Jan. 23, 2025

The Iniquity of the Amorites - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 1 - From Abel to Elijah), Episode 10

The Iniquity of the Amorites - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 1 - From Abel to Elijah), Episode 10

Send us a text Experience the awe-inspiring miracles of faith as we unravel the mysteries of Joshua's legendary command over the sun and moon. What does it take to believe in wonders that defy our earthly understanding? Join us on this spiritual journey, where ancient stories become our guides, offering solace and strength in today's turbulent world. As we weave through the tale of the Amorite giants and the Israelites' divine triumphs, we'll explore how these biblical narratives provide insi...

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Experience the awe-inspiring miracles of faith as we unravel the mysteries of Joshua's legendary command over the sun and moon. What does it take to believe in wonders that defy our earthly understanding? Join us on this spiritual journey, where ancient stories become our guides, offering solace and strength in today's turbulent world. As we weave through the tale of the Amorite giants and the Israelites' divine triumphs, we'll explore how these biblical narratives provide insights into the spiritual warfare that shaped history.

Our exploration continues with an in-depth look at Jerusalem's pivotal role in the Bible, from Abraham's journey to its eventual conquest. We delve into the  significance of Melchizedek and the timeline of sin and redemption that runs through Jerusalem's history. By connecting these past events with the present, we gain a deeper understanding of the spiritual dynamics at play and how they resonate with our current lives. This episode challenges us to reflect on the deeper implications of these stories, urging us to rediscover the strength of faith in overcoming life's battles.

Finally, the episode closes with a powerful message on the authority we possess through faith and divine intervention. Imagine a force so unstoppable that adversaries crumble in its wake. We emphasize the importance of unwavering faith and the courage to act boldly against fear, transforming challenges into opportunities for spiritual growth and empowerment. By embracing our divine covenant, we are reminded of the miraculous deliverance that is always within reach, leaving listeners inspired to trust in a higher power and face the future with renewed hope and determination.

00:41 - Miracles of Joshua

16:18 - The Amorite Giants and God's Plan

38:53 - The Rise and Fall of Jerusalem

01:01:20 - A Call to Believe and Act

01:10:27 - Divine Intervention in Battle Strategy

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Well, praise the Lord, hallelujah, Glory to God.

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Turn in your Bibles, please, to 10th chapter of the book of Joshua.

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We're going to be studying, for a couple times anyway, one of the most, one of the least talked about miracles, but without a doubt, and I'll say this again, excluding the miracle of the incarnation of Jesus and everything that is about that, because that is the greatest miracle of all miracles, but the miracle that we're going to focus on for a few meetings is the miracle of Joshua, by the words of his mouth, stopping the sun and the moon from moving in the sky.

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Praise God.

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The sun and the moon from moving in the sky, praise god.

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Now the bet.

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We'll have to talk a little bit about the backdrop of this, because it's not, you know, it occupies a full chapter in the book of joshua.

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But you know, if, for those of you that haven't read the book of joshua this week, um, haven't read the book of Joshua this week, you know we might, you might not, have all of these facts at rolling off of your tongue, you know.

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So, praise God.

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We're going to take a little bit of time and look at this, but before we get started, I just want to rehash, or revisit a little bit as to why we're doing this, because at best this is extremely interesting and at worst it's tedious to the point of getting your teeth filled.

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There's so much information and so much.

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Getting your teeth filled, you know, it's just is is.

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There's so much information and so much detail, but you have to.

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You have to.

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The reason we're doing this and going over one story after another, story after another, is that you have to be convinced that, in spite of what you see on television and in spite of what, all of the fear and bad thoughts, if you will, that come out of people's mouths that are politically oriented a certain way, they may say things that you say, but they're saying them with no faith whatsoever, mixed with their rhetoric, saying them with no faith whatsoever, mixed with their rhetoric, and because of that, it comes out as angry, it comes out as fearful, it comes out as whatever you want to say about it.

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But the fact of the matter is that none of this stuff is new, and that's point number one that I want you to get across.

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Get get across to you.

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None of this is new.

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The technology may be new, the, the, the level at which they're operating, because we have worldwide communications and we have worldwide interconnectivity, we have a common language in technology and all of that sort of thing.

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All that stuff may be new, but the mode of attack is not new.

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What the Antichrist is trying to do is not new.

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This has always been the case, and the fact of the matter is that he has not won, not won, not won a single major battle.

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And at every turn and you need to hear this and you need to believe it because it's going to come down to you to believe God for a lot of people that haven't got a clue and never will have a clue, they never will have a clue Because, in spite of what they say, they really don't believe this book.

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See, I am just so simple and so foolish that if it's in that book, I'm going to believe it.

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Now, I understand that translations can miss it and I understand that oftentimes you have to dig back into the Greek, into the Hebrew and into the mind and heart of the Holy Ghost to try to find out what he's actually saying.

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I understand that, but that doesn't change You're not going to change the fact that God did what he said in Joshua, chapter 10.

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God did what he said at the Red Sea.

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God did what he said in the days of Noah, and I mean listen, jesus testified to that.

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He said as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man.

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You know well, all right, that just validated.

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You know Genesis 6, 7, 8, 9, and etc.

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You know well, all right, that just validated.

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You know Genesis 6, 7, 8, 9, etc.

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You know, you hear what I'm saying.

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You don't need a Bible scholar to tell you that the flood couldn't happen.

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Jesus said it happened.

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You know, you just can't get away from that stuff Now.

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The minute you start to quibble about whether the flood happened, then you're going to have to quibble about whether Jesus happened, because Jesus certified it, and those are important things to understand.

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Jesus certified that there was a man named Abraham that walked the planet and he was important enough to say that if you are Abraham's children, you would do the things that Abraham did.

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Now Jesus said that.

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So if you believe in Jesus, you have to believe in in the ministry of Abraham, and then there's a whole bunch of other things that you have to believe.

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You follow what I'm saying.

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Praise God, we have to be so convinced in our heart that, in this day, god is going to do something that he has never done before.

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That's going to be so amazing and so powerful that it'll knock the Antichrist for a loop for centuries.

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Matter of fact, we're coming up on a knockout punch that the Bible says will lock him up for a thousand years.

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Now, whether this is the knockout punch, I don't know.

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A lot smarter people than I am can figure all that kind of stuff out.

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I have never been a rabid student of end times things.

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Been a rabid student of end times things because there's just too, just too difficult to sift through all the different possible explanations.

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But I will tell you this that it says very clearly that the devil and these crew is going to be locked up for a thousand years.

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Well, well, the kind of knockout punch that leads to that is exactly what I'm talking about A manifestation of God's power that you can't even imagine.

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How amazing it's going to be.

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And all of the things taken together that we're studying are just.

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You could take them together, you could put them in a miracle hopper if you would, and get all of the power that was released in all of those miracles, and I'm talking the flood, I'm talking the Red Sea, I'm talking the plagues, I'm talking Joshua, I'm talking David.

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All of those miracles, put all that power together and it can't even compare to the power that is about to be released when God just decides he's had enough of this.

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The Bible says that the light and momentary afflictions that you are suffering in the present age are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed.

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Amen, there's, there's coming something that God's doing and, like I've told you before, you know, the only thing you can possibly do is avoid being involved.

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Otherwise he's going to take you kicking and screaming across the finish line and he's going to make you to be a participant.

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Amen, but you're not going to be much of a participant if you don't believe it.

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You don't believe it.

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Amen, it's, it's.

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It's not going to come too close to your neighborhood.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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So I'm saying all this again because I'm going to keep on saying it, because you need to keep on hearing it, because it's not something you hear at the corner grocery store or whoever you talk to, whoever you're having conversations with, they don't have these kind of conversations.

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I'm telling you.

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I have been around people nearly all my life and I find that most people just retell you stuff that they've heard, you know, and there's no, they don't, they don't, they really don't even think about it.

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They kind of pick a side that they want to be on and then, once they're on that side, they're just going to tell you whatever they've heard you, whatever they've heard.

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But see, everybody in this room has an edge up on that.

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You don't have to regurgitate what somebody's told you.

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You can be a mouthpiece for God.

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You can hear God say something and then you can say it.

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I mean, the world may be going to hell in a handbasket, but God, if you think God's going to let the world go to hell in a handbasket, you have seriously misjudged him.

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And I got a parable for you about misjudging the master.

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You don't want to do that.

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Amen, amen.

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The wicked servant that took the mina and hid it in a handkerchief and buried it.

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Amen, he was judged not for being stingy or not or being lazy.

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He was judged for misjudging his master.

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Oh, you thought I was an austere person.

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Who?

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Who reaped, who sowed and reap where they did not sow?

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I'm going to show you, you wicked servant.

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Amen, praise God.

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We have to properly judge our God and assess him.

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Amen, so that we can understand these things.

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You know, most Christians are rooting for a losing game.

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You know, they want to go out of here.

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You know, with a handful of Christians and let the rest of them, just you know, go through the rapture, go to hell, go to wherever they want to go.

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But you know, bless God, we're getting out of here.

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Most Christians believe in that.

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I can't understand how you can possibly believe that, with a God who said his son as the propitiation for all, even the ones that God knew would never accept him.

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Glory to God.

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I understand that people have different points of view and everything.

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I do understand that.

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But I would rather not get consumed by somebody's point of view.

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I would rather get consumed by God's point of view.

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I would rather get consumed by God's point of view Hallelujah.

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So I said all that to say this we need to be a people who are earnestly expecting God to do great and mighty things that we don't know.

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So I'm going to take I am going to take it as slowly as I possibly can go through these examples of what God has already done and then look you straight in the face and say he's going to do better than that.

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And if you and if, if you can't bring yourself to believe it, then I've given you chapter and verse that you can go back and read it for yourself and see what he did.

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I mean, you're all over parts of the New Testament, reading that, believing that, reading that, believing that, reading that, believing that.

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But when it comes to great and mighty things that we don't know, well, that's such a stretch we can't even figure out how to get there.

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But we're all over that, you know, we're all over that about praying in tongues, about believing God to hear from him, receive the gift of interpretation, understand what he's trying to tell us, pray in unison, call for intercessors, do all these things that God has taught us to do, so that, even though we're a little group of people amen.

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We've already demonstrated that, that this group can do great and mighty things.

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If we're just tap into God and just pray what he's praying, believe what he's believing, hallelujah.

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And here's the kicker You're going to find out in all of these situations, every one of them, that it absolutely does not matter what other people think.

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If God's got one person that will believe him and he can tell that one person.

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This is what I want you to believe, moses, lift up your rod.

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Well, all Moses had to do was believe that he didn't have to go to the Egyptian school of physics to understand how water works and how the wind can supernaturally drive.

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He didn't have to go study all that stuff.

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He didn't have to know one lick of that.

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Even though he was skilled in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, he didn't have to know one thing about physics.

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All he had to do was lift up his hand.

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And when he couldn't lift up his hand anymore, he had some help.

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He had God-ordained help, he had intercessors You're not hearing me.

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He had Old Testament just out of slavery.

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Intercessors.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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God is going to do it and he's going to be, and he's going to show himself mighty.

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And listen when I say it doesn't matter if anybody agrees, it doesn't matter if the six o'clock news gives an accurate account of what God's doing.

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Doesn't matter, doesn't matter whether he gets any credit, doesn't matter if anybody even notices.

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They'll notice.

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But I mean you know it's like you know They'll notice.

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But I mean you know it's like you know.

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These people are so foolish that the data is there to understand what is happening with the weather on the basis, basically, of sun activity.

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The sun is the major driver of weather changes on the planet.

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That's nothing to do with what we do, but yet the whole world has gone crazy about that and just nuts about it.

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But they're going nuts about the wrong thing and so they're liable to blame the things that are happening on some other phenomenon, rather than understand that this is the hand of God moving.

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But see, it doesn't matter to God about that, and it doesn't matter to us either, because we know what side we're on.

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We know whom we believed in, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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I know Paul said, know whom we believed in, hallelujah.

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I know Paul said in whom I believed, and I believe that he is able to do that which I have committed unto him.

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Praise God.

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We are going to talk about.

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This attack of the Antichrist is an attack on righteousness and authority, the righteousness and authority of God and specifically the righteousness and the authority of the Christ, and in particular, in this particular instance, we're going to see that the point of attack for Antichrist is on the race called the Amorites, who were in possession of Canaan, but, more specifically, they were in possession of Jerusalem.

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Hallelujah, praise God, when Israel came in and began the conquest of Canaan and began the conquest of Canaan.

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They went in and first took possession of the city of Jericho, after destroying the walls around the city.

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You know that story, amen.

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They marched around the city seven times.

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The walls came down.

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Rahab happened to have a house on the wall, amen, and she let down the scarlet cord.

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They came and rescued her and her family.

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She became the wife of somebody in Israel and eventually became one of the bloodline kin of Jesus.

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You know all these things, but Jericho was the first city.

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You don't think that the story about Jericho spread like wildfire through Canaan?

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Oh, yes, it did.

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The Bible even testifies to it.

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They were scared to death, amen.

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Even after the spies came in and said we are like grasshoppers, these guys are like giants and they were giants.

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The Amorites were were a direct race connected to the, the original giants that were put in the uh, the, the world after the flood, and specifically by the race of Ham, and specifically through the bloodline of Nimrod.

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We studied that when the children of Israel finally completed their 40 years and they started to come into Canaan and reconquer the land, take it back, amen.

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They came in.

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They first took Jericho, then they took IE in a great, great battle, and by this time there was a a band of people called the Gibeonites, who who?

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Um, a band of people called the Gibeonites, who were a strong band of people, but they saw what had happened to Jericho and Ai and they asked Joshua for a treaty.

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Joshua gave it to them.

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Well, this freaked the rest of the Amorites out, because now they've got a strong branch of Canaanites allied with the children of Israel, and they're freaks.

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So the main king, who was the king of Jerusalem, whose name was Adonai Zedek, which means the master is righteous, which is a real joke amen from an Amorite.

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But that's what they did.

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Hallelujah, a race of giants.

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And they had polluted the land.

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And the way that they had polluted the land is I'm going to talk about this later but their sins literally shaped the destiny of Israel.

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Their sins literally shaped the destiny of Israel.

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I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself.

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Let me just pause right there and keep on going, and I'll come back to that point.

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The Amorites were a race of giants, and they were a race of not only giants, but of a perverted blend of humanoids and giants giants.

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There's one passage in Deuteronomy 3.11 that talks about a bed being found among the Amorites that was 14 feet long and 6 feet wide.

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Deuteronomy, chapter 3, verse 11, I think, is where that scripture is, where it talks about this bed.

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So these giants were real.

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And not only were they real, but there was another brand of giants that were smaller because they were a blend of humans and giants.

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They were a humanoid giant blend.

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Are you hearing me?

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I mean, if you got one, goliath was not 14 feet tall, goliath was about nine feet tall.

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Now, goliath was a giant, no doubt about it, but he wasn't 14 feet tall.

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So something happened, and what happened was that the giants somehow, or the fallen angels somehow, made a human giantgiant blend, and they were among the Amorites.

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The Amorites worshipped a god whose name was Amuru and he was a god of the high places, which put him in the same category as Nimrod.

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So the sin of Nimrod passed down.

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We don't know who this was, but it was probably a giant, like Nimrod, of the race of Ham that came out of Babylon and settled into the area called Canaan and began to multiply and build cities just the way that they did in Babylon, amen, of the cursed line of Ham, and they were sworn enemies of Abraham.

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The battles that Abraham had with the five kings of the plain?

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They were all Amorite peoples.

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They were involved in the same kinds of sins and since they came out of the strand that followed after Nimrod and they followed after a God of high places, amen, then they were enemies of Abraham.

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They were enemies of the faith of Abraham because their whole religion was a religion based on works, not a faith.

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You follow what I'm saying.

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So here we have Canaan, who is a race of satanic perversion, of giants and giants' offspring, amen, who were diametrically opposed to God's man, abraham.

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And God sent Abraham as one man with one family, in the midst of these kings of giants, and Abraham took them on Hallelujah and beat them, beat them severely, took them into captivity we talked about this and made a tithe of all their stuff Holy to God.

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So Genesis 15, 16 says something very interesting and it is a difficult scripture to get your hands on.

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In the middle of prophesying to Abraham concerning his seed, he was telling Abraham that his offspring, that he was going to live to be an old man.

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He would die in peace and his offspring would be numerous and like the sands of the seashore and all of that stuff.

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He said but but your seed is going to go into bondage in a foreign country and there they will serve them in that country.

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But in the fourth generation they shall return here.

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Fourth generation, they shall return here.

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So God was prophesying to Abraham that through Isaac there would come this nation and this nation would go into captivity.

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And God specified the amount of time.

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He said it was 400 and some years.

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But in the fourth generation they were going to come back here.

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And you go.

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Why?

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Why did God do that?

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I mean, if God knew that Israel was going to go into bondage to Egypt, that they would be abused, they would be enslaved.

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And you have to ask yourself why.

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And the answer to that question is right there.

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He says because for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.

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In the King James Version, I believe, it says that the sin of the Amorites is not yet full.

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So it's not, it hasn't been completed yet, and that you go.

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So let me get this straight God's people get sold into slavery for 400 years and have to go through this long drawn out process of resettlement, while its enemies are just getting stronger.

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And this is all so that the Amorites can sin more?

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And the answer to that is yes, because there was coming a battle and God was going to show himself mighty, but he had to let the Amorites get to a sufficient level of degradation, perversion and military size so that when he beat them, he beat them decisively.

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Now watch this Abraham beat them decisively, but they kept coming.

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God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, but they kept coming.

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These people were persistent, so he was going to let them let the sins completely fill Canaan.

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And then he was going to come back after 500 years and his people had grown to a mighty army.

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We're talking an army of close to a million men, amen, and all of their.

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And every year some 18-year-old kid would turn 19,.

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And here'd come another tens of thousands of recruits Every year.

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They kept replenishing, replenishing, replenishing, and they didn't get to retire.

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Their general was 85 years old and could run up mountains.

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So we had a supernatural military force operated by a run by an 85-year-old man that could climb mountains, and the previous general had lived to be what 120?

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And walked with God.

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So you know we're not.

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God had a vision here of building up an army Because he wanted to show a point If he did what he did with Noah and nobody listened.

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I mean we didn't even get past Noah's sons.

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Are you serious?

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Do you understand?

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How can you not hear the cry of God in all of this and hear the desperation that?

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Or if God can be desperate I don't think that's possible but just the desperate situation that involved Noah.

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Noah would have saved God, would have saved Noah if Noah was the only person and he would have made him a wife, just like he made Eve for Adam.

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But he didn't do it that way.

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He saved Noah's wife and he saved their children so they could get an acceleration going on the repopulation of the earth.

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Right, and out of the boat comes Ham, and Ham's just a waste of time.

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I mean, he's a waste of breathing space.

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He no more gets off the boat than he starts to pollute the earth with his sin, hallelujah.

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And so all of these, these, these sons of Ham, the Amorites, fill Canaan up.

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It could have been any place.

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I mean.

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We could have picked any country.

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I mean, why did God send them?

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Egypt is just as much in this boat as they are.

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Why did he send them to Egypt?

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He sent them to Egypt to prosper them.

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He sent them to Egypt to grow them up.

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He sent them to Egypt as a young boy.

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Figuratively, there were 75 of them.

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By the time they left, there was 5 million of them.

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They left, there was five million of them.

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When they went into Egypt, they were shepherds, traders, had a little bit of fighting experience, but not much.

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When they came out, they had learned many things from the Egyptians and they were a mighty army over to God.

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In fact, the Bible several times calls them the armies of the Lord.

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Now, the sin or the iniquity of the Amorites is not.

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Let me just give you it.

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The Amorites were some of the most perverted, disgusting people that have ever lived on the planet.

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They practiced child sacrifice.

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Okay, well, that's kind of not too unusual.

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People do that all the time.

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Only they ate their children.

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They practiced not just occasional dabbling, they practiced incense.

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They practiced homosexuality, bestiality.

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Their influence can be seen in Sodom and Gomorrah, in the degradation to the point that they did the, the, the perverts.

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And Sodom and Gomorrah didn't want women and they didn't even want men, they wanted angels.

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See, and that just tells you how wicked these people were and what the source of their wickedness was.

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Because they knew that angels had cohabitated with women and formed giants.

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And then these giants cohabitated with women and formed another race of sub giants and sub humans.

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They knew all this stuff.

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They couldn't wait to get their hands on some more angels.

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These people were off the charts and God said they just imagine what God's saying here to Abraham said their sins not yet complete.

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You go, you wonder how you know.

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Abraham said their sin's not yet complete.

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You wonder how you know?

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God came down from heaven, inspected Sodom and Gomorrah and then wiped them off of the face of the planet.

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Abraham took their kings and wiped them all over the mat.

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And yet God says to Abraham their sins aren't complete yet over the mat.

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And yet God says to Abraham their sins aren't complete yet.

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The measure of their sin has not yet been complete.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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And we have to understand that statement or we won't understand, really, why Israel went into bondage and why it was so important for them to come back and reconquer Canaan and take it back for God.

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Okay, so Are you?

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Are you ready to follow this a little bit?

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We are going to try to figure out what God meant when he said that the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete when Abraham came to Canaan.

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There were a lot of reasons why Abraham was sent to Canaan by God.

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One of them was to put a dent in the Amorites' military power, in the kingship of giants and all of that kind of stuff.

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But the real reason that Abraham was sent to Canaan was that Jerusalem was there.

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Now you might think that Jerusalem hadn't been much of anything yet, and you might be right, okay.

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However, god doesn't look at things through your timeline.

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He knew exactly what was going to happen in jerusalem and he knew that it was already in a place where it was going to be defiled in abraham's lifetime, melchizedek, who we read about in gen chapter 14 and Hebrews chapter 7.

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Melchizedek was the king of Jerusalem during Abraham's lifetime.

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We have one instance where Abraham took the tithe after he beat the kings, the Amorite kings, after he beat them, and he took the tithe and brought it to Melchizedek, and that's all we ever mention.

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But the fact of the matter is that the Bible says that Abraham was.

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The gospel was preached to Abraham, and I believe that Melchizedek was the one who preached it to him.

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I believe the Bible says very clearly that Melchizedek was Jesus in a pre-incarnation form.

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It says that that's not unusual.

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Jesus shows up at various times in various ways, but in that case he was here and he stayed here for a while and the purpose in staying here was to train Abraham.

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I also believe, and I think it's not a stretch to believe, that he stayed in Jerusalem throughout the lifetimes of Isaac and of Jacob.

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Amen, because both of them were trained in the ways of God in the same way that Abraham was trained.

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However, I think that when Jacob took his family to Egypt, which was ordained of God, this wasn't something that they just did and God had to catch up with it.

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This was exactly what he prophesied to Abraham.

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Jacob took 75 people and they went to live in Egypt.

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Joseph was able to get the land of Goshen allotted to them.

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They went over there and lived and began to be prosperous, began to multiply, until there was a couple of Pharaohs came and went and somewhat one of the Pharaohs didn't know Joseph hadn't heard about him, and so he put the children of Israel into bondage.

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You know the story God goes and gets Moses out of Midian Amen.

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So when Jacob left, there was no reason for Melchizedek to stay in Jerusalem.

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The chosen, the seed, had gone.

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I might as well just preach this the seed came in the form of Abraham.

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God knew that in Abraham was the seed that would become Jesus.

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Isaac was the seed that would become Jesus.

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Jacob was the seed that would become Jesus.

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Jacob was the seed that would become Jesus.

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But in Jacob there were 12 sons.

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There was not for all of Jacob to be the seed.

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All of Jacob was to become Israel, but the seed was going to come through Judah.

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Do we understand this?

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See, if you can get this one straight, you can figure out a whole lot of stuff.

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If you don't get this one straight, you're going to be stuck in some serious deception about who's who in the Bible.

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Amen, and the ministry of Melchizedek was to the seed, and so he was there for Abraham, he was there for Isaac, he was there for Jacob and he was probably there for a time with Judah.

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But when they left, when the seed left and went to Egypt, amen.

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There was no need for Melchizedek to stay.

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There wasn't any seed there.

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His ministry was to the seed.

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Everybody say his ministry Is to the seed.

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That's why you don't hear about him Again, until Hebrews, the seventh chapter, because the book of Hebrews is written to the sea.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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See, everybody thinks that Hebrews is kind of a later book that got written by somebody else, but the evidence shows that it was incorporated into the first letters that Paul published and mailed to the other churches.

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It was Romans was first, hebrews was the last, and in between was Corinthians and Galatians.

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Those five accumulation of letters was the foundation of your New Testament.

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Oh hallelujah, when Melchizedek vacated Jerusalem, the Amorites took control.

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So here's step one of the fulfilling of their sin the Amorites took control of the holy city.

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Now you can say well, you know, I don't know, maybe it wasn't quite the holy city yet they didn't have a tabernacle.

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Well, they must have had something.

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He was the high priest of God, so he had to have some sort of a tabernacle.

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I would just jump out there and make a wild prophetic declaration that it probably looked a lot like the tabernacle that Moses ended up built.

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Why would I be so bold?

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The Amorites took control and established ownership of God's city for 400 and some years.

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So what am I saying?

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They had four centuries to fill up their sin.

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You're not hearing me.

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You know what I mean.

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They took all of these evil practices and marched right into Jerusalem and started doing them right there and they started getting better at it and better at it and more perverted and more degraded and more terrible and more horrible.

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Right there, in the very place where Melchizedek walked.

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So you don't think it's somebody else.

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That's Jesus, right on the streets where he walked and he would walk.

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And they stayed in control until this battle that we're about to talk about with Joshua in Joshua chapter 10.

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They would be in control that whole time.

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In fact, joshua chapter 10 starts out.

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The very first words of the first verse of Joshua chapter 10 have to do with this king called Adonai Zedek, who was the king of Jerusalem.

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Now he gathered around him five other kings, four other kings who were kings of other cities, and they did battle against Gideon and Joshua, which is where we're at when we get to this story.

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But the king of Jerusalem was an Amorite.

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So all the way up until Joshua came back into Canaan, from the time that Jacob left to the time that Joshua came back, joshua came back, jerusalem was ruled by giants, by a perverted satanic race.

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I wish I could preach.

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I wish I could preach with some level of freedom.

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But the Bible says that the holy city is going to be trod on by the Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled.

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It's going to happen again in the same way it's happening now.

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And if you don't think that there's a certain army at war right now that would love to possess Jerusalem, glory to God.

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So so here's this Amorite king, adonai Zedek.

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He is the king of Jerusalem.

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However, as we find out, as we're going to find out in this story, amen, he is going to lose not only his kingship over Jerusalem, but he's going to lose his life.

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So there's a vacuum, you understand.

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There's a power vacuum.

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Now we don't have a king over Jerusalem, so somebody moves in, and it's a tribe called the Jebusites.

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They're a bad bunch of people, probably kissing cousins to the Amorites, but they move in.

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They see the power vacuum left by the Amorites.

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Nobody's in charge.

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So they slip in and they take over.

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This is a status quo for another 400 years I'm talking about.

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The sins of the Amorites Didn't even get fulfilled when they had a king over Jerusalem.

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God's still waiting and he's going to let them.

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Wait until there's a.

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We'll get to this.

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After we do this thing, then we'll get to the next one.

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The next one is all about David.

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And what does David do?

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David does one of these.

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You have to.

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You can.

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If you can, if you can develop, let me tell you.

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Let me just give you a clue here.

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If you can develop a kn, me tell you.

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Let me just give you a clue here.

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If you can develop a knack when you read your Bible of not passing over little things that take up one or two verses and you go well, that's kind of interesting, and then just go on and focus on the long stories.

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Everybody knows the story of David and Goliath in some form or fashion.

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It's one of the best-known stories in the Bible, right, and everybody has heard it and everybody's got an opinion and most of people's opinions and ideas about what really happened or wrong.

00:51:31.498 --> 00:51:34.807
But they don't, but they hardly.

00:51:34.807 --> 00:51:38.898
Anybody remembers the most important thing about that story.

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You know what that is when David cut off his head, he carried his head, which had to weigh, and probably about 100 pounds.

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I mean the thing must have been huge.

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I don't know how much it weighed, but I mean, you know, I hope he had a donkey or something, because I mean, 15, 16-year-old kid, what's he going to do with his head?

00:52:06.240 --> 00:52:08.601
Yeah, I mean ugh.

00:52:08.601 --> 00:52:23.003
Anyway, he took this head and he walked right up to the walled city of Jerusalem, where the Jebusites were, and he held that head up and the Bible doesn't say that he said anything.

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But you want to know something?

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The sins of the Amorites had become complete, of the Amorites had become Complete, and he held it up.

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And I know he said this I'm coming, I'm coming for you, because you are in my city, because I am the walking seed on the earth.

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You're next.

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What do you say?

00:53:07.996 --> 00:53:09.443
What the Clint Eastwoods say Make my day.

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You know, now David would hold the head of an Amorite giant.

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You know, now David would hold the head of an Amorite giant at the doors of a Jebusite Jerusalem.

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But the day would come, not too many years later, when David would possess David's possessions and he would come in and he would take control and it would become known as the city of David To this day, because when the fullness of the sin of the Amorites was complete and it was completed, when Goliath taunted the armies of God and God said I'm getting ahead.

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That's a couple weeks ahead.

00:54:10.222 --> 00:54:17.869
But when God just said this, he said you're not going to do that and get away with it, it's.

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It's one thing that you just run around here and do all your perverted stuff, but for you to taunt me and say that I'm not able to do to defend my people.

00:54:32.764 --> 00:54:47.262
You forgot what happened 800 years ago when Joshua came into this, or 400 years ago, when Joshua came into this land and cleaned house with the blood of your kings.

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Glory to God.

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David, listen to me very carefully.

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David, listen to me real carefully.

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David restored the city of Jerusalem to righteous authority.

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For almost a thousand years, the city of Jerusalem had been under unrighteous, perverted authority.

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Unrighteous, perverted authority, Unrighteous, perverted authority.

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Even after Israel conquered Canaan, there was this thorn in their side and the Jebusites had control over the city.

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Now, in their far, distant memory see, you got to remember this thing went.

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This thing takes over 800 years to transpire, and it's been 800 years since Melchizedek since met Abraham in the road with the bread and the wine and received a tithe from it.

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Well, you can just you know that that probably didn't get very far in the road with the bread and the wine and received a tithe from it.

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Well, you can, just you know that probably didn't get very far in the telling.

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You know, people have short memories.

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They don't remember all that stuff.

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I mean, it may have been a little bit here, a little bit there, but they hadn't put the significance, they didn't have Paul's New Testament revelation that Melchizedek was the Christ, amen.

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They didn't have that, they didn't know that.

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They just thought he was some guy, you know.

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But Paul tells us something different.

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And because we know what Paul said and we believe it, then we understand that this city was in the heart of God all along.

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Nobody else knew it and he had let the Amorites do what they were going to do for almost eight centuries, almost a thousand years.

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Think about it.

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Between the time he spoke to Abraham and the time that David would show up with the head of Goliath in his hand, amen was almost an entire millennium.

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But God to God, that's nothing, that's just a day.

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A day is a thousand years and a thousand years is a day.

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He let the Amorites rule over his.

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He let the Amorites rule over his.

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He let the spirit of Antichrist rule and defile his holy city for almost a thousand years, until Joshua, whose name is Joshua only in the Old Testament.

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His name is Yeshua and his name is Jesus.

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Until Jesus showed up.

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Oh glory to God.

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But this Jesus wasn't good enough to take the city back.

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It had to be the Jesus of the seed that was in David and that Jesus took the head and held it up.

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I'm coming next, I'm coming next, I'm coming after you next.

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And he did.

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And he restored Righteous authority To the city of the king.

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Now, just like in any other Situation that lasted one generation, there's no guarantee that the next generation is going to catch the anointing.

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If we haven't seen this movie play out of all the great men of God that had a bunch of kids and they just thought that the kids were going to have the same anointing.

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It never works out that way.

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The anointing is not transferred by Adam's bloodline, it's transferred by the Spirit to whom the Spirit will.

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The gifts of the Spirit are distributed to whom the Spirit wills.

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Amen.

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It never works out that way, otherwise it would be by Adam and it's never by Adam.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.

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So you thought I was never going to get to Joshua, chapter 10, didn't you.

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We got a little bit of time.

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Let's turn to Joshua, chapter 10.

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Joshua, chapter 10, is the account of the greatest physical miracle in your Bible, hallelujah, and like I said before, other than the miracles surrounding the incarnation of Jesus, this is the greatest miracle.

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Now.

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It's not greater than Jesus being incarnated in the Virgin Mary.

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It's not greater than Jesus being born free of sin.

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It's not greater than Jesus growing up not committing sin.

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It's not greater than any of the things that Jesus did Amen.

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But it is the greatest physical miracle in the Bible and this one is worth some study, because if we study this and we believe it, even though it's impossible to understand, if we believe this, then we are putting ourselves in a position to believe something that we don't know.

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Because I'm going to tell you one thing right here at the beginning I'm going to probably repeat this several times is that I have no clue.

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I have no clue.

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I think that anybody that tries to explain this miracle is pompous and and does a doesn't understand physics and B just doesn't understand God.

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This is this one is just off the charts.

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There's no way to explain this.

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It may be the greatest miracle that is recorded in your Bible.

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But having been around this stuff now for a long, long, long time and hearing story after story after story, this is one story that doesn't get repeated.

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Like David and Goliath, like the fiery furnace, you know.

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Like the Red Sea, like the flood, you know, you don't.

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You just don't.

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It doesn't.

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It's not up there, it's not up in your top 10 miracles, but it should be, because it is the greatest of all miracles and we must believe it.

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Just because it's somewhere buried in the in in, in the obscurity of Joshua, we still must believe it.

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And even if we don't understand it, we have to understand its significance.

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Follow what I'm saying.

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You may not understand how this happened, and you, you know I'm gonna.

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You may not understand how this happened, and you, you know, I'm going to just be bold and tell you you don't know how, you don't know how this happened, and there's some things about this miracle that make it even harder to believe, but it's still there.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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So the Lord said to Joshua, verse 8, do not fear them, do not fear the forces of the Antichrist.

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Now here's some things that we're going to learn throughout this story, and I'm just going to interject them as they go along.

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Amen story.

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And I'm just going to interject them as they go along.

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Amen we need if we're given.

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I can remember when, when uh covid first started to become this thing you know, we didn't even know what it was, but it became this thing and I remember the lord telling me I, I got, I, I, me, I withdrew to me and the Lord for about three days and I said I need to hear what you've got to tell me.

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And he told me.

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At the end of that time.

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He said there has been a massive spirit of fear released upon the entire planet.

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He said if you don't understand that and you don't pray accordingly, you will succumb to it.

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He said but I have been giving you a spirit of fear and so, if you'll remember, I started to minister that I started to share with you that that's what the Lord told me.

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We're going to have to come against that spirit.

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We're going to have to be strong against it, amen, because it's going to come at you in a thousand different ways.

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And I remember, I remember when that spirit came and and tried to grip me and I said I am not having it, I'm not going to be given over to a spirit of fear.

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I'm not.

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I'm going to believe my God and he's going to keep me.

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He's going to protect me, hallelujah, and he's going to keep me.

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He's going to protect me, hallelujah.

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So don't fear them.

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One of the big things that the spirit of Antichrist does is he tries to get you in the grips of what I would just call terror.

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I mean, he tries to just terrorize you.

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You know like, if you, you know, threatened, he threatens you with not being able to buy or sell.

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He threatens you with.

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You know like, if you, you know, threaten, he threatens you with not being able to buy or sell.

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He threatens you with with.

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You know, if you don't go along with the program, we're gonna, you know, do this to you.

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We're gonna do that to you.

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We're gonna do this, we're gonna do that, you know.

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Well, they may be able to pull that on some people, but they ought not be able to pull that on some people, but they ought not be able to pull that on us.

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Amen, because we've not been given a spirit of fear.

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What can he do to us?

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Praise God.

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And here's what God says about it.

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He says do not fear them, for I have delivered them into your hand.

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So, instead of see, you can see this in the news all the time that you know one side will accuse the other side of the very things that they're doing right, and so the spirit of Antichrist tries to get you to be afraid of the very things that they need to be afraid of about us, and that is that God's delivered them into our hand.

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See, they know this.

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This is why I've told you so many times the attacks are always on the body of Christ, because they know that they've been delivered into the hands of the body of Christ.

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They know that God knows that Angels know that they're just waiting for us to wake up and understand the level of power that we have and the level of authority that we have.

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Praise God, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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I have delivered them into your hand and not a man of them shall stand before you.

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Glory to God.

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Are you hearing what, god?

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You know?

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They didn't have the covenant that you have, but they had the God that you have.

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They may not have the Holy Ghost, amen, but they had the God that you have.

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They may not have the Holy Ghost amen but they had a mighty God and they had seen his mighty works and they believed Praise the Lord.

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So listen to what the Lord says.

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He says I've delivered them into your hands and they're not going to stand before you, but you've got to believe that.

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So you've got to.

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You can't be sitting here thinking well, that's a nice story.

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But you know, they've got the government, they've got the courts, they've got the money.

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They've got the banks, they've got Wall Street.

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They've got, you know, all this stuff.

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You know they've got the World Bank, They've got Wall Street.

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They've got all this stuff.

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They've got the World Bank.

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They've got China, they've got this.

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It can't get any worse.

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Well, sure, it can get worse.

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It can get a whole lot worse.

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But this is what my Bible says.

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You can believe all that or you can believe what the Bible says.

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The Bible says I've given them into your hand and not a one of them shall stand before you.

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Glory to God.

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Now look at what Joshua did in verse nine.

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He didn't wait.

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You know he didn't call a council meeting.

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He didn't.

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You know he didn't ask for the top 10 denominations in North America to have a world conference on.

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You know how to obey God and how to attack the Antichrist, you know.

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I mean, all that would have come out of there was, you know, a bunch of prose statements for the Antichrist, you know, and why we should be tolerant, why we should be diverse, you know, and all that good stuff.

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Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly.

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I like suddenlies, don't you like suddenlies?

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Joshua just came at them, even though he marched all night from Gilgal.

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He was tired, they were exhausted, they were worn out, but he still came upon them suddenly.

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Hallelujah, but he still came upon them suddenly.

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Hallelujah.

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You may, you may, you may, it may come.

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It may come to you sometime.

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That this is not an opportune time.

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It may not be an opportune time to do a a many month attack on the spirit of antichrist, but all I, all I've got to tell you is this is not my first rodeo.

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I've been down this road before and the only thing I can tell you is it suddenly works, suddenly works.

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And if they, if they, if they, if they ever get a notion that you're not going to quit and you're not going to give up and you're just going to keep suddenly messing with them and harassing them and being a thorn in their side and a vexation in their plans.

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Glory to God.

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Suddenly.

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Suddenly, joshua Jesus came upon them suddenly.

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I love it, praise the Lord.

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What are they going to do when Jesus shows up?

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Suddenly?

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There's absolutely nothing they can do and they won't have any.

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We're going to find out that there is no place they can hide and no place they can run to.

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Glory to God.

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Now we're going to end on this thought right here.

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Are you ready for this thought?

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So the Lord routed them before Israel.

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You've got to be willing to show up suddenly.

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You've got to be willing to believe God that he's going to deliver your enemies into your hand, and then the Lord will route them.

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What God wants you to know about this miracle is that it was the Lord that did it.

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He routed the enemy.

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We're going to find out that in this battle, israel killed a great number of them, but the Lord killed more.

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And it says that Hallelujah, the Lord routed them and killed them with a great slaughter.

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Hallelujah, praise God, the Lord routed them.

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Everybody say the Lord, the Lord routed them.

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He's a man of war.

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Now you need to get over your sensibilities and understand that these enemies of God need to be dealt with ruthlessly.

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We will find out.

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Can I say this, lord?

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We will find out that Joshua did not intercede with the Lord to stop the physical mechanics of the universe so that the Amorites could have an altar call.

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He had blood in his eyes, the saying goes, he was ready, and this is jesus here.

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Jesus did that.

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Jesus interceded so that the amorites could be wiped off the face of the planet.

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Hallelujah, glory to god, praise the lord, hallelujah.