Aug. 25, 2024

Davidic Covenant Pt 4

Davidic Covenant Pt 4

We continue our study of the Davidic Covenant

We continue our study of the Davidic Covenant

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All right, last two weeks, I think it's been two

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weeks we have been working on well, it's been longer.

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Then we took a little break and then we came

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back to it.

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We've been dealing with David's the covenant God made with David,

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or the Dividic Covenant.

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Now.

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I listened to last week and it seems like when

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we were doing review from the week before, there was

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some some problems or things that may not have been remembered.

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So I'm going to go through some of this relatively quick.

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Hopefully we will have at least some of this stuff

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we've reviewed now for two weeks down on the third week,

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and then we can try to finish this up. But

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the main passage of scripture for God's Covenant with David,

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if everyone remembers, is Second Samuel, chapter seven, verses twelve

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through sixteen. Second Samuel, Chapter twelve versus Second Samuel, Chapter seven,

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verses twelve through sixteen. So if you want to make

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sure you have that open so that you can make

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reference to it. Remember, David desired to build a temple

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for the Lord to replace the temporary tent like tabernacle,

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since David himself lived in a House of Cedar. It

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seemed only fitting that there'll be a more permanent building

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for the worship of God. But God revealed to Nathan

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the prophet that he had something far greater in mind

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for David, and that revelation is the Davidic Covenant.

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Remember the way Ryory put it. I talked about this.

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The last two weeks that it's very interesting that the

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way Ryri describes it as, Hey, David wanted to do this,

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but God had something.

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Greater for David.

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Because the way most preachers handle it is David wanted

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to do it, but because of David's sin, David wasn't

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allowed to do it, right, And so, and we talked

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about some of the problems with that perspective because people

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will say, well, David was facing consequences, and we'll look,

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We'll wait a minute, and then that will extrapolate from

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that and then try to implement, you know, consequences on

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other people.

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And a couple of issues with it.

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First, David wasn't allowed to build the temple. And if

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you say it's because of sin, who did get to

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build the temple?

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Okay? Right? Who had far greater sin?

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Right, at least numerically speaking, right, and not only that

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David is given. If the consequences are so bad that

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David can't build the temple, you think, then God wouldn't

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have used David to do what write scripture or here

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the novel idea, would not have made the covenant with

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him because Solomon built the temple, and what happened to

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that temple it was destroyed.

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What happened to the covenant God made with David, it's

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forever right.

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So clearly David gets the better end of the deal

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from a human perspective.

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Okay, So so just keep that in mind. We spend

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a lot of time with that.

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Now, say again, Second Samuel seven twelve through sixteen, we

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looked at the promises related to David.

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Two main promises related to David. You can look at.

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Verse twelve and verse sixteen for these two promises. What

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was the first promise to David Second Samuel seven to twelve. Yeah,

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he would have a son who would succeed him. So

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we called this promise the promise of descendants. He would

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have a son who would succeed him and establish his kingdom.

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That's the second Samuel seven to twelve. Second, All right, yes,

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that's the kingdom, David's house, throne and kingdom would be

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established and what's the.

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Key word, forever? However, the covenant did not guarantee.

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Uninterrupted rule by David's family, though it did promise the

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right to rule would have remained with David's dynasty. The

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Babyloni kept the captivity did of course interrupt the Davidic rule.

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But still it's a promise for ever, all right. So

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those were the promises related to David. Now this is

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where we had a little problem last week, the promises

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related to Solomon.

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All right.

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Look at verse thirteen, the first part of verse thirteen,

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Second Samuel seven, Verse.

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Thirteen, the very first part of it. What does it say?

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What's the promise here? Okay?

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And who is that referencing that Solomon rather than David

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would build the temple?

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All right?

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So the first promise related to Solomon is the temple

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right thirteen B or the second part of verse thirteen,

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all right, the throne of Solomon's kingdom would be established forever.

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Please note that forever forever as it relates to the kingdom,

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not to the temple, but as it relates to the kingdom.

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There was a forever aspect then verses fourteen through fifteen. Okay,

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well continue verse fourteen fifteen. Yeah, he will be chasing

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for his sins, but not deposed.

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Right, everybody see that, So that's.

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Already anticipated the Solomon would commit sin. Right, So meaning

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God is establishing a covenant with people who are sinners

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and he already knows they're going to sin. Now, remember

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this leads to a lot of philological discussion. I don't

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want to I don't want to get too sidetracked because

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I want to finish the dividic covenant today.

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Just remember number one.

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If God makes a covenant with anyone, what is absolutely

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guaranteed is going to happen with the people who mix

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a covenant with they will sin. If God supposedly chooses

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someone for salvation, what is absolutely guaranteed about the people

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he chooses for salvation?

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They're going to still sin. Right.

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If God chooses a nation, what is absolutely guaranteed about

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the nation he chooses, they're sin If he chooses someone

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for ministry.

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What is absolutely guaranteed will happen? They're going to sin? Right?

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Because sin is.

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Universal, it is perpetual, it is constant, it is frequent,

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it is it's just a reality and now and so

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then the question would then the obvious question would be

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could God fix that?

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Yeah? What could he do? Well? He could remove he can. First,

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he could remove the sinful nature. Okay, yeah, he could

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do that, right And a lot of times Christians talk

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like he does, but he doesn't. Right now.

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That raises all kinds of philological questions. Why then does

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he not remove the sinful nature?

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I don't know.

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In fact, his real way of solving the problem, at

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least on this on earth, in this life, is to

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do wide, not to remove the sinful nature, but to

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impute righteousness to sinners who still sin, which is a

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convoluted like from a human perspective.

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Even Christians struggle with that. We don't like that concept, right,

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we don't like that concept. We want we want that.

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This week on the Do What No, Well, even.

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Christians have a hard time wrapping their mind around it

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because even as much as they claim they believe in

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imputed righteousness, they don't like it.

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This week, the last couple of days on the podcast.

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It's all been about Charles Finny, Charles Finny, Charles Finny,

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Charles Finny, Charles Finny, Charles Finny and Charles Finny. You know,

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many churches, whether they like it or not, they've been

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influenced with Finny's ideas about revival. Well, Charles Finny was

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a lost man. Charles Finny is in hell. Charles Finny

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was a heretic. Charles Finny. There was nothing Christian about

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Charles Finny. I mean, his theology is so abhorrent it's

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not even funny. He did not believe in substitutionary atonement,

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did not believe in penal substitution, did not believe in

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salvation by an imputed righteousness with a full blown Pallagian.

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I could go on and on and on and on

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and on. Okay, so he was a mess. Right.

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However, churches everywhere you know, are influenced by his thinking

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when it comes to revival. Now here's what's the weird

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thing is many people, in fact, I've been listening to

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sermons all this week on Finny, and they will condemn Finny.

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Outright, that is, theology is bad.

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But then when they start talking about salvation, they will

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sound like Finny. Because Finny basically believe unless you basically

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stop sinning, you're not saved.

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You have to keep the law in order to be saved.

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Well, the preachers will say, what, you don't have to

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keep the law in order to be saved, but you

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will basically keep the law if you are saved, meaning

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you have to keep the law in order to be saved.

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And well that almost.

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Requires that's the same thing, right, yeah, exactly.

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Well that's pretty much Christianity today. And if you call

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that into question, then you'll be labeled the heretic. It's

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like that's the problem.

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So it's very important to understand how these things can

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play out. God chose people who were what sinners. He

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knew they were going to sin, yet he still made

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the promise with them because the promise was based on

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what God's character, God's faithfulness, not man's.

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God does not save us.

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Everyone takes the idea that He's gonna save us to

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make us something.

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He saves us as really a trophy of what.

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His grace, not so much his transformative power, because the

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transformative power is seen where and glorification. Now everyone thinks

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it's seen now, but every what you know, Ah, we

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can get into a whole discussion there, but just remember

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verses fourteen and fifteen. God knows Solomon's going to sin.

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Punishment is spoken of. But what will not happen? He

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will not be deposed?

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Right, you're right? Remember that? Okay? All right? Then, so

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does that get everything and concept? We got all of that,

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all right? Great?

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Now we started looking at Old Testament confirmation of the covenant,

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all right. Now, there were a number of psalms given.

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Sometimes these are referred to as basically the way ry

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Rey puts it, all Old Testament passages that describe the

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Messiah as king and his coming kingdom confirm the promises of.

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The Dividic Covenant.

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All the royal psalms, for example, give more information about

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the devidic kingdom. Now he gives a list of these

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royal psalms. I'm gonna argue, if you look at some

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of them, some of them I don't feel.

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I don't really know what he's using them for. Which

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psalm did we.

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Look at eighty nine? So let's go to Psalm eighty nine.

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We will look at this one, Psalm eighty nine, because

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this one had the greatest potential of giving us some things, right,

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Psalm eighty nine, tell me when you're there, all right?

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Sam eighty nine Verse three is where we started, right,

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and it says I have made a covenant with my

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chosen I have sworn to my servant David. So we

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now we know who the chosen one is. It's David,

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right now. It is David, chosen because he's more godly

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than everyone else. No, he's chosen because God decided to

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choose him. Right.

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Did he know David would do all the things David did? Yes?

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All right, your seed, I will establish verse four forever

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and build upon your throne to all generations. All right,

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So there's this promise. Now we could continue reading. Look

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down to verse Rari wants us to look at Versus

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starting in verse nineteen.

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All right, verse nineteen. Are we there? Okay?

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Then you spoke in a vision to your holy One

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and said, I have given help to one who is mighty.

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I've exalted one chosen from the people. I have found

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my servant David. So once again this is about the

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dividic covenant, right all right. With my holy oil, I

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have anointed him with whom my hands shall be established.

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My arm shall strengthen him.

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The enemy shall not outwit him, nor the son of

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wickedness afflict him. I will beat down the foes before

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his face, and plague those who hate him. Now before

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we go on, Remember we had a big discussion about this.

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When we talk about pray. Right in the Old Testament,

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the prayers that are recorded are typically are almost all

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of them are prayers of whom Jewish people, people who

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are part of Israel.

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And remember in these covenants are there not very specific

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promises made to Israel. Yes, And in any cases those

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promises involve what type of things land, provision, protection, and

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the destruction of their enemies. So if they pray in

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that line or that type of prayer, they are not

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praying in a way that would violate God's sovereignty or will.

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It would be perfectly.

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They're praying in accordance to what has been revealed. And

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remember we cannot do what take our concepts of prayer

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from that, because those covenants.

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Are not made with us. All right, Remember we made

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I made a big deal out of that.

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Okay, all right, look and then continue reading verse twenty four.

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But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him?

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All right? What two things are going to be with David?

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Who's faithfulness, God's faithfulness and God's mercy. What do we

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all need God's faithfulness because we tend to be unfaithful,

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And what else do we need mercy?

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Because we all constantly do what sin all right?

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And my name his horn shall be exalted. Also I

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will set.

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His hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers.

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He shall cry to me, you are.

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My Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

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I will make him my first born, the highest of

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the kings of the earth. My mercy I will keep

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for him forever, and my covenant shall stand firm with

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him his seat. Also I will make to endure forever,

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and his throne.

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As the days of heaven. Those are very strong words.

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Are they not.

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and do not walk in my judgments, if they break

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my statutes and do not keep my commandments, then I

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will punish their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity

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with stripes.

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Nevertheless, my loving kindness I will not thirty three.

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Nevertheless, my loving kindness I will not utterly take from him. Now,

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why is it verse thirty three so critical to the

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dividic covenant? Sin will not do what sin will not

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throw away the covenant. It does not do what it

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does not discontinue the Covenant. It does not remove the covenant. Now,

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why is this so important eschatology?

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do we yes correct?

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That means whenever we have this language that you can't

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come along and say, well, Israel didn't keep the covenant,

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so therefore what God has done with Israel and replaced

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it with the Church, we cannot say that.

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We cannot do.

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That because God's promise for the Covenant is even if

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they sin, He's going to do what He's going to

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remain faithful. Again, look at verse thirty three is key. Nevertheless,

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my loving kindness, I will not utterly take from him,

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nor allow my faithfulness to.

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Fail my covenant.

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Verse thirty four.

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God will not violate as covenant. Okay, do you see

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that my covenant?

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I will not break nor alter the word that has

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gone out of my lips. It doesn't matter what Israel does.

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God is not going to do that.

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Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not

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lie to David. His seed shall endure forever, his throne

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as the sun before me. It shall be established forever

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like the moon, even like the faithful witness in the sky. Now,

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what does verse thirty seven sound very similar to verse

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thirty seven? Should should remind you of a very important

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section involved in another covenant, the Jeremiah thirty one. Everybody

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look at Jeremiah thirty one and find that the verses

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that sound similar to that. They're not exact, but there

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is a similarity. There's a connection. Jeremiah thirty one. He's

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going to make a new covenant. I like the covenants

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I'm met with your father, the covenants made with the

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House of Israel and the House of Judah.

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And then he talks about does he not talk about sun, moon, stars.

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Verse thirty five? What does he says?

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All right, so kiss what as long as the sun,

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moon and stars are there?

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Israel is a nation before God. Now why is that important?

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Because you could have said, well, Israel was they didn't exist,

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but they still existed where.

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Before God.

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And God made a promise with them that he.

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Would do what.

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Restore them, bring them back, make a new covenant with them,

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give them the land, and give them the promises.

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So therefore that promise the sun, moon and stars is

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a constant reminder of what Israel is still a nation

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before God. So you can't just.

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Say no, no, that that's referring to the Church. No,

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it's referring to Israel. The same kind of language is

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there now? Ryrie says this Psalm eighty nine, which we've

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just read, provides strong confirmation of the immutability of the Covenant.

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It seems also as if God was anticipating Listen, this

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is how Aari puts it. It seems as if God

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was anticipating the all millennial claim that the Kingdom promise

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should be spiritualized into the Church when he said that

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even though chastisement for sin would come, the Covenant would

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not be broken or altered. It's like God was already

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The all millennial argument doesn't work.

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Saw eighty nine makes it very clear.

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That even if sin occurs, what is God not going

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to do?

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Not going to break the Covenant. So it's made.

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It's made with David and all those promises that relate

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to the nation of Israel itself.

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Right, Does that make sense? All? Right? I cannot stress

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that enough.

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God was anticipating the a millennial claim that the Kingdom

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promise would be spiritualized into the Church when he said

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that even though chastisement for sin would come.

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The Covenant would not be broken or altered.

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God already knew the argument was coming, and he already

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provided the scripture. There a number of passages and Isaiah

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also predict and describe the visible earthly kingdom promised in

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the Dividic Covenant. Isaiah predicted the reign of Messiah on

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the throne of David in over his kingdom. Look at

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Isaiah chapter nine, verse seven.

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Tell me what you find.

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There's a lot of scripture here, So we're going to

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be looking at a lot. Look at Isaiah chapter nine,

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verse seven. We'll start in verse six. We know this

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passage right, very famous passage Isaiah nine to six. For

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unto us, a child is born, unto us, a son

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is given. And what's going to happen. The government will

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be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called

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wonderful counselor mighty God. Next verse everylast thing, father, or

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the rest of the verse Prince of peace. And they

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look at verse seven of the increase of his government

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and peace.

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There will be no end upon the throne.

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Of David and over his kingdom to order it, establish

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it with justice from justice. From that time forward even forever.

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The zill of the Lord of Host will perform this.

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Now, what are your options with that verse?

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The first let's do this.

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How would you prove Isaiah nine, six and seven is

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about Christ?

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That's the first thing. How would you prove it's about Christ?

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That's the first challenge. How would you prove it? Nobody

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has an idea how you would prove that's about Christ? Okay, yeah,

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find me a New Testament reference where it's clearly about Jesus.

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It's got to be either in Matthew.

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Or Luke, right. I bet you has something to do with.

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The birth narratives, right, Okay, I mean we quote these

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every Christmas time? Right, So I bet you that puts

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you somewhere between Matthew one and three and Luke one

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and three.

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I'm just guessing.

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If your Bibles have cross references, then I'm assuming that

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provide you a cross reference right to the cross reference?

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How about Luke one? Maybe thirty two to thirty three?

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What does it say?

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Okay, that's pretty That may not be perfect, but that's

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pretty close.

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Would you not agree? Okay?

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I think that's pretty I mean we could probably maybe

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find a couple of others, but I think.

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That's about as close as you can get.

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So Luke one thirty two through thirty three should get

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us pretty.

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Close to there, right.

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Right. How about Luke two eleven. I'm just looking at

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Luke okay, right, not exactly, but there's a child will

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be born.

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Get us somewhat close to.

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That, right, Okay, Yeah, I think that gets us close.

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I've got some more cross references here, but I think

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that gets us close. So the New what we need

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to establish is that the New Testament clearly would say

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Isaiah nine six and seven is about Jesus.

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Can we can we agree to that? All right? So

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then we everyone should agree.

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A millennialist pre millennialist, No, no, millennialist, it doesn't matter

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what you know, well, that would be an amillennialist, post

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millennial It doesn't matter who. Everyone can agree that Isaiah

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nine six through seven is a prophecy about Jesus.

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Can we say amen? Amen? Okay?

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Right, then, So when we see these phrases and the

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government will be upon his shoulder, see that in verse six,

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and then in verse seven where it says of the

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increase of his government and peace, there will be no

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end upon the throne of David and over his kingdom,

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to order it and establish it. Those phrases, you've got

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two two options. What are your two options? And how

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to interpret those promises, those prophecies.

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You've got two options.

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Okay, you either make it somehow this deals with the Church.

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I'm gonna I'll give you three options. The church, right, Well,

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you're kind of I mean, the Church is literal, but

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you're you're replacing Israel and you're making it.

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About the Church.

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Two, you could say, well, this only refers to a

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spiritual kingdom. He's going to rule and reign over a

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spiritual kingdom. Or Three you have to acknowledge, well, however,

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he's ruling and reigning over a spiritual kingdom, this is

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also speaking of a literal kingdom right over a literal kingdom.

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And if it's speaking over a literal kingdom, then what

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are your options with it? If it's speaking of a

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literal kingdom, what are your options?

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Okay?

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Well, well, if it's a literal kingdom, we know it's

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not now we know did it happen in the first coming?

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No? Is that happening now? No?

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So therefore, if it's a literal kingdom, it's got to

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happen in the future, all right, so just make it

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just just make it very It's just it's it's we

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have to understand you're only limited with a certain number

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of options. There, we know that didn't happen. Literally right now.

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We can say this, how did the Jews at the.

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Time of Jesus understand the promise literal? In fact, they

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were looking for him to stout set up the kingdom? Then, now,

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where is the most important passage on this entire discussion?

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Is there a passage of scripture that would clearly indicate

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Jesus didn't see the church as a fulfillment, he didn't

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see a spiritual kingdom as a fulfillment.

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He seemed to indicate that.

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There he put it this way, he has a perfect

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opportunity to stop all of the debate, but he does not.

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Where is that famous passage where Jesus has a great

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opportunity to fix all of this and he doesn't fix it.

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The Book of Acts.

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Look in the very first part of the Book of Acts,

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right before he ascends to the Father, he's asked a

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very specific question by his disciples. And what do the

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disciples ask Jesus that would relate to Isaiah nine six

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and seven. At this time, will you restore the kingdom

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of Israel? Now, has Jesus already talked about a spiritual

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kingdom in the gospels?

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Yes, that, so Jesus could say, wait.

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Wait, wait, wait, the kingdom has already been restored. It's

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a spiritual kingdom.

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But he doesn't say that.

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Does he say, hey, guys, guys, guys, there's no more kingdom.

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There's the church which is getting ready to be established.

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He doesn't say that. In fact, what is his exact words?

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It is not for you to know.

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He doesn't say it's never going to happen. This would

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be the time to stop it, right What does he say?

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It's not for you to know the time or the dates.

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But does he tell them, what but the Holy Ghost

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is gonna come upon you. You should be my witnesses where Jerusalem?

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All right? So he does not in any way he

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could fix the whole debate, right there? Could he not?

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That is Acts chapter one, what verses six and seven

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and Isaiah nine. You should have a cross reference to

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Acts chapter one, six and seven.

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So when it says that his government that his kingdom,

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you know it's clearly an earthly kingdom. The disciples knew

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it was an earthly kingdom. Even after all.

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Of Jesus preaching right before he has sins, they're asking

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what where is it? And Jesus does not say, guys,

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stop worrying about.

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No, No, he just says, it's not you don't you know?

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It's not for you to know the time or the season,

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or the date or exactly. However, depending on your translation,

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does everyone see that I cannot I can't look of

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everything we've talked about.

492
00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:23.039
When it comes to the covenants.

493
00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:27.880
That verse and Acts chapter one, those two verses are critical.

494
00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:32.279
It stops the whole argument. There shouldn't even be an

495
00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:36.319
argument anymore. The fact that there's still an argument means

496
00:29:36.599 --> 00:29:37.359
that even.

497
00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:43.279
A verse like that doesn't solve the philological disputes. Anyone

498
00:29:43.319 --> 00:29:44.559
have any questions about that?

499
00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:55.000
Yes, no, everyone understands the significance of it. Right, What

500
00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:58.119
is Isaiah nine to seven indicate?

501
00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:06.839
Everyone? Go to Isaiah nine to seven, just just just

502
00:30:06.920 --> 00:30:07.640
quote the verse.

503
00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:12.880
What does it indicate? A child is coming? Government will

504
00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:19.519
be on his shoulders, and in verse there's gonna be

505
00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:21.839
and there's gonna be no end to his government. Right,

506
00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:28.119
He's gonna reign onto David's throne. There's gonna be a kingdom,

507
00:30:28.359 --> 00:30:28.960
there's gonna be.

508
00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:31.119
A government, there's gonna be a kingdom, and there's gonna

509
00:30:31.119 --> 00:30:32.640
be a throne. Everybody see that.

510
00:30:35.240 --> 00:30:39.720
So that child who Isaiah is promising, which is Jesus,

511
00:30:40.359 --> 00:30:43.480
is going to be ultimately the fulfillment of the Dividic

512
00:30:43.519 --> 00:30:45.400
covenant because he's going.

513
00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:47.440
To rule and reign on David's throne.

514
00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:49.640
He is of the seed of David, right, he comes

515
00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:52.920
from the Davidic line, and his throne will reign and

516
00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:56.839
rule forever. And has he established that literal kingdom, throne

517
00:30:56.880 --> 00:31:01.319
and government. No, he has not. And when the and

518
00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:04.240
how do we know it's literal? Even the disciples understood

519
00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:06.519
it to be literal. And when the disciples said, is

520
00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:09.640
it now? What did Jesus say, It's not for you

521
00:31:09.680 --> 00:31:12.200
to know. He does not say it's not going to happen.

522
00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:17.000
He could have solved all the philological dispute right there.

523
00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:21.319
Does everyone understand the significance of that? Yes?

524
00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:25.599
Okay, Now look at Isaiah chapter eleven.

525
00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:31.680
Look at Isaiah chapter eleven. This is taking longer than

526
00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:32.720
I anticipated.

527
00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:33.440
It always does.

528
00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:37.000
Still, we still got plenty of time, right, We've got well,

529
00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:37.519
I mean.

530
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:38.799
Yeah, this this text.

531
00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:42.400
There are so many scripture passages here. Clearly Rory wants

532
00:31:42.440 --> 00:31:44.200
to make a huge deal out of this. All right,

533
00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:45.759
look at Isaiah eleven.

534
00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:49.359
I'm gonna we're gonna have to read these. So some

535
00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:51.119
of these I just like you to look up for.

536
00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:57.119
Well, hang on, let's not jump, let's not let's not

537
00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:58.119
read into it yet.

538
00:31:58.759 --> 00:32:01.519
Okay, all right, Isaiah eleven.

539
00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:07.319
Maybe the whole chapter, all right, Maybe he wants to

540
00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:11.119
read the whole chapter here. Wow, Okay, this may take

541
00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:14.119
us forever. All right, let's at least start working through it.

542
00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:17.039
And see, I thought he wanted us to read verses,

543
00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:20.119
but no, he wants us to read entire chapters here.

544
00:32:21.079 --> 00:32:23.640
So this may take a while. So but let's go

545
00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:25.319
through these as quickly as we can, all right. The

546
00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:28.920
first one is chapter eleven. All right, let's see what

547
00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:32.480
we can find here. Verse one, There shall come from

548
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:35.880
a rod. There shall come forth a rod from the

549
00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:39.720
stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of

550
00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:43.000
his roots. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,

551
00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:47.000
the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel

552
00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:49.200
and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the.

553
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:52.119
Fear of the Lord. All Right, that's Isaiah eleven, verses.

554
00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:54.359
One through two. Right, how do we know who this

555
00:32:54.440 --> 00:33:05.720
is referencing? Yeah, but how do we know who it's referencing?

556
00:33:08.039 --> 00:33:11.519
Well, what's always the go to way to answer that? Okay,

557
00:33:11.599 --> 00:33:13.920
is there does the New Testament quote Isaiah eleven one

558
00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:20.759
through two? That's always the right The answer is is

559
00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:21.920
there a cross reference?

560
00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:28.480
Is?

561
00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:47.799
Okay? Look at it and see. Tell me what you find.

562
00:33:50.680 --> 00:34:12.719
See what cross references you can find? Tell me what

563
00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:13.199
you find.

564
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:15.400
Alright?

565
00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:22.599
How about Acts thirteen? What do you see in Acts thirteen?

566
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:29.960
Maybe verse twenty three possibly. I'm not saying it's it's there.

567
00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:33.000
I'm just throwing out options to get you looking.

568
00:34:34.000 --> 00:35:09.800
I think twenty three maybe, what does it say.

569
00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:09.679
And whatever?

570
00:35:11.480 --> 00:35:13.920
Yeah, I don't think that's a cross reference to Isaiah

571
00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:18.400
eleven one. That goes back to Isaiah. That goes back

572
00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:20.840
to Isaiah nine. That's a great one for Isaiah nine.

573
00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:24.000
How about the axe one? Was there anything in Acts thirteen?

574
00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:29.000
How about see twenty three?

575
00:35:29.079 --> 00:35:50.719
Possibly? Okay, that's that's kind of.

576
00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:52.719
I mean, it's not perfect, but it does say a

577
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:54.719
shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse.

578
00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:58.679
That seems to be that that's going back demonstrating who's

579
00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:02.760
gonna come from that Jesus. Right, that seems to make

580
00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:03.239
it very.

581
00:36:03.119 --> 00:36:07.000
Clear, correct, all right, It doesn't use the same language,

582
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:10.159
but it's very similar. It's getting us to the basic

583
00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:16.960
facts we can we agree to that, right, It connects

584
00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:18.039
jesse to David.

585
00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:20.559
To Jesus, which this is what Isaiah eleven is referring to.

586
00:36:20.599 --> 00:36:23.480
All right, does that work? Ever?

587
00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:27.199
Weld feel halfway okay with that as at least a

588
00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:29.840
possible connection. I mean, we could do more work, but

589
00:36:29.880 --> 00:36:32.559
I think that gets us close, right, all right? Now,

590
00:36:32.719 --> 00:36:34.840
the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the

591
00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:37.960
spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might,

592
00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:39.800
the spirit of knowledge and of.

593
00:36:39.719 --> 00:36:42.039
The fear of the Lord. All right, What do we

594
00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:44.000
have in the New Testament that would say the spirit

595
00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:50.760
of the Lord was upon Jesus?

596
00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:56.880
How about Matthew three p's sixteen. Tell me what you

597
00:36:56.920 --> 00:37:04.480
find there? Maybe before Matthew three sixteen. I don't know

598
00:37:04.519 --> 00:37:06.559
if that Matthew three sixteen will actually work, but we'll

599
00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:08.239
try it.

600
00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:08.880
Now.

601
00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:18.199
Now it's the baptism, and then what descends upon Jesus

602
00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:19.039
the Holy Spirit?

603
00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:19.519
Does it not?

604
00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:22.360
Okay?

605
00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:26.880
So the Holy Spirit was upon him, right. Okay, So

606
00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:29.559
there's the there's Matthew three sixteen. How about John one

607
00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:42.000
thirty two?

608
00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:49.480
Not in John? The baptism is not recorded in John,

609
00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:55.119
is it? I mean? I could be wrong John one thirty.

610
00:37:54.880 --> 00:38:03.480
Two, John, Okay, it's not recording the baptism, but it's

611
00:38:03.559 --> 00:38:08.119
John's testimony that what happened, the spirit came upon Jesus.

612
00:38:08.199 --> 00:38:10.079
I can give you more verses if you need them,

613
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:13.559
all right, So what can we say that we have

614
00:38:13.800 --> 00:38:18.480
acts to connect Jesse to David to Jesus. There's Isaiah

615
00:38:18.519 --> 00:38:21.280
eleven one. There shall come from a rod from the

616
00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:23.199
stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of

617
00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:25.360
the roots. Now, the term branch is a term for

618
00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:27.320
the Messiah. I could prove that, if I need to,

619
00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:30.159
the spirit of the Lord shall come upon him. Clearly

620
00:38:30.199 --> 00:38:33.079
the New Testament identifies that. So can we say with

621
00:38:33.199 --> 00:38:37.039
some surety that with some certainty that Isaiah eleven one

622
00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:38.840
two is referring to Jesus.

623
00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:39.639
All right?

624
00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:42.519
Now, once we know it's referring to Jesus, now what

625
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:45.400
do we do? What is it going to say about Jesus?

626
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:48.440
Starting in verse three followed and follow carefully? Why I'm

627
00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:50.000
spending so much time on this.

628
00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:53.000
Are you ready? Are you ready? His delight is in

629
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:53.880
the fear of the Lord.

630
00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:56.320
He shall not judge by the side of his eyes,

631
00:38:56.480 --> 00:38:59.119
nor decide by the hearing of his ears. Okay, now

632
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:02.760
that means he's judging something deeper than external. He's going

633
00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:08.280
to the heart. Jesus clearly makes that obvious in the Bible.

634
00:39:08.519 --> 00:39:11.719
But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, decide with

635
00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:13.239
equity the milk of the earth.

636
00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:15.559
Now look at the next part. What shall he do?

637
00:39:18.760 --> 00:39:20.960
He shall strike the earth with a rod of his mouth,

638
00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:23.159
and with this breath of his lips he shall slay

639
00:39:23.199 --> 00:39:23.760
the wicked.

640
00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:25.159
Righteousness shall be the.

641
00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:29.920
Belt of his loins, and faithfulness the belt of his waist. Now,

642
00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:32.920
wait a minute. Did that happen in the first Coming?

643
00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:38.960
So we'll spiritualize that and said that happened through his preachy,

644
00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:42.800
and that this is figurative. But what does that verse

645
00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:48.960
sound like? What does that sound like? Revelation what nineteen?

646
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:51.679
Everybody go to Revelation nineteen and see if that sounds

647
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:57.079
very similar to the language. Find the things in Revelation nineteen.

648
00:39:57.159 --> 00:40:04.079
This sounds like Isaiah there, Revelation nineteen.

649
00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:07.440
I know this can be tedious. But this is the

650
00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:09.320
only way to do this properly. Okay.

651
00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:11.760
I could just sit here and just read off the

652
00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:15.000
connections to you, but then that doesn't do you of

653
00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:17.559
any value because you'll forget it five minutes from now.

654
00:40:17.559 --> 00:40:20.360
But hopefully when you're looking it up yourself, you'll remember

655
00:40:20.360 --> 00:40:25.960
it for ten minutes. That's somewhat of a joke. But yeah,

656
00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:27.400
Revelation nineteen.

657
00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:38.320
Okay, okay.

658
00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:42.079
And does it say anything about a name or any

659
00:40:42.159 --> 00:41:02.119
of his clothing or anything. There shall smite the nations?

660
00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:02.440
Okay?

661
00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:05.119
Right that Isaiah says, strike the earth with the rod

662
00:41:05.199 --> 00:41:07.519
of his mouth. Okay, Now you can say, well, it

663
00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:08.159
says a sword.

664
00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:08.679
It's different.

665
00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:12.599
So it's giving a very similar idea. Right, with his

666
00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:14.920
breath of his lips, he shall slay the wicked?

667
00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:19.679
Do people die? Are people slayed? Yes? All right?

668
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:22.840
Righteousness shall be the belt of his loins, and faithfulness

669
00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:23.679
the belt of his way.

670
00:41:24.039 --> 00:41:25.559
Was I don't know if it refers to him as

671
00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:26.679
righteous or faithful.

672
00:41:26.679 --> 00:41:28.880
There, I don't know if it refers to him as

673
00:41:28.920 --> 00:41:34.679
righteous or faithful. And Revelation and Isaiah.

674
00:41:34.320 --> 00:41:39.519
Says, right, okay, righteousness he judges. Okay, does anything about faithful.

675
00:41:39.559 --> 00:41:40.360
I don't think it does.

676
00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:45.480
There we go, all right, ladies and gentlemen, there we

677
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:50.119
have it. Okay, So now what why is this significant?

678
00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:55.639
We've established that this is Jesus, and now we're establishing

679
00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:58.000
these are things he did not do in his first coming.

680
00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:02.119
But revelation does what seem to describe that that's what

681
00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:05.280
he's going to do and his second coming, and so

682
00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:09.119
therefore we know we're onto something. Okay, Now look at

683
00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:14.519
verse six. After this destruction? What does verse six say

684
00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:20.360
in Isaiah eleven? The wolves shall dwell with the lamb?

685
00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:24.079
What else shall happen? The leopard will lie down with

686
00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:26.800
the young goat the calf, and the young lion and

687
00:42:26.840 --> 00:42:29.920
the fattling together, and a little child shall lead them.

688
00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:33.079
The cow and the bear shall graze. Their young ones

689
00:42:33.119 --> 00:42:36.840
shall lie down together, and the lions shall eat straw.

690
00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:37.559
Like the ox.

691
00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:43.199
Something absolutely transformative is going to happen in six and seven.

692
00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:46.199
That's not in the church, ladies and gentlemen, that's not

693
00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:50.320
describing the church. The church is filled with what fighting

694
00:42:50.599 --> 00:42:51.760
arguing enemies.

695
00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:53.000
That's not the case.

696
00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:56.440
So but this seems to occur when when does verse

697
00:42:56.440 --> 00:42:59.800
six and seven seem to occur, or yes, when is

698
00:42:59.880 --> 00:43:04.440
very six, seven and eight seem to occur right after

699
00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:09.519
Jesus comes back. What happens in Revelation after nineteen? What

700
00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:14.840
happens in chapter twenty oh we have the establishment of

701
00:43:14.880 --> 00:43:17.639
the millennial kingdom, where he rules and reigns for one

702
00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:21.400
thousand years. Continue reading in Isaiah eleven, what's gonna happen?

703
00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:22.039
In verse eight?

704
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:29.920
The nursing child shall play by the cobras hole, and

705
00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:32.800
the wing child shall put his hand in the viper's den,

706
00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:35.199
and they shall not hurt nor destroy. And all my

707
00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:37.360
holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the

708
00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:39.880
knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

709
00:43:40.119 --> 00:43:42.559
That did not happen in the first Coming, and that

710
00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:46.840
has nothing to do with the church. That is a

711
00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:51.920
reference to the second Coming. When what is established the

712
00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:55.360
Davidic kingdom is now ruling irreny.

713
00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:56.000
What happens in.

714
00:43:56.000 --> 00:44:03.599
Verse ten, Jesse, Oh, in that day there shall be

715
00:44:03.599 --> 00:44:04.320
a root of Jesse.

716
00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:05.320
Who's the root of Jesse?

717
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:12.000
It goes from David to Jesus right, who shall stand

718
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:14.400
as a banner to the people. For the gentile she'll

719
00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:17.000
seek him, and his resting place shall be glorious. It

720
00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:18.719
shall come to pass in that day that the Lord

721
00:44:18.719 --> 00:44:21.960
shall set his hand again the second time to recover.

722
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:30.280
The remnant of his people. Who is that referencing Israel?

723
00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:39.519
And does he name actual places Assyria, Egypt, Pathross depending

724
00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:45.960
on your translation, cush Ilum, Shinar hey Moth, and the

725
00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:46.960
islands of the sea.

726
00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:50.360
So get what else is going to happen after God

727
00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:54.280
destroys all the enemies, which is Revelation nineteen, There's gonna

728
00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:56.280
be a complete transformation of everything.

729
00:44:56.519 --> 00:44:59.000
Who's gonna stand as a banner for all people the

730
00:44:59.079 --> 00:45:00.760
root of Jesse which Jesus.

731
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:03.280
And then what's going to happen? The Lord is going

732
00:45:03.360 --> 00:45:06.440
to recover all of his people.

733
00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:07.639
And then look at verse twelve.

734
00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:10.039
He will set up a banner for the nations, and

735
00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:13.760
will assemble the outcast of Israel and gather together the

736
00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:18.800
dispersed of Judah, from where the corners of the earth.

737
00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:22.920
Also the envy of Ephriam shall depart, and the adversaries.

738
00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:23.519
Of Judas shall be cut off.

739
00:45:23.639 --> 00:45:27.360
Ephriam shall not envy Judah, and Judas shall not harass Ephriam.

740
00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:30.119
But they shall fly down upon the shoulders of the

741
00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:32.960
Philistines towards the west. Together they shall plunder the people

742
00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:35.039
of the east. They shall lay their land of Edom

743
00:45:35.079 --> 00:45:37.480
and Moab, and the people of Ammon shall obey them.

744
00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:39.840
The Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea

745
00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:42.119
of Egypt with his mighty hand. He will shake his

746
00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:45.519
fist over the river and strike it in the seven streams,

747
00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:48.440
and make men cross over dry shod. There will be

748
00:45:48.519 --> 00:45:50.559
a highway for the remnant of his people who will

749
00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:54.000
be left from Assyria, as as it was for Israel

750
00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:55.199
in that day that came from the.

751
00:45:55.239 --> 00:45:57.559
Land of Egypt. Simply put, what is God going to do.

752
00:45:59.519 --> 00:45:59.920
He's going to.

753
00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:01.760
Recover his people and they're going to flow in like

754
00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:04.960
on a highway directly back to Israel. And then who

755
00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:07.599
will be ruling and reigning the root of Jesse. That

756
00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:11.679
is all promise, and that's all part of the Dividic Covenant,

757
00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:14.199
And when will it be fulfilled? The only place we

758
00:46:14.239 --> 00:46:16.440
can find it in the Bible is don't tell me

759
00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:18.760
the church. That does not describe the Church in any way,

760
00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:21.079
shape or form. I don't care what Matthew Henry has

761
00:46:21.119 --> 00:46:25.039
to say. Where does that happen in Revelation nineteen and twenty?

762
00:46:25.199 --> 00:46:28.559
What happens in nineteen he destroys the enemies. What happens

763
00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:32.519
in twenty he establishes wide a thousand year reign. What

764
00:46:32.599 --> 00:46:37.039
happens to Satan during that thousand year reign? He's bound

765
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:40.239
and all the promises.

766
00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:41.239
To Israel are fulfilled?

767
00:46:42.960 --> 00:46:43.119
Right?

768
00:46:43.239 --> 00:46:46.480
You see how important Isaiah eleven is to the entire

769
00:46:46.519 --> 00:46:50.440
system of eschatology. All right, but Ryery's not done. He

770
00:46:50.480 --> 00:46:54.639
wants us to go to Isaiah twenty four. He wants

771
00:46:54.719 --> 00:47:00.440
us to read like large portions of Isaiah.

772
00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:02.800
But see, if I just give you the reference. What

773
00:47:03.039 --> 00:47:04.800
Let's be honest, if I just give you the reference,

774
00:47:04.800 --> 00:47:05.320
what would you do?

775
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:08.960
You would write it down and be in your notes,

776
00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:10.719
and you probably would never go home and read it.

777
00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:12.719
So that's why we have to do it in church. Okay.

778
00:47:12.760 --> 00:47:16.519
So I know it's two long chapters, and we'll try

779
00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:19.000
to go through these quickly. We got Isaiah twenty four

780
00:47:19.039 --> 00:47:22.679
and twenty five. This is a lot of verses, Okay,

781
00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:24.880
so we'll go through it quickly and see what we

782
00:47:24.920 --> 00:47:27.800
can find. All right, maybe it will be significant, maybe

783
00:47:27.800 --> 00:47:32.039
it will not. All right, everybody ready, all right, let's

784
00:47:32.079 --> 00:47:35.719
start in verse twenty four, verse one, right, Isaiah twenty four,

785
00:47:35.800 --> 00:47:37.000
Chapter twenty four verse one.

786
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:40.320
Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and.

787
00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:45.039
Makes it waste, distorts its surface, scatter abroad its inhabitants.

788
00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:47.480
It shall be as with people, so with the priests,

789
00:47:47.480 --> 00:47:49.320
as with the servants, so with the master, as with

790
00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:51.320
the maids, so with the mistress, as with the buyers,

791
00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:53.519
with the seller, as with the lenders, with the burrows,

792
00:47:53.559 --> 00:47:55.719
with the creditor, to with the debtor. The land shall

793
00:47:55.800 --> 00:47:58.360
be entirely emptied and utterly plundered.

794
00:47:58.400 --> 00:47:59.679
For the Lord has spoken his word.

795
00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:03.000
Okay, if something sounds significant, it's going to happen here, right,

796
00:48:03.599 --> 00:48:07.199
What exactly it's referring to? Let's continue. The Earth mourns

797
00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:09.920
and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The

798
00:48:09.960 --> 00:48:12.239
haughty people of the earth languish. The earth also is

799
00:48:12.239 --> 00:48:15.199
defiled under its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws,

800
00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:18.760
changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore, the curse

801
00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:21.079
has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it

802
00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:24.039
are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned,

803
00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:26.239
and few men are left. This is speaking of some

804
00:48:26.440 --> 00:48:29.079
absolutely catastrophic judgment.

805
00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:31.840
Does that not what it sounds like? I think? So?

806
00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:35.920
The new wine fails, the vine languishes, all the merry

807
00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:39.360
hearted side, the mirth of the tempering ceases, the noise

808
00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:42.599
of the jubilant ends, the joy of heart ceases.

809
00:48:43.519 --> 00:48:45.239
They shall not, I mean, you.

810
00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:49.320
Can just everything sounds like a total, complete destruction and judgment.

811
00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:52.320
Does that sound fair? Is a good way of describing it.

812
00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:59.960
What happens in verse fourteen. They shall lift up their voice.

813
00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:02.320
They shall sing for the majesty of the Lord. They

814
00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:05.360
shall cry aloud from the sea. Therefore glorify the Lord

815
00:49:05.599 --> 00:49:08.199
and the dawning night, the name of the name of

816
00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:13.559
the Lord, God of Israel, and the coastlines of the sea,

817
00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:15.800
from the ends of the earth. And we have heard

818
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:19.280
songs glory, be glory to the righteous. But I said,

819
00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:22.199
I am ruined, ruined, woe to me. The treacherous dealers

820
00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:26.000
have dealt treacherously. Indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

821
00:49:26.480 --> 00:49:30.400
Fear and the pit and the snare or upon you,

822
00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:33.239
or inhabitants of the earth. And it shall be those

823
00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:35.440
who flee from the noise of fear shall fall into

824
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:37.519
the pit. And he who comes upon the midst of

825
00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:39.480
the pit shall be caught in the snare for the

826
00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:42.760
windows from when not high or open, and the foundations

827
00:49:42.760 --> 00:49:45.360
of the earth are shaken. The earth is violently broken,

828
00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:47.800
the earth is split open. I mean, all of that

829
00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:49.440
it just sounds horrible, does it not?

830
00:49:51.159 --> 00:49:51.239
All?

831
00:49:51.320 --> 00:49:54.800
Right? Look at verse twenty one, punishment on the high ones,

832
00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:57.480
there will be gathered together verse twenty two, they will

833
00:49:57.480 --> 00:49:59.920
be shut up in the prison. The moon will be disgrace,

834
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:02.880
the Sun will be ashamed. The Lord of Host will

835
00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:07.039
rain on Mount Zion, on Jerusalem, and before his elders graciously,

836
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:09.360
so you have a little bit of hope at the end,

837
00:50:11.239 --> 00:50:14.440
right the end, who's going to be raining?

838
00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:18.760
The fear of the Lord of Host will rain, The

839
00:50:18.800 --> 00:50:21.360
God of Host will rain. Okay, but before that, all

840
00:50:21.440 --> 00:50:24.159
that destruction, what does all of that sound like? Before

841
00:50:24.199 --> 00:50:26.760
you get to verse twenty three.

842
00:50:28.559 --> 00:50:30.400
Sounds a lot of luck? What you read in Revelation

843
00:50:31.639 --> 00:50:35.559
oh well, even before Revelation nineteen. I mean, you're losing

844
00:50:35.599 --> 00:50:37.920
a large portion of the earth in those passages, are

845
00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:40.960
you not? People are being slaughtered, people are being killed

846
00:50:41.000 --> 00:50:45.880
by the plagues, right, I mean, it's just massive destruction.

847
00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:48.199
Is it not? What things happen to the moon and

848
00:50:48.239 --> 00:50:53.119
the sun, right, all that stuff happens.

849
00:50:53.159 --> 00:50:55.079
Okay, so that sounds like a lot of that. Now

850
00:50:55.119 --> 00:50:59.239
what happens in verse twenty five or verse twenty five,

851
00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:00.000
Chapter twenty five?

852
00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:04.280
Oh Lord, you are my God.

853
00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:06.639
I will exalt you. I will praise your name, for

854
00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:09.440
you have done wonderful things. Your counsels of old are

855
00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:11.920
faithful and true. That sounds very different than twenty four?

856
00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:12.400
Does it not.

857
00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:17.760
Sounds very different than twenty four? Yeah, twenty four is

858
00:51:17.760 --> 00:51:19.840
all about judgment. We get a little hope at the

859
00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:21.599
end of twenty three, and all of a sudden twenty

860
00:51:21.679 --> 00:51:22.800
five breaks out into what.

861
00:51:24.559 --> 00:51:26.920
Praise right?

862
00:51:27.199 --> 00:51:30.639
For you have made a city a ruin, a forified city,

863
00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:33.880
a ruin, a palace of a palace of foreigners, to

864
00:51:33.880 --> 00:51:36.920
be a city no more. It will never be rebuilt. Therefore,

865
00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:39.880
the strong people will glorify you. The city of the

866
00:51:39.960 --> 00:51:42.159
terrible nations will fear you. For you have been a

867
00:51:42.199 --> 00:51:45.079
strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in

868
00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:48.239
his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from

869
00:51:48.280 --> 00:51:50.599
the heat from the blast of the terrible ones, as

870
00:51:50.599 --> 00:51:53.199
a storm against the wall. You will reduce the noise

871
00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:56.000
of aliens, as heat in the dry place, as heat

872
00:51:56.000 --> 00:51:58.280
in the shadow of a cloud. The song of the

873
00:51:58.360 --> 00:52:01.519
terrible ones will be diminished once again. It's praising God

874
00:52:01.559 --> 00:52:05.239
for what. All of this destruction is coming on some people,

875
00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:09.239
but it's obviously not coming upon whom the people doing

876
00:52:09.280 --> 00:52:12.679
the praise. Right, and I think Israel would be make

877
00:52:12.760 --> 00:52:15.000
the most sense. Obviously here this is not the church.

878
00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:19.639
And in this mountain? What mountain is that?

879
00:52:19.679 --> 00:52:25.320
Mostly referring to probably Mount Zion, right, probably we say Jerusalem. Correct.

880
00:52:26.199 --> 00:52:26.719
The Lord of.

881
00:52:26.639 --> 00:52:29.480
Hosts will make for all people a feast of choice pieces,

882
00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:32.920
a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things ofmorrow,

883
00:52:33.119 --> 00:52:35.760
of well refined wines on the leaves. He will destroy

884
00:52:36.079 --> 00:52:38.800
on this mountain the surface of the covering cast overall people,

885
00:52:38.960 --> 00:52:42.000
and the veil that has spread over all nations.

886
00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:44.840
He's going to remove a veil. Okay.

887
00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:47.760
He will swallow up death forever, and the Lord will

888
00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:49.599
wipe away tears from all faces.

889
00:52:49.639 --> 00:52:52.119
Okay, Now does verse eight sound familiar?

890
00:52:58.920 --> 00:52:59.239
Well?

891
00:52:59.440 --> 00:53:03.119
Maybe one grin day is fifteen definitely talks about death.

892
00:53:03.159 --> 00:53:04.079
Where is thy sting?

893
00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:12.159
But that's you should lead you to a different place, revelation. Okay, go,

894
00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:16.639
you'll find it in revelation. Yeah. Is it twenty? Is

895
00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:18.760
it twenty one, tell me where is where it is?

896
00:53:29.239 --> 00:53:46.400
Find it? Twenty one four? Literally, that's Isaiah.

897
00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:48.760
Twenty five eight, Ladies and jaid, that's literally Isaiah twenty

898
00:53:48.800 --> 00:53:53.760
five eight. All right, Now, what would be the question? Now,

899
00:53:53.840 --> 00:53:56.880
if you're dealing with our millennialists, they've already spiritualized passage

900
00:53:56.880 --> 00:53:59.519
after passage after passage said it's not Israel, said it's

901
00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:01.239
the Church. Well, then what would be the question that

902
00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:03.920
would have for a non millennialist. Is Isaiah twenty five

903
00:54:03.960 --> 00:54:04.599
to eight literal?

904
00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:07.639
And what would be the answer?

905
00:54:08.360 --> 00:54:10.880
Yes, Well, if that's literal, the rest of it has

906
00:54:10.920 --> 00:54:12.639
to be literal or I don't even know how to

907
00:54:12.679 --> 00:54:13.360
read the Bible?

908
00:54:13.559 --> 00:54:13.800
Right?

909
00:54:15.280 --> 00:54:17.000
And it will be said in that day, Behold, this

910
00:54:17.079 --> 00:54:19.239
is our God. We have waited for him, and he

911
00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:21.119
will save us. This is the Lord we have waited

912
00:54:21.159 --> 00:54:23.079
for him, and he will be glad and rejoice in

913
00:54:23.119 --> 00:54:23.719
his salvation.

914
00:54:23.960 --> 00:54:28.559
Now, remember, Isaiah is written to whom Who is Isaiah too?

915
00:54:34.159 --> 00:54:45.960
Look at go to Isaiah verse one, chapter one, verse one.

916
00:54:46.400 --> 00:54:50.599
This is to Israel and Judah. There's no question who

917
00:54:50.719 --> 00:54:51.280
this is? Two?

918
00:54:51.599 --> 00:54:51.840
Right?

919
00:54:52.719 --> 00:54:55.679
So then these why are these promises? Because what was

920
00:54:55.800 --> 00:54:57.119
Israel facing at that time?

921
00:54:57.280 --> 00:55:02.840
Historically judgment, right, judgment, destruction?

922
00:55:03.199 --> 00:55:04.599
And what can that make them feel like?

923
00:55:06.599 --> 00:55:09.440
God has forgotten, God has abandoned? What is God's promise?

924
00:55:09.480 --> 00:55:13.840
Over and over and over, I have made a covenant.

925
00:55:14.559 --> 00:55:18.679
I will keep that covenant even if you are unfaithful.

926
00:55:19.559 --> 00:55:22.239
And how does this promise? How do all these promises

927
00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:23.639
manifest themselves?

928
00:55:26.079 --> 00:55:27.800
And Revelation nineteen.

929
00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:32.599
Twenty and twenty one, where you have the destruction of everyone,

930
00:55:32.639 --> 00:55:37.920
the establishment of a kingdom Israel being returned, and then

931
00:55:38.079 --> 00:55:43.199
everything being made right? All right, look at verse nine,

932
00:55:43.199 --> 00:55:44.960
and it will be said in that day, behold, this

933
00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:45.639
is our God.

934
00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:47.599
We have waited for him, and he will save us. See.

935
00:55:47.639 --> 00:55:49.320
And that day you're gonna say, this is our God.

936
00:55:49.360 --> 00:55:53.880
We have waited for him. Have they been waiting? Yeah,

937
00:55:53.920 --> 00:55:56.800
but they've been waiting. They're still waiting. Right, this is

938
00:55:56.840 --> 00:55:58.800
the Lord. We have waited for him. We will be

939
00:55:58.840 --> 00:56:01.440
glad and rejoice in his south. From on this mountain

940
00:56:01.480 --> 00:56:03.119
the hand of the Lord will rest.

941
00:56:03.320 --> 00:56:06.639
Moabs shall be trampled down under him, as straw is

942
00:56:06.679 --> 00:56:08.360
trampled down from the refuse heap.

943
00:56:08.519 --> 00:56:11.000
He will spread out his hands in their midst. As

944
00:56:11.039 --> 00:56:13.400
a swimmer reaches out to swim, he will bring down

945
00:56:13.480 --> 00:56:16.400
their pride together with trickery of their hand, the fortress,

946
00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:19.199
of the high fort of your walls, he will bring down,

947
00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:22.320
lay low, and bring the ground down to the dust.

948
00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:24.119
All their enemies are going to be destroyed.

949
00:56:24.119 --> 00:56:26.679
And then look what happens in verse twenty six, Chapter

950
00:56:26.719 --> 00:56:31.400
twenty six, Verse one. In that day this song will

951
00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:37.239
be sung and the Land of Judah twenty four and

952
00:56:37.320 --> 00:56:39.920
twenty five is about the destruction basically of all of

953
00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:40.960
Israel's enemies.

954
00:56:41.199 --> 00:56:43.719
They're all going to be destroyed. Everything's going to be destroyed.

955
00:56:43.719 --> 00:56:46.719
But who's gonna be preserved Israel.

956
00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:50.320
And they will then rejoice and there'll be no more tears,

957
00:56:50.559 --> 00:56:55.199
no more pain, no more death. Now you see why

958
00:56:55.320 --> 00:56:57.480
Israel could pray a certain way.

959
00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:03.840
Now we have to stop there. We still have this

960
00:57:03.880 --> 00:57:06.440
is all. These are all the passages that we have

961
00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:07.000
to go through.

962
00:57:07.079 --> 00:57:09.480
Yet we have to read all of Isaiah fifty four,

963
00:57:09.719 --> 00:57:13.239
all of Isaiah sixty, all of Isaiah sixty one, most

964
00:57:13.239 --> 00:57:16.400
of Jeremiah twenty three, most of Jeremiah thirty most of

965
00:57:16.480 --> 00:57:19.800
Jeremiah thirty three, most of Jeremiah twenty and twenty one,

966
00:57:20.159 --> 00:57:24.280
Ezekiel thirty seven, Daniel chapter seven Hoseah chapter three, Amos

967
00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:26.440
chapter eight, and Zechariah chapter fourteen.

968
00:57:28.800 --> 00:57:32.639
Now it sounds tedious and not fun.

969
00:57:32.920 --> 00:57:34.639
But the reason we have to do this is for

970
00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:39.480
what purpose? Because there's an entire philological.

971
00:57:38.760 --> 00:57:42.000
Movement out there who says, Hey, this Covenant has nothing

972
00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:44.199
to do with Israel, it's all for the Church, and

973
00:57:44.480 --> 00:57:46.920
don't take that literal. Don't take that literal. Don't take

974
00:57:46.920 --> 00:57:49.199
that literal. So the only way to combat it is

975
00:57:49.239 --> 00:57:49.719
to do what.

976
00:57:51.599 --> 00:57:55.199
Go read it, and we already saw in the midst

977
00:57:55.239 --> 00:57:57.800
of all of that, that promise of no more pain,

978
00:57:57.920 --> 00:58:01.400
no more death, no more tears. All millennialists will interpret

979
00:58:01.480 --> 00:58:04.519
that to be literal. Well, how can you in the

980
00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:07.119
middle of all of that say that's literal and everything

981
00:58:07.119 --> 00:58:10.039
else is somehow figurative and it's about God in the.

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Church defeating our enemies spiritually.

983
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That makes literally no sense considering the entire book of

984
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Isaiah's written to whom he's writing about things concerning Israel

985
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and Judah, not concerning the Church. So what do they

986
00:58:22.519 --> 00:58:24.559
have to do that go have to go to Isaiah

987
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one to one and basically say when it says concerning

988
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Israel and Judah, that that's not really Israel, and that's

989
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not really Judah. Do you understand how ridiculous that is

990
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considering the rest of that verse does what what does

991
00:58:36.400 --> 00:58:41.079
the rest of verse one do in Isaiah? Well, it

992
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names actual kings, not of the church, literal historical kings.

993
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So it's almost like it's anticipating what's going to happen.

994
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The whole thing falls apart. Now I could just give

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you the reference. Well, what we'll do is next week

996
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we'll try it. We're just gonna work through the references.

997
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It may be tedious, but then nobody can come and

998
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may look. If we had a Matthew Henry commentary every

999
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one of these passages, he would be saying, over and

1000
00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:07.159
over the Church, the Church, the Church, the Church, the Church,

1001
00:59:07.239 --> 00:59:10.079
the Church, the Church, the Church, the Church. And I

1002
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know some will argue, well, all you may say is

1003
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the millennial Kingdom, the millennial Kingdom. I know we need

1004
00:59:15.480 --> 00:59:19.360
a balance, right, but I can tell you this, It's

1005
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far more likely to find the millennial Kingdom that I'm

1006
00:59:21.840 --> 00:59:23.719
going to find the Church in a book that's not

1007
00:59:23.800 --> 00:59:27.679
even about the church. Okay, So I think the millennial

1008
00:59:27.760 --> 00:59:30.559
Kingdom makes far more sense because the millennial Kingdom is all.

1009
00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:35.559
About whom Israel. It's about Israel.

1010
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Everyone seems to forget that the millennial kingdom is about

1011
00:59:37.920 --> 00:59:43.039
whom Christ ruling and reigning over Israel. So that what

1012
00:59:43.159 --> 00:59:48.639
can be fulfilled covenant promises can be literally fulfilled to

1013
00:59:48.719 --> 00:59:53.679
the literal nation in which they were made. That makes sense, right,

1014
00:59:54.039 --> 00:59:59.800
because if God doesn't literally fulfill those, than what God

1015
00:59:59.880 --> 01:00:03.960
is a liar? Or we have to change our entire

1016
01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:07.000
hermaeudic and don't interpret anything literal. And if I don't

1017
01:00:07.039 --> 01:00:10.840
interpret think anything literal, then I mean when when amillennialists

1018
01:00:10.880 --> 01:00:16.679
read Isaiah? Do they interpret that a virgin will have

1019
01:00:16.719 --> 01:00:17.559
a child literally?

1020
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Yes?

1021
01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:21.400
Do they interpret all those verses about Jesus first coming

1022
01:00:21.440 --> 01:00:22.000
as literal?

1023
01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:25.000
Yes? I remember what we read here some of the

1024
01:00:25.159 --> 01:00:29.000
millennial quotes. Well, you can quote, you can interpret it

1025
01:00:29.039 --> 01:00:34.239
literal if it's already happened, but you can't interpret it

1026
01:00:34.280 --> 01:00:37.280
literal if it hasn't happened yet. What kind of hermeneutic

1027
01:00:37.440 --> 01:00:38.800
is that? Hey? Hey?

1028
01:00:39.159 --> 01:00:40.760
And so then what would be the question, Well, then

1029
01:00:40.760 --> 01:00:43.519
why is all the promises when they were made that

1030
01:00:43.639 --> 01:00:46.599
hadn't happened yet, So nobody should have interpreted them literal

1031
01:00:46.760 --> 01:00:50.280
when they are first received the promise. Well, then you

1032
01:00:50.320 --> 01:00:52.760
can't blame the Jews for not believing a virgin had

1033
01:00:52.760 --> 01:00:54.519
a child.

1034
01:00:56.039 --> 01:01:01.320
The text would infer what believe what I say as literal?

1035
01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:03.960
When he promised that they would go into Babylonian captivity?

1036
01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:04.639
Was it literal?

1037
01:01:04.840 --> 01:01:08.880
When he promised they would go into basically Egyptian captivity?

1038
01:01:09.039 --> 01:01:12.599
Everything he promised happened literally, So then why would you

1039
01:01:12.639 --> 01:01:14.719
then say, well, if it hasn't happened yet, I can

1040
01:01:14.760 --> 01:01:16.039
just interpret it as figurtip.

1041
01:01:16.239 --> 01:01:17.679
That's a bad hermeneutic.

1042
01:01:18.280 --> 01:01:20.519
But that's why we're going through the passages, because if

1043
01:01:20.519 --> 01:01:22.559
I just give them, everyone will write them in their

1044
01:01:22.559 --> 01:01:24.679
notes and no one's going to actually read them. So

1045
01:01:24.760 --> 01:01:27.440
my job is to make sure that here we actually

1046
01:01:27.480 --> 01:01:27.880
read them.

1047
01:01:27.920 --> 01:01:30.199
All right. I know it's tedious, but it's still I

1048
01:01:30.239 --> 01:01:32.800
don't know a better way, right, So we'll stop right there.

1049
01:01:33.000 --> 01:01:34.800
All right, Lord God, we come before you this morning.

1050
01:01:34.840 --> 01:01:38.039
Thank you for giving us an opportunity to look at

1051
01:01:38.039 --> 01:01:40.840
these passages that we may not look at. I know

1052
01:01:40.840 --> 01:01:43.559
we're reading through them quickly or trying to make just

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01:01:43.639 --> 01:01:47.960
basic summaries. The Lord, help us really write these down,

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01:01:48.079 --> 01:01:50.679
consider them, and make reference to them frequently.

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We asked this in Jesus, name it gods.

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