Matthew Blewett – Class 3: Names and Places

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

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Western christadelphians Bible
school.

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At Minooka, this is the third
class in a series given by

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brother, Matthew blew it on the
subject.

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Meditations in Revelation.
This class is titled names and

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places.
Well, good morning everyone.

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Good to see you all this
morning.

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Everybody recovered from the
dancing.

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Very impressed in the skills you
have over here at West certainly

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got some of the frontier skills
still there in your blood so

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great to be here and see that.
So we’re going to carry on with

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our meditations and Revelation
and what we going to be doing in

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the next three sessions is
really a sharing some

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meditations with you hopefully,
Through that process, may be

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sharing some spiritual insights.
Also just going over the

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approach that I’ve used.
And through example, hopefully,

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encouraging and inspiring more
people to want to use Revelation

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as a meditation book, book to to
gain these spiritual principles

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for today.
And what I’ve tried to also do

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in the next three sessions is to
is to group The meditations in

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to reveal the diversity of the
Book of Revelation that I’ve

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spoken to.
So you’ll see today we’re going

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to use examples of meditations
that refer to places and people.

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So if you’re the kind of person
that likes to think about

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relationships and that talks
your language then Revelations,

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got something for you tomorrow,
we’ll look at numbers.

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If you’re more of a spread sheet
numbers person, then Revelations

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got passages for you and the
last day we’ll look at colors

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colors and pictures so if you’re
more of an IT person Revelation

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can speak to you as well.
And I think that’s the power of

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a whole Bible but specifically
said in the Book of Revelation,

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it’s It’s diversity in the way
that it’s expressing the

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message.
And and I think that’s very

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powerful for us to use in our
own preaching that we’ve got to

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realize, we’re talking to people
from different backgrounds, who

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have different languages that
they communicate, and we can’t

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have only one method of doing
that and I think it’s

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beautifully summarized in the
Book of Revelation.

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So we’re going to start with a
little Revelation, but very

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small meditation.
And then I’m going to go through

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what I’ve caught in the past are
Revelation.

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But swear, we’ve got something
that we’ve chased up a bit

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first.
Further and some interesting

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insights that have come from my
meditations.

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So starting with this passage
from very well-known passage

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it’s go back where we can get it
in full screen or as best as we

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can and it’s from Revelation
chapter 14 and we have read this

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message.
I guess many times before.

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It says another Angel followed
saying Babylon is Fallen is

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Fallen that great City because
she has made all nations drink

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of the On of the wrath of her
fornication.

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So, one morning that was my
meditation.

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A passage that you think, well,
what spiritual Insight can we

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get from this passage?
And so as I was thinking and

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focusing on it and trying to
focus on the detail of a passage

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that I’ve read so many times
before, and as I’ve mentioned

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before, it’s in passages that we
read so many times before that,

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we’ve got to work a bit harder
to to try and see perhaps a

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message for us.
And the thing that caught At my

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attention.
Is this phrase?

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Babylon is Fallen is fallen.
In fact, it’s used like in that

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same way actually originally in
the book of Isaiah Babylon is

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Fallen is fallen.
And, you know, it comes over

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lips so easily, it doesn’t it.
And we know that in the New

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Testament, specifically often a
word is repeated for emphasis,

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Jesus would say truly, truly, I
say unto you, verily verily.

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In other words, what I’m about
to say is, is important.

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You need to concentrate But on
the morning that I was thinking

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about this, I thought a bit more
deeply about this idea.

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That Babylon is Fallen is
fallen.

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And what got me thinking is, as
I was thinking about The Echoes

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of Babylon.
I mean, the obvious thought came

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to my mind here in the Book of
Revelation Babylon is such an

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important city.
It’s a big part of the narrative

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and yet we know that Babylon,
shouldn’t even be here.

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Because the Babylon that we have
met in the time of Daniel and in

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the Prophecies of Isaiah and
other Major Prophets has been

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destroyed, it was prophesied
that it would be destroyed.

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We all know this well-known
prophecy.

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So, the echo that that obviously
is from our first principles, is

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this idea that Babylon us?
We can see the glory of the

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Kingdom’s.
The beauty of the Chaldeans

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Pride will be as when God
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, it

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will never be inhabited.
And of course, we take this

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beautiful Prophecy from Isaiah
and we say, there it is.

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It’s been four full bail on his
destroyed.

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You can go there and the fact
that it remains a rune is

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Continuous proof of the power
that God has over the nation’s.

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And yet we sort of Liberty come
into Revelation.

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And we find this Babylon and
it’s there and it’s alive.

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And of course, the way we
reconcile that is quite simply

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we say, well, that that’s the
physical Babylon that was

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destroyed in here in the Book of
Revelation.

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We are being taught that there
is a spirit of Babylon which is

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an interesting Insight because
often we spend more time trying

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to identify a particular city
that is Babylon, whereas the

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fact that physical Babylon
remains just Asteroid is

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screaming at us.
That what we have in Revelation

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is the spirit of Babylon,
brought to life, not necessarily

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in one city, but in a way that
demonstrates all that Babylon

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stood for and will actually see
that a bit later in another one

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of my meditations.
So, that’s an interesting Echo.

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And so this idea that Babylon is
Fallen is Fallen, is perhaps

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making us also think that in
fact, Babylon has to be

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destroyed twice And, and that’s
an interesting idea.

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When we view sin itself, we
understand as Jesus said that,

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we’ve got to be very careful in
our view of sin that sin

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actually has to be dealt with on
the outside and the inside.

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We can live lives.
Like the Pharisees were living

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where it looks like.
They’ve dealt with all the

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outside manifestations of this.
And as he said, you’ve made the

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outside look, very clean, but
you haven’t dealt with the

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Inside the thoughts and intents
of your heart.

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Have not been dealt with.
And really, in the sense, we’re

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taught that sin requires a
double blow, it needs to be

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dealt with twice as it were
David.

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A summarizes this beautifully in
Psalm 51.

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He says, hide your face from my
sins and blot out all my

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iniquities.
Okay.

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That’s I need forgiveness for
the things that I’ve done wrong,

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but that alone doesn’t deal with
my problem.

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You know, you can Can, you know,
kill the tree, but if you

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haven’t dealt with the roots,
will take out the weed.

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But if you haven’t taken out the
roots, it’s coming back.

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I need to also have my heart
cleaned.

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This is what David understood.
I need.

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I need you to come in and change
my very way of thinking, because

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even though today, I didn’t do
that thing that I didn’t want to

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do tomorrow.
It’s coming back so so sit in a

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way, needs to be destroyed.
Obviously, in the outside, we

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need to work and stop ourselves
from doing the things that we

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ought to.
Do, but the way that ultimately

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takes place is by the inside
also being cleansed.

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So perhaps there’s this idea
that Babylon is Fallen is Fallen

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teaching us that we need to
understand that certain our Labs

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requires the double blow that
David I think is referring to.

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So there’s a quick thought, just
from the idea of Babylon is

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Fallen is Fallen a little tidbit
in that same little passage, is

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the idea that Babylon is always
referred to as Great Babylon in,

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in the, in both actually in
Revelation.

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And in many of the texts that we
found in Isaiah and you might

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want to think about why, what’s
the reason for that Echo?

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The word great.
By the way, in Greek is the

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word, Mega.
We still use that word today.

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So I’ll leave you with that.
Thought for yourself.

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I want to start to go to this
passage which is the passage if

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you’ve got your Bibles open
because that’s not very clear.

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Still battling with resolution,
you know, if we go to Revelation

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chapter 7, you I want to open
your Bibles, thanks for that

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Revelation chapter 7 and there
is the the passage that deals

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with the sealed of God.
Very well-known.

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Beautiful passage describing,
what we call the 144,000 these

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have been washed, had their
clothes washed in the blood of

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the lamb and have been sealed
with the name of God, on their

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foreheads.
And what morning when I was

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considering this passage what
caught my attention, And what

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caught my focus is the way when
this this multitude are

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described, I heard how many
there were who were marked with

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the Seal of the Lord 144,000
from all the tribes of Israel.

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All right?
And I think in another version

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it says from the children the
tribes of the children of

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Israel, we’re going to highlight
them in the moment and then he

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goes on to say, I’ll tell you
how those hundred and forty-four

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thousand were made up.
He then mentions each of the

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tribes and gives us the the
number twelve thousand for

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Judah, 12,000 for Ruben, 12,000
for Levi, and I won’t go through

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all the lists, what caught my
attention and this is what often

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catches, your attention when
you’re meditating, is the level

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of detail again.
I mean he could have stopped by

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saying, you know, I saw a great
crowd 144,000 of the tribes of

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the children of Israel and we
would have had a good picture,

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but he goes specifically to
mention each of the names of the

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tribes.
And to tell us that each of them

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is allocated 12,000.
So, I think, you know, again

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from a from a high-level point
of view there we go.

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Just need to press the button,
then it would have been nice and

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clear from a high-level point of
view.

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What we’re seeing is, is this
beautiful idea that amongst the

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steel of God, amongst the reveal
the redeemed, there’s a place

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for all of us.
There’s a place for everyone.

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It’s an entry of abundance,
there’s an abundant injury often

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we obviously look with fear and
uncertainty will.

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Be a place for me.
But the message in Revelation

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and certainly In this passage is
this a place for everyone.

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There’s 12,000 for every tribe.
And and I think the reason every

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tribe is named is in a way.
Yes, we’re no, the allusions to

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the spiritual Israel and and
back to each of the tribes.

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And we’ll look at that in a
moment.

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But the point is each trap.
Also, represented.

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I’ve been talking about
diversity different

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characteristics and all of them
are there.

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All of your cultural
backgrounds.

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All of your heritage all of your
personality traits.

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God has a place for every one of
you and your Equity treat it

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12,000 for each.
And of course that message is

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coming out strongly because when
we go back to look at the tribes

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as they recorded in numbers,
when the numberings were done,

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they were certainly not equal in
size, some of the tribes were

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two times the volume in terms of
population, the number then

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other tribes had some very
fertile woman in their tribes.

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So but when we come, The message
of of the Seal of God, every

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child receives 12,000, abundant
entry space for everyone that’s

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inspiration for us.
But then of course, we do know,

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just a little detail, little
detail becomes apparent and it’s

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this detail.
Here is the, the tribes of the

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children of Israel and he goes
through each of them and names

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them.
And and what do we notice?

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Well there’s a list of
Revelation chapter 7 when we go

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back to Genesis chapter 29,
where we have a list of the

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children of Israel.
We notice of course that the

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list in Revelation chapter 7 is
missing someone and that is Dan.

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Now you’ll know that in Numbers
Chapter 1, when the tribes are

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listed in terms of the way that
Camped around the Tabernacle,

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Ephraim and Manasseh as a part
of the double portion coming to

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replace Joseph.
And Levi, although remaining as

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a tribe was not one of the
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encampments the three
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of the compass.
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comparison between Revelation
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the children of Israel and
that’s the reference that’s made

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in Revelation chapter 7 the
missing person actually.

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Ashley is Dan.
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brought back in as you can see,
and then Joseph is brought back

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because he is one of the
children and in replace of Dan

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in, in place of Dan is Manasseh,
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child of Joseph?
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the double portion.
I’m sure we could have

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discussions about that, but the
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I thought about it.
I thought imagine this, you

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know, it’s this beautiful scene
is painted.

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Imagine if you were Part of the
tribe of Dan and you come to

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this Revelation chapter 7 and
you come to imagine the picture

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and you know like when we all
look through photograph albums

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If we’re honest we looking
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Look at the photos and suddenly
we were looking for one of our

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selfie suddenly stopped or here.
I am we we drawn to ourselves.

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We might not want to show it, we
put but if you are of the tribe

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of Dan and you were reading
Revelation chapter 7 You

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wouldn’t be very happy because
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And so, it got my mind thinking
about why, why would in this in

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this picture of abundance, in
this picture of God making place

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for every trap, specifically One
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So let’s take a while just to
think about what spiritual

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lesson we can take from missing
Dan.

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Now, this idea of of one being
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Echo.
Definitely in the life of Jesus.

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Remember when Jesus said in John
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twelve and one of you is a
devil, so there’s a lovely Echo.

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Their 12 chosen one has turned
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Israel.
One is not there, of course, in

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the case of of Judas, we know he
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He was not prepared to wait for
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purpose, he wanted to force the
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to why he portrayed Jesus.
So that’s quite clear but but

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Dan is it the same spirit and
Dan that that will not allow us

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to be a part of those redeemed?
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So let’s think a bit more about
the on Sir.

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Let’s go in search of Dan now
typically people will say to you

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and I’ve certainly heard it that
Dan is missing from this list

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and I’m sure some of you thought
about it because his name means

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to judge and this list.
People that we have in

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Revelation chapter 7 of the
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Mercy, we’ve been talking about
that throughout this week,

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triumphs over judgment.
So, in a sense from just, the

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meaning of his name, we
shouldn’t expect to find them

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there because these are the ones
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So, I guess there’s some Merit
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and we understand and we look
for The Echoes, I think there’s

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a greater spiritual principle
underlying why someone might be

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missing despite But the
availability of mercy.

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So, so yes.
Dad’s name does mean to judge to

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contend to vindicate?
The question is, what is meant

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by that judgment?
What do we mean by that

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judgment?
And the way to answer the

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question, of course, is what
we’ll do just now is to go back

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to Genesis and to try and
understand what was the very

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jeans that you re very DNA of
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Before we do that some
interesting things Dan as a

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name, both referring to the
individual.

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And the tribe appears about 60
times in the bar, This surprised

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me, he’s the fifth most
reference son of Jacob.

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So you got the obvious guys that
you would think are in the in

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the top spot Judah.
Levi obviously being mentioned

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quite a lot of times but here is
Danforth and Lon he’s mentioned

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a lot more than some other quite
famous.

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I think Ruben, for example, is
mentioned far less times and

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Dan.
He was the first born.

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So he becomes quite an important
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He’s the only son Of Israel.
He’s not mentioned at all in the

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New Testament at all.
So not in Revelation nowhere in

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the New Testament.
So interesting, let’s do what

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we’ve been saying.
We like to do and go back to

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Genesis and see if we can find
out something about Dan.

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And I think the essence of the
spirit of Dan is actually

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captured in his naming and his
birth.

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So this is what happens when he
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Rachel said, God has Vindicated
me.

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Remember, that was one of the,
the tri-state.

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So, it’s named in the King James
version.

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It says, God is Judge Me.
He has listen to my plea and

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given me a son because of the
she named him, Dan.

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So here, she’s capturing the
very Spirit of the birth of her

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son.
Dan?

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Now, I want you to think a bit
about that word that’s been used

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at the Tri-State, is choose to
use the word Vindicated,

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slightly different in our
language.

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The word judge.
I think it’s actually a bit more

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helpful.
The idea there is that God has

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come through for me, he and she
says that I pleaded to him.

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He’s listen to my plea and he’s
given me what I wanted, which

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was a son.
As we unravel the story, we’re

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going to see that.
There’s nothing true about that.

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And this is where the real
spiritual truth lies.

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That’s been revealed to us, I
Believe by focusing on the

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missing Dan in Revelation
chapter 7.

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So how does the story begin?
Well, you know, the story

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there’s a two wives and their in
the baby competition and of

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course, Rachel was the first one
up, she was the favorite.

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And all she wanted to do was to
give her husband a son, but she

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was Barren.
And Leah was just producing the

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wives one after of the wife’s.
The sun’s one, after another

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four in a row every season, and
she becomes desperate, and look

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at what she says.
This is when she saw that she

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was not bearing.
Jacob, any children she became

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jealous.
So she said to Jacob, give me

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children or I will die.
So immediately we learn a lot

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about Rachel, don’t we?
She has a problem.

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She’s desperate for children.
She doesn’t get on her knees,

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like, Hannah and pray to God
because she had on you.

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That.
That’s where children come from.

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She goes to Jacob, says, give me
children or I will die.

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Jacob course, being a man of
Faith answers correctly.

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Jacob became angry with her and
said, am I in place of God who

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has kept you from Children.
So he points her in the

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direction that she should be
going.

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He says, I’m not the one who can
give you children.

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It’s God.
And I want you to notice those

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words.
Am I in place of God.

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Am I the substitute for God in
this case and so he’s

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encouraging her.
And so what does Rachel do, does

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she get on her knees like henna
and pray for children as she

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said.
She’d it does she plead for

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children?
That’s not in the record.

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Maybe she did, but it’s not the
way the writer of Genesis

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chooses to reveal the story to
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This is what she does.
So, she said, here is my maid

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bulla, go into her and she will
bear a child on my knees.

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That I also may have children by
her.

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She came up with the solution.
Ironically the solution she came

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up with was the very solution
that God had said to her,

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father-in-law, father, right?
Remember when Abram was

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wondering, where the promised
seed would come from, was he

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going to come through any ASA?
Was it going to come through his

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handmade that had been?
Given to him from Sarah and God

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said very clearly.
No, no, no.

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Your wife Sarah will bear you.
A child.

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So, in the family, they had
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But but for Rachel, she wanted
so desperately to have a son

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that she would find her own way
to do it and that the use of the

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Hebrew expression, I think it’s
lost in some of the newer

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translations is so powerful,
isn’t it?

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Look at that phrase and she will
bear a child on my knees.

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She’s giving us a visual image.
She’s going to take this hand

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mate, and when she’s about to
give birth, she’s going to put

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her on her knees, so that it
will appear that the child that

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is born is actually from Rachel.
I’ve done it.

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I’ve given birth to a child to a
son.

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There can be given to you.
Jacob.

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And when we stop to think about
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And we now read these words.
God has Vindicated me.

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He has listened to my plea and
given me a son.

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We understand how incorrect it
was.

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She had Vindicated herself, she
had judged herself.

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She had found a way to deliver
on the problem that she had and

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I guess we might summarize that
particular Spurt as this, my

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plan is God’s plan.
And, you know, so often in our

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lives, we find ourself in that
situation.

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We find ourselves impatient not
willing to wait for God to work

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in us and through us.
And so, what we do is eventually

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we find our own way to do
whatever it is.

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We want to achieve, but there’s
something a bit more Insidious

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years in there and we’re good at
doing this as well, we work our

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own solution and then we ascribe
it to God.

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We find a way to manipulate what
we have done and say, well, it’s

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the work of God.
Now, I contested and you, and

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you can test it on me, but in
our hearts and in our

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conscience, we can sometimes see
that.

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And this is where this danger
Spirit lies.

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This thing that God cannot
through his Mercy, because God’s

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mercy cannot deal with autonomy.
God’s Mercy is only dependent on

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one thing that you are dependent
on him.

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The the unforgivable sin that’s
in that says the spirit and

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power of God, the Holy Spirit
has no power in my life because

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my power is what counts becomes
the unforgivable sin.

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My plan is God’s plan.
Now, we see this.

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Now in the spirit of the birth
of Dan, The Echoes of Genesis

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that something about Dan speaks
to this desire to execute our

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own will.
But as we go through now, very

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quickly, we’ll do it as we go
through other parts of that and

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we see the same idea coming
through.

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For example, you’ll know that
Jacob gave these blessings to

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the 12 children and they
summarized the characteristics

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of each of the Jordan show up on
the screen yet when he was

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blessing Judah.
He summarized the vector Judah

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was going to be a leader.
Maybe he really had demonstrated

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those qualities and he said
you’re like a lion and from this

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we get the idea of the Lion of
the tribe of Judah or a great

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leader.
What did he say when he came to

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Dan?
He said Dan shall judge his

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people as one of the tribes of
Israel.

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Dan shall be a serpent by the
way, a Viper by the pot, that

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botch the horses heels.
So that it’s Rider shall fall

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backward.
So isn’t this an amazing

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description of what we had seen
with Rachel?

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This idea that Dan is going to
judge his people.

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I don’t think he means become a
judge on behalf of God, he’s

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going to judge.
His people will see a bit later.

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According to his own way.
It’s his own rules and not only

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is he going to do that, he’s
going to be very deceptive, he’s

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going to come as a snake behind
the rider.

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So he’s going to be a snare to
the rest of Israel.

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And he’s going to present to
them something that looks like

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the judgments of God and he’s
going to take them out just like

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the echo of the serpent that
said, God knows that the day

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that you eat of the tree of the
knowledge of Good and Evil, you

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will become like him.
In other words to present that,

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that this opportunity that you
have Eve, is really not that

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bad, because really, it’s just a
way in which you can make the

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judgments of God yourself.
You can discern between Good and

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Evil.
And that was really the essence

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of the Serpent’s Temptation and
no wonder, Jacob says in Dan is

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the spirit of that deception
that thing which says I can make

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the Judgment separate from God
and I can ascribe it to God.

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Isn’t it interesting that
Suddenly at the end of his

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description of Dan?
Jacob puts Verse 18.

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And when you’re reading it, you
think I see put that in there,

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what’s that?
Got to do with the rest?

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I have waited for your
salvation.

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00:25:25,700 –> 00:25:28,000
O Lord isn’t that the essence of
it?

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Well is it that we want to
execute our own judgment when it

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is it that we want to do it our
way when we no longer prepared

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00:25:36,000 –> 00:25:38,900
to wait?
You see, patients is one of

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those incredible qualities of
God.

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It’s in almost all the lists
that represent the

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characteristics of God.
If you got to Exodus chapter 34,

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it’s the third long-suffering,
merciful gracious.

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Long-suffering you go to the
fruit of the spirit.

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00:25:54,500 –> 00:25:55,800
We’ve got love joy.
Peace.

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Patience, you go to the First
Corinthians 13.

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Definition of love.
Love is kind.

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Love is patient.
Over and over again, patients,

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this incredible, quality of
waiting for the Salvation of the

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Lord and Rachel couldn’t do it.
And it’s built into Dan and Dan

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cannot wait for God’s.
Will, to be worked out the very

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essence when it comes down to
the crunch with the Lord.

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Jesus Christ.
What is it that he’s tested on

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in the garden?
It all comes down to this that

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your will may be done and not
mine.

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That was the essence of the
test.

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And so, when we go and have a
look at the, the nation of Dan

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the tribe that was born out of
the spirit.

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We’re not surprised that we find
that they called the, the city

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that was the capital of Dan
after the name of Dan, he was

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their leader.
So, let’s call it down.

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He’s going to be our judge.
And they, they the children, it

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says, verse 30 of Dan sets up
for themselves, a carved image,

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and Jonathan, the son of
gershom, the son of Vanessa.

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And his sons were priests to the
tribe of Dan until the day of

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the Captivity and I set up for
themselves Bacchus cough image

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which he made all the time that
the house of God was in China.

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What do they do?
They decided, you know what?

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We still want to worship?
Yes, we still believe in God.

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We were seeing this.
What did you call it?

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It was a bit of weird seeing
Chris.

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00:27:19,400 –> 00:27:22,800
Was it syncretism beautiful
syncretism?

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00:27:23,200 –> 00:27:26,900
They mixed what work for them
together, what looked like,

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00:27:26,900 –> 00:27:30,100
Devon and godly worship.
Own priesthood, is to go to

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00:27:30,100 –> 00:27:32,900
priesthood, we’ve got places to
worship, don’t need to go down

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00:27:32,900 –> 00:27:36,100
to Shiloh next.
Let’s mix what God has given us

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00:27:36,100 –> 00:27:38,200
but that which is inconvenient
will take out.

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And presented back as something
acceptable.

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You see what’s so powerful
about?

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00:27:44,900 –> 00:27:48,000
This isn’t just a normal sin,
God can deal with those.

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He’s promised us that he will
wash them away.

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00:27:50,100 –> 00:27:55,300
This cannot be dealt with, you
won’t be amongst Revelation

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00:27:55,300 –> 00:28:00,400
chapter 7 with this condition.
Those who swear by the sin of

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00:28:00,400 –> 00:28:03,000
Sumeria who say as your God
Lives.

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00:28:03,000 –> 00:28:05,000
Oh Dan?
And as the way of Beersheba,

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they shall fall and look what it
says and never rise again.

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00:28:10,600 –> 00:28:14,500
In this state in this state,
what is called the city of

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Samaria.
When you have given yourself

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00:28:16,800 –> 00:28:22,500
over to independence from God,
self-reliance autonomy, driving

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00:28:22,500 –> 00:28:26,100
your own judgments.
There is no place, you shall

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00:28:26,100 –> 00:28:28,900
never rise again.
So in summary, we have This,

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this wonderful message coming to
us from this little meditation,

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00:28:35,900 –> 00:28:37,700
learning to submit our will to
God.

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00:28:37,700 –> 00:28:40,800
We’ve got to understand in our
daily living that that he is the

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Potter, where the clay in.
How often we want to resist him.

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00:28:43,800 –> 00:28:46,000
We’re impatient.
We’re not willing to let them

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00:28:46,100 –> 00:28:49,200
work with us.
Patiently waiting for his will

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00:28:49,200 –> 00:28:52,700
to be done.
There’s no places there for the

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00:28:52,700 –> 00:28:55,300
spirit of Dan in the sealed of
God.

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00:28:55,600 –> 00:28:59,600
God, God cannot the one thing he
will not and cannot do is cure

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00:28:59,600 –> 00:29:03,200
self Vindication.
And so, let’s be aware of that.

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00:29:04,000 –> 00:29:06,500
There is an abundant entry.
We’re being taught in

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00:29:06,500 –> 00:29:09,400
Revelation, chapter 7, and
abundant entry into the kingdom

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00:29:09,400 –> 00:29:11,600
for all of us, and that’s an
inspiration.

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00:29:11,800 –> 00:29:16,200
And that’s an encouragement,
except if you refuse to submit

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00:29:16,200 –> 00:29:20,300
our will, if we make our
judgments God’s judgments, if we

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00:29:20,300 –> 00:29:23,600
choose not to Wait for the
Salvation of God.

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So there is a meditation on some
names and some people that we

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can go back and listen to The
Echoes from the Old Testament.

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00:29:33,600 –> 00:29:37,100
Let’s keep in this theme and I
want to draw your attention to

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00:29:37,600 –> 00:29:40,100
this passage also very
well-known passage from

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00:29:40,100 –> 00:29:43,300
Revelation, Chapter 2 and verse
17.

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So let’s read it together.
He who has an ear, let him hear

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00:29:48,500 –> 00:29:51,900
what the spirit says, to the
churches, to him who overcomes,

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00:29:51,900 –> 00:29:55,900
I will give some of the Hidden
Manna to eat, and I will give

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00:29:55,900 –> 00:29:58,200
him a white stone.
And on that stone, a new name

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00:29:58,200 –> 00:30:02,900
written which no one knows
except him who receives it.

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00:30:03,100 –> 00:30:08,000
So, thinking again, about Echoes
of themes and names in the

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00:30:08,000 –> 00:30:10,700
previous one, we were looking at
the names of the children of

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00:30:10,700 –> 00:30:13,200
Israel.
Here, we have direct reference

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00:30:13,200 –> 00:30:17,000
to this name that that’s going
to be given to Us this beautiful

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00:30:17,000 –> 00:30:20,600
idea that we can imagine
ourselves, I can picture it.

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00:30:20,600 –> 00:30:25,200
So, so beautifully being there,
being accepted by Jesus waiting,

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00:30:25,200 –> 00:30:29,600
as he comes to me, and he
presents me with a white stone.

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00:30:30,800 –> 00:30:35,700
And as I grab that white stone
and I turn it over, it says it

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00:30:35,700 –> 00:30:40,500
has a new name for me and it’s
powerful because it says, you

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00:30:40,500 –> 00:30:43,200
know, that new name that you’re
going to get no one else would

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00:30:43,200 –> 00:30:46,400
have heard of it before.
It’s an interesting thought you

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00:30:46,408 –> 00:30:49,300
know we often think about the
fact that we have taken on the

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00:30:49,300 –> 00:30:53,200
name of God of course that’s
Central to the gospel message,

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00:30:53,200 –> 00:30:55,700
isn’t it?
This idea that Simeon has

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00:30:55,700 –> 00:30:58,300
declared Our God at the first at
visit the Gentiles to take out

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00:30:58,300 –> 00:31:03,400
of them a people for his name.
Yes, we are called at to Bear

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00:31:03,400 –> 00:31:07,100
the name of Yahweh, the name of
God, the name that was given to

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00:31:07,100 –> 00:31:08,500
Jesus.
That is above every name.

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00:31:09,000 –> 00:31:14,000
But there’s a sense in this
meditation that there is a new

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00:31:14,000 –> 00:31:19,300
name, a name that is given to us
personally, that no one else

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00:31:19,300 –> 00:31:21,700
knows except him who receives
it.

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00:31:22,500 –> 00:31:25,800
And this is where my focus went,
this is where my thought process

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went.
As in terms of not just the

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Echoes that abound throughout
the word of God.

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Our names.
But the the idea of giving and

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00:31:33,900 –> 00:31:38,100
receiving names that that we
will receive a new name.

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00:31:38,900 –> 00:31:41,500
That seems to be very personal.
Now, if we think about names

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00:31:41,500 –> 00:31:44,400
very quickly, let’s think about
names a very quickly.

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00:31:44,900 –> 00:31:47,400
We each have two names.
Some of you may have more

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00:31:47,400 –> 00:31:49,600
because your parents were
feeling generous and have the

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00:31:49,600 –> 00:31:52,900
money to give you more names,
but we at least hopefully each

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00:31:52,900 –> 00:31:56,200
have two names that are used to
identify us uniquely.

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00:31:56,800 –> 00:31:59,700
We have our surnames, we call
them our family names.

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00:31:59,700 –> 00:32:01,800
Our second name, Ames and
primarily.

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00:32:01,800 –> 00:32:05,600
If you think about your surname
it’s a name that yes it

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00:32:05,600 –> 00:32:08,500
identifies you but it more
identifies you in terms of

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00:32:08,500 –> 00:32:11,500
belonging.
So you can tell a lot about

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00:32:11,500 –> 00:32:14,800
someone by knowing their sooner,
you can often tell where they

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00:32:14,800 –> 00:32:17,700
came from.
So if your surname is slum in,

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00:32:18,200 –> 00:32:19,800
you probably haven’t heard that
in the u.s.a.

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00:32:19,800 –> 00:32:21,300
That’s a very common surname
back.

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00:32:21,300 –> 00:32:23,500
Yeah, you will work out.
This chap doesn’t come from the

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00:32:23,500 –> 00:32:25,400
USA.
Probably comes from somewhere

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00:32:25,400 –> 00:32:28,400
else and I can tell you comes
from a province called

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00:32:28,400 –> 00:32:32,900
kwazulu-natal in South Africa.
If the person’s name is Trump,

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00:32:33,500 –> 00:32:36,400
you probably work out that he
comes from.

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00:32:36,600 –> 00:32:38,800
Where should I say Russia?
Russia must be Russia.

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00:32:38,800 –> 00:32:44,300
Yes.
But we can work out a lot from

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00:32:44,600 –> 00:32:49,200
the surname of the individual
and who they belong to, and in

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00:32:49,200 –> 00:32:51,600
the many ways, the name that
we’ve been caught, you is our

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00:32:51,600 –> 00:32:54,000
family name.
We’re going to belong to the

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00:32:54,000 –> 00:32:57,300
family of God, but then we have
a first name.

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00:32:58,100 –> 00:33:00,200
And, you know, our first names
are a lot about our

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00:33:00,200 –> 00:33:03,500
individuality on that.
We associate people’s first

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00:33:03,500 –> 00:33:05,700
names with the individual
personality traits.

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00:33:05,700 –> 00:33:08,100
That’s why often if we had a bad
experience with a particular

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00:33:08,100 –> 00:33:09,400
first name.
And then the wife says she would

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00:33:09,400 –> 00:33:11,400
like to call someone by that
name, you’ll go on touch.

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00:33:12,300 –> 00:33:16,000
Love to call my child at all,
like and of start working for

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00:33:16,000 –> 00:33:17,400
me.
All right.

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00:33:17,900 –> 00:33:22,800
So so first names talk to
individualization and and there

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00:33:22,800 –> 00:33:24,600
is an idea.
Here isn’t the in Revelation

583
00:33:24,600 –> 00:33:28,300
Chapter 2 and this meditation
that that although we are called

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00:33:28,300 –> 00:33:31,000
to be one, although we are
called to bear.

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00:33:31,000 –> 00:33:36,300
That one name, we are diverse.
Let me god is the creator of

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00:33:36,300 –> 00:33:39,600
diversity.
If that were not true, then why

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00:33:39,600 –> 00:33:44,000
is it that every one of us has a
absolutely unique fingerprint

588
00:33:44,000 –> 00:33:47,300
and absolutely unique eye and
absolutely unique DNA,

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00:33:47,500 –> 00:33:50,700
everything completely unique.
Every snowflake that falls is

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00:33:50,700 –> 00:33:53,100
completely unique.
He has a God that creates

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00:33:53,100 –> 00:33:55,500
diversity and brings it into
Unity.

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00:33:55,500 –> 00:33:58,900
Not uniformity.
So there’s a sense that that

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00:33:58,900 –> 00:34:03,500
that as an individual, you have
a name that fits into your

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00:34:03,900 –> 00:34:06,000
belonging name and I want to
explore this idea.

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00:34:06,100 –> 00:34:08,900
This idea of of first Names.
Because I think this is what’s

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00:34:08,900 –> 00:34:11,600
been captured in Revelation
Chapter 2.

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00:34:12,199 –> 00:34:15,900
Let’s think quickly about giving
and receiving of names.

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00:34:16,000 –> 00:34:18,000
Have you ever noticed this in
the Book of Genesis?

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00:34:18,699 –> 00:34:20,100
Of course, you’ve noticed the
passage.

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00:34:20,100 –> 00:34:23,400
This is our Genesis Gene that
that in the midst of all the

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00:34:23,400 –> 00:34:27,199
intensity of everything that’s
going on in Genesis, and all the

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00:34:27,199 –> 00:34:30,500
things that are being explained
to us, it makes so much sense.

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00:34:30,900 –> 00:34:34,699
We have this curious event where
Adam is taken.

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00:34:34,900 –> 00:34:37,000
And God says, I’m going to bring
the animals in front of you, and

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00:34:37,000 –> 00:34:39,699
you can name them.
And he gets to name all of the

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00:34:39,699 –> 00:34:43,400
beautiful animals of God.
Why did God do that?

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00:34:44,600 –> 00:34:48,199
And why is it recorded for us?
It’s the first time that name

608
00:34:48,199 –> 00:34:52,400
appears in the Bible, Adam
called them every living

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00:34:52,400 –> 00:34:55,300
creature, the name that he would
give them and such was his name.

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00:34:55,500 –> 00:34:58,200
The first time it appears.
So there’s there’s a DNA in

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00:34:58,200 –> 00:34:59,300
this.
There’s something for us to

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00:34:59,300 –> 00:35:02,300
understand, I want to put it to
you this.

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00:35:02,900 –> 00:35:06,400
You see that the characteristic
of God that we often don’t talk

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00:35:06,400 –> 00:35:10,600
about, but it is the very first
thing we learn about God, is

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00:35:10,600 –> 00:35:15,200
that he is creative.
The first thing we re in the

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00:35:15,200 –> 00:35:20,500
beginning God created, he’s a
creative God, he’s Innovative.

617
00:35:20,600 –> 00:35:23,800
He’s about making things, and
that’s what he did.

618
00:35:23,800 –> 00:35:26,900
He made the whole earth and this
beautiful landscape that we’re

619
00:35:26,900 –> 00:35:31,300
enjoying this week.
And in a sense, what did he do?

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00:35:31,800 –> 00:35:36,100
He created this incredible
fabric of creation and he makes

621
00:35:36,100 –> 00:35:40,000
one part of that creation
special with the ability to also

622
00:35:40,000 –> 00:35:43,900
create with the intellect and
the power and the free will to

623
00:35:43,900 –> 00:35:47,500
also be creative.
It’s what’s unique about humans?

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00:35:47,500 –> 00:35:50,600
Compared to the rest of the
creation and the way that he

625
00:35:50,600 –> 00:35:53,600
demonstrates, that that’s what
he wants is he says to Adam, you

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00:35:53,600 –> 00:35:55,600
know what, I’ve done this
creation, but I want you to

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00:35:55,600 –> 00:35:58,300
finish it off.
You guys, often the honor and

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00:35:58,300 –> 00:36:00,600
the privilege.
Each if you’ve assigned tests

629
00:36:00,600 –> 00:36:03,400
and you discover something new,
makes the honor and the

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00:36:03,400 –> 00:36:06,100
privilege of the scientists to
be able to name.

631
00:36:06,500 –> 00:36:12,000
It is the privilege of the the,
the Creator to name that which

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00:36:12,000 –> 00:36:15,600
is creating.
So we get the privilege when we

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00:36:15,600 –> 00:36:19,400
give birth to a baby as the mom
and dad have been heavily

634
00:36:19,400 –> 00:36:21,900
involved in the creative part to
name the child.

635
00:36:22,400 –> 00:36:25,200
We wouldn’t feel very good if we
add the job, in some person, the

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00:36:25,200 –> 00:36:28,400
doctor walks in and says, oh
this looks like an author and

637
00:36:28,400 –> 00:36:31,800
gives the Night and so it is
when someone discovers a news

638
00:36:31,800 –> 00:36:35,300
and you star or some new
discovery they name it.

639
00:36:35,300 –> 00:36:39,500
It’s a part of the creative
process and I think this idea

640
00:36:39,500 –> 00:36:44,800
that that name giving is given
to Adam is really God saying

641
00:36:45,200 –> 00:36:47,500
I’ve called you to be a
co-creator with me.

642
00:36:48,800 –> 00:36:50,900
The first commandment he ever
got the first words he ever

643
00:36:50,900 –> 00:36:54,200
spoke to man, be fruitful and
multiply we are called not just

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00:36:54,200 –> 00:36:58,400
sit back not to to hold on to
the very little that we have.

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00:36:59,500 –> 00:37:02,000
God says, I want you to grow, I
want you to be abundant, but I

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00:37:02,000 –> 00:37:07,100
want you to grow in supporting
my creative work, understanding

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00:37:07,100 –> 00:37:09,600
that you have to create together
with me, the idea of

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co-creation.
Now, this is a very important

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Insight, especially for me.
It teaches us that in every part

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of our life, we have a way to,
to live out our calling, whether

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it be at work, whether it be in
the in our relaxation, Tom,

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whether it be in the family, we
are being called to use.

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Creativity to ultimately move
his plan for it.

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And that’s what he was calling
adamant to do now.

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If you think I’m making too much
of that when, when the first

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human is named, who was given
the right to name the first

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human?
Well, the often the the

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spontaneous answers.
Well that was God because the

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first human named is Adam and if
I have my slides up there, I’d

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be able to show you that
actually Adam never received the

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name.
Okay, so Adam, who we know, as

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Adam in fact, all that is is the
Hebrew word that describes the

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creation of, man.
In fact, when we first have the,

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the now use my little glasses.
When we first find Adam

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mentioned, I think, his first
name is mentioned.

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If you have your Bibles, you’ll
pick it up.

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His name is first, mentioned in
Genesis 2, verse 19, first time

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he’s called Adam.
If you’ve got the King James

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version Genesis 219, do you know
that the Word has been used, non

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Thomas before that.
Charles States has just decided

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at some point.
We’ll just use the Hebrew.

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So in actual fact to be
consistent you could just keep

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calling a man the man the man.
So the word name and you can

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check it is never used that God
named him, Adam.

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I think that’s important because
the first human ever night is in

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fact, Eve.
And that’s recorded for us in

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Genesis 3, verse 20, Adam called
his wife’s name, Eve, you see?

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This is consistent.
God has given name giving two

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men.
And it’s interesting that the

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names that are then given when
he gives her the name EV says,

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she shall be the mother of all
living.

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In other words, the name was to
capture the way that person was

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going to be a part of God’s
great creative process.

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She was going to be the
beginning of creating living

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people.
And who do you think gave the

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name to the first human ever
born?

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Of course, it was Adam and Eve.
And the first human ever born

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was Cain, and they gave him his
name and his name actually was a

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part of the idea.
It actually means position.

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It means possession, it’s quite
interesting when, when Eve

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names, akane and Genesis for
burst, once you said I have

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created a man, just as the Lord
She’s starting to work out.

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That this idea of of creativity
is a part of our calling.

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The very fact that I can have
children even saying is

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demonstration that.
I’m a co-creator with God.

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And she was able to name him as
demonstration of that.

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But there’s something in the
words of Eve that that catches

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our attention, I have created a
man just as the Lord did.

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But here’s the edge brothers and
sisters.

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It seems so simple.
Doesn’t it?

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That that on the one hand we
have to rely on God, but you

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said God is calling us to be
creative.

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He’s calling us to multiply.
He’s calling us to be abundant.

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He’s calling us to be named
givers.

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But in that process, there is
the risk that we become named

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builders in that process.
We become not co-creators but

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self creators.
And as we follow the theme of

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names, it doesn’t take long
before we get to the Tower of

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Babel and what do they say?
Let us make a name for

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ourselves.
And so they go from being named

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givers demonstrated, the
co-creative role that we have

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been caught you to name, givers,
and name, builders.

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And then we come to to the next
manifestation of Babylon that we

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were talking earlier and we come
to that incredible passage that

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I think you will know.
Well, you don’t even need to see

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it in the screen.
When Nebuchadnezzar stands on

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the same planes, where they
built the Tower of Babel, where

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they had built a name for
themselves.

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And, and captures, the very, the
very Spirit of Babylon when he

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says, is not this great Babylon,
which I have built by the power

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of my might and The honor of my
name.

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You see you see what has
happened yet?

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Is is Nebuchadnezzar has has
lost contact with the cause of

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creation.
You see as co-creators we never

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lose sight that he is the cause
we purely have a fabric, he’s

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given us incredible Fabric, and
all we doing is putting the

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finishing touches finishing
touches.

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But when we lose sight of the
cause of our creativity, we will

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lose sight of the purpose.
So, Nebuchadnezzar looks at

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Great Babylon.
Is this is not this great

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Babylon, 5, Pulled by the power
of my much.

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And therefore, for my honor.
What a great lesson, you know,

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David I think picks up on this
idea, David spends so much time,

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doesn’t he in the Psalms?
He tells us to constantly?

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Be reminded that all that we see
out there is a reminder that he

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is the cause of all creativity.
Everything that you’ve ever

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achieved is only because he gave
you it to work with.

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So he looks upon the stars and
and looks at the heavens and

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beholds, the glory of God, the
handiwork of God and because

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David Always understood that God
was the cause of creativity, he

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therefore understood that he was
the purpose.

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In other words, it was always to
his glory.

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That was why when David brought
the Ark of the Covenant into

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Jerusalem?
The first thing he did as it

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came, as a manifestation of the
glory of God, is he took off his

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crown, he took up his Royal robe
so that he could say, here is

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the purpose of creativity?
Here is where the glory belongs.

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Of course, his wife marker
looked at that and she couldn’t

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see what He was doing, you have
made yourself as one of the

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vulgar ones because you have
humbled yourself in the sight of

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the commonest.
So when we look to ourselves and

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we understand that we are called
to be named givers to be

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co-creators and yet in doing
that as we gain success, as we

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get the satisfaction that God,
always intended you to have in

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creativity.
As we start to get perhaps some

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accolades behind our name.
Perhaps is at the end of your

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name, PhD, be calm, or whatever
it is or perhaps it’s at the

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front of your name.
Doctor Sir?

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And we begin to build the
Temptation, is we become brand

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builders that the Legacy moves
from being a legacy for God?

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But a legacy for ourselves and
we’re on Facebook, and we’re on

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LinkedIn, and we can Google
ourselves and our name gets

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bigger and bigger until such
time, as we have the spirit of

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Babylon in each and every one of
us.

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So I think the lesson is very
clear brothers and sisters.

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It is for us to understand that
he gave us the opportunity.

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He gave us the blessing of being
co-creators so that we could

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finish his creation.
But you know what, ultimately,

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he wants to give you that first
name that your mom and dad gave

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you, he wants to change it.
He wants to complete his

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Creation in you and we know
that’s true from revelation.

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2:7.
We read in 11.

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This this beautiful passage when
John Was preparing the message

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of the Gospel he says, but as
many as received him to them, he

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gave the right to become the
children of God.

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In those, who believe in his
name, who were born?

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Not of blood, nor of the will of
the flesh, nor of the will of,

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man.
But of God, you see, it’s not

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about whether we choose.
It’s about whether we receive

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He’s chosen to give you a new
name, he’s waiting to give it to

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you.
You will receive run from your

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parents.
It wasn’t by your will not by

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the will of man or by flesh.
You just got it.

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You can’t even complain about
it.

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I know some people like to
change their names, but that’s

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it.
He says, but I am willing to

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give you a new name.
I’m willing to give it to you,

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but you need to want to receive
it.

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You need to be ready to give up
all that.

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You’ve achieved behind your
first name here.

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And you know what I believe.
I believe that when we were in

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the Kingdom with him, and he
gives us that watch stone, that,

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that new name, that’s recorded.
They will summarize everything

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00:45:47,800 –> 00:45:51,100
that we did all of our talents,
all of our skills that

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co-created with him, that helped
us each person.

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Need to do something to forward
his master plan.

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And that is why when you turn
that stone over and you read

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that name though, nobody else
will know it because they never

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called you by that name.
They called you Harold, they

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called you Cameron.
There is a name that God will

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00:46:09,900 –> 00:46:14,900
give that summarizes everything
you ever did to co-create with

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00:46:14,900 –> 00:46:17,000
him.
And to me, that is so

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00:46:17,000 –> 00:46:20,300
inspirational because today
we’re working on that new name

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and we need to hold on to it and
make sure we don’t.

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Hold on to the name that we were
given by our parents.

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So may God bless you as you
continue to meditate on the Book

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00:46:31,300 –> 00:46:32,000
of Revelation.