Jan. 22, 2025

Babylonian Seat of Satan: The antichrist Bridge between Daniel and Jesus - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 2 - From Daniel to Jesus), Episode 25

Babylonian Seat of Satan: The antichrist Bridge between Daniel and Jesus - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 2 - From Daniel to Jesus), Episode 25

Send us a text What if the ancient practices of the Babylonian cult could give us insights into today's political and religious landscapes? This episode promises a captivating journey through history, tracing the Babylonian cult's transition to Rome and its influential role under figures like Julius Caesar and Augustus. We'll explore how Augustus' decree for a census set the stage for the birth of Jesus, revealing surprising parallels between ancient and modern census/taxing practices and the...

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What if the ancient practices of the Babylonian cult could give us insights into today's political and religious landscapes? This episode promises a captivating journey through history, tracing the Babylonian cult's transition to Rome and its influential role under figures like Julius Caesar and Augustus. We'll explore how Augustus' decree for a census set the stage for the birth of Jesus, revealing surprising parallels between ancient and modern census/taxing practices and their impact on our lives today.

Join us as we uncover the spiritual dynamics surrounding Jesus' birth, diving into the profound contrast between human manipulation and divine orchestration. We discuss Satan's influence across history, from the temptation of Adam and Eve to the time of Noah, and how figures like Augustus unknowingly fulfilled divine prophecy. Through the eyes of Simeon and Anna, we gain insight into the divine awareness that marked this pivotal moment, and explore how the actions of the past continue to resonate with spiritual significance today.

We also delve into themes of divine intervention and protection, examining the role of the Magi and the ominous actions of Herod. Reflecting on Jesus' journey to Egypt, we draw parallels to the exodus of Israel and emphasize the transformative power of faith and trust in God's will. By focusing on Jesus' teachings and the importance of being hidden in Him, we encourage a sense of spiritual security amidst life's storms. This episode invites listeners to seek deeper spiritual truths and to find peace and purpose through faith, offering guidance and wisdom for navigating the challenges of the modern world.

00:00 - Babylonian Cult's Shift to Rome

11:55 - The Birth of the Messiah

27:22 - Divine Intervention and Angelic Protection

39:31 - Jesus Hidden From Wrath

52:01 - Hidden by Faith in the Storm

01:02:21 - Learning to Be Hidden in Jesus

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Hallelujah.

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The last time we were together we were talking about this curious, if you will progression of the seat of the Babylonian cult as it moved from Babylon, where it had been since Nimrod, and since that was all set up in Babylon.

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The cult was there.

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From there it multiplied around the world.

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But when the Medes and the Persians took over, on the night that the handwriting was on the wall, on the night that the handwriting was on the wall, they took over and gradually diminished the importance of the city.

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It became, instead of being a full-fledged country, it became a province in their empire.

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And then, as they diminished in power, the Greeks took over and dominated that area of the world for a few hundred years and in that time the seed of the Babylonian cult moved from Babylon to where we talked about last time, in Pergamos, pergamos.

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However, in the approximately 200 years or so that it was in Pergamos two to 300 years that that seat had moved and there was a big temple set up.

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We talked about that, we talked about how it had been excavated, moved to Germany, all those kinds of things.

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But we're not looking at all that today.

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We're just looking at this interval between the time when it moved to Pergamos and it was in Pergamos and then the king-slash-pontiff or king-slash-high priest of the Babylonian cult, when he died in 133 BC, bequeathed his kingdom and the priesthood to Rome.

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Rome, as best I can understand it, did not vest that in anybody because at that time Rome was a republic, they didn't have a king.

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But as soon as they got a king or made Caesar Julius Caesar the king, or made Caesar Julius Caesar the king, caesar had already been functioning as the pontiff and so he took that with him when he became the emperor, he became the emperor slash pontiff of the Babylonian cult.

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Okay, we ask ourselves this question why is that so important?

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And the answer to that is in Luke, the second chapter.

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Because the person who took over from Julius Caesar when Caesar died, I believe in 43 BC, was a man by the name of Octavian and he took upon himself the name of Augustus.

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And if you'll remember famous passage of scripture from the Christmas story, and it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed, and the King James is taxed, but a better translation of that word is enrolled or submitted to a census.

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In other words, they didn't go to pay the tax so much as they went to just be counted so that the Romans could determine what the tax was going to be.

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Let me put it this way If Rome had you know, because Rome wasn't interested in levying a tax on every person, rome wasn't interested in levying a tax on every person and then having that tax.

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Having to administer the gathering of that tax, that would have been way too tedious, way too much effort.

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So what they did was they just told whoever was the king in this case the king of Israel, who was Herod is told Herod, okay, based on the numbers we have, you owe this much tax.

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It's due on such and such a date, and how you get it is entirely your business, but this is how much we demand.

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Otherwise we come in and force you to collect it.

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So you have a choice We'll either sit and roam and spend the money, or we'll spend the money and come here and get more money and charge you for the money that we had to spend to get here.

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That's how the game was played.

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It's an old story played.

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It's an old story, you know.

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Anyway, so this man, augustus, who is just a second in line after Julius Caesar, who is the emperor and the pontiff, maximus amen, he makes a decree.

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Now, this isn't unusual, okay.

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I mean, as I was studying, there was at least two or three or more of these census done in Israel past history, even after this date, because this was how they kept the books.

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Just think of it in our terms, because this was how they kept the books.

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Just think of it in our terms.

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We take a census every 10 years and there are numerous reasons why we take that census.

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Okay, but one thing is for sure we want to know how many people are in each state on a given day, because that makes a major difference in how we allocate representatives.

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There are 435 representatives to be allocated, and the population changes as it is changing.

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Okay, texas wasn't always the second largest state.

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You know, texas used to have a handful of representatives.

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Compared to what we have now, we only trail California in terms of the number of representatives that we have.

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So we have representatives from Texas.

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You probably don't even have never heard their names because there are so many of them, but that's because the census tells us that, as of this date in 2020, there were this many people in Texas.

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So that's what we go on until 2030, and we do it again.

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So it also has a big deal to do with how, at the time that the Constitution was written, this wasn't such an issue, but it is now in terms of government money that is allocated to the states.

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For example, medicare, medicaid, things like that.

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That has a lot to do with what the population is.

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Medicare, in particular, how many people over 65 do you have?

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Well, that's going to tell you how much money is going to be allocated to your state, things like that.

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So governments have an interest in counting noses so they can tax people, distribute money, distribute benefits, that sort of thing.

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I'm sure Rome had similar motives, although it was probably much more about gathering taxes.

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So you know it would be like, okay, say, my country has 5 million people in it and my next door neighbor has 10 million people in it, but Caesar decides that I need to pay twice the taxes that he does when he has twice as many people.

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That doesn't make any sense, does it?

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You wouldn't be able to convince anybody that that was an equitable way of doing things.

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So they use the census as a well, you know, they've got twice as many people as you do so, I'm going to tax them at twice the rate.

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It doesn't matter whether they have the economic wherewithal to do that or not.

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That's not my problem, that's your problem.

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So, when you think about people like Matthew and people like Zacchaeus, they were both tax collectors and that was their job.

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You had to come and pay your taxes to them and they had a quota.

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Well, what's going to keep me, as a tax collector, from telling this person here Rome has just upped the tax that is due and we need to get 10% more from you, but that really hasn't happened.

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What are you going to do?

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You're going to pay the 10%.

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Where's the 10% going to go?

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It's going to go in Matthew's bank account, and everybody knew this was happening and everybody said it was okay.

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Well, they've got to make a living.

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See, everybody's trying to.

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This is this is the idea that the that the oppressors have.

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Everybody along the food chain can can make a can make a little little bit on the side, because we want you to collect all of the tax.

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We don't want to come, we don't want to hear from you on tax day and you come up and tell me you're 10% short and that 10% has been going in your pocket.

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I don't want to hear that.

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I want to hear that the tax is paid to the penny.

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And if you have to charge 10% more for your living, that's okay with me, I don't care.

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Charge 20 if you can get away with it.

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But if it's going to cost me next tax cycle that you get greedy, then I'm going to be all over you.

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And the whole system works on intimidation, terror, extortion, that sort of thing, and everybody knows that's how it is.

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Nobody's got a problem with it as long as the wheels stay greased and as long as the money keeps coming in.

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As long as the wheels stay greased and as long as the money keeps coming in.

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So it was this time in their season that Augustus decreed that the entire Roman Empire would be registered and counted for taxation purposes.

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That was the purpose, the alleged purpose, of this, the purpose, the alleged purpose of this.

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But you had.

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Now this is something that we're going to talk about a little bit tonight, because I want to make this clear when we talk about the powers and the forces of the Antichrist, when we talk about how those forces know things and move things in a direction, know things and move things in a direction.

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You have to understand that they don't do that kind of unilaterally and independently.

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The Bible says in Matthew I believe it's the 18th chapter when Jesus turns and looks at Peter and says Get thee behind me, satan, because you know the things of men and not the things of God.

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So what does that tell us?

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That tells us that Satan has been sentenced here to dwell and function among men and part of his sentence is that he has to work through them, has to work through them is that he has to work through them, has to work through them just the way, just the way that God will eventually work through the church.

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He put that same restriction on Satan.

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So when Satan, in his fallen state, came to tempt Eve and Adam, he had to in order to work a rebellion against God on the planet.

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He just couldn't lead the angels again, they'd already been judged for that.

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He had to work through them.

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He had to trick them into sinning so that then he could work through them to rebel against God.

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So you just do the math.

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By the time the flood came so you just do the math by the time the flood came, he had almost everybody on the face of the planet against God.

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There was a very thin line that ran from Seth to Noah.

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Very few people were alive and well at the time outside of those eight that went on the ark with Noah, that believed in this God and found a righteous place in God so they could be on the ark.

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Most of them did not.

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Why did that?

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Because Satan found a way to work in men and breed this rebellion against God.

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You look at it today there are two and a half billion people that roughly that name the name of Jesus on the planet.

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But I mean no matter where they are in the spectrum of things, there's still a sizable underpopulation.

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I mean there are what?

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Eight billion people?

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So we're outnumbered.

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What 5.5 billion to 2.5 billion.

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So Satan has found a way to work in men to keep them away from this.

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God.

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Hallelujah so said all that, to say this, even though Augustus is a man, and he is, you know he doesn't know God from a doorknob, but he is, because of his position, because of this being the pontiff, the high priest of this cult, amen, the angels had.

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The fallen angels have access to him by right.

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They have access to him because he has taken that, he has received it, he has put it on, he has believed it, and because of that, they have access to him, they can move him and they can manipulate him.

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Okay, this is a lot we're going to see in the how this plays out in Israel, because many of the Jewish leadership had the same problem they had sold out, they had sold out to religion, and because they had sold out to religion, they could be manipulated.

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But Satan has to get you to fall for the lie so that he can put you under his spell and under his thumb, and so that he can get you to do things that you normally wouldn't do, either for lack of interest, or you think it's wrong, or you just don't want to bother, or whatever.

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It's going to manipulate you to move in that direction.

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This is what Augustus is doing here Now.

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You won't read this in history books, but it is plain, because the one thing that Antichrist wanted to do by this census is in verse four.

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So Joseph went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was the house and lineage of David, and so was Mary, for that matter, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child.

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And so it was that while they were there, the days were completed for he her to be delivered.

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Somebody knew something.

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Somebody knew that there was a stirring in the spirit.

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They didn't know quite what it was.

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On the enemy side, on our side, simeon showed up at the right time, anna showed up at the right time, anna showed up at the precise, exact instant.

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And Anna coming in an instant, she was right there, right on the spot.

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So our side knew precisely.

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Even the Magi in the East knew generally.

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But the enemy also knew.

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Now, they don't know everything, but they knew enough to move the whole world to be registered in the place of their birth, because that was going to locate the Messiah If he was coming now.

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If we can locate his parents, we can locate where he was born.

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If we can locate where he was born, we may be able to track him down.

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Now, was this a conscious decision of Augustus?

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I doubt it.

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He's got other things on his mind about running the empire.

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I really don't think that this was a conscious decision.

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But he has already made himself a puppet, he has already made himself a pawn in all of this, because he had given over to this spirit of Antichrist and to the spirit of Jezebel by being the head of this cult and having it moved to and by moving to Rome, and he is the pontiff.

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Now that seat of authority sits in Rome.

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So that's that authority, which is Antichrist, which is Jezebel, can move on him, manipulate him and get him to do things, and then they just put their minions, their puppets, in the right place.

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He's not going to be born in Philadelphia, he's not going to be born in Cairo, he's not going to be born in Russia.

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We can disguise this thing by, you know, scurrying the whole world around, but his parents may be in Cyprus and we'll never find them there.

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If we don't get them to come to Bethlehem, they could care less.

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He could have just decreed that all the people born in Bethlehem had to come there, but that would have been a dead giveaway.

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So he did it for the whole world, but the attention was on Bethlehem.

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Meanwhile, over here in old Babylon, what is left out of Daniel's authority over the Magi is starting to bear fruit after 400 and some years, and that is that the Magi in Babylon are now reading the stars and they're seeing some things that Daniel told them were going to happen.

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He said when it's going to happen.

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He said there will be a star and it will seem like it's hovering over one spot.

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You need to follow that star.

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When you follow that star, you will find the King of the Jews.

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When you find the King of the Jews, you need to take him.

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This Now listen, you find that a little hard to believe.

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Daniel prophesied the day of Palm Sunday down to the hour.

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So you know, the man had not.

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Everything that he knew is written in the book of Daniel.

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He was the chief over all of those people, if you don't think.

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He took them to class and said I'm going to teach you some stuff that they never taught you before, and that's why I'm the boss and you're not.

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This is what it says in this book.

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This is what it says in this book.

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This is what it says in this book.

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This is what it says in this book.

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And God has given me a knowing.

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Remember what we talked about two or three weeks ago that an excellent spirit has a knowing of times and seasons, and that knowing was given to him and he gave it to them.

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That's how they knew to look.

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There was nothing in their books or their scrolls or anything like that that would have done this.

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It was given to them to look and it was passed down over 400 years From Daniel all the way to you know, we three kings of Orient are Hello.

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So what Daniel put in them now is coming forth.

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They're coming forth, and this all converges on jerusalem, and the king, not being jewish, doesn't have a clue as to what's going on.

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Amen, hallelujah.

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So we know the story.

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Then, in the book of Matthew, it tells the story of the wise men that they came to Jerusalem and they figured okay, well, if I'm looking for the king of the Jews, I'll go talk to the king of the Jews.

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He's got to know.

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He didn't know.

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So he summons the wise men of the Jewish people.

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He says where's the Messiah going to be born?

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Now let me tell you something about this guy, herod.

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He was definitely working for the other side.

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He was definitely working on team Antichrist.

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Working on Team Antichrist, he was not even a lawful Jewish king.

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The person that was the lawful Jewish monarch in that day was Mary and Joseph.

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As her husband, mary was the rightful one, joseph was disqualified because he was of the line of Solomon.

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Mary, on the other hand, was of the line of Nathan and was not disqualified.

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She was the rightful heir to the throne.

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This guy, herod, probably wasn't even Jewish.

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He was just an imposter who found favor with the Romans because he can collect the taxes.

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The Romans, because he can collect the taxes, always comes down to money.

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They show up and they get an audience with the king.

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They say where is this one that is born king of the Jews?

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Herod scratches his head.

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He doesn't know.

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So he calls the Jewish rabbis and asks them where is he going to be born?

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He's going to be born in Bethlehem.

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They read a scripture out of Micah which pinpoints the precise location.

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The only thing we didn't know was the time.

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And the only way you could know the time because God didn't spell out the time in scripture the only way you could know the time is by the stirring in the spirits, by understanding times and seasons.

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So the magi unwittingly gave away the secret.

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He asked when did you start to see this star?

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And they told him you know, about two years ago.

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He said well, go find this king, and when you find him let me know.

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Well, god warned them not to do that, and he sent them off a different way, most likely up to Galilee, which is probably where Jesus was at this time.

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So what does Herod do?

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Herod decides, when he found out he had been tricked, that he was going to exterminate all of the male children born in Bethlehem two years old and younger, and he discerned that time from the time that the Magi had told him that they had seen the star.

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So now, as they say, the beans had been spilled.

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Everything, everything was out.

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Herod knew Sanhedrin, knew the priests, knew the ruling family in Jerusalem knew everybody knew about when he was, but they didn't know who he was, because they really didn't believe it.

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They just knew that this somebody had been born and they knew that the wise men had fooled them and they knew that God had pulled one over on them.

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So here's what happened.

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If you look at it from our point of view or from the Bible's point of view, it tells you this story.

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Bible's point of view, it tells you this story.

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But if you look at it from the how should I say this?

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Look at it from the point of view of Antichrist, against God's plan, this is what happens.

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The Antichrist sends out this decree that the world's population, the, would willingly divulge their most personal information, because they knew something was up and they knew even more specifically when the Magi showed up.

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And they really paid attention when the Magi showed up, because these guys are supposed to be on their side.

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They weren't privy to some of the conversations that Daniel had with them.

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They didn't know about all that.

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They had established a world-level Jezebel religion that was coupled with an anti-Christ motivation, and they were trying to locate the sent one.

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That's why Mary and Joseph had to go to Bethlehem.

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That's why they had to register there and that's why it once they had, once they registered there, they would pinpoint their lineage.

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Once they, once they signed up, as long as they were in Nazareth, they were okay.

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Once they signed up and went to Bethlehem, their, their lineage was disclosed and and they knew who Mary and Joseph were.

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So, part of what we're going to talk about, it's going to take us several weeks to get through this.

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One of the things we're going to talk about is how God hides his promise, how God hides the thing that he is trying to bring forth.

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Oh praise God, hallelujah.

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The way that God delivered throughout this whole process was one miracle after another miracle after another miracle after another miracle after a dream, dream, dream Angels, angels, angels, miracles, miracles, miracles.

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But at the bottom of and working through all of that is God hiding the seed.

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They were trying to pinpoint the time.

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They were trying to.

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Even the magi were involved and they got part of the puzzle.

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They actually had the biggest part of the puzzle because they said they came.

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They came announcing that it had already happened.

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They came announcing that, not that it was going to happen, which was the best that the Jewish wise men could do, but the Babylonian wise men came and said it already happened.

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Because they were able by Daniel.

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I wish somebody God gave, god gave the Magi in Babylon secrets that he didn't give his own priests.

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If he did give it to them, that was a tightly held secret because it's not in scripture and it's not.

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It wasn't revealed and they sure don't act like they were expecting.

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The way this works out is then the Antichrist uses Herod as his own personal execution squad and sends them out to completely obliterate the two-year and younger group of males in Bethlehem Now that was prophesied.

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Obliterate the two year and younger group of males in Bethlehem Now that was prophesied.

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But the timing of it was not so.

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When you saw when, when some saw that happen, they had to know that the coming of the Messiah was near.

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So what does God do?

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Okay, all of this is set up now.

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Right, we've got, we've got, augustus giving the decree.

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We've got registrars going all over the world.

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They got their little pens, their quills, their sheepskin scrolls and they're taking names by the multiplied thousands.

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You know who are your parents, who are your grandparents, where do you live.

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You know what do you do, blah, blah, blah.

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They got all this stuff down so that we could get an accurate count of the people and really all we want is the name of this guy named Joseph and this woman named Mary.

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We don't know what their names are, but we want to find out what their names are.

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We know what their genealogy is.

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If you ever wonder why the genealogies are in the book, they're in the book because it's important where you come from.

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It's important because God puts you into that genealogy.

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You didn't just show up, you didn't just get born, you didn't just.

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You know.

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Well, here I am.

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God inserts you into that genealogy.

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You need to know why you're there.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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Let me give you a personal story.

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I was not the first.

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I was the first on my dad's side to go into the ministry.

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I was not the first generation to go into the ministry.

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On my mom's side, I was the second generation.

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She had two cousins.

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One was her cousin by blood, the other was a cousin by marriage.

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Both of them had gone into the ministry and were in the ministry when I was a young boy.

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But I was of the, of the next generation, but I didn't follow in that mold.

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I I did not go the way of denomination.

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I went another way.

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Because I went another way, people didn't recognize what I did, and so those of your own household shall be your enemies.

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I had to fight that entire time.

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I was young or younger because they just didn't.

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Oh well, you'll get over it, or you'll come to your senses, or you know.

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You know blah, blah, blah, or you know what I, what it, the also the other thing that it did was it said that what they were doing in two major denominations was not valid, and so it made them nervous whenever I'd show up and say hallelujah and glory to God.

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So what did God do In the midst of all of this assembling on this poor couple If they would have stayed in Bethlehem.

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It's end of story.

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One night, herod and his bunch of goons come in and it's end of story.

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But watch what God does In Matthew 2.13, the angel comes and tells Joseph, take the young child and his mother and flee to Egypt.

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And they remained there until Herod was dead.

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Then another angel shows up and tells them it's okay to go back.

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The one who sought the child is now dead.

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And they returned to Galilee, directed by God in a dream.

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So they had three angelic visitations, two angelic visitations in a dream which took them out of Bethlehem into Egypt, out of Egypt back to Judah and out of Judah back into Galilee.

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Because God the flood was God hid.

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Jesus hid the seed in Egypt, where he had originally taken Israel out of.

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If he had not taken Israel out of Egypt, the seed would never have been born in Judah and all of the things that would have happened to Israel because they came out of Egypt would have never happened.

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So the seed had to go back into Egypt.

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Can I preach this?

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Because Israel failed God in their obedience.

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So the seed that came out of Israel had to go back to Egypt and complete their obedience.

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Do you not remember that that when they came out of Egypt, they failed God immediately at Sinai?

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He wanted to speak that to them from the mountain.

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They didn't want to listen.

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That wasn't the case with Israel or with with Jesus.

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He had been hearing the father speak since he was a young boy, so much so that he told his mother did you not know that I should be about my father's business?

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He was just 12 years old.

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Are we, are we getting any of this?

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He had to go back.

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God had to hide him in Egypt so he could bring him out out of Egypt.

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I have brought my son.

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He had to bring him out, just the way he brought Israel out.

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Oh, glory to God.

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But see, jesus is going to lead a different people than Moses led.

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God talks about this in the first chapter of Hebrews.

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He said that Moses had a house.

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He was the servant in that house, but he is not the builder of that house.

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Jesus is the builder of that house, amen.

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And the one who builds the house is greater than the one who serves in the house.

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And the house that came out of Egypt led by Moses is not the Israel that is going to live in the new Jerusalem because they failed at Sinai.

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Hallelujah.

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Now can Israel be saved.

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Paul says all Israel be saved, but only if they go by way, only if they come out of Egypt by way of the Christ and not by way of Moses, hallelujah.

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So the flood, the flood that was this thing that was assembled against Jesus, was dealt with by angelic invitation and intervention.

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I'm going through this, and I'm going through it slowly, because all of these things apply to us.

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We are part, we are now part of the seed.

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All of these things apply to us.

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We are now part of the seed.

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All of these things that happened to the seed when the seed was on the planet are things that can happen to us, and the way that God gets the seed delivered and freed to accomplish his destiny are the same things that God can do for us.

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So all of these things are important.

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If Jesus was delivered by going into Egypt and being drawn out, then we have to come out from among them and be separate and be drawn out.

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Be drawn out of Egypt and let Egypt be drawn out of us, amen, so that we can be brought into a land of destiny.

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Now, the promised land was a land of milk and honey.

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It was a land that Israel was going to live in and grow in in their physical status Amen.

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But the promised land that Jesus brings us into is a spirit land, and when God wants to hide the seed back where he drew it out of and bring it back out again, that's exactly what he promised when the seed would fall to the ground and die.

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We have to believe these things, that they pertainain to us, or else we're just going to stand around going help us, jesus.

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And we don't know that.

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One of the main ways that God helps us is to hide us, and you'll hear me say this and every time I say it, you're going to scratch your head going how does that work?

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But instead of stocking up MREs, you need to learn how to be invisible, and I am serious when I say it.

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You need to learn how to be hidden.

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You need to learn how to let God hide you, because that's going to be one of the keys.

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It is a principle of all of this stuff that happened to the seed when the seed was planted in the earth.

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Hallelujah, I'm just getting warmed up.

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That's just one of them.

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Angelic intervention Amen.

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How many of you want to be hidden by angels?

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Was Jesus hidden by angels?

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Jesus was hidden by angels.

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He was taken into the very definition of hell on earth and brought out.

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He was taken out of one hell, put in another hell and got brought out.

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How did that happen?

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By angels, by dreams, by supernatural intervention.

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When the enemy comes in a flood, the spirit of god is going to raise up the standard.

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In this case it.

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Everybody talks about mary and jesus and the donkeys and everything else and, and you know, joseph's over here hanging out with angels getting conversations all the time.

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I mean, the angels are just talking to him up one side and when he goes to sleep they're talking to him in their sleep.

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Read the book of Matthew, the first few chapters, and see how much is going on with Joseph and the dreams and the angelic support they get.

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Praise God.

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So let's skip a few years.

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And Jesus is now in his ministry.

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So they struck out.

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And Jesus is now in his ministry.

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So they struck out with Augustus Caesar.

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They struck out with Herod the king.

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They struck out with the backslid priesthood of Israel.

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They struck out even by taking him into, watching him go into Egypt.

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Oh, we're going to get him over there.

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They didn't get him over there either.

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It was just about the time they were about to wake up on how to do it.

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God's got them beat and telling them get out of Egypt and go back.

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Well see, they weren't looking for him back over there.

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They thought they'd killed everybody, and meanwhile the guy that had that motivation was gone.

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He was dead.

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You think none of this stuff catches God off guard.

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But if Joseph hadn't listened, hallelujah.

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Let's go to Luke, chapter four.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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Luke, chapter four, verse 29.

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In this one we're going to talk about Jesus being hidden from wrath.

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Jesus being hidden from wrath.

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28 says this.

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So all those in the synagogue when they heard these things now what things were that?

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So I'll give you the snapshot here.

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Luke, chapter 4 is where Jesus said the Spirit of the Lord, god, is upon me, for he has anointed me with it and all of that.

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And I'm telling you, the people in in in Nazareth were just dumbstruck.

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They were oh, what wonderful words.

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Oh, that was just so anointed.

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Oh man, that guy was really preaching up.

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He's preaching the pain off the wall.

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He's preaching the rats off the roosters.

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I mean, he was just going for it.

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Glory to God, you know.

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And they just got real excited and they said you know you're going to ask me about this proverb.

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You know, why don't you do in your own town, in your own place, what you do over there in Jerusalem?

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Show us some stuff, show us some miracles.

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Come on, Jesus, let's see the good stuff for the home crowd, boys.

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Jesus said you know what A prophet is, not without honor except in his own country?

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And then he just, in about 100 words, just cut right to the chase and totally disarmed them and turned that flattering, syrupy, sickening, man-pleasing attitude right off at the ankles.

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He said you know what?

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Elijah, in the days of the famine was sent, not to one widow in Israel, but he was sent to a widow in Zarephath.

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And you know what else?

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There was not one leper healed in the days of Elijah except Naaman the Syrian.

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That's all he said.

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I mean it was just quoting scripture.

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I mean he wasn't, you know, didn't say anything about them, he just quoted the scripture.

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And the Bible says they were filled with wrath.

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Now, I don't care what level of salvation somebody may have or may not have, but if you're supposed to be a man or a woman of God and somebody reads the scripture to you, I would suggest that you don't get filled with wrath.

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You know there's got to be a better response to that.

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You know, like, save your wrath for something else, for somebody reading the scripture and then doing the opposite.

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Maybe that's a good one, but when they're just trying to educate you from the scripture and it fills you with wrath, that tells you something about your spiritual condition.

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It tells you something about the spiritual condition of the people that Jesus grew up with.

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Listen, these aren't strangers, these aren't people that don't know him.

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Do you know who was in this crowd?

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His brothers, his sisters?

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I don't know if the sisters were there, they weren't allowed to go to church but the brothers were there.

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His next door neighbor was there.

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Aunts and uncles were there.

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Are you getting the picture?

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Family, friends, people that he'd known his whole life, people that had gone over to the carpenter's shop and had him fix a chair, or, you know, do whatever carpenters do in that day.

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They were there.

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The whole crowd was at church.

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Everybody went to church.

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You know, if you didn't go to church, you got noticed.

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They were there.

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They were filled with wrath because, basically, what he was saying is this is why there were no widows tended to by Elijah in his day, neither were there any lepers cleansed.

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Because of the hardness of your heart, you think you'd get those blessings just by being somebody, just by showing up with your Moses, holier-than-thou stuff.

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You think you're due what happened?

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But what happened happened happened to them because of faith.

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Are you hearing me, the widow woman, when he said take the parcel of meal and the crews of oil and make me a cake?

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She said we don't have enough to do that and still have anything left for tomorrow.

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But that and still have anything left for tomorrow.

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But because you're a man of God and I hear what you're saying, I will make you a cake.

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And Elijah told her that the cruise of oil will not fail.

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Neither will the meal fail until the day of my word.

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And they ate off of that for the for their whole duration of the famine.

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Because the woman believed the word of God.

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Naaman got upset because Elijah did not tell him to do something fancy.

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You know, like, do cartwheels as you turn in, as you do a swan dive into the River Jordan.

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You know, do a two and a half backflip.

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And you know see what the guys on the shore hold up their little Jordan, you know, do a.

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You know two and a half back flip.

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And you know see what the, what the guys on the shore hold up their little cards.

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You know 9.5 and stuff like that.

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You know he wanted some, but something that people would notice, didn't he?

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And the prophet just said go bathe in the river seven times.

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Well, you know, at that time of year that the river was was swollen, it was dirty, it was muddy, and and this guy was a big guy, you know, important guy.

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He thought this was kind of a.

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But what did he do?

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Did he tell Elijah to go fly a kite?

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No, he did not.

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He went.

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His servant said you know, you came all this way to meet the man of God.

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He didn't tell you to do something really difficult.

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He didn't want to bribe, you know.

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So you know why don't you just go take a bath?

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And so he took a bath and on the seventh time, what he came up?

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Cleansed, like a baby, because he acted in faith, and that's what Jesus was trying to tell him.

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Then it made him mad.

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They were full of wrath.

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And so you know, being the nice, courteous, considerate neighbors that they were, you know.

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They said Jesus, we think it'd probably be best if you just leave town now, because you're just causing a disturbance.

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They didn't do that.

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The Bible says they rose up and thrust him out of the city and they led him to the brow of the hill on which the city was built.

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And they had a reason for taking him there that they may throw him down over the cliff.

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The reason I'm bringing up this story is folks, I'm trying to bring up instances where Jesus, prior to Calvary, was staring death right in the face.

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There were people that wanted to kill him.

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Herod wanted to kill him.

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His soldiers wanted to kill him.

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There were people in Egypt that wanted to kill him.

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Now his neighbors want to kill him.

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The people he grew up with wanted to kill him.

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So what does God do you?

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Better learn how to be invisible, verse 30,.

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Then, passing through the midst of them, hidden, he went his way.

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He didn't go through that mist with a staff knocking one over this way and knocking another one over this way and throwing this guy off the hill.

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And that guy off the hill, it wasn't Rambo, it wasn't Bruce Lee, it wasn't you know, bruce Lee, it wasn't you know any of that kind of stuff.

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He just vanished.

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He just wasn't there.

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He was hidden.

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He was hidden from wrath.

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Now, what if some of the scriptures that you think most Christians believe that the only way you can be hidden from wrath is to be raptured?

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But what if there's plenty of wrath to go around, amen.

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And what if some of it is God's wrath and he doesn't want you to be caught up in it?

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Do you not know that he can hide you?

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He can hide you from the wrath that is to come.

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Glory to God.

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He can keep you, he can preserve you.

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When others around are going through some stuff, you won't go through it and in fact, the part of the hiding is that other people won't be able to discern that you're not going through it.

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Are you hearing what the word of God is saying to us tonight?

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He's going to hide you from wrath.

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In that day, listen to me, in that day, if God hadn't taught Jesus this and taught him to trust him in this way, amen.

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Jesus would have just gone right over the hill.

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But that wasn't the way that Jesus was supposed to die.

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That wasn't the way.

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Now you know, would God have raised him up?

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I believe he probably would have, but that still wasn't.

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The plan was to teach you and to teach me that you can be hidden.

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Our lives are hidden with Christ in God.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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Now are we going to?

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We've seen two instances where Jesus faced death, one of them at the hand of rulers and princes, the other at the hand of rulers and princes, the other at the hand of the wrath of men.

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Are those real things for us today?

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They certainly are real.

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Now, is Jesus's example always applicable?

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Well, I guess so, or else we wouldn't have those dumb bracelets that people wear.

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You know we'd have.

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What would I do?

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I don't know what to do, but what would I do?

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That doesn't make any sense, does it?

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We need to know what Jesus would do so that we don't have to look at a bracelet.

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We can look in here, and what Jesus is trying to tell us in these passages is.

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And what Jesus is trying to tell us in these passages is I'm going to hide you in me.

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They can't find you.

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They can't find you.

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If you think of it like this, what if you thought of your life like this?

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Then, instead of you know, walking around doing whatever we want to do all the time, and then, when we get in trouble, running to Jesus and ask him to take care of us, what if we lived in him all the time and we only went out when he said so?

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Do you think that in the going out when he says so, there is a hiding?

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I believe that.

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So that listen to one last thought about that when you go out and you are still hidden in him, then when he unveils you, he reveals you.

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But he's not revealing you, he's revealing himself.

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And when he's done revealing himself, he wraps you up and brings you back in.

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Now, if you think that the final destiny of where we're going to be fully formed in him is any different than that, I'm willing to listen.

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But I think I'm willing to listen, but I think I believe that's what it means to be fully formed that you don't go out, you only allow yourself to be revealed, and it's not really you, but it is him.

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But the only way you can continually learn that is to stay in him.

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Meditate on that.

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Let's do one more.

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This won't take long.

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I don't think so.

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We're going to look at what happens when death comes in the form of natural disasters.

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So you didn't know?

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The Bible taught you all this stuff, did you?

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Disasters?

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So you didn't know.

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The Bible taught you all this stuff, did you?

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Matthew, chapter 8.

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You need to be hidden in faith.

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We talked about being hidden, hidden in in in the earth, like Jesus was hidden in Egypt, hidden from wrath.

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Now we're going to talk about hidden by faith.

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Matthew 8, 23.

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Now, when he got into a boat, his disciples followed him.

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That was probably the smartest thing they did all day.

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And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea so that the boat was covered with the waves.

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So here's the disciples.

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Jesus tells them okay, let's go on over.

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We're done preaching today, let's go over the other side.

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They get in the boat, they're all going across the, the, the little sea there, and all of a sudden the wind comes up.

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Waves are crashing over the boat.

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Now we're not talking.

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You know, I don't know, maybe if it's 20 feet long, it's going to be big.

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I wouldn't think it'd be that big, but it's not a really big boat, it's just a boat, a fishing boat.

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It's a large lake that we're talking about.

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It's not really the Mediterranean Sea, it's the Sea of Galilee, which is really a lake.

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Heavy winds, boats, rocking masts and sails are just flopping all over the map.

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Six sails down, they're trying to row across.

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The Bible says that the sea was against them and Jesus was asleep.

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And then his disciples came to him verse 25, and awoke him, saying Lord, save us, we're perishing, never mind about you.

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You know.

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This probably would have been the better way of waking him up.

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Hey, lord, you want to wake up for this or are you just going to?

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You know you're the one with all the destiny.

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What do you want to do with this storm?

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You know, but they were only thinking about themselves.

00:53:34.186 --> 00:53:37.393
They said Lord, save us, we're perishing.

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Now, if that's going to be your attitude throughout all of this stuff that's going to happen on the earth, amen.

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One day you're going to hear God say I've raised you up.

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Better than that, I've raised you up with a better word in your mouth.

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I've raised you up to speak to these things, to declare over these things, to control these things, amen, to use your faith.

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So look what Jesus says.

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He said to them why are you fearful?

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And their fear was measured in their thinking about themselves.

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Only.

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They weren't thinking about the destiny of God that was in the boat.

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Listen, if they had been thinking like Jesus was thinking, they would have had the same kind of reaction that Peter had on the night before he was scheduled to be beheaded.

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They'd have just gone to sleep with Jesus and you know what would have happened to them?

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The same thing that happened to the boat incident in John, chapter six.

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The boat would have just immediately got to the other side.

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They would have never had to voice the unbelief and the fear because they figure out hey, you know, if he sleeps and we go down, there's nothing I'm going to do about that.

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And if he sleeps and we get through it, isn't that exactly what he wants us to do?

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He's the one that's sleeping.

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He's not the one that's wringing his hands, biting his fingernails, pulling out his hair, plucking his beard and going oh Jesus, help it.

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Oh, wait, a minute, I'm Jesus.

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Oh Lord, help us.

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Praise God.

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See, we got to keep our.

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Does the Bible not tell us to keep our eyes on Jesus?

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Well, see, watch what he's doing.

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What's Jesus doing?

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He's sleeping.

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What did Peter do?

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He slept.

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What did Paul do?

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He threw all the food off the ship.

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You try to tell 300 men that that's a good idea.

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And then he calls them one of his favorite terms of endearment for them.

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Oh you of little faith, why are you so fearful?

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Oh, you of little faith.

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And then he arose in faith and rebuked the winds in the sea.

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Now, if you don't know that Jesus knew what was going to happen, you don't know him.

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He knew all this was going to happen.

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He knew that going out in the sea was going to be dangerous and he knew that they were going to panic and he knew what he was going to have to do.

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But he also knew that I can teach them.

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Where do you think?

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Listen, I'm going to ask you a question when do you think Peter learned this?

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Where do you think that Peter learned that?

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In the hour of my greatest distress I'm going to go to sleep he was in jail.

00:56:32.148 --> 00:56:33.429
But where did he learn that?

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He learned it?

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Right here.

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He saw it in action.

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Jesus said I'm going to teach them something, because they're all going to face stuff a lot worse than this, and I'm going to teach them that, if they will just give it up give up the worry, give up the fretting, give up the long, tiring prayers, you know just give up all of the.

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You know what everybody says you have to do and just put your ultimate trust in God.

00:57:04.634 --> 00:57:05.581
And what happened to Peter?

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When the enemy rose up against him like a flood?

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The Spirit of God showed up.

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Like a flood.

00:57:17.701 --> 00:57:18.382
The Spirit of God showed up.

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An angel shows up, opens the impregnable prison doors Are we hearing anything?

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And all of a sudden, when he rebuked the winds and the sea, there was a great calm and the men marveled, saying who can this be that even the winds and the sea obey him?

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Well, I would suggest to you they should have known this already.

00:57:38.170 --> 00:57:42.235
They had already seen more than enough stuff to know.

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But it was okay, you know.

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He just said, oh, you have little faith, and then let that drop and went about his business, quieting the sea, quieting the storm, and let them know who he really was and that the way that you stay hidden in God is to be hidden in his faith.

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Just believe him.

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Just believe him for anything that he tells you to believe him for.

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Believe him for anything, any outrageous thing that is exceeding and abundantly above all that you think or ask.

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Just go ahead and believe him and then go to sleep.

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See what do we do?

00:58:26.005 --> 00:58:28.166
We're really good at this.

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We're going to put all of our faith out there and we're going to believe God.

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I'm going to tell God how much we believe him and how much we love him and how much we're going to put all of this faith out there and we're going to believe God.

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I'm going to tell God how much we believe him and how much we we love him and how much we're going to.

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I'm going to put all of this in your hands and then, about five minutes later, call him on a phone, texting.

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You know, trying.

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No, you got two phones going.

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You guys, everybody's just worried.

00:58:48.063 --> 00:58:49.005
Wonder what's going on.

00:58:49.005 --> 00:58:50.387
Wonder what's going on.

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You know, sleep.

00:58:52.271 --> 00:58:54.835
God says sleep, sleep.

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Go to sleep and watch and see If I'm not doing great and mighty things that you don't know.

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Praise God.

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We're going to have to learn.

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We're going to have to learn to be hidden in his faith.

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I don't know who it was his faith.

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I don't know who it was, or even if it was the powers of the enemy that caused that storm to happen.

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But if it was the powers of the enemy, somebody was involved doing some powerful witchcraft to summon up that storm and summon up those winds.

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If it wasn't God, it had to be somebody.

00:59:33.951 --> 00:59:42.226
Not just a random act of Satan, but somebody summoning the powers of Satan to make that work.

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That's how it works, amen.

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And if that's the case, all the stops were pulled up.

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They wanted to kill Jesus that night and leave him at the bottom of the lake, so that there was no way he was going to do what he said he's going to do.

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And you know what Jesus did he slept.

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If you don't think that applies to us, you need to think again and reread it, reread it, reread it, reread it until it becomes part of who you are that in the greatest hour of my troubles, I'm going to sleep.

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Go.

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You can't do that.

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You've got to pray, you've got to fast, you've got to do.

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That's not what he was doing Now.

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He might have done that before.

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I know he was up bright and early that morning praying, getting his instructions for the day, but at the time of the encounter they had to wake him up, which would have been totally unnecessary.

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Had they been asleep, had they been full of faith instead of full of fear, and slept with Jesus, they'd have ended up on the other side of the sea and they'd have never known there was a storm.

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We're worried that God.

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Hallelujah, you see what Jesus is trying to teach us here.

01:00:59.128 --> 01:01:01.623
You want to be hidden.

01:01:01.623 --> 01:01:02.789
This is how you're hidden.

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You're hidden in faith.

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Praise God.

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You're hidden from his wrath.

01:01:06.786 --> 01:01:12.032
You're hidden in the earth, in places that you would never imagine being hidden.

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Nobody ever figured on that.

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Jesus had to go to Egypt and be drawn out of Egypt, but God knew, because it wasn't about escaping.

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Oh, thank you Jesus.

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It wasn't about escaping.

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It was about redeeming Israel.

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He was redeeming Israel's sin by going back and being brought out spotless Hallelujah.

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Praise God.

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Meditate on these things.

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Chew on this stuff.

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This is way too rich to think you're going to get it in one sitting.

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Chew on it, meditate on it.

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Ask the Lord where he wants you to be on it.

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Show you what he wants you to do.

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These things I'm not bringing for your amusement.

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These things are for your eternal benefit.

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Glory to God, praise the Lord.

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This is what Jesus shows us.

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I'm not making this stuff up.

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This is what Jesus shows us, hallelujah.

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I'm not even going to go very much into what Paul shows us and Peter shows us.

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I'm just thinking about what Jesus shows us Just a few things to illustrate the principle Praise God, hallelujah.

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See, the church has not taught us how to be hidden.

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The church has taught us how to endure.

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The church has taught us how to suffer.

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The church has taught us how to go through.

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The church has taught us how to grip the pew and just, oh, bless God, I'm going to make it.

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You know, when Jesus is not teaching us that, jesus is teaching us how to be hidden in him.

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Praise God.

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Thank you, lord Blessed.

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Hidden in him.

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Praise God.

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Thank you, lord Blessed be the name of our God, hallelujah.