306: Jason Hensley – Peace and Unity

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Hey everyone, it’s Jason
Hensley, and this is a little

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bit funny.
I was talking to Chris and Levi

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and Brian, and we were talking
about how we were going to share

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some of our own talks.
And we discussed how there’s

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always been this unwritten rule
that we don’t really do our own.

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And so because people asked for
us to, we were going to do it as

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part of this 300th episode.
But The funny thing is, is that

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before I joined this podcast as
a host, I was on the podcast and

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my talks were on the podcast.
So it was sort of an interesting

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activity for me to say, OK, so
out of the ones that haven’t

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been on here, what do I want to
put up?

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So it was suggested to me, Levi
said, well, why don’t you take

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something that has a lot of
meaning to you, big depth of

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meaning.
And so that’s what I decided to

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do.
So what you’re listening to

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here, this was actually just
given last year, 2023 at

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Manitoulin Family Camp, and it’s
the third class in a series

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called The Gospel of Peace.
The reason that this means so

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much to me is I feel like this
series has really affected the

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trajectory of my life.
Let me explain what I mean by

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that.
For me, it was huge to realize

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that God values peace.
I always thought that being a

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Christadelphian meant, you know,
a whole bunch of stuff and then

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you go out and argue with people
about it.

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And I don’t, I don’t say that to
be rude or to try and be funny.

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That’s what I felt.
And I recognize Bible knowledge

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is really important.
So I’m not trying to downplay

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that at all.
And yet for me, it was such a

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big thing to realize peace
matters.

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And so in this third class, what
we’re going to be talking about

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is not only does peace matter,
but so does unity.

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And they’re two different
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I think often we assume that
they’re the same.

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And we say, well, we can’t have
unity with everybody because

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unity is based on principles.
So therefore we can’t have peace

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with everyone.
So that’s what this class

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tackles.
How are?

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Peace and unity different.
And how is it that God can tell

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us to live at peace with
everyone and yet recognize that

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we won’t have unity with
everyone so.

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I hope you enjoy it and I hope.
That if you get the chance,

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you’ll check out the whole
series because as I said, this

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series for me was really life
altering.

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So I hope you enjoy it.
This is class #3 Manitoulin

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Family Bible camp in the Gospel
of peace called Peace and Unity.

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Well, good morning, everyone.
I hope that you’re feeling good.

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I am really excited about class
#3 because this is the class

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that started it all.
So interestingly enough, it ends

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up in the middle of the series.
But this is the one that that

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really got me thinking, because
I started to recognize in, in

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going through scripture that
there was this difference, this

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distinction between peace and
unity.

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And that’s what really got me on
this subject of peace, because I

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had always thought of them as
the same thing.

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And yet looking at this, it was
fascinating to see that peace is

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commanded and unity is the
ideal.

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So in other words, you have to
have peace, but you might not

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always be able to achieve unity.
So I, I found that very

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interesting.
OK, here’s our here’s our plan.

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We’re going to talk about Israel
and Judah and you perhaps heard

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considerations of Jehoshaphat
and Hezekiah before.

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We are going to talk about that,
but it’s going to be a little

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different than than ways that
maybe you’ve heard it done

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before and also ways that I did
it before.

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There’s a lot of context that I
think we need to build up as we

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look at this story.
So we’re going to try and

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understand it from that
perspective.

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We’re going to talk about then
what is unity biblically?

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And then how does unity differ
from peace?

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The main message now let’s
review Ready.

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Before this one, our first core
message was peace matters.

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That’s right.
And OK, yesterday’s was harder.

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I recognize that.
So I made this one a little

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easier.
So do you remember?

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It was 6 words.
All the shades of peace are

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interconnected.
That’s.

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Oh, I see some of you guys wrote
it down.

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That was good.
Good thinking.

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Yep, Yep.
Good.

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OK, well, today’s is only three
words.

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All right.
So this is, I think, our key

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idea that comes out of this
class, Peace is universal.

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Now, again, this is so important
in recognizing the distinction

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between peace and unity because
there are a lot of people that

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we can’t be unified with.
There are a lot of world views

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that we can’t be unified with,
but we can still act peacefully

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towards those people.
And I think that is the crucial

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thing, right?
Peace.

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And some of some of you have
come up to me and asked about

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this and you said, look like,
you know, I can’t, I can’t agree

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with the way that people are
doing things and I have to say

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things about that.
And I agree.

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That’s, that’s great.
Say things about it, but say it

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in a nice way, right?
You can’t, you know, you don’t

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have to come up and just just
think about it like when this is

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this is for me at least, how
this goes.

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When you get upset with your
children or with somebody else

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and you scream and wave your
arms around, right?

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Not that I’ve ever done that.
But when you do that, think

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about where your effectiveness
goes on the effectiveness scale,

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right?
All of a sudden you’re like down

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at the bottom and and nobody
wants to hear what you say,

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including your children who
might like run away screaming.

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OK.
So like, that just doesn’t work,

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right?
We can very much disagree with

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somebody, but we don’t have to
do it in an unhinged kind of

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way.
And I think that that’s the key

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thing.
We can say, I believe that what

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you’re doing is wrong.
And here’s why I think that,

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right?
We can say, no, these are my

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principles and I will not move
from those principles.

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But we can do that peacefully.
And I think that’s an important

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thing to recognize.
That’s really the key.

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And so that’s why Paul can
command live at peace with

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everyone because it’s something
that is achievable.

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It is something that we can do
is a choice that we can make.

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So peace is universal.
Our why question here, This is

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something to just kind of chew
on for right now, although I’ll

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sort of answer it right after we
look at it says why was

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Jehoshaphat condemned for his
peace with Ahab?

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Just think about that for a
little bit.

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And the answer is this is
actually a trick question

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because Jehoshaphat never was
condemned for his peace with

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Ahab.
He was condemned for his unity

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with Ahab.
Now that’s where for me, this

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was such a big deal.
Jehoshaphat was supposed to be

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at peace with Ahab.
And I’m going to try and put

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that together, create that
context.

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He was supposed to have peace
with Ahab.

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Even though Ahab is described as
one who hates Yahweh, right?

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He was still supposed to be at
peace with him.

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He was not supposed to be
unified with him.

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And in fact, I, I would suggest
to you, he couldn’t be unified

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with him, right?
He tries really hard to be

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unified, but he can’t be.
OK.

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So let’s take a look.
Let’s just go through, I know

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that you know this, but we’re
going to go through and we’re

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going to take a look at it just
to make sure that we have our

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context built up.
So let’s think a little bit

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about the relationship between
Israel and Judah.

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So you have Israel in the north
and Judah in the South.

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And so the question that I want
to have really prompt us as we

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go through this is what kind of
relationship were these two

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nations supposed to have?
You know, when I put together

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this class, that was the first
time I had ever asked that we

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read the history.
And I think we just kind of take

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the history for granted that
this is what God was doing.

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He divides the nation’s.
One nation is good, one nation’s

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bad, at least, you know, for the
most part, one nation’s good.

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And well, the good one is
supposed to attack the bad one

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or something along those lines.
But I think it’s better for us

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to step back and ask, well,
actually, biblically, what did

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God intend?
What kind of relationship did he

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foresee or want to see between
the two nations?

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Did he want to see them warring
one another?

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We might be tempted to say,
well, you know, you look at

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Deuteronomy 13, right?
Your brother comes and says,

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hey, let’s go worship idols.
You’re supposed to stone him.

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So he might be tempted to say,
well, yeah, like God intends for

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Judah to go wipe out Israel.
And yet I think we’re going to

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see something a little bit
different.

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So let’s take a look and
consider this story.

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It’s first Kings 11.
If you want to follow along,

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I’ll tell you the story.
You’re likely familiar with it.

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This is this is that instant in
which Jeroboam.

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So the one who will become king
of Israel, right?

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That’s always one of those hard
things to kind of figure out

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which one was Jeroboam and which
one was Rioboam.

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Well, it’s alphabetical.
It’s an alphabetical order, by

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the way, in case that helps you.
I always try and have all these

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funny little things to help me
remember stuff.

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So Jeroboam was in the north,
right?

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And then Rehoboam are in the
South.

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So that’s alphabetical also,
just like Israel and Judah.

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So interesting.
Jeroboam is working for Solomon,

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right?
He was some kind of head of

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Solomon’s building team,
something along those lines.

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He seems to take part in helping
build the temple building,

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Solomon’s house.
He happens to be in a field.

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We don’t know exactly what he’s
doing at this point, but he’s

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head of Solomon’s workforce.
He’s wearing a new coat,

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strangely enough, and we don’t
know why exactly he does it this

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way.
A high edge of the prophet walks

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up to Jeroboam and his swanky
new jacket and tears it off of

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his back and begins to then tear
it into little pieces.

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You can imagine Jeroboam, right?
That’s I, I felt like that was a

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pretty good expression.
He he looks at a high jet

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thinking, what are you doing to
my coat?

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You know, I, I like it, it was
nice.

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So Ahaija tears it up and he
says, well don’t worry, here you

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go you can have these ten pieces
of it.

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So he gives Jeroboam the 10
pieces of his coat and he then

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proceeds to give Jeroboam a
prophecy.

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He says Yahweh has torn right,
You get it torn.

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OK, so maybe that was the
justification.

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Yahweh has torn the Kingdom from
the hand of Solomon and is now

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giving 10 tribes to you.
Right now.

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This is the prophecy of a Haija.
You’ll see it there on the

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screen.
Just take a look and you will

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notice that I have underlined a
number of statements.

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Look for what these statements
have in common.

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It’s first kings 11 verses 31 to
36.

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It says, see I am going to tear
the Kingdom out of Solomon’s

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hand.
This is God speaking through a

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Haija and give you 10 tribes.
But for the sake of my servant

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David in the city of Jerusalem,
which I have chosen, out of all

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the tribes of Israel, he will
have one tribe.

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I will do this because they have
forsaken me and worshipped

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Ashtaroth, the goddess of the
Cydonians, Chimosh the God of

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the Moabites, Molech the God of
the Ammonites, and have not

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walked in obedience to me, nor
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nor kept my decrees and laws as
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But I will not take the whole
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I have made him ruler.
I should have underlined that

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one too.
I have made him ruler all the

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days of his life.
For the sake of David, my

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servant, whom I chose.
I missed another who obeyed my

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commands and decrees.
I will take the Kingdom from his

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son’s hands and give you 10
tribes.

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I will give one tribe to his
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OK.
Do you notice what they all have

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in common?
These are all of God’s I will do

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this statements.
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but they don’t have I.
Again, this is one of those

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unfortunate translation pieces
of the NIV.

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It’s great to read like when
you’re doing the readings, but

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study makes it a little harder.
Everything that I underlined

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here is what we call a first
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I am going to do this.
I’m going to do this.

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So this is God saying I am the
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things.
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fascinating, by the way, just in
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because remember, we’re talking
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So does God expect there to be
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I’m going to suggest to you
based on what we’re going to

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look at, yes.
Does God expect there to be

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unity?
No, there can’t be, right?

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He’s clearly saying I’m making
disunity, which is very

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interesting, right?
So he expects peace, but he

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doesn’t expect unity.
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So that’s just an interesting
thing to kind of take out of

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this.
God is the one who is doing it,

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and God is the one who is
creating the disunity in this

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instance.
Now as we read this next portion

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of the prophecy, just think
about what this might remind you

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of, because I think this is
based on something else that

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we’ve heard before.
So Haija continues, God is doing

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all these different things.
God is the one who’s going to

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create the disunity.
Haija then says verses 37 and

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38.
However, As for you, I will take

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you, and you will rule over all
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You will be king over Israel if
you do whatever I command you

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and walk in obedience to Me and
do what is right in my eyes by

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obeying my decrees and commands
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I will be with you.
I will build you a dynasty as

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enduring as the one I built for
David and will give Israel to

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you.
Does this remind you of anything

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else?
This sounds like a previous set

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of promises known as the
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I mean, he, he makes it very
clear, right?

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If you act like David, I will be
with you.

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This is what he had promised to
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I will be with you.
But it’s also the same thing

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that he promised to Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, I will be with

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you.
That’s the whole ehiye I share

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ehiye kind of thing, right?
I will be with you.

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I will build you a dynasty as
enduring as the one I built for

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David.
Now, it’s not the promises to

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David, but he’s essentially
saying I’m going to give those

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same promises to you.
Like I’m offering that to you,

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right?
At least as far as having a

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shore dynasty, right?
Having a shore house.

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So you can see connections to
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And the reason I bring this up
is weirdly enough, right, we’re

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supposed to, I, I think one of
the keys of Bible study is we

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should always be looking for the
Lord Jesus in everything, right?

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He’s on every page all over the
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So weirdly enough, when you
start to look at this, I want to

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suggest to you that you can
actually see Jeroboam in this

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stage.
OK, note that very carefully in

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this stage, not other times, but
in this stage, I think we can

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see Jeroboam as a type of the
Lord Jesus.

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He is chosen specifically by God
to save Israel, right?

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Not just chosen by God, but
chosen with the mission of

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saving the people.
So you see the same thing in

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Matthew 121.
Joseph is told he will save his

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people from their sins.
Jeroboam was given the promises

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of a shore house, just like
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And we know in Luke chapter one,
the Lord Jesus is given those

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promises to David.
Jeroboam then is chased by

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Solomon because Solomon wants to
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Where does he go?
Huh, Egypt?

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He comes back after the King’s
death.

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Same thing with the Lord Jesus
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He then serves as a mediator for
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You remember the whole story
where the people go to Rhea Baum

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and they say, hey, your father
taxed us heavily.

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Will you please lower the taxes,
right, Rhea Baum?

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He asks his friends.
He asks the elders.

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He decides to go with his
friend’s advice and at which is

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to, you know, be tough and make
people afraid of you.

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So he says my little pinky is
greater than my father’s loins,

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which is a really funny thing to
say.

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Don’t think I’ve ever talked
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But that’s, you know, that’s
what he says.

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And then he says, my father
chastised you with whips, I will

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chastise you with scorpions,
right?

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And he’s like, oh, man, I’m so
tough.

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And the people are like, yeah,
forget that, right?

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So they leave because who wants
to be whipped with a scorpion?

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So they leave.
And then Jeroboam was the one

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who was leading the people at
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He was the one who led the
delegation asking Rio Boehm to

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lower the taxes.
So he was serving as a mediator

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for the people.
Interestingly, he then after,

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after serving as a mediator,
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So you can see this picture of
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The timing works, the details
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It makes sense.
Now you might be wondering,

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well, why?
Like why do we have this type of

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the Lord Jesus in probably like
one of the worst people in the

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Bible, right?
You remember Jeroboam’s last

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name, he who made Israel to sin,
right?

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Like every time that Jeroboam
shows up, that’s what he’s

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called, Jeroboam, the son of
Nebat who made Israel sin.

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And in fact, when we get to 2nd
King 17, when God destroys

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Israel, we are told that God
destroyed Israel because they

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could not shake the sins of
Jeroboam, son of Nebat, who made

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Israel sin, right?
So this is one of the most

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terrible people in Scripture,
responsible for thousands of

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people leaving the truth, and
yet he’s this type of Christ at

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the beginning.
Why?

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I think the point is, is that
when God separates the nations,

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when God separates Israel and
Judah, he chooses someone who

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has the potential to have done
amazing things.

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And instead, what Jeroboam does
is he uses that potential to

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destroy the country.
Jeroboam could have led the

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nation in the way that they were
supposed to go.

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He could have been the next
David, right?

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That’s exactly what God says.
He could have been the next

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David, but he wasn’t.
Now, again, was God expecting

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unity?
No.

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But he sets up a person like
Jeroboam, somebody with

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potential to create a great
nation because he expects peace.

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He wanted the nations to
flourish.

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Now we have this emphasized
because in First Kings chapter

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12, starting at verse 21,
Riobaum, when the split happens,

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Riobaum says, ah, ah, that’s not
going to happen.

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You guys aren’t separating.
And Riobaum puts together an

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army.
He’s about to go invade Israel

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and he’s going to take them
back.

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However, he is met by a prophet
who says do not go up to fight

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against the Israelites for this
is my doing.

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God says you will not fight
them.

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Notice that fighting is the
opposite of what peace.

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So Rio Boehm is going to fight.
He specifically told ah ah

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peace.
So God did not expect unity, but

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he did expect peace.
Again from Israel’s perspective.

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Just play this out.
You can follow along in First

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Kings 12.
It’s very interesting.

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Jeroboam decides he’s he must
have been sitting on his throne.

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He decides to create a new
system of worship.

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Right.
He creates the golden calves,

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one of which he puts in Dan, the
other he puts in Bethel.

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So he has these two golden
calves that he creates.

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He makes this new system of
worship.

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Now the big question is why did
he do that?

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I think this is what we should
always be asking when we’re

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doing Bible study.
Why?

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Why did this person act this
way?

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Why did they do what they did?
Well, what’s really interesting

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is in First Kings 12, we’re told
that he decided to create a

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feast in the eighth month, just
like the feast that was in Judah

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in the seventh month.
So he’s clearly thinking about

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the feast of the 7th month.
Now, what was the feast of the

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7th month?
There are three.

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So, you know, David Helmet,
Feast of Tabernacles and Feast

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of Trumpets.
That’s right.

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Yeah.
So, you know, it’s Rosh

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Hashanah, Yom Kippur, all of
that, and Sukkot, if you want

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the Hebrew names.
So you have these three, these

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three celebrations that were
supposed to take place in the

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seventh month.
Now, I think that gives us an

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insight into what was going on
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So just try and picture this,
right?

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I think we always have to try
and envision what’s going on in

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the Bible.
So picture Jeroboam, he’s now

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king of Israel.
He’s all excited because he can

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get as many new coats as he
wants, right?

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So there he is.
He’s sitting on his throne and

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he hears all this noise going on
outside.

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So he thinks, you know what?
What is this?

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And he looks out the window of
his palace and he sees all these

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people.
Maybe it’s just the men, right?

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Only the men were commanded to
do this.

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He sees all these people walking
by and he says, where are you

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all going?
What are you doing?

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And they say, ready, we’re going
to Jerusalem.

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And Jeroboam’s like, what?
Why are you going to Jerusalem?

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And they say, well, because it’s
the 7th month, right?

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It’s the Feast of Tabernacles.
That’s what we’re supposed to

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do.
Everyone is supposed to go to

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Jerusalem.
And so then he looks further out

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the window and he realizes,
indeed, everyone is going to

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Jerusalem, right?
The entire country.

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And Jeroboam sits down and he
thinks, well, how’s this going

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to work, right?
How’s this supposed to happen

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that I’m supposed to lead this
country of 10 tribes?

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When three times a year, every
man, and possibly the women and

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children too, go to Jerusalem
for these feasts, which would

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mean that they’re there in
Jerusalem for like 2 months of

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the year, right?
Something along those lines.

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Or they’re at least gone from
Israel because they have to have

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travel time.
So they’re gone for like 2

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months of the year.
And then he starts thinking, oh,

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wait a minute, You remember we
talked about this yesterday.

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Our whole system of worship
revolves around what?

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The temple?
And he realizes, wait a minute,

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how am I supposed to lead a
country when their whole system

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of worship is designed around
the capital of the enemy

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country?
Now I would put to you that

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there is a false assumption in
that statement.

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That assumption was enemy.
And that I think is the point.

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God set up the countries and you
will notice He never said you’re

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going to have a different form
of worship.

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00:23:35,840 –> 00:23:38,160
He never said you’re going to
worship somewhere other than

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00:23:38,160 –> 00:23:41,680
Jerusalem.
He expects that to continue,

438
00:23:42,440 –> 00:23:46,240
right?
Because he expects Israel and

439
00:23:46,240 –> 00:23:51,960
Judah to be at peace.
He did not expect them to be

440
00:23:51,960 –> 00:23:54,560
unified, but He expected them to
be a peace.

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00:23:55,040 –> 00:24:01,160
And so he continues a system of
worship that revolves around the

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capital of Judah.
And Jeroboam says, uh, uh,

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00:24:06,920 –> 00:24:08,520
right, no way that’s not going
to happen.

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00:24:09,000 –> 00:24:11,640
So Jeroboam puts together his
golden calves, one in Bethel,

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00:24:11,640 –> 00:24:13,680
one in Dan.
He tries to find places that

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00:24:13,680 –> 00:24:16,120
were significant for worship in
Israel.

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00:24:16,280 –> 00:24:18,240
Right.
Bethel, Genesis 28, House of

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00:24:18,240 –> 00:24:21,760
God.
It’s where Jacob met with God

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00:24:22,440 –> 00:24:23,680
with the whole Jacob’s ladder
thing.

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00:24:24,440 –> 00:24:26,720
And then Dan, you look at Judges
chapter 18.

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00:24:27,000 –> 00:24:30,560
Dan is where Moses grandson had
set up a Tabernacle, right?

452
00:24:30,800 –> 00:24:33,160
A false Tabernacle.
But you can still imagine

453
00:24:33,360 –> 00:24:36,120
Jeroboam being able to say, oh,
well, it was good enough for

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00:24:36,120 –> 00:24:38,240
Moses’s grandson.
It’s good enough for me.

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00:24:38,560 –> 00:24:41,800
Write something like that.
You know, we don’t know if he

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00:24:41,800 –> 00:24:44,360
said that, but you can imagine
it, right?

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00:24:45,560 –> 00:24:51,640
So Jeroboam creates these false
systems of worship based on the

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00:24:51,640 –> 00:24:55,680
fact that he doesn’t understand
that he’s supposed to have

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00:24:55,680 –> 00:24:59,200
peace.
Now just let that sink in.

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00:25:01,040 –> 00:25:06,760
The system that destroys the
country comes about because

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00:25:06,760 –> 00:25:16,080
Jeroboam didn’t choose peace.
Now what’s amazing is what God

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00:25:16,080 –> 00:25:19,720
continues to do in Second
Chronicles Chapter 11, verse

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00:25:19,720 –> 00:25:23,440
four, we now have a story in
which Israel is going to sorry,

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00:25:23,480 –> 00:25:28,840
Judah is going to attack Israel.
So the Riobom, Jeroboam stuff

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00:25:29,240 –> 00:25:32,520
that has ended.
Now Judah is going to try and

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00:25:32,520 –> 00:25:35,680
pull Ariyah, Bohem, try to
attack Israel and bring Israel

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00:25:35,680 –> 00:25:38,680
back for a second time.
Now what’s interesting is what

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I’ve highlighted there on the
screen.

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00:25:40,160 –> 00:25:42,000
This is second Chronicles 11,
verse four.

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00:25:42,160 –> 00:25:46,760
It says this is what the Lord
says, do not go up to fight

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00:25:46,760 –> 00:25:50,120
against your fellow Israelites.
Now that underlined word there,

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00:25:50,120 –> 00:25:52,440
fellow Israelites, that is in
Hebrew.

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00:25:52,440 –> 00:25:53,480
You’ll see it at the bottom of
the screen.

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00:25:53,480 –> 00:25:56,200
It’s your word, ACH.
So I used to have a Hebrew

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00:25:56,200 –> 00:25:58,960
student who would always remind
herself that this is how you

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00:25:58,960 –> 00:26:01,320
could say this is what the word
brothers meant.

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00:26:01,320 –> 00:26:03,560
It’s ah because she’d always
say, ah, my brother.

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00:26:03,800 –> 00:26:06,000
Like that was how that was how
she remembered it.

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00:26:06,280 –> 00:26:08,320
So anyway, you know, maybe,
maybe that’ll help you.

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00:26:08,800 –> 00:26:11,800
So you have ahk, that’s that
word there.

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00:26:11,800 –> 00:26:15,040
That’s ahkim or brothers.
In other words, this is what the

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00:26:15,040 –> 00:26:17,240
Lord says.
Do not go up to fight against

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00:26:17,240 –> 00:26:21,440
your brothers.
Go home, everyone of you, for

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00:26:21,440 –> 00:26:23,320
this is my doing.
So they obeyed the words of the

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00:26:23,320 –> 00:26:25,320
Lord and turned back from
marching against Jeroboam.

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00:26:26,240 –> 00:26:29,560
Now let’s just put together this
scene, right?

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00:26:31,120 –> 00:26:35,640
Judah is about to invade Israel.
A prophet comes and says, no,

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00:26:35,880 –> 00:26:39,040
don’t invade Israel because
they’re your brothers, because

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00:26:39,040 –> 00:26:41,920
God intended for you to have
peace.

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00:26:43,160 –> 00:26:49,360
Now do you notice what’s so
amazing about the fact that

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00:26:49,360 –> 00:26:53,160
Israel is called their brothers
at this time in history?

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00:26:55,600 –> 00:27:02,880
It’s amazing because for a
generation now Israel had been

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00:27:02,880 –> 00:27:07,160
idol worshippers.
And yet God says even though

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00:27:07,280 –> 00:27:10,800
this is a nation of idol
worshippers, you will not attack

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00:27:10,800 –> 00:27:12,760
them.
You will have peace with them

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00:27:12,760 –> 00:27:16,560
and they’re your brothers.
Now where that gets even more

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00:27:16,560 –> 00:27:20,120
interesting is in Second
Chronicles 28 verse eight.

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00:27:20,240 –> 00:27:22,760
And by the way, I think
sometimes we we tend to feel

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00:27:22,760 –> 00:27:25,360
like the term brother, sister,
all of that that that denotes

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00:27:25,360 –> 00:27:28,200
unity.
Clearly it doesn’t right?

501
00:27:29,800 –> 00:27:34,240
But it does show peace.
Second Chronicles 28, verse

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00:27:34,240 –> 00:27:37,840
eight says the men of Israel
took captive from their fellow

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00:27:37,840 –> 00:27:42,080
Israelites who were from Judah
200,000 wives, sons and

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00:27:42,080 –> 00:27:43,520
daughters.
They also took a great deal of

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00:27:43,520 –> 00:27:45,080
plunder which they carried back
to Samaria.

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00:27:45,320 –> 00:27:47,200
This is now during the reign of
Ahaz.

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00:27:47,840 –> 00:27:50,720
So Ahaz is Hezekiah’s father.
It’s during this invasion.

508
00:27:50,720 –> 00:27:53,680
This is a downward invasion in
which Israel invades Judah.

509
00:27:53,680 –> 00:27:54,640
So now it’s the other way
around.

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00:27:55,240 –> 00:28:00,000
Israel invades Judah and it is
in this time that Israel

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00:28:00,000 –> 00:28:01,600
actually kills Hezekiah’s
brother.

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00:28:04,320 –> 00:28:11,200
So this is an intense invasion,
and yet after they take captive

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00:28:11,520 –> 00:28:16,520
hundreds of thousands of people,
you are told, again, send those

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00:28:16,520 –> 00:28:19,400
captives back because they’re
your brothers.

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00:28:21,240 –> 00:28:23,760
Now, it does get a little bit
interesting when we look at the

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00:28:23,760 –> 00:28:26,960
details of Second Chronicles 28,
because this brother’s idea

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00:28:26,960 –> 00:28:30,080
comes out twice.
But I do want to note that

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00:28:30,200 –> 00:28:35,360
because of Judah’s idolatry, you
do have this blue underline

519
00:28:35,360 –> 00:28:37,840
there.
He gave them into your hand,

520
00:28:38,400 –> 00:28:40,960
right?
So God intends overall for there

521
00:28:40,960 –> 00:28:43,600
to be peace.
But yes, there are times at

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00:28:43,600 –> 00:28:46,440
which God does take away peace.
I think that that’s important to

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00:28:46,440 –> 00:28:48,920
notice, right?
There are specific instances

524
00:28:48,920 –> 00:28:52,720
where God will say peace is what
I want over all, but in specific

525
00:28:52,720 –> 00:28:54,320
cases, we’re going to change
that.

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00:28:55,480 –> 00:29:01,880
OK, so there are caveats here.
But nevertheless, even though he

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00:29:01,880 –> 00:29:03,840
gives them into their hand, it’s
fascinating, right?

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00:29:04,520 –> 00:29:08,080
God says I gave them into your
hand, but send them back.

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00:29:08,200 –> 00:29:09,880
They’re your brothers.
Come on.

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00:29:13,040 –> 00:29:15,680
In fact, we see this as we even
work through the prophets.

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00:29:16,240 –> 00:29:18,200
So Isaiah was a prophet to which
nation?

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00:29:18,520 –> 00:29:21,200
Israel or Judah?
Judah.

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00:29:21,200 –> 00:29:23,120
That’s right.
Isaiah was a prophet to Judah.

534
00:29:23,200 –> 00:29:25,520
He primarily prophesied during
the reign of who?

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00:29:27,080 –> 00:29:30,400
Hezekiah.
So Isaiah is prophesying here,

536
00:29:30,400 –> 00:29:32,920
Isaiah 66 during the reign of
Hezekiah, he’s speaking to the

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00:29:32,920 –> 00:29:35,280
people of Judah and noticed this
prophecy.

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00:29:35,440 –> 00:29:38,320
He says, and I, because of what
they have planned and done, am

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00:29:38,440 –> 00:29:40,880
about to come and gather the
people of all nations and

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00:29:40,880 –> 00:29:43,120
languages.
They will come and see my glory,

541
00:29:43,600 –> 00:29:45,920
right?
This is, there’s multiple

542
00:29:45,920 –> 00:29:48,400
applications of this, right?
This is an Armageddon passage,

543
00:29:49,760 –> 00:29:53,000
but it had a primary application
to the destruction of the

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00:29:53,000 –> 00:29:55,720
Assyrians at Jerusalem during
the reign of Hezekiah.

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00:29:56,280 –> 00:29:58,600
So God says these nations will
come and see My glory.

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00:29:58,800 –> 00:30:01,440
I will set a sign among them.
I will send some of those who

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00:30:01,440 –> 00:30:04,360
survived to the nations, to
Tarshish, to the Libyans and

548
00:30:04,360 –> 00:30:07,440
Lydians famous as Archers, to
Tubal and Greece, to the distant

549
00:30:07,440 –> 00:30:09,840
islands that have not heard of
my fame or seen my glory.

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00:30:10,000 –> 00:30:13,200
So some of the people that
survive the attack on Jerusalem,

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00:30:13,920 –> 00:30:15,960
they would be sent to the other
nations.

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00:30:16,160 –> 00:30:18,560
Now that’s interesting because
those people, they’re from

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00:30:18,560 –> 00:30:22,880
Jerusalem, so therefore they
would be inhabitants of Judah,

554
00:30:23,320 –> 00:30:26,160
right?
They will proclaim my glory

555
00:30:26,160 –> 00:30:30,040
among the nations, and they will
bring all your people from all

556
00:30:30,040 –> 00:30:32,160
the nations.
Now who’s that talking about?

557
00:30:32,320 –> 00:30:36,720
All your people?
Oh, that’s the people of Israel,

558
00:30:38,360 –> 00:30:40,800
and that’s what we expect.
We expect at the coming of the

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00:30:40,800 –> 00:30:43,760
Lord Jesus after Armageddon that
the people in Jerusalem will be

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00:30:43,760 –> 00:30:46,040
sent to gather back scattered
Israel.

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00:30:47,520 –> 00:30:50,680
They will bring all your people
from all the nations to my holy

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00:30:50,680 –> 00:30:52,800
mountain in Jerusalem.
So it’s interesting then that

563
00:30:52,960 –> 00:30:56,920
even in the prophets we see that
God continued to say, Israel and

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00:30:56,920 –> 00:30:59,880
Judah, you are one people, you
are one family.

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00:31:02,160 –> 00:31:06,080
Jeremiah 715 I will thrust you
from my presence just as I did

566
00:31:06,320 –> 00:31:10,440
all your fellow Israelites, or
again your brothers, the people

567
00:31:10,440 –> 00:31:13,760
of Ephraim.
Ezekiel 23, verse four, The

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00:31:13,760 –> 00:31:16,240
older was named Ahola and her
sister was Aholiba.

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00:31:16,400 –> 00:31:18,280
They were mine and gave birth to
sons and daughters.

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00:31:18,440 –> 00:31:21,360
Ahola as Samaria and Aholiba as
Jerusalem, their sisters.

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00:31:22,400 –> 00:31:24,000
And so you have this family
metaphor brought up.

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00:31:24,440 –> 00:31:28,000
Not because God expects families
to always be exactly the same.

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00:31:28,120 –> 00:31:30,440
He doesn’t expect families to
always have unity, but He

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00:31:30,440 –> 00:31:37,840
expects families to have peace.
Unfortunately, that’s not what

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00:31:37,840 –> 00:31:41,920
happens, right?
First Kings 15 verse six, there

576
00:31:41,920 –> 00:31:44,880
was war between Abijah and
Jeroboam, Abijah’s Rioboam’s son

577
00:31:45,720 –> 00:31:52,400
throughout Abijah’s lifetime.
Now again, we can in fact tell,

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00:31:53,000 –> 00:31:56,640
I believe, that this war was not
supposed to happen.

579
00:31:58,120 –> 00:32:00,440
Abijah gets up in Second
Chronicles 13 verses three to

580
00:32:00,440 –> 00:32:02,440
four.
He goes into battle with an army

581
00:32:02,440 –> 00:32:06,280
of 400,000 able fighting men.
Jeroboam drew up a battle line

582
00:32:06,280 –> 00:32:10,640
against him with 800,000 so
twice as many people and Abaja

583
00:32:10,720 –> 00:32:13,680
then gets up and this is not
what you do in war.

584
00:32:13,920 –> 00:32:16,800
Abaja then gets up and he gives
a speech essentially trying to

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00:32:17,400 –> 00:32:19,680
convince Jeroboam that fighting
is a bad idea.

586
00:32:21,120 –> 00:32:24,720
And he he stands up and he says
Jeroboam you are so foolish you

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00:32:24,720 –> 00:32:26,960
should know that Yahweh is on
our side and you’re about to

588
00:32:26,960 –> 00:32:29,200
lose.
Now Abaja better hope that

589
00:32:29,200 –> 00:32:31,760
that’s true because he he’s
going against an army that’s

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00:32:31,760 –> 00:32:35,040
twice as big as his.
Now I would put to you in fact,

591
00:32:35,040 –> 00:32:37,040
that the Lord Jesus tells a
parable based on this.

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00:32:37,200 –> 00:32:39,280
It’s Luke chapter 14.
It’s the last few verses of the

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00:32:39,280 –> 00:32:43,360
chapter Luke 14.
He says or what king going into

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00:32:43,360 –> 00:32:52,760
battle will not count his men
and know that his enemy has

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00:32:52,760 –> 00:32:59,480
twice as many and instead will
stand up and offer words of

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00:32:59,480 –> 00:33:02,160
peace, right.
He says what king would do that?

597
00:33:02,400 –> 00:33:07,000
Oh, we know who Abaja, right?
And this is what Abaja tries to

598
00:33:07,000 –> 00:33:08,200
do.
He tries to say, oh, you don’t

599
00:33:08,200 –> 00:33:10,160
actually want to fight Jeroboam,
never mind, right?

600
00:33:10,160 –> 00:33:13,560
It’s not a good idea.
And he tries to explain, look,

601
00:33:13,680 –> 00:33:18,000
Yahweh is on our side.
Now God does help them because I

602
00:33:18,000 –> 00:33:20,880
think he actually does invoke
Yahweh, whereas Jeroboam

603
00:33:20,880 –> 00:33:23,880
doesn’t, right?
Jeroboam just is using his

604
00:33:23,880 –> 00:33:26,800
idols.
So God does save them.

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00:33:26,800 –> 00:33:29,480
But I think you can see from the
Lord Jesus’s commentary on this,

606
00:33:30,200 –> 00:33:33,720
on the story in Luke 14, that
this was not what was intended,

607
00:33:34,040 –> 00:33:35,240
right?
This was not what was supposed

608
00:33:35,240 –> 00:33:37,800
to happen.
Now here’s our awesome chart.

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00:33:38,320 –> 00:33:40,040
I love this.
I don’t know about you.

610
00:33:40,040 –> 00:33:42,080
I I just love to like geek out
over charts.

611
00:33:42,480 –> 00:33:45,160
They’re the best.
So we can spend a lot of time,

612
00:33:45,160 –> 00:33:47,360
but we won’t, we’re not going to
look at this chart that often.

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00:33:47,680 –> 00:33:51,520
OK, We’ve just looked at
Jeroboam right on the top there

614
00:33:51,520 –> 00:33:53,760
in the yellow, and then Rio
Boehm on the bottom in the

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00:33:53,760 –> 00:33:55,520
yellow, and then Abijah just
after him.

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00:33:56,240 –> 00:34:00,800
Well, as you go through you get
Bayasha and ASA and then there’s

617
00:34:00,800 –> 00:34:03,800
a bunch of civil wars in Israel.
So you have Ela Zimri who reigns

618
00:34:03,800 –> 00:34:07,480
for seven days, Tibny and Omri
and then Ahab and then you get

619
00:34:07,480 –> 00:34:09,320
Jehoshaphat down there and
Judah.

620
00:34:09,480 –> 00:34:12,719
Well throughout all of these
kings reigns there still is not

621
00:34:12,719 –> 00:34:16,080
peace.
So first Kings 15 verse 16,

622
00:34:16,080 –> 00:34:18,719
there was war between ASA and
Baasha, king of Israel

623
00:34:18,719 –> 00:34:23,880
throughout their reigns.
Baasha then invades Judah.

624
00:34:24,920 –> 00:34:27,120
ASA takes gold from the temple
treasury to Syria.

625
00:34:27,320 –> 00:34:29,639
Syria and Judah defeat Israel,
right?

626
00:34:29,639 –> 00:34:32,239
So there’s all this war back and
forth, back and forth, over and

627
00:34:32,239 –> 00:34:36,199
over and over, and it doesn’t
work out well, right?

628
00:34:36,199 –> 00:34:38,880
This is what ends up having ASA
condemned.

629
00:34:39,320 –> 00:34:41,239
He doesn’t rely on God
throughout all of it.

630
00:34:41,480 –> 00:34:44,440
And this war was not supposed to
have been what took place.

631
00:34:45,320 –> 00:34:48,440
OK.
We then get Ahab and

632
00:34:48,440 –> 00:34:50,920
Jehoshaphat, and that’s where it
gets interesting.

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00:34:50,960 –> 00:34:53,760
I don’t know if you’ve ever
noticed this verse, but when you

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00:34:53,760 –> 00:34:55,760
get to the reign of Jehoshaphat,
look what happens.

635
00:34:56,800 –> 00:35:01,040
Second Chronicles 17, verse 10,
the fear of the Lord fell on all

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00:35:01,040 –> 00:35:03,680
the kingdoms of the land
surrounding Judah so that they

637
00:35:03,680 –> 00:35:05,880
did not go to war against
Jehoshaphat.

638
00:35:06,040 –> 00:35:09,320
Now, all the kingdoms
surrounding Judah, that would

639
00:35:09,320 –> 00:35:13,880
include Israel, right?
So what we’re looking at here is

640
00:35:13,920 –> 00:35:18,880
a time in which there is no war.
In other words, there is peace.

641
00:35:20,080 –> 00:35:23,800
Finally, this is a time of
peace.

642
00:35:24,000 –> 00:35:26,600
This is what they were supposed
to have.

643
00:35:26,800 –> 00:35:28,840
God did not intend for them to
have unity.

644
00:35:28,960 –> 00:35:32,760
He intended for them to have
peace, and he gives it to

645
00:35:32,760 –> 00:35:36,400
Jehoshaphat.
However, strangely enough,

646
00:35:37,240 –> 00:35:41,520
Jehoshaphat is not happy with
the peace and he tries to force

647
00:35:41,520 –> 00:35:45,880
unity.
Now, you know the story, right,

648
00:35:46,640 –> 00:35:48,920
that Jehoshaphat goes, he allies
with Ahab.

649
00:35:49,560 –> 00:35:51,840
Ahab gets a prophecy that he’s
going to die that day.

650
00:35:52,160 –> 00:35:55,480
And he then asks, Jehoshaphat,
will you please put on my royal

651
00:35:55,480 –> 00:35:57,440
robes?
And Jehoshaphat’s like, yeah,

652
00:35:57,440 –> 00:36:00,400
that sounds fun.
So he does it, and he goes out

653
00:36:00,560 –> 00:36:03,120
and the Archer shoot at him.
And Jehoshaphat runs away

654
00:36:03,120 –> 00:36:06,520
screaming, OK, which is, you
know, understandable.

655
00:36:06,880 –> 00:36:10,680
I would do that, too.
Ahab then gets hit by a random

656
00:36:10,680 –> 00:36:13,920
Archer who draws, draws the bow,
and it strikes him.

657
00:36:14,000 –> 00:36:16,640
And that’s the end of Ahab.
OK, there’s a little more to the

658
00:36:16,640 –> 00:36:21,480
story though, and that shows us
what Jehoshaphat is doing and

659
00:36:21,480 –> 00:36:24,080
this idea behind the unity here
with Jehoshaphat.

660
00:36:24,520 –> 00:36:28,360
So in Second Chronicles chapter
18 verse one, we read that

661
00:36:28,360 –> 00:36:31,160
Jehoshaphat allied himself by
marriage.

662
00:36:31,680 –> 00:36:34,280
Now not all translations say
that, which is why I have this

663
00:36:34,280 –> 00:36:35,480
stuff on the Hebrew at the
bottom.

664
00:36:35,720 –> 00:36:40,040
The allied himself is Khatan,
which is in the hit π Albaniani,

665
00:36:40,040 –> 00:36:41,880
which probably means nothing,
but that’s OK.

666
00:36:42,640 –> 00:36:47,160
It what this is just some of the
interesting detailed things in

667
00:36:47,160 –> 00:36:48,480
Hebrew that that you can look
at.

668
00:36:48,600 –> 00:36:50,200
Hebrew verbs are very
complicated.

669
00:36:50,360 –> 00:36:52,640
Just keep that, you know, as a
warning if you ever try and mess

670
00:36:52,640 –> 00:36:54,720
with Hebrew verbs.
It’s probably better not to.

671
00:36:55,160 –> 00:36:59,320
So, So what what this means is
it’s a marriage alliance.

672
00:36:59,520 –> 00:37:02,240
Now, the reason that that is so
important for us that it’s a

673
00:37:02,240 –> 00:37:04,760
marriage alliance is what do we
know about marriage?

674
00:37:05,280 –> 00:37:13,240
Genesis 224 Two become one.
Ah, that sounds to me not

675
00:37:13,240 –> 00:37:17,000
necessarily like it’s peace, but
unity, right?

676
00:37:18,920 –> 00:37:20,840
So God expects peace in a
family.

677
00:37:20,840 –> 00:37:23,240
He doesn’t expect unity amongst
all the children and what not,

678
00:37:23,400 –> 00:37:25,920
but he does expect unity between
a husband and a wife, right?

679
00:37:25,920 –> 00:37:28,080
It’s not very functional if you
don’t have that.

680
00:37:28,680 –> 00:37:32,920
So you have unity then that
Jehoshaphat tries to create.

681
00:37:33,080 –> 00:37:36,800
So he has his son Jehoram Mary
Athalaya Ahab’s daughter.

682
00:37:37,040 –> 00:37:40,800
He is attempting to create unity
Second Chronicles 18 verse

683
00:37:40,800 –> 00:37:42,480
three.
He then attempts to create unity

684
00:37:42,480 –> 00:37:45,720
again because Ahab comes to him
and says, will you ally with me?

685
00:37:45,840 –> 00:37:48,200
Let’s go to battle against
Ramoth Gilead.

686
00:37:48,440 –> 00:37:52,160
Jehoshaphat replies by saying I
am as you are and my people as

687
00:37:52,160 –> 00:37:53,960
your people.
Now if you read that in the

688
00:37:53,960 –> 00:37:56,080
Hebrew, here’s how it
translates.

689
00:37:56,480 –> 00:38:02,000
It’s kamukhi kamukha, which is
like me, like you.

690
00:38:03,760 –> 00:38:05,960
Can you see that unity emphasis
there?

691
00:38:06,840 –> 00:38:10,320
Like me, like you.
I’m exactly the same as you,

692
00:38:11,000 –> 00:38:11,840
right?
That’s what he’s saying.

693
00:38:12,640 –> 00:38:15,880
We’re one my people as your
people.

694
00:38:16,960 –> 00:38:19,760
Now, that’s like your people are
my people.

695
00:38:20,240 –> 00:38:22,000
In other words, my nation is the
same as yours.

696
00:38:22,520 –> 00:38:23,640
Now, let’s just think about
that.

697
00:38:24,000 –> 00:38:27,320
Is that true that his nation is
the same as Ahab’s nation?

698
00:38:28,760 –> 00:38:33,440
It’s not true at all, right?
At this, Ahab is the king who

699
00:38:33,440 –> 00:38:37,120
starts hunting down prophets.
That was never a thing that had

700
00:38:37,120 –> 00:38:39,680
happened in Israel’s history up
to the point of Ahab.

701
00:38:40,440 –> 00:38:42,280
That’s what makes Ahab so
terrible.

702
00:38:42,720 –> 00:38:48,160
This is why God condemns Ahab
more than Jeroboam, because Ahab

703
00:38:48,160 –> 00:38:51,480
takes the next step of actively
hunting out those who worship

704
00:38:51,480 –> 00:38:54,960
Yahweh.
Now, that’s clearly not what

705
00:38:54,960 –> 00:38:57,400
Jehoshaphat was doing.
So the things that he’s saying

706
00:38:57,400 –> 00:39:04,280
here, he says, oh look, we’re
unified, but they’re not Second

707
00:39:04,280 –> 00:39:07,640
Chronicles 18 four.
Jehoshaphat then tries to change

708
00:39:07,640 –> 00:39:11,120
the situation, right?
He attempts to to create unity

709
00:39:11,120 –> 00:39:13,960
by changing Ahab.
So he says, well, let’s first

710
00:39:13,960 –> 00:39:16,000
seek the counsel of Yahweh.
Now Ahab doesn’t do anything to

711
00:39:16,000 –> 00:39:17,200
that right?
He just doesn’t listen.

712
00:39:17,360 –> 00:39:19,280
So Jehoshaphat says it again in
verse six.

713
00:39:20,160 –> 00:39:22,320
Is there no longer a prophet of
the Lord here whom we can

714
00:39:22,320 –> 00:39:24,560
inquire of?
And Ahab says, Oh, yes, there

715
00:39:24,560 –> 00:39:29,720
is, but I hate him right Now.
Again, that should indicate to

716
00:39:29,720 –> 00:39:32,040
you that unity is not here,
right?

717
00:39:32,560 –> 00:39:34,720
Unless you’re Jehoshaphat and
you’re like, yeah, I hated him

718
00:39:34,720 –> 00:39:37,600
too or something like that.
But you know, he doesn’t.

719
00:39:37,960 –> 00:39:42,120
So there isn’t unity there.
OK, So just to make that clear,

720
00:39:42,120 –> 00:39:42,920
right?
We know that.

721
00:39:43,040 –> 00:39:45,720
But I think that that should
have been some red flags for

722
00:39:45,720 –> 00:39:48,360
Jehoshaphat.
Now, after that, Mike AI, the

723
00:39:48,360 –> 00:39:50,880
prophet, he comes.
He gives the prophecy that Ahab

724
00:39:50,880 –> 00:39:52,720
is going to die.
Israel is scattered like sheep

725
00:39:52,720 –> 00:39:56,760
without a shepherd, right?
And then Ahab says, Oh yeah,

726
00:39:56,800 –> 00:39:58,320
well, I’ll, I’ll do better than
that.

727
00:39:59,200 –> 00:40:01,880
How about you stay in the
dungeon till I come back safely?

728
00:40:02,320 –> 00:40:04,080
Ha.
Let’s see if your prophecy, you

729
00:40:04,080 –> 00:40:05,920
know, changes now or something
like that.

730
00:40:06,800 –> 00:40:11,560
Well, it doesn’t work, right?
But the point is, imagine this

731
00:40:11,560 –> 00:40:15,600
from Jehoshaphat’s shoes.
You’re standing with a guy that

732
00:40:15,600 –> 00:40:18,240
you just said.
You and I, we’re the same,

733
00:40:18,480 –> 00:40:21,320
right?
And he’s just said, we are, you

734
00:40:21,320 –> 00:40:22,680
know, that’s great.
I’m glad we’re the same.

735
00:40:22,680 –> 00:40:24,840
I hate Yahweh’s prophet.
Oh, and by the way, I’m going to

736
00:40:24,840 –> 00:40:27,800
lock him up.
And now you’re Jehoshaphat and

737
00:40:27,800 –> 00:40:32,920
you’re just thinking, well, I
guess we’ll go to battle anyway,

738
00:40:33,160 –> 00:40:34,280
right?
Like what?

739
00:40:35,320 –> 00:40:37,840
What was that about?
Oh, and by the way, I’ll wear

740
00:40:37,840 –> 00:40:39,560
your clothes, Ahab, so that
people can shoot at me.

741
00:40:39,880 –> 00:40:42,960
Like, come on.
What’s happening here?

742
00:40:43,360 –> 00:40:47,080
So this is beyond peace.
Peace was what God had intended.

743
00:40:47,280 –> 00:40:51,160
God created the disunity there.
Peace is tranquility and

744
00:40:51,160 –> 00:40:52,640
harmony.
This is not peace.

745
00:40:53,400 –> 00:40:56,960
There was peace and Jehoshaphat
is now going beyond the peace.

746
00:40:57,120 –> 00:40:59,480
So let’s talk a little bit about
unity and try and understand

747
00:40:59,480 –> 00:41:01,160
then what that is.
Well, this is interesting.

748
00:41:01,160 –> 00:41:03,400
This is a big shock to me.
I don’t know if you’re aware,

749
00:41:03,520 –> 00:41:06,320
but unity only shows up three
times in the Bible.

750
00:41:07,120 –> 00:41:12,240
This is in the English.
So in the KJV you get the word

751
00:41:12,240 –> 00:41:15,200
unity showing up three times.
It’s PS, Psalm 133, verse one,

752
00:41:15,760 –> 00:41:18,000
Ephesians 4, verse 3, and
Ephesians 413.

753
00:41:18,800 –> 00:41:21,360
So three times that you have the
English word unity.

754
00:41:22,360 –> 00:41:24,920
If you look at it in the ESV,
you’ll notice that you get one

755
00:41:24,920 –> 00:41:27,720
more in first Peter 3/8.
And this just shows you a little

756
00:41:27,720 –> 00:41:29,320
bit of the difference in
translations, right?

757
00:41:29,720 –> 00:41:32,240
And you can see that the
liberality of the NIV, when I go

758
00:41:32,240 –> 00:41:37,000
to the next slide, the NIV has
it in seven places, right?

759
00:41:38,360 –> 00:41:41,240
It’s very, that’s one of the
things I, I just love, you know,

760
00:41:41,240 –> 00:41:44,120
I love translation.
Well, one of the things that’s

761
00:41:44,120 –> 00:41:46,800
really interesting to do is to
just go through and look at how

762
00:41:46,800 –> 00:41:51,480
many times does the NIV refer to
the Holy Spirit as a he, by the

763
00:41:51,480 –> 00:41:53,920
way, when it’s not that way in
the Greek.

764
00:41:54,880 –> 00:41:58,760
So it does it a whole lot more
than the KJV and the new living

765
00:41:58,760 –> 00:42:00,480
actually does it something like
18 times.

766
00:42:00,640 –> 00:42:01,920
Anyway, this is that’s a
digression.

767
00:42:01,920 –> 00:42:04,200
Sorry, but it’s so exciting,
isn’t it?

768
00:42:04,200 –> 00:42:06,000
Like it’s just interesting stuff
to know about.

769
00:42:06,240 –> 00:42:07,840
So these are the things that we
should look at and we should be

770
00:42:07,840 –> 00:42:10,240
aware of.
OK, so the word unity, the point

771
00:42:10,240 –> 00:42:12,280
is, is that in English it
doesn’t show up that often.

772
00:42:12,280 –> 00:42:14,040
And I think it’s just good to
know that it’s sort of a

773
00:42:14,040 –> 00:42:17,600
background piece because I would
suggest to you, it could be very

774
00:42:17,600 –> 00:42:20,760
easy to look at this and say,
oh, wow, Like, you know, we’ve

775
00:42:20,760 –> 00:42:23,320
just seen that peace is
important and that, well, you

776
00:42:23,320 –> 00:42:24,720
know, God was creating disunity
there.

777
00:42:24,720 –> 00:42:26,800
So unity doesn’t actually
matter, right?

778
00:42:26,800 –> 00:42:29,200
It only shows up a handful of
times, like no big deal.

779
00:42:29,360 –> 00:42:30,640
Well, that would just be totally
wrong.

780
00:42:30,920 –> 00:42:32,040
OK.
So please don’t think that.

781
00:42:32,200 –> 00:42:34,560
Don’t think that that’s what I’m
saying in my class.

782
00:42:34,960 –> 00:42:37,720
My point is, is that the word
unity doesn’t show up very

783
00:42:37,720 –> 00:42:40,160
often, but I think the concept
does.

784
00:42:41,080 –> 00:42:44,560
So if we go to some of those
places where unity is talked

785
00:42:44,560 –> 00:42:48,640
about, so Ephesians 4, three
Ephesians 413, we’ll see in the

786
00:42:48,640 –> 00:42:53,200
Greek that our word is in
notice, which comes from our

787
00:42:53,200 –> 00:42:57,120
word haste, which is one.
That’s what it means.

788
00:42:57,120 –> 00:43:01,120
It means oneness.
So unity means oneness.

789
00:43:01,120 –> 00:43:02,960
It comes from the Greek word
one.

790
00:43:03,400 –> 00:43:06,760
Now, if you’re interested about
the etymology of our English

791
00:43:06,760 –> 00:43:08,960
word unity, which I don’t even
know why I put this in because

792
00:43:08,960 –> 00:43:13,480
it’s not that relevant, but I
think it’s I just nerd out about

793
00:43:13,480 –> 00:43:14,440
these things.
Sorry.

794
00:43:14,440 –> 00:43:16,520
That’s really what it is.
And I wanted to use my Latin

795
00:43:16,520 –> 00:43:19,880
somehow.
So what you got going on here is

796
00:43:19,960 –> 00:43:22,720
here’s unity.
It comes from your Latin word.

797
00:43:22,720 –> 00:43:25,720
There it is ready unus, which
means one, right?

798
00:43:25,720 –> 00:43:28,920
So you can see the connection
that you have in Greek.

799
00:43:29,000 –> 00:43:31,920
You have your word oneness, and
then you have the word.

800
00:43:31,960 –> 00:43:35,360
The English word unity comes
from the Latin word, for one.

801
00:43:35,400 –> 00:43:39,040
OK, so we can see that unity is
really connected to oneness, and

802
00:43:39,040 –> 00:43:41,560
that’s a concept that comes up a
lot of times in Scripture,

803
00:43:41,560 –> 00:43:43,640
right?
Being of one mind.

804
00:43:47,000 –> 00:43:51,080
So unity is something then that
is important scripturally, even

805
00:43:51,080 –> 00:43:52,800
though the English word doesn’t
show up that often.

806
00:43:53,320 –> 00:43:56,760
So you can just see how that
idea of oneness shows up a few

807
00:43:56,760 –> 00:43:58,040
times.
Now, they’re not all like

808
00:43:58,040 –> 00:44:00,320
commands that we should be one,
right?

809
00:44:00,600 –> 00:44:04,200
Like the Tower of Babel, The
whole world had one language and

810
00:44:04,200 –> 00:44:06,120
a common speech.
But I just want to show you how

811
00:44:06,120 –> 00:44:08,640
this oneness is sometimes talked
about scripturally.

812
00:44:09,720 –> 00:44:12,120
It is, though, something that is
supposed to be seen as the

813
00:44:12,120 –> 00:44:15,400
ideal.
So if you have Jeremiah 32,

814
00:44:15,400 –> 00:44:19,720
verses 37 to 39, you have a
prophecy of the Kingdom age in

815
00:44:19,720 –> 00:44:22,600
which God says down there where
I underlined it, I will give

816
00:44:22,600 –> 00:44:25,440
them singleness of heart.
That’s our same word one.

817
00:44:26,000 –> 00:44:28,120
I will give them oneness of
heart.

818
00:44:29,400 –> 00:44:33,240
So this is what God looks for,
this is what He wants.

819
00:44:33,360 –> 00:44:37,440
So He envisions in the Kingdom
age a time in which everyone has

820
00:44:37,800 –> 00:44:40,920
one heart, right?
Where there is unity amongst

821
00:44:40,920 –> 00:44:42,920
everyone.
So that’s what he’s looking for.

822
00:44:43,080 –> 00:44:44,960
You see the same thing in
Ezekiel Chapter 11.

823
00:44:45,120 –> 00:44:46,960
He says down there, I will give
them that.

824
00:44:46,960 –> 00:44:50,400
Is Israel and Judah an undivided
heart again, That’s our word

825
00:44:50,400 –> 00:44:53,040
one.
I will give them one heart.

826
00:44:58,240 –> 00:45:00,880
Now I do find it interesting,
just by the way, you might have

827
00:45:00,880 –> 00:45:03,480
noticed that in those two
prophecies, who is it that

828
00:45:03,480 –> 00:45:07,040
creates the unity?
It’s God again, right?

829
00:45:07,320 –> 00:45:10,280
So you have God creating
disunity when we look at Israel

830
00:45:10,280 –> 00:45:13,000
and Judah’s history and then God
creating unity again,

831
00:45:16,360 –> 00:45:19,360
Philippians chapter two.
However, now I don’t think that

832
00:45:19,360 –> 00:45:20,920
that’s like an excuse for us,
right?

833
00:45:20,920 –> 00:45:23,200
We can’t say, well, you know, we
just need divine intervention.

834
00:45:23,960 –> 00:45:25,760
Although, you know, maybe
sometimes that is how it is.

835
00:45:26,000 –> 00:45:28,320
But in Philippians chapter 2,
right?

836
00:45:28,320 –> 00:45:31,600
That is what we’re called to.
We are called to be of 1 spirit

837
00:45:31,600 –> 00:45:34,520
and one mind.
So we are called the unity.

838
00:45:34,960 –> 00:45:40,760
So I think what we see is that
unity is the ideal and yet peace

839
00:45:41,200 –> 00:45:45,200
is the command.
We are commanded to be at peace

840
00:45:45,200 –> 00:45:50,760
with everyone and once we have
learned to have peace, then we

841
00:45:50,760 –> 00:45:56,000
can learn to have unity.
So these ideas are biblically

842
00:45:56,000 –> 00:45:58,600
different things.
Peace means harmony and

843
00:45:58,600 –> 00:46:00,880
tranquility.
Unity means oneness.

844
00:46:02,360 –> 00:46:07,520
So now let’s just take a look
and ask ourselves, well, how do

845
00:46:07,520 –> 00:46:10,920
we get these things and when do
we use them, right?

846
00:46:10,920 –> 00:46:15,400
Under what circumstances do we
say I’m going to go for peace or

847
00:46:15,400 –> 00:46:17,920
I’m going to go for unity?
Well, let’s go back to Romans

848
00:46:17,920 –> 00:46:19,720
14, right?
This is what we looked at

849
00:46:19,720 –> 00:46:22,920
yesterday, Romans chapter 14.
We have our context of Jews and

850
00:46:22,920 –> 00:46:24,880
Gentiles.
We have a group of people who

851
00:46:24,880 –> 00:46:28,640
thinks that you should follow
Shabbat, who thinks that you

852
00:46:28,640 –> 00:46:30,880
have to eat vegetables because
your meat could have been

853
00:46:30,880 –> 00:46:32,480
offered to idols.
And these people are getting

854
00:46:32,480 –> 00:46:34,600
frustrated about it.
You have another group who’s

855
00:46:34,600 –> 00:46:37,240
getting frustrated about the
fact that they’re being looked

856
00:46:37,240 –> 00:46:40,200
down on for not doing these
things, right?

857
00:46:42,280 –> 00:46:49,200
So just think about this.
If you were going to approach

858
00:46:49,200 –> 00:46:53,240
this to try and create peace,
how would this be solved?

859
00:46:56,200 –> 00:46:59,040
How would it be solved?
If you were going to try and

860
00:46:59,040 –> 00:47:04,960
create unity, would you approach
it the same way, Peace versus

861
00:47:04,960 –> 00:47:09,160
unity?
And I think the really

862
00:47:09,160 –> 00:47:12,760
interesting question is which of
those do you think Paul chose

863
00:47:13,720 –> 00:47:19,240
peace or unity?
I’m going to put to you that he

864
00:47:19,240 –> 00:47:24,720
chose peace.
Interestingly, he chooses peace

865
00:47:24,720 –> 00:47:28,000
because his solution is
essentially just get over it,

866
00:47:29,040 –> 00:47:31,160
right?
Like he comes in and he says,

867
00:47:31,480 –> 00:47:35,200
you know what, you who are
strong, bear with the weak.

868
00:47:37,160 –> 00:47:43,240
You just need to decide to be OK
with this, He says you need to

869
00:47:43,240 –> 00:47:46,360
work together and that means
peace.

870
00:47:46,480 –> 00:47:48,520
It doesn’t necessarily mean
unity, right?

871
00:47:48,520 –> 00:47:52,160
He didn’t come in and he didn’t
say, look, here’s my treatise to

872
00:47:52,160 –> 00:47:54,000
you people who think you need to
follow Shabbat.

873
00:47:54,120 –> 00:47:56,280
Here’s my treatise on why we
don’t need to follow the law

874
00:47:56,280 –> 00:47:57,840
anymore.
Like, what are you thinking?

875
00:47:58,000 –> 00:48:00,120
He doesn’t write that.
He doesn’t write them galatians

876
00:48:00,120 –> 00:48:05,560
#2 instead he just says, you
strong people who aren’t

877
00:48:05,560 –> 00:48:08,160
following Shabbat, it’s time to
just deal with it.

878
00:48:09,760 –> 00:48:13,920
And that’s that, right?
I know that you don’t need this,

879
00:48:14,120 –> 00:48:15,400
right?
That’s why he says, I am

880
00:48:15,400 –> 00:48:19,760
persuaded in the Lord Jesus and
convinced that nothing is

881
00:48:19,760 –> 00:48:24,360
unclean of itself, He said, but
is unclean for those who think

882
00:48:24,360 –> 00:48:27,400
it is.
So he says, in this case, you

883
00:48:27,400 –> 00:48:30,520
know what, you just need peace.
It’s just a time to just wait.

884
00:48:30,800 –> 00:48:34,000
And he’s not saying, by the way,
wait for the rest of your life

885
00:48:34,880 –> 00:48:37,520
because he says clearly you are
the strong people now.

886
00:48:37,520 –> 00:48:39,680
How do you think those who
celebrated Shabbat felt about

887
00:48:39,680 –> 00:48:41,360
that, right?
Would you like to get a letter

888
00:48:41,360 –> 00:48:43,200
from the apostle Paul saying
that you’re weak?

889
00:48:44,120 –> 00:48:47,760
Probably not, right?
Like he, he doesn’t just sit

890
00:48:47,760 –> 00:48:51,040
around and say, you know, have
peace now, but he says have

891
00:48:51,040 –> 00:48:56,840
peace now because eventually
that peace will lead to unity.

892
00:48:59,240 –> 00:49:02,520
But unity takes time and
requires the peace first.

893
00:49:04,200 –> 00:49:08,120
So that’s Paul’s solution, He
says, have peace first.

894
00:49:08,240 –> 00:49:11,120
Focus on the peace and see what
happens, right?

895
00:49:11,840 –> 00:49:14,600
Don’t let your good be evil
spoken of, he says.

896
00:49:15,920 –> 00:49:18,880
So don’t just sit there and
decide to be peaceful about it.

897
00:49:18,960 –> 00:49:20,960
You know, talk to these people
and say, well, here’s why I

898
00:49:20,960 –> 00:49:24,880
think we shouldn’t celebrate
Shabbat, but do it peacefully.

899
00:49:28,000 –> 00:49:31,080
Let us therefore make every
effort to do what leads to

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00:49:31,080 –> 00:49:34,760
peace, he says, and a mutual
edification.

901
00:49:35,280 –> 00:49:38,120
Do not destroy the work of God
for the sake of food.

902
00:49:38,360 –> 00:49:41,320
All food is clean, but it is
wrong for a person to eat

903
00:49:41,360 –> 00:49:43,400
anything that causes someone
else to stumble.

904
00:49:43,800 –> 00:49:47,160
So what Paul says is, in this
case, we have to choose peace,

905
00:49:47,720 –> 00:49:53,520
and we’ll get to unity.
Now, I think that when we

906
00:49:53,520 –> 00:49:56,440
recognize that distinction
between peace and unity, we can

907
00:49:56,440 –> 00:49:58,280
then understand what’s really
going on here.

908
00:49:58,760 –> 00:50:03,840
We don’t have to see Hebrews
12/14 as creating a contrast

909
00:50:03,840 –> 00:50:08,720
between peace and holiness.
In fact, what we can see is that

910
00:50:08,720 –> 00:50:14,320
learning to live at peace with
everyone is one of the ways that

911
00:50:14,320 –> 00:50:18,440
we are holy.
Because that’s not how anybody

912
00:50:18,440 –> 00:50:23,000
in the world functions, right?
Do you know anybody that is at

913
00:50:23,000 –> 00:50:25,840
peace with everyone?
And yet that’s that’s what it’s

914
00:50:25,840 –> 00:50:29,160
saying here right now.
There’s a lot of people who just

915
00:50:29,160 –> 00:50:31,280
let everything slide.
That’s not what I’m talking

916
00:50:31,280 –> 00:50:33,720
about, right?
Being at peace with people means

917
00:50:33,840 –> 00:50:38,160
that you decide this is not
something that we’re going to

918
00:50:38,160 –> 00:50:40,120
fight about, but it’s something
we’re going to talk about.

919
00:50:43,160 –> 00:50:46,720
And so we’re commanded to be at
peace with everybody, I think

920
00:50:46,720 –> 00:50:50,680
because that’s what holy people
do.

921
00:50:51,840 –> 00:50:55,040
People who are holy are the
people who are learning to put

922
00:50:55,040 –> 00:50:59,920
aside that desire to fight, to
put aside that desire to attack

923
00:50:59,920 –> 00:51:03,040
someone else, and instead to
say, I’m going to be peaceful

924
00:51:03,040 –> 00:51:08,120
about this and let’s talk to not
let our good be evil spoken of,

925
00:51:09,080 –> 00:51:10,280
but to do it with the right
spirit.

926
00:51:13,720 –> 00:51:17,560
So this is where Jehoshaphat’s
decision leads.

927
00:51:18,720 –> 00:51:21,240
Second Chronicles 19 two, he
goes for unity when there is no

928
00:51:21,240 –> 00:51:23,680
unity.
And so Jehu the seer comes to

929
00:51:23,680 –> 00:51:28,160
him, he meets him, and he says,
should you help the wicked and

930
00:51:28,160 –> 00:51:30,160
love those who hate the Lord?
Do you see what’s being brought

931
00:51:30,160 –> 00:51:33,080
out here?
Look, Jehoshaphat, you allied

932
00:51:33,080 –> 00:51:34,640
yourself.
You said I am as you are.

933
00:51:34,840 –> 00:51:39,880
And so the first words of Jehu
are, do you not realize who Ahab

934
00:51:39,920 –> 00:51:43,120
is, right?
Do you really think that you can

935
00:51:43,120 –> 00:51:48,160
have unity with this guy?
He hates Yahweh and he told you

936
00:51:48,160 –> 00:51:54,800
that.
So instead, what’s interesting

937
00:51:54,800 –> 00:51:58,800
then is that when we start to
look at unity, we actually do

938
00:51:58,800 –> 00:52:01,480
see it happen later and we see
it with Hezekiah.

939
00:52:02,680 –> 00:52:05,120
And the way that we see it with
Hezekiah is that Hezekiah

940
00:52:05,120 –> 00:52:08,360
doesn’t just try and force
unity, but instead he actually

941
00:52:08,360 –> 00:52:12,920
lays out here are my principles.
And he says, look, we can have

942
00:52:12,920 –> 00:52:16,040
unity if we have an agreement on
principles, if we have an

943
00:52:16,040 –> 00:52:19,200
agreement on who we are, like
there’s peace already.

944
00:52:19,520 –> 00:52:22,760
But if we want unity, we have to
agree on principles.

945
00:52:23,120 –> 00:52:27,400
And So what Hezekiah does is he
sends people up to Israel to

946
00:52:27,400 –> 00:52:33,400
celebrate Passover, and yet he
explains to them, this is the

947
00:52:33,400 –> 00:52:35,200
basis on which we’re going to
meet.

948
00:52:35,480 –> 00:52:37,600
We’re going to meet for a feast
of Yahweh, right?

949
00:52:38,000 –> 00:52:39,840
It’s not going to be a battle
where I’m saying, oh, I’m just

950
00:52:39,840 –> 00:52:41,520
like you, yeah, let’s go hate on
the prophets.

951
00:52:41,800 –> 00:52:44,200
That’s not how it’s going to go.
He says we’re going to celebrate

952
00:52:44,200 –> 00:52:53,040
a feast of Yahweh.
And in addition to that, look at

953
00:52:53,040 –> 00:52:56,560
this Second Chronicles 30 verses
18 and 19.

954
00:52:57,760 –> 00:53:00,160
I think this is something that
we often miss when we consider

955
00:53:00,160 –> 00:53:03,520
the way that Hezekiah brought
unity says although many,

956
00:53:03,600 –> 00:53:06,200
although most of the many people
who came from Ephraim, Manasseh,

957
00:53:06,200 –> 00:53:09,080
Issachar, and Zebulun had not
purified themselves yet they ate

958
00:53:09,080 –> 00:53:12,840
the Passover contrary to what
was written.

959
00:53:16,200 –> 00:53:20,000
Think about that now.
I think it’s fascinating that

960
00:53:20,000 –> 00:53:22,920
Hezekiah says, look, these are
my principles.

961
00:53:24,160 –> 00:53:25,760
This is the basis on which we’re
going to meet.

962
00:53:26,000 –> 00:53:31,080
And then he realizes, you know
what, sometimes it’s going to be

963
00:53:31,080 –> 00:53:33,640
a little bit messy, right?
They they agree, They say, yes,

964
00:53:33,640 –> 00:53:34,920
we are going to meet on those
principles.

965
00:53:35,840 –> 00:53:38,720
And Hezekiah recognizes, well,
it looks like we might not have

966
00:53:39,040 –> 00:53:43,480
perfect unity here at this time
because some things are

967
00:53:43,480 –> 00:53:45,160
happening that weren’t supposed
to happen.

968
00:53:46,040 –> 00:53:53,520
But his stance towards it is may
Yahweh, who is good, pardon

969
00:53:53,520 –> 00:53:57,200
everyone who sets their heart on
seeking God, the Lord, the God

970
00:53:57,200 –> 00:53:59,680
of their ancestors, even if they
are not clean according to the

971
00:53:59,680 –> 00:54:02,720
rules of the sanctuary.
I think that’s fascinating that

972
00:54:02,720 –> 00:54:07,840
in fact, what you see again is
that there are instances here

973
00:54:07,880 –> 00:54:10,280
where, yes, Hezekiah has
principled unity.

974
00:54:10,440 –> 00:54:13,360
That’s what he’s going for.
But he acknowledges that there

975
00:54:13,360 –> 00:54:17,320
are times, not on the
principles, but there are times

976
00:54:17,800 –> 00:54:20,520
when compromise is necessary and
he’s willing to do that.

977
00:54:20,960 –> 00:54:23,000
And he’s not saying that this is
going to be forever.

978
00:54:23,080 –> 00:54:24,640
He doesn’t intend for that to be
forever.

979
00:54:25,000 –> 00:54:28,080
But he he recognizes this is
where we’re at at this point.

980
00:54:31,680 –> 00:54:36,880
So let’s just wrap this up.
I think this is maybe the best

981
00:54:36,880 –> 00:54:42,320
place to bring this all together
because we see the apostle Paul

982
00:54:42,440 –> 00:54:45,400
explaining the relationship
between unity and peace.

983
00:54:46,640 –> 00:54:53,320
Ephesians 4 verses three to six.
He says make every effort to

984
00:54:53,320 –> 00:54:55,360
keep the unity of the Spirit
through the bond of peace.

985
00:54:56,920 –> 00:54:59,280
There’s one body and one spirit,
just as you were called to 1

986
00:54:59,280 –> 00:55:02,640
hope when you were called 1
Lord, 1 faith, one baptism, one

987
00:55:02,640 –> 00:55:06,120
God and Father of all who is
over all and through all and in

988
00:55:06,120 –> 00:55:08,080
all.
Do you see the relationship

989
00:55:08,080 –> 00:55:11,440
there with unity and peace?
He says this is a goal, right?

990
00:55:11,440 –> 00:55:15,760
You are supposed to make every
effort you can to be unified and

991
00:55:15,760 –> 00:55:19,720
the way you do it through peace,
he says.

992
00:55:21,120 –> 00:55:24,080
That’s the starting place.
This is why peace is the

993
00:55:24,080 –> 00:55:26,600
command.
We’re commanded to peace.

994
00:55:26,880 –> 00:55:32,440
We start with peace and we
believe then that unity proceeds

995
00:55:32,960 –> 00:55:35,680
from that.
So unity and peace are not the

996
00:55:35,680 –> 00:55:39,600
same thing.
We strive for peace with

997
00:55:39,600 –> 00:55:43,680
everyone all of the time.
That doesn’t mean that we agree

998
00:55:43,680 –> 00:55:46,720
with everyone.
What it means is that we talk,

999
00:55:48,080 –> 00:55:52,800
we work it out.
We only strive for unity with

1000
00:55:52,800 –> 00:55:55,720
some because there are only some
that we can’t be unified with.

1001
00:55:56,880 –> 00:56:00,680
And we do that on the basis of
principle.

1002
00:56:01,520 –> 00:56:03,720
So that’s the difference.
And I think when we can see that

1003
00:56:03,720 –> 00:56:06,760
difference, then that begins to
open up a lot of what God was

1004
00:56:06,760 –> 00:56:08,800
doing with Israel.
It begins to open up a lot of

1005
00:56:08,960 –> 00:56:12,720
how we work together, and it
begins then to help us

1006
00:56:12,720 –> 00:56:18,000
recognize, I think, that we
actually can, in our own lives,

1007
00:56:18,720 –> 00:56:36,840
achieve peace with everyone.
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