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\nthe Fig Tree a sign for all
\ntime. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we’re going to have a really
\nquick recap of part one. <\/p>\n
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\nSo basically, there’s three
\ntalks that are put together part<\/p>\n
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\n1 was all about the fruit.
\nAnd part two is all about the <\/p>\n
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\ntree and part three is all about
\nthe future. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so, what we’re doing tonight
\nis the part 2 1, which Is all <\/p>\n
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\nabout the actual tree itself.
\nSo let me just click forward on <\/p>\n
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\nthis.
\nSo, if you remember what we <\/p>\n
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\nsaid, was part one, we went back
\nto Genesis and we looked at. <\/p>\n
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\nWe looked at the Fig Tree in
\nGenesis and we’ll do a little <\/p>\n
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\nrecap on nothing just a in just
\na moment. <\/p>\n
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\nBut tonight we look we
\nconsidering the Fig Tree itself <\/p>\n
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\nand And basically, I think what
\nwe said last time was that the <\/p>\n
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\ntree of knowledge of Good and
\nEvil itself was a fig tree and <\/p>\n
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\nI’ll recap just very slightly in
\na second just to remind you of <\/p>\n
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\nwhat we said.
\nAnd we pointed out that the <\/p>\n
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\nfigure itself and what was going
\non with the Fig, was all to do <\/p>\n
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\nwith Jesus is sacrifice in
\nsymbolic terms. <\/p>\n
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\nWe going to find out this
\nevening, is that the tree itself<\/p>\n
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\nis all about Israel.
\nSo the the Fig is about the work<\/p>\n
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\nof Jesus.
\nThe tree itself is all about <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael in symbolic terms.
\nSo just a couple of slides, just<\/p>\n
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\nto recap.
\nSo if you remember, we went back<\/p>\n
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\ninto the Garden of Eden we saw
\nin there because it’s the first <\/p>\n
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\ntime that figs are actually
\nmentioned. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what we said was that God
\nplanted a garden Eastward in <\/p>\n
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\nEden and in the center of that
\nguard. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd there were two trees, there
\nwas the tree of life and there <\/p>\n
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\nwas the tree of knowledge of
\nGood and Evil. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m basically what we said was
\nthat the tree of knowledge of <\/p>\n
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\nGood and Evil.
\nThere’s a lot of evidence to <\/p>\n
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\nsuggest that it was itself a fig
\ntree just as we have trees it <\/p>\n
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\nwas just a common or garden fig
\ntree that was right in the <\/p>\n
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\ncenter of the garden.
\nThat was the tree of knowledge <\/p>\n
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\nof Good and Evil.
\nAnd one of the reasons that we <\/p>\n
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\nsuggested that it is the Fig
\nTree itself is if you remember <\/p>\n
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\nwhen God said to Adam, If they
\ncouldn’t eat of the tree of <\/p>\n
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\nknowledge of Good and Evil, they
\ndecided to eat this because the <\/p>\n
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\nserpent said to them, you know,
\nyou’re not going to die. <\/p>\n
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\nGod has said that, you’ll die,
\nyou won’t die and so they <\/p>\n
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\nthought.
\nWell, okay, we going to eat of <\/p>\n
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\neat of the fruit of it because
\nit looked really good. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd actually the serpent was
\nright in one aspect that it was <\/p>\n
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\na tree that was going to make
\nthem wise and really it did it. <\/p>\n
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\nOpen.
\nTheir eye is to understand good <\/p>\n
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\nand evil.
\nThe moment they ate of the <\/p>\n
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\nfruit, their eyes were opened.
\nIt says, as you can see there on<\/p>\n
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\nthe screen, the eyes of both of
\nthem were opened and they knew <\/p>\n
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\nthat they were naked.
\nSo this is the second after the <\/p>\n
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\nbeating of the Fig and then what
\nthey did, of course for sewed <\/p>\n
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\nfig leaves together and what we
\nsaid was that actually this is <\/p>\n
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\ninteresting because it doesn’t
\nsay that they walked off and <\/p>\n
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\nfound a fig tree.
\nThe last tree that was mentioned<\/p>\n
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\nwas the tree of knowledge.
\nLeaves of Good and Evil. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the next sentence is, they
\nsewed. <\/p>\n
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\nFig leaves together.
\nAnd we said, actually, this is <\/p>\n
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\nquite a strange thing to do.
\nWhy would they wander around the<\/p>\n
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\ngarden?
\nLooking for, you know, some <\/p>\n
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\nother tree, surely if they were
\nashamed at that very instant, <\/p>\n
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\nthey would grab the nearest
\nleaves that were next to them. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd as we also said, the Fig
\nleaves themselves are very very <\/p>\n
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\nunpleasant to the touch.
\nThey’re almost like sandpaper, <\/p>\n
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\nthey’re not the The first leaves
\nthat you would think about in <\/p>\n
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\nterms of grabbing to cover
\nyourself on your skin. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re very very coarse and
\nsandpapery. <\/p>\n
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\nBut anyway they somehow Stitch
\nthese leaves leaves together. <\/p>\n
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\nSo there’s almost an underlying
\nclue. <\/p>\n
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\nExcuse me that the Fig Tree was
\nthe tree of knowledge of Good <\/p>\n
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\nand Evil and then what we did we
\nhad to look at what was going on<\/p>\n
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\nwith the Fig wasp and the
\nMarkable circumstances of how a <\/p>\n
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\nfig is pollinated.
\nSo I’ll just play one of the <\/p>\n
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\nlittle videos that have played
\nlast time just to remind you. <\/p>\n
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\nHopefully this works.
\nAnd so the pollinated, wasp <\/p>\n
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\nreaches an immature fig, but her
\njourney is far from. <\/p>\n
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\nOver ahead lies, the greatest
\nchallenge of her brief life <\/p>\n
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\nclawing and squeezing her way
\nthrough the gate, her wings and <\/p>\n
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\nantennae are ripped from her.
\nShe makes the ultimate sacrifice<\/p>\n
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\nas the final push to enter burst
\nher abdomen. <\/p>\n
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\nIn an epic struggle, between
\nsacrifice and survival. <\/p>\n
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\nThe mother wasp crawls through
\nthe narrow Labyrinth towards the<\/p>\n
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\ninner chamber.
\nShe is wounded and week airing <\/p>\n
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\nonly her eggs and the pollen
\ngift from the former fake. <\/p>\n
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\nIf the WASP fails to pollinate
\nthe flowers, No Seeds will ever <\/p>\n
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\ndevelop big fruits with no
\nfuture are costly to the tree. <\/p>\n
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\nSo they will not receive an
\ninflow of nutrients. <\/p>\n
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\nIf the WASP does not pollinate
\nthe entire fig may be aborted. <\/p>\n
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\nHowever, if she devotes herself
\nto Pollination as well as laying<\/p>\n
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\neggs Ginger’s, the Fig will hold
\nthe promise of seeds. <\/p>\n
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\nThe tree will pump sugars and
\nnutrients into the Fig, securing<\/p>\n
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\nthe future of seeds and larvae.
\nLike, when they mature and leave<\/p>\n
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\nthe fake will ripen.
\nThus completing the cycle of <\/p>\n
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\nmutual benefit that we are.
\nAnd if you remember, there was a<\/p>\n
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\nput all the phrases together, <\/p>\n
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\nwhat you get at these exact
\nphrases in one of the videos <\/p>\n
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\nsaid that a figures like an
\nenclosed Garden because all the <\/p>\n
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\nflowers, you need Uniquely are
\ninside the fruit itself, there’s<\/p>\n
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\nfrom that aspect. <\/p>\n
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\nFig. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a very narrow way in.
\nIt’s so narrow in fact that the <\/p>\n
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\nlittle fig wasp it’s only 2
\nmillimeters long makes the <\/p>\n
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\nultimate sacrifice.
\nIf you notice that phrase when <\/p>\n
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\nthe little fig wasp gets into
\nthe hole, it tears off its wings<\/p>\n
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\nand tears off its and 10 ISO.
\nNo way out now and in fact, when<\/p>\n
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\nit goes through the whole
\nsomehow rather the Fig knows <\/p>\n
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\nthat it’s gone in and closes up
\nthe whole behind the Fig wasp, <\/p>\n
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\nthere’s actually no way out for
\nit. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so you heard the phrase that
\nthis fig wasp is the Fig wasp is<\/p>\n
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\nwounded and weak.
\nYou heard the phrase that it’s <\/p>\n
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\ndevoted to pollination and it’s
\nall about the promise of seeds <\/p>\n
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\nbecause it’s fig wasp is
\npollinating the The flowers that<\/p>\n
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\nare inside the Fig itself.
\nAnd you also heard that it says <\/p>\n
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\nthat the future of the Fig is
\nsecured because of what this <\/p>\n
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\nlittle fig wasp is doing and
\nwhen I first listened to all of <\/p>\n
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\nthat it seemed to me to have so
\nmany Links. <\/p>\n
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\nOf course to the work of the
\nLord Jesus Christ and we know he<\/p>\n
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\nis the ultimate sacrifice.
\nHe was wounded and was weak. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was devoted to the cause he
\ndid create the The future seeds <\/p>\n
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\nand he did secure our future.
\nSo and all of that staking <\/p>\n
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\nplace, of course, in this
\nenclosed Garden, we just one <\/p>\n
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\nvery narrow way in.
\nSo the last bit of recap was <\/p>\n
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\njust me saying, well look, if
\nthe Fig was the forbidden fruit <\/p>\n
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\nthen actually, this is quite
\namazing because they both ate <\/p>\n
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\nfrom it.
\nBut inside this fig is all the <\/p>\n
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\nsymbology for salvation.
\nAll the key elements of <\/p>\n
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\nsalvation.
\nAre inside the very fruit that <\/p>\n
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\nGod said don’t eat Jesus.
\nAs we know, is the one and only <\/p>\n
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\nway to be saved.
\nHe said, I am the way, the truth<\/p>\n
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\nand the life we’re told in
\nnumbers of different places in <\/p>\n
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\nthe Bible, how Jesus was
\nwounded, and how he gave himself<\/p>\n
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\nas a sacrifice.
\nHe was absolutely devoted. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was no, you know, there
\nwas there weren’t two tracks for<\/p>\n
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\nJesus.
\nThere was one track and he was <\/p>\n
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\non that track, and just like the
\nFig wasp, Hasn’t got another <\/p>\n
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\nlife.
\nIt’s purely on a mission to find<\/p>\n
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\nthe Fig and to Polonaise it and
\nJesus as we know created future <\/p>\n
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\nseed and he did it because of
\nhis sacrifice. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that we are all able.
\nNow to be part of the promises <\/p>\n
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\nthat God has made and Jesus has
\nguaranteed all those who accept <\/p>\n
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\nhis sacrifice an amazing future
\nlife in the the kingdom that’s <\/p>\n
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\ncoming on this Earth.
\nAnd so what I was stunned about <\/p>\n
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\nreally was the fact that God in
\nthe very test that he had given <\/p>\n
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\nthem at got the solution, the
\nsymbolic solution to their test <\/p>\n
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\nembedded in the very fruit that
\nhe had told them not to eat. <\/p>\n
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\nI mean, to me, that was just
\nmind-blowing. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s the sort of little
\nintroduction. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we now going to move on, and
\nwe’re not so much looking at the<\/p>\n
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\nFig.
\nNow, we’re looking at the tree <\/p>\n
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\nitself.
\nSo what does God say about the <\/p>\n
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\ntree itself?
\nAnd how do we link it? <\/p>\n
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\nIt how do we link the Fig Tree
\nto Israel? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, one of the things that we
\ntold in Genesis 2:9 is that out <\/p>\n
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\nof the ground, made the Lord God
\nto grow every tree. <\/p>\n
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\nThat is Pleasant to the sight
\nand good for food the tree of <\/p>\n
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\nlife.
\nAlso in the midst of the garden <\/p>\n
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\nand the tree of knowledge of
\nGood and Evil. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the tree of life and the tree
\nof knowledge of Good and Evil, <\/p>\n
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\nGod put in the midst of the
\ngarden itself. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in Genesis 3 verse 3, it
\nsays, but of the fruit of the <\/p>\n
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\ntree which is in the midst of
\nthe garden, God has said, You <\/p>\n
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\nshall not eat of it.
\nNeither shall you? <\/p>\n
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\nTouch it, lest you die.
\nSo we’ve been told twice, within<\/p>\n
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\njust a couple of verses that the
\ntree was in the midst of the <\/p>\n
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\ngarden.
\nNow, what is interesting about <\/p>\n
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\nsaying that the tree itself is <\/p>\n
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\nsymbolic of Israel as a nation.
\nWell, let’s just have a look at <\/p>\n
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\nsome verses here in relation to
\nwhat God says about Israel and <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem, which is, of course,
\nthe capital of Israel Ezekiel <\/p>\n
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\nchapter 5 verse 5 says, thus
\nsaith the Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nGod, this is Jerusalem, I have
\nset it in the midst of the <\/p>\n
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\nNations.
\nAnd countries that are round <\/p>\n
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\nabout her.
\nExactly the same word and God is<\/p>\n
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\ndescribing.
\nAlmost everything. <\/p>\n
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\nAll the nations are surrounding
\nJerusalem, God has put it in the<\/p>\n
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\nmidst.
\nIn Micah chapter 5 verse 7. <\/p>\n
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\nIt says the remnant of Jacob,
\nwhich is another name for Israel<\/p>\n
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\nwill be in the midst of many
\npeople’s, like, do from the <\/p>\n
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\nLord, like showers on the grass
\nand so on. <\/p>\n
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\nSo there’s another Reference to
\nIsrael being in the midst of <\/p>\n
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\nSo just like the tree was, in <\/p>\n
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\nthe midst of the garden and we
\nsaying the tree is symbolic of <\/p>\n
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\nGod is using exactly the same <\/p>\n
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\nlanguage when it comes to
\ndescribing the situation if you <\/p>\n
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\nlike of Israel.
\nIn fact of course if you were to<\/p>\n
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\nput all the landmasses of the
\nplanet together and somebody is <\/p>\n
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\ncurrently doing that for me
\nthere, you can actually see that<\/p>\n
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\nIsrael is absolutely Central
\nCenter of of the entire land <\/p>\n
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\nmass.
\nAnd and so once upon a time <\/p>\n
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\nprobably before the flood the
\nworld was just one large land <\/p>\n
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\nmass and there’s a lot of
\nevidence to suggest that at the <\/p>\n
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\ntime of the flood, the land must
\nbroke up into the way. <\/p>\n
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\nWay that we see it today.
\nBut so at the very beginning <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael as physically, you know,
\ncenter of the entire land mass, <\/p>\n
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\nmaybe that will come back one
\nday. <\/p>\n
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\nMaybe the landmass will come
\nback together. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t know.
\nBut it’s interesting, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nWhen you put all the landmasses
\ntogether, it really is in the <\/p>\n
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\nmidst of the land, mass of the
\nEarth. <\/p>\n
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\nNow here’s another interesting
\none that really does link Israel<\/p>\n
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\nas a nation to the Fig Tree
\nitself. <\/p>\n
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\nSo in Hosea 9 verse 10, God says
\nI found Israel like grapes in <\/p>\n
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\nthe wilderness.
\nI saw your father’s as the first<\/p>\n
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\nripe in the Fig Tree at her
\nfirst time. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a god actually says, I see
\nIsrael like two things. <\/p>\n
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\nI see them like the grapes but I
\nalso See them as the Fig Tree <\/p>\n
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\nitself.
\nSo God is linking clearly. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Fig Tree to Israel and in
\nthe third talk that we that we <\/p>\n
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\nlook at will which would do in a
\nfew weeks time. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ll see in the New Testament,
\nnumerous references to Israel <\/p>\n
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\nbeing like the big being
\nsymbolic of the Fig Tree itself <\/p>\n
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\nbut there’s one to be getting on
\nwith in Hosea 9 verse 10. <\/p>\n
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\nIn 1, Kings, chapter 4, verse
\n25. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is in during the reign of
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\nSo about I don’t know, a
\nthousand BC give or take. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re told that Judah and Israel
\nto out self safely. <\/p>\n
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\nEvery man under his under his
\nVine and under his fig tree from<\/p>\n
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\nDan even to be ashy but all the
\ndays of Solomon. <\/p>\n
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\nSo basically quite often there’s
\nphrases about Israel living. <\/p>\n
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\nbeing in security and in him
\npeace and to sort of symbolize <\/p>\n
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\nthat the fig tree is used,
\nbecause people didn’t live under<\/p>\n
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\nfig trees, they lived in in
\nhouses, of course, but it was <\/p>\n
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\nbasically saying such was the
\nPeace during the reign of <\/p>\n
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\nSolomon that they didn’t really
\nneed walls, they didn’t need <\/p>\n
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\nbarricades, I didn’t have to
\nlock the front door, they were <\/p>\n
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\nable to live in peace and the
\nand the truly that God Is using <\/p>\n
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\nthere is, of course, the Fig
\nTree so we see all these links <\/p>\n
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\nto Israel.
\nSo what I’m suggesting is that <\/p>\n
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\nthe tree of knowledge of Good
\nand Evil, hopefully we’ve proven<\/p>\n
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\nbeyond all Reasonable Doubt is
\nthe Fig Tree. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we’ve also hopefully just
\nnow proved beyond all reasonable<\/p>\n
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\ndoubt.
\nThat the Fig Tree is symbolic of<\/p>\n
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\nIsrael as a nation itself.
\nAnd so, Once I’ve got these <\/p>\n
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\nyou like so I could link <\/p>\n
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\neffectively, I can link the tree
\nof knowledge of Good and Evil to<\/p>\n
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\nIsrael.
\nI can link Israel to the Fig <\/p>\n
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\nTree or can link the Fig Tree to
\nthe tree of knowledge of Good <\/p>\n
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\nand Evil.
\nDo CO2 means that these three <\/p>\n
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\nthings now become
\ninterchangeable and when you do <\/p>\n
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\nthat, then other verses in the
\nBible we going to look at now. <\/p>\n
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\nSuddenly take on a new light.
\nBecause it’s only by unlocking <\/p>\n
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\nthe tree of knowledge of good
\nand evil. <\/p>\n
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\nAs being the fig tree that you
\ncan see some verses in quite a <\/p>\n
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\nremarkable way.
\nAnd that’s what I’m going to <\/p>\n
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\nshow you now.
\nSo there we’ve got at the top <\/p>\n
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\nlook, the tree of knowledge of
\nGood and Evil. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ve got Israel on the right.
\nAnd what we’ve got linking the <\/p>\n
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\ntwo together is the fact that
\nthe Fig Tree is symbolic of <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael and the tree of knowledge
\nof Good and Evil was a fig tree.<\/p>\n
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\nSo the Fig Tree links, these two
\nideas together. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, have a look at this.
\nSo this is Genesis 2:17 and God <\/p>\n
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\nsays, but of the tree of the
\nknowledge of Good and Evil, Old,<\/p>\n
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\nThou shalt not eat of it for in
\nthe day that thou eatest <\/p>\n
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\nthereof.
\nThou shalt surely die. <\/p>\n
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\nSo God is saying you shall not
\neat of the fruit of the tree of <\/p>\n
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\nthe knowledge of Good and Evil
\nwhich is I’m saying a fig tree <\/p>\n
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\nnow.
\nLook at this right? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause in Jeremiah chapter 30
\nverses 15 and 16 talking about <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael.
\nGod’s God says something almost <\/p>\n
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\nidentical.
\nHe says I have had to punish you<\/p>\n
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\nIsrael because your our sins are
\nmany and your guilt. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s great.
\nBut all who devour you will be <\/p>\n
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\ndevoured.
\nNow that word devour is exactly <\/p>\n
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\nthe same word in Hebrew as the
\nword not eat or without the <\/p>\n
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\nword.
\nDon’t eat it back in Genesis <\/p>\n
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\n2:17.
\nSo those little numbers of put <\/p>\n
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\nnext to the word devour 03 98.
\nHe’s just trying to show you <\/p>\n
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\nthat it’s the same Hebrew word.
\nSo God is saying, you can’t eat <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael or who eat, Israel will
\nbe eaten. <\/p>\n
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\nGod says, Thou shalt not eat of
\nthe fruit. <\/p>\n
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\nDuring the day that you eat it,
\nyou’re going to die. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd God is saying the same thing
\nabout you. <\/p>\n
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\nSo even though I’ve got to
\npunish you sometimes Israel <\/p>\n
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\nbecause you sinful, I don’t want
\nanybody to eat you or devour <\/p>\n
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\nyou.
\nAnd you might say, well, that’s <\/p>\n
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\na strange thing because I can
\nunderstand about eating a fruit.<\/p>\n
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\nBut how does Pete, how do people
\neat a nation? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, actually, it is quite
\ninteresting, of course, because <\/p>\n
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\nwhen you look at Israel and the
\nsame, really, I guess applies <\/p>\n
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\neven in ancient times, it
\ncertainly works out now. <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael is we know was recreated
\non planet Earth in 1948. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it happens to be the very,
\nthe only nation really on the <\/p>\n
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\nplanet where the whole world
\nwants to devour it. <\/p>\n
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\nIt wants to sort of divide it
\ninto. <\/p>\n
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\nThere isn’t really a nation on
\nEarth, that doesn’t sort of back<\/p>\n
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\nto some extent, or a total
\nextent, the dividing of Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nEven America that a big
\nsupporter in many cases of <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael’s still, you know, has in
\nits own objectives. <\/p>\n
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\nIs Israel being split and what
\nI’ve actually got there. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you notice, there’s Israel in
\nSon of a green color and this <\/p>\n
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\nparticular map shows the West
\nBank in, I’ll try and move my <\/p>\n
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\ncursor.
\nSo you can see this bit here is <\/p>\n
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\nthe West Bank and this B is in
\nbrown. <\/p>\n
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\nIt really is still controlled by
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
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\nBut most Maps show it in a
\ndifferent color because the <\/p>\n
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\nworld doesn’t see the West Bank
\nas being part of Israel and what<\/p>\n
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\nI’ve sort of learned here.
\nIs so to put this, you know, <\/p>\n
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\nthis is a face by the way.
\nIf you can’t work out what that <\/p>\n
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\nblack blob is and and and
\nbasically this is this is <\/p>\n
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\nsomebody taking a chunk out of
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is like the world and the
\nnature of the world, devouring <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael, eating away at the land,
\nthat God has given them. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that is exactly what I think
\nGod is getting at. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd really, this goes back to
\nthe Garden of Eden. <\/p>\n
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\nGod says, I don’t want you to
\neat a The tree of knowledge of <\/p>\n
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\nGood and Evil the Fig and Adam
\ngoes and eats it. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so does Eve in the same way
\nwith Israel, God’s at the don’t <\/p>\n
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\nwant you to eat it.
\nI don’t want you to devour it <\/p>\n
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\nand in the same way that’s
\nexactly what is happening. <\/p>\n
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\nIn other words, the world is
\nfailing. <\/p>\n
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\nThe test just as Adam and Eve
\nfailed the test. <\/p>\n
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\nSo, the world is failing the
\ntest because all of them say, <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael needs to be devoured and
\nbroken up into different parts, <\/p>\n
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\nbut you only get this link
\nreally that I’ve just shown you.<\/p>\n
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\nIf you see the tree of knowledge
\nof good and evil as the Fig Tree<\/p>\n
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\nbecause this is the link across
\nto Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nHere’s another one for you.
\nSo in Genesis chapter 3 verse 3.<\/p>\n
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\nGod not only said You shall not
\neat of it. <\/p>\n
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\nHe also said something else.
\nHe said, neither shall you. <\/p>\n
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\nTouch it?
\nLest you die. <\/p>\n
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\nSo God said, it’s not just about
\neating it. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can’t even touch it.
\nWell, amazingly God says exactly<\/p>\n
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\nthe same idea in relation to
\nJerusalem, which, of course, is <\/p>\n
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\nthe capital of Israel and in
\nZachariah chapter 12. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 8.
\nGod says for thus, saith the <\/p>\n
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\nLord of hosts.
\nAfter the glory, has he sent me <\/p>\n
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\nunto the Nations which spoiled
\nuie Jerusalem for he, that such <\/p>\n
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\nEast you touches the apple of
\nhis eye. <\/p>\n
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\nSo, Other words, God saying, I
\ndon’t want you to touch <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem because Jerusalem is
\nthe apple of my eye. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, this isn’t a great
\ntranslation, you know, it that I<\/p>\n
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\ndon’t honestly know why it’s
\nbeen translated as Apple. <\/p>\n
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\nBut really that word apple is
\nthe is it’s the Hebrew for what <\/p>\n
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\nwe would call the pupil.
\nSo God is actually setting a <\/p>\n
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\ncourse.
\nThe pupil is that Tiny hole that<\/p>\n
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\nyou’ve got in your eye.
\nWe’ve all got pupils haven’t <\/p>\n
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\nbeen God, says, if you touch the
\nApple, if you touch the pupil, <\/p>\n
337
\n00:22:33,200 –> 00:22:38,200
\nit should say of my eye.
\nIt’s Jerusalem is the pupil. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:22:38,700 –> 00:22:41,800
\nSo, in other words there’s
\nJerusalem, and God says, that’s <\/p>\n
339
\n00:22:41,800 –> 00:22:44,800
\nwhere it is.
\nIt’s in this hole in your eye. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:22:44,900 –> 00:22:50,000
\nNow the reason that God says,
\nit’s like touching the pupil is <\/p>\n
341
\n00:22:50,000 –> 00:22:54,300
\nthat if you try right now to
\ntouch your pupil, Your finger <\/p>\n
342
\n00:22:54,300 –> 00:22:58,100
\nwill actually not want to do it.
\nYou know, if you just try to, <\/p>\n
343
\n00:22:58,300 –> 00:22:59,900
\nI’m trying to do it now.
\nI don’t know why I’m trying to <\/p>\n
344
\n00:22:59,900 –> 00:23:02,700
\ndo this because I know I don’t
\nwant to do it, but you’re all of<\/p>\n
345
\n00:23:02,700 –> 00:23:07,600
\nyour instincts, tell you not to
\nput your finger in your eye. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:23:08,100 –> 00:23:13,200
\nAnd that is because covering the
\npupil, which is that dark hole <\/p>\n
347
\n00:23:13,200 –> 00:23:14,800
\nthere.
\nIt’s literally just a hole in <\/p>\n
348
\n00:23:14,800 –> 00:23:21,100
\nthe Hebrew word for poop, or
\nmeans a whole, basically, what <\/p>\n
349
\n00:23:21,100 –> 00:23:25,000
\nis covering The pupil and what
\nis protecting? <\/p>\n
350
\n00:23:25,000 –> 00:23:29,600
\nThe pupil is this invisible
\nbarrier here. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:23:29,600 –> 00:23:34,000
\nThat’s labeled number one, and
\nof course that invisible <\/p>\n
352
\n00:23:34,000 –> 00:23:40,700
\nprotection that goes over your
\neye, is the cornea and that is <\/p>\n
353
\n00:23:40,700 –> 00:23:45,800
\nbasically an invisible
\nprotection over it. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:23:45,800 –> 00:23:50,700
\nNow, what is amazing about that
\nis the cornea is the only body <\/p>\n
355
\n00:23:50,700 –> 00:23:57,000
\ntissue in the A body with no
\nblood supply. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:23:57,500 –> 00:24:02,100
\nI mean, how incredible is that?
\nThere is no other body tissue in<\/p>\n
357
\n00:24:02,100 –> 00:24:07,000
\nthe entire body that has that,
\nthat is like the cornea. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:24:07,100 –> 00:24:12,100
\nThe cornea is the only body
\ntissue with no blood supply to <\/p>\n
359
\n00:24:12,100 –> 00:24:14,000
\nit.
\nAnd the reason that it can’t <\/p>\n
360
\n00:24:14,000 –> 00:24:17,700
\nhave blood supply to, it is for
\npractical reason, of course. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:24:17,700 –> 00:24:20,400
\nAnd that is because if there was
\nblood in it, we would see <\/p>\n
362
\n00:24:20,400 –> 00:24:22,700
\neverything through literally
\nrose-tinted. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:24:22,800 –> 00:24:25,600
\nSpectacles.
\nSo God has designed. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:24:25,600 –> 00:24:27,300
\nThis thing is incredible.
\nReally? <\/p>\n
365
\n00:24:27,300 –> 00:24:32,300
\nThat there’s a living piece of
\ntissue with no blood in it? <\/p>\n
366
\n00:24:32,300 –> 00:24:35,500
\nHow does that happen?
\nIt’s absolutely astounding. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:24:35,500 –> 00:24:40,700
\nBut here’s the thing if
\nJerusalem is this part here. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:24:41,000 –> 00:24:44,000
\nOkay so this if this is
\nJerusalem and God says if you <\/p>\n
369
\n00:24:44,000 –> 00:24:49,800
\ntry and touch Jerusalem, you’re
\nlike touching the pupil of my <\/p>\n
370
\n00:24:49,800 –> 00:24:52,200
\neye.
\nWell, what you’ve got to do is <\/p>\n
371
\n00:24:52,200 –> 00:24:55,200
\nto go through Invisible barrier,
\nyou see? <\/p>\n
372
\n00:24:55,600 –> 00:24:59,100
\nAnd I believe that this
\ninvisible barrier of your, I <\/p>\n
373
\n00:24:59,100 –> 00:25:01,800
\nhear.
\nIt’s symbolic of God himself. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:25:01,900 –> 00:25:05,100
\nWho, of course, has no blood
\nGod. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:25:05,100 –> 00:25:09,300
\nIt has no blood in him.
\nBloody is unique to, you know, <\/p>\n
376
\n00:25:09,300 –> 00:25:13,300
\nliving creatures on the earth.
\nGod has no blood in here and <\/p>\n
377
\n00:25:13,300 –> 00:25:18,600
\nthis invisible protection over.
\nThe eye, is amazingly symbolic <\/p>\n
378
\n00:25:18,600 –> 00:25:25,000
\nof God himself and the way he
\nprotects his City Jerusalem, <\/p>\n
379
\n00:25:25,200 –> 00:25:28,200
\nisn’t that incredible?
\nBut God says, if you try and <\/p>\n
380
\n00:25:28,200 –> 00:25:32,500
\ntouch Jerusalem, you’re breaking
\nthrough my barrier, my <\/p>\n
381
\n00:25:32,500 –> 00:25:35,600
\nprotection over it.
\nAnd if you’re going to do that, <\/p>\n
382
\n00:25:35,600 –> 00:25:39,600
\nand I’m going to react and, you
\nknow, if you touch you right, <\/p>\n
383
\n00:25:39,600 –> 00:25:41,500
\nyou react badly, you’re going to
\nFlinch. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:25:41,500 –> 00:25:42,800
\nYou’re going to push somebody
\naway. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:25:42,800 –> 00:25:46,300
\nIf they’re if you know, if they
\ntried to poke you in the eye, <\/p>\n
386
\n00:25:46,300 –> 00:25:50,700
\nit’s a it’s a horrible thing.
\nThat is what that verse is <\/p>\n
387
\n00:25:50,700 –> 00:25:54,100
\nsaying, do not touch it.
\nAnd what God Said in the Garden <\/p>\n
388
\n00:25:54,100 –> 00:25:56,900
\nof Eden, about the Fig Tree, the
\ntree of knowledge of Good and <\/p>\n
389
\n00:25:56,900 –> 00:26:03,300
\nEvil is thou shall not touch it.
\nYou see how this links amazingly<\/p>\n
390
\n00:26:04,000 –> 00:26:08,900
\nto to Jerusalem and of course
\nwhat do we see? <\/p>\n
391
\n00:26:09,100 –> 00:26:14,300
\nBut just as Israel is being
\ndivided or trying to be divided <\/p>\n
392
\n00:26:14,300 –> 00:26:18,200
\nby the world.
\nSo remarkably is Jerusalem as <\/p>\n
393
\n00:26:18,200 –> 00:26:20,800
\nwell.
\nWell, it’s the only capital city<\/p>\n
394
\n00:26:20,800 –> 00:26:25,100
\nin the world right now which
\nagain, two different people say <\/p>\n
395
\n00:26:25,100 –> 00:26:30,600
\nis their Capital City.
\nThe Palestinians say the east of<\/p>\n
396
\n00:26:30,600 –> 00:26:36,100
\nJerusalem is their Capital City.
\nIsrael says the entirety of <\/p>\n
397
\n00:26:36,100 –> 00:26:41,100
\nJerusalem as their capital city.
\nAnd so, once again, we’ve got <\/p>\n
398
\n00:26:41,100 –> 00:26:44,300
\nthe world.
\nThat is trying to touch <\/p>\n
399
\n00:26:44,300 –> 00:26:48,400
\nJerusalem, divide Jerusalem and
\nit’s similar to this. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:26:48,500 –> 00:26:52,000
\nAnd, you know, we’ve got the
\nsame sort of idea, of this <\/p>\n
401
\n00:26:52,000 –> 00:26:57,000
\ndevouring of this dividing up,
\nthis touching of God’s holy <\/p>\n
402
\n00:26:57,000 –> 00:27:00,000
\ncity.
\nIt’s the same sort of idea. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:27:00,000 –> 00:27:02,800
\nAnd once again, we failing that
\nwas a weed. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:27:02,800 –> 00:27:12,100
\nThe world is failing that that
\ntest Here’s another thing to <\/p>\n
405
\n00:27:12,100 –> 00:27:16,100
\nconsider, so in Genesis 3:6.
\nAgain, it says, when the woman <\/p>\n
406
\n00:27:16,100 –> 00:27:19,100
\nsaw that the tree was good for
\nfood and it was pleasant to the <\/p>\n
407
\n00:27:19,100 –> 00:27:22,600
\neyes and a tree to be desired to
\nmake one wise. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:27:22,900 –> 00:27:26,100
\nShe took of the fruit thereof
\nand did eat and gave unto her <\/p>\n
409
\n00:27:26,100 –> 00:27:30,000
\nhusband with her and he did eat.
\nAnd actually, you know, they did<\/p>\n
410
\n00:27:30,000 –> 00:27:33,000
\nbecome wise because suddenly
\nthey realized they were naked, <\/p>\n
411
\n00:27:33,000 –> 00:27:37,200
\nthey didn’t realize that before
\nand they were able to start <\/p>\n
412
\n00:27:37,200 –> 00:27:39,300
\nDiscerning between good and
\nevil. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:27:39,300 –> 00:27:41,800
\nThat’s what base.
\nActually the serpent said would <\/p>\n
414
\n00:27:41,800 –> 00:27:45,800
\nhappen and in fact that bit was
\ntrue, they did start <\/p>\n
415
\n00:27:45,800 –> 00:27:51,500
\nunderstanding good and evil and
\nit was able therefore to make <\/p>\n
416
\n00:27:51,500 –> 00:27:56,400
\nthem wise and that’s exactly
\nwhat happened with the nation of<\/p>\n
417
\n00:27:56,400 –> 00:28:01,800
\nIsrael itself.
\nIsrael itself did make the <\/p>\n
418
\n00:28:01,800 –> 00:28:05,900
\npeople of Israel.
\nWhy is if they listened to God? <\/p>\n
419
\n00:28:06,800 –> 00:28:09,500
\nSo, in Deuteronomy 4 verses 1
\nand 6. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:28:09,500 –> 00:28:13,800
\nIt says, Now Israel here the
\ndecrees and laws. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:28:13,800 –> 00:28:17,700
\nI’m about to teach you follow
\nthem so that you may live and go<\/p>\n
422
\n00:28:17,700 –> 00:28:19,600
\nin and take possession of the
\nland. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:28:19,600 –> 00:28:22,500
\nThat’s obviously Israel.
\nThe Lord, the god of your <\/p>\n
424
\n00:28:22,500 –> 00:28:26,900
\nancestors ancestors is giving
\nyou observe them carefully. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:28:26,900 –> 00:28:31,000
\nFor this will show your wisdom
\nand understanding to the <\/p>\n
426
\n00:28:31,000 –> 00:28:33,300
\nnation’s who will hear about all
\nthese. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:28:33,300 –> 00:28:38,600
\nDecrees and say, surely, this
\ngreat nation is a wise and <\/p>\n
428
\n00:28:38,600 –> 00:28:42,900
\nunderstanding people So just as
\nthe tree of knowledge of good of<\/p>\n
429
\n00:28:43,000 –> 00:28:49,000
\nGood and Evil, gave them wisdom.
\nSo Israel symbolic of the same <\/p>\n
430
\n00:28:49,000 –> 00:28:55,200
\nfig tree, gave them wisdom as
\nlong as they listened and heard <\/p>\n
431
\n00:28:55,400 –> 00:28:59,300
\nthe decrees, and laws that God
\nwas about to teach them. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:28:59,300 –> 00:29:03,200
\nAnd we know very often, they
\nfailed in that but that didn’t <\/p>\n
433
\n00:29:03,200 –> 00:29:06,700
\nstop the commands and decrees
\nand the laws that God gave them <\/p>\n
434
\n00:29:07,600 –> 00:29:10,400
\nbeing correct.
\nAnd in fact if they did and <\/p>\n
435
\n00:29:10,600 –> 00:29:14,600
\nSometimes they did, it was
\nshowing the the Nations around <\/p>\n
436
\n00:29:14,600 –> 00:29:17,500
\nthem.
\nWhat true wisdom was. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:29:19,000 –> 00:29:21,500
\nSo there’s another link between
\nthe tree of knowledge of Good <\/p>\n
438
\n00:29:21,500 –> 00:29:27,300
\nand Evil and Israel itself.
\nHere’s another one that I <\/p>\n
439
\n00:29:27,308 –> 00:29:31,700
\nthought was interesting so this
\nis I was looking up about the <\/p>\n
440
\n00:29:31,700 –> 00:29:37,200
\nactual tree itself in Wikipedia
\njust to just to find out what <\/p>\n
441
\n00:29:38,000 –> 00:29:40,700
\nwhat is the Fig Tree?
\nHow does it work? <\/p>\n
442
\n00:29:40,700 –> 00:29:44,200
\nAnd how does it grow?
\nAnd you can go and look this up <\/p>\n
443
\n00:29:44,200 –> 00:29:47,500
\nyourself but this is pretty much
\nthe first few sentences out of <\/p>\n
444
\n00:29:47,500 –> 00:29:50,900
\nWikipedia.
\nAbout the fig tree and it says <\/p>\n
445
\n00:29:50,900 –> 00:29:54,400
\nthat the Fig Tree, tolerate
\nseasonal, drought, and in the <\/p>\n
446
\n00:29:54,400 –> 00:29:58,000
\nMiddle East and Mediterranean
\nclimates are especially suitable<\/p>\n
447
\n00:29:58,000 –> 00:30:02,100
\nto it situated in a favorable
\nhabitat mature, specimens can <\/p>\n
448
\n00:30:02,100 –> 00:30:05,900
\ngrow to considerable size as
\nlarge dense, shade trees, its <\/p>\n
449
\n00:30:05,900 –> 00:30:09,700
\naggressive root system, helps
\nthe plant to root in the most <\/p>\n
450
\n00:30:09,800 –> 00:30:14,600
\ninhospitable locations, and I’ll
\njust stop there because that’s <\/p>\n
451
\n00:30:14,600 –> 00:30:17,300
\nquite interesting.
\nBecause the way the root systems<\/p>\n
452
\n00:30:17,300 –> 00:30:24,300
\nwork They sort of spread out
\nmassively and hunt for water. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:30:24,700 –> 00:30:28,500
\nIt needs lots of water but it
\ncan the way that the roots work,<\/p>\n
454
\n00:30:29,200 –> 00:30:33,800
\nit’s searches out as it says
\nthere, aquifers Ravines cracks <\/p>\n
455
\n00:30:33,800 –> 00:30:36,200
\nin rocks.
\nIt just hunts around really, <\/p>\n
456
\n00:30:36,200 –> 00:30:40,100
\nreally well better than almost
\nall trees, really hunting for <\/p>\n
457
\n00:30:40,100 –> 00:30:43,800
\nwater, which enables it to
\nsurvive in inhospitable <\/p>\n
458
\n00:30:43,800 –> 00:30:48,200
\nlocations.
\nWell, I think we could say, you <\/p>\n
459
\n00:30:48,200 –> 00:30:53,500
\nknow, is Only itself is
\nsurrounded by inhospitable, Leti<\/p>\n
460
\n00:30:53,500 –> 00:30:56,000
\nisn’t it?
\nBecause you know there’s little <\/p>\n
461
\n00:30:56,000 –> 00:30:58,900
\nIsrael as you can see on the map
\nthere sort of highlighted <\/p>\n
462
\n00:30:58,900 –> 00:31:03,200
\nslightly and all those Nations
\nthat are surrounding, it are <\/p>\n
463
\n00:31:03,200 –> 00:31:07,200
\nIslamic Nations and the vast
\nmajority of them and know <\/p>\n
464
\n00:31:07,208 –> 00:31:09,800
\nthere’s a few that are perhaps a
\nbit more friendly but the vast <\/p>\n
465
\n00:31:09,800 –> 00:31:14,100
\nmajority of them actually don’t
\nwant Israel to exist or they <\/p>\n
466
\n00:31:14,100 –> 00:31:18,000
\ncertainly give Israel a real
\nhard time and some of them like <\/p>\n
467
\n00:31:18,000 –> 00:31:20,100
\nyou ran want absolute
\ndestruction. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:31:20,400 –> 00:31:22,600
\nSo to Syria.
\nAnd if you look at the real <\/p>\n
469
\n00:31:22,600 –> 00:31:27,800
\nsurrounding peoples around
\nIsrael with the Palestinians <\/p>\n
470
\n00:31:27,800 –> 00:31:32,700
\nwith Hamas with Hezbollah which
\nis Islamic Jihad with Syria. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:31:33,300 –> 00:31:37,200
\nAll of those peoples are like
\ntricking Breyers that we told <\/p>\n
472
\n00:31:37,200 –> 00:31:42,500
\ntrying to destroy Israel and
\nremove it from existence. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:31:42,500 –> 00:31:48,500
\nSo it really is a tree that is
\nin a very inhospitable location.<\/p>\n
474
\n00:31:48,800 –> 00:31:53,000
\nAnd yet remarkably survives,
\ndoesn’t it amazingly. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:31:53,000 –> 00:31:57,300
\nWell, I mean, Israel is is one
\nof the very, very top developed <\/p>\n
476
\n00:31:57,300 –> 00:32:00,100
\nnations in the whole world.
\nAnd when you look at it, it’s <\/p>\n
477
\n00:32:00,100 –> 00:32:05,000
\nthe size of whales and yet it’s
\ngot incredible amounts of wealth<\/p>\n
478
\n00:32:05,000 –> 00:32:09,800
\nand knowledge and infrastructure
\nand the tree itself. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:32:10,700 –> 00:32:14,800
\nIf you notice, it says, the tree
\ncalls the hot environment in <\/p>\n
480
\n00:32:14,800 –> 00:32:18,600
\nwhich it grows producing fresh
\nand pleasant happy. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:32:18,700 –> 00:32:22,600
\nEat at and I thought that was
\ninteresting because of course <\/p>\n
482
\n00:32:22,600 –> 00:32:26,200
\nbefore is what Israel was
\ncreated in 1948. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:32:26,800 –> 00:32:30,500
\nThe land that we now call
\nIsrael, which then was called <\/p>\n
484
\n00:32:30,500 –> 00:32:34,200
\nPalestine was just a Wilderness.
\nNobody fought over it. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:32:34,200 –> 00:32:37,100
\nNobody wanted it.
\nNobody cared about it and the <\/p>\n
486
\n00:32:37,100 –> 00:32:41,900
\nland was Barren.
\nIsrael is recreated and suddenly<\/p>\n
487
\n00:32:41,900 –> 00:32:48,200
\nthey turn it into an incredible
\nland and and turned the deserts <\/p>\n
488
\n00:32:48,200 –> 00:32:52,200
\ninto Two, amazing.
\nPlantations of all sorts of <\/p>\n
489
\n00:32:52,200 –> 00:32:54,900
\nthings, you know.
\nOranges, Jeff for oranges come <\/p>\n
490
\n00:32:54,900 –> 00:32:59,100
\nfrom Jaffer in Israel.
\nIt’s amazing what they’ve done. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:33:00,400 –> 00:33:04,300
\nSo I think there’s quite a lot
\nof links to the actual setup of <\/p>\n
492
\n00:33:04,300 –> 00:33:08,200
\na fig tree as well.
\nWhen we stop and think about it.<\/p>\n
493
\n00:33:10,000 –> 00:33:12,500
\nHere’s another one.
\nSo I’m hunting. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:33:12,500 –> 00:33:16,500
\nNow for verse is from Genesis to
\nlook for other verses that are <\/p>\n
495
\n00:33:16,500 –> 00:33:21,100
\nin relation to Israel using
\nsimilar language. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:33:21,600 –> 00:33:26,100
\nSo again, we’re back here again
\nup Genesis 3 verses, 14 and 15. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:33:26,400 –> 00:33:31,600
\nAnd this is God cursing, the
\nserpent who are deceived Eve and<\/p>\n
498
\n00:33:31,600 –> 00:33:34,000
\ntold her that, it was perfectly
\nokay to eat. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:33:34,100 –> 00:33:39,600
\nAnd devour the fig fig tree and
\nGod says, because you have done <\/p>\n
500
\n00:33:39,600 –> 00:33:41,100
\nthis.
\nYou’re cursed above all cattle, <\/p>\n
501
\n00:33:41,100 –> 00:33:45,900
\nand above every beast of the
\nfield upon your belly. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:33:45,900 –> 00:33:48,600
\nYou will go and dust.
\nYou’re going to eat all the days<\/p>\n
503
\n00:33:48,600 –> 00:33:53,000
\nof your life and I will put
\nenmity or hatred between you and<\/p>\n
504
\n00:33:53,000 –> 00:33:56,700
\nthe woman and between your seed
\nand her seed and it will bruise <\/p>\n
505
\n00:33:56,700 –> 00:33:58,900
\nthy head and thou shalt bruise
\nhis heel. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:33:58,900 –> 00:34:02,600
\nAnd we looked at this in quite a
\nlot of detail last time, so I’m <\/p>\n
507
\n00:34:02,600 –> 00:34:03,700
\nnot going to go through that
\nagain. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:34:03,700 –> 00:34:08,800
\nBut suffice to say, look, we’ve
\ngot the same sort of words <\/p>\n
509
\n00:34:08,800 –> 00:34:13,400
\ncoming out.
\nOut in Jeremiah 31 verse 27, <\/p>\n
510
\n00:34:13,699 –> 00:34:19,800
\nwhich is talking about Israel.
\nSo Jeremiah 31 verse 27 says, <\/p>\n
511
\n00:34:20,300 –> 00:34:23,500
\nbehold the day’s come saith, the
\nLord that I was. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:34:23,500 –> 00:34:27,199
\nSo the house of Israel and the
\nhouse of Judah with the seed of <\/p>\n
513
\n00:34:27,199 –> 00:34:29,699
\nman and with the seed of the
\nBeast. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:34:30,300 –> 00:34:34,300
\nSo Israel is going to be so many
\nto lots of seed, the seed of man<\/p>\n
515
\n00:34:34,300 –> 00:34:38,600
\nin the seed of Beast.
\nWell, we know that the Beast was<\/p>\n
516
\n00:34:38,600 –> 00:34:41,300
\nall to do with the serpent
\nbecause we’re told there look <\/p>\n
517
\n00:34:41,300 –> 00:34:44,600
\nthat the the serpent was cursed
\nabove every Beast. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:34:45,800 –> 00:34:49,900
\nSo there’s obviously a bad seed
\nand that must be the seed of the<\/p>\n
519
\n00:34:49,900 –> 00:34:54,100
\nBeast and the seed of man, in
\nthis particular passage is <\/p>\n
520
\n00:34:54,100 –> 00:34:58,300
\nactually the good seed.
\nSo when you then go across to <\/p>\n
521
\n00:34:58,300 –> 00:35:03,300
\nthe tree of knowledge of Good
\nand Evil, you’ve got as we said <\/p>\n
522
\n00:35:03,300 –> 00:35:07,000
\nlast time, you’ve got good, figs
\nand you’ve got evil fix ya. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:35:07,900 –> 00:35:10,900
\nWe’ve got the seed of the woman
\nwhich is good and we got the <\/p>\n
524
\n00:35:10,900 –> 00:35:12,900
\nseed of the serpent, which is
\nevil. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:35:13,200 –> 00:35:16,600
\nWe’ve got the seed of the Beast,
\nwhich is Evil we’ve got the seed<\/p>\n
526
\n00:35:16,600 –> 00:35:21,100
\nof man which is good and so
\nthat’s basically how it splits <\/p>\n
527
\n00:35:21,100 –> 00:35:25,600
\nup and effectively when you put
\nthem all on the tree on the tree<\/p>\n
528
\n00:35:25,900 –> 00:35:29,100
\nthey were it was the tree of
\nknowledge of Good and Evil and <\/p>\n
529
\n00:35:29,100 –> 00:35:34,200
\nthey were some of the things
\nthat were good and the some that<\/p>\n
530
\n00:35:34,200 –> 00:35:36,100
\nwere evil.
\nAnd if you remember what we <\/p>\n
531
\n00:35:36,100 –> 00:35:41,300
\nsaid, was that the good figs had
\nto be pollinated by the Fig <\/p>\n
532
\n00:35:41,300 –> 00:35:43,500
\nwasp.
\nAnd the Fig wasp we said was <\/p>\n
533
\n00:35:43,500 –> 00:35:47,000
\nJesus.
\nSo when you add all that <\/p>\n
534
\n00:35:47,000 –> 00:35:51,700
\ntogether, the only way of fig
\ncould become good, IE get the <\/p>\n
535
\n00:35:51,700 –> 00:35:55,200
\nnutrients from the tree to grow
\nand develop as a fruit that you <\/p>\n
536
\n00:35:55,200 –> 00:35:58,400
\ncould eat is have a fig wasp
\npollinated. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:35:58,600 –> 00:36:02,600
\nThe Fig wasp is Jesus and
\ntherefore what we’re seeing in <\/p>\n
538
\n00:36:02,600 –> 00:36:06,300
\nalmost symbolic code here is
\nthat the only way we <\/p>\n
539
\n00:36:06,300 –> 00:36:10,800
\nindividually can become a good
\nfruit for God is to have in our <\/p>\n
540
\n00:36:10,800 –> 00:36:13,500
\nlives.
\nThe sacrifice of Jesus. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:36:13,500 –> 00:36:17,300
\nIf that makes Hence, if we
\nhaven’t, then we come on under <\/p>\n
542
\n00:36:17,300 –> 00:36:20,500
\nthe side of evil, we come under
\nthe side of the seed of the <\/p>\n
543
\n00:36:20,500 –> 00:36:22,600
\nserpent.
\nWe come under the side of the <\/p>\n
544
\n00:36:22,600 –> 00:36:26,300
\nseat of the Beast.
\nThat’s what we’re being told. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:36:26,900 –> 00:36:31,900
\nAnd of course it isn’t just here
\nwe read, as we talked about last<\/p>\n
546
\n00:36:31,900 –> 00:36:36,800
\ntime that God even talks about
\nfigs in reference to being good <\/p>\n
547
\n00:36:37,100 –> 00:36:39,100
\nand evil.
\nI mean, this has got to be one <\/p>\n
548
\n00:36:39,100 –> 00:36:41,900
\nof the biggest clues that the
\nFig Tree was the tree of <\/p>\n
549
\n00:36:41,900 –> 00:36:45,500
\nknowledge of Good and Evil.
\nBecause God says in Jeremiah 24,<\/p>\n
550
\n00:36:45,500 –> 00:36:50,800
\nverse 21 basket had very good
\nfigs even like the things that <\/p>\n
551
\n00:36:50,800 –> 00:36:55,600
\nour first ripe and the other
\nbasket had very naughty The same<\/p>\n
552
\n00:36:55,600 –> 00:36:58,000
\nword for evil, the tree of
\nknowledge of Good and Evil that <\/p>\n
553
\n00:36:58,000 –> 00:37:00,900
\nword translated naughty in the
\nauthorized version is the word <\/p>\n
554
\n00:37:00,900 –> 00:37:03,000
\nevil.
\nSo, you’ve got very good figs <\/p>\n
555
\n00:37:03,000 –> 00:37:06,400
\nand very evil figs, which
\ncouldn’t be eaten because they <\/p>\n
556
\n00:37:06,400 –> 00:37:10,200
\nwere so evil.
\nAnd then said, the Lord unto me.<\/p>\n
557
\n00:37:10,200 –> 00:37:14,800
\nWhat do you see Jeremiah?
\nAnd I said, figs, the good figs <\/p>\n
558
\n00:37:14,800 –> 00:37:20,000
\nvery good, the evil, very evil
\nthat cannot be eaten. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:37:20,000 –> 00:37:24,500
\nThey are so evil.
\nSo there is that link. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:37:25,500 –> 00:37:32,500
\nSo as I say for me, you know,
\nwhen I look at the Fig Tree, I’m<\/p>\n
561
\n00:37:32,500 –> 00:37:36,900
\nlooking at the fruit and seeing
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ but also <\/p>\n
562
\n00:37:36,900 –> 00:37:40,600
\nourselves as well.
\nI mean if you think about it <\/p>\n
563
\n00:37:40,600 –> 00:37:43,700
\nJesus is we you know we stood
\nthe same. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:37:43,700 –> 00:37:48,100
\nWell Jesus is the Fig wasp that
\nis making the fruit good. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:37:48,300 –> 00:37:51,800
\nBut Jesus is the fruit itself.
\nThere was no pure and more <\/p>\n
566
\n00:37:51,800 –> 00:37:55,100
\nwonderful.
\nFruit in this symbolic tree, <\/p>\n
567
\n00:37:55,800 –> 00:37:58,600
\nthen Jesus.
\nIt’s almost a little bit like <\/p>\n
568
\n00:37:58,600 –> 00:38:02,400
\nJesus is the shepherd and the
\nSheep, you know, and you think <\/p>\n
569
\n00:38:02,400 –> 00:38:04,200
\nwe’ll, how can you be a shepherd
\nand the Sheep. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:38:04,200 –> 00:38:07,400
\nThat’s ridiculous.
\nBut he was, and in the same way,<\/p>\n
571
\n00:38:07,400 –> 00:38:11,700
\nJesus is the Fig wasp that gives
\nhis life, but he’s also the <\/p>\n
572
\n00:38:11,700 –> 00:38:16,300
\nfruit that was perfect for God.
\nAnd the only fruit hanging on <\/p>\n
573
\n00:38:16,300 –> 00:38:21,300
\nthat whole tree of any value and
\nworth was the fruit of the Lord <\/p>\n
574
\n00:38:21,300 –> 00:38:23,400
\nJesus Christ.
\nBut it’s Through his sacrifice <\/p>\n
575
\n00:38:23,400 –> 00:38:28,500
\nthat we can all be made good
\nbecause our sins can be <\/p>\n
576
\n00:38:28,500 –> 00:38:31,500
\nforgiven.
\nSo this tree in the middle of <\/p>\n
577
\n00:38:31,500 –> 00:38:37,200
\nthe garden, as we’ve tried to
\nsort of point out is all about <\/p>\n
578
\n00:38:37,200 –> 00:38:40,200
\nIsrael itself and of course
\nJesus was of Israel. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:38:40,200 –> 00:38:45,200
\nHe was a he was a Jew.
\nJesus said salvation is he is of<\/p>\n
580
\n00:38:45,200 –> 00:38:48,300
\nthe Jews.
\nAnd what God is saying is and <\/p>\n
581
\n00:38:48,300 –> 00:38:52,900
\nthis is really the, you know,
\ntest I I sort of think Don’t say<\/p>\n
582
\n00:38:52,900 –> 00:38:56,200
\nit.
\nExcept what I say about, Israel?<\/p>\n
583
\n00:38:56,300 –> 00:38:59,300
\nI see I gave a rule in the
\nGarden of Eden. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:38:59,300 –> 00:39:01,700
\nWhat to do?
\nAnd don’t devour it. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:39:01,900 –> 00:39:05,500
\nGod says the test is exactly the
\nsame in the world right now. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:39:05,700 –> 00:39:11,000
\nExcept what I say about Israel,
\ndo not devour her, don’t eat <\/p>\n
587
\n00:39:11,000 –> 00:39:12,800
\nher.
\nDon’t destroy her. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:39:12,800 –> 00:39:17,600
\nDon’t chew her up.
\nDon’t split her in half the Fig.<\/p>\n
589
\n00:39:17,600 –> 00:39:23,800
\nTree is still a test for today.
\nThe last thing I was just going <\/p>\n
590
\n00:39:23,800 –> 00:39:27,300
\nto cover in just a few slides
\nand this is a massive subject, <\/p>\n
591
\n00:39:27,300 –> 00:39:30,700
\nbut for those of you who might
\nbe watching this later on <\/p>\n
592
\n00:39:30,700 –> 00:39:35,200
\nYouTube, obviously I’m doing it
\nlive right now but for those who<\/p>\n
593
\n00:39:35,200 –> 00:39:37,600
\nmight be wondering to
\nthemselves, what is the <\/p>\n
594
\n00:39:37,600 –> 00:39:41,100
\nsignificance of Israel?
\nI mean, why Israel? <\/p>\n
595
\n00:39:41,300 –> 00:39:44,300
\nI thought I’d just very quickly
\nshow a couple of slides. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:39:44,900 –> 00:39:48,000
\nThis is a big talk just on its
\nown as you can imagine but I <\/p>\n
597
\n00:39:48,000 –> 00:39:51,500
\njust thought it’d be good to
\nshow a few slides as the <\/p>\n
598
\n00:39:51,500 –> 00:39:58,900
\nsignificance of Israel.
\nIn Acts 1:6, Jesus is raised <\/p>\n
599
\n00:39:58,900 –> 00:40:01,100
\nfrom the dead.
\nHe’s on the Mount of Olives, <\/p>\n
600
\n00:40:01,100 –> 00:40:03,800
\nhe’s with his disciples and
\nthey’ve all come together and <\/p>\n
601
\n00:40:03,800 –> 00:40:08,100
\nthey asked him and said, Lord,
\nare you going to at this time <\/p>\n
602
\n00:40:08,100 –> 00:40:10,400
\nrestore again, the kingdom to
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:40:10,700 –> 00:40:13,600
\nSo the disciples were expecting
\nthe Risen Lord. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:40:13,600 –> 00:40:18,900
\nJesus Christ to immediately set
\nup a kingdom of which they <\/p>\n
605
\n00:40:18,900 –> 00:40:21,500
\nbelieve, of course he was going
\nto be the king. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:40:21,500 –> 00:40:25,300
\nAre you going to restore it?
\nYou’ve got me into did it this <\/p>\n
607
\n00:40:25,300 –> 00:40:27,200
\ntime?
\nAnd Jesus said, well, it isn’t <\/p>\n
608
\n00:40:27,200 –> 00:40:29,100
\nfor you to know the times and
\nthe seasons. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:40:29,100 –> 00:40:32,900
\nSo basically says, well yes, I’m
\ngoing to do it, but now isn’t <\/p>\n
610
\n00:40:32,900 –> 00:40:37,300
\nthe time, okay?
\nSo a little bit later on in Acts<\/p>\n
611
\n00:40:37,300 –> 00:40:42,500
\nof the Apostles, and this is
\nafter Jesus ascended into <\/p>\n
612
\n00:40:42,500 –> 00:40:45,800
\nheaven, and so he’s left planet
\nEarth, he’s gone into heaven. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:40:46,400 –> 00:40:51,700
\nAnd the Apostle Paul is as a
\nChristian bound up in prison, <\/p>\n
614
\n00:40:51,700 –> 00:40:56,900
\neffectively in Rome.
\nAnd he says some interesting <\/p>\n
615
\n00:40:56,900 –> 00:40:58,900
\nword.
\nHe says for the hope of Israel, <\/p>\n
616
\n00:40:59,300 –> 00:41:03,600
\nI am bound with this chain and I
\nsort of wonder how many of us if<\/p>\n
617
\n00:41:03,600 –> 00:41:06,600
\nwe were thrown into prison for
\nour Christian fuse. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:41:06,900 –> 00:41:10,200
\nWould say, well I’m here in
\nprison because it’s for my hope <\/p>\n
619
\n00:41:10,200 –> 00:41:13,300
\nof Israel.
\nI wonder how many Christians in <\/p>\n
620
\n00:41:13,300 –> 00:41:17,300
\nthe world would say for the hope
\nof Israel that I’m Bound in <\/p>\n
621
\n00:41:17,300 –> 00:41:20,500
\nChains, but that was the Apostle
\nPaul who was probably the <\/p>\n
622
\n00:41:20,500 –> 00:41:24,600
\ngreatest of the the Christians
\nat that time. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:41:24,600 –> 00:41:27,600
\nIf we were going to put them in
\nsome sort of order because God <\/p>\n
624
\n00:41:27,600 –> 00:41:31,500
\ncommissioned the Apostle Paul to
\ngo to the non-jewish people. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:41:31,500 –> 00:41:37,200
\nThe Gentiles to tell them about
\nthe truth and he’s truth was all<\/p>\n
626
\n00:41:37,200 –> 00:41:41,300
\ncentered on Israel.
\nSo why is Israel? <\/p>\n
627
\n00:41:41,400 –> 00:41:44,900
\nSo, so, so important.
\nWell, this is what I wanted to <\/p>\n
628
\n00:41:44,900 –> 00:41:47,400
\nquickly show you just a couple
\nof slides because I didn’t <\/p>\n
629
\n00:41:47,400 –> 00:41:52,300
\nreally get a handle on this when
\nI grew up and I reckon it, I was<\/p>\n
630
\n00:41:52,300 –> 00:41:58,400
\nin my probably 30 days before I
\nreally grasp this bit in Genesis<\/p>\n
631
\n00:41:58,400 –> 00:42:00,100
\nchapter 10.
\nSo going all the way back to <\/p>\n
632
\n00:42:00,100 –> 00:42:05,700
\nGenesis your around about 2,000
\nyears before Christ at this <\/p>\n
633
\n00:42:05,700 –> 00:42:10,700
\npoint in time.
\nAnd you read about a kingdom <\/p>\n
634
\n00:42:10,700 –> 00:42:13,500
\nthat was on the earth.
\nIn fact, it was the very first <\/p>\n
635
\n00:42:13,500 –> 00:42:18,800
\nKingdom that ever existed
\naccording to the scriptures and <\/p>\n
636
\n00:42:18,800 –> 00:42:22,800
\nit wasn’t a good Kingdom.
\nIt was a kingdom that was run by<\/p>\n
637
\n00:42:22,800 –> 00:42:27,500
\na chap called Nimrod and his
\nkingdom was called Babel and it <\/p>\n
638
\n00:42:27,500 –> 00:42:32,100
\nwas in the land of shinar and on
\nthat map that you can see there.<\/p>\n
639
\n00:42:33,000 –> 00:42:37,000
\nYou basically got where Babel
\nwas it wasn’t just it was a sea.<\/p>\n
640
\n00:42:37,200 –> 00:42:38,700
\nCity.
\nBut it actually covered quite a <\/p>\n
641
\n00:42:38,700 –> 00:42:41,400
\nlarge territory in terms of its
\ninfluence. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:42:41,400 –> 00:42:45,100
\nAnd that’s why it was called a
\nkingdom because it was it was <\/p>\n
643
\n00:42:45,100 –> 00:42:47,500
\nnot just one very localized
\nplace. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:42:47,500 –> 00:42:51,700
\nIt actually covered quite a
\nlarge territory and if I just <\/p>\n
645
\n00:42:51,700 –> 00:42:54,800
\nput it onto the map so you can
\nsee hopefully you can just about<\/p>\n
646
\n00:42:54,800 –> 00:42:58,700
\nsee their the name modern
\nNations on the earth so you can <\/p>\n
647
\n00:42:58,700 –> 00:43:02,100
\nsee there.
\nIt’s sort of covers modern day. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:43:02,100 –> 00:43:08,700
\nIt was in, modern-day Iraq.
\nAnyway, these people that lived <\/p>\n
649
\n00:43:08,700 –> 00:43:12,900
\nin Babel with Nimrod ruling over
\nthem, decided to build this city<\/p>\n
650
\n00:43:12,900 –> 00:43:17,300
\nand a tower.
\nAnd God was not happy with this <\/p>\n
651
\n00:43:17,500 –> 00:43:21,600
\nsituation because it was all
\nabout and you can read about it.<\/p>\n
652
\n00:43:21,600 –> 00:43:27,300
\nIn Genesis chapter 11, it was
\nall about them replacing God’s <\/p>\n
653
\n00:43:27,300 –> 00:43:31,000
\nthinking, and God’s ways and
\nGod’s religion with man’s <\/p>\n
654
\n00:43:31,000 –> 00:43:34,300
\nthinking and man’s ways, and a
\nmade-up, man’s religion. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:43:35,600 –> 00:43:40,700
\nAnd it says, God says, behold
\nthe people of one they have all <\/p>\n
656
\n00:43:40,700 –> 00:43:43,900
\ngot one language.
\nNothing is going to be <\/p>\n
657
\n00:43:43,900 –> 00:43:46,500
\nrestrained from them which they
\nhave imagined to do. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:43:46,700 –> 00:43:50,900
\nLet go to let us go down and
\nthere confound their language <\/p>\n
659
\n00:43:50,900 –> 00:43:53,300
\nand that’s what God did.
\nAnd that’s where we get all the,<\/p>\n
660
\n00:43:53,700 –> 00:43:57,900
\nthe languages of the world
\nsprang from this one place, the <\/p>\n
661
\n00:43:57,900 –> 00:44:02,500
\nword Babel in Hebrew means,
\nconfusion and Nimrod himself, <\/p>\n
662
\n00:44:02,500 –> 00:44:04,700
\nthe ruler of this place for some
\ntime. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:44:05,000 –> 00:44:09,400
\nHis actual name in Hebrew means
\nrebellion and the great tower <\/p>\n
664
\n00:44:09,400 –> 00:44:13,200
\nthat they would building was all
\nto do with false worship, not <\/p>\n
665
\n00:44:13,200 –> 00:44:16,000
\nthe worship of God.
\nBut false Worship. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:44:16,000 –> 00:44:21,200
\nIn fact, what they did was
\nworshipped Nimrod at the very <\/p>\n
667
\n00:44:21,200 –> 00:44:23,400
\nsame time that all this is going
\non. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:44:23,500 –> 00:44:26,800
\nThere was somebody else.
\nAnd this, somebody else was <\/p>\n
669
\n00:44:26,800 –> 00:44:31,900
\ncalled Abraham and Abraham lived
\nin the territory of the kingdom <\/p>\n
670
\n00:44:31,900 –> 00:44:35,600
\nof Babel, he lived in Ur of the
\nChaldeans these on the exactly <\/p>\n
671
\n00:44:35,600 –> 00:44:41,200
\nthe same map look and God picked
\nout Abraham and said to him, get<\/p>\n
672
\n00:44:41,200 –> 00:44:45,100
\nout of your country, the king,
\nyou know, the kingdom of Babel <\/p>\n
673
\n00:44:45,100 –> 00:44:49,600
\nbasically and from your Kindred,
\nor your family and from your <\/p>\n
674
\n00:44:49,600 –> 00:44:53,500
\nfather’s house because I’m going
\nto take you to a land and I’m <\/p>\n
675
\n00:44:53,500 –> 00:44:56,100
\ngoing to show you where it is
\nand I’m going to make of you a <\/p>\n
676
\n00:44:56,100 –> 00:44:59,900
\ngreat nation, a kingdom.
\nAnd I’m going to bless you and <\/p>\n
677
\n00:44:59,900 –> 00:45:03,500
\nmake your name great and you’re
\ngoing to be a blessing now. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:45:03,500 –> 00:45:08,600
\nGod didn’t pick a Mouse because
\nyou know, he sort of looked like<\/p>\n
679
\n00:45:08,600 –> 00:45:10,100
\nsomebody that God wants to work
\nwith. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:45:10,100 –> 00:45:12,300
\nThey got a nice long, white
\nbeard and he looked like a <\/p>\n
681
\n00:45:12,300 –> 00:45:18,400
\nprophet God picked Abram Abraham
\nout because he was faithful, in <\/p>\n
682
\n00:45:18,400 –> 00:45:21,500
\nfact he was probably the only
\nfaithful person in bit like with<\/p>\n
683
\n00:45:21,500 –> 00:45:25,800
\nNoah where God saw Noah and
\npicked him out out of all the <\/p>\n
684
\n00:45:25,800 –> 00:45:29,400
\npeople on the Earth and said,
\nyou’re going to build me an ark <\/p>\n
685
\n00:45:29,600 –> 00:45:32,800
\nGod picked out a brand for the
\nsame reasons. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:45:32,800 –> 00:45:36,100
\nAbraham was faithful in.
\nIn fact they Abraham’s own <\/p>\n
687
\n00:45:36,100 –> 00:45:38,600
\nfather.
\nTerah was not faithful. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:45:38,800 –> 00:45:43,000
\nHe actually were told in Joshua,
\nworshiped idols and that’s why <\/p>\n
689
\n00:45:43,000 –> 00:45:46,000
\nGod said, you’ve got to have to
\nleave it all behind Abraham. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:45:46,800 –> 00:45:50,400
\nSo here is that Ibrahim down
\nthere in are of the called he’s <\/p>\n
691
\n00:45:50,800 –> 00:45:52,700
\nand God led him.
\nHe didn’t know where he was <\/p>\n
692
\n00:45:52,700 –> 00:45:57,000
\ngoing.
\nAnd God led him out of this area<\/p>\n
693
\n00:45:57,000 –> 00:46:01,300
\nof Babel and this false Kingdom
\nthat had been set up and he took<\/p>\n
694
\n00:46:01,300 –> 00:46:04,800
\nhim out as an individual, man.
\nYes, he had got servants and <\/p>\n
695
\n00:46:05,100 –> 00:46:08,500
\nwives and a bit of an Entourage
\nthat when tweaking, but Abraham <\/p>\n
696
\n00:46:08,500 –> 00:46:14,700
\nwas the one that God called out
\nNow, the point is, this Babel <\/p>\n
697
\n00:46:14,700 –> 00:46:16,900
\nwas the beginning of the kingdom
\nof men. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:46:16,900 –> 00:46:22,000
\nIt was the, it was the home if
\nyou like the beginning of all <\/p>\n
699
\n00:46:22,000 –> 00:46:27,400
\nthe opposition to God, setting
\nitself upon Earth as a as a <\/p>\n
700
\n00:46:27,400 –> 00:46:31,500
\nkingdom, that would push back
\nagainst God and want nothing to <\/p>\n
701
\n00:46:31,500 –> 00:46:36,300
\ndo with God and have their own
\nreligious thinking, but Abraham <\/p>\n
702
\n00:46:36,300 –> 00:46:40,600
\nwas the father of the nation of
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
703
\n00:46:40,600 –> 00:46:46,400
\nAnd Elvis the beginning of the
\nkingdom of God, and is the still<\/p>\n
704
\n00:46:46,400 –> 00:46:48,400
\nthe beginning of the kingdom of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:46:49,000 –> 00:46:53,500
\nIn fact, Israel is the unti dose
\nto Babel. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:46:53,800 –> 00:46:58,800
\nThat’s what exactly what it is.
\nIt’s the antidote to Babel and <\/p>\n
707
\n00:46:58,800 –> 00:47:04,600
\ntherefore, Israel became sense
\nof the whole plan and purpose of<\/p>\n
708
\n00:47:04,600 –> 00:47:07,600
\nGod.
\nAnd when Jesus comes back, <\/p>\n
709
\n00:47:07,900 –> 00:47:13,700
\nIsrael will be the central
\nnation of the entire planet out <\/p>\n
710
\n00:47:13,700 –> 00:47:17,000
\nof which will emanate the
\nteachings of God. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:47:17,600 –> 00:47:21,400
\nWhat is really interesting is
\nthat Babel means confusion, and <\/p>\n
712
\n00:47:21,400 –> 00:47:25,300
\nif you look up the name Israel,
\nin Strong’s Concordance, it <\/p>\n
713
\n00:47:25,300 –> 00:47:31,700
\nactually means god prevails Oh
\nyou might say God succeeds or <\/p>\n
714
\n00:47:31,700 –> 00:47:34,800
\nyou might say in modern terms
\nGodwin’s. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:47:35,100 –> 00:47:39,200
\nIn other words, this confusion
\nthat were set up at the time of <\/p>\n
716
\n00:47:39,200 –> 00:47:41,600
\nBabel which has continued to
\nthis day. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:47:41,600 –> 00:47:44,400
\nThe whole world really has
\nbecome a great. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:47:44,400 –> 00:47:50,700
\nBig Kingdom of men is going to
\nbe replaced by Israel, and <\/p>\n
719
\n00:47:50,700 –> 00:47:55,300
\nIsrael means god wins and God is
\ngoing to win. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:47:55,300 –> 00:47:58,200
\nHe is going to replace all the
\nwicked Kingdom. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:47:58,300 –> 00:48:02,500
\nEames on this Earth.
\nAnd so when they said, are you <\/p>\n
722
\n00:48:02,500 –> 00:48:04,500
\ngoing to restore the kingdom to
\nIsrael? <\/p>\n
723
\n00:48:04,500 –> 00:48:06,800
\nThe disciples.
\nWhen Jesus was risen from the <\/p>\n
724
\n00:48:06,800 –> 00:48:09,900
\ndead hoped and prayed, it was
\ngoing to happen there and then <\/p>\n
725
\n00:48:10,500 –> 00:48:12,900
\ngood news for us.
\nIt didn’t happen there. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:48:12,900 –> 00:48:14,200
\nAnd then otherwise, we wouldn’t
\nbe here. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:48:14,200 –> 00:48:20,100
\nNow, it needed time to go by to
\nallow more and more people to be<\/p>\n
728
\n00:48:20,100 –> 00:48:22,500
\nable to come to a knowledge of
\nthese things. <\/p>\n
729
\n00:48:23,100 –> 00:48:26,000
\nBut Jesus is going to return to
\nset up the kingdom. <\/p>\n
730
\n00:48:26,300 –> 00:48:30,100
\nAnd in that same chapter, it
\nsays But while they were <\/p>\n
731
\n00:48:30,100 –> 00:48:33,900
\nwatching, Jesus was taken up
\nfrom them and a cloud received <\/p>\n
732
\n00:48:33,900 –> 00:48:36,200
\nhim out of their sight.
\nAnd while they looked <\/p>\n
733
\n00:48:36,200 –> 00:48:40,200
\nsteadfastly towards heaven, as
\nhe went up behold, two men that <\/p>\n
734
\n00:48:40,200 –> 00:48:44,000
\nwere Angels stood by them in
\nwhite apparel and they said, <\/p>\n
735
\n00:48:44,000 –> 00:48:48,900
\nyou, men of Galilee why stand ye
\ngazing up into heaven, this <\/p>\n
736
\n00:48:48,900 –> 00:48:51,600
\nsame, Jesus, which is taken up
\nfrom you into heaven. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:48:51,600 –> 00:48:56,000
\nWill come will so come in like
\nmanner, as you’ve seen him go <\/p>\n
738
\n00:48:56,000 –> 00:48:58,300
\ninto heaven.
\nSo they said he’s going to to <\/p>\n
739
\n00:48:58,308 –> 00:49:01,000
\ncome back.
\nHe is going to come back. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:49:01,600 –> 00:49:05,400
\nOh, just two more slides to go.
\nWe’re told in an incredible <\/p>\n
741
\n00:49:05,400 –> 00:49:09,600
\nprophecy in Daniel chapter 2.
\nAll about the return of Jesus <\/p>\n
742
\n00:49:09,600 –> 00:49:15,800
\nand how the kingdom of God is
\ngoing to replace all kingdoms on<\/p>\n
743
\n00:49:15,800 –> 00:49:18,800
\nthis Earth.
\nAnd it says, in that verse that <\/p>\n
744
\n00:49:18,800 –> 00:49:22,500
\nyou can see on the screen in the
\ndays of these Kings, shall the <\/p>\n
745
\n00:49:22,500 –> 00:49:26,000
\ngod of Heaven set up a kingdom,
\nwhich shall never be destroyed. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:49:26,300 –> 00:49:28,200
\nAnd the kingdom shall not be
\nleft to other people. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:49:28,300 –> 00:49:33,000
\nFull but it will break in pieces
\nand consume all the kingdoms and<\/p>\n
748
\n00:49:33,000 –> 00:49:36,400
\nit will stand forever.
\nSo when Jesus comes back and <\/p>\n
749
\n00:49:36,400 –> 00:49:40,200
\nthat Little Rock falling out,
\nthe sky is symbolic of Jesus <\/p>\n
750
\n00:49:40,200 –> 00:49:45,100
\ncoming back to this earth and he
\ngrinds to powder all the nations<\/p>\n
751
\n00:49:45,100 –> 00:49:48,400
\non this Earth, whether it be the
\nUnited States of America or <\/p>\n
752
\n00:49:48,400 –> 00:49:51,500
\nwhether it be the United Kingdom
\nor whether it be Russia or Iran <\/p>\n
753
\n00:49:51,500 –> 00:49:54,200
\nor Australia.
\nThe whole lot will end up coming<\/p>\n
754
\n00:49:54,200 –> 00:49:59,100
\nunder the control of one king
\nand that is The king, the Lord <\/p>\n
755
\n00:49:59,100 –> 00:50:03,200
\nJesus Christ ruling from
\nJerusalem and ruling from <\/p>\n
756
\n00:50:03,200 –> 00:50:06,800
\nIsrael.
\nAnd this is my very poor attempt<\/p>\n
757
\n00:50:06,800 –> 00:50:10,100
\nat trying to see what it might
\nlook like in the future with <\/p>\n
758
\n00:50:10,100 –> 00:50:13,200
\nsome pretty terrible Graphics
\nthere, but it says that <\/p>\n
759
\n00:50:13,200 –> 00:50:14,900
\nJerusalem is going to be raised
\nup. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:50:15,400 –> 00:50:19,700
\nIt says that all nations are
\ngoing to flow unto it when Jesus<\/p>\n
761
\n00:50:19,700 –> 00:50:24,200
\ncomes back and that God’s
\nteaching will go forth to all <\/p>\n
762
\n00:50:24,200 –> 00:50:27,100
\npeople.
\nIn fact, the Bible says it much <\/p>\n
763
\n00:50:27,100 –> 00:50:31,200
\nbetter than me In Isaiah chapter
\n2 verse 2. <\/p>\n
764
\n00:50:31,200 –> 00:50:35,500
\nIt says in the last days, the
\nmountain of the Lord’s House <\/p>\n
765
\n00:50:35,500 –> 00:50:39,600
\nwill be the highest of all the
\nmost important place on Earth. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:50:40,100 –> 00:50:44,000
\nIt will be raised above the
\nother Hills and people from all <\/p>\n
767
\n00:50:44,000 –> 00:50:47,300
\nover the world will stream there
\nto worship people. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:50:47,300 –> 00:50:50,800
\nFrom many nations will come and
\nsay come, let’s go to the <\/p>\n
769
\n00:50:50,808 –> 00:50:53,700
\nmountain of the Lord.
\nSo the house of Jacob’s God, <\/p>\n
770
\n00:50:54,000 –> 00:50:57,100
\nthere he will teach us of his
\nways and we will walk in his <\/p>\n
771
\n00:50:57,100 –> 00:51:00,800
\npaths for The Lord’s teaching
\nwill go out from Zion, that’s <\/p>\n
772
\n00:51:00,800 –> 00:51:03,300
\nJerusalem.
\nHis word will go out from <\/p>\n
773
\n00:51:03,300 –> 00:51:06,000
\nJerusalem.
\nThe Lord will mediate between <\/p>\n
774
\n00:51:06,000 –> 00:51:09,000
\nnations and will settle
\ninternational disputes. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:51:09,300 –> 00:51:11,900
\nThey will Hammer their swords
\ninto plowshares, and their <\/p>\n
776
\n00:51:11,900 –> 00:51:15,700
\nSpears into pruning.
\nHooks Nation will no longer <\/p>\n
777
\n00:51:15,700 –> 00:51:19,700
\nfight against Nation, nor train
\nfor war anymore. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:51:20,000 –> 00:51:22,300
\nAnd surely in the light of what
\nwe see at the moment with <\/p>\n
779
\n00:51:22,300 –> 00:51:27,100
\nUkraine and Russia, you know,
\nsurely this is an incredible and<\/p>\n
780
\n00:51:27,100 –> 00:51:30,100
\nwonderful picture.
\nThat he’s coming but it’s an <\/p>\n
781
\n00:51:30,100 –> 00:51:34,800
\nincredible and wonderful picture
\nthat all emanates from the Fig <\/p>\n
782
\n00:51:34,800 –> 00:51:37,600
\nTree, which is surely a sign
\nfloor time. <\/p>\n
783
\n00:51:37,600 –> 00:51:41,800
\nAnd next time, we’ll have a look
\nand see all the passages in the <\/p>\n
784
\n00:51:41,800 –> 00:51:46,300
\nNew Testament that reference the
\nFig Tree and show remarkably how<\/p>\n
785
\n00:51:46,300 –> 00:51:52,400
\nit even predicts the future and
\nthe return of the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
786
\n00:51:52,400 –> 00:51:54,900
\nChrist.
\nThank you for listening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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