Matthew Blewett – Class 5: Pictures: Merchants of Babylon

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You are listening to a Bible,
talk recorded at the 2018

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Western christadelphians Bible
school, at Minooka.

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This is the fifth class in a
series given by brother, Matthew

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blew it on the subject.
Meditations in Revelation.

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This class is titled pictures.
Merchants of Babylon.

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Morning, everyone.
Great to be with you here.

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This lost Tom just wanted to
stop by saying a big.

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Thank you all the way from South
Africa.

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Just in case.
You don’t know how to get there,

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that’s how easy it is.
In fact, they have got Boston

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and haven’t updated that.
You just, you can go the other

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way around as well, if you want
to come, but it’s very easy.

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Come and visit us in in South
Africa, but we really had a

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great time.
You want to thank everybody for

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the love and the hospitality,
and for the amazing, some

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friendships with rekindled and
others.

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That we’ve been able to make
it’s an absolute blessing to

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enjoy a relationship, especially
in our Lord.

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So thank you from Pete and
myself and we’d love to see you

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and extend Hospital.
Hospitality back in South

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Africa.
Oh, by the way, this few

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pictures to encourage you to
come just in case we’re not good

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enough.
I was told that the one thing

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that encourages people come to
Erica’s, baby elephants.

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So there’s a couple of these And
maybe one more little guy.

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So if not for us, then for them,
it’s worth the trip.

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So, maybe that’s a good intro
because in our final session, we

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want to talk about just to
meditations that focus on some

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of the imagery and the beautiful
pictures that are drawn of the

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visions and the different
symbols that are used in The

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Book of Revelation.
So, we’ve, we’ve talked about

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how yesterday we the some Often
make use of numbers and I can

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see yesterday.
There were a number of

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accountants who were very
interested in want to have

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discussions about various
calculations afterwards on the

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third session, we try to show
the use of words and, and

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relationships and names, and
places, and they’re lots of

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those in the Book of Revelation.
But I guess probably the most

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prominent kind of a symbol is
that of the use of imagery and

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visuals.
So if you have visual kind of

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person in the book of Revelation
is a really exciting book and I

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know that there are many good
visual people.

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Yeah.
Because I can see some of your

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paintings in the back there.
So hopefully, this is something

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a language that works for you.
So as you know, in the Book of

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Revelation, there’s all sorts of
of imagery and visualization

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used, lots of colors are,
mentioned in the Book of

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Revelation will actually focus
on on some colors.

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And in this particular session
together, there are images and

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respect of objects.
And of different animals and

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even made fantasy top animals
dragons and beasts.

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So a lot of visualization
techniques used in Jesus

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communicating spiritual truths
to us.

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So the one that I wanted to
start off with is this lovely

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visual image, we get of a
marriage and just one verse

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there are some other verses we
going to take in that succinctly

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describes this incredible event
that most of us are waiting for

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with expectation.
And that is this idea.

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Let us be glad and rejoice and
give him glory for the marriage

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of the Lamb has come.
And his wife has made herself

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ready.
And as we meditate on those

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words and try and draw that
picture of that, incredible

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wedding day.
There’s a lot just in those few

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words that talks to the kind of
weddings and marriages, we’ve

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been to and and certainly the
ones that I’ve been to lots of

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preparation, has to take place.
So the idea of getting ready and

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everybody preparing the day of
Waiting to be.

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Absolutely perfect.
And of course, the broad

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especially makes herself ready.
She’s got to have the most

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beautiful dress.
She’s got to be ready and

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hopefully not like my Brad, come
on Tom and be there for, you

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know, when it gets Beyond, 10
minutes, of course, one starts

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to feel that the one might be
left at the altar, but there’s a

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lot of excitement as you wait
for the bride and she prepares

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herself.
And so there’s this beautiful

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image for me that I was
meditating.

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Rotating on.
And then suddenly just in that,

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that picture that I created of
suddenly the bridegroom coming,

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something just didn’t seem right
because the bridegroom was a

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lamb.
Now, I know what you’re

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thinking, but of course it’s the
marriage supper of the lamb.

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But I want you to just think
about how strange that picture

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is because in the picture of the
Bride, the last thing we expect

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to see is in the visual image,
the hero coming as a lamb to

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walk down the aisle, to take her
bra door, his breath and and

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that’s what caught my attention.
What caught my attention is.

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This idea of of Jesus, as a lamb
the the Greek word for lamb

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actually has the connotation of
Lamken.

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We don’t actually really use
that in English because a pretty

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small in the first place, a baby
sheep in Afrikaans.

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The language that is my second
language in South Africa.

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They talk about Alum, icky and
everything that has a key on the

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end means it’s very small.
So a Lamkin, a small little lamb

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is this description that’s used
of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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As the hero coming to take his
bride and and that really got me

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thinking about this symbol of
the lamb and the and the imagery

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that has been portrayed to us
through the lamb.

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You know, when I was in Sunday
school, I really love the idea.

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This this idea that that Jesus
came in his first coming to the

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Earth.
His first Advent, he came as the

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lamb, the lamb, that was slain,
and meek and Mild Jesus.

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But the idea was that when he
comes again, he will come as the

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lion, that Roars and butts and
deals with all these terrible

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people that upset me every day,
but but in reality, Actually how

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Revelation chooses to describe
our lord Jesus?

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Is that how Jesus in his love
later chooses to describe

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himself?
And, yes, the interesting thing.

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In the Book of Revelation and we
said, we like to use a various

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techniques when we think about
these passages deeply and the

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one is patent.
So, I think patents are

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important.
And patents are often discovered

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by looking at the occurrence of
words and, and their

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concentrations in the Book of
Revelation, the word lamb

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appears, 25 times always, in
reference to the Lord Jesus

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Christ, the most time of any
book, certainly in the New

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Testament.
I think it’s of the whole Bible,

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but I’ve forgotten with, that’s
correct.

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But certainly an incredible
number of occurrences of The

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word lamb in reference to the
Lord.

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Jesus Christ.
The word lion only appears for

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tops of which only one of those
occasions is in reference to the

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Lord Jesus Christ.
So just like yesterday we said

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there was this profound just by
the, the pattern of the number

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of sevens overcoming sixes,
there was a message for us

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immediately, there’s something
that we’ve been asked to look at

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that.
The Lord Jesus Christ is

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actually being revealed to us in
the Book of Revelation, the book

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that is about the Juggle for
power.

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As more of a lamb than a lion
and in fact, the one occurrence

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where he is referred to as a
lion, is up on the screen here.

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But one of the elders said to
me, do not weep, Behold The Lion

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of the tribe of Judah.
The root of David has prevailed

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to open the scroll and to loose
the Seven Seals.

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That’s the one occasion, where
lion as an image is used to

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describe the Lord Jesus Christ
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But look at what happens and I
looked and behold in the midst

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of the throne and of the four
living creatures.

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And in the midst of the Go to
stood a lamb as though it had

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been slain.
So when he looked, he who was of

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the Lion of the tribe of Judah,
who had come through this Royal

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powerful Dynasty, he sees still
am What a powerful message has

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been given to us and and, and if
we were with with a bit of

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Doubt, as to why that symbol was
important, what gets attached to

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it is, is demonstrating us to
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Clearly what God and the Lord
Jesus Christ are trying to

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communicate.
This is the lamb as though it

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had been slain.
And so on a number of occasions,

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when we read about the lamb in
the Book of Revelation, it comes

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with that phrase, the lamb slain
so not only are we talking about

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a lamb but the lamb that has
been sacrificed What a powerful

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message being shared to us in
these passages?

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Then I looked and I heard the
voice of many angels around the

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throne and the living creatures,
the elders.

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The number of them was Ten
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Ten Thousand and thousands of
thousands saying with a loud

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voice.
Worthy is the Lamb who was slain

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to receive power and riches and
wisdom, and strength, and honor

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and glory and blessing.
This is a part of the song of

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the lamb.
And to me, it’s the great

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blessing of the Lamb.
It’s the Sevenfold blessing,

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seven items and notice the
dominance in those items of

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power.
Rich’s strength honor glory,

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why?
Because this is what the Book of

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Revelation is about.
It’s about the struggle for

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power and the winner of that
struggle for power is described

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as a lamb, slain.
You see the natural mind in the

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spiritual manner.
So different.

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Don’t they?
We’re our view of power.

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Our view of strength is so
different to the way God

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operates, the whole message of
the Lord.

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Jesus Christ is a new kind of
power.

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It’s a power that is found in
love through sacrifice a power

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to change things.
When I am willing to be hurt,

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When I’m willing to suffer loss
for the benefit of others, this

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is the true battle and it hasn’t
changed.

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It was the power that redeemed
us, 2,000 years ago, it’s the

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same power that will redeem the
world and that’s what the Book

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of Revelation is all about.
Credible lesson for us to learn

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just in the patterns of the
power of the lamb.

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And when we look to applying it
to ourselves You know, sometimes

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we go out into the world and we
are confronted with these

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different forms of power.
These liens that are around in

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our own lives and it sees our
natural response to one to

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respond with the Roar of the
lion to use whatever money and

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strength that we have to attack
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But ultimately the lesson that’s
crying out to us is the most

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powerful form of response you
have is love and that is love

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through sacrifice and restraint
and I think that’s a beautiful

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for way to We think of the the
most incredible image of the

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Book of Revelation, this Lamb,
slain, the power of the Lamb is

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indeed one of the great themes
of the Book of Revelation.

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So I want to change a bit of
slant, but not really that much

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as we will see, as we move
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In our next meditation, I want
us to think about this passage

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here in Revelation chapter 18,
it’s a passage.

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When you at first read it, you
might think.

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Well, it’s pretty boring and
What can we get out of it and I

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purposely chose it for that
reason.

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Because, you know, I know that
people might be sitting in the

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audience thinking, well, he’s
giving these talks, he’s

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encouraging us to meditate on
the Book of Revelation but he’s

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choosing all the easy ones.
And then when we get home we’re

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going to read about the Beast
with eight wings and 26 crowns.

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And you know, it’s not going to
seem the same.

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So I think this message is a bit
more obscure and let’s see if we

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can find something here.
It’s a passage about the

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merchants of Babylon and it’s at
the time when they’ve obviously

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not very.
Happy because the city we talked

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about it yesterday.
One hour Babylon is gone and

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they feeling it but a bit
miserable and they say in

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Revelation, 18, the merchants of
the earth, weep and mourn over

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her that’s Babylon for No One
buys their merchandise anymore,

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merchandise of gold and silver,
precious stones and pearls and

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fine, linen purple silk, and
Scarlet.

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Every kind of Citron would every
kind of object of ivory, every

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kind of object of most precious
wood bronze, iron and marble.

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Bubble and cinnamon, and
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frankincense one and all fine
flour, and wheat, cattle and

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sheep horses, and chariots and
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The fruit that your soul long
for has gone from you and all

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the things which are rich and
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you shall find them no more at
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So, now try this in our
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You’ve just read that, passage
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Close your eyes, you may read it
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not going to do that.
So it’s a bit tougher and you

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close your As you think of the
scene and you see these

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merchants and you see them
howling and weeping because they

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can’t trade anymore and you
think well most of the passage

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that I’ve just read is about all
the things they were trading and

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what was it?
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was frankincense there and
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It sure is a long list here and
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attention.
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meditation because I dread the
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and I hadn’t even thought about
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Why does John and why does Jesus
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to include such an incredibly
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I mean, the Book of Revelation
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chapters.
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happening all the time, lots of
energy and suddenly all of this

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space to mention the inventory
list of the Merchants of

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Babylon.
So that is exactly what happened

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when I took this passage off the
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there they are.
I didn’t think I’d miss counted

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that might have 27 items in the
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Gold, silver, Ivory oil, fine
flour, wheat, cattle sheep

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horses.
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straightaway?
It covers almost every single

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fence.
He you, and I my hair, there may

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be some people in this room that
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Well, that’s covered there
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Are some wine is their oil.
Fine flour wheat if you more of

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a farmer top we’ve got your
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If you prefer the horses and
horse racing, you got horses.

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If you prefer nice Vehicles,
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there.
If you like, if you like

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jewelry, we’ve got a precious
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If you’re into fashion we’ve got
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coins, gold and silver is also
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everything in their inventory
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quite amazing.
Is there are a number of long

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lists or I’ve been teaching the
young people to remember some

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lists today.
Good ones the most I’ve got to

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was the fruit of the spirit non
and some of your kids, have you

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get home, you can check them.
They may even get to the non

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through the spirit, which is
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But look at this, pause works of
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or I, thankfully, I don’t
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remembering those.
Maybe it’s not a bad thing, but

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not Good to meditate on them and
then Jesus gives a list of evils

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from the heart.
Remember, when he says those

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things are in the heart that
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Yeah but I haven’t found a list
as long as the merchants 27 in

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their list.
So I want us to think about what

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what’s being taught to us here.
Well, I think it’s this, God

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looked upon the Earth and
indeed, it was corrupt for All

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Flesh, had corrupted their way
upon the Earth come now you rich

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says James and Bob weep and howl
for your miseries that are

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coming upon you, your riches are
corrupted and your garments are

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moth-eaten.
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is that these Merchants have
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and they’ve corrupted them.
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this idea that anything no
matter what it is, anything.

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There’s nothing wrong with him.
So can gold and silver of the

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own, but anything that
eventually places takes the

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place of God is an idol.
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is it replaces God, and what?
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They’ve managed to corrupt all
of it. and in fact, there’s

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this, there’s this idea that the
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through trade, Ultimately
anything that has a price on it,

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eventually can be corrupted
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by the transaction and bull
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The fact that ultimately True
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not in transaction and that’s
exactly what we’ve been taught

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by these Traders.
All these fun things, these

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things that will see.
Just now were actually meant to

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be associated with God and our
relationship have been

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corrupted.
And so when you look at this

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list again, what you notice is
that many of the items on this

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list actually with a very items
that God had reserved for his

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worship.
Because when you look at that

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list not all of them but many of
them were associated with the

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Tabernacle and the temple.
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them that have direct links to
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So there’s another message being
another Echo coming out that

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these items that once had been
reserved for the very worship

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and relationship with God, have
become corrupted in the hands of

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the merchants who are trading
with them and of course we

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hearing an echo.
Here, aren’t we?

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And Jesus went into the temple
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All those who bought and sold in
the temple and overturned, the

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tables of the money changers and
the seats of those who sold

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doves.
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My house shall be called a House
of Prayer, but you have made it

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a den of Thieves interesting
that he, you know, the the

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Lord’s House was a house of
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idea of House of Prayer because
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you have made it a place of
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That’s what you’ve done.
You’ve taken all these holy

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things that were meant to lead
us into relationship into prey

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into communication with our God.
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trade just like the merchants
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So 20 of the 27 items that are
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linked to the Tabernacle or the
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corrupt all of these items.
You know, if we think about that

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application to ourselves, we we
don’t necessarily have that many

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physical items that we still
keep that are meant to to bring

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us to worship.
But we, we have in our own

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practice developed in a way
items, you might call them

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trappings of our own worship.
Whether it be in fact, just the

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things that we do that of
themselves should be good.

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Our Bible readings coming to
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The works, we do of compassion,
helping preaching, whatever it

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is that we do that supporting
our religious activity, is

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similar in a sense to all the
items that they had.

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In the Tabernacle Temple that
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one place a relationship with
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Christ.
And so the warning is that, that

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all of these things we do this,
there’s a mazing Bible school.

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We at this conference are Bible
readings and our Bible study.

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All of the that the activities
as it were the trappings of our

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discipleship.
If they do not move us closer

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into relationship with the Lord
Jesus Christ and his father

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innocent, they’ve lost their
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If they are an end in themselves
we can easily be caught in it

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and end in itself.
Studying the Bible.

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Reading it carefully, making all
the Echoes and the links getting

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excited about the mere academic
process.

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Didn’t Jesus, make that
accusation of all the The great

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biblical Scholars of his thumb.
He said you search the

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scriptures.
They knew the Old Testament

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backwards, but you don’t realize
that they were to speak about

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me.
They were intended to bring you

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to me and to relationship with
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But rather you were caught in,
in this, you see, this is where

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they were, do not trust in these
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Lord, the Temple of the Lord,
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I’ve these some versions say
these things that we see, this

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is what matters.
They were saying the actual

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trappings of this religion, this
building, and, and the gold, and

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the silver that’s in it, and the
purple and Scarlet and all the

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elements of it.
That’s what it is all about.

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But no, Jesus said in three,
diodes will destroy that.

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That’s not where the
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And so I think there’s a message
clearly being demonstrated to us

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that everything can be corrupted
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But wait.
There’s something more.

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There’s something missing from
that list now, you might say,

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well, of course, is its 27.
That’s a long list, but there’s

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thousands of other things that
could have been put on that list

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as extensive and as diverse as
it is, well, I want to propose

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that there’s something that
probably should have been on

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that list that I think that the
spirit is actually left out, and

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I think there’s a good reason
for that and I hope you’ll be

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with me for a moment.
Over here, we have a artist

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rendition of a Look of the
curtains in the Tabernacle and

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what you can see from this is
the four colors that came

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together in the curtains of the
Tabernacle, the veil and and the

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two main curtains that were
joined.

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The, that was the, the inner
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I’m sorry, it’s not that clear,
but it says moreover you shall

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make a tabernacle with ten
curtains of fine, linen and blue

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and purple and Scarlet with
Caribbeans, of cunning work,

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shall you?
Make them.

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So we don’t have the Caribbeans
there but you can see

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essentially, What would have
come out in the colors of the

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curtains is four colors.
Assuming, the linen would have

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been white and then, as you see
mentioned, they’re purple

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scarlet and blue.
Now, here’s the interesting

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thing.
I mean to bring for ideas or

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four colors together in one
verse is what that’s doing and

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that happens in 24, verses
primarily in the book of Exodus

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that those four items, linen
purple, scarlet and blue come

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together.
So, here’s the interesting

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thing.
In Revelation, 18, three of

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those items are there.
You can go back in the list,

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they traded in fine linen, they
traded and purple, and they

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traded in scarlet.
And when it says a later on

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that, that we didn’t have that
verse up there that they were

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upset because it was no longer
available.

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It says that they whipped and
they wept, because the fine

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linen purple and Scarlet was no
longer available.

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Again, the blue is must out.
So 26 times, linen.

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Purple and Scarlet appears
together, 24 times, it appears

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with blue, the only two times it
never appears with blue is in

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the list of the merchants of
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Now, maybe that’s a coincidence
or maybe we’re being asked to

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practice that idea of what’s
missing here.

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What may we have expected to
find?

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It would seem to me that maybe
we should pay some attention to

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this color blue.
So, I want to look perhaps at a

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bit at this, this interesting
color blue.

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It’s go for a little bit of a
journey through the Echoes of

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the Bible or the color blue and
maybe there’s something in this

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color that may teach us about.
The one thing that the merchants

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of Babylon.
Cannot corrupt.

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So I’m sure many of you have
thought about that the color

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blue and what it represents I
want to present to you what I

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think is quite a compelling
argument about what the color

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blue actually represents
spiritually and symbolically to

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us.
And a lot of people would would

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perhaps a trike.
The, you know, think that would

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say that the color blue
represents I’ve heard God’s

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color, others will say, it
represents Rochester’s, some

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will say, it represents
faithfulness and there’s an

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element of truth to all all of
those answers, I want to suggest

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to you.
That there’s an answer that

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perhaps incorporates those
answers but has a very

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00:24:42,800 –> 00:24:46,200
interesting element to it that I
think is very relevant in

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00:24:46,200 –> 00:24:50,100
concluding a medications today
and in reflecting back on

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00:24:50,200 –> 00:24:53,500
Revelation, 18 and the trading
items of the merchants of

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00:24:53,500 –> 00:24:55,300
Babylon.
So bear with me for a while

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00:24:55,300 –> 00:24:59,300
while I try and demonstrate this
Nuance to what I think the color

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00:24:59,300 –> 00:25:02,700
blue is representing to us today
in our discipleship.

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00:25:02,700 –> 00:25:05,000
So let’s do what we’ve done
before and let’s go Jenna.

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00:25:05,200 –> 00:25:10,400
Since and see if we can find the
DNA for the color blue bad news.

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00:25:10,400 –> 00:25:13,400
It doesn’t appear in Genesis.
So we’ll go to the next best.

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00:25:13,400 –> 00:25:17,300
The first reference to the color
blue as far as I understand.

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00:25:17,300 –> 00:25:19,600
I before we do that, let’s take
one back or we’re going to do

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00:25:19,600 –> 00:25:22,900
what I said we were going to do.
Before we go into the references

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00:25:22,900 –> 00:25:25,300
for the color blue, we’re going
to stop at nature.

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00:25:25,700 –> 00:25:28,400
Remember I said yesterday, I was
very concerned because I had

449
00:25:28,400 –> 00:25:30,300
some scientists telling me about
the carbon atom.

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00:25:30,600 –> 00:25:33,300
I’m going to get Brave again and
I want us to start thinking.

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00:25:33,300 –> 00:25:36,000
First of all about what nature
teaches, Us about the color blue

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00:25:36,200 –> 00:25:37,800
and then we’ll go and see
whether they’re spiritual

453
00:25:37,800 –> 00:25:41,900
alignment to that idea.
So I started off by saying, you

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00:25:41,900 –> 00:25:46,400
know what color is God’s color.
If we think about it, there are

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00:25:46,400 –> 00:25:50,200
many arguments, what God’s kind
of could be, people would

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00:25:50,200 –> 00:25:52,100
suggest, maybe his color is
what.

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00:25:52,200 –> 00:25:54,800
And, and that’s actually not a
bad suggestion because in the

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00:25:54,800 –> 00:25:58,100
third verse of Genesis, it says
God said, let there be light and

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00:25:58,100 –> 00:26:01,400
there was light.
So in a sense if latch is

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00:26:01,400 –> 00:26:04,500
represented by the color white,
which is all the colors together

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00:26:04,700 –> 00:26:09,100
in, Rainbow then God’s color is
what we know he dwells and a lot

462
00:26:09,100 –> 00:26:13,800
and approachable and and it’s
then revealed in more nuanced

463
00:26:13,800 –> 00:26:15,600
ways in the seven colors of the
rainbow.

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00:26:15,600 –> 00:26:18,800
So so I think there’s some
strength in the argument that

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00:26:18,800 –> 00:26:22,000
God if we want you to choose a
color for God, it would be what

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00:26:22,600 –> 00:26:24,900
others of course have suggested
that God’s color is yellow

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00:26:24,900 –> 00:26:28,600
because he often has chosen the
color of the gold as a

468
00:26:28,600 –> 00:26:31,900
representation for his
immortality and his eternity,

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00:26:31,900 –> 00:26:35,400
especially in the in the cabin
and the Tabernacle and the A so

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00:26:35,400 –> 00:26:38,400
you could argue its goal and
then as I said some say that

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00:26:38,400 –> 00:26:40,500
it’s blue.
So we’re going to focus on the

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00:26:40,508 –> 00:26:45,600
color blue for a while.
So what does nature teaches

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00:26:45,600 –> 00:26:47,500
about the calibrate?
Well I was hoping I would wake

474
00:26:47,500 –> 00:26:49,700
up this morning and I’m checking
out there.

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00:26:50,000 –> 00:26:53,100
He teaches us that the sky is
blue and for the first few days

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00:26:53,100 –> 00:26:57,200
of our conference it certainly
was we work out into a day when

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00:26:57,200 –> 00:27:02,100
the sun is shining and I like
his out, we see a blue sky now.

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00:27:02,100 –> 00:27:04,500
Why is it?
This is we get to the scientific

479
00:27:04,500 –> 00:27:07,600
pot.
Why is it that the the sky that

480
00:27:07,600 –> 00:27:10,200
we see on a beautiful?
Clear day is blue.

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00:27:10,500 –> 00:27:13,100
And let’s have a listen to
somebody for more educated than

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00:27:13,100 –> 00:27:15,800
me.
Describing that for us.

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00:27:17,900 –> 00:27:19,600
You don’t need to hear, it’s
going to be red.

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00:28:38,700 –> 00:28:40,300
There you go.
So if you learn nothing more

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00:28:40,300 –> 00:28:43,000
from our discussion today, if
you didn’t know why before you

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00:28:43,000 –> 00:28:46,200
now know why the sky is blue and
the are two interesting

487
00:28:46,200 –> 00:28:48,000
observations.
Hopefully, you made out of that.

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00:28:48,000 –> 00:28:51,700
One of the the observations is
that it is blue because it is

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00:28:51,700 –> 00:28:54,800
the frequency the color with the
short wavelength that’s

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00:28:54,800 –> 00:28:56,200
scattered.
The most lovely idea.

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00:28:56,400 –> 00:28:59,800
So we’re seeing blue because it
is the wavelength that scattered

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00:28:59,800 –> 00:29:03,900
the most in a way, reflected the
most so that we pick it up on a

493
00:29:03,900 –> 00:29:06,400
clear day when the sun is
shining, but there was another

494
00:29:06,400 –> 00:29:10,100
little nuance.
If it was only the scattering in

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00:29:10,100 –> 00:29:12,400
other words the short
wavelengths and the scattering

496
00:29:12,400 –> 00:29:15,700
of those shortwave leaves that
determined the color of the sky,

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00:29:15,700 –> 00:29:18,800
then it would not be blue.
What color would it be?

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00:29:19,600 –> 00:29:21,900
Absolutely.
But it isn’t.

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00:29:22,500 –> 00:29:24,800
And you see the point was made
there that there’s something

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00:29:24,800 –> 00:29:28,400
also in our eyes and how we
receive the light that makes the

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00:29:28,400 –> 00:29:30,600
sensitive to seeing the color
blue.

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00:29:31,100 –> 00:29:34,400
So I’m putting it out there to
you that in your DNA.

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00:29:34,600 –> 00:29:39,700
You are created in a way.
Way to see the light as a blue

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00:29:39,700 –> 00:29:42,700
color coming to you.
Just just be a little idea in

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00:29:42,700 –> 00:29:47,200
mind now as a natural simple.
Think about this idea when you

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00:29:47,200 –> 00:29:52,900
walk out again on a clear day,
Yeah, I don’t think you got to

507
00:29:52,900 –> 00:29:55,500
go to probably in Nevada or New
Mexico to see a picture like

508
00:29:55,500 –> 00:29:59,800
that, not Oregon, but what you
will notice on a clear day is

509
00:29:59,800 –> 00:30:03,300
the amazing way in which we
actually walk around.

510
00:30:03,300 –> 00:30:07,600
And everything that we see
around us on Earth is greens and

511
00:30:07,600 –> 00:30:11,000
Browns, and oranges and yellows.
In fact, it’s very, very

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00:30:11,000 –> 00:30:12,500
difficult and you can check this
out.

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00:30:12,500 –> 00:30:13,900
I say difficult was I saying,
never.

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00:30:13,900 –> 00:30:16,500
Someone will give me one example
and say I’m wrong, but it’s

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00:30:16,500 –> 00:30:19,600
very, very difficult and very,
very seldom that if you look

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00:30:19,600 –> 00:30:23,500
around on the Earth, That the
place that man has been given

517
00:30:23,500 –> 00:30:27,200
that you’ll see the color blue.
And that’s often why road signs

518
00:30:27,500 –> 00:30:30,900
road signs are made in the color
blue because it’s unlikely, that

519
00:30:30,900 –> 00:30:32,700
there will be some other natural
thing.

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00:30:32,700 –> 00:30:35,200
That’s the same color of that.
In fact, the very, very few

521
00:30:35,200 –> 00:30:36,800
plants that are blue.
They are violent.

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00:30:36,800 –> 00:30:40,400
They are people but not blue.
And when we go out, we noticed

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00:30:40,400 –> 00:30:44,200
that the arroz on the age of the
Earth is touched by the blue.

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00:30:44,200 –> 00:30:47,100
Can you see that?
It’s a beautiful metaphor and

525
00:30:47,100 –> 00:30:50,100
what I’m starting to suggest to
you is that the blue is not just

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00:30:50,100 –> 00:30:54,100
God but it’s it’s God’s
communication to us.

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00:30:54,400 –> 00:30:56,700
It is the way that we are seeing
God.

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00:30:56,700 –> 00:30:58,900
It’s the way that he is
connecting to us.

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00:30:59,000 –> 00:31:02,900
It’s his color of connection,
that’s the thought I want to put

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00:31:02,900 –> 00:31:05,300
out there for you.
So at the edge at the point, in

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00:31:05,300 –> 00:31:08,700
which we are ending when we go
out every day and we see that

532
00:31:08,700 –> 00:31:12,800
beautiful Horizon we see him
reaching out to connect with us.

533
00:31:12,900 –> 00:31:16,300
And what I love, which is true
of South Africa and I know that

534
00:31:16,300 –> 00:31:18,900
in the city’s it sometimes isn’t
so true but if you go to Big Sky

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00:31:18,900 –> 00:31:21,500
country in Montana, just that
picture.

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00:31:21,600 –> 00:31:24,900
Is the way we often perceive it.
There’s far more sky reaching

537
00:31:24,900 –> 00:31:27,200
down to earth, than Earth,
reaching up to scar.

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00:31:27,400 –> 00:31:30,700
And again, this is I think
nature teaching us God is

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00:31:30,700 –> 00:31:33,100
reaching, he’s reaching as far
as he can.

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00:31:33,100 –> 00:31:35,700
As we saw in the book of Hosea
to make that connection.

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00:31:35,900 –> 00:31:39,000
So that’s nature you may agree
or disagree but let’s see if

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00:31:39,000 –> 00:31:41,400
that’s follow through, then when
we take the Echoes and

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00:31:41,400 –> 00:31:43,900
scripture.
So this is the first reference

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00:31:44,100 –> 00:31:47,800
that I could find to Blue.
It’s an Exodus chapter 24 verse

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00:31:47,800 –> 00:31:48,900
9.
If you have the King James

546
00:31:48,900 –> 00:31:51,000
version you won’t have the color
blue there.

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00:31:51,200 –> 00:31:53,900
But if Have most modern
versions, you’ll have the color

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00:31:53,900 –> 00:31:56,400
blue there.
Moses are on Nate ever by you

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00:31:56,400 –> 00:31:59,600
and the 70 elders of Israel.
Climbed up the mountain, it was

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00:31:59,600 –> 00:32:02,600
that time when they were at
sauna there they saw the god of

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00:32:02,600 –> 00:32:06,200
Israel under his feet.
There seemed to be a surface of

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00:32:06,200 –> 00:32:12,000
brilliant blue, lapis lazuli as
clear as the sky itself and

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00:32:12,000 –> 00:32:14,700
though these Nobles of Israel
gazed upon God, he did not

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00:32:14,700 –> 00:32:17,300
destroy them.
In fact, they ate a covenant

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00:32:17,300 –> 00:32:19,800
meal eating and drinking in his
presence.

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00:32:20,300 –> 00:32:23,200
So what an incredible first.
Passage teach us about this kind

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00:32:23,200 –> 00:32:26,100
of blew the the reference there
to lapis.

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00:32:26,100 –> 00:32:28,400
Lazuli actually comes from the
Latin Vulgate.

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00:32:28,400 –> 00:32:30,300
That’s why some of the modern
versions of picked it up.

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00:32:30,500 –> 00:32:34,200
And Lapis Lazuli is where we get
the word as your from if that we

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00:32:34,208 –> 00:32:36,500
were playing a game that was
called that comes from that that

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00:32:36,600 –> 00:32:40,400
a zoo which is the idea of an
incredible blue that they got

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00:32:40,400 –> 00:32:43,500
from the stone.
Lapis lazuli, infect some

564
00:32:43,500 –> 00:32:44,500
reading.
I’ve done about this.

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00:32:44,500 –> 00:32:48,200
Blue was the most difficult
color for early civilizations to

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00:32:48,200 –> 00:32:49,700
produce.
That’s why when you look at the

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00:32:49,700 –> 00:32:51,400
Egyptian mummies what is one of
the dominant?

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00:32:51,500 –> 00:32:53,700
Aunt colors.
It’s the color blue because that

569
00:32:53,700 –> 00:32:55,700
was very difficult for them to
reproduce.

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00:32:56,000 –> 00:32:59,400
So this beautiful lapis lazuli
is a, is this incredible blue

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00:32:59,400 –> 00:33:01,600
color.
And and it would seem in the

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00:33:01,608 –> 00:33:04,100
description of when these Elders
went up.

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00:33:04,100 –> 00:33:07,900
And they saw God, that, that
that he was sitting upon this,

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00:33:07,900 –> 00:33:10,200
this color blue.
It was almost that that there

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00:33:10,200 –> 00:33:13,600
was God and then there was blue
and then there was them again,

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00:33:13,600 –> 00:33:17,000
this idea of God, the blue and
the people.

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00:33:17,100 –> 00:33:19,500
And in that space, what I love
about this passage, I know it’s

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00:33:19,500 –> 00:33:22,700
a bit of a transliteration yet
but Captures it so beautifully.

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00:33:22,900 –> 00:33:26,700
The way says that in that place
they ate and had a covenant meal

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00:33:26,700 –> 00:33:30,400
with them in his presence, a
place where they could connect

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00:33:30,400 –> 00:33:34,200
with a very very creator of
Heaven and Earth in this color

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00:33:34,200 –> 00:33:36,400
blue.
So with that idea, let’s have a

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00:33:36,400 –> 00:33:39,500
look at how blue is then picked
up specifically, as we would

584
00:33:39,500 –> 00:33:45,200
have guessed in the Tabernacle,
So we’ve already made one

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00:33:45,200 –> 00:33:47,700
reference to wear blue appears
in the Tabernacle.

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00:33:47,900 –> 00:33:51,000
And there it appears with the
other colors purple scarlet and

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00:33:51,000 –> 00:33:53,700
white in the curtain.
So the meet at the, anybody

588
00:33:53,700 –> 00:33:57,300
coming into the Tabernacle
coming to do what when they came

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00:33:57,300 –> 00:34:01,600
into, the Tabernacle to connect
with God, to worship him to the

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00:34:01,600 –> 00:34:04,200
house of prayer.
They would immediately once they

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00:34:04,200 –> 00:34:05,700
went in the inside, not the
outside.

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00:34:05,800 –> 00:34:09,300
Being seen the color blue, as a
dominant color together.

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00:34:09,300 –> 00:34:12,100
In this case with the purple and
Scarlet and the white but blue

594
00:34:12,100 –> 00:34:15,500
was one of the key colors.
The curtains and of course on

595
00:34:15,500 –> 00:34:18,699
the veil, but blue went a little
bit further than the other

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00:34:18,699 –> 00:34:20,199
colors.
And this is where the nuances

597
00:34:20,199 –> 00:34:22,500
come and that you may not have
noticed before.

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00:34:23,300 –> 00:34:27,600
For example, when the the two
major curtains were joined

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00:34:27,600 –> 00:34:32,100
together, they were made into
pieces father and each side and

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00:34:32,100 –> 00:34:35,000
they were joined together.
It specifically says in Exodus

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00:34:35,000 –> 00:34:40,600
26 verse 4, put Loops of blue
yarn along the edge of the last

602
00:34:40,600 –> 00:34:43,500
curtain in each set, the offer?
No.

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00:34:43,699 –> 00:34:45,699
Little ideas.
Yeah that that I haven’t got

604
00:34:45,699 –> 00:34:49,100
time to work with but you will
notice a repetitive use of the

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00:34:49,100 –> 00:34:52,800
word age.
You see understanding the

606
00:34:52,800 –> 00:34:55,900
metaphor of edges is something
that I’ve only realized more

607
00:34:55,900 –> 00:35:01,200
recently but it’s the idea that
as humans everything has an edge

608
00:35:01,500 –> 00:35:04,100
I made reference earlier on and
we had some discussions about

609
00:35:04,100 –> 00:35:06,600
this.
Why is it that the Tabernacle

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00:35:06,700 –> 00:35:11,200
that we see on the earth is
square and yet when the original

611
00:35:11,200 –> 00:35:14,300
seems to be presented to us it’s
around Well the idea is

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00:35:14,300 –> 00:35:16,600
something that’s squid is it has
inches.

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00:35:16,800 –> 00:35:19,500
Some of that circular doesn’t
necessarily have an edge in that

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00:35:19,500 –> 00:35:21,500
sense.
In fact, where the edges

615
00:35:21,500 –> 00:35:27,800
occurred in the Tabernacle, they
are joined by Rings Loops

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00:35:27,800 –> 00:35:29,800
circles.
Everywhere, you read about any

617
00:35:29,800 –> 00:35:32,800
joining of Ages loops and
circles, I’m going to leave that

618
00:35:32,800 –> 00:35:34,900
one there because we could go a
long way with that.

619
00:35:35,100 –> 00:35:38,600
And in this case that point of
joining is a loop of blue.

620
00:35:39,300 –> 00:35:42,800
So again, this idea at the point
at which the two are made one at

621
00:35:42,800 –> 00:35:46,600
that point, At which the joining
takes place, we have a loop of

622
00:35:46,600 –> 00:35:48,300
blue.
It’s continue.

623
00:35:49,200 –> 00:35:53,200
We come to the breastplate, you
remember the breast place?

624
00:35:53,500 –> 00:35:56,500
That’s terrible, spelling
breastplate that, the high

625
00:35:56,500 –> 00:36:00,700
priest wore it says there and
you shall bomb the breastplate

626
00:36:00,700 –> 00:36:02,600
by the Rings.
They’re off under the rings of

627
00:36:02,600 –> 00:36:06,400
the ephod with a lace of blue,
that it may be above the Curious

628
00:36:06,400 –> 00:36:09,400
girdle of the ephod.
And that the breast Place may be

629
00:36:09,500 –> 00:36:12,800
not loosed from the ephod.
So, here was this, this

630
00:36:12,800 –> 00:36:15,100
breastplate.
That had the 12 Stones that

631
00:36:15,300 –> 00:36:18,900
arguably represented the tribes
of Israel and hopefully the new

632
00:36:18,900 –> 00:36:21,100
Israel in its glory in its
Splendor.

633
00:36:21,100 –> 00:36:26,800
The precious stones going to to
Micah and there’s the glory and

634
00:36:26,800 –> 00:36:30,100
it’s attached.
It’s joined to the heart priest

635
00:36:30,100 –> 00:36:33,100
who represents perhaps the Lord
Jesus Christ or even God himself

636
00:36:33,100 –> 00:36:36,800
that which was Holiness to them.
And it’s joined Again by how a

637
00:36:36,808 –> 00:36:42,800
lace of blue and then he wore a
crown we are told and that cron

638
00:36:42,900 –> 00:36:47,000
had on at Holiness to the Lord.
And how was that Crown joined to

639
00:36:47,000 –> 00:36:49,300
him?
Well in Exodus 39 it says and

640
00:36:49,300 –> 00:36:53,900
they tied unto the crown, a lace
of blue to forcing it on high

641
00:36:54,000 –> 00:36:57,300
upon the Martyr as the Lord
commanded Moses.

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00:36:58,100 –> 00:37:00,200
And then finally, if you were
looking at the high priest, in

643
00:37:00,200 –> 00:37:04,500
addition to these very nuanced
little laces of connection that

644
00:37:04,500 –> 00:37:08,500
you may not have noticed, he
clearly wore a blue robe.

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00:37:08,600 –> 00:37:11,700
You shall make the robe of the
ephod, all of blue.

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00:37:11,900 –> 00:37:16,100
So this high priest.
This high priest who was in fact

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00:37:16,100 –> 00:37:19,500
their connection to God on the
day of atonement, he was the one

648
00:37:19,500 –> 00:37:23,400
who went through the veil.
He has a dominance of blue and

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00:37:23,400 –> 00:37:28,400
he has blue connecting the crown
and the breastplate and not too

650
00:37:28,400 –> 00:37:30,300
sure.
How good that picture is coming

651
00:37:30,300 –> 00:37:36,200
up, but I think so you use this
picture will but let’s see if I

652
00:37:36,200 –> 00:37:39,600
can go back there and use my
little highlighter.

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00:37:40,300 –> 00:37:43,400
There we go, some art, I did try
this be dish.

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00:37:43,500 –> 00:37:47,100
To show you my highlighter.
Oh, all right, so they owe.

655
00:37:47,100 –> 00:37:48,900
You have to have good.
Ask to see the blue lights

656
00:37:48,900 –> 00:37:51,400
there, but it is there and over
there.

657
00:37:51,600 –> 00:37:53,600
There is a blue nice, but it’s
wasted.

658
00:37:53,700 –> 00:37:54,900
All right.
So these blue lights, believe me

659
00:37:54,900 –> 00:37:58,500
in that picture.
So they continue this idea of

660
00:37:58,800 –> 00:38:01,400
the connection that has been
taught in the color blue.

661
00:38:02,600 –> 00:38:06,500
Now, when they broke up the Kemp
and they went off on their

662
00:38:06,500 –> 00:38:09,700
Journey blue appeared again.
So for example, when they were

663
00:38:09,700 –> 00:38:13,000
moving the Ark of the Covenant,
I mean this was the most special

664
00:38:13,000 –> 00:38:15,700
Arkham that represented God In
His glory.

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00:38:15,800 –> 00:38:18,800
We know that they were not able
or not not allowed to look

666
00:38:18,800 –> 00:38:22,100
directly on that off.
And so, what did they do?

667
00:38:22,200 –> 00:38:25,200
Well we read your in Numbers
Chapter 4 when the camp was to

668
00:38:25,200 –> 00:38:28,900
move Aaron and his sons are to
go and take down the shielding

669
00:38:28,900 –> 00:38:31,600
of the curtain, put it over the
Ark of the Covenant.

670
00:38:31,600 –> 00:38:34,700
So that was the That the
shielding that they had, they

671
00:38:34,700 –> 00:38:38,900
are then to cover the curtain
with a durable leather and then

672
00:38:38,900 –> 00:38:43,100
spread a cloth of solid blue
over that in many ways.

673
00:38:43,100 –> 00:38:45,400
That doesn’t make sense.
I mean, you’ll see the next

674
00:38:45,400 –> 00:38:47,800
items, they did use the cloth of
blue, but then they put the

675
00:38:47,800 –> 00:38:51,300
liver over it, but in the case
of the Ark of the Covenant, they

676
00:38:51,300 –> 00:38:54,200
put the leather perhaps to
protect it and then the blue

677
00:38:54,200 –> 00:38:56,900
cloth.
So that when anybody looked upon

678
00:38:56,900 –> 00:39:01,200
that, very representation of the
Eternal God and His glory, they

679
00:39:01,200 –> 00:39:02,300
knew they couldn’t look
straight.

680
00:39:02,400 –> 00:39:03,600
That it.
So what did they see?

681
00:39:03,600 –> 00:39:07,900
That color blue.
The way in which God reveals

682
00:39:07,900 –> 00:39:11,100
himself to us the connection
color.

683
00:39:11,700 –> 00:39:16,000
So I think this this idea this
Nuance to Blue not just being

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00:39:16,000 –> 00:39:19,500
God’s color but he’s connective
color is too man.

685
00:39:19,700 –> 00:39:21,500
He’s quite powerful.
And if we had a doubt about

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00:39:21,500 –> 00:39:25,500
this, perhaps this final Eternal
commandment is one of the

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00:39:25,500 –> 00:39:29,600
strongest numbers, 15 verse 38,
speak to the people of Israel,

688
00:39:29,800 –> 00:39:33,200
and tell them to make tassels on
the All their garments

689
00:39:33,200 –> 00:39:37,100
throughout their generations and
to put a coat of blue on the

690
00:39:37,100 –> 00:39:42,000
tassel of each corner and it
shall be a tesl for you to look

691
00:39:42,000 –> 00:39:44,800
at and remember all the
Commandments of the law to do

692
00:39:44,800 –> 00:39:47,300
them, not to follow after your
own heart, and your own eyes,

693
00:39:47,300 –> 00:39:49,900
which you are inclined to do to
whore after.

694
00:39:50,200 –> 00:39:53,900
So you shall remember and do all
my Commandments and be holy to

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00:39:54,100 –> 00:39:57,100
your God.
Wow.

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00:39:57,400 –> 00:40:01,000
So we’ve seen some some Orthodox
Jews who walk around and on the

697
00:40:01,000 –> 00:40:03,800
edges of their garments.
They have these tassels, these

698
00:40:03,800 –> 00:40:07,200
colors of blue.
And of course for them, this is

699
00:40:07,200 –> 00:40:09,700
a symbol to remind them that
they are to keep the

700
00:40:09,700 –> 00:40:14,000
Commandments the law.
But we who read all things

701
00:40:14,000 –> 00:40:16,600
through the eyes of the Lord,
Jesus Christ and read those

702
00:40:16,600 –> 00:40:20,900
words and start to say, wow,
what’s going on here on the

703
00:40:20,900 –> 00:40:26,300
edges, on the edges on the
corners of their garments.

704
00:40:26,800 –> 00:40:28,800
And again, when you read, when
you when you’re wearing a

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00:40:28,800 –> 00:40:32,300
garment you know I’m writing
some jeans here but it’s much

706
00:40:32,300 –> 00:40:35,900
better demonstrated with a
garment as an address or those

707
00:40:35,900 –> 00:40:40,100
this is yeah this end of my
Gene, the endure, the edge of a

708
00:40:40,107 –> 00:40:44,400
garment is the end of me.
Symbolically, that’s where I

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00:40:44,400 –> 00:40:48,000
end, I’m a physical body, that’s
the end of me and I think what

710
00:40:48,000 –> 00:40:52,700
God is saying is put these blue
cords on to show that you don’t

711
00:40:52,700 –> 00:40:56,500
have to end there.
There doesn’t have to be an edge

712
00:40:56,500 –> 00:40:59,400
of all of you.
That doesn’t have to be a border

713
00:40:59,600 –> 00:41:03,600
because if you connect to me, I
am the Eternal you’re able to

714
00:41:03,600 –> 00:41:07,500
connect to that which is holy
just like the Horizon comes down

715
00:41:07,500 –> 00:41:09,200
to connect with you.
Surely that’s what they were

716
00:41:09,200 –> 00:41:13,700
being taught this edge of their
garment and what’s so amazing?

717
00:41:13,700 –> 00:41:16,400
I’m sure some of you have seen
this that the very place they

718
00:41:16,400 –> 00:41:20,400
were to put it the corner of the
Garment, as its described their

719
00:41:20,400 –> 00:41:24,700
that word, their corner is the
same word as we find here.

720
00:41:25,500 –> 00:41:29,400
But unto you shall the sun of
righteousness, arise with

721
00:41:29,400 –> 00:41:35,200
healing in his wings, in the
corners, in the edges.

722
00:41:35,500 –> 00:41:39,400
Jesus coming to bring their
healing in the edges in the very

723
00:41:39,400 –> 00:41:43,000
corners of your garment.
And so, I think by now,

724
00:41:43,000 –> 00:41:45,600
hopefully, if you’re with me
store and having fallen asleep,

725
00:41:45,700 –> 00:41:50,100
the color blue is moving us to
only one place that it can move

726
00:41:50,100 –> 00:41:55,100
us to he who is the Commandments
May true, he who was home.

727
00:41:55,700 –> 00:41:58,700
He is the connection between us
and the father.

728
00:41:58,800 –> 00:42:02,400
There’s only one who could ever
have claimed that and of course,

729
00:42:03,600 –> 00:42:07,400
It is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus, the blue lace.

730
00:42:07,600 –> 00:42:10,900
John says, in verse 14 of
chapter one and the word became

731
00:42:10,900 –> 00:42:14,600
flesh and dwelt among us and we
beheld his glory, the glory, as

732
00:42:14,600 –> 00:42:18,100
of the only begotten of the
father full of grace and truth,

733
00:42:18,100 –> 00:42:23,200
the father chose to shine upon
us In the blue light of his son,

734
00:42:23,200 –> 00:42:27,300
Jesus Christ, the cord that
connects that, which is more to

735
00:42:27,300 –> 00:42:31,000
that, which is Immortal the cord
that makes that which has an end

736
00:42:31,000 –> 00:42:36,000
no longer have an end, He Who
Came From not cereth, he who was

737
00:42:36,000 –> 00:42:40,000
on the edge, who brings us to
connection with our father, and

738
00:42:40,000 –> 00:42:43,400
no doubt some who followed him
around, had worked that out.

739
00:42:44,000 –> 00:42:47,000
And we read in, Mark chapter 6,
wherever he went into the

740
00:42:47,000 –> 00:42:49,400
villages or towns and
Countryside, they placed the

741
00:42:49,400 –> 00:42:52,300
sick in the marketplace, They
begged him to let Touch, even

742
00:42:52,300 –> 00:42:55,000
the edge of his cloak and you
ever touched.

743
00:42:55,000 –> 00:42:59,200
It were healed, the healing in
his edges.

744
00:42:59,200 –> 00:43:02,300
Surely, they were thinking of
Malachi chapter 4 and when that

745
00:43:02,300 –> 00:43:07,400
woman with the issue of blood
reached out to church, just the

746
00:43:07,400 –> 00:43:10,400
tassel, just the edge of His
Garment, just the color blue,

747
00:43:10,500 –> 00:43:13,900
that connection to God, that was
found in Jesus Christ.

748
00:43:14,300 –> 00:43:18,200
I think that the metaphor and
the imagery is quite strong

749
00:43:18,200 –> 00:43:21,900
indeed.
The son is the radiance of God’s

750
00:43:21,900 –> 00:43:24,600
glory and the exact
representation of his being

751
00:43:24,700 –> 00:43:27,300
sustaining.
All Things by, his powerful work

752
00:43:27,300 –> 00:43:29,800
after he had provided
purification for sins.

753
00:43:29,800 –> 00:43:34,800
He sat down at the right hand of
the Majesty in high, God

754
00:43:35,200 –> 00:43:39,800
communicates it to us.
In the life, the work that the

755
00:43:39,800 –> 00:43:43,000
death, the resurrection of the
Lord Jesus Christ.

756
00:43:43,000 –> 00:43:45,800
He was alive today and forever
more.

757
00:43:46,800 –> 00:43:50,500
But now in Christ Jesus you who
once were far away have been

758
00:43:50,500 –> 00:43:52,800
brought near by the blood of
Jesus Christ.

759
00:43:53,000 –> 00:43:56,700
For he himself is our peace who
has made the two groups.

760
00:43:56,700 –> 00:43:59,800
One, remember the two parts of
the curtain and has destroyed

761
00:43:59,800 –> 00:44:01,900
the barrier?
The dividing wall of hostility

762
00:44:02,200 –> 00:44:05,300
without through him we both have
access to the father by one

763
00:44:05,300 –> 00:44:08,200
spirit in him.
The whole building is joined

764
00:44:08,200 –> 00:44:13,300
together and Rises to become a
holy Temple in the Lord and the

765
00:44:13,300 –> 00:44:16,500
language is the language of the
temple and the color blue.

766
00:44:17,100 –> 00:44:21,900
Is the only one in the list of
the merchants of Babylon that is

767
00:44:21,900 –> 00:44:24,400
not mentioned.
Why might that be?

768
00:44:25,400 –> 00:44:28,000
Why is it missing?
Well, I think it’s the only

769
00:44:28,000 –> 00:44:31,500
thing they cannot corrupt.
You know, they try to trade him,

770
00:44:32,300 –> 00:44:35,600
they tried to put a price on
him, they went to Judas and

771
00:44:35,600 –> 00:44:38,300
said, let’s put a price on him
and they did a trade.

772
00:44:38,400 –> 00:44:41,100
And it’s not by coincidence that
their trade went wrong, that

773
00:44:41,100 –> 00:44:42,900
Judas comes, and that’s recorded
for us.

774
00:44:43,000 –> 00:44:45,500
And the money is thrown back at
them because here is a price,

775
00:44:45,500 –> 00:44:46,800
that’s man.
There is no value.

776
00:44:48,000 –> 00:44:52,200
You cannot be corrupted.
He is the only one x 13 says,

777
00:44:52,400 –> 00:44:55,000
but he whom God raised, so no
corruption.

778
00:44:56,300 –> 00:44:59,000
Psalm says, you will not leave
my soul and she all know.

779
00:44:59,000 –> 00:45:01,400
Will you allow your Holy One to
see corruption?

780
00:45:02,200 –> 00:45:04,500
Is it not this message brothers,
sisters?

781
00:45:05,900 –> 00:45:09,700
That ultimately, if you have
built your faith in your

782
00:45:09,700 –> 00:45:12,900
relationship with the Lord,
Jesus Christ, is he if he is at

783
00:45:12,900 –> 00:45:16,800
the center of what you have
formed in your Worship, in

784
00:45:16,800 –> 00:45:19,500
everything that we have done
this week and all the weeks that

785
00:45:19,500 –> 00:45:23,000
have gone before that, alone
cannot be corrupted.

786
00:45:23,700 –> 00:45:26,800
If we base our faith on anything
else, it can be corrupted.

787
00:45:26,900 –> 00:45:30,900
It may be helpful.
It may be incredibly helpful to

788
00:45:30,900 –> 00:45:34,400
develop the relationship, but if
it does not lead us to the feet

789
00:45:34,500 –> 00:45:37,100
of our master, Her relationship
with him.

790
00:45:37,800 –> 00:45:40,800
It has the possibility of being
corrupted.

791
00:45:41,300 –> 00:45:44,800
Our Traditions are good habits.
Our church activities.

792
00:45:44,800 –> 00:45:47,800
A good works.
Or is this the center of a

793
00:45:47,808 –> 00:45:50,100
discipleship?
The blue lace.

794
00:45:50,700 –> 00:45:53,600
The lace that connects us truly
to our father.

795
00:45:57,300 –> 00:45:59,800
So these are the spiritual
truths, perhaps coming out of an

796
00:45:59,800 –> 00:46:03,400
ordinary passage in Revelation,
chapter 18 of some Merchants.

797
00:46:04,100 –> 00:46:07,900
The enemy can corrupt almost
everything even the best that

798
00:46:07,900 –> 00:46:10,700
the temple has to offer but not
Jesus.

799
00:46:11,100 –> 00:46:14,900
The blue is God burning himself
to us in Jesus Christ.

800
00:46:15,300 –> 00:46:18,900
Make sure your relationship with
Jesus is your foundation.

801
00:46:19,900 –> 00:46:22,700
So thank you for spending this
time with us on the Book of

802
00:46:22,700 –> 00:46:25,000
Revelation.
As I said at the beginning, what

803
00:46:25,000 –> 00:46:28,800
we’ve really been trying to do
is to share an approach,

804
00:46:28,800 –> 00:46:32,300
something that has helped me
dramatically in learning more

805
00:46:32,300 –> 00:46:34,600
from The Book of Revelation
gaining spiritual and start

806
00:46:34,600 –> 00:46:37,200
seeing it as a love letter.
I’ve tried to go through those

807
00:46:37,200 –> 00:46:40,400
steps of focus.
Understand, remembering Echoes

808
00:46:40,400 –> 00:46:44,300
worshiping, and applying, and
we’ve looked at at phrases and

809
00:46:44,300 –> 00:46:48,200
ideas and pictures that maybe
before, didn’t have that much

810
00:46:48,200 –> 00:46:49,500
meaning to you.
Certainly for me.

811
00:46:49,700 –> 00:46:51,700
Helpful.
Because now, when I hear about

812
00:46:51,700 –> 00:46:54,100
many crowns, their whole bunch
of thoughts that come through my

813
00:46:54,100 –> 00:46:57,900
mind, seven lamps, the spirit of
Dan Babylon is Fallen, is

814
00:46:57,900 –> 00:47:04,400
fallen, and you name, one hour
666, the power of the lamb and

815
00:47:04,400 –> 00:47:07,400
The Incorruptible blue, and you
can add so much more to that

816
00:47:07,400 –> 00:47:09,000
list.
If you just spend a bit of time

817
00:47:09,000 –> 00:47:11,900
every day with this incredible,
love letter, and that’s my

818
00:47:11,900 –> 00:47:14,600
encouragement to all of you and
if you’re able to do that and

819
00:47:14,600 –> 00:47:18,100
just some small way, then this
verse that we read at the

820
00:47:18,100 –> 00:47:20,600
beginning of our series, We’re
going to read it again.

821
00:47:20,600 –> 00:47:24,300
I think we’ll even have more
power for you as you get to read

822
00:47:24,300 –> 00:47:29,700
it yourself.
It is He who reads and those who

823
00:47:29,700 –> 00:47:35,100
hear the words of this prophecy
and keep those things which are

824
00:47:35,100 –> 00:47:37,300
written in it for the time is
near.