Andy Walton – Class 2: The Fig Tree – The Tree

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Right.
So here we are for part two of

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the Fig Tree a sign for all
time.

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And we’re going to have a really
quick recap of part one.

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So basically, there’s three
talks that are put together part

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1 was all about the fruit.
And part two is all about the

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tree and part three is all about
the future.

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And so, what we’re doing tonight
is the part 2 1, which Is all

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about the actual tree itself.
So let me just click forward on

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this.
So, if you remember what we

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said, was part one, we went back
to Genesis and we looked at.

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We looked at the Fig Tree in
Genesis and we’ll do a little

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recap on nothing just a in just
a moment.

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But tonight we look we
considering the Fig Tree itself

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and And basically, I think what
we said last time was that the

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tree of knowledge of Good and
Evil itself was a fig tree and

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I’ll recap just very slightly in
a second just to remind you of

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what we said.
And we pointed out that the

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figure itself and what was going
on with the Fig, was all to do

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with Jesus is sacrifice in
symbolic terms.

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We going to find out this
evening, is that the tree itself

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is all about Israel.
So the the Fig is about the work

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of Jesus.
The tree itself is all about

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Israel in symbolic terms.
So just a couple of slides, just

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to recap.
So if you remember, we went back

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into the Garden of Eden we saw
in there because it’s the first

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time that figs are actually
mentioned.

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And what we said was that God
planted a garden Eastward in

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Eden and in the center of that
guard.

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And there were two trees, there
was the tree of life and there

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was the tree of knowledge of
Good and Evil.

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I’m basically what we said was
that the tree of knowledge of

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Good and Evil.
There’s a lot of evidence to

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suggest that it was itself a fig
tree just as we have trees it

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was just a common or garden fig
tree that was right in the

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center of the garden.
That was the tree of knowledge

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of Good and Evil.
And one of the reasons that we

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suggested that it is the Fig
Tree itself is if you remember

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when God said to Adam, If they
couldn’t eat of the tree of

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knowledge of Good and Evil, they
decided to eat this because the

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serpent said to them, you know,
you’re not going to die.

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God has said that, you’ll die,
you won’t die and so they

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thought.
Well, okay, we going to eat of

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eat of the fruit of it because
it looked really good.

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And actually the serpent was
right in one aspect that it was

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a tree that was going to make
them wise and really it did it.

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Open.
Their eye is to understand good

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and evil.
The moment they ate of the

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fruit, their eyes were opened.
It says, as you can see there on

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the screen, the eyes of both of
them were opened and they knew

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that they were naked.
So this is the second after the

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beating of the Fig and then what
they did, of course for sewed

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fig leaves together and what we
said was that actually this is

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interesting because it doesn’t
say that they walked off and

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found a fig tree.
The last tree that was mentioned

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was the tree of knowledge.
Leaves of Good and Evil.

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And the next sentence is, they
sewed.

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Fig leaves together.
And we said, actually, this is

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quite a strange thing to do.
Why would they wander around the

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garden?
Looking for, you know, some

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other tree, surely if they were
ashamed at that very instant,

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they would grab the nearest
leaves that were next to them.

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And as we also said, the Fig
leaves themselves are very very

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unpleasant to the touch.
They’re almost like sandpaper,

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they’re not the The first leaves
that you would think about in

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terms of grabbing to cover
yourself on your skin.

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They’re very very coarse and
sandpapery.

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But anyway they somehow Stitch
these leaves leaves together.

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So there’s almost an underlying
clue.

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Excuse me that the Fig Tree was
the tree of knowledge of Good

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and Evil and then what we did we
had to look at what was going on

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with the Fig wasp and the
Markable circumstances of how a

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fig is pollinated.
So I’ll just play one of the

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little videos that have played
last time just to remind you.

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Hopefully this works.
And so the pollinated, wasp

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reaches an immature fig, but her
journey is far from.

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Over ahead lies, the greatest
challenge of her brief life

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clawing and squeezing her way
through the gate, her wings and

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antennae are ripped from her.
She makes the ultimate sacrifice

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as the final push to enter burst
her abdomen.

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In an epic struggle, between
sacrifice and survival.

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The mother wasp crawls through
the narrow Labyrinth towards the

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inner chamber.
She is wounded and week airing

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only her eggs and the pollen
gift from the former fake.

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If the WASP fails to pollinate
the flowers, No Seeds will ever

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develop big fruits with no
future are costly to the tree.

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So they will not receive an
inflow of nutrients.

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If the WASP does not pollinate
the entire fig may be aborted.

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However, if she devotes herself
to Pollination as well as laying

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eggs Ginger’s, the Fig will hold
the promise of seeds.

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The tree will pump sugars and
nutrients into the Fig, securing

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the future of seeds and larvae.
Like, when they mature and leave

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the fake will ripen.
Thus completing the cycle of

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mutual benefit that we are.
And if you remember, there was a

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few of the videos, and when you
put all the phrases together,

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what you get at these exact
phrases in one of the videos

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said that a figures like an
enclosed Garden because all the

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flowers, you need Uniquely are
inside the fruit itself, there’s

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no other fruit tree, like it
from that aspect.

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There’s only one way into the
Fig.

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It’s a very narrow way in.
It’s so narrow in fact that the

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little fig wasp it’s only 2
millimeters long makes the

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ultimate sacrifice.
If you notice that phrase when

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the little fig wasp gets into
the hole, it tears off its wings

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and tears off its and 10 ISO.
No way out now and in fact, when

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it goes through the whole
somehow rather the Fig knows

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that it’s gone in and closes up
the whole behind the Fig wasp,

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there’s actually no way out for
it.

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And so you heard the phrase that
this fig wasp is the Fig wasp is

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wounded and weak.
You heard the phrase that it’s

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devoted to pollination and it’s
all about the promise of seeds

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because it’s fig wasp is
pollinating the The flowers that

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are inside the Fig itself.
And you also heard that it says

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that the future of the Fig is
secured because of what this

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little fig wasp is doing and
when I first listened to all of

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that it seemed to me to have so
many Links.

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Of course to the work of the
Lord Jesus Christ and we know he

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is the ultimate sacrifice.
He was wounded and was weak.

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He was devoted to the cause he
did create the The future seeds

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and he did secure our future.
So and all of that staking

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place, of course, in this
enclosed Garden, we just one

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very narrow way in.
So the last bit of recap was

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just me saying, well look, if
the Fig was the forbidden fruit

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then actually, this is quite
amazing because they both ate

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from it.
But inside this fig is all the

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symbology for salvation.
All the key elements of

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salvation.
Are inside the very fruit that

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God said don’t eat Jesus.
As we know, is the one and only

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way to be saved.
He said, I am the way, the truth

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and the life we’re told in
numbers of different places in

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the Bible, how Jesus was
wounded, and how he gave himself

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as a sacrifice.
He was absolutely devoted.

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There was no, you know, there
was there weren’t two tracks for

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Jesus.
There was one track and he was

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on that track, and just like the
Fig wasp, Hasn’t got another

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life.
It’s purely on a mission to find

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the Fig and to Polonaise it and
Jesus as we know created future

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seed and he did it because of
his sacrifice.

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So that we are all able.
Now to be part of the promises

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that God has made and Jesus has
guaranteed all those who accept

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his sacrifice an amazing future
life in the the kingdom that’s

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coming on this Earth.
And so what I was stunned about

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really was the fact that God in
the very test that he had given

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them at got the solution, the
symbolic solution to their test

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embedded in the very fruit that
he had told them not to eat.

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I mean, to me, that was just
mind-blowing.

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So that’s the sort of little
introduction.

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And we now going to move on, and
we’re not so much looking at the

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Fig.
Now, we’re looking at the tree

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itself.
So what does God say about the

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tree itself?
And how do we link it?

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It how do we link the Fig Tree
to Israel?

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Well, one of the things that we
told in Genesis 2:9 is that out

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of the ground, made the Lord God
to grow every tree.

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That is Pleasant to the sight
and good for food the tree of

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life.
Also in the midst of the garden

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and the tree of knowledge of
Good and Evil.

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So the tree of life and the tree
of knowledge of Good and Evil,

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God put in the midst of the
garden itself.

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And in Genesis 3 verse 3, it
says, but of the fruit of the

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tree which is in the midst of
the garden, God has said, You

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shall not eat of it.
Neither shall you?

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Touch it, lest you die.
So we’ve been told twice, within

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just a couple of verses that the
tree was in the midst of the

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garden.
Now, what is interesting about

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that because I’m basically
saying that the tree itself is

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symbolic of Israel as a nation.
Well, let’s just have a look at

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some verses here in relation to
what God says about Israel and

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Jerusalem, which is, of course,
the capital of Israel Ezekiel

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chapter 5 verse 5 says, thus
saith the Lord.

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God, this is Jerusalem, I have
set it in the midst of the

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Nations.
And countries that are round

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about her.
Exactly the same word and God is

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describing.
Almost everything.

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All the nations are surrounding
Jerusalem, God has put it in the

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midst.
In Micah chapter 5 verse 7.

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It says the remnant of Jacob,
which is another name for Israel

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will be in the midst of many
people’s, like, do from the

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Lord, like showers on the grass
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So there’s another Reference to
Israel being in the midst of

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many people.
So just like the tree was, in

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the midst of the garden and we
saying the tree is symbolic of

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Israel itself.
God is using exactly the same

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language when it comes to
describing the situation if you

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like of Israel.
In fact of course if you were to

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put all the landmasses of the
planet together and somebody is

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currently doing that for me
there, you can actually see that

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Israel is absolutely Central
Center of of the entire land

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mass.
And and so once upon a time

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probably before the flood the
world was just one large land

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mass and there’s a lot of
evidence to suggest that at the

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time of the flood, the land must
broke up into the way.

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Way that we see it today.
But so at the very beginning

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Israel as physically, you know,
center of the entire land mass,

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maybe that will come back one
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Maybe the landmass will come
back together.

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I don’t know.
But it’s interesting, isn’t it?

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When you put all the landmasses
together, it really is in the

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midst of the land, mass of the
Earth.

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Now here’s another interesting
one that really does link Israel

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as a nation to the Fig Tree
itself.

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So in Hosea 9 verse 10, God says
I found Israel like grapes in

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the wilderness.
I saw your father’s as the first

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ripe in the Fig Tree at her
first time.

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It’s a god actually says, I see
Israel like two things.

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I see them like the grapes but I
also See them as the Fig Tree

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itself.
So God is linking clearly.

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The Fig Tree to Israel and in
the third talk that we that we

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look at will which would do in a
few weeks time.

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We’ll see in the New Testament,
numerous references to Israel

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being like the big being
symbolic of the Fig Tree itself

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but there’s one to be getting on
with in Hosea 9 verse 10.

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In 1, Kings, chapter 4, verse
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This is in during the reign of
Solomon.

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So about I don’t know, a
thousand BC give or take.

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We’re told that Judah and Israel
to out self safely.

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Every man under his under his
Vine and under his fig tree from

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Dan even to be ashy but all the
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So basically quite often there’s
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being in security and in him
peace and to sort of symbolize

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that the fig tree is used,
because people didn’t live under

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fig trees, they lived in in
houses, of course, but it was

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basically saying such was the
Peace during the reign of

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Solomon that they didn’t really
need walls, they didn’t need

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barricades, I didn’t have to
lock the front door, they were

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able to live in peace and the
and the truly that God Is using

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there is, of course, the Fig
Tree so we see all these links

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to Israel.
So what I’m suggesting is that

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the tree of knowledge of Good
and Evil, hopefully we’ve proven

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beyond all Reasonable Doubt is
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And we’ve also hopefully just
now proved beyond all reasonable

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doubt.
That the Fig Tree is symbolic of

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Israel as a nation itself.
And so, Once I’ve got these

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three things into changeable if
you like so I could link

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effectively, I can link the tree
of knowledge of Good and Evil to

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Israel.
I can link Israel to the Fig

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Tree or can link the Fig Tree to
the tree of knowledge of Good

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and Evil.
Do CO2 means that these three

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things now become
interchangeable and when you do

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that, then other verses in the
Bible we going to look at now.

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Suddenly take on a new light.
Because it’s only by unlocking

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the tree of knowledge of good
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As being the fig tree that you
can see some verses in quite a

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remarkable way.
And that’s what I’m going to

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show you now.
So there we’ve got at the top

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look, the tree of knowledge of
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We’ve got Israel on the right.
And what we’ve got linking the

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two together is the fact that
the Fig Tree is symbolic of

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Israel and the tree of knowledge
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So the Fig Tree links, these two
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Now, have a look at this.
So this is Genesis 2:17 and God

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says, but of the tree of the
knowledge of Good and Evil, Old,

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Thou shalt not eat of it for in
the day that thou eatest

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thereof.
Thou shalt surely die.

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So God is saying you shall not
eat of the fruit of the tree of

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the knowledge of Good and Evil
which is I’m saying a fig tree

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now.
Look at this right?

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Because in Jeremiah chapter 30
verses 15 and 16 talking about

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Israel.
God’s God says something almost

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identical.
He says I have had to punish you

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Israel because your our sins are
many and your guilt.

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He’s great.
But all who devour you will be

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devoured.
Now that word devour is exactly

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the same word in Hebrew as the
word not eat or without the

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word.
Don’t eat it back in Genesis

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2:17.
So those little numbers of put

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next to the word devour 03 98.
He’s just trying to show you

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that it’s the same Hebrew word.
So God is saying, you can’t eat

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Israel or who eat, Israel will
be eaten.

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God says, Thou shalt not eat of
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During the day that you eat it,
you’re going to die.

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And God is saying the same thing
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So even though I’ve got to
punish you sometimes Israel

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because you sinful, I don’t want
anybody to eat you or devour

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you.
And you might say, well, that’s

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a strange thing because I can
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But how does Pete, how do people
eat a nation?

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Well, actually, it is quite
interesting, of course, because

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when you look at Israel and the
same, really, I guess applies

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even in ancient times, it
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Israel is we know was recreated
on planet Earth in 1948.

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And it happens to be the very,
the only nation really on the

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planet where the whole world
wants to devour it.

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It wants to sort of divide it
into.

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There isn’t really a nation on
Earth, that doesn’t sort of back

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to some extent, or a total
extent, the dividing of Israel.

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Even America that a big
supporter in many cases of

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Israel’s still, you know, has in
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Is Israel being split and what
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If you notice, there’s Israel in
Son of a green color and this

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particular map shows the West
Bank in, I’ll try and move my

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cursor.
So you can see this bit here is

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the West Bank and this B is in
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It really is still controlled by
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But most Maps show it in a
different color because the

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world doesn’t see the West Bank
as being part of Israel and what

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I’ve sort of learned here.
Is so to put this, you know,

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this is a face by the way.
If you can’t work out what that

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black blob is and and and
basically this is this is

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somebody taking a chunk out of
Israel.

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This is like the world and the
nature of the world, devouring

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Israel, eating away at the land,
that God has given them.

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And that is exactly what I think
God is getting at.

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And really, this goes back to
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God says, I don’t want you to
eat a The tree of knowledge of

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Good and Evil the Fig and Adam
goes and eats it.

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And so does Eve in the same way
with Israel, God’s at the don’t

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want you to eat it.
I don’t want you to devour it

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and in the same way that’s
exactly what is happening.

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In other words, the world is
failing.

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The test just as Adam and Eve
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So, the world is failing the
test because all of them say,

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Israel needs to be devoured and
broken up into different parts,

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but you only get this link
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If you see the tree of knowledge
of good and evil as the Fig Tree

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because this is the link across
to Israel.

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Here’s another one for you.
So in Genesis chapter 3 verse 3.

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God not only said You shall not
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He also said something else.
He said, neither shall you.

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Touch it?
Lest you die.

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So God said, it’s not just about
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You can’t even touch it.
Well, amazingly God says exactly

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the same idea in relation to
Jerusalem, which, of course, is

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the capital of Israel and in
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Verse 8.
God says for thus, saith the

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Lord of hosts.
After the glory, has he sent me

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unto the Nations which spoiled
uie Jerusalem for he, that such

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East you touches the apple of
his eye.

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So, Other words, God saying, I
don’t want you to touch

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Jerusalem because Jerusalem is
the apple of my eye.

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Now, this isn’t a great
translation, you know, it that I

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don’t honestly know why it’s
been translated as Apple.

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But really that word apple is
the is it’s the Hebrew for what

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we would call the pupil.
So God is actually setting a

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course.
The pupil is that Tiny hole that

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you’ve got in your eye.
We’ve all got pupils haven’t

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been God, says, if you touch the
Apple, if you touch the pupil,

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it should say of my eye.
It’s Jerusalem is the pupil.

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So, in other words there’s
Jerusalem, and God says, that’s

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where it is.
It’s in this hole in your eye.

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Now the reason that God says,
it’s like touching the pupil is

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that if you try right now to
touch your pupil, Your finger

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will actually not want to do it.
You know, if you just try to,

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I’m trying to do it now.
I don’t know why I’m trying to

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do this because I know I don’t
want to do it, but you’re all of

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your instincts, tell you not to
put your finger in your eye.

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And that is because covering the
pupil, which is that dark hole

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there.
It’s literally just a hole in

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the Hebrew word for poop, or
means a whole, basically, what

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is covering The pupil and what
is protecting?

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The pupil is this invisible
barrier here.

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That’s labeled number one, and
of course that invisible

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protection that goes over your
eye, is the cornea and that is

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basically an invisible
protection over it.

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Now, what is amazing about that
is the cornea is the only body

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tissue in the A body with no
blood supply.

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I mean, how incredible is that?
There is no other body tissue in

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the entire body that has that,
that is like the cornea.

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The cornea is the only body
tissue with no blood supply to

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it.
And the reason that it can’t

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have blood supply to, it is for
practical reason, of course.

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And that is because if there was
blood in it, we would see

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everything through literally
rose-tinted.

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Spectacles.
So God has designed.

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This thing is incredible.
Really?

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That there’s a living piece of
tissue with no blood in it?

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How does that happen?
It’s absolutely astounding.

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But here’s the thing if
Jerusalem is this part here.

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Okay so this if this is
Jerusalem and God says if you

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try and touch Jerusalem, you’re
like touching the pupil of my

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eye.
Well, what you’ve got to do is

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to go through Invisible barrier,
you see?

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And I believe that this
invisible barrier of your, I

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hear.
It’s symbolic of God himself.

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Who, of course, has no blood
God.

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It has no blood in him.
Bloody is unique to, you know,

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living creatures on the earth.
God has no blood in here and

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this invisible protection over.
The eye, is amazingly symbolic

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of God himself and the way he
protects his City Jerusalem,

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isn’t that incredible?
But God says, if you try and

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touch Jerusalem, you’re breaking
through my barrier, my

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protection over it.
And if you’re going to do that,

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and I’m going to react and, you
know, if you touch you right,

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you react badly, you’re going to
Flinch.

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You’re going to push somebody
away.

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If they’re if you know, if they
tried to poke you in the eye,

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it’s a it’s a horrible thing.
That is what that verse is

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saying, do not touch it.
And what God Said in the Garden

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of Eden, about the Fig Tree, the
tree of knowledge of Good and

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Evil is thou shall not touch it.
You see how this links amazingly

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to to Jerusalem and of course
what do we see?

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But just as Israel is being
divided or trying to be divided

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by the world.
So remarkably is Jerusalem as

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well.
Well, it’s the only capital city

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in the world right now which
again, two different people say

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is their Capital City.
The Palestinians say the east of

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Jerusalem is their Capital City.
Israel says the entirety of

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Jerusalem as their capital city.
And so, once again, we’ve got

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the world.
That is trying to touch

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Jerusalem, divide Jerusalem and
it’s similar to this.

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And, you know, we’ve got the
same sort of idea, of this

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devouring of this dividing up,
this touching of God’s holy

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city.
It’s the same sort of idea.

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And once again, we failing that
was a weed.

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The world is failing that that
test Here’s another thing to

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consider, so in Genesis 3:6.
Again, it says, when the woman

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saw that the tree was good for
food and it was pleasant to the

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eyes and a tree to be desired to
make one wise.

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She took of the fruit thereof
and did eat and gave unto her

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husband with her and he did eat.
And actually, you know, they did

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become wise because suddenly
they realized they were naked,

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they didn’t realize that before
and they were able to start

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Discerning between good and
evil.

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That’s what base.
Actually the serpent said would

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happen and in fact that bit was
true, they did start

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understanding good and evil and
it was able therefore to make

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them wise and that’s exactly
what happened with the nation of

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Israel itself.
Israel itself did make the

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people of Israel.
Why is if they listened to God?

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So, in Deuteronomy 4 verses 1
and 6.

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It says, Now Israel here the
decrees and laws.

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I’m about to teach you follow
them so that you may live and go

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in and take possession of the
land.

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That’s obviously Israel.
The Lord, the god of your

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ancestors ancestors is giving
you observe them carefully.

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For this will show your wisdom
and understanding to the

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nation’s who will hear about all
these.

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Decrees and say, surely, this
great nation is a wise and

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understanding people So just as
the tree of knowledge of good of

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Good and Evil, gave them wisdom.
So Israel symbolic of the same

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fig tree, gave them wisdom as
long as they listened and heard

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the decrees, and laws that God
was about to teach them.

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And we know very often, they
failed in that but that didn’t

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stop the commands and decrees
and the laws that God gave them

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being correct.
And in fact if they did and

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Sometimes they did, it was
showing the the Nations around

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them.
What true wisdom was.

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So there’s another link between
the tree of knowledge of Good

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and Evil and Israel itself.
Here’s another one that I

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thought was interesting so this
is I was looking up about the

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actual tree itself in Wikipedia
just to just to find out what

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what is the Fig Tree?
How does it work?

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And how does it grow?
And you can go and look this up

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yourself but this is pretty much
the first few sentences out of

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Wikipedia.
About the fig tree and it says

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that the Fig Tree, tolerate
seasonal, drought, and in the

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Middle East and Mediterranean
climates are especially suitable

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to it situated in a favorable
habitat mature, specimens can

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grow to considerable size as
large dense, shade trees, its

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aggressive root system, helps
the plant to root in the most

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inhospitable locations, and I’ll
just stop there because that’s

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quite interesting.
Because the way the root systems

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work They sort of spread out
massively and hunt for water.

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It needs lots of water but it
can the way that the roots work,

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it’s searches out as it says
there, aquifers Ravines cracks

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in rocks.
It just hunts around really,

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really well better than almost
all trees, really hunting for

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water, which enables it to
survive in inhospitable

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locations.
Well, I think we could say, you

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know, is Only itself is
surrounded by inhospitable, Leti

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isn’t it?
Because you know there’s little

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Israel as you can see on the map
there sort of highlighted

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slightly and all those Nations
that are surrounding, it are

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Islamic Nations and the vast
majority of them and know

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there’s a few that are perhaps a
bit more friendly but the vast

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majority of them actually don’t
want Israel to exist or they

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certainly give Israel a real
hard time and some of them like

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you ran want absolute
destruction.

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So to Syria.
And if you look at the real

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surrounding peoples around
Israel with the Palestinians

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with Hamas with Hezbollah which
is Islamic Jihad with Syria.

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All of those peoples are like
tricking Breyers that we told

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trying to destroy Israel and
remove it from existence.

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So it really is a tree that is
in a very inhospitable location.

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And yet remarkably survives,
doesn’t it amazingly.

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Well, I mean, Israel is is one
of the very, very top developed

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nations in the whole world.
And when you look at it, it’s

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the size of whales and yet it’s
got incredible amounts of wealth

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and knowledge and infrastructure
and the tree itself.

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If you notice, it says, the tree
calls the hot environment in

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which it grows producing fresh
and pleasant happy.

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Eat at and I thought that was
interesting because of course

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before is what Israel was
created in 1948.

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The land that we now call
Israel, which then was called

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Palestine was just a Wilderness.
Nobody fought over it.

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Nobody wanted it.
Nobody cared about it and the

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land was Barren.
Israel is recreated and suddenly

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they turn it into an incredible
land and and turned the deserts

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into Two, amazing.
Plantations of all sorts of

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things, you know.
Oranges, Jeff for oranges come

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from Jaffer in Israel.
It’s amazing what they’ve done.

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So I think there’s quite a lot
of links to the actual setup of

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a fig tree as well.
When we stop and think about it.

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Here’s another one.
So I’m hunting.

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Now for verse is from Genesis to
look for other verses that are

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in relation to Israel using
similar language.

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So again, we’re back here again
up Genesis 3 verses, 14 and 15.

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And this is God cursing, the
serpent who are deceived Eve and

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told her that, it was perfectly
okay to eat.

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And devour the fig fig tree and
God says, because you have done

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this.
You’re cursed above all cattle,

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and above every beast of the
field upon your belly.

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You will go and dust.
You’re going to eat all the days

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of your life and I will put
enmity or hatred between you and

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the woman and between your seed
and her seed and it will bruise

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thy head and thou shalt bruise
his heel.

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And we looked at this in quite a
lot of detail last time, so I’m

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not going to go through that
again.

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But suffice to say, look, we’ve
got the same sort of words

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coming out.
Out in Jeremiah 31 verse 27,

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which is talking about Israel.
So Jeremiah 31 verse 27 says,

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behold the day’s come saith, the
Lord that I was.

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So the house of Israel and the
house of Judah with the seed of

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man and with the seed of the
Beast.

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So Israel is going to be so many
to lots of seed, the seed of man

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in the seed of Beast.
Well, we know that the Beast was

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all to do with the serpent
because we’re told there look

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that the the serpent was cursed
above every Beast.

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So there’s obviously a bad seed
and that must be the seed of the

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Beast and the seed of man, in
this particular passage is

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actually the good seed.
So when you then go across to

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the tree of knowledge of Good
and Evil, you’ve got as we said

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last time, you’ve got good, figs
and you’ve got evil fix ya.

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We’ve got the seed of the woman
which is good and we got the

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seed of the serpent, which is
evil.

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We’ve got the seed of the Beast,
which is Evil we’ve got the seed

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of man which is good and so
that’s basically how it splits

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up and effectively when you put
them all on the tree on the tree

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they were it was the tree of
knowledge of Good and Evil and

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they were some of the things
that were good and the some that

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were evil.
And if you remember what we

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said, was that the good figs had
to be pollinated by the Fig

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wasp.
And the Fig wasp we said was

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Jesus.
So when you add all that

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together, the only way of fig
could become good, IE get the

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nutrients from the tree to grow
and develop as a fruit that you

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could eat is have a fig wasp
pollinated.

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The Fig wasp is Jesus and
therefore what we’re seeing in

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almost symbolic code here is
that the only way we

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individually can become a good
fruit for God is to have in our

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lives.
The sacrifice of Jesus.

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If that makes Hence, if we
haven’t, then we come on under

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the side of evil, we come under
the side of the seed of the

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serpent.
We come under the side of the

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seat of the Beast.
That’s what we’re being told.

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And of course it isn’t just here
we read, as we talked about last

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time that God even talks about
figs in reference to being good

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and evil.
I mean, this has got to be one

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of the biggest clues that the
Fig Tree was the tree of

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knowledge of Good and Evil.
Because God says in Jeremiah 24,

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verse 21 basket had very good
figs even like the things that

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our first ripe and the other
basket had very naughty The same

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word for evil, the tree of
knowledge of Good and Evil that

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word translated naughty in the
authorized version is the word

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evil.
So, you’ve got very good figs

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and very evil figs, which
couldn’t be eaten because they

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were so evil.
And then said, the Lord unto me.

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What do you see Jeremiah?
And I said, figs, the good figs

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very good, the evil, very evil
that cannot be eaten.

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They are so evil.
So there is that link.

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So as I say for me, you know,
when I look at the Fig Tree, I’m

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looking at the fruit and seeing
the Lord Jesus Christ but also

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ourselves as well.
I mean if you think about it

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00:37:40,600 –> 00:37:43,700
Jesus is we you know we stood
the same.

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Well Jesus is the Fig wasp that
is making the fruit good.

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But Jesus is the fruit itself.
There was no pure and more

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wonderful.
Fruit in this symbolic tree,

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then Jesus.
It’s almost a little bit like

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Jesus is the shepherd and the
Sheep, you know, and you think

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we’ll, how can you be a shepherd
and the Sheep.

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That’s ridiculous.
But he was, and in the same way,

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Jesus is the Fig wasp that gives
his life, but he’s also the

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fruit that was perfect for God.
And the only fruit hanging on

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that whole tree of any value and
worth was the fruit of the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
But it’s Through his sacrifice

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that we can all be made good
because our sins can be

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forgiven.
So this tree in the middle of

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the garden, as we’ve tried to
sort of point out is all about

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Israel itself and of course
Jesus was of Israel.

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He was a he was a Jew.
Jesus said salvation is he is of

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the Jews.
And what God is saying is and

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this is really the, you know,
test I I sort of think Don’t say

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00:38:52,900 –> 00:38:56,200
it.
Except what I say about, Israel?

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I see I gave a rule in the
Garden of Eden.

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What to do?
And don’t devour it.

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God says the test is exactly the
same in the world right now.

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Except what I say about Israel,
do not devour her, don’t eat

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her.
Don’t destroy her.

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Don’t chew her up.
Don’t split her in half the Fig.

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Tree is still a test for today.
The last thing I was just going

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to cover in just a few slides
and this is a massive subject,

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00:39:27,300 –> 00:39:30,700
but for those of you who might
be watching this later on

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YouTube, obviously I’m doing it
live right now but for those who

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might be wondering to
themselves, what is the

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significance of Israel?
I mean, why Israel?

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I thought I’d just very quickly
show a couple of slides.

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This is a big talk just on its
own as you can imagine but I

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00:39:48,000 –> 00:39:51,500
just thought it’d be good to
show a few slides as the

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00:39:51,500 –> 00:39:58,900
significance of Israel.
In Acts 1:6, Jesus is raised

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from the dead.
He’s on the Mount of Olives,

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he’s with his disciples and
they’ve all come together and

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00:40:03,800 –> 00:40:08,100
they asked him and said, Lord,
are you going to at this time

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00:40:08,100 –> 00:40:10,400
restore again, the kingdom to
Israel.

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So the disciples were expecting
the Risen Lord.

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Jesus Christ to immediately set
up a kingdom of which they

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believe, of course he was going
to be the king.

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Are you going to restore it?
You’ve got me into did it this

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00:40:25,300 –> 00:40:27,200
time?
And Jesus said, well, it isn’t

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for you to know the times and
the seasons.

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So basically says, well yes, I’m
going to do it, but now isn’t

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the time, okay?
So a little bit later on in Acts

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00:40:37,300 –> 00:40:42,500
of the Apostles, and this is
after Jesus ascended into

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heaven, and so he’s left planet
Earth, he’s gone into heaven.

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And the Apostle Paul is as a
Christian bound up in prison,

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effectively in Rome.
And he says some interesting

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word.
He says for the hope of Israel,

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I am bound with this chain and I
sort of wonder how many of us if

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we were thrown into prison for
our Christian fuse.

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00:41:06,900 –> 00:41:10,200
Would say, well I’m here in
prison because it’s for my hope

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of Israel.
I wonder how many Christians in

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00:41:13,300 –> 00:41:17,300
the world would say for the hope
of Israel that I’m Bound in

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Chains, but that was the Apostle
Paul who was probably the

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greatest of the the Christians
at that time.

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If we were going to put them in
some sort of order because God

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commissioned the Apostle Paul to
go to the non-jewish people.

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The Gentiles to tell them about
the truth and he’s truth was all

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centered on Israel.
So why is Israel?

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So, so, so important.
Well, this is what I wanted to

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quickly show you just a couple
of slides because I didn’t

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really get a handle on this when
I grew up and I reckon it, I was

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in my probably 30 days before I
really grasp this bit in Genesis

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chapter 10.
So going all the way back to

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Genesis your around about 2,000
years before Christ at this

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00:42:05,700 –> 00:42:10,700
point in time.
And you read about a kingdom

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00:42:10,700 –> 00:42:13,500
that was on the earth.
In fact, it was the very first

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00:42:13,500 –> 00:42:18,800
Kingdom that ever existed
according to the scriptures and

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00:42:18,800 –> 00:42:22,800
it wasn’t a good Kingdom.
It was a kingdom that was run by

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00:42:22,800 –> 00:42:27,500
a chap called Nimrod and his
kingdom was called Babel and it

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was in the land of shinar and on
that map that you can see there.

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You basically got where Babel
was it wasn’t just it was a sea.

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City.
But it actually covered quite a

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large territory in terms of its
influence.

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And that’s why it was called a
kingdom because it was it was

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not just one very localized
place.

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It actually covered quite a
large territory and if I just

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put it onto the map so you can
see hopefully you can just about

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see their the name modern
Nations on the earth so you can

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see there.
It’s sort of covers modern day.

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It was in, modern-day Iraq.
Anyway, these people that lived

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in Babel with Nimrod ruling over
them, decided to build this city

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and a tower.
And God was not happy with this

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00:43:17,500 –> 00:43:21,600
situation because it was all
about and you can read about it.

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In Genesis chapter 11, it was
all about them replacing God’s

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00:43:27,300 –> 00:43:31,000
thinking, and God’s ways and
God’s religion with man’s

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00:43:31,000 –> 00:43:34,300
thinking and man’s ways, and a
made-up, man’s religion.

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And it says, God says, behold
the people of one they have all

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got one language.
Nothing is going to be

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restrained from them which they
have imagined to do.

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Let go to let us go down and
there confound their language

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00:43:50,900 –> 00:43:53,300
and that’s what God did.
And that’s where we get all the,

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the languages of the world
sprang from this one place, the

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word Babel in Hebrew means,
confusion and Nimrod himself,

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the ruler of this place for some
time.

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His actual name in Hebrew means
rebellion and the great tower

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that they would building was all
to do with false worship, not

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the worship of God.
But false Worship.

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In fact, what they did was
worshipped Nimrod at the very

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same time that all this is going
on.

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There was somebody else.
And this, somebody else was

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called Abraham and Abraham lived
in the territory of the kingdom

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of Babel, he lived in Ur of the
Chaldeans these on the exactly

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00:44:35,600 –> 00:44:41,200
the same map look and God picked
out Abraham and said to him, get

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out of your country, the king,
you know, the kingdom of Babel

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basically and from your Kindred,
or your family and from your

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father’s house because I’m going
to take you to a land and I’m

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going to show you where it is
and I’m going to make of you a

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great nation, a kingdom.
And I’m going to bless you and

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make your name great and you’re
going to be a blessing now.

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God didn’t pick a Mouse because
you know, he sort of looked like

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somebody that God wants to work
with.

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They got a nice long, white
beard and he looked like a

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00:45:12,300 –> 00:45:18,400
prophet God picked Abram Abraham
out because he was faithful, in

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fact he was probably the only
faithful person in bit like with

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Noah where God saw Noah and
picked him out out of all the

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people on the Earth and said,
you’re going to build me an ark

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00:45:29,600 –> 00:45:32,800
God picked out a brand for the
same reasons.

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Abraham was faithful in.
In fact they Abraham’s own

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father.
Terah was not faithful.

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00:45:38,800 –> 00:45:43,000
He actually were told in Joshua,
worshiped idols and that’s why

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God said, you’ve got to have to
leave it all behind Abraham.

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So here is that Ibrahim down
there in are of the called he’s

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and God led him.
He didn’t know where he was

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00:45:52,700 –> 00:45:57,000
going.
And God led him out of this area

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00:45:57,000 –> 00:46:01,300
of Babel and this false Kingdom
that had been set up and he took

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00:46:01,300 –> 00:46:04,800
him out as an individual, man.
Yes, he had got servants and

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00:46:05,100 –> 00:46:08,500
wives and a bit of an Entourage
that when tweaking, but Abraham

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00:46:08,500 –> 00:46:14,700
was the one that God called out
Now, the point is, this Babel

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was the beginning of the kingdom
of men.

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It was the, it was the home if
you like the beginning of all

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00:46:22,000 –> 00:46:27,400
the opposition to God, setting
itself upon Earth as a as a

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kingdom, that would push back
against God and want nothing to

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00:46:31,500 –> 00:46:36,300
do with God and have their own
religious thinking, but Abraham

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00:46:36,300 –> 00:46:40,600
was the father of the nation of
Israel.

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And Elvis the beginning of the
kingdom of God, and is the still

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00:46:46,400 –> 00:46:48,400
the beginning of the kingdom of
God.

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In fact, Israel is the unti dose
to Babel.

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00:46:53,800 –> 00:46:58,800
That’s what exactly what it is.
It’s the antidote to Babel and

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00:46:58,800 –> 00:47:04,600
therefore, Israel became sense
of the whole plan and purpose of

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00:47:04,600 –> 00:47:07,600
God.
And when Jesus comes back,

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Israel will be the central
nation of the entire planet out

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00:47:13,700 –> 00:47:17,000
of which will emanate the
teachings of God.

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What is really interesting is
that Babel means confusion, and

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if you look up the name Israel,
in Strong’s Concordance, it

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00:47:25,300 –> 00:47:31,700
actually means god prevails Oh
you might say God succeeds or

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00:47:31,700 –> 00:47:34,800
you might say in modern terms
Godwin’s.

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00:47:35,100 –> 00:47:39,200
In other words, this confusion
that were set up at the time of

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00:47:39,200 –> 00:47:41,600
Babel which has continued to
this day.

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00:47:41,600 –> 00:47:44,400
The whole world really has
become a great.

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00:47:44,400 –> 00:47:50,700
Big Kingdom of men is going to
be replaced by Israel, and

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Israel means god wins and God is
going to win.

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00:47:55,300 –> 00:47:58,200
He is going to replace all the
wicked Kingdom.

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Eames on this Earth.
And so when they said, are you

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00:48:02,500 –> 00:48:04,500
going to restore the kingdom to
Israel?

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00:48:04,500 –> 00:48:06,800
The disciples.
When Jesus was risen from the

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dead hoped and prayed, it was
going to happen there and then

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00:48:10,500 –> 00:48:12,900
good news for us.
It didn’t happen there.

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00:48:12,900 –> 00:48:14,200
And then otherwise, we wouldn’t
be here.

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00:48:14,200 –> 00:48:20,100
Now, it needed time to go by to
allow more and more people to be

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able to come to a knowledge of
these things.

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00:48:23,100 –> 00:48:26,000
But Jesus is going to return to
set up the kingdom.

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And in that same chapter, it
says But while they were

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watching, Jesus was taken up
from them and a cloud received

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00:48:33,900 –> 00:48:36,200
him out of their sight.
And while they looked

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00:48:36,200 –> 00:48:40,200
steadfastly towards heaven, as
he went up behold, two men that

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00:48:40,200 –> 00:48:44,000
were Angels stood by them in
white apparel and they said,

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00:48:44,000 –> 00:48:48,900
you, men of Galilee why stand ye
gazing up into heaven, this

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00:48:48,900 –> 00:48:51,600
same, Jesus, which is taken up
from you into heaven.

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00:48:51,600 –> 00:48:56,000
Will come will so come in like
manner, as you’ve seen him go

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into heaven.
So they said he’s going to to

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00:48:58,308 –> 00:49:01,000
come back.
He is going to come back.

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Oh, just two more slides to go.
We’re told in an incredible

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prophecy in Daniel chapter 2.
All about the return of Jesus

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and how the kingdom of God is
going to replace all kingdoms on

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this Earth.
And it says, in that verse that

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you can see on the screen in the
days of these Kings, shall the

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00:49:22,500 –> 00:49:26,000
god of Heaven set up a kingdom,
which shall never be destroyed.

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And the kingdom shall not be
left to other people.

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00:49:28,300 –> 00:49:33,000
Full but it will break in pieces
and consume all the kingdoms and

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00:49:33,000 –> 00:49:36,400
it will stand forever.
So when Jesus comes back and

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00:49:36,400 –> 00:49:40,200
that Little Rock falling out,
the sky is symbolic of Jesus

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00:49:40,200 –> 00:49:45,100
coming back to this earth and he
grinds to powder all the nations

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00:49:45,100 –> 00:49:48,400
on this Earth, whether it be the
United States of America or

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00:49:48,400 –> 00:49:51,500
whether it be the United Kingdom
or whether it be Russia or Iran

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00:49:51,500 –> 00:49:54,200
or Australia.
The whole lot will end up coming

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00:49:54,200 –> 00:49:59,100
under the control of one king
and that is The king, the Lord

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00:49:59,100 –> 00:50:03,200
Jesus Christ ruling from
Jerusalem and ruling from

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00:50:03,200 –> 00:50:06,800
Israel.
And this is my very poor attempt

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00:50:06,800 –> 00:50:10,100
at trying to see what it might
look like in the future with

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00:50:10,100 –> 00:50:13,200
some pretty terrible Graphics
there, but it says that

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00:50:13,200 –> 00:50:14,900
Jerusalem is going to be raised
up.

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00:50:15,400 –> 00:50:19,700
It says that all nations are
going to flow unto it when Jesus

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00:50:19,700 –> 00:50:24,200
comes back and that God’s
teaching will go forth to all

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00:50:24,200 –> 00:50:27,100
people.
In fact, the Bible says it much

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00:50:27,100 –> 00:50:31,200
better than me In Isaiah chapter
2 verse 2.

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00:50:31,200 –> 00:50:35,500
It says in the last days, the
mountain of the Lord’s House

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00:50:35,500 –> 00:50:39,600
will be the highest of all the
most important place on Earth.

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00:50:40,100 –> 00:50:44,000
It will be raised above the
other Hills and people from all

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00:50:44,000 –> 00:50:47,300
over the world will stream there
to worship people.

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00:50:47,300 –> 00:50:50,800
From many nations will come and
say come, let’s go to the

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00:50:50,808 –> 00:50:53,700
mountain of the Lord.
So the house of Jacob’s God,

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00:50:54,000 –> 00:50:57,100
there he will teach us of his
ways and we will walk in his

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00:50:57,100 –> 00:51:00,800
paths for The Lord’s teaching
will go out from Zion, that’s

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00:51:00,800 –> 00:51:03,300
Jerusalem.
His word will go out from

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00:51:03,300 –> 00:51:06,000
Jerusalem.
The Lord will mediate between

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00:51:06,000 –> 00:51:09,000
nations and will settle
international disputes.

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00:51:09,300 –> 00:51:11,900
They will Hammer their swords
into plowshares, and their

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00:51:11,900 –> 00:51:15,700
Spears into pruning.
Hooks Nation will no longer

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00:51:15,700 –> 00:51:19,700
fight against Nation, nor train
for war anymore.

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00:51:20,000 –> 00:51:22,300
And surely in the light of what
we see at the moment with

779
00:51:22,300 –> 00:51:27,100
Ukraine and Russia, you know,
surely this is an incredible and

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00:51:27,100 –> 00:51:30,100
wonderful picture.
That he’s coming but it’s an

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00:51:30,100 –> 00:51:34,800
incredible and wonderful picture
that all emanates from the Fig

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00:51:34,800 –> 00:51:37,600
Tree, which is surely a sign
floor time.

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00:51:37,600 –> 00:51:41,800
And next time, we’ll have a look
and see all the passages in the

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00:51:41,800 –> 00:51:46,300
New Testament that reference the
Fig Tree and show remarkably how

785
00:51:46,300 –> 00:51:52,400
it even predicts the future and
the return of the Lord Jesus

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00:51:52,400 –> 00:51:54,900
Christ.
Thank you for listening.