Class 4 from this series was used in GCT Episode 297.
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Thank you Evan, and good
afternoon, everyone.
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Thank you Evan, and good
afternoon, everyone.
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Good afternoon.
Thank you, Harry.
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Oh, I like that.
Oh, good afternoon, everyone.
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Super John, did you look have a
good walk, a good game of
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football, a good something good,
JoJo good.
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It’s been a good day, hasn’t it?
So so let a big thanks to to
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those brothers and sisters in
impartial meeting who VE put the
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time and energy and effort into
organising us so that we VE had
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such a a good and uplifting time
together so far Well we’d like
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to turn in our bibles to judges
chapter four.
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We VE just read chapter 5 and
you LL know that that’s the song
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of Deborah and that song is a
victory song because of God S
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victory through Deborah Barack
and jail.
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And we’ll see how these
characters and and that song
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speak to us in in extraordinary
detail about things of the time
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of the end.
But we’re going to just start in
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chapter 4 and pick up the
children of Israel again.
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So here’s the cycle of the
judges run.
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The Corkscrew again did evil in
the sight of the Lord when E
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hood was dead and the Lord sold
them.
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So just like we saw do you
remember in chapter 2 or in
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chapter 3 where we saw that they
were sold to Kush and Richa
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Theim that they VE been sold
again and this time they VE been
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sold into the hand of Jabin king
of Canaan.
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What does Canaan represent?
Sin.
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So Jabin, king of Canaan, is
king sin, right?
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Do you see that with that
recurring theme all the time?
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Now, Jabin means intelligence or
cunning or subtle.
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And so Jabin reminds us of, I
won’t keep this going even
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though it’s really funny of the
serpent, right?
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I’m thinking of the serpent.
So here is this guy, the King’s
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sin.
Of course, he shows us something
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of the thinking of the serpent.
And we saw in Romans 6 the
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challenge for us.
Don’t allow yourself to, to, to,
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to bow down to king sin.
Don’t let king sin reign in you,
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let king righteousness reign in
you.
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But there is another reference
in Romans, just come to Romans
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7, which I think is really
helpful for us.
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So keep a marker in judges and
come with me please two Romans
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Chapter 7 now you VE got to get
in the zone you VE got to force
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yourself in the zone tonight it
SA bit of a graveyard shift ISN
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T it you know you know the halls
warming up.
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You VE just had a walk and
really probably most of us could
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do with a little nap.
But if you dare to close your
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eyes for one minute in this
session.
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You know me well enough for most
of you.
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I will call you out, right?
And I will humiliate you and
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embarrass you in all the ways
that a teacher should never do,
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but I will do that, OK?
And you know that.
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So you make sure you stay in the
zone.
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So you in Romans 7, So Romans 6,
King Singh, right?
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You remember that?
Now come to Romans 7 and come
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with me, please. 2 verse first
of all, 14 we know that the law
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is spiritual, but the apostle
Paul writes the Romans, I am
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carnal, sold under sin.
Do you see?
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It’s exactly what we’re seeing
in Judges.
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So listen, I’ll get you to make
your note shortly.
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But back in Judges 4, you need a
note where it says that they
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were sold to Javin, king of
Canaan.
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Romans 7 and verse 14 he’s we’re
all sold to Jabin, king of
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Canaan, as it were, we’re sold
under sin.
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Now I want you to come a bit
further on in Romans 7 and you,
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you remember the apostle Paul
saying, you know the good that I
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want to do I I, you know, I
don’t do because of sin in me
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and and and the evil that I
don’t want to do.
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Well, that’s what I do Verse 20
Now I do that.
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I would not.
It is no more I that do it, but
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sin dwelling in me.
I find in the law that when I
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would do good, evils present
with me.
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I delight in the law of God
after the inward man, but I see
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another law in my members
warring against the law of my
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mind, and bringing me into
captivity.
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To the law of sin which is in my
members.
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I always remember bringing him
into captivity to the law of
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sin, a wretched man.
He says, verse 24.
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Who shall deliver me from the
body of this death?
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Who shall deliver me?
What are the judges?
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They’re deliverers, they’re
saviours.
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Who’s the deliverer?
I thank God through Jesus Christ
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our Lord.
So he says, my God, this
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constant battle in me, I, I
wanna do good, but I keep doing
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evil because inside me is this
law’s I’m sold to sin.
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I’ve been brought into
captivity, he says to the law of
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sin.
But who is going to deal?
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Who has dealt with the problem
of us all being in captivity to
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the law of sin?
Who’s released us from that
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captivity?
I thank God through Jesus Christ
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our Lord, remember the captivity
to the law of sin.
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Romans 7 and verse 23.
Someone needs to remember that.
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I’ll forget it.
Romans 7, verse 23, captivity,
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the law of sin come back to
Judges and in Judges chapter 4,
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what do we see?
We see they’re sold to Jaden.
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Now have a look on the map here.
You’ll see that the Jabin king
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of Canaan reigned in Hapsaw.
So he’s right up.
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In fact, it’s off the top of the
screen, just to make it even
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more exciting to show you how
far north it is, right?
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He’s a type, isn’t he, of a king
of the north.
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He’s right up in the north.
Now we’re interested in what the
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judges teach us about the first
coming of the Lord Jesus, but
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also his second coming.
So as soon as we see a king of
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the North, we’re ah, that’s
interesting.
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And his general is Sisera, which
dwelt in Haroschef of the
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Gentiles.
And Sisera means battle array.
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And it’s Sisera who’s going to
put the battle in array.
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All right, so he’s the general
of of Jabin and he’s going to
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put the battle in array.
OK, just keep reading.
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The children of Israel, verse 3
cried unto the Lord.
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For Cicera Jabin had 900
Chariots of iron.
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Now that is a lot of Chariots of
iron in ancient times.
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He’s got an extraordinary army.
An extraordinary army. 900
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Chariots of iron, 20 years.
He mightily oppressed the
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children of Israel.
And so Deborah is sent.
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Now you know the story well, and
we’re not going to go to the
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story step by step.
I’ll give you a very quick
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summary.
Deborah, who’s the judge at the
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time, says to Beirac, go and get
10,000 men and go onto the
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mountain and there you’re going
to defeat Cicero.
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He says what?
I’m not the right guy.
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No, no, God is going to work
through you.
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So you remember they go to the
mountain with the 10,000 men.
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Now that’s nothing against 900
Chariots of iron, but what does
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God do?
God sends an almighty storm.
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And so the Chariots get flooded
out, don’t they?
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And they get literally stuck in
the mud to play a classic
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primary school game, right?
This is no game.
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They can’t get out, they’re
stuck in the mud, right?
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And so Sisera the general
escapes.
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Do you remember?
And he gets out of the battle
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scene and he and he goes for
cover and he gets to Heba the
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Kenites house.
Now Heba the Kenite had got into
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cahoots with Jabin, king of
Canaan.
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I’m not going to show you the
history of that this morning,
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this afternoon, evening.
So he goes, I’ll go to that tent
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there.
That’s brilliant.
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He’ll be fine with me.
Well, he’s not there.
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His wife, Jayalis.
And you remember that?
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Jayal says, oh, no problem.
Come in.
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Come in.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Listen, you, you can you can
fall asleep on my feet if you
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like.
There’s perhaps a bit more to it
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than that.
But Needless to say, he puts his
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head down at her feet.
And we know the story.
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She puts the the peg, the tent
peg through his temple, and she
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strikes a wound through his
skull.
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And that’s the story.
And Judges Chapter 5, then, is
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the victory song of that story.
I want to come now to Judges 5
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because we read a recurring
phrase here.
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We’ll come back to Judges 4 and
some of the stories shortly, but
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I want you to notice this.
Then sang Deborah and Bay Rack.
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Does anyone know what Bay Rack
means?
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Go on, someone said it.
Lightning, make a note.
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Bay Rack in the margin.
Lightning.
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Bay Rack.
Lightning.
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Thanks, Phibes.
See, it’s important.
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Surely.
So then, sang Deborah and Bay
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Rack, remember, this is a mighty
storm that’s going to come, OK?
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It’s going to flood out the
Chariots.
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So it’s significant that Bay
Rack’s name means lightning.
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So then sang Deborah and Baerak
the son of Abedimah on that day,
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saying, Praise ye the Lord to
the avenging of Israel, when the
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people willingly offered
themselves praise ye the Lord.
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Now did you notice that that
phrase was repeated just a bit
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later on verse 9?
Just have a look.
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I asked all the governors of
Israel that offered themselves
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willingly among the people,
bless ye the Lord.
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So somehow you VE got to connect
that up.
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You VE got to colour them in or
you VE got to just make a note
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in the margin to connect up.
Verse nine and verse two.
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This willingness of the people
is of real significance when we
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come to the time of the end.
OK, so here are the people of
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Israel saying I LL go, I LL go,
I LL go to help in the battle.
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The 10,000 willingly offered
themselves even though they knew
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that the odds were against them.
900 Charities of Iron, but they
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willingly offered themselves.
Now does anyone know of a Psalm
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where we read of the people
being willing?
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Go on, shout it out for us.
Excellent Harry.
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Now have you got that Harry?
Because you’re looking at the
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slides here.
Good, excellent.
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Yes, well done.
But at least you’re the most
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observant in the room anyway,
right?
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So come on, let’s go to Psalm
110, keep a marker, but come to
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Psalm 110 where?
And I’m going to put a table on
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the screen here that’s pretty
awful because there’s too much
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in it.
And I’m going to show you two or
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three tables today.
And don’t forget, you can make
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some notes now.
But if you want these slides,
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you can have them anyway.
And you can then make your own
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notes on the tables.
Or you can take your phone out,
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take a picture.
Yeah, do whatever you want to
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do.
But well, I’ll put two or three
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tables up today.
But I, I want you to see the
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strength of the links between
Psalm 110 and Judges.
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OK, so we come here because look
Psalm 110 verse 3.
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What does it say?
Thy people shall be willing in
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the day of power.
So that S why we come to Psalm
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110.
Now Psalm 110 is a Kingdom
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Psalm.
Let S just read it.
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The Lord said to mine, Lord,
Lord.
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So this is saying Yahweh says to
my Lord.
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This is talking about the Lord
Jesus Christ, sit Thou at my
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right hand.
So Yahweh says to Jesus, sit at
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my right hand until I make thine
enemies thy footstool.
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The Lord shall send the rod of
thy strength out of Zion.
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Rule thou in the midst of thy
enemies, so you can see.
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When is Jesus going to rule in
the midst of his enemies?
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When is sit in my right hand
until I make thine enemies thy
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footstool?
We’re talking about the Kingdom,
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aren’t we?
That’s what this Psalm is about.
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Now the word rod in verse 2, the
Lord shall send the rod of thy
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strength out of Zion.
The fact it’s going out of Zion
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gives us a clue.
The rod is the word tribe.
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Alright, so make a note.
Rod in the margin tribe, tribe.
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So Yahweh shall send the tribes
of thy strength out of Zion.
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Rule thou in the midst of thine
enemies, thy people, who are God
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people.
Excuse me, who are God’s people?
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Who are they?
Israel, The Jews?
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The tribes, Do you see?
So connect up thy people in
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verse three with the rod in
verse two, because the tribes
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are the rod, they are the
people.
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So who are the people that are
going to be willing?
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Verse three, who are the people
that are going to be willing?
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Who are the tribes?
Israel, right?
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The Jews are going to be willing
in the Kingdom age.
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Now this is so crucial to all of
our understanding of the gospel
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message and the truth.
You know that most of the
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churches in the world, the Jews
are forgotten.
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Yes, they were God people in
ancient times, but they
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crucified the Lord Jesus Christ
and so they VE been rejected AD
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70.
They VE been rejected we know as
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Christadelphians and the Bible
teaches us they are not
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rejected.
Yes, they re going through an
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extraordinary period of trial
and tribulation and difficulty
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for hundreds 2000 years, but
they are not cast off.
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Romans 11.
They re not cast off.
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And so it S the Jews who are
willing in the day of power when
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the Lord Jesus Christ comes
back.
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We LL pick that up together
again shortly.
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Now while I VE been talking many
of you have just been writing
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notes because you re getting
this table down South.
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Shall we just quickly whip
through it so that you can see
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some of the links?
So the willing people, I think
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we VE got that.
I LL make thine enemies thy
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footstool in verse one.
Well what does Cicera do when he
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comes in front of jail?
He falls at her feet.
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OK tomorrow in our expectation
we LL pick up the importance of
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the Jew in Psalmund and 10:00
and we re really well blessed
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that tomorrow the reading for
the day is Psalmund and 10.
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So we LL touch base here again
we read in verse two rule in the
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midst of thine enemies.
Well, well that S what we see
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them doing in the time of the
judges.
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Now this is really important in
our story in verse five of Psalm
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110 and verse 6.
Verse five says strike through
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kings.
Verse six says he LL wound the
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heads.
Now they re the same Hebrew
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word.
So so circle them and connect
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them up.
The word strike in verse five
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and the word wound in verse six.
It’s the same Hebrew word and
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it’s the word from our story in
Judges.
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It’s the word in Judges 5 and
verse 26 pierced all right.
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So when jail it says she smote
off his head when she had
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pierced and stricken through his
temple.
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The word pierced is the same
word as wound and strike in
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Psalm 110.
So the word of the Lord Jesus
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Christ in striking their head to
2nd Evers awake striking their
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head of sin.
Sorry, go ahead.
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Striking the head of sin.
That’s what we see in our story
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in Judges pointing towards she
deals the fatal blow to the head
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of sin.
And of course, jail is a woman,
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right?
But the ecclesia is a woman.
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We as the ecclesia of the Lord
Jesus Christ, we sometimes
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describe ourselves as the what
of Christ, the God Caleb, the
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bride of Christ.
Yeah, the Bride of Christ.
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So as a woman, she shows what
our role will be in the Kingdom
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age when we’re married to the
Lord Jesus Christ, the Bride of
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Christ.
And it will be our job to deal,
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to strike through kings, to
wound their heads, because sin
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is going to have to be
completely dealt with in the
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earth.
OK, everyone got what they need
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on the table.
If not, you can come up
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afterwards and you can
photograph it on the screen.
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Let S pick this up again, then
the people will be willing.
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This is so, so important because
the Jews, the Jews in the
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Kingdom are not immortal.
Obviously the likes of Abraham,
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Isaac and Jacob, of course they
are but the Jews that we go to
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save after the resurrection and
the judgment, and we go as the
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the multitudinous Christ or the
rainbowed Angel, the one man,
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and we March out.
Zechariah 12 to save the tents
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of Judah, Well, we LL save them.
Come to Zechariah, come to
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Zechariah 12.
I need you to come have a look
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at this.
Come on Zechariah 12 get
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turning.
We go to save the tents of Judah
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Zechariah 12 and we read in
verse 7 the Lord also shall save
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the tents of Judah first.
That S where we get to straight
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away we go to save them, to help
them, and then we start to
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support and to help.
Verse 8 the inhabitants of
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Jerusalem, and he that is feeble
among them, we look after them.
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All those that sin has touched,
the feeble ones, the weary ones,
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the weak ones, we get in and
help.
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Verse 10 And I will pour upon
the House of David, upon the
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inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
spirit of grace, of
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supplication.
They shall look upon me whom
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they VE pierced, and they shall
so they look at the Lord Jesus
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Christ now.
And they mourn and look how
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genuine this morning is.
Look, verse 12 and 1314, every
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family’s apart weeping and
crying as they look at the Lord
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Jesus Christ who’s just saved
them from Gog, from the king of
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the north, from Jabin, king of
Syria, as it were, king of
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Canaan.
That’s who they saved, they’ve
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been saved from.
And so they’re nearly broken and
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they weep and they cry.
And like anyone, when you have
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been so broken by a situation,
when you realise that you have
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treated someone so badly in your
life, what’s your reaction?
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When any of us in just thinking
on a human level in our lives,
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when we treated someone
unjustly, we’ve got it wrong.
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And obviously for them, they got
it so wrong for 2000 years.
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What’s our reaction?
We say, how can I make it up to
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you?
What can I do?
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That’s what they’re going to say
to the Lord Jesus Christ and his
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answer is going to be to them,
you’re forgiven.
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You acknowledge your sin just
like the brothers when they were
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in front of Joseph, but now I
need you and they go back to
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Zechariah 10.
We’re told in Zechariah 10,
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verse three, halfway through the
verse, the Lord of hosts has
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visited his flock, the House of
Judah, and have made them as his
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goodly horse in the battle.
So they become part of a group.
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They’re mortal, but they say we
want to fight with you, we want
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to work with you.
And so they immediately thy
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people shall be willing in the
day of thy power.
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They become the goodly horse in
the battle that go.
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They get it, and they want to
work with the Lord Jesus Christ.
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So when you read Psalm under 10,
it’s telling you about the work
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of the Jews.
When we come back now to Judges
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5 and we’ve read about the
people being willing it’s
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pointing forward.
It S the Kingdom age when the
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Jews will be willing in the day
of power and they LL want to
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work with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now come back to to to Judges
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chapter 5.
Come on, let S go, stay in the
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zone.
Judges 5 get those pages
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turning.
And we read in verse four of the
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song that Deborah and Beyrak
sing.
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Lord, when thou wentest out of
Sia, Sia is in the Sinai region.
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So Sinai, when thou wentest out
of Sia, when thou marchest out
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of the field of Edom.
Isaiah 63 tells us when the Lord
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Jesus Christ and the Saints
return to Jerusalem, we will be
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judged in Sinai.
And then we go up and Isaiah 63
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is says, who is this that comes
from Edom, right.
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So this is the March when thou
marches out of the field of
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Edom.
The earth trembled and the
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heavens dropped.
The clouds also dropped water.
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I want you to notice something
here.
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The earth trembled and the
heavens dropped.
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Now when it says the heavens
dropped, give me another.
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How would you say that the
heavens poured?
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Rained.
Yeah, poured rained.
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Now, for the heavens to rain,
what do you have to have in the
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heavens?
Water.
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And water is in the shape of the
clouds.
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But we’re told twice, we’re told
the heavens dropped the clouds,
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also dropped water.
I think that’s significant
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because of who we are at this
time.
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Now, this marching language
we’re going to pick up shortly
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in Habakkuk 3IN Psalm 68, will
you just put a note in your
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margin?
You’ve got to trust me next to
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verse 4, Habakkuk 3, Psalm 68,
if you look in, if you’ve got a
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margin, look at it and it’s
probably already there.
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Habakkuk 3, Psalm 68.
Don’t worry about the verses,
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because it’s really the whole
Psalm and the whole of Habakkuk
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3.
But there are three major Old
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Testament prophecies about the
March of the rainbowed Angel.
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They are Judges 5, Psalm 68,
Habakkuk 3.
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What are they?
Judges 5, Psalm and Habakkuk.
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Don’t ever forget them, all
right?
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They are your rainbowed Angel
passages.
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They’re the passages that show
us something of the March of the
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rainbowed Angel.
What are we talking about?
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We’re talking about the Bride of
Christ and the Lord Jesus Christ
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being married and becoming one
Sinai.
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Following the judgement seat at
the marriage of the Lamb, we
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then March out an immortal body
to do the work of the Lord Jesus
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Christ.
Where do we get the idea of a
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rainbowed Angel from Revelation?
Thanks Oscar.
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Revelation 10.
Just got to go there quickly.
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Come on Revelation 10.
Otherwise the clouds dropping
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water won T mean much to us.
Revelation 10 So I saw another
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mighty Angel come down from
heaven clothed with a Revelation
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10 verse one.
What’s he clothed with a cloud
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and a rainbow was on his head.
His face was where the sun and
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his feet as pillars of fire.
Now this rainbow Angel is the is
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the picture, the symbol in
Revelation 10, which is why we
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talk of the March of the
rainbowed Angel.
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But you Don T get the word March
in Revelation.
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You get that in Judges 5, in
Habakkuk 3 and in in Psalm 68.
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Here you get the rainbow.
And a rainbow, of course, is
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formed when the sun shines
through the rain.
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OK, That’s how the rainbow gets
formed, isn’t it?
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Listen, you guys, you can trust
me.
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I am a primary school teacher.
I know what I’m talking about.
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This.
I’m so good at science.
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This is how rainbows get formed.
OK, so the sun, the hedge is the
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sun.
What’s that?
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The symbol of the Sun of
Righteousness.
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It’s talking about who?
So sun in the margin, the Lord
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Jesus.
OK, that’s the symbol.
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We’ll pick it up in a bit as
well.
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The sun is the Lord Jesus.
What about then the clouds?
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The clouds?
Who are the clouds?
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The Saints?
Any give me give me a reference
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for the clouds being the Saints.
Hebrews 12.
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Thanks, JoJo.
Hebrews 12.
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We won’t haven’t got time to go
to all these passages.
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But I I’m asking because you
guys know them.
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Put in your margin next to
clouds.
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Hebrews 12/1.
Wherefore are we surrounded by
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so great a of witnesses, Right.
That’s Hebrews 12, isn’t it?
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The cloud of witnesses.
It’s people you’re in
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Revelation.
Just have a quick look at
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chapter one, verse 7.
When the Lord Jesus Christ comes
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back, verse seven, He comes with
who?
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With clouds, and every eye shall
see him, and they also which
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pierced him.
This is Zechariah 12.
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So who are those that is
referring to here which pierced
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Him?
The Jews and all the kindreds or
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the tribes of the earth shall
mourn over him.
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That is Zechariah 12 verse 10 to
14.
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OK, but the Lord when he comes,
comes with clouds.
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Now isn’t saying, of course, you
know, this isn’t some silly
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children’s picture book of the
Lord Jesus Christ coming with
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literal clouds.
Revelation is a book of sign and
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symbol.
The clouds are people.
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And so the rainbowed Angel is
the picture of the Lord Jesus
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Christ with the Saints, the
faces of the sun, and he’s
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00:29:25,200 –> 00:29:27,360
surrounded by a cloud.
Why is there a rainbow?
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00:29:27,720 –> 00:29:30,360
We VE got to have rain.
What’s the rain?
434
00:29:30,360 –> 00:29:35,920
A picture of the Word of God.
The Word of God.
435
00:29:36,160 –> 00:29:38,400
Deuteronomy 32 verses one and
two.
436
00:29:38,400 –> 00:29:40,840
We LL go to those passages if we
get time shortly.
437
00:29:41,200 –> 00:29:45,760
But that’s why the rainbowed
Angel is of such significance
438
00:29:46,200 –> 00:29:49,920
because it’s the Lord Jesus and
the Saints marching out.
439
00:29:51,520 –> 00:29:58,320
So now come back to Judges 5 and
read again verse four.
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The earth trembled and the
heavens dropped the clouds.
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Who’s the clouds in Judges 5?
It’s us.
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00:30:08,560 –> 00:30:11,520
It’s the Saints.
Shall put a note next to the
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clouds.
The Saints, they also dropped
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water.
What’s the rain?
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00:30:17,840 –> 00:30:20,520
What’s the water?
Someone’s told us already the
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word of God.
Put a note in your margin.
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00:30:23,120 –> 00:30:25,800
Deuteronomy 32 verses one and
two.
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00:30:26,120 –> 00:30:27,720
While you’re putting that note,
I’ll read it to you.
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Deuteronomy 32 Give here, O you
heavens, and I will speak.
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00:30:33,200 –> 00:30:34,920
Here are worth the words of my
mouth.
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My doctrine shall drop as the
rain, my speech will distill as
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the dew, as the small rain upon
the tender herb, and as the
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showers upon the grass, because
I’ll publish the name of the
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Lord.
So God’s doctrine drops as the
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rain.
So when the clouds drop water,
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yes, we know in Judges it’s
literally they drop water,
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00:31:01,440 –> 00:31:04,320
right?
So there’s a quagmire and the
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00:31:04,320 –> 00:31:08,480
Chariots get stuck, but it’s
telling us of something even
459
00:31:08,480 –> 00:31:12,800
more amazing at the return of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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00:31:13,080 –> 00:31:20,560
When we as the rainbow Angel are
the clouds and out of us dropped
461
00:31:20,560 –> 00:31:22,920
water.
What is the water?
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00:31:22,960 –> 00:31:27,400
It’s the word.
What’s coming out of our mouth,
463
00:31:27,400 –> 00:31:28,840
The sharp sword coming out of
our mouth.
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00:31:28,920 –> 00:31:35,640
It is the word.
Every metaphor is picking up on
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00:31:35,640 –> 00:31:39,280
the same theme.
Now, ready for a big table?
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00:31:39,560 –> 00:31:44,640
You need to take this in Psalm
68 back to Judges.
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00:31:45,760 –> 00:31:47,920
So that’s a pretty awful table,
isn’t it?
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00:31:47,920 –> 00:31:50,560
Right.
But you can photograph it.
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00:31:50,560 –> 00:31:52,240
You can come up afterwards and
pick it up.
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00:31:52,240 –> 00:31:56,360
I want you to just keep one hand
in Judges 5 and another in Psalm
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68, and we’re going to pick up
just a few of them.
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00:31:59,240 –> 00:32:09,240
Come on, let’s go.
So we don’t want to go through
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00:32:09,240 –> 00:32:12,000
all of them now, we don’t have
the time, but we’re going to
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00:32:12,000 –> 00:32:16,840
pick up on a few.
Verse 70 God, when thou wenchest
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00:32:16,840 –> 00:32:21,000
forth before thy people, when
thou didst March through the
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00:32:21,000 –> 00:32:26,600
wilderness, that is Judges 5 and
verse 4.
477
00:32:27,320 –> 00:32:32,640
Judges 5 and verse 4, Psalm 68,
verse 7, the Helens.
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00:32:32,640 –> 00:32:37,720
Psalm 68 and verse 8 shook the
heavens also dropped at the
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00:32:37,720 –> 00:32:41,760
presence of God.
Even Sinai itself was moved at
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the presence of God, the God of
Israel.
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00:32:44,120 –> 00:32:48,400
Thou, O gods, descend a
plentiful rain, whereby thou
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00:32:48,400 –> 00:32:53,600
disconfirm thy inheritance.
When it was weary, so the rain
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00:32:53,600 –> 00:32:55,480
was sent.
What’s the rain?
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00:32:55,640 –> 00:33:05,880
The rain is the word OK?
How many Chariots did Jabin,
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00:33:05,880 –> 00:33:12,440
king of Canaan have?
900 Well, no wonder he lost.
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00:33:12,600 –> 00:33:17,560
Verse 17.
The Chariots of God, the 20,000,
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00:33:17,880 –> 00:33:19,960
you know, clearly it’s just a
symbolic number, isn’t it?
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00:33:19,960 –> 00:33:23,080
It’s just, it’s just an
innumerable number, even
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thousands of angels, The Lord is
among them, as in Sinai, in the
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holy place.
Now look at this verse 18.
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00:33:29,920 –> 00:33:34,600
Thou send it on high.
Thou hast LED captivity captive.
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00:33:34,760 –> 00:33:38,080
You should still have a marker
in Judges 5, verse 12.
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00:33:38,640 –> 00:33:43,240
Awake, awake, Deborah, we read.
Awake, awake, utter a song.
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00:33:43,240 –> 00:33:48,560
Arise they rack and lead thy
captivity captive.
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Can anyone remember the verse I
asked you to remember in Romans
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00:33:54,400 –> 00:33:57,560
7?
I knew you had it.
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00:33:57,680 –> 00:34:00,800
I could tell at the time it was
in the mind.
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Impressive.
Romans 723.
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00:34:04,320 –> 00:34:07,840
Do you remember when the apostle
Paul was saying about being sold
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00:34:07,840 –> 00:34:13,920
under sin?
He said, I see another law in my
501
00:34:13,920 –> 00:34:18,159
members warring against the law
of my mind and bringing me into
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00:34:18,159 –> 00:34:26,040
captivity to the law of sin.
Romans 7 verse 23, we’re all in
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00:34:26,040 –> 00:34:31,080
captivity to the law of sin or
to Jabin, king of Canaan.
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00:34:32,000 –> 00:34:39,520
It’s the same.
What Bayrak does is he takes
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00:34:39,520 –> 00:34:45,239
captivity captive.
So the problem of sin which has
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00:34:45,239 –> 00:34:50,960
got us in captivity, he gets
hold of the problem and takes
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00:34:50,960 –> 00:34:56,880
captivity captive.
It’s quoted later on in
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00:34:57,440 –> 00:35:02,600
Ephesians where we see it’s
referring ultimately, of course,
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00:35:02,960 –> 00:35:06,720
to the work of the Lord Jesus
Christ, the one who led
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00:35:06,800 –> 00:35:10,840
captivity captive.
He dealt with the problem of
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00:35:10,840 –> 00:35:14,360
Jabin, king of Canaan.
He dealt with the problem of
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king sin.
Now just let me give you a
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00:35:18,040 –> 00:35:23,800
couple more in here.
Verse 21, Psalm 68, verse 21,
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00:35:24,640 –> 00:35:29,280
God shall wound the head of his
enemies.
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00:35:30,680 –> 00:35:38,440
Now that is Judges 5.
That should say, by the way,
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00:35:39,600 –> 00:35:46,720
Judges 5 verse 17, she smote off
his head when she pierced and
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00:35:46,720 –> 00:35:50,880
stricken through his temples.
So that’s the same word again
518
00:35:50,880 –> 00:35:53,680
that we saw in Psalm 110.
We’re going to see in a minute
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00:35:53,680 –> 00:35:57,960
in Habakkuk, chapter three.
Final point, in Psalm 68, there
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00:35:57,960 –> 00:35:59,920
are obviously masses of
connections.
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00:36:00,680 –> 00:36:02,840
Come here, verse 34, you’ve got
to go here.
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00:36:02,960 –> 00:36:07,960
Psalm 68, verse 34, ascribe
strength unto God.
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00:36:08,160 –> 00:36:11,960
His Excellency is over Israel,
and where’s His strength?
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00:36:12,520 –> 00:36:18,520
His strength is in the clouds.
You see, this is speaking about
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00:36:18,560 –> 00:36:22,200
God manifestation.
The whole point in the Kingdom
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00:36:22,200 –> 00:36:29,160
age is that God wants the world
to be full of His glory as the
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00:36:29,160 –> 00:36:34,840
waters cover the sea, but that
glory is to be seen in us.
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00:36:36,360 –> 00:36:41,600
His strength is in the clouds.
That’s why the clouds also drop
529
00:36:41,600 –> 00:36:47,840
water, because God’s strength is
to be shown in US.
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00:36:48,480 –> 00:36:52,840
OK, come to Habicut 3.
You’re doing well, everyone
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doing really well.
Habicut chapter 3.
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00:36:55,560 –> 00:36:57,920
What are my what are my rainbow
Angel passages in the Old
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00:36:57,920 –> 00:37:01,960
Testament?
Judges chapter Psalm and
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00:37:01,960 –> 00:37:03,520
Habicut.
Brilliant.
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00:37:03,560 –> 00:37:07,120
Never, ever forget that.
Habicut 3.
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00:37:07,760 –> 00:37:11,520
Habicut 3.
You see, and you know, we could
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00:37:11,520 –> 00:37:14,160
play a game here.
We won T time is moving away too
538
00:37:14,160 –> 00:37:16,680
quickly.
But there are just umpteen
539
00:37:16,680 –> 00:37:22,200
connections now between Habakkuk
3, Revelation 10, Psalm 68
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00:37:22,200 –> 00:37:25,840
Judges 5.
We see verse three.
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00:37:26,040 –> 00:37:30,000
God came from Tieman.
Tieman means the South and the
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00:37:30,000 –> 00:37:34,360
Holy One from Mount Paran.
This is from Sinai ISN T it So
543
00:37:34,520 –> 00:37:38,320
we believe the judgement will
take place in Sinai and then the
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00:37:38,320 –> 00:37:42,040
rainbow Angel will March out
towards Jerusalem.
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00:37:42,600 –> 00:37:47,200
His brightness was as the light.
He had horns or rays coming out
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00:37:47,200 –> 00:37:48,920
of his hand.
There was the hiding of His
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00:37:48,920 –> 00:37:50,600
power.
Look verse 5.
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00:37:50,880 –> 00:37:53,160
Burning coals went forth at his
feet.
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00:37:53,320 –> 00:37:57,640
Did you notice that in
Revelation 10 and verse one that
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00:37:57,640 –> 00:38:04,120
fiery coals we’re on his feet?
So Revelation 10 verses one and
551
00:38:04,120 –> 00:38:08,400
two you can have next Habakkuk 3
and verse five.
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00:38:10,160 –> 00:38:19,760
What else do we see?
Well, verse 12, thou didst March
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00:38:19,760 –> 00:38:23,520
to the land in indignation is
the marked the rainbowed Angel.
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00:38:23,760 –> 00:38:25,840
Thou didst thresh the heathen in
anger.
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00:38:25,840 –> 00:38:29,520
This is Armageddon language.
This is what this battle is
556
00:38:29,520 –> 00:38:31,680
speaking to us about.
It’s Armageddon.
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00:38:32,120 –> 00:38:34,440
Thou wenget forth for the
salvation of thy people, even
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00:38:34,440 –> 00:38:36,080
for the salvation with thine
anointed.
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00:38:36,360 –> 00:38:41,240
Thou woundest the head.
Out of the House of the wicked
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00:38:41,560 –> 00:38:46,640
thou woundest the head.
It’s the same word, Psalm 68 in
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00:38:46,640 –> 00:38:52,760
Judges 5, where jail pierces the
head of Cicera.
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00:38:53,320 –> 00:38:56,480
Now, in the Hebrew, some of you
will know what’s the word head.
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00:38:58,920 –> 00:39:01,240
Go on, shout it out.
Roche.
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00:39:01,600 –> 00:39:08,600
Why is that significant?
Yeah, Ezekiel 38.
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00:39:08,800 –> 00:39:12,120
Now this is clearly talking
about, you know, a literal head.
566
00:39:13,240 –> 00:39:16,160
But it’s interesting, isn’t it,
that the work of the Lord Jesus
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00:39:16,160 –> 00:39:20,360
and the Saints at Armageddon is
to deal with the Prince of
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00:39:20,360 –> 00:39:26,280
Roche, Gog of the land of Magog,
chief Prince of Roche.
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00:39:26,640 –> 00:39:31,480
OK, what else do I want you to
note here?
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00:39:31,960 –> 00:39:39,120
Just in verse 11, at the shining
of my glittering sphere.
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00:39:39,920 –> 00:39:47,160
That’s Judges 4, where Bayrak,
what does his name mean?
572
00:39:47,640 –> 00:39:50,520
Lightning.
OK, so this glittering sphere is
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00:39:50,520 –> 00:39:55,720
the idea of the lightning.
OK, now come with me back to
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00:39:55,720 –> 00:39:59,440
Judges.
If you, you, any of you think,
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00:39:59,440 –> 00:40:01,600
oh, I didn’t get a note there,
don’t worry, just come up
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00:40:01,600 –> 00:40:03,360
afterwards and you photograph it
on the screen.
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00:40:03,520 –> 00:40:08,200
It’ll be clearer for you.
Anyway, so what’s happening in
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00:40:08,200 –> 00:40:13,520
judges four and five?
We’re seeing a picture which is
579
00:40:13,640 –> 00:40:16,720
a Thunder School story.
That took me one minute to
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00:40:16,720 –> 00:40:21,080
remind you guys of what happens,
but that’s some simple Thunder
581
00:40:21,080 –> 00:40:25,320
School Story is actually
teaching us about the battle.
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00:40:25,720 –> 00:40:30,640
Of Armageddon, when the Prince
of Rosch is going to be
583
00:40:30,640 –> 00:40:34,320
destroyed.
That’s what this story is
584
00:40:34,320 –> 00:40:37,760
pointing towards.
And how’s it going to happen?
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00:40:38,000 –> 00:40:44,480
By the clouds dropping water?
By an almighty storm?
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00:40:46,000 –> 00:40:47,240
You, you.
You might want to just put a
587
00:40:47,240 –> 00:40:48,880
couple of notes in here.
I’m not going to go to these
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00:40:48,880 –> 00:40:54,560
passages.
Zechariah 9 we read Yahweh will
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00:40:54,560 –> 00:40:58,480
be seen over them, and his arrow
shall go forth as the lightning.
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00:40:59,120 –> 00:41:01,680
That when you look up that word
in Zechariah 9, it’s the word
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00:41:01,680 –> 00:41:05,240
bayrack.
OK, so I’d suggest next to the
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00:41:05,240 –> 00:41:10,120
word bayrack somewhere in Judges
4 or in Judges 5 you circle it.
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00:41:10,120 –> 00:41:11,400
You’ve probably got lightning
already.
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00:41:11,600 –> 00:41:18,480
Put Zechariah 914, another
helpful one, and ignore that one
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00:41:18,480 –> 00:41:23,520
in Ezekiel for now.
But in Matthew 24, you’ll
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00:41:23,520 –> 00:41:27,400
probably remember this.
As the lightning comes out of
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00:41:27,400 –> 00:41:32,120
the east and shines to the West,
so shall the coming of the Son
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00:41:32,120 –> 00:41:36,880
of Man be.
So his name is so significant in
599
00:41:36,880 –> 00:41:41,440
telling us about this storm
through the Rainbow Angel that’s
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00:41:41,440 –> 00:41:46,760
going to come onto the earth to
destroy the King of the North at
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00:41:46,760 –> 00:41:59,400
the Battle of Armageddon.
Now we know that that picture of
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00:41:59,400 –> 00:42:04,000
the Battle of Armageddon is the
picture that we also learnt in
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00:42:04,000 –> 00:42:09,400
Sunday School of the stone.
We are now the stone, the Lord
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00:42:09,400 –> 00:42:12,920
Jesus and the Saints cut out the
mountain without hands that
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00:42:12,920 –> 00:42:16,640
smashes into the feet of the
image.
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00:42:17,280 –> 00:42:20,520
That is the battle of
Armageddon, when we smash into
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00:42:20,520 –> 00:42:26,880
the feet of the image, when the
image that Nebuchadnezzar dreamt
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00:42:26,880 –> 00:42:30,880
of stands on the mountains of
Israel.
609
00:42:32,360 –> 00:42:36,720
When the king of the north has
dropped down and stands all his
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00:42:36,720 –> 00:42:40,000
power on that mountain, on the
mountains of Israel, and says
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00:42:40,360 –> 00:42:44,000
this is where I’m putting my
Tabernacle, this is where I’m
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00:42:44,000 –> 00:42:48,560
staying.
The stone power, the rainbowed
613
00:42:48,600 –> 00:42:51,560
Angel will come and smash into
the image.
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00:42:53,040 –> 00:42:58,200
And there’s something in Daniel
too, that you all know that
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00:42:58,200 –> 00:43:02,920
makes that image rather fragile
at the time of the end because
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00:43:02,920 –> 00:43:06,800
of though once there was a head
of gold, and then there were
617
00:43:06,800 –> 00:43:09,720
chest and arms of silver, then
belly and thighs of brass, and
618
00:43:09,720 –> 00:43:14,320
then legs of iron.
In the last days, when the stone
619
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carved out of the mountain
without hands smashes into that
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00:43:17,120 –> 00:43:21,600
image, the feet are made of iron
and clay.
621
00:43:22,440 –> 00:43:26,760
And in Daniel Two we’re told
that iron and clay, well, they
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00:43:26,760 –> 00:43:32,200
don’t mingle, they don’t mix
together, and so when the stone
623
00:43:32,200 –> 00:43:40,320
hits the image, it will crumble.
What happens when the water
624
00:43:41,800 –> 00:43:47,080
comes out of the clouds in the
time of Deborah and Bayrack?
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00:43:48,280 –> 00:43:51,960
The water falls onto the earth.
The earth is made out of.
626
00:43:53,280 –> 00:43:56,040
Come on, The earth is made out
of clay.
627
00:43:58,040 –> 00:44:00,000
What’s Cicero got?
Chariots.
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00:44:00,000 –> 00:44:09,600
All the iron can’t mix with the
clay, and so his Chariots are
629
00:44:09,600 –> 00:44:15,320
useless.
And so he’s defeated, isn’t he?
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00:44:15,760 –> 00:44:19,600
By God?
I come to the end of Judges 5
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00:44:21,520 –> 00:44:26,120
told you in Revelation 10 that
the the Son, the face of the
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00:44:26,120 –> 00:44:29,440
rainbowed Angel, is the Son.
We re told at the end of Judges
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00:44:29,440 –> 00:44:33,840
5 that the that the last verse
of the song.
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00:44:34,320 –> 00:44:37,280
So that all thy enemies perish,
O Yahweh.
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00:44:37,920 –> 00:44:42,680
But let them that love Him be as
the Son when he goes forth in
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00:44:42,680 –> 00:44:46,920
His might.
That is Revelation 10.
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00:44:47,520 –> 00:44:51,240
That S also Malachi 4.
Do you remember in Malachi 4
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00:44:51,240 –> 00:44:55,000
where we read that the Sun of
Righteousness will arise with
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00:44:55,000 –> 00:44:59,240
healing in his wings?
I I tried to help you by colour
640
00:44:59,240 –> 00:45:03,000
coding the the text.
So it’s the same Hebrew in
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00:45:03,000 –> 00:45:06,200
Malachi 4 and verse two, when it
says to you that fear my name
642
00:45:06,200 –> 00:45:08,440
shall the sun, well, that’s the
same as the sun.
643
00:45:08,440 –> 00:45:12,000
It’s pretty obvious, isn’t it?
It judges 5 When the Sun of
644
00:45:12,000 –> 00:45:13,840
Righteousness arises with
healing in his wings.
645
00:45:14,080 –> 00:45:18,320
You shall go forth, he goeth
forth.
646
00:45:18,320 –> 00:45:21,040
It’s the same Hebrew in his
mind.
647
00:45:23,640 –> 00:45:28,000
And so the picture at the end of
this extraordinary story, I
648
00:45:28,000 –> 00:45:32,520
think, is of the work of the
rainbowed Angel doing its job.
649
00:45:34,600 –> 00:45:36,240
The rain has dropped out of the
clouds.
650
00:45:36,240 –> 00:45:43,080
The word has come out and Gogh
of the land of Mago, Chief
651
00:45:43,080 –> 00:45:47,200
Prince of Roche, and all the
confederated armies with him,
652
00:45:48,120 –> 00:45:53,520
will be destroyed because the
iron does not mingle with clay
653
00:45:54,680 –> 00:45:59,760
and so the stone will grow From
that moment onwards.
654
00:45:59,800 –> 00:46:04,320
As soon as the stone hits the
image, it grows.
655
00:46:04,960 –> 00:46:08,800
And so we read at the end of
Judges 5 the last phrase.
656
00:46:09,400 –> 00:46:15,000
The land had rest for 40 years
now.
657
00:46:16,320 –> 00:46:19,600
I’ve already said to you how
significant this time period is.
658
00:46:20,640 –> 00:46:22,120
Sal.
Have I got 5 minutes?
659
00:46:22,560 –> 00:46:25,600
Is that all right, guys?
Can we do 5 more minutes?
660
00:46:25,600 –> 00:46:28,640
Can you hang in there?
Can you hang in there?
661
00:46:29,040 –> 00:46:30,760
Yeah, we can do it.
Good.
662
00:46:30,800 –> 00:46:35,920
Well done.
If anyone says no gal will be
663
00:46:35,920 –> 00:46:38,600
all right with five minutes, I’m
going to really try to stick
664
00:46:38,600 –> 00:46:39,760
with it.
Or thereabouts.
665
00:46:40,800 –> 00:46:46,280
So why does this 40 year period
matter so much?
666
00:46:47,320 –> 00:46:48,520
You gotta make notes.
You gotta.
667
00:46:49,200 –> 00:46:52,880
This is so important to what we
believe as Christadelphians.
668
00:46:52,880 –> 00:46:55,920
And of course, we’re not foolish
enough until things actually
669
00:46:55,920 –> 00:46:58,400
happen.
We wouldn’t be so strict on the
670
00:46:58,400 –> 00:47:01,960
detail, but it’s useful to have
a vision of what we think is
671
00:47:01,960 –> 00:47:03,520
going to happen at the time of
the end.
672
00:47:04,120 –> 00:47:11,200
So this 40 year period keeper
marker come with me to Micah
673
00:47:11,200 –> 00:47:13,840
Chapter 7.
Now you you VE got multiple
674
00:47:13,840 –> 00:47:16,200
fingers, which are going to be
incredibly useful because I’m
675
00:47:16,200 –> 00:47:18,520
going to take you to two or
three passages and I want to
676
00:47:18,520 –> 00:47:20,120
sort of try and keep your
fingers in the morn.
677
00:47:20,520 –> 00:47:24,080
So first of all, Micah Chapter
7.
678
00:47:30,240 –> 00:47:42,280
So the last chapter in Micah
where we read in verse seven,
679
00:47:42,280 –> 00:47:45,800
we’re going to put some passages
together to work out what this
680
00:47:45,800 –> 00:47:48,520
is teaching us.
So just go in at verse 14, Micah
681
00:47:48,520 –> 00:47:55,080
7, verse 14, Feed thy people,
who are the people, Israel with
682
00:47:55,080 –> 00:47:58,760
thy rod, the flock of thy
heritage, which dwell solitary
683
00:47:59,080 –> 00:48:02,000
in the wood in the midst of
Carmel.
684
00:48:02,560 –> 00:48:03,800
Who?
Who do you know in the Old
685
00:48:03,800 –> 00:48:06,160
Testament that’s famous on on
Mount Carmel?
686
00:48:07,240 –> 00:48:10,560
Elijah.
Now Elijah, many of you will
687
00:48:10,560 –> 00:48:13,480
know is significant at the time
of the end.
688
00:48:14,520 –> 00:48:17,120
For some of you that are really
interested, we’ll do a 10 minute
689
00:48:17,120 –> 00:48:19,560
slot afterwards and we’ll get
into some of the detail here.
690
00:48:19,560 –> 00:48:23,000
All right, so Elijah is
significant.
691
00:48:23,160 –> 00:48:25,600
Let them feed in Beishan and
Gilead.
692
00:48:25,800 –> 00:48:28,920
Where was Elijah from?
Give you a clue.
693
00:48:29,720 –> 00:48:33,200
Gilead.
Yeah, it is in the days of old.
694
00:48:33,200 –> 00:48:37,160
Now.
How’s it going to be according
695
00:48:37,960 –> 00:48:43,120
to the days of thy coming out of
the land of Egypt?
696
00:48:43,880 –> 00:48:47,560
Now when they came out of the
land of Egypt, how many years
697
00:48:47,560 –> 00:48:51,480
were they in the wilderness for?
40 years.
698
00:48:51,600 –> 00:48:53,480
How long does land have rest for
in Judges?
699
00:48:55,120 –> 00:48:59,160
40 years.
We saw it in Judges 3.
700
00:48:59,600 –> 00:49:02,800
We see it now in Judges 5.
We see it in Judges 8.
701
00:49:02,920 –> 00:49:08,040
The land had rest for 40 years.
This 40 year period tells
702
00:49:08,040 –> 00:49:11,760
something of the time of the end
according to the days of thy
703
00:49:11,760 –> 00:49:14,960
coming out of the land of Egypt.
So you got to keep now one
704
00:49:14,960 –> 00:49:16,600
finger.
You got something probably in
705
00:49:16,600 –> 00:49:19,160
Judges.
You got something now in Micah
706
00:49:19,160 –> 00:49:21,640
7.
Come with me to Ezekiel 20.
707
00:49:25,320 –> 00:49:27,120
You doing OK?
You hanging in there?
708
00:49:27,440 –> 00:49:32,320
Ezekiel 20.
So this is talking about the
709
00:49:32,720 –> 00:49:35,280
regathering of Israel in the
last days.
710
00:49:37,640 –> 00:49:40,800
I will, verse 34 bring you out
from the people.
711
00:49:40,840 –> 00:49:43,360
I will gather you out of the
countries which you’re scattered
712
00:49:43,480 –> 00:49:46,000
with a mighty hand, with a
stretched out arm, with fury
713
00:49:46,000 –> 00:49:48,640
poured out.
I will bring you where?
714
00:49:50,240 –> 00:49:55,080
To the wilderness of the people.
And there will I plead with you
715
00:49:55,400 –> 00:49:58,320
face to face.
So let me give you a bit of
716
00:49:58,320 –> 00:50:01,440
background here.
What’s been our mission as the
717
00:50:01,440 –> 00:50:06,160
Rainbow Angel?
Save the tents of Judah
718
00:50:06,840 –> 00:50:10,320
Zechariah 10.
We saw then that Judah becomes
719
00:50:10,320 –> 00:50:15,920
the goodly good acting Pete
horse.
720
00:50:15,920 –> 00:50:18,480
Yes, Judah becomes the goodly
horse.
721
00:50:18,680 –> 00:50:21,680
They’re willing in the day of
power, they say we’ll come and
722
00:50:21,680 –> 00:50:23,600
join.
We want to be there.
723
00:50:25,080 –> 00:50:30,080
Judah is referring to the Jews
in the land.
724
00:50:30,120 –> 00:50:34,640
Why?
When the Jews were taken captive
725
00:50:35,400 –> 00:50:42,280
at the time of the Babylonians,
Judah 70 years later came back.
726
00:50:43,040 –> 00:50:45,760
They then represent the people
in the land.
727
00:50:46,080 –> 00:50:49,440
Now before Judah was taken into
captivity, Israel was taken into
728
00:50:49,440 –> 00:50:56,440
captivity by the Assyrians.
The Israel never came back.
729
00:50:57,120 –> 00:51:00,520
Judah then, at the time of the
end, represents the Jews who are
730
00:51:00,920 –> 00:51:04,880
in the land.
Israel represents the Jews who
731
00:51:04,880 –> 00:51:10,520
are outside of the land.
OK, so this regathering now,
732
00:51:10,960 –> 00:51:15,400
well, Judah is there and Israel
is being regathered to the land.
733
00:51:16,120 –> 00:51:20,680
Verse 35, I will bring you into
the wilderness of the people
734
00:51:21,200 –> 00:51:22,920
there will I feed with you face
to face.
735
00:51:22,920 –> 00:51:24,360
So what’s the wilderness of the
people?
736
00:51:24,720 –> 00:51:29,280
Well, just because they’re a
Jew, they can’t simply turn up
737
00:51:29,280 –> 00:51:32,320
with a passport and say, here’s
my passport.
738
00:51:32,880 –> 00:51:34,720
This is a particular, this is a
digital passport.
739
00:51:34,720 –> 00:51:36,320
All right.
I suspect that they’ll be gone
740
00:51:36,320 –> 00:51:38,600
as well.
I can’t come and say, listen,
741
00:51:38,640 –> 00:51:41,040
I’m a Jew, let let me into the
land.
742
00:51:43,880 –> 00:51:47,520
Yes, they’ve got priority on the
ships of Tarshish as they’re
743
00:51:47,680 –> 00:51:53,200
being brought back to Israel.
They have got to believe in the
744
00:51:53,200 –> 00:51:56,640
things concerning the Kingdom of
God and the name of the Lord
745
00:51:56,640 –> 00:51:58,960
Jesus Christ.
And so there’s a refining
746
00:51:58,960 –> 00:52:04,320
process taking place outside of
the land in what we call the
747
00:52:04,320 –> 00:52:10,000
wilderness of the people.
Now, it’s not that someone has
748
00:52:10,000 –> 00:52:13,120
to be in the wilderness for 40
years, but that refining process
749
00:52:13,120 –> 00:52:16,800
takes place for 40 years.
How do we know?
750
00:52:17,120 –> 00:52:23,080
Verse 36 Like as I plead with
your Father’s in the wilderness
751
00:52:23,480 –> 00:52:26,480
of the land of Egypt, so will I
feed with you.
752
00:52:26,520 –> 00:52:30,000
Seth Lawgod, I LL cause you to
pass under the rod.
753
00:52:30,480 –> 00:52:32,120
Now look, have you got another
finger in?
754
00:52:32,120 –> 00:52:36,120
Micah 7 Still feed thy people.
Micah 7.
755
00:52:36,120 –> 00:52:41,760
Verse 14 with thy rod, I LL
cause you to pass under the rod,
756
00:52:41,760 –> 00:52:44,200
and I LL bring you into the bond
of the covenant.
757
00:52:44,240 –> 00:52:47,480
Now a shepherd in ancient times
would have a rod.
758
00:52:47,640 –> 00:52:51,280
Think Psalm 23, Thy rod and thy
staff, they comfort me.
759
00:52:51,560 –> 00:52:55,680
What the shepherd would do.
He would be the door for his
760
00:52:55,680 –> 00:52:59,440
sheepfold out in the wilderness.
And as the sheep came in, he
761
00:52:59,440 –> 00:53:04,640
would with the rod literally go
123 and count them in.
762
00:53:06,480 –> 00:53:09,920
I will bring you, I’ll cause you
to pass under the rod.
763
00:53:10,400 –> 00:53:11,840
They’re going to be counted in
as it were.
764
00:53:12,160 –> 00:53:14,960
They’re I will.
What does he say then?
765
00:53:15,680 –> 00:53:17,440
I’ll bring you into the bond of
the covenant.
766
00:53:17,680 –> 00:53:20,280
I will purge out from among you
the rebels.
767
00:53:20,480 –> 00:53:26,480
So they can’t just go into the
land because the land is at rest
768
00:53:26,600 –> 00:53:31,440
for 40 years following the
Battle of Armageddon.
769
00:53:33,680 –> 00:53:37,880
The land is never ever again at
war, ever.
770
00:53:39,400 –> 00:53:43,520
The Lord Jesus Christ is in the
earth, He’s in Jerusalem, He’s
771
00:53:43,520 –> 00:53:46,160
in the land.
There will be many more battles
772
00:53:46,160 –> 00:53:49,280
in the world.
They will be outside of the
773
00:53:49,280 –> 00:53:52,880
land, we’re told, aren’t we,
that a highway will be built
774
00:53:52,880 –> 00:53:55,920
from Assyria, A highway will be
built from Egypt.
775
00:53:56,320 –> 00:54:00,480
Think about the the awful, awful
earthquake that we’ve witnessed
776
00:54:00,480 –> 00:54:04,520
recently in Turkey when the Lord
Jesus Christ stands on the Mount
777
00:54:04,520 –> 00:54:05,920
of Olives at the Battle of
Armageddon.
778
00:54:06,440 –> 00:54:10,040
The earthquake that will then go
off is beyond anything we can
779
00:54:10,240 –> 00:54:14,320
possibly comprehend today.
Some geologists believe that not
780
00:54:14,320 –> 00:54:20,040
1-2 Storey building will be left
standing in the world when that
781
00:54:20,040 –> 00:54:23,040
earthquake takes place.
Because we’re told in Zechariah
782
00:54:23,040 –> 00:54:25,560
14, the earthquake doesn’t just
split it into half.
783
00:54:25,720 –> 00:54:30,320
It moves north-south.
It’s an extraordinary
784
00:54:30,320 –> 00:54:33,440
earthquake.
So the infrastructure is
785
00:54:33,440 –> 00:54:36,360
decimated.
So straight away the highways
786
00:54:36,360 –> 00:54:40,400
need to start to be rebuilt, the
infrastructure to get people in
787
00:54:40,720 –> 00:54:43,920
from the north, from the South,
from Assyria, from Egypt.
788
00:54:45,240 –> 00:54:50,040
And when these Jews, Zechariah 8
says there will be 10 Gentiles
789
00:54:50,040 –> 00:54:52,960
hanging on to the skirt of a Jew
saying we want to go with you,
790
00:54:53,920 –> 00:54:58,040
Well, when they come down those
highways, when they come in on
791
00:54:58,040 –> 00:55:01,480
the ships of Tarshish, they
can’t just go into the land
792
00:55:01,960 –> 00:55:06,320
because the land is at rest for
40 years.
793
00:55:06,960 –> 00:55:13,480
They come on the highways to the
likes of Gilead, to the likes of
794
00:55:13,480 –> 00:55:20,440
Baishan and Carmel.
And there the work of Elijah is
795
00:55:20,440 –> 00:55:26,360
to refine, is to ask, do you
believe in the things of the
796
00:55:26,360 –> 00:55:30,080
truth?
And if they do, and they can
797
00:55:30,080 –> 00:55:35,480
show that they go to land, they
willingly offer themselves, They
798
00:55:35,480 –> 00:55:39,520
get building the temple, they
get doing the work in the land,
799
00:55:40,800 –> 00:55:46,400
but no one crosses the Jordan
who does not believe in the
800
00:55:46,400 –> 00:55:51,040
things of the Kingdom and the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
801
00:55:51,840 –> 00:55:54,600
Go quickly to Jeremiah 3, last
passage on this section,
802
00:55:54,920 –> 00:56:02,120
Jeremiah 3 In those days, verse
18, the House of Judah shall
803
00:56:02,120 –> 00:56:05,040
walk with the House of Israel.
They shall come together out of
804
00:56:05,040 –> 00:56:06,960
the land of the north, the land
that I have given for an
805
00:56:06,960 –> 00:56:13,440
inheritance to your fathers.
And they now are prepared to
806
00:56:13,440 –> 00:56:18,280
work again with God through the
Lord Jesus Christ.
807
00:56:18,920 –> 00:56:22,600
And so at that time, verse 17,
they shall call Jerusalem the
808
00:56:22,600 –> 00:56:26,440
throne of Yahweh, and all
nations shall be gathered to it,
809
00:56:26,440 –> 00:56:28,800
to the name of Yahweh, to
Jerusalem.
810
00:56:29,120 –> 00:56:33,680
Neither shall they walk any more
after the imaginations of their
811
00:56:33,680 –> 00:56:36,160
evil heart.
Well, how has all this happened?
812
00:56:37,200 –> 00:56:44,080
Verse 15 I will give you pastors
or shepherds according to my
813
00:56:44,080 –> 00:56:48,080
heart, which shall feed you with
knowledge and understanding.
814
00:56:48,480 –> 00:56:53,920
This is Elijah and company who
fed them and worked with them.
815
00:56:54,320 –> 00:56:58,680
It orders them now to come into
the land, which is at rest for
816
00:56:58,680 –> 00:57:01,280
40 years.
OK, time is gone.
817
00:57:01,280 –> 00:57:03,160
Let me just put this on the
screen for you.
818
00:57:03,160 –> 00:57:06,000
I’m not going to give you the
detail of this, so don’t worry.
819
00:57:08,000 –> 00:57:12,280
So Christadelphians, we’ve long
believed that when the Lord
820
00:57:12,280 –> 00:57:16,280
Jesus Christ comes back, it’s
not that he comes back and
821
00:57:16,280 –> 00:57:21,360
suddenly the whole world is all
sorted out before the Millennium
822
00:57:21,360 –> 00:57:24,280
begins.
We believe there to be a period
823
00:57:24,560 –> 00:57:32,160
of 50 years Now for us, as soon
as we’re called to the judgement
824
00:57:32,680 –> 00:57:37,680
and we’re judged, we’re either
made immortal or we’re turned to
825
00:57:37,680 –> 00:57:41,920
go back to the wilderness.
And for us it S finished.
826
00:57:41,920 –> 00:57:44,000
We LL never have the opportunity
again.
827
00:57:45,880 –> 00:57:49,400
We hope and pray that all of us
who will be married to the Lord
828
00:57:49,400 –> 00:57:52,360
Jesus will become part of the
rainbowed Angel, will be
829
00:57:52,360 –> 00:57:55,040
immortal.
And so the Kingdom, I suppose
830
00:57:55,040 –> 00:58:01,000
for us starts then.
But the Millennium period we
831
00:58:01,000 –> 00:58:04,160
believe doesn T start for
another 50 years.
832
00:58:04,600 –> 00:58:07,640
The return of the Lord Jesus,
the Millennium age begins.
833
00:58:08,280 –> 00:58:11,120
It suggests that’s a 50 year
period.
834
00:58:11,120 –> 00:58:15,240
Why very quickly Ezekiel 40,
which is where we read at the
835
00:58:15,240 –> 00:58:16,160
temple.
I’m not going to turn.
836
00:58:16,160 –> 00:58:21,000
There is a Jubilee year, Ezekiel
40 verse one.
837
00:58:21,160 –> 00:58:22,920
It’s not up for debate.
It’s a fact.
838
00:58:22,920 –> 00:58:26,360
It’s a jubilee year.
It’s the end of a 50 year
839
00:58:26,360 –> 00:58:28,240
period.
The previous jubilee was the
840
00:58:28,240 –> 00:58:33,200
great Josiah Passover.
So we take that 50 years and we
841
00:58:33,200 –> 00:58:39,120
work with that and we think,
well, ten years in we would
842
00:58:39,120 –> 00:58:43,920
suggest here’s our red line is
the Battle of Armageddon.
843
00:58:44,400 –> 00:58:48,000
Following the Battle of
Armageddon, The clowns drop
844
00:58:48,000 –> 00:58:49,440
their water at the Battle of
Armageddon.
845
00:58:49,800 –> 00:58:52,520
The sword comes out of the mouth
at the Battle of Armageddon.
846
00:58:53,000 –> 00:58:55,520
After that, the land is at rest.
For how long?
847
00:58:57,320 –> 00:59:01,440
40 years.
No one can cross for Jordan for
848
00:59:01,440 –> 00:59:06,480
40 years unless they’re prepared
to accept the Lord Jesus Christ
849
00:59:06,480 –> 00:59:09,600
and the truth.
You’ve got another time period,
850
00:59:09,600 –> 00:59:12,760
which don’t worry, we’re not
going into now, but in
851
00:59:12,760 –> 00:59:17,040
Revelation 17 we read that the
Lord Jesus and the Saints are at
852
00:59:17,040 –> 00:59:21,880
war with the beast and it’s for
one hour.
853
00:59:22,440 –> 00:59:26,080
One hour.
The kings of the earth have one
854
00:59:26,080 –> 00:59:30,160
hour with the beast.
And prophetically, we understand
855
00:59:30,160 –> 00:59:34,040
that that one hour is a 30 year
time period.
856
00:59:34,960 –> 00:59:36,880
I’ll, if you want that, I’ll
tell you afterwards.
857
00:59:36,960 –> 00:59:41,480
All right, so we’d suggest
without being overly dogmatic,
858
00:59:42,120 –> 00:59:45,160
that what we’ve got is the
return of the Lord Jesus.
859
00:59:45,240 –> 00:59:47,440
Well, what happens in this
period?
860
00:59:47,800 –> 00:59:50,520
So once the Lord comes into the
earth, what’s the first thing
861
00:59:50,520 –> 00:59:54,760
that happens?
The dead in Christ shall rise
862
00:59:55,400 –> 00:59:58,600
first.
Once the dead in Christ have
863
00:59:58,600 –> 01:00:00,800
risen, what’s the next event
that’s going to take place?
864
01:00:00,800 –> 01:00:05,520
The judgement.
Following the judgement, there’s
865
01:00:05,520 –> 01:00:09,440
got to be the marriage for us to
be the regular of Angel right.
866
01:00:10,760 –> 01:00:15,880
So events have got to take place
here before we then March out.
867
01:00:16,200 –> 01:00:18,640
Give me my marching chapters,
judges chapter.
868
01:00:19,760 –> 01:00:21,920
Oh, you better wake up judges
chapter.
869
01:00:22,520 –> 01:00:27,960
I don’t want to do it all the
work so and have a cut right.
870
01:00:27,960 –> 01:00:32,160
So this is getting us, this red
line is the great day of God
871
01:00:32,160 –> 01:00:34,800
Almighty.
The dragon power gets destroyed.
872
01:00:35,040 –> 01:00:38,120
The battle of Armageddon, what
is it?
873
01:00:38,120 –> 01:00:41,920
The battle of Armageddon, All
right out of the battle of
874
01:00:41,920 –> 01:00:46,640
Armageddon, the land is at rest
4 the churches of teachers, all
875
01:00:47,080 –> 01:00:50,320
these things.
Why do you think that this 30
876
01:00:50,320 –> 01:00:54,400
year time group starts here?
Well, very, very quickly, the
877
01:00:54,400 –> 01:00:57,920
Roman Catholic Church, which is
what we’re dealing with in
878
01:00:57,920 –> 01:01:06,120
Revelation 17, that Roman system
final fight, it gives, well that
879
01:01:06,120 –> 01:01:10,120
system is going to fight against
the Lord Jesus Christ.
880
01:01:11,240 –> 01:01:14,800
Why this 30 year period?
Why do we put it here?
881
01:01:16,040 –> 01:01:19,640
What happens there?
The Roman Catholic Church say
882
01:01:19,640 –> 01:01:25,200
this one day Antichrist will
appear in the earth.
883
01:01:26,040 –> 01:01:27,800
This is on in all their
doctrine.
884
01:01:27,800 –> 01:01:30,680
It’s been in their doctrine for
hundreds of years.
885
01:01:31,280 –> 01:01:34,240
One day Antichrist will appear
in the earth.
886
01:01:34,600 –> 01:01:38,680
How can you tell?
They say who Antichrist is.
887
01:01:38,880 –> 01:01:42,400
Well, Antichrist, I’ll show you
a little bit of this.
888
01:01:42,400 –> 01:01:47,880
Tomorrow.
We’ll make friends with the
889
01:01:47,880 –> 01:01:50,640
Jews.
Well, that’s interesting.
890
01:01:51,200 –> 01:01:53,360
That’s exactly what the Lord
Jesus is going to do.
891
01:01:54,760 –> 01:02:00,560
Antichrist will build a temple
in Jerusalem.
892
01:02:01,880 –> 01:02:07,760
Ezekiel 40 is the opening of the
temple, the end of the 50 year
893
01:02:07,760 –> 01:02:13,120
period.
The temple will begin here, we
894
01:02:13,120 –> 01:02:18,160
think, being built so that here
the Roman Catholic system can
895
01:02:18,160 –> 01:02:22,360
say, we told you they’ll save
the kings of Europe.
896
01:02:23,360 –> 01:02:26,840
I’ll help, says the Pope.
I’ll be the rider.
897
01:02:26,920 –> 01:02:31,520
Stick with me and they’ll fight
against the Lord Jesus Christ
898
01:02:31,520 –> 01:02:34,200
and the Saints.
Everything we told you about
899
01:02:34,200 –> 01:02:36,960
Antichrist, there he is.
He’s in Jerusalem.
900
01:02:36,960 –> 01:02:38,480
That’s another point that they
make.
901
01:02:38,520 –> 01:02:42,360
He’ll come to Jerusalem, he’ll
work with the Jews and he’ll
902
01:02:42,360 –> 01:02:45,200
build a temple.
That’s exactly what’s going to
903
01:02:45,200 –> 01:02:49,880
happen here.
And then they’ll say that’s
904
01:02:49,880 –> 01:02:53,480
Antichrist and they’ll gather
the kings of the earth and the
905
01:02:53,480 –> 01:02:58,240
30 year period will take place.
And at the end of that, the
906
01:02:58,240 –> 01:03:03,320
Millennium begins.
OK, take home messages, everyone
907
01:03:03,320 –> 01:03:06,160
get that cracked sorted.
Easy.
908
01:03:06,240 –> 01:03:09,960
Yeah, easy.
OK, so here we go.
909
01:03:10,040 –> 01:03:12,760
Some take home messages.
Listen, we’ve got to show the
910
01:03:12,760 –> 01:03:14,920
glory of God today, haven’t we?
Right.
911
01:03:16,200 –> 01:03:20,040
If we want to be part of the
rainbowed Angel, where God’s
912
01:03:20,040 –> 01:03:23,560
glory is going out into the
world, His word is coming out of
913
01:03:23,560 –> 01:03:25,320
our mouth.
It’s dropping out of us.
914
01:03:27,360 –> 01:03:31,120
There’s no point saying, yeah, I
really want to be there.
915
01:03:31,120 –> 01:03:35,920
Then when the world is being
sorted out, look at the problems
916
01:03:35,920 –> 01:03:38,840
of the world.
You’re going to be the solution.
917
01:03:41,080 –> 01:03:43,320
Show the glory, the character of
God.
918
01:03:43,320 –> 01:03:47,800
Today we know that the time of
the end, the Jews will be
919
01:03:47,800 –> 01:03:52,200
willing to work.
We’ve got to make sure that
920
01:03:52,200 –> 01:03:55,680
we’re willing today.
How willing are we to join in
921
01:03:55,880 –> 01:03:59,840
the tasks?
Finally, Bit of a Darth one.
922
01:04:02,080 –> 01:04:06,440
But while we wait for the Lord
in school, I’d normally say to a
923
01:04:06,440 –> 01:04:08,520
child, what are you doing?
Get your head out of the clouds.
924
01:04:08,520 –> 01:04:12,000
Come on, get them zoned in.
Well, you’ve got a good excuse
925
01:04:12,000 –> 01:04:14,760
on this occasion.
Get your head in the clouds
926
01:04:15,120 –> 01:04:21,560
because if you want to be there
at that time, then you want to
927
01:04:21,560 –> 01:04:25,160
be part of the clouds of the
rainbowed Angel.
928
01:04:25,880 –> 01:04:30,960
Today is the day to be willing
and to show the character of
929
01:04:30,960 –> 01:04:31,280
God.
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