It is my privilege and
pleasure to welcome you to the
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Plantation
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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here in Plantation,
Florida and to night number two
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of our Anchors Of Truth series
and Anchors Away, Jim Gilley.
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And the title is,
One In The Messiah.
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And we had a very
powerful message from the pastor
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of this church on last evening.
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Yes, we did.
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And we've have received
messages from as far away
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as Washington state where
people said that they were
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blessed by that
message last night.
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It was a good message.
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And I think it set a very
good foundation for what we're
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trying to accomplish and
talk about; the idea that
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we need to be one in Christ.
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In fact, the emblem of
our Christianity is unity
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in Christ Jesus.
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That's it, and the title of this
series is, One In Our Messiah.
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So many times, I think
last night Alex pointed out,
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that he did not
realize that Jesus was Jewish
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until he was
reading in the New Testament
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the first time he read it.
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And he saw that Jesus
was crying over Jerusalem.
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And he thought, what is
this Christian doing crying
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over the Jewish people?
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And then he began to realize
that the King of kings and
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Lord of lords is Himself a Jew.
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And he sort of threw
down a gauntlet, as it were,
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having had and associated
with so many Christians friends
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who never really tried
to witness to him or to
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talk to him about Christ.
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And it certainly convicted me
that we need to do a better job
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sometimes in how we
portray Jesus, not only to the
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Jewish community, but
to the world in general.
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But then he saved that by
telling us that the one who
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led him to Jesus did
so through his character.
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And that was a gentleman,
his name was Mike Ortiz.
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And he was
actually his stepfather.
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And when he saw
Christ in him, then he wanted
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to know more about Jesus.
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This idea of Paul;
to provoke to jealousy.
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That our lives are to so reflect
Christ's life that we make
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others jealous to want to have
what we have in Christ Jesus.
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Absolutely.
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Now tonight's message is
going to be brought to us
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by Jeff Zeremsky.
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And we saw the
title on the intro there,
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How Bad Are The Jews?
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Yes, very provocative title.
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It really is.
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You know, one of the things
that has really come to mind
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is that all of the
early believers were Jewish.
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And it wasn't until
Peter received the dream
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to go and to be ready
to witness to the Gentiles
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that it began to open
up, and open up slowly.
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So we believe also that
it's going to come back;
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Christianity, the
Messiah, the message,
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strongly with the Jewish people.
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Yes indeed.
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This is a very exciting
time and a very exciting
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and much anticipated Anchors.
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And I'm really anxious
to hear tonight's message.
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And, of course, tomorrow
night we have Sasha Bolotnikov.
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And on Sabbath, we've
got two great speakers again.
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Now Jeff Zeremsky is the
head of Beth-El Congregation
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in the New Port Richey area.
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And also the congregation
there in St. Petersburg.
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And I've had the great privilege
of going to both of those
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congregations
and witnessing there.
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And it's just really
inspiring to go and to take part
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in that worship.
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And Jeff and his wife
have a tremendous ministry.
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And you know, we
heard today about how...
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We did an interview today that's
going to be shown later on 3ABN.
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And it was an exciting time.
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And one of the things we
found out in that interview
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was about Jeff's conversion.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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Juanita Kretschmar
instrumental in that.
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And she told a little
story about Jeff's mom,
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who is here tonight.
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A really great
story and a great history
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of the van ministry in New York
and a number of people, Jeff,
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Alan Reinach, others who came to
the Lord through that ministry.
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That's right, it's just amazing
how God used that ministry.
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How that ministry continues
to witness through all of those
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that came to
Jesus during that time.
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Well listen, before
our message this evening,
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we have some music.
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Would you tell us about that.
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It is coming from the
pastor of this church.
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He is a
multi-talented individual.
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He preaches, we see
him on Back To Our Roots,
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a program on 3ABN.
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But he also, if you
watch the program, know
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that he is quite a singer.
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Sort of a velvet
voice, and plays the guitar.
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So we're going to hear from him.
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We'll have prayer, then
Pastor Alex will bring us
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a message in song.
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Then the next voice we'll hear,
of course, will be that of our
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pastor and
friend, Jeff Zeremsky.
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Alright, let's bow
our heads in prayer.
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Father in heaven,
we're just thrilled tonight
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to come You, You the
great God of the universe,
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our Creator, and our Savior.
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Because through Jesus
Christ, the Bible tells us,
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that the worlds were formed.
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And then Jesus
went to the cross.
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Because God so loved
the world that He gave
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His only begotten Son.
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Now Father, tonight we pray that
You will bless this service.
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And we ask it in
Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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I love You,
Lord, with all my soul;
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and offer You thanksgiving.
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You have gone before Your own;
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it's through You that I live on.
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Oh, and I will sing Your praises
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once again.
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I love You, Lord,
with all my heart;
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I offer You thanksgiving.
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You've inscribed upon my heart;
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remove the stony part.
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Oh Lord, redeem Your people;
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return again.
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And I sing praises to Your name;
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Your glory is my refrain.
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Oh Lord, pour on Your people
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the latter rain.
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And I love You,
Lord, with all my might;
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I offer You thanksgiving.
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And I sing praises to Your name;
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Your glory is my refrain.
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Oh, and I will sing Your praises
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once again.
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And I sing praises to Your name;
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Your glory is my refrain.
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Oh Lord, pour on Your people
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the latter rain.
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Oh Lord, pour on Your people
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the latter rain.
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Amen. Thank you, Alex.
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Thank you, Jim and C.A.
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Shalom.
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I'm going to be asking a
few questions as we go along.
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And so I'd like
your participation.
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It doesn't mean I'm
giving you the microphone.
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Just a yes or no.
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There's going to be
some true and false,
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multiple choice, a
couple of things like that.
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Okay?
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That was the first question.
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Let's see if we can do a little
better on this next question.
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Okay, let's do
question number two.
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Question number two is, in
the history of the Jewish people
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as a whole, how
often have they been bad?
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Multiple choice.
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Okay, we'll do
this democratically.
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How many would
say 50% of the time?
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Is this microphone working?
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Let's try 65% of the time.
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I see one. Okay, two, three.
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Four, okay.
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80% of the time.
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Okay, the microphone is working.
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Okay, alright.
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So that's the
rest of the crowd here.
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Okay, very good.
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So 80% of the time.
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Now let's do a run through.
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Well, I want to ask you a
couple of other questions.
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First question
for this next one.
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This is going to
be a true or false.
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Okay, so you've got a 50%
chance of getting it right.
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The Jewish
people rejected Jesus.
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True or false?
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True? Okay.
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Number two,
Jewish people are rich.
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True or false?
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Okay.
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I missed out on that gene.
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So God created me
to prove that as false.
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But He created, I
guess, like Michael Bloomberg
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to prove that as true.
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Okay, third question.
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The Jewish people are smart.
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Yes? Okay.
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Again, He created me
to prove that as false.
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But He created
people like Alex Schlussler
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and Albert Einstein to
prove that as true, right?
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So we've got
sometimes yes, sometimes no.
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Some are rich, some are poor.
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Some are dumb,
some are smart. Right?
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Okay, so now we're ready
for question number four.
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Which is, the
Jews rejected Jesus.
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True or false?
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Now if you notice, that's
the same as the first question.
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But it's really
just like the other two.
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Some yes, some no.
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Okay?
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So let's do a history
and run through the Bible
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in the time of Moses.
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Okay, we're going to
look at the Jewish people
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starting at the time of Moses.
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In the time of Moses, of
the 39 years in the wilderness
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the Bible records only
four times of rebellion.
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All the rest of the times
of rebellion, all the other
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times even written in
the Bible, in that first year
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out of hundreds of years
of slavery, without a Bible,
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without the Scriptures, all
those years without a leader,
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and without any instruction.
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And so Moses comes
along, God delivers us.
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And the first
year is very rough.
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But after that, only four
times recorded in the Bible
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of rebellion in 39 years.
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Now I don't think
that's too bad, I don't know.
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How have the last 39
years of your life been,
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you know, if God's recording
that for us all to see?
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Okay, so we're going to
mark that as good years.
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Now how about
the book of Joshua?
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Now the Bible specifically
tells us in the book of Joshua,
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it tells us in Joshua chapter
24 verse 29 through 31...
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And so if he lived 110 years,
it doesn't tell us how long
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he reigned as judge.
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But if he lived 110
years, let's say he was
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the same age as Caleb.
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The Bible tells us
that Caleb was 40 years
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when they went and
spied out the land.
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And so they
wandered for 40 years.
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So let's say he was 80 when he
enters into the Promised Land.
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And so let's say he then
reigns, if he lives 110 years,
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for 30 years.
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And let's say the elders
that outlived him lived another
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10 years and reigned
for another 10 years.
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Right? Okay? That's
fair numbers, I think.
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So let's say 40
years of good years.
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The Bible specifically
said that they served the Lord
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all the days of Joshua
and all the days of the elders
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that outlived Joshua.
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So those are pretty good years.
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So now we've got to
look at the book of Judges.
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How bad during
the times of Judges?
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Right? Now we've got
some catching up to do here
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to get to that 80% bad, right?
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Now the book of
Judges, that's where it says
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that every man did what
was right in his own eyes,
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and this kind of thing.
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And so let's take a
look at what it says.
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Let's go to chapter 3 verse 8.
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And it says, "The
children of Israel..."
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Now what more,
40 years or 8 years?
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40, I'll help you
with the tough ones, okay?
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So 40 is longer than 8, right?
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So we have a short period of
time of serving this, whatever,
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bad years, and then we
have rest for 40 years.
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Okay, and then verse 12 it says,
"And the children of Israel
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did evil again in the sight
of the Lord," for 18 years.
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What's longer, 80
years or 18 years?
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80 years. A lot longer, right?
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So we've got 40 good
years, 80 good years.
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And only 8 bad years,
and only 18 bad years.
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This is in the book of Judges.
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Okay then, let's see, verse
15, "And the children of Israel
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cried to the
Lord, and the Lord..."
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Okay, read that.
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Chapter 4 verse 1, "And
the children of Israel did evil
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again in the sight of
the Lord," for 20 years.
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And then Deborah rises up,
and the land has rest 40 years.
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Seeing a lot of
40 in the good years.
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"The children of Israel did
evil in the sight of the Lord,"
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chapter 6 verse 1,
and served Midian 7 years.
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But then Gideon comes
along, in chapter 8 verse 34.
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And the land has
quietness for 40 years.
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So the bad years are all short,
the good years are all long.
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Then in chapter 10 verse 2,
it says, Tola, the son of Puah,
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the son of Dodo, he
judged Israel 23 years and died.
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And that's all
it says about him.
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It doesn't say if
the land had quietness,
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it doesn't say if
they served the Lord,
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it doesn't say if
they didn't serve the Lord.
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Just that Tola, the son
of Puah, the son of Dodo,
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he judged Israel
23 years and he died.
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So we're going to
mark that one as neutral.
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Okay?
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Not good, not
bad. We don't know.
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I mean, I think if it was bad
the Bible would have told us.
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But it doesn't say
either one, so we're just
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going to play it safe.
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We'll mark that one as neutral.
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Okay, so if you're
keeping track here,
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mark that one as neutral years.
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Now could you imagine
serving a nation for 23 years.
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You give your heart and your
soul into the work for 23 years.
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And the only thing
that's recorded about you
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is that you're
the grandson of Dodo.
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I know, but that's what it says.
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So that's what it... Okay.
00:17:16.56\00:17:17.59
Now the book of
Judges continues on that way
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for out the rest with the
bad years being very short
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and the good
years being very long.
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And so the total when we add in
the judges, Eli, and Samuel...
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I know they weren't
the greatest parents,
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but they were good
judges in serving the Lord.
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So the bad years in
Judges, and in Samuel with Eli,
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111 bad years.
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328 good years.
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Which is more, 328 or 111?
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Almost three times the
amount, three times as long.
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Right? And the
neutral, about 70 years.
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70 years on the neutral.
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That's about 500 years
of the time of the judges.
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That's about the same amount of
time of the time of the kings.
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We kind of have...
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Because there's
only one book, you know.
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And a little bit in 1 Samuel.
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So we kind of
think, like well, you know,
00:18:10.70\00:18:12.21
we just fly through the
time of judges pretty quickly
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and then we're
just asking for a king,
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you know, soon after the exodus.
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But no, it's 500 years.
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Now that's twice as long as the
United States has been around.
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And most of those years were
good years or neutral years.
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Only about a hundred
out of those close to 500,
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or over 500 years, were
bad in the time of Judges.
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Okay, so let's
look at the kings.
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Okay, we've got Saul.
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Saul reigns 39 years.
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I think we'll
mark him as neutral.
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You can mark him
however you want.
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But I think
neutral will be safe.
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David reigns 40 years.
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The Bible says, a man
after God's own heart.
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Solomon reigns 40 years.
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And we'll play it
safe and mark it neutral.
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He had a good
start, he had a good end.
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He had some
trouble in the middle.
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So we'll just play it safe
and we'll mark that neutral.
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Okay?
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And so, now from here
on, now we're just going to
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follow after Solomon.
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The nation splits, right?
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And you've got the
ten northern tribes
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and the two southern tribes.
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Now we're following how bad
are the Jewish people, right?
00:19:08.26\00:19:10.34
So the Jewish
people come out of Judah.
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That's where
the term comes from.
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So we're just going to
follow the southern tribes,
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the Judah tribe,
the nation of Judah,
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from here on out.
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The northern never
had good kings anyway,
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and eventually get lost;
the lost tribes of Israel.
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So let's follow, so
going to 1 Kings chapter 14,
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Rehoboam reigned
17 years and did evil
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in the sight of the Lord.
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And so now it gets very clear,
it tells us very clearly in
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1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1
Chronicles, 2 Chronicles,
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that they did evil or
they did what was right.
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So we've got 17 bad years.
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And then in chapter 15 verse 2,
Rehoboam's son reigns 3 years.
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And he did evil in
the sight of the Lord.
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And then verses 10 and 11,
it says Asa reigns over Judah
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41 years doing that which was
right in the sight of the Lord.
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So we have a combined 20 bad
years between those two kings
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after Solomon.
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And then 41 good years.
00:20:11.08\00:20:14.29
And then after him,
in chapter 22 verse 42,
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Jehoshaphat reigned 25
years doing that which was right
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in the sight of the Lord.
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66 good years
between Asa and Jehoshaphat.
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And Asa and Jehoshaphat
are reigning in the south
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at the same time that Ahab
and Jezebel are in the north.
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And we've got 66 good solid
years of doing what was right
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in the sight of the Lord.
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After only just 20 bad years.
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2 Kings chapter 8 verse
17, Jehoram reigns 8 years.
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He did that which was
evil in the sight of the Lord.
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His son reigns one year doing
evil in the sight of the Lord.
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And then Athaliah, the mother,
she kills all her children
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and grandchildren.
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She's the daughter of Ahab.
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But she's reigning
over the south in Judah.
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And she reigns only 6 years.
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She kills everyone except one.
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One gets escaped, you
know, and he becomes the
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boy king at 8 years old.
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And so between those three
it's 15 years, 15 bad years.
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8, 1 year, and just 6 years.
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She's bad and
God says, "That's it.
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You get 6 years and
you're out of here."
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You know, and they had
a rebellion against her.
00:21:25.84\00:21:28.33
And so then that young
boy, that 8 year old king,
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in 2 Kings chapter 8 verse
12, Jehoash, reigns 40 years
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and he did that which was
right in the sight of the Lord.
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So 66 good years, 15 bad years,
then followed by 40 good years.
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And then his son reigns 29
years doing that which was right
00:21:58.05\00:22:01.87
in the sight of the Lord.
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So, good years.
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And then Uzziah reigns
52, chapter 15 verse 1.
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Uzziah reigns 52 years
doing that which was right
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in the sight of the Lord.
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52 years.
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And he doesn't even get a
whole chapter in the Bible.
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He only gets a few verses...
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...in 2 Kings and a
few verses in Chronicles.
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But not even a whole chapter.
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How many sermons in
your life have you ever heard
00:22:34.47\00:22:36.87
about Uzziah?
00:22:37.22\00:22:39.45
Probably none.
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How many sermons have you
heard about Ahab and Jezebel?
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Too many, right? A lot.
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Now why is that?
00:22:49.79\00:22:50.93
Why then are the bad
kings getting all the press,
00:22:50.96\00:22:54.97
and here these good
kings get very little?
00:22:55.58\00:22:59.42
And it's same like the
newspapers today, is all it is.
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Bad news sells.
00:23:03.20\00:23:04.55
And so the bad
news gets written down.
00:23:05.08\00:23:06.94
And the good news...
00:23:07.22\00:23:08.25
"Hey, you're a good kid," you
know, like the kid in school.
00:23:08.28\00:23:09.72
He's good,
alright. Just sit down here.
00:23:09.75\00:23:10.96
You're fine. Good. You know.
00:23:10.99\00:23:12.75
Forget his name, you know.
00:23:13.17\00:23:14.20
But the bad kid, he gets
all the attention, right?
00:23:14.23\00:23:16.75
And so in the Bible,
the bad kings are getting
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all the chapters,
all the attention.
00:23:18.67\00:23:20.91
And the good
years are very short.
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You know, why is that?
00:23:26.05\00:23:27.08
Why does God spend so much
time sending Elijah and Elisha
00:23:27.11\00:23:31.85
to Ahab and Jezebel?
00:23:31.88\00:23:33.27
And all these miracles, and
all this counsel, and all these
00:23:33.30\00:23:36.57
prophecies concerning them?
00:23:36.60\00:23:37.69
Why is God doing that?
00:23:37.72\00:23:38.75
Why is He spending so
much time on the wicked kings
00:23:38.78\00:23:41.98
and on nothing
on the good kings?
00:23:42.66\00:23:45.18
Because God
loved Ahab and Jezebel.
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God loved the good kings.
00:23:52.47\00:23:54.67
He leaves the 99
sheep that are in the fold
00:23:54.70\00:23:58.82
and He goes looking
and spending all His time
00:23:58.85\00:24:01.78
for the lost sheep.
00:24:01.81\00:24:03.34
And you get all these miracles
and all these prophecies
00:24:03.65\00:24:06.61
and all these things being
told, and encouragements to
00:24:06.64\00:24:10.04
the evil kings so that
they'll come to the Lord.
00:24:10.07\00:24:13.53
And a good king, 52
years, less than a chapter.
00:24:13.83\00:24:16.76
And then his son reigns 16
years doing that which was right
00:24:18.70\00:24:23.69
in the sight of the Lord.
00:24:23.72\00:24:24.89
Those four kings in a row
is close to 140 good years.
00:24:24.92\00:24:30.10
That's a massive
amount of time of good years.
00:24:31.37\00:24:33.82
Almost 140 in a row.
00:24:33.85\00:24:36.68
And they only get
four chapters in the Bible.
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Not even a full four
chapters in the Bible.
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Or at least in 2 Kings.
00:24:46.17\00:24:47.33
Again, they're mentioned
in Chronicles too, parallel.
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And then chapter 16,
still in 2 Kings, chapter 16
00:24:52.02\00:24:57.01
verses 1 and 2,
Ahaz comes along.
00:24:57.04\00:24:59.31
He reigns 16 years
and he's doing evil
00:24:59.34\00:25:02.05
in the sight of the Lord.
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So close to 140 years,
and then just 16 bad years.
00:25:03.14\00:25:07.37
Now if I told you about
a stock, the stock market,
00:25:07.99\00:25:11.41
a stock that went
down ten times this year,
00:25:11.44\00:25:14.99
would you think that's a
good stock or a bad stock?
00:25:15.61\00:25:17.25
A bad stock, huh? Right?
00:25:18.42\00:25:19.57
Now what if I also
told you that same stock
00:25:19.67\00:25:22.32
went up eleven times this year?
00:25:22.35\00:25:26.12
It's a good stock or bad stock?
00:25:26.15\00:25:27.63
And what if I told you that
for every point it went down
00:25:28.12\00:25:30.96
when it was going down, it went
up four when it was going up?
00:25:30.99\00:25:34.64
Is it a bad
stock or a good stock?
00:25:35.15\00:25:37.20
That's a good stock, okay?
00:25:37.83\00:25:39.28
That is a good stock.
00:25:40.12\00:25:41.73
And that's what
we're seeing in the Bible.
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So it seems like, oh they're
always down, always down.
00:25:43.70\00:25:45.68
But they're really not.
00:25:45.71\00:25:46.84
When they're down,
they're down just a little bit
00:25:47.23\00:25:48.99
for a short period of time.
00:25:49.02\00:25:50.06
And then they're back
up, and they're back up
00:25:50.09\00:25:51.42
for a long period of time.
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There's just nothing
mentioned in the Bible about it.
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That's all,
because it's all good.
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You know, think
about your conversation.
00:25:58.17\00:25:59.38
The ones that talk,
they talk about what's bad.
00:25:59.41\00:26:00.98
You know, "How's things going?"
"Oh good. You know, fine."
00:26:01.41\00:26:03.49
Not much of a story.
00:26:04.23\00:26:05.26
But if something bad is going
on, you've got a story to tell.
00:26:05.70\00:26:08.51
And that's what
the Bible is doing.
00:26:09.48\00:26:10.69
Then Hezekiah comes
along, chapter 18 verse 1.
00:26:11.36\00:26:13.71
Hezekiah, and he
reigns 29 years doing
00:26:13.74\00:26:15.80
what was right in
the sight of the Lord.
00:26:15.83\00:26:16.87
So we're back on the
right track again already.
00:26:16.90\00:26:18.82
16 bad after close to 140, and
now we're back to good years.
00:26:18.85\00:26:22.69
29 good years with Hezekiah.
00:26:22.72\00:26:25.67
Then chapter 21,
Manasseh reigned 55 years
00:26:26.09\00:26:30.50
and he did evil in
the sight of the Lord.
00:26:30.53\00:26:33.60
Evil in the sight
of the Lord 55 years.
00:26:34.28\00:26:36.64
Now the bad kings,
there's no bad king, other than
00:26:37.11\00:26:41.17
Manasseh here, who
reigns in Judah who reigns
00:26:41.20\00:26:45.44
more than 16 or 17 years.
00:26:45.54\00:26:48.44
I think it's 16 years.
00:26:48.47\00:26:49.75
There's no good king who
reigns less than 16 or 17 years.
00:26:50.54\00:26:55.21
I'm getting that
mixed up, one of them is 16
00:26:55.26\00:26:56.46
and one of them is 17.
00:26:56.49\00:26:57.56
So there's a big difference.
00:26:58.39\00:26:59.42
All of the bad
ones, below 16 or 17.
00:26:59.45\00:27:01.80
All the good
ones, above 16 or 17.
00:27:01.83\00:27:05.17
Except Manasseh.
00:27:05.65\00:27:07.06
Why does Manasseh get 55?
00:27:07.59\00:27:09.59
More than any other king.
00:27:09.62\00:27:10.65
More than any evil king,
more than any other king.
00:27:10.68\00:27:13.20
Why does God give him 55 years?
00:27:13.23\00:27:16.68
Because God loved him.
00:27:19.95\00:27:23.19
God loved Manasseh and He
wasn't going to let him die.
00:27:24.56\00:27:27.58
Because Manasseh comes to
the Lord at the end of his life.
00:27:28.19\00:27:31.44
And so in those 55 years he
was wicked, he was horrible.
00:27:31.85\00:27:35.75
One of the worst
kings, if not the worst king.
00:27:35.78\00:27:37.88
And yet God knew
he hadn't fully turned
00:27:39.82\00:27:42.20
his heart over to Satan.
00:27:42.23\00:27:43.76
There was still some hope there.
00:27:43.79\00:27:45.77
And God knew that, and
God kept working with him,
00:27:45.80\00:27:48.03
and kept working with
him, and kept working with him,
00:27:48.06\00:27:50.39
for 55 years until
he comes to the Lord.
00:27:50.42\00:27:53.53
Otherwise, the evil
kings, they don't last long.
00:27:53.94\00:27:55.77
But he gets to reign wickedness
because he comes to the Lord.
00:27:57.47\00:28:00.60
And he really shouldn't
even have been around because
00:28:01.03\00:28:02.82
he comes along during
the years that Hezekiah
00:28:02.85\00:28:04.97
prayed for extended
life, and God gave it to him.
00:28:05.00\00:28:07.42
I'm going to have a
talk with Hezekiah about that
00:28:07.45\00:28:08.89
when we get to heaven.
00:28:08.92\00:28:10.12
But you've got to be
careful what you pray for.
00:28:10.15\00:28:11.62
Sometimes they might
end up with a Manasseh.
00:28:11.65\00:28:13.24
Well that's where
Manasseh comes along.
00:28:15.01\00:28:16.21
And then after him, he
ends up with a good son; Josiah.
00:28:16.24\00:28:19.64
And he reigns 31
years doing what was right
00:28:19.67\00:28:23.65
in the sight of the Lord.
00:28:23.68\00:28:25.12
So we have again,
Hezekiah good, Manasseh bad,
00:28:25.82\00:28:28.74
and then Josiah good.
00:28:28.77\00:28:30.85
And then chapter 23 verse
36, his son comes along and
00:28:31.95\00:28:37.18
he reigns 11 years doing
evil in the sight of the Lord.
00:28:37.21\00:28:39.94
His son comes along, Zedekiah,
reigning 11 years doing evil
00:28:39.97\00:28:43.83
in the sight of the Lord.
00:28:43.86\00:28:45.02
So we have 22 evil
years in a row there
00:28:45.41\00:28:48.64
coming right after
Josiah of 31 good years.
00:28:48.99\00:28:54.09
And then Babylon comes in.
00:28:54.31\00:28:55.83
So in that last about 50
years, 30 of them were good.
00:28:56.87\00:29:02.39
And only about 20
of them, 22, were bad.
00:29:04.45\00:29:07.45
Kind of got this
impression, though,
00:29:08.65\00:29:10.87
that, "Oh, it was just
bad, bad, bad, bad, bad."
00:29:11.87\00:29:13.69
So God allows
Babylon to come in.
00:29:13.72\00:29:15.56
It was just the last
two kings that were bad,
00:29:17.13\00:29:18.98
according to the Bible, that did
evil in the sight of the Lord.
00:29:19.38\00:29:21.89
Now the good kings, I understand
the good kings weren't perfect.
00:29:22.19\00:29:24.35
There's plenty in the Bible
written about what they did bad.
00:29:24.38\00:29:27.03
And even in that chapter
about Uzziah, in that less than
00:29:27.24\00:29:31.25
chapter he gets,
what it does say about him
00:29:31.28\00:29:33.15
is what he did wrong.
00:29:33.18\00:29:34.54
And so even the good kings,
yeah they made some mistakes.
00:29:37.00\00:29:39.01
And so yes, when the
good kings were reigning,
00:29:39.04\00:29:40.41
there were
people doing mistakes.
00:29:40.44\00:29:42.10
I understand that.
00:29:42.13\00:29:43.18
But also when there were
bad kings, there were good stuff
00:29:43.21\00:29:45.41
going on as well.
00:29:45.44\00:29:46.81
So just going by
what the Bible said;
00:29:48.52\00:29:49.67
they did evil in
the sight of the Lord,
00:29:49.70\00:29:50.73
they did what was right
in the sight of the Lord.
00:29:50.76\00:29:51.79
So what are our totals
during the time of the kings?
00:29:51.82\00:29:53.82
Our totals of the bad
years are 126 bad years,
00:29:53.85\00:29:59.39
303 good years,
and 79 neutral years.
00:29:59.83\00:30:04.41
It almost parallels Judges.
00:30:04.44\00:30:06.28
Almost the same amount of years
and almost the same percentage
00:30:07.28\00:30:09.63
of bad years and good years.
00:30:09.66\00:30:11.98
And again, the good
way outweighing the bad
00:30:12.01\00:30:14.95
throughout Kings.
00:30:15.67\00:30:17.37
And then after that, we
have the time of Babylon.
00:30:20.85\00:30:22.76
We have Daniel,
Mishael, Hananiah, Azariah.
00:30:22.79\00:30:25.96
We have Ester, we have Mordecai.
00:30:25.99\00:30:27.68
We have Nehemiah, we have Ezra.
00:30:27.71\00:30:29.47
And so we have
all these good times.
00:30:30.12\00:30:31.43
And then we have the 400
years of the time between
00:30:31.63\00:30:35.28
the Testaments
where there's no prophets.
00:30:35.31\00:30:37.13
There's no books being
written in those 400 years.
00:30:37.16\00:30:39.55
Why isn't there any books
written in those 400 years?
00:30:39.58\00:30:42.30
Why weren't there any
prophets during those 400 years?
00:30:42.79\00:30:45.62
Because there was
nothing bad going on.
00:30:49.87\00:30:52.14
Okay, we've seen
that over and over again.
00:30:53.44\00:30:55.08
The Bible only sends prophets
and miracles when there's
00:30:55.11\00:30:58.10
bad stuff going on
to get their attention
00:30:58.13\00:31:00.57
and bring them to repentance.
00:31:00.60\00:31:01.88
But if there's
nothing bad going on,
00:31:01.91\00:31:03.24
He doesn't have to say anything.
00:31:03.27\00:31:04.76
He doesn't have to show up.
00:31:05.13\00:31:06.16
I mean, of course He's there.
00:31:06.19\00:31:07.22
But I mean, He
doesn't have to send a prophet
00:31:07.25\00:31:08.55
to go and rebuke them, because
that was the job of the prophet.
00:31:09.05\00:31:11.08
The job of the
prophet was to rebuke.
00:31:11.11\00:31:12.93
To convict of
sin, to tell about sin,
00:31:12.96\00:31:14.73
and to lead
people to repentance.
00:31:14.76\00:31:16.72
During that 400 years, that's
the time of the Maccabees.
00:31:17.10\00:31:19.63
The Hanukkah story is there.
00:31:19.66\00:31:21.35
And they're serving the Lord.
00:31:21.66\00:31:22.77
They fight
against the Greek army.
00:31:22.80\00:31:25.39
The most powerful nation
in the world at that time.
00:31:25.42\00:31:27.38
And they win.
00:31:27.41\00:31:28.68
And they carve out a
little notch of land where
00:31:28.71\00:31:30.60
they're able to have autonomy.
00:31:30.63\00:31:32.48
Set up their own coinage,
and their own leadership.
00:31:32.90\00:31:35.12
And they're reigning,
and they did it so they
00:31:35.29\00:31:37.00
could serve the Lord.
00:31:37.03\00:31:38.43
That was their sole
reason for rebellion,
00:31:39.43\00:31:41.12
was because they did not
have religious freedom anymore.
00:31:41.15\00:31:43.31
And they fought so
they could have it.
00:31:43.34\00:31:44.42
And they risked their
lives and gave their lives
00:31:44.45\00:31:46.52
so they could serve the
Lord and worship in the temple,
00:31:46.55\00:31:49.40
and liberate the temple,
and rededicate the temple.
00:31:49.43\00:31:52.01
So God said,
"They're doing just fine.
00:31:52.96\00:31:54.55
I'm just going
to let them roll."
00:31:54.89\00:31:56.08
So how about during
the time of Messiah?
00:31:58.73\00:32:00.56
About the time of Messiah, how
did the Jewish people do then?
00:32:00.59\00:32:04.45
Well in Acts chapter 2
verse 41, it says 3000 people
00:32:06.30\00:32:09.54
came to the Lord.
00:32:09.57\00:32:10.62
And then in chapter
4 verse 4, it says 5000
00:32:11.05\00:32:13.91
plus women and children.
00:32:13.94\00:32:15.52
Alright, so Jules
Isaac estimates that within
00:32:16.24\00:32:18.48
three and a half years
about 25,000 Jewish people
00:32:18.51\00:32:21.29
in and around
Jerusalem believed.
00:32:21.32\00:32:23.48
That's a large number.
00:32:24.77\00:32:26.67
25,000 in three
and a half years.
00:32:30.66\00:32:34.42
Does that sound like a
people who rejected the Messiah?
00:32:35.38\00:32:37.67
25,000 Jewish people
accepting the Messiah
00:32:39.29\00:32:41.68
in three and a half years?
00:32:41.71\00:32:42.99
Could you imagine
this congregation...
00:32:44.04\00:32:45.34
Let's say we want
to do an outreach.
00:32:45.37\00:32:47.50
We're going to plant another
congregation nearby here.
00:32:47.53\00:32:49.65
Let's say, whatever,
Ft. Lauderdale, right?
00:32:49.85\00:32:52.71
Let's say there's a
refugee group there.
00:32:52.74\00:32:57.37
And let's say they come
from a country that doesn't
00:32:57.64\00:32:59.26
have the Bible,
doesn't know the Lord at all.
00:32:59.29\00:33:01.26
And let's say
there's a 100,000 people.
00:33:01.36\00:33:03.18
That's what some people
estimate was in Jerusalem
00:33:03.21\00:33:05.25
in that area at that time.
00:33:05.28\00:33:06.64
Let's say 200,000 people.
00:33:06.67\00:33:08.27
And we go over there
for three and a half years.
00:33:08.30\00:33:09.98
And let's say we take twelve
of us and we go over there.
00:33:10.01\00:33:12.41
Twelve or thirteen,
whatever, and we go over there.
00:33:12.94\00:33:14.77
And in that time, a
couple of us get killed.
00:33:14.80\00:33:17.23
And they try and
make laws outlawing us,
00:33:17.50\00:33:20.72
and we get persecuted there.
00:33:20.75\00:33:22.47
But in that time, we
baptize 25,000 people.
00:33:24.03\00:33:29.26
I mean, would that be good?
00:33:30.74\00:33:31.95
Has this church
baptized 25,000 people in the
00:33:32.41\00:33:35.02
last three and a half years?
00:33:35.05\00:33:36.32
The whole entire
Florida Conference
00:33:37.62\00:33:39.34
doesn't even come close
to baptizing 25,000 people
00:33:39.91\00:33:43.72
in three and a half years.
00:33:43.82\00:33:45.55
If it did, every
other Conference would be
00:33:45.65\00:33:47.83
coming down here to
find out what we're doing.
00:33:47.86\00:33:49.67
This is a whole Conference.
00:33:50.11\00:33:51.63
With a whole lot
more than 100,000 or
00:33:52.02\00:33:53.96
200,000 people to work with.
00:33:53.99\00:33:56.05
So that's 25% of the people.
00:33:56.84\00:33:59.17
There's very few countries,
if any, that have 25% of the
00:34:00.27\00:34:02.72
people attending services
regularly on a weekly basis.
00:34:02.75\00:34:06.30
Especially during persecution.
00:34:07.57\00:34:09.19
How can we say they
rejected the Messiah?
00:34:10.56\00:34:13.14
25,000 of them.
00:34:14.19\00:34:16.68
Alright, because
you've got 5000 and 3000.
00:34:17.49\00:34:18.97
That's 8000 right
there, plus women and children.
00:34:19.00\00:34:21.12
Alright, so it's easy to
just triple that with the women
00:34:21.45\00:34:23.90
and then one child each.
00:34:23.93\00:34:25.51
You've got 24,000 right there.
00:34:26.06\00:34:28.00
Plus those that
were added daily.
00:34:28.03\00:34:29.53
Acts chapter 6 verse 7...
00:34:33.66\00:34:35.44
A great company, it increased
and multiplied greatly.
00:34:48.94\00:34:53.08
In Jerusalem.
00:34:53.61\00:34:55.20
So we can't even just say,
"Well it was just the leaders."
00:34:56.01\00:34:58.41
Because the
leaders were the Levites.
00:34:58.44\00:34:59.57
It just said the priests, a
great company of the priests.
00:34:59.60\00:35:02.79
A great company
of the priests came.
00:35:02.99\00:35:07.75
And we have Joseph of Arimathea,
00:35:07.78\00:35:09.96
and we have
Nicodemus of the Sanhedrin,
00:35:09.99\00:35:12.06
coming and following the Lord.
00:35:12.49\00:35:14.57
So you can't even
say the leadership.
00:35:17.35\00:35:18.61
Because some of the leadership,
a great company of the
00:35:18.64\00:35:21.35
leadership, came
and joined as well.
00:35:21.38\00:35:24.27
And became believers as well.
00:35:25.20\00:35:27.44
And then, you
know, some people say,
00:35:32.77\00:35:34.05
and I've preached in a
place and right afterwards
00:35:34.08\00:35:36.99
a person came up to me and said,
"Yeah, but you know, Paul says,
00:35:37.02\00:35:38.91
'I wash my hands of you Jews and
now I'm going to the Gentiles.'
00:35:38.94\00:35:42.26
And he's the
apostles to the Gentiles."
00:35:42.29\00:35:44.16
Well that verse, that
quote, is in chapter 13.
00:35:45.20\00:35:48.64
You go just a few verses right
after that to chapter 14 verse 1
00:35:50.95\00:35:54.95
and it says
Paul goes to Iconium.
00:35:55.22\00:35:57.70
Chapter 14 verse 1, Iconium.
00:35:59.69\00:36:01.53
And a great multitude
of Jews came to the faith.
00:36:01.56\00:36:05.26
So in chapter 13,
he worked in that city.
00:36:06.63\00:36:09.92
And he continued working in
that city until everyone had an
00:36:10.23\00:36:12.84
opportunity to hear the message.
00:36:12.87\00:36:14.38
And those that heard the message
and accepted the message,
00:36:14.41\00:36:16.22
and the Bible tells us,
in that city a great number
00:36:16.25\00:36:18.04
came there too of Jewish
people and accepted there also.
00:36:18.07\00:36:21.00
And then when those
who accepted did accept,
00:36:22.08\00:36:23.68
and those who didn't
accept didn't accept,
00:36:23.71\00:36:24.92
he said, "Okay, now I'm done.
00:36:24.95\00:36:25.98
I go to the Jew first
and now I go to the Gentile."
00:36:26.01\00:36:27.66
So he's done going to the Jews,
"Now I'm going to the Gentile."
00:36:27.69\00:36:29.61
That's what he says in
Romans chapter 1 verse 20.
00:36:29.64\00:36:31.75
So to the Jew first,
and then to the Greek.
00:36:32.37\00:36:33.74
And so that's what he
did; he said, "Okay, I'm done.
00:36:34.22\00:36:35.34
I gave you an opportunity,
I've been here a few years
00:36:35.37\00:36:36.79
and I preached to you.
00:36:36.82\00:36:37.85
And now I'm
going to the Greeks."
00:36:37.88\00:36:39.45
And then he finished
there, and then he goes on
00:36:39.99\00:36:41.65
to the next town, and he
does the same thing over again.
00:36:41.68\00:36:43.93
To the Jew first
and then to the Greek.
00:36:43.96\00:36:45.55
It wasn't, "I've washed my
hands forever of you guys."
00:36:46.00\00:36:49.02
Just for that town,
because he finished.
00:36:49.62\00:36:51.47
And then he goes on.
00:36:52.50\00:36:53.53
He actually does that twice.
00:36:53.56\00:36:54.64
It's actually quoted
twice in the book of Acts.
00:36:54.68\00:36:56.30
And also if you just
read a few more verses,
00:36:56.33\00:36:57.63
and it goes and it says
a leader of the synagogue
00:36:57.66\00:37:00.05
comes to the Lord.
00:37:00.08\00:37:01.23
So Jewish people
continuing to come to the Lord
00:37:03.04\00:37:05.66
through that time.
00:37:06.05\00:37:07.08
And then in Acts 17,
it says that they turned
00:37:09.38\00:37:12.20
the world upside down.
00:37:12.23\00:37:13.40
Which world got
turned upside down,
00:37:13.43\00:37:14.76
the Jewish or the Roman world?
00:37:14.79\00:37:16.28
It was the Jews
that were saying it.
00:37:17.24\00:37:18.63
What Roman city had
3000 baptized in a day?
00:37:18.92\00:37:23.16
What Roman city had 5000, plus
women and children, baptized?
00:37:24.61\00:37:28.53
The Bible doesn't
mention any of those.
00:37:29.72\00:37:31.39
Why not?
00:37:31.42\00:37:32.45
Certainly, if there was a
Roman city that 5000 Gentiles
00:37:32.78\00:37:36.00
were baptized in a day, or
3000 plus women and children,
00:37:36.03\00:37:37.96
it would have
mentioned it, right?
00:37:37.99\00:37:39.29
What Jewish city had the
whole city come out to a theatre
00:37:41.13\00:37:44.00
and pack it in there, and
cry out, "Diana, goddess Diana.
00:37:44.03\00:37:48.77
Great is Diana, great
is Diana, great is Diana."
00:37:48.80\00:37:50.78
It wasn't a Jewish
city, it was a Greek city.
00:37:51.36\00:37:53.49
Or it was the Greeks
that were doing that.
00:37:54.38\00:37:55.70
So yes, the Greeks
were coming to the Lord.
00:37:56.64\00:37:58.08
Yes, the Gentiles
were coming to the Lord.
00:37:58.11\00:37:59.59
But the Jews were
coming to the Lord also.
00:37:59.62\00:38:01.61
All throughout.
00:38:01.64\00:38:02.87
Jews were accepting it,
and Jews were rejecting it.
00:38:03.53\00:38:05.61
Gentiles were accepting it,
and Gentiles were rejecting it.
00:38:05.98\00:38:08.44
We get this concept that
Acts is all about the Gentiles.
00:38:09.90\00:38:12.67
And it's not.
00:38:12.70\00:38:13.73
Again, I believe it.
00:38:13.81\00:38:14.84
What, do you think it
was 25% of the Roman world
00:38:14.91\00:38:17.24
that came to the Lord?
00:38:18.07\00:38:19.66
I'd be very surprised.
00:38:19.69\00:38:20.72
Especially not at the time.
00:38:20.75\00:38:22.11
And later on, again, the Caesar
got a little upset with him.
00:38:22.55\00:38:26.00
Now what about the Bereans?
You familiar with the Bereans?
00:38:27.16\00:38:28.72
What are the Bereans known for?
00:38:28.75\00:38:30.04
Being more righteous
than the Thessalonicans
00:38:32.60\00:38:34.58
because they studied the
Word to see for themselves.
00:38:34.61\00:38:36.89
Well who were the Bereans?
00:38:37.16\00:38:38.44
It tells us right there,
Acts chapter 17 verse 10.
00:38:38.96\00:38:40.87
So the Bereans were Jewish.
00:38:46.55\00:38:48.08
That it talks about
that were more noble.
00:38:48.77\00:38:50.54
And not a few Greeks, right?
00:38:50.82\00:38:53.09
And so many of
the Greeks there too.
00:38:55.44\00:38:57.32
Now where were those Greeks?
00:38:57.65\00:38:59.07
In the synagogue.
00:39:01.93\00:39:03.06
In which synagogue?
00:39:03.09\00:39:04.41
The synagogue of the Jews.
00:39:05.68\00:39:07.36
What were the Greeks doing
in the synagogue of the Jews?
00:39:07.39\00:39:09.94
Worshiping the
Lord God of the Jews.
00:39:12.75\00:39:15.72
Now how on earth
did they get there?
00:39:16.18\00:39:17.75
And we get this concept, "Oh
the Jews kept it for themselves.
00:39:18.00\00:39:20.07
They weren't
going and witnessing."
00:39:20.10\00:39:21.31
Well if they weren't going and
witnessing, what were all those
00:39:21.34\00:39:23.10
Gentiles doing
in their synagogue?
00:39:23.13\00:39:25.02
And that's in a lot of cities.
00:39:26.32\00:39:27.42
I only put it in that
verse, but it's over and over
00:39:27.45\00:39:29.32
again throughout Acts.
00:39:29.35\00:39:30.38
He goes to the synagogue,
many of the Jews come,
00:39:30.41\00:39:31.96
and many of the Greeks
that were in the synagogue.
00:39:31.99\00:39:34.06
So they were
converts to Judaism.
00:39:34.86\00:39:37.19
And they accepted as well.
00:39:37.49\00:39:38.85
Actually, the city
of Antioch was Jewish.
00:39:41.81\00:39:46.77
That was a Jewish
congregation initially.
00:39:46.90\00:39:48.87
And where they're called
Christians, they're called
00:39:49.34\00:39:50.75
Christians in Antioch,
at the time they're called
00:39:50.78\00:39:52.53
Christians in
Antioch it was only Jews.
00:39:52.56\00:39:54.88
Paul had not yet began to bring
the message to the Gentiles yet.
00:39:55.17\00:39:58.48
It was only Jews,
and Gentiles who had been
00:39:59.19\00:40:01.23
converted to
Judaism, in Antioch.
00:40:01.26\00:40:04.26
The same thing in Ephesus.
00:40:04.29\00:40:05.68
Ephesus was a
Jewish congregation...
00:40:06.12\00:40:08.12
...initially.
00:40:09.12\00:40:10.27
And Corinth too.
00:40:11.15\00:40:12.35
Corinth, it's in the book
of Acts, he went to Corinth.
00:40:12.38\00:40:14.50
The Jews came, he went to
the synagogue of the Jews.
00:40:14.73\00:40:16.15
And many Jews believed.
00:40:16.18\00:40:17.67
And many did not.
00:40:18.04\00:40:19.51
And many Gentiles
believed, and many did not.
00:40:19.89\00:40:21.74
But they were all
Jewish congregations...
00:40:22.43\00:40:24.37
...initially.
00:40:25.11\00:40:26.14
And they took the
message to the Gentiles.
00:40:26.17\00:40:27.99
And the Gentiles, you
know, they filled up more.
00:40:28.02\00:40:30.24
They now numbered, eventually.
00:40:30.27\00:40:31.54
Acts chapter 21, it says myriads
of Jews came to the Lord.
00:40:32.30\00:40:36.97
That word,
"myriads," is ten thousand.
00:40:37.00\00:40:40.19
So myriads is tens of
thousands coming to the Lord.
00:40:40.22\00:40:45.29
How can we say that
they rejected the Messiah?
00:40:45.65\00:40:49.12
Or that God replaced
them with, "the church."
00:40:50.11\00:40:54.18
With the concept of
the "Gentile" church?
00:40:54.59\00:40:56.73
He didn't replace
Israel with the church.
00:40:57.20\00:41:01.68
He replaced the
system, the national system,
00:41:01.95\00:41:05.26
of Jews and the temple,
and replaced it with Jews.
00:41:07.01\00:41:11.04
The twelve disciples were Jews.
00:41:11.07\00:41:12.10
Paul was Jewish, the
other ones were Jewish.
00:41:12.13\00:41:13.65
Replaced them with Jews.
00:41:13.68\00:41:15.24
And instead of bringing
people, like the Queen of Sheba,
00:41:15.69\00:41:17.87
to the temple, they were
now going out to the world.
00:41:17.90\00:41:23.43
So there was a
shift in missiology.
00:41:23.46\00:41:26.67
But it still
continued, God using the Jews
00:41:27.70\00:41:30.32
to bring it to the world.
00:41:30.35\00:41:31.80
Not a replacing of it.
00:41:32.71\00:41:35.08
So what about in
the last 2000 years?
00:41:36.61\00:41:38.05
How have we done
during the last 2000 years?
00:41:38.08\00:41:39.82
In the last 2000
years of earth's history,
00:41:39.85\00:41:41.58
we have two groups;
we have the Gentiles,
00:41:42.29\00:41:45.50
or the Christians,
right, that are bowing down
00:41:45.53\00:41:49.32
to statues, praying to
saints, reading catechisms,
00:41:49.35\00:41:53.21
breaking the
Sabbath, and eating pork.
00:41:53.24\00:41:55.10
And then we have the
Jews, non-believing Jews,
00:41:56.58\00:41:59.51
worshiping God, praying
to God, reading the Bible,
00:42:00.31\00:42:02.22
keeping the Sabbath,
and eating biblically.
00:42:02.25\00:42:04.22
Where would you go to worship?
00:42:05.41\00:42:06.65
Those are the only
two choices you had.
00:42:06.68\00:42:08.54
Which is basically the
only two choices they had.
00:42:08.57\00:42:10.99
Now I know there were
the Waldensians and others
00:42:11.09\00:42:13.15
in the mountains,
and stuff like that.
00:42:13.18\00:42:14.28
And there was a remnant
there. Yeah, I get that.
00:42:14.31\00:42:16.05
And praise God for them.
00:42:16.08\00:42:17.22
You know, if we're going
to say, "Well look at the
00:42:17.85\00:42:19.01
remnant up there," then
we've also got to remember
00:42:19.04\00:42:20.70
there was a remnant even in
Ahab's time and Jezebel's time.
00:42:20.73\00:42:23.50
7000 who didn't
bow the knee to Baal.
00:42:23.53\00:42:25.64
That works both ways.
00:42:26.02\00:42:27.05
Again, there's always
been believing Gentiles
00:42:27.08\00:42:29.01
from the beginning of time;
Ruth and Gibeonites, and others.
00:42:29.04\00:42:33.85
So there's always
been Gentiles and Jews.
00:42:33.88\00:42:35.65
But then again, there's always
been Jews and Gentiles as well
00:42:36.25\00:42:39.15
throughout the history of time.
00:42:39.82\00:42:41.87
And so during the dark
ages, a thousand years ago,
00:42:42.10\00:42:44.36
and if the Christian church
for 1260 years, the dark ages,
00:42:44.39\00:42:49.43
did evil in the sight
of the Lord for 2000 years,
00:42:50.04\00:42:54.61
and the Jewish time, that
time from Moses to Babylon,
00:42:54.81\00:42:57.63
was 240 bad years
out of 1083 good years,
00:42:57.66\00:43:03.21
if God rejected the Jewish
people, as is commonly taught,
00:43:03.24\00:43:06.63
for the 200 and something
years out of over a thousand,
00:43:06.66\00:43:10.10
then what should He
have done to Christianity
00:43:11.86\00:43:13.87
for over a thousand years of
bad years out of two thousand?
00:43:14.53\00:43:18.47
Yeah, if we're going
to use that reasoning,
00:43:19.09\00:43:20.12
"that's why He rejected,"
that's what I've heard;
00:43:20.15\00:43:21.52
He rejected the Jewish
people because they were so bad.
00:43:21.55\00:43:23.91
But as we're
seeing, that's not the case.
00:43:26.12\00:43:28.15
This affects our
perception of history.
00:43:31.65\00:43:33.92
How we look at things.
00:43:34.82\00:43:35.85
And God even prophesied
that time period, the dark ages,
00:43:35.88\00:43:38.63
where the Jewish people
would still be worshiping,
00:43:38.88\00:43:40.65
even risking their lives,
when the Bible is outlawed.
00:43:40.68\00:43:43.66
Who outlawed the
Bible during the dark ages?
00:43:43.69\00:43:45.84
So called Christians.
00:43:47.36\00:43:48.76
But they're reading the Bible,
they're reading the Torah,
00:43:49.93\00:43:51.48
worshiping God,
keeping the Sabbath.
00:43:51.51\00:43:53.34
The Bible prophesied this
in Hosea chapter 3 verse 4.
00:43:55.13\00:43:58.17
"For the children of
Israel shall abide many days
00:43:58.62\00:44:01.84
without a king and
without a prince..."
00:44:02.16\00:44:05.59
So they don't have a sacrifice.
00:44:14.83\00:44:17.54
So they don't have
the sanctuary service.
00:44:18.21\00:44:20.90
They don't have
a king or a prince;
00:44:21.01\00:44:23.00
neither earthly
leadership or a Messiah Prince.
00:44:23.03\00:44:27.08
But nor do they have an image.
00:44:27.24\00:44:28.87
They're not
worshiping an image either
00:44:29.52\00:44:32.12
during the dark ages.
00:44:32.15\00:44:33.54
And then it says,
then afterwards they would
00:44:33.84\00:44:37.16
seek the Lord their God.
00:44:37.19\00:44:38.73
Verse 5, "And afterwards,
the children of Israel
00:44:39.81\00:44:42.77
shall return and seek the Lord
their God and David their king,
00:44:42.80\00:44:47.37
and shall fear the Lord and His
goodness in the latter days."
00:44:47.62\00:44:53.28
That's talking about now.
00:44:53.94\00:44:55.02
So in the last
days... so he prophesied.
00:44:55.30\00:44:56.92
So there's going to
be this time period where
00:44:56.95\00:44:58.22
they're not going to have
a king, they're not going to
00:44:58.25\00:44:59.30
have a Messiah, they're
not going to have an image.
00:44:59.33\00:45:00.95
And then they're going to,
afterwards, in the latter days,
00:45:02.32\00:45:05.17
they're going to seek God
and seek David their king.
00:45:05.20\00:45:09.87
Who is David their king?
00:45:09.90\00:45:11.18
The Messiah.
00:45:12.45\00:45:13.68
They're going to
seek the Messiah.
00:45:14.04\00:45:15.07
After that time period.
00:45:15.10\00:45:17.12
Well we're after
that time period.
00:45:17.15\00:45:18.95
Now is the time for
them to hear the gospel.
00:45:18.98\00:45:22.59
In Romans chapter 11 verse
25, it a says similar thing.
00:45:24.96\00:45:27.82
It says...
00:45:28.68\00:45:29.93
So it's a mystery, we
don't want to be ignorant.
00:45:41.28\00:45:42.99
God doesn't want us to
be ignorant of this mystery.
00:45:53.30\00:45:56.70
It's hard to understand.
00:45:56.73\00:45:57.76
And that we shouldn't
be wise in our own opinion.
00:45:57.93\00:46:01.64
In other words, haughty,
lifted up, that we're okay,
00:46:01.84\00:46:03.72
"now we're the ones."
00:46:03.75\00:46:04.78
That, blindness in part...
00:46:07.80\00:46:10.01
Not a full blindness.
00:46:10.04\00:46:11.67
Keeping the
Sabbath, keeping the kosher,
00:46:11.70\00:46:13.35
keeping the Bible, reading the
Bible, keeping the Scriptures.
00:46:13.38\00:46:15.82
Worshiping the Lord God, Creator
of the heavens and the earth.
00:46:16.27\00:46:18.85
But in part, blindness.
00:46:19.70\00:46:21.96
Until...
00:46:23.46\00:46:24.75
That means, that in
part blindness is going to
00:46:24.78\00:46:26.73
end eventually.
00:46:26.76\00:46:28.51
Until the fullness of
the Gentiles has come in.
00:46:30.11\00:46:34.69
Very similar to
what Yeshua said.
00:46:34.72\00:46:36.04
Jesus said, "You'll
see Me no more until...
00:46:36.07\00:46:39.86
...you say, 'Blessed are you who
comes in the name of the Lord.'"
00:46:40.56\00:46:42.58
And He also says, Jerusalem will
be tramped under foot until...
00:46:42.61\00:46:46.06
...the fullness of
the Gentiles comes in.
00:46:46.42\00:46:48.25
And so God promising
that it's going to come back
00:46:49.07\00:46:51.47
to the Jewish people.
00:46:51.50\00:46:52.69
We have in part blindness.
00:46:54.32\00:46:56.89
Then the Gentiles, the
message will go to the Gentiles.
00:46:57.87\00:46:59.72
And when the fullness
of the Gentiles comes in,
00:46:59.75\00:47:01.84
when all the Gentiles,
when the gospel has gone
00:47:01.87\00:47:03.22
to all the world, then it
comes back to the Jewish people.
00:47:03.25\00:47:06.11
And they will seek
David their Messiah.
00:47:06.53\00:47:08.93
But if we've been telling them,
"Oh, the Jews rejected Jesus,"
00:47:09.72\00:47:11.88
"The Jews rejected Jesus,"
00:47:11.91\00:47:12.94
"The Jews rejected..."
"The Jews rejected..."
00:47:12.97\00:47:14.48
They're not going to accept it.
00:47:15.49\00:47:16.64
And why, during the
dark ages, did they have that
00:47:17.18\00:47:20.27
partial blindness?
00:47:20.30\00:47:21.49
During the time of
Messiah and Paul, they didn't
00:47:21.59\00:47:23.31
have this partial blindness.
00:47:23.34\00:47:24.46
Why during the
time of the dark ages?
00:47:24.49\00:47:26.69
Well, what was
being presented to them?
00:47:27.24\00:47:28.82
"Oh, here's your Messiah.
00:47:29.32\00:47:30.56
He says to bow down to idols,
break the Sabbath, eat pork."
00:47:30.59\00:47:34.28
They said,
"That's not the Messiah.
00:47:34.31\00:47:36.05
Would God condemn
them for rejecting
00:47:37.72\00:47:39.24
that picture of the Messiah?
00:47:39.27\00:47:40.71
I hope not.
00:47:41.54\00:47:42.64
They rejected a false Messiah
waiting for the true Messiah
00:47:43.24\00:47:48.14
to be revealed to them.
00:47:48.17\00:47:49.62
And when we reveal Him to
them, they will accept it.
00:47:52.28\00:47:56.03
That's what the Bible
said, because "until..."
00:47:57.30\00:47:59.11
And then it comes back to them.
00:47:59.14\00:48:00.56
Only in part.
00:48:01.21\00:48:02.24
And this is in the chapter where
Paul talks about the olive tree.
00:48:02.27\00:48:04.98
Isn't that the chapter where
he says the Jewish branches
00:48:05.25\00:48:07.35
are broken off?
00:48:07.38\00:48:08.66
No, that's the chapter where
it says some of the branches
00:48:09.87\00:48:15.18
were broken off.
00:48:15.21\00:48:16.46
And if only some of the
branches were broken off,
00:48:16.49\00:48:18.43
what does that mean about
the rest of the Jewish branches?
00:48:18.46\00:48:21.30
They stayed on.
00:48:22.04\00:48:23.18
And then it says, and then
you being a wild olive branch
00:48:23.68\00:48:25.56
were grafted into them.
00:48:25.59\00:48:27.39
And then He's able to graft in
back those that were broken off.
00:48:27.88\00:48:32.22
So again, we see the
Jewish stay in, the Gentiles are
00:48:32.25\00:48:34.61
grafted in with and together
with, into the olive tree.
00:48:34.64\00:48:38.55
And then the Jewish
branches brought back in again.
00:48:39.11\00:48:41.10
Just like Hosea,
just like what Paul said.
00:48:41.30\00:48:43.51
That it would go to the Jews and
then would go to the Gentiles,
00:48:44.62\00:48:46.54
and then we come
back to the Jews.
00:48:46.57\00:48:48.11
Because God is
not going to come back
00:48:48.73\00:48:50.87
until His olive tree is full.
00:48:51.44\00:48:53.73
You see, within the next
verses after that, it says,
00:48:54.21\00:48:56.07
and then all
Israel shall be saved.
00:48:56.10\00:48:59.42
And so He can't come
back until we accept that.
00:49:00.34\00:49:04.20
The Jewish people
were not rejected,
00:49:05.41\00:49:07.09
were not rejecting God,
00:49:07.76\00:49:09.69
have a right
conception of history,
00:49:10.56\00:49:12.63
a right conception
of biblical history.
00:49:12.66\00:49:14.46
And then we bring it to
the Gentiles and bring the
00:49:15.69\00:49:17.21
Gentiles in; the
fullness of the Gentiles ends.
00:49:17.24\00:49:18.80
And then bring it
back to the Jewish people.
00:49:19.00\00:49:20.24
But we've got to bring the right
message, the right Messiah,
00:49:20.27\00:49:22.47
with the right history for
them to see it and accept it.
00:49:22.99\00:49:26.56
And then Romans
chapter 11, so has God
00:49:29.05\00:49:31.51
rejected the Jewish people?
00:49:31.54\00:49:32.57
Romans chapter 11 verse
1, Paul says, "I say then,
00:49:32.60\00:49:35.49
has God cast away His people?
00:49:35.52\00:49:38.20
God forbid."
00:49:39.07\00:49:40.63
"God has not cast away
His people which He foreknew."
00:49:41.53\00:49:45.86
That's what the Bible says.
00:49:46.62\00:49:47.98
Then there's a quote from
a book, Great Controversy.
00:49:49.91\00:49:52.04
And I'll need that
on the screen, because I
00:49:52.07\00:49:53.46
don't have it written out here.
00:49:53.49\00:49:54.70
But from the
book, Great Controversy.
00:49:54.73\00:49:56.32
Very interesting quote.
00:49:56.88\00:49:59.31
That's a
misinterpreting of the Bible...
00:50:31.72\00:50:34.47
...that the greater majority of
the Christian church is doing,
00:50:35.54\00:50:40.46
according to that text.
00:50:40.49\00:50:43.73
And so for example, if we
read from Zechariah chapter 8,
00:50:45.27\00:50:49.67
it says that...
00:50:50.91\00:50:52.54
And I'll need
that on the screen too.
00:50:52.58\00:50:54.00
Zechariah chapter 8.
00:50:54.03\00:50:55.76
"...in Jerusalem..."
00:51:03.29\00:51:04.38
Or in the church, if we're
misinterpreting the Scriptures.
00:51:04.41\00:51:06.67
...will grab the
hem of a Gentile man...
00:51:13.93\00:51:16.41
And that is the
popular teaching.
00:51:23.26\00:51:24.93
That is how the majority of
teachings are misinterpreting
00:51:24.96\00:51:27.49
the Scriptures.
00:51:27.52\00:51:28.79
That when it says,
"Jew," you say, "Gentile."
00:51:28.82\00:51:30.64
When it says,
"Jerusalem," you say, "church."
00:51:30.67\00:51:33.19
And Jerusalem has been
replaced with the church.
00:51:33.48\00:51:35.90
Not according,
again, to that book.
00:51:36.34\00:51:37.50
It said that's a
misinterpreting of Scripture.
00:51:37.53\00:51:39.50
So let's read this text again.
00:51:39.53\00:51:40.56
Let's go back a slide and
read it the way it should be
00:51:40.59\00:51:43.30
as it is in the Bible.
00:51:43.33\00:51:44.39
Who is that Jewish man?
00:52:10.70\00:52:12.07
They're grabbing hold
of the hem of his garment.
00:52:13.47\00:52:16.41
That's the Messiah,
that's Yeshua the Messiah.
00:52:16.83\00:52:19.11
That the Gentiles
are going to grab hold.
00:52:19.74\00:52:20.97
Ten men of all
the nations grab hold.
00:52:21.00\00:52:23.68
He's got to be
wearing a tallit then
00:52:24.66\00:52:25.80
for them to be able to do that.
00:52:25.83\00:52:26.86
He's got to be a Jewish
Jesus for them to be able to
00:52:26.89\00:52:29.24
grab hold to the
hem of His garment.
00:52:29.27\00:52:31.33
Again, when we change
how He looks and how He is,
00:52:33.72\00:52:36.77
then we're not
able to recognize Him.
00:52:36.80\00:52:38.16
We change the Bible.
00:52:38.65\00:52:39.88
Are you familiar with Galileo?
00:52:40.68\00:52:42.24
Galileo, you
know, a nice Jewish boy.
00:52:42.92\00:52:44.85
He was a scientist.
00:52:45.42\00:52:47.37
And in his day, it was taught
that if you had two objects
00:52:47.40\00:52:51.93
of different size
and differing weight,
00:52:52.23\00:52:55.50
and you dropped
them at the same time,
00:52:56.19\00:52:58.47
that the heavier
one would fall first.
00:53:00.05\00:53:02.58
It's heavier, bigger, whatever,
it would go down faster.
00:53:02.78\00:53:05.77
That was the common
teaching in his day.
00:53:06.11\00:53:08.14
Galileo comes along and
he says, "No, no, no, no.
00:53:08.41\00:53:11.47
If you have two different things
weighing different amounts,
00:53:11.67\00:53:14.84
the heavier one and
the lighter one will fall
00:53:14.94\00:53:17.05
at the same exact rate."
00:53:17.08\00:53:18.76
They didn't believe him.
00:53:19.22\00:53:20.26
So he took them to a pizza
parlor and went up to the top
00:53:20.46\00:53:24.15
with a little stone
and a big refrigerator.
00:53:24.45\00:53:27.36
I don't know if it was
a refrigerator or what,
00:53:27.70\00:53:28.95
but a big object
and a small object.
00:53:28.98\00:53:30.69
And that's what
caused it to lean, right?
00:53:31.11\00:53:32.66
So you've got the
Leaning Tower of Pisa.
00:53:32.69\00:53:33.76
And he goes up there
with these two objects.
00:53:33.79\00:53:36.49
And he's got some of these other
professors up there with him,
00:53:36.87\00:53:39.42
and he's got other professors
down there watching along.
00:53:39.45\00:53:42.21
And he drops them
at the same time...
00:53:42.24\00:53:44.64
...and they land at
exactly the same time.
00:53:46.51\00:53:50.39
These professors, they go, "Wow.
00:53:51.22\00:53:53.06
I can't believe that.
00:53:53.52\00:53:54.92
That's amazing."
00:53:54.95\00:53:56.35
And then they went
back to their classes
00:53:57.33\00:53:59.65
and they taught the
people that if you have two
00:54:00.60\00:54:02.92
different objects
of differing weights,
00:54:02.95\00:54:04.98
the heavier one will land first.
00:54:05.01\00:54:08.98
They saw it with their
own eyes, they were convinced,
00:54:11.73\00:54:13.87
they believed.
00:54:13.90\00:54:15.09
But then they went
back into their old habit.
00:54:15.12\00:54:18.20
And then we've seen
very plainly here today
00:54:18.98\00:54:20.86
that in the history
of the Jewish people...
00:54:21.28\00:54:22.31
Actually we said,
what did you say it was?
00:54:22.34\00:54:23.45
80% of the time?
00:54:23.48\00:54:24.51
That was the
majority what you said?
00:54:24.54\00:54:25.57
It comes out to 22% of the time
that the Jewish people were bad
00:54:26.50\00:54:31.94
from Moses to Babylon.
00:54:32.14\00:54:35.70
Then again, we
looked at the New Testament
00:54:37.13\00:54:38.53
and they
weren't bad then either.
00:54:38.56\00:54:40.22
And then when we
looked at the dark ages
00:54:40.74\00:54:42.13
in the last 2000
years of history.
00:54:42.16\00:54:43.97
So we've got this conception
00:54:46.18\00:54:47.66
that they were
bad, bad, bad, bad.
00:54:47.69\00:54:49.22
And we read the Bible that way.
00:54:49.25\00:54:50.40
And part of it is because
the way the Bible, again,
00:54:50.43\00:54:51.83
the bad news gets all the press.
00:54:51.86\00:54:53.68
And it says the Jews did this,
and the Jews persecuted this.
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But it was infighting.
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Christianity was
another sect of Judaism.
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So the persecuting
by Paul and of Paul
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was all just
Jews persecuting Jews.
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It was an infight.
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So it was the unbelieving Jews
attacking the believing Jews.
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That's what was going on there.
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But when we read it, sometimes
it just looks that way.
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So our whole mindset has
been, our whole perception
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has been wrong on this.
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And if we've missed that...
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And we've looked at
texts from the Torah,
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we've looked at Judges, we've
looked at 1 Kings, 2 Kings,
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we've looked at the
book of Acts, we've looked at
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Zechariah, we've
looked at Romans.
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We've looked at text from
throughout the whole Bible.
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And if we've missed this
that's scattered all throughout
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the Bible, what else
have we been missing?
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What else have we
been getting wrong?
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And this affects
how we do missiology.
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This affects how we do outreach.
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This affects how we
interact with Jewish people,
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or other people who
love the Jewish people.
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And we're not going to be able
to reach them if we continue.
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There's no other people
group that we talk about every
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single week at services
other than the Jewish people.
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Right?
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They're in the Bible, and
so we're reading the Bible;
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that's what we're talking about.
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And so we've been talking
about them in this wrong way
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for all this time...
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...that it affects where we
put our money into evangelism.
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Are we doing like what
Paul said; to the Jew first?
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Okay, the
fullness of the Gentiles.
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And then when they come
in; then again to be able to
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close off the work, it's got to
come back to the Jewish people.
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But if we've been thinking,
"Well God rejected them
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and replaced them with us,"
well then we're not going to
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have any interest in going
back there and reaching them.
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And then we'll never go home.
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Because it's got to come back.
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That's what Jesus
said and Paul said.
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Then afterward, they
would seek David their king.
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That the blindness
would be until that time.
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And so we need to
reach out to them.
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And so we've had, not
just a paradigm shift here.
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Bigger than that.
This is a paradollar shift.
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I mean, it's
bigger than a "dime".
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Maybe several dollars of
shifting going on here, right?
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I mean, the total shift from
80% bad to really just 20% bad.
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Total opposite.
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And the only way that's going to
change so that we don't go back,
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like Galileo's professor's
there, is to allow God to
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change our heart.
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See, confession with
our mouth takes a moment.
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Bu repentance is a lifetime.
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And then lived out in the life.
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And that takes conversion.
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We need to ask God to
change us and to convert us.
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So let's pray and ask
God to do that right now.
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Our Lord, our God,
King of the universe,
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as we've this here today in
Your Bible, in Your Scriptures,
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change our hearts and
our minds to that we present
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Your Word correctly.
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