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>>Welcome to "Sabbath School,"
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brought to you by It Is Written.
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We're glad to have
you back again this week
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as we look at lesson number
four in our study "On Death,
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Dying, and the Future
Hope." This week we're gonna be
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looking at "The
Old Testament Hope."
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What hope is there
in the Old Testament
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in this subject
that we are delving into?
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And to help us understand
an answer to that question
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is our guest again
this week, Dr. Alberto Timm;
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he's an associate director
of the Ellen G. White Estate.
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Alberto, welcome back.
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>>It's an honor for me
to join you every week.
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>>So let's take a look
at this now. Old Testament,
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there's a lot of
stories in the Old Testament,
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and sometimes people
will present this idea
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that there's a lot
of pain and suffering
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and death and terribleness,
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and you've got an angry
God in the Old Testament
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and so forth.
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I don't know that that's
necessarily completely biblical,
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but it's a viewpoint
that is prevailing out there
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in some circles,
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but there is certainly
some death in the Old Testament,
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and there's also some
hope, and we want to try
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to draw some of that out.
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I wanna go over to the book
of Job and read a passage here
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from Job, chapter 19,
to kind of get us started.
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In Job, chapter 19,
starting in verse number 25,
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here's what's recorded.
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It says, "For I know
that my Redeemer lives,
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and He shall stand
at last on the earth;
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and after my skin is
destroyed, this I know,
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that in my
flesh I shall see God,
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whom I shall see for myself,
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and my eyes shall
behold, and not another.
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How my heart yearns within me!"
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It's almost as if Job had
been through a lot of pain
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and was looking
for something better.
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I don't know if that's the
case or not. What do you think?
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>>Actually, I don't
recall any other human being,
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as far as I know, that
has suffered so much as he,
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I mean, as Job has.
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Actually, it was not
only a physical pain--
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because, of course,
he has physical pains--
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but he lost his livestock,
many of his possessions.
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And when you are in a trouble,
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you usually expect some
kind of word of encouragement,
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of support, of comfort.
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But even his
friends went against him.
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And worse than
this, his children died,
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and his own wife was
speaking badly about himself.
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So he was absolutely alone.
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I know some people
that have lost a child,
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and that is very painful.
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You have the hope of
seeing that child growing up,
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and when the child dies or
somebody that you really love,
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a beloved one,
it's very painful.
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But can you
imagine in the case of Job
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with all these
problems going on--
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and each one of us,
as I mentioned before,
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needs a word of support. If
you are alone in this world,
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because nobody is an island,
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if nobody is on your side,
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you are really in
a very bad situation.
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And this is the
context that we see here
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somebody that suffered a lot.
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And then comes a question also,
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and I don't know if you ever
ask this question for yourself,
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but there is the matter
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of why bad people prosper,
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and sometimes good
people who trust the Lord
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are in a very
difficult situation.
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You'll remember that even the
Psalmist almost lost his faith
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till he went into the sanctuary
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and saw the end of
those who are prospering.
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So in this case here, in
the most difficult situation,
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Job said, "No, I think
that I'd better die now,
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and then my soul
will be to go to paradise,
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and so I will be
rejoicing over the..."
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No. He spoke about his hope
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of being a hope of resurrection:
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"In my flesh"--or
in my body as a person,
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as an individual--"I will see
the Lord" when He will appear.
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In other words, you
have a clear reference,
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seeing this passage,
to the body resurrection.
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>>So there's a clear reference
to that, as you mentioned.
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But I wanna come
back and hit on something
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that you touched on, and
you really do an excellent job
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of asking this question at
the end of Sunday's lesson.
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In Sunday's lesson it says,
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How can we learn to trust God
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even amid the
harsh unfairness of life?
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I don't wanna rush
past the story of Job
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without dwelling on
this question for a moment.
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How do we trust God? How
can we trust God when we are,
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maybe we're not going
through the same things
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that Job went through,
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but we're going
through our own trials.
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How do we learn
to trust Him in that?
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>>I think that this is not
just an act; it's a process.
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For instance,
love is not something
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that starts from day to
night or something like that.
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It just jumps in, and you
are starting love. You know,
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love is something that grows,
and you have to nourish it.
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The same thing happens about
trusting God. I have to learn
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to trust God in
my daily experience.
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Simple actions here and there,
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you face a issue
here, another problem there,
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and you trust in God,
and this builds up faith,
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trust, and hope.
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So if you are able to
trust God in the daily life
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based on His word and
with something in mind,
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because sometimes we
believe that God's blessings
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are only if I prosper.
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Not necessarily.
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You remember that even
Paul and some of the apostles
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considered to be a privilege
to suffer for the Lord's cause.
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As He suffered,
they were suffering.
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So I know that
whatever I will be facing
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is something
that God is with me.
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So God never
promised that He would remove
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all the
possibilities of facing a storm.
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But what makes the
difference is that He is with us
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within the storm. So you
should consider something.
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Remember there is a stating,
a little prayer that says,
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"God, help me to remember
that noting will happen today
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that both of us
together cannot handle."
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>>And that should
encourage us, to remember
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that He's there with us. He
goes through the storms with us.
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He doesn't
abandon us in the storms.
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Encouraging words, thank you.
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>>Eric, you could
even ask another question,
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and that would be, why did
Lord allow--I mean, the Lord,
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God--allow Job
to suffer so much?
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Well, I think it
was for his own sake.
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I don't know; only God knows.
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But within the framework
of the cosmic controversy
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that is mentioned at
the beginning of the book,
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it was a witness in favor of God
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and against Satan,
because Satan was saying,
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"Well, You have
blessed him so much.
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He prospers; that's the reason
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why he serves you so faithfully,
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but let's remove the blessings
and see how he will behave."
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So within the great
controversy, that had a meaning.
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And I think that this
story not only happened,
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but also was
recorded in the Bible
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as a way of helping us
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when myself,
you, and whoever else
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is facing the harshness of life.
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>>And God does
include these stories for us
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so that we can get
through the, as you said,
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the harshness of life. There's
another interesting story,
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that is, of course,
recorded in the Bible,
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referenced in the memory
text that we have for this week,
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in Hebrews 11, verses 17 and 19.
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Verse 17 says, "By faith
Abraham, when he was tested,
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offered up Isaac, and he
who had received the promises
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offered up his
only begotten son"--
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verse 19: "concluding that
God was able to raise him up,
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even from the dead,
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from which he also received
him in a figurative sense."
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Now, this is--of
course, we're talking about
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the New--or the Old
Testament in this week,
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but this is a New
Testament reference
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to an Old Testament story.
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So unpack this a
little bit for us.
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>>Actually, if we
read the book of Genesis,
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there is no reference of Abram
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speaking of a
resurrection as such.
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But in reality, we
believe that the New Testament
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is inspired also
by the Holy Spirit.
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So, this is a passage from
the New Testament that confirms
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that concept of a
bodily resurrection
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was not some foreign
idea in the Old Testament.
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We have at least
two examples so far.
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We have Job and Abraham,
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both really having this concept,
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so it's not
something, a later development
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in human history
or biblical history,
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whatever you want to say,
in regard to the resurrection.
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It comes from
the very beginning.
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>>So all the way
back at the very beginning
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in the book of Genesis,
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we have evidence
from the New Testament
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that this concept was there.
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We continue seeing it
through the Old Testament,
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looking now at Psalm
49 and verse number 15,
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which says, "But
God will redeem my soul
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from the power of the
grave, for He shall receive me."
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So here again, we see
this idea of the resurrection,
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of life beyond death.
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>>Yes. That's exactly the case.
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And if you want to consider soul
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as something
separate from the body,
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even in this case the
soul would remain in the grave,
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and only through
resurrection it would come back.
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But in this case, we believe
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that the soul means, really,
the human being, as such,
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and you have another
reference to the resurrection.
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>>Yep, and we
have also in Psalm 71,
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Psalm, chapter 71, or
Psalm 71, verse number 20
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says, "You, who have shown
me great and severe troubles,
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shall [receive]"--pardon
me--"shall revive me again,
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and bring me up again
from the depths of the earth."
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So, couple of
references here from Psalms.
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>>Yeah, this here is
an ambiguous passage,
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is not as clear as the
other ones that we read,
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or that you read, and
we discussed a little bit.
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This one is a
more ambiguous one.
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It can refer to the
resurrection, as such,
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or it can be really he
overcoming deep depression--
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I mean the Psalmist.
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I would say from my perspective,
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and I have some sources
that agree with it as well,
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that a primary
sense of this passage
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would be
overcoming his depression.
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And the secondary sense
would be the physical one,
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if you want to add it too.
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But it's a--at least you have
here a little glimpse into...
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coming out. >>And so,
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and so in the Old Testament,
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we do have these encouraging
words to help us through.
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We're looking at Old Testament
hope in the resurrection
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as we look at "Death,
Dying, and the Future Hope,"
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which incidentally happens to be
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the name of the companion book
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for this quarter's
Sabbath school study.
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If you're enjoying this subject,
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if you wanna learn more
about it, share it with others,
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I wanna encourage
you to pick this book up.
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You can find it
at itiswritten.shop.
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Again, that's itiswritten.shop.
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It goes into greater
detail on the subjects
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that we are looking at.
The name of the book again is
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"On Death, Dying,
and the Future Hope."
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The author is
our guest this week
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and each week this
quarter on "Sabbath School,"
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Dr. Alberto Timm.
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When we come back, we're
going to continue looking
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at stories in the Old Testament
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that help us to understand the
hope that we have even today.
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We're gonna be back in just
a moment. We'll see you then.
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>>Welcome back. We're
gonna continue looking now
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at the hope that we
have in the Old Testament.
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Let's take a look at
the book of Isaiah now,
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Isaiah, chapter 26.
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Alberto, I'm gonna read
a couple of verses here,
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verses 14 and 19.
In verse 14 it says,
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"They are dead,
they will not live."
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Now, that doesn't
sound very encouraging
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if it stopped right
there, but let's keep reading:
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"They are dead,
they will not live;
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they are deceased,
they will not rise.
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Therefore You have
punished and destroyed them,
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and made all
their memory to perish."
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But then in verse number
19, you see a contrast here;
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it says, "Your dead shall live;
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together with my dead
body they shall arise.
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Awake and sing,
you who dwell in dust;
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for your dew is
like the dew of herbs,
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and the earth
shall cast out the dead."
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So, there are the dead,
but then there are those
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who are cast out of the
earth. They are no longer dead.
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>>Yeah, this is a
very significant passage,
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because first of all, in a
negative term, it really says
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that the
unrighteousness, the wicked,
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they have no life, and
even their memory will be gone.
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So I think that this
passage, from the negative side,
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it really speaks
about the end of the life
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and even of the memory of those
who really are not with God,
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the enemies of God. But
then you have the positive side,
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and the positive side is that
there will be a resurrection.
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And in this passage here I
understand to be very meaningful
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for one reason; the passages
that we considered so far,
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they deal more with
individuals like Job,
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the Psalmist, Abraham,
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and so that they
believe that they would live,
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they would be raised
from the dead after they...
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at appropriate time,
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but in this case, now you
have a community being raised,
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so the covenantal
community of those
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who are the children of God.
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And this
community will be raised
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when God will manifest Himself.
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And together with the community,
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Isaiah was
putting himself as well.
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So it broadens the
concept of a resurrection
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from an individual perspective
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now to a broader
communal co-perspective.
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>>So we're
broadening the idea here,
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and I think we might
even be able to broaden it
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just a little bit more as we
continue through this week on,
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on, let's see--what day
is this?--Thursday's lesson.
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You go into Daniel, chapter 12,
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and there's some
interesting things.
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There's actually quite
a few interesting things
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in Daniel, chapter 12 going on,
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but we wanna focus specifically
on the resurrection,
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death and the resurrection.
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But there's also some
other interesting things
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happening here in
Revelation, chapter 12.
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I'm gonna read
verses 1 and 2. >>Daniel.
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>>Pardon me, Daniel,
chapter 12, thank you very much,
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Daniel, chapter
12, verses 1 and 2.
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Revelation 12 is good too.
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You should read
it. (Dr. Timm laughs)
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But we're gonna look at
Daniel, chapter 12 today.
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It says, "And at that
time Michael shall stand up,
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the great prince who stands
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watch over the
sons of your people;
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and there shall
be a time of trouble,
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such as never was
since there was a nation,
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even to that time.
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And at that time your
people shall be delivered,
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every one who is
found written in the book."
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Then verse 2
says, "And many of those
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who sleep in the dust
of the earth shall awake,
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some to everlasting life,
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some to shame and
everlasting contempt."
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So let's deal first
with these resurrections,
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"some to everlasting life"
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and "some to shame
and everlasting contempt."
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It sounds like now this
concept of the resurrection
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is getting broader still.
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>>Yes, because, as
we mentioned before,
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we had
individuals having the hope
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for the resurrection,
and then comes a community.
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And, of course, in
Isaiah the idea would be really
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that the wicked would
not have everlasting life,
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only those who would be
raised, those who were with God.
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But now it becomes
clearer, even this picture.
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So it's an unfolding scenario
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where you have now both
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the righteous and the
unrighteous being raised.
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Of course, once--I mean,
the group of the righteous
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to receive everlasting life
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and then the other group
without everlasting life...
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to be punished.
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So this concept that
is already much in place
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in the book of
Daniel is far more unfolded,
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even more, in the teachings
of Jesus, in the gospels,
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and especially in
the book of Revelation.
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You remember that the
book of Revelation and Daniel,
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that they fit together.
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In other words, many of
the topics or the subjects
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of the book of Revelation
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are something,
they have their roots,
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are rooted in
the book of Daniel.
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>>So ultimately even the wicked
are going to be resurrected,
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and there is, of
course, a purpose for that.
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They're given an opportunity
to acknowledge the fact
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that God is good and that
He gave them every opportunity
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to be saved, and that
ultimately they squandered it,
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which is a sign of a very
loving God, a very caring God,
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and one evidence
that needs to be presented
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before the universe
that God's plan was right
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and the
adversary's plan was wrong.
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But that's a bit of a
diversion on to a much deeper
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and incredible subject. Let's
take another short diversion
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here in Daniel,
chapter 12 and verse number 1.
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It talks about
Michael. Who is Michael here?
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>>Oh, there is a
tendency to identify Michael
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just as an angelic being,
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because the word "archangel"
used elsewhere in the Bible,
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so he would be just a angel.
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But be careful with this
because "the angel of the Lord"
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in some instances
refers to the Lord Himself
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because the word
"angel" means "a messenger,"
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so in this case He
would be the chief messenger.
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But I think that the best way
is to allow the book of Daniel
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to answer this question.
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And you have, for
instance, in Daniel 8:11,
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you have the reference to
"the Prince of the hosts."
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Then you go to
chapter 8, verse 25,
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"the Prince of Princes."
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And then there is a
crucial one in Daniel 9:25,
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"Messiah the Prince." So
when it speaks about the Prince,
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it speaks here about the
Messiah as being a prince.
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And then comes definitely
the passage that you read, Eric.
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And this is chapter 12,
verse 1 that speaks about
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"Michael the Great
Prince." I would not consider
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that there would be
another angelic being
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that would be greater--
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I mean, would be
called a great prince,
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that would be greater
than the Messiah the Prince.
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So then we have
plenty of evidences
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that really, it
applies to Christ Himself,
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and especially for one reason:
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You will see that the
prophet time periods--
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oh, I'd better say, the
prophetic element of Daniel,
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the prophecies,
the visions of Daniel,
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they have always a climax
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with the manifestation
of Christ and His kingdom.
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You have in chapter 2 the
Stone, then you have there
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the Son of Man
you have in chapter 7,
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you have later on in
chapter 8 the Prince,
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and now you have
Michael the Great Prince.
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If you would say that
the climax of chapter 11
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that continues into chapter
12, this would not be Christ,
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then you have to deny
the other ones as well
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because one of the main
characteristics of Daniel
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is the repetition to
amplify the concepts.
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So I think that we have
plenty of evidences to believe
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that this is Christ.
When He will manifest Himself,
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He will then raise
people from the grave.
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>>And you're referencing
a favorite passage of mine,
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and, I think, a favorite
passage of many Christians,
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over in 1 Thessalonians,
chapter 4 in verse number 16.
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In 1 Thessalonians
4, verse 16, it says,
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"For the Lord Himself
will descend from heaven with a
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shout, with the voice of an
archangel, and with the trumpet
00:23:57.90\00:24:01.27
of God. And the dead in
Christ will rise first."
00:24:01.27\00:24:04.47
So here it
references the Lord Himself;
00:24:04.47\00:24:06.51
it talks about the archangel
and the dead in Christ rising.
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Now, just to clarify,
neither you nor I are suggesting
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that Jesus is an angel in
the sense of a created being
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with the wings and so forth,
00:24:16.79\00:24:19.05
but He is
described as an archangel,
00:24:19.05\00:24:22.76
as the the chief of the
host, the head of the angels,
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not a created being,
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correct? >>Exactly.
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And He is the
messenger also of the Godhead.
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He's an absolute God.
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And the one that speaks much
of the revelation of the Bible,
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was done by Christ. He
revealed Himself many times.
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>>Excellent.
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Let's come back to
this idea of who we are,
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the complexity of the human
being and the resurrection,
00:24:50.75\00:24:54.62
and how that all
kind of comes together.
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I wanna look briefly at
Psalm 139, verses 13 and 14.
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And unfortunately we
don't have a lot of time
00:25:00.86\00:25:02.43
to look at this,
but verse 13 says,
00:25:02.43\00:25:05.03
"For You formed my inward parts;
00:25:05.03\00:25:07.04
You covered me
in my mother's womb.
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I will praise You, for I am
fearfully and wonderfully made;
00:25:09.04\00:25:12.87
marvelous are Your works,
00:25:12.87\00:25:14.38
and that my soul
knows very well."
00:25:14.38\00:25:18.41
We are very complex beings,
00:25:18.41\00:25:20.25
and yet God is
able to raise us up.
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>>Well, sorry for the IT people
00:25:24.55\00:25:28.19
that really are so much
fascinated with computers
00:25:28.19\00:25:31.49
and technology
and the cyber world
00:25:31.49\00:25:35.16
and whatever else
you want to add to it,
00:25:35.16\00:25:37.80
but there is no
machine that we have developed
00:25:37.80\00:25:42.10
as human beings that is
as complex as the human body.
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And I am referring
especially to the human brain.
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There are many studies that
have been done in this area,
00:25:51.11\00:25:54.52
scientific ones,
trying to explain what it is.
00:25:54.52\00:25:57.69
And to start with, not even
you can explain what is life.
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We accept it as for granted.
00:26:02.09\00:26:04.99
And so, from my
perspective, at least,
00:26:04.99\00:26:08.30
I believe that it would
be quite something awkward,
00:26:08.30\00:26:12.30
or whatever you want to say,
00:26:12.30\00:26:14.70
to believe that some
complex form of life--
00:26:14.70\00:26:19.71
as you are and as I
am with all the systems
00:26:19.71\00:26:24.31
and whatever you
want to add to it,
00:26:24.31\00:26:26.61
and we don't know
us completely--would be
00:26:27.75\00:26:30.62
just built to
last for a few years.
00:26:30.62\00:26:35.36
I think that
there is something else,
00:26:36.49\00:26:37.96
even from a
existential perspective,
00:26:37.96\00:26:40.86
I think that
human beings are such--
00:26:40.86\00:26:42.96
we are not really made
just to live this life.
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But the hope that is in our,
00:26:47.50\00:26:50.54
that we find in
the Old Testament,
00:26:50.54\00:26:52.51
and as well as in
the New Testament, shows
00:26:52.51\00:26:55.71
how valuably we are created
in God's own image and likeness
00:26:55.71\00:27:00.32
and to live for eternity.
00:27:00.32\00:27:02.92
There is even a
passage that says
00:27:02.92\00:27:04.52
that God "has put
eternity in [our] hearts." So...
00:27:04.52\00:27:09.59
>>So if God has put
eternity in our hearts,
00:27:10.66\00:27:13.06
that means that He wants us
looking forward to eternity.
00:27:13.06\00:27:15.46
And the only way
that we can do that
00:27:15.46\00:27:17.37
is if we have a
relationship with Jesus.
00:27:17.37\00:27:20.04
And I hope that during
the course of these lessons
00:27:20.04\00:27:22.70
that we've been going through,
your relationship with Jesus
00:27:22.70\00:27:25.67
has strengthened and deepened,
00:27:25.67\00:27:28.24
and that you've made a decision
to let Him be your Savior
00:27:28.24\00:27:31.71
and the King of your life.
00:27:31.71\00:27:33.31
If you haven't yet,
well, it's not too late.
00:27:33.31\00:27:36.58
But when we come back,
00:27:36.58\00:27:37.92
we're gonna look
at lesson number 5
00:27:37.92\00:27:39.79
as we continue looking
at this interesting subject,
00:27:39.79\00:27:42.12
"On Death, Dying,
and the Future Hope."
00:27:42.12\00:27:44.99
because that hope lies in Jesus,
00:27:44.99\00:27:48.23
the only One who
can give us hope.
00:27:48.23\00:27:50.00
We'll see you next
time. God bless you.
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(gentle uplifting theme music)
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