Leen Ritmeyer – The Power of Bible Places and their Lessons for Us – Class 5 – Bethabara beyond Jordan

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This is a 2010 Ontario Winter
Bible school.

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Our speaker for the second
session is Brother Lane

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Rittmeyer from Cardiff, Wales.
His theme for the week is The

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Power of Bible Places and their
Lessons For us.

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This is his 5th class and the
subject for this class is

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Bethabara Beyond Jordan.
A reading was taken from Joshua

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Chapter 3.
Dear brilliant sisters in the

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Lord Jesus Christ and young
people, yesterday we left Jesus

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sitting under the oak of the
Teacher, sitting on the wall of

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that well in fulfilment of the
that old promise of which Jacob

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made with son Joseph.
Joseph is a fruitful bow by a

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well whose branches or whose
daughters go over the wall.

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And here was Jesus Christ
sitting at the well of Jacob,

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and preached in the gospel for
the first time to the Gentiles.

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And the whole scene was so
exciting by the sisters, because

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under his feet were the idols of
the House of Jacob buried on the

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ground, and the bones of Joseph,
and also, I believe the bones of

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his brothers.
Just one or two words to go back

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about a perplexing passage in
Acts Chapter 7, because there

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were some questions about this.
If you go back to Exodus 7 and

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verse 15 you need to read this
correctly because it is a bit

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difficult.
It says in Acts 7 and verse 15

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that Jacob went down into Egypt
and died.

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He and our fathers.
That passage is telling us that

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Jacob died in the land of Egypt.
He died there, but also the

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fathers died there.
That means to say Reuben and

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Simeon, Judah, Levi, then, and
so on.

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All those people died in Egypt.
But we know, of course, from

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Genesis chapter 50 that Jacob
had commanded his sons to bury

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him in Hebron in the tomb of
Machpelah.

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And we have a very, very broad
account of the whole Israelite

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tribe coming out of Egypt,
stopping at the threshing floor

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of Attad, of the traffic
threshing.

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Floor of mourning.
And Jacob Behringer in the tomb

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of Machpelah in Hebron, Abramiz,
and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca.

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And Jacob was now going to be
united there with Leah, that is,

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in Hebron.
But the next verse says.

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And were carried over him.
Well, the but I don’t say

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anything bad about the King
James after this wonderful

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address we had last night.
But they did miss out the word

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they but you find in all the
other translations the NIV

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actually says.
And their bones were carried

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over into Shechem, Whose bones?
The bones of the Fathers,

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because Jacob was already buried
in Hebron.

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Now imagine them, the tribe of
Joseph, Ephraim and Naza,

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carrying those bones of Joseph,
as we are told.

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They were put in a box and they
carry them all through the.

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Buildings and bury them under
the oak of the teacher.

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But do you think that the other
tribes who’d have left their

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tribal fathers behind?
Although we aren’t told.

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In Genesis, that is the case.
In Acts Chapter 7, we’ve got

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added revelation.
That the other patriarchs were

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also brought over and SNF, he
says, I don’t like the NFA, but

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in this case they’re very good
and their bodies were carried

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over into Shechem.
Second difficulty.

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They were laid in the sepulchre
that Abraham bought for a sum of

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money after sons of Emor.
There’s no record of Abraham

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buying that piece of land, but
we know from Genesis chapter 12

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that he came to the oak of the
Teacher and he built an altar

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there.
Now you cannot just build an alt

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on anybody else’s ground.
You’re only allowed to build on

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your own ground.
So Abraham must have bought that

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oak, the land just around the
tree of the the oak of the

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teacher, and build an alt on his
own piece of land.

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But this passage reminds us very
much of what it says in Joshua

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chapter 24.
Let’s go back to Joshua chapter

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20. 4.
And that’s another difficulty

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where it says in verse 32 the
bones of Joseph is the children

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of Israel brought about of
Egypt.

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Buried a in.
Shechem in the parcel of ground

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which Jacob bought, Otto, sons
of Amor, the father of Shechem.

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So here we say that Jacob bought
it.

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In Acts we see that Abram bought
it.

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Our problem is Brendan says that
if.

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In the Middle East, I can see
that still today that people

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fight over property.
There are Jewish houses occupied

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by Arabs and the Jews are
claiming it back.

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Abram must have bought a small
piece of land not to dwell in

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because God didn’t give him as
much as a foot breath to

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actually to as an inheritance to
set up a camp and to live there,

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but just for a burial place and
to a place to build an arty.

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But if you don’t stay in that
piece of land, well, the other

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people will take it over,
starting with squatters and then

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making up some kind of document.
This is my piece of land.

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So Jacob had to buy it again.
And that’s the listener I tried

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to bring out last time.
But if you’ve been given an

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inheritance, if you don’t stay
there, like the sons of Jacob,

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we’re not feeling their flock in
their Fallas inheritance.

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They were in downtown.
Then we can lose it and it’s

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very hard to get it back again.
And I’m sure that when Jacob

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wants to have it back again, he
had to buy it again for a

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special frame, a special price.
Because you are my friend, as

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they say in the Middle East.
Yes.

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So there’s, there’s no, there’s
no contradiction between the

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Genesis and the Joshua count and
the acts of the apostle.

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We just need to understand that
we are told in Acts Chapter 7

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that.
The bones of the fathers, Reuben

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and Simeon and Levi and so on
were also buried in Shechem.

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Not in Hebron where Jacob was
buried, but in Shechem.

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And that is the beautiful
picture and scissor.

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There’s Jesus sitting at the
well there.

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There’s all the idols, idols of
the House of Jacob under his

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feet, the idols which Joshua
buried under the oak of the tree

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where the law was written, under
this, on the stones under that

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oak of the teacher, and the
bones of Joseph and his brethren

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under his feet as well.
I’m thinking that when Mary came

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to visit Elizabeth, the babe
jumped in the room for joy, and

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I can imagine that the bones of
Joseph were just rattling for

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joy.
Then Jesus was sitting there

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just above them and they’re
telling the gospel, extending

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the gospel message to this
Gentile woman, this woman of

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erepute, just like Dyna was a
corrupt woman where Jesus

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extended, got mercy to the
Gentile also.

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And there is no more beautiful
picture as the teachers sitting

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there on that particular place
where where Jacob had built as

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well and where the fathers are
all buried.

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But today I want to go to Beth
Abarra Joshua.

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Chapter 3 for me is one of the
most exciting chapters in the

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Bible by the sisters because it
tells us how the Israelites

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finally, after 40 years in the
wilderness, entered the land of

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Israel.
And we are there now.

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We hope that soon Christ will
come back.

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And we will.
Also enter into the lands.

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It’s interesting that it says
that the children of Israel had

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to keep a distance of 2000
cubits.

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Not as it says in the good news.
Good news by about a.

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Mile because you lose the whole
type of 2000 cubits Christ was

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the first one to cross that
river of death typified by the

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ark because as soon as the.
Feet of the priest that carried

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the ark touched the water.
The waters were cut off so the

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water stopped flowing into
death, into the Dead Sea itself.

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We’ve seen that beautiful and
powerful picture.

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The teaching aid of the River
Jordan descended from life into

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death.
But now that road to death was

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cut right across by the Ark, The
waters dried up and the children

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of Israel had to go on foot
behind them on dry land.

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But look at that first four
there.

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Shall be a space between you and
it, about 2000 cubits by

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measure.
Come not near and to it, that

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you may know the way by which
you must go, for you have not

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passed its way heretofore.
And we also gladly says we need

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to learn the way how Christ
lived his life and crossed that

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river of death and entered into
eternal life.

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And we’ve been given 40 years, a
lifetime.

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So use every day of your life to
learn this way, because we

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haven’t been there yet.
We haven’t been raised from the

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dead.
And that beautiful picture took

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place in Bait Abara.
You see an aerial photograph

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taken from more or less above
Jerusalem.

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A bit further to the West is
Vadiguard, going down to where

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Jericho is, and here we’ve got
the river Jordan going right

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through, and the other plains,
the Kikai of Moab, where the

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camp official was, and the one
crossing place is Beit Abagah.

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Let’s go to John chapter 1.
There we read, when John the

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Baptist says in verse 26, I
baptize with water.

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But as standards run among you
whom ye know not, he it is who

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coming after me is preferred
before me, whose shoes leched, I

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am not worthy to undlose.
These things were done in

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Baitabaga beyond Jordan, where
John was baptizing.

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And the next day John sees Jesus
coming unto him, and says,

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Behold the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sin of the

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world.
And so he baptised him right

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there in Bait Abara.
Now the name Bait Abara means

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the place of.
Crossing.

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It was the exact same place
where the Israelite crossed in

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Joshua chapter 3 on dry land
right there as you can see on

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the picture.
And they entered into the

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promised land, and that’s where.
Christ was baptised.

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He could not have been baptised
in in any other place.

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Brethren and sisters.
And he’s been there many times

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in his life.
If you follow his journeys, he

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often spent time here in
Bethebara or he crossed over in

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Bethebara even before he was
born.

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She went Mary.
Was more or less sent by Gabriel

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the Angel to go to Elizabeth.
She went from Nazareth, crossed

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over the other side Jordan, and
even today there’s a crossing

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here opposite Beth Chan.
John the batter was usually

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baptizing in Anon next to Salem,
and the other crossing here is

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Beitabara opposite Jericho.
So when Mary went to Elizabeth

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in Hebron, they crossed over
Beitabara, and then three months

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later she went back.
Then again she had to cross

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Beitabara.
When Jesus was about to be born,

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they again went from Nazareth.
They crossed over here, they

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crossed back at Beita Bahra,
went over Jericho, Jerusalem and

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to Bethlehem for Jesus to be
born.

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And then when Jesus was
baptised, you know John de

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Bateau is usually baptising
here, aiming into Salem, but he

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had to come down specially the
Jordan River to meet Christ at

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the place of crossing, the place
where the Israelites crossed to

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have Jesus baptised there.
Celebrating the sisters, it’s a

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very important place in the life
of.

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Jesus.
And as soon as he as he was

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baptised, what what happened?
He was tempted in the

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wilderness.
So when he was baptised here, he

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crossed the River Jordan because
he baptised on the other side.

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And then he went.
To the to to the wilderness just

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near Jericho.
To be tempted.

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Let’s go to Matthew chapter 4
and see the associations which

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Jesus makes.
In Matthew chapter 4, he was

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just baptized in Beita Bahra and
then was Jesus LED up of the

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Spirit into the wilderness to be
tempted of the devil.

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And then he had fasted 40 days
of 40 nights.

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He was aft which of hungered.
And when the tempter came to me,

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he said, If thou be the Son of
God, commanded these stones be

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made bread?
But he answered and said, it is

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written, Men shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word

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that takes procedures out of the
mouth of God.

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Why did you say of these stones
Jesus can make bread and why

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does he quote?
Deuteronomy in this particular

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place.
Let’s go to Joshua chapter 4.

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Let me see the same phrase being
used then.

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Which tells us they’re not just
ordinary stones in Joshua

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chapter 4.
After the children of Israel had

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crossed the river Jordan and
then Joshua commanded them.

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In verse seven, he says when the
waters of the Jordan were cut

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off before the ark of the
convent of Yabba, then it passed

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over Jordan, then the waters
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And these stones, which stones,
these stones shall be for a

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memorial unto the children of
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Because he had commanded right
in the beginning of the chapter,

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it came to pass when all the
people were clean passed over

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Jordan and Yah was speaking to
Joshua saying so it’s God’s

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command.
Take 12 men out of the people,

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one of every tribe and man, and
commanded them, saying, Take the

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hands out of the midst of the
Jordan, out of the place where

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the priest feet stood firm 12
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And carry them over with you,
and leave them in the lodging

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place where you shall lodge this
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And so they did.
And as it says in verse 7, these

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stones shall be from memorial
unto the children of Israel

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forever.
And Jesus said, or the tempter

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said to genius, if they’ll be
the Son of God, command that

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these stones be made, bred the
stones that were taken up out of

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the river Jordan from under the
feet of the priests who carried

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the ark of the covenant.
They were a type of of Israel,

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of spiritual Israel.
They were taken out of that

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river of death, out of the
descender, and they were

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standing there on the side of
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When Jesus saw that he knew
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That was Israel.
He could turn them into bread,

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but not for himself.
And why did she quote

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Deuteronomy?
Breaded sisters, of course.

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You can quote Deuteronomy at any
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But the book of Deuteronomy was
written exactly at the same

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spot.
Where did Moses write the book

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of Deuteronomy?
Go to Deuteronomy chapter 31.

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Because while they were there in
the plain of Jordan, we read in

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verse 9 that Moses wrote this
law and delivered it unto the

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priest, the sons of Levi, which
bare the ark of the covenant of

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Yahuah, and unto all the elders
of Israel.

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And so the law was written there
because they were in the plain

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of Jordan.
And so we see that Jesus knew

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exactly what had happened there
in the past, and He used it to

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explain who He was Himself and
what He came to do.

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He would not have known what to
do if he hadn’t read the

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scriptures, and he used it at
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But then on another journey, he
crossed again.

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But whenever you went to
Jerusalem, he again crossed over

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by Tabara.
Let’s go to John chapter 10.

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In John chapter 10.
Now he was in in Galilee and we

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read there that verse 22 and it
was at Jerusalem, the feast of

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dedication, and it was winter.
But how did Jesus get?

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From Galilee into Jerusalem,
into the Temple again, He came

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From Capernaum, where he lived.
He went through the same Jordan

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Valley, crossed over at
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And he crossed over back again
at Bethabara and even up to

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today, those are the two major
crossings between Israel and and

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Jordan.
So that is why he had to be

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beyond Jordan.
He always went back to the

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place.
Where he was baptised and then

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he went to Bethany.
Here you can see Bethany because

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he came up from Jericho from
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He went over this road to
Bethany, which is right here,

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and I’ve lived myself for two
years in Bethany and I used to

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walk up the back of the Mount of
Olives to go to work here, right

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at the Temple Mount.
But whenever Jesus went there to

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Chosen, he always stayed at the
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And that is a lovely thing to do
by the sisters, to always stay

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with friends and not with other
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But then after Jesus had been in
Jerusalem at the Feast of

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Dedication, then he went back
again to Jordan.

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Look at verse 40 of the same
chapter 10.

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That was after he had raised up.
Now it was before he raised the

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plane in verse 40, when they
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that he went away again beyond
Jordan, unto the place where

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John at first.
Baptised and there he abode, he

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went back by the Sisters time
and again to the place where he

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was baptised.
And it is a very good example

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for us also because when we find
ourselves in difficult

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circumstances, when.
We have difficulty in our faith.

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Then go back to the time we were
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Jesus said to the Ephesians, You
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Remember that love you had.
When we were baptised, when we

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were enthusiastic, we were
willing to work for the truth,

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go back to that place, to that
time you were baptised because

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Jesus did it time and again.
So he was baptised in a very

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special place.
But it says in verse 40 he went

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beyond Jordan.
So he crossed it back to Barra

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and he stayed there beyond
Jordan.

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Why would he stay there?
What was there beyond Jordan?

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Now look at this map.
Brethren, sisters, we’ve just

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been reading Joshua Chapter 20.
Joshua chapter 3.

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Now here we’ve got the end of
the Dead Sea.

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Here’s the River Jordan coming
down and flowing into the Dead

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Sea.
That’s where we all end up

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unless we follow the Ark.
Which crossed the river of death

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and by Tabara and cut off those
waters, but he was the camp of

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Israel that was beyond Jordan.
That says Jesus went beyond

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Jordan and he went to the place
where the camp of Israel was,

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unless we we should always be
there.

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Bradley, Sisters in our
Eccleses.

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Or in our.
Families around the readings

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around the word of God, be in
Bible schools, be go to Sunday

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school lessons, go to Bible
classes, go to the break of

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breath and don’t forsake the
assembling of ourselves together

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because Jesus did all the time.
He went back to the camp of

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Israel.
Now the important embeddedness

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is, as we’ve already seen, that
river of death started at Mount

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Hermon and we followed.
How that snow melted and created

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the river Jordan, how it goes
down into the Sea of Galilee and

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so on.
And then at the time of Joshua

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in chapter 3, we read that the
Jordan overflowed its banks.

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Normally it is.
Just a small river about, well

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say from from this world to that
world.

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You can just get a few trees
across and you can walk across.

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But then the Jordan overflows
its banks, as this picture

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shows, which was taken in 1894.
It is in places by the a

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kilometre wide, a very fast
flowing stream, and you couldn’t

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cross it with your little ones
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Those two spies which Joshua
sent out would have been

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extremely good swimmers not to
end up into the Dead Sea, so.

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The amazing thing was that as
soon as the feet of the priest

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who carried the arch of the
government touched the waters,

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the waters flow.
They stopped flowing.

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All the way back from Adam.
Now, Adam, let me just go back

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to this place.
Adam is located from 25

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kilometres further up the river.
So the water stopped here and it

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didn’t flow back.
Water doesn’t flow back and the

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Bible doesn’t say so it says the
water stood on the heap.

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Now I’ve tried it once before,
but I can’t get water standing

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up on the heap.
It just, it just flows away.

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But you know that the last time
that the waters of the Jordan

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were cut off was in 1927, and
for 12 hours there was no water

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flowing at all.
The records going back to the

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time of The Crusaders that the
Jordan, that the waters of the

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Jordan were cut off in between
10 and 16 hours, that would have

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been just enough time for the
Israelites to cross that river.

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And this is how it happened.
The Jordan meanders through the

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riverbed, which is quite wide,
about a kilometre wide or

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sometimes 2.
And that meandering court of

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River Jordan undercuts huge
mountainsides.

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And through the years it, it
scours out underneath the

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mountainside.
And as you can see on this

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picture, a huge chunk of
mountains about to fall into the

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river.
If you get a larger chunk of

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mountain to fall in, it creates
a dam right across the River

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Jordan.
That is exactly, according to

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the records, what happened in
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So the waters were then cut off.
The water that was there flowed

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out until it was finished.
And then when you get a river

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coming down and a huge Bank of
dam going right across, then the

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water piles itself up on the
heap, as it were, until it

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reaches the top of that collapse
and then starts flowing again.

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That is what the Bible tells us.
And that happens only when

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there’s an earthquake.
We read a lot about earthquakes

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and I believe that.
As it says, God’s works are

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finished from the foundation of
the earth.

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The fault lines and the tectonic
plates have been built into the

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earth crust right from creation
to be used by God at the right

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time.
It just needs to trigger to set

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off an earthquake.
The mountain falls down and the

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waters were cut off.
It’s happened so many times in

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recent history.
Then we have an earthquake after

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there’s a secondary earthquake.
We just read about Christchurch

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and you know, we know there’s an
ecclesia there and we know

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people there.
They had an A terrible

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earthquake a few months ago.
And now they had another one

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last week when Jericho was
destroyed and they were blowing

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the trumpets.
Or you can blow a trumpet as

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hard as you want to wear this,
but the wall won’t fall down.

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But yet we do believe the
scriptures in archaeology, we

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don’t only study what the city
looked like, but also how it was

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destroyed.
And there’s no doubt in my mind

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that the walls of Jericho were
destroyed by an earthquake

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because it’s like kind of a
circular wall.

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Usually the walls are pushed
inwards by the battery ramps

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from the outside.
But the walls of Jericho all

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fell outside that only epithet,
an earthquake.

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So the second tremor caused the
walls of Jericho to to to fall

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down.
And it doesn’t take away from

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the power of God, it increases.
The power and the foreknowledge

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of God whose works were finished
from the foundation of the work.

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It just needs a little trigger
at the right time at the right

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spot for that to happen.
And that is very, very powerful.

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And so if you follow Christ,
then we can also reach the

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promised land and we won’t have
to be swept down into the Dead

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Sea.
So began by saying that that

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Jesus went to Bethabara.
After he was rejected by his

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fellow Jews in Jerusalem.
And I’m sure Ben assisted the

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Benin event, left Jerusalem
because they rejected him and he

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walked down the road to Jericho
and he crossed over better by

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her that his.
Mind went back to a very similar

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event.
Go to Second Samuel, chapter 15.

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There was a time when King David
was rejected his own son

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Absalom.
Rebelled against him and they,

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he set up Israel against their
own king, against David.

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And if he followed this, it’s
too much to do right now, but

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follow this route of David.
He says he was in Jerusalem.

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He crossed the river, the Kedron
Valley and went up to Mount of

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Olives.
There’s only one place where he

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can do that, Jesus.
After he, he had the last step,

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he crossed the Kedron Valley and
that’s where Gethsemane is now.

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Jesus went up again.
David also, he went up the same

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path of the Mount of Olives and
then as you can see in first

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chapter 15, as it’s a second
Samuel, I mean first Samuel

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there it says when David left
Jerusalem, verse 23, all the

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country that was a loud voice
and all the people passed over.

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The King also himself passed
over the Brook Kidron just like

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Jesus did. 1000 years later and
all the people passed over

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toward the way of the wilderness
that is over the Mount of

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Olives.
As you can read later on in the

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chapter, it goes down to Jericho
and he crossed over Beta Barra

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and then to live with Barzilay
the Gileadite.

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And then he came back in chapter
17 and in verse 22 when the king

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had heard that.
Abstrom was dead and the army

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was defeated, and David rose and
all the people that were with

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him, and they passed over Jordan
by morning light elect not one

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of them that had none not gone
over Jordan.

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So David had to flee, but he
came back the second time as

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king when?
They suggested that they should

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simulate to death that.
Do you not know that today I’m

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king in Israel?
He was king already before.

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But now you.
Begin he was made king the

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second time Jesus also to flee
from Jerusalem, but not free to

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go away from Jerusalem.
He went to the same place where

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David had to flee as well.
Knowing that David came back as

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a king and when Jesus.
Comes back, he will come back as

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king also because in in chapter
19 you can see where those

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people met the king.
In verse 15 it says the king

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returned and came to Jordan and
Julah came to Gilgal to go to

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meet the king to conduct the
king over Jordan.

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00:29:15,600 –> 00:29:18,880
Well, Gilgal’s by the Telothis
was circumcised after they

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00:29:18,880 –> 00:29:22,200
crossed the river Jordan.
It’s all happening in that very,

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00:29:22,200 –> 00:29:26,920
very same place.
So brave and sisters, Jesus knew

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00:29:26,920 –> 00:29:30,160
all about those stones when he
said to the Pharisees, the

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00:29:30,160 –> 00:29:34,640
generation of Vipers, you say we
were able to our father, but of

447
00:29:34,640 –> 00:29:38,680
course they were of these stones
to raise up children unto

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00:29:38,680 –> 00:29:41,600
Abraham.
And he thinking about David

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00:29:41,600 –> 00:29:44,680
where to flee and he came back
the second time as king.

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00:29:45,080 –> 00:29:48,640
What a wonderful thing, brethren
and sisters, that happened, but

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00:29:48,640 –> 00:29:52,080
something else happened at the
very same place.

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00:29:52,760 –> 00:29:55,720
That would have gone through the
mind of Jesus every time he was

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00:29:55,720 –> 00:29:58,800
invite a Bara.
He would have thought about the

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00:29:58,800 –> 00:30:02,800
river being cut off, opening the
way into eternal life.

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00:30:03,200 –> 00:30:06,160
He would have thought about
David’s fleeing and coming back

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00:30:06,160 –> 00:30:08,120
that same way.
But it was something else.

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00:30:08,120 –> 00:30:11,400
Brethren and sisters, let’s go
to Two Kings chapter. 2.

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There we have Elijah preparing
to go away, and it was with

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Elijah.
Now in verse one, where did they

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00:30:34,120 –> 00:30:36,240
meet?
In Gilgal?

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First one of Two Kings, chapter
2.

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First two, they’re going to
Bethel where Jacob built an

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00:30:45,120 –> 00:30:48,680
altar.
And then there was the.

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The sons of the prophets were
there.

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But then he went back in verse 4
to Jericho, and the verse 6

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elite is sent to him.
Terry, I pray here for Yahweh

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00:30:58,680 –> 00:31:02,680
sent me to the Jordan.
Now from Jericho to Jordan

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00:31:02,680 –> 00:31:06,720
there’s only one way, that is to
Beth Abarra, where Jesus was

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00:31:06,720 –> 00:31:11,440
baptised later on.
And So what happened in verse

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11?
And it came to pass, as they

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00:31:13,000 –> 00:31:15,320
still went on and told them
beyond there appeared a chariot

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00:31:15,320 –> 00:31:19,520
of fire, and horses of fire, and
parted them both asunder, and

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00:31:19,520 –> 00:31:24,440
Elijah went up by a whirlwind.
Into heaven, as this picture

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00:31:24,440 –> 00:31:26,920
kind of showed it.
So do you see all the

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00:31:26,920 –> 00:31:30,080
associations?
Bradley sisters in Baitabaya.

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00:31:30,520 –> 00:31:33,280
So when Jesus was baptised
there, he would have remembered

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00:31:33,280 –> 00:31:36,720
all the events that took place
in that one particular place.

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00:31:36,720 –> 00:31:38,960
And that’s why he had to be
baptised there.

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00:31:39,160 –> 00:31:43,400
There’s no other way.
It it it stopped the river of

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00:31:43,400 –> 00:31:46,240
death and it is the.
Way to heaven, as it were.

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00:31:46,240 –> 00:31:49,480
Not that Elijah went to heaven
where God dwells because Christ

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is the first born from the dead,
but then that when Jesus went,

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00:31:53,840 –> 00:31:57,760
and he often stayed there in the
camp of Israel beyond Jordan.

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That Moses had written the book
of Deuteronomy.

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00:32:02,440 –> 00:32:05,640
So remember it’s written in 2nd
Corinthians 1 and verse three

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and five, that God is the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, the

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fathers of mercies and the God
of all comfort, who comforted us

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00:32:12,640 –> 00:32:16,240
with All in all our tribulation.
That we may be able to comfort

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00:32:16,240 –> 00:32:19,520
them which are in any trouble by
the comfort where we ourselves

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00:32:19,520 –> 00:32:22,360
are comforted of God.
For the sufferings of Christ

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00:32:22,360 –> 00:32:25,600
abound in us.
So our consolation also abounded

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00:32:25,600 –> 00:32:28,080
by Christ.
But when Christ was in trouble,

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00:32:28,240 –> 00:32:32,320
he went to Beto Barrera.
When we are in trouble, go to

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00:32:32,320 –> 00:32:34,560
where the camp of Israel go back
to the ecclesia.

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00:32:34,840 –> 00:32:37,440
Remember the day of your
baptism, because that is all

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00:32:37,440 –> 00:32:40,880
typified in the place where
Jesus was baptised.

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00:32:42,480 –> 00:32:47,840
And then there’s another thing.
Jesus went up in John 11 and

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00:32:47,840 –> 00:32:51,200
verse 3.
Let’s go to John, Chapter 11.

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00:32:57,600 –> 00:33:06,000
And we hear that that Lazarus
was dead in verse three, while

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Jesus was beyond Jordan, where
the camp of Israel was, his

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00:33:10,960 –> 00:33:13,920
sister sent unto him, and
saying, Lord, behold, he whom

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00:33:13,920 –> 00:33:18,000
thou lovest is sick.
He heard it in the camp of

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00:33:18,000 –> 00:33:20,760
Israel.
When Jesus heard that, he said.

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00:33:21,080 –> 00:33:23,640
When he heard that, he said,
This sickness is not unto death,

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00:33:23,640 –> 00:33:27,040
but for the glory of God, that
the Son of God might be

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00:33:27,040 –> 00:33:31,800
glorified thereby.
But in verse 6, we’ve read that

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00:33:31,800 –> 00:33:34,680
when he heard therefore that he
was six, he about two days still

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00:33:34,920 –> 00:33:39,400
in the same place where he was.
He heard about Lazas.

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00:33:39,640 –> 00:33:42,320
Lazas may have died already when
they were walking down to him,

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00:33:42,320 –> 00:33:44,360
but he stayed there for two more
days.

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00:33:44,560 –> 00:33:48,320
But keep your hand in John
Chapter 11 and go to Hosea

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00:33:48,320 –> 00:34:03,400
chapter. 6.
Says Come and let us return unto

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00:34:03,400 –> 00:34:06,080
Yahweh, for he has torn and he
will heal us.

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00:34:06,320 –> 00:34:08,320
He has smitten and he will bind
us up.

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00:34:08,400 –> 00:34:13,159
After 2 days will he revive us
and takes one the Jesus?

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00:34:13,159 –> 00:34:15,840
Stayed there for two days and
took one day to walk up to

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00:34:15,840 –> 00:34:20,560
Jerusalem and in the third day.
He shall raise us up and we

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00:34:20,560 –> 00:34:24,120
shall live in His sight, and
then shall we know, if we follow

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00:34:24,120 –> 00:34:27,280
on to know Yahweh, His going
forth is prepared as the

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00:34:27,280 –> 00:34:29,320
morning.
He shall come unto us as the

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00:34:29,320 –> 00:34:31,800
rain, as the Latin, the former
rain upon the earth.

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00:34:32,320 –> 00:34:34,920
So Jesus waited till the 3rd day
because the third day is the

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00:34:34,920 –> 00:34:37,239
type of the Kingdom.
Brethren, the sisters, that’s.

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00:34:37,239 –> 00:34:42,320
When we all hope to be raised.
From the dead, so Jesus, when

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00:34:42,320 –> 00:34:48,400
then from, but from beyond
Jordan, where the camp official

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00:34:48,400 –> 00:34:50,920
was, he crossed the place of
baptism.

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00:34:51,400 –> 00:34:55,840
Then he went to Bethany, where
he raised up the Lord, where he

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00:34:55,920 –> 00:34:59,760
raised up Lazarus.
And that must have been so

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00:34:59,760 –> 00:35:05,240
powerful by the sisters, because
the lesson of Beit Abbara is the

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00:35:05,480 –> 00:35:09,640
lesson of the resurrection, not.
Being swept into the Dead Sea

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but entered into the Kingdom.
It’s a lesson of the

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00:35:13,320 –> 00:35:18,080
resurrection typified by Elijah
going up to heaven, being taken

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00:35:18,080 –> 00:35:22,240
away from the earth at least.
And so Jesus had reflected on

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00:35:22,240 –> 00:35:27,400
the resurrection by the sisters.
In Beto Barra and now he himself

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00:35:28,160 –> 00:35:32,120
was going to experience the
power of resurrection to

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00:35:32,160 –> 00:35:35,600
encourage him to lay down his
own life.

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00:35:35,600 –> 00:35:38,520
Because that raising of Lazarus
would have given him the

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00:35:38,520 –> 00:35:42,800
strength to cross that river
Jordan that leads to death once

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00:35:42,800 –> 00:35:46,280
more before he went up for the
last time in Jerusalem.

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00:35:46,280 –> 00:35:50,280
Because after he crossed his
river, he did only once more

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00:35:50,800 –> 00:35:55,120
when he went to the place of a
school, as we will see tomorrow.

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00:35:55,920 –> 00:36:00,640
So he would have walked up, as
we saw before, from Jericho and

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00:36:00,640 –> 00:36:05,800
go to Bethany where Lazarus was.
Now the name Bethany people have

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00:36:05,800 –> 00:36:07,920
different ideas about it I
believe.

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00:36:08,000 –> 00:36:13,120
It means the.
House of Felix, because Martha

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00:36:13,400 –> 00:36:17,440
and Mary and Lazarus, although
we’re all very, very different

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00:36:17,440 –> 00:36:22,280
in character, Martha always
busy, Mary sitting at the feet

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00:36:22,280 –> 00:36:25,800
of Jesus, and Lazarus was one
that sat at the table with

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00:36:25,960 –> 00:36:27,920
Jesus.
That’s where all the discourses

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00:36:27,920 –> 00:36:29,840
took place.
All those wonderful

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00:36:29,840 –> 00:36:32,760
conversations were the sisters
at the table of Jesus and

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00:36:32,760 –> 00:36:35,560
Lazarus was there at the table
of Jesus.

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He was one of one of his
friends.

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00:36:37,480 –> 00:36:39,600
He could have a conversation
about the truth with.

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00:36:40,160 –> 00:36:42,520
When we sit round the table,
what do we talk about bread and

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00:36:42,520 –> 00:36:44,320
sisters?
Do we talk about the truth?

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00:36:44,600 –> 00:36:46,440
Is that table the table of our
Lord?

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00:36:46,600 –> 00:36:49,680
Not just to break bread and
drink wine, but to be at the

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00:36:49,680 –> 00:36:52,920
table of Jesus is to.
Listen to him and to.

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00:36:52,920 –> 00:36:55,640
Speak about the things that are
so important.

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00:36:55,960 –> 00:36:59,280
It was in the.
House of the Good Figs.

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00:36:59,680 –> 00:37:04,080
That came back from in the time
of Ezra and Nehemiah, because

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00:37:04,080 –> 00:37:08,480
those figs God says in Jeremiah
24, I will bring again to this

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00:37:08,480 –> 00:37:10,480
land.
I will build them and not pull

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00:37:10,480 –> 00:37:12,520
them down.
I will plant them and not pluck

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00:37:12,520 –> 00:37:15,040
them up and I will give them a
heart to.

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00:37:15,040 –> 00:37:18,320
Know me and Martha and Mary and
Lazarus.

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00:37:18,320 –> 00:37:24,000
Knew Jesus.
Mary anointed his feet for his

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00:37:24,080 –> 00:37:25,400
burial.
She was the.

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00:37:25,400 –> 00:37:30,200
Only woman on that understood
why Jesus had to die when the

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00:37:30,200 –> 00:37:35,640
sisters, but they are the heart
to know him and to know God,

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00:37:35,640 –> 00:37:38,720
that I am Yao and they shall be
my people and I’ll be the Elrim,

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00:37:39,000 –> 00:37:41,880
for they shall return unto me
with their whole heart like we

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00:37:41,880 –> 00:37:46,400
just read in Osia chapter 6.
So when sisters, Jesus loved to

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00:37:46,400 –> 00:37:51,280
be in the House of good figs,
and that is where we must be.

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00:37:51,920 –> 00:37:54,120
Don’t think, oh I don’t like
that brother and I don’t like

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00:37:54,120 –> 00:37:56,680
that sister because we are all
so different.

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00:37:56,680 –> 00:37:59,960
Just like Martha was different
from Mary and especially so

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00:37:59,960 –> 00:38:02,480
different from Lazarus.
Pregnant sisters.

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00:38:03,240 –> 00:38:06,360
God has chosen each and every
one of us.

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The only thing we can do is talk
among each other.

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00:38:09,640 –> 00:38:13,800
Like Malachi says, those that
fear the hours speak often one

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00:38:13,800 –> 00:38:15,160
to another.
Not about the holidays you’re

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00:38:15,160 –> 00:38:17,760
going to go to, not about the
snow that falls in this

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00:38:17,760 –> 00:38:20,200
countryside or about other
things, but about the.

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00:38:21,040 –> 00:38:23,760
Things of God, our table
conversation should be

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00:38:23,760 –> 00:38:26,840
interesting, just as the table
conversation as the Lord Jesus

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00:38:26,840 –> 00:38:30,040
Christ must have been very
interesting as well.

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00:38:30,720 –> 00:38:38,000
Let’s go to Chapter 11.
Because now Lazarus was raised

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00:38:38,000 –> 00:38:40,880
from the dead and Jesus
experienced the power of the

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00:38:40,880 –> 00:38:43,520
resurrection.
Must have been so comforting.

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But how did the Jews react,
brain and sisters, to the

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00:38:49,120 –> 00:38:51,960
resurrection, to the raising of
Lazarus?

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00:38:51,960 –> 00:38:55,680
Well, look at verse 53 of
Chapter 11.

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00:38:56,200 –> 00:39:01,200
Then from that day forth, they
took counsel together for to put

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00:39:01,200 –> 00:39:04,120
him to death.
That’s all the Jews could do.

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00:39:04,720 –> 00:39:06,640
That’s.
All they wanted to do to get rid

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00:39:06,640 –> 00:39:10,800
of him, the man who could raise
somebody, somebody from the

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00:39:10,800 –> 00:39:12,880
dead.
What did Jesus do?

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00:39:13,920 –> 00:39:18,480
It’s the only reference we have
in all of the four gospels.

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00:39:18,840 –> 00:39:21,560
Verse 54.
Jesus therefore walked no more

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00:39:21,600 –> 00:39:26,680
openly among the Jews, but He
went thence into a country near

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00:39:26,680 –> 00:39:30,560
to the wilderness, into a city
called Ephraim, and there

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00:39:30,560 –> 00:39:35,880
continued with his disciples.
Did he go to the city of Ephraim

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00:39:35,880 –> 00:39:37,760
because he was afraid of the
sun?

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00:39:37,760 –> 00:39:40,000
Adrian because although they
sought him, they couldn’t even

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00:39:40,000 –> 00:39:42,520
find him?
Did He go to Egypt because they

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00:39:42,520 –> 00:39:45,840
were afraid of Herod?
Jesus full well trusted in His

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00:39:45,840 –> 00:39:49,560
Father that He would preserve
Him till He paid that final

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00:39:49,560 –> 00:39:51,360
price on the cross by my
sisters.

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00:39:51,640 –> 00:39:55,840
But why did He go to a city
called Ephraim?

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00:39:56,880 –> 00:40:00,280
And where is that city?
He went there not because He was

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00:40:00,280 –> 00:40:05,120
afraid of the Pharisees.
He went there to be strengthened

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00:40:05,160 –> 00:40:08,760
by my sisters by what happened
in that particular place in the

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00:40:08,760 –> 00:40:15,800
past, in the Old Testament.
You see, we don’t read about a

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00:40:16,560 –> 00:40:20,960
city called Ephraim anywhere
else in the Scriptures, but we

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00:40:21,160 –> 00:40:27,400
do know that it is most likely a
city which is nowadays in the

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00:40:27,400 –> 00:40:31,960
West Bank called ET Tyben, a
city that is less than about 30

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00:40:32,480 –> 00:40:35,640
kilometres NE of Jerusalem.
It’s on the edge of the desert

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00:40:35,640 –> 00:40:38,440
that goes down into into the
Jordan Valley.

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00:40:38,680 –> 00:40:44,760
It used to be a city of Sumeria.
But in 145 BC it was ceded to

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00:40:44,760 –> 00:40:50,000
Judea because it presumably had
a Jewish population at the time,

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00:40:50,320 –> 00:40:53,680
and then its name was changed to
Ephraim.

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00:40:53,960 –> 00:40:56,920
From what?
From a very similar.

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00:40:56,920 –> 00:41:00,160
Sounding name the place was
called Ofra.

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00:41:02,000 –> 00:41:05,600
Cheers went to Ofra of the Abias
rights.

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00:41:05,960 –> 00:41:10,880
Renamed A-frame about a century
and a half before Jesus went

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00:41:10,880 –> 00:41:14,960
there.
It was a city in Joshua 18 and

629
00:41:14,960 –> 00:41:25,870
verse 23 that belonged to the
Benjamites.

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00:41:32,560 –> 00:41:34,880
It says in verse 21.
Now the cities of the tribe of

631
00:41:34,880 –> 00:41:37,680
the children of Benjamin,
according to their families,

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00:41:37,840 –> 00:41:40,520
were Jericho.
We know where that is.

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00:41:40,720 –> 00:41:43,840
And then Beth Hokla, that is
Whitehall, Gilgalis, very close

634
00:41:43,840 –> 00:41:49,360
to River Jordan and the valley
of Kezis and Beth Arabah,

635
00:41:49,400 –> 00:41:52,880
Bethabahra, same place where
we’ve been talking about Zemran

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00:41:52,880 –> 00:41:57,840
and Bethel and Avin, Empara and
Ofra, that city was.

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00:41:57,840 –> 00:42:00,720
Renamed Ephraim in the time of
Christ.

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00:42:01,160 –> 00:42:06,400
Now what is the reason why Jesus
went there just before he went

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00:42:06,400 –> 00:42:08,480
on his last journey to be
crucified?

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00:42:10,000 –> 00:42:15,360
How about in Who Lived in OFRA?
Let’s go to Judges Chapter 6.

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00:42:24,600 –> 00:42:29,760
And that is why I believe Jesus
went to Ofra, renamed Ephraim in

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00:42:29,800 –> 00:42:35,280
that time.
And then we have in verse 11,

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00:42:36,280 –> 00:42:41,360
there came an Angel of Yahwah
and sat under the oak, not the

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00:42:41,360 –> 00:42:45,320
oak of the teacher, but a very
important place, the oak which

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00:42:45,320 –> 00:42:50,000
is in Ofra that pertain to
Joashi Abizrid and the Saint

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00:42:50,000 –> 00:42:54,600
Gideon thrashed beat by the wine
press to hide it from the

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00:42:54,600 –> 00:42:56,040
Midianites.
And it’s so.

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00:42:56,040 –> 00:42:58,200
Clearly in this illustrated in
this place.

649
00:42:58,200 –> 00:43:03,840
Well, here’s the modern city of
Ephraim, known for its Tiber

650
00:43:03,840 –> 00:43:05,720
beer.
By the way, there’s some

651
00:43:05,720 –> 00:43:07,800
churches, there’s a Christian
population there.

652
00:43:08,520 –> 00:43:10,760
And you can look.
Out over the fields, the

653
00:43:10,760 –> 00:43:16,360
surroundings of Ephraim.
And here you can see why was

654
00:43:16,360 –> 00:43:18,560
Gideon threshing wheat by the
Vine Press.

655
00:43:19,440 –> 00:43:24,120
That is not a very productive
way of threshing, because

656
00:43:24,160 –> 00:43:27,840
threshing is all done on the.
Top of the mountain because you

657
00:43:27,840 –> 00:43:31,040
need a wind to blow the chaff
away, but you can see it for

658
00:43:31,040 –> 00:43:34,880
miles around.
Where’s the vine press located?

659
00:43:35,880 –> 00:43:38,920
Well, you need to bring your
grapes to the wine press.

660
00:43:39,040 –> 00:43:40,400
You don’t need to thread them
with your ground.

661
00:43:40,400 –> 00:43:41,320
Doesn’t matter the way you do
it.

662
00:43:41,600 –> 00:43:45,560
What’s the easiest way to carry
grapes down into the valley

663
00:43:45,560 –> 00:43:47,240
where the wine press would be
located?

664
00:43:47,480 –> 00:43:50,440
But to thresh wheat where
there’s no wind was a very hard

665
00:43:50,440 –> 00:43:52,800
job.
But he did it just to preserve

666
00:43:52,800 –> 00:43:55,520
food for his family, brethren
and sisters.

667
00:43:56,280 –> 00:44:00,960
So there was the Angel, and he
strengthened him to go and fight

668
00:44:00,960 –> 00:44:04,240
against the Midianites.
Gideon wasn’t up to the task.

669
00:44:04,840 –> 00:44:09,440
What did he say in verse 13?
O my Adon, if Yahweh be with us,

670
00:44:09,640 –> 00:44:11,720
why then is all this befallen
us?

671
00:44:12,040 –> 00:44:14,960
And there are all the signs
which our fathers told us of

672
00:44:14,960 –> 00:44:17,680
saying, did not Yahweh bring us
up out of Egypt?

673
00:44:18,000 –> 00:44:21,280
But now Yahweh has forsaken us
and delivered us into the hands

674
00:44:21,280 –> 00:44:23,880
of the Midianites.
And then Yahweh, that’s the

675
00:44:23,880 –> 00:44:28,800
Angel, looked upon him and said,
go in this thy might.

676
00:44:29,800 –> 00:44:34,160
What was the might of Gideon?
He believed that Yahweh has

677
00:44:34,160 –> 00:44:36,400
brought up the children of
Israel out of Egypt.

678
00:44:36,480 –> 00:44:39,120
That runs right through the
Scriptures and that’s what we

679
00:44:39,120 –> 00:44:43,400
believe also.
And then he asked for a sign,

680
00:44:45,360 –> 00:44:50,400
and he told him to bring an
offering in verse 20.

681
00:44:50,440 –> 00:44:54,080
Verse 19, Gideon went in and
made ready a kid and unleavened

682
00:44:54,080 –> 00:44:57,160
cakes of an ether of flour.
The flesh he put in the basket.

683
00:44:57,160 –> 00:44:59,480
He put the broth in the pot and
brought it out onto him under

684
00:44:59,480 –> 00:45:02,000
the oak and presented it.
The Angel of Elohim said onto

685
00:45:02,000 –> 00:45:04,800
him, Take the flesh and the
unleavened cakes, lay them on

686
00:45:05,120 –> 00:45:08,360
this rock and pour out the
broth.

687
00:45:08,600 –> 00:45:11,560
And he did so.
And the Angel of Yawa put forth

688
00:45:11,560 –> 00:45:14,000
the end of the staff which was
in his hand, touched the flesh

689
00:45:14,000 –> 00:45:16,640
and the unleavened cakes, and
there rose up fire out of the

690
00:45:16,640 –> 00:45:19,120
rock, consumed the flesh and
unleavened cakes.

691
00:45:19,400 –> 00:45:21,680
Then the Angel of Yawa departed
out of his sight.

692
00:45:22,040 –> 00:45:24,360
His sacrifice was accepted by
the sisters.

693
00:45:24,520 –> 00:45:29,000
It was a totally a holy burnt
sacrifice, a sin offering.

694
00:45:29,560 –> 00:45:32,840
So he was he Gideon, he believed
that God had brought him out of

695
00:45:32,840 –> 00:45:35,880
the House of sin at the House of
Egypt and he brought his

696
00:45:35,880 –> 00:45:40,960
sacrifice and that was accepted.
Now he did all sorts of things

697
00:45:40,960 –> 00:45:49,600
for the sisters because he cast
down the altar of Baal in verse

698
00:45:51,120 –> 00:45:53,760
a bit later in this in the
chapter, we see that he built an

699
00:45:53,760 –> 00:45:56,960
altar and then he cast down the
altar of Baal.

700
00:45:56,960 –> 00:46:00,200
And then the people of the city
gathered themselves against him,

701
00:46:00,200 –> 00:46:03,240
went to Abyei’s father, said he
must be put to death.

702
00:46:03,960 –> 00:46:06,440
So he was Gideon, who believed
that God brought him out of

703
00:46:06,440 –> 00:46:08,240
Egypt.
He brought his sacrifice.

704
00:46:08,240 –> 00:46:11,160
He was going to be killed by the
men of his city, and he was.

705
00:46:11,160 –> 00:46:14,960
Helped by his father.
Jesus also was.

706
00:46:15,240 –> 00:46:17,840
Helped by his.
Father so that death did not

707
00:46:17,840 –> 00:46:21,200
prevail over him.
That was after he destroyed the

708
00:46:21,200 –> 00:46:24,800
altar of Baal and Jesus.
Also, he fought against a

709
00:46:24,800 –> 00:46:26,840
tradition that nullified the
word of God.

710
00:46:27,040 –> 00:46:29,560
He instituted a new covenant
which was based on his.

711
00:46:29,560 –> 00:46:34,400
Sacrifice because the people had
said in verse 30 of the previous

712
00:46:34,400 –> 00:46:38,320
chapter that he should die, but
he was saved by his father.

713
00:46:38,320 –> 00:46:41,520
Father, a beautiful type of God
saving his son.

714
00:46:41,760 –> 00:46:43,240
That’s why Jesus wanted to be
there.

715
00:46:44,360 –> 00:46:49,440
But then he asked for a sign
before he went out to battle.

716
00:46:50,920 –> 00:46:55,200
In verse 36 of chapter 6, Gideon
said unto God, If thou wilt save

717
00:46:55,200 –> 00:46:59,040
Israel by mine hand, as thou has
said, we’ll put a fleece.

718
00:46:59,680 –> 00:47:01,040
It’s not a.
Fleece.

719
00:47:01,240 –> 00:47:06,960
And here it is the fleece which
fleece, the fleece of that sin

720
00:47:06,960 –> 00:47:09,880
offering which he had brought in
front of the Angel, in which

721
00:47:10,120 –> 00:47:13,120
which was accepted.
Now he took that fleece which

722
00:47:13,160 –> 00:47:15,080
represented that sacrificial
animal.

723
00:47:15,280 –> 00:47:18,000
He put it in the floor, the
threshing floor.

724
00:47:18,680 –> 00:47:22,200
He says, If dew be only on the
fleece and dry on the earth

725
00:47:22,200 –> 00:47:24,800
beside it, then I shall know
that thou would save Israel by

726
00:47:24,800 –> 00:47:27,240
mine hand, as thou are said.
And it was so.

727
00:47:27,960 –> 00:47:33,640
So what he did is he took that
fleece of war and he put it, and

728
00:47:33,640 –> 00:47:39,200
the dew came only on the fleece,
but not on the floor or the dew

729
00:47:39,200 –> 00:47:43,680
represent Breton sisters.
As Moses said dew, and as Jacob

730
00:47:43,680 –> 00:47:45,720
said, dew is a blessing from
heaven.

731
00:47:46,000 –> 00:47:51,000
That blessing first came only on
that sacrificial animal.

732
00:47:51,840 –> 00:47:55,720
Only Christ is the first
begotten of the dead.

733
00:47:55,920 –> 00:48:00,240
He was the first one that was
blessed, but it doesn’t stop

734
00:48:00,240 –> 00:48:02,680
there.
Christ is not the only one that

735
00:48:02,680 –> 00:48:06,240
is going to be saved because
keeping us for a second sign.

736
00:48:06,680 –> 00:48:08,880
Look at verse 39.
He says let not thine anger be

737
00:48:08,880 –> 00:48:12,280
hot against me now speak but
this ones let me prove I pray to

738
00:48:12,280 –> 00:48:14,680
this one.
This ones with the fleece, let

739
00:48:14,680 –> 00:48:16,640
it now be dry upon the fleece
only.

740
00:48:16,960 –> 00:48:18,400
And all the ground platter be it
you.

741
00:48:19,560 –> 00:48:23,720
And it was so God hearken to
him, because the signs he asked

742
00:48:23,720 –> 00:48:27,560
for were in accordance with the
purpose of God to save Christ

743
00:48:27,560 –> 00:48:30,960
first from the dead, and then
when he comes back, the

744
00:48:30,960 –> 00:48:35,000
resurrection will take place.
Like all of us on the floor and

745
00:48:35,000 –> 00:48:40,400
then we get our blessing also.
So it’s a wonderful type.

746
00:48:40,560 –> 00:48:43,680
He asked for and God hearkened
unto him.

747
00:48:44,200 –> 00:48:51,320
Then he brought the man 22,000
to the to the well of Kharat.

748
00:48:51,320 –> 00:48:54,760
There were 20. 2000 people who
said whoever is afraid go away.

749
00:48:54,760 –> 00:48:58,520
He says 10,000 left.
He brought him to the water and

750
00:48:58,520 –> 00:49:01,640
all the people that drank,
scooping up the water but

751
00:49:01,720 –> 00:49:05,760
remaining vigilant, those are
the ones that he could work

752
00:49:05,760 –> 00:49:07,920
with.
We all need to be watched for as

753
00:49:07,920 –> 00:49:10,200
Jesus said.
Therefore watch because you know

754
00:49:10,200 –> 00:49:12,520
not what hour your Lord will
come.

755
00:49:13,040 –> 00:49:15,640
And chagrot means the bell of
trembling.

756
00:49:15,640 –> 00:49:19,600
People were fearful and all
those 22,000 that were afraid.

757
00:49:19,880 –> 00:49:23,880
They they went away who swear is
fearful afraid, let him return

758
00:49:23,880 –> 00:49:27,480
and depart Early says in
revelation, that the fearful.

759
00:49:27,920 –> 00:49:30,640
And the unbelieving and all
liars shall have no part.

760
00:49:30,640 –> 00:49:32,560
They have a part in the lake
that burns this fire and

761
00:49:32,560 –> 00:49:34,320
brimstone, which is the second
death.

762
00:49:34,960 –> 00:49:38,440
It’s our Jesus that it’s your
Father’s good pleasure to give

763
00:49:38,520 –> 00:49:41,080
you the Kingdom.
There’s nothing to be afraid of

764
00:49:41,080 –> 00:49:44,400
by the sisters.
And then we have got this

765
00:49:44,640 –> 00:49:48,360
victory over the Midianites.
How did they achieve the

766
00:49:48,360 –> 00:49:51,240
victory?
They broke the jars and the

767
00:49:51,240 –> 00:49:55,000
light was shining out of only
300 people.

768
00:49:56,080 –> 00:50:18,070
Go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 4.
I said in verse 6, the God who

769
00:50:18,070 –> 00:50:21,550
commanded the light to shine out
of the darkness has shined in

770
00:50:21,550 –> 00:50:24,750
our hearts to give the light of
the knowledge of the glory of

771
00:50:24,750 –> 00:50:29,030
God in the face of Jesus Christ.
That’s the light that’s shone

772
00:50:29,030 –> 00:50:33,230
out when when those earthen
vessels were broken.

773
00:50:33,630 –> 00:50:36,870
We for seven we have this
treasure in earthen vessels.

774
00:50:37,120 –> 00:50:40,440
That the Excellency of the power
may be of God and not of us.

775
00:50:40,640 –> 00:50:44,080
We are those urban vessels,
pregnant sisters, but we should

776
00:50:44,080 –> 00:50:47,040
have the light burning in us,
because when these vessels will

777
00:50:47,040 –> 00:50:50,880
be broken at the resurrection
and mortality will be soloed up

778
00:50:50,880 –> 00:50:53,680
of immortality, then our light
will shine out and.

779
00:50:53,680 –> 00:50:57,600
All the enemies of God, they
will be scattered.

780
00:50:59,280 –> 00:51:05,640
And then in Chapter 7 of Judges,
let’s go back to Judges.

781
00:51:06,840 –> 00:51:13,960
We see the.
Victory of Gideon, he called the

782
00:51:13,960 –> 00:51:16,120
men of Ephraim and where did
they go?

783
00:51:16,120 –> 00:51:21,200
By the sisters.
It’s fantastic to see because in

784
00:51:21,200 –> 00:51:24,600
verse after they’ve broken those
pictures and they said the sword

785
00:51:24,600 –> 00:51:30,200
of young, the sword of Gideon,
then Gideon in verse 24, they

786
00:51:30,200 –> 00:51:34,040
send messengers throughout all
Ephraim saying come down against

787
00:51:34,040 –> 00:51:37,800
the Midianites and take them
before the waters of Beta Bahra

788
00:51:37,880 –> 00:51:41,200
and Jordan.
That’s what they went to, to

789
00:51:41,200 –> 00:51:45,480
overcome their enemies.
They went to Beit a Barra.

790
00:51:45,840 –> 00:51:48,480
All the men of Ephraim gathered
themselves together, and took

791
00:51:48,480 –> 00:51:51,280
the waters of Beta, Barra, and
Jordan, And they took the two

792
00:51:51,280 –> 00:51:53,280
Prince of the Midianites, Orab
and Zeb.

793
00:51:53,480 –> 00:51:56,520
They slew Orab, and upon upon
the rock of Orab and Zeb they

794
00:51:56,520 –> 00:52:00,160
slew by the wine presence of
Zeb, pursued Midian, and brought

795
00:52:00,160 –> 00:52:03,840
the heads of Orab and Gideon and
Zeb to Gideon on the other side

796
00:52:03,840 –> 00:52:05,040
Jordan.
In the camp of.

797
00:52:05,960 –> 00:52:07,760
Look at this, brothers and
sisters.

798
00:52:08,000 –> 00:52:11,840
So Jesus went to Ofra.
This is the road.

799
00:52:12,920 –> 00:52:18,000
This is the road from Tiber’s to
Discord nowadays as Ofra, the

800
00:52:18,000 –> 00:52:21,600
city of Prime, where Jesus went.
And Jesus also went to

801
00:52:21,600 –> 00:52:25,440
Bethabara.
He walked here over this path on

802
00:52:25,440 –> 00:52:30,200
the top of the mountains,
following the victorious army of

803
00:52:30,200 –> 00:52:34,800
Gideon going to Bethabara.
He must have been buoyed up by

804
00:52:34,840 –> 00:52:38,520
all that had happened in this
place, the village of Ephraim,

805
00:52:38,520 –> 00:52:40,320
where he went to.
He didn’t go there.

806
00:52:40,600 –> 00:52:43,520
Because he was afraid of the
Pharisees, he went there to

807
00:52:43,520 –> 00:52:49,760
meditate on the story of Gideon
and his faith and his victory,

808
00:52:49,840 –> 00:52:51,760
and that is a wonderful thing to
remember.

809
00:52:51,760 –> 00:52:57,680
Brothers and sisters, you read
Psalm 83 at Eulesian and you

810
00:52:57,680 –> 00:53:01,000
will see it’s a type of the
Kingdom to come.

811
00:53:02,920 –> 00:53:05,800
That still it was difficult for
Jesus because he says in Luke 12

812
00:53:05,800 –> 00:53:08,840
and 50 I have a baptized, a
baptism to be baptized with and

813
00:53:08,960 –> 00:53:11,880
how am I straightened till it be
accomplished.

814
00:53:12,280 –> 00:53:16,120
God helped him by sending an
Angel in the Garden of Eden, but

815
00:53:16,120 –> 00:53:20,520
also by visiting those places
and reflecting on the history of

816
00:53:20,520 –> 00:53:24,440
Israel which is full of types of
the Lord Jesus Christ.

817
00:53:25,880 –> 00:53:28,800
Now it is interesting that if
you follow.

818
00:53:30,720 –> 00:53:35,240
The root of Jesus, when he went
back from Ephraim and he went to

819
00:53:35,240 –> 00:53:38,680
Bethabara.
Now first of all, Jesus heals

820
00:53:38,680 –> 00:53:43,040
the 10 lepers and only one came
back to thank him.

821
00:53:44,000 –> 00:53:48,720
It’s a lesser for us, brethren.
Sisters, we all do work and we

822
00:53:48,720 –> 00:53:51,880
all help one another, but how
often do you get a thank you?

823
00:53:53,280 –> 00:53:55,880
It’s so important, brethren,
sister, to show our gratitude

824
00:53:55,880 –> 00:53:57,960
for all the work which our
brethren and sisters are doing

825
00:53:57,960 –> 00:54:00,040
for us.
It doesn’t matter where it is, a

826
00:54:00,040 –> 00:54:03,280
sister who makes a cup of tea
for us, or a brother who serves,

827
00:54:03,520 –> 00:54:05,560
or a brother who does other
things better.

828
00:54:05,560 –> 00:54:07,800
Sisters, it is important to be
thankful.

829
00:54:07,800 –> 00:54:11,280
That was the lesson Jesus taught
just before he went for the last

830
00:54:11,280 –> 00:54:14,600
time up to Jerusalem.
And he blesses little children.

831
00:54:15,920 –> 00:54:17,600
That’s what He should do.
We should look after our young

832
00:54:17,600 –> 00:54:20,440
children, bring them up as Abram
did.

833
00:54:20,680 –> 00:54:24,560
He commanded his children that
they should fear Yahweh because

834
00:54:24,560 –> 00:54:26,160
then we can bring them into the
Kingdom.

835
00:54:26,160 –> 00:54:30,480
Brethren, Sisters.
But when he went there in Luke

836
00:54:30,480 –> 00:54:35,040
17, there’s something else very,
very interesting just before he

837
00:54:35,040 –> 00:54:38,160
crossed over, because he went
back to the place of the camp of

838
00:54:38,160 –> 00:54:44,480
Israel.
And in Luke 17, I mean it is not

839
00:54:44,480 –> 00:54:49,240
recorded, but this took place
exactly when just before he came

840
00:54:49,240 –> 00:54:57,440
to Jericho.
You see in in chapter 19 he is

841
00:54:57,440 –> 00:55:02,160
in Jericho, but just before that
when he must have been at Beto

842
00:55:02,160 –> 00:55:05,640
Barra.
He says as it was in the days of

843
00:55:05,640 –> 00:55:09,160
Noah, so shall it be in the days
of the Son of Man that it eat

844
00:55:09,160 –> 00:55:11,680
they drank their marriage wise.
They were given in marriage

845
00:55:11,760 –> 00:55:15,280
until the day that Noah entered
into the ark, the flood came and

846
00:55:15,280 –> 00:55:19,040
destroyed them all.
Likewise, as it was in the days

847
00:55:19,040 –> 00:55:23,000
of Lot, they did eat, they
drank, they bought, they sold,

848
00:55:23,000 –> 00:55:26,560
they planted, they build it.
But the same day that Lot went

849
00:55:26,560 –> 00:55:30,440
out of Sodom, it rained fire and
brains them from heaven, and

850
00:55:30,440 –> 00:55:33,160
destroyed them all.
Even so shall it be in the days

851
00:55:33,320 –> 00:55:36,760
when the Son of Man is revealed.
In that day, he which be on the

852
00:55:36,760 –> 00:55:40,120
housetop and is tough in the
house, let him not come down to

853
00:55:40,120 –> 00:55:41,720
take it away.
He is in the field.

854
00:55:41,720 –> 00:55:43,360
Let him likewise not return
back.

855
00:55:43,880 –> 00:55:49,320
Remember Lot’s wife?
Where was Jesus when he settled?

856
00:55:49,320 –> 00:55:54,520
By his sisters?
He was right beside Sodom

857
00:55:55,880 –> 00:55:57,880
because.
Sodom was where you heard the

858
00:55:57,880 –> 00:56:01,680
lecture, right opposite Jericho.
He came down from the city of

859
00:56:01,680 –> 00:56:03,240
Ephraim.
He crossed over.

860
00:56:03,240 –> 00:56:04,960
Better virus.
Stay in the camp, professor,

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right beside Sodom.
And he taught him again the

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lesson of Sodom.
It’s a lesson which you need to

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be reminded of by the sisters
time and time again.

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And then he crossed for the last
time in Baitabarah to go up to

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Jerusalem.
So what are all the associations

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with the place which we have
learned?

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It was the place where the camp
of Israel was located.

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It was the place where
Deuteronomy.

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Scroll was written.
It was the place where the

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waters were cut off.
When the Israelites entered the

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Promised Land, the Ark of the
Covenant went before them.

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Since we may learn the way by
which we may go.

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The 12 Stones were taken out of
the river of death, and all the

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males were circumcised.
Because in the Kingdom all flesh

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will be cut off.
The Passover will be kept.

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Because Jesus will complete the
Passover.

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When you eat, when you drink it
new with us in his Kingdom,

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He’ll drink that last cup.
He will take us to Himself.

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For a people, He would have
reminded himself of Gideon’s

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victory.
He would have reminded himself

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when David fled over Beto Barra
from his son Absalom.

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But he came back the second time
as King Elijah went up to her

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whirlwind.
It was the place where Jesus was

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baptised and he started his
ministry and it’s a place where

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he overcame temptation.
What a powerful place by the

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sisters that must have been and
then before.

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He went to the place of a skull.
He came to Bethany again.

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It was like his second home.
He needed the encouragement of

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his friends, of Martha, Mary and
Lazarus.

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He made their home a base for
the last few days of his life

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00:57:41,000 –> 00:57:44,520
before he went to his cross.
And must have given Jesus so

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00:57:44,520 –> 00:57:47,280
much comfort, brethren, sister,
to stay with his brethren and

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00:57:47,280 –> 00:57:51,160
his sisters during those last in
those dreadful days.

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But Jesus having loved his
friends, he was going to show

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them the ultimate love, which
true friendship on which true

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00:57:58,520 –> 00:58:01,680
friendship should be based.
Jesus says in John 15, Greater

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love has no man that this that a
man lay down his life or his

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friends.
Ye are my friends, he says to

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all of us.
If you do whatsoever I command

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you, that, then always,
brethren, says, obey the

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commandments of Christ, so that
we also may be counted among his

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friends.