Psalm 83 and 2 Chronicles 20

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Looking at our world from a theological
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making Theology Central. Good morning everyone. It is Monday, June seventeenth,

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twenty twenty four. It is currently
ten thirty nine am Central Time, and

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I am coming to you live from
the Theology Central studio located right here in

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Abilene, Texas. It all started
with, well, a drive. I

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got in my car to drive to
certain locations, and so it's just started

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off with a nice, friendly,
every day drive when you have to go

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run some errands, right, just
a normal everyday occurrence. But I decided,

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well, you know, all of
this year, I'm trying to get

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everyone to participate in our sermons two
point oh app sermon Challenge, where every

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single day we grab the sermon's two
point oh app and find a random sermon

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to listen to. So, since
I was going to be out driving just

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an everyday drive, running some errands, I grabbed my device and found a

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random sermon on the Sermon's two point
oh app. That random sermon was entitled

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the Coming Middle East War, and
I was like, WHOA, that sounds

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interesting. We're doing a series on
eschatology. Okay, okay, maybe I

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can use this for our series on
eschatology, all right, And I look

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at and once I download the message
and get ready to listen to it,

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and I open it up, I
realized, wait a minute, this says

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Psalm eighty three the coming Middle East
War. And immediately I was baffled and

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I was confused, and I was
perplexed because wait, Psalm eighty three predicts

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a coming Middle East war? How? How how did I miss this?

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In seminary and Bible college and Bible
Institute? How did I all of my

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reading and say, how did I
miss this fact? Like? Okay?

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So I grabbed that audio and we
did two hours of review on well two

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parts of that message. We took
it apart, and we still don't really

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after two hours of review, we
still don't understand why they think it's predicting

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a coming Middle East war because they
never actually mentioned a coming Middle East war.

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They mentioned everything else. So we
were perplexed and confused, or at

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least I was. Now. Once
I am perplexed and confused, You know

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what I do? I consider around
and criticized, criticized, criticized, criticized,

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But what value is it? And
just criticizing if I don't like the

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way someone's handling a text of scripture. I don't see that necessarily as let's

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focus on criticizing. Let's then take
that they've put forth. They've presented their

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hypotheses, they presented their thesis.
Now let's take it and let's see what

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we can do with it. And
that started, Well, what's going to

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be this focus for the entire week. We're going to be talking about Psalm

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eighty three all week. Yesterday at
Victory Baptist s and Ovalo, Texas,

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I spent two hours teaching on Psalm
eighty three. We did a pretty good

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introduction and then we started working on
the text. Two hours of teaching and

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well, now it's Monday and we've
got I mean, the week will be

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over before we know it. So
our focus is all Saw eighty three.

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For the sermon's two point oh app
sermon challenge, what should you be doing?

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You should be looking up random sermons
on Psalm eighty three. Try to

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find at least one each day,
right, remember, listen to it.

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Write down the name of the ministry, the name of the pastor the name

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of the church, and then a
one sentence summary summarizing what you learned in

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that particular sermon, right, so
please start doing that. This is PSAW

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eighty three week. Okay, it's
all all week. It's gonna be psawm

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eighty three. I will continue to
teach on SSAW eighty three at Victory Baptist

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Church. Probably, I don't know
if we can finish it up next week.

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I don't know. We'll have to
see. It may take a couple

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of more weeks, but we're gonna
we're gonna to be working on it for

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this entire week, all the way
into next Sunday, maybe even a week

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after that. I have created a
series. So if you look up Theology

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Central and go to series, you'll
see a series on SSAW eighty three.

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You'll have kind of how it all
started, all the way up to what

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we completed yesterday, and then what
we're going to be doing today. So

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I hope this will be beneficial.
Now, before we get into today's subject,

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before we really start, you know, trying to take it apart and

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trying to see where we're going to
end up today, I want to kind

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of emphasize something because I think for
me, as of right now, what

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is I'm going to try to emphasize. There's so much to Saw eighty three

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that we need to take apart.
But the thing I'm going to emphasize at

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least to start off this week is
Psalm eighty three, verse eighteen. Psalm

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eighty three, verse eighteen. Now
I'm going to read it from the King

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James version right. Psalm eighty three, verse eighteen. That men may know

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that men may know that Thou,
whose name alone is Jehovah, are the

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most high over all the earth.
Psalm eighty three eighteen. That men may

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know that Thou whose name alone is
Jehovah are the most high. Art the

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most high, using the King James
language, art the most high over all

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the earth. As we are thinking
about Psalm eighty three this week, I

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want us to just really think about
the fact that God that his name alone

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is Jehovah. I want you to
consider the significance of that, right,

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that your name alone is Jehovah's the
significance of that. I really want you

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to think about that, and that
you that God is the most high over

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all the earth. What is the
significance that his name alone is Jehovah and

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what And I want you to really
contemplate the significance of that he is the

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most high over all the earth.
I really want you to think about that.

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If I read it from the New
King James, it reads this way

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that they may know that you whose
name alone is the Lord, but it's

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capital L O R D Jehovah.
Right, and then we can get into

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a discussion Jehovah Jehovah. We get
you know, we could get into all

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the discussions about that. But okay, that you are the most high over

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all the earth. That phrase,
you are the most high over all the

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earth. I really want you to
think about that, and I really want

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you to contemplate that, because sometimes
in life things don't go very well.

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Sometimes life you are faced with very
difficult circumstances, painful circumstances. You can

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feel abandoned, you can feel alone, you can feel like you're facing it

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all by yourself. You may not
understand the pain, the confusion. You

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may not understand. Just like in
Saw eighty three, the sawmist is greatly

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bothered by what is happening. In
a sense, we referred to that Saw

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maighty three as a communal lament that
he's he's offering up a lament for the

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community right forever. This is a
communal lament. He is he's offering this

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lament up for in a sense,
the congregation for the people of Israel.

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It's a psalm of Asaf, who
was a part of King David's reign,

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and he was a Levite and he
was a part of He kind of in

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a sense led worship. He's kind
of voicing that everyone in the community,

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everyone, they're a part of Israel. They're perplexed, and they are confused,

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and they're bothered, and they're fearful, and they're concerned because they're facing

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great, a great difficulty. A
confederacy of nations have gathered together to come

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against Israel, to wipe them off
the face of the earth. They are

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there's a grave danger, like a
serious situation developing. So we see that

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Asaf and Psalm eighty three, verse
one, he writes, I keep not

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thou silence, Oh God. He
has felt that God has been silent,

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and he's asking God, God speak. We need you to do something,

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he says, hold not thy peace
and be not still. God. We

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need you to do something. We
need you to act because right now you

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don't appear to be doing anything,
because these nations are coming against us.

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They want to destroy us, They
want us to no longer exist. God,

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do something well in your life and
my life. We can face some

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very painful circumstances, difficult things,
and you know what it feels like sometimes,

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God, where are you? Are
you paying any attention? God?

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Do you not see what's going on? And God appears to be an active

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He appears to be silent, he
appears to not even be present. But

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we need to be reminded every single
day, every single day, we need

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to be reminded that His name alone
is Jehovah. His name alone is Jehovah.

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Now I'm not gonna give too much
away about that. What is the

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significance of that name? You need
to remember every single day in spite of

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circumstances. I cannot stress this enough. No matter how bad the circumstance is,

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no matter what it appears, no
matter what it feels like, God,

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the truth of God triumphs. It
remains true in spite of circumstances.

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Circumstances does not change the truth of
God. God, the truth of God

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remains true irregardless of circumstance. See, it's so easy sometimes to go well

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based on these circumstances. Well,
God doesn't exist, or God doesn't care,

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God is not present. You never
define the truth of God on the

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basis of circumstances. Have because the
truth of God remains true, irregardless of

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circumstances, irregardless of these circumstances.
That Israel and Asaph is feeling, irregardless

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of their emotions, irregardless of their
fear panic concern. His name alone is

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Jehovah. That does not change.
And this is very important. And he

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is the most high over all the
earth. He is the most high over

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all the earth, irregardless of circumstances, irregardless of anything. And so I

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really want you to really consider that
phrase, the most high over all the

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earth dignifies that phrase, the most
high over all the earth. It signifies

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the sovereignty, supremacy, and exalted
nature of God over all creation. This

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expression emphasizes God's unrivaled position as the
highest authority and ruler over the entire earth.

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By acknowledging God is the most high
over all the earth, the psalmist

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is recognizing and declaring God's absolute power, majesty, and authority over everything in

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existence. It reflects a deep reverence
and all for God's transcendence and dominion over

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the world. See those things are
true of God, his dominion, his

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rule, his reign, his sovereignty, his power, his dominion irregardless of

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circumstances and Psaw eighty three. Asafh
and Israel are facing horrible circumstances, a

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confederacy of nations that want to destroy
them. He feels like God has completely

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abandoned them. But when it's all
said and done, what he wants to

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happen in regards to everything that happens
is that they all may know that his

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name alone is Jehovah and that he
is the most High over all the earth.

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I want us to really this entire
week. I want us to just

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stress those things. What is the
sign I want you to write down and

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I want you to answer this week. What is the significance of the fact

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that his name alone is Jehovah And
what is the significance of him being the

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most high over all the earth?
What is the significance? And those things

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are true? I cannot stress it
enough. Air, regardless of your feelings,

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your emotions are your circumstances. The
phrase most High over all the Earth

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indeed, can signify God's control over
all things, even those that may seem

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horrible or painful to us. This
expression emphasizes not only God's sovereignty and supremacy,

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but also his providential care and ultimate
authority over all aspect of creation,

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including the events that occur on earth. He has listen. I cannot stress

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that enough. His authority over every
aspect of creation, including events that occur

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on Earth. And some of those
events that occur on Earth seem painful,

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horrible, confusing. We don't even
understand why these things are happening, but

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somehow God is an authority and control
over all of it. Now, we

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did review a sermon not too long
ago on the sermon's two point oh app

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preached at a conference and over the
last few weeks, and that pastor said

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that God is not in control over
all things. He does not cause all

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things to happen. And I was
baffled by that proclamation. But if God

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is the most high over all the
earth, he's in control even when it

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doesn't make any like why God is
in control? Well, then why are

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these things happening? I don't have
a good answer for you. And the

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Psalmist is a little perplexed as well. Even in the face of difficult circumstances

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tragedies are suffering. Acknowledging God is
the Most High over all the Earth can

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provide an assurance that He is ultimately
in control. It speaks to the belief

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that God's purposes are higher than our
understanding and that He can work all things

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together for good, even amidst pain
and hardship. The phrase The phrase most

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High over all the Earth invites believers
to trust in God's wisdom and sovereignty,

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recognizing that his plans are ultimately for
the greater good, and that he is

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able to bring redemption, healing,
and restoration out of even the most challenging

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situations. It serves as a reminder
that God's ways are beyond our comprehension,

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and his loving presence and guidance extends
over every aspect of life, even in

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the midst of adversity. Two concepts. His name alone is Jehovah, and

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he is the Most High over all
the Earth. Right raises down, Meditate

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on those phrases, think about those
phrases, discuss those phrases. Make that

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a major focus in this week of
PSAW eighty three. Let's not forget that

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I know this all started on just
me in a car running errands and sitting

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in parking lots waiting. I know
that it all started with that, and

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it kind of started almost kind of
like, wait, someone thinks Saw eighty

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three is predicting a coming Middle East
war? What is going on? But

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it has now turned into Saw eighty
three. Let's focus on the fact that

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his name alone is Jehovah, and
he's the most high over all the earth

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in spite of horrible circumstances and adversity. And if you're not going through horrible

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circumstances now, if you're not going
through adversity, now, trust me,

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it's on its way. Don't know
when, don't know how. It's going

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to be bad, and it's going
to be painful, and it may feel

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tragic, and it may feel like
the end of the world. But that

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does not change two facts. These
facts of God remain facts no matter what

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happens. His name alone is Jehovah, and he's the most high over all

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the earth. How you reconcile those
facts with what you see? I don't

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have any easy answer for you.
I don't think anyone in the history of

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theology, religion, Christianity, Theism, has ever been able to completely understand

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that. But God is God,
irregardless of what we see, experience,

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feel, want, desire, it
doesn't change that. And I really want

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us to give that some serious thought. Now that's just kind of a I

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just want to establish that as a
major focus for this week. Now,

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while that's a major focus, we're
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of issues, all right. So
someone who was listening emailed me yesterday that

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they were listening to sermons on the
Sermon's two point oh app going along with

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the Sermon's two point oh app challenge, and they started listening to sermons on

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PSAW eighty three and they came across
one that connected Psalm eighty three with second

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Chronicles And I'm like, wait them, okay, wait, so wait,

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what is going on here? Okay
what Because we've had this all started with

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a sermons series connecting psaw Maty three
with some future event that hasn't even occurred

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yet. And now we have a
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with events that have already occurred.
This is sometimes what's maddening about hermeneutics and

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about theology and about sermons. It's
like, how can everyone read psalms?

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How can you have people read the
same chapter Psalm eighty three And someone's like,

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this is a prediction of a future
war that hasn't even happened yet,

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And you're like how, And then
someone else is like, no, psaw

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Maedi three is talking about something that's
already happened. They're reading the same chapter.

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How can the same chapter we lead
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This says a lot about interpretation and
harmoneutical methods and skills and so much,

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but I haven't listened to it yet. They gave me the time stamp where

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this discussion supposedly begins, I think
is around fourteen minutes end of this,

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So we're just going to hit play, and I don't know what's getting ready

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to happen. I have no idea. I have no idea. I'm hoping

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it's something good, all right,
But even if it's not, even if

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it's not helpful, well, hopefully
that kind of that little devotional thought about

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his name alone is Jehovah and he
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help you have a very practical focus. Through this entire study of Psalm eighty

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three, all right, and I'm
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so by the end of the week, either you're going to be grateful

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of my repetitive reminder of it or
you're going to be very frustrated by it.

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But that's okay, all right,
right, because I'm gonna do what

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I think should be done. Right. So here we go. Are you

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ready to hear this? I have. I'm very curious. I'm very curious

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how this is gonna come about.
But we're gonna find out, and we're

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gonna do so right now. And
so Saw eighty three tonight, if you

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got your Bible Saw eighty three,
let's stand real quick in reverence of the

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Word of God tonight Saw eighty three. If you can listen fast, I'm

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gonna preach fast. I'm we'll run
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in verse number one of Psaw eighty
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God, hold not thy peace,
and be not steel, O God,

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For lo thine enemies make a tumult. And they that hate thee have lifted

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up the head. They have taken
crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted

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against thy hidden ones. They have
said, come and let us cut them

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off from being a nation, that
the name of Israel may be no more

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in remembrance. For they have consulted
together with one consent. They are confederate

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against thee Tabernacles of Edom, and
the Ishmaelites of Moab, and the Hagarenes,

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Deball and Ammon and Amelek, the
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Asher also is joined with them.
They have hopen the children of lot

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Selah do unto them, as under
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to Jabin. At the brook of
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became as dung for the earth.
Make their nobles like orif like Zev and

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Yea, all their princes, as
ZeVA and Zalmuna, who said, let

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us take to ourselves the houses of
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make them like a wheel, as
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fire burneth a wood, and as
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So persecute them with thy tempest,
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feel their faces with shame, that
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Let them be confounded and troubled forever. Yeay, let them be put

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to shame and perish, that men
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Jehovah, arn't the most high over
all the earth. Father. We love

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you. We're so grateful for the
privilege we have to gather this evening.

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Blessed now the preaching of your word
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you can be seated now. This
song saw mayby three is a very interesting

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song because when all these things started
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started reaching out to me and saying
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again the rockets happening is going on, And one man reached out to me,

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a friend of mine, he says, do you realize that all these

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nations that are gathering together today or
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thirty nine, GoGG and magog?
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My wife, she says, Listen, she says, you know, he

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may be excited being six thousand miles
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it's not that exciting. I don't
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you know, so interesting every time
something happens in Israel. Every time they're

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like, hey, it's equal thirty
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and everybody gets excited. I mean, I have been hearing this. I

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I don't even know how many times. I mean, if we go through

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I became a Christian in the nineteen
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was in the military, you know, a good portion of my adult life,

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okay, And every time a different
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doesn't matter, our invasion into Iraq
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the different things, the War on
Terror, Afghanistan, and just not only

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the United States involvement, but anything
else happening anywhere, it's like, oh,

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it's his equal, it's happening.
It's gog and maygg, it's revelation,

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it's happening. It's happening. And
what's funny is everyone shows up.

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They write all these books, right, you know. I remember when ah'm

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Hussein he was going to rebuild Babylon
and this is what the and then this

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was going to happen and this I
remember going to the Christian bookstorem being all

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these books about what the coming Middle
East war? Because you know, and

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of course none of the things written
in those books happen. The people who

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write those books that don't come back
and apologize or no, they made their

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money. They got paid, so
they wait for the next thing and then

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they write another book and boom they
get paid. Or or you hold conferences

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and charge people one hundred dollars to
get in here the preaching of God's work,

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and do they come back and say, well, we got it wrong.

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No, they got paid. So
and I do find that death story

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of Little Humors. Yeah, if
you're six thousand miles away, it's fun

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to go, oh, this could
be this, and this could be this.

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If you're three miles away from it, living in Israel and this is

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all going down, it's not so
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But I just think we have to
stop with the wild speculations. Every time

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something happens, we run to the
Bible and go, this is it,

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this could be and how many times? I mean, if if we if

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we had a chart of all the
time someone has been wrong, I don't

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even know if there could be a
chart that large that would all though,

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And even if people say, well, I didn't make a direct prediction I

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just I just speculated. I was
just giving my opinion. Yeah, and

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you sold a book and and you
got paid for it. But okay,

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I just think sometimes we got to
stop that, you know. I just

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I don't. I don't. I
don't know if I have a specific way

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in which we should operate. I
don't know if I can, But I

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just think we got to be more
careful, right And a lot of times

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when an event is playing out,
we can tell everyone watch it, pay

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attention to it, follow the events, keep up to date, but not

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make any wild speculation because in many
cases the vance occur. Everyone's like,

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oh, this is Head, this
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And then well it goes So I
remember when Obama was like, oh,

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this is Head. We're gonna become
a Muslim nation. He's gonna take

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away our guns, he's gonna take
down our churches. We're gonna end up

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in FEMA camps, and we're all
gonna be marked with the mark of the

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beast. Oh my goodness, this
is And then Obama left office and it's

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just over and over, and it's
just everyone loves to just go crazy.

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It's like whatever. So so a
lot of people immediately run to Ezekiel,

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Well, when things like this happened. Now, I'm curious, is he

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gonna bring Psalm eighty three into what's
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to what happened in the past.
Let's let's find out. But you know,

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when you look at that, and
a lot of people were speculating,

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is this gog and magogue? It's
not gog and magogu but close the nations

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that are though, we're seeing an
alignment and a joining together of all these

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nations. Understand that those nations that
are mentioned in Ezekiel third thirty nine are

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not Arab nations. They're not at
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What we are seeing now is Arab
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so but understand that this war is
not a battle against Arab and jew It

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is not a battle against Islam and
Judaism. It is not that at all.

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It is a war on terrorism,
is what it is. And it

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is a war specifically focusing as it
was focusing down in the Gaza area towards

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Thamas, but now up towards Hezbela, up in the Lebanon area. You

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see, they are all just simply
proxies of Iran. Now, Iran does

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not liking Brother Michael would tell you
this. He says that Iranians do not

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like Arabs. They're not Arabs,
They're Persian. They are not Arabs at

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all, and they don't like them. They look down upon them. But

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you know what they will do.
They will unite together for one purpose,

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and that is the annihilation of Israel. That is their desire. But this

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Psalm here is another song that everybody
loved to go to. And they would

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ask the questions, are we at
witnessing an event of psawm eighty three taking

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place? Some will say, and
I've got good friends that'll even say this,

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that there's a battle that's going to
happen. Some will even say before

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the rapture, and some say before
the tribulation of Psaw eighty three. Now,

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I don't think any event has to
happen for the rapture of the church.

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That's the next evacuate. Okay,
So he's heard people too who connect

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Psalm eighty three with some future event. I am baffled by that. Now,

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maybe they just mean, well,
Psaw eighty three was a historical situation,

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but it's gonna be like SSAW many
three on the basis of what are

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you basing it off? PSAUW eighty
three again, let me go to Psau

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eighty three and just read again the
language we talked about this yesterday. All

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right, for low thine enemies make
a tumult. It's happening. Then when

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Asef brings this communal lament and speaks
for the people, this was happening at

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his time, right, this,
this is and Aceph is a part of

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David Right, David's reign. Okay, uh, they have taken crafty council

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against that people. They have said
for they have consulted that these are things

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that were happening. Was was how
it had been happening and was happening.

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It was kind of a past present
situation. I still don't understand why people

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like saw maydy three future future future
what I don't get it or or or

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even if you say, well,
Saw eighty three was passed, but something

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similar is going to happen in the
future. On the basis of what what

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are you basing that off of?
Is Psalm eighty three quoted in the New

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Testament referencing future events. If you've
got a clear New Testament reference to Saw

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eighty three that connects the event Saw
eighty three to something yet future, than

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by all means, let's then let's
discuss that now. In the sermon series

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that sparked this entire discussion, we
did two hours of review and the person

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never once mentioned anything. Well,
I didn't even mention a future war.

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I still don't even understand what was
going on in that. It was baffling

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beyond all. I don't even understand. It's almost like someone gave it a

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title and someone forgot to tell the
preacher. It's just really it's really bizarre.

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We still need to go review the
rest of those. So but he's

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he knows people have done the same
thing. So I'm I'm just baffled where

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this is coming from, Like what
I need to try to find the origin

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of Saw eighty three future war?
And well why is the language which speaking

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of it in a past present situation? Like I just I just don't understand.

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Let's see what he Obviously he's going
to go to second Chronicles twenty.

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I just gotta which takes it in
an opposite direction. I stead of going

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future, he goes past, which
is somewhat interesting. Nothing has to take

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place, no red Heifer, No, nothing has to happen, no eclipse,

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no nothing. Listen, Jesus is
coming, and nothing's gotta happen for

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that to happen. Nothing does.
That's why we believe in the imminent return

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of the Lord Jesus Christ and so. But anyway, they'll refer to this

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psalm. But notice interesting here in
Psalm eighty three he says, and he

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starts off a psalm, a song
or psalm of Aseef. I believe this

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psalm was fulfilled, not in nineteen
forty eight, as some will hold,

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or nineteen sixty seven is so others
would hold, or either in a future

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event. It is an event that
was fulfilled in Second Chronicles, chapter number

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twenty. Okay, now this is
foutka. First of I didn't know some

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people say Psalm eighty three was fulfilled
nineteen forty eight or sixty seven. What

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in the world, Look, I
I don't. I think sometimes why Bible

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prophecy will people who really get into
Bible prophecy, why it can be so

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irritating to me? Is it's nothing
but wild speculation spoken of with great arrogance

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as if they're basing it off scripture, and they'll be like, you just

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don't know how to read. I
know I can read some eighty three.

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I don't know what you're talking about. So much Bible prophecy is wild speculation

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spoken and such arrogant confidence, and
I think in some cases it just doesn't

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even bother following any hermaeutical rule.
So I still look, we have not

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found any convincing argument yet for this
being future future like nineteen forty eight,

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nineteen sixty seven future, so future
from the perspective it being written that,

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or even future further further out.
Now, if as we are listening to

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random sermons this week on Psalm eighty
three and the sermon's two point zero app

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if you come to one that makes
an argument for a future interpretation, by

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all means, let me know what
you find and what they say, all

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right, and maybe we will review
that. So far, so what we're

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not even really I don't even know
how to argue against it, because there's

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nothing in the text that would lead
me from a textual standpoint. I don't

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have any clue that says, oh, this is future based on the way

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it is written. He says,
this was fulfilled and Second Chronicles twenty.

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Now that's a little bit fascinating to
me. Second Chronicles twenty. Let's let

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him build on this. I'm I'm
a little confused by this a little bit,

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but I want to hear this hypothesis. So we have two things we're

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going to be We're really three things
to be looking for this week. Obviously,

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I've given you at the very beginning
of my introduction kind of a devotional

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practical thing to be considering. I
want you to consider the significance of his

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name alone is Jehovah, and he
is most high over all the earth.

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I want you those two things.
I want you to consider from a practical

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perspective, and the significance of those
The second thing we want to consider is

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do we have any evidence that this
is speaking of a future anything a Saw

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eighty three and if we can find
that great and then third, now what

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we need to be considering is was
Saw eighty three fulfilled in Second Chronicles twenty,

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which would still make Saw eighty three
prophetic. I still struggle with that

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because the language of Saw eighty three
is not this is going to happen,

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but that it is happening. So
then we would have to put this is

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what you would need to work on. Was asaff alive during the events of

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Second Chronicles twenty, that would be
important to figure out. If he wasn't,

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then why was this not written in
a prophetic way but written as a

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communal lament, lamenting what was happening
for the people at that time, Because

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then you have to say, this
is not classified as a lament some or

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a communal lament some, but this
is this is written as a prophetic a

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prophetic sum and I just don't see
it that way. Right. Well,

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we'll let him, We'll let him
argue this and see where how he builds

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this hypothesis. It was there in
Second Chronicles twenty when Jehasafat and all these

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nations that's mentioned here. It talks
about Ammon and some of these others are

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coming over to Angetti and they're coming
out to destroy Israel. They're trying to

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get, as the Bible says,
their inheritance, that is the land,

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and so they're coming out to take
the land away. That's their desire.

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Jehasa Fat began to seek the Lord. He began to pray unto God,

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and all of a sudden he called
in the choir leaders, and he called

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in a seth and he called them
in, and he got the singers,

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and the singers started singing. And
you know what God did when they started

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singing, He sit an ambushment and
God defeated the enemies. Okay, now

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this is interesting. So he puts
forth the concept. I asked you the

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question, and he answered it.
Asaf was alive during the reign of Jehosaphat.

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So I wanted to verify. So
I was looking things up. From

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what one source I have found.
Asaf was alive during the reign of King

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Jehosaphat. Asaf was a prominent figure
in the Old Testament, known for his

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role as one of the chiefly vites
appointed by King David to lead worship in

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the tabernacle and temple. His name
is associated with the Psalms, as he

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is believed to be the author of
several psalms, including some of the Book

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of Psalms. Jehosaphat reigned over the
Kingdom of Judah from around eight seventy three

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to eight forty nine BC. According
to Biblical chronology, Asaf's involvement in leading

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worship during the time of David suggests
that he lived during a period that predated

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King Jehosaphah's reign. Therefore, it
is likely that Asaf was alive during the

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reign of King Jehosaphat, that it
was likely that he was alive. So

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if he was alive, if he
was alive, losing my voice. If

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he was alive, then the way
he just stated it would make sense.

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Okay, this confederacy of armies are
coming against Israel. He calls in Asaf

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to basically compose a communal lamit,
to lamit their concern fear about this confederacy

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of nations. And that's well,
that's Psalm eighty three. So Saw eighty

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three. It wouldn't be so much
that he that it was fulfilled in Second

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Chronicles twenty three. It would be
that psawm eighty three was composed during the

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events of Second Chronicles chapter twenty.
I think would that be more accurate Saw

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eighty three. If he is stating
that he called in Asaf, and Asaph

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is kind of the worship leader,
right, he's a Levite, Well,

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then it would be that Saw eighty
three was composed during the events of Second

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Chronicles twenty. Second Chronicles twenty fulfills
Psalm eighty three, But the historical context

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of Psalm eighty three is Second Chronicles
twenty. Would that not be best?

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The best way to put it?
Now? You know, I like to

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just put I like to speculate.
I like to throw out the speculations.

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Some of you hate when I do
that, but I do that because I

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want you to. Then, right
now, you're on the couch, you

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know, eating a bag of Doritos. Get up off the couch, go

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to the table, grab a Bible
and notebook and some reference tools, and

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start working on this. Let's find
an answer that is what this psawm is

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here. You go back and study
and compare the two, and it is

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identical when you compare the two.
But I want you to notice a few

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things real quickly about Psalm eighty three. All right, we have a challenge,

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ladies and gentlemen. The Second Chronicles
twenty and Psalm eighty three are identical.

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So you know what you're doing this
week. It's time, ladies and

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gentlemen, it's chart time. I
need you to go through Saw eighty three.

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I need you to go through Second
Chronicles twenty, and I need you

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to lay out the things that are
identical. Make sure you put a reference

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Saw eighty three verse one second Chronicles
twenty. Go through each verse, connect

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them, show how they are identical. And then if there are differences.

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Now he says they're identical, there's
almost always some differences. Then I want

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you to write down the differences.
That's your We've stumbled upon an assignment.

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Ladies and gentlemen, Saw eighty three
and second Chronicles twenty. We compare contrast,

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We chart it out. You get
started on that right now. Look,

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stop, I don't care what you're
doing. Tell your kids they don't

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get food. Tell your husband it
doesn't tell your wife. All that matters.

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Right now, your entire family is
committed to charting that. That's all

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everything else. Call your pastor,
Hey, hey, we can't have church.

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I'm busy doing a comparison between SAW
eighty three and Chronicles twenty. Why

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are you doing that? Well,
some crazy guy on the internet says I

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have to, and I have to
do what he says because he I don't

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know why, but I have to. All right, call your boss,

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tell him you can't come to work. To stop everything, right, I

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want that assignment done in the next
thirty minutes. Go all right, okay,

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well, okay, we got to
finish this review first, right,

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but that's that's our We've got an
assignment. We got a see, this

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is why, this is why we
do the sermons two point oh app challenge,

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Right, this is why we're doing
this. When you listen to random

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sermons, if you'll just take the
time to get to use these sermons you're

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listening to, you have a lifetime
of study in front of you. You

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every whether you agree or disagree with
the sermon. In fact, sometimes when

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you disagree or not sure that you'll
get more out of those sermons if you'll

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actually then engage in study. Right, So let's see what we're gonna find

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out. Notice, first of all, the plea for God's presence in verse

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number one. Look what the psalm
is said, Keep not thou silence,

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Oh God, hold not thy peace, and be not steel, Oh God.

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Do you know what Jehosaphat realized,
as Asaf realized. Listen, they

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needed the presence of God. There
was nothing they could do in their own

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self. They needed God. You
know what, Israel I'm thankful for some

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of their leaders. Listen, their
government's messed up just as bad as ours.

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Is. Don't think they've got some
righteous government. And don't you even

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please, don't think that net In
Y'ah who's the answer. He's not.

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He's a politician, just like anybody
else. Listen. I'm glad they got

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a strong leader like net and Yahoo, but you know what, leaders will

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let you down. Leaders will fail. And the psalmist here is saying,

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listen, it's not a great leader
that we need. It's God that we

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need. It is God. You
know what you need at this church.

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You know what we need in our
country. It's God. That's what we

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need. I'm telling you it's not
just a change of administration. We need

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God to reign and rule. We
need the presence of God. And that's

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what the it's almost displeading here.
I'm telling you Israel's got a great army.

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But you know what, their army
fails. Their army failed. We

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saw that on October seventh in astonishment. A matter of fact, in Ezekiel

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thirty seven, at thirty eight,
it talks about them sitting in safety.

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That word that used there speaks about
relying on your own self, and that's

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what they were doing. I'm telling
you, listen, Israel, listen,

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they need. God is what they
need, I'm telling you, and you're

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thankful for some of the things,
like the Iron Dome. Was fascinating watching

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that thing in action, but you
realize it don't stop it all. I

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remember back in twenty twenty one when
they shot in eleven day period they shot

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four thousand rockets out of Gaza into
Israel. October seventh, they shot thirty

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five hundred rockets that day from Gaza
into Israel. And do you know what

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the Iron Dome couldn't do, couldn't
stop it all. There were too many

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coming in. I remember just about
a month and a half ago, they

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shot sixty rockets over my house and
the city of Saffots, and not a

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single rocket was stopped. That Iron
Dome. Don't always stop them, David

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Sling, don't always stop them.
I'm telling you, listen, it's not

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military that they need. It's the
presence of God that they need. And

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that's what the Psalmist is pleading here. It's for God's presence, he said

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in Psalms chapter number twenty and verse
seven. Some trust in chariots and some

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in horses, but we will remember
the name of the Lord, our God.

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I'm telling you it's the presence of
God that they need. But then

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it was God's protection that they needed. Notice verse number two down to verse

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number eight. You'll find in verse
number two he says, for low thine

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enemies make a tumult, and they
that hate thee have lifted up the head.

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You see a cry for God's protection
because of the cry of the enemy.

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You see he says, they're in
verse number two, they make a

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tumult. That's that word. Come
on, Hebrew literally means to make a

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noise, to make a cry,
a loud voice. And well, I'm

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telling you that's exactly what we've seen
since our over seven now yesterday we talked

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about to malt, We talked about
that the practical implications from all this entire

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section. We offered up an outline
of the entire Psalm. You can go

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listen to all the work that we
did on Psaw eighty three. Part I

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called him Psalm eighty three, Part
one, Part two. You'll find it

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in our series on Psalm eighty three. So he's going I wanted him to

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do a little bit more work on
second Chronicles twenty is what I wanted.

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So I'm gonna I'm gonna stop.
I'm not gonna well, we'll get back

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to this. There's not a lot
of time left. He's only got a

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few minutes, so I think he's
just gonna work through Psalm eighty three.

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He's just basically made the assertion that
this is identical to Second Chronicles twenty,

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and that he believes Second Chronicles twenty
is the fulfillment of PSAW eighty three.

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But if Asaf was alive, I'm
gonna put forth this. If Asaf was

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alive, and according to him,
Jehosaphat called in Asaf to basically pen a

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communal lament to reflect the lament of
the people during this crisis, then so

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is not a Second Chronicles twenty is
not a fulfillment of PSAW eighty three.

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Psalm eighty three is the lament.
It is the prayer during the events of

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Second Chronicles chapter twenty. Now that's
the assertion made. So when I started

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contemplating this, well, I just
I reached over and I decided to ask

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artificial intelligence what it thought about this
hypothesis. Artificial Intelligence AI asked this,

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So, this is my question.
Is Second Chronicles twenty the fulfillment of PSAW

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eighty three? This was AI's response. Second Chronicles twenty and Psalm eighty three

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are two distinct passages, each with
its own context and message. While some

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scholars and commentators have drawn parallels between
the two passages, they are generally considered

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not to be directly related in terms
of one being the fulfillment of the other.

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So AI does not necessarily agree with
this hypothesis. I'm not saying AI

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is right, but I'm saying that
it seems to be not so sure about

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it. And please note AI just
says there's parallels. He said that they're

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exact, that they're like exact.
Second Chronicles twenty and Saw Many three is

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exactly. That's why I want you
to chart it out. Ai did not

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stop there. Second Chronicles twenty recounts
the story of King Jehosaphat of Judah facing

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a coalition of enemy nations and seeking
God's help in the face of overwhelming odds.

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The passage highlights Jehosaphat's prayer and God's
response, leading to a miraculous victory

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for the people of Judah. Saw
maighty three, on the other hand,

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as a prayer attributed to Asaf expressing
a plea for God's intervention against the enemies

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of Israel. The Psalm describes the
enemy these plots and ask Gods to defeat

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them and bring about peace and justice
for his people. While both passages and

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vob prayers for deliverance from enemies and
the manifestation of God's power on behalf of

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his people, they are not directly
linked in terms of one being of fulfillment

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of the other. Each passage serves
its own purpose within the broader narrative of

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the Bible and offers unique insights into
the themes such as trust in God,

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divine intervention, and victory over adversaries. So AI was not too was not

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too an agreement with this hypothesis,
But okay, But I had to ask

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some more questions. So I said, what would be the chronological order of

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second chronicles twenty and saw eighty three? Which would have happened first, written,

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first, et cetera. I didn't
articulate the question very well, so

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and again with Ai, it's the
more the better you are and asking questions,

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the better the information you will obtain. So AI decided to answer it

605
00:47:01.239 --> 00:47:05.119
this way, and I immediately had
a problem with its answer. But all

606
00:47:05.199 --> 00:47:08.480
right, here we go. Scholars
believe the Second Chronicles twenty, which describes

607
00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:15.119
the events during the ring of King
Jehosaphat of Judah, likely predates the composition

608
00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:20.039
of Psalm eighty three. The events
in Second Chronicles twenty took place historically during

609
00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:22.480
the ring of King Jehosaphat, while
the psalms were written over a period of

610
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:28.519
time by different by different authors,
including Asaf, to express various themes and

611
00:47:28.599 --> 00:47:32.679
prayers. Therefore, in terms of
chronological order historical events, Second Chronicles twenty

612
00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:37.559
records the historical events during the ring
of King Jehosaphat and his victory over the

613
00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:44.960
enemy coalition. Composition of Psalms Samiti
three, attributed Asaf, was likely composed

614
00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:47.639
at a later time period as a
part of the psalm's collection in the Hebrew

615
00:47:47.719 --> 00:47:52.280
Bible. Now immediately I started having
problems with this, it says in summary,

616
00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:55.920
Second Chronicles twenty would have taken place
first in terms of historical events,

617
00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:00.639
while Psalm eighty three would have been
composed at a later time as a part

618
00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:01.800
of the biblical psalms. And I'm
like, wait and wait, wait,

619
00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:07.960
that makes no sense. Asaph is
a part of David's rain. David comes

620
00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:10.719
before Jehosaphat, right, so I'm
like, wait a minute, now,

621
00:48:10.760 --> 00:48:14.840
I think what AI was doing is
like, well, when we talk about

622
00:48:14.840 --> 00:48:19.960
the composition of psalms, the psalms
were spread out over a period of time

623
00:48:19.960 --> 00:48:24.840
when they were all collected. But
I'm like, but when Asaph originally composed

624
00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:31.639
the prayer, it would have had
to be there's a high probability before Jehosaphat,

625
00:48:31.719 --> 00:48:36.039
right, or you would have to
go with the argument during the time

626
00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:40.280
of Jehosaphat. So I challenged AI, and I said, well, if

627
00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:45.400
Asaf wrote Saw eighty three and it
was a part of David's reign, wouldn't

628
00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:50.760
that put the prayer before the events
of Second Chronicles twenty? And AI responded,

629
00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:53.840
you are correct, and I'm like, thank you, thank you.

630
00:48:53.960 --> 00:48:59.440
Yes. See, when I do
a podcast, people say you are wrong.

631
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:04.000
I talk to AI, it says
you are correct. That's why I've

632
00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:07.519
decided I'm only going to do podcasting
for artificial intelligence. I'm going to gather

633
00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:12.920
all the AIS and say I'm going
to do a podcast for AI because they

634
00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:15.719
will tell me I am correct.
People will tell me I'm wrong. AI

635
00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:20.440
will tell me I'm correct. AI
is better a better audience than people,

636
00:49:20.519 --> 00:49:22.480
Okay, right, maybe, okay, maybe that's a little extreme, right,

637
00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:27.760
but let's continue. Ai says,
yes, you are correct. You

638
00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:30.440
are correct in pointing out that Asaf, who was traditionally associated with King David's

639
00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:36.519
reign, likely lived before the events
recorded in a Second Chronicles twenty. During

640
00:49:36.599 --> 00:49:42.320
King jehoseph S reign, Asaf was
a contemporary of David and a prominent figure

641
00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:49.599
in the musical and liturgy or the
liturgical life of Israel. Given this timeline

642
00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:53.119
Asaf's time, Asaf lived during the
time of King David and continued to serve

643
00:49:53.719 --> 00:50:00.519
in the musical and religious capacities during
later reigns as well. Composition of SSAW

644
00:50:00.599 --> 00:50:04.159
eighty three. If SSAW eighty three
is indeed attributed to Asaf, it would

645
00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:07.440
have been composed during or before the
time of the events and Second Chronicles twenty

646
00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:12.800
under King Jehosepha st ran Please did
you hear that it would have been composed

647
00:50:12.920 --> 00:50:19.639
during or before the time? Now
that right there, I'm like, oh,

648
00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:22.199
Ai didn't necessarily catch it. But
I'm like, oh, they're okay,

649
00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:28.519
So this person's hypotheses is now,
he says. Second Chronicles twenty is

650
00:50:28.559 --> 00:50:32.039
a fulfillment of SSAW maty three but
when he said that Jehosaphact calls in Asaf,

651
00:50:32.199 --> 00:50:35.719
I don't know where he we would
have to fight. He doesn't give

652
00:50:35.719 --> 00:50:37.880
a reference for that. So we
need to find out where Jehosaphact calls in

653
00:50:38.039 --> 00:50:43.440
asafh So if anyone can find that, that's a that's a major goal today

654
00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:49.880
to find that. So if if
Josephact calls in Asaf and then Asaph composes

655
00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:54.840
this communal lament, then Saw eighty
three happens or was composed, or the

656
00:50:54.840 --> 00:51:00.559
prayer was written during the events of
Second Chronicles twenty, that would give the

657
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:08.599
historical context for it. Ai went
on to say, taking this into consideration,

658
00:51:08.679 --> 00:51:13.119
it is possible that Psalm eighty three
was composed by Asaf before the events

659
00:51:13.159 --> 00:51:15.880
described a Second Chronicles twenty took place. The psalms are not always arranged in

660
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:20.440
strict chronological order in the Bible,
and they often reflect prayers, reflections,

661
00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:27.519
and themes from various periods in history. So I think at best what we

662
00:51:27.599 --> 00:51:32.679
can say is either Asaf composed this
during the time of David and this has

663
00:51:32.840 --> 00:51:40.039
nothing to do with Second Chronicles twenty
zero, or Asaf was alive during this

664
00:51:40.199 --> 00:51:49.639
part of the reign of Jehosaphat.
Jehosaphat calls in Asaf composes this communal lament

665
00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:53.840
to reflect the fear, concern,
and desire of the people of Israel in

666
00:51:53.960 --> 00:51:59.599
face of a confederacy of nations who
wanted to wipe them out. Let's see

667
00:51:59.599 --> 00:52:05.119
how he can continues. People standing
out on the street corner making a loud

668
00:52:05.159 --> 00:52:07.159
noise for nothing, not even knowing
what in the world. They're saying,

669
00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:12.599
from the river to the sea,
Palestine shall be free. Do you know

670
00:52:12.639 --> 00:52:15.760
what that means? That means everything
from the river to the sea. Every

671
00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:21.360
Jew is to be murdered, is
to be annihilated. That's what that means.

672
00:52:21.960 --> 00:52:23.960
People have no idea what they're saying
when they get out and say,

673
00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:28.719
but they love making a loud noise, and that's exactly what they're doing.

674
00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:30.639
We see the cry of the enemy. We see the craving of the enemy

675
00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:35.079
in verse number four. For they
have said, come and let us cut

676
00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:38.320
them off from being a nation,
that the name of Israel may be no

677
00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:43.719
more in remembrance. You see,
that is their desire. It is not

678
00:52:43.840 --> 00:52:47.519
a too state solution. They don't
want a two state solution. They don't

679
00:52:47.519 --> 00:52:50.880
want Oh yes, they do they
want a two state solution. No,

680
00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:53.480
they do not. I'm telling you
I have Palestinian friends. I am not

681
00:52:53.760 --> 00:53:00.400
anti Palestinian. I love the Palestinian
people. I think Jesus died for him

682
00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:02.320
just as much as he died for
the Jews. He loves all men.

683
00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:05.920
Then he would have all men be
saved and come to the knowledge of the

684
00:53:05.960 --> 00:53:08.079
truth. But I'm telling you what. They do not want a two state

685
00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:14.119
solution. Matter of fact, in
the Hamosis Charter it says this. In

686
00:53:14.280 --> 00:53:17.679
article seven, it states the day
of judgment will not come until the Muslims

687
00:53:17.679 --> 00:53:24.599
fight and kill the Jews. In
article eight it state just please note whenever

688
00:53:24.639 --> 00:53:30.639
someone mentions the Hamas Charter, remember
you have the original charter and then it

689
00:53:30.760 --> 00:53:37.480
was updated. So whenever you hear
a pastor mentioned the Hamas Charter or a

690
00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:44.199
conservative talk show host, go look
up the Hamos Charter for yourself and look

691
00:53:44.239 --> 00:53:49.239
at how it's written today. All
right, let's just make just for full

692
00:53:49.280 --> 00:53:53.559
transparency. Now we've talked about the
Hamas Charter. It wasn't now it's still

693
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:57.760
I mean, we could say majorly
problematic. And I think a lot of

694
00:53:58.039 --> 00:54:01.800
kids protesting on some university can maybe
we'll want to read the Hamas Charter,

695
00:54:02.159 --> 00:54:07.800
because you know, it's not just
like Israel bad, you know, Hammas

696
00:54:07.960 --> 00:54:09.119
good. I mean, and he
said, well, Hamas is not the

697
00:54:09.119 --> 00:54:14.599
Palestinians. Well, yeah, but
Hamas has so embedded themselves within that area,

698
00:54:15.280 --> 00:54:17.920
and Hamas wants to kill Israel.
So therefore, and they attacked Israel,

699
00:54:17.920 --> 00:54:21.960
and Israel's going to go after Hamas. How do you go after them

700
00:54:21.960 --> 00:54:27.480
if they've embedded themselves within the civilian
population. It raises some very ethical dilemmas

701
00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:30.320
and lots of questions about how to
find a war. You can have problems

702
00:54:30.360 --> 00:54:34.159
with that, but let's not think
that Hamas is like, you know,

703
00:54:35.639 --> 00:54:37.760
hey, we want Israel to be
prosperous, and we want to be prosperous.

704
00:54:38.079 --> 00:54:43.440
I don't know if it's quite that
way, but okay. It's that

705
00:54:43.519 --> 00:54:46.519
the Muslim brotherhood slogan Allah is its
goal. The Prophet is the model,

706
00:54:46.679 --> 00:54:51.480
the Koran, its constitution. In
Jihad, which is a holy war is

707
00:54:51.519 --> 00:54:54.679
its path, and death for the
sake of Alli is the loftiest of his

708
00:54:54.800 --> 00:55:01.119
wishes. It says in article thirteen
that there is no ne negotiated settlement possible.

709
00:55:01.559 --> 00:55:07.360
Jihad is the only answer. Article
fifteen states that the day the enemies

710
00:55:07.400 --> 00:55:14.119
you serve part of Muslim land,
jihad becomes the individual duty of every Muslim.

711
00:55:14.519 --> 00:55:19.440
You see, they hate what God
loves. Why do you think they

712
00:55:19.440 --> 00:55:22.079
hate the church so much? Coast
Cross died for the Church. Why you

713
00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:25.440
think they hate the land of Israel
so much? And won't it because God

714
00:55:25.480 --> 00:55:29.960
loves it so much. I'm telling
you why they hate the Jews because God

715
00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:34.840
is not done with the Jews.
He loves the Jews. Now, it

716
00:55:34.960 --> 00:55:37.679
is interesting, this is the second
time we've said when we did the review

717
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:45.320
on the messages about the coming Middle
East war, once again, what the

718
00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:50.199
preacher did is he he just talked
about current events, not about future war,

719
00:55:50.280 --> 00:55:53.440
but about current events. And in
this he said Second Chronicles twenty is

720
00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:57.679
the fulfillment of PSAU eighty three.
And immediately what has he done. He's

721
00:55:57.760 --> 00:56:02.360
left Second Chronicles and he's now once
again talking about current events. I don't

722
00:56:02.800 --> 00:56:07.639
That's what continues to blow my mind
with all of these sermons on SAW eighty

723
00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:10.639
three. It's like, either it's
future, but we're gonna talk about now,

724
00:56:10.760 --> 00:56:15.840
it's past, but we're gonna talk
about now. If it's if it's

725
00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:21.360
it's it's a fulfillment of Second Chronicles
twenty. Then all the discussions should be

726
00:56:21.639 --> 00:56:24.840
how the verses in Saw maighty three
relate to the events of Second Chronicles twenty,

727
00:56:25.119 --> 00:56:30.159
not how they relate to till today. And he's taking these verses and

728
00:56:30.159 --> 00:56:37.159
he's applying them to today. I
don't understand that approach from a hermeneutical standpoint

729
00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:42.760
or even from a preaching standpoint,
But I I'm just gonna stop there because

730
00:56:43.400 --> 00:56:46.159
we're almost at an hour and we're
not gonna finish this, and clearly he's

731
00:56:46.199 --> 00:56:50.519
not going back to Second Chronicles twenty. I'll let it play just a little

732
00:56:50.559 --> 00:56:52.400
bit more, just so that we'll
see. Maybe he does, but we'll

733
00:56:52.440 --> 00:56:59.000
see. And they hate it so
much, they hate what God loves.

734
00:56:59.119 --> 00:57:01.360
But we noticed the con addrescy of
the enemy as well. He goes through

735
00:57:01.360 --> 00:57:05.760
from verse number six all the way
down to verse number eight, and he

736
00:57:05.840 --> 00:57:09.480
lists several of these nations. Now
listen, don't get sidetracked with all these

737
00:57:09.559 --> 00:57:14.639
nations trying to figure out what genealogy. Let me say this real quick.

738
00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:24.039
Palestinians are not the ancient Philistines.
Can I say that again? Palestinians are

739
00:57:24.079 --> 00:57:29.599
not the ancient Philistines. Now,
you'd be shocked at how many people when

740
00:57:29.639 --> 00:57:34.920
I say a statement like that and
they go what you be shocked at how

741
00:57:34.960 --> 00:57:40.920
many says you see, everybody living
in the Land of Israel between nineteen seventeen

742
00:57:40.960 --> 00:57:50.559
to nineteen forty eight under that Balfour
Declaration were called Palestinians. Matter of fact,

743
00:57:50.639 --> 00:57:52.760
one of the Prime Ministers of Israel, Golden my Air, on her

744
00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:58.840
birth certificate it says this Palestinian.
You see, a Palestinian was a Jew

745
00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:02.320
of Palestini was also an Arab that
was living in the land. They were

746
00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:08.480
not considered Palestinians to what we see
today until Israel broke away became a nation

747
00:58:09.199 --> 00:58:14.400
and they continued on with that same
name. So both Jews and Arabs were

748
00:58:14.440 --> 00:58:19.000
called that. But so, but
you'll find all these nations mentioned here,

749
00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:22.079
and understand the genealogies of people have
been mixed up through the ages. So

750
00:58:22.159 --> 00:58:27.760
don't get sidetracked. He mentions all
these nations, and all these nations are

751
00:58:27.840 --> 00:58:32.280
nations that are surrounding Israel. You
see, they were the ancient enemies of

752
00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:37.480
Israel then and you know what they
still are today. They still are today.

753
00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:43.840
They still hate Israel today and so, but don't get focused on the

754
00:58:44.599 --> 00:58:49.079
genealogy. Focus on the geography.
That's the focal point it should be.

755
00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:52.159
But then he goes through and he
talks about the the plea for God's power

756
00:58:52.199 --> 00:58:59.400
from vers. If Second Chronicles twenty
is to fulfillment, then what you should

757
00:58:59.440 --> 00:59:05.000
do is take this confederacy of nations, the Tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites

758
00:59:05.400 --> 00:59:09.480
of Moab and the Hagarens or yeah, the Hagourins, okay, the Hagariotes

759
00:59:09.519 --> 00:59:13.320
and the new King James. The
Hagarens and the King James. A right,

760
00:59:13.599 --> 00:59:15.679
I thought, I picked up my
new King James. Wait a minute,

761
00:59:15.679 --> 00:59:19.360
why is it? Say Haggarins?
Alright, goodball, amon Amelek,

762
00:59:19.559 --> 00:59:23.239
the Philistines, the inhabitants of tire
asser Is joined with them. They have

763
00:59:23.840 --> 00:59:29.440
hoping the children of Lot. Well, if this is a fulfillment of Second

764
00:59:29.519 --> 00:59:32.480
Chronicles twenty, then you take saw
mayby three and go to Second Chronicles twenty

765
00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:37.119
and say here, but he's talking
about the now. Well again, I

766
00:59:37.199 --> 00:59:42.320
don't understand. We had a sermon
series that points it to a future war,

767
00:59:42.360 --> 00:59:45.239
and all they talked about was now. Now, this is a sermon

768
00:59:45.280 --> 00:59:49.159
where connects it to Second Chronicles twenty, but talks about the Now, I

769
00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:55.599
am baffled beyond all comprehension. I
am grateful that he puts forth the hypotheses

770
00:59:55.599 --> 01:00:00.400
of Second Chronicles twenty. Now he
makes a dogmatic assertion that Jehosaphact called in

771
01:00:00.559 --> 01:00:07.559
Asath. He called him in.
He stated it dogmatically. We need to

772
01:00:07.639 --> 01:00:15.400
find the verse where Jehosaphat called in
Asath, because if that is the case,

773
01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:22.639
then we can make a very strong
argument that Psalm eighty three was composed

774
01:00:23.119 --> 01:00:30.519
during the events of Second Chronicles twenty. So we need to find textual justification

775
01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:35.840
for that. AI did not offer
it. Now, I'm going to Maybe

776
01:00:35.880 --> 01:00:37.920
I could ask it at a later
time, but I don't want to give

777
01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:42.880
it away. I want you to
look for that today. I want you

778
01:00:42.960 --> 01:00:45.280
to look for that today, all
right, I want you to look for

779
01:00:45.320 --> 01:00:51.199
that today. So yeah, we'll
just let it play, just for a

780
01:00:51.199 --> 01:00:55.000
couple more seconds. First number nine, Now the verse number fifteen. He

781
01:00:55.039 --> 01:00:59.360
gives a couple of different examples.
He said, in verse number nine,

782
01:00:59.599 --> 01:01:02.920
do to them as into the Midianites, as to Sinsarah, as to Jabin

783
01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:07.480
at the Brook of Kishaw, which
perished at eying door. They became as

784
01:01:07.559 --> 01:01:12.039
dung for the earth. Now here
he is. He's talking about two events

785
01:01:12.079 --> 01:01:15.639
that took place there in the Valley
of Megiddo, or what we also refer

786
01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:19.639
to as the valley where Armageddon is
going with the Nations will gather. That's

787
01:01:19.639 --> 01:01:22.559
where our church is. It's right
there in that valley. And so you

788
01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:25.639
got we're gidding and his men would
have been lapping up the water like the

789
01:01:25.760 --> 01:01:30.920
dogs right across there. Okay,
so yeah, he's not going to go

790
01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:34.760
back to second Chronicles twenty. He's
not going to go back to second Chronicles

791
01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:37.079
twenty, it appears. So here's
what you need to do today. I

792
01:01:37.079 --> 01:01:42.559
want you to think about the implications
of the fact that his name alone is

793
01:01:42.679 --> 01:01:45.119
Jehovah. What is the significance of
that, and what is the significance of

794
01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:50.000
the fact that he is the as
it says in Some eighty three eighteen,

795
01:01:50.440 --> 01:01:54.480
the most high over all the Earth. I want you to contemplate that.

796
01:01:54.559 --> 01:02:00.920
I want you to think about that. I want you to chart out the

797
01:02:00.960 --> 01:02:07.480
differences are the how they are alike
and how they are difference between Psalm eighty

798
01:02:07.559 --> 01:02:12.239
three Psaw eighty three and second Chronicles
twenty. I want you to map that

799
01:02:12.320 --> 01:02:15.400
out. Obviously, I want you
to be listening to sermons on Psalm eighty

800
01:02:15.440 --> 01:02:16.840
three, and I want you to
be listening to or they do they make

801
01:02:16.840 --> 01:02:20.000
it future? Do they make it
past? What do they do with ey

802
01:02:20.039 --> 01:02:23.880
three? So be listening to sermons, So consider his name, Jehovah most

803
01:02:24.239 --> 01:02:29.440
over the Earth. I want you
to chart out the similarities and differences between

804
01:02:29.440 --> 01:02:31.400
Psalm eighty three and Second Chronicles twenty, how they are like I want you

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listening to sermons on p. Eighty
three, and I also want you to

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consider and see if you can find
where Jehosaphat calls in asaff because that was

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stated in a dogmatic way, where
he calls him in. If so,

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then we may be able to put
forth the hypotheses that Psalm eighty three occurred

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during the events of Second Chronicles twenty. Second Chronicles twenty is not a fulfillment

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of Psalm eighty three. Psalm eighty
three have during that historical context. AI

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separated the context. We'll see if
we can argue and prove otherwise not probably

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give you other things to do During
all of that. I didn't write everything

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down, but there you go.
You have plenty to work on. I

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hope you have a great Monday,
June seventeenth, twenty twenty four. I

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hope God will bless you as you
study His word. And hopefully that kind

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of little devotional thought I gave at
the beginning, I hope you'll really take

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that into consideration and understand, no
matter what we face, his name is

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Jehovah and he is the most high
over all the earth. Thanks for listening.

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Study God's word, and may he
bless you as you do that. God bless