Stephen Whitehouse – Class 8: To gather together his elect

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Well, the Johnny has just been
looking at Matthew chapter 24,

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and I think it’s really
important that Jesus makes this

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statement.
Let’s just open up our Bibles

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and and look at these words
together, that Jesus makes this

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statement that the son of man is
coming in clouds and we should

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really emphasize the point that
they are.

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You standing upon the Mount of
Olives and he speaking about the

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son of man coming in clouds.
There’s a, there’s a certain

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Beauty about that.
Jesus is going to ascend into

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heaven from that very Mount.
And we’ve already seen in

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Zakaria and chapter 14 that his
feet are going to stand upon

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that man that when he returns.
So let’s just read these words

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again, in Matthew chapter 24
verse 30, we’ve seen a few times

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and then shall appear the sign
of the son of man in heaven and

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then shall all the tribes of the
earth mourn and they shall see.

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The son of man coming in the
Clouds Of Heaven with power and

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great glory.
And he shall send his angels

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with a great sound of a trumpet.
And they shall gather together

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his elect from the Four Winds
from one end of Heaven to the

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other.
Hopefully, you can remember

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yesterday that I said, there’s
two aspects of clouds.

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The first one, the glory of God,
his divine presence.

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And the second one, the
regathering and here you get the

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regathering verse.
E1.

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So it’s part of this theme of
the son of man coming in clouds

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and he has gathered and he’s
going to regather them.

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Now, when you look at verse 30
and it’s the end of a long

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weekend, but when you look at
verse 30, it would appear

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wouldn’t, if that this is
describing the Lord, Jesus

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Christ, return in a cloud of
angels.

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I’m then Gathering the elect.
The Saints are perhaps we have

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this View.
But hopefully you have seen at

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the end of this weekend that
when you come across, that

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loaded phrase, the son of man
coming in clouds, as he’s

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revealed upon the Earth.
It is always without exception.

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The Lord Jesus Christ with his
glorious bride.

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So with that, thought in mind go
back to Matthew 24 verses 30 and

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31.
It doesn’t quite work, does it?

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It causes a bit of a problem,
you’ve got the Lord Jesus Christ

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revealing himself with the
Saints.

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And then, in verse 31, you’ve
got him Gathering the Saints.

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Well, the saints were already
with him, so they don’t need to

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be gathered.
Can you see that?

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So this little bit of a problem
there.

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Well, that the one thing I want
you to notice right away that

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there is something quite
important.

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It says there in verse 30 that
all the tribes of the Earth

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shall mourn.
And all these verses are so

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interlocked.
Look what it says there in

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Revelation 1 verse 7.
Hopefully, you can remember what

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we looked at yesterday, behold?
He cometh with clouds and every

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eye shall see him?
Can you see how these words

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dovetail together?
It is the same dramatic scene.

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And then in verse 31, he shall
send his angels to gather the

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elect from the Four Winds.
So before we look at that, let’s

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just reflect stand back and
reflect upon these words, these

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words are Majestic, aren’t they?
And we shouldn’t Overlook them.

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When the Lord, Jesus Christ here
appears with his bride.

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The Saints us the appearance of
Christ will change the world.

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There will never be in the
history of time, such an

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industrious group of men and
women who are who are granted

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immortality at the full
revelation of Christ and the

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Saints upon the Earth, it is
going to change the world at

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each man.
And woman that day will help her

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That’s The Power of angels.
And it’s a humbling thought of

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think isn’t it there upon the
mount the Mount of Olives in

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Zechariah Chapter 12 where
Christ reveals himself with the

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saints that we can see ourselves
are just as we’re looking at the

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Sonic photo and the first thing
we look at is how we’re looking

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and then we say it’s a great
phone so it wasn’t it and we

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have no idea who else was on the
photograph.

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It’s something very similar.
Can you spot on Zechariah

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Chapter 12?
Can you spot your own face?

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Because they’re Jesus Christ, is
with all the saints and all the

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Actions will be hold it.
And the Saints are the faithful

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of all.
They are the Bible characters.

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They are men and women that you
love that a fallen on sleep and

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they are all there in God’s good
grace.

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But we need to reconcile.
These verses are all about, we

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need to understand.
So let’s just think a little bit

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about what the elect refers to
who are the 11th, because it’s

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going to be the elect that are
going to be gathered.

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If we conclude that Jesus Christ
is kind with the same things so

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he’s not there for Gathering the
Saints, then who then is he

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Gathering.
And as I said, this aspect of

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gathering is really crucial to
this theme of the son of man

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what it says there.
The elect and let’s just think a

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little bit about the elect.
When we look at the Old

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Testament, it’s very clear that
the elect speak of God’s people.

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For example, Isaiah 45 for
Jacob, my servants say and

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Israel, mine elect, I’ve even be
called the by name.

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I have surname thee, thou Hast
not known all the way through

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the Old Testament.
It is God’s elect.

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He’s Nation his people.
He’s beloved children, but what?

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What is it when we come to the
New Testament?

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So let’s have a look.
Romans chapter 11.

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And as you know, this chapter is
all about the Olive Tree of

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Israel, how the natural branches
are broken off because of

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unbelief, but they do get
grafted in once again, you can

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see there that they get broken
off in unbelief in verse 17.

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They grafted it again, in verse
23, but there’s a big message

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and let’s just look at this big
message here of this metaphor of

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this Israeli.
True first Fun things for I

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would not Brethren that ye
should be ignorant of this

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mystery.
Lest ye should be wise in your

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own conceits.
That blindness in part has

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happened to Israel until the
fullness of the Gentiles be come

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in and so, all Israel shall be
saved as it is written, there

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shall come out of Sion, the
deliverer and shall turn away

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ungodliness from Jacob.
Okay, so it’s telling us that

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God’s Grace will be extended to
the Gentiles after the Lord.

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Jesus Christ was crucified by
the Jews but there will come a

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time at the return of the Lord
Jesus Christ.

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When the Gentile bride has been
gathered to the Lord that God’s

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attention will once again, turn
to God’s people because of the

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father’s sake, because the sake
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

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brother, Peter mentioned it in
his prayer.

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In his opening remarks, the
promises that we’re involved in

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that we’re bound up in Now,
what’s also rather fascinating

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on all of this, I think the
Clincher is verse 28.

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As concerning the gospel, they
are enemies.

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This is the nation of Israel.
They are enemies for your sakes.

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Speaking to this, a romanick
Leisure but as touching the

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election, they are beloved for
the father’s sakes.

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So even in the New Testament,
it’s speaking very clearly here

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that the elect the election
belongs to God’s people

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naturally important, is it
because we thought about the

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Angels Gathering up the elected.
He’s telling us very clearly

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that it is.
God through the work of the

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Lord.
Jesus Christ is going to gather

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up the nation of Israel.
And so, then when we look at

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Matthew chapter 24, we think
about the Four Winds and you

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think about where the Jews have
scattered today.

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Nine million Jews in the Earth
today.

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Six million of them in America.
They’ve all got to be gathered

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up.
They’ve all got to be rounded

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up.
They’ve all got to be brought

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back to the land.
This is huge drama and it’s all

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part of this theme.
The son of man coming in Cloud.

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This is why it say it says, in
verse 26, all Israel shall be

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saved.
That the language is very

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consistent.
Another problem.

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Coming back to Matthew chapter
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Who are the Angels?
Who are the Angels, who are the

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Angels?
Who are going to gather God’s

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people, God’s elect the children
of Israel, but I think he’s

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rather confusing that we really
Angels is God’s angels.

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The Greek is Angeles.
I’m sure you all know and it’s

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simply means one who is sent a
messenger so they are God’s

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Messengers but they’re not
actually God’s Messengers

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because who are they, They all
the son of man’s Messengers.

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Do you see that?
That’s really important.

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It snapped pretty times, we read
these two verses.

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It’s the son of man’s
Messengers.

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It’s his people, his brethren.
He’s alive that go forward to

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gather God’s elect from the four
corners of the earth and so we

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don’t have time in in 15-20
minutes but what we’re coming

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across now is the second Exodus
and exodus that is going to be

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led by the Saints as they March
back into the land to

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re-establish the kingdom of God.
And this is not to be confused

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with what’s happened since 1948
and the establishment of the

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state of There.
However dramatic it was the

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month of May in that particular
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This is something else.
This is talking about all the

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Jews from around the world.
They need to be truly converted

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into the gospel of Christ.
And re-established into the

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homeland of Abraham.
Isaac, and Jacob, this is what

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we’re talking about and it’s a
huge, huge thing.

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I just want to touch on this
just to whet your appetite.

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Let’s look at the final Prophecy
in the Old Testament and it’s in

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Malachi chapter 4.
And this work is going to be the

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future work of Elijah. and all I
want to do is just to make a few

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connections with Romans 11 and
Malachi 4, and you can do some

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studying in your own time if you
so wish, so Malachi, then

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chapter for these closing words
of the Old Testament, And we

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read these words Behold Old
Testament closes.

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I will send you Elijah the
prophet before the coming of the

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great and Dreadful day of the
Lord, and what’s his role?

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He shall turn the heart of the
father’s to the children and the

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hearts of the children, to their
fathers, lest I come and smite

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the world with a curse.
Now, you may have noticed if you

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haven’t heard it off that, the
words are very similar to what

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we’re seeing in Romans, chapter
11, when all Israel I’ll be

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saved.
Can you remember?

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You can got it on the overhead
here that in this work when all

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Israel shall be saved.
That Jacobs ungodliness will be

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turn.
And here we get the language

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turn, the hearts of the father’s
to the children, the children to

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the father’s.
There’s a, there’s a work of

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turning.
In fact, Elijah the tishbite in

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1 Kings, 17 verse 1, the word
tishbite comes to the root of

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the Turner, you can refer to
Elijah as the great Turner.

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And this is why it’s going to
turn the hearts of the father’s

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to the children and the children
to the father’s.

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So that they believe in the
promises through the son, the

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Lord Jesus Christ.
So, however, hard that is to

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imagine Elijah and the Saints.
Now embark on a huge undertaking

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of going to the four corners of
the earth and rounding up the

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juice and bringing them back
into the land.

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You might be thinking, well, why
is this the theme of the son of

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man coming in clouds will come
to that in a moment.

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But what I want to do now is to
show you that these prophecies

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are alive.
I’m not just looking at a few

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chapters in isolation.
This is a live thing.

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Have a look at Jeremiah chapter
3, have a chat with me

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afterwards if you want some
further references, but Jeremiah

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chapter 3 and here Jeremiah the
prophet, he speaking to the

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diaspora that the scattered
House of Israel and he speaking

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about them going back into the
land of promise and he’s

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language is powerful and direct.
Jeremiah chapter 3 and verse 14.

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Turn.
That’s the language of Elijah.

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That’s a language of Malachi 4.
That’s a language of Romans

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chapter 11.
Turnovers backsliding children

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set the Lord for I am married
unto you.

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And I will take you one of our
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and I will bring you to Zion and
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according to my heart, which are
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under standing So we’ve got this
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be the Turner and notice that
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verse 8, verse 11, and verse 12.
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So this is to the D Aspera to
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and he’s saying you are going to
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interesting here, because he
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and to have a family and I will
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So not everyone is going to make
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Everyone is going to finish.
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Moses who led the first Exodus
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the land and something.
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one of our city and to of a
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And and these juice just imagine
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They hear the Elijah.
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everything like Disciples of
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incredibly difficult as it is
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to the call.
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thinking, well, perhaps these
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Well, they’re not because look
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Look, what else happens at that
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They shall call Jerusalem.
The Throne of the Lord and All

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Nations.
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That’s very similar to ice.
I too, isn’t it?

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Come you?
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the Lord to the house, the god
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and walk in his paths as I had
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Kingdom language.
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fulfilled.
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God’s going to send these Jews
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And I believe these Shepherds
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Saints on behalf of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and they will feed

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God’s flock with righteousness.
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sisters in young people that the
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And so then they are working on
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picture to finish our weekend
with And all these Jews being

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brought back into the land.
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their eyes, and they will
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already seen that, haven’t we,
that, that amazingly touching

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scene, when they recognize, this
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We’re not going to be alone.
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going to be loan.
However, look at Isaiah chapter,

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16, Isaiah chapter 16.
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Gentile Nations.
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God.
Now, what reading of certain

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Gentile Nations that will
support Jesus and Elijah in

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bringing these Jews back, Isaiah
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And and look at verse 3 and
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And the Gentiles shall come to
thy light and Kings to the

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brightness of thy That’s
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it?
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The son of man coming in clouds
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This ball lift up, thine eyes
round about and see all they

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gathered themselves together,
that the Gathering, they shall

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come to thee, thy son shall come
from afar and they daughter

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shall be nursed at thy side, and
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We’ve got a representative group
of Nations who recognize the

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Lord Jesus Christ in Jerusalem
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what do they do?
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temple.
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But they also bring Jews.
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world to bring them back into
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Now, have a look at verse 4.
What a powerful metaphor we have

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here.
We see in verse 4, as Jerusalem

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as a mother, Lots of mums here
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Jerusalem, is this mother and
she’s crying.

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But she’s weeping for Joy
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are being brought back.
Can you see that that the

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nations are assisting Jerusalem?
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who’s weeping over a children
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And notice here that she’s a
nursing mother, you may have in

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your margin, she’s nursing them
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And so then you’ve got this
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daughters.
Bakshi.

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She grabs them and she Embraces
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to her chest and she loves them,
she’s missed them, they had been

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away from her for so many years.
Two thousand years isn’t this

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lovely?
And there’s other snapshots of

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this glorious picture just jot
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It’s the different snapshots of
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You’ve got Isaiah 49 and verse
22 where we’re sons of carried

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in the arms and daughters on the
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And then we’ve got I-66 and
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bring the Jews on horses.
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and and camels.
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The second Exodus is line.
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In amazement.
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Well, realize I has 60 there.
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want to pick out a few little
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Notice in Isaiah 60 and verse 6
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near the end of the verse and
there is incense There is gold

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and there is incense in
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Now some of you may have a
different translation to incent,

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you may have frankincense So
interesting this time there is

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gold and there is frankincense
what does that remind you of

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that?
That’s above the largest

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surprise isn’t it?
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No, and myrrh is a symbol of
suffering and there’s no

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suffering for Jerusalem anymore.
She’s no longer morning for her

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children.
They are back, she celebrates

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and what’s in Jerusalem?
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Purified faith and incense a
symbol of the prayer of the

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Saints.
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the land.
And so what triggers that They

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are in the midst of the Lord.
Jesus Christ.

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The Lord.
Jesus Christ is King and he’s

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enthroned in Jerusalem.
So just picture this then not

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Moses leading the children of
Israel, but Elijah and the

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Saints and perhaps you could
spot yourself in faith, you’re

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involved in that work.
What would an amazing job that

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is?
You’re involved in that work?

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In converting the the Jewish
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in again into the olive.
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This is not just a siren
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This is Romans 11.
This is language that we all

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understand. but I’ve said, That
the Nations will be absolutely

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astonished at the power of the
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were.
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she knew all about the power of
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And look at these words.
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But Micah chapter 7, as a little
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to the days of thy coming out of
the land of Egypt, will I show

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unto him marvelous things?
The nation shall see and be

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confounded all their might.
They shall lay their hands upon

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their mouth.
Their ears shall be death.

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They shall lick the dust like a
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They shall move out of their
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Like worms of the earth.
They shall be afraid of the

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Lord.
Our God and shall fear because

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of the inner.
Another translation has these

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words and Nation shall see that
they may turn pale at their This

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is another Moses.
Exodus isn’t it?

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We’ve got to believe these
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It’s recorded in God’s word.
But the reason why I really

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brought you to chapter 16 is is
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Let’s just read these words
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Remember, we’re trying to pick
out this theme Christ coming in

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clouds here.
We’ve got it.

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Who were these?
That fly as a cloud and as the

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doves to their Windows, surely
the aisle shall wait for me in

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the ships of tarshish first to
bring my son.

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From Far, they’re silver and
their gold with them unto the

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name of Yahweh, thy God and to
the Holy One of Israel because

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he hath glorified thee and Sir
here.

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Isaiah in the distance spot,
some activity and it’s really

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exciting and he eats his
attention is drawn to it and

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what does he say?
A flotilla of boats for the four

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corners of the earth and they’re
bringing Jewish Sons and

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Daughters back into the land.
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Because they know Jesus Christ.
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every eye shall see him and the
nations of the earth will

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respond, and here’s the Lord.
Jesus Christ no longer wearing

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the Stefano’s.
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He is king of kings, and he is,
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We’ll just imagine those ships.
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That their sales fill the sky.
I want you just to imagine this

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the sails fill the skies.
These ships are being brought

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back as I as I sees this
flotilla of boats being brought

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into the land.
And there are so many Salem’s

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that Isaiah sees that he Likens
the sales that are flapping in

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the sky.
As clouds and these clouds are

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loaded with Jews.
God’s people, just as Jesus

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Christ, went into heaven, just
as the, the same to take into

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judgment.
Now, there’s another aspect of

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Jesus Christ coming in clouds,
something else is within these

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clouds and it’s the Jewish
brothers and sisters are now

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being brought back into the land
and what a lovely description.

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It is that these clouds are
described as doves, the

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swiftness of does.
And if you know anything about

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jobs, you’ll know that they
cover, huge distances and they

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know their way home There’s
nothing like them, they are

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unparalleled in the animal
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And they know their way home, in
fact, some translations have

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their Windows as their nests.
And who’s guarding?

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Surely the Lord, Jesus Christ,
Shirley till I join the Saints,

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navigating all the nations of
the earth to bring it about his

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purpose in the lamb.
And so then this as we finish

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now this this breathtaking
moment With the, the Skies of

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Heaven being filled with these
clouds, loaded with the Sons and

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Daughters of Israel.
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She’s weeping over her children.
She’s rejoicing and she, she

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Embraces them as a nursing
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And can you imagine?
Can you imagine the sweetness of

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the moment when these Jews from
the four corners of the Earth?

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They meet the law.
It will be a seem very

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reminiscent of Zechariah 12 and
13, where they will weep over

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him, whom they pierced and any
expectation, any understanding

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any appreciation, they’ve got of
the Son of God will not be

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realized because this will be a
man who will meet them with open

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arms.
He will be an extension of

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Jerusalem.
He’s the one who’s going to

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gather them up and love them and
embraced them.

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And receive them back home. and
so, brothers and sisters, then,

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this dramatic weekend but very
Pacey speed that we’ve had with

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all the Johnny and this series
it finishes now and it finishes

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the final chapter of Christ
coming in clouds.

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Is the branches are finally
grafted in to the Olive Tree of

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Israel.
The Jews are home.

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God’s kingdom has been
established.

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Jesus Christ is enthroned in
Jerusalem.

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That people have got a now
United separated.

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For so many years now, United as
one and Christ is Sovereign over

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the Earth, brothers and sisters,
young people.

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Let’s not miss out on this
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Christ is coming.
He’s coming in clouds and this

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is the final chapter of this
unfolding, ongoing drama. one

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day, one day, the door is going
to know Let’s make sure, let’s

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make sure this very day that we
will be ready for it.