Class 3 from this series was used in GCT Episode 202<\/p>\n
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\nWestern christadelphians Bible
\nschool, at Minooka. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the fifth class in a
\nseries given by brother, Matthew<\/p>\n
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\nblew it on the subject.
\nMeditations in Revelation. <\/p>\n
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\nThis class is titled pictures.
\nMerchants of Babylon. <\/p>\n
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\nMorning, everyone.
\nGreat to be with you here. <\/p>\n
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\nThis lost Tom just wanted to
\nstop by saying a big. <\/p>\n
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\nThank you all the way from South
\nAfrica. <\/p>\n
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\nJust in case.
\nYou don’t know how to get there,<\/p>\n
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\nthat’s how easy it is.
\nIn fact, they have got Boston <\/p>\n
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\nand haven’t updated that.
\nYou just, you can go the other <\/p>\n
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\nway around as well, if you want
\nto come, but it’s very easy. <\/p>\n
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\nCome and visit us in in South
\nAfrica, but we really had a <\/p>\n
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\ngreat time.
\nYou want to thank everybody for <\/p>\n
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\nthe love and the hospitality,
\nand for the amazing, some <\/p>\n
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\nfriendships with rekindled and
\nothers. <\/p>\n
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\nThat we’ve been able to make
\nit’s an absolute blessing to <\/p>\n
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\nenjoy a relationship, especially
\nin our Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nSo thank you from Pete and
\nmyself and we’d love to see you <\/p>\n
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\nand extend Hospital.
\nHospitality back in South <\/p>\n
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\nAfrica.
\nOh, by the way, this few <\/p>\n
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\npictures to encourage you to
\ncome just in case we’re not good<\/p>\n
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\nenough.
\nI was told that the one thing <\/p>\n
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\nthat encourages people come to
\nErica’s, baby elephants. <\/p>\n
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\nSo there’s a couple of these And
\nmaybe one more little guy. <\/p>\n
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\nSo if not for us, then for them,
\nit’s worth the trip. <\/p>\n
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\nSo, maybe that’s a good intro
\nbecause in our final session, we<\/p>\n
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\nwant to talk about just to
\nmeditations that focus on some <\/p>\n
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\nof the imagery and the beautiful
\npictures that are drawn of the <\/p>\n
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\nvisions and the different
\nsymbols that are used in The <\/p>\n
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\nBook of Revelation.
\nSo, we’ve, we’ve talked about <\/p>\n
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\nhow yesterday we the some Often
\nmake use of numbers and I can <\/p>\n
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\nsee yesterday.
\nThere were a number of <\/p>\n
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\naccountants who were very
\ninterested in want to have <\/p>\n
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\ndiscussions about various
\ncalculations afterwards on the <\/p>\n
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\nthird session, we try to show
\nthe use of words and, and <\/p>\n
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\nrelationships and names, and
\nplaces, and they’re lots of <\/p>\n
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\nthose in the Book of Revelation.
\nBut I guess probably the most <\/p>\n
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\nprominent kind of a symbol is
\nthat of the use of imagery and <\/p>\n
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\nvisuals.
\nSo if you have visual kind of <\/p>\n
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\nperson in the book of Revelation
\nis a really exciting book and I <\/p>\n
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\nknow that there are many good
\nvisual people. <\/p>\n
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\nYeah.
\nBecause I can see some of your <\/p>\n
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\npaintings in the back there.
\nSo hopefully, this is something <\/p>\n
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\na language that works for you.
\nSo as you know, in the Book of <\/p>\n
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\nRevelation, there’s all sorts of
\nof imagery and visualization <\/p>\n
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\nused, lots of colors are,
\nmentioned in the Book of <\/p>\n
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\nRevelation will actually focus
\non on some colors. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in this particular session
\ntogether, there are images and <\/p>\n
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\nrespect of objects.
\nAnd of different animals and <\/p>\n
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\neven made fantasy top animals
\ndragons and beasts. <\/p>\n
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\nSo a lot of visualization
\ntechniques used in Jesus <\/p>\n
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\ncommunicating spiritual truths
\nto us. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the one that I wanted to
\nstart off with is this lovely <\/p>\n
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\nvisual image, we get of a
\nmarriage and just one verse <\/p>\n
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\nthere are some other verses we
\ngoing to take in that succinctly<\/p>\n
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\ndescribes this incredible event
\nthat most of us are waiting for <\/p>\n
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\nwith expectation.
\nAnd that is this idea. <\/p>\n
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\nLet us be glad and rejoice and
\ngive him glory for the marriage <\/p>\n
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\nof the Lamb has come.
\nAnd his wife has made herself <\/p>\n
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\nready.
\nAnd as we meditate on those <\/p>\n
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\nwords and try and draw that
\npicture of that, incredible <\/p>\n
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\nwedding day.
\nThere’s a lot just in those few <\/p>\n
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\nwords that talks to the kind of
\nweddings and marriages, we’ve <\/p>\n
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\nbeen to and and certainly the
\nones that I’ve been to lots of <\/p>\n
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\npreparation, has to take place.
\nSo the idea of getting ready and<\/p>\n
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\neverybody preparing the day of
\nWaiting to be. <\/p>\n
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\nAbsolutely perfect.
\nAnd of course, the broad <\/p>\n
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\nShe’s got to have the most <\/p>\n
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\nShe’s got to be ready and <\/p>\n
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\non Tom and be there for, you <\/p>\n
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\nknow, when it gets Beyond, 10
\nminutes, of course, one starts <\/p>\n
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\nto feel that the one might be
\nleft at the altar, but there’s a<\/p>\n
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\nfor the bride and she prepares <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so there’s this beautiful <\/p>\n
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\nimage for me that I was
\nmeditating. <\/p>\n
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\nRotating on.
\nAnd then suddenly just in that, <\/p>\n
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\nsuddenly the bridegroom coming, <\/p>\n
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\nsomething just didn’t seem right
\nbecause the bridegroom was a <\/p>\n
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\nlamb.
\nNow, I know what you’re <\/p>\n
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\nthinking, but of course it’s the
\nmarriage supper of the lamb. <\/p>\n
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\nBut I want you to just think
\nabout how strange that picture <\/p>\n
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\nis because in the picture of the
\nBride, the last thing we expect <\/p>\n
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\nto see is in the visual image,
\nthe hero coming as a lamb to <\/p>\n
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\nwalk down the aisle, to take her
\nbra door, his breath and and <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s what caught my attention.
\nWhat caught my attention is. <\/p>\n
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\nThis idea of of Jesus, as a lamb
\nthe the Greek word for lamb <\/p>\n
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\nactually has the connotation of
\nLamken. <\/p>\n
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\nWe don’t actually really use
\nthat in English because a pretty<\/p>\n
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\nsmall in the first place, a baby
\nsheep in Afrikaans. <\/p>\n
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\nThe language that is my second
\nlanguage in South Africa. <\/p>\n
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\nThey talk about Alum, icky and
\neverything that has a key on the<\/p>\n
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\nend means it’s very small.
\nSo a Lamkin, a small little lamb<\/p>\n
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\nis this description that’s used
\nof the Lord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nAs the hero coming to take his
\nbride and and that really got me<\/p>\n
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\nthinking about this symbol of
\nthe lamb and the and the imagery<\/p>\n
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\nthat has been portrayed to us
\nthrough the lamb. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, when I was in Sunday
\nschool, I really love the idea. <\/p>\n
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\nHis first Advent, he came as the<\/p>\n
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\nlamb, the lamb, that was slain,
\nand meek and Mild Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nBut the idea was that when he
\ncomes again, he will come as the<\/p>\n
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\nlion, that Roars and butts and
\ndeals with all these terrible <\/p>\n
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\npeople that upset me every day,
\nbut but in reality, Actually how<\/p>\n
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\nRevelation chooses to describe
\nour lord Jesus? <\/p>\n
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\nIs that how Jesus in his love
\nlater chooses to describe <\/p>\n
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\nAnd, yes, the interesting thing.<\/p>\n
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\nIn the Book of Revelation and we
\nsaid, we like to use a various <\/p>\n
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\nthese passages deeply and the <\/p>\n
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\none is patent.
\nSo, I think patents are <\/p>\n
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\nAnd patents are often discovered<\/p>\n
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\nby looking at the occurrence of
\nwords and, and their <\/p>\n
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\nconcentrations in the Book of
\nRevelation, the word lamb <\/p>\n
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\nappears, 25 times always, in
\nreference to the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nbook, certainly in the New <\/p>\n
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\nTestament.
\nI think it’s of the whole Bible,<\/p>\n
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\ncorrect. <\/p>\n
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\nBut certainly an incredible
\nnumber of occurrences of The <\/p>\n
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\nword lamb in reference to the
\nLord. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus Christ.
\nThe word lion only appears for <\/p>\n
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\ntops of which only one of those
\noccasions is in reference to the<\/p>\n
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\nLord Jesus Christ.
\nSo just like yesterday we said <\/p>\n
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\nthere was this profound just by
\nthe, the pattern of the number <\/p>\n
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\nof sevens overcoming sixes,
\nthere was a message for us <\/p>\n
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\nimmediately, there’s something
\nthat we’ve been asked to look at<\/p>\n
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\nThe Lord Jesus Christ is <\/p>\n
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\nactually being revealed to us in
\nthe Book of Revelation, the book<\/p>\n
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\nthat is about the Juggle for
\npower. <\/p>\n
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\nAs more of a lamb than a lion
\nand in fact, the one occurrence <\/p>\n
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\nwhere he is referred to as a
\nlion, is up on the screen here. <\/p>\n
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\nBut one of the elders said to
\nme, do not weep, Behold The Lion<\/p>\n
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\nof the tribe of Judah.
\nThe root of David has prevailed <\/p>\n
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\nto open the scroll and to loose
\nthe Seven Seals. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the one occasion, where
\nlion as an image is used to <\/p>\n
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\ndescribe the Lord Jesus Christ
\nin the Book of Revelation. <\/p>\n
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\nBut look at what happens and I
\nlooked and behold in the midst <\/p>\n
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\nof the throne and of the four
\nliving creatures. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in the midst of the Go to
\nstood a lamb as though it had <\/p>\n
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\nbeen slain.
\nSo when he looked, he who was of<\/p>\n
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\nthe Lion of the tribe of Judah,
\nwho had come through this Royal <\/p>\n
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\npowerful Dynasty, he sees still
\nam What a powerful message has <\/p>\n
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\nbeen given to us and and, and if
\nwe were with with a bit of <\/p>\n
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\nDoubt, as to why that symbol was
\nimportant, what gets attached to<\/p>\n
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\nit is, is demonstrating us to
\nus. <\/p>\n
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\nClearly what God and the Lord
\nJesus Christ are trying to <\/p>\n
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\ncommunicate.
\nThis is the lamb as though it <\/p>\n
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\nhad been slain.
\nAnd so on a number of occasions,<\/p>\n
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\nwhen we read about the lamb in
\nthe Book of Revelation, it comes<\/p>\n
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\nwith that phrase, the lamb slain
\nso not only are we talking about<\/p>\n
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\na lamb but the lamb that has
\nbeen sacrificed What a powerful <\/p>\n
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\nmessage being shared to us in
\nthese passages? <\/p>\n
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\nThen I looked and I heard the
\nvoice of many angels around the <\/p>\n
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\nthrone and the living creatures,
\nthe elders. <\/p>\n
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\nThe number of them was Ten
\nThousand Times. <\/p>\n
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\nTen Thousand and thousands of
\nthousands saying with a loud <\/p>\n
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\nvoice.
\nWorthy is the Lamb who was slain<\/p>\n
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\nto receive power and riches and
\nwisdom, and strength, and honor <\/p>\n
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\nand glory and blessing.
\nThis is a part of the song of <\/p>\n
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\nthe lamb.
\nAnd to me, it’s the great <\/p>\n
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\nblessing of the Lamb.
\nIt’s the Sevenfold blessing, <\/p>\n
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\nseven items and notice the
\ndominance in those items of <\/p>\n
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\npower.
\nRich’s strength honor glory, <\/p>\n
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\nwhy?
\nBecause this is what the Book of<\/p>\n
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\nRevelation is about.
\nIt’s about the struggle for <\/p>\n
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\npower and the winner of that
\nstruggle for power is described <\/p>\n
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\nas a lamb, slain.
\nYou see the natural mind in the <\/p>\n
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\nspiritual manner.
\nSo different. <\/p>\n
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\nDon’t they?
\nWe’re our view of power. <\/p>\n
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\nOur view of strength is so
\ndifferent to the way God <\/p>\n
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\noperates, the whole message of
\nthe Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus Christ is a new kind of
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\nIt’s a power that is found in
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\nto change things.
\nWhen I am willing to be hurt, <\/p>\n
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\nWhen I’m willing to suffer loss
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\nis the true battle and it hasn’t
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\nIt was the power that redeemed
\nus, 2,000 years ago, it’s the <\/p>\n
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\nsame power that will redeem the
\nworld and that’s what the Book <\/p>\n
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\nof Revelation is all about.
\nCredible lesson for us to learn <\/p>\n
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\njust in the patterns of the
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\nAnd when we look to applying it
\nto ourselves You know, sometimes<\/p>\n
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\ndifferent forms of power.
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\nnatural response to one to <\/p>\n
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\nstrength that we have to attack
\nin return. <\/p>\n
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\nBut ultimately the lesson that’s
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\npowerful form of response you
\nhave is love and that is love <\/p>\n
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\nfor way to We think of the the
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\nBook of Revelation, this Lamb,
\nslain, the power of the Lamb is <\/p>\n
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\nindeed one of the great themes
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\nSo I want to change a bit of
\nslant, but not really that much <\/p>\n
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\nas we will see, as we move
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\nhere in Revelation chapter 18,
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\nWhen you at first read it, you
\nmight think. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, it’s pretty boring and
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\npurposely chose it for that
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\nBecause, you know, I know that
\npeople might be sitting in the <\/p>\n
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\naudience thinking, well, he’s
\ngiving these talks, he’s <\/p>\n
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\nencouraging us to meditate on
\nthe Book of Revelation but he’s <\/p>\n
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\nchoosing all the easy ones.
\nAnd then when we get home we’re <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to read about the Beast
\nwith eight wings and 26 crowns. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you know, it’s not going to
\nseem the same. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I think this message is a bit
\nmore obscure and let’s see if we<\/p>\n
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\ncan find something here.
\nIt’s a passage about the <\/p>\n
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\nmerchants of Babylon and it’s at
\nthe time when they’ve obviously <\/p>\n
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\nHappy because the city we talked<\/p>\n
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\nmiserable and they say in <\/p>\n
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\nRevelation, 18, the merchants of
\nthe earth, weep and mourn over <\/p>\n
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\nher that’s Babylon for No One
\nbuys their merchandise anymore, <\/p>\n
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\nmerchandise of gold and silver,
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\nfine, linen purple silk, and
\nScarlet. <\/p>\n
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\nEvery kind of Citron would every
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\nkind of object of most precious
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\nBubble and cinnamon, and
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\nsheep horses, and chariots and
\nbodies and Souls of men. <\/p>\n
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\nThe fruit that your soul long
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\nthe things which are rich and
\nSplendid of gone from you and <\/p>\n
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\nyou shall find them no more at
\nall. <\/p>\n
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\nSo, now try this in our
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\nYou’ve just read that, passage
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\nClose your eyes, you may read it
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\nclose your As you think of the
\nscene and you see these <\/p>\n
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\nthink well most of the passage <\/p>\n
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\nthat I’ve just read is about all
\nthe things they were trading and<\/p>\n
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\nwhat was it?
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\nwas frankincense there and
\nCitron would wow. <\/p>\n
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\nIt sure is a long list here and
\nthat’s what grabbed my <\/p>\n
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\nspecially so many times before <\/p>\n
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\nWhy does John and why does Jesus
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\nto include such an incredibly
\nlong list? <\/p>\n
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\nI mean, the Book of Revelation
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\nhappening all the time, lots of
\nenergy and suddenly all of this <\/p>\n
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\nspace to mention the inventory
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\nSo that is exactly what happened<\/p>\n
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\nwhen I took this passage off the
\npage, I thought, what a list and<\/p>\n
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\nthere they are.
\nI didn’t think I’d miss counted <\/p>\n
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\nthat might have 27 items in the
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\nGold, silver, Ivory oil, fine
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\nfence.
\nHe you, and I my hair, there may<\/p>\n
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\nbe some people in this room that
\nenjoy a good meal. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, that’s covered there
\nsomewhere. <\/p>\n
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\nAre some wine is their oil.
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\na farmer top we’ve got your
\ncattle and sheep covered. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you prefer the horses and
\nhorse racing, you got horses. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you prefer nice Vehicles,
\nwe’ve got chariots for you <\/p>\n
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\nthere.
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\njewelry, we’ve got a precious
\nwood. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you’re into fashion we’ve got
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\nAll right.
\nIf you just prefer the hard <\/p>\n
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\ncoins, gold and silver is also
\ncovered. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ve got you covered The
\nmerchants of Babylon have <\/p>\n
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\neverything in their inventory
\nlist. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, when you look at the
\nword of God, well it’s actually <\/p>\n
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\nquite amazing.
\nIs there are a number of long <\/p>\n
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\nyoung people to remember some <\/p>\n
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\nGood ones the most I’ve got to <\/p>\n
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\nwas the fruit of the spirit non
\nand some of your kids, have you <\/p>\n
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\nget home, you can check them.
\nThey may even get to the non <\/p>\n
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\nthrough the spirit, which is
\namazing. <\/p>\n
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\nBut look at this, pause works of
\nthe flesh are captured them. 17 <\/p>\n
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\nor I, thankfully, I don’t
\nnecessarily encourage <\/p>\n
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\nthen Jesus gives a list of evils<\/p>\n
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\nfrom the heart.
\nRemember, when he says those <\/p>\n
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\ndefile us 13 and netlist. <\/p>\n
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\nYeah but I haven’t found a list
\nas long as the merchants 27 in <\/p>\n
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\nSo I want us to think about what<\/p>\n
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\nWell, I think it’s this, God <\/p>\n
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\nindeed, it was corrupt for All <\/p>\n
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\nupon the Earth come now you rich<\/p>\n
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\nsays James and Bob weep and howl
\nfor your miseries that are <\/p>\n
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\ncoming upon you, your riches are
\ncorrupted and your garments are <\/p>\n
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\nmoth-eaten.
\nI think, what we’ve been taught <\/p>\n
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\ntaken everything we can imagine,<\/p>\n
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\nI think boo was referring to <\/p>\n
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\nmatter what it is, anything. <\/p>\n
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\nreally good items. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s nothing wrong with him.
\nSo can gold and silver of the <\/p>\n
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\nown, but anything that
\neventually places takes the <\/p>\n
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\nplace of God is an idol.
\nThat’s essentially what an idol <\/p>\n
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\nis it replaces God, and what?
\nThe merchants have done. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’ve managed to corrupt all
\nof it. and in fact, there’s <\/p>\n
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\nway that they have done that is <\/p>\n
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\nanything that has a price on it,<\/p>\n
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\nbecause the value is determined <\/p>\n
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\nagain was talking about. <\/p>\n
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\nValue is found in relationship <\/p>\n
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\nexactly what we’ve been taught <\/p>\n
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\nAll these fun things, these <\/p>\n
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\nJust now were actually meant to <\/p>\n
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\nrelationship have been <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so when you look at this <\/p>\n
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\nthat many of the items on this <\/p>\n
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\nlist actually with a very items
\nthat God had reserved for his <\/p>\n
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\nworship.
\nBecause when you look at that <\/p>\n
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\nthem were associated with the <\/p>\n
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\nTabernacle and the temple.
\nIn fact I’ve counted these 20 of<\/p>\n
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\nthem that have direct links to
\nthe Tabernacle and the temple. <\/p>\n
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\nSo there’s another message being
\nanother Echo coming out that <\/p>\n
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\nthese items that once had been
\nreserved for the very worship <\/p>\n
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\nand relationship with God, have
\nbecome corrupted in the hands of<\/p>\n
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\nthe merchants who are trading
\nwith them and of course we <\/p>\n
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\nhearing an echo.
\nHere, aren’t we? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Jesus went into the temple
\nof God and drove out. <\/p>\n
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\nAll those who bought and sold in
\nthe temple and overturned, the <\/p>\n
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\ntables of the money changers and
\nthe seats of those who sold <\/p>\n
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\ndoves.
\nHe said to them, it is written. <\/p>\n
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\nMy house shall be called a House
\nof Prayer, but you have made it <\/p>\n
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\na den of Thieves interesting
\nthat he, you know, the the <\/p>\n
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\nLord’s House was a house of
\nworship, but he picks up on the <\/p>\n
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\nprayer is communication. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd communication is the
\nfoundation of relationship and <\/p>\n
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\nyou have made it a place of
\ntrading. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s what you’ve done.
\nYou’ve taken all these holy <\/p>\n
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\nthings that were meant to lead
\nus into relationship into prey <\/p>\n
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\ninto communication with our God.
\nAnd you’ve made it a place to <\/p>\n
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\ntrade just like the merchants
\nhad done. <\/p>\n
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\nSo 20 of the 27 items that are
\nin their lists are directly <\/p>\n
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\nlinked to the Tabernacle or the
\ntemple and they had been able to<\/p>\n
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\ncorrupt all of these items.
\nYou know, if we think about that<\/p>\n
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\napplication to ourselves, we we
\ndon’t necessarily have that many<\/p>\n
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\nkeep that are meant to to bring <\/p>\n
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\nus to worship.
\nBut we, we have in our own <\/p>\n
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\npractice developed in a way
\nitems, you might call them <\/p>\n
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\ntrappings of our own worship.
\nWhether it be in fact, just the <\/p>\n
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\nthings that we do that of
\nthemselves should be good. <\/p>\n
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\n00:19:10,000 –> 00:19:12,300
\nOur Bible readings coming to
\nbarber school. <\/p>\n
339
\n00:19:13,500 –> 00:19:17,300
\nThe works, we do of compassion,
\nhelping preaching, whatever it <\/p>\n
340
\n00:19:17,300 –> 00:19:22,000
\nis that we do that supporting
\nour religious activity, is <\/p>\n
341
\n00:19:22,000 –> 00:19:25,500
\nsimilar in a sense to all the
\nitems that they had. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:19:25,500 –> 00:19:28,500
\nIn the Tabernacle Temple that
\nwere meant to bring them to only<\/p>\n
343
\n00:19:28,500 –> 00:19:31,700
\none place a relationship with
\nthe father and the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
344
\n00:19:31,700 –> 00:19:35,400
\nChrist.
\nAnd so the warning is that, that<\/p>\n
345
\n00:19:35,400 –> 00:19:38,300
\nall of these things we do this,
\nthere’s a mazing Bible school. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:19:38,300 –> 00:19:42,700
\nWe at this conference are Bible
\nreadings and our Bible study. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:19:44,000 –> 00:19:47,600
\nAll of the that the activities
\nas it were the trappings of our <\/p>\n
348
\n00:19:47,600 –> 00:19:51,100
\ndiscipleship.
\nIf they do not move us closer <\/p>\n
349
\n00:19:51,400 –> 00:19:55,600
\ninto relationship with the Lord
\nJesus Christ and his father <\/p>\n
350
\n00:19:56,000 –> 00:19:58,100
\ninnocent, they’ve lost their
\nvalue. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:19:58,800 –> 00:20:02,100
\nIf they are an end in themselves
\nwe can easily be caught in it <\/p>\n
352
\n00:20:02,200 –> 00:20:04,200
\nand end in itself.
\nStudying the Bible. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:20:04,200 –> 00:20:07,600
\nReading it carefully, making all
\nthe Echoes and the links getting<\/p>\n
354
\n00:20:07,600 –> 00:20:10,600
\nexcited about the mere academic
\nprocess. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:20:11,100 –> 00:20:14,400
\nDidn’t Jesus, make that
\naccusation of all the The great <\/p>\n
356
\n00:20:14,400 –> 00:20:17,600
\nbiblical Scholars of his thumb.
\nHe said you search the <\/p>\n
357
\n00:20:17,600 –> 00:20:19,500
\nscriptures.
\nThey knew the Old Testament <\/p>\n
358
\n00:20:19,500 –> 00:20:23,100
\nbackwards, but you don’t realize
\nthat they were to speak about <\/p>\n
359
\n00:20:23,100 –> 00:20:25,700
\nme.
\nThey were intended to bring you <\/p>\n
360
\n00:20:25,700 –> 00:20:29,000
\nto me and to relationship with
\nthe father through me. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:20:30,000 –> 00:20:34,200
\nBut rather you were caught in,
\nin this, you see, this is where <\/p>\n
362
\n00:20:34,200 –> 00:20:36,900
\nthey were, do not trust in these
\nlying words, the Temple of the <\/p>\n
363
\n00:20:36,900 –> 00:20:39,600
\nLord, the Temple of the Lord,
\nthe Temple of the Lord. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:20:39,600 –> 00:20:44,800
\nI’ve these some versions say
\nthese things that we see, this <\/p>\n
365
\n00:20:44,800 –> 00:20:47,500
\nis what matters.
\nThey were saying the actual <\/p>\n
366
\n00:20:47,500 –> 00:20:50,600
\ntrappings of this religion, this
\nbuilding, and, and the gold, and<\/p>\n
367
\n00:20:50,600 –> 00:20:54,100
\nthe silver that’s in it, and the
\npurple and Scarlet and all the <\/p>\n
368
\n00:20:54,100 –> 00:20:56,400
\nelements of it.
\nThat’s what it is all about. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:20:56,400 –> 00:21:00,800
\nBut no, Jesus said in three,
\ndiodes will destroy that. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:21:01,700 –> 00:21:03,700
\nThat’s not where the
\nrelationship lies. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:21:04,100 –> 00:21:07,700
\nAnd so I think there’s a message
\nclearly being demonstrated to us<\/p>\n
372
\n00:21:07,700 –> 00:21:13,000
\nthat everything can be corrupted
\nby the merchants of Babylon. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:21:15,300 –> 00:21:18,300
\nBut wait.
\nThere’s something more. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:21:20,100 –> 00:21:23,000
\nThere’s something missing from
\nthat list now, you might say, <\/p>\n
375
\n00:21:23,000 –> 00:21:26,000
\nwell, of course, is its 27.
\nThat’s a long list, but there’s <\/p>\n
376
\n00:21:26,000 –> 00:21:28,900
\nthousands of other things that
\ncould have been put on that list<\/p>\n
377
\n00:21:29,000 –> 00:21:33,300
\nas extensive and as diverse as
\nit is, well, I want to propose <\/p>\n
378
\n00:21:33,300 –> 00:21:36,100
\nthat there’s something that
\nprobably should have been on <\/p>\n
379
\n00:21:36,100 –> 00:21:40,200
\nthat list that I think that the
\nspirit is actually left out, and<\/p>\n
380
\n00:21:40,200 –> 00:21:42,800
\nI think there’s a good reason
\nfor that and I hope you’ll be <\/p>\n
381
\n00:21:42,800 –> 00:21:47,100
\nwith me for a moment.
\nOver here, we have a artist <\/p>\n
382
\n00:21:47,100 –> 00:21:53,800
\nrendition of a Look of the
\ncurtains in the Tabernacle and <\/p>\n
383
\n00:21:53,800 –> 00:21:56,900
\nwhat you can see from this is
\nthe four colors that came <\/p>\n
384
\n00:21:56,900 –> 00:22:00,900
\ntogether in the curtains of the
\nTabernacle, the veil and and the<\/p>\n
385
\n00:22:00,900 –> 00:22:02,400
\ntwo main curtains that were
\njoined. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:22:02,400 –> 00:22:05,400
\nThe, that was the, the inner
\nlayer of the Tabernacle. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:22:05,600 –> 00:22:08,200
\nI’m sorry, it’s not that clear,
\nbut it says moreover you shall <\/p>\n
388
\n00:22:08,200 –> 00:22:12,900
\nmake a tabernacle with ten
\ncurtains of fine, linen and blue<\/p>\n
389
\n00:22:12,900 –> 00:22:15,800
\nand purple and Scarlet with
\nCaribbeans, of cunning work, <\/p>\n
390
\n00:22:15,800 –> 00:22:16,800
\nshall you?
\nMake them. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:22:17,000 –> 00:22:18,800
\nSo we don’t have the Caribbeans
\nthere but you can see <\/p>\n
392
\n00:22:18,800 –> 00:22:21,800
\nessentially, What would have
\ncome out in the colors of the <\/p>\n
393
\n00:22:21,800 –> 00:22:24,100
\ncurtains is four colors.
\nAssuming, the linen would have <\/p>\n
394
\n00:22:24,100 –> 00:22:27,500
\nbeen white and then, as you see
\nmentioned, they’re purple <\/p>\n
395
\n00:22:27,600 –> 00:22:30,800
\nscarlet and blue.
\nNow, here’s the interesting <\/p>\n
396
\n00:22:30,800 –> 00:22:33,800
\nthing.
\nI mean to bring for ideas or <\/p>\n
397
\n00:22:33,800 –> 00:22:37,500
\nfour colors together in one
\nverse is what that’s doing and <\/p>\n
398
\n00:22:37,500 –> 00:22:42,000
\nthat happens in 24, verses
\nprimarily in the book of Exodus <\/p>\n
399
\n00:22:42,000 –> 00:22:47,300
\nthat those four items, linen
\npurple, scarlet and blue come <\/p>\n
400
\n00:22:47,300 –> 00:22:49,900
\ntogether.
\nSo, here’s the interesting <\/p>\n
401
\n00:22:49,900 –> 00:22:54,400
\nthing.
\nIn Revelation, 18, three of <\/p>\n
402
\n00:22:54,408 –> 00:22:57,300
\nthose items are there.
\nYou can go back in the list, <\/p>\n
403
\n00:22:57,400 –> 00:23:01,100
\nthey traded in fine linen, they
\ntraded and purple, and they <\/p>\n
404
\n00:23:01,100 –> 00:23:05,500
\ntraded in scarlet.
\nAnd when it says a later on <\/p>\n
405
\n00:23:05,500 –> 00:23:07,500
\nthat, that we didn’t have that
\nverse up there that they were <\/p>\n
406
\n00:23:07,500 –> 00:23:10,200
\nupset because it was no longer
\navailable. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:23:10,300 –> 00:23:14,100
\nIt says that they whipped and
\nthey wept, because the fine <\/p>\n
408
\n00:23:14,100 –> 00:23:17,300
\nlinen purple and Scarlet was no
\nlonger available. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:23:17,400 –> 00:23:21,800
\nAgain, the blue is must out.
\nSo 26 times, linen. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:23:22,300 –> 00:23:27,700
\nPurple and Scarlet appears
\ntogether, 24 times, it appears <\/p>\n
411
\n00:23:27,700 –> 00:23:31,300
\nwith blue, the only two times it
\nnever appears with blue is in <\/p>\n
412
\n00:23:31,300 –> 00:23:33,800
\nthe list of the merchants of
\nBabylon. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:23:35,400 –> 00:23:38,200
\nNow, maybe that’s a coincidence
\nor maybe we’re being asked to <\/p>\n
414
\n00:23:38,200 –> 00:23:40,800
\npractice that idea of what’s
\nmissing here. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:23:41,300 –> 00:23:43,900
\nWhat may we have expected to
\nfind? <\/p>\n
416
\n00:23:44,400 –> 00:23:47,600
\nIt would seem to me that maybe
\nwe should pay some attention to <\/p>\n
417
\n00:23:47,600 –> 00:23:50,200
\nthis color blue.
\nSo, I want to look perhaps at a <\/p>\n
418
\n00:23:50,208 –> 00:23:53,800
\nbit at this, this interesting
\ncolor blue. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:23:54,200 –> 00:23:56,700
\nIt’s go for a little bit of a
\njourney through the Echoes of <\/p>\n
420
\n00:23:56,700 –> 00:23:59,500
\nthe Bible or the color blue and
\nmaybe there’s something in this <\/p>\n
421
\n00:23:59,500 –> 00:24:04,100
\ncolor that may teach us about.
\nThe one thing that the merchants<\/p>\n
422
\n00:24:04,100 –> 00:24:06,500
\nof Babylon.
\nCannot corrupt. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:24:06,900 –> 00:24:09,300
\nSo I’m sure many of you have
\nthought about that the color <\/p>\n
424
\n00:24:09,300 –> 00:24:12,900
\nblue and what it represents I
\nwant to present to you what I <\/p>\n
425
\n00:24:12,900 –> 00:24:16,100
\nthink is quite a compelling
\nargument about what the color <\/p>\n
426
\n00:24:16,100 –> 00:24:18,700
\nblue actually represents
\nspiritually and symbolically to <\/p>\n
427
\n00:24:18,700 –> 00:24:21,900
\nus.
\nAnd a lot of people would would <\/p>\n
428
\n00:24:21,900 –> 00:24:25,100
\nperhaps a trike.
\nThe, you know, think that would <\/p>\n
429
\n00:24:25,100 –> 00:24:27,500
\nsay that the color blue
\nrepresents I’ve heard God’s <\/p>\n
430
\n00:24:27,500 –> 00:24:31,100
\ncolor, others will say, it
\nrepresents Rochester’s, some <\/p>\n
431
\n00:24:31,100 –> 00:24:34,000
\nwill say, it represents
\nfaithfulness and there’s an <\/p>\n
432
\n00:24:34,000 –> 00:24:36,500
\nelement of truth to all all of
\nthose answers, I want to suggest<\/p>\n
433
\n00:24:36,500 –> 00:24:38,700
\nto you.
\nThat there’s an answer that <\/p>\n
434
\n00:24:38,700 –> 00:24:42,800
\nperhaps incorporates those
\nanswers but has a very <\/p>\n
435
\n00:24:42,800 –> 00:24:46,200
\ninteresting element to it that I
\nthink is very relevant in <\/p>\n
436
\n00:24:46,200 –> 00:24:50,100
\nconcluding a medications today
\nand in reflecting back on <\/p>\n
437
\n00:24:50,200 –> 00:24:53,500
\nRevelation, 18 and the trading
\nitems of the merchants of <\/p>\n
438
\n00:24:53,500 –> 00:24:55,300
\nBabylon.
\nSo bear with me for a while <\/p>\n
439
\n00:24:55,300 –> 00:24:59,300
\nwhile I try and demonstrate this
\nNuance to what I think the color<\/p>\n
440
\n00:24:59,300 –> 00:25:02,700
\nblue is representing to us today
\nin our discipleship. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:25:02,700 –> 00:25:05,000
\nSo let’s do what we’ve done
\nbefore and let’s go Jenna. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:25:05,200 –> 00:25:10,400
\nSince and see if we can find the
\nDNA for the color blue bad news.<\/p>\n
443
\n00:25:10,400 –> 00:25:13,400
\nIt doesn’t appear in Genesis.
\nSo we’ll go to the next best. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:25:13,400 –> 00:25:17,300
\nThe first reference to the color
\nblue as far as I understand. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:25:17,300 –> 00:25:19,600
\nI before we do that, let’s take
\none back or we’re going to do <\/p>\n
446
\n00:25:19,600 –> 00:25:22,900
\nwhat I said we were going to do.
\nBefore we go into the references<\/p>\n
447
\n00:25:22,900 –> 00:25:25,300
\nfor the color blue, we’re going
\nto stop at nature. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:25:25,700 –> 00:25:28,400
\nRemember I said yesterday, I was
\nvery concerned because I had <\/p>\n
449
\n00:25:28,400 –> 00:25:30,300
\nsome scientists telling me about
\nthe carbon atom. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:25:30,600 –> 00:25:33,300
\nI’m going to get Brave again and
\nI want us to start thinking. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:25:33,300 –> 00:25:36,000
\nFirst of all about what nature
\nteaches, Us about the color blue<\/p>\n
452
\n00:25:36,200 –> 00:25:37,800
\nand then we’ll go and see
\nwhether they’re spiritual <\/p>\n
453
\n00:25:37,800 –> 00:25:41,900
\nalignment to that idea.
\nSo I started off by saying, you <\/p>\n
454
\n00:25:41,900 –> 00:25:46,400
\nknow what color is God’s color.
\nIf we think about it, there are <\/p>\n
455
\n00:25:46,400 –> 00:25:50,200
\nmany arguments, what God’s kind
\nof could be, people would <\/p>\n
456
\n00:25:50,200 –> 00:25:52,100
\nsuggest, maybe his color is
\nwhat. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:25:52,200 –> 00:25:54,800
\nAnd, and that’s actually not a
\nbad suggestion because in the <\/p>\n
458
\n00:25:54,800 –> 00:25:58,100
\nthird verse of Genesis, it says
\nGod said, let there be light and<\/p>\n
459
\n00:25:58,100 –> 00:26:01,400
\nthere was light.
\nSo in a sense if latch is <\/p>\n
460
\n00:26:01,400 –> 00:26:04,500
\nrepresented by the color white,
\nwhich is all the colors together<\/p>\n
461
\n00:26:04,700 –> 00:26:09,100
\nin, Rainbow then God’s color is
\nwhat we know he dwells and a lot<\/p>\n
462
\n00:26:09,100 –> 00:26:13,800
\nand approachable and and it’s
\nthen revealed in more nuanced <\/p>\n
463
\n00:26:13,800 –> 00:26:15,600
\nways in the seven colors of the
\nrainbow. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:26:15,600 –> 00:26:18,800
\nSo so I think there’s some
\nstrength in the argument that <\/p>\n
465
\n00:26:18,800 –> 00:26:22,000
\nGod if we want you to choose a
\ncolor for God, it would be what <\/p>\n
466
\n00:26:22,600 –> 00:26:24,900
\nothers of course have suggested
\nthat God’s color is yellow <\/p>\n
467
\n00:26:24,900 –> 00:26:28,600
\nbecause he often has chosen the
\ncolor of the gold as a <\/p>\n
468
\n00:26:28,600 –> 00:26:31,900
\nrepresentation for his
\nimmortality and his eternity, <\/p>\n
469
\n00:26:31,900 –> 00:26:35,400
\nespecially in the in the cabin
\nand the Tabernacle and the A so <\/p>\n
470
\n00:26:35,400 –> 00:26:38,400
\nyou could argue its goal and
\nthen as I said some say that <\/p>\n
471
\n00:26:38,400 –> 00:26:40,500
\nit’s blue.
\nSo we’re going to focus on the <\/p>\n
472
\n00:26:40,508 –> 00:26:45,600
\ncolor blue for a while.
\nSo what does nature teaches <\/p>\n
473
\n00:26:45,600 –> 00:26:47,500
\nabout the calibrate?
\nWell I was hoping I would wake <\/p>\n
474
\n00:26:47,500 –> 00:26:49,700
\nup this morning and I’m checking
\nout there. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:26:50,000 –> 00:26:53,100
\nHe teaches us that the sky is
\nblue and for the first few days <\/p>\n
476
\n00:26:53,100 –> 00:26:57,200
\nof our conference it certainly
\nwas we work out into a day when <\/p>\n
477
\n00:26:57,200 –> 00:27:02,100
\nthe sun is shining and I like
\nhis out, we see a blue sky now. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:27:02,100 –> 00:27:04,500
\nWhy is it?
\nThis is we get to the scientific<\/p>\n
479
\n00:27:04,500 –> 00:27:07,600
\npot.
\nWhy is it that the the sky that <\/p>\n
480
\n00:27:07,600 –> 00:27:10,200
\nwe see on a beautiful?
\nClear day is blue. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:27:10,500 –> 00:27:13,100
\nAnd let’s have a listen to
\nsomebody for more educated than <\/p>\n
482
\n00:27:13,100 –> 00:27:15,800
\nme.
\nDescribing that for us. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:27:17,900 –> 00:27:19,600
\nYou don’t need to hear, it’s
\ngoing to be red. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:28:38,700 –> 00:28:40,300
\nThere you go.
\nSo if you learn nothing more <\/p>\n
485
\n00:28:40,300 –> 00:28:43,000
\nfrom our discussion today, if
\nyou didn’t know why before you <\/p>\n
486
\n00:28:43,000 –> 00:28:46,200
\nnow know why the sky is blue and
\nthe are two interesting <\/p>\n
487
\n00:28:46,200 –> 00:28:48,000
\nobservations.
\nHopefully, you made out of that.<\/p>\n
488
\n00:28:48,000 –> 00:28:51,700
\nOne of the the observations is
\nthat it is blue because it is <\/p>\n
489
\n00:28:51,700 –> 00:28:54,800
\nthe frequency the color with the
\nshort wavelength that’s <\/p>\n
490
\n00:28:54,800 –> 00:28:56,200
\nscattered.
\nThe most lovely idea. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:28:56,400 –> 00:28:59,800
\nSo we’re seeing blue because it
\nis the wavelength that scattered<\/p>\n
492
\n00:28:59,800 –> 00:29:03,900
\nthe most in a way, reflected the
\nmost so that we pick it up on a <\/p>\n
493
\n00:29:03,900 –> 00:29:06,400
\nclear day when the sun is
\nshining, but there was another <\/p>\n
494
\n00:29:06,400 –> 00:29:10,100
\nlittle nuance.
\nIf it was only the scattering in<\/p>\n
495
\n00:29:10,100 –> 00:29:12,400
\nother words the short
\nwavelengths and the scattering <\/p>\n
496
\n00:29:12,400 –> 00:29:15,700
\nof those shortwave leaves that
\ndetermined the color of the sky,<\/p>\n
497
\n00:29:15,700 –> 00:29:18,800
\nthen it would not be blue.
\nWhat color would it be? <\/p>\n
498
\n00:29:19,600 –> 00:29:21,900
\nAbsolutely.
\nBut it isn’t. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:29:22,500 –> 00:29:24,800
\nAnd you see the point was made
\nthere that there’s something <\/p>\n
500
\n00:29:24,800 –> 00:29:28,400
\nalso in our eyes and how we
\nreceive the light that makes the<\/p>\n
501
\n00:29:28,400 –> 00:29:30,600
\nsensitive to seeing the color
\nblue. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:29:31,100 –> 00:29:34,400
\nSo I’m putting it out there to
\nyou that in your DNA. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:29:34,600 –> 00:29:39,700
\nYou are created in a way.
\nWay to see the light as a blue <\/p>\n
504
\n00:29:39,700 –> 00:29:42,700
\ncolor coming to you.
\nJust just be a little idea in <\/p>\n
505
\n00:29:42,700 –> 00:29:47,200
\nmind now as a natural simple.
\nThink about this idea when you <\/p>\n
506
\n00:29:47,200 –> 00:29:52,900
\nwalk out again on a clear day,
\nYeah, I don’t think you got to <\/p>\n
507
\n00:29:52,900 –> 00:29:55,500
\ngo to probably in Nevada or New
\nMexico to see a picture like <\/p>\n
508
\n00:29:55,500 –> 00:29:59,800
\nthat, not Oregon, but what you
\nwill notice on a clear day is <\/p>\n
509
\n00:29:59,800 –> 00:30:03,300
\nthe amazing way in which we
\nactually walk around. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:30:03,300 –> 00:30:07,600
\nAnd everything that we see
\naround us on Earth is greens and<\/p>\n
511
\n00:30:07,600 –> 00:30:11,000
\nBrowns, and oranges and yellows.
\nIn fact, it’s very, very <\/p>\n
512
\n00:30:11,000 –> 00:30:12,500
\ndifficult and you can check this
\nout. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:30:12,500 –> 00:30:13,900
\nI say difficult was I saying,
\nnever. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:30:13,900 –> 00:30:16,500
\nSomeone will give me one example
\nand say I’m wrong, but it’s <\/p>\n
515
\n00:30:16,500 –> 00:30:19,600
\nvery, very difficult and very,
\nvery seldom that if you look <\/p>\n
516
\n00:30:19,600 –> 00:30:23,500
\naround on the Earth, That the
\nplace that man has been given <\/p>\n
517
\n00:30:23,500 –> 00:30:27,200
\nthat you’ll see the color blue.
\nAnd that’s often why road signs <\/p>\n
518
\n00:30:27,500 –> 00:30:30,900
\nroad signs are made in the color
\nblue because it’s unlikely, that<\/p>\n
519
\n00:30:30,900 –> 00:30:32,700
\nthere will be some other natural
\nthing. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:30:32,700 –> 00:30:35,200
\nThat’s the same color of that.
\nIn fact, the very, very few <\/p>\n
521
\n00:30:35,200 –> 00:30:36,800
\nplants that are blue.
\nThey are violent. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:30:36,800 –> 00:30:40,400
\nThey are people but not blue.
\nAnd when we go out, we noticed <\/p>\n
523
\n00:30:40,400 –> 00:30:44,200
\nthat the arroz on the age of the
\nEarth is touched by the blue. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:30:44,200 –> 00:30:47,100
\nCan you see that?
\nIt’s a beautiful metaphor and <\/p>\n
525
\n00:30:47,100 –> 00:30:50,100
\nwhat I’m starting to suggest to
\nyou is that the blue is not just<\/p>\n
526
\n00:30:50,100 –> 00:30:54,100
\nGod but it’s it’s God’s
\ncommunication to us. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:30:54,400 –> 00:30:56,700
\nIt is the way that we are seeing
\nGod. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:30:56,700 –> 00:30:58,900
\nIt’s the way that he is
\nconnecting to us. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:30:59,000 –> 00:31:02,900
\nIt’s his color of connection,
\nthat’s the thought I want to put<\/p>\n
530
\n00:31:02,900 –> 00:31:05,300
\nout there for you.
\nSo at the edge at the point, in <\/p>\n
531
\n00:31:05,300 –> 00:31:08,700
\nwhich we are ending when we go
\nout every day and we see that <\/p>\n
532
\n00:31:08,700 –> 00:31:12,800
\nbeautiful Horizon we see him
\nreaching out to connect with us.<\/p>\n
533
\n00:31:12,900 –> 00:31:16,300
\nAnd what I love, which is true
\nof South Africa and I know that <\/p>\n
534
\n00:31:16,300 –> 00:31:18,900
\nin the city’s it sometimes isn’t
\nso true but if you go to Big Sky<\/p>\n
535
\n00:31:18,900 –> 00:31:21,500
\ncountry in Montana, just that
\npicture. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:31:21,600 –> 00:31:24,900
\nIs the way we often perceive it.
\nThere’s far more sky reaching <\/p>\n
537
\n00:31:24,900 –> 00:31:27,200
\ndown to earth, than Earth,
\nreaching up to scar. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:31:27,400 –> 00:31:30,700
\nAnd again, this is I think
\nnature teaching us God is <\/p>\n
539
\n00:31:30,700 –> 00:31:33,100
\nreaching, he’s reaching as far
\nas he can. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:31:33,100 –> 00:31:35,700
\nAs we saw in the book of Hosea
\nto make that connection. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:31:35,900 –> 00:31:39,000
\nSo that’s nature you may agree
\nor disagree but let’s see if <\/p>\n
542
\n00:31:39,000 –> 00:31:41,400
\nthat’s follow through, then when
\nwe take the Echoes and <\/p>\n
543
\n00:31:41,400 –> 00:31:43,900
\nscripture.
\nSo this is the first reference <\/p>\n
544
\n00:31:44,100 –> 00:31:47,800
\nthat I could find to Blue.
\nIt’s an Exodus chapter 24 verse <\/p>\n
545
\n00:31:47,800 –> 00:31:48,900
\n9.
\nIf you have the King James <\/p>\n
546
\n00:31:48,900 –> 00:31:51,000
\nversion you won’t have the color
\nblue there. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:31:51,200 –> 00:31:53,900
\nBut if Have most modern
\nversions, you’ll have the color <\/p>\n
548
\n00:31:53,900 –> 00:31:56,400
\nblue there.
\nMoses are on Nate ever by you <\/p>\n
549
\n00:31:56,400 –> 00:31:59,600
\nand the 70 elders of Israel.
\nClimbed up the mountain, it was <\/p>\n
550
\n00:31:59,600 –> 00:32:02,600
\nthat time when they were at
\nsauna there they saw the god of <\/p>\n
551
\n00:32:02,600 –> 00:32:06,200
\nIsrael under his feet.
\nThere seemed to be a surface of <\/p>\n
552
\n00:32:06,200 –> 00:32:12,000
\nbrilliant blue, lapis lazuli as
\nclear as the sky itself and <\/p>\n
553
\n00:32:12,000 –> 00:32:14,700
\nthough these Nobles of Israel
\ngazed upon God, he did not <\/p>\n
554
\n00:32:14,700 –> 00:32:17,300
\ndestroy them.
\nIn fact, they ate a covenant <\/p>\n
555
\n00:32:17,300 –> 00:32:19,800
\nmeal eating and drinking in his
\npresence. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:32:20,300 –> 00:32:23,200
\nSo what an incredible first.
\nPassage teach us about this kind<\/p>\n
557
\n00:32:23,200 –> 00:32:26,100
\nof blew the the reference there
\nto lapis. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:32:26,100 –> 00:32:28,400
\nLazuli actually comes from the
\nLatin Vulgate. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:32:28,400 –> 00:32:30,300
\nThat’s why some of the modern
\nversions of picked it up. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:32:30,500 –> 00:32:34,200
\nAnd Lapis Lazuli is where we get
\nthe word as your from if that we<\/p>\n
561
\n00:32:34,208 –> 00:32:36,500
\nwere playing a game that was
\ncalled that comes from that that<\/p>\n
562
\n00:32:36,600 –> 00:32:40,400
\na zoo which is the idea of an
\nincredible blue that they got <\/p>\n
563
\n00:32:40,400 –> 00:32:43,500
\nfrom the stone.
\nLapis lazuli, infect some <\/p>\n
564
\n00:32:43,500 –> 00:32:44,500
\nreading.
\nI’ve done about this. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:32:44,500 –> 00:32:48,200
\nBlue was the most difficult
\ncolor for early civilizations to<\/p>\n
566
\n00:32:48,200 –> 00:32:49,700
\nproduce.
\nThat’s why when you look at the <\/p>\n
567
\n00:32:49,700 –> 00:32:51,400
\nEgyptian mummies what is one of
\nthe dominant? <\/p>\n
568
\n00:32:51,500 –> 00:32:53,700
\nAunt colors.
\nIt’s the color blue because that<\/p>\n
569
\n00:32:53,700 –> 00:32:55,700
\nwas very difficult for them to
\nreproduce. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:32:56,000 –> 00:32:59,400
\nSo this beautiful lapis lazuli
\nis a, is this incredible blue <\/p>\n
571
\n00:32:59,400 –> 00:33:01,600
\ncolor.
\nAnd and it would seem in the <\/p>\n
572
\n00:33:01,608 –> 00:33:04,100
\ndescription of when these Elders
\nwent up. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:33:04,100 –> 00:33:07,900
\nAnd they saw God, that, that
\nthat he was sitting upon this, <\/p>\n
574
\n00:33:07,900 –> 00:33:10,200
\nthis color blue.
\nIt was almost that that there <\/p>\n
575
\n00:33:10,200 –> 00:33:13,600
\nwas God and then there was blue
\nand then there was them again, <\/p>\n
576
\n00:33:13,600 –> 00:33:17,000
\nthis idea of God, the blue and
\nthe people. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:33:17,100 –> 00:33:19,500
\nAnd in that space, what I love
\nabout this passage, I know it’s <\/p>\n
578
\n00:33:19,500 –> 00:33:22,700
\na bit of a transliteration yet
\nbut Captures it so beautifully. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:33:22,900 –> 00:33:26,700
\nThe way says that in that place
\nthey ate and had a covenant meal<\/p>\n
580
\n00:33:26,700 –> 00:33:30,400
\nwith them in his presence, a
\nplace where they could connect <\/p>\n
581
\n00:33:30,400 –> 00:33:34,200
\nwith a very very creator of
\nHeaven and Earth in this color <\/p>\n
582
\n00:33:34,200 –> 00:33:36,400
\nblue.
\nSo with that idea, let’s have a <\/p>\n
583
\n00:33:36,400 –> 00:33:39,500
\nlook at how blue is then picked
\nup specifically, as we would <\/p>\n
584
\n00:33:39,500 –> 00:33:45,200
\nhave guessed in the Tabernacle,
\nSo we’ve already made one <\/p>\n
585
\n00:33:45,200 –> 00:33:47,700
\nreference to wear blue appears
\nin the Tabernacle. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:33:47,900 –> 00:33:51,000
\nAnd there it appears with the
\nother colors purple scarlet and <\/p>\n
587
\n00:33:51,000 –> 00:33:53,700
\nwhite in the curtain.
\nSo the meet at the, anybody <\/p>\n
588
\n00:33:53,700 –> 00:33:57,300
\ncoming into the Tabernacle
\ncoming to do what when they came<\/p>\n
589
\n00:33:57,300 –> 00:34:01,600
\ninto, the Tabernacle to connect
\nwith God, to worship him to the <\/p>\n
590
\n00:34:01,600 –> 00:34:04,200
\nhouse of prayer.
\nThey would immediately once they<\/p>\n
591
\n00:34:04,200 –> 00:34:05,700
\nwent in the inside, not the
\noutside. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:34:05,800 –> 00:34:09,300
\nBeing seen the color blue, as a
\ndominant color together. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:34:09,300 –> 00:34:12,100
\nIn this case with the purple and
\nScarlet and the white but blue <\/p>\n
594
\n00:34:12,100 –> 00:34:15,500
\nwas one of the key colors.
\nThe curtains and of course on <\/p>\n
595
\n00:34:15,500 –> 00:34:18,699
\nthe veil, but blue went a little
\nbit further than the other <\/p>\n
596
\n00:34:18,699 –> 00:34:20,199
\ncolors.
\nAnd this is where the nuances <\/p>\n
597
\n00:34:20,199 –> 00:34:22,500
\ncome and that you may not have
\nnoticed before. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:34:23,300 –> 00:34:27,600
\nFor example, when the the two
\nmajor curtains were joined <\/p>\n
599
\n00:34:27,600 –> 00:34:32,100
\ntogether, they were made into
\npieces father and each side and <\/p>\n
600
\n00:34:32,100 –> 00:34:35,000
\nthey were joined together.
\nIt specifically says in Exodus <\/p>\n
601
\n00:34:35,000 –> 00:34:40,600
\n26 verse 4, put Loops of blue
\nyarn along the edge of the last <\/p>\n
602
\n00:34:40,600 –> 00:34:43,500
\ncurtain in each set, the offer?
\nNo. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:34:43,699 –> 00:34:45,699
\nLittle ideas.
\nYeah that that I haven’t got <\/p>\n
604
\n00:34:45,699 –> 00:34:49,100
\ntime to work with but you will
\nnotice a repetitive use of the <\/p>\n
605
\n00:34:49,100 –> 00:34:52,800
\nword age.
\nYou see understanding the <\/p>\n
606
\n00:34:52,800 –> 00:34:55,900
\nmetaphor of edges is something
\nthat I’ve only realized more <\/p>\n
607
\n00:34:55,900 –> 00:35:01,200
\nrecently but it’s the idea that
\nas humans everything has an edge<\/p>\n
608
\n00:35:01,500 –> 00:35:04,100
\nI made reference earlier on and
\nwe had some discussions about <\/p>\n
609
\n00:35:04,100 –> 00:35:06,600
\nthis.
\nWhy is it that the Tabernacle <\/p>\n
610
\n00:35:06,700 –> 00:35:11,200
\nthat we see on the earth is
\nsquare and yet when the original<\/p>\n
611
\n00:35:11,200 –> 00:35:14,300
\nseems to be presented to us it’s
\naround Well the idea is <\/p>\n
612
\n00:35:14,300 –> 00:35:16,600
\nsomething that’s squid is it has
\ninches. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:35:16,800 –> 00:35:19,500
\nSome of that circular doesn’t
\nnecessarily have an edge in that<\/p>\n
614
\n00:35:19,500 –> 00:35:21,500
\nsense.
\nIn fact, where the edges <\/p>\n
615
\n00:35:21,500 –> 00:35:27,800
\noccurred in the Tabernacle, they
\nare joined by Rings Loops <\/p>\n
616
\n00:35:27,800 –> 00:35:29,800
\ncircles.
\nEverywhere, you read about any <\/p>\n
617
\n00:35:29,800 –> 00:35:32,800
\njoining of Ages loops and
\ncircles, I’m going to leave that<\/p>\n
618
\n00:35:32,800 –> 00:35:34,900
\none there because we could go a
\nlong way with that. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:35:35,100 –> 00:35:38,600
\nAnd in this case that point of
\njoining is a loop of blue. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:35:39,300 –> 00:35:42,800
\nSo again, this idea at the point
\nat which the two are made one at<\/p>\n
621
\n00:35:42,800 –> 00:35:46,600
\nthat point, At which the joining
\ntakes place, we have a loop of <\/p>\n
622
\n00:35:46,600 –> 00:35:48,300
\nblue.
\nIt’s continue. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:35:49,200 –> 00:35:53,200
\nWe come to the breastplate, you
\nremember the breast place? <\/p>\n
624
\n00:35:53,500 –> 00:35:56,500
\nThat’s terrible, spelling
\nbreastplate that, the high <\/p>\n
625
\n00:35:56,500 –> 00:36:00,700
\npriest wore it says there and
\nyou shall bomb the breastplate <\/p>\n
626
\n00:36:00,700 –> 00:36:02,600
\nby the Rings.
\nThey’re off under the rings of <\/p>\n
627
\n00:36:02,600 –> 00:36:06,400
\nthe ephod with a lace of blue,
\nthat it may be above the Curious<\/p>\n
628
\n00:36:06,400 –> 00:36:09,400
\ngirdle of the ephod.
\nAnd that the breast Place may be<\/p>\n
629
\n00:36:09,500 –> 00:36:12,800
\nnot loosed from the ephod.
\nSo, here was this, this <\/p>\n
630
\n00:36:12,800 –> 00:36:15,100
\nbreastplate.
\nThat had the 12 Stones that <\/p>\n
631
\n00:36:15,300 –> 00:36:18,900
\narguably represented the tribes
\nof Israel and hopefully the new <\/p>\n
632
\n00:36:18,900 –> 00:36:21,100
\nIsrael in its glory in its
\nSplendor. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:36:21,100 –> 00:36:26,800
\nThe precious stones going to to
\nMicah and there’s the glory and <\/p>\n
634
\n00:36:26,800 –> 00:36:30,100
\nit’s attached.
\nIt’s joined to the heart priest <\/p>\n
635
\n00:36:30,100 –> 00:36:33,100
\nwho represents perhaps the Lord
\nJesus Christ or even God himself<\/p>\n
636
\n00:36:33,100 –> 00:36:36,800
\nthat which was Holiness to them.
\nAnd it’s joined Again by how a <\/p>\n
637
\n00:36:36,808 –> 00:36:42,800
\nlace of blue and then he wore a
\ncrown we are told and that cron <\/p>\n
638
\n00:36:42,900 –> 00:36:47,000
\nhad on at Holiness to the Lord.
\nAnd how was that Crown joined to<\/p>\n
639
\n00:36:47,000 –> 00:36:49,300
\nhim?
\nWell in Exodus 39 it says and <\/p>\n
640
\n00:36:49,300 –> 00:36:53,900
\nthey tied unto the crown, a lace
\nof blue to forcing it on high <\/p>\n
641
\n00:36:54,000 –> 00:36:57,300
\nupon the Martyr as the Lord
\ncommanded Moses. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:36:58,100 –> 00:37:00,200
\nAnd then finally, if you were
\nlooking at the high priest, in <\/p>\n
643
\n00:37:00,200 –> 00:37:04,500
\naddition to these very nuanced
\nlittle laces of connection that <\/p>\n
644
\n00:37:04,500 –> 00:37:08,500
\nyou may not have noticed, he
\nclearly wore a blue robe. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:37:08,600 –> 00:37:11,700
\nYou shall make the robe of the
\nephod, all of blue. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:37:11,900 –> 00:37:16,100
\nSo this high priest.
\nThis high priest who was in fact<\/p>\n
647
\n00:37:16,100 –> 00:37:19,500
\ntheir connection to God on the
\nday of atonement, he was the one<\/p>\n
648
\n00:37:19,500 –> 00:37:23,400
\nwho went through the veil.
\nHe has a dominance of blue and <\/p>\n
649
\n00:37:23,400 –> 00:37:28,400
\nhe has blue connecting the crown
\nand the breastplate and not too <\/p>\n
650
\n00:37:28,400 –> 00:37:30,300
\nsure.
\nHow good that picture is coming <\/p>\n
651
\n00:37:30,300 –> 00:37:36,200
\nup, but I think so you use this
\npicture will but let’s see if I <\/p>\n
652
\n00:37:36,200 –> 00:37:39,600
\ncan go back there and use my
\nlittle highlighter. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:37:40,300 –> 00:37:43,400
\nThere we go, some art, I did try
\nthis be dish. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:37:43,500 –> 00:37:47,100
\nTo show you my highlighter.
\nOh, all right, so they owe. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:37:47,100 –> 00:37:48,900
\nYou have to have good.
\nAsk to see the blue lights <\/p>\n
656
\n00:37:48,900 –> 00:37:51,400
\nthere, but it is there and over
\nthere. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:37:51,600 –> 00:37:53,600
\nThere is a blue nice, but it’s
\nwasted. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:37:53,700 –> 00:37:54,900
\nAll right.
\nSo these blue lights, believe me<\/p>\n
659
\n00:37:54,900 –> 00:37:58,500
\nin that picture.
\nSo they continue this idea of <\/p>\n
660
\n00:37:58,800 –> 00:38:01,400
\nthe connection that has been
\ntaught in the color blue. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:38:02,600 –> 00:38:06,500
\nNow, when they broke up the Kemp
\nand they went off on their <\/p>\n
662
\n00:38:06,500 –> 00:38:09,700
\nJourney blue appeared again.
\nSo for example, when they were <\/p>\n
663
\n00:38:09,700 –> 00:38:13,000
\nmoving the Ark of the Covenant,
\nI mean this was the most special<\/p>\n
664
\n00:38:13,000 –> 00:38:15,700
\nArkham that represented God In
\nHis glory. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:38:15,800 –> 00:38:18,800
\nWe know that they were not able
\nor not not allowed to look <\/p>\n
666
\n00:38:18,800 –> 00:38:22,100
\ndirectly on that off.
\nAnd so, what did they do? <\/p>\n
667
\n00:38:22,200 –> 00:38:25,200
\nWell we read your in Numbers
\nChapter 4 when the camp was to <\/p>\n
668
\n00:38:25,200 –> 00:38:28,900
\nmove Aaron and his sons are to
\ngo and take down the shielding <\/p>\n
669
\n00:38:28,900 –> 00:38:31,600
\nof the curtain, put it over the
\nArk of the Covenant. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:38:31,600 –> 00:38:34,700
\nSo that was the That the
\nshielding that they had, they <\/p>\n
671
\n00:38:34,700 –> 00:38:38,900
\nare then to cover the curtain
\nwith a durable leather and then <\/p>\n
672
\n00:38:38,900 –> 00:38:43,100
\nspread a cloth of solid blue
\nover that in many ways. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:38:43,100 –> 00:38:45,400
\nThat doesn’t make sense.
\nI mean, you’ll see the next <\/p>\n
674
\n00:38:45,400 –> 00:38:47,800
\nitems, they did use the cloth of
\nblue, but then they put the <\/p>\n
675
\n00:38:47,800 –> 00:38:51,300
\nliver over it, but in the case
\nof the Ark of the Covenant, they<\/p>\n
676
\n00:38:51,300 –> 00:38:54,200
\nput the leather perhaps to
\nprotect it and then the blue <\/p>\n
677
\n00:38:54,200 –> 00:38:56,900
\ncloth.
\nSo that when anybody looked upon<\/p>\n
678
\n00:38:56,900 –> 00:39:01,200
\nthat, very representation of the
\nEternal God and His glory, they <\/p>\n
679
\n00:39:01,200 –> 00:39:02,300
\nknew they couldn’t look
\nstraight. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:39:02,400 –> 00:39:03,600
\nThat it.
\nSo what did they see? <\/p>\n
681
\n00:39:03,600 –> 00:39:07,900
\nThat color blue.
\nThe way in which God reveals <\/p>\n
682
\n00:39:07,900 –> 00:39:11,100
\nhimself to us the connection
\ncolor. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:39:11,700 –> 00:39:16,000
\nSo I think this this idea this
\nNuance to Blue not just being <\/p>\n
684
\n00:39:16,000 –> 00:39:19,500
\nGod’s color but he’s connective
\ncolor is too man. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:39:19,700 –> 00:39:21,500
\nHe’s quite powerful.
\nAnd if we had a doubt about <\/p>\n
686
\n00:39:21,500 –> 00:39:25,500
\nthis, perhaps this final Eternal
\ncommandment is one of the <\/p>\n
687
\n00:39:25,500 –> 00:39:29,600
\nstrongest numbers, 15 verse 38,
\nspeak to the people of Israel, <\/p>\n
688
\n00:39:29,800 –> 00:39:33,200
\nand tell them to make tassels on
\nthe All their garments <\/p>\n
689
\n00:39:33,200 –> 00:39:37,100
\nthroughout their generations and
\nto put a coat of blue on the <\/p>\n
690
\n00:39:37,100 –> 00:39:42,000
\ntassel of each corner and it
\nshall be a tesl for you to look <\/p>\n
691
\n00:39:42,000 –> 00:39:44,800
\nat and remember all the
\nCommandments of the law to do <\/p>\n
692
\n00:39:44,800 –> 00:39:47,300
\nthem, not to follow after your
\nown heart, and your own eyes, <\/p>\n
693
\n00:39:47,300 –> 00:39:49,900
\nwhich you are inclined to do to
\nwhore after. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:39:50,200 –> 00:39:53,900
\nSo you shall remember and do all
\nmy Commandments and be holy to <\/p>\n
695
\n00:39:54,100 –> 00:39:57,100
\nyour God.
\nWow. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:39:57,400 –> 00:40:01,000
\nSo we’ve seen some some Orthodox
\nJews who walk around and on the <\/p>\n
697
\n00:40:01,000 –> 00:40:03,800
\nedges of their garments.
\nThey have these tassels, these <\/p>\n
698
\n00:40:03,800 –> 00:40:07,200
\ncolors of blue.
\nAnd of course for them, this is <\/p>\n
699
\n00:40:07,200 –> 00:40:09,700
\na symbol to remind them that
\nthey are to keep the <\/p>\n
700
\n00:40:09,700 –> 00:40:14,000
\nCommandments the law.
\nBut we who read all things <\/p>\n
701
\n00:40:14,000 –> 00:40:16,600
\nthrough the eyes of the Lord,
\nJesus Christ and read those <\/p>\n
702
\n00:40:16,600 –> 00:40:20,900
\nwords and start to say, wow,
\nwhat’s going on here on the <\/p>\n
703
\n00:40:20,900 –> 00:40:26,300
\nedges, on the edges on the
\ncorners of their garments. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:40:26,800 –> 00:40:28,800
\nAnd again, when you read, when
\nyou when you’re wearing a <\/p>\n
705
\n00:40:28,800 –> 00:40:32,300
\ngarment you know I’m writing
\nsome jeans here but it’s much <\/p>\n
706
\n00:40:32,300 –> 00:40:35,900
\nbetter demonstrated with a
\ngarment as an address or those <\/p>\n
707
\n00:40:35,900 –> 00:40:40,100
\nthis is yeah this end of my
\nGene, the endure, the edge of a <\/p>\n
708
\n00:40:40,107 –> 00:40:44,400
\ngarment is the end of me.
\nSymbolically, that’s where I <\/p>\n
709
\n00:40:44,400 –> 00:40:48,000
\nend, I’m a physical body, that’s
\nthe end of me and I think what <\/p>\n
710
\n00:40:48,000 –> 00:40:52,700
\nGod is saying is put these blue
\ncords on to show that you don’t <\/p>\n
711
\n00:40:52,700 –> 00:40:56,500
\nhave to end there.
\nThere doesn’t have to be an edge<\/p>\n
712
\n00:40:56,500 –> 00:40:59,400
\nof all of you.
\nThat doesn’t have to be a border<\/p>\n
713
\n00:40:59,600 –> 00:41:03,600
\nbecause if you connect to me, I
\nam the Eternal you’re able to <\/p>\n
714
\n00:41:03,600 –> 00:41:07,500
\nconnect to that which is holy
\njust like the Horizon comes down<\/p>\n
715
\n00:41:07,500 –> 00:41:09,200
\nto connect with you.
\nSurely that’s what they were <\/p>\n
716
\n00:41:09,200 –> 00:41:13,700
\nbeing taught this edge of their
\ngarment and what’s so amazing? <\/p>\n
717
\n00:41:13,700 –> 00:41:16,400
\nI’m sure some of you have seen
\nthis that the very place they <\/p>\n
718
\n00:41:16,400 –> 00:41:20,400
\nwere to put it the corner of the
\nGarment, as its described their <\/p>\n
719
\n00:41:20,400 –> 00:41:24,700
\nthat word, their corner is the
\nsame word as we find here. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:41:25,500 –> 00:41:29,400
\nBut unto you shall the sun of
\nrighteousness, arise with <\/p>\n
721
\n00:41:29,400 –> 00:41:35,200
\nhealing in his wings, in the
\ncorners, in the edges. <\/p>\n
722
\n00:41:35,500 –> 00:41:39,400
\nJesus coming to bring their
\nhealing in the edges in the very<\/p>\n
723
\n00:41:39,400 –> 00:41:43,000
\ncorners of your garment.
\nAnd so, I think by now, <\/p>\n
724
\n00:41:43,000 –> 00:41:45,600
\nhopefully, if you’re with me
\nstore and having fallen asleep, <\/p>\n
725
\n00:41:45,700 –> 00:41:50,100
\nthe color blue is moving us to
\nonly one place that it can move <\/p>\n
726
\n00:41:50,100 –> 00:41:55,100
\nus to he who is the Commandments
\nMay true, he who was home. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:41:55,700 –> 00:41:58,700
\nHe is the connection between us
\nand the father. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:41:58,800 –> 00:42:02,400
\nThere’s only one who could ever
\nhave claimed that and of course,<\/p>\n
729
\n00:42:03,600 –> 00:42:07,400
\nIt is the Lord Jesus Christ.
\nJesus, the blue lace. <\/p>\n
730
\n00:42:07,600 –> 00:42:10,900
\nJohn says, in verse 14 of
\nchapter one and the word became <\/p>\n
731
\n00:42:10,900 –> 00:42:14,600
\nflesh and dwelt among us and we
\nbeheld his glory, the glory, as <\/p>\n
732
\n00:42:14,600 –> 00:42:18,100
\nof the only begotten of the
\nfather full of grace and truth, <\/p>\n
733
\n00:42:18,100 –> 00:42:23,200
\nthe father chose to shine upon
\nus In the blue light of his son,<\/p>\n
734
\n00:42:23,200 –> 00:42:27,300
\nJesus Christ, the cord that
\nconnects that, which is more to <\/p>\n
735
\n00:42:27,300 –> 00:42:31,000
\nthat, which is Immortal the cord
\nthat makes that which has an end<\/p>\n
736
\n00:42:31,000 –> 00:42:36,000
\nno longer have an end, He Who
\nCame From not cereth, he who was<\/p>\n
737
\n00:42:36,000 –> 00:42:40,000
\non the edge, who brings us to
\nconnection with our father, and <\/p>\n
738
\n00:42:40,000 –> 00:42:43,400
\nno doubt some who followed him
\naround, had worked that out. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:42:44,000 –> 00:42:47,000
\nAnd we read in, Mark chapter 6,
\nwherever he went into the <\/p>\n
740
\n00:42:47,000 –> 00:42:49,400
\nvillages or towns and
\nCountryside, they placed the <\/p>\n
741
\n00:42:49,400 –> 00:42:52,300
\nsick in the marketplace, They
\nbegged him to let Touch, even <\/p>\n
742
\n00:42:52,300 –> 00:42:55,000
\nthe edge of his cloak and you
\never touched. <\/p>\n
743
\n00:42:55,000 –> 00:42:59,200
\nIt were healed, the healing in
\nhis edges. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:42:59,200 –> 00:43:02,300
\nSurely, they were thinking of
\nMalachi chapter 4 and when that <\/p>\n
745
\n00:43:02,300 –> 00:43:07,400
\nwoman with the issue of blood
\nreached out to church, just the <\/p>\n
746
\n00:43:07,400 –> 00:43:10,400
\ntassel, just the edge of His
\nGarment, just the color blue, <\/p>\n
747
\n00:43:10,500 –> 00:43:13,900
\nthat connection to God, that was
\nfound in Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:43:14,300 –> 00:43:18,200
\nI think that the metaphor and
\nthe imagery is quite strong <\/p>\n
749
\n00:43:18,200 –> 00:43:21,900
\nindeed.
\nThe son is the radiance of God’s<\/p>\n
750
\n00:43:21,900 –> 00:43:24,600
\nglory and the exact
\nrepresentation of his being <\/p>\n
751
\n00:43:24,700 –> 00:43:27,300
\nsustaining.
\nAll Things by, his powerful work<\/p>\n
752
\n00:43:27,300 –> 00:43:29,800
\nafter he had provided
\npurification for sins. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:43:29,800 –> 00:43:34,800
\nHe sat down at the right hand of
\nthe Majesty in high, God <\/p>\n
754
\n00:43:35,200 –> 00:43:39,800
\ncommunicates it to us.
\nIn the life, the work that the <\/p>\n
755
\n00:43:39,800 –> 00:43:43,000
\ndeath, the resurrection of the
\nLord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
756
\n00:43:43,000 –> 00:43:45,800
\nHe was alive today and forever
\nmore. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:43:46,800 –> 00:43:50,500
\nBut now in Christ Jesus you who
\nonce were far away have been <\/p>\n
758
\n00:43:50,500 –> 00:43:52,800
\nbrought near by the blood of
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:43:53,000 –> 00:43:56,700
\nFor he himself is our peace who
\nhas made the two groups. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:43:56,700 –> 00:43:59,800
\nOne, remember the two parts of
\nthe curtain and has destroyed <\/p>\n
761
\n00:43:59,800 –> 00:44:01,900
\nthe barrier?
\nThe dividing wall of hostility <\/p>\n
762
\n00:44:02,200 –> 00:44:05,300
\nwithout through him we both have
\naccess to the father by one <\/p>\n
763
\n00:44:05,300 –> 00:44:08,200
\nspirit in him.
\nThe whole building is joined <\/p>\n
764
\n00:44:08,200 –> 00:44:13,300
\ntogether and Rises to become a
\nholy Temple in the Lord and the <\/p>\n
765
\n00:44:13,300 –> 00:44:16,500
\nlanguage is the language of the
\ntemple and the color blue. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:44:17,100 –> 00:44:21,900
\nIs the only one in the list of
\nthe merchants of Babylon that is<\/p>\n
767
\n00:44:21,900 –> 00:44:24,400
\nnot mentioned.
\nWhy might that be? <\/p>\n
768
\n00:44:25,400 –> 00:44:28,000
\nWhy is it missing?
\nWell, I think it’s the only <\/p>\n
769
\n00:44:28,000 –> 00:44:31,500
\nthing they cannot corrupt.
\nYou know, they try to trade him,<\/p>\n
770
\n00:44:32,300 –> 00:44:35,600
\nthey tried to put a price on
\nhim, they went to Judas and <\/p>\n
771
\n00:44:35,600 –> 00:44:38,300
\nsaid, let’s put a price on him
\nand they did a trade. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:44:38,400 –> 00:44:41,100
\nAnd it’s not by coincidence that
\ntheir trade went wrong, that <\/p>\n
773
\n00:44:41,100 –> 00:44:42,900
\nJudas comes, and that’s recorded
\nfor us. <\/p>\n
774
\n00:44:43,000 –> 00:44:45,500
\nAnd the money is thrown back at
\nthem because here is a price, <\/p>\n
775
\n00:44:45,500 –> 00:44:46,800
\nthat’s man.
\nThere is no value. <\/p>\n
776
\n00:44:48,000 –> 00:44:52,200
\nYou cannot be corrupted.
\nHe is the only one x 13 says, <\/p>\n
777
\n00:44:52,400 –> 00:44:55,000
\nbut he whom God raised, so no
\ncorruption. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:44:56,300 –> 00:44:59,000
\nPsalm says, you will not leave
\nmy soul and she all know. <\/p>\n
779
\n00:44:59,000 –> 00:45:01,400
\nWill you allow your Holy One to
\nsee corruption? <\/p>\n
780
\n00:45:02,200 –> 00:45:04,500
\nIs it not this message brothers,
\nsisters? <\/p>\n
781
\n00:45:05,900 –> 00:45:09,700
\nThat ultimately, if you have
\nbuilt your faith in your <\/p>\n
782
\n00:45:09,700 –> 00:45:12,900
\nrelationship with the Lord,
\nJesus Christ, is he if he is at <\/p>\n
783
\n00:45:12,900 –> 00:45:16,800
\nthe center of what you have
\nformed in your Worship, in <\/p>\n
784
\n00:45:16,800 –> 00:45:19,500
\neverything that we have done
\nthis week and all the weeks that<\/p>\n
785
\n00:45:19,500 –> 00:45:23,000
\nhave gone before that, alone
\ncannot be corrupted. <\/p>\n
786
\n00:45:23,700 –> 00:45:26,800
\nIf we base our faith on anything
\nelse, it can be corrupted. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:45:26,900 –> 00:45:30,900
\nIt may be helpful.
\nIt may be incredibly helpful to <\/p>\n
788
\n00:45:30,900 –> 00:45:34,400
\ndevelop the relationship, but if
\nit does not lead us to the feet <\/p>\n
789
\n00:45:34,500 –> 00:45:37,100
\nof our master, Her relationship
\nwith him. <\/p>\n
790
\n00:45:37,800 –> 00:45:40,800
\nIt has the possibility of being
\ncorrupted. <\/p>\n
791
\n00:45:41,300 –> 00:45:44,800
\nOur Traditions are good habits.
\nOur church activities. <\/p>\n
792
\n00:45:44,800 –> 00:45:47,800
\nA good works.
\nOr is this the center of a <\/p>\n
793
\n00:45:47,808 –> 00:45:50,100
\ndiscipleship?
\nThe blue lace. <\/p>\n
794
\n00:45:50,700 –> 00:45:53,600
\nThe lace that connects us truly
\nto our father. <\/p>\n
795
\n00:45:57,300 –> 00:45:59,800
\nSo these are the spiritual
\ntruths, perhaps coming out of an<\/p>\n
796
\n00:45:59,800 –> 00:46:03,400
\nordinary passage in Revelation,
\nchapter 18 of some Merchants. <\/p>\n
797
\n00:46:04,100 –> 00:46:07,900
\nThe enemy can corrupt almost
\neverything even the best that <\/p>\n
798
\n00:46:07,900 –> 00:46:10,700
\nthe temple has to offer but not
\nJesus. <\/p>\n
799
\n00:46:11,100 –> 00:46:14,900
\nThe blue is God burning himself
\nto us in Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
800
\n00:46:15,300 –> 00:46:18,900
\nMake sure your relationship with
\nJesus is your foundation. <\/p>\n
801
\n00:46:19,900 –> 00:46:22,700
\nSo thank you for spending this
\ntime with us on the Book of <\/p>\n
802
\n00:46:22,700 –> 00:46:25,000
\nRevelation.
\nAs I said at the beginning, what<\/p>\n
803
\n00:46:25,000 –> 00:46:28,800
\nwe’ve really been trying to do
\nis to share an approach, <\/p>\n
804
\n00:46:28,800 –> 00:46:32,300
\nsomething that has helped me
\ndramatically in learning more <\/p>\n
805
\n00:46:32,300 –> 00:46:34,600
\nfrom The Book of Revelation
\ngaining spiritual and start <\/p>\n
806
\n00:46:34,600 –> 00:46:37,200
\nseeing it as a love letter.
\nI’ve tried to go through those <\/p>\n
807
\n00:46:37,200 –> 00:46:40,400
\nsteps of focus.
\nUnderstand, remembering Echoes <\/p>\n
808
\n00:46:40,400 –> 00:46:44,300
\nworshiping, and applying, and
\nwe’ve looked at at phrases and <\/p>\n
809
\n00:46:44,300 –> 00:46:48,200
\nideas and pictures that maybe
\nbefore, didn’t have that much <\/p>\n
810
\n00:46:48,200 –> 00:46:49,500
\nmeaning to you.
\nCertainly for me. <\/p>\n
811
\n00:46:49,700 –> 00:46:51,700
\nHelpful.
\nBecause now, when I hear about <\/p>\n
812
\n00:46:51,700 –> 00:46:54,100
\nmany crowns, their whole bunch
\nof thoughts that come through my<\/p>\n
813
\n00:46:54,100 –> 00:46:57,900
\nmind, seven lamps, the spirit of
\nDan Babylon is Fallen, is <\/p>\n
814
\n00:46:57,900 –> 00:47:04,400
\nfallen, and you name, one hour
\n666, the power of the lamb and <\/p>\n
815
\n00:47:04,400 –> 00:47:07,400
\nThe Incorruptible blue, and you
\ncan add so much more to that <\/p>\n
816
\n00:47:07,400 –> 00:47:09,000
\nlist.
\nIf you just spend a bit of time <\/p>\n
817
\n00:47:09,000 –> 00:47:11,900
\nevery day with this incredible,
\nlove letter, and that’s my <\/p>\n
818
\n00:47:11,900 –> 00:47:14,600
\nencouragement to all of you and
\nif you’re able to do that and <\/p>\n
819
\n00:47:14,600 –> 00:47:18,100
\njust some small way, then this
\nverse that we read at the <\/p>\n
820
\n00:47:18,100 –> 00:47:20,600
\nbeginning of our series, We’re
\ngoing to read it again. <\/p>\n
821
\n00:47:20,600 –> 00:47:24,300
\nI think we’ll even have more
\npower for you as you get to read<\/p>\n
822
\n00:47:24,300 –> 00:47:29,700
\nit yourself.
\nIt is He who reads and those who<\/p>\n
823
\n00:47:29,700 –> 00:47:35,100
\nhear the words of this prophecy
\nand keep those things which are <\/p>\n
824
\n00:47:35,100 –> 00:47:37,300
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