158: Mark Giordano – Comfort in Paradox, Restoration in the Kingdom

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Welcome to good for selfie and
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now let’s talk more about this
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Discuss is called comfort and
Paradox, a restoration in the

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Kingdom.
It’s a, the fifth class in a

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series called the God of All
Comfort.

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My brother marcher do know that
he gave in at the Pittsburgh

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collegial studied a, a couple
years ago.

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It’s a really great exploration
of kind of essentially, the

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pretty pretty basic question of.
Why does God allow suffering?

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But the way that Mark kind of
teases this out is very

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impactful and easy to follow.
He has a wonderful Style Which I

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always enjoy listening to our.
Not had a chance to listen to

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the rest of the series.
This is the fifth, but but this

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one definitely stands alone, it
was suggested to us as the best

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class in the series.
So I’m excited too, excited to

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share it.
Thank you for listening, and

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thank you to the person who
suggested this also wanted to

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announce that the first episode
of good crew self in music is

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live.
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separate channel, the good
yourself in music podcast, it’s

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very different Than this then
this show but how about I still

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think I’m very excited about
that and we’ll be making those

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just a couple times a year.
So episode 1 is available to

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download.
Thank you again for listening

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and here is the God of All
Comfort by brother.

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Mark Giordano comfort and
Paradox Restoration.

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In the Kingdom, we’ve looked at
some pretty heart-rending things

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this weekend and you would think
that the focus on these

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afflictions is something that Is
reserved for certain times and

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places.
But is it really good for me to

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consider?
We’ve shown the contrast between

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Affliction and comfort?
And, and how Comfort is

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something that in a spiritual
sense, addresses Affliction, but

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through the strength, to take it
to endure through it and through

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the hope of the future.
You may not have realized this,

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if you are relatively new among
christadelphians, that what

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we’ve been speaking about the
entire time is the good news

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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.

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Every problem, every need that
men have in this world.

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Take everything that’s all
messed up in this world and

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straighten it out and make the
world.

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A place that is restored to its
original state.

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It was like a garden everywhere,
when the spirit of God, moved

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across the face of the deep.
And there was the presence of

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the Lord, as if he is with us.
That’s the idea of the kingdom

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of God.
You should ask yourself if this

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makes sense to me. do I have a
place in that future but I like

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to help the Lord when he becomes
king, go to all places of the

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world and feed the hungry, a way
to deal with that question for

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yourself, would be what If I had
the opportunity in the power and

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the means the resources to do
that now, and I knew that there

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were millions of people starving
in a foreign country, or that

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there was there were girls, that
could be rescued from a

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horrible, kidnapping, other
there were children who afraid

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to go to school.
If I had the power to help what

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I do that.
But if the answer to that

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question is, yes, then all the
more.

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So would you be able to affirm
the idea that God has offered

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you the power to do that in the
future?

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So when you are new among us, or
if you have not really seriously

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considered your place, in all
the things that we’ve been

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speaking about, you would give
serious consideration to the,

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the reality of having the
opportunity to do this in the

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kingdom of God.
And that would be sometime, not

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in the nebulous regions of
distant future.

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But in the very near future so
much prophetic evidence that the

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Lord is about, Return that this
promise that was embodied in the

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question.
The disciples asked Jesus after

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he came back from the dead, they
said there with them for 40 days

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and they said will you at this
time restore the kingdom to

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Israel?
And while he said, well, it’s

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not for you to know the times
and the seasons but God is fixed

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everything in his purpose and
when he was just taken away and

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they saw him go and they were
standing there and they said

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staring into the heavens.
And there were two angels that

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came there and they said Add
this same Jesus.

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Why are you standing staring
into the clouds the same Jesus

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that was taken up from you into
heaven?

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Shall so come in like manner.
In other words, he left as a

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physical personal being he will
return as such not as a spirit

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but his King.
It’s a fitting King, somebody

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who’s not all bound up in the
ridiculous politics of this

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world today, but somebody who is
suited to the task of taking

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this world and straightening out
every problem that exists in

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such Way that it will bring
peace on Earth and Goodwill

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toward men and that’s the hope
of restoration in the Kingdom.

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Then again, after thinking,
well, that’s all good news.

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And I agree with you that is
really good news, but I’ve

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looked at religion.
Kind of scene.

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The pros and cons.
I’ve seen more evil done in the

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name of religion and any other
thing in this world, even people

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offering their children as burnt
offerings in the name of some

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religion.
It seems like there have been

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Wars throughout history that
were fought for religious causes

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and then on a more intimate
level, I don’t know, a God, who

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answers prayer necessarily.
I’ve made some prayers and it

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didn’t seem to me that they
came.

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Out the way I thought they would
those are very real questions.

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They all have answers today.
What we’re going to do is focus

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on some of the paradoxes that
come up in Affliction, where

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everything you would normally
think about prayer and about

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God’s protection and guidance
his love.

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And his Justice doesn’t turn out
to be the way it seems.

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It should be very easy, for
example, like job that when you

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get blindsided with a Extreme
set of trials.

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In his case, they were over the
top that you You call God’s

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justice and to question and you
you look at yourself and say why

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does this happen to me?
Why did this happen to those

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school children?
Why did it happen to these young

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girls that were kidnapped?
Why did it happen to that

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Nation?
Why is that Nation full of

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rubble?
When the people used to have

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restaurants and houses and
apartments and enjoy the

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goodness, at least of their own
natural lives in their land.

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When all these things are looked
at a lot of Come up then involve

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the paradoxes of Faith.
So we’re going to take a look at

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those paradoxes of the
afflictions that we go through

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personally.
And that may be a part of the

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questions you have about God, is
he real, is he really loving, is

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his justice of a true thing?
Or is it full of contradiction

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that I can see.
And then I don’t understand.

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Those are all the questions that
are at the root of Faith.

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They form the foundation of
faith.

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When Then they are resolved.
So we are here now to consider

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the answers.
As we look at this big picture

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of restoration in the Kingdom,
did you know, in the Bible, the

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word Affliction is also
translated narrow And I mean

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everything, we’ve said about
Affliction, would you think that

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the same word that comes out in
the English language, as

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Affliction would come out in the
English language?

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As narrow?
What on Earth does narrow have

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to do with the kinds of things
that we’ve been thinking about?

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You remember, Jesus used that
particular word to describe

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what?
It’s like to have faith to

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follow him to say, you know, I
believe this.

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And so I’m gonna see if I can’t
enter through the door that he

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said, is now open to me and walk
down a path that he said, is the

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way to truth life.
So he said in that context,

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enter in at the strait gate.
Wide is the gate and Broad is

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the way that leads to
destruction and many there be

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which go in thereat, but the
straight is the gate and narrow.

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There’s that word, narrow is the
way which leads unto life and

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few there, be that find it.
So would you have thought that

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Jesus was saying that straight
is the gate and Afflicted is the

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way.
The language way, the language

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comes through in the English
doesn’t really convey.

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What Jesus is saying, it falls
short of being clear, and that’s

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not to say that Jesus was not
very clear in everything.

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He said, his words were perfect,
they were perfectly Chosen.

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And I think in many times when
you have a case like this, where

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you don’t really quite get the
sense of what he’s saying, from

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the English rendition of it, it
still works on all levels.

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So people think they get the
idea that to live a If that

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follows after Christ is going to
be, you’re going to have to be

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straight.
That would be the simple

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interpretation of this, the
straight language that were

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using here and that the gate is
straight.

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In other words, straight, and
narrow means it’s on course in a

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simplistic interpretation of
this line, but let’s take a look

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at what Jesus really is saying.
If he’s saying narrow is the way

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there’s two words here, straight
and narrow, the gate is straight

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and narrow is the way.
What’s the game, as we said

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before the gatekeeper, and the
gate is the Ingress.

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And egress into the house of
God.

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He said, he’s got a big house
and still a lot of venues all

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over the world.
And Jesus said in my father’s,

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There’s house are many, venues
its worldwide now that it’s been

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taken out of Israel and offered
to the Gentiles.

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For 2000 years have been
spreading all across the world.

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It’s a big house because it’s a
spiritual house or Temple, and

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it has a lot of rooms in it or a
lot of venue places where people

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assembled to think about God
just like today is one of the

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runes in that house.
The gate is the entrance to that

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house and that would mean that
when you come to the door of

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God’s, House, a spiritual Temple
and you think about maybe going

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inside and staying inside,
living inside that house in one

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of those rooms, then what he’s
saying is there’s a certain

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characteristic to entering that
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And in this case, the word
straight means it has obstacles

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it almost, you wouldn’t get
obstacles out of the word

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straight anymore than you get
Affliction out of the word

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narrow, but he’s saying it’s
going to, there’s going to be an

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obstacle to your entering that
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So, if you’ve stood on one side
and then come through, you know,

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that there are all sorts and
you’ve watched other people

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stand on one side of that gate
and then come through that gate

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into God’s house.
You know.

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There are obstacles in the way
the things you thinking, well,

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you know, maybe not right now.
I do not sure I want to walk in

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there and sit in there for the
rest of my life.

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Because on the outside of this
house, there are certain things

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and conditions that are working
on me.

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And on the inside the house,
that the other things and

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conditions, we’re going to kind
of like maybe make restrictions,

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put me in an uncomfortable
position but nevertheless What,

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what you can readily see in the
reality of what he’s saying is,

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yeah, there’s obstacles in the
way of going through that gate.

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And then the part that we don’t
want to think about, we, it’s

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hard to admit, but is as true as
tomorrow.

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And that is that the way that
you follow once beyond that gate

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is full of Affliction.
That’s the part that we’re

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supposed to understand what he’s
trying to get across to us.

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So he says, beloved do not think
it strange?

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This is elsewhere coming from
the inspired word of the Lord,

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don’t think it’s strange.
If there’s obstacles and

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afflictions which in this
context, he refers to as fiery

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trials, don’t think that’s
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As if people who just live
normal lives out in the world,

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don’t have fiery trials, they
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The difference is they don’t
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that gate and enter that way.
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context of a hope that anchors
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anything that can come up and he
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So he says, don’t think
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to you but Rejoice to the extent
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Christ’s sufferings that when
his glory is revealed, you may

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also be glad with exceeding joy
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There is entering, discipleship,
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Jesus put it to one man.
It’s gonna cost you.

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And he said elsewhere, but you
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And once you’ve counted the cost
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Once you’ve made the investment,
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You have everything in the
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Because if Jesus was promised,
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inheritance and you are heirs
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promises to Abraham, then that
promise conveys to you and you

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are an heir to the extents of
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In other words, you will take
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planet Earth and if you hate the
way things are now and you love

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the Off the idea of this World
Redemption, you would not be

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able to resist.
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that inheritance.
That is yours for the taking in

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faith.
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And the way is strewn with
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that Jesus followed two to sort
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And he said, I am the way, the
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He led the way and he proved to
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afflictions when you make when
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he did all kinds of things
emerge from that in the context

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of that Affliction that are
worthwhile that provide hope

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that that flesh out this vision
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That provide the details
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This is true, the truth, the
whole truth and nothing, but the

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truth from the mouth of the
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universe.
So would be walking in his

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steps.
We’re going to experience the

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same things.
Let’s look at some discouraging

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perceptions that come out.
And I got these mainly from, I

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asked, Amy, what was it about
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That didn’t work when Dominic
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for you and you said, when
everything you thought about the

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way God was working with us,
didn’t really turn out to be to

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be what actually happened when
you needed him.

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The most.
It didn’t really seem like he

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was there.
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protecting your son, he let him
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What were those paradoxes?
What were the verses that

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Strange to you in the midst of
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And so she told me, well, if I
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this.
I always thought this about this

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point, and I didn’t understand
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I had prayed for his protection
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So there were versus that caused
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That she had a certain kind of
relationship with God, that

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would transfer to the, the
watchful eye and protection of

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the Lord over her son.
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So that happens that can make
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Do I really want to go through
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Do I want to walk along that way
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Is that me or can I just go have
my, make a party out of my life,

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and travel a lot and the world
is my oyster and we’ll have some

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good meals would do some good
things will have some fun, I’ll

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make a little bit of a
difference in somebody’s life

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and then there you are, that’s
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And at the end of it, whatever
good you did fades in evaporates

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into the past when the memory of
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So these were some of these
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up.
In that discussion Comfort was

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first used in scripture to
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The problem with that whole
story is God destroyed All Flesh

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off the face of the earth and
its only say date people’s

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where’s there any comfort in
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These are scriptural.
Paradoxes.

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Esau was comforted by thoughts
of Vengeance when he thought you

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meant to kill my brother.
He cheated me out of my

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inheritance.
I killed a guy.

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Jacob found out.
He had, he had he had to take

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off out of there and Yet it says
he was comforted by his

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Vengeance.
Does that sound like something

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that’s?
Good to you?

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There’s a paradox.
They’re going to take a look at

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that Comfort.
Seems little bit more elusive

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when you need it.
The most when aiming needed

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Comfort the most, there was no
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common in the most severe of
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I mean, everybody works with
stress and distress.

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Similarly, in some cases, in
many cases and also differently,

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depending on how you’re wired
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things are, but it seems to be
not there. when you need it, the

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most If you live anytime in the
truth, if you follow after this

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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

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the truth.
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you’re going to be looking for
deliverance, from God.

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And just doesn’t seem to be
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When you need comfort just done
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another Paradox.
Another one is, we’re promise,

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whatever we ask in prayer and
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different.
So, how do you make sense out of

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that Paradox?
Amy had prayed while Dominic was

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in college for her son for God
to protect her son, while he was

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away from home and he dies in an
accident down there in 15

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minutes.
Was that mean?

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I promise, whatever we ask in
prayer, what happened?

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It doesn’t seem to be true to
the Bible lie to me.

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You know, Amy could not figure
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If she prayed for his protection
God, let him die when he

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promised the answer to her
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So that’s a paradox that needs
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And then there was this promise
that there’s an angel of the

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Lord that camps around you and
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And yet you have one fiery trial
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There are Peaks and valleys in
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The Peaks are pretty nice but
the valleys are awful and you

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got to wonder.
So where’s the encamping angel?

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If where was that angel?
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despair, Let’s take a look at
these and see if we can make a

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simple.
Resolution, to what we’re

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thinking about, take these
paradoxes, put them in context

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of scripture and resolve them in
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their immediate context in
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But in the context of everything
we’ve been talking about using

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hope for strength, instead of
for deliverance, how can it be

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said that Noah was a comfort?
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The idea about Noah and his name
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comfortable.
And then everybody in the world

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gets destroyed.
He saves animals instead of men

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and they’re only eight people
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This is where the idea of
comfort and the name of Noah

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come together in the Bible.
In Genesis 529 Noah’s name means

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rest.
He was named rest specifically,

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because way Max said his dad,
this one will Comfort us to sort

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of a prophetic side to this
concerning, our work in the toil

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of our hands because of the of
the ground which the Lord has

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cursed.
Just two things going on this

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way.
Max seem to understand that

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there would be a prophetic
comfort that would come from

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Noah.
God, had cursed the ground.

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So there’s a relationship
between the curse of the flood

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and the comfort that Noah would
provide and what is that

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Comfort?
Well, it turns out on everybody

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knows how the story ends that.
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rest, God came to Noah and he
said, it shall be.

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When I bring a cloud over the
earth and the rain bow shall be

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seen in the cloud.
And I will remember the

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Covenant, which is between me
and you and every living Living

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creature of the earth and the
waters shall never.

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Again, Destroy All Flesh.
The rainbow shall be in the

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cloud and I and I will look on
it to remember the Everlasting

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cloth and Covenant when the
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So this is was the beginning of
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instead of destroy everybody.
And again, it was in the context

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of This Global Affliction of the
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So that’s how it’s Noah became a
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It was to Noah that God began to
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salvation of the earth and its
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So then there’s the Paradox of
Vengeance being there in Esau in

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the form of comfort.
How is there any comfort in

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vengeance?
This is where this comes up and

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the words of Esau her older son
back as older, son, we’re told

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to Rebecca.
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that’s what he saw said.
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her younger son and said to him,
surely your brother.

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He saw Comforts himself
concerning you by intending to

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kill you while there was nothing
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That was just all about jealousy
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Esau and the trickery of the
deception and the goat skin on

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his arm.
And he saw selling his His

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inheritance is birthright, which
was embodied in the promises of

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God for a bowl of soup and, you
know, all that there’s no

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righteousness in Esau’s
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So, how do you, how do you take
this Paradox that she would use

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the word comfort in connection
with his Vengeance and make it

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and turn it into a scriptural
principle?

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I would you do that?
Well, here’s how you do it.

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Look at how in righteousness
Justice actually provides

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Comfort.
Because what Esau was looking

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for with Justice, however,
perverse in his ark?

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It’s still Justice.
When he said, when Jesus says

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this G, this is speaking of
Jesus in Isaiah and he quoted

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this of himself, the spirit of
the Lord, God is upon me because

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the Lord has anointed me to
preach Good Tidings, unto the

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meat.
So there’s good news, that’s

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what we’ve been talking about.
The Glad Tidings of the Kingdom

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to people who are Meek enough to
listen to it and understand in

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the honesty of their hearts that
this is for them.

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He has sent me to bind up the
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So, there’s the answer to all
the suffering in the world, why

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he is the God of All Comfort,
because Jesus has been sent to

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bind up the Brokenhearted, And
to proclaim the acceptable year

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of the Lord.
And look, what makes that year

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acceptable.
What he says next and the day of

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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

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to himself with that.
I’d side of the verse in

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Nazareth and then they throw to
throw him over the cliff for

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saying that and then he comes
along and he stopped and Isaiah

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that the completion of that
thought is the day of Vengeance

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of our God to comfort all who
mourn.

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In other words, there’s going to
be a day of recompense.

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There’s going to be a Day of
Reckoning of where the justice

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of God comes into this world,
through the judgments of Jesus

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and takes care of all the
oppressors, and all those people

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have caused the trouble in this
world and wipes them out.

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And that, that will be the
remedy of this world and it will

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Comfort this world, you in the
same way that people who watch.

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An execution of some horrible
person that took the innocent

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member of their family out of
their lives when they sit in

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that execution there.
Some kind of justice that they

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get from realizing that justice
has been found and met with this

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person and they are comforted by
it, it’s an execution that

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Comforts them because they know
this person will never harm

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anyone else.
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true of the oppressors of this
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The people who make the wars,
the people who caused all the

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Horrible things to happen in the
viciousness of their violence,

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in the noise of their violence,
it will be a great comfort.

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00:25:46,300 –> 00:25:49,500
All the people have suffered at
the hands of these, evil men to

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00:25:49,500 –> 00:25:50,800
know that they have been dealt
with.

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00:25:50,800 –> 00:25:55,800
By God, that Justice will have
been served in that time, that’s

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the resolution of Vengeance, he
Comfort.

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00:25:59,000 –> 00:26:01,400
But what happens when Comfort is
needed?

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And it’s the last thing that is
found you just, it’s just

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doesn’t seem to be there where
even hope doesn’t address the

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00:26:08,100 –> 00:26:10,300
sorrow.
That is so deep.

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00:26:10,300 –> 00:26:13,400
In the Affliction, when sorrow
overwhelms comfort.

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00:26:14,500 –> 00:26:17,900
God understands, but when you
feel this way, his understanding

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00:26:17,900 –> 00:26:22,000
doesn’t even have knowing that
he understands doesn’t help.

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00:26:22,000 –> 00:26:25,900
I mean, it should help it kind
of applies to the intellect and

447
00:26:25,900 –> 00:26:28,700
later on maybe it helps.
But not any media sense.

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00:26:29,300 –> 00:26:31,700
This comes through in the words
of Jeremiah, when he said, when

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I would comfort myself against
sorrow, my heart is faint within

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00:26:34,400 –> 00:26:37,200
me.
It also comes through in the

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Psalms where David says, I cry
aloud to God, and he will hear

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00:26:41,300 –> 00:26:44,100
me.
So, David knew that God heard

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00:26:44,300 –> 00:26:46,600
It’s prayer.
But if he hears the prayer,

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00:26:46,900 –> 00:26:48,400
where’s the comfort?
Is this?

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The idea here?
Because he says, I sought the

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Lord in my day of trouble and I
refuse to be comforted.

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Sometimes Comfort is only found
in hope when there is nothing

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00:27:01,200 –> 00:27:06,500
left to bring Comfort into your
heart when your heart is broken.

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Hope is the only thing that can
enter in as comfort.

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00:27:11,700 –> 00:27:14,600
And the issue the issue that
people have with hope is it

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00:27:14,600 –> 00:27:19,100
doesn’t take the misery away but
what hope does do as we’ve said,

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00:27:19,800 –> 00:27:24,700
repeatedly in this whole series,
is it offers strength to endure

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00:27:25,300 –> 00:27:29,100
through the Affliction and that
then converts into a comfort?

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00:27:29,100 –> 00:27:31,700
That’s not the same kind of
comfort as natural comfort.

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00:27:34,100 –> 00:27:37,100
And then there’s if God is
silent, Jesus said, ask and you

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00:27:37,100 –> 00:27:41,700
will receive seems like a
promise that applies to all

467
00:27:41,700 –> 00:27:45,400
prayer but the answer turns out
to be something entirely

468
00:27:45,400 –> 00:27:48,300
different, you pray for
protection and all you get is a

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00:27:48,400 –> 00:27:52,500
fatal accident.
So the principle is this, that

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00:27:52,900 –> 00:27:57,100
God hears prayer.
I’ma show you why I say this,

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but he’s not the servant of your
prayer.

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God is a mighty God.
He stands as a Supreme Being of

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this universe and he doesn’t,
he’s not there to serve our

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00:28:09,700 –> 00:28:11,300
prayers.
That is not his purpose.

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00:28:11,300 –> 00:28:14,300
It’s not the purpose of prayer.
He’s not the servant about

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00:28:14,300 –> 00:28:17,900
prayers.
Even Jesus, the son of God.

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00:28:18,400 –> 00:28:20,600
This guileless soul is perfect
man.

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00:28:22,200 –> 00:28:25,100
Receive different answers from
his prayers.

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00:28:25,700 –> 00:28:29,400
This is the account of that.
And he went a little further and

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fell on his face and prayed.
Saying, O my father.

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00:28:33,500 –> 00:28:36,700
If it is possible, let this cup
pass from me.

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00:28:38,400 –> 00:28:42,700
Nevertheless not as I will, but
as thou will, then he went on to

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00:28:42,700 –> 00:28:45,000
his crucifixion.
He went on to the horrible

484
00:28:45,000 –> 00:28:48,000
torture of being nailed to a
cross first, being beaten to a

485
00:28:48,000 –> 00:28:51,900
pulp, all the energy drained
from him, carrying the cross

486
00:28:51,900 –> 00:28:55,300
across, across town falling
under his weight.

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00:28:55,900 –> 00:28:59,600
Having Cyrene Simon of Cyrene,
pick it up for him, taken to the

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00:28:59,600 –> 00:29:02,700
place where he laid himself down
upon that cross.

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00:29:03,000 –> 00:29:06,100
They went drove nails through
his hands and through his feet

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00:29:06,700 –> 00:29:09,800
and you understood what he was
Doing he prayed that it wouldn’t

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00:29:09,800 –> 00:29:13,800
happen but now the very thing,
he prayed against his happening

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00:29:13,800 –> 00:29:17,200
to him.
Does does this not show that God

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00:29:17,200 –> 00:29:22,800
is not the servant of prayer?
God serves his purpose and his

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00:29:22,800 –> 00:29:26,300
purpose, involves all the things
that we may not understand that.

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00:29:26,300 –> 00:29:29,400
We understand in the first place
that we may not understand in

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00:29:29,400 –> 00:29:33,500
our relationship with God.
In other words, our prayers

497
00:29:33,500 –> 00:29:38,100
don’t control.
God God controls our prayers and

498
00:29:38,100 –> 00:29:41,700
their answers.
He’s in total control as he was

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00:29:41,800 –> 00:29:45,200
with the Lord Jesus Christ.
And then there’s the question of

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00:29:45,200 –> 00:29:48,000
the Angel of the Lord.
This camping around us and

501
00:29:48,400 –> 00:29:52,000
should be delivering us.
That’s the idea we asked to be

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00:29:52,000 –> 00:29:55,400
delivered from Evil.
It even in the Lord’s Prayer.

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00:29:55,400 –> 00:29:58,100
Jesus said, pray like this lead
me not into temptation and

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00:29:58,100 –> 00:30:02,900
Deliver Us from Evil, right?
So we think that For a

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00:30:02,900 –> 00:30:05,700
correlates to the promise that
the angel of the Lord encamps

506
00:30:05,700 –> 00:30:09,100
around them that fear him.
So that’s the Paradox is what

507
00:30:09,100 –> 00:30:11,300
happens when that didn’t appear
to be the case.

508
00:30:12,400 –> 00:30:14,600
Well, let’s look at this a
little bit more closely.

509
00:30:15,000 –> 00:30:17,500
There’s the verse the angel of
the Lord encamps around all who

510
00:30:17,500 –> 00:30:21,200
fear Him and delivers them.
That seems to be straightforward

511
00:30:21,200 –> 00:30:22,700
enough.
Does the bible mean what it says

512
00:30:22,700 –> 00:30:25,700
or is God you know, kind of like
playing with us with words, then

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00:30:25,700 –> 00:30:28,900
really keep his word.
Well, if it depends on the

514
00:30:28,900 –> 00:30:30,800
meaning of the word,
Deliverance, the answer to this

515
00:30:30,800 –> 00:30:33,800
Paradox.
If we think delivers means it

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00:30:33,800 –> 00:30:36,400
prevents it from happening,
that’s one outcome.

517
00:30:36,600 –> 00:30:40,800
But if Deliverance actually
means to arm us to fortify us,

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00:30:40,800 –> 00:30:45,300
our hearts when they are broken
to equip us with what is

519
00:30:45,300 –> 00:30:48,600
necessary to withstand the
weight of this burden to

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00:30:48,600 –> 00:30:53,400
strengthen Us in the He’s of a
horrible weakness and to prepare

521
00:30:53,400 –> 00:31:00,700
us even in advance, and for the
outcome of a tragedy, then, the

522
00:31:00,700 –> 00:31:03,400
Deliverance that is offered by
the angel of the Lord is

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00:31:03,400 –> 00:31:05,100
different.
Let’s see if we can find an

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00:31:05,100 –> 00:31:09,200
example of this.
How Angels, provide Deliverance

525
00:31:09,900 –> 00:31:12,400
best place to look is in the
Life of Christ.

526
00:31:13,000 –> 00:31:15,300
Here’s a promise that was made
Eames.

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00:31:15,500 –> 00:31:18,800
Even seems to be more clear than
the one we were just looking at

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00:31:18,800 –> 00:31:21,400
about.
General Angelic protection.

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00:31:22,400 –> 00:31:24,500
This is what was said of Christ
and it came up in the

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00:31:24,508 –> 00:31:27,000
wilderness.
A thousand may fall at your side

531
00:31:27,000 –> 00:31:29,600
and ten thousand at your right
hand, but it shall not come near

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00:31:29,600 –> 00:31:30,800
you really.
Is that what happened in the

533
00:31:30,808 –> 00:31:32,500
crucifixion?
Is that the, what was that?

534
00:31:32,500 –> 00:31:36,100
His exchange with the Pharisees?
No evil shall befall you.

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00:31:36,100 –> 00:31:38,500
Would you say that of reading
the account of Jesus?

536
00:31:38,500 –> 00:31:40,800
Was it not evil?
Did the gospel not break his

537
00:31:40,800 –> 00:31:42,700
heart?
Did he not die of a broken

538
00:31:42,700 –> 00:31:44,100
heart?
How could he say that?

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00:31:44,100 –> 00:31:46,600
No evil would befall him.
Jesus knew this was true.

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00:31:46,900 –> 00:31:48,900
How do you make it true?
How do you resolve the ferret?

541
00:31:48,900 –> 00:31:52,000
The paradox.
Nor shall any plague come near

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00:31:52,000 –> 00:31:53,200
you.
Your dwelling.

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00:31:53,200 –> 00:31:55,900
For he shall give his angels
charge over you to keep you in.

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00:31:55,900 –> 00:31:59,800
All your ways in their hands.
They shall bear you up.

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00:31:59,900 –> 00:32:02,800
Lest you dash your foot against
a stone when he was in the

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00:32:02,800 –> 00:32:05,300
wilderness.
This very verse came up as a

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00:32:05,300 –> 00:32:10,300
Temptation because it didn’t
seem to be occurring quite like

548
00:32:10,300 –> 00:32:12,900
this.
This sounds like bull protection

549
00:32:13,300 –> 00:32:14,800
and yet, where’s the full
protection?

550
00:32:14,800 –> 00:32:18,300
If you have nothing but
accusation false accusation men

551
00:32:18,300 –> 00:32:21,200
who are seeking to destroy you
people that First and you and in

552
00:32:21,200 –> 00:32:25,400
the end, your persecution and
crucifixion die like a common

553
00:32:25,400 –> 00:32:28,300
criminal.
So he knew that, and this was a

554
00:32:28,300 –> 00:32:33,000
looming, temptation to Jesus.
So, how where is the Angel of

555
00:32:33,000 –> 00:32:35,900
the Lord and all this, that
would encamp around him and

556
00:32:35,900 –> 00:32:38,500
deliver him?
How was Jesus delivered?

557
00:32:38,500 –> 00:32:44,500
Well, He was visited by Angels,
both in the wilderness and in

558
00:32:44,500 –> 00:32:47,200
the garden.
This is how they delivered him

559
00:32:48,100 –> 00:32:49,800
in the wilderness.
Then the devil left, him

560
00:32:50,200 –> 00:32:54,000
Temptations were gone.
And immediately Angels Came.

561
00:32:55,400 –> 00:32:59,100
And began to serve him.
They made food for him.

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00:33:00,200 –> 00:33:03,400
I think they hugged him, they
sat down, they said sit down.

563
00:33:03,400 –> 00:33:08,100
Let’s let’s talk about all this.
Now they served him they helped

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00:33:08,100 –> 00:33:10,900
him understand the meaning of
his Temptations.

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00:33:11,000 –> 00:33:14,200
They took them a little bit
further and as a result of that

566
00:33:14,500 –> 00:33:18,600
intercourse, I think his
Temptations departed from them.

567
00:33:18,600 –> 00:33:21,700
They didn’t come back until the
garden and in the garden he’s

568
00:33:21,700 –> 00:33:24,800
got the worst temptation of all,
he doesn’t want this to happen.

569
00:33:24,900 –> 00:33:26,200
He knows exactly what’s going to
happen.

570
00:33:26,200 –> 00:33:28,700
He had read Psalm 22 and They’re
53.

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00:33:28,700 –> 00:33:33,000
He knew that he was going to be
reduced to the basest of

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00:33:33,000 –> 00:33:35,000
conditions in the hatred of
evil.

573
00:33:35,000 –> 00:33:39,400
Men Bulls of Bashan, dogs
surrounding him spitting at him,

574
00:33:39,600 –> 00:33:43,600
cursing him, mocking, him
killing, and glad to do it.

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00:33:43,800 –> 00:33:47,300
Happy to destroy this innocent
loving young man.

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00:33:50,600 –> 00:33:54,500
But they were there, these
angels of the Lord and they

577
00:33:54,500 –> 00:33:59,000
delivered him. saying father, if
thou be willing remove this cup

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00:33:59,000 –> 00:34:04,700
from me, Nevertheless not my
will but thine be done.

579
00:34:05,400 –> 00:34:07,400
There appeared, an angel unto
him from Heaven.

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00:34:07,400 –> 00:34:11,199
Strengthening him angel came
down, probably put his arm

581
00:34:11,199 –> 00:34:12,600
around, may have been the same
one.

582
00:34:12,600 –> 00:34:15,100
He would have recognized him for
that time in the desert.

583
00:34:15,900 –> 00:34:19,900
And he said something to him
that strengthened him, maybe

584
00:34:19,900 –> 00:34:23,000
just sat with him and maybe he
took his hand in his.

585
00:34:24,100 –> 00:34:27,900
Maybe he hugged him.
And he said it’s almost done but

586
00:34:27,900 –> 00:34:31,100
think of what you will do, if
you if you go through with this

587
00:34:31,400 –> 00:34:33,800
think of it, you know the
prophecies.

588
00:34:34,199 –> 00:34:36,000
You know what, God’s purpose is
in this.

589
00:34:36,800 –> 00:34:40,300
Let’s let’s have the strength to
go through there.

590
00:34:40,300 –> 00:34:43,400
He was comforted because the
angel of the Lord was in camping

591
00:34:43,400 –> 00:34:46,699
right around him and did deliver
him, but he didn’t take the

592
00:34:46,699 –> 00:34:49,900
crucifixion away.
That’s the big point for you.

593
00:34:50,000 –> 00:34:53,400
And your Affliction, he will be,
comforted, the angel of the Lord

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00:34:53,400 –> 00:34:56,600
will be there.
So who is this Angel?

595
00:34:56,600 –> 00:34:59,800
We would say, well, that’s fine
for Jesus, we know an angel

596
00:34:59,800 –> 00:35:02,400
visit him, he’s the son of God,
there’s these and Angelic

597
00:35:02,400 –> 00:35:06,300
visitations their literal but
don’t recall ever seeing an

598
00:35:06,300 –> 00:35:09,200
angel of the Lord come and visit
me when I needed, you know, to

599
00:35:09,200 –> 00:35:11,900
hear have a conversation with an
Angel.

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00:35:13,000 –> 00:35:14,700
Doesn’t happen that way with us,
does it?

601
00:35:15,700 –> 00:35:20,700
How does it happen with us?
Well, the several things we can

602
00:35:20,700 –> 00:35:22,800
think about to resolve this
particular card.

603
00:35:22,800 –> 00:35:24,600
I think this is the biggest
Paradox of all.

604
00:35:25,700 –> 00:35:29,000
Is that high priest?
There’s an angel in heaven.

605
00:35:29,000 –> 00:35:32,800
Who said, I will be with.
You always, I’ll be with you

606
00:35:32,800 –> 00:35:35,700
right to the end.
I’ll be near to you.

607
00:35:36,700 –> 00:35:39,700
I’ll be so near that.
When you say a prayer, I will be

608
00:35:39,700 –> 00:35:42,600
the intermediary between you and
God, and your prayers will

609
00:35:42,600 –> 00:35:45,600
always be her.
I know how you feel.

610
00:35:45,600 –> 00:35:47,800
I was touched with the feeling
of your infirmities.

611
00:35:48,500 –> 00:35:53,100
I’m there for you.
Surely, they are my people.

612
00:35:53,100 –> 00:35:58,500
Isaiah says speaking.
On the surface about Israel in

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00:35:58,500 –> 00:36:00,100
the angel that led them through
the Wilderness.

614
00:36:00,100 –> 00:36:04,400
But prophetically because of its
context, and Isaiah 63 of Jesus

615
00:36:04,800 –> 00:36:08,900
and his high priesthood.
They are my people children who

616
00:36:08,900 –> 00:36:11,900
will not lie in all their
Affliction, he was afflicted in

617
00:36:11,900 –> 00:36:13,800
the angel of his presence.
Save them.

618
00:36:13,800 –> 00:36:16,300
So let’s translate this into a
prophecy.

619
00:36:18,600 –> 00:36:22,300
Who are his people, this high
priest, this would people like

620
00:36:22,300 –> 00:36:23,700
you and me who loved him for
what?

621
00:36:23,700 –> 00:36:26,600
He know he did for us who
dedicate Our Lives to make a

622
00:36:26,607 –> 00:36:29,300
public confession.
We get baptized show everybody.

623
00:36:29,300 –> 00:36:31,900
We this is the turning point of
our lives were turning it over

624
00:36:31,900 –> 00:36:35,300
to Jesus.
Those are his people, these are

625
00:36:35,300 –> 00:36:38,300
children who will not lie and
they won’t lie because they love

626
00:36:38,300 –> 00:36:41,100
the truth.
If it’s true, they’re all for

627
00:36:41,100 –> 00:36:42,700
it.
If it’s alive and won’t have it.

628
00:36:45,000 –> 00:36:51,200
the children are and the way is
strewn with, with obstacles with

629
00:36:51,300 –> 00:36:57,400
afflictions in all their
affliction, He was afflicted,

630
00:36:58,200 –> 00:37:02,100
high priest.
And the angel of his presence

631
00:37:02,100 –> 00:37:04,800
saved them.
Who’s the angel of his presence

632
00:37:04,900 –> 00:37:07,300
for us?
Now, if it’s not the comforter,

633
00:37:08,300 –> 00:37:10,300
it’s a high priest in heaven.
Who is there?

634
00:37:10,600 –> 00:37:13,800
Immediately there to provide
what is needed in the form of

635
00:37:13,800 –> 00:37:17,900
strength as an angel that in
camps around us and delivers us

636
00:37:18,300 –> 00:37:21,200
with hope in his love and in his
pity?

637
00:37:21,800 –> 00:37:24,600
He redeemed them.
Speaking of things that haven’t

638
00:37:24,600 –> 00:37:28,600
happened yet as though they were
this is you and me in his love

639
00:37:28,800 –> 00:37:33,000
and in his pity.
He redeemed them and he bore

640
00:37:33,000 –> 00:37:37,700
them and he carried them all the
days of old and he delivered

641
00:37:37,700 –> 00:37:42,000
them into the kingdom.
Just like a child is born from

642
00:37:42,000 –> 00:37:46,300
the womb, we have the hope of
being born in the spirit of God

643
00:37:46,500 –> 00:37:49,800
into the kingdom.
There’s another aspect to

644
00:37:49,808 –> 00:37:53,000
Angelic encampment and that is,
you may not have realized this,

645
00:37:53,000 –> 00:37:54,800
but you might be someone’s
Angel.

646
00:37:55,800 –> 00:37:59,100
You could be an elder and
Ecclesia, you could be appear,

647
00:37:59,100 –> 00:38:02,600
you could be a young person.
You could find somebody whose

648
00:38:02,600 –> 00:38:05,400
heart is totally broken.
You could find somebody who

649
00:38:05,400 –> 00:38:07,700
really needs God but they don’t
know how to find him.

650
00:38:07,700 –> 00:38:11,100
They didn’t know, they know much
about the Bible and you are

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their messenger.
But in Revelation it is very

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clear that the Elders of the
churches were referred to as

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00:38:18,500 –> 00:38:21,500
Angels, because they were
Messengers who were carrying the

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00:38:21,500 –> 00:38:27,800
message of God to the fold.
Jesus fold in his household.

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00:38:29,500 –> 00:38:32,100
So their messengers of Hope and
strength, and that’s what makes

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00:38:32,100 –> 00:38:36,300
them Angels think about it.
I know what happened with Amy

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00:38:36,900 –> 00:38:40,300
and with Dawn and with the other
sister, who was abused in our

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00:38:40,300 –> 00:38:43,800
Ecclesia, there were Angels
there they take, they had no

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00:38:43,800 –> 00:38:46,600
wings, they weren’t from Heaven,
they didn’t appear and

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00:38:46,600 –> 00:38:50,900
disappear.
They came to her and Josh, and

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00:38:50,900 –> 00:38:55,900
they put their arms around her.
They they, they spoke to her.

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00:38:57,700 –> 00:39:01,100
With words of assurance with
words of hope, they understood

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00:39:01,100 –> 00:39:05,800
sometimes, they just sat and
cried with her, whatever it was,

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00:39:06,600 –> 00:39:12,400
it was messengers of Hope coming
to these people in the form of

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00:39:12,400 –> 00:39:14,800
people who understood the
message.

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00:39:15,200 –> 00:39:18,200
So don’t ever think that you may
not be the angel.

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00:39:18,200 –> 00:39:20,800
Many have met under to
entertained angels, unawares.

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00:39:21,500 –> 00:39:24,400
Did you ever think that those
angels might not be the kind

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00:39:24,400 –> 00:39:26,000
from Heaven?
They might be the kind from

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00:39:26,000 –> 00:39:28,800
Earth.
You’re talking to somebody about

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00:39:28,800 –> 00:39:32,300
the kingdom there, in the
company of a messenger who is

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00:39:32,300 –> 00:39:37,100
like an angel, they’re hearing
words of Salvation, they’re not

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00:39:37,100 –> 00:39:40,900
aware of it, they don’t know
that this messenger that is, you

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00:39:42,100 –> 00:39:46,900
are this angel of Truth.
The point is that Angels

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00:39:47,100 –> 00:39:49,900
strengthen hope but they don’t
prevent trials.

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00:39:50,400 –> 00:39:53,500
So in conclusion, let’s look at
the Restoration in the Kingdom.

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00:39:54,700 –> 00:39:59,700
We have this absolute Assurance
from God That we saw in this

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00:39:59,700 –> 00:40:05,400
Paradox of Noah, there’s an
Everlasting Covenant of life and

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00:40:05,400 –> 00:40:08,400
peace.
If you take everything out of

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00:40:08,500 –> 00:40:13,000
all, all the details, the
particulars that are in volume

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00:40:13,000 –> 00:40:16,800
too much to take in at once and
simplify everything that we’ve

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00:40:16,800 –> 00:40:21,300
talked about down to this idea.
What do I want in my life?

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00:40:21,900 –> 00:40:24,200
I know it’s not going to be
perfect.

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00:40:24,200 –> 00:40:25,900
All the way through, this is
going to be trials and

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00:40:25,900 –> 00:40:29,200
tribulations one.
Another until it’s resolved

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00:40:29,200 –> 00:40:32,700
somehow in the future.
Do I want life?

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00:40:34,400 –> 00:40:38,900
And peace because Jesus is the
Prince of Peace.

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00:40:39,900 –> 00:40:45,500
He’s the author of life for you
now because he’s been given all

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00:40:45,600 –> 00:40:51,300
authority in Heaven and Earth in
his request, his father, for

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00:40:51,300 –> 00:40:54,900
your life.
So there’s a day of rain and you

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00:40:54,900 –> 00:40:57,000
know, this is such an
interesting passage, let’s read

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00:40:57,000 –> 00:40:59,300
this together and just think
about it for a moment in

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00:40:59,300 –> 00:41:03,300
closing, I saw as it were the
appearance of Fire.

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00:41:04,300 –> 00:41:07,100
In Ezekiel, where Ezekiel is
looking at God’s judgments on

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00:41:07,100 –> 00:41:12,200
the Earth City to city as Christ
and the Saints move in their in

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00:41:12,200 –> 00:41:16,100
their miraculous presence across
the face of the Earth, judging

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00:41:16,100 –> 00:41:18,000
the nation’s, either positively
or negatively.

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00:41:18,000 –> 00:41:20,700
He says, I saw as it were the
appearance of environment, had

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00:41:20,700 –> 00:41:23,800
brightness roundabouts.
So this is the presence of God

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00:41:24,000 –> 00:41:26,300
manifested in Jesus and the
Saints.

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00:41:27,900 –> 00:41:31,100
As the appearance of a bow that
is in the cloud in the day of

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00:41:31,100 –> 00:41:33,200
rain.
So is the appearance of the

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00:41:33,200 –> 00:41:37,100
brightness round about.
This was the appearance of the

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00:41:37,100 –> 00:41:40,100
likeness of the glory of the
Lord.

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00:41:40,100 –> 00:41:42,800
We know that that the that Glory
will fill the Earth as the

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00:41:42,800 –> 00:41:45,200
waters cover the sea.
But have you ever thought about

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00:41:45,200 –> 00:41:48,600
what that Glory really is?
Glory is a beautiful word but

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00:41:48,600 –> 00:41:52,500
it’s just used.
So, cliche akal these days that

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00:41:52,500 –> 00:41:54,500
it’s I think it’s meaning gets
lost.

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00:41:55,200 –> 00:41:58,300
The Lord of hosts.
He is the king of glory, David

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00:41:58,300 –> 00:42:03,300
says, in Psalm 24, so The glory
are the hosts.

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00:42:04,300 –> 00:42:08,000
If the whole Plan of Salvation
involves God manifestation in a

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00:42:08,000 –> 00:42:10,400
host of people, who in the end
will fill the Earth.

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00:42:10,900 –> 00:42:14,700
Those people are his glory,
which means the Saints are That

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00:42:14,700 –> 00:42:17,100
Glory.
So let’s read this again in the

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00:42:17,100 –> 00:42:19,100
day of rain, when the appear
with the appearance.

717
00:42:19,100 –> 00:42:21,000
So was the appearance of
brightness round about.

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00:42:21,000 –> 00:42:24,100
This is the Light of Christ
filling the Earth with the

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00:42:24,100 –> 00:42:26,400
promises of God through his
Covenant.

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00:42:26,800 –> 00:42:30,500
This was the appearance of the
likeness of the glory.

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00:42:31,500 –> 00:42:34,300
Of the Lord.
So the likeness is the likeness

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00:42:34,300 –> 00:42:37,800
of Christ, the glory of the
Lord, are those people who are

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00:42:37,800 –> 00:42:43,900
in his likeness, And the Lord
is, I am who I am.

724
00:42:44,000 –> 00:42:50,000
I will be manifested in you Who
would walk away from that idea?

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00:42:51,600 –> 00:42:54,300
So I don’t know what the day of
rain is, it may, it may be the

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00:42:54,300 –> 00:42:57,200
day that rains righteousness
upon the Earth and causes all

727
00:42:57,200 –> 00:42:59,900
the fruit to grow in the
sunshine of Christ’s life.

728
00:43:01,200 –> 00:43:05,200
Maybe the rain that puts out the
fire of Christ judgments, when

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00:43:05,200 –> 00:43:08,500
they go from City to city and
burn up the ones that were

730
00:43:08,500 –> 00:43:12,300
unrighteous like Malachi said,
at any rate, this day of rain

731
00:43:12,300 –> 00:43:15,900
will be like a paradoxically
like a morning without clouds.

732
00:43:16,600 –> 00:43:18,700
It will be such a beautiful
sunrise.

733
00:43:19,400 –> 00:43:24,200
We will return to Paradise The
Earth will be restored every

734
00:43:24,300 –> 00:43:27,300
source of Affliction, every
route that we can suffer from

735
00:43:27,300 –> 00:43:31,400
physical Affliction, emotional
Affliction, mental Affliction.

736
00:43:31,400 –> 00:43:35,100
Spiritual Affliction will
resolve in the comfort of what

737
00:43:35,100 –> 00:43:37,500
is restored, the renewal of life
in the Kingdom.

738
00:43:38,100 –> 00:43:41,200
There will be recovery from
sickness.

739
00:43:41,700 –> 00:43:45,500
There will be true evil of
tragic loss when Dominic rises

740
00:43:45,500 –> 00:43:48,100
again and looks into his
mother’s eyes, there will be

741
00:43:48,100 –> 00:43:51,600
recompensed, the abusers who
made people miserable Thought

742
00:43:51,600 –> 00:43:54,200
they were getting away with it,
but there’s a day of judgment in

743
00:43:54,200 –> 00:43:56,800
front of them.
There will be reconciliation for

744
00:43:56,800 –> 00:43:58,500
all the problems that couldn’t
be resolved.

745
00:43:58,500 –> 00:44:01,300
In marriage that couldn’t be
resolved in families, or

746
00:44:01,300 –> 00:44:05,400
religious, or enter a collegial
or fellowships or even on a

747
00:44:05,400 –> 00:44:11,700
larger level International
irreconcilable differences, in

748
00:44:11,700 –> 00:44:14,900
this case of ideologies and
covetousness.

749
00:44:16,300 –> 00:44:19,200
All of that faces, the
restoration of the kingdom.

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00:44:19,200 –> 00:44:21,500
And it will be a highly
organized Paradise.

751
00:44:22,500 –> 00:44:27,200
Not just Gardens, but a temple,
a temple of such magnificent,

752
00:44:27,200 –> 00:44:30,200
Beauty and such Grandeur in size
that is like a city.

753
00:44:30,900 –> 00:44:34,700
And the organization in that
Temple is just so marvelous to

754
00:44:34,700 –> 00:44:38,800
consider highly organized as the
Dew of Herman and is the do that

755
00:44:38,800 –> 00:44:42,200
descended upon the mountains of
Zion for their the Lord

756
00:44:42,200 –> 00:44:46,700
commanded the blessing.
Even life forevermore behold

757
00:44:47,400 –> 00:44:50,400
bless the Lord.
He’s made all these promises to

758
00:44:50,400 –> 00:44:54,700
you bless him.
Take them into your heart and

759
00:44:54,700 –> 00:44:57,200
convert them to a blessing for
the god, that loves you that

760
00:44:57,200 –> 00:44:58,700
much.
All you Servants of the Lord,

761
00:44:58,700 –> 00:45:02,100
which by night stand in the
house of the Lord, lift up your

762
00:45:02,100 –> 00:45:04,700
hands in the sanctuary and bless
bless the Lord.

763
00:45:05,400 –> 00:45:08,000
The Lord that made Heaven and
Earth bless the out of Zion

764
00:45:08,400 –> 00:45:11,100
praise, ye the Lord, praise the
name of the Lord, praise him

765
00:45:11,100 –> 00:45:14,000
because that name is your glory.
His glory is in your

766
00:45:14,000 –> 00:45:17,000
manifestation.
Oh, ye Servants of the Lord.

767
00:45:17,000 –> 00:45:20,300
You stand in the house of the
Lord in the courts of the House

768
00:45:20,300 –> 00:45:23,100
of our God.
Did you notice this?

769
00:45:25,000 –> 00:45:28,200
Did you see this?
Which by nightstand in the house

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00:45:28,200 –> 00:45:30,100
of the Lord?
I don’t know about you, but my

771
00:45:30,100 –> 00:45:33,800
understanding of people during
nighttime is they lay down, they

772
00:45:33,800 –> 00:45:36,100
fall asleep.
So something about these people

773
00:45:36,100 –> 00:45:39,900
that doesn’t appear to need to
lay down there Standing By Night

774
00:45:40,000 –> 00:45:42,900
In The House of Lord.
My own idea about this is I’m

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00:45:42,900 –> 00:45:45,300
hope, this is really it, but
that there are people all over

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00:45:45,300 –> 00:45:48,300
the world who are now in Mortal
who are governing in all the

777
00:45:48,300 –> 00:45:51,600
provinces of the earth who
returned to the temple by night

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00:45:51,600 –> 00:45:53,100
in.
When it’s nighttime in their

779
00:45:53,100 –> 00:45:56,500
area and there they meet in the
inner portion they are tables

780
00:45:56,500 –> 00:45:58,800
are set.
They have meals with and they

781
00:45:58,800 –> 00:46:01,500
commune with people like Abraham
Isaac and Jacob maybe that’s the

782
00:46:01,500 –> 00:46:04,200
role of the 24 Elders or commute
with each other.

783
00:46:04,200 –> 00:46:06,400
I got a problem in Brazil.
I got a problem in Norfolk and

784
00:46:06,400 –> 00:46:08,800
got a problem in Pittsburgh.
What are we going to do to solve

785
00:46:08,800 –> 00:46:11,000
this problem?
Well, did you consider this

786
00:46:11,100 –> 00:46:12,100
Joseph?
What would you do?

787
00:46:12,100 –> 00:46:14,200
Well, here’s what I would do is
what I learned in, Egypt,

788
00:46:14,700 –> 00:46:16,100
Daniel, what would you do?
Well, let me tell you what, I

789
00:46:16,107 –> 00:46:18,500
learned in Babylon, Nehemiah,
what would you do?

790
00:46:18,500 –> 00:46:20,900
I let me tell you, we were
trying to build a wall in that,

791
00:46:20,900 –> 00:46:24,500
restore the Wallen Jerusalem.
All these things are seem to be

792
00:46:24,500 –> 00:46:27,900
a part of a life in the kingdom
and We Stand By Night in the

793
00:46:27,900 –> 00:46:31,400
house of the Lord.
When the Lord restored the

794
00:46:31,400 –> 00:46:35,300
fortunes of Zion, we were like
those who Dream.

795
00:46:35,500 –> 00:46:39,500
It’s a dream come true.
Then our mouth was filled with

796
00:46:39,500 –> 00:46:41,800
laughter, and our tongue, with
shouts of Joy.

797
00:46:42,000 –> 00:46:44,500
They said, among the nation’s,
the Lord has done great things

798
00:46:44,500 –> 00:46:47,300
for them.
The Lord has done great things

799
00:46:47,300 –> 00:46:49,800
for us.
We are glad.

800
00:46:51,000 –> 00:46:55,900
The Lord will Comfort, Zion.
This is the bottom line of all

801
00:46:55,900 –> 00:46:59,600
of our considerations.
The Lord will Comfort Zion and

802
00:46:59,600 –> 00:47:03,800
you will be there when he does.
He will Comfort all her waste

803
00:47:03,800 –> 00:47:08,800
places. in the restoration of
the kingdom of God,

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00:47:24,800 –> 00:47:27,000
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