Mark Giordano - Class 5 - Comfort in Paradox - Restoration in the Kingdom

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   The title of brother marks exhortation, is comfort in Paradox. Restoration in the Kingdom, please give me your careful attention. we’ve looked at some pretty heart-rending things this weekend, and you would think that the focus on these afflictions is something that Is reserved for certain times and places. But is it really good for me to consider? We’ve shown the contrast between Affliction and comfort? And, and how Comfort is something that in a spiritual sense, addresses Affliction, but through the strength, to take it to endure through it and through the hope of the future. You may not have realized this, if you are relatively new among christadelphians, that what we’ve been speaking about the entire time is the good news concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ.

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   And it’s good news, because it promises to rectify every issue. Every problem, every need that men have in this world. Take everything that’s all messed up in this world and straighten it out and make the world. A place that is restored to its original state. It was like a garden everywhere, when the spirit of God, moved across the face of the deep. And there was the presence of the Lord, as if he is with us. That’s the idea of the kingdom of God. You should ask yourself if this makes sense to me. Do I have a place in that future but I like to help the Lord when he becomes king, go to all places of the world and feed the hungry, a way to deal with that question, for yourself, would be wood.

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   If I had the opportunity in the power and the means the resources to do that now, and I knew that there were millions of people starving in a foreign country, or that there was there were girls, that could be rescued from a horrible. Kidnapping, other there were children who afraid to go to school. If I had the power to help what I do that. Look at the answer to that.

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   Question is. Yes, then all the more. So would you be able to affirm the idea that God has offered you the power to do that in the future? So when you are new among us, or if you have not really seriously considered your place, in all the things that we’ve been speaking about, you would give serious consideration to the, the reality of having the opportunity to do this in the kingdom of God. And that would be sometime, not in the nebulous regions of distant future.

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   But in the very near future so much prophetic evidence that the Lord is about, Return that this promise that was embodied in the question that disciples asked Jesus after he came back from the dead, they said there with them for 40 days and they said will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?

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   And while he said, well, it’s not for you to know the times and the seasons but God has fixed everything in his purpose and then he was just taken away. And they saw him go and they were standing there and they said staring into the heavens. And there were two angels that came there and they said Add this same Jesus. Why are you standing staring into the clouds the same Jesus that was taken up from you into heaven? Shall so come in like manner.

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   In other words, he left as a physical personal being he will return as such not as a spirit but his King. It’s a fitting King, somebody who’s not all bound up in the ridiculous politics of this world today, but somebody who is suited to the task of taking this world and straightening out every problem that exists in such way that it will bring peace on Earth and Goodwill toward men and that’s the hope of restoration in the Kingdom. Then again, after thinking, well, that’s all good news. And I agree with you that is really good news, but I’ve looked at religion.

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   Kind of scene. The pros and cons. I’ve seen more evil done in the name of religion and any other thing in this world, even people offering their children as burnt offerings in the name of some religion. It seems like there have been Wars throughout history that were fought for religious causes And then on a more intimate level, I don’t know, a God, who answers prayer necessarily I’ve made some prayers and it didn’t seem to me that they came out the way. I thought they would, those are very real questions. They all have answers today.

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   What we’re going to do is focus on some of the paradoxes that come up in Affliction, where everything you would normally think about prayer and about God’s protection, and guidance is love and his Justice doesn’t turn out to be the way it seems. It should be very easy for example like job that when you get blindsided with an extreme set of trials.

10. 5:35

    In his case they were over the top that you you call God’s justice and to question and you you look at yourself and say why does this happen to me? Why did this happen to those school children? Why did it? Happen to these young girls that were kidnapped. Why did it happen to that Nation?

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    Why is that Nation full of rubble? When the people used to have restaurants and houses and apartments and enjoy the goodness, at least of their own natural lives in their land. When all these things are looked at a lot of questions come up than involved the paradoxes of Faith. So we’re going to take a look at those paradoxes of the afflictions that we go through personally. And that may be a Part of the questions you have about God, is he real?

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    Is he really loving, is his justice of a true thing? Or is it full of contradiction that? I can see. And then I don’t understand. Those are all the questions that are at the root of Faith. They form the foundation of faith when they are resolved. So we are here now to consider the answers.

13. 6:43

    As we look at this big picture of restoration in the Kingdom, did you know, That in the Bible. The word Affliction is also translated narrow. And I mean everything, we’ve said about Affliction, would you think that the same word that comes out in the English language, as Affliction would come out in the English language?

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    As narrow? What on Earth does narrow have to do with the kinds of things that we’ve been thinking about? What you remember, Jesus, used that particular word to describe what? It’s like to have faith to follow him to say, you know, I believe this and so I’m See if I can enter through the door that he said, is now open to me and walk down a path that he said, is the way to truth life.

15. 7:43

    So he said in that context, enter in at the strait gate. Wide is the gate and Broad is the way that leads to destruction and many there be which go in thereat, but the strait is the gate and narrow. There’s that word, narrow is the way which leads unto life and few there, be that find it.

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    So would you have thought that Jesus was saying that straight is the gate and Afflicted is the way. The language way, the language comes through in the English doesn’t really convey. What Jesus is saying, it falls short of being clear, and that’s not to say that Jesus was not very clear in everything. He said, his words were perfect, they were perfectly Chosen. And I think in many times when you have a case like this, where you don’t really quite get the sense of what he’s saying, from the English rendition of it, it still works on all levels. So people think they get the idea that Live a life that follows after Christ is going to be, you’re going to have to be straight.

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    That would be the simple interpretation of this, the straight language that were using here and that the gate is straight. In other words, straight, and narrow means it’s on course in a simplistic interpretation of this line, but let’s take a look at what Jesus really is saying. If he’s saying narrow is the way there’s two words here, straight and narrow, the gate is straight and narrow is the way.

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    What’s the game, as we said before the gatekeeper, and the gate is the Ingress. And egress into the house of God. He said, he’s got a big house and it’s a lot of venues all over the world. And Jesus said in my father’s, There’s house are many, venues its worldwide now that it’s been taken out of Israel and offered to the Gentiles. For 2000 years have been spreading all across the world. It’s a big house because it’s a spiritual house or Temple, and it has a lot of rooms in it or a lot of venues places where people assembled to think about God just like today. This is one of the runes in that house, the gate is the entrance to that house and that would mean that when you come to the door of God’s, House, a spiritual Temple and you think about maybe going inside and staying inside, living inside that house in one of those rooms, then what he’s saying is there’s a certain characteristic to entering that gate. And in this case, the word straight means it has obstacles it almost, you wouldn’t get obstacles out of the word straight anymore than you get Affliction of the word narrow, but he’s saying it’s going to, there’s going to be an obstacle to your entering that house.

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    So, if you’ve stood on one side and then come through, you know, that there are all sorts and you’ve watched other people stand on one side of that gate and then come through that gate into God’s house. You know. There are obstacles in the way the things you thinking, well, you know, maybe not right now. I do not sure I want to walk in there and sit in there for the rest of my life.

20. 10:48

    Because on the outside of this house, there are certain things and conditions that are working on me. And on the inside of the house that the other things in conditions, we’re going to kind of like make maybe make restrictions, put me in an uncomfortable position but nevertheless What, what you can readily see in the reality of what he’s saying is, yeah, there’s obstacles in the way of going through that gate. And then the part that we don’t want to think about, we, it’s hard to admit, but is as true as tomorrow. And that is that the the way that you follow once beyond that gate is full of Affliction.

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    That’s the part that we’re supposed to understand what he’s trying to get across to us. So he says, beloved do not think it strange? This is elsewhere coming from the inspired word of the Lord, don’t think it’s strange. If there’s obstacles and afflictions which in this context, he refers to as fiery trials, don’t think that’s strange. As if people who just live normal lives out in the world, don’t have fiery trials, they do. The difference is they don’t have any hope you come through that gate and enter that way.

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    The fiery trials are in the context of a hope that anchors you in every respect for anything that can come up and he is the God of All Comfort. So he says, don’t think something strange has happened to you but Rejoice to the extent that you are partaking of, Christ’s sufferings that when his glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy in the point. There is entering, discipleship, has obstacles. Where’s Jesus?

23. 12:26

    Put it to one, man. It’s going to cost you. And he said elsewhere, but you should count the cost. And once you’ve counted the cost, you make the investment. And once you’ve made the investment, you have to understand, you have everything in the world, the game. Because if Jesus was promised, the sense of the world as his inheritance and you are heirs with him, according to the promises to Abraham, then that promise conveys to you and you are an heir to the extensive the world.

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    In other words, you will take part ownership in the entire planet Earth and if you hate the way things are now and you love the theater, Off the idea of this World Redemption, you would not be able to resist. The offer of participating in that inheritance. That is yours for the taking in faith. But entering has obstacles.

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    And the way is strewn with afflictions, this was the path that Jesus followed two to sort of lead the way. And he said, I am the way, the truth and the life. He led the way and he proved to us the point of those afflictions when you make when you address the afflictions like he did all kinds of things emerge from that in the context of that Affliction that are worthwhile that provide hope that that flesh out this vision of the future, that provide the details necessary to understand. This is true, the truth, the whole truth and Nothing. But the truth from the mouth of the Creator and sustainer of the universe.

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    So would be walking in his steps. We’re going to experience the same things. Let’s look at some discouraging perceptions that come out. And I got these mainly from, I asked, Amy, what was it about your faith? That didn’t work when Dominic died when everything fell apart for you and you said, when everything you thought about the way God was working with us, didn’t really turn out to be to be what actually happened when you needed him the most. It didn’t really seem like he was there when you thought he was protecting your son, he let him die. What were those paradoxes?

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    What were the verses that seem strange to you in the midst of this horrible tragedy? And so, she told me, well, I had problem with this, I promise this. I always thought this about this point, and I didn’t understand this once Dominic died. I had prayed for his protection and God didn’t protect him. So there were versus that caused her to believe that she had a certain kind of relationship.

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    God, that would transfer to the the watchful eye and protection of the Lord over her son. And that’s not what happened. So that happens that can make you say. Do I really want to go through that gate? Do I want to walk along that way and take those afflictions? Is that me or can I just go? And I have my naked party out of my life and travel a lot, and the world is my oyster and we’ll have some good meals would do some good things will have some fun, I’ll make a little bit of a difference in somebody’s life and then there you are, that’s your life.

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    And at the end of it, whatever good you did fades in evaporates into the past. When the memory of you phase after your demise So these were some of these spiritual paradoxes that came up in that discussion. Comfort was first used in scripture to do to describe Noah yet. The problem with that whole story is God destroyed. All Flesh off the face of the earth and its only saved a people’s where is there any comfort in that? That’s a paradox.

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    These are scriptural. Paradoxes. Esau was comforted by thoughts of Vengeance when he thought you were going to kill my brother. He cheated me out of my hair. It has a kill the guy Jacob found out. He had, he had to take off out of there and Yet it says he was comforted by his Vengeance. Does that sound like something that’s? Good to you?

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    There’s a paradox. They’re going to take a look at that Comfort. Seems little bit more elusive when you need it. The most when aiming needed Comfort the most, there was no Comfort to be found and this is common in the most severe of tragedies. I mean, everybody works with stress and distress. Similarly, in some cases, in many cases and also differently, depending on how you’re wired and what your perceptions of things are, but it seems to be not there. when you need it, the most If you live anytime in the truth, if you follow after this way, you enter that gate and you’re going to see that.

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    This is one of the most perplexing Parts about life in the truth. Especially if you go way down, you’re going to be looking for deliverance, from God. And just doesn’t seem to be there. When you need comfort just done seem to be there, so that’s another Paradox. Another one is, we’re promise, whatever we ask in prayer and then the answers, turn out to be different. So, how do you make sense out of that Paradox? Amy had prayed while Dominic was in college for her son for God to protect her son, while he was away from home and he dies in an accident down there in 15 minutes. Was that mean?

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    We’re promised whatever we ask in prayer, what happened? It doesn’t seem to be true to the Bible lie to me. You know, Amy could not figure out how it was. If she prayed for his protection God, let him die when he promised the answer to her prayer. So that’s a paradox that needs to be resolved, it doesn’t it?

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    And then there was this promise that there’s an angel of the Lord that camps around you and will deliver you. And yet you have one fiery trial after another, there are Peaks and valleys in life. The Peaks are pretty nice but the valleys are awful and you got to wonder. So where’s the encamping angel? If where was that angel?

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    When I was in the pits of despair, Let’s take a look at these and see if we can make a simple. Resolution, to what we’re thinking about, take these paradoxes, put them in context of scripture and resolve them in context in context, not only of their immediate context in scripture, but in the context of everything we’ve been talking about using hope for strength. Instead of core Deliverance, how can it be said that Noah was a comfort?

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    I mean, this was from his birth. The idea about Noah and his name was, he was going to be a comfortable. And then everybody in the world gets destroyed. He saves animals instead of men and they’re only eight people saved. This is where the idea of comfort and the name of Noah come together in the Bible.

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    In Genesis 529 Noah’s name means rest. He was named rest specifically, because way Max said his dad, this one will Comfort us, a sort of a prophetic side to this concerning. Our work in the toil of our hands because the of the ground, which the Lord has cursed, just two things going on this way. Max seem to understand that there would be a prophetic comfort that would come from Noah. God, had cursed the ground.

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    So there’s a relationship between the curse of the flood and the comfort that Noah would provide and what is that Comfort? Well, it turns out on everybody knows how the story ends that. Once they had the ark came to rest, God came to Noah and he said it shall be. When I bring a cloud over the earth and the rain bow shall be seen in the cloud and I will remember the Covenant, which is between me and you and every living Living creature of the earth and the waters shall never.

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    Again, Destroy All Flesh. The rainbow shall be in the cloud and I, and I will look on it to remember the Everlasting coffin, Covenant, when the rainbow is in the cloud. So this is was the beginning of God’s promise to save everybody, instead of destroy everybody. And again, it was in the context of This Global Affliction of the destruction of the flood.

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    So that’s how it’s Noah became a comfort. It was to know that God began to fully Express this Covenant of salvation of the earth and its people. So then there’s the Paradox of Vengeance being there in Esau in the form of comfort. How is there any comfort in vengeance? This is where this comes up and the words of Esau her older son back as older, son were told to Rebecca. So somebody came and they said, that’s what he saw said. So she sent and called Jacob or younger said and said to him, surely your brother.

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    He saw Comforts himself concerning you by intending to kill you while there was nothing righteous about that. That was just all about jealousy and the absence of faith and Esau and the trickery of the deception and the goat skin on his arm. And he saw selling his His inheritance is birthright, which was embodied in the promises of God for a bowl of soup and, you know, all that there’s no righteousness in Esau’s Vengeance.

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    So, how do you, how do you take this Paradox that she would use the word comfort in connection with his Vengeance and make it and turn it into a scriptural principle? I would you do that? Well, here’s how you do it. Look at how in righteousness Justice actually provides Comfort. Because what Esau was looking for with Justice, however, perverse in his ark?

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    It’s still Justice. When he said, when Jesus says this G, this is speaking of Jesus in Isaiah and he quoted this of himself, the spirit of the Lord, God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to preach Good Tidings unto the meek. So there’s good news, that’s what we’ve been talking about. The Glad Tidings of the Kingdom to people who are Meek enough to listen to it and understand in the honesty of their hearts that this is for them.

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    He has sent me to bind up the Brokenhearted. So, there’s the answer to all the suffering in the world, why he is the God of All Comfort, because Jesus has been sent to bind up the Brokenhearted, And to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. And look, what makes that year acceptable. What he says next and the day of Vengeance of our God. He doesn’t doesn’t stop there.

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    There’s the acceptable year of our Lord and he made a reference to himself with that. I’d side of the verse in Nazareth and then they thought of throw him over the cliff for saying that and then he comes along and he stopped and Isaiah, the completion of that thought is the day of Vengeance of our God to comfort all who mourn. In other words, there’s going to be a day of recompense. There’s going to be a Day of Reckoning of where the justice of God comes into this world, through the judgments of Jesus and takes care of all the oppressors, and all those people have caused the trouble in this world and wipes them out. And that, that will be the remedy of this world, and it will Comfort this world in the same way that people who watch. An execution of some horrible person that took the innocent member of their family out of their lives when they sit in that execution there.

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    Some kind of justice that they get from realizing that justice has been found and met with this person and they are comforted by it’s an execution that Comforts them because they know this person will never harm anyone else. Again, the same thing will be true of the oppressors of this world. The people who make the wars, the people who caused all the Horrible things to happen in the viciousness of their violence, in the noise of their violence, it will be a great comfort. All the people have suffered at the hands of these, evil men to know that they have been dealt with. By God, that Justice will have been served in that time, that’s the resolution of Vengeance and comfort. But what happens when Comfort is needed? And it’s the last thing that is found you just, it’s just doesn’t seem to be there where even hope doesn’t address the sorrow.

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    That is so deep. In the Affliction, when sorrow overwhelms comfort. God understands. But when you feel this way, his understanding doesn’t even help. Knowing that he understands doesn’t help. I mean, it should help it kind of applies to the intellect and later on maybe it helps but not me media. Since this comes through, in the words of Jeremiah, when he said, when I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me. It also comes through in the Psalms where, David says, I cry aloud to God and he, he will hear me. So, David knew that God heard his prayer, but if he hears the prayer, where’s the comfort is this? The idea here?

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    Because he says I sought the Lord in my day of trouble and I refuse to be comforted. Sometimes Comfort is only found in hope when there is nothing left to bring Comfort into your heart. When your heart is broken. Hope is the only thing that can enter in as comfort. And the issue the issue that people have with hope is it doesn’t take the misery away but what hope does do as we’ve said, repeatedly in this whole series, is it offers strength to endure through the Affliction and that then converts into a comfort?

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    That’s not the same kind of comfort as natural comfort. And then there’s if God is silent, Jesus said, ask and you will receive seems like a promise that applies to all prayer but the answer turns out to be something entirely different, you pray for protection and all you get is a fatal accident. So the principle is this, that God hears prayer. I’ma show you why I say this, but he’s not the servant of your prayer.

50. 26:19

    God is a mighty God. He stands as a Supreme Being of this universe and he doesn’t, he’s not there to serve our prayers. That is not his purpose. It’s not the purpose of prayer. He’s not the servant about prayers, even Jesus. The son of God, this guileless soul is perfect man. Receive different answers from his prayers. This is the account of that.

51. 26:46

    And he went a little further and fell on his face and prayed. Saying, O my father. If it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless not as I will but as thou Wilt and he went on to his crucifixion. He went on to the horrible torture of being nailed to a cross first being beaten to a pulp, all the energy drained from him carrying across across across town.

52. 27:11

    Falling under his weight. Having Cyrene Simon of Cyrene pick it up for him, taken to the place where he laid himself down upon that cross. They went drove nails through his hands and through his feet and you understood what he was Doing he prayed that it wouldn’t happen but now the very thing, he prayed against his happening to him.

53. 27:33

    Does does this not show that God is not the servant of prayer? God serves his purpose and his purpose, involves all the things that we may not understand that. We understand in the first place that we may not understand in our relationship with God. In other words, our prayers don’t control. God God controls our prayers and their answers.

54. 27:56

    He’s in total control as he was with the Lord Jesus Christ. And then there’s a question of the Angel of the Lord this camping around us and should be delivering us. That’s the idea we asked to be delivered from Evil, even in the Lord’s Prayer. Jesus said, pray like this lead me not into temptation and Deliver Us from Evil, right?

55. 28:18

    So we think that That for a correlates to the promise that the angel of the Lord encamps around them that fear him. So that’s the Paradox is what happens when that didn’t appear to be the case. Well, let’s look at this a little bit more closely. There’s the verse the angel of the Lord encamps around all who fear Him and delivers them.

56. 28:37

    That seems to be straightforward enough. Does the bible mean what it says or is God, you know, kind of like playing with us with words, then really keep his world. Well, if it depends on the meaning of the word, Deliverance, the answer to this Paradox. If we think delivers means it prevents it from happening, that’s one outcome. But if Deliverance actually means to arm us to fortify us our hearts when they are broken to equip us with what is necessary to withstand the weight of this burden to strengthen Us in the He’s of a horrible weakness and to prepare us even in advance, and for the outcome of a tragedy, then, the Deliverance that is offered by the angel of the Lord is different.

57. 29:21

    Let’s see if we can find an example of this. How Angels, provide Deliverance best place to look is in the Life of Christ. Here’s a promise that was made Eames. Even seems to be more clear than the one we were just looking at about. General Angelic protection. This is what was said of Christ and it came up in the wilderness.

58. 29:43

    A thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not come near you really. Is that what happened? The crucifixion is that the, what was that? His exchange with the Pharisees? No evil shall befall you. Would you say that of reading the account of Jesus? Was it not even with did the gospel not break? His heart?

59. 29:59

    Did he not die of a broken heart? How could he say that? No evil would befall him. Jesus knew this was true. How do you make it true? How do you resolve the ferret? The paradox. Nor shall any plague come near you. Your dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over you to keep you in. All your ways in their hands.

60. 30:15

    They shall bear you up. Lest you dash your foot against a stone when he was Into the Wilderness. This very verse came up as a Temptation because it didn’t seem to be occurring quite like this. This sounds like full protection and yet, where’s the full protection? If you have nothing but accusation false accusation men who are seeking to destroy you people that First and you, and in the end, your persecution and crucifixion, you die like a common criminal.

61. 30:44

    So he knew that, and this was a looming, temptation to Jesus. So, how where is the Angel of the Lord and all this, that would encamp around him and deliver him? How was Jesus delivered? Well, He was visited by Angels, both in the wilderness and in the garden. This is how they delivered him in the wilderness and the devil left. Him Temptations were gone.

62. 31:10

    And immediately Angels Came. And began to serve him. They made food for him. I think they hugged him, they sat down, they said, sit down. Let’s talk about all this. Now they served him, they helped him understand the meaning of his Temptations. They took them a little bit further, and as a result of that intercourse, I think his Temptations departed from them, they didn’t come back until the garden and in the garden he’s got the worst temptation of all, he doesn’t want this to happen. He knows exactly what’s going to happen. He had read Psalm, 22, and Isaiah 53. He knew that he was going to be reduced to the basest of conditions in the hatred of evil. Men Bulls of Bashan, dogs surrounding him spitting at him, cursing and mocking him killing and glad to do it. Happy to destroy this.

63. 32:02

    Innocent love. young man, but they were there, these angels of the Lord and they delivered saying father, if thou be willing remove this cup from me, Nevertheless not my will but thine be done. There appeared, an angel unto him from Heaven. Strengthening him angel came down, probably put his arm around, may have been the same one. He would have recognized him for that time in the desert. And he said something to him that strengthened him, maybe just sat with him and maybe he took his hand in his. Maybe he hugged him.

64. 32:44

    We said it’s almost done but think of what you will do, if you if you go through with this think of it, you know the prophecies. You know what, God’s purpose is in this. Let’s have the strength to go through there. He was comforted because the angel of the Lord was in camping right around him and deliver him, but he didn’t take the crucifixion away.

65. 33:06

    That’s the big point for you. And your Affliction, he will be, comforted, the angel of the Lord will be there. So who is this Angel? We would say, well, that’s fine for Jesus. We know an angel visit him, he’s the son of God, there’s these and Angelic visitations their literal but don’t recall ever seeing an angel of the Lord come and visit me when I need ya to hear, have a conversation with an Angel. It doesn’t happen that way, with us knows. It doesn’t happen with us.

66. 33:36

    Well, the several things we can think about to resolve this particular Paradise. I think this is the biggest Paradox of all Is that high priest? There’s an angel in heaven. Who said, I will be with. You always, I’ll be with you right to the end. I’ll be near to you. I’ll be so near that.

67. 33:55

    When you say a prayer, I will be the intermediary between you and God, and your prayers will always be her. I know how you feel. I was touched with the feeling of your infirmities. I’m there for you. Surely, they are my people. Isaiah says speaking.

68. 34:14

    On the surface about Israel and the angel that led them through the Wilderness. But prophetically because of its context and Isaiah 63 of Jesus and his high priesthood. They are my people children who will not lie in all their Affliction, he was afflicted in the angel of his presence. Save them. So let’s translate this into a prophecy. Who are his people, this high priest, this would people like you and me who loved him for what? He know he did for us who dedicate Our Lives to make a public confession.

69. 34:45

    We get baptized show everybody. We this is the turning point of our lives were turning it over to Jesus. Those are his people, these are children who will not lie and they won’t lie because they love the truth. If it’s true, they’re all for it. If it’s aligning won’t have it. The children are and the way is is strewn with with obstacles with afflictions in all their affliction. He was afflicted, high priest.

70. 35:18

    And the angel of his presence saved them. Who’s the angel of his presence for us? Now, if it’s not the comforter, it’s a high priest in heaven. Who is there? Immediately there to provide what is needed in the form of strength as an angel that in camps around us and delivers us with hope in his love and in his pity? He redeemed them.

71. 35:41

    Speaking of things that haven’t happened yet as though they were this is you and me in his love and in his pity. He redeemed them and he bore them and he carried them all the days of old and he delivered them into the kingdom. Just like a child is born from the womb, we have the hope of being born in the spirit of God into the kingdom.

72. 36:06

    There’s another aspect, Angelic, encampment. And that is you may not have realized this, but you might be someone’s Angel. You could be an elder in Ecclesia, you could be appear, you could be a young person. You could find somebody whose heart is totally broken. You could find somebody who really needs God but they don’t know how to find him. They didn’t know, they know much about the Bible and you are their messenger.

73. 36:30

    But in Revelation it is very clear that the Elders of the churches were referred to as Angels, because they were Messengers who were carrying the message of God to the fold. Jesus fold in his household. Their messengers of Hope and strength. And that’s what makes them Angels think about it. I know what happened with Amy and with Dawn and with the other sister, who was abused in our Ecclesia, there were Angels there they take, they had no wings, they weren’t from Heaven, they didn’t appear and disappear. They came to her and Josh, and they put their arms around her. They they, they spoke to her.

74. 37:15

    With words of assurance with words of hope, they understood sometimes, they just sat and cried with her. Whatever it was, it was messengers of Hope coming to these people in the form of people who understood the message. So don’t ever think that you may not be the angel many have met under two entertained angels.

75. 37:37

    Unawares. Did you ever think that those angels might not be the kind from Heaven? They might be the kind from Earth. You’re talking to somebody about the kingdom there, in the company of a messenger who is like an angel, they’re hearing words of Salvation, they’re not aware of it, they don’t know that this messenger that is, you are this angel of Truth.

76. 38:03

    The point is that Angels strengthen hope but they don’t prevent trials. So in conclusion, let’s look at the Restoration in the Kingdom. We have this absolute Assurance from God That we saw in this Paradox of Noah, there’s an Everlasting Covenant of life and peace. If you take everything out of all, all the details, the particulars that are in volume too much to take in at once and simplify everything that we’ve talked about down to this idea.

77. 38:37

    What do I want in my life? I know it’s not going to be perfect. All the way through, this is going to be trials and tribulations. One after another Until it’s resolved somehow in the future. Do I want life? And peace because Jesus is the Prince of Peace. He is the author of life for you now because he’s been given all authority in Heaven and Earth in his request, his father for your life.

78. 39:11

    So there’s a day of rain and you know, this is such an interesting passage, let’s read this together and just think about it for a moment in closing, I saw as it were appearance of fire, this is in Ezekiel, where Ezekiel is, looking at God’s judgments on the Earth City to city as Christ and the Saints move in. They are in their miraculous presence across the face of the Earth, judging the nation’s either positively or negatively. He says, I saw is that worthy appearances environment had brightness roundabout.

79. 39:39

    So this is the Of God, manifested in Jesus and the Saints. As the appearance of a bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain. So is the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. We know that that the that Glory will fill the Earth as the waters cover the sea.

80. 40:01

    But have you ever thought about what that Glory really is? Glory is a beautiful word but it’s just used. So, cliche akal these days that it’s I think it’s meaning gets lost. The Lord of hosts. He is the king of glory, David says, in Psalm 24, so The glory are the hosts. If the whole Plan of Salvation involves God manifestation in a host of people, who in the end will fill the Earth. Those people are his glory, which means the Saints are That Glory.

81. 40:33

    So let’s read this. Again in the day of rain, when the appeared with the appearance. So was the appearance of brightness round about. This is the Light of Christ filling the Earth with the promises of God through his Covenant. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory. Of the Lord, the likeness is the likeness of Christ.

82. 40:52

    The glory of the Lord, are those people who are in his likeness, And the Lord is, I am who I am. I will be manifested in you Who would walk away from that idea? So I don’t know what the day of rain is, it may, it may be the day that rains righteousness upon the Earth and causes all the fruit to grow in the sunshine of Christ’s life or it may be the rain that puts out the fire of Christ judgments when they go from City to city and burn up the ones that were unrighteous like Malachi said, at any rate, this day of rain will be like a paradoxically like a morning without clouds. It will be such a beautiful sunrise. We will return to Paradise The Earth will be restored every source of Affliction, every route that we can suffer from physical Affliction, emotional Affliction, mental Affliction. Spiritual Affliction will resolve in the comfort of what is restored, the renewal of life in the Kingdom. There will be recovery from sickness. There will be Triva love tragic loss when Dominic rises again and looks into his mother’s eyes. There will be recompensed to the abusers who made people miserable.

83. 42:09

    I thought they were getting away with it but there’s a Day of Reckoning in front of them. There will be reconciliation for all the problems that couldn’t be resolved. In marriage that couldn’t be resolved in families or Ecclesia is or enter occlusal or fellowships or even on a larger level International irreconcilable differences, in this case of ideologies and covetousness.

84. 42:34

    All of that faces, the restoration of the kingdom. And it will be a highly organized Paradise. Not just Gardens, but a temple temple of such magnificent Beauty in such Grandeur in size. That is like a city and the organization in that Temple is just so marvelous to consider highly organized as the Dew of Herman and is the do that descended upon the mountains of Zion for their the Lord commanded the blessing, even life forevermore Behold bless the Lord. He’s made all these promises to you. Bless him.

85. 43:10

    Take them into your heart and convert them to a blessing for the god, that loves you that much. All you Servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the Lord, lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless bless the Lord. The Lord that made Heaven and Earth bless the out of Zion praise, ye the Lord, praise the name of the Lord, praise him because that name is your glory.

86. 43:30

    His glory is in your manifestation. Oh, ye Servants of the Lord. You stand in the house of the Lord in the courts of the House of our God. Did you notice this? Did you see this? Which by nightstand in the house of the Lord? I don’t know about you, but my understanding of people during nighttime is they lay down, they fall asleep.

87. 43:52

    So something about these people that doesn’t appear to need to lay down there Standing By Night In The House of Lord. My own idea about this is I’m hope, this is really it, but that there are people all over the world who are now in Mortal who are governing in all the provinces of the earth who returned to the temple by night in.

88. 44:09

    When it’s nighttime in their area and there they meet in the inner portion and they are tables are set. They have meals with and they commune with people like Abraham Isaac and Jacob maybe that’s the role of the 24 Elders or commute with each other. I got a problem in Brazil. I got a problem in Norfolk and got a problem in Pittsburgh.

89. 44:25

    What are we going to do to solve this problem? Well, did you consider this Joseph? What would you do? Well, here’s what I would do is what I learned in, Egypt, Daniel, what would you do? Well, let me tell you what, I learned in Babylon, Nehemiah, what would you do? Want me? Tell you, we were trying to build a wall in that, restore the Wallen Jerusalem. All these things are seem to be a part of a life in the Kingdom. When We Stand By Night in the house of the Lord, when the Lord restored, the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who Dream. It’s a dream come true and our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue, with shouts of Joy. They said, among the nation’s, the Lord has done great things for them.

90. 45:03

    The Lord has done great things for us. We are glad. The Lord will Comfort, Zion. This is the bottom line of all of our considerations. The Lord will Comfort Zion and you will be there when he does. He will Comfort all her waste places. in the restoration of the kingdom of God,