
And the boats of bulrushes were light so

803
00:39:26,420 --> 00:39:27,780
that when they get to the rapids and

804
00:39:27,780 --> 00:39:31,320
all, they could carry them and then put

805
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:31,640
them in.

806
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,300
And they came from Ethiopia in these boats

807
00:39:34,300 --> 00:39:40,380
of bulrushes to Israel, or to Judah, the

808
00:39:40,380 --> 00:39:45,940
southern kingdom, and sought then to make this

809
00:39:45,940 --> 00:39:51,640
covenant, saying, Go ye swift messengers to a

810
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,160
nation that is scattered and peeled, to a

811
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,060
people that is awesome from their beginning, hitherto

812
00:39:55,060 --> 00:39:57,180
a nation that is meted out and trotted

813
00:39:57,180 --> 00:40:00,140
down, whose land the rivers have cut through.

814
00:40:00,620 --> 00:40:02,780
All ye inhabitants of the world and the

815
00:40:02,780 --> 00:40:04,980
dwellers upon the earth, see ye when he

816
00:40:04,980 --> 00:40:07,240
lifts up a sign upon the mountains and

817
00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:08,660
when he blows a trumpet, hear ye.

818
00:40:08,660 --> 00:40:11,200
For so the Lord said unto me, I

819
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,840
will take my rest and I will consider

820
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,260
in my dwelling place like a clear heat

821
00:40:16,260 --> 00:40:18,560
upon the herbs and like a cloud of

822
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:19,640
dew in the heat of harvest.

823
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,480
For before the harvest, when the bud is

824
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,580
perfect and the sour grape is ripening in

825
00:40:24,580 --> 00:40:26,680
the flower, he shall both cut off the

826
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,960
sprigs and the pruning hooks and take away

827
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:30,060
and cut down the branches.

828
00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:32,480
So Isaiah is saying, we don't need to

829
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:33,640
make a covenant with these people.

830
00:40:34,180 --> 00:40:35,940
God is going to take care of them.

831
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,420
He's going to cut them down before they're

832
00:40:38,420 --> 00:40:40,060
able to really fully develop.

833
00:40:40,620 --> 00:40:44,820
And so here is the prediction of a

834
00:40:44,820 --> 00:40:47,920
serious destruction by God.

835
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,560
They shall be left together unto the fowls

836
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,440
of the mountains and the beasts of the

837
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:54,700
earth.

838
00:40:55,700 --> 00:40:59,680
And the fowls shall summer upon them and

839
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,060
all of the beasts of the earth shall

840
00:41:01,060 --> 00:41:02,400
winter upon them.

841
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:08,440
In other words, the vultures will eat the

842
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:12,300
carcasses during the summertime, but there are so

843
00:41:12,300 --> 00:41:15,020
many by the time winter has come, even

844
00:41:15,020 --> 00:41:19,660
the animals, the coyotes and all will be

845
00:41:19,660 --> 00:41:21,760
eating the bones of them even through the

846
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:22,440
wintertime.

847
00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:28,860
In that time shall the present be brought

848
00:41:28,860 --> 00:41:30,140
to the Lord of hosts of a people

849
00:41:30,140 --> 00:41:32,020
scattered and peeled and the people lost from

850
00:41:32,020 --> 00:41:32,620
their beginning.

851
00:41:32,940 --> 00:41:35,800
Hitherto a nation meted out and trodden underfoot

852
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,400
whose land the rivers have cut through to

853
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,620
the place of the name of the Lord

854
00:41:40,620 --> 00:41:42,440
of hosts, the Mount Zion.

855
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,860
So the prediction of a serious destruction by

856
00:41:45,860 --> 00:41:48,520
the hand of God and no need to

857
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,320
join hands with the Ethiopians in a mutual

858
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,020
defense pact because God is our defense and

859
00:41:55,020 --> 00:41:56,200
God will take care of us.

860
00:41:56,820 --> 00:41:58,620
Now he turns to Egypt.

861
00:42:01,940 --> 00:42:03,260
The burden of Egypt.

862
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,760
Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud

863
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,180
and shall come into Egypt.

864
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,580
And the idols of Egypt shall be moved

865
00:42:12,580 --> 00:42:15,160
at His presence and in the heart of

866
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:17,220
Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

867
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,320
And I will set the Egyptians against the

868
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:20,760
Egyptians.

869
00:42:20,980 --> 00:42:23,820
So God is speaking here of a civil

870
00:42:23,820 --> 00:42:24,440
war.

871
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,700
And they shall fight everyone against his brother

872
00:42:29,260 --> 00:42:31,920
and everyone against his neighbor, the city against

873
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:33,800
city and the kingdom against kingdom.

874
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,420
There's going to be civil turmoil and war

875
00:42:36,420 --> 00:42:37,100
within Egypt.

876
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,200
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in

877
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,320
the midst thereof and I will destroy the

878
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,300
council thereof and they shall seek to the

879
00:42:44,300 --> 00:42:46,300
idols and to the charmers and to them

880
00:42:46,300 --> 00:42:47,980
that have familiar spirits and to the wizards.

881
00:42:48,340 --> 00:42:50,200
And the Egyptians will I give over into

882
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:51,580
the hand of a cruel Lord.

883
00:42:51,900 --> 00:42:54,260
A fierce king shall rule over them, saith

884
00:42:54,260 --> 00:42:57,340
the Lord, the Lord of hosts.

885
00:42:59,850 --> 00:43:03,110
And then he begins to make some very

886
00:43:03,110 --> 00:43:04,490
interesting predictions.

887
00:43:04,770 --> 00:43:08,550
The water shall fail from the sea and

888
00:43:08,550 --> 00:43:10,650
the river shall be wasted and dried up.

889
00:43:11,290 --> 00:43:13,850
And they shall turn the rivers far away.

890
00:43:14,010 --> 00:43:16,770
The word there is translated in one of

891
00:43:16,770 --> 00:43:20,690
the new versions and they shall dam the

892
00:43:20,690 --> 00:43:22,230
river far away.

893
00:43:22,910 --> 00:43:25,370
And the brooks of defense shall be emptied

894
00:43:25,370 --> 00:43:27,710
and dried up and the reeds and the

895
00:43:27,710 --> 00:43:29,350
flags shall wither.

896
00:43:30,030 --> 00:43:32,710
And the paper reeds by the brooks, by

897
00:43:32,710 --> 00:43:35,310
the mouth of the brooks, and everything sewn

898
00:43:35,310 --> 00:43:37,590
by the brooks shall wither and be driven

899
00:43:37,590 --> 00:43:39,070
away and be no more.

900
00:43:39,710 --> 00:43:44,090
The fishers also shall mourn and all they

901
00:43:44,090 --> 00:43:46,410
that cast their hook into the brooks shall

902
00:43:46,410 --> 00:43:49,050
lament and they that spread their nets upon

903
00:43:49,050 --> 00:43:50,930
the waters shall languish.

904
00:43:51,950 --> 00:43:54,450
Moreover, they that work in fine flax and

905
00:43:54,450 --> 00:43:57,350
they that weave the networks shall be confounded

906
00:43:57,350 --> 00:44:00,630
and they shall be broken in the purposes

907
00:44:00,630 --> 00:44:04,330
thereof all that make the sluices and ponds

908
00:44:04,330 --> 00:44:05,190
for fish.

909
00:44:06,110 --> 00:44:09,430
Surely the princes of Zon are fools and

910
00:44:09,430 --> 00:44:11,810
the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh

911
00:44:11,810 --> 00:44:13,430
is become brutish.

912
00:44:13,790 --> 00:44:15,490
How say you unto Pharaoh, I am the

913
00:44:15,490 --> 00:44:17,150
son of the wise and the son of

914
00:44:17,150 --> 00:44:18,170
ancient kings.

915
00:44:18,790 --> 00:44:22,130
Now, here is a prediction that the river

916
00:44:22,130 --> 00:44:24,490
shall be dammed far away.

917
00:44:24,670 --> 00:44:25,890
The Aswan Dam.

918
00:44:26,830 --> 00:44:30,150
Surely answers to this prediction.

919
00:44:34,670 --> 00:44:38,570
As early as 1970, they began to discover

920
00:44:38,570 --> 00:44:42,970
some of the ecological problems that were created

921
00:44:42,970 --> 00:44:45,370
by the building of the Aswan Dam.

922
00:44:46,250 --> 00:44:50,990
In a report made to the Congress and

923
00:44:50,990 --> 00:44:53,270
has become a part of the congressional record,

924
00:44:53,670 --> 00:45:03,370
number S-3448, in an ecology report, the

925
00:45:03,370 --> 00:45:07,350
first thing that they drew the attention to

926
00:45:07,350 --> 00:45:11,690
was the smog in Los Angeles as an

927
00:45:11,690 --> 00:45:12,810
ecology disaster.

928
00:45:12,970 --> 00:45:18,270
But the second thing was the DDT problem

929
00:45:18,270 --> 00:45:24,290
that since has been resolved by laws.

930
00:45:25,270 --> 00:45:27,690
But then the third thing was Egypt.

931
00:45:27,690 --> 00:45:28,850
And here is what was said.

932
00:45:28,910 --> 00:45:32,170
The Aswan Dam has slowed down the Nile.

933
00:45:33,110 --> 00:45:36,470
Six hundred miles down river, the sandbars have

934
00:45:36,470 --> 00:45:39,810
stopped building up on the delta.

935
00:45:40,550 --> 00:45:44,230
The Mediterranean is flooding the delta and one

936
00:45:44,230 --> 00:45:49,290
million fertile acres have disappeared under salt water.

937
00:45:50,350 --> 00:45:53,710
Below the dam, snails carry the blood cooks

938
00:45:54,490 --> 00:46:00,730
of cystosomycosis.

939
00:46:01,130 --> 00:46:03,230
And thousands of men and women and children

940
00:46:03,230 --> 00:46:05,770
are going to die of this painful, cruel

941
00:46:05,770 --> 00:46:06,270
disease.

942
00:46:06,410 --> 00:46:11,480
The Nile no longer carries its nutrient-rich

943
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:15,240
sediments out to sea and the fish are

944
00:46:15,240 --> 00:46:18,320
disappearing and the fishing families are moving to

945
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,280
the slums of Cairo and Alexandria.

946
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:22,820
That source of food is disappearing.

947
00:46:22,820 --> 00:46:25,660
Also oxygen from the loss of the greenery

948
00:46:25,660 --> 00:46:27,380
and water.

949
00:46:30,660 --> 00:46:35,220
Now, ten years later, as further studies are

950
00:46:35,220 --> 00:46:38,980
made concerning the ecological damage of the building

951
00:46:38,980 --> 00:46:41,660
of the Aswan Dam, the first thing, of

952
00:46:41,660 --> 00:46:44,360
course, that the Prophet here does talk about

953
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,240
is the salt water intrusion into the delta,

954
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,320
the rich delta farmland area.

955
00:46:49,500 --> 00:46:50,700
And this has continued.

956
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,440
The idea of damming up the Aswan was,

957
00:46:54,620 --> 00:46:58,100
of course, to create a control of the

958
00:46:58,100 --> 00:47:02,780
water flow into the irrigation canals and so

959
00:47:02,780 --> 00:47:06,780
forth and hopefully to open up thousands of

960
00:47:06,780 --> 00:47:16,400
new agricultural acres by the irrigation projects.

961
00:47:17,340 --> 00:47:20,660
But they have discovered that through the salt

962
00:47:20,660 --> 00:47:24,620
water intrusion into the most fertile area of

963
00:47:24,620 --> 00:47:27,700
Egypt, into the delta, the Nile delta, through

964
00:47:27,700 --> 00:47:30,740
the salt water intrusion, they have lost over

965
00:47:30,740 --> 00:47:34,300
twice the acreage, agricultural acreage, as they were

966
00:47:34,300 --> 00:47:35,120
gaining.

967
00:47:37,490 --> 00:47:39,030
You see, it used to be at the

968
00:47:39,030 --> 00:47:41,430
flood tide as the Nile River would bring

969
00:47:41,430 --> 00:47:45,030
the silt and all into the Mediterranean that

970
00:47:45,030 --> 00:47:48,410
it built up these silt dams against the

971
00:47:48,410 --> 00:47:53,290
Mediterranean, creating this very fertile delta area, much

972
00:47:53,290 --> 00:47:57,170
like we have down in El Centro and

973
00:47:57,170 --> 00:47:59,530
so forth, that fertile area that has been

974
00:47:59,530 --> 00:48:03,090
built up by the Colorado over the years.

975
00:48:05,370 --> 00:48:11,890
Now, with the Nile no longer flooding, they've

976
00:48:11,890 --> 00:48:17,920
lost the agricultural area by salt water intrusion

977
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:19,940
from the Mediterranean, first thing he predicted.

978
00:48:22,180 --> 00:48:27,130
But not only that, all of the reeds

979
00:48:27,130 --> 00:48:28,990
and so forth that used to grow along

980
00:48:28,990 --> 00:48:33,780
the Nile were killed because there is a

981
00:48:33,780 --> 00:48:39,240
little snail that sort of feeds, eats at

982
00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:41,320
its roots, but it used to be carried

983
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,480
away every year in the flood season.

984
00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:45,140
But now that there is no more flood

985
00:48:45,140 --> 00:48:47,860
season, these little snails have destroyed all of

986
00:48:47,860 --> 00:48:49,660
the reeds and everything that used to be

987
00:48:49,660 --> 00:48:53,800
along the Nile River, even as Isaiah said.

988
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,100
Now, in 1970, the fishing industry was beginning

989
00:48:59,100 --> 00:48:59,680
to disappear.

990
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:01,800
It has now totally disappeared.

991
00:49:02,020 --> 00:49:03,580
It doesn't exist.

992
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:07,720
They do not have any more fishing industry.

993
00:49:08,300 --> 00:49:11,240
There in the Mediterranean, there used to be

994
00:49:11,240 --> 00:49:15,020
tremendous schools of fish that supplied Egypt with

995
00:49:15,020 --> 00:49:16,680
one of its greatest protein sources.

996
00:49:18,340 --> 00:49:23,940
Just an overabundance supply of fish because they

997
00:49:23,940 --> 00:49:26,340
would feed on the rich nutrients that were

998
00:49:26,340 --> 00:49:29,600
carried by the Nile River on into the

999
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:30,660
Mediterranean Sea.

1000
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:34,160
But now that there is no great flooding

1001
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,420
and the carrying of these nutrients in, the

1002
00:49:36,420 --> 00:49:38,220
fish, they don't know what happened to them

1003
00:49:38,220 --> 00:49:40,100
if they've just left and gone someplace else

1004
00:49:40,100 --> 00:49:41,260
or have just disappeared.

1005
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:44,800
But there is no more fishing industry.

1006
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,940
It is amazing to me that 2,700

1007
00:49:52,940 --> 00:50:01,170
years ago, God inspired the prophet Isaiah to

1008
00:50:01,170 --> 00:50:05,650
not only prophesy the building of the Aswan

1009
00:50:05,650 --> 00:50:08,510
Dam as they will turn away the river

1010
00:50:08,510 --> 00:50:14,550
far away, but also to prophesy those ecological

1011
00:50:14,550 --> 00:50:19,330
disasters that would be created by the damming

1012
00:50:19,330 --> 00:50:20,550
of the Nile River.

1013
00:50:25,270 --> 00:50:31,040
There has even been suggestions by the Egyptians

1014
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:34,180
that the Aswan Dam be blown up.

1015
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:42,300
In order to seek to correct the ecological

1016
00:50:42,300 --> 00:50:45,740
disasters that have resulted from its building.

1017
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:50,900
It is interesting then that at the end

1018
00:50:50,900 --> 00:50:52,820
of the prophecy, he sort of takes off

1019
00:50:52,820 --> 00:50:56,940
against those engineers and counselors that advise them

1020
00:50:56,940 --> 00:50:58,480
to build the Aswan Dam.

1021
00:50:59,220 --> 00:51:01,660
The counselors of Zohan are fools.

1022
00:51:03,100 --> 00:51:06,000
The counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh

1023
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:07,440
has become brutish.

1024
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:10,840
How can they say, I am wise.

1025
00:51:11,100 --> 00:51:12,680
I'm the son of the ancient kings.

1026
00:51:13,720 --> 00:51:14,740
Where are they?

1027
00:51:14,980 --> 00:51:16,100
Where are the wise men?

1028
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:17,280
Let them tell you now.

1029
00:51:18,420 --> 00:51:20,700
Let them know what the Lord of hosts

1030
00:51:20,700 --> 00:51:22,380
has purposed upon Egypt.

1031
00:51:22,580 --> 00:51:23,520
These men are so wise.

1032
00:51:23,860 --> 00:51:25,160
Now let them tell you.

1033
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,900
You know, God has already told you what

1034
00:51:27,900 --> 00:51:29,040
damages are going to happen.

1035
00:51:29,500 --> 00:51:30,480
These men are so wise.

1036
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:32,160
Let them tell you what God has purposed.

1037
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,100
The princes of Zohan have become fools.

1038
00:51:35,100 --> 00:51:37,460
The princes of Naph are deceived.

1039
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,260
They have also seduced Egypt, even they that

1040
00:51:41,260 --> 00:51:43,700
are the stay of the tribes thereof.

1041
00:51:43,780 --> 00:51:46,660
The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in

1042
00:51:46,660 --> 00:51:49,280
the midst thereof, and they have caused Egypt

1043
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,580
to err in every work thereof as a

1044
00:51:52,580 --> 00:51:54,760
drunken man who is staggering in his own

1045
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:55,120
vomit.

1046
00:51:55,300 --> 00:51:56,640
What a graphic picture.

1047
00:51:58,300 --> 00:52:01,040
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt

1048
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:03,160
which the head or the tail or branch

1049
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:04,100
or rush may do.

1050
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:07,300
In that day shall Egypt be likened to

1051
00:52:07,300 --> 00:52:10,140
women, and it shall be afraid and fear

1052
00:52:10,140 --> 00:52:12,940
because of the shaking of the hand of

1053
00:52:12,940 --> 00:52:15,020
the Lord of hosts which He shakes over

1054
00:52:15,020 --> 00:52:15,240
it.

1055
00:52:15,380 --> 00:52:18,100
And the land of Judah shall be a

1056
00:52:18,100 --> 00:52:20,060
terror unto Egypt.

1057
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:22,960
And everyone that makes mention thereof shall be

1058
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,460
afraid in himself because of the counsel of

1059
00:52:25,460 --> 00:52:27,180
the Lord of hosts which He has determined

1060
00:52:27,180 --> 00:52:28,520
against it.

1061
00:52:28,540 --> 00:52:31,100
And so interesting as we look at the

1062
00:52:31,100 --> 00:52:37,280
situations today and see how clearly and concisely

1063
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:40,560
God has actually spoken of these things.

1064
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,500
The land of Judah, even again, becoming a

1065
00:52:43,500 --> 00:52:45,200
terror unto Egypt.

1066
00:52:45,340 --> 00:52:47,060
In that day shall five cities in the

1067
00:52:47,060 --> 00:52:49,380
land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan

1068
00:52:49,380 --> 00:52:51,180
and swear to the Lord of hosts, and

1069
00:52:51,180 --> 00:52:52,880
one shall be called the city of destruction.

1070
00:52:53,460 --> 00:52:55,220
In that day shall there be an altar

1071
00:52:55,220 --> 00:52:56,600
unto the Lord in the midst of the

1072
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:58,500
land of Egypt and a pillar at the

1073
00:52:58,500 --> 00:52:59,920
border thereof to the Lord.

1074
00:53:00,420 --> 00:53:02,140
And it shall be for a sign and

1075
00:53:02,140 --> 00:53:03,700
for a witness unto the Lord of hosts

1076
00:53:03,700 --> 00:53:05,580
in the land of Egypt for they shall

1077
00:53:05,580 --> 00:53:07,900
cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors

1078
00:53:07,900 --> 00:53:09,980
and He shall send them a Savior and

1079
00:53:09,980 --> 00:53:11,660
a Great One and shall deliver them.

1080
00:53:11,980 --> 00:53:13,920
And the Lord shall be known to Egypt

1081
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:15,520
and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in

1082
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:15,880
that day.

1083
00:53:16,220 --> 00:53:19,540
In that day begins to go ahead into

1084
00:53:19,540 --> 00:53:21,720
the future, into the day of the Lord.

1085
00:53:22,940 --> 00:53:26,280
When God is going to work, of course,

1086
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,200
in the coming of Jesus Christ throughout the

1087
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:31,240
world, but Egypt is going to become a

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00:53:31,240 --> 00:53:35,960
religious center for the worshiping of the Lord.

1089
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:40,200
Right now, of course, Egypt is strongly Muslim.

1090
00:53:41,740 --> 00:53:50,740
They have laws in Egypt against witnessing, proselytizing.

1091
00:53:50,940 --> 00:53:52,500
It's capital crime.

1092
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:56,300
If you seek to lead a Muslim to

1093
00:53:56,300 --> 00:53:59,140
Jesus Christ in Egypt, you could be put

1094
00:53:59,140 --> 00:53:59,820
to death.

1095
00:53:59,940 --> 00:54:03,560
It's a capital offense to seek to convert

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00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,300
a Muslim to another faith.

1097
00:54:06,980 --> 00:54:11,120
But in that day, the Lord shall be

1098
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:13,780
known to Egypt and they'll know the Lord

1099
00:54:13,780 --> 00:54:16,500
and they will do sacrifice and oblation.

1100
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:19,100
Yea, they shall vow a vow unto the

1101
00:54:19,100 --> 00:54:20,260
Lord and perform it.

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00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:23,880
And the Lord shall smite Egypt and He

1103
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:26,280
shall smite and heal it and they shall

1104
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:29,860
return even to the Lord and He shall

1105
00:54:29,860 --> 00:54:32,880
be entreated of them and will heal them.

1106
00:54:33,500 --> 00:54:36,260
Now, Egypt will be smitten by the Antichrist

1107
00:54:36,260 --> 00:54:43,610
actually when he takes his forces and he

1108
00:54:43,610 --> 00:54:48,810
starts a move towards Africa to conquer Africa.

1109
00:54:50,430 --> 00:54:52,630
He will pass through Egypt.

1110
00:54:52,910 --> 00:54:57,970
He'll get to the borders of Ethiopia at

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00:54:57,970 --> 00:55:00,750
which time tidings out of the north and

1112
00:55:00,750 --> 00:55:03,270
the east will trouble him for he will

1113
00:55:03,270 --> 00:55:07,750
hear that the Chinese have been moving their

1114
00:55:07,750 --> 00:55:13,290
armies westward and he will turn in all

1115
00:55:13,290 --> 00:55:16,330
of his fury to meet the invading armies

1116
00:55:16,330 --> 00:55:18,310
of the east and of the north, the

1117
00:55:18,310 --> 00:55:21,390
regrouped forces of Russia and they will meet

1118
00:55:21,390 --> 00:55:24,510
in a deadly conflict in the valley of

1119
00:55:24,510 --> 00:55:25,230
Megiddo.

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00:55:25,230 --> 00:55:27,790
So Egypt is going to suffer.

1121
00:55:28,710 --> 00:55:31,510
They will be conquered by the forces of

1122
00:55:31,510 --> 00:55:34,310
Europe as they begin their invasion of Africa

1123
00:55:34,310 --> 00:55:36,530
but it is an invasion that will never

1124
00:55:36,530 --> 00:55:39,230
be completed because as soon as Egypt is

1125
00:55:39,230 --> 00:55:41,470
taken as they start to move against Ethiopia

1126
00:55:41,470 --> 00:55:43,790
is when the news comes of the invading

1127
00:55:43,790 --> 00:55:46,610
forces from the east and from the north

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00:55:46,610 --> 00:55:51,390
at which time the Antichrist will turn to

1129
00:55:51,390 --> 00:55:53,610
meet them with the European forces and thus

1130
00:55:53,610 --> 00:55:54,890
the battle of Armageddon.

1131
00:55:55,990 --> 00:55:59,150
Now, in that day, the day of the

1132
00:55:59,150 --> 00:56:01,030
Lord after he has healed them and established

1133
00:56:01,030 --> 00:56:06,430
them, actually Assyria which is modern day Iraq

1134
00:56:07,230 --> 00:56:11,410
and Egypt will have a highway going between

1135
00:56:11,410 --> 00:56:16,330
them passing through Israel and the three nations

1136
00:56:16,330 --> 00:56:19,510
will be joined together in a beautiful harmony

1137
00:56:19,510 --> 00:56:22,490
and accord in the glorious day of the

1138
00:56:22,490 --> 00:56:22,870
Lord.

1139
00:56:23,270 --> 00:56:25,150
It shall be that Israel shall be a

1140
00:56:25,150 --> 00:56:27,790
third with Egypt and Assyria even the blessing

1141
00:56:27,790 --> 00:56:30,130
in the midst of the land whom the

1142
00:56:30,130 --> 00:56:32,530
Lord of hosts shall bless saying blessed be

1143
00:56:32,530 --> 00:56:35,490
Egypt my people and Assyria the work of

1144
00:56:35,490 --> 00:56:39,230
my hands and Israel mine inheritance.

1145
00:56:39,530 --> 00:56:42,430
And so God's glorious work in that day,

1146
00:56:43,010 --> 00:56:46,310
that day when Jesus comes to establish God's

1147
00:56:46,310 --> 00:56:46,590
kingdom.

1148
00:56:48,050 --> 00:56:52,610
Now, in chapter 20, Isaiah predicts that Assyria

1149
00:56:52,610 --> 00:56:57,450
is going to waste both Egypt and Ethiopia.

1150
00:56:58,370 --> 00:57:01,850
In the year that Tartan which is the

1151
00:57:01,850 --> 00:57:04,890
title which means the commander-in-chief.

1152
00:57:06,070 --> 00:57:09,310
Tartan, the commander-in-chief came unto Ashdod,

1153
00:57:09,590 --> 00:57:13,110
one of the major cities of the Philistines.

1154
00:57:14,190 --> 00:57:16,850
It is now a seaport city of Israel.

1155
00:57:18,130 --> 00:57:20,550
When the commander-in-chief of the forces

1156
00:57:20,550 --> 00:57:24,010
of Assyria under Sargon came to Ashdod and

1157
00:57:24,010 --> 00:57:26,990
took it at the same time, the Lord

1158
00:57:26,990 --> 00:57:31,610
spoke by Isaiah the prophet saying go and

1159
00:57:31,610 --> 00:57:37,370
loose the sackcloth from off your loins and

1160
00:57:37,370 --> 00:57:39,230
put your shoes off your feet.

1161
00:57:40,170 --> 00:57:44,710
And so he did walking naked and barefoot.

1162
00:57:45,130 --> 00:57:47,970
And the Lord said like as my servant

1163
00:57:47,970 --> 00:57:51,150
Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three

1164
00:57:51,150 --> 00:57:54,390
years for a sign and a wonder upon

1165
00:57:54,390 --> 00:57:58,250
Egypt and upon Ethiopia, so shall the king

1166
00:57:58,250 --> 00:58:01,850
of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners and

1167
00:58:01,850 --> 00:58:04,850
the Ethiopians captives young and old, naked and

1168
00:58:04,850 --> 00:58:08,030
barefoot even with their buttocks uncovered to the

1169
00:58:08,030 --> 00:58:09,010
shame of Egypt.

1170
00:58:09,010 --> 00:58:11,950
And they shall be afraid and ashamed of

1171
00:58:11,950 --> 00:58:15,450
Ethiopia, their expectation and of Egypt their glory

1172
00:58:15,450 --> 00:58:18,210
and the inhabitant of this isle shall say

1173
00:58:18,210 --> 00:58:21,130
in that day behold such is our expectation

1174
00:58:21,130 --> 00:58:23,930
whether we flee for help to be delivered

1175
00:58:23,930 --> 00:58:26,110
from where can we flee for help to

1176
00:58:26,110 --> 00:58:28,910
be delivered from the king of Assyria and

1177
00:58:28,910 --> 00:58:30,090
how shall we escape.

1178
00:58:30,310 --> 00:58:37,090
So it was a a sort of a

1179
00:58:37,090 --> 00:58:47,200
a method by which the conquering armies would

1180
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:52,220
seek to disgrace the conquered people is by

1181
00:58:52,220 --> 00:58:55,360
making them march naked.

1182
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:59,020
Now it is interesting that God would tell

1183
00:58:59,020 --> 00:59:02,020
his prophet Isaiah to walk around naked for

1184
00:59:02,020 --> 00:59:05,960
three years so that it would be the

1185
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:07,260
sign to the people.

1186
00:59:07,260 --> 00:59:14,260
So Assyria is going to embarrass both Ethiopia

1187
00:59:14,260 --> 00:59:18,240
and Egypt by conquering them and leading away

1188
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,200
their captives naked.

1189
00:59:21,060 --> 00:59:25,560
And their confederacy together is not going to

1190
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:27,980
stand and that is why Isaiah is saying

1191
00:59:27,980 --> 00:59:32,240
don't make a league with Egypt or don't

1192
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:34,580
look to them for help against Assyria.

1193
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:35,740
Look to the Lord.

1194
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:38,580
If you look to man if you look

1195
00:59:38,580 --> 00:59:40,000
to the arm of flesh they are going

1196
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:40,900
to fall anyhow.

1197
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,420
Now the counsel of God is pretty much

1198
00:59:45,420 --> 00:59:49,860
perennial in that God is encouraging us to

1199
00:59:49,860 --> 00:59:53,240
look to Him for our health and for

1200
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:55,300
our strength and for our defense.

1201
00:59:56,180 --> 00:59:57,900
Don't look to the arm of flesh.

1202
00:59:58,000 --> 00:59:59,600
Don't look to the arm of man to

1203
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:01,820
help you because man can fail.

1204
01:00:02,740 --> 01:00:04,440
The Lord will not fail.

1205
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:07,720
And so this was the message of Isaiah

1206
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:12,040
unto Judah and to King Hezekiah to trust

1207
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:12,500
in the Lord.

1208
01:00:12,700 --> 01:00:15,660
Don't trust in an alliance and an agreement

1209
01:00:15,660 --> 01:00:18,240
because these nations are going to fall to

1210
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:18,680
Assyria.

1211
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:19,940
You trust in the Lord.

1212
01:00:20,220 --> 01:00:21,880
The Lord will take care of you.

1213
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:24,300
And as we trust in the Lord we

1214
01:00:24,300 --> 01:00:27,780
can be sure the Lord will take care

1215
01:00:27,780 --> 01:00:28,320
of us.

1216
01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:29,420
Shall we pray?

1217
01:00:30,460 --> 01:00:35,320
Father we thank You again for Thy sure

1218
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:40,620
word that even as You have spoken surely

1219
01:00:40,620 --> 01:00:43,720
it shall come to pass.

1220
01:00:46,220 --> 01:00:50,180
Father we can see as we look at

1221
01:00:50,180 --> 01:00:54,820
history and as we read of the prophets

1222
01:00:54,820 --> 01:01:01,330
who before the events so clearly described them

1223
01:01:02,510 --> 01:01:08,100
we thank You Lord for this proof of

1224
01:01:08,100 --> 01:01:12,820
Your divine capacities and divine nature.

1225
01:01:16,060 --> 01:01:20,200
Dwelling Lord as You do in the eternal

1226
01:01:21,620 --> 01:01:26,400
outside of our time continuum and thus speaking

1227
01:01:27,100 --> 01:01:29,700
of things before they come to pass as

1228
01:01:29,700 --> 01:01:32,520
though they had already come to pass because

1229
01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:34,220
You know they are going to come to

1230
01:01:34,220 --> 01:01:34,660
pass.

1231
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:37,800
Oh how thankful we are for Your sure

1232
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:41,540
word and for the promises that yet await

1233
01:01:41,540 --> 01:01:45,940
us as Your children of those things that

1234
01:01:45,940 --> 01:01:49,860
are going to come of Thy glorious kingdom

1235
01:01:49,860 --> 01:01:55,380
upon this earth and our privilege of being

1236
01:01:55,380 --> 01:01:57,160
with You and reigning with You.

1237
01:01:57,980 --> 01:02:00,100
Now hide Thy word away in our hearts

1238
01:02:03,140 --> 01:02:08,380
and let us grow in our confidence and

1239
01:02:08,380 --> 01:02:10,960
trust in Thee.

1240
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:12,420
In Jesus name.

1241
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:14,200
Amen.

1242
01:02:15,420 --> 01:02:16,340
Shall we stand?

1243
01:02:25,410 --> 01:02:26,970
May the Lord be with you and watch

1244
01:02:26,970 --> 01:02:32,290
over you through the week as special emphasis

1245
01:02:32,290 --> 01:02:41,230
is being made the emphasis and attention upon

1246
01:02:41,230 --> 01:02:43,930
the death of Jesus Christ and His subsequent

1247
01:02:43,930 --> 01:02:45,570
resurrection.

1248
01:02:46,670 --> 01:02:51,010
And may the power that raised Jesus from

1249
01:02:51,010 --> 01:02:57,620
the dead dwell in you and quicken you

1250
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:01,140
unto every good work.

1251
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:02,600
God bless you.

1252
01:03:03,420 --> 01:03:06,680
Anoint you with His spirit and use your

1253
01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:11,920
life as His instrument to shine forth His

1254
01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:14,340
light into a dark world.

1255
01:03:14,980 --> 01:03:16,620
In Jesus name.

1256
01:03:17,260 --> 01:03:17,500
Amen.