Welcome to Faith
Chapel I'm Jeff Zaremsky.
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Today we're gonna be
talking about How bad
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have the Jewish
people been as a nation down
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through history.
Let's start with prayer.
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Our Lord God
King of the Universe,
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speak to our hearts from heaven,
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in Jesus name, amen.
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So, I'm gonna
ask you a question,
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lets start with a
question how bad have
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the Jewish people
been. So what do you think.
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In the history of
the Jewish as a whole how
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often have they
rejected God? Would you say
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50 percent of the
time, would you say
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65 percent of the
time or would you say
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80 percent time. Now if
you're like most audiences
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you are saying 80 percent
of the time, few will say
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65 percent of the
time and maybe one or two
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will 50 percent of
the time, but the vast
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majority will say
80 percent of the time.
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Now we're gonna go
through the scriptures,
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we're gonna look
through the scriptures very
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quickly. So fasten
your seat belt and in case
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of emergency your
seat will double as an
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flotation device.
Alright we're gonna start with
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the tour, we're gonna
look through the books
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of Moses, The
History of Moses and it's
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interesting to find
as you read through it
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that of all the
rebellions that are mentioned
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in the, in the
Deuteronomy and Exodus account
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that only four of all
the rebellions mentioned
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take place in the
last 39 years of that 40
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years wandering
in the wilderness.
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All of the other
rebellions take place in
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the very first year
of coming out of slavery
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after hundreds of
years of being slaves in
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Egypt with no Bible
handy and so there was
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some rebellion in the
beginning quite a bit,
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but most of it takes
place in the first year.
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39 years only four
rebellions recorded.
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Now how is your
last 39 years been.
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If God was recording
your rebellion over the
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last 39 years,
where there only before to
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record, so 39 years
only four rebellions as a
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history is a whole
that's not too bad.
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So then we go to the
book of Joshua and in
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Joshua chapter
24 verse 31 it says,
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And Israel served
the Lord all the days of
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Joshua and all
days of the elders that
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outlived Joshua. So
Israel served the Lord
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all the days of
Joshua and all the days of
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the Israel, of the
leaders that outlived Joshua,
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so about 24 years is
what is usually estimated
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for that time
period. So between the 39 and
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the 24 years only four
mentions of rebellions,
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that's 63 good
years in a row and one bad
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year. So we're
gonna have to get up to 80
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percent, we're gonna
have to pick up the pace
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here on bad years.
But we're coming to the
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book of Judges. Well
Judges that's a horrible,
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horrible time, just
everyone doing what seems
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right in their own
eyes. Well let's look at the
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book of Judges and
let's go to our first text
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Judges chapter 3
verse 8 and it says,
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Therefore the
anger of the Lord was hot
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against Israel, and he
sold them into the hand
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of Cush, Cush,
you wanna try that,
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I don't know, you can
try and pronounce that,
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the King of
Mesopotamia. And the children of
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Israel served this
guy for eight years.
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Okay so we got
eight bad years they're
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serving this, this
foreign King and for eight
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so we got eight bad
years. Let's go on to our
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next text verse 9
and it says, And when the
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children of Israel
cried unto the Lord,
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the Lord raised up a
deliverer of the children
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of Israel who
delivered them, even Othniel
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the son of Caleb.
Caleb's younger brother.
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And the Spirit of
the Lord came upon him,
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and he judged Israel
and went out to war and
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the Lord delivered
this guy King of Mesopotamia
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into their hand, and
his hand prevailed against
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them and the land
had rest forty years.
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So under Caleb's
brother as a ruler he had
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rest, we had peace,
following the Lord for
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forty years. Judges
starts off with eight
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bad years, but
then forty good years.
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As we continue on
in Judges chapter 3
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verse 12, And the
children of Israel did evil
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again in the sight
of the Lord 18 years.
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Verse 15, But when
the children of Israel
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cried out to the
Lord, the Lord raised them
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up a deliverer, Ehud
and the land had rest
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80 years. So 18
bad, so we have 8 bad,
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40 good. 18 bad, 80
good and the children,
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in verse, chapter 4
verse 1, And the children
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of Israel again did
evil in the sight of the
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LORD. And the LORD
sold them into the hand
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of Jabin King
of Canaan 20 years.
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So 20 bad years
and then Deborah arose
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and the land had
rest forty years.
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And so during the
time of Deborah we had
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rest for 40 years,
the prophetess and Judge
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Deborah. Then
going on to chapter 6,
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And the children of
Israel did evil in the
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sight of the Lord: and
the Lord delivered them
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into the hand of
Midian seven years.
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Then chapter 8
verse 34 and we are just
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moving through very
quickly and just hitting
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the highlights. But
the Spirit of the LORD
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came upon Gideon,
and the country was in
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quietness 40 years in
the days of Gideon and
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so what we're seeing is
kind of like your stocks.
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It might say hey I
wouldn't want a stock
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that's going up and
down and up and down
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all the time, but it
might not be too bad if
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I told you that one
of you had a stock that
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had 39 up then 24 up
and then just has eight
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down, but then
goes up again another 40
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and then maybe
goes down 18, but then
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goes 80 and so
there's this up and down,
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but the ups are much
higher than the downs.
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And are more
often then the downs and
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last longer and are
higher then the downs.
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Then you say hey
that's a great stock,
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it's going on up and
yeah, it has some lows,
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but its going up and
that's how the stocks
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work and that's
what we're seeing,
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that was in the book of Judges.
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Now we're not done
with the book of Judges.
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We're gonna go to
Judges chapter 10,
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verses 1 and 2 and
the text says, And after
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Abimelech there
arose to defend Israel Tola
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the son of
Puah, the son of Dodo,
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a man of Issachar,
and he dwelt in Shamir
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in Mount Ephraim.
And he judged the Israel
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twenty and three
years and he died and was
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buried in
Shamir. Now in that text,
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it mentions this
Judge, this Tola the son of
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Puah, the son of
Dodo that he judged Israel
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23 years and then
he dies. It doesn't say
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whether they had
lent at rest, whether he
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did that which was
right in the sight of the
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Lord, whether they
did that which was evil.
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It doesn't say
either or it just says that
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he just reigned 23
years. Can you imagine
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if you reigned over
a whole nation for 23
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years and the only
thing that's recorded is
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that you are the
grandson of Dodo.
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I mean maybe that's,
you know pretty playful,
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but I guess the only
thing worse than that
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is being Dodo
yourself or being the father
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of Dodo, but anyway
that's all that Bible says
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and so that's kind
of just a neutral time.
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Technically probably
if it was bad the Bible
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would have said so,
but its neutral and so we
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just leave that as
neutral. Alright, going
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pass the book of
Judges, we come to the
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time of Eli, Eli ruled
over Israel for 40 years
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basically doing
that which was good
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followed by Samuel for
46 years also basically
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doing that which
was good. And so lets
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look at our totals together now.
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The totals for the
book of Judges during
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plus the time of
Eli and Samuel we have a
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total of a 113 bad
years, 312 good years and
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70 neutral years.
That's pretty amazing to me,
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I mean you know we
were all saying that
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it was gonna be 80
percent of the time was
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bad and already we
are seeing that its only
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about less than 30
percent bad and most of
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the time good. And
all this through the book
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of Judges. Let's go
on and look at the Kings.
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We have King Saul.
King Saul reigned for
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39 years and you
know, we don't know how,
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when he started going
bad. It might had been
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20 years into his
reign, we don't know and,
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but he did do
some that was not good.
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We'll just play that
one neutral just to play
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it safe. David reigns
40 years and of course
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he had some of his
problems, but certainly
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I think I will record
him as having good years
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and Israel doing
good under that time,
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so 40 years.
Solomon comes along and
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Solomon starts off
real good, he had some
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problems, but
then he ends real good,
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so we'll count him
as neutral as well.
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And so during the,
and so far more we all
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know what we've
seen that there are seven
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good years, good
reigning Judges and Kings
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that last 40 years.
40 years in the Bible is
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a generation and so
we have Caleb's brother,
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younger brother
Ehud. Ehud had a double 40
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had 80 good years.
Deborah had 40 good years.
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Gideon had 40
good years. Eli had 40
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good years. David
had 40 good years.
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Solomon had 40
good years, so there's a
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generation of good
years, sevens of them
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and one was a
double. Now Soul only had
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39 years, God only
allowed him to be King
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39 years, God allows
him to die just before
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he reaches that
40th year, that total of
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generation, that
total of goodness because he
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didn't, he rejected,
God gave him that much
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time to repent and
turn and so he gets
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cut off before he
reaches the 40th year.
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So, lets look
through the rest of the book
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of Kings and King
Solomon dies and it's in
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First King chapter
14 and verse 21 and 22
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it talks about:
Rehoboam his son and he
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reigned seventeen
years and Judah did
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evil in the sight
of the Lord, so that
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would be on the bad
side specifically tells
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us they did evil in
the sight of the Lord
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seventeen years.
Now, at this time Israel
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and Judah splits,
there is a civil war and the
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Northern tribes of
Israel never have a good
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King from
thereon, never do any good.
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And so we would
count them as 100 percent
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bad the rest of the
time, but we're gonna
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focus on Judah and
that's where the Jews
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come from,
through the line of Judah.
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Jews come, the
term comes from Judah to
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shorten derivative
of Judah Jews. And, and
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so we're gonna follow
the line of Judah from
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here on out. And so,
chapter 15 verses 2 and 3.
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Abijam reigned over
Judah three years and
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he walked in the
sins of his father.
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So, it's seventeen
bad years and then his
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son three bad
years. And then chapter
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15 verses 10 and 11,
Asa reigned over Judah
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forty and one years
doing that which was
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right in the eyes of
the Lord. So, again we
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see the same
pattern, a few bad years but
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then many good
years, forty one good years.
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Jumping to chapter
22 verses 42 and 43,
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Jehoshaphat reigned
twenty and five years,
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twenty five years
doing that which was right
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in the eyes of the
Lord. Second Kings chapter
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11 verses 1 and 3,
Athaliah, the mother of
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Ahaziah destroyed all her heirs.
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This queen mother
decides that she is going
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to kill all her
children, so that she can be
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the queen and it's a
horrible time and she
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does this and
she reigns six years.
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It's all that God
allows her to reign.
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All the bad Kings
God cuts off very soon,
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very short amount
of time only six years
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and in chapter 12
verses 1 and 2 picks it
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up saying, Joash
reigned forty years,
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as a boy King,
eight -year-old boy King.
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He reigns forty
years and he did that which
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was right in the
side of the Lord.
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And after her it
continues on for a hundred
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and thirty seven
good years in a row after
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that wicked queen.
She only got six years
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and then we go
hundred and thirty seven good
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years. How are
your stocks doing?
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Hundred and thirty
seven up, only six down.
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And that's what
we see happening.
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When we get to
chapter 21 of Second Kings
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verse 1, Menasseh's
talked about and it says
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Mennasseh
reigned fifty five years.
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And he did that
which was evil in the side
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of the Lord. Now,
Menasseh is the only bad
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King. The only bad
King that reigns more than
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twenty years. Most
bad Kings don't even
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make ten years.
While, most of the good
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years are more
than twenty years.
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Most of the bad years
are less than ten years;
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most of the good
years are more than twenty
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years. Now, God
allows Menasseh to have
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fifty five years
because God loves us.
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God loves the
sinners and God's gonna give
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us opportunity
after opportunity after
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opportunity to
accept him. And Menasseh
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eventually does turn
to the Lord at the end
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of his life. That's
why he was allowed to
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reign fifty five
years until he finally gives
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into the Lord.
Otherwise he probably would
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had short under
twenty like all the other bad
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times. So, how
does our picture look,
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how does it look for
the, for the, for the time,
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the total for all
the books of Kings of
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following the,
the, the Kings of Judah,
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how does it look?
Let's take a look at our
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screen here. And,
and we have our totals
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for the Kings, the
time of the Kings Bad time
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118, Good 303, Neutral
79. That almost parallels
00:13:18.07\00:13:28.51
what it was in
judges. Just a hundred or so
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bad, over three
hundred good and 70 something
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neutral. So, again
we're seeing the bad
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years only amount to
the, to about less than
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one third of all the
bad time. And we were
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thinking it was 80
percent. Now, let's look
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at our totals then
from the time of Moses all
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the way to the time
that we're taking captive
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in Babylon. Let's
count up our figures here,
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where does it come
to our totals from Moses
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to Babylon, 232 bad
years, good years 678,
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neutral years are
149, that amounts to only
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232 bad years out
of over a thousand
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years of good years.
Or of, or, or of total
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including neutral
years. So, only 232 that the
00:14:15.65\00:14:18.12
Bible specifically
says was bad years,
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that's only about
25 percent less than 25
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percent of the
time. And again I,
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if I look over my
life I wish I could say the
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only 25 percent was
bad. And so, what we're
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seeing how about
during the time when we
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have the time of
Babylon and, and till the
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time of the Messiah.
We have many good times,
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we have Daniel, we
have Mishael, Hananiah,
00:14:40.97\00:14:44.23
Azariah, that's
their Hebrew names, they're
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known often by
their Babylonian names.
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Then we have also
Esther and Mordecai and
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Nehemiah and Ezra
and, and the coming back
00:14:50.65\00:14:53.28
and the rebuilding of
the second, the building
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of the second
temple. We have Maccabees
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and so we have
many, many good years in
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the time between
the, before the Messiah
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comes. And now
how about the time,
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during the time of
the Messiah? How did the
00:15:04.26\00:15:06.42
Jewish people rate
during the time of Messiah?
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We still haven't
come anywhere close to
00:15:10.35\00:15:11.53
reaching that 80
percent of bad times.
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So, let's see here
during the time of the Messiah.
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Acts chapter 2 verse
31 tells us that three
00:15:16.19\00:15:19.89
thousand Jewish
people became believers
00:15:19.93\00:15:21.91
and were immersed,
were baptized at that time.
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Acts chapter 4 verse 4
says that, five thousand
00:15:25.46\00:15:29.32
Jewish people plus,
actually Jewish men plus
00:15:29.43\00:15:33.28
women and children
became believers in the
00:15:33.31\00:15:36.59
Messiah and Jesus as
the Messiah. And so, five
00:15:36.60\00:15:39.19
thousand plus women
and children, well that's
00:15:39.20\00:15:40.81
got to be at least ten
thousand there plus the
00:15:40.82\00:15:42.88
three thousand
before. And so you're talking
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many thousands. Jules
Isaac in his book Jesus
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and Israel, page
101. He's quoted as saying
00:15:49.31\00:15:52.11
within three and a
half years about 25,000
00:15:52.12\00:15:56.98
Jewish people in and
around Jerusalem believed
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in Jesus as the
Messiah. Twenty five
00:16:01.50\00:16:04.25
thousand, that's a
pretty good number,
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That's a lot of people.
Some estimate that might
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have been a good 25
percent of the population
00:16:08.54\00:16:11.26
at that time that
be a good number today
00:16:11.32\00:16:13.26
to have a city and
around city of 25,000
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believers. Let's go
to Acts chapter 6 verse 7
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and let's, let's
read that one together,
00:16:21.33\00:16:22.53
let's take a look at
that. Acts chapter 7,
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And the word of
God increased; and the
00:16:24.56\00:16:27.19
number of disciples
multiplied in Jerusalem
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greatly; and a great
company of the priests
00:16:31.05\00:16:36.20
were obedient to
the faith. So, we see
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here right there in
Jerusalem and Jewish
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people great
numbers, great multitude in
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Jerusalem, greatly
plus of the priest as well.
00:16:43.50\00:16:46.63
Of the spiritual
leaders of the Jewish people,
00:16:46.87\00:16:49.59
a great company
the text said. A great
00:16:49.75\00:16:52.72
company of the
Jewish priests were obedient
00:16:52.80\00:16:55.77
to the faith became
believers in Jesus as the
00:16:55.82\00:16:57.46
Messiah. In acts
chapter 14, well, sharing this,
00:16:57.47\00:17:03.71
this message one time
at a, at a, at a place
00:17:03.90\00:17:06.35
in a sermon. And
right afterwards a man came
00:17:07.14\00:17:09.16
up to me and he
opened his Bible and pointed
00:17:09.23\00:17:11.43
to Acts chapter 13
verse 46 and he read it
00:17:11.49\00:17:14.20
to me. That it was
necessary for the Word
00:17:14.21\00:17:16.19
of God to be spoken
to you. But seeing you
00:17:16.20\00:17:18.34
put it from you, we
turn to the gentiles.
00:17:18.52\00:17:20.80
And he closed his
Bible and he said, see the
00:17:20.81\00:17:22.77
Jews were rejected,
Paul then turned to the
00:17:22.78\00:17:24.66
gentiles and that was
the end for the Jewish
00:17:24.67\00:17:26.99
people and he
turned away from me and he
00:17:27.11\00:17:28.70
walked away. Now, if
he would have just read,
00:17:28.77\00:17:32.67
just seven verses
later. That was in Antioch.
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And, and the Bible
says that in Antioch there
00:17:36.51\00:17:38.70
were many Jewish
believers, but what had
00:17:38.71\00:17:40.66
happened was
some or maybe even the
00:17:40.67\00:17:43.64
majority of the
Jewish people in that city,
00:17:43.65\00:17:45.51
everyone who had the
opportunity to hear it,
00:17:46.02\00:17:47.80
everyone who
wanted to receive it,
00:17:47.88\00:17:49.34
received it,
everyone who didn't, didn't.
00:17:49.44\00:17:50.78
And Paul said, okay
I'm done here in the
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synagogue. I'm
going to now go to the
00:17:52.34\00:17:53.60
gentiles in this city.
We go just seven verses
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later to chapter,
Acts chapter 14 verse 1 and
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we'll read this
together. Acts chapter 14 verse
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1, And it came to
pass in Iconium, that they
00:18:03.54\00:18:06.90
went both together
into the synagogue of
00:18:06.91\00:18:09.83
the Jews, and so
spake that a great multitude
00:18:09.91\00:18:14.20
both of the Jews and
also of the Greeks believed.
00:18:14.23\00:18:17.69
And so Paul right
after he's done in Antioch,
00:18:18.48\00:18:20.51
and after he had done
taken it to the gentiles,
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he then goes to this
next town, he goes to Iconium
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and he goes into the
synagogue of the Jews
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and he's
preaching again to the Jews,
00:18:28.35\00:18:29.70
so he hasn't now
rejected the Jews and
00:18:29.79\00:18:31.23
cleansed his hands of
the Jews and gone only
00:18:31.50\00:18:33.04
to the gentiles.
He goes back to his,
00:18:33.18\00:18:34.83
his routine of going
to the Jews first and
00:18:35.20\00:18:36.83
then also to the
gentiles. And he shares
00:18:36.92\00:18:38.58
with the Jewish
people there and a great
00:18:38.63\00:18:40.18
multitude of Jewish
people and Greek people
00:18:40.19\00:18:42.48
believed on him there.
In chapter, Acts chapter
00:18:42.79\00:18:46.41
17 verse 6, the
Jewish people said that they,
00:18:46.48\00:18:49.22
they have turned
the world upside down,
00:18:49.23\00:18:51.05
these Jewish
missionaries have turned the
00:18:51.13\00:18:52.76
world upside down.
Paul and Barnabas and Silas
00:18:52.77\00:18:55.53
they've, they've
turned the world upside down.
00:18:55.70\00:18:57.70
Now, they weren't
so concerned about the
00:18:57.84\00:18:59.27
whole gentile world.
They're talking about hey,
00:18:59.28\00:19:00.92
our religious structure,
they turned the Jewish
00:19:01.01\00:19:03.25
world upside down,
Jewish believers are believing
00:19:03.29\00:19:06.40
in him. We look in
Acts chapter 17 verses 10
00:19:06.41\00:19:10.01
and 12. And it talks
about the Bereans and
00:19:10.05\00:19:12.36
maybe you remember
the Bereans they're known
00:19:12.39\00:19:13.87
for being more noble
then the Thessalonikis
00:19:14.00\00:19:17.04
because they
searched the scriptures to see
00:19:17.12\00:19:19.14
if what Paul said was
true. Well, the Bereans were
00:19:19.27\00:19:22.56
Jewish. It says,
he went into Bereans,
00:19:22.60\00:19:24.89
he went into the
synagogue of the Jews
00:19:25.04\00:19:26.68
and many of them
believed. So, the Bereans
00:19:26.96\00:19:29.84
were Jewish
believers, that was searched the
00:19:29.85\00:19:32.79
scriptures to check
and make sure that what
00:19:32.80\00:19:35.29
Paul said was
true and they believed.
00:19:35.33\00:19:37.06
So, we don't see
a massive rejection,
00:19:37.49\00:19:40.36
we see actually in
all the places Jews, Jews,
00:19:40.40\00:19:42.91
Jewish people coming
to the Lord and accepting
00:19:43.01\00:19:44.88
the Messiah even
during the time of the Messiah
00:19:44.89\00:19:47.20
and even after the
time of the Messiah.
00:19:47.44\00:19:50.83
And Paul points this
out in Romans chapter 11
00:19:51.70\00:19:54.27
verse 17, when he
says, if some of the branches
00:19:54.28\00:19:59.29
were broken off, and
you were grafted in among
00:19:59.78\00:20:04.40
them being a wild
olive branch were grafted
00:20:04.50\00:20:06.84
in among them. And
so he says, some were
00:20:06.85\00:20:09.76
broken off, it
doesn't even say many were
00:20:09.90\00:20:11.37
broken off, it doesn't
even say most are broken
00:20:11.38\00:20:12.85
off. Paul says, some
were broken off and then
00:20:12.97\00:20:16.40
the gentiles are
grafted in among them,
00:20:16.58\00:20:19.78
among the Jewish
believers. So, we don't
00:20:19.87\00:20:22.18
see doing away with
the Jews and a bringing
00:20:22.22\00:20:24.19
in of the gentiles
we see a uniting of both
00:20:24.20\00:20:27.57
together and that is
God's plan. So, how would
00:20:27.68\00:20:32.27
we rate this today as
far as missionary success,
00:20:32.33\00:20:35.78
if, if we sent a
missionary, if you went
00:20:36.69\00:20:40.20
or someone went to,
to some place where there
00:20:40.21\00:20:42.24
was no Bibles, they
didn't believe in the Bible
00:20:42.25\00:20:44.54
at all, they're,
they're eating one another and
00:20:44.55\00:20:46.78
doing all kinds of
sins. And you go there
00:20:46.91\00:20:49.07
with your Bible, not
one of them is a Bible
00:20:49.14\00:20:50.48
believer, not one of
them has ever heard of
00:20:50.49\00:20:51.92
God and you go there
with your Bible and you
00:20:52.00\00:20:54.41
start sharing and
preaching and, and, and,
00:20:54.42\00:20:56.65
and services going
on. And you comeback to,
00:20:56.72\00:20:59.18
to the, to the home
country and they ask
00:20:59.38\00:21:01.45
how did it go? And you
say, oh well the leader
00:21:01.53\00:21:03.64
of the tribes there
they, they, they rejected
00:21:03.65\00:21:06.33
it, they tore
down my posters, they,
00:21:06.39\00:21:08.06
they broke up the
meeting continually,
00:21:08.52\00:21:10.23
we had such
problems; they tried to kill me
00:21:10.26\00:21:12.60
a few times, oh it
was miserable. And, and
00:21:12.64\00:21:15.59
the people say, oh
well that's too bad.
00:21:15.65\00:21:17.11
So, yeah they
rejected it all. And they say,
00:21:17.12\00:21:19.25
you say, they say,
well that's too bad, boy did
00:21:19.36\00:21:21.11
anybody believe,
did anybody come to the
00:21:21.12\00:21:23.06
faith at least
even just one story.
00:21:23.19\00:21:24.73
And you say, well
yeah actually about 25
00:21:25.02\00:21:26.91
percent of them
believed. Actually 25,000 of
00:21:27.02\00:21:30.02
them believed.
Actually many of their leaders
00:21:30.03\00:21:32.15
and many of their,
their teachers believed.
00:21:32.16\00:21:34.86
And all within just
a short period of time,
00:21:35.07\00:21:38.40
three and a half
years or about 25 percent.
00:21:38.47\00:21:40.62
Would you call that
a rejection? Would you
00:21:41.57\00:21:43.28
call that a failure or
would you say, hey that
00:21:43.37\00:21:45.47
was a victory, 25
percent of this country,
00:21:45.48\00:21:48.27
of this nation, of
the city are now believers
00:21:48.36\00:21:50.98
that's a victory.
So, that's funny how we
00:21:51.23\00:21:54.19
look at history and
we look at the past.
00:21:54.31\00:21:57.24
So, well how about
in the last 2000 years?
00:21:57.52\00:21:59.01
How are the Jewish
people rated over the
00:21:59.06\00:22:00.89
last 2000 years. Well,
let's look at what choices
00:22:00.90\00:22:04.04
they had after that
early first hundred years
00:22:04.05\00:22:08.15
where the Bible was
being spread and the
00:22:08.22\00:22:09.49
gospel was going
forward. Let's look into the
00:22:09.66\00:22:11.40
dark ages, it really
the last one thousand
00:22:11.48\00:22:13.89
nine hundred years.
Let's take a look at what
00:22:13.92\00:22:15.80
their choices were as
we look at what they had
00:22:15.83\00:22:18.62
to choose from? Where
most of the people and
00:22:18.63\00:22:20.69
the only choice they
had was to possibly bow
00:22:20.70\00:22:23.28
down to a statue.
And so, which would you
00:22:23.31\00:22:25.88
choose, what would
you choose? If this,
00:22:25.90\00:22:27.07
if you were living
let's say a thousand years
00:22:27.31\00:22:28.70
ago, and these are
the choices you have.
00:22:28.78\00:22:30.67
You have to bow
down to a statue, you're
00:22:31.25\00:22:33.05
gonna be a Christian,
you're gonna believe in,
00:22:33.06\00:22:35.13
in, in, in, in, in
Jesus. You are gonna have to
00:22:35.37\00:22:38.33
bow down to a
statue, you're gonna have to
00:22:38.39\00:22:40.16
pray to a saint,
you're gonna have to reject
00:22:40.23\00:22:42.71
the Bible, stop
reading the Bible. Bible is
00:22:42.72\00:22:45.06
outlawed, you can
only read the catechisms
00:22:45.13\00:22:47.87
and you have to
break the Sabbath and you
00:22:48.93\00:22:51.41
have to start
eating pork. You have to do
00:22:51.42\00:22:52.89
those things.
That's your only choice or
00:22:52.90\00:22:55.24
would you choose,
that's your only choice
00:22:55.50\00:22:57.14
or you can
continue to worship God,
00:22:57.42\00:23:01.68
pray to God, the God
of Abraham, Isaac and
00:23:02.99\00:23:04.74
Jacob, pray to the
creator, praying to him,
00:23:04.79\00:23:08.18
continue reading the
Bible even on the pain
00:23:08.40\00:23:10.55
of death, even
though it's outlawed,
00:23:10.57\00:23:13.02
even though many
of your relatives have
00:23:13.16\00:23:14.25
been killed for
doing the very same thing,
00:23:14.27\00:23:15.65
you are reading the
Bible, you are keeping
00:23:15.70\00:23:17.09
the Sabbath and
eating Biblically.
00:23:17.11\00:23:19.44
Which would you
choose? What would you
00:23:20.02\00:23:22.62
choose? Would you
choose to bow down
00:23:22.67\00:23:24.27
to the idol, pray to
the saint, reject the Bible,
00:23:24.29\00:23:28.05
stop reading the
Bible, break the Sabbath and
00:23:28.06\00:23:31.62
start eating pork
and other unclean foods?
00:23:31.64\00:23:33.84
Or would you
continue worshiping God?
00:23:34.12\00:23:36.49
Praying to God and
get they did have the
00:23:37.16\00:23:38.50
New Testament
outlawed. They weren't able
00:23:38.51\00:23:40.25
to read it. Well,
there was the Torah continue
00:23:40.27\00:23:42.46
worshiping God, praying to God,
00:23:42.51\00:23:43.80
even though you're
gonna killed and many
00:23:43.88\00:23:46.77
of them, many of them
did for reading the Bible
00:23:46.78\00:23:48.90
and worshiping God
and praying to God and
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keeping the Sabbath
and eating only those
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things that the Bible
says are appropriate to
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eat. That was
the choices they had.
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And for the last
nineteen hundred years,
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many of the Jewish
people chose to risk and
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die, to follow what the
Bible says. See the only
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picture that they had
of Jesus was a picture of
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him as a law
breaking, Torah breaking,
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Bible annulling, pork
eating, Sabbath breaking
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pagan. And Jew
killing pagan, that was the
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picture that was
presented to them,
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that was the
only choice they had,
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if you want Jesus
this is the Jesus that is
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presented to them.
And that's what they
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were rejecting, they
weren't rejecting the
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Jesus that maybe you
and I know in reading
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the full word of God.
They were rejecting that
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false picture of
Jesus. So how will God judge
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in the end? How
will He judge you,
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what would you have
chosen? How would you
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judge if you were
God judging those people?
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Be careful with
that because as we judge,
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so will we be
judged. In the Book of Romans
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chapter 11 verse 25,
let's read this together.
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For I do not desire
brethren, that you should
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be ignorant of this
mystery. God doesn't
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wants to be
ignorant regarding this.
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Lest we become
wise in our conceits.
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We maybe wise, you
know, would be proud
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and think we know it
all, but that blindness in
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part only partial
blindness happened to
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Israel until the fullness
of the gentiles is coming
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in. Paul says that
there was gonna be a blindness
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in part on partial
blindness, just missing
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that part, but still
keeping the rest of it.
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A blindness in part
until and then after that
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until obviously then
the blinders come off.
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And that's what
happening right now.
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Jewish people are
accepting the messiah
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again because the
blinders have come out,
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because the
fullness of the gentiles are
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coming in. The gospel
is going to the fullness
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the station and the
gospel, when missionaries
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are taking the Bible
and the, and the word
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of God to all the
world. So, the fullness of
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the gentiles and in the
fullness of the message.
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Not just the partial
gospel, but the whole
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gospel, the whole
Bible, not just one third
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and New Testament,
but the whole Bible is
00:25:58.68\00:26:00.50
being presented
until the fullness of the
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gentiles is coming
in. And we're seeing that
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and so blindness, is
blindness had been taken
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away and Jewish
people are coming in.
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In Romans chapter 11
verses 1 and 2 Paul says,
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I see then, Has God
cast away his people?
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God forbid. God has
not cast away His people
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which he for knew,
that's the words of Paul.
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Romans chapter
11 verses 1 and 2.
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In the time of
Galileo, there was the Tower
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of Pisa and they
were teaching at that time
00:26:30.31\00:26:32.38
that if you drop two
weights of, of different,
00:26:32.61\00:26:34.98
two objects of
different weights they would
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fall at different
times. The, the bigger one,
00:26:37.12\00:26:39.01
the heavier one
would fall first.
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Galileo said no they
would fall at the same
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exact rate. And so
to prove his point;
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he went up to the
top of the Tower of Pisa.
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And he, and he pushed
off a little pebble and
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a refrigerator at the
same time, well maybe it
00:26:49.93\00:26:51.81
wasn't a refrigerator,
but a big object and a
00:26:51.85\00:26:53.44
small object, he
pushes them off at the same
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time and all the
other teachers are there,
00:26:55.48\00:26:57.33
some are on top,
some are at the bottom and
00:26:57.36\00:26:59.09
they both fall and
they fall boom at the same
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exact time. They all
see it, all the teachers
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see it. And they all
go back to their students
00:27:04.33\00:27:06.78
and they all go back
and say, if you push two
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weights off
different weights, two objects
00:27:11.18\00:27:12.92
of different
weights, the heavier one is
00:27:12.93\00:27:14.36
gonna fall first. They
saw it with their own eyes,
00:27:14.40\00:27:17.83
but they went back
to teaching what they
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always taught. What
have you always believed,
00:27:20.36\00:27:22.55
what have you always
taught regarding what
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we have just looked
at today. That the Jews
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have been bad 80
percent of the time,
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that they bad over
and over and over again.
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We've seen that there
were only bad about 20
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percent of the
time. And that God has not
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rejected His people.
So, what are you gonna
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do with this, what
are you gonna do when
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you go back and teach
Sunday school or Sabbath
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school or teach your
children. How are we going
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to look at the
Bible from now on?
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We're going to allow
it to impact our lives.
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I pray that as
we've seen this today,
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you will have a deep
impact on how we relate
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to one another and God's mercy
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and His love, God bless you.
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