Nathan Lewis – Class 1: The Feast

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Hey, brother.
Ted This is Winfield.

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Bible School 2009.
The Bible School theme is the

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fall of Flesh to the Triumph of
spirit the speaker.

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For this session is our brother,
Nathan Louis.

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The title for his series is
Esther Queen of Destiny.

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This is class 1.
The title is the feast the fall

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of vashti and our reading was
Esther 1 verses 1 to 22, brother

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Nathan.
Thanks, brother rug and good

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afternoon, everyone.
You do that in North America,

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right?
I mean I say good afternoon, you

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overfly uh well we just had
lunch and now we come to the

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feast.
So I hope you’ve all saved a

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little bit of space and the
stomach’s of yours because we’re

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going to look at the great
banquet, which king ahasuerus

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shows to hold for all the world.
First of all, thanks very much

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for having us here Susanna my
wife and little Mariah.

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She’s just about one so she’s
probably talking to us

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throughout the session.
This afternoon, we’ve never been

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here before at least I haven’t.
So, it’s a very beautiful

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country.
So thank you very much for

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having us flying into Calgary
and into Kelowna.

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Yesterday was very nice but like
New Zealand, so made us feel at

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home.
We’re living at the moment in

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Los Angeles and for those of you
who have been to Los Angeles, As

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you know, that it’s a hideous,
horrible part of the world.

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It really isn’t what you call
the scenic center of the world.

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Is it?
And in fact, we live, we live

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right where the 10 freeway by
six, the 405 freeway.

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So it’s right.
It’s right in the heart of

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downtown Los Angeles and we kind
of say to ourselves that if Los

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Angeles is the the armpit of
America then We live right?

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In the biggest Sweet Pork.
This is not a nice place but

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it’s very nice to be here and to
be here in Canada.

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Well, we get to spend the week
together, looking at the story

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of Esther and it is a fantastic
drama as I’m sure all of you

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know, it’s really a magnificent
story.

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It’s one of those stories that
appeals to to all ages.

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We’ve got the fair Fabulously
wealthy King and thrown down the

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castle in the hill.
We’ve got the extraordinarily,

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beautiful captive girl, who’s
plucked from obscurity and made

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queen of all the Earth.
We’ve got her humble cousin

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who’s made prime minister.
And lurking in the shadows.

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We have probably the darkest in
villain in all of the Old

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Testament Haman the agagite and
team tan treachery deceit and

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murder.
Does it get any better than this

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brothers and sisters?
Everything is here in the story.

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From chapter to chapter, we’re
going to Lurch from extravagant

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feasts to evil plots.
We’re going to move from beauty

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pageants to assess a nation
attempts from Secret messages in

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the night to dramatic, expose
Ace.

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It’s the kind of book that you
don’t want to put down.

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It’s it’s got everything.
The it’s love versus hate.

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It’s just seats versus honesty.
It’s Evil versus righteousness.

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And hopefully brothers and
sisters as we go through this

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week.
Together, we’re going to be

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likewise on the edge of their
seats.

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As we look at the amazing.
Truly amazing way in which God

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is able to save his Nation, how
he’s able to pluck, as it were

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life in Deliverance from the
very jaws of death and defeat

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And you know, brothers and
sisters, the story of Easter,

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and the Book of Esther is really
all about the Providence of God.

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That whatever comes God cares
for his people.

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We know that the quote in Romans
8 don’t we all things work

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together for good.
For those who love God and it’s

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really, if you like a banner
that we could put over the top

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of the Book of Esther.
It’s all about how God is

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working to bring together.
The called ones for his purpose.

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And your brothers and sisters in
a book that simply throbs of the

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Providence of God and him
working amongst the nation’s.

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Did you know that the name of
God never appears in the Book of

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Esther?
The name of God never appears in

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the Book of Esther.
We don’t have a single title of

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God.
We have no mention of God and we

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don’t even have a mention of
prayer to God in the Book of

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Esther.
It’s amazing.

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Really isn’t it that absent from
this book?

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It seems on the surface is the
god who really is the center of

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the book.
Why is that brother and sister

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as well?
It’s because this is the book of

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Providence and what is
Providence and lease, it be, the

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Unseen hand of of God at work
just look at these couple of

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references from from the Old
Testament to illustrate what I

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mean, This is Deuteronomy
chapter 31.

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In the it sees, Yahweh said unto
Moses, behold.

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Thou shalt sleep with my
father’s and I will hide my face

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from them since Jeremy, 31
verses 16 to 18.

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So that they will say in that
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us because their God is not
among us.

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And I will surely hide my face
and that day for all the evils,

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which they still have wrought in
that, they are turned unto other

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gods and they Winston they
brother and sisters into

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captivity because of idolatry
because they turned to other

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gods and God sees you do that
and I will hide my face from

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you.
Isaiah 45 verses, 15 to 17 there

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at a God that Heidi’s thyself o
God of Israel.

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The savior, they shall be
ashamed and also confounded, but

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Israel shall be saved in the
Lord within Everlasting

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salvation.
Ye shall not be ashamed nor

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confounded World Without End and
God was going to be a God who

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was going to hide himself and
where was he going to be hidden

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brothers and sisters.
But he sees he’s the god that

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hides himself.
Oh, god of Israel and amongst

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the captives in Persia.
There was a God who was hiding

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himself in the story.
The god of the nation of Israel.

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And so in the Book of Esther, we
have the Unseen work of the

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savior of Israel, it’s hidden as
it were to the Casual Observer

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to those who are in ignorance or
in darkness of how God works.

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But not to us, brothers and
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God, simply jumps off the page,
almost out of Erie versus will

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see, you know, it’s interesting
why we are here and talking

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about the name of God and Easter
by way of introduction it’s not

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entirely true.
Is it to say that the name of

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God doesn’t occur in Easter?
Because as some of you will know

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the name of God does occur in
Easter, but it appears across

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Stickley.
What’s an acrostic by the way?

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Can anyone Enlighten the group?
No.

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All right.
Let me let me help you an

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acrostic really as we’re a word
or a sentence will start with

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successive letters of the
alphabet and the word Yahweh or

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at least the constants of
Yahweh.

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Going to be found in the Book of
Esther four times, two times,

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going forwards and two times
going backwards hidden in the

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text and it’s in these words
here if you don’t have a note of

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them, you can take them down.
It’s 1:20 when it says all the

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wives I shall give unto their
husbands, the honor debts, do

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5:4.
Let the king and Haman come 5:13

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payments.
He’s you know, this availeth

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mean nothing and lastly in 7:7
Heyman said dear he saw that

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there was evil determined
against him by the king.

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And the companion Bible comments
on this and appendix number 60

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and he’s endured the writer of
the companion.

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By will see.
Is that in the Book of Esther?

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God is known more by his
virtues, then by open

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manifestation, he’s hidden he’s
he’s secretly embedded in the

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book and look at those little
phrases weathers.

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This is, don’t you think that
that perfectly sums up the Book

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of Esther?
It’s all about the bride.

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That’s going to give honor to
her husband.

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It’s about the king and Haman
coming to a banquet Feast.

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It’s all about haman’s Pride.
All the surveillance mean

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nothing.
And it’s all about the

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destruction of sin payments saw
that there was evil determined

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against him by the king.
And to give those four little

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simple statements summarize for
us in a certain way.

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The theme of the book of Esther
Trivia question for you.

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There is one other book
actually.

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In the, the entire Bible that
doesn’t have the name of God in

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it.
Does anyone know what that book?

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Might be any guesses.
Another book that doesn’t have

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the name of God in it.
Any suggestions.

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There’s no prizes.
By the way, I’m sorry.

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No one knows.
It’s the book of The Song of

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Solomon.
The Song of Solomon, all about

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the marriage of a bride to her
husband.

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Well, I want to say a few words
about our approach to these to

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these studies because most of
you have probably been in the

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truth long a lot longer than me.
So all of us pretty well know

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the story of Easter, we know the
even the flow of the narrative,

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we all came here to this week
knowing that at the end Haman

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dies and Mordecai is really
going to win.

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We all know that before we came
here and we probably knew as

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well that there was a kind of
typical aspect to the book.

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That there was a typed lurking
in the shadows and so this week,

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we really want to try and limit
ourselves to not going over the

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basics of the story, but Pets
drawing out a few lessons.

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And I want to concentrate pets.
A little more than usual on The

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Marvelous type hidden in in the
Book of Esther because you know,

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brothers and sisters I think by
the end of the week, you are

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going to be astounded astounded
with what’s hidden in the type

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of the Book of Esther.
The Perfection of it.

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It’s just what seems like a very
simple story and yet the type is

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simply incredible, you know,
I’ve heard some people say that

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they even doubt that there is a
type in the Book of Esther and

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other people who say, well,
there is a type in the Book of

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Esther, we know that.
And but you’ve really got to

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take that with a pinch of salt.
Because the subs, the, the

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shadow doesn’t prove the
substance of And you type

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doesn’t prove itself and, but
brothers and sisters, you are

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going to see during the week
that the type in the book of

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Easter is astounding.
And we’re going to see it in our

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session this afternoon as we go
through chapter one, some things

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that hopefully I hope even if
you’ve read the book of Esther,

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all your life and been to Bible
schools, we’ve heard talks on

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the Book of Esther.
You’re going to learn something

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new this afternoon.
So, please come now to the

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background and I want to say
just a few words about the

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background to the Book of Esther
because it’s notoriously

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difficult.
And if you’ve ever tried to sit

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down on, you know, an empty
Friday or Saturday night, and

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got the books off the library
shelf and tried to nut out the

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chronology of the Persian kings,
you will know that trying to fit

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together the Persian kings and
Nehemiah and Ezra nest.

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It is of notoriously difficult
thing to do.

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There’s a lot of naughty
problems when we come to this

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part of the Bible and you know,
is preparing these talks I was

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very determined to come to the
bottom of this problem because I

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really dislike it when people
stand up and and say well it

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could be this, it could be that
it could be this and that and I

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really don’t know.
So make up your own minds.

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This is this is why we’re here
is to get some definitive

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answers.
So I really tried to come up

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with exactly who a has you Eris
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But you know what, But I’m 95%
sure but I’m not going to be

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completely dog, Medics.
So we’re not going to go into

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the Persian kings and
chronology.

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Now I’m going to have mercy upon
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It is just after lunch after
all.

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But I will say this that if you
have stayed up late at night and

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try to figure out the chronology
of the Persian kings, then I’m

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sure you’ll agree with me that a
has.

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You Eris is Xerxes the first And
not to rise Heist ESPYs or art

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exhibits is the second.
Now if you have a slightly

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different point of view, I’m not
going to kick you out of the

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camp and but I would be very
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that part of the Bible to come
and talk to me during the week

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and give me your thoughts
because I’m I’m almost there but

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and I have a lot of a lot of
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So if you can provide that
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appreciative.
So Xerxes, the first, and he

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reigned from.
From 486 2465, I’m going to be

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this close to being dogmatic
about that for your sakes.

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All right, so now we come and
chapter 12, the story of the

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king, and we’re confronted with
really the picture of a

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magnificent King.
When we come to Esther chapter

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1, and this is what we read in
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Now, it came to pass in the days
of a, has you Eros?

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This is a hedge awareness, which
reigned from India even unto

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Ethiopia over a hundred and
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And twenty provinces have in
those days when the king

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ahasuerus set on the throne of
his kingdom, which was in shoe,

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send the palace, and then it
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picture of an extremely powerful
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Now, most of us know that I has
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It’s not a name, it’s a bit like
fear or has our end and in the

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the original language it means
venerable King actually just

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senior see is it means Lion
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title and not a name here.
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Eastern, we don’t know who that
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which a has weirdest, which
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This was he reigned from India
to Ethiopia and you can maybe

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take a note, but both of those
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conquered by Kemp Isis.
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Xerxes, the first, in fact, the
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fulfillment wasn’t of that.
Great prophecy in Isaiah 45, and

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verse 14.
I will give you Ethiopia for a

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position so we’re given a little
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We as to who a has serious was
and you reigned over at Sears in

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hundred and seven and twenty
provinces Now, no likelihood.

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This was the 120 provinces that
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Babylon that we read of and in
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probably tacked onto that was
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princes that we read of and in
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So 120 provinces of Babylon,
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provinces of the seven princes
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in 1:14 and we have 127
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And it sees, doesn’t it brothers
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right there.that.
A has you Eris reigned from a

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place called shushan?
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city of white lilies.
It was a beautiful place and had

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a river flowing through the
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And it was a very a very
beautiful place to live and

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we’re told that shushan was the
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after the reign of Darius.
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Bees before it was somewhere
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But after the rice ice test
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shushing.
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shushan to so we can wake
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So actually, did I miss
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I think I did.
I think I did.

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Let’s just backtrack one second.
Then we’ll come to the pictures

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of shoe shame.
So we talked about the

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background and the work and the
type, that’s an estimate.

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And look at this, this is a
summary of how broad the type of

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Easter is we’re going to see as
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The work that God is performing
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Through the law of Moses were
going to see that today, we’re

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going to see God’s work with the
jin-tae.

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I’ll through the power of grace
and favor, the the gospel of

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election we’re going to see the
sacrifice of Christ that brought

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deliverance and joy to all the
world.

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We’re going to see at the end of
Easter, the subduing of the

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nations in the battle of
Armageddon in the Conquering of

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Europe, we’re going to see the
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the bride.
And as a theme for the week, as

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we’re going to see the Triumph
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So the type really is very
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It’s not just narrow, it’s going
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From the time of Israel, under
the law of Moses, through the

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times of the Gentiles, the work
of Jesus Christ, the subjection

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of goguen, the battle of
Armageddon, the Conquering of

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Europe, the final elevation of
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All of that is going to be
prefigured in the book of

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Easter.
As we go through this week.

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So, now let’s come to the
pictures of shushing.

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This is probably the best
picture you can find, or at

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least I could find of what
shushan the palace looked like.

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And it’s very dark on the
screen, so I apologize for that,

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but maybe you can imagine that
in the front here is to lots of

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steps leading up to a central
Courtyard and probably just

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threw that piece right in the
middle is is where the king

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would have set all those years
ago.

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This is shushan, the palace.
Now this is a another picture of

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this area.
And you can see that this seems

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to be like a castle up on a, on
a hill and everybody else.

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The the general populace has is
spread out in this city of

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shushan the lowest city below.
It was a very rich and affluent

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place.
These are some of the, the

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ornate tiles and bricks that
were taken and reconstructed of

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one of the walls of the Palace
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Asurs was an extraordinarily
wealthy King.

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And this is what it looks a bit
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It’s just pretty much ruins in
the middle of Iran and probably

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they do too.
Is there to show the greatness

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of that Kingdom?
That now is completely gone.

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That’s certainly win that Palace
stood, brothers and sisters a

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has u.s. was the Undisputed king
of all the world and if you

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walked into his courtroom
uninvited, you probably swung

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for it.
And if he wanted to, he had

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absolute control, didn’t the
other life and death.

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He has complete dominion over
all the world.

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And so clearly in the story is
we’re going to see although of

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course he doesn’t deserve to be
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A his awareness is going to type
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The mighty Monarch of the humans
above our Lord, our heavenly

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father, who has all power and
all dominion.

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And we’re going to read in verse
3, that is going to make a Grand

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Banquet and the third year of
his kingdom, a has rear has

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decided to hold a grand feast.
Let’s just read these verses

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again because they really are
magnificent verse 3.

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In this third year of his Reign,
he made a feast unto all his

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princes and his servants.
The power of Persia and media,

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the Nobles and princes of the
province’s being before him when

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you showed the riches of his
glorious Kingdom and the honor

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of his excellent Majesty.
Many days even in hundred and

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four score days.
And when these days were

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expired, the king made a feast,
another Feast unto all the

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people that were present and
Russia and the palace both under

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Great and Small seven days in
the court of the garden of the

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king’s Palace, We’re were white
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Fastened with cords of fine
linen and purple to Super rings

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and pillars of marble.
The beads were of gold and

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silver upon a pavement of red
and blue and white and black

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marble.
And they gave them drinking

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vessels of gold.
The vessels being diverse one

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from another and Royal Wine in
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According to the state of the
king in the drinking was

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according to the law.
None did compel for.

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So the king had appointed in all
the officers of his house that

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they should do.
According to Every Man’s

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pleasure, it was a magnificent
feast And you know Brothers this

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is if you need to listen to
talks on Easter war, read any

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set of notes on his to before
you will find that in my

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experience.
All of them say that this is a

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type of the Kingdom.
This is the king enthroned and

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Glory.
But you know I’ve kind of always

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struggled with that in a type of
the Kingdom where God is

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enthroned in splendor and
Majesty.

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We’re going to have a
disobedient wife.

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And we’re going to start with
the kingdom and then we’re going

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to kind of jump back and get
into the story of Haven and

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Esther and Mordecai but we kind
of started at the end.

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And it’s always kind of made me
think well, maybe maybe there’s

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something more to this story and
I’m going to suggest to you

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today that versus 328 is not so
much the future glory of the

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Kingdom.
But it’s really talking to us

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historically about what God did
with the nation of Israel when

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he set them up as a kingdom a
kingdom of Kings and Priests and

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you know there’s a clue that
that’s true.

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And the clue is that in the
Easter chapter 1, The Feast the

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feast in time is going to last
for how long?

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But we’re told out we 180 days
verse 4, And when those days

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were expired, another seven
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So we have 187 days of feasting.
Now, the first thing you do is

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you look at the concordance and
you find it, 187 only occurs

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here.
So we’re no further on.

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But do you know that it’s not
actually the only place where

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186, even occurs, I want you to
come if you will back to Exodus

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and chapter 19.
What’s is the one really about?

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Well, I want you to hold your
hand and he said, and I want you

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to have Easter in one hand and
exodus 19 and the other hand

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because we’re going to talk
about the grand Feast of Easter

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chapter 1, and we’re going to
make a comparison between Esther

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chapter 1 and the grand Feast
that God is going to hold for

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the nation in the wilderness.
It’s in the story of Exodus and

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Leviticus And here we are in
Exodus 19.

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So let me run through it with
you on the screen and you can

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take notes as you will.
So in Esther chapter 1 and verse

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38 has awareness held a banquet
to celebrate the newness of his

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kingdom.
He’s only just put down a

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revolt.
And now, his newly established

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as king.
He’s only in this third year and

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it’s going to hold a banquet
feast.

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And when we come to Exodus, 19,
In verse 6, God has newly taken

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Israel out of Egypt.
And he is going to hold a

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banquet feast in the wilderness
and make them his kingdom of

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priests and a holy nation.
They were constituted a kingdom

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just recently Well, the first
banquet in verse 3 tells us was

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for all the nobility and the
aristocracy that called The

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Nobles, and the princes in
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And when we come over to Exodus
and chapter 24, just over two or

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three chapters we find in verse
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That God said to Moses come up
unto Yahweh there and Aaron

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Nader, been a buyer who end the
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Verse 9, and Moses and Aaron and
Native in a, by, who in the 70

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of the Elders of Israel went up
to a special Feast with God.

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It wasn’t an extravagant pellas,
brothers and sisters.

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It was in God’s pelas on the top
of Mount Sinai.

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And it’s is in Esther chapter 1,
verse 3, that at this Feast,

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they were before the king, and
the word in the Hebrew really

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means that they saw his face.
They were before his presence.

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And, you know, I’m going to
suggest to you that seeing, the

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Kings face was a very rare
event.

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We know that in chapter 1, verse
14, the seven Chamberlain’s, the

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seven wise men, they saw the
Kings face, no one else did, It

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was very rare to see the Kings
face but at this banquet, all

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the people present, saw the
Kings face and an exodus 20:4.

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Look what we read in verse 10
and they saw the god of Israel

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verse 11.
Also.

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They saw God this was a very,
very special banquet indeed.

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We find an Esther chapter 1 and
verse 4 that the feast lasted

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180 days and probably why it
lasted so long was because all

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the Army chiefs were going to
come in, but you couldn’t bring

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all of them in at once because
the perimeter of the implant

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needed to be kept secure, so you
would rotate them in to the

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banquet in shushan.
So the feast took longer than

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usual.
It was 180 days.

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And I’m going to suggest to you
brothers and sisters, then the

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period of building.
The Tabernacle took exactly 180

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days.
When you look at those

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references in Exodus chapter 19,
verse 1, 24 verse 18, 34 verse,

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28, and 40 verse 2.
It tells us pretty much that

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there was exactly six months
involved in building the

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00:29:17,300 –> 00:29:21,700
Tabernacle.
So the first Feast for those His

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skills and who were the
aristocracy in the nobles was

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00:29:26,000 –> 00:29:30,000
the feast that God held in the
wilderness building the

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00:29:30,000 –> 00:29:32,800
Tabernacle.
And it says an Easter that a has

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rear showed them the riches of
his glorious Kingdom and the

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00:29:37,200 –> 00:29:39,700
honor offers.
Excellent majesty.

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00:29:39,800 –> 00:29:41,400
And you know what?
Brother and sisters, you know

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00:29:41,400 –> 00:29:44,900
what, the Tabernacle was, it was
right in the center of the

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00:29:44,900 –> 00:29:51,800
nation to show them the honor
and the Majesty of God, it tells

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00:29:51,800 –> 00:30:00,100
us that in some 96 verse 6 and
145 verse 11 to 13 The

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00:30:00,100 –> 00:30:05,200
Tabernacle or the century was to
show Israel, the honor and the

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00:30:05,200 –> 00:30:08,200
Majesty of God and it’s exactly
what I had serious did.

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00:30:10,300 –> 00:30:13,900
Well the second bank with that
we read of in Esther chapter one

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00:30:14,400 –> 00:30:18,400
that lasted for only seven days
was for the common people.

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00:30:20,000 –> 00:30:24,300
The first banquet for 180 days
was for the aristocracy, the

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special people that was busily
Lynn, a holier than those who

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00:30:28,900 –> 00:30:32,500
are going to specially be
prepared by God to make the

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Tabernacle.
But now, after 180 days is

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finished, we’re going to have
another Feast A Feast for seven

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00:30:41,000 –> 00:30:43,900
days in this time, it’s going to
be for everyone and look what

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00:30:43,900 –> 00:30:47,200
we’re told in.
Leviticus, 8, and verse 3, on

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the first day of the first, if I
think it was the second banquet

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00:30:52,900 –> 00:30:58,400
for all the congregation was
held, the seven-day consecration

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00:30:58,400 –> 00:31:02,600
of the sons of urine in God
sees, you get everyone outside

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00:31:02,600 –> 00:31:06,000
before the Tabernacle were going
to hold another face now for

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00:31:06,000 –> 00:31:11,300
everybody for seven days, Well,
assuming they face in Easter was

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held in the tent at the word
hangings, literally means

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00:31:15,200 –> 00:31:18,800
warnings or draping.
So it was in a tent and we know

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00:31:18,800 –> 00:31:23,600
that the Tabernacle was just
such a thing, a tent What were

463
00:31:23,600 –> 00:31:28,000
the colors that we’re involved
in Easter chapter 1?

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00:31:28,000 –> 00:31:35,000
Well, we’re told that they were
blue purple and fine white fine

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linen.
And you know brothers and

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00:31:37,800 –> 00:31:43,200
sisters you will search the
Bible in vain for anywhere else

467
00:31:43,200 –> 00:31:48,000
that those three things occur
together except in one place.

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00:31:50,500 –> 00:31:54,600
The colors of the Tabernacle
over and over and over and over

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00:31:54,600 –> 00:31:58,200
again.
Blue purple and white fine.

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Linen.
This is the face brothers and

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sisters of God.
Sitting up the Tabernacle in the

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wilderness, is it not?
The hangings and Easter chapter

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00:32:06,800 –> 00:32:10,300
1 were held up by pillars, cords
and silver rings.

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Exactly the same as the
Tabernacle pillars, chords

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00:32:14,400 –> 00:32:17,300
silver rings.
In fact, it’s interesting

476
00:32:17,300 –> 00:32:20,400
because you probably can’t read
it down the back, but down the

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00:32:20,400 –> 00:32:24,100
bottom here, I’ve got that.
The Apostle John in Revelation

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00:32:24,100 –> 00:32:28,600
quotes from Leviticus chapter 8
and verse 33 quotes from there

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00:32:28,600 –> 00:32:32,600
in Revelation 3, those 12 and in
Revelation, 3, you remember

480
00:32:32,600 –> 00:32:37,300
these words to him, that
overcometh, I will make a pillar

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00:32:38,200 –> 00:32:41,400
in the house of God.
A pillar.

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00:32:42,300 –> 00:32:45,600
And it sees he quotes from
Leviticus eight, which is the

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00:32:45,600 –> 00:32:49,700
very Fist of the consecration of
Aaron and his sons and he will

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00:32:49,700 –> 00:32:53,800
know more, go out, Because
that’s exactly what here in the

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00:32:53,800 –> 00:32:57,900
sons were to do it to go into
the Tabernacle and for seven

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00:32:57,900 –> 00:33:01,500
days they could not come out.
They were pillars in the house

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00:33:01,500 –> 00:33:03,600
of God.
And John, the Apostle John in

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00:33:03,600 –> 00:33:05,900
Revelation quotes from
Leviticus.

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00:33:06,200 –> 00:33:10,100
When he’s talking about pillars
but all those things, come

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00:33:10,100 –> 00:33:12,000
straight from the Tabernacle.
Do they not?

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00:33:14,000 –> 00:33:17,500
There’s a pavement, we read in
verse 6 of different colors,

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00:33:17,500 –> 00:33:21,900
Stone in a few still.
In Exodus 24, you find verse

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00:33:21,900 –> 00:33:27,000
team that there was a paved work
of a set, a fire stone under his

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00:33:27,000 –> 00:33:30,400
feet.
They were vessels of gold in the

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00:33:30,400 –> 00:33:35,100
Feast of a has you are so
diverse from one another and

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00:33:35,100 –> 00:33:38,200
then God’s newly-formed house,
the nation of Israel.

497
00:33:38,700 –> 00:33:41,300
There were many diverse people,
but all of them brothers and

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00:33:41,300 –> 00:33:45,800
sisters were gold.
They were all formed by faith.

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00:33:45,800 –> 00:33:54,300
They came out of Egypt by faith.
And lastly, we find in verse 8,

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00:33:54,300 –> 00:33:57,900
to Vista one that the drinking
was according to the law.

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00:33:58,500 –> 00:34:03,400
But none did compel what a
paradox that is a law that

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00:34:03,400 –> 00:34:08,699
doesn’t compel while we read in
Exodus 24 and verse 7.

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00:34:08,699 –> 00:34:12,199
That all the people that were
joined to the law of Moses

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00:34:12,900 –> 00:34:18,000
volunteered their obedience,
they said all that.

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00:34:18,000 –> 00:34:23,500
Yahweh has said, we will do.
Do and be obedient, they

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00:34:23,500 –> 00:34:27,199
volunteered their obedience was
not compelled of them.

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00:34:28,800 –> 00:34:32,900
And here we have the Fist and
he’s the one which perfectly

508
00:34:32,900 –> 00:34:36,199
prefigures exactly what God has
done to the nation.

509
00:34:36,199 –> 00:34:40,800
In the wilderness establishing
the kingdom of God, in the

510
00:34:40,800 –> 00:34:44,199
Desert Palace of Sinai and
everything is just the same,

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00:34:44,199 –> 00:34:46,600
isn’t it?
The 187 days are the same.

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00:34:47,900 –> 00:34:52,400
The colors in the finals in
another same, the pillars and

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00:34:52,400 –> 00:34:54,699
the cords, and the sockets are
the same.

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00:34:56,100 –> 00:35:03,400
And the nation seed, all that
Yahweh has said, we will do and

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00:35:03,400 –> 00:35:10,300
be obedient.
And now we come to verse 9

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00:35:11,200 –> 00:35:16,700
Easter chapter 1 and verse 9.
Let’s see, shall we wither the

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00:35:17,100 –> 00:35:23,000
newly-formed nation is going to
be obedient that promised The

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00:35:23,000 –> 00:35:24,400
Obedience?
But let’s see.

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00:35:25,700 –> 00:35:29,800
And in verse 9, we are
introduced to the queen best.

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I who clearly is we’re going to
see in a moment.

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00:35:32,600 –> 00:35:33,900
What is going to represent for
us?

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00:35:33,900 –> 00:35:37,700
The natural nation of Israel?
The very Nation, let’s just

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00:35:37,700 –> 00:35:39,500
promise.
There are billions to God.

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00:35:40,800 –> 00:35:45,800
Well what was what was vest, I
like vest either Queen?

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00:35:46,800 –> 00:35:50,800
Really not told much about who
are we brothers and sisters that

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00:35:50,800 –> 00:35:54,400
we are given a clue in verse 9?
Because, veg time means,

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beautiful woman, beautiful
woman.

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00:35:58,900 –> 00:36:02,400
Now some people say that she was
the daughter of the king of

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00:36:02,400 –> 00:36:06,600
sadhus others.
Say that she was Belle, chaises

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00:36:06,800 –> 00:36:09,100
daughter in.
And probably, if she was either

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00:36:09,100 –> 00:36:11,000
of those, she was a political
wife.

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00:36:11,300 –> 00:36:14,200
She was a wife of expediency.
Shall we say?

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00:36:14,200 –> 00:36:17,900
She was married to two.
The Peace of the Kingdom.

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00:36:19,700 –> 00:36:24,000
But look what it says in verse
9, because she seems to have a

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mind of her own.
Vashti.

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00:36:27,400 –> 00:36:32,700
The queen Made A Feast for the
woman in the Royal house which

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00:36:32,700 –> 00:36:37,400
belonged to King ahasuerus.
You know, the definite article

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00:36:37,400 –> 00:36:40,600
is not there, it’s really should
be that she made a feast for

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00:36:40,600 –> 00:36:46,300
women, not for that woman for
woman.

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00:36:47,500 –> 00:36:54,100
For the cause of women.
Here is a liberal thinking and

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00:36:54,100 –> 00:36:58,400
it’s clearly an attempt isn’t it
brothers and sisters to usurp

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00:36:58,800 –> 00:37:02,200
the authority of the king?
It was his Royal House.

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00:37:02,800 –> 00:37:08,000
It belongs to him in this woman
is going to hold her own feast.

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00:37:10,200 –> 00:37:14,000
You know, in Revelation chapter
19 and verse seven and eight.

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00:37:14,300 –> 00:37:16,200
It’s going to describe for us a
picture.

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00:37:16,200 –> 00:37:22,000
A picture of the true wife of
the bride and it says the

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00:37:22,000 –> 00:37:27,500
marriage of the Lamb is come
into wife has made herself ready

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00:37:28,100 –> 00:37:32,300
and listen to these words Ends
to her.

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It shall be.
Granted that she should be

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00:37:38,600 –> 00:37:41,700
arrayed in fine, linen, clean
and white.

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00:37:41,700 –> 00:37:45,300
It was granted her, it was not
her, right.

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00:37:46,400 –> 00:37:48,900
It was not the right of the
Bride.

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00:37:49,600 –> 00:37:55,500
It was granted to her here.
Brothers and sisters is a woman

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00:37:55,500 –> 00:37:58,800
who does not appreciate what she
has been given.

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00:38:00,000 –> 00:38:04,100
So, let’s see what happens shall
we verses 9 to 12 the

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00:38:04,100 –> 00:38:08,200
Disobedience of veg died.
She makes a face in an inverse

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00:38:08,200 –> 00:38:11,100
T.
Nazi’s on the seventh day, win

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00:38:11,100 –> 00:38:13,500
the heart of the King was merry
with wine.

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00:38:14,100 –> 00:38:19,700
He commanded the Hooman booster
harbona, big, fat and egg.

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00:38:19,700 –> 00:38:23,100
I beg sir, zither and caucus the
seven.

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00:38:23,100 –> 00:38:28,100
Chamberlain’s that served in the
prison since before the face of

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00:38:28,100 –> 00:38:31,700
a hazy wearest.
The king to bring Vesta the

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00:38:31,700 –> 00:38:37,200
queen before the king with the
Crown Royal to show the people

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00:38:37,200 –> 00:38:42,100
in the princes who Beauty for
She Was Fear to look upon but

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00:38:42,100 –> 00:38:46,100
the queen vest I refused to come
at the king’s commandment by his

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00:38:46,100 –> 00:38:52,400
Chamberlain’s therefore was the
king very wroth and his anger

567
00:38:52,800 –> 00:38:56,700
burned in him.
And so, on the seventh day, at

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00:38:56,700 –> 00:39:00,100
the end of the hundred and
eighty seven days of feasting

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00:39:00,400 –> 00:39:03,000
the king desired to bring
vegetable for them.

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00:39:03,100 –> 00:39:08,200
Clearly, he was in a happy mood,
the phrase Miri with want with

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00:39:08,200 –> 00:39:11,200
wine.
It can imply that the King was

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00:39:11,200 –> 00:39:14,500
drunk.
That it imbibes a little bit too

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00:39:14,500 –> 00:39:18,600
much but it might not as well.
And I can give you a couple of

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00:39:18,600 –> 00:39:23,000
references where clearly implies
the drunk and clearly in a

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00:39:23,008 –> 00:39:26,400
couple of other references than
not, So, we don’t know for sure.

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00:39:27,000 –> 00:39:30,700
But clearly, his heart was Miri,
he was in a cheerful frame of

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00:39:30,700 –> 00:39:34,800
mind and he calls for the seven
Chamberlain’s or Unix is the

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00:39:34,800 –> 00:39:38,400
word actually means.
And he says, go and fetch vest.

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00:39:38,400 –> 00:39:41,400
I clearly.
He wanted to show off to all the

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00:39:41,400 –> 00:39:43,900
kingdom.
The crowning Jewel of the

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00:39:43,900 –> 00:39:47,400
Kingdom.
New Proverbs chapter 12 and

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00:39:47,400 –> 00:39:52,000
verse forces.
A virtuous woman is like a crown

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00:39:53,000 –> 00:39:56,900
to her husband.
You know that strange isn’t it?

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00:39:56,900 –> 00:40:01,700
You’d think that it would say a
virtuous woman is a crown to

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00:40:01,700 –> 00:40:06,700
herself who virtue is who Crown?
But no.

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00:40:08,200 –> 00:40:12,100
A virtuous woman is a crown to
her husband to him.

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00:40:13,300 –> 00:40:18,200
It’s not her crown and now that
King ahasuerus wants to bring

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00:40:18,200 –> 00:40:21,500
her Ford’s.
He’s going to display her for

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00:40:21,500 –> 00:40:26,600
all of the world and everything
else around him is inanimate.

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00:40:27,000 –> 00:40:30,200
Its glorious, but it doesn’t
have life.

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00:40:30,700 –> 00:40:35,300
It’s beautiful marble and fine
linen and magnificent colors.

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00:40:36,800 –> 00:40:41,100
But none of it is alive.
And now, the king wants to bring

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00:40:41,800 –> 00:40:44,500
a living reflection of his glory
out.

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00:40:45,700 –> 00:40:47,300
The Septuagint, puts it this
way.

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00:40:47,400 –> 00:40:54,200
It sees to bring the queen to
him to enthrone her and Crown

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00:40:54,200 –> 00:41:00,100
her with the died in Clearly
wanted to show her off, you

597
00:41:00,100 –> 00:41:03,000
know, some people have suggested
that the King was drunk and that

598
00:41:03,000 –> 00:41:07,200
he was asking vest.
I to come before, all the

599
00:41:07,800 –> 00:41:11,100
raucous crowd of army Chiefs
without any clothes on?

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00:41:11,100 –> 00:41:14,200
I’m not sure if you’ve heard
that, but I’m going to suggest

601
00:41:14,200 –> 00:41:15,600
to you.
That, that clearly is just a

602
00:41:15,600 –> 00:41:18,600
Jewish tradition.
And if you, if you do your

603
00:41:18,600 –> 00:41:21,600
research, you’ll find that
there’s a whole lot of nasty

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00:41:21,600 –> 00:41:24,700
things that go along with that
tradition, none of, which are in

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00:41:24,700 –> 00:41:30,300
the Bible, We’re not really told
why the king decided to do this.

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00:41:30,600 –> 00:41:35,200
All we’re told is that it was
because of his wife’s Beauty,

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00:41:35,900 –> 00:41:39,100
and I can understand that I have
a wife, she’s extremely

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00:41:39,100 –> 00:41:41,600
beautiful.
And it’s nice.

609
00:41:41,600 –> 00:41:43,800
Sometimes to show off her
beauty.

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00:41:44,200 –> 00:41:51,000
She is, we’re working on her
just obedient, but that beauty.

611
00:41:51,000 –> 00:41:55,800
She’s not too bad.
So we can understand, can’t we?

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00:41:55,900 –> 00:41:59,500
If you have a beautiful woman,
the crowning Jewel of the Empire

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00:41:59,600 –> 00:42:01,700
that the king would want to show
her off.

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00:42:02,900 –> 00:42:08,300
Psalm 45 and verse 11 says, so
shall the king greatly desire,

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00:42:08,400 –> 00:42:13,000
thy Beauty for he is thy Lord
and worship their him.

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00:42:14,700 –> 00:42:20,000
Because vest I was the greatest
living proof of the Kings.

617
00:42:20,000 –> 00:42:25,200
Glory, the beautiful wife that
perfectly was going to reflect

618
00:42:25,200 –> 00:42:29,000
him and then we read in verse
12.

619
00:42:29,400 –> 00:42:34,000
But the queen vest I refused to
come at the King’s Command by

620
00:42:34,000 –> 00:42:38,800
his Chamberlain’s.
The fall was the king very wroth

621
00:42:39,600 –> 00:42:45,000
and his anger burned in him.
You know, we’re not told why

622
00:42:45,100 –> 00:42:49,900
vest I refused to come.
We’re not told what her motive

623
00:42:49,900 –> 00:42:54,500
was, but clearly the king in all
the Chamberlain’s saw it as an

624
00:42:54,500 –> 00:43:00,300
act of Disobedience to her Lord,
verse 15, describes it as a

625
00:43:00,300 –> 00:43:04,900
blatant Act of rebellion.
Verse 19 says, it was a

626
00:43:04,900 –> 00:43:08,300
deliberate Act of contempt.
Verse 26.

627
00:43:08,300 –> 00:43:10,600
That was a calculated Act of
Dishonor.

628
00:43:11,400 –> 00:43:15,800
Verse 22 says it was an act of
flagrant disregard for the Kings

629
00:43:15,800 –> 00:43:20,600
Authority.
And 2:4 says that it was an ex

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00:43:20,600 –> 00:43:24,200
that did not please the king.
It doesn’t matter.

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00:43:24,400 –> 00:43:26,800
Does it brother and sisters?
Why vest I didn’t come?

632
00:43:26,800 –> 00:43:33,300
We’re not told what we are told
is that verse 17 this deed of

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00:43:33,300 –> 00:43:37,000
the queen, it’s what she did.
It’s not why she did it.

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00:43:37,600 –> 00:43:40,100
It’s what she did.
And you know, brothers sisters.

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00:43:40,100 –> 00:43:41,900
It’s going to be like that for
all of us.

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00:43:42,800 –> 00:43:48,200
We’re not going to be judged
necessarily for are motives are

637
00:43:48,200 –> 00:43:51,500
going to be judged.
For what we have done was the

638
00:43:51,500 –> 00:43:54,800
same in the Garden of Eden.
When God judged the serpent, you

639
00:43:54,800 –> 00:43:59,700
have done this regardless of his
motives and it’s exactly the

640
00:43:59,700 –> 00:44:01,800
same when our Lord Jesus Christ
returns, isn’t it?

641
00:44:01,800 –> 00:44:06,000
And sticking of Corinthians 5
appear before the Judgment seat

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00:44:06,000 –> 00:44:10,700
and receiving are body.
According to what we have done

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00:44:11,500 –> 00:44:16,600
with a good, For bed.
And what vest I did was clearly

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00:44:17,100 –> 00:44:20,700
disobedient that a type of
Israel after the flesh.

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00:44:21,700 –> 00:44:25,900
Israel is a nation that
blatantly rebelled in was

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00:44:26,500 –> 00:44:30,800
contemptuous of God’s
requirements and nation that

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00:44:30,800 –> 00:44:34,500
flagrantly disregarded, his law.
And look at clear, this is I

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00:44:34,508 –> 00:44:37,600
want you to come to Ezekiel and
chapter 16.

649
00:44:38,700 –> 00:44:41,800
It’s just read a couple of
verses here in Ezekiel 16 and

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00:44:41,800 –> 00:44:45,300
then go through this before we
finish, because Vesta is the

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00:44:45,300 –> 00:44:47,700
perfect type of disobedient,
Israel.

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00:44:48,900 –> 00:44:52,400
Look what it says in Ezekiel 16
in verse 8.

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00:44:53,800 –> 00:44:58,200
Now, when I pass by thee and
looked upon the behold, by time

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00:44:58,200 –> 00:45:02,100
was the time of love and I
spread my skirt over the way, I

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00:45:02,100 –> 00:45:06,400
swear unto the in entered into a
covenant, with the says the Lord

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00:45:06,400 –> 00:45:12,000
God and now the keenest mine
Israel was God’s wife.

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00:45:12,100 –> 00:45:15,400
I wash you with water.
I thoroughly washed away your

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00:45:15,400 –> 00:45:19,800
blood, I anointed you with oil.
I clothed you with broided work

659
00:45:19,800 –> 00:45:23,100
and shun shortly with badges
skins.

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00:45:23,300 –> 00:45:25,500
That was on top of a Tabernacle
in.

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00:45:25,500 –> 00:45:27,600
Good of the about with fine
linen.

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00:45:27,600 –> 00:45:31,100
I covered the with silk.
I dick you out with ornaments, I

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00:45:31,100 –> 00:45:33,600
put bracelets on your hands,
chains on your neck.

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00:45:33,600 –> 00:45:37,100
Jewels on your forehead,
earrings in your ears, and a

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00:45:37,100 –> 00:45:42,300
beautiful crown on your head.
He would dicked with gold and

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00:45:42,300 –> 00:45:45,400
silver.
Fine linen, silk embroidered

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00:45:45,400 –> 00:45:47,900
work.
You make the best of all foods

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00:45:48,300 –> 00:45:51,400
and thou, Wast exceeding,
beautiful.

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00:45:52,000 –> 00:45:54,200
And that is Prosper into a
kingdom.

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00:45:54,700 –> 00:45:58,700
And thy Renown went forth among
the Heathen for they Beauty and

671
00:45:58,700 –> 00:46:02,000
it was perfect through, they
coming this, which I had put

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00:46:02,000 –> 00:46:10,100
upon thee, saith the Lord, God,
But dad’s trust in thine own

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00:46:10,100 –> 00:46:15,500
Beauty and played the Harlot.
This is natural Israel.

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00:46:15,500 –> 00:46:18,900
And by the time we come to
Ezekiel 21, God is going to say,

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00:46:18,900 –> 00:46:24,600
take off the crown, remove the
diadem, let it not be.

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00:46:25,900 –> 00:46:30,000
This shall not be the same.
So let’s have a look.

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00:46:30,000 –> 00:46:32,100
Shall we at the Disobedience of
vest?

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00:46:32,100 –> 00:46:39,000
I as a type of natural Israel,
this tie was the King’s first

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00:46:39,100 –> 00:46:44,100
wife and Israel was clearly
God’s first wife.

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00:46:44,500 –> 00:46:48,900
Jeremiah 31 sees, I wasn’t
husband and to her.

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00:46:50,500 –> 00:46:54,000
Best Buy was known for her
beauty in Esther chapter 1 and

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00:46:54,000 –> 00:46:57,000
verse 11, and we’ve just read in
Ezekiel 16.

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00:46:57,000 –> 00:47:00,700
That better Israel was exceeding
beautiful.

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00:47:01,300 –> 00:47:04,900
The renowned went forth among
the Heathen for the beauty, she

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00:47:04,900 –> 00:47:10,700
perfectly types, natural Israel.
She was supposed to be a

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00:47:10,700 –> 00:47:17,500
reflection of her Lord.
And God expected, Israel, didn’t

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00:47:17,500 –> 00:47:22,000
he to be a perfect reflection of
himself, Isaiah 43.

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00:47:22,000 –> 00:47:26,600
In verse 7, says, I have created
Israel for my glory.

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00:47:26,900 –> 00:47:29,900
Israel is supposed to reflect
everything that was glorious

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00:47:29,900 –> 00:47:34,300
about God.
He has a rear center Fitch vest.

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00:47:34,300 –> 00:47:40,100
I in Esther chapter wonders team
after a feast of 187 days to

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00:47:40,100 –> 00:47:48,200
show off her glory in after 187
Days, Brothers and Sisters God

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00:47:48,200 –> 00:47:54,400
called the priesthood out, to
reflect God’s glory the crown

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00:47:54,400 –> 00:47:59,800
and Glory of God’s kingdom was
Aaron and his house and at the

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00:47:59,800 –> 00:48:03,400
end of 187 days.
Stephen days of the consecration

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00:48:03,400 –> 00:48:07,300
of the priests they were
supposed to come out and be the

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00:48:07,300 –> 00:48:10,100
perfect reflection of God
himself.

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00:48:10,800 –> 00:48:13,000
The crowning Glory of his
kingdom.

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00:48:13,800 –> 00:48:17,100
And Leviticus 9 verse 6 is the
glory of Yahweh is going to

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00:48:17,100 –> 00:48:23,100
appear to you this day.
But their star refused to come.

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00:48:24,600 –> 00:48:28,800
What is that a type of brothers
and sisters the refusal of vest

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00:48:28,800 –> 00:48:34,900
I to come except it be made are
banned by who who offered

703
00:48:34,900 –> 00:48:39,000
Strange Fire?
Which God commanded them not

704
00:48:39,800 –> 00:48:44,400
they were disobedient.
They did not reflect God’s

705
00:48:44,400 –> 00:48:48,200
goodness or his mercy, and they
were a type of prototype weren’t

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00:48:48,200 –> 00:48:51,100
they of the whole of the nation
down through time.

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00:48:51,300 –> 00:48:55,400
Who was going to refuse to come?
Refuse to hear.

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00:48:55,600 –> 00:49:00,000
Jeremiah 13 verse 11 says, but
they would not here.

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00:49:01,100 –> 00:49:06,200
The nation was just like Nate
abandoned by who and what

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00:49:06,200 –> 00:49:08,400
happens in a debit to buy her
brothers and sisters.

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00:49:09,200 –> 00:49:12,500
Well it season Easter chapter 1,
that a heads you Eris was very

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00:49:12,500 –> 00:49:16,200
Rock and his anger burned within
him.

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00:49:16,700 –> 00:49:18,600
What do you think it sees that
brothers and sisters that he was

714
00:49:18,600 –> 00:49:24,300
very wroth and his anger burned
within him?

715
00:49:25,700 –> 00:49:30,200
Except it be a reference to
God’s fire.

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00:49:30,200 –> 00:49:33,900
That came out of human and
destroyed need ebony by her for

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00:49:33,900 –> 00:49:36,600
their presumption in their
Disobedience right?

718
00:49:37,000 –> 00:49:40,500
At the very time when God wanted
them to reflect his glory.

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00:49:41,600 –> 00:49:43,400
And down through time, brothers
and sisters.

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00:49:44,100 –> 00:49:47,000
We won’t look these references
up, but it says in second

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00:49:47,000 –> 00:49:50,500
chronicles 36 that God sent
Messengers like the

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00:49:50,500 –> 00:49:54,100
Chamberlain’s, he sent
Messengers, he sent Messengers

723
00:49:55,200 –> 00:50:00,200
and they would not listen, they
would not come and it says in

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second chronicles, 36, and verse
16, God was Roth.

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00:50:05,800 –> 00:50:12,100
And he burned up their City,
Matthew chapter 22 and verse 7

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00:50:13,000 –> 00:50:15,900
in that parable, about those who
did not come to the wedding

727
00:50:15,900 –> 00:50:19,600
Feast when it comes to Matthew
27, and just a moment.

728
00:50:20,400 –> 00:50:26,100
So vest, I clearly types for us,
the nation that had sworn the

729
00:50:26,100 –> 00:50:29,600
allegiance, they were obedience
at the foot of Mount Sinai and

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00:50:29,600 –> 00:50:34,900
yet, exactly, 187 days later,
they come out, will they refused

731
00:50:34,900 –> 00:50:38,000
to come out rather and reflect
God’s glory.

732
00:50:38,000 –> 00:50:42,900
They pour shame and dishonor and
contempt upon God.

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00:50:44,500 –> 00:50:47,300
You know, if you didn’t think
brothers and sisters that

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00:50:47,300 –> 00:50:51,700
Disobedience was Israel’s
problem, look at this Joshua

735
00:50:51,700 –> 00:50:55,800
five, they’re consumed because
they obeyed not the voice of

736
00:50:55,800 –> 00:51:00,600
Yahweh, sick and simulate.
The people refused to obey the

737
00:51:00,600 –> 00:51:04,500
voice of Samuel.
Isaiah 42 verse 24 for, they

738
00:51:04,500 –> 00:51:08,100
would not walk in his ways.
Neither were, they obedient unto

739
00:51:08,100 –> 00:51:10,100
his Lord?
And look at this, classic one

740
00:51:10,100 –> 00:51:13,800
in, Durham i-22.
But now since I will not, Not

741
00:51:13,800 –> 00:51:15,300
here.
Israel Sig.

742
00:51:16,400 –> 00:51:21,500
This Heth been by Men Are from
their youth that they are obey

743
00:51:21,500 –> 00:51:23,300
asst.
Not my voice.

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00:51:24,100 –> 00:51:27,800
We saw this morning, didn’t we
bet the mentor of Moab from the

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00:51:27,800 –> 00:51:31,300
youth was that they were settled
on the Ali’s?

746
00:51:31,300 –> 00:51:34,600
They were lazy.
The manner of Israel from the

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00:51:34,600 –> 00:51:39,400
youth was Disobedience.
And so we come to the last part

748
00:51:39,400 –> 00:51:42,800
of obvious to chapter 1 and
their story because she’s shown

749
00:51:43,000 –> 00:51:46,700
herself and worthy of the high
honor of being God’s wife.

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00:51:46,700 –> 00:51:51,500
What is God going to do?
Well, we find when we come back

751
00:51:51,500 –> 00:51:56,700
to Easter chapter one.
That God is going to audit the

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00:51:56,700 –> 00:52:00,000
king rather is going to consult
verse 13.

753
00:52:00,000 –> 00:52:04,400
With his wise, mean the king
said to his wisely in which new

754
00:52:04,400 –> 00:52:07,200
the times for.
So was the King’s Men at all,

755
00:52:07,200 –> 00:52:10,600
that new law and judgment.
This the thing, what should we

756
00:52:10,600 –> 00:52:12,800
do?
And to the queen vest I

757
00:52:13,300 –> 00:52:16,700
according to law who are these
seven wise men, brothers and

758
00:52:16,700 –> 00:52:20,300
sisters?
Well they are clearly the angels

759
00:52:20,300 –> 00:52:23,700
in heaven there.
Those who know the times verse

760
00:52:23,800 –> 00:52:29,000
13 there, those who always
behold the face of My Father,

761
00:52:29,000 –> 00:52:32,300
which is in heaven.
Matthew chapter 18, and verse

762
00:52:32,400 –> 00:52:35,100
team and now God confers with
the angels.

763
00:52:35,100 –> 00:52:39,500
What are we going to do about
the nation of Israel that time

764
00:52:39,500 –> 00:52:44,000
after time has proved itself
deliberately disobedient?

765
00:52:45,300 –> 00:52:49,000
In verse 15 makes it very clear
that whatever the punishment was

766
00:52:49,000 –> 00:52:53,200
going to be it had to be meted
out according to law.

767
00:52:54,000 –> 00:52:59,500
The nation, that disobeyed God’s
law would be punished with the

768
00:52:59,500 –> 00:53:02,300
law.
So it down through time.

769
00:53:02,300 –> 00:53:06,200
The nation was going to be
punished with all of the curses

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00:53:06,500 –> 00:53:10,200
of the law of Moses in
Deuteronomy chapter 28.

771
00:53:12,100 –> 00:53:17,500
And so we find in verse 16 that
manukan on behalf of the rest of

772
00:53:17,500 –> 00:53:19,200
the wise, men is going to lay
out his argument.

773
00:53:19,200 –> 00:53:21,600
What are we going to do?
We don’t have time to really

774
00:53:21,600 –> 00:53:23,300
look at this.
In a lot of detail because their

775
00:53:23,300 –> 00:53:26,500
time is up, but let me just say
this to summarize.

776
00:53:26,600 –> 00:53:33,600
Mamu canes ideas, he says listen
O, King Vesta, has overstepped

777
00:53:33,600 –> 00:53:37,700
the line.
And because she’s been given

778
00:53:37,700 –> 00:53:43,600
everything on the basis of the
fact that greater privileges

779
00:53:43,600 –> 00:53:47,500
bring greater responsibilities.
We’re going to have to make an

780
00:53:47,500 –> 00:53:51,300
example of her.
Otherwise it’s going to cause

781
00:53:51,300 –> 00:53:53,200
all other woman to design of
their husbands.

782
00:53:53,200 –> 00:53:55,500
They mean a vest I can do it to
the king.

783
00:53:56,300 –> 00:53:58,900
What woman can’t do it to the
husband?

784
00:54:00,000 –> 00:54:03,300
And so we read in verse 19 that
he says, if it please the king

785
00:54:03,900 –> 00:54:07,400
let thee go a royal commandment
from him, let it be written

786
00:54:07,400 –> 00:54:11,100
among the laws of the Persians.
And the medes that it be not,

787
00:54:11,100 –> 00:54:13,900
altered that vest.
I come no more before King

788
00:54:13,900 –> 00:54:18,700
ahasuerus and let the King give
her Royal Estate and to another

789
00:54:19,100 –> 00:54:23,500
that is better than she, you
know that those words another

790
00:54:23,500 –> 00:54:29,700
that is better than she must
Echo for us ekos to other.

791
00:54:29,800 –> 00:54:37,100
Back to the Bible.
Can can anyone suggest we’re in

792
00:54:37,100 –> 00:54:40,300
anywhere else in the Bible?
It says something along those

793
00:54:40,300 –> 00:54:42,500
lines.
I’m going to give her Royal

794
00:54:42,500 –> 00:54:46,600
Estate and to another that is
better than she.

795
00:54:48,100 –> 00:54:54,300
Any ideas, any thoughts?
Salter David or God just all

796
00:54:54,900 –> 00:54:59,500
exactly first of Samuel 15, and
verse 28, God’s seed, or Samuel

797
00:54:59,500 –> 00:55:05,700
seed Yahweh has rent the Kingdom
of Israel from the this day and

798
00:55:05,700 –> 00:55:11,700
giving it to a neighbor of thine
that is better than there.

799
00:55:12,400 –> 00:55:13,500
And we don’t have time to look
at it.

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00:55:13,500 –> 00:55:17,500
I was going to go there, but our
Lord, Jesus Christ, picks up.

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00:55:17,500 –> 00:55:21,800
Those words in Matthew chapter
21 and verse 43.

802
00:55:21,800 –> 00:55:24,700
Therefore, I say unto you, the
kingdom of God is going to be

803
00:55:24,700 –> 00:55:30,300
taken from you and given to a
nation bringing forth, the

804
00:55:30,300 –> 00:55:32,700
fruits thereof.
See how those two.

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00:55:32,900 –> 00:55:36,000
Those two passages are clearly
sit alongside each other.

806
00:55:36,500 –> 00:55:39,200
In the Disobedience of Israel
was going to give way to the

807
00:55:39,200 –> 00:55:44,200
truth, going to the Gentiles and
nation, that was going to bring

808
00:55:44,200 –> 00:55:48,600
forth the fruits thereof. and,
you know, it’s very, very

809
00:55:48,600 –> 00:55:53,400
interesting that when we go to
Matthew chapter 21, It’s right

810
00:55:53,400 –> 00:55:56,600
at the end of Matthew 21 that
we’re told this, and when we

811
00:55:56,600 –> 00:55:59,400
come to the start of chapter 22,
what do we have y?

812
00:55:59,800 –> 00:56:04,000
A parable about a weaving and
God says, go out and bringing

813
00:56:04,000 –> 00:56:09,000
the gifts, and they would not
come and God said, right?

814
00:56:09,200 –> 00:56:14,600
I’ll find myself a new bride, go
out into the highways and byways

815
00:56:15,000 –> 00:56:19,400
and bring those people in
because my wedding will be

816
00:56:19,400 –> 00:56:23,900
furnished with guests.
And so, the weeding parable of

817
00:56:23,900 –> 00:56:31,600
Matthew 22 finds in its exact
counterpart, the, the the search

818
00:56:31,600 –> 00:56:33,600
for a new queen.
As we’re going to come to

819
00:56:33,600 –> 00:56:39,600
tomorrow in Esther chapter 2.
Well, I want to just finish with

820
00:56:39,600 –> 00:56:43,300
us Brothers, this is because the
big lesson that comes out of

821
00:56:43,300 –> 00:56:48,700
Esther chapter 1 is obedience.
If we want to please the king,

822
00:56:48,700 –> 00:56:52,100
if we want to show our
subjection to him and be

823
00:56:52,100 –> 00:56:57,600
submissive, we must learn the
lesson of obedience.

824
00:56:58,200 –> 00:57:00,200
What vest?
I and the natural nation of

825
00:57:00,200 –> 00:57:03,500
Israel.
Never understood to references

826
00:57:03,500 –> 00:57:06,200
First Peter chapter 4 and verse
17.

827
00:57:06,200 –> 00:57:10,000
And look at this for the time
has come that judgment must

828
00:57:10,000 –> 00:57:15,600
begin at the house of God and if
it first begin at us, What shall

829
00:57:15,600 –> 00:57:19,000
we indeed be of them that obey,
not the gospel.

830
00:57:19,100 –> 00:57:20,900
Obedience is so important, isn’t
it?

831
00:57:20,900 –> 00:57:24,300
Brothers and sisters.
As we prepare ourselves to be

832
00:57:24,300 –> 00:57:28,900
the Lambs wife, And second of
his loan Ian’s chapter 1 and

833
00:57:28,900 –> 00:57:31,600
verse 8.
Our Lord, Jesus Christ is coming

834
00:57:31,600 –> 00:57:35,200
again by the resistance is going
to be revealed from heaven with

835
00:57:35,200 –> 00:57:40,900
his mighty angels, in flaming
fire, just like God did to

836
00:57:40,900 –> 00:57:44,800
Native in a buyer who taking
Vengeance on them, that know,

837
00:57:44,800 –> 00:57:50,500
not God and that obey not the
gospel of our Lord, Jesus

838
00:57:50,500 –> 00:57:53,500
Christ.
It’s the bald facts of the

839
00:57:53,500 –> 00:57:57,900
matter Brothers as isn’t it.
If we are not prepared to obey,

840
00:57:58,700 –> 00:58:01,600
we will be replaced in God’s
purpose.

841
00:58:01,900 –> 00:58:05,700
He doesn’t have any time for
Disobedience, he didn’t in the

842
00:58:05,700 –> 00:58:07,800
time of Saul and he doesn’t
today.

843
00:58:08,900 –> 00:58:12,700
And you know what the problem is
that we live?

844
00:58:12,700 –> 00:58:15,100
Don’t we?
In a time of Tolerance.

845
00:58:15,900 –> 00:58:21,700
We live in a time of
broad-mindedness of acceptance

846
00:58:22,300 –> 00:58:25,900
of what we might call
Progressive Christianity.

847
00:58:28,000 –> 00:58:32,200
And everybody around us brothers
and sisters is blurring the

848
00:58:32,200 –> 00:58:35,200
edges.
And what we want to take from

849
00:58:35,500 –> 00:58:39,000
today’s session, is that what we
think?

850
00:58:40,000 –> 00:58:43,700
What we think is enough.
What we think will be

851
00:58:43,700 –> 00:58:46,600
satisfactory.
What we’re prepared to give God

852
00:58:46,600 –> 00:58:50,700
is Not Enough.
That must be what he has asked

853
00:58:51,500 –> 00:58:54,400
because he’s asked from us
obedience.

854
00:58:55,600 –> 00:58:59,800
Our Lord Jesus Christ, though.
He were a son yet learned.

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00:58:59,800 –> 00:59:02,500
He obedience by the things which
he suffered.

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And being made, perfect.
It sees, he became the author of

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Eternal salvation unto all them,
that obey him.

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So brothers and sisters, if we
want to be part of the Bride,

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the Lambs wife, if we want to be
associated with our Lord, Jesus

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Christ.
All that he has said, we must do

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00:59:25,000 –> 00:59:28,700
and be obedient because when he
comes, we want to be part of

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that group of people that very,
very small group of people,

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don’t we brothers and sisters
who are obedient and to as it

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says in Revelation have made
ourselves really.