364: Brian Luke – The Singers and the Sons of Asaph

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Welcome to good Christophian
talks.

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I’m Levi.
I’m Chris.

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I’m Jason.
And I’m Brian, thank you for

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joining us this week on this
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And now let’s talk more about

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this week’s talk.
Hi everyone, it’s Jason Hensley.

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This week we are listening to a
talk by brother Brian Luke given

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in Lompoc, CA in the year 2000.
Now I have a special connection

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to this class.
I feel like I should explain it

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a little bit in that this is the
first time that I met Uncle

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Brian and he was kind of a big
part in really shaping who I

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have become as a Bible student.
He was one of the first ones to

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really inspire me to jump into
the Bible and try and understand

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what it was saying.
In fact, one of the things that

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really stuck with me was when I
asked him a question about

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Daniel, he said to me, tomorrow
night you and I are going to sit

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down together and we are going
to work through the book of

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Daniel.
And we did the next night and we

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sat down for hours and we walked
through the book of Daniel

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together.
And that made a really big

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impression on me as a teenager.
Now, that’s not what we’re

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looking at in this class, but I
felt like it was, it was a

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little bit of significant
background for understanding why

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this class, I think really
resonated with me.

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In addition, I think what he
does in this class is pretty

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exciting because number 1, he
takes a section of the Bible,

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which is the end of the book of
First Chronicles, a section of

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the Bible that can sometimes be
kind of dry.

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It feels like it’s just a lot.
So he takes that and he, he

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brings a lot of lessons out of
it.

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So I think number one, that’s
really helpful and #2 being

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someone who is, I think, still
considered a young person, I

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really appreciated his emphasis
on recognizing the importance of

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what has gone before.
Not that it’s always right and

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he makes that clear, but at
least having a respect for what

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has gone before and
acknowledging that the people

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before you worked hard.
And I really, I appreciated that

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reminder.
So I hope you do too.

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And I hope that this class is
meaningful for you.

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This is brother Brian Luke, the
year 2000 Bom Pococclesia, and

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it is his class called the
Singers and Sons of Asaph.

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Now brother Scaramastra made
easy deal of that difficult

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chapter, didn’t he?
It’s one of those that we used

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to remember when we were going
through with the children that

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was very difficult to when you
get to that section, for them to

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climb their way through all of
those names, especially he man’s

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fourteen sons.
Did you notice the, the variety

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he had there?
It must have been quite an

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exercise for his wife to think
of a new name, eh, when you’ve

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got fourteen sons.
But when you look at those

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names, you rather think that he
had a fair vocab.

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It didn’t seem to run out, did
he?

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I actually want to turn back a
chapter or two back to chapter

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23 and give you just the at
least the bones of this chapter.

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And then chapter 24, which is of
course, in between we will deal

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with when we deal with the
special offices of David later.

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But here’s David with an
insurrection in the environment

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in which he’s living.
He’s just come through the time

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of Adonis’s attempt to take the
throne.

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And yet look what this man gets
up to in verse 2 of chapter 23.

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It says he gathered together all
the Princess of Israel with the

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priests and the Levites.
And you might think, well, if

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he’s reorganizing the Levites,
the priests and the Levites, why

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then has he bothered about
getting all the Princess

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together as well?
Well, David, David really had a

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a sense.
He really had an excellent sense

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of the greater occasion.
He he knew how to put things

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together to have its maximum
effect upon people.

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And sometimes in a cliche of
life, you’ll find that a person,

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he knows how to organize an
event so that it really comes

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home with impression.
David had that undoubted

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ability.
He could sense the value of a

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matter.
He could sense how to bring it

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home to people.
For example, in a similar kind,

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look at chapter 24 and verse 6.
It says there and Shemayiah the

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son of Nethanel the scribe, one
of the Levites, wrote them

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before the king and the
Princess, and Zadok the priest,

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and Hemelich the son of Abartha,
and before the chief of the

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fathers of the priests and
Levites.

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Now what they’re doing is
setting out the names of the

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different sons of Eliezer and
Ithima, who would be in the 24

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courses of the priests.
But he didn’t do it just sort of

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in the backroom, did he, where
no one was aware these men were

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being inducted into their
office.

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And it was done with due
procedure.

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He’s a very clever man, very
astute, a king.

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And so in verse 6, it describes
a little scene.

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You can see all these very
important people all there.

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And each one of these then is is
called by name and their name is

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written down before the king and
the Princess and Zadok the

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priest, and Ahimelech the son of
Abartha, and before the chief of

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the fathers of the priests and
Levites.

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In other words, he was given
great occasion to their

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appointment.
They were not to see their

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office just as another thing.
Know something about that in

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ecclesial life.
Just another example before we

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broaden that outlook at chapter
25 and verse one.

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Moreover, David and the captains
of the hosts separated to the

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service of the sons of ASAP and
of Haman and Jaduthan.

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Did you notice anything when we
were going past that reading?

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I mean, brethren says what what
have the the generals of the

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army where it says the captains
of the host?

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We’re talking about Joab Abishai
with his bulging boseps biceps

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mighty men Ben AI, you wouldn’t
hesitate to take on a lion.

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What’s a out there with a what
we might call the, you know, the

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secretary of the of the singing
class ASAP and he man and

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Judithan, they are singers.
Whatever has it got to do with

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it that he should bring their
induction of office into the

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company of the captains of the
host?

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He knew a few things, didn’t he?
He was a very astute person and

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he could see that the people
might discredit perhaps the

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office of those who were singing
and making music.

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And so he brought out the great
strength of the empire and he

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put them there in front of them.
And these young boys that came

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up 28, the 24 that we’ve read
out today and were put into

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their offices.
And they were received their

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their office in the presence of
these great and the well known

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renowned soldiers of the realm.
And they had to do respect unto

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them because, in fact, there was
greater power in their office

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than there was in the office of
the of the generals of the army.

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He’s a very, very wise person,
wasn’t he?

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You know, sometimes in ecclesial
life, we, we missed that point.

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Somebody’s going to be appointed
to a certain committee and

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you’re busy at an AV meeting and
poll other things on the agenda.

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And so.
Oh, yes, somebody else for that

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committee.
OK.

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Yeah.
He’ll fit in.

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Yeah.
Go and ask him.

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So recorder’s busy that Sunday
morning.

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He rushes up, said, look, would
you mind helping out with the

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Gospel Advancement Committee or
would you like to go on the

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social committee?
And the person’s caught on the

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spot and they say like, I’m too
busy or whatever.

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See, there’s a way to do it,
isn’t there?

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That’s not the way to do it.
If you want that person to feel

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the value of what you’re
speaking about, it really needs

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more than one of the arranging
brethren to be interested in

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that.
And so, you know, did Brother

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Recorder see you out to so and
so?

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It doesn’t matter if he has or
he hasn’t really.

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It’s always best perhaps if he
has, but if he hasn’t, it’s

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still saying that person to that
person that the arranging

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brother very interested in in
that matter and the the

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appointment of of the right
person.

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And we really think you are the
right person for that job.

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It puts therefore value upon the
office.

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It’s just a very wise way to do
it rather than just in the

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helter skelter of events.
Just shoot out invitations here,

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there and every, and wonder
sometimes why people are not all

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that keen to take the office on.
But if the picture is built and

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seen to be a part, an integral
part of ecclesial life, a

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valuable part, then the person
that’s asked to do that will

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say, yes, I, I see the point.
This is, this is good.

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I’d like to help out in that
capacity.

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So, you know, just little things
like that.

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David was very clever, wasn’t
he?

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Very clever?
Who would have thought to bring

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out the, you know, the
secretaries of the, of, of the

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singing class and, and set up
their sons in front of the

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generals of the army.
They must have thought what’s he

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know about playing a playing 1/2
or a violin or something or, or

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symbols.
But you see, he had a greater

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concept in mind.
Very clever person, very clever.

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All right.
So chapter 23 and verse 2, he

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gathered together all the
Princess of Israel and he’s

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going to reorganize the Levites
and among them the priests.

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And so he does it in an
auspicious manner.

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Now I think this is just a
wonderful thing.

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My dear Britain said I know this
is all names and I don’t want to

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make the the study too bitty,
but I really want us to feel the

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power of what David’s doing.
Would you would you be concerned

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in the last years of your life
and you’ve had years in your bed

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absolutely worn out to a subtle
and would you want to be

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bothered with 38,000 people that
needed reorganization because

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that’s how many Levites there
were 38,000.

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I mean, that’s like being the
chief administrative officer in

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a, in a multinational company,
isn’t it?

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38,000 men.
He’s going to get hold of them.

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He’s going to reorganize their
lives.

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He’s going to spruce up their
officers.

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And they’re going to have to
know exactly what positions

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they’ve got.
And those officers are going to

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have to be attended with a new
shine and a new interest.

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And he’s going to have to convey
as king, he’s going to have to

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convey to them his interest in
what is being done.

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I don’t tell me you, you know,
ranging brethren, once they’re

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past 70, you’re out out on the
paddock.

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I really get a little vexed by
what are you laughing for, Bob?

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I thought he’d be crying.
Do you know, we ought to think

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about that because there is a
tendency in our society just as

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put people, you know, when they
get into their might be 50s or

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60s, it couldn’t be 50s.
I know that.

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But but to just sort of put them
out in the paddock.

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And I think that is just so
wrong.

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I couldn’t think of anything I’d
value more in our ecclesia than

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if we had 370 year olds sitting
on our AB.

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I’d love that.
I really would.

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Because they have gone through
the heat and burden of the day.

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And I think in in terms of, of
young folks positions and so on.

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You’ve got an older brother
who’s involved with the young

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people and he’s brought his
children through.

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He’s got an immense amount to
offer in that place and let

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alone on the arranging board.
I grew up in a meeting with many

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of the old.
The arranging brethren were

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older brethren.
It was a very good thing.

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You know, a 60 year old man, a
70 year old man today is not

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worn out.
And in many cases, look, there’s

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a lot of smiles coming from
early.

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They have a lot of sagacity to
offer our meeting.

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And their stability of life,
their stability of life, having

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gone through times when the
world was very different, offers

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a lot to our younger meetings
and to the younger people in our

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meetings.
So I just mentioned that David

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was old in the terms of
administration, but he had the

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zeal to go with it and what an
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So just bear that in mind.
Now it says in verse three that

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the Levites were numbered from
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Actually David increased that.
And if you look across the verse

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27, you’ll see by the last words
of David, the Levites were

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numbered from 20 years old and
above 30 was the time that was

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given back in numbers.
We won’t go back there because

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that it’s just a sort of
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references are back in numbers.
Chapter 4, verse 3 and verse 47

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where it was from 30 to 50
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And it says there and they’re
numbered by their polls, man by

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man was 30 and 8000.
That’s a lot of people that were

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numbered in that age group of
which, and here’s the division.

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If you’ve got a little piece of
paper, just write this down so

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we’ve got a picture of it.
See 38,000.

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That’s the total number of the
Levites. 24,000 were to set

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forward the work of the House of
Yahweh. 24,000 You just think

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how many people that is.
That’s a lot of people, isn’t

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it?
24,000 and note the number 24,

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it’s 2 by 12.
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today, we had 24 courses of the
singers and the chapter in

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between, which is chapter 24,
there’s 24 courses of the

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priests.
So it’s not accidental that it

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says 24,000 would have set
forward the work of the House of

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Yahweh.
See, they were obviously in

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courses, weren’t they, 1000
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And of course, the priests and
of course of the singers, they

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were obviously in groups that
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What a beautiful organization.
Would you like me thinking about

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that at his age and his health
circumstances, they had to get

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all those families rounded up so
that they knew exactly when they

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were coming on to their their
course.

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No, you’ve got saying, oh, look,
I can get there next Tuesday.

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If you’re supposed to be there
Monday morning.

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They had to be there ready for
their office.

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They couldn’t swap with someone
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It was their job to be there and
organize their life.

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Therefore accordingly to fit in
with what the king was

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organizing over all the land.
What an amazing man he was.

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It’s the work of God.
This comes first and you’ve got

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to fit in with this is what he
was saying.

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I’m reorganizing this whole
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It’s not going to be on some
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It’s going to have a very
distinct organization and this

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is it.
So I pulled that nation

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together.
I find that just absolutely

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inspiring.
My dear Vince, how how many of

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us sometimes feel that at least
is a little bit weary and you

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wonder if you’ve got the, the
zeal and the the courage and the

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the strength to sort of get the
thing going again, Really

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organize them where there’s a a
real passion in the meeting.

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Well, there’s inspiration, isn’t
it?

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What if your role and your
ecclesia was 38,000?

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You’d feel a bit weary, wouldn’t
you?

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Too big a task?
How could I ever be bothered

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with it all?
But the inspiration of David is

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that though whilst the work was
enormous, he nevertheless put

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his hand to it because he could
see that that great building was

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going to arise and it had to be
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So he’s going to get all those
people properly organized into

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their positions, 24,000 to set
forward the work of the House of

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the hour.
And it shows you something too,

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of the size of that house,
doesn’t it?

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I mean, what does 1000 people
around a house do if they’re in

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courses of 20 of 1000 each?
That’s a lot of people around

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the place, isn’t it?
Around the building, A lot of

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people.
What are they all doing?

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It was a very busy place indeed,
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And David therefore had this
amazing number of people that

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were involved in the Tavern, in
the in the temple and in its

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service.
And their number by their names,

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man by man, was 30 and 8000, of
which 20 and 4000 were to set

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forward the work of the House of
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And secondly, 6000 were officers
and judges, 6000 were officers

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and judges.
Now that’s a an amazing number

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of judges, isn’t it?
And you might remember how that

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in the Second of Chronicles
chapter 16, in the days of

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Jehoshaphat, we have an
excellent example of how the

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virtue of those people was seen
in the Second of Chronicles

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chapter 16.
That’s not right.

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Is it 26?
Is it 2nd Chronic was 19 verse

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verse 6, verse 5 and 6, and he
set judges in the land

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throughout all the fence cities
of Judah, city by city, and said

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to the judges, take heed what ye
do for ye judge, not for man,

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but for Yahweh who is with you
in the judgement.

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It’s a very beautiful
expression, isn’t it?

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Ye judge for Yahweh who is with
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Just keep your hand there and
look at Psalm 82, which is a

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Psalm about these people.
This was a Psalm of Asaph, one

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of the principal singers, who
obviously was more than a

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singer, but a very spiritually
minded man as well.

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In Psalm 82 it says God standeth
in the congregation of the

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mighty, He the judgeth among the
Elohim, the gods.

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And that’s the expression that
Jesus is borrowing when he says

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to the Jews of his day, Does it
not say in your law I said, ye

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are gods?
And that’s in verse 6.

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This is to the judges of Israel
who were called Elohim, because

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God’s name was upon them to give
to the people the judgments and

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principles of God.
So verse one then reads Elohim,

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the mighty ones, these people
thus appointed standeth in the

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congregation of the ale.
He judgeth among the Elohim.

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So there were judges that were
judging Israel and what the

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Psalm says beware because God is
your judge.

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People come to you and you give
them verdict, but you are

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standing in the presence of the
the ale Himself.

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So the Elohim, the judges in
Israel, were those who stood

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before God and would receive
their judgement of Him as they

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gave judgement unto others, and
therefore their judgement needed

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to be just.
That’s of course based isn’t

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upon Exodus where they were
called Elohim for the first

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time.
The Lord knew that, didn’t he?

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He just picked it, picked it out
in John chapter 10 verse 30,

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just plucked that statement
straight out of the record and

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said that’s not say in your law
that ye are judges, these ye are

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gods.
He knew all those little

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details, didn’t he?
He knew his Bible.

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And so that’s how we ought to
be.

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And so in the days of
Jehoshaphat, when things had not

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been done quite right and he
wanted to bring that nation

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back, he then used these people
for that offer.

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So there’s our 6000 officers and
judges in all the cities of

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Judah and of Israel.
And the Psalm gives us

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illustration of their
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Now coming back to First
Chronicles 23, we’ve got 38,024

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thousand or rather 24,000 were
in the work of the House, 6000

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officers and judges.
And then in verse 5 it says

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moreover 4000 were porters.
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They were also about the house,
but about the the keeping of the

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doors.
They kept the sanctity of God’s

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house, the atmosphere of that
house.

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They were guardians to that
house and we will have a look at

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them later on. 4000 of them.
How many doors did this temple

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have?
How many gates were there?

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4000 people involved in it.
Well, they weren’t always at the

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temple.
They were also in courses.

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In fact, all of these Levites,
all of these priests, they were

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not public servants full time,
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They also had their normal life
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They weren’t lounging upon the
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They had to conduct their own
affairs and so they were giving

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a part of their life to the
service of God.

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SO4000 praised Yahweh with
instruments is the next

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statement in verse 5, and the
chapter that deals with them is

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chapter 25.
So you can see what these

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subsequent chapters are doing.
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that’s all about the porters.
So we had 4000 porters and their

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chapter is chapter 26 and we had
4000 the singers or those that

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praised Yahweh with instruments,
and their chapter of

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organization is chapter 25 and
we had the priests as well and

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their chapter is chapter 24.
So you can see that chapter 23

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is now going to be expanded and
the organizational structure and

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the names involved is going to
be outlined in the subsequent

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chapters of First Chronicles 23.
So you can see that this whole

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section of Scripture, First
Chronicles 21, First Chronicles

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29 is all set in the last part
of David’s life and is speaking

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about his reorganization of the
of the whole city really and in

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particular of the Levites that
were about the service of God.

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A new house was going to need a
great more organization than had

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been before, and it says in
verse 6 that David divided them

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into courses among the sons of
Levi, namely Gershon, Kohath,

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and Murari.
Now, just for the purpose of

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picking up the structure of
this, I’d like you to have that

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little piece of paper again if
you’ve got it, and just put Levi

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and then three arrows down from
Levi.

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If I put this on a transparency,
you’ll look at it once and

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forget it, but if you write it
down, you’ll remember it.

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So Levi and he has three sons,
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And the, the, the scripture says
that David divided them into

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courses among the sons, the
three sons.

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So this chapter is going to be
about the Levites, and it is

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chapter 23.
Then it’s going to tell you

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about some of the sons of
Gershon who were principally

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involved, and some of the sons
of Coeth who were principals

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among the Levites, and some of
the sons of Murari who were

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principal sons of Levi.
And so he does also with the

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porters and with the singers.
They will come from each of

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those main divisions of the
Levites.

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So to get that picture clear in
your mind is important, isn’t

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it?
Levi, Gershon, Kohath and

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Murari, and from these and from
these and from these, he would

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take certain particular people
to be principles of the Levites

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generally in the work of the
house, to be principles in the

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Porter area or door keeping
area, principles also in the

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singing area.
That’s how he structured it.

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Of course, the priests came only
from one line.

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They came from the line of Aaron
who was among the sons of cohab.

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Now this became therefore a very
important structure in the whole

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of Israel’s future, and for
centuries that structure was

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preserved.
And if you come to 2nd of

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Chronicles, which is really
turning over all the period of

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the Davidic Kingdom in the
Second of Chronicles chapter 35,

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you’ll see how important that
became. 2nd of Chronicles 35 and

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verse 4, we’ve gone right over
to Josiah, who’s getting towards

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the end of the Kingdom of Judah,
and this is what it says and

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prepare yourselves, verse 4, by
the houses of your father’s, he

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says as he speaks to the Levites
and the priests after your

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courses.
According to the writing of

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David, king of Israel, and
according to the writing of

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Solomon his son.
Wasn’t that instructive?

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We’ve turned over 300 odd years
and there is the comment which

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Josiah says to his people.
So what we’re reading back here

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in First Chronicles 232425 and
26 is going to be an

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organizational structure that
will be implemented for 300

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years and or always be
recognized as having been laid

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down by the hand of David’s
writing and Solomon after him,

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who obviously established that
even for there’s an interesting,

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very interesting.
So it wasn’t just up to

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Hezekiah.
I said, oh, I wasn’t going to do

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it this way.
You know, I’m going to

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reorganize the place this way.
Like, you know, 1 government

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comes in, one party goes out and
you get a complete change of the

431
00:27:18,760 –> 00:27:21,160
way the government’s run.
That’s how it is in Australia.

432
00:27:21,280 –> 00:27:23,440
You don’t really know how to
turn up the telephone book

433
00:27:23,440 –> 00:27:25,280
anymore because you, you don’t
know where you’re going to find

434
00:27:25,280 –> 00:27:27,080
this particular office of the
government.

435
00:27:27,080 –> 00:27:28,360
It’s, it’s all changing, isn’t
it?

436
00:27:28,360 –> 00:27:29,840
Our world’s just changing like
crazy.

437
00:27:30,480 –> 00:27:33,600
Same here, is it?
Yeah, same everywhere, isn’t it?

438
00:27:33,600 –> 00:27:37,560
Madness in the world.
But in the days of David there

439
00:27:37,560 –> 00:27:41,000
was something laid down that was
by divine decree and it was

440
00:27:41,000 –> 00:27:44,200
established.
And Josiah, who had respected

441
00:27:44,200 –> 00:27:46,440
that, he resurrected that and
said this is how it’s going to

442
00:27:46,440 –> 00:27:50,640
be done according to my ancient
father’s direction, because God

443
00:27:50,640 –> 00:27:55,800
gave him that in the Second of
Chronicles 8 verse 14.

444
00:27:55,800 –> 00:28:01,400
No, that doesn’t mean the same
idea insisted in ecclesial life.

445
00:28:02,200 –> 00:28:05,760
There can’t be any change.
I’ll tell you what it does mean

446
00:28:05,760 –> 00:28:08,640
to me.
It meant, and I’d like our

447
00:28:08,720 –> 00:28:12,520
younger brethren to hear this.
What it does mean to me is that

448
00:28:12,520 –> 00:28:17,280
we ought to have respect at
least for the way things have

449
00:28:17,280 –> 00:28:20,000
been done.
If you want ecclesial peace and

450
00:28:20,000 –> 00:28:26,240
harmony, have respect the way
that older brethren have seen

451
00:28:26,240 –> 00:28:28,920
fit to do things.
It doesn’t mean to say that’s

452
00:28:28,920 –> 00:28:32,280
always perfect.
God did not tell us by divine

453
00:28:32,280 –> 00:28:36,760
decree how to do it.
But surely if you want peace in

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00:28:36,760 –> 00:28:41,520
your meeting, it is right that a
younger brother respects what

455
00:28:41,520 –> 00:28:42,640
has been.
Isn’t that true?

456
00:28:43,440 –> 00:28:46,440
It must be true.
Absolutely must be true.

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00:28:48,560 –> 00:28:52,400
Any movement that doesn’t
respect its pioneers is going to

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00:28:52,480 –> 00:28:54,160
be a movement that just goes off
the rails.

459
00:28:55,600 –> 00:28:58,000
It must mean that must when you
stop and think about it.

460
00:28:58,280 –> 00:28:59,760
Because God is working in our
midst.

461
00:28:59,760 –> 00:29:01,320
Yeah, well, He was working in
their midst too.

462
00:29:02,160 –> 00:29:04,120
And this is the way that things
were done, and they were done

463
00:29:04,120 –> 00:29:07,600
very well for many, many years.
If we live here 4 in an age

464
00:29:07,640 –> 00:29:10,120
that’s turning over, turning
over, turning over, don’t get

465
00:29:10,120 –> 00:29:12,880
caught up with that age.
The odds are that it’s going to

466
00:29:12,880 –> 00:29:15,640
be doing a lot of things very
wrongly as far as God’s

467
00:29:15,640 –> 00:29:18,480
concerned or totally unrelated
to the principles of God.

468
00:29:18,480 –> 00:29:20,280
But that wasn’t the case with
our grandparents.

469
00:29:20,920 –> 00:29:23,400
They were God fearing men who
saw fit to do it in certain

470
00:29:23,400 –> 00:29:26,040
ways.
Does it mean to say everything

471
00:29:26,040 –> 00:29:28,560
was perfect?
Doesn’t mean that at all, but it

472
00:29:28,560 –> 00:29:31,720
does mean if a pleasure piece,
it’s going to be realized that

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00:29:31,880 –> 00:29:34,000
the younger generation has
respect.

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00:29:35,400 –> 00:29:37,240
Like Josiah had respect, didn’t
he?

475
00:29:37,240 –> 00:29:40,440
Absolute respect.
And he never ever knew Dave

476
00:29:40,640 –> 00:29:42,800
hundreds of years from the
background, but he had absolute

477
00:29:42,800 –> 00:29:45,920
respect for that.
And you know, they even had the

478
00:29:45,920 –> 00:29:48,720
same instruments.
They they didn’t change the

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00:29:48,720 –> 00:29:49,880
instruments.
Incredible.

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00:29:51,040 –> 00:29:54,800
David made it this way.
That’s how it be made in the

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00:29:54,800 –> 00:29:58,080
second chronicle was 8.
This is the days of Solomon.

482
00:29:59,000 –> 00:30:00,400
Solomon was a brilliant young
boy.

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00:30:00,880 –> 00:30:02,120
He could make up his own
charter.

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00:30:02,120 –> 00:30:04,720
Surely he didn’t need to rely
upon anybody here.

485
00:30:04,720 –> 00:30:07,320
How did how did he need to walk
in the steps of anyone?

486
00:30:07,640 –> 00:30:09,320
Well, you have a look in Second
Chronicles 8.

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00:30:11,440 –> 00:30:16,360
Second Chronicles 8, verse 14,
brilliant young man, but he

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00:30:16,360 –> 00:30:20,240
appointed according to the order
of David his father.

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00:30:20,240 –> 00:30:23,720
Isn’t that lovely?
I love that according to the

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00:30:23,720 –> 00:30:27,360
order of David his father.
I’d love my boys and I’d love my

491
00:30:27,360 –> 00:30:31,640
daughters to think like that,
not because it’s me, but because

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00:30:31,640 –> 00:30:35,440
of the principle involved.
That’s how really we need to be

493
00:30:35,440 –> 00:30:39,480
in ecclesial life, to teach our
children to respect their elders

494
00:30:39,920 –> 00:30:43,640
so that they have a desire to
uphold what their fathers and

495
00:30:43,640 –> 00:30:47,400
their grandfathers and other
fathers in the faith have stood

496
00:30:47,400 –> 00:30:49,480
for, because that’s a good
thing.

497
00:30:50,360 –> 00:30:53,960
Is Solomon all his presence?
Was there ever a sharper mind in

498
00:30:53,960 –> 00:30:57,200
Israel than that?
But according to the principles

499
00:30:57,200 –> 00:31:01,880
of death, what Dad established
the courses of the priests to

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00:31:01,880 –> 00:31:05,000
their service, the Levites to
their charter, with the details

501
00:31:05,640 –> 00:31:08,800
to praise and minister before
the priests, as the duty of the

502
00:31:08,800 –> 00:31:13,480
priests, as the duty of every
day required, the porters also

503
00:31:13,480 –> 00:31:18,320
by the courses at every gate.
For so had David, the man of God

504
00:31:18,320 –> 00:31:22,200
commanded.
That’s impressive, isn’t it?

505
00:31:22,200 –> 00:31:26,520
Very impressive indeed to see
the detail that is given there.

506
00:31:27,600 –> 00:31:36,480
Now if you come back into the
first of Chronicles 28, you’ll

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00:31:36,480 –> 00:31:39,040
see that David did in fact
receive that pattern.

508
00:31:43,240 –> 00:31:45,920
You might say, well he he saw
the pattern of the temple,

509
00:31:46,200 –> 00:31:48,840
that’s true.
But he saw more than that.

510
00:31:49,960 –> 00:31:54,760
He saw how the place would work.
Verse 11, First Chronicles 28

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00:31:55,320 –> 00:32:00,520
David gave to Solomon his son,
the pattern of the porch and of

512
00:32:00,520 –> 00:32:05,360
the houses thereof, and of the
treasuries, and of the upper

513
00:32:05,360 –> 00:32:09,240
chambers, and of the inner
palace, and of the place of the

514
00:32:09,240 –> 00:32:11,960
mercy seat.
So I not just saw, you know, the

515
00:32:11,960 –> 00:32:15,120
very holy place and most holy
place, did he?

516
00:32:16,120 –> 00:32:18,800
He saw the whole structure of
that temple right down to the

517
00:32:18,800 –> 00:32:20,760
storehouses and the place where
people would live.

518
00:32:22,080 –> 00:32:24,880
And what’s more, verse 12 and
the pattern of all that he had

519
00:32:24,880 –> 00:32:29,200
by the spirit of the courts of
the House of the Lord and of all

520
00:32:29,200 –> 00:32:32,400
the chambers round about, of the
treasuries of the House of God

521
00:32:32,640 –> 00:32:34,840
and of the treasuries of the
dedicated thing.

522
00:32:34,960 –> 00:32:40,560
Also for the causes of the
priests and the Levites and for

523
00:32:40,560 –> 00:32:43,440
all the work of the service of
the House of the Lord and for

524
00:32:43,440 –> 00:32:45,640
all the vessels of service in
the House of the Lord.

525
00:32:46,200 –> 00:32:49,880
And therefore he’s able to put
these various matters of, of

526
00:32:49,880 –> 00:32:52,160
substance, the gold and the
silver and so forth that was

527
00:32:52,160 –> 00:32:54,000
necessary.
He could and he could work out

528
00:32:54,000 –> 00:32:58,440
the amounts that were required.
That’s why in verses 14 to to

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00:32:58,440 –> 00:33:01,240
18, he was able to work out all
the amount of metals that were

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00:33:01,240 –> 00:33:04,960
required in stones because he
had this little drawings of all

531
00:33:04,960 –> 00:33:06,840
of these things.
I said drawings.

532
00:33:06,840 –> 00:33:11,000
Look at verse 19.
All this said David, the Lord

533
00:33:11,000 –> 00:33:15,840
made me understand in writing by
his hand upon me, even all the

534
00:33:15,840 –> 00:33:17,640
works of this pattern.
Beautiful.

535
00:33:19,000 –> 00:33:20,800
That really is a very beautiful
thing, isn’t it?

536
00:33:21,000 –> 00:33:23,840
To put that whole picture
together shows that what David

537
00:33:23,840 –> 00:33:26,480
was instigating was not
something dreamt up out of his

538
00:33:26,480 –> 00:33:28,520
own mind, but something that God
had given him.

539
00:33:28,680 –> 00:33:32,000
He caused his hand to write it
out, even down to the the

540
00:33:32,000 –> 00:33:35,400
vessels and the the treasuries
and the place where people would

541
00:33:35,400 –> 00:33:38,400
live and all the other
apartments that were related to

542
00:33:38,400 –> 00:33:40,840
the temple.
What an amazing thing it was.

543
00:33:41,760 –> 00:33:44,560
And yet now he’s an old man, he
has to implement that, bring it

544
00:33:44,560 –> 00:33:47,360
in.
Incredible.

545
00:33:47,360 –> 00:33:50,200
It’s an incredible concept.
And you know, my dear brothers

546
00:33:50,200 –> 00:33:54,920
and sisters, as you think about
that, you’re realizing this

547
00:33:54,920 –> 00:33:59,120
surely, that when God’s hand,
when God’s Spirit comes upon

548
00:33:59,120 –> 00:34:03,280
David and he writes that out,
what would God have in mind?

549
00:34:05,480 –> 00:34:08,719
Is this the greatest temple?
Is this the greatest king?

550
00:34:11,600 –> 00:34:14,679
Really?
His mind is full of the future

551
00:34:14,679 –> 00:34:17,800
yet again, isn’t it?
It’s the greater temple in

552
00:34:17,800 –> 00:34:21,080
Jerusalem with the greatest Son
of David that really is the

553
00:34:21,080 –> 00:34:22,679
ultimate that God must have in
mind.

554
00:34:23,480 –> 00:34:28,360
True, He cannot surely give
something to David in those

555
00:34:28,360 –> 00:34:30,800
times that’s not going to
reflect what will be in the

556
00:34:30,800 –> 00:34:33,239
future.
Of course not.

557
00:34:34,440 –> 00:34:36,800
No more than you and I who might
set something before our

558
00:34:36,800 –> 00:34:38,320
children.
We’ve got an ultimate concept

559
00:34:38,320 –> 00:34:39,920
with them.
We’re not going to set something

560
00:34:39,920 –> 00:34:41,840
that’s going up in this
direction if we want them to go

561
00:34:41,840 –> 00:34:44,199
there, are we?
We’re going to set them

562
00:34:44,199 –> 00:34:46,719
something here might say, well,
that’s as much as they can take

563
00:34:46,719 –> 00:34:48,920
in for this time.
But in the end, I know it’s

564
00:34:48,920 –> 00:34:51,880
going to develop to that full
picture in the end.

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00:34:53,159 –> 00:34:55,480
So we have a bit of a treasure
here in Chronicles, don’t we?

566
00:34:57,560 –> 00:34:59,960
It’s a treasure of how things
will be in the Kingdom, I’m

567
00:34:59,960 –> 00:35:02,920
sure.
In fact, I can’t think of any

568
00:35:02,920 –> 00:35:06,840
other way in which we could, we
could get some way, some picture

569
00:35:06,840 –> 00:35:10,600
of how Jerusalem will work apart
from Ezekiel’s description at

570
00:35:10,600 –> 00:35:15,520
the end of his prophecy.
I can’t think of any better way

571
00:35:15,720 –> 00:35:18,560
of seeing how the priests and
others will work together than

572
00:35:18,560 –> 00:35:21,400
these old chapters in
Chronicles.

573
00:35:21,960 –> 00:35:25,400
These chapters have many words
and many big long names and that

574
00:35:25,400 –> 00:35:28,320
are so difficult to understand.
And yet there is a, there’s a

575
00:35:28,320 –> 00:35:32,000
precious value to them because
they are outlining to us that in

576
00:35:32,000 –> 00:35:34,440
the Kingdom to come, things are
going to be done according to a

577
00:35:34,440 –> 00:35:38,400
very strict protocol.
And it will be given by God and

578
00:35:38,640 –> 00:35:42,160
it’ll be kept up and people will
come to understand that one

579
00:35:42,160 –> 00:35:44,320
generation to another will, will
understand.

580
00:35:44,320 –> 00:35:47,520
That’s how things are done in
the temple in Jerusalem and

581
00:35:47,520 –> 00:35:50,320
Christ is king.
That’s why in the, in the Book

582
00:35:50,320 –> 00:35:53,120
of Revelation, there are 24
elders.

583
00:35:54,000 –> 00:35:57,160
Surely that 24 is based on the
fact that we’re 24 priests and

584
00:35:57,160 –> 00:36:00,760
24 courses of the singers, 24
courses of the of the

585
00:36:01,120 –> 00:36:04,160
gatekeepers and so on. 24,000 of
the Levites.

586
00:36:04,200 –> 00:36:08,280
It’s interesting, isn’t it?
Obviously when God caused that

587
00:36:08,280 –> 00:36:10,360
to be written, he had the great
picture in mind.

588
00:36:11,000 –> 00:36:14,040
And so here is a lovely way
seeing how things will be

589
00:36:14,040 –> 00:36:17,680
organized in the Kingdom.
So there’s a treasure in these

590
00:36:17,680 –> 00:36:20,520
old chapters and chronicles.
So when you come to the readings

591
00:36:20,520 –> 00:36:22,400
next time and your little
children say, oh, do we have to

592
00:36:22,400 –> 00:36:25,680
read this one, Mum and Dad say,
well there’s a secret in here

593
00:36:25,760 –> 00:36:29,120
and it’s telling us about things
to come, even if it’s about

594
00:36:29,400 –> 00:36:34,240
details of the past.
Now I said that he took various

595
00:36:34,240 –> 00:36:38,280
people from different to the
different divisions of Levi, and

596
00:36:38,280 –> 00:36:42,520
those divisions were Gershon,
Kohath and Murari.

597
00:36:42,520 –> 00:36:46,080
Verse 6.
Now look at how the chapters

598
00:36:46,080 –> 00:36:52,320
organized verse seven of the
Gershonites of the Gershonites,

599
00:36:55,600 –> 00:37:01,160
verse 12.
The sons of Kohath, which was

600
00:37:01,160 –> 00:37:10,480
the second one mentioned, and
verse 21 of the sons of Murari.

601
00:37:10,800 –> 00:37:14,200
So there’s the structure of the
chapter 3 main divisions of the

602
00:37:14,200 –> 00:37:19,040
Levites, Gershon, Kohath,
Murari, Gershon verse 7, Kohath

603
00:37:19,040 –> 00:37:27,520
verse 12 and Murari verse 21.
And from there there are 24 who

604
00:37:27,520 –> 00:37:31,760
are chosen out.
You’ve got, for example, in

605
00:37:31,760 –> 00:37:34,760
verse 8, you’ve got three
mentioned.

606
00:37:35,320 –> 00:37:38,000
Just perhaps ring that little
three with a pencil if you like.

607
00:37:39,360 –> 00:37:43,240
And in verse 9, you’ve got of
the sons of shimi 3 particular

608
00:37:43,240 –> 00:37:47,760
persons who were going to be
preeminent among the 24,000.

609
00:37:48,880 –> 00:37:53,800
And then in verse the 10, it
says these four were the sons of

610
00:37:53,800 –> 00:37:58,920
Shimii.
So you’ve got 3 + 3 is 6 + 4 is

611
00:37:59,040 –> 00:38:02,600
10.
And if you come down to verse

612
00:38:02,640 –> 00:38:08,360
16, you’ve got another one
mentioned, and his name is

613
00:38:08,480 –> 00:38:12,480
Chebuwel, and another one
mentioned in verse 17.

614
00:38:13,840 –> 00:38:18,080
So we’re up to 12, aren’t we?
And verse 18 is another one

615
00:38:18,080 –> 00:38:21,840
mentioned, the chief.
And in verse 19 it mentions

616
00:38:21,840 –> 00:38:26,840
another 4.
And in verse 20 there’s another

617
00:38:26,840 –> 00:38:31,960
2.
The second see, And there’s 2IN

618
00:38:31,960 –> 00:38:36,240
verse 21 and there’s three in
verse 23.

619
00:38:37,080 –> 00:38:38,920
If you add those up, it comes to
24.

620
00:38:39,640 –> 00:38:43,480
So they obviously from those 3
principal divisions of the

621
00:38:43,480 –> 00:38:48,600
Koathites, they were the 24
elders among the Levites, among

622
00:38:48,600 –> 00:38:52,720
the 24,000.
So 1000 in each group, 24 litres

623
00:38:52,720 –> 00:38:54,560
of 1000 each.
Isn’t that interesting?

624
00:38:54,920 –> 00:38:58,160
Now would you want to worry
about that when you were in his

625
00:38:58,160 –> 00:39:00,640
condition of health?
But David got to that, didn’t he

626
00:39:01,120 –> 00:39:04,720
got his mind onto it, organized
himself and and and approached

627
00:39:04,720 –> 00:39:08,040
that with great interest and he
got that all implemented in

628
00:39:08,040 –> 00:39:11,720
Israel.
Well, it was a little more

629
00:39:11,720 –> 00:39:14,280
involved than that, wasn’t it?
Because we we missed out the

630
00:39:14,280 –> 00:39:19,440
bracket in between and says in
verse 12, the sons of Kohath

631
00:39:19,440 –> 00:39:23,720
were Amram.
So where you’ve got your little

632
00:39:23,720 –> 00:39:30,720
diagram, Levi, Gershon, Kohath,
and Murari now make 4 arrows

633
00:39:30,720 –> 00:39:37,400
down from Kohath, and the names
of those to those 4 arrows are

634
00:39:37,640 –> 00:39:46,240
verse 12.
Amram is ha and Hebron and

635
00:39:46,280 –> 00:39:50,240
Aziel.
So Kohath had four sons.

636
00:39:50,880 –> 00:39:59,760
Amram is ha Hebron and Aziel.
Now Izha has one of his sons

637
00:39:59,760 –> 00:40:06,960
chosen in verse 18.
See that Hebron has four of his

638
00:40:06,960 –> 00:40:13,800
sons chosen in verse 19.
I just ran a a little line down

639
00:40:13,800 –> 00:40:16,160
and joined the two up so I could
always see that.

640
00:40:17,560 –> 00:40:22,520
And Aziel, he had two in verse
20.

641
00:40:23,520 –> 00:40:26,240
The chapter’s got a lot of
structure to it, hasn’t it?

642
00:40:27,440 –> 00:40:31,000
Kohath, Amram, Isha, Hebron and
Azil.

643
00:40:31,000 –> 00:40:33,720
What about Amram?
We know who Amram was.

644
00:40:33,720 –> 00:40:37,840
He’s the father of Moses, father
of Moses and Aaron.

645
00:40:39,080 –> 00:40:43,960
And so we read in verse 13 the
sons of Amram, Aaron and Moses.

646
00:40:45,760 –> 00:40:50,320
He puts Moses aside and says,
and Aaron was separated, that he

647
00:40:50,320 –> 00:40:54,840
should sanctify the most holy
things, he and his sons forever,

648
00:40:55,400 –> 00:41:01,600
to burn incense before Yahweh,
to minister unto him, and to

649
00:41:01,600 –> 00:41:05,080
bless in his name forever.
There’s the four things that are

650
00:41:05,080 –> 00:41:10,160
noted of the priesthood of the
sons of Aaron, sanctify the most

651
00:41:10,160 –> 00:41:18,080
holy things, burn incense,
minister unto him and to bless

652
00:41:18,080 –> 00:41:22,640
in his name forever.
The priests were separated for

653
00:41:22,640 –> 00:41:27,040
that work and their chapter is
the next 1 chapter 24.

654
00:41:31,960 –> 00:41:36,440
All right, so that helps us to
see that there isn’t a structure

655
00:41:36,800 –> 00:41:39,960
in the in the first of
Chronicles, chapter 23.

656
00:41:41,000 –> 00:41:44,120
Now there’s a few general
descriptions about the duties of

657
00:41:44,120 –> 00:41:47,120
the Levites.
These were the sons of Levi,

658
00:41:47,240 –> 00:41:51,480
verse 24, after the House of
their fathers, even the chief of

659
00:41:51,480 –> 00:41:54,560
the fathers, as they were
counted by number of names, by

660
00:41:54,560 –> 00:41:57,840
their poles that did the work
for the service of the House of

661
00:41:57,840 –> 00:42:00,120
the Lord from the age of 20
years and upward.

662
00:42:00,440 –> 00:42:04,520
For David said, the Lord God of
Israel hath given rest, and his

663
00:42:04,520 –> 00:42:10,840
people, that they may dwell in
Jerusalem forever rather, and he

664
00:42:10,840 –> 00:42:14,200
dwells in Jerusalem forever.
And you’ll see that the margin

665
00:42:14,200 –> 00:42:21,880
actually renders it that way.
So does the RSV sense, doesn’t

666
00:42:21,880 –> 00:42:24,320
it?
The Lord God of Israel hath

667
00:42:24,320 –> 00:42:28,760
given rest unto his people, and
he dwells in Jerusalem forever.

668
00:42:28,760 –> 00:42:33,040
That’s why we’re getting
organized, because the Lord God

669
00:42:33,040 –> 00:42:36,840
of Israel is coming home, as it
were, to rest in Jerusalem.

670
00:42:36,840 –> 00:42:38,760
We’ve got to be ready for that.
We’ve got to have things done

671
00:42:38,760 –> 00:42:41,000
properly.
This can’t be just

672
00:42:41,000 –> 00:42:42,640
lackadaisical.
This has got to be done

673
00:42:42,640 –> 00:42:44,960
properly.
And so we’re reorganizing.

674
00:42:44,960 –> 00:42:47,080
Wasn’t David a wonderful man of
God, my dear?

675
00:42:47,080 –> 00:42:51,120
And sisters, he saw the scope of
what was involved, and he

676
00:42:51,120 –> 00:42:54,800
thought, oh, if the Lord God of
Israel is going to come into

677
00:42:54,800 –> 00:42:58,800
this, the capital city, then
this city’s got to run right and

678
00:42:58,800 –> 00:43:00,120
things have got to be done
properly.

679
00:43:02,520 –> 00:43:04,320
I wonder how much of that is
lost today.

680
00:43:04,320 –> 00:43:09,160
Now it clears your life and the
sanctity of our meetings.

681
00:43:09,400 –> 00:43:14,120
I don’t think our meetings need
to be stiff or cold formal to

682
00:43:14,120 –> 00:43:15,560
that degree.
I don’t like that.

683
00:43:16,760 –> 00:43:19,920
But I do think that there should
be a sanctity in our meetings.

684
00:43:20,640 –> 00:43:24,360
You know, there’s a certain
discipline in our meetings so

685
00:43:24,360 –> 00:43:29,000
that concentration can be good,
so that people know they’re

686
00:43:29,000 –> 00:43:33,000
about something serious.
We don’t just sort of turn up to

687
00:43:33,000 –> 00:43:36,760
the meetings like we turn up to
a picnic, like if we’re going

688
00:43:36,760 –> 00:43:38,760
down the beach.
It’s just not right, is it?

689
00:43:40,200 –> 00:43:41,720
This isn’t the way we should do
things.

690
00:43:41,720 –> 00:43:43,080
We’ve never done things that
way.

691
00:43:43,360 –> 00:43:45,720
It’s only really our modern
world that does things like

692
00:43:45,720 –> 00:43:48,880
that, and we don’t have to
conform to that.

693
00:43:49,440 –> 00:43:52,480
We’re really separated, aren’t
we, to a different and a holy

694
00:43:52,480 –> 00:43:54,920
calling.
And in our brotherhood all

695
00:43:54,920 –> 00:43:57,200
across the world, my dear Ben,
sister, we need to be careful of

696
00:43:57,200 –> 00:44:00,400
those things, not to make that
the big issue, but nevertheless

697
00:44:00,960 –> 00:44:03,400
to preserve the sanctity of our
meetings.

698
00:44:04,600 –> 00:44:06,640
If what our children do in the
hall, it’s not a place for

699
00:44:06,640 –> 00:44:09,400
games, you know, you don’t play
cricket in the hall, or is it

700
00:44:09,400 –> 00:44:11,280
baseball?
It’d be even a bit more

701
00:44:11,280 –> 00:44:16,120
dangerous, wouldn’t it?
There should be a proper

702
00:44:16,120 –> 00:44:19,120
environment in our hall that
teaches or even our children

703
00:44:20,280 –> 00:44:24,080
that this is a place where we
worship God and where we learn

704
00:44:24,080 –> 00:44:26,880
about the things of God and we
keep the sanctity of the

705
00:44:26,880 –> 00:44:29,000
meeting.
That’s how David feels.

706
00:44:29,120 –> 00:44:30,400
God’s going to come into
Jerusalem.

707
00:44:30,400 –> 00:44:33,560
Well, I’ve got to get this place
right, got to have everybody

708
00:44:33,560 –> 00:44:34,640
organized.
They’ve got to feel it.

709
00:44:34,640 –> 00:44:35,760
They’ve got to be touched by
this.

710
00:44:35,760 –> 00:44:38,920
This is too wonderful that this
is going to happen.

711
00:44:39,200 –> 00:44:41,720
Wasn’t he a beautiful man?
He really was a man of God.

712
00:44:41,880 –> 00:44:45,360
Great fear of God in his heart.
And it says in verse 26, and

713
00:44:45,360 –> 00:44:48,120
also under the Levites, they
shall no more carry the

714
00:44:48,120 –> 00:44:50,680
Tabernacle, nor any vessels of
it for the service thereof,

715
00:44:50,680 –> 00:44:54,760
because it’s coming to stay.
Or by the last words of David,

716
00:44:54,760 –> 00:44:58,680
the Levites were numbered from
20 years old and above because

717
00:44:58,680 –> 00:45:01,640
their office was to wait on the
sons of Aaron for the service of

718
00:45:01,640 –> 00:45:04,280
the House of Yahweh in the
courts and in the chambers, and

719
00:45:04,280 –> 00:45:07,520
the purifying all holy things
and the work of the service for

720
00:45:07,520 –> 00:45:10,360
the House of God.
Look at all the things that they

721
00:45:10,360 –> 00:45:13,400
had to be about, both for the
showbread and for the fine

722
00:45:13,400 –> 00:45:16,200
flour, for meat offering and for
the unleavened cakes, and for

723
00:45:16,200 –> 00:45:19,000
that which is baked in the pan,
and for that which is fried, and

724
00:45:19,000 –> 00:45:21,000
for all manner of measure and
size.

725
00:45:21,640 –> 00:45:24,240
You know, I never had much idea
of what it was involved in, in

726
00:45:24,240 –> 00:45:28,040
the offerings of the temple
until one time a little piece of

727
00:45:28,040 –> 00:45:30,120
land I had, we, we lost an
animal.

728
00:45:30,240 –> 00:45:32,440
It was a, it was a, it’s always
the best one you lose.

729
00:45:32,440 –> 00:45:33,840
And this was the best one in the
herd.

730
00:45:34,160 –> 00:45:38,080
And we lost this animal, you
see, beautiful cow was, and I

731
00:45:38,080 –> 00:45:39,360
thought, what am I going to do
with that?

732
00:45:39,360 –> 00:45:41,760
And the neighbor says, well,
you, you burn it up, you see.

733
00:45:43,040 –> 00:45:44,320
So I thought, all right, we’ll
burn it up.

734
00:45:45,240 –> 00:45:47,760
So I got this wood together.
And as I was putting this wood

735
00:45:47,760 –> 00:45:50,920
on the on the animal and it was
all bloated, of course, because

736
00:45:50,920 –> 00:45:54,720
been there a day or two, I began
to realize what a tremendous

737
00:45:54,720 –> 00:45:58,920
work this was to put fire to an
animal and devour.

738
00:45:58,920 –> 00:46:00,360
Have you ever done it?
Who’s done it?

739
00:46:00,640 –> 00:46:03,800
Anybody done it?
It’s an amazing John need half a

740
00:46:03,800 –> 00:46:07,520
forest to burn an animal.
It’s absolutely amazing how much

741
00:46:07,960 –> 00:46:10,280
wood you need to to consume the
animal.

742
00:46:10,600 –> 00:46:13,640
This was just a full grown cow.
And I came back, you know, a

743
00:46:13,920 –> 00:46:16,560
couple of hours later and things
still burning and all the wood

744
00:46:16,560 –> 00:46:17,920
was gone.
So I heaped a whole lot more

745
00:46:17,920 –> 00:46:19,880
wood on.
I came back a couple of days

746
00:46:19,880 –> 00:46:21,040
later.
I had to do the same again.

747
00:46:21,040 –> 00:46:25,120
Came back a couple of days
later, still enough and I began

748
00:46:25,120 –> 00:46:27,440
to have some idea of what was
actually involved.

749
00:46:27,600 –> 00:46:31,000
You know, when it speaks in the
law of of hundreds of offerings,

750
00:46:32,160 –> 00:46:34,080
sometimes thousands of
offerings.

751
00:46:35,000 –> 00:46:38,320
Those men would have been
working like Trojans to get

752
00:46:38,320 –> 00:46:41,360
through that work.
And every day that was coming up

753
00:46:41,960 –> 00:46:45,840
to the to the the place of the
temple, those Levites had to

754
00:46:45,840 –> 00:46:48,200
really work.
And you can understand why there

755
00:46:48,200 –> 00:46:50,680
was all these people, why it had
to be organized.

756
00:46:50,760 –> 00:46:53,640
If it couldn’t be held handled,
then it wouldn’t happen.

757
00:46:53,640 –> 00:46:55,280
People say, oh, it’s now just
taking your animal up there.

758
00:46:55,280 –> 00:46:57,880
You have to wake up, wait, wait
for a week before it’s offered.

759
00:46:58,720 –> 00:47:01,880
It had to be done then, didn’t
it had to be done properly.

760
00:47:02,640 –> 00:47:06,600
How do you kill an animal?
You say you take it off to the,

761
00:47:07,240 –> 00:47:09,480
I say the abattoirs, you say the
slaughterhouse, don’t you?

762
00:47:09,480 –> 00:47:11,840
And you don’t know what happens
there, do you?

763
00:47:12,040 –> 00:47:16,920
But how do you kill an animal?
He’s a, he’s a, a Bullock and

764
00:47:16,920 –> 00:47:19,280
he’s full grown.
He weighs 1000 kilograms.

765
00:47:20,280 –> 00:47:21,680
All right, here’s the knife.
You’re going to kill him.

766
00:47:23,760 –> 00:47:26,480
How do you do that?
Very difficult, isn’t it?

767
00:47:26,800 –> 00:47:28,640
He’s not going to like it.
He’s going to stand there for

768
00:47:28,640 –> 00:47:31,520
you.
You’re going to have to have

769
00:47:31,520 –> 00:47:34,640
some very strong ties around
that animal to be able to

770
00:47:34,640 –> 00:47:36,920
achieve that.
And then you’re going to have to

771
00:47:36,920 –> 00:47:39,000
butcher the parts, take it
apart.

772
00:47:39,920 –> 00:47:43,080
And in fact, it was a lot of
work, an enormous amount of

773
00:47:43,080 –> 00:47:45,280
work.
And I began to realize just how

774
00:47:45,280 –> 00:47:48,280
much wood would be involved.
That has to come from the, the

775
00:47:48,280 –> 00:47:51,040
forests all around, doesn’t it?
So there were wood offerings.

776
00:47:51,280 –> 00:47:53,120
You read about them, don’t you,
Nehemiah?

777
00:47:53,120 –> 00:47:56,960
You read about them, Malachi.
So it was a very large

778
00:47:56,960 –> 00:48:01,000
institution, very busy, and had
to be so because people were

779
00:48:01,000 –> 00:48:02,960
continually coming with their
concerns.

780
00:48:04,000 –> 00:48:05,560
I’ll tell you another thing
would make you think, wouldn’t

781
00:48:05,560 –> 00:48:08,160
it, if you take a big animal
like that up to the temple

782
00:48:08,160 –> 00:48:10,200
because you had sinned, you’d
think twice about sinning

783
00:48:10,200 –> 00:48:13,200
another time too.
I never thought of that until

784
00:48:13,440 –> 00:48:15,280
that happened to me.
You’d, you’d really stop and

785
00:48:15,280 –> 00:48:19,080
think, eh, you’re going to break
God’s law again.

786
00:48:19,080 –> 00:48:20,840
Well, you better be careful
because they’re going to cost

787
00:48:20,840 –> 00:48:24,480
you something.
So there were all these people

788
00:48:24,680 –> 00:48:27,560
that were involved, but there
were other things too.

789
00:48:27,560 –> 00:48:31,400
Verse 30 and to stand every
morning to thank and praise

790
00:48:31,400 –> 00:48:34,480
Yahweh.
And likewise that even the

791
00:48:34,480 –> 00:48:38,800
temple was a lovely place to go
to, to stand every morning to

792
00:48:38,800 –> 00:48:42,920
thank and praise Yahweh.
And likewise it Even so, it was

793
00:48:42,920 –> 00:48:47,360
a place of song and of
happiness, of heart, of uplift,

794
00:48:47,360 –> 00:48:49,720
of spirit.
It was a beautiful place, a high

795
00:48:49,720 –> 00:48:53,280
priest to be going past near the
bells ringing on his on his

796
00:48:53,280 –> 00:48:56,000
garments.
And there was an alacrity about

797
00:48:56,000 –> 00:48:57,960
what they were doing.
And these men that were given to

798
00:48:57,960 –> 00:49:01,200
song and to praise.
It wasn’t a starchy old place.

799
00:49:01,200 –> 00:49:04,120
It was a place where the the
nerve center of the nation would

800
00:49:04,120 –> 00:49:08,520
be felt and God was there and so
they had to be in respect to

801
00:49:08,520 –> 00:49:11,960
that and to offer all birth
sacrifices unto Yahweh in the

802
00:49:11,960 –> 00:49:14,920
Sabbaths.
Look at all the things they had

803
00:49:14,920 –> 00:49:17,640
to remember, young men, many of
them.

804
00:49:17,680 –> 00:49:20,520
They had to remember what you
did on the Sabbath and when you

805
00:49:20,520 –> 00:49:24,200
did it and how you did it and
who did it and what day.

806
00:49:24,480 –> 00:49:27,800
In the New Moons there were
special sacrifices for the the

807
00:49:27,800 –> 00:49:33,480
turning of the month, and on the
set feasts 3 * a year they were

808
00:49:33,480 –> 00:49:35,680
set piece, and they all had
their various offerings.

809
00:49:35,840 –> 00:49:39,320
And the boys need to know when
that was, and do it properly by

810
00:49:39,320 –> 00:49:42,080
number, according to the order
commanded unto them.

811
00:49:42,080 –> 00:49:46,480
Continually before Yahweh there
was a little spot effort or a

812
00:49:46,480 –> 00:49:47,640
Bible school, and it was all
over.

813
00:49:47,800 –> 00:49:50,720
It went on through the year.
And that they should keep the

814
00:49:50,720 –> 00:49:53,960
charge of the Tabernacle of the
congregation and the charge of

815
00:49:53,960 –> 00:49:58,640
the holy place, and the charge
of the sons of Aaron, their

816
00:49:58,640 –> 00:50:01,600
brethren, in the service of the
House of the Lord.

817
00:50:02,480 –> 00:50:04,320
That was a great work, my dear
brothers and sisters.

818
00:50:04,320 –> 00:50:07,560
And in that we can see something
of what’s going to be in the

819
00:50:07,560 –> 00:50:12,880
future and what a busy place
Jerusalem is going to be, be a

820
00:50:12,880 –> 00:50:15,480
place of joy and happiness and
singing and praise.

821
00:50:15,480 –> 00:50:18,360
It’s going to be busy too, isn’t
it, when people are coming from

822
00:50:18,440 –> 00:50:21,600
all nations to Jerusalem to
worship.

823
00:50:22,320 –> 00:50:24,240
And at that time it’s going to
be up to us to know the

824
00:50:24,240 –> 00:50:27,080
protocols and to be able to lead
those people.

825
00:50:27,080 –> 00:50:29,320
It says in Zechariah doesn’t
they shall go to him that is a

826
00:50:29,320 –> 00:50:32,120
Jew and take hold of him and say
we will go with people.

827
00:50:32,120 –> 00:50:33,320
We have heard that God is with
you.

828
00:50:33,320 –> 00:50:37,320
What about the Saints?
Israel are going to learn in

829
00:50:37,320 –> 00:50:39,040
part from the Saints.
That’s you and me.

830
00:50:39,040 –> 00:50:43,000
But what if we haven’t done our
daily readings now?

831
00:50:43,760 –> 00:50:45,880
What if we’re slack in
attendance of our Bible class?

832
00:50:47,560 –> 00:50:50,120
What if we don’t think there’s
any need any longer to, to put

833
00:50:50,120 –> 00:50:51,880
out lectures and we don’t really
know these things?

834
00:50:52,440 –> 00:50:55,000
And somebody tugged it out and
said, look, tell me I used to

835
00:50:55,000 –> 00:50:56,640
learn about the Trinity, but how
does it go?

836
00:50:57,760 –> 00:51:00,000
I say Trinity.
Oh, I’m not sure, mate.

837
00:51:00,960 –> 00:51:02,680
I, I forget now.
I was baptized a lot of years

838
00:51:02,680 –> 00:51:05,640
ago.
I mean, that’s not what a

839
00:51:05,640 –> 00:51:08,000
saint’s going to do, is he?
He’s going to be able to open

840
00:51:08,000 –> 00:51:10,560
the book and say, look, this is
what it says in the Scriptures,

841
00:51:10,560 –> 00:51:14,000
and we’re going to be able to do
that then because we know it

842
00:51:14,000 –> 00:51:16,080
now.
This is the day of preparation,

843
00:51:17,800 –> 00:51:20,000
so we’re in for wonderful
things, my dear brother and

844
00:51:20,000 –> 00:51:23,680
sisters, in the future, and let
us prepare diligently for that

845
00:51:23,680 –> 00:51:24,480
time.
Thank you.

846
00:51:39,680 –> 00:51:41,800
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847
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848
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