Jason Hensley – The Gospel of Peace – Class 3 – Peace and Unity

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This is the 2023 Manitoulin
Family Bible Camp.

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Our speaker for this session is
Brother Jason Hensley from the

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Simi Hills, California Ecclesia.
His theme this week is the

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Gospel of Peace.
This is his third class and the

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subject for this class is peace
and unity.

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Brother Jason.
Well, good morning, everyone.

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I hope that you’re feeling.
Whoa, look at this.

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This is a OK, there we go.
I hope that.

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You’re feeling good.
I am really excited about class

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#3 because this is the class
that started it all.

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So interestingly enough, it ends
up in the middle of the series.

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But this is the one that that
really got me thinking because I

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started to recognize in, in
going through scripture that

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there was this difference, this
distinction between peace and

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unity.
And that’s what really got me on

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this subject of peace, because I
had always thought of them as

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the same thing.
And yet looking at this, it was

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fascinating to see that peace is
commanded and unity is the

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ideal.
So in other words, you have to

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have peace, but you might not
always be able to achieve unity.

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So I, I found that very
interesting.

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OK, here’s our here’s our plan.
We’re going to talk about Israel

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and Judah and you perhaps heard
considerations of Jehoshaphat

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and Hezekiah before.
We are going to talk about that,

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but it’s going to be a little
different than than ways that

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maybe you’ve heard it done
before and also ways that I did

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it before.
There’s a lot of context that I

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think we need to build up as we
look at this story.

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So we’re going to try and
understand it from that

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perspective.
We’re going to talk about then

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what is unity biblically and
then how does unity differ from

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peace?
The main message now let’s

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review ready before this one,
our first core message was peace

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matters.
That’s right.

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And OK, yesterday’s was harder.
I recognize that.

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So I made this one a little
easier.

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So do you remember it was 6
words.

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All the shades of peace are
interconnected.

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That’s oh, I see some of you
guys wrote it down.

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That was good, good thinking.
Yep, Yep.

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Good.
OK, well, today’s is only three

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words.
All right, So this is I think

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our key idea that comes out of
this class, peace is universal.

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

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between peace and unity,
because.

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There are a lot.
Of people that we can’t be

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unified with.
There are a lot of world views

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

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towards those people and I think
that is the crucial thing,

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right?
Peace.

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

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

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

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things about that.
And I agree.

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

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It in a nice way.
Right, you can’t.

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You know, you don’t have to come
up and just just think about it

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like when.
This is This is.

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For me at least, how this goes
when you get upset with your

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children or with somebody else
and you scream and wave your

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arms around, right?
Not that I’ve ever done that.

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But when you do that, think
about where your effectiveness

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goes on the effectiveness scale,
right?

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All of a sudden you’re like down
at the bottom and and nobody

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wants to hear what you say,
including your children who

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might like run away screaming.
OK, So like, that just doesn’t

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work, right?
We can very much disagree with

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

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way.
And I think that that’s the key

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thing.
We can say, I believe that what

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you’re doing is wrong and here’s
why I think that, right?

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We can say, no, these are my
principles and I will not move

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from those principles, but we
can do that peacefully.

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And I think that’s an important
thing to recognize.

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That’s really the key.
And so that’s why Paul can

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command live at peace with
everyone because it’s something

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that is achievable.
It is something that we can do

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is a choice that we can make.
So peace is universal.

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Our why question here.
This is something to just kind

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of chew on for right now,
although I’ll sort of answer it

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right after we look at it says
why was Jehoshaphat condemned

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for his peace with Ahab?
Just think about that for a

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little bit.
And the answer is this is

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actually a trick question
because Jehoshaphat never was

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condemned for his peace with
Ahab.

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He was condemned for his unity
with Ahab.

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Now that’s where for me, this
was such a big deal.

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Jehoshaphat was supposed to be
at peace with Ahab.

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And I’m going to try and put
that together, create that

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context.
He was supposed to have peace

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with Ahab.
Even though Ahab is described as

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one who hates Yahweh, right?
He was still supposed to be at

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peace with him.
He was not supposed to be

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unified with him.
And in fact, I, I would suggest

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to you, he couldn’t be unified
with him, right?

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He tries really hard to be
unified, but he can’t be.

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

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

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and we’re going to take a look
at it just to make sure that we

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

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about the relationship between
Israel and Judah.

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

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

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go through this is what kind of
relationship were these two

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

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

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

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

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He devised the nation’s one
nation is good, one nation’s

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bad.
At least you know for the most

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part, one nation’s good, and
well, the good one is supposed

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to attack the bad one, or
something along those lines.

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But I think it’s better for us
to step.

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Back and ask well.
Actually, biblically, what did

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God intend?
What kind of relationship did he

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foresee or want to see between
the two nations?

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Did he want to see them warring
one another?

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

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Deuteronomy 13, right?
Your brother comes and says,

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

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

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

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see something a little bit
different.

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

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

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

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This is this is that.
Instant in which Jeroboam?

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

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

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which one was Jeroboam and which
one was Rioboam.

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

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

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funny little things to help me
remember stuff.

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So Jeroboam was in the north,
right And then Rio Boehm are in

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the South.
So that’s alphabetical also just

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like Israel and Judah.
So interesting.

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Jeroboam is working for Solomon,
right?

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He was some kind of head of
Solomon’s building team,

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something along those lines.
He seems to take part in helping

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build the temple building,
Solomon’s house.

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He happens to be in a field.
We don’t know exactly what he’s

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doing at this point, but he’s
head of Solomon’s workforce.

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He’s wearing a new coat,
strangely enough, and we don’t

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know why exactly.
He does it this way.

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A high edge of the prophet walks
up to Jeroboam and his swanky

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new jacket and tears it off of
his back and begins to then tear

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it into little pieces.
You can imagine Jeroboam, right?

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That’s I I felt.
Like that was a pretty good

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expression.
He he looks at a high jet,

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thinking.
What are you doing to my coat?

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

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

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go, you can have these 10.
Pieces of it.

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

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proceeds to give Jeroboam a
prophecy.

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

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OK, so maybe that was the
justification.

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

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giving 10 tribes to you.
Right now.

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

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screen.
Just take a look and you will

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notice that I have underlined a
number of statements.

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Look for what these statements
have in common.

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It’s first Kings 11 verses 31 to
30.

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Six, it says.
See, I am going to tear the

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Kingdom out of Solomon’s hand.
This is God speaking through a

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

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

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the tribes of Israel, he will
have one tribe.

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I will do this because they have
forsaken me and worshipped

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Asteroth, the goddess of the
Cydonians, Chimosh the God of

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

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walked in obedience to me, nor
done what is right in my eyes,

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nor kept my decrees and laws as
David, Solomon’s father, did.

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But I will not take the whole
Kingdom out of Solomon’s hand.

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I have made him ruler.
I should have underlined that

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one too.
I have made him ruler all the

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days of his life for the sake of
David, my servant, whom I chose.

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I missed another who obeyed my
commands and decrees.

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I will take the.
Kingdom from his son’s hands and

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give you 10 tribes.
I will give one tribe to his

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son.
OK do you notice what they all

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

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this statements.
Now, some of them you might say,

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

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unfortunate translation pieces
of the NIV.

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

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study makes it a little harder.
Everything that I underlined

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here is what we call a first
person verb.

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I am going to do this.
I’m going to do this.

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So this is.
God saying I am the one who is

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causing all these things now, I
think.

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That, that’s fascinating.
By the way.

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Just in terms of what we’re
looking at, because remember,

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we’re talking about peace and
unity.

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So does God expect there to be
peace between the nations?

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I’m going to.
Suggest to you based on what

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we’re going to look at, yes.
Does.

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God expect there to be unity.
No, there can’t be, right?

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

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Very interesting, right.
So he expects peace, but he

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doesn’t expect unity.
OK, so that’s.

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Just an interesting thing to
kind of take out of this.

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God.
Is the one who is doing it and

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God is the one who is creating
the disunity in this instance.

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Now, as we read this next
portion of the prophecy, just.

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Think about what this might.
Remind you of?

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Because.
I think this is based on

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something else that we’ve heard
before.

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So.
Haija continues.

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God is doing all these different
things.

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God is the one who’s going to
create the disunity, Haija then

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says verses 37 and 38.
However, As for you, I will take

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you.
And you will rule over.

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All that your heart desires.
You will.

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Be king over Israel.
If you.

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Do whatever I command you and
walk in obedience to me and do

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what is right in my eyes by
obeying my decrees and commands

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as David, my servant did.
I will be with you.

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

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David and will give Israel to
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Does this remind you of anything
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This.
Sounds like a previous set of

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promises known as the promises
to David.

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I mean, he, he makes it very
clear, right?

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If.
You act like David.

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I will be with you.
This is what he had promised to

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David.
I will be with you.

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But it’s also the same thing
that he promised to Abraham,

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Isaac, Jacob.
I will be with you.

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That’s the whole Echia I share
Echia kind of thing, right?

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I will be with you.
I.

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

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David.
Now, it’s not the promises to

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

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

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right?
At.

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Least as far as having a shore
dynasty, right, Having a shore

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house so you can see connections
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And the reason I bring this up
is, weirdly enough, right.

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We’re supposed to I, I think one
of the keys of Bible study.

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Is we should.
Always be looking for the Lord

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Jesus in everything right?
He’s on every page all over the

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place.
So.

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Weirdly enough, when you start
to look at this, I want to

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suggest to you that you can
actually see Jeroboam in this

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stage.
OK, note that very carefully in

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

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see Jeroboam as a type of the
Lord Jesus.

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He is.
Chosen specifically by God to

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save Israel.
Right, not.

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Just chosen by God, but chosen
with the mission of saving the

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people.
So you see.

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The same thing in Matthew 121.
Joseph is told.

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He.
Will save his people from their

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sins.
Jeroboam was given the promises

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of a shore house, just like
David.

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And.
We know in Luke chapter one the

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Lord Jesus is given those
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Jeroboam then is chased by
Solomon because Solomon wants to

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kill him.
Where does?

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He go, huh?
Egypt and.

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He comes back after the King’s
death.

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

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and they say, hey, your father
taxed us heavily, will you

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please lower the taxes, right,
Ria Baum he asks his friends, he

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asks the elders.
He decides to go with his

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friends advice and at which is
to, you know, be tough and make

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people afraid of you.
So he says.

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My.
Little pinky is greater than my

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father’s loins, which is a
really funny thing to say.

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Don’t think I’ve ever talked
about my father’s loins, but

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that’s, you know, that’s what he
says.

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And.
Then he says, my father

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chastised you with whips.
I will chastise you with

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scorpions, right?
And he’s like, oh man, I’m so

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tough.
And the people are like.

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Yeah, forget that, right?
So they leave.

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Because who wants to be whipped
with a scorpion?

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So.
They leave.

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And.
Then Jeroboam was the one who

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was.
Leading the people at that.

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Point.
He was.

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The one who led the delegation
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To lower the taxes.
So he was.

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Serving as a mediator for the
people, interestingly.

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He.
Then after after serving as a

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mediator, becomes king of
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So you can.
See this picture of the Lord

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Jesus.
The timing works.

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The details fit.
It it makes sense Now you might

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

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

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Bible?
Right.

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You remember Jeroboam’s last
name?

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He who?
Made Israel to sin, right?

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

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

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

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Israel, we are told that God
destroyed Israel because they

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

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Israel sin right.
So this is.

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One of.
The most terrible people in

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Scripture responsible.
For thousands of people.

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Leaving.
The truth.

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And.
Yet he’s this type of Christ at

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the beginning.
Why?

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

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when God separates Israel and
Judah, he chooses someone who

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has the potential.
To have.

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Done amazing things and instead
what Jeroboam does is he uses

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that potential.
To destroy the country.

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Jeroboam could have led the
nation in the way that they were

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supposed to go.
He could have been the next

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David, right?
That’s exactly what God says.

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He could.
Have been the next David.

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But he wasn’t.
Now again was.

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God expecting unity.
No.

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But he sets up a person like
Jeroboam, somebody with

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potential to create a great
nation because he expects.

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Peace He.
Wanted the nations to flourish.

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Now.
We have this emphasized because

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in First Kings chapter 12,
starting at verse 21, Rehoboam,

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when the split happens, Rehoboam
says uh, uh.

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That’s.
Not going to happen.

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You guys aren’t separating and
Rehoboam puts together an army.

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He’s.
About to go invade Israel and

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he’s going to take them back.
However he is met by a prophet

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who says do not go up to fight
against the Israelites for this

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is my doing.
God says you will not fight

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them.
Notice that fighting.

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Is the opposite of what peace
so?

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Rio Boehm is going to fight, he
specifically told.

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Uh, uh, peace.
So.

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God did not expect unity.
But he did expect peace.

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Again.
From Israel’s perspective, just

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play this out.
You can follow along in First

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Kings 12.
It’s very interesting.

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

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He decides to create a new
system of worship.

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Right.
He creates the golden calves,

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

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Bethel.
So he has.

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These two golden calves that he
creates, he makes this new

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system of worship.
Now the big question is why did

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he do that?
I think this is what we should

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always be asking.
When we’re doing Bible study,

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why?
Why did this person act this

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way?
Why did they do what they did?

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Well, what’s?
Really interesting.

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Is in first kings 12 we’re told
that he decided to.

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Create a feast.
In the. 8th month.

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Just.
Like the feast?

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That.
Was in Judah in the seventh

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month.
So he’s.

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Clearly thinking about the feast
of the 7th month.

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Now what was the feast of the
7th month?

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There are three, so you know.
David home that.

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Feast of Tabernacles and Feast.
Of trumpets, That’s right.

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Yeah, so.
You.

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Know it’s Rosh Hashanah, Yom
Kippur, all of that and Sukkot

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if you want the Hebrew names.
So.

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You have these three, these
three celebrations that were

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supposed to take place in the
seventh month.

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Now, I think that gives us an
insight into what was going on

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in Jeroboam’s mind.
So just try and picture this,

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right?
I think we always have to try

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and envision what’s going on in
the Bible.

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So picture Jeroboam.
He’s now king of Israel.

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He’s all.
Excited because he can.

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Get as many new coats as he
wants, right?

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So there.
He is.

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He’s sitting on.
His throne and he hears all this

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noise.
Going on outside.

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

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

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

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Only the men were commanded to
do this.

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

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all going?
What are you doing?

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And they say ready.
We’re going to.

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Jerusalem and Jeroboam’s like.
What?

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Why are you going to Jerusalem?
And they say, well, because it’s

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the 7th month.
Right, it’s.

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The Feast of.
Tabernacles.

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That’s what we’re supposed to
do.

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Everyone is supposed to go to
Jerusalem.

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And so then he looks further out
the window and he realizes,

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indeed, everyone is going to
Jerusalem, right?

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The entire country.
And Jeroboam sits down and he

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thinks.
Well, how’s?

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This going to work.
Right.

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How’s this supposed to happen
that I’m supposed to lead this

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country of 10 tribes when?
Three.

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Times a year, every man and
possibly the women and children

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to go to Jerusalem for these
feasts, which would mean that

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they’re there in Jerusalem for
like 2 months of the year.

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Right.
Something along those lines.

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

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travel time.
So they’re gone for like 2

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

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wait a minute, you remember we
talked about this yesterday?

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Our whole.
System of worship revolves

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around what?
The temple.

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And he?
Realizes.

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Wait A.
Minute.

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How?
Am I supposed to lead a country

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when their whole system of
worship?

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Is.
Designed around the capital of

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the.
Enemy country now I would put to

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you.
That.

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There is a false assumption in
that statement.

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That.
Assumption was enemy.

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And that.
I think is the point God set up

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the countries.
And you will.

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Notice he never said you’re
going to have a different form

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of worship.
He never said you’re going to

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worship somewhere other than
Jerusalem.

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He expects.
That to continue.

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Right.
Because he expects Israel and

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Judah.
To.

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Be at peace.
He did not expect them to be

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unified.
But he.

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Expected them to be a peace and
so.

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He continues a system of
worship.

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That.
Revolves around the capital of

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Judah.
And.

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Jeroboam says uh, uh.
Right.

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No way.
That’s not going to happen.

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So Jeroboam puts together his
golden calves, one in Bethel,

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one in Dan.
He tries to find places that

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were significant for worship in
Israel.

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Right?
Bethel, Genesis 28.

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House of God.
It’s where.

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Jacob met with God.
With the whole Jacob’s Ladder

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thing.
And then Dan, you look at Judges

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Chapter 18.
Dan is where Moses’s grandson

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had set up a Tabernacle.
Right.

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A false Tabernacle.
But you could still imagine

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Jeroboam being able to say, oh,
well, it was good enough for

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Moses’s grandson.
It’s good enough for me, right?

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Something like that.
You know, we don’t know if he

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said that.
But.

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00:21:46,720 –> 00:21:49,360
You can imagine it, right?
So.

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00:21:49,520 –> 00:21:55,000
Jeroboam creates these false
systems of worship based on the

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00:21:55,000 –> 00:21:59,040
fact that he doesn’t understand.
That he’s supposed to have

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00:21:59,040 –> 00:22:02,560
peace.
Now just let that sink in.

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00:22:04,400 –> 00:22:06,800
The.
System that destroys the country

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00:22:07,720 –> 00:22:10,960
comes about.
Because Jeroboam.

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00:22:11,480 –> 00:22:18,600
Didn’t choose peace.
Now what’s?

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00:22:18,600 –> 00:22:22,520
Amazing is what God continues to
do in Second Chronicles Chapter

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00:22:22,520 –> 00:22:24,440
11, verse 4.
We now.

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00:22:24,440 –> 00:22:27,640
Have a story in which Israel is
going to, sorry, Judah is going

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00:22:27,640 –> 00:22:32,200
to attack Israel.
So the Ryoboam, Jeroboam stuff

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00:22:32,600 –> 00:22:36,720
that has ended, now Judah is
going to try and pull a Ryoboam,

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00:22:36,960 –> 00:22:40,240
try to attack Israel and bring
Israel back for a second time.

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00:22:41,000 –> 00:22:42,160
Now what’s?
Interesting is what I’ve

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00:22:42,160 –> 00:22:44,760
highlighted there on the screen.
It’s the second Chronicles 11,

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00:22:44,760 –> 00:22:47,240
verse four, it says.
This.

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00:22:47,240 –> 00:22:51,120
Is what the Lord says, do not go
up to fight against your fellow

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00:22:51,120 –> 00:22:53,480
Israelites.
Now that underlined word there,

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00:22:53,480 –> 00:22:55,800
fellow Israelites, that is in
Hebrew.

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00:22:55,800 –> 00:22:56,840
You’ll see it at the bottom of
the screen.

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It’s your word, ach.
So I used to have a Hebrew

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00:22:59,560 –> 00:23:02,320
student who would always remind
herself that this is how you

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could say this is.
What the word brothers meant,

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00:23:04,720 –> 00:23:06,920
It’s ock because she’d always
say ah, my brother.

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Like that was how?
That was how.

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She remembered it.
So anyway, you know, maybe maybe

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00:23:11,120 –> 00:23:12,520
that’ll help you.
So.

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You have ock, that’s that word
there.

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That’s akhim or brothers.
In other words, this is what the

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00:23:18,440 –> 00:23:20,640
Lord says.
Do not go up to fight against

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your brothers.
Go home.

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00:23:24,080 –> 00:23:25,600
Everyone of you, for this is my
doing.

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00:23:25,600 –> 00:23:27,640
So they obeyed the words of the
Lord and turned back from

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00:23:27,640 –> 00:23:31,080
marching against Jeroboam.
Now let’s.

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00:23:31,080 –> 00:23:32,920
Just put together this scene,
right?

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00:23:34,520 –> 00:23:36,800
Judah.
Is about to invade Israel, A

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00:23:36,800 –> 00:23:41,040
prophet comes and says no, don’t
invade Israel because they’re

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00:23:41,040 –> 00:23:45,280
your brothers, because God
intended for you to have peace.

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Now do you?
Notice.

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00:23:50,720 –> 00:23:52,280
What’s?
So amazing about the fact.

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00:23:52,520 –> 00:23:54,400
That Israel is called their
brothers.

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00:23:55,320 –> 00:23:56,520
At.
This time in history.

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00:23:58,960 –> 00:24:03,800
It’s amazing because.
For a generation now.

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00:24:04,960 –> 00:24:07,000
Israel had been idol
worshippers.

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00:24:08,360 –> 00:24:11,040
And.
Yet God says even though this is

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00:24:11,040 –> 00:24:14,520
a nation of idol worshippers,
you will not attack them.

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00:24:15,040 –> 00:24:16,160
You will.
Have peace with them.

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00:24:17,200 –> 00:24:19,240
And they’re your brothers.
Now where?

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00:24:19,240 –> 00:24:21,640
That gets even more interesting.
Is.

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00:24:21,640 –> 00:24:23,480
In Second Chronicles 28 verse
eight.

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00:24:23,600 –> 00:24:26,120
And by the way, I think
sometimes we we tend to feel

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like the term brother, sister,
all of that, that that denotes

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00:24:28,720 –> 00:24:30,360
unity.
Clearly it doesn’t.

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00:24:31,240 –> 00:24:34,120
Right.
But it does show peace.

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00:24:36,480 –> 00:24:39,200
Second Chronicles 28, verse 8.
Says.

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00:24:39,200 –> 00:24:41,960
The men of Israel took captive
from their fellow Israelites,

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00:24:42,080 –> 00:24:45,800
who were from Judah, 200,000
wives, sons and daughters.

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00:24:45,920 –> 00:24:47,880
They also took a great deal of
plunder, which they carried back

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00:24:47,880 –> 00:24:49,920
to Samaria.
This is now during the reign of

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00:24:49,920 –> 00:24:52,760
Ahaz.
So A has this Hezekiah’s father.

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00:24:53,040 –> 00:24:55,800
During this invasion, this is a
downward invasion in which

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00:24:55,800 –> 00:24:57,720
Israel invades Judah.
So now it’s the other way

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00:24:57,720 –> 00:25:00,120
around.
Israel invades Judah.

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00:25:01,240 –> 00:25:03,360
And.
It is in this time that Israel

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00:25:03,360 –> 00:25:04,960
actually kills Hezekiah’s
brother.

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00:25:07,720 –> 00:25:12,360
So this is.
An intense invasion and yet

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00:25:13,120 –> 00:25:16,160
after they take captive hundreds
of thousands of people.

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00:25:17,760 –> 00:25:18,800
You are.
Told again.

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00:25:19,400 –> 00:25:20,760
Send.
Those captives back.

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00:25:21,640 –> 00:25:24,880
Because they’re your brothers.
Now.

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00:25:24,880 –> 00:25:27,120
It does get a little bit
interesting when we look at the

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00:25:27,120 –> 00:25:30,320
details of Second Chronicles 28,
because this brother’s idea

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00:25:30,320 –> 00:25:32,360
comes out twice, but I do want
to note.

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00:25:33,040 –> 00:25:36,480
That.
Because of Judah’s idolatry.

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00:25:37,160 –> 00:25:39,000
You do.
Have this blue underline there.

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00:25:39,720 –> 00:25:41,200
He.
Gave them into your hand.

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00:25:41,680 –> 00:25:42,840
Right.
So God.

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00:25:42,840 –> 00:25:44,960
Intends overall for there to be
peace.

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00:25:45,240 –> 00:25:48,120
But yes, there are times.
At which God does take away

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00:25:48,120 –> 00:25:50,640
peace, I think that that’s
important to notice, right?

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00:25:50,760 –> 00:25:54,120
There are specific instances
where God will say peace is what

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00:25:54,120 –> 00:25:57,400
I want over all, but in specific
cases we’re going to change

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00:25:57,400 –> 00:26:00,280
that.
OK, so there are caveats here,

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00:26:01,240 –> 00:26:05,240
but.
Nevertheless, even though he

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00:26:05,240 –> 00:26:07,200
gives them into their hand, it’s
fascinating, right?

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00:26:07,840 –> 00:26:09,640
God says I gave them into your
hand, but.

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00:26:10,600 –> 00:26:12,440
Send them back.
They’re your brothers.

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00:26:12,720 –> 00:26:16,720
Come on.
In fact.

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00:26:16,720 –> 00:26:19,000
We see this as we even work.
Through the prophets.

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00:26:19,560 –> 00:26:21,520
So Isaiah was a prophet to which
nation?

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00:26:21,880 –> 00:26:24,520
Israel or Judah?
Judah.

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00:26:24,520 –> 00:26:26,440
That’s right, Isaiah.
Was a prophet to Judah.

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00:26:26,520 –> 00:26:28,840
He primarily prophesied during
the reign of who?

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00:26:30,440 –> 00:26:32,360
Hezekiah.
So.

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00:26:32,360 –> 00:26:35,040
Isaiah is prophesying here
Isaiah 66 during the reign of

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00:26:35,040 –> 00:26:36,600
Hezekiah.
He’s speaking to the people of

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00:26:36,600 –> 00:26:39,320
Judah and noticed his prophecy.
He says.

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00:26:39,320 –> 00:26:42,240
And I, because of what they have
planned and done, I’m about to

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00:26:42,240 –> 00:26:44,760
come and gather the people of
all nations and languages.

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00:26:45,000 –> 00:26:47,160
They will come and see my glory.
Right.

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00:26:47,160 –> 00:26:48,880
This is.
There’s.

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00:26:48,880 –> 00:26:50,360
Multiple applications of this
right?

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00:26:50,400 –> 00:26:54,840
This is an Armageddon passage,
but it had a primary application

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00:26:55,560 –> 00:26:58,360
to the destruction of the
Assyrians at Jerusalem during

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00:26:58,360 –> 00:27:00,000
the reign of Hezekiah.
So God.

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00:27:00,000 –> 00:27:02,000
Says these nations will come and
see my glory.

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00:27:02,160 –> 00:27:04,800
I will set a sign among them.
I will send some of those who

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00:27:04,800 –> 00:27:07,720
survived to the nations, to
Tarshish, to the Libyans and

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00:27:07,720 –> 00:27:10,800
Lydians famous as Archers, to
Tubal and Greece, to the distant

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00:27:10,800 –> 00:27:13,160
islands that have not heard of
my fame or seen my glory.

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00:27:13,360 –> 00:27:16,520
So some of the people that
survive the attack on Jerusalem,

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00:27:17,280 –> 00:27:19,320
they would be sent to the other
nations.

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00:27:19,520 –> 00:27:21,920
Now that’s interesting because
those people, they’re from

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00:27:21,920 –> 00:27:25,240
Jerusalem, so therefore they
would be inhabitants of.

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00:27:25,800 –> 00:27:29,800
Judah, right they will.
Proclaim My glory among the

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00:27:29,800 –> 00:27:33,480
nations, and they will bring all
your people from all the

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00:27:33,480 –> 00:27:35,520
nations.
Now who’s that talking about?

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00:27:35,680 –> 00:27:40,000
All your people.
Oh, that’s the people of Israel.

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00:27:41,760 –> 00:27:44,320
And that’s what we expect, or we
expect at the coming of the Lord

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00:27:44,320 –> 00:27:47,400
Jesus after Armageddon, that the
people in Jerusalem will be sent

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00:27:47,520 –> 00:27:51,120
to gather back scattered Israel.
They will.

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00:27:51,120 –> 00:27:54,280
Bring all your people from all
the nations to my holy mountain

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00:27:54,280 –> 00:27:56,160
in Jerusalem.
So it’s interesting then that

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even in the prophets we see that
God continued to say, Israel and

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00:28:00,320 –> 00:28:02,680
Judah.
You are one people, you are one

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00:28:02,680 –> 00:28:07,960
family.
Jeremiah 715 I will thrust you

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00:28:07,960 –> 00:28:11,320
from my presence, just as I did
all your fellow Israelites, or

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00:28:11,320 –> 00:28:14,280
again your brothers.
The people of Ephraim.

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00:28:15,600 –> 00:28:18,440
Ezekiel. 23 verse four.
The older was named Ahola and

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00:28:18,440 –> 00:28:20,880
her sister was Aholaba.
They were mine and gave birth to

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00:28:20,880 –> 00:28:23,600
sons and daughters, Ahola as
Samaria and Aholaba as

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00:28:23,600 –> 00:28:26,000
Jerusalem, their sisters.
And so.

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00:28:26,000 –> 00:28:28,560
You have this family metaphor
brought up not because God

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00:28:28,560 –> 00:28:31,360
expects families to always be
exactly the same.

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00:28:31,520 –> 00:28:33,800
He doesn’t expect families to
always have unity, but he

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00:28:33,800 –> 00:28:35,800
expects families to have.
Peace.

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00:28:40,120 –> 00:28:41,600
Unfortunately, that’s not what
happens.

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00:28:42,640 –> 00:28:45,440
Right first.
Kings 15 verse six there was.

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00:28:45,440 –> 00:28:48,240
War between Abijah and Jeroboam,
Abijah’s Rioboam’s son.

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00:28:49,080 –> 00:28:50,320
Throughout.
Abijah’s lifetime.

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00:28:51,840 –> 00:28:54,640
Now again.
We.

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00:28:54,640 –> 00:28:58,280
Can in fact tell, I believe.
That.

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00:28:58,280 –> 00:29:00,000
This war was not supposed to
happen.

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00:29:01,440 –> 00:29:03,800
Abijah gets up in Second
Chronicles 13 verses three to

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00:29:03,800 –> 00:29:05,760
four.
He goes into battle with an army

591
00:29:05,760 –> 00:29:09,600
of 400,000 able fighting men.
Jeroboam drew up a battle line

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00:29:09,600 –> 00:29:14,000
against him with 800,000 so
twice as many people and Abijah

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00:29:14,080 –> 00:29:16,680
then gets up.
And this is not what you do in

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00:29:16,680 –> 00:29:18,680
war.
Abijah then gets up and he gives

595
00:29:18,680 –> 00:29:22,360
a speech, essentially trying to
convince Jeroboam that fighting

596
00:29:22,360 –> 00:29:24,760
is a bad idea.
And he?

597
00:29:24,800 –> 00:29:27,520
He stands up and he says,
Jeroboam, you are so foolish,

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00:29:27,880 –> 00:29:30,360
you should know that Yahweh is
on our side and you’re about to

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00:29:30,360 –> 00:29:32,000
lose.
Now abide.

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00:29:32,000 –> 00:29:34,400
You better hope that that’s
true, because he he’s going

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00:29:34,400 –> 00:29:36,040
against an army that’s twice as
big as his.

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00:29:37,080 –> 00:29:39,040
Now I would put to you.
In fact that the Lord Jesus

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00:29:39,040 –> 00:29:41,640
tells a parable based on this.
It’s Luke chapter 14.

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00:29:41,640 –> 00:29:44,960
It’s the last few verses of the
chapter Luke. 14 he says.

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00:29:44,960 –> 00:29:47,160
Or what?
King going into battle.

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00:29:48,560 –> 00:29:50,760
Will.
Not count his men.

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00:29:52,600 –> 00:29:53,360
And.
Know.

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00:29:55,320 –> 00:29:59,320
That his.
Enemy has twice as many and

609
00:29:59,320 –> 00:30:02,200
instead will stand up.
And.

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00:30:02,200 –> 00:30:04,520
Offer words of peace.
Right, he.

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00:30:04,520 –> 00:30:06,760
Says what King would do that?
Oh, we know who.

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00:30:07,880 –> 00:30:10,520
Abijah right and.
This is what Abijah tries to do.

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00:30:10,520 –> 00:30:12,840
He tries to say, oh, you don’t
actually want to fight Jeroboam,

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00:30:12,840 –> 00:30:14,200
never mind, right?
It’s not a good idea.

615
00:30:14,840 –> 00:30:19,720
And he tries to explain, look,
Yahweh is on our side now.

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00:30:19,720 –> 00:30:22,960
God does help them because I
think he actually does invoke

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00:30:23,160 –> 00:30:25,760
Yahweh whereas Jeroboam doesn’t.
Right.

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00:30:25,760 –> 00:30:27,600
Jeroboam just as using his
idols.

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00:30:28,720 –> 00:30:30,560
So.
God does save them, but I think

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00:30:30,560 –> 00:30:33,720
you can see from the Lord
Jesus’s commentary on this on

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00:30:33,720 –> 00:30:37,120
this story in Luke 14 that.
This was not what was intended,

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00:30:37,400 –> 00:30:38,640
right?
This was not what was supposed

623
00:30:38,640 –> 00:30:39,960
to happen.
Now.

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00:30:39,960 –> 00:30:42,360
Here’s our awesome chart.
I love this.

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00:30:42,360 –> 00:30:45,040
I don’t know about you, I I just
love to like geek out over

626
00:30:45,040 –> 00:30:46,480
charts.
They’re the best.

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00:30:46,920 –> 00:30:49,000
So we can spend a lot of time,
but we won’t.

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00:30:49,000 –> 00:30:50,640
We’re not going to look at this
chart that often.

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00:30:51,040 –> 00:30:54,080
OK.
We’ve just looked at Jeroboam.

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00:30:54,080 –> 00:30:56,440
Right on the top there in the
yellow and then Rioboam on the

631
00:30:56,440 –> 00:30:58,880
bottom in the yellow and then
Abijah just after him.

632
00:30:59,640 –> 00:31:02,800
Well, as you go through you get
Baasha and ASA and.

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00:31:03,760 –> 00:31:05,200
Then.
There’s a bunch of civil wars in

634
00:31:05,200 –> 00:31:08,520
Israel, so you have Ela Zimri
who reigns for seven days, Tibny

635
00:31:08,520 –> 00:31:12,000
and Omri and then Ahab, and then
you get Jehoshaphat down there

636
00:31:12,120 –> 00:31:14,280
in Judah.
Well, throughout all of these

637
00:31:14,280 –> 00:31:16,440
kings reigns there still is not
peace.

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00:31:18,120 –> 00:31:19,560
So.
First Kings 15 verse 16 there

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00:31:19,560 –> 00:31:22,440
was war between ASA and Baasha,
king of Israel, throughout their

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00:31:22,440 –> 00:31:26,440
reigns.
Baasha.

641
00:31:26,440 –> 00:31:28,720
Then invades Judah.
ASA.

642
00:31:28,800 –> 00:31:30,520
Takes gold from the temple
treasury to Syria.

643
00:31:30,680 –> 00:31:33,000
Syria and Judah defeat Israel,
right?

644
00:31:33,000 –> 00:31:35,600
So there’s all this war back and
forth, back and forth, over and

645
00:31:35,600 –> 00:31:38,360
over and over, and it doesn’t
work out well.

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00:31:39,400 –> 00:31:43,160
Right, this is what ends up.
Having ASA condemned, he doesn’t

647
00:31:43,160 –> 00:31:46,200
rely on God throughout all of
it, and this war was not

648
00:31:46,200 –> 00:31:47,800
supposed to have been what took
place.

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00:31:48,680 –> 00:31:52,520
OK, we.
Then get Ahab and Jehoshaphat

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00:31:52,520 –> 00:31:54,280
and that’s where it gets
interesting.

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00:31:54,320 –> 00:31:57,080
I don’t know if you’ve ever
noticed this verse, but when you

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00:31:57,080 –> 00:32:00,440
get to the reign of Jehoshaphat.
Look what happens. 2nd.

653
00:32:00,440 –> 00:32:04,000
Chronicles 17, verse 10 the.
Fear of the Lord fell.

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00:32:04,000 –> 00:32:07,040
On all the kingdoms of the land
surrounding Judah, so that they

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00:32:07,040 –> 00:32:09,720
did not go to war against
Jehoshaphat now.

656
00:32:09,720 –> 00:32:13,360
All the kingdoms surrounding
Judah that would include.

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00:32:14,040 –> 00:32:15,120
Israel.
Right.

658
00:32:15,280 –> 00:32:18,920
So what we’re looking at?
Here is a time in which there is

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00:32:19,000 –> 00:32:22,240
no war.
In other words, there is peace.

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00:32:23,440 –> 00:32:27,120
Finally, this is a time of
peace.

661
00:32:27,320 –> 00:32:29,960
This is what they.
Were supposed to have.

662
00:32:30,160 –> 00:32:33,080
God did not intend for them to
have unity, He intended for them

663
00:32:33,080 –> 00:32:35,800
to have peace.
And he?

664
00:32:35,800 –> 00:32:39,320
Gives it to Josaphat, however.
Strangely.

665
00:32:39,320 –> 00:32:44,680
Enough Jehoshaphat is not happy
with the peace and he tries to

666
00:32:44,680 –> 00:32:48,000
force unity.
Now you know the.

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00:32:48,000 –> 00:32:49,240
Story.
Right.

668
00:32:50,000 –> 00:32:51,280
That.
Jehoshaphat goes.

669
00:32:51,280 –> 00:32:54,280
He allies with Ahab.
Ahab gets a prophecy that he’s

670
00:32:54,280 –> 00:32:57,880
going to die that day, and he
then asks Jehoshaphat, will you

671
00:32:57,880 –> 00:33:00,840
please put on my royal robes?
And Jehoshaphat’s like, yeah,

672
00:33:00,840 –> 00:33:03,800
that sounds fun.
So he does it and he goes out

673
00:33:03,920 –> 00:33:06,960
and the Archer shoot at him and
Jehoshaphat runs away screaming.

674
00:33:07,520 –> 00:33:09,880
OK, which?
Is, you know, understandable.

675
00:33:10,240 –> 00:33:14,040
I would do that too.
Ahab then gets hit by a random

676
00:33:14,040 –> 00:33:17,640
Archer who draws draws the bow
and it strikes him and that’s

677
00:33:17,640 –> 00:33:19,040
the end of Ahab.
OK.

678
00:33:19,240 –> 00:33:20,520
There’s a little.
More to the story, though.

679
00:33:21,520 –> 00:33:22,720
And that shows.
US.

680
00:33:23,280 –> 00:33:25,040
What?
Jehoshaphat is doing and this

681
00:33:25,040 –> 00:33:27,400
idea behind the unity here with
Jehoshaphat.

682
00:33:27,840 –> 00:33:31,680
So in Second Chronicles chapter
18 verse one we read that

683
00:33:31,680 –> 00:33:34,480
Jehoshaphat allied himself by
marriage.

684
00:33:35,000 –> 00:33:37,640
Now not all translations say
that, which is why I have this

685
00:33:37,640 –> 00:33:38,760
stuff on the Hebrew at the
bottom.

686
00:33:39,080 –> 00:33:42,840
The Allied himself is Hatan,
which is in the hit Payal

687
00:33:42,840 –> 00:33:45,240
Banyani, which probably means
nothing, but that’s OK.

688
00:33:46,000 –> 00:33:48,480
It.
What this is just some of the.

689
00:33:48,960 –> 00:33:51,840
Interesting detailed things in
Hebrew that that you can look at

690
00:33:51,960 –> 00:33:53,560
Hebrew.
Verbs are very complicated.

691
00:33:53,720 –> 00:33:55,960
Just keep that you know as a
warning if you ever try and mess

692
00:33:55,960 –> 00:33:58,840
with Hebrew verbs.
It’s probably better not to so.

693
00:33:59,120 –> 00:34:01,640
So what?
What this means is it’s a

694
00:34:01,640 –> 00:34:04,160
marriage alliance.
Now, the reason that that is so

695
00:34:04,160 –> 00:34:07,240
important for us, that it’s a
marriage alliance, is what do we

696
00:34:07,240 –> 00:34:13,400
know about marriage?
Genesis 224, Two become one.

697
00:34:14,000 –> 00:34:18,000
Ah, that sounds to me not
necessarily like it’s peace.

698
00:34:18,760 –> 00:34:19,440
But.
Unity.

699
00:34:20,040 –> 00:34:23,719
Right.
So God expects peace in a.

700
00:34:23,719 –> 00:34:26,280
Family, he doesn’t expect unity
amongst all the children and

701
00:34:26,280 –> 00:34:28,440
whatnot, but he does expect
unity between a husband and a

702
00:34:28,440 –> 00:34:30,920
wife, right?
It’s not very functional if you

703
00:34:30,920 –> 00:34:33,320
don’t have that so.
You have.

704
00:34:33,360 –> 00:34:36,239
Unity then that Jehoshaphat
tries to create.

705
00:34:36,400 –> 00:34:40,120
So he has his son Jehoram Mary
Athalaya Ahab’s daughter.

706
00:34:40,400 –> 00:34:42,520
He is attempting to create
Unity.

707
00:34:43,080 –> 00:34:44,560
Second Chronicles, 18 verse.
Three.

708
00:34:44,639 –> 00:34:47,560
He then attempts to create unity
again because Ahab comes to him

709
00:34:47,560 –> 00:34:50,360
and says, will you ally with me?
Let’s go to battle against

710
00:34:50,400 –> 00:34:53,760
Ramoth Gilead.
Jehoshaphat replies by saying I

711
00:34:53,760 –> 00:34:56,120
am as you are, and my people as
your people.

712
00:34:56,480 –> 00:34:58,640
Now, if you read that in the
Hebrew, here’s how it

713
00:34:58,640 –> 00:35:02,080
translates.
It’s Kamukhi Kamukha.

714
00:35:03,000 –> 00:35:05,000
Which is.
Like me?

715
00:35:05,000 –> 00:35:09,000
Like you?
Can you see that unity emphasis

716
00:35:09,040 –> 00:35:11,160
there?
Like me, Like you.

717
00:35:12,040 –> 00:35:13,680
I’m exactly.
The same as you.

718
00:35:14,360 –> 00:35:15,200
Right, that’s.
What he’s saying?

719
00:35:16,000 –> 00:35:19,240
We’re one my.
People as your people.

720
00:35:20,320 –> 00:35:23,160
Now that’s.
Like your people are my people.

721
00:35:23,640 –> 00:35:25,360
In other words, my nation is the
same as yours.

722
00:35:25,920 –> 00:35:29,720
Now let’s just think about that.
Is that true that his nation is

723
00:35:29,720 –> 00:35:32,960
the same as Ahab’s nation?
It’s not true at all.

724
00:35:33,520 –> 00:35:36,800
Right.
At this, Ahab is the king who

725
00:35:36,800 –> 00:35:39,560
starts hunting down prophets.
That was.

726
00:35:39,560 –> 00:35:42,360
Never a thing that had happened
in Israel’s history up to the

727
00:35:42,360 –> 00:35:43,960
point of Ahab.
That’s.

728
00:35:43,960 –> 00:35:47,960
What makes Ahab so terrible?
This is why God condemns Ahab

729
00:35:48,080 –> 00:35:50,920
more than Jeroboam.
Because.

730
00:35:51,120 –> 00:35:54,560
Ahab takes the next step of
actively hunting out those who

731
00:35:54,560 –> 00:35:58,320
worship Yahweh.
Now, that’s clearly not what

732
00:35:58,320 –> 00:36:00,760
Jehoshaphat was doing.
So the things that he’s saying

733
00:36:00,760 –> 00:36:02,680
here.
He says, oh look, we’re unified.

734
00:36:03,480 –> 00:36:08,680
But they’re not.
Second Chronicles 18 four

735
00:36:09,440 –> 00:36:12,440
Jehoshaphat then tries to change
the situation right he.

736
00:36:12,440 –> 00:36:16,280
Attempts to to create unity by
changing Ahab, so he says well.

737
00:36:16,880 –> 00:36:18,280
Let’s first seek the counsel.
Of Yahweh.

738
00:36:18,280 –> 00:36:19,800
Now Ahab doesn’t do anything to
that right?

739
00:36:19,800 –> 00:36:22,160
He just doesn’t listen.
So Jehoshaphat says it again in

740
00:36:22,160 –> 00:36:24,760
verse 6.
Is there no longer a prophet of

741
00:36:24,760 –> 00:36:26,320
the Lord here whom we can
inquire of?

742
00:36:26,680 –> 00:36:30,000
And Ahab says Oh yes there is,
but I.

743
00:36:30,000 –> 00:36:33,080
Hate him right now.
Again, That should indicate to

744
00:36:33,080 –> 00:36:35,400
you.
That unity is not here, right?

745
00:36:35,920 –> 00:36:38,120
Unless you’re Jehoshaphat and
you’re like, yeah, I hated him

746
00:36:38,120 –> 00:36:40,960
too or something like that.
But you know he doesn’t.

747
00:36:41,320 –> 00:36:44,840
So there isn’t unity there.
OK, so just.

748
00:36:44,840 –> 00:36:47,120
To make that clear, right?
We know that, but I think that

749
00:36:47,240 –> 00:36:49,640
that should have been some red
flags for Jehoshaphat.

750
00:36:50,000 –> 00:36:53,280
Now, after that, Mike, AIA, the
prophet, he comes, he gives the

751
00:36:53,280 –> 00:36:54,880
prophecy that Ahab is going to
die.

752
00:36:54,880 –> 00:36:57,200
Israel is scattered like sheep
without a shepherd, right?

753
00:36:58,240 –> 00:37:01,400
And then Ahab says, Oh yeah.
Well, I’ll, I’ll do better than

754
00:37:01,400 –> 00:37:02,720
that.
How?

755
00:37:02,720 –> 00:37:05,880
About you stay in the dungeon
till I come back safely ha.

756
00:37:06,280 –> 00:37:08,960
Let’s see if your prophecy, you
know, changes now or something

757
00:37:08,960 –> 00:37:12,120
like that.
Well, it doesn’t.

758
00:37:12,120 –> 00:37:14,920
Work, right?
But the point is, imagine this

759
00:37:14,920 –> 00:37:18,000
from Jehoshaphat’s shoes.
You’re.

760
00:37:18,000 –> 00:37:21,040
Standing with a guy that you
just said, you and I, we’re the

761
00:37:21,040 –> 00:37:23,000
same, right?
And he’s.

762
00:37:23,000 –> 00:37:24,240
Just said.
We.

763
00:37:24,240 –> 00:37:26,040
Are you know, that’s great.
I’m glad we’re the same.

764
00:37:26,040 –> 00:37:28,200
I hate Yahweh’s prophet.
Oh, and by the way, I’m going to

765
00:37:28,200 –> 00:37:31,160
lock him up.
And now you’re Jehoshaphat and

766
00:37:31,160 –> 00:37:34,920
you’re just thinking, hmm.
Well.

767
00:37:35,080 –> 00:37:37,040
I guess we’ll go to battle.
Anyway, right, Like.

768
00:37:37,120 –> 00:37:39,560
What?
What was that about?

769
00:37:40,400 –> 00:37:41,320
Oh, and.
By the way, I’ll wear your.

770
00:37:41,320 –> 00:37:42,880
Clothes Ahab so that people can
shoot at me.

771
00:37:43,240 –> 00:37:46,320
Like, come on, what’s happening
here?

772
00:37:46,720 –> 00:37:49,200
So this is beyond peace.
Peace.

773
00:37:49,200 –> 00:37:52,480
Was what God had intended.
God created the disunity there.

774
00:37:53,160 –> 00:37:54,960
Peace.
Is tranquility and harmony.

775
00:37:55,040 –> 00:37:57,000
This is not peace.
There.

776
00:37:57,000 –> 00:38:00,360
Was peace and Jehoshaphat is now
going beyond the peace.

777
00:38:00,480 –> 00:38:02,880
So let’s talk a little bit about
unity and try and understand

778
00:38:02,880 –> 00:38:04,560
then what that is.
Well, this is interesting.

779
00:38:04,560 –> 00:38:06,760
This is a big shock to me.
I don’t know if you’re aware,

780
00:38:06,880 –> 00:38:09,680
but Unity only shows up three
times in the Bible.

781
00:38:10,480 –> 00:38:13,960
This is.
In the English, so in the KJV.

782
00:38:14,800 –> 00:38:17,200
You get the word unity.
Showing up three times.

783
00:38:17,200 –> 00:38:21,360
It’s PS 133 verse one, Ephesians
4, verse 3 and Ephesians 413.

784
00:38:22,200 –> 00:38:23,920
So 3.
Times that you have the English

785
00:38:23,920 –> 00:38:25,960
word unity.
If you.

786
00:38:25,960 –> 00:38:28,600
Look at it in the ESV, you’ll
notice that you get one more in

787
00:38:28,600 –> 00:38:31,080
first Peter 3/8.
And this just shows you a little

788
00:38:31,080 –> 00:38:32,680
bit of the difference in
translations, right?

789
00:38:33,080 –> 00:38:35,600
And you can see that the
liberality of the NIV, when I go

790
00:38:35,600 –> 00:38:39,560
to the next slide, the NIV has
it in seven places.

791
00:38:40,080 –> 00:38:42,160
Right, it’s.
Very.

792
00:38:42,480 –> 00:38:44,800
That’s one of the things I, I
just love, you know, I love

793
00:38:44,800 –> 00:38:47,480
translation.
Well, one of the things that’s

794
00:38:47,480 –> 00:38:49,800
really interesting to do.
Is to just go through and look

795
00:38:49,800 –> 00:38:52,960
at how many times does the NIV
refer to the Holy Spirit as a

796
00:38:52,960 –> 00:38:54,840
He.
By the.

797
00:38:54,840 –> 00:38:57,280
Way when it’s not that way in
the Greek.

798
00:38:58,200 –> 00:39:01,600
So it does it a whole.
Lot more than the KJV and the

799
00:39:01,600 –> 00:39:03,840
new living actually does it
something like 18 times.

800
00:39:04,000 –> 00:39:06,600
Anyway, this is that’s a
digression, sorry, but it’s so

801
00:39:06,600 –> 00:39:08,800
exciting, isn’t it?
Like it’s just interesting stuff

802
00:39:08,800 –> 00:39:10,400
to know about.
So these are the things that we

803
00:39:10,400 –> 00:39:11,520
should look at and we should be
aware of.

804
00:39:11,880 –> 00:39:14,600
OK, so the word unity, the point
is, is that in English it

805
00:39:14,600 –> 00:39:16,600
doesn’t show up that often.
And I think it’s just good to

806
00:39:16,600 –> 00:39:19,560
know that it’s sort of a
background piece because I would

807
00:39:19,560 –> 00:39:22,480
suggest to you, it could be very
easy to look at this and say,

808
00:39:22,480 –> 00:39:25,040
oh, wow, Like, you know, we’ve
just seen that peace is

809
00:39:25,040 –> 00:39:27,880
important and that, well, you
know, God was creating disunity

810
00:39:27,880 –> 00:39:29,120
there.
So unity doesn’t actually

811
00:39:29,120 –> 00:39:30,160
matter.
Right.

812
00:39:30,160 –> 00:39:32,560
It only shows up a handful of
times like no big deal.

813
00:39:32,720 –> 00:39:34,000
Well, that would just be totally
wrong.

814
00:39:34,320 –> 00:39:35,800
OK.
So please don’t think that don’t

815
00:39:35,800 –> 00:39:38,480
think that that’s.
What I’m saying in my class, my

816
00:39:38,480 –> 00:39:41,480
point is is that the word unity
doesn’t show up very often, but

817
00:39:41,480 –> 00:39:45,800
I think the concept.
Does so if we go to some of

818
00:39:45,800 –> 00:39:48,280
those places where unity is
talked about.

819
00:39:48,640 –> 00:39:51,040
So Ephesians 4, three Ephesians
413.

820
00:39:51,440 –> 00:39:55,120
We’ll see in the Greek that our
word is in notice.

821
00:39:55,920 –> 00:39:59,320
Which comes.
From our word hase which is. 1.

822
00:39:59,320 –> 00:40:01,480
That’s what it means.
It means oneness.

823
00:40:02,880 –> 00:40:04,440
So.
Unity means oneness.

824
00:40:04,440 –> 00:40:06,280
It comes from the Greek word
one.

825
00:40:06,720 –> 00:40:10,080
Now, if you’re interested about
the etymology of our English

826
00:40:10,080 –> 00:40:12,320
word unity, which I don’t even
know why I put this in because

827
00:40:12,320 –> 00:40:16,640
it’s not that relevant, but I,
I, I think it’s, I just nerd out

828
00:40:16,640 –> 00:40:17,760
about these things.
Sorry.

829
00:40:17,760 –> 00:40:19,880
That’s really what it is.
And I wanted to use my Latin

830
00:40:19,880 –> 00:40:23,200
somehow.
So what you got going on here is

831
00:40:23,320 –> 00:40:26,040
here’s unity.
It comes from your Latin word.

832
00:40:26,040 –> 00:40:29,080
There it is ready unus, which
means one, right?

833
00:40:29,080 –> 00:40:32,240
So you can see the connection
that you have in Greek.

834
00:40:32,360 –> 00:40:35,400
You have your word oneness and
then you have the word, the

835
00:40:35,400 –> 00:40:38,720
English word unity comes from
the, the Latin word for one.

836
00:40:38,800 –> 00:40:42,120
OK, So we can see that unity is
really connected to oneness.

837
00:40:42,280 –> 00:40:44,960
And that’s a concept that comes
up a lot of times in Scripture,

838
00:40:44,960 –> 00:40:47,040
right?
Being of one mind.

839
00:40:50,400 –> 00:40:53,040
So.
Unity is something then that is

840
00:40:53,040 –> 00:40:55,480
important scripturally, even
though the English word doesn’t

841
00:40:55,480 –> 00:40:56,960
show up that often.
So.

842
00:40:56,960 –> 00:40:59,920
You can just see how.
That idea of oneness shows up a

843
00:40:59,920 –> 00:41:00,680
few times.
Now.

844
00:41:00,800 –> 00:41:03,680
They’re not all like commands
that we should be one, right?

845
00:41:04,000 –> 00:41:07,560
Like the Tower of Babel, the
whole world had one language and

846
00:41:07,560 –> 00:41:09,520
a common speech.
But I just want to show you how

847
00:41:09,520 –> 00:41:12,040
this oneness is sometimes talked
about scripturally.

848
00:41:13,120 –> 00:41:14,440
It.
Is though, something that is

849
00:41:14,440 –> 00:41:15,840
supposed to be seen as the
ideal?

850
00:41:17,440 –> 00:41:19,560
So if you.
Have Jeremiah 32 verses 37 to

851
00:41:19,560 –> 00:41:22,120
39.
You have a prophecy of the

852
00:41:22,120 –> 00:41:25,040
Kingdom age in which God says
down there where I underlined

853
00:41:25,040 –> 00:41:27,440
it, I will give them singleness
of heart.

854
00:41:27,560 –> 00:41:31,120
That’s our same word one.
I will give them oneness of

855
00:41:31,120 –> 00:41:34,120
heart.
So this is what God.

856
00:41:34,520 –> 00:41:38,520
Looks for this is what he wants.
So he envisions in the Kingdom

857
00:41:38,520 –> 00:41:43,320
age a time in which everyone has
one heart, right where there is

858
00:41:43,320 –> 00:41:46,240
unity amongst everyone.
So that’s what he’s looking for.

859
00:41:46,440 –> 00:41:48,280
You see the same thing in
Ezekiel Chapter 11.

860
00:41:48,480 –> 00:41:50,320
He says down there, I will give
them that.

861
00:41:50,320 –> 00:41:52,880
Is Israel and Judah an undivided
heart.

862
00:41:53,000 –> 00:41:56,360
Again, that’s our word one, I
will give them one heart.

863
00:42:01,560 –> 00:42:04,240
Now I do find it interesting,
just by the way, you might have

864
00:42:04,240 –> 00:42:05,560
noticed that in those two
prophecies.

865
00:42:06,280 –> 00:42:07,640
Who is it?
That creates the unity.

866
00:42:08,920 –> 00:42:11,600
It’s God again, right?
So you have God creating

867
00:42:11,600 –> 00:42:15,240
disunity when we look at Israel
and Judas history and then God

868
00:42:15,240 –> 00:42:20,080
creating unity again.
Philippians.

869
00:42:20,080 –> 00:42:22,720
Chapter 2.
However, now I don’t think that

870
00:42:22,720 –> 00:42:24,280
that’s like an excuse for us,
right?

871
00:42:24,280 –> 00:42:25,440
We.
Can’t say, well, you know, we

872
00:42:25,440 –> 00:42:28,120
just need divine intervention.
Although you know, maybe

873
00:42:28,120 –> 00:42:30,840
sometimes that is how it is.
But in Philippians chapter 2.

874
00:42:31,440 –> 00:42:32,600
Right, that is what we’re called
to.

875
00:42:32,920 –> 00:42:35,240
We are.
Called to be of 1 spirit and one

876
00:42:35,240 –> 00:42:37,880
mind.
So we are called the Unity.

877
00:42:38,320 –> 00:42:40,880
So I think.
What we see is that unity is the

878
00:42:40,880 –> 00:42:44,120
ideal.
And yet peace.

879
00:42:44,560 –> 00:42:47,360
Is the command.
We are.

880
00:42:47,360 –> 00:42:50,280
Commanded to be at peace with
everyone and.

881
00:42:50,280 –> 00:42:54,560
Once we have learned to have
peace, then we can learn to have

882
00:42:54,560 –> 00:42:59,360
unity.
So these ideas are biblically

883
00:42:59,360 –> 00:43:01,960
different things.
Peace means harmony and

884
00:43:01,960 –> 00:43:04,240
tranquility.
Unity means oneness.

885
00:43:05,720 –> 00:43:07,960
So now let’s.
Just take a look and ask

886
00:43:07,960 –> 00:43:11,200
ourselves well.
How do we?

887
00:43:11,600 –> 00:43:14,280
Get these things and when do we
use them right?

888
00:43:14,280 –> 00:43:17,600
Under what circumstances do we
say I’m going to go for peace?

889
00:43:18,560 –> 00:43:19,760
Or I’m.
Going to go for Unity well.

890
00:43:20,440 –> 00:43:23,080
Let’s go back to Romans 14.
Right, this is what we looked at

891
00:43:23,080 –> 00:43:26,280
yesterday, Romans chapter 14.
We have our context of Jews and

892
00:43:26,280 –> 00:43:28,240
Gentiles.
We have a group of people who

893
00:43:28,240 –> 00:43:29,560
thinks that you should follow
Shabbat.

894
00:43:30,200 –> 00:43:32,680
Who?
Thinks that you have to eat

895
00:43:32,680 –> 00:43:34,920
vegetables because your meat
could have been offered to idols

896
00:43:35,040 –> 00:43:36,640
and these people are getting
frustrated about it.

897
00:43:36,760 –> 00:43:38,880
You have another group who’s
getting frustrated about the

898
00:43:38,880 –> 00:43:40,160
fact that.
They’re.

899
00:43:40,160 –> 00:43:42,920
Being looked down on for not
doing these things.

900
00:43:43,320 –> 00:43:49,320
Right.
So just think.

901
00:43:49,320 –> 00:43:53,600
About this, if you were going to
approach this to try and create

902
00:43:53,600 –> 00:43:56,600
peace, how would?
This be solved.

903
00:43:59,560 –> 00:44:02,400
How would it be solved?
If you were going to try and

904
00:44:02,400 –> 00:44:05,440
create Unity.
Would you?

905
00:44:05,440 –> 00:44:08,720
Approach it the same way.
Peace versus unity.

906
00:44:11,920 –> 00:44:12,880
And I.
Think the really interesting

907
00:44:12,880 –> 00:44:16,120
question is which of those do
you think Paul chose?

908
00:44:17,120 –> 00:44:18,040
Peace.
Or Unity.

909
00:44:21,800 –> 00:44:23,280
I’m going to.
Put to you that he chose peace,

910
00:44:24,640 –> 00:44:27,320
interestingly.
He.

911
00:44:27,320 –> 00:44:30,960
Chooses peace because his
solution is essentially just get

912
00:44:30,960 –> 00:44:32,720
over it.
Right.

913
00:44:32,920 –> 00:44:35,360
Like he comes in and he says,
you know what?

914
00:44:36,760 –> 00:44:38,560
You who?
Are strong, bear with the weak.

915
00:44:40,560 –> 00:44:42,680
You.
Just need to decide.

916
00:44:42,880 –> 00:44:47,200
To be OK with this, he says.
You need to work together.

917
00:44:48,600 –> 00:44:49,680
And.
That means peace.

918
00:44:49,840 –> 00:44:51,880
It doesn’t necessarily mean
unity, right?

919
00:44:51,880 –> 00:44:54,520
He didn’t come in and he didn’t
say, look, here’s my treatise.

920
00:44:55,360 –> 00:44:56,720
To you.
People who think you need to

921
00:44:56,720 –> 00:44:59,160
follow Shabbat, here’s my
treatise on why we don’t need to

922
00:44:59,160 –> 00:45:01,200
follow the law anymore.
Like what are you thinking?

923
00:45:01,360 –> 00:45:03,480
He doesn’t write that.
He doesn’t write them galatians

924
00:45:03,480 –> 00:45:07,920
#2.
Instead, he just says, you

925
00:45:07,920 –> 00:45:10,760
strong people who aren’t
following Shabbat, it’s time to

926
00:45:10,760 –> 00:45:13,760
just.
Deal with it and that’s that.

927
00:45:14,840 –> 00:45:17,280
Right.
I know that you don’t need this,

928
00:45:17,480 –> 00:45:17,800
right?
That’s.

929
00:45:17,800 –> 00:45:18,320
Why?
He says.

930
00:45:18,400 –> 00:45:21,760
I am persuaded in the Lord Jesus
and convinced.

931
00:45:22,400 –> 00:45:24,040
That.
Nothing is unclean of itself.

932
00:45:24,520 –> 00:45:26,800
He said.
But it is.

933
00:45:26,800 –> 00:45:28,040
Unclean for those who think it
is.

934
00:45:29,560 –> 00:45:31,000
So he says.
In this case, you know what?

935
00:45:31,000 –> 00:45:32,600
You just need peace.
It’s.

936
00:45:32,600 –> 00:45:36,080
Just a time to just wait.
And he’s not saying, by the way,

937
00:45:36,160 –> 00:45:39,880
wait for the rest of your life.
Because he says clearly you are

938
00:45:39,880 –> 00:45:42,040
the strong people now.
How do you think those who

939
00:45:42,040 –> 00:45:43,800
celebrated Shabbat felt about
that right?

940
00:45:43,800 –> 00:45:45,960
Would you like to get a letter
from the Apostle Paul saying

941
00:45:45,960 –> 00:45:49,320
that you’re weak?
Probably not, right?

942
00:45:49,600 –> 00:45:52,640
Like he, he doesn’t just sit
around and say, you know, have

943
00:45:52,640 –> 00:45:56,520
peace now, but he says have
peace now because eventually

944
00:45:56,720 –> 00:46:00,200
that peace will.
Lead to unity.

945
00:46:02,640 –> 00:46:05,200
But.
Unity takes time and requires

946
00:46:05,200 –> 00:46:08,600
the peace first.
So that’s Paul’s solution.

947
00:46:09,360 –> 00:46:12,040
He.
Says have peace first, focus on

948
00:46:12,040 –> 00:46:14,560
the peace and see what happens.
Right.

949
00:46:15,240 –> 00:46:17,400
Don’t.
Let your good be evil spoken of,

950
00:46:17,560 –> 00:46:19,640
he says.
So don’t.

951
00:46:19,640 –> 00:46:22,600
Just sit there and decide to be
peaceful about it, you know,

952
00:46:22,600 –> 00:46:24,640
talk to these people and say,
well, here’s why I think we

953
00:46:24,640 –> 00:46:28,280
shouldn’t celebrate Jabhat.
But do it peacefully.

954
00:46:31,400 –> 00:46:34,440
Let us therefore make every
effort to do what leads to

955
00:46:34,440 –> 00:46:39,160
peace, he says.
And a mutual edification do not

956
00:46:39,160 –> 00:46:41,480
destroy the work of God for the
sake of food.

957
00:46:41,720 –> 00:46:45,320
All food is clean, but is wrong
for a person to eat anything

958
00:46:45,400 –> 00:46:46,760
that causes someone else to
stumble.

959
00:46:47,120 –> 00:46:50,480
So what Paul says is in this
case, we have to choose peace

960
00:46:51,080 –> 00:46:55,760
and we’ll get to unity.
Now.

961
00:46:55,760 –> 00:46:58,640
I think that when we recognize
that distinction between peace

962
00:46:58,640 –> 00:47:01,120
and unity, we can then
understand what’s really going

963
00:47:01,120 –> 00:47:03,560
on here.
We don’t have to see.

964
00:47:04,560 –> 00:47:08,040
Hebrews. 1214 as creating a
contrast between peace and

965
00:47:08,040 –> 00:47:12,120
holiness.
In fact, what we can see is that

966
00:47:12,120 –> 00:47:17,720
learning to live at peace with
everyone is one of the ways that

967
00:47:17,720 –> 00:47:20,600
we are holy.
Because.

968
00:47:20,600 –> 00:47:22,960
That’s not how anybody in the
world functions.

969
00:47:24,080 –> 00:47:25,200
Right.
Do you?

970
00:47:25,200 –> 00:47:27,240
Know anybody that is at peace
with everyone?

971
00:47:27,960 –> 00:47:29,840
And yet that’s that’s what it’s
saying here.

972
00:47:30,800 –> 00:47:32,400
Right.
Now there’s a lot of people who

973
00:47:32,400 –> 00:47:34,640
just let everything slide.
That’s not what I’m talking

974
00:47:34,640 –> 00:47:36,360
about, right?
Being at peace with people.

975
00:47:36,600 –> 00:47:40,280
Means that you decide.
This is.

976
00:47:40,280 –> 00:47:42,320
Not something that we’re going
to fight about, but it’s

977
00:47:42,320 –> 00:47:43,520
something we’re going to talk
about.

978
00:47:46,560 –> 00:47:47,960
And so.
We’re commanded to be at peace

979
00:47:47,960 –> 00:47:54,040
with everybody, I think because.
That’s what holy people do.

980
00:47:55,200 –> 00:47:57,600
People who are holy are the
people who are learning.

981
00:47:58,040 –> 00:48:00,200
To put aside that desire to
fight.

982
00:48:01,040 –> 00:48:03,280
To put.
Aside that desire to attack

983
00:48:03,280 –> 00:48:05,640
someone else and instead.
To say.

984
00:48:05,640 –> 00:48:10,360
I’m going to be peaceful about
this and let’s talk to not let

985
00:48:10,360 –> 00:48:12,680
our good be evil spoken of.
But to.

986
00:48:12,680 –> 00:48:19,120
Do it with the right spirit.
So this is.

987
00:48:19,120 –> 00:48:22,360
Where Jehoshaphat’s decision
leads. 2nd.

988
00:48:22,360 –> 00:48:24,440
Chronicles 19 Two.
He goes for unity when there is

989
00:48:24,440 –> 00:48:27,280
no unity, and so Jehu the seer
comes to him.

990
00:48:28,840 –> 00:48:30,720
He meets him and he says should
you help?

991
00:48:30,720 –> 00:48:32,720
The wicked and love those who
hate the Lord.

992
00:48:32,720 –> 00:48:33,920
Do you see what’s being brought
out here?

993
00:48:35,040 –> 00:48:36,400
Look.
Jehoshaphat, you allied

994
00:48:36,400 –> 00:48:38,600
yourself.
You said I am as you are and so

995
00:48:38,720 –> 00:48:42,160
the 1st.
Words of Jehu are Do you not

996
00:48:42,160 –> 00:48:44,920
realize who Ahab is?
Right?

997
00:48:44,920 –> 00:48:47,280
Do you really think?
That you can have unity with

998
00:48:47,280 –> 00:48:48,840
this guy.
He.

999
00:48:48,840 –> 00:48:51,800
Hates Yahweh and he told you
that.

1000
00:48:57,190 –> 00:48:58,390
So instead, what’s interesting
then?

1001
00:48:59,320 –> 00:49:00,680
Is.
That when we start to look at

1002
00:49:00,680 –> 00:49:04,160
unity, we actually do see it
happen later and we see with

1003
00:49:04,160 –> 00:49:06,840
Hezekiah.
And the way that we see it with

1004
00:49:06,840 –> 00:49:09,400
Hezekiah is that Hezekiah
doesn’t just try and force

1005
00:49:09,400 –> 00:49:13,480
unity, but instead he actually
lays out here are my principles.

1006
00:49:15,040 –> 00:49:16,880
And he?
Says, look, we can have unity if

1007
00:49:16,880 –> 00:49:18,280
we have an agreement on
principles.

1008
00:49:18,280 –> 00:49:19,320
If.
We have.

1009
00:49:19,320 –> 00:49:21,840
An agreement on who we are.
Like there’s.

1010
00:49:21,840 –> 00:49:25,520
Peace already, but if we want
unity, we have to agree on.

1011
00:49:25,520 –> 00:49:28,360
Principles.
And So what Hezekiah does is he

1012
00:49:28,360 –> 00:49:31,200
sends.
People up to Israel to celebrate

1013
00:49:31,200 –> 00:49:34,160
Passover and yet.
He.

1014
00:49:34,160 –> 00:49:36,440
Explains to them.
This.

1015
00:49:36,440 –> 00:49:38,560
Is the basis on which?
We’re going to meet.

1016
00:49:38,800 –> 00:49:40,960
We’re going to meet for a feast
of Yahweh, right?

1017
00:49:41,360 –> 00:49:42,400
It’s.
Not going to be a battle where

1018
00:49:42,400 –> 00:49:44,400
I’m saying, oh, I’m just like
you, yeah, let’s go hate on the

1019
00:49:44,400 –> 00:49:46,040
prophets.
That’s not how it’s going to go.

1020
00:49:46,680 –> 00:49:48,280
He says we’re going to celebrate
a feast of Yahweh.

1021
00:49:49,200 –> 00:49:52,520
And in.
Addition to that.

1022
00:49:56,160 –> 00:49:59,920
Look at this. 2nd.
Chronicles 30, verses 18 to 19.

1023
00:50:01,120 –> 00:50:03,520
I think this is something that
we often miss when we consider

1024
00:50:03,520 –> 00:50:05,000
the way that Hezekiah brought
unity.

1025
00:50:05,920 –> 00:50:07,680
Says.
Although many, although most of

1026
00:50:07,680 –> 00:50:10,080
the many people who came from
Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar and

1027
00:50:10,080 –> 00:50:12,560
Zebulun had not purified
themselves yet, they ate the

1028
00:50:12,560 –> 00:50:16,200
Passover, contrary to what was
written.

1029
00:50:19,600 –> 00:50:23,360
Think about that Now.
I think it’s fascinating that

1030
00:50:23,360 –> 00:50:25,480
Hezekiah says look.
These are.

1031
00:50:25,480 –> 00:50:27,880
My principles.
This is.

1032
00:50:27,880 –> 00:50:29,120
The basis on which we’re going
to meet.

1033
00:50:29,360 –> 00:50:34,440
And then he realizes, you know
what, sometimes it’s going to be

1034
00:50:34,440 –> 00:50:37,000
a little bit messy, right?
They they agree, they say, yes,

1035
00:50:37,000 –> 00:50:38,280
we are going to meet on those
principles.

1036
00:50:39,200 –> 00:50:42,080
And Hezekiah recognizes well, it
looks like we might not have

1037
00:50:42,360 –> 00:50:43,600
perfect.
Unity here.

1038
00:50:44,160 –> 00:50:46,320
At this time.
Because.

1039
00:50:46,320 –> 00:50:48,480
Some things are happening that
weren’t supposed to happen.

1040
00:50:49,400 –> 00:50:51,640
But.
His stance towards it.

1041
00:50:52,440 –> 00:50:55,720
Is May.
Yahweh who is good.

1042
00:50:56,640 –> 00:50:58,680
Pardon everyone who sets their
heart on seeking God.

1043
00:50:59,920 –> 00:51:02,320
The Lord, the God of their.
Ancestors, even if they are not

1044
00:51:02,320 –> 00:51:03,960
clean according to the rules of
the sanctuary.

1045
00:51:04,560 –> 00:51:08,200
And I think that’s fascinating
that in fact what you see again.

1046
00:51:08,880 –> 00:51:11,200
Is.
That there are instances here

1047
00:51:11,240 –> 00:51:14,160
where, yes, Hezekiah has
principled unity, that’s what

1048
00:51:14,160 –> 00:51:16,760
he’s going for.
But he acknowledges that there

1049
00:51:16,760 –> 00:51:21,280
are times not on the principles,
but there are times when

1050
00:51:21,280 –> 00:51:23,840
compromise is necessary and he’s
willing to do that.

1051
00:51:24,320 –> 00:51:26,360
And he’s not saying that this is
going to be forever.

1052
00:51:26,400 –> 00:51:27,960
He doesn’t intend for that to be
forever.

1053
00:51:28,320 –> 00:51:31,400
But he he recognizes this is
where we’re at at this point.

1054
00:51:35,040 –> 00:51:37,200
So let’s.
Just wrap this up.

1055
00:51:38,520 –> 00:51:42,080
I think this is maybe the best
place to bring this all together

1056
00:51:42,480 –> 00:51:44,360
because.
We.

1057
00:51:44,360 –> 00:51:48,280
See the Apostle Paul explaining
the relationship between unity

1058
00:51:48,280 –> 00:51:52,040
and peace, Ephesians 4, verses
3:00 to 6:00.

1059
00:51:53,720 –> 00:51:57,880
He says make every effort to
keep the unity of the Spirit

1060
00:51:57,880 –> 00:51:58,720
through the.
Bond of peace.

1061
00:52:00,280 –> 00:52:02,640
There’s one body and one spirit,
just as you were called to 1.

1062
00:52:02,640 –> 00:52:06,000
Hope when you were called 1.
Lord 1 Faith, one baptism, one

1063
00:52:06,000 –> 00:52:09,480
God and Father of all, who is
over all and through all and in

1064
00:52:09,480 –> 00:52:10,840
all.
Do you see?

1065
00:52:10,840 –> 00:52:13,440
The relationship there with
unity and peace, he says.

1066
00:52:13,880 –> 00:52:16,240
This is a goal, right?
You were supposed to make every

1067
00:52:16,240 –> 00:52:19,880
effort you can to be unified and
the way you do it.

1068
00:52:21,640 –> 00:52:25,360
Through peace, he says.
That’s the starting place.

1069
00:52:26,520 –> 00:52:27,840
This is why peace is the
command.

1070
00:52:28,800 –> 00:52:32,680
We’re commanded to peace.
We start with peace, and we

1071
00:52:32,680 –> 00:52:36,520
believe then that unity.
Proceeds from.

1072
00:52:36,520 –> 00:52:39,000
That.
So unity and peace are not the.

1073
00:52:39,000 –> 00:52:42,960
Same thing.
We strive for peace with

1074
00:52:42,960 –> 00:52:44,880
everyone.
All of the time.

1075
00:52:46,080 –> 00:52:47,560
That doesn’t mean that we agree
with everyone.

1076
00:52:48,280 –> 00:52:52,040
What it means is that we talk,
we work it out.

1077
00:52:55,120 –> 00:52:56,480
We only.
Strive for unity with some.

1078
00:52:57,400 –> 00:52:58,320
Because.
There are only some that we

1079
00:52:58,320 –> 00:53:00,560
can’t be unified with.
And we?

1080
00:53:00,560 –> 00:53:04,040
Do that on the basis of
principle.

1081
00:53:04,880 –> 00:53:07,040
So that’s the difference.
And I think when we can see that

1082
00:53:07,040 –> 00:53:10,120
difference, then that begins to
open up a lot of what God was

1083
00:53:10,120 –> 00:53:12,160
doing with Israel.
It begins to open up a lot of

1084
00:53:12,320 –> 00:53:13,360
how we work.
Together.

1085
00:53:14,440 –> 00:53:17,280
And it begins then to help us
recognize, I think.

1086
00:53:18,800 –> 00:53:21,360
That we.
Actually can in our own lives.

1087
00:53:22,080 –> 00:53:25,080
Achieve peace with everyone.