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>>GOOD MORNING,
FRIENDS, AND WELCOME AGAIN TO
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SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY
HOUR. A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR
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CHURCH MEMBERS HERE AT
THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND
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THOSE WHO ARE
VISITING, AND ALSO OUR FRIENDS
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WHO ARE WATCHING - AN
EXTENSION OF OUR SABBATH
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SCHOOL CLASS AROUND
THE COUNTRY AND ACROSS THE
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WORLD - A VERY WARM WELCOME TO
YOU. WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH
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THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH IN OUR
LESSON QUARTERLY. TODAY WE FIND
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OURSELVES ON LESSON #12
ENTITLED BACK TO EGYPT .
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BUT BEFORE WE GET INTO
OUR LESSON, I'D LIKE TO TELL
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YOU ABOUT A FREE OFFER
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO
OUR STUDY THIS MORNING, LET'S
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BEGIN BY SINGING SOME
WONDERFUL HYMNS OF PRAISE.
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I'D LIKE TO WELCOME
OUR SINGERS FORWARD.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR
ROSS. AND HELLO AND WELCOME.
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WE'RE GOING TO SING #118
- THE FIRST NOEL - AND WE'RE
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GOING TO SING THE FIRST,
SECOND, FOURTH, AND FIFTH
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VERSES SO WE'RE JUST
ELIMINATING THE THIRD ONE,
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OKAY? #118. (MUSIC)
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>>THE FIRST NOEL
THE ANGEL DID SAY WAS TO
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CERTAIN POOR SHEPHERDS
IN FIELDS AS THEY LAY; IN
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FIELDS WHERE THEY LAY
KEEPING THEIR SHEEP, ON A
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COLD WINTER'S
NIGHT THAT WAS SO DEEP.
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NOEL, NOEL, NOEL, NOEL,
BORN IS THE KING OF ISRAEL.
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THEY LOOKED UP AND SAW A
STAR SHINING IN THE EAST,
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BEYOND THEM FAR, AND
TO THE EARTH IT GAVE GREAT
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LIGHT, AND SO IT
CONTINUED BOTH DAY AND NIGHT.
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NOEL, NOEL, NOEL, NOEL,
BORN IS THE KING OF ISRAEL.
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THIS STAR DREW NIGH TO
THE NORTHWEST, O'ER BETHLEHEM
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IT TOOK ITS REST, AND
THERE IT DID BOTH STOP AND
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STAY, RIGHT OVER THE
PLACE WHERE JESUS LAY.
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NOEL, NOEL, NOEL, NOEL,
BORN IS THE KING OF ISRAEL.
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THEN ENTERED IN THOSE
WISE MEN THREE, FULL REVERENTLY
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UPON THE KNEE, AND
OFFERED THERE, IN HIS PRESENCE,
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THEIR GOLD, AND
MYRRH, AND FRANKINCENSE.
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NOEL, NOEL, NOEL, NOEL,
BORN IS THE KING OF ISRAEL.
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
JOINING WITH US IN SONG.
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AND NOW PASTOR ROSS IS GOING
TO HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER.
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>>I INVITE YOU JUST TO
BOW YOUR HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER IN
HEAVEN, ONCE AGAIN, WE ARE SO
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GRATEFUL TO BE ABLE TO
GATHER TOGETHER IN YOUR
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HOUSE ON THIS THE
SABBATH TO STUDY THE WORD.
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AND LORD, ONCE AGAIN,
WE ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT TO
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COME AND GUIDE OUR
HEARTS AND OUR MINDS.
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
AS WAS MENTIONED JUST A
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LITTLE EARLIER IN
THE PROGRAM TODAY, WE'RE
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LOOKING AT LESSON #12
IN OUR STUDY OF JEREMIAH.
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WE'VE GOT ONE MORE
WEEK'S STUDY IN OUR LESSON
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QUARTERLY ON THE
BOOK OF JEREMIAH.
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THEN WE START A BRAND-NEW
SERIES OF LESSONS CALLED
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REBELLION AND REDEMPTION .
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IT'S ALL ABOUT
THE GREAT CONTROVERSY.
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I KNOW HERE AT THE GRANITE
BAY CHURCH WE'RE TYPICALLY
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THREE WEEKS AHEAD THAN
WHAT IT ACTUALLY SAYS IN
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YOUR LESSON QUARTERLY,
SO NEXT WEEK WE WILL HAVE
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NEXT WEEK'S - OR NEXT
QUARTER'S LESSONS READY
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FOR YOU AND YOU'RE GOING
TO BE ABLE TO PICK UP YOUR
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OWN AND STUDY ALONG WITH US.
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WELL, WITH THAT, I'D
LIKE TO INVITE PASTOR DOUG TO
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COME FORWARD AND HE'LL BE
TEACHING OUR LESSON TODAY.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR
ROSS AND WELCOME, ONCE AGAIN,
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FRIENDS - THOSE WHO
ARE PART OF OUR REGULAR
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SABBATH SCHOOL GROUP,
THESE - THIS IS A HOLIDAY
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WEEKEND AND SO WE HAVE
SOME OF OUR REGULAR FOLK
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MAYBE TRAVELING -
VISITING FAMILY - AND WE
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HAVE SOME WHO ARE VISITING
THAT ARE NOT REGULARS AND
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WE'RE GLAD THAT
YOU'RE HERE WITH US.
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AND THEN, OF COURSE,
WE WANT TO WELCOME THE
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SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS
THAT IS ALL OVER THE WORLD.
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AND THE PEOPLE THAT WE
SEE EVERYWHERE THAT WE GET THE
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LETTERS FROM AND THE
NOTES AND THE E-MAILS AND SO, TO
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OUR EXTENDED CLASS, GREETINGS.
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WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU
CAN JOIN US FOR OUR STUDY
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TODAY AND WE'RE GOING
TO BE DEALING WITH SOME OF
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THE LAST CHAPTERS -
NOT THE LAST - THAT'S NEXT
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WEEK, BUT SOME OF THE
LAST CHAPTERS IN THE STORY OF
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JEREMIAH AND TODAY'S
LESSON IS CALLED BACK TO
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EGYPT AND IT'S GOING TO
BE DEALING WITH THE CHAPTER
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40, VERSE 7 OF
JEREMIAH, THROUGH CHAPTER 44.
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AND SO REALLY, THAT'S
OUR ASSIGNMENT AND I WAS
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TELLING KAREN ON MY
WAY OVER, I SAID, 'THAT'S A
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TOUGH LESSON TODAY.
THERE'S JUST - THERE'S NOT
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A LOT OF ENCOURAGEMENT IN
THE LESSON TODAY - I MEAN,
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WE'LL TRY AND DRAW SOME
OUT, BUT IT'S A RECORD OF
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SORT OF ABYSMAL FAILURE
OF GOD'S PEOPLE AND A LOT OF
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VERY BAD CHOICES THAT
LED TO A RETURN OF CAPTIVITY.
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YOU KNOW, THE EXODUS IS
A WONDERFUL STORY BECAUSE
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THE EXODUS TALKS ABOUT
GOD BRINGING PEOPLE FROM
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SLAVERY TO THE PROMISED LAND.
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WHAT HAPPENS IN OUR STUDY
TODAY IS THE EXODUS IN REVERSE.
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THE PEOPLE GO FROM A
PLACE WHERE THEY'VE GOT THE HOPE
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OF PEACE AND A NEW
BEGINNING AND ALL THESE
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PROMISES OF GOD, IF
THEY'LL STAY IN THE LAND.
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THEY DON'T BELIEVE AND
THEY WANT TO GO BACK TO
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EGYPT AND THEY END UP
BACK IN EGYPT WORSHIPPING FALSE
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GODS. AND SO, YOU CAN SEE
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WHY THAT'S SORT OF A SAD STORY.
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BUT THERE'S SOME
LESSONS THERE AND WARNINGS THERE
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FOR US BECAUSE IT
DIDN'T HAPPEN ALL AT ONCE.
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SO YOU KNOW WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO?
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LET'S DIVE IN AND GO
IN YOUR BIBLES TO JEREMIAH
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CHAPTER 40 AND IT STARTS
- IT STARTS WITH VERSE 7 -
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I'M GOING TO BACK UP TO
VERSE 6 - JEREMIAH CHAPTER
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40, VERSE 6, "THEN
JEREMIAH WENT TO GEDALIAH
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THE SON OF AHIKAM, TO
MIZPAH, AND DWELT WITH HIM
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AMONG THE PEOPLE WHO
WERE LEFT IN THE LAND."
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- NOW, IN CASE YOU
MISSED THE PREVIOUS LESSONS, LET
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ME GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND.
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AFTER REPEATED
WARNINGS AND OPPORTUNITY, THE
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CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
HAD CHASED AWAY ALL THEIR
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PROBATION. THEY
COULD HAVE REPENTED.
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THEY COULD HAVE
SURRENDERED, BUT THEY
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REFUSED - THEY REBELLED.
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME, HE
DESTROYED THE TEMPLE, HE
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DESTROYED THE CITY, HE
CARRIED AWAY MOST OF THE -
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WELL, THOSE HE DID
NOT KILL - A LOT OF THE
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LEADERS WERE
EXECUTED - THOSE WHO WERE NOT
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EXECUTED - ANY OF THE
ARTISANS OR SKILLED PEOPLE
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WERE CARRIED OFF TO
BABYLON, BUT HE LEFT SOME
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OF THE POOREST OF THE
PEOPLE IN THE LAND BECAUSE
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THE PROMISED LAND HAD
SOME GOOD LAND BACK THEN AND
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THEY HAD A LOT OF - A LOT
OF FRUIT AND VINEYARDS AND
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FIG TREES AND DATE
TREES AND - AND SO THE KING,
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ACTUALLY GETS REVENUE FROM THAT.
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SO THE BABYLONIAN
SOLDIERS HAD NOT DESTROYED THE
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FARMS BECAUSE THEY
NEEDED THOSE TO EAT.
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THEY HAD BESIEGED JERUSALEM.
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AND SO THEY LEAVE THE
POOR TO CONTINUE CARING FOR AND
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TENDING THE LAND SO
THAT IT WOULD HELP SUPPLY THE
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KING'S CITY OF BABYLON
AND THEIR SOLDIERS AND SO
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FORTH. AND HE SAID, 'WELL I NEED
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TO HAVE SOMEONE HERE
BE GOVERNOR OVER THE POOR
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PEOPLE THAT REMAINED.'
SO THE KING FOUND ONE MAN HE
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THOUGHT HAD BEEN LOYAL
THAT HE COULD TRUST NAMED
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GEDALIAH AND HE
MADE HIM THE GOVERNOR.
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YOU REMEMBER HOW, WHEN
NEHEMIAH CAME BACK FROM
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PERSIA, HE WAS
MADE THE GOVERNOR?
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BECAUSE THEY'RE
REALLY A VASSAL STATE NOW.
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THEY DON'T HAVE
THEIR OWN FREEDOM.
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SO NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAID,
'ALRIGHT, GEDALIAH, YOU'RE
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IN CHARGE.' AND HE
GIVES HIM AN ALLOWANCE.
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HE LEFT A FEW
CHALDEAN SOLDIERS - BABYLONIAN
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SOLDIERS - THERE AND
THEY WENT TO MIZPAH AND THAT
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WAS GOING TO BE
THE NEW HEADQUARTERS.
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WHY? JERUSALEM'S ALL BLACKENED
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AND SMOLDERING. IT'S DESTROYED.
IT'S VERY DEPRESSING, BUT
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THE TOWN OF MIZPAH,
IT STILL HAD A LITTLE BIT
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OF A FORTIFIED AREA, SO
THEY'RE LIVING THERE AND
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THAT'S FURTHER
NORTH OF JERUSALEM.
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AND SO JEREMIAH SAYS - YOU
REMEMBER THE GUARD, WHEN HE
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SET JEREMIAH FREE, HE
SAID, 'LOOK, HERE'S AN
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ALLOWANCE. YOU WERE FAITHFUL.
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YOU DID NOT REBEL
AGAINST NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
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HERE'S SOME MONEY.
YOU WANT TO GO WITH ME?
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NEBUZARADAN - THE
CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD FOR
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR - HE
SAID, 'YOU WANT TO GO WITH ME
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AND THE CAPTIVES?
WE'LL GO BACK TO BABYLON
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AND I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU
THERE. YOU CAN LIVE COMFORTABLY
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THE REST OF
YOUR DAYS IN BABYLON.
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OR, IF YOU WANT TO STAY
HERE WITH YOUR OWN PEOPLE
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THAT ARE STAYING
BEHIND, YOU CAN STAY WITH THEM.'
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AND JEREMIAH DECIDED
TO STAY WITH HIS PEOPLE.
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NOW I'VE GOT A VERSE
I WANT SOMEONE TO READ.
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DO WE HAVE SOME
OF THOSE HANDED OUT?
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SOMEBODY'S GOING TO HAVE
HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, VERSE 24.
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WHO HAS THAT? >>"BY
FAITH MOSES, WHEN HE
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BECAME OF AGE, REFUSED
TO BE CALLED THE SON OF
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PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER,
CHOOSING RATHER TO SUFFER
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AFFLICTION WITH THE
PEOPLE OF GOD THAN TO ENJOY THE
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PASSING PLEASURES OF
SIN." >>WHY DIDN'T JEREMIAH TAKE
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THE CAPTAIN OF THE
GUARD UP ON HIS OFFER?
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HE SAID, 'GO BACK TO
BABYLON WITH ME AND I'LL
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TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOU
AND YOU'LL HAVE A GOOD PLACE
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IN THE KINGDOM AND
YOU'LL BE FED FROM THE ROYAL
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TABLE AND YOU'LL BE
TAX FREE AND - OR YOU CAN
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STAY WITH THE POOR
PEOPLE - YOUR PEOPLE THAT ARE
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LEFT IN THE LAND.' HE
FORSOOK, LIKE MOSES, THE
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TREASURES OF BABYLON
IN PREFERENCE FOR THE
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SUFFERING OF AFFLICTION
WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD.
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JEREMIAH'S HEART, AS A
PROPHET OF GOD, WAS WITH
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THE PEOPLE OF GOD
SO HE STAYED BEHIND.
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JEREMIAH 40, VERSE 7,
"AND WHEN ALL THE CAPTAINS OF
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THE ARMIES WHO WERE IN
THE FIELDS, THEY AND THEIR
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MEN, HEARD THAT THE
KING OF BABYLON HAD MADE
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GEDALIAH THE SON OF
AHIKAM GOVERNOR" - NOW WHO ARE
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THESE CAPTAINS OF THE ARMIES?
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DON'T LOSE YOUR PLACE THERE,
GO TO CHAPTER 39, VERSE 4.
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AFTER NEBUCHADNEZZAR
SURROUNDS THE CITY - HE'S
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BESIEGED JERUSALEM - HE
FINALLY BREACHES THE CITY
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WALL, THEY MANAGED TO
GET WITHIN THE OUTER WALL -
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ZEDEKIAH REALIZES THE
CITY IS GOING TO BE TAKEN.
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THE LAST NIGHT BEFORE
THEY BREACH THE INNER WALL, HE
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THINKS, 'THIS IS OUR LAST
CHANCE.' THE SOLDIERS SAY,
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'LOOK, WE CAN'T
HELP THE PEOPLE ANYMORE.
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IF WE'RE CONQUERED, ALL
THE SOLDIERS ARE GOING TO
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BE EXECUTED, THAT'S FOR SURE.
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HE MIGHT LET SOME OF THE
POOR PEOPLE LIVE, BUT THE
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SOLDIERS ARE
GOING TO BE EXECUTED.
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AND SO THEY FOUND -
THERE WAS A LITTLE NARROW
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OPENING THAT WASN'T
CAREFULLY GUARDED BY THE
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BABYLONIANS - THE SOLDIERS
BROKE THROUGH AT NIGHT -
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THE BABYLONIAN FORCES
WENT CHARGING THROUGH WITH
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THEIR HORSES, THEY MADE THEIR
WAY DOWN FROM JERUSALEM TOWARDS
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JERICHO AND IN THE
MORNING THE BABYLONIANS HAD HARD
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PURSUIT - THEY WEREN'T
SO MUCH CONCERNED ABOUT
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CATCHING THE
SOLDIERS AS ZEDEKIAH.
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SO NOTICE HERE - VERSE 4
- JEREMIAH 39, "SO IT WAS,
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WHEN ZEDEKIAH THE KING
OF JUDAH AND ALL THE MEN OF
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WAR SAW" - THAT THE
CITY WAS TAKEN, "...THEY FLED
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AND WENT OUT OF THE CITY
BY NIGHT," - HE ABANDONED
00:13:42.75\00:13:45.45
HIS PEOPLE - "BY WAY OF
THE KING'S GARDEN, BY THE
00:13:45.45\00:13:49.52
GATE BETWEEN THE TWO WALLS.
00:13:49.52\00:13:51.39
AND HE WENT OUT
BY WAY OF THE PLAIN."
00:13:51.39\00:13:52.96
- GOING DOWN TOWARDS
JORDAN AND JERICHO - "BUT
00:13:52.96\00:13:55.60
THE CHALDEAN ARMY
PURSUED THEM AND OVERTOOK
00:13:55.60\00:13:58.17
ZEDEKIAH" - NOT ALL
THE SOLDIERS - THE SOLDIERS
00:13:58.17\00:14:00.44
LARGELY SCATTERED FROM
THE KING - "...OVERTOOK
00:14:00.44\00:14:03.87
ZEDEKIAH IN THE
PLAINS OF JERICHO.
00:14:03.87\00:14:05.57
AND WHEN THEY HAD CAPTURED
HIM, THEY BROUGHT HIM UP
00:14:05.57\00:14:08.01
TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR" - AND
THEY EXECUTED JUDGMENT ON
00:14:08.01\00:14:11.01
HIM. SO YOU GO BACK TO CHAPTER
00:14:11.01\00:14:12.35
40, VERSE 7, IT SAYS,
"AND WHEN ALL THE CAPTAINS OF
00:14:12.35\00:14:15.75
THE ARMIES WHO WERE IN
THE FIELDS," - NOW YOU SEE HOW
00:14:15.75\00:14:17.29
THEY WERE IN THE FIELD?
THEY HAD ESCAPED THE CITY.
00:14:17.29\00:14:19.92
SO SOME OF THE
SOLDIERS WERE STILL THERE EVEN
00:14:19.92\00:14:21.49
THOUGH THE PEOPLE
HAD BEEN CARRIED OFF.
00:14:21.49\00:14:23.16
THEY CAME CRAWLING OUT
- WHEN THE BABYLONIAN ARMY
00:14:23.16\00:14:25.16
MARCHED AWAY WITH THE
CAPTIVES TO BABYLON, THE
00:14:25.16\00:14:27.20
SOLDIERS KIND OF -
THEY WALKED OUT AND THEY SAW
00:14:27.20\00:14:30.03
THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR
HAD PUT SOMEBODY ELSE IN
00:14:30.03\00:14:32.73
CHARGE OF THE PEOPLE AND
THAT REALLY RANKLED WITH THEM.
00:14:32.73\00:14:38.97
NOW, IF THEY HAD JUST
SUBMITTED - I MEAN, THEY
00:14:38.97\00:14:41.88
HAD ALREADY BEEN CONQUERED.
00:14:41.88\00:14:42.88
THE CITY WAS DESTROYED.
THE TEMPLE WAS BURNED.
00:14:42.88\00:14:45.35
EVERYTHING
JEREMIAH SAID HAPPENED AND
00:14:45.35\00:14:47.42
NOW JEREMIAH SAID,
'SURRENDER AND YOU'LL LIVE
00:14:47.42\00:14:49.25
IN PEACE.' BUT THEY
DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT.
00:14:49.25\00:14:52.22
SO IT SAYS WHEN THEY CAME
AND THEY SAW THAT GEDALIAH
00:14:52.22\00:14:58.13
HAD THE LAND COMMITTED
TO HIM AND "...MEN, WOMEN,
00:14:58.13\00:15:02.60
CHILDREN, AND THE
POOREST OF THE LAND WHO HAD NOT
00:15:02.60\00:15:04.57
BEEN CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE
TO BABYLON, THEN THEY CAME
00:15:04.57\00:15:07.44
TO GEDALIAH AT MIZPAH -
ISHMAEL" - NOW, YOU KNOW,
00:15:07.44\00:15:12.44
THERE'S ANOTHER
ISHMAEL IN THE BIBLE.
00:15:12.44\00:15:14.04
IT'S THE BROTHER OF ISAAC.
00:15:14.04\00:15:16.04
THIS GUY WAS NAMED AFTER
HIM - "ISHMAEL, THE SON OF
00:15:16.04\00:15:19.25
NETHANIAH, JOHANAN
AND JONATHAN THE SONS OF
00:15:19.25\00:15:22.88
KAREAH, SERAIAH THE SON
OF TANHUMETH, THE SONS OF
00:15:22.88\00:15:26.72
EPHAI THE NETOPHATHITE,
AND JEZANIAH THE SON OF A
00:15:26.72\00:15:32.23
MAACHATHITE, THEY AND THEIR MEN.
00:15:32.23\00:15:36.16
AND GEDALIAH THE SON
OF AHIKAM, THE SON OF
00:15:36.16\00:15:38.10
SHAPHAN, TOOK AN OATH
BEFORE THEM AND THEIR MEN
00:15:38.10\00:15:40.87
SAYING, 'DO NOT BE
AFRAID TO SERVE THE CHALDEANS.
00:15:40.87\00:15:44.37
DWELL IN THE LAND AND
SERVE THE KING OF BABYLON,
00:15:44.37\00:15:46.84
AND IT SHALL BE WELL
WITH YOU.'" - 'WE'VE GOT THE
00:15:46.84\00:15:48.38
WHOLE LAND, THE
SOLDIERS ARE GONE, THERE'S STILL
00:15:48.38\00:15:51.28
FOOD IN THE FIELDS -
"'AS FOR ME, I WILL INDEED
00:15:51.28\00:15:54.88
DWELL AT MIZPAH AND SERVE
THE CHALDEANS WHO COME TO US.
00:15:54.88\00:15:57.62
BUT YOU, GATHER WINE AND
SUMMER FRUIT AND OIL, PUT
00:15:57.62\00:16:00.39
THEM IN YOUR VESSELS,
AND DWELL IN YOUR CITIES THAT
00:16:00.39\00:16:02.19
YOU HAVE TAKEN.' LIKEWISE,
WHEN ALL THE JEWS WHO WERE
00:16:02.19\00:16:04.86
IN MOAB, AMONG THE
AMMONITES, IN EDOM, AND
00:16:04.86\00:16:07.96
WHO WERE IN ALL THE
COUNTRIES, HEARD THAT THE
00:16:07.96\00:16:09.76
KING OF BABYLON HAD LEFT
A REMNANT OF JUDAH, AND THAT
00:16:09.76\00:16:12.37
HE HAD SET OVER
THEM GEDALIAH THE SON OF
00:16:12.37\00:16:14.30
AHIKAM, THE SON OF
SHAPHAN," - THEN ALL THE
00:16:14.30\00:16:16.24
JEWS RETURNED OUT OF ALL
THE PLACES WHERE THEY HAD
00:16:16.24\00:16:19.07
BEEN DRIVEN.
ALRIGHT, JUST TO GIVE YOU
00:16:19.07\00:16:20.48
THE BACKGROUND
AGAIN, WHILE NEBUCHADNEZZAR
00:16:20.48\00:16:23.51
BESIEGED JERUSALEM AND
THEY KNEW HE WAS GOING TO
00:16:23.51\00:16:25.31
TAKE THE LAND, MANY
OF THE JEWS WERE AFRAID.
00:16:25.31\00:16:28.45
THEY FLED TO THE
OUTLYING COUNTRIES - EDOMITES,
00:16:28.45\00:16:31.49
MOABITES, AMMONITES -
IN THE HILLS AND CAVES.
00:16:31.49\00:16:35.32
FINALLY WORD REACHES THEM
- NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAS TAKEN
00:16:35.32\00:16:37.59
THE CAPTIVES - HE AND
HIS SOLDIERS, THEY'RE GONE -
00:16:37.59\00:16:39.76
HE'S MADE A NEW
GOVERNOR OF THE LAND.
00:16:39.76\00:16:41.73
IT LOOKS LIKE
THERE'S GOING TO BE PEACE.
00:16:41.73\00:16:43.77
THEY ALL CAME
CRAWLING FROM EVERYWHERE THEY'D
00:16:43.77\00:16:45.83
BEEN DRIVEN AND
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE CAME POURING
00:16:45.83\00:16:48.07
BACK - EVEN THOUGH THE
CAPTIVES HAD BEEN CARRIED
00:16:48.07\00:16:50.24
AWAY, THEY CAME
POURING BACK INTO THE PROMISED
00:16:50.24\00:16:53.04
LAND - THEN ALL THE JEWS
RETURNED OUT OF ALL PLACES
00:16:53.04\00:16:56.58
WHERE THEY HAD BEEN
DRIVEN," - I'M IN VERSE 12
00:16:56.58\00:16:58.91
- "AND CAME TO THE LAND
OF JUDAH, TO GEDALIAH AT
00:16:58.91\00:17:02.62
MIZPAH, AND GATHERED WINE
AND SUMMER FRUIT IN ABUNDANCE."
00:17:02.62\00:17:08.16
YOU SEE, ALL THESE
FARMS WERE LEFT THERE THAT HAD
00:17:08.16\00:17:12.36
BEEN UNATTENDED
BECAUSE THE PEOPLE HAD BEEN
00:17:12.36\00:17:13.86
CARRIED AWAY - AND
YOU COULD ALMOST PICK WHAT
00:17:13.86\00:17:16.50
HOUSE YOU WANTED TO LIVE IN.
00:17:16.50\00:17:18.17
NOW, YOU KNOW, WHEN
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CAME
00:17:18.17\00:17:20.77
INTO THE PROMISED
LAND, THEY DROVE OUT THE
00:17:20.77\00:17:24.57
CANAANITES WHO HAD BEEN
THERE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
00:17:24.57\00:17:26.98
AND THEY HAD
WELL-ESTABLISHED CITIES
00:17:26.98\00:17:27.98
AND THEY HAD ESTABLISHED
VINEYARDS, AND THEY HAD
00:17:27.98\00:17:29.81
FARMS, AND THEY HAD FIG
TREES AND DATE TREES AND -
00:17:29.81\00:17:31.71
AND JUST PICTURE, FOR A
MOMENT, IF ALL OF A SUDDEN
00:17:31.71\00:17:36.85
EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE
PEOPLE IN THE NORTHERN
00:17:36.85\00:17:39.89
CALIFORNIA AREA JUST
FLED. WEATHER'S NICE.
00:17:39.89\00:17:44.56
EVERYTHING'S FINE. ALL THE, YOU
KNOW, INTERNAL WORKING SYSTEMS
00:17:44.56\00:17:47.23
ARE WORKING BUT
THEY'RE JUST GONE.
00:17:47.23\00:17:48.76
AND YOU GET TO DECIDE
WHAT HOUSE YOU WANT TO LIVE IN
00:17:48.76\00:17:51.70
BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL
EMPTY. WHERE WOULD YOU GO?
00:17:51.70\00:17:54.44
AND SO THEY HAD
THE PICK OF THE LAND.
00:17:54.44\00:17:57.14
SO WHEN THE CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL CAME INTO THE
00:17:57.14\00:17:59.21
PROMISED LAND - THIS IS
WHAT MOSES TOLD THEM - AND
00:17:59.21\00:18:02.81
I FORGET THE VERSE - I
THINK IT'S IN DEUTERONOMY
00:18:02.81\00:18:04.75
- HE SAID, 'BEWARE WHEN
YOU ENTER THE LAND AND YOU
00:18:04.75\00:18:07.38
DRINK FROM WELLS THAT
YOU DID NOT DIG, AND WHEN YOU
00:18:07.38\00:18:10.59
EAT FROM VINEYARDS YOU
DID NOT PLANT, AND WHEN YOU
00:18:10.59\00:18:13.46
EAT FROM ORCHARDS THAT
YOU DID NOT PLANT, AND WHEN
00:18:13.46\00:18:15.92
YOU MOVE INTO HOUSES
THAT YOU DID NOT BUILD, THAT
00:18:15.92\00:18:18.26
WHEN YOU EAT AND YOU
DRINK AND YOU ARE FAT,' - THAT'S
00:18:18.26\00:18:21.06
WHAT HE SAYS - HE SAYS,
'BEWARE, LEST YOU FORGET
00:18:21.06\00:18:25.03
THE LORD THAT GAVE YOU
ALL OF THIS.' SO THEY HAD THIS
00:18:25.03\00:18:28.14
ABUNDANT OPPORTUNITY TO
JUST PICK ALL THESE PLACES
00:18:28.14\00:18:30.51
THAT WERE BUILT - JUST
MOVE IN AND INHABIT IT.
00:18:30.51\00:18:33.17
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS
WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR GOES.
00:18:33.17\00:18:35.71
YOU KNOW WHO'S LEFT
BEHIND? THE POOREST OF THE LAND.
00:18:35.71\00:18:38.08
ALL THE RICH FARMERS
HAVE BEEN CARRIED OFF.
00:18:38.08\00:18:40.62
AND NOW THE POOR PICKERS,
THEY GET TO SAY, 'I GET TO
00:18:40.62\00:18:43.52
LIVE IN THE RANCHER'S HOUSE?
00:18:43.52\00:18:45.45
ALL THIS FOOD THAT'S
GROWING - THAT HAD BEEN
00:18:45.45\00:18:47.56
PLANTED - I NOW
GET TO HARVEST THAT?'
00:18:47.56\00:18:50.46
THEY HAD THE BEST
OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE YEARS
00:18:50.46\00:18:52.73
OF PEACE, BECAUSE THE
BABYLONIAN KINGDOM WAS A
00:18:52.73\00:18:55.33
FAIRLY SECURE KINGDOM.
00:18:55.33\00:18:56.63
IT WAS A WORLD
EMPIRE FOR SEVENTY YEARS.
00:18:56.63\00:18:59.50
BUT THOSE SOLDIERS THAT
CAME OUT OF THE HILLS THAT
00:18:59.50\00:19:04.07
HAD BEEN IN HIDING, WERE ANGRY.
00:19:04.07\00:19:06.11
THEY WERE STILL
MAD AT THE BABYLONIANS.
00:19:06.11\00:19:08.31
THEY DID NOT WANT GEDALIAH
TO BE KING - THEY THOUGHT
00:19:08.31\00:19:10.55
A SON OF DAVID SHOULD
BE KING - AND SO THEY JUST
00:19:10.55\00:19:13.28
HAD THEIR MIND
MADE UP TO REBEL MORE.
00:19:13.28\00:19:16.82
AND THIS IS WHAT -
THIS IS WHAT'S HAPPENING.
00:19:16.82\00:19:23.96
YEAH, GO TO VERSE 13
- THANK YOU - "MOREOVER
00:19:23.96\00:19:26.59
JOHANAN THE SON OF
KAREAH AND ALL THE CAPTAINS OF
00:19:26.59\00:19:28.90
THE FORCES THAT WERE
IN THE FIELDS CAME TO
00:19:28.90\00:19:30.47
GEDALIAH AT MIZPAH,
AND SAID TO HIM, 'DO YOU
00:19:30.47\00:19:33.34
CERTAINLY KNOW THAT
BAALIS THE KING OF THE AMMONITES
00:19:33.34\00:19:36.27
HAS SENT ISHMAEL THE
SON OF NETHANIAH TO MURDER
00:19:36.27\00:19:38.91
YOU?' BUT GEDALIAH THE SON OF
00:19:38.91\00:19:41.71
AHIKAM DID NOT BELIEVE THEM."
00:19:41.71\00:19:43.65
NOW, YOU CAN'T DUCK AND
DODGE AND HIDE AND FLINCH,
00:19:43.65\00:19:47.55
WHEN YOU'RE A
LEADER, AT EVERY THREAT.
00:19:47.55\00:19:49.85
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN
NEHEMIAH WAS TOLD 'YOU
00:19:49.85\00:19:51.82
NEED TO GO HIDE IN
THE TEMPLE BECAUSE THE
00:19:51.82\00:19:54.52
SAMARITANS HAVE HIRED
SOMEONE TO KILL YOU.' AND
00:19:54.52\00:19:57.73
WHAT - DO YOU
REMEMBER WHAT NEHEMIAH SAID?
00:19:57.73\00:19:59.89
'SHOULD SUCH A MAN AS I FLEE?'
00:19:59.89\00:20:02.93
HE SAID, 'I'M THE GOVERNOR.
00:20:02.93\00:20:03.97
I'M NOT GOING TO
HIDE.' AND NOTHING DID HAPPEN.
00:20:03.97\00:20:06.37
IT WAS A FALSE REPORT.
BUT THIS WAS A TRUE REPORT.
00:20:06.37\00:20:09.74
ISHMAEL, WHO WAS IN
LEAGUE WITH THE KING OF THE
00:20:09.74\00:20:13.68
AMMONITES, WHO ALSO
DIDN'T LIKE THE BABYLONIANS, HE
00:20:13.68\00:20:16.88
WAS PLANNING AN ASSASSINATION.
00:20:16.88\00:20:19.85
"THEN JOHANAN THE SON
OF KAREAH SPOKE SECRETLY TO
00:20:19.85\00:20:23.75
GEDALIAH" - AS
GOVERNOR - I'M IN VERSE 15 - "IN
00:20:23.75\00:20:26.62
MIZPAH, SAYING, 'LET ME GO,
PLEASE, AND I WILL KILL ISHMAEL
00:20:26.62\00:20:30.36
THE SON OF NETHANIAH,
AND NO ONE WILL KNOW IT.
00:20:30.36\00:20:33.96
WHY SHOULD HE MURDER
YOU, SO THAT ALL THE JEWS WHO
00:20:33.96\00:20:36.00
ARE GATHERED TO YOU
WOULD BE SCATTERED, AND THE
00:20:36.00\00:20:37.63
REMNANT IN JUDAH
PERISH?'" YOU SEE, GOD
00:20:37.63\00:20:40.24
HAD LEFT A REMNANT.
HAVE YOU STUDIED THE
00:20:40.24\00:20:41.80
SUBJECT OF THE
REMNANT? YOU'VE GOT A REMNANT -
00:20:41.80\00:20:45.94
NOAH'S A REMNANT THAT
SURVIVES WHEN EVERYONE
00:20:45.94\00:20:47.41
ELSE IS DESTROYED.
AND THEN THEY ALL TURN TO
00:20:47.41\00:20:50.35
IDOLATRY - THE TOWER
OF BABEL - AND GOD SAVES
00:20:50.35\00:20:52.35
A REMNANT - ABRAHAM.
IT'S LIKE THE REMAINDER.
00:20:52.35\00:20:56.75
AND HERE, THEY'VE BEEN
CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON,
00:20:56.75\00:20:58.39
BUT GOD LEAVES A
REMNANT AND HE PROMISES TO BLESS
00:20:58.39\00:21:00.66
THEM IF THEY WILL TRUST HIM.
00:21:00.66\00:21:02.86
BUT THIS MAN, WHO WAS A
LOYAL SOLDIER, JOHANAN, HE
00:21:02.86\00:21:08.83
SAYS TO GEDALIAH, 'LOOK,
YOU NEED TO TAKE THIS GUY
00:21:08.83\00:21:12.87
OUT. HE'S A BAD EGG.
HE'S GOING TO DESTROY
00:21:12.87\00:21:14.40
EVERYTHING FOR EVERYBODY.
HE'S GOING TO ASSASSINATE
00:21:14.40\00:21:17.14
YOU AND THEN
WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?
00:21:17.14\00:21:18.44
BECAUSE YOU WERE
CHOSEN BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR?
00:21:18.44\00:21:20.01
IT'LL LOOK LIKE ANOTHER
REBELLION.' AND HE SAID,
00:21:20.01\00:21:22.68
'NO, NO, DON'T
WORRY. I DON'T BELIEVE IT.
00:21:22.68\00:21:24.65
HE WOULD NEVER DO
THAT.' "BUT GEDALIAH THE SON OF
00:21:24.65\00:21:29.42
AHIKAM SAID TO JOHANAN
THE SON OF KAREAH, 'YOU SHALL
00:21:29.42\00:21:32.45
NOT DO THIS THING, FOR
YOU SPEAK FALSELY CONCERNING
00:21:32.45\00:21:34.62
ISHMAEL.'" WELL, NOW
YOU DON'T EVER WANT TO
00:21:34.62\00:21:39.03
RECOMMEND AN ASSASSINATION.
00:21:39.03\00:21:41.26
OR YOU DON'T EVER WANT
TO RECOMMEND THAT KIND OF
00:21:41.26\00:21:44.57
PRE-EMPTIVE ACTION, BUT
YOU KNOW, IF HE HAD GIVEN
00:21:44.57\00:21:46.84
HIM PERMISSION IT
WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD.
00:21:46.84\00:21:49.07
IS THERE EVER A TIME
WHEN A KING NEEDS TO ACT - A
00:21:49.07\00:21:53.51
LEADER NEEDS TO ACT
IN WHAT MAY SEEM LIKE A
00:21:53.51\00:21:55.58
BRUTAL WAY - TO PRESERVE PEACE?
00:21:55.58\00:21:57.75
WHEN SOLOMON CAME INTO
POWER - YOU REALIZE WHAT
00:21:57.75\00:22:00.88
SOLOMON'S NAME -
IT'S RELATED TO THE NAME
00:22:00.88\00:22:02.75
'SHALOM' - AND WHEN HE
CAME INTO POWER, HE KNEW
00:22:02.75\00:22:09.42
HE NEEDED TO DEAL VERY
SEVERELY WITH TWO OR THREE
00:22:09.42\00:22:11.59
PEOPLE. ONE OF
THEM WAS ADONIJAH,
00:22:11.59\00:22:14.96
HIS OLDER BROTHER, WAS
GOING TO TRY AGAIN TO TAKE
00:22:14.96\00:22:16.80
THE THRONE, AND AS
SOON AS HE SAW HIM MAKING
00:22:16.80\00:22:19.73
MOVEMENTS TO TAKE THE
THRONE, SOLOMON DIDN'T
00:22:19.73\00:22:21.54
FOOL AROUND, HE
HAD HIM EXECUTED.
00:22:21.54\00:22:24.27
NOW YOU - I KNOW,
THAT SOUNDS BRUTAL.
00:22:24.27\00:22:25.54
THERE WAS ANOTHER
MAN NAMED SHIMEI WHO HAD
00:22:25.54\00:22:28.78
CURSED DAVID AND SHIMEI
WAS A RING LEADER TO TRY
00:22:28.78\00:22:32.98
AND GIVE THE THRONE
BACK TO THE BENJAMITES - YOU
00:22:32.98\00:22:34.92
REMEMBER SAUL WAS FROM
THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN - SO
00:22:34.92\00:22:36.69
SHIMEI - TALKING ABOUT
DURING THE TIME OF SOLOMON
00:22:36.69\00:22:38.75
- SOLOMON'S YOUNG - AND
HE THINKS, 'LOOK, IF I DON'T
00:22:38.75\00:22:41.89
LET THEM KNOW THAT I'M
IN CHARGE' - AND SO, WHEN
00:22:41.89\00:22:44.09
SHIMEI MISBEHAVED, SOLOMON
EXECUTED HIM. AND THEN HE HAD TO
00:22:44.09\00:22:50.70
SEND ABIATHAR, THE PRIEST -
HE BANISHED HIM - BECAUSE HE
00:22:50.70\00:22:53.87
WAS A PRIEST HE
WOULDN'T EXECUTE HIM.
00:22:53.87\00:22:55.50
WHEN HE DEALT STRONGLY
WITH THOSE THINGS AT THE
00:22:55.50\00:22:58.51
BEGINNING, HE HAD
FORTY YEARS OF PEACE.
00:22:58.51\00:23:01.88
NOW GEDALIAH'S A NEW RULER.
00:23:01.88\00:23:04.45
HE'S BEING TOLD, 'THIS
GUY'S GOING TO CHALLENGE
00:23:04.45\00:23:06.41
YOUR RULE.' IT WAS A
TIME FOR HIM TO DEAL, IN A
00:23:06.41\00:23:08.88
STRONG WAY, WITH A REBELLION.
00:23:08.88\00:23:10.92
HE SHOULD HAVE
LISTENED TO HIS COUNSELORS.
00:23:10.92\00:23:12.09
BUT LISTEN TO WHAT HAPPENED.
00:23:12.09\00:23:13.25
SO WE'RE JUMPING OVER
TO - AND, BY THE WAY, WE'RE
00:23:13.25\00:23:16.12
STILL READING THE SECTION UNDER
SUNDAY, POLITICAL ANARCHY .
00:23:16.12\00:23:20.43
SO WE'RE GOING TO
CHAPTER 41, "NOW IT CAME TO PASS
00:23:20.43\00:23:23.23
IN THE SEVENTH MONTH
THAT ISHMAEL THE SON OF
00:23:23.23\00:23:28.94
NETHANIAH, THE SON OF
ELISHAMA, OF THE ROYAL
00:23:28.94\00:23:32.24
FAMILY" - SO HE WAS FROM
THE ROYAL FAMILY - "AND OF
00:23:32.24\00:23:36.88
THE OFFICERS OF THE
KING, CAME WITH TEN MEN TO
00:23:36.88\00:23:39.51
GEDALIAH THE SON
OF AHIKAM, AT MIZPAH.
00:23:39.51\00:23:43.42
AND THERE THEY ATE
BREAD TOGETHER IN MIZPAH."
00:23:43.42\00:23:45.29
- THEY SAID, 'OH YEAH,
WE'VE COME TO VISIT YOU.
00:23:45.29\00:23:46.45
LET'S HAVE A MEAL.' -
"THEN ISHMAEL THE SON OF
00:23:46.45\00:23:49.39
NETHANIAH, AND THE TEN
MEN WHO WERE WITH HIM, AROSE
00:23:49.39\00:23:52.99
AND STRUCK GEDALIAH THE
SON OF AHIKAM, THE SON OF
00:23:52.99\00:23:55.56
SHAPHAN," - THIS IS THE
GUY WHO WAS THE GOVERNOR
00:23:55.56\00:23:57.33
OF THE LAND -
"...AND KILLED HIM."
00:23:57.33\00:24:00.17
KIND OF LIKE BRUTUS.
YOU REMEMBER THE STORY
00:24:00.17\00:24:03.47
OF HOW JULIUS CAESAR WAS KILLED?
00:24:03.47\00:24:06.24
ALL THE SENATORS
GATHERED AROUND AND THEY ALL
00:24:06.24\00:24:08.91
STABBED HIM.
AND HE HAD THESE TEN
00:24:08.91\00:24:11.01
SOLDIERS - THEY ATE WITH HIM!
00:24:11.01\00:24:13.35
NOW DOES THE BIBLE TALK
ABOUT SOMEONE EATING WITH
00:24:13.35\00:24:15.32
JESUS AND THEN BETRAYING HIM?
00:24:15.32\00:24:17.62
'EVEN MY FRIEND THAT
ATE BREAD WITH ME HAS LIFTED
00:24:17.62\00:24:19.92
UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME.'
WHEN YOU EAT WITH SOMEONE,
00:24:19.92\00:24:22.32
IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THE
SIGN OF A COVENANT OF PEACE.
00:24:22.32\00:24:25.33
AND SO THEY EAT TOGETHER
- 'YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY
00:24:25.33\00:24:26.76
ABOUT US.' - AND
THEN THEY KILL HIM.
00:24:26.76\00:24:29.93
THEY WANTED TO WAIT
UNTIL THEY GOT THE FREE FOOD.
00:24:29.93\00:24:32.17
THAT'S PRETTY BAD. NOW
THAT CAUSED A LOT OF PROBLEMS.
00:24:32.17\00:24:36.17
SO NOW ISHMAEL - AND I
DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE TIME
00:24:36.17\00:24:37.81
TO READ ALL OF THIS -
AND SOME OF THIS IS - IT'S
00:24:37.81\00:24:40.51
JUST A VERY SAD STORY
OF INTRIGUE - HE "...STRUCK
00:24:40.51\00:24:43.45
DOWN" - VERSE 3 - "ALL
THE JEWS WHO WERE WITH HIM,
00:24:43.45\00:24:46.78
THAT IS, WITH GEDALIAH
AT MIZPAH, AND THE CHALDEANS
00:24:46.78\00:24:50.05
WHO WERE FOUND
THERE, THE MEN OF WAR."
00:24:50.05\00:24:51.65
- THERE WERE A FEW
SOLDIERS THAT HAD BEEN
00:24:51.65\00:24:52.82
STATIONED BY
NEBUCHADNEZZAR - NOT MANY
00:24:52.82\00:24:55.32
- "AND IT HAPPENED, ON
THE SECOND DAY AFTER HE HAD
00:24:55.32\00:24:57.59
KILLED GEDALIAH, WHEN AS
YET NO ONE KNEW IT," - AND
00:24:57.59\00:24:59.76
HE GOES ON AND HE TALKS
ABOUT HIM KILLING ANOTHER
00:24:59.76\00:25:01.73
EIGHTY MEN AND
THROWING THEM IN A PIT.
00:25:01.73\00:25:03.37
YOUR LESSON LEAVES THAT
OUT AND I UNDERSTAND WHY.
00:25:03.37\00:25:07.54
IT'S ALL PRETTY SAD.
00:25:07.54\00:25:09.44
AND FINALLY, JOHANAN,
THE ONE WHO HAD STOOD UP FOR
00:25:09.44\00:25:13.88
GEDALIAH, HE GOES WITH
SOME MEN, HE TRACKS DOWN -
00:25:13.88\00:25:17.45
ISHMAEL CAPTURES ALL THE PEOPLE.
00:25:17.45\00:25:19.71
HE SAYS, 'GO WITH ME.'
HE BASICALLY TAKES ALL THESE
00:25:19.71\00:25:21.88
PEOPLE AND SAYS, 'I'M
YOUR NEW KING' - BECAUSE HE'S
00:25:21.88\00:25:25.19
FROM THE ROYAL FAMILY -
'I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU TO
00:25:25.19\00:25:27.29
EGYPT.' AND HE KEEPS -
TAKES ALL THE PEOPLE BY
00:25:27.29\00:25:29.86
BRUTE FORCE AND HE
STARTS TO CARRY THEM TOWARDS THE
00:25:29.86\00:25:32.89
AMMONITES BUT JOHANAN, HE
GOES AND HE RESCUES THEM -
00:25:32.89\00:25:37.90
AND THAT'S VERSE 11 -
"BUT WHEN JOHANAN THE SON OF
00:25:37.90\00:25:41.04
KAREAH AND ALL THE
CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES
00:25:41.04\00:25:42.90
THAT WERE WITH HIM
HEARD OF ALL THE EVIL THAT
00:25:42.90\00:25:44.87
ISHMAEL THE SON OF
NETHANIAH HAD DONE, THEY
00:25:44.87\00:25:47.34
TOOK ALL THE MEN AND
WENT TO FIGHT WITH ISHMAEL THE
00:25:47.34\00:25:49.54
SON OF NETHANIAH;" - BY
THE WAY, THAT'S JEREMIAH
00:25:49.54\00:25:52.28
41:11 AND 12 -
"AND THEY FOUND HIM BY
00:25:52.28\00:25:55.32
THE GREAT POOL
THAT IS IN GIBEON."
00:25:55.32\00:25:56.95
- THE GREAT WATERS OF
GIBEON - "SO IT WAS, WHEN
00:25:56.95\00:25:59.49
ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WERE
WITH ISHMAEL SAW JOHANAN
00:25:59.49\00:26:02.02
THE SON OF KAREAH, AND
ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES
00:26:02.02\00:26:04.43
WHO WERE WITH HIM,
THAT THEY WERE GLAD."
00:26:04.43\00:26:06.33
- HE'D COME TO RESCUE THEM.
00:26:06.33\00:26:08.30
SO ISHMAEL AND SEVERAL
OF THE SOLDIERS FIGHT AND HE
00:26:08.30\00:26:11.20
MANAGES TO
ESCAPE WITH EIGHT MEN.
00:26:11.20\00:26:12.87
HE GOES UP TO THE
KING OF THE AMMONITES.
00:26:12.87\00:26:14.80
NOW THE KING OF AMMON
- THEY WERE ENEMIES EVEN
00:26:14.80\00:26:18.04
JUST A FEW CHAPTERS
BEFORE - THEY WERE ENEMIES OF
00:26:18.04\00:26:19.94
ISRAEL - SO WHAT HE'S DOING,
IT SEEMS REALLY TREACHEROUS.
00:26:19.94\00:26:23.91
SO NOW THEY
DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
00:26:23.91\00:26:27.65
I'M JUST GOING TO TRY
AND GIVE YOU - OH, SOMEONE'S
00:26:27.65\00:26:29.52
GOING TO READ FOR ME
ECCLESIASTES 9:18, IN JUST
00:26:29.52\00:26:33.42
A MOMENT.
WHENEVER THEY'RE READY,
00:26:33.42\00:26:34.52
YOU LET ME KNOW. NOW
THEY'VE GOT TO FIGURE
00:26:34.52\00:26:36.29
OUT WHAT TO DO
BECAUSE NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD
00:26:36.29\00:26:39.36
EXTRACTED ANOTHER VOW
FROM THE PEOPLE: 'YOU SERVE
00:26:39.36\00:26:43.20
ME, YOU WILL HAVE
PEACE. I'LL PROTECT YOU.
00:26:43.20\00:26:46.23
YOU'RE GOING TO BE A
PROVINCE OF BABYLON NOW,
00:26:46.23\00:26:47.77
BUT YOU'LL GET TO
LIVE IN YOUR OWN LAND.
00:26:47.77\00:26:49.94
YOU CAN WORSHIP YOUR
OWN GOD AND GEDALIAH WILL BE
00:26:49.94\00:26:54.51
YOUR GOVERNOR AND
HERE'S THE RULES.' AND THEY ALL
00:26:54.51\00:26:56.88
SAID, 'OKAY. ALL THE KING HAS
SAID WE WILL DO.' BUT NOW THEY
00:26:56.88\00:27:00.82
KILLED THE KING'S GOVERNOR.
SO WHEN YOU KILL THE ONE
00:27:00.82\00:27:03.49
APPOINTED BY THE KING AS
GOVERNOR, IT'S AN ATTACK,
00:27:03.49\00:27:05.72
AGAIN, ON THE GOVERNMENT
THAT THE KING HAD JUST SET UP.
00:27:05.72\00:27:08.26
NOW THE PEOPLE SAY, 'WHAT WILL
WE DO? ISHMAEL KILLED GEDALIAH.
00:27:08.26\00:27:11.93
EVEN THOUGH WE DIDN'T
WANT HIM TO DO IT, WE'RE GOING
00:27:11.93\00:27:13.90
TO HAVE TO RUN
FOR OUR LIVES BECAUSE
00:27:13.90\00:27:15.73
NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S
COMING BACK AGAIN.' AND THIS
00:27:15.73\00:27:17.70
WOULD BE THE THIRD OR
FOURTH TIME THE KING OF
00:27:17.70\00:27:19.93
BABYLON HAD COME
TO PUNISH ISRAEL.
00:27:19.93\00:27:22.47
GO AHEAD, READ
ECCLESIASTES 9:18.
00:27:22.47\00:27:25.84
>>"WISDOM IS BETTER
THAN WEAPONS OF WAR; BUT ONE
00:27:25.84\00:27:29.81
SINNER DESTROYS MUCH GOOD."
00:27:29.81\00:27:32.38
>>CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW
SAD THE POOR PEOPLE WERE?
00:27:32.38\00:27:36.89
HERE THEY FINALLY HAD
A CHANCE FOR PEACE, THEY
00:27:36.89\00:27:40.29
GATHERED FOOD IN ABUNDANCE.
00:27:40.29\00:27:42.32
GEDALIAH SAID, 'FILL
ALL YOUR VESSELS.' - THEY
00:27:42.32\00:27:44.26
COULD HAVE STORED
UP FOOD LIKE JOSEPH.
00:27:44.26\00:27:45.79
THERE WAS A SUCH AN
ABUNDANCE COMPARED TO WHAT
00:27:45.79\00:27:47.03
THEY NEEDED BECAUSE
THERE WEREN'T NEAR AS MANY
00:27:47.03\00:27:49.13
PEOPLE AS THERE WERE FARMS.
00:27:49.13\00:27:51.23
AND THEY COULD HAVE
MOVED INTO THE BEST HOUSES IN
00:27:51.23\00:27:54.47
THE COUNTRY. AND
THESE PEOPLE WERE
00:27:54.47\00:27:56.74
GETTING READY TO ENJOY LIFE
LIKE THEY'D NEVER HAD IT BEFORE.
00:27:56.74\00:28:01.24
AND THIS ANGRY CAPTAIN
AND TEN MEN RUIN EVERYTHING -
00:28:01.24\00:28:07.05
'ONE SINNER DESTROYS MUCH
GOOD.' AND BECAUSE OF WHAT
00:28:07.05\00:28:11.15
HE HAD DONE NOW THEY'RE AFRAID
AGAIN AND THEY - INSTEAD OF
00:28:11.15\00:28:13.12
LIVING IN PEACE
THEY'RE LIVING IN FEAR AND THEY
00:28:13.12\00:28:15.12
THINK THEY'VE GOT
TO RUN TO EGYPT BECAUSE
00:28:15.12\00:28:17.06
IT'S THE ONLY
COUNTRY THAT WAS STILL -
00:28:17.06\00:28:18.86
HAD RESISTED
NEBUCHADNEZZAR SO FAR.
00:28:18.86\00:28:21.50
AND SO THAT'S WHERE WE
FIND OURSELVES WHEN WE GO
00:28:21.50\00:28:26.07
INTO CHAPTER 42. SO
JUMP TO CHAPTER 42 AND
00:28:26.07\00:28:30.24
WE'LL READ THE FIRST
FEW VERSES HERE AND GIVE YOU
00:28:30.24\00:28:32.51
A PICTURE OF WHAT'S GOING ON.
00:28:32.51\00:28:33.81
SEEKING DIVINE
GUIDANCE IS THIS SECTION.
00:28:33.81\00:28:36.78
"NOW ALL THE CAPTAINS
OF THE FORCES, JOHANAN THE
00:28:36.78\00:28:40.62
SON OF KAREAH, JEZANIAH
THE SON OF HOSHAIAH, AND
00:28:40.62\00:28:44.89
ALL THE PEOPLE, FROM
THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST,
00:28:44.89\00:28:47.12
CAME NEAR AND SAID TO
JEREMIAH THE PROPHET," -
00:28:47.12\00:28:49.52
OH, WAIT A SECOND, I WANT
YOU TO NOTICE WHERE THEY ARE.
00:28:49.52\00:28:52.79
IF YOU GO TO VERSE 17 -
IF YOU'RE STILL IN YOUR BIBLE
00:28:52.79\00:28:55.76
- CHAPTER 41, VERSE 17 -
THEY LEFT MIZPAH AND THEY
00:28:55.76\00:28:59.27
DEPARTED AND THEY WENT
"...IN THE HABITATION OF
00:28:59.27\00:29:02.67
CHIMHAM, WHICH IS NEAR
BETHLEHEM...ON THEIR WAY
00:29:02.67\00:29:06.71
TO EGYPT. THEY ARE
HEADING BACK TOWARD EGYPT.
00:29:06.71\00:29:10.15
NOW WHAT THEY'RE AFRAID
OF - I ALMOST WISH I HAD A
00:29:10.15\00:29:11.71
BIG MAP - MIZPAH'S FURTHER
NORTH - MIZPAH IS KIND OF
00:29:11.71\00:29:16.15
MORE DOWN IN A VALLEY
- GREAT FARMING AREA -
00:29:16.15\00:29:18.92
THAT'S WHERE THE CAPITAL WAS.
00:29:18.92\00:29:20.32
WHEN JOHANAN CAME TO
RESCUE THE PEOPLE FROM
00:29:20.32\00:29:24.83
ISHMAEL, THEY WERE
HEADING TOWARDS JERUSALEM.
00:29:24.83\00:29:27.56
THEY KILLED
SOME OF THE SOLDIERS.
00:29:27.56\00:29:29.43
ISHMAEL ESCAPED TO THE
AMMONITES AND NOW HE'S GOT
00:29:29.43\00:29:31.30
THIS BIG CROWD OF POOR
PEOPLE THAT ARE LEFT IN
00:29:31.30\00:29:33.30
THE LAND - SOME SOLDIERS -
AND THEY GO, 'NOW WHAT DO WE DO?
00:29:33.30\00:29:37.44
IF WE GO BACK TO
MIZPAH, ISHMAEL HAS KILLED
00:29:37.44\00:29:40.11
BABYLONIAN SOLDIERS.
HE KILLED THE PEOPLE THAT
00:29:40.11\00:29:44.31
WERE CHALDEANS - THESE
ARE FROM THE ROYAL CASTE.
00:29:44.31\00:29:47.28
YOU'VE HEARD
THE TERM BABYLONIAN,
00:29:47.28\00:29:48.78
YOU'VE HEARD THE TERM CHALDEAN?
00:29:48.78\00:29:50.02
CHALDEAN WERE THE HIGHEST
CASTE OF THE BABYLONIANS.
00:29:50.02\00:29:53.19
THEY WERE, LIKE, OF THE
PRIESTS OF THE RELIGIOUS
00:29:53.19\00:29:55.22
ORDER. EVEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR
WAS FROM THAT ORDER.
00:29:55.22\00:29:58.26
THEY WERE
EDUCATED IN THE SCIENCES.
00:29:58.26\00:30:00.36
THEY WERE THE LEADERS.
SO ISHMAEL HAD KILLED SOME
00:30:00.36\00:30:03.26
OF THEIR SOLDIERS AND
SOME OF THE CHALDEANS.
00:30:03.26\00:30:05.13
WORD WAS GOING TO
GET BACK TO BABYLON.
00:30:05.13\00:30:07.47
HE WAS GOING TO
SEND ANOTHER ARMY.
00:30:07.47\00:30:09.07
THEY WERE AFRAID TO STAY
NOW BECAUSE IT WILL LOOK,
00:30:09.07\00:30:11.14
ONCE MORE, LIKE THEY REBELLED.
00:30:11.14\00:30:12.71
THE PEOPLE DIDN'T
WANT TO. THIS ONE GUY,
00:30:12.71\00:30:14.71
ISHMAEL, DID IT ALL.
BUT THEY DON'T KNOW IF
00:30:14.71\00:30:17.05
NEBUCHADNEZZAR IS
GOING TO BELIEVE THEM.
00:30:17.05\00:30:18.75
SO JOHANAN'S GOT ALL
THE PEOPLE AND HE SAYS, 'NOW
00:30:18.75\00:30:21.25
WHERE DO WE GO?'
AND OF ALL THE PLACES,
00:30:21.25\00:30:23.89
WHERE DO THEY STOP?
IT SAYS THEY STOP AT
00:30:23.89\00:30:26.65
CHIMHAM, WHICH
IS NEAR BETHLEHEM.
00:30:26.65\00:30:32.39
SO THIS BIG DECISION ABOUT
WHERE TO GO IS AT BETHLEHEM.
00:30:32.39\00:30:36.20
THEY COME TO JEREMIAH
SEEKING THE WORD OF GOD IN
00:30:36.20\00:30:39.63
BETHLEHEM - AND YOU
MIGHT BE WONDERING, 'WHAT IS
00:30:39.63\00:30:41.34
THIS PLACE,
CHIMHAM?' IT BELONGED TO DAVID.
00:30:41.34\00:30:48.01
I DON'T KNOW HOW DEEP
YOU WANT ME TO GO INTO THE
00:30:48.01\00:30:49.31
HISTORY OF THIS, BUT
I'LL GO A LITTLE DEEPER.
00:30:49.31\00:30:51.61
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN
DAVID FLED FROM ABSALOM?
00:30:51.61\00:30:55.98
THERE WERE SOME
FAMILIES THAT SUPPORTED DAVID
00:30:55.98\00:30:58.79
WHEN HE FLED FROM ABSALOM.
00:30:58.79\00:31:01.12
ONE OLD MAN WHO WAS
VERY WEALTHY AND POWERFUL WAS
00:31:01.12\00:31:04.03
NAMED BARZELEI AND HE
FED DAVID AND HIS SOLDIERS
00:31:04.03\00:31:07.60
WHEN THEY FLED FROM
ABSALOM AND DAVID SAID,
00:31:07.60\00:31:09.63
'COME BACK WITH ME' -
AFTER HE WON THE BATTLE
00:31:09.63\00:31:11.60
AGAINST ABSALOM HE
SAID, 'COME BACK WITH ME.
00:31:11.60\00:31:13.23
I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU
FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.'
00:31:13.23\00:31:14.97
BARZELEI SAID, 'LOOK,
I'M EIGHTY YEARS OLD.' HE
00:31:14.97\00:31:17.27
SAID, 'I CAN'T TASTE WHAT I EAT.
00:31:17.27\00:31:19.01
I CAN'T HEAR THE
SOUNDS OF MUSIC ANYMORE.
00:31:19.01\00:31:20.78
I'M JUST GOING TO BE A BURDEN.
00:31:20.78\00:31:21.91
WHY DO YOU' - HE
SAYS, 'TAKE CARE OF MY SON.
00:31:21.91\00:31:23.68
DO SOMETHING NICE FOR MY
SON, BUT DON'T - I'M JUST
00:31:23.68\00:31:25.41
GOING TO GO HOME AND
DIE.' - THAT'S WHAT HE SAID -
00:31:25.41\00:31:28.32
AND HIS SON'S NAME WAS
CHIMHAM AND SO DAVID GAVE
00:31:28.32\00:31:34.26
A PART OF THEIR FAMILY'S
POSSESSION THAT BELONGED
00:31:34.26\00:31:37.33
TO JESSE, AND DAVID AND
HIS FAMILY, WHICH WAS IN
00:31:37.33\00:31:39.09
THE OUTSKIRTS OF
BETHLEHEM, TO THIS FAMILY
00:31:39.09\00:31:42.20
AND THAT'S HOW
IT KEPT THAT NAME.
00:31:42.20\00:31:44.33
SO WHAT YOU'RE TALKING
ABOUT IS THE AREA AROUND
00:31:44.33\00:31:47.84
THE VILLAGE OF
BETHLEHEM IS WHERE THEY STOPPED.
00:31:47.84\00:31:50.81
IT HAD A NAME. IT
HAD BELONGED TO DAVID.
00:31:50.81\00:31:53.71
BETHLEHEM IS
WHERE JESUS WAS BORN.
00:31:53.71\00:31:55.81
NOW, WHAT IS GETTING
READY TO HAPPEN IN THIS
00:31:55.81\00:31:57.88
TERRITORY OF
BETHLEHEM, WHERE DAVID WAS BORN,
00:31:57.88\00:32:00.45
WHERE JESUS WAS
BORN? VERY IMPORTANT SPOT
00:32:00.45\00:32:02.88
- YOU KNOW WHO ELSE? RUTH.
00:32:02.88\00:32:05.29
THAT ALL HAPPENED IN
BETHLEHEM, DIDN'T IT?
00:32:05.29\00:32:06.99
BETHLEHEM MEANS
'HOUSE OF BREAD'.
00:32:06.99\00:32:10.09
SO NOW THEY'RE GOING
TO COME TO JEREMIAH ASKING
00:32:10.09\00:32:12.56
FOR THE WORD OF
GOD IN BETHLEHEM.
00:32:12.56\00:32:15.00
MAYBE I'M MAKING TOO
MUCH OUT OF THAT, BUT I THINK
00:32:15.00\00:32:17.17
IT'S INTERESTING. SO
ALL THE PEOPLE COME TO
00:32:17.17\00:32:19.80
JEREMIAH - HE'S STILL WITH THEM.
00:32:19.80\00:32:21.67
YOU WONDER, WHAT
WAS JEREMIAH DOING?'
00:32:21.67\00:32:23.64
- KAREN ASKED ME LAST
NIGHT, 'WHAT WAS JEREMIAH
00:32:23.64\00:32:25.47
DOING DURING ALL THESE
BATTLES AND INTRIGUE WITH
00:32:25.47\00:32:27.91
ISHMAEL?' I SAID, 'HE WAS
JUST STAYING WITH THE PEOPLE.
00:32:27.91\00:32:30.11
WHEREVER THEY WERE, THAT'S WHERE
HE WAS. HE WAS A PASTOR.' -
00:32:30.11\00:32:35.92
"AND THEY SAID TO JEREMIAH
THE PROPHET," - I'M IN VERSE 2,
00:32:35.92\00:32:38.49
JEREMIAH 42, VERSE
2 - "'PLEASE, LET OUR
00:32:38.49\00:32:41.69
PETITION BE ACCEPTABLE
TO YOU,'" - LISTEN TO HOW
00:32:41.69\00:32:43.73
SINCERE THEY ARE -
"'AND PRAY FOR US TO THE LORD
00:32:43.73\00:32:47.03
YOUR GOD, FOR'" - WHY
DON'T THEY SAY 'OUR GOD'?
00:32:47.03\00:32:51.47
YOU'LL FIND OUT LATER
- "'PRAY TO THE LORD YOUR
00:32:51.47\00:32:54.40
GOD, FOR ALL THIS
REMNANT (SINCE WE ARE LEFT BUT A
00:32:54.40\00:32:57.51
FEW OF MANY, AS YOU CAN
SEE), THAT THE LORD YOUR
00:32:57.51\00:33:00.91
GOD MAY SHOW US THE WAY
IN WHICH WE SHOULD WALK AND
00:33:00.91\00:33:03.48
THE THING WE SHOULD DO.'" -
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW.
00:33:03.48\00:33:05.55
WE'RE BETWEEN A ROCK
AND A HARD PLACE - "THEN
00:33:05.55\00:33:08.05
JEREMIAH THE PROPHET
SAID TO THEM, 'I HAVE HEARD.
00:33:08.05\00:33:11.09
INDEED, I WILL PRAY TO
THE LORD YOUR GOD ACCORDING" -
00:33:11.09\00:33:13.89
YOU NOTICE HE SAYS,
'THE LORD YOUR GOD'?
00:33:13.89\00:33:16.66
- "ACCORDING TO YOUR
WORDS, AND IT SHALL BE,
00:33:16.66\00:33:19.09
THAT WHATEVER THE
LORD ANSWERS YOU, I WILL
00:33:19.09\00:33:20.80
DECLARE IT TO YOU. I
WILL KEEP NOTHING BACK
00:33:20.80\00:33:22.76
FROM YOU.'" - GOOD OR
BAD, I'LL TELL YOU - "SO THEY
00:33:22.76\00:33:25.60
SAID TO JEREMIAH,
'LET THE LORD BE A TRUE AND
00:33:25.60\00:33:28.17
FAITHFUL WITNESS BETWEEN
US, IF WE DO NOT DO ACCORDING TO
00:33:28.17\00:33:32.01
EVERYTHING WHICH THE LORD YOUR
GOD SENDS US BY YOU." - DOESN'T
00:33:32.01\00:33:35.01
THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? WHEN
THEY CAME OUT OF EGYPT DID
00:33:35.01\00:33:37.55
IT SAY, 'ALL THE
LORD HAS SAID WE WILL DO'?
00:33:37.55\00:33:40.18
THEY SAID, 'WHATEVER YOU
TELL US WE'RE GOING TO' -
00:33:40.18\00:33:42.42
YOU KNOW, JEREMIAH HAD
JUST SAID BABYLON'S GOING
00:33:42.42\00:33:45.55
TO FALL, THE KING'S
GOING TO BE CARRIED OFF, ALL
00:33:45.55\00:33:48.12
THESE THINGS ARE GOING TO
HAPPEN - OR RATHER HE SAID
00:33:48.12\00:33:50.06
JERUSALEM'S GOING TO
FALL TO THE BABYLONIANS, THE
00:33:50.06\00:33:51.99
KING'LL BE CARRIED
OFF - EVERYTHING JEREMIAH
00:33:51.99\00:33:53.93
FORETOLD, EVEN THOUGH
ALL THE FALSE PROPHETS SAID,
00:33:53.93\00:33:56.26
'OH, IT WON'T HAPPEN.'
EVERYTHING JEREMIAH SAID
00:33:56.26\00:33:58.77
HAPPENED, SO
THEY'RE STARTING TO THINK,
00:33:58.77\00:34:00.14
'JEREMIAH'S REALLY
A PROPHET.' AND SO NOW
00:34:00.14\00:34:03.64
THEY'RE SAYING, 'OKAY JEREMIAH,
MAYBE YOU WERE RIGHT. SO PRAY.
00:34:03.64\00:34:06.74
TELL US WHAT TO DO
NOW.' SO, YEAH, 'I'LL PRAY.
00:34:06.74\00:34:08.74
I'LL - AND I'M GOING TO
TELL YOU THE TRUTH.' 'OH,
00:34:08.74\00:34:12.35
BUT WHATEVER THE LORD
TELLS US - YOU - WE'LL DO
00:34:12.35\00:34:14.52
IT. JUST TELL US.
WE WANT TO KNOW GOD'S
00:34:14.52\00:34:17.15
WILL.' YOU KNOW
WHAT THE MOST IMPORTANT
00:34:17.15\00:34:19.15
THING IS, IF YOU
WANT TO KNOW GOD'S WILL?
00:34:19.15\00:34:21.69
FIRST MOST IMPORTANT
CRITERIA IN KNOWING THE
00:34:21.69\00:34:24.19
WILL OF GOD IS TO
GENUINELY BE WILLING TO DO IT.
00:34:24.19\00:34:27.30
IF YOU'RE REALLY WILLING
TO DO IT, HE WILL TELL YOU.
00:34:27.30\00:34:32.17
SO THEY SAID TO JEREMIAH,
"LET THE LORD BE A TRUE
00:34:32.17\00:34:34.47
AND FAITHFUL
WITNESS...WHETHER" -
00:34:34.47\00:34:36.74
NOTICE VERSE 6 -
"WHETHER IT IS PLEASING OR
00:34:36.74\00:34:39.37
DISPLEASING," - WHETHER
WE LIKE IT OR NOT - "WE WILL
00:34:39.37\00:34:41.61
OBEY THE VOICE OF THE
LORD OUR GOD TO WHOM WE SEND
00:34:41.61\00:34:45.35
YOU, THAT IT MAY BE
WELL WITH US WHEN WE OBEY
00:34:45.35\00:34:48.25
THE VOICE OF THE LORD OUR GOD.
00:34:48.25\00:34:51.32
AND IT HAPPENED AFTER
TEN DAYS" - YOU NOTICE THAT
00:34:51.32\00:34:54.16
NUMBER TEN KEEPS COMING UP?
00:34:54.16\00:34:55.89
WE GOT TEN PEOPLE
THAT SLAY GEDALIAH.
00:34:55.89\00:35:00.13
NOW YOU'VE GOT TEN DAYS -
"AND IT HAPPENED AFTER TEN
00:35:00.13\00:35:04.53
DAYS THAT THE WORD OF
THE LORD CAME TO JEREMIAH.
00:35:04.53\00:35:09.14
THEN HE CALLED JOHANAN
THE SON OF KAREAH, ALL THE
00:35:09.14\00:35:13.68
CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES
WHICH WERE WITH HIM, AND
00:35:13.68\00:35:15.48
ALL THE PEOPLE FROM THE
LEAST EVEN TO THE GREATEST
00:35:15.48\00:35:16.88
AND SAID TO THEM, 'THUS
SAYS THE LORD, THE GOD OF
00:35:16.88\00:35:20.22
ISRAEL, TO WHOM YOU
SENT ME TO PRESENT YOUR
00:35:20.22\00:35:22.68
PETITION BEFORE HIM:
'IF YOU WILL STILL REMAIN IN
00:35:22.68\00:35:27.96
THIS LAND, THEN I WILL
BUILD YOU AND NOT PULL YOU
00:35:27.96\00:35:31.43
DOWN, AND I WILL PLANT
YOU AND NOT PLUCK YOU UP.
00:35:31.43\00:35:35.10
FOR I RELENT
CONCERNING THE DISASTER THAT I
00:35:35.10\00:35:37.23
BROUGHT UPON YOU.'" -
WHAT DOES 'RELENT' MEAN?
00:35:37.23\00:35:39.20
'I'M SORRY' - 'I REGRET'
- ALL - NOW GOD IS SAYING,
00:35:39.20\00:35:43.67
'I'M LOOKING AT
THE SMOLDERING RUINS OF
00:35:43.67\00:35:45.54
JERUSALEM AND THE
BROKEN-DOWN TEMPLE AND I
00:35:45.54\00:35:47.58
THINK IT'S ENOUGH.
I'M SORRY.' DID THE LORD
00:35:47.58\00:35:50.78
RELENT FROM THE
JUDGMENT THAT HE WAS GOING
00:35:50.78\00:35:53.08
TO SEND TO NINEVEH?
YOU KNOW, GOD'S - YOU
00:35:53.08\00:35:56.22
KNOW, ONE TIME, THE
BIBLE SAYS, 'I'M SORRY THAT I
00:35:56.22\00:35:58.75
MADE MAN.' HE SAID,
'LOOK, I'M GOING TO FORGIVE YOU.
00:35:58.75\00:36:05.29
IT WASN'T YOUR FAULT.'
AND HE GOES ON AND SAYS, "'DO
00:36:05.29\00:36:11.40
NOT BE AFRAID'" - VERSE
11 - OF THE KING OF BABYLON,
00:36:11.40\00:36:14.90
OF WHOM YOU ARE AFRAID;
DO NOT BE AFRAID OF HIM,'
00:36:14.90\00:36:17.17
SAYS THE LORD, 'FOR I AM
WITH YOU, TO SAVE YOU AND
00:36:17.17\00:36:18.91
DELIVER YOU FROM HIS
HAND.'" - HE'LL UNDERSTAND.
00:36:18.91\00:36:21.68
HE'S NOT GOING TO COME
AND DESTROY YOU NOW - "'AND I
00:36:21.68\00:36:23.75
WILL SHOW YOU MERCY,
THAT HE MAY HAVE MERCY ON YOU
00:36:23.75\00:36:26.78
AND CAUSE YOU TO RETURN
TO YOUR OWN LAND.' BUT IF YOU
00:36:26.78\00:36:31.15
SAY, 'WE WILL NOT DWELL
IN THIS LAND,' DISOBEYING THE
00:36:31.15\00:36:34.52
VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR
GOD, SAYING, 'NO, BUT WE
00:36:34.52\00:36:36.62
WILL GO TO THE LAND OF
EGYPT WHERE WE SHALL SEE
00:36:36.62\00:36:39.29
NO WAR,'" - THEY THOUGHT,
'WELL, THE ECONOMY'S GOOD THERE.
00:36:39.29\00:36:42.10
THE BABYLONIANS HAVEN'T
REACHED THERE YET' - "'NOR
00:36:42.10\00:36:44.80
HEAR THE SOUND OF THE
TRUMPET,'" - THEY HAD JUST
00:36:44.80\00:36:46.60
GONE THROUGH A TERRIBLE BATTLE.
00:36:46.60\00:36:47.90
THEY WERE SHELL
SHOCKED - "'NOR BE HUNGRY FOR
00:36:47.90\00:36:51.67
BREAD,'" - THEY HAD
JUST GONE THROUGH A FAMINE -
00:36:51.67\00:36:55.64
"'AND THERE WE WILL
DWELL' - THEN HEAR NOW THE WORD
00:36:55.64\00:36:57.81
OF THE LORD, O
REMNANT OF JUDAH!'
00:36:57.81\00:36:59.61
THUS SAYS THE LORD OF
HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL:
00:36:59.61\00:37:02.75
'IF YOU WHOLLY SET YOUR
FACES TO ENTER EGYPT, AND
00:37:02.75\00:37:05.45
GO TO DWELL THERE, THEN
IT SHALL BE THAT THE SWORD
00:37:05.45\00:37:08.16
WHICH YOU FEARED SHALL
OVERTAKE YOU THERE IN THE
00:37:08.16\00:37:10.13
LAND OF EGYPT; THE
FAMINE OF WHICH YOU WERE AFRAID
00:37:10.13\00:37:14.36
SHALL FOLLOW CLOSE
AFTER YOU THERE IN EGYPT; AND
00:37:14.36\00:37:17.47
THERE YOU SHALL DIE.
SO SHALL IT BE WITH ALL
00:37:17.47\00:37:20.77
THE MEN WHO SET
THEIR FACES TO GO TO EGYPT
00:37:20.77\00:37:23.04
TO DWELL THERE.
THEY SHALL DIE BY THE
00:37:23.04\00:37:25.07
SWORD, BY FAMINE,
AND BY PESTILENCE.
00:37:25.07\00:37:27.34
AND NONE OF THEM SHALL
REMAIN OR ESCAPE FROM THE
00:37:27.34\00:37:29.78
DISASTER THAT I WILL
BRING UPON THEM.' FOR THUS SAYS
00:37:29.78\00:37:32.38
THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE
GOD OF ISRAEL: 'AS MY ANGER
00:37:32.38\00:37:35.12
AND MY FURY HAVE
BEEN POURED OUT ON THE
00:37:35.12\00:37:37.25
INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM,
SO WILL MY FURY BE POURED
00:37:37.25\00:37:40.12
OUT ON YOU WHEN YOU ENTER EGYPT.
00:37:40.12\00:37:42.42
AND YOU SHALL BE AN
OATH, AN ASTONISHMENT, A CURSE,
00:37:42.42\00:37:45.46
AND A REPROACH; AND
YOU SHALL SEE THIS PLACE NO
00:37:45.46\00:37:47.93
MORE.' THE LORD HAS SAID
CONCERNING YOU, O REMNANT
00:37:47.93\00:37:51.10
OF JUDAH," - HE WAS
BEING AS CLEAR AS HE COULD -
00:37:51.10\00:37:53.87
"'DO NOT GO TO EGYPT!'
00:37:53.87\00:37:56.50
KNOW CERTAINLY THAT I
HAVE ADMONISHED YOU THIS DAY."
00:37:56.50\00:38:00.31
- NOW DOES GOD
KNOW THEIR HEARTS?
00:38:00.31\00:38:04.41
AND HE SAYS IN VERSE
20, "FOR YOU WERE HYPOCRITES
00:38:04.41\00:38:08.25
IN YOUR HEARTS WHEN YOU
SENT ME TO THE LORD YOUR
00:38:08.25\00:38:10.69
GOD, SAYING, 'PRAY FOR
US TO THE LORD OUR GOD, AND
00:38:10.69\00:38:13.46
ACCORDING TO ALL THAT
THE LORD YOUR GOD SAYS, SO
00:38:13.46\00:38:15.72
DECLARE TO US AND WE
WILL DO IT.' AND I HAVE THIS
00:38:15.72\00:38:18.66
DAY DECLARED IT TO
YOU, BUT YOU HAVE NOT OBEYED
00:38:18.66\00:38:21.06
THE VOICE OF THE LORD
YOUR GOD, OR ANYTHING WHICH HE
00:38:21.06\00:38:23.13
HAS SENT YOU BY ME."
- IT SAYS YOU HAVEN'T
00:38:23.13\00:38:25.57
LISTENED TO
ANYTHING I'VE SAID SO FAR.
00:38:25.57\00:38:26.97
WHY WOULD THINGS CHANGE NOW?
00:38:26.97\00:38:28.80
- "NOW THEREFORE, KNOW
CERTAINLY THAT YOU SHALL
00:38:28.80\00:38:30.91
DIE BY THE SWORD, BY
FAMINE, AND BY PESTILENCE
00:38:30.91\00:38:33.48
IN THE PLACE WHERE YOU
DESIRE TO GO TO DWELL."
00:38:33.48\00:38:35.91
IN THE TEN DAYS FROM
WHEN THEY HAD ASKED JEREMIAH -
00:38:35.91\00:38:39.51
'WHATEVER GOD SAYS
WE'LL DO IT' - THEY HAD TALKED
00:38:39.51\00:38:42.48
THEMSELVES INTO WHAT
THEY HAD WANTED TO DO.
00:38:42.48\00:38:44.52
THEY HAD CONVINCED
THEMSELVES 'NEBUCHADNEZZAR
00:38:44.52\00:38:47.56
IS GOING TO COME.
HE'S GOING TO PUNISH US
00:38:47.56\00:38:48.76
BECAUSE ISHMAEL KILLED
GEDALIAH AND THE ONLY SAFE
00:38:48.76\00:38:51.96
PLACE TO GO IS
EGYPT. THE BABYLONIANS ARE
00:38:51.96\00:38:55.00
PROBABLY DONE WITH WAR
FOR NOW. THEY'RE NOT GOING
00:38:55.00\00:38:56.60
TO ATTACK EGYPT.
WE'LL BE SAFE THERE.
00:38:56.60\00:38:58.33
THE ECONOMY IS GOOD
THERE. THERE'S FOOD THERE.
00:38:58.33\00:39:00.20
WE'VE GOT ALREADY
A SETTLEMENT THERE.
00:39:00.20\00:39:02.40
EGYPT'S THE PLACE TO GO.'
AND THEY HAD ALL, KIND OF,
00:39:02.40\00:39:05.41
TAKEN A COUNCIL AND
DECIDED TO GO TO EGYPT AND
00:39:05.41\00:39:07.71
JEREMIAH SAYS,
'DON'T GO TO EGYPT.
00:39:07.71\00:39:10.05
STAY IN THE LAND. GOD'LL
BLESS YOU. HE'LL PLANT YOU.
00:39:10.05\00:39:13.75
YOU'LL PROSPER.
YOU'LL HAVE PEACE.'
00:39:13.75\00:39:15.65
OH, YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK BACK
ON HISTORY AND SOMETIMES YOU
00:39:15.65\00:39:17.85
WISH YOU COULD DO TIME TRAVEL.
00:39:17.85\00:39:20.56
DO YOU EVER THINK -
YOU EVER READ THE BIBLE AND
00:39:20.56\00:39:21.82
WISH YOU COULD DO TIME TRAVEL?
00:39:21.82\00:39:23.93
EVERY TIME I READ THE
STORY OF THE CROSS I WISH
00:39:23.93\00:39:27.36
I COULD GET IN A TIME
MACHINE AND GO BACK AND BE
00:39:27.36\00:39:29.16
THERE IN THE PALACE
WHEN PILATE IS THINKING OF
00:39:29.16\00:39:32.20
RELEASING JESUS
AND TALKING TO HIM.
00:39:32.20\00:39:36.87
AND YOU WISH YOU
COULD CHANGE THINGS.
00:39:36.87\00:39:39.81
THINGS COULD HAVE
BEEN SO DIFFERENT.
00:39:39.81\00:39:42.14
I WISH I COULD GO BACK.
AND YOU COULD REASON WITH
00:39:42.14\00:39:44.91
THE PEOPLE AND SAID,
'OH, YOU'RE GETTING READY TO
00:39:44.91\00:39:47.65
MAKE A BIG MISTAKE.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR IS COMING
00:39:47.65\00:39:49.62
TO EGYPT TOO AND IT'S
GOING TO BE WORSE FOR YOU
00:39:49.62\00:39:52.52
DOWN IN EGYPT.' AND
WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM THIS?
00:39:52.52\00:40:00.73
DO WE SOMETIMES SEE
WHAT GOD SAYS IN HIS WORD AND
00:40:00.73\00:40:02.73
WE SAY, 'I KNOW WHAT
HIS WORD SAYS.' AND I SAID,
00:40:02.73\00:40:05.07
'LORD, I LOVE YOU AND I
WANT TO FOLLOW YOU, BUT I
00:40:05.07\00:40:07.10
WANT TO DO WHAT I WANT
TO DO.' AND IN SPITE OF THE
00:40:07.10\00:40:10.57
FACT WE KNOW WHAT GOD
SAYS AND IN SPITE OF THE FACT
00:40:10.57\00:40:12.37
WE KNOW WHAT THE WAGES
OF SIN ARE, WE STILL SAY,
00:40:12.37\00:40:15.64
'BUT I KNOW WHAT I
WANT AND I WANT WHAT I WANT
00:40:15.64\00:40:18.58
WHEN I WANT IT.' AND
THAT'S THE WAY WE ARE SOMETIMES.
00:40:18.58\00:40:23.18
AND THIS IS THE
WAY THE PEOPLE WERE.
00:40:23.18\00:40:25.52
SO NOW WE'VE GOT TO GO
ON - MOVING RIGHT ALONG TO
00:40:25.52\00:40:29.22
CHAPTER 43 AND WE'RE
UNDER THE SECTION RETURNING TO
00:40:29.22\00:40:34.60
EGYPT - BETTER KNOWN
AS THE EXODUS IN REVERSE.
00:40:34.60\00:40:40.97
"NOW IT HAPPENED,
WHEN JEREMIAH HAD STOPPED
00:40:40.97\00:40:43.04
SPEAKING" - HE TOLD
THEM EXACTLY WHAT GOD SAID.
00:40:43.04\00:40:45.94
NOW WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THAT?
00:40:45.94\00:40:47.71
IF YOU WERE JEREMIAH - IS
THAT THE WAY TO BE POPULAR?
00:40:47.71\00:40:51.95
HOW DO YOU THINK HIS
OFFERINGS WERE AT CHURCH
00:40:51.95\00:40:54.12
THE NEXT WEEK? (LAUGHTER)
00:40:54.12\00:40:56.42
PROBABLY NOT MUCH.
JEREMIAH DIDN'T CARE.
00:40:56.42\00:40:59.85
HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO BE
FAITHFUL AND TELL YOU WHAT
00:40:59.85\00:41:02.06
THE LORD SAYS.' BUT -
"NOW IT HAPPENED, WHEN JEREMIAH
00:41:02.06\00:41:07.66
HAD STOPPED SPEAKING
TO ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE
00:41:07.66\00:41:10.40
WORDS OF THE LORD
THEIR GOD, FOR WHICH THE LORD
00:41:10.40\00:41:12.87
THEIR GOD HAD SENT HIM
TO THEM, ALL THESE WORDS,
00:41:12.87\00:41:15.37
THAT AZARIAH THE SON OF
HOSHAIAH, JOHANAN THE SON
00:41:15.37\00:41:21.31
OF KAREAH, AND ALL THE
PROUD MEN SPOKE, SAYING TO
00:41:21.31\00:41:24.35
JEREMIAH, 'YOU
SPEAK FALSELY!'" -
00:41:24.35\00:41:26.75
THEY THOUGHT HE WAS
A TRUE PROPHET BEFORE -
00:41:26.75\00:41:28.48
"'THE LORD OUR GOD HAS
NOT SENT YOU TO SAY, 'DO NOT
00:41:28.48\00:41:30.89
GO TO EGYPT TO DWELL
THERE.' BUT BARUCH THE SON
00:41:30.89\00:41:33.86
OF NERIAH HAS SET YOU
AGAINST US, TO DELIVER US
00:41:33.86\00:41:36.12
INTO THE HAND OF THE
CHALDEANS, THAT THEY MAY
00:41:36.12\00:41:38.13
PUT US TO DEATH OR
CARRY US AWAY CAPTIVE TO
00:41:38.13\00:41:39.73
BABYLON.' SO JOHANAN THE SON OF
KAREAH, ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE
00:41:39.73\00:41:44.17
FORCES, AND ALL THE PEOPLE
WOULD NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF THE
00:41:44.17\00:41:47.34
LORD, TO REMAIN
IN THE LAND OF JUDAH.
00:41:47.34\00:41:49.57
BUT JOHANAN THE SON
OF KAREAH AND ALL THE
00:41:49.57\00:41:52.01
CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES
TOOK ALL THE REMNANT OF
00:41:52.01\00:41:53.88
JUDAH WHO HAD RETURNED
TO DWELL IN THE LAND OF
00:41:53.88\00:41:57.01
JUDAH, FROM ALL NATIONS
WHERE THEY HAD BEEN DRIVEN
00:41:57.01\00:41:59.38
- MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN,
THE KING'S DAUGHTERS, AND
00:41:59.38\00:42:02.82
EVERY PERSON WHOM
NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF
00:42:02.82\00:42:05.69
THE GUARD HAD LEFT
WITH GEDALIAH THE SON OF
00:42:05.69\00:42:07.49
AHIKAM, THE SON OF
SHAPHAN, AND JEREMIAH THE
00:42:07.49\00:42:10.33
PROPHET AND
BARUCH THE SON OF NERIAH.
00:42:10.33\00:42:13.16
SO THEY WENT TO THE LAND
OF EGYPT, FOR THEY DID NOT
00:42:13.16\00:42:16.30
OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD.
00:42:16.30\00:42:18.57
AND THEY WENT AS
FAR AS TAHPANHES."
00:42:18.57\00:42:20.77
- TAHPANHES IS A TOWN IN
THE EASTERN DELTA, NOT TOO
00:42:20.77\00:42:25.31
FAR FROM THE
MEDITERRANEAN IN EGYPT.
00:42:25.31\00:42:28.54
NOW, SOMEONE'S GOING TO
READ FOR ME NEHEMIAH 9:17
00:42:28.54\00:42:33.31
AND JUST - ALRIGHT,
WE'LL GET READY FOR THAT.
00:42:33.31\00:42:35.18
I'M GOING TO READ NUMBERS
4:14 - 3, RATHER - NUMBERS
00:42:35.18\00:42:39.22
14:3 AND 4. WAS
THIS THE FIRST TIME
00:42:39.22\00:42:42.06
THEY SAID, 'LET'S
GO BACK TO EGYPT'?
00:42:42.06\00:42:46.53
WHEN THEY CAME OUT OF
EGYPT - FIRST OF ALL, ALL
00:42:46.53\00:42:50.23
YOU HAVE TO DO IS GO TO
EXODUS 16 AND THEY BEGAN
00:42:50.23\00:42:53.47
TO COMPLAIN ABOUT WHY
GOD BROUGHT THEM OUT THERE TO
00:42:53.47\00:42:55.47
KILL THEM WITH THIRST,
BUT THEY'RE A LITTLE MORE
00:42:55.47\00:42:57.61
SPECIFIC WHEN YOU GET TO
NUMBERS 14 WHEN THE SPIES
00:42:57.61\00:43:00.98
CAME BACK AND SAID,
'OH, WE'RE NEVER GOING TO BE
00:43:00.98\00:43:02.88
ABLE TO ENTER THIS
LAND. THAT PROMISED LAND -
00:43:02.88\00:43:05.35
THERE'S GIANTS THERE.'
AND THEY SAID, 'WHY HAS THE
00:43:05.35\00:43:08.95
LORD BROUGHT US TO THIS
LAND TO FALL BY THE SWORD
00:43:08.95\00:43:11.82
THAT OUR WIVES AND OUR
CHILDREN SHOULD BECOME VICTIMS?
00:43:11.82\00:43:15.36
WOULD IT NOT BE BETTER
FOR US TO RETURN TO EGYPT?'
00:43:15.36\00:43:18.59
SO THEY SAID TO ONE ANOTHER,
'LET US SELECT A LEADER AND
00:43:18.59\00:43:21.66
RETURN TO EGYPT.'" -
THEY PICKED THE WRONG LEADER.
00:43:21.66\00:43:26.00
IT'S WHAT HAPPENED WHEN
THEY PICKED SAUL INSTEAD
00:43:26.00\00:43:27.54
OF SAMUEL - OR THE
LORD, REALLY, TO BE THEIR
00:43:27.54\00:43:30.34
LEADER. GO
AHEAD, READ HERE - I'M
00:43:30.34\00:43:32.57
SORRY, NEHEMIAH 9:17, PLEASE.
00:43:32.57\00:43:35.21
>>"THEY REFUSED TO OBEY,
AND THEY WERE NOT MINDFUL
00:43:35.21\00:43:37.71
OF YOUR WONDERS THAT
YOU PERFORMED AMONG THEM.
00:43:37.71\00:43:40.52
BUT THEY STIFFENED
THEIR NECKS, AND APPOINTED A
00:43:40.52\00:43:42.58
LEADER TO RETURN TO
THEIR SLAVERY IN EGYPT."
00:43:42.58\00:43:45.35
>>ALRIGHT, THAT'S A
LITTLE MORE SPECIFIC.
00:43:45.35\00:43:47.16
WHAT IS EGYPT A SYMBOL OF?
00:43:47.16\00:43:48.89
SLAVERY OF EGYPT -
WHAT WERE THEY RETURNING TO?
00:43:48.89\00:43:53.83
SO IF YOU'RE A
BELIEVER - CHRIST SAVES US FROM
00:43:53.83\00:43:57.67
SLAVERY TO WHAT? HE
SAVES US FROM SLAVERY.
00:43:57.67\00:44:03.41
IT'S AMAZING THAT ANYBODY
WOULD SAY, 'I WOULD RATHER
00:44:03.41\00:44:06.27
LEAVE MY FREEDOM AND GO
BACK TO MY SLAVERY.' BUT
00:44:06.27\00:44:10.61
THAT'S WHAT ENDS UP HAPPENING.
AND HERE THEY THOUGHT IF
00:44:10.61\00:44:13.75
THEY LEFT THE
PROMISED LAND AND WENT BACK TO
00:44:13.75\00:44:15.18
EGYPT, IT WOULD
SOMEHOW BE BETTER WITH THEM.
00:44:15.18\00:44:17.32
AND JEREMIAH SAID, 'YOU
ARE GOING TO BE CONSUMED
00:44:17.32\00:44:18.99
BY THE SWORD, BY
FAMINE, BY DISEASE.
00:44:18.99\00:44:22.19
YOU'RE GOING BACK TO DISASTER.
00:44:22.19\00:44:24.53
WHEN YOU LEAVE THE
LORD'S LAND, WHEN YOU DON'T OBEY
00:44:24.53\00:44:26.90
THE WORD OF THE
LORD, YOU'RE HEADING FOR
00:44:26.90\00:44:28.43
DISASTER. IF
YOU'LL STAY IN THE LAND
00:44:28.43\00:44:30.80
- YOU MIGHT HAVE TO
LIVE BY FAITH - GOD'LL
00:44:30.80\00:44:33.20
TAKE CARE OF YOU. HOW
DOES THAT APPLY TODAY?
00:44:33.20\00:44:36.74
HAVE YOU, IN YOUR
CHRISTIAN LIFE - YOU KNOW,
00:44:36.74\00:44:38.91
BEING A CHRISTIAN
IS A BATTLE EVERY DAY.
00:44:38.91\00:44:40.81
YOU'VE GOT TO LIVE BY FAITH.
00:44:40.81\00:44:41.64
YOU STRUGGLE WITH
SIN AND TEMPTATION.
00:44:41.64\00:44:45.25
SOMETIMES YOU SEE
WHAT LOOKS LIKE THE WICKED
00:44:45.25\00:44:48.02
AROUND YOU PROSPERING
AND YOU THINK, 'IT'S HARD TO
00:44:48.02\00:44:50.22
BE A CHRISTIAN.' WELL,
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS, 'THE
00:44:50.22\00:44:52.95
WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR
IS HARD.' IT'S MUCH HARDER TO
00:44:52.95\00:44:55.19
BE LOST THAN TO BE
SAVED, BUT SOMETIMES THE DEVIL
00:44:55.19\00:45:00.16
TALKS US INTO THINKING,
'OH, YOU KNOW, WHY EVEN
00:45:00.16\00:45:02.73
TRY ANYMORE. JUST
THROW YOUR HANDS IN
00:45:02.73\00:45:04.27
THE AIR AND BE LIKE THE
WORLD AND STOP TRYING TO
00:45:04.27\00:45:06.37
SWIM AGAINST THE
CURRENT ALL THE TIME.
00:45:06.37\00:45:08.40
I'M JUST GOING TO FLOAT
BACK TO EGYPT.' BUT IS IT
00:45:08.40\00:45:11.67
BETTER IN EGYPT?
NO, YOU JUST LOOK - IT
00:45:11.67\00:45:14.71
ALWAYS ENDS UP BEING
A DISASTER AND THIS IS
00:45:14.71\00:45:17.28
WHAT HAPPENED HERE.
IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME
00:45:17.28\00:45:19.61
GOD'S PEOPLE SAID,
'LET'S GO BACK TO EGYPT.'
00:45:19.61\00:45:22.05
SOMETIMES WE, IN
OUR HEARTS, PRAY TO
00:45:22.05\00:45:23.89
GO BACK TO EGYPT. IT'S THE SAME
00:45:23.89\00:45:25.95
KIND OF THING. YOU
CAN LOOK IN EXODUS 16
00:45:25.95\00:45:30.13
- I THINK I ALREADY
QUOTED THAT ONE TO YOU.
00:45:30.13\00:45:32.46
LOOK IN 1 CORINTHIANS 10
- 1 CORINTHIANS 10, VERSE 5,
00:45:32.46\00:45:38.80
"BUT WITH MOST OF THEM
GOD WAS NOT WELL PLEASED, FOR
00:45:38.80\00:45:42.84
THEIR BODIES WERE
SCATTERED IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:45:42.84\00:45:45.04
NOW THESE THINGS" -
THAT THE ISRAELITES WENT
00:45:45.04\00:45:47.34
THROUGH COMING OUT OF
EGYPT - "...THESE THINGS
00:45:47.34\00:45:49.44
BECAME OUR EXAMPLES, TO
THE INTENT THAT WE SHOULD
00:45:49.44\00:45:52.38
NOT LUST AFTER EVIL
THINGS AS THEY ALSO LUSTED.
00:45:52.38\00:45:55.15
AND DO NOT BECOME
IDOLATERS AS WERE SOME OF THEM.
00:45:55.15\00:45:57.45
AS IT IS WRITTEN, 'THE
PEOPLE SAT DOWN TO EAT AND
00:45:57.45\00:45:59.49
DRINK, AND ROSE UP TO
PLAY.' NOR LET US COMMIT
00:45:59.49\00:46:02.02
SEXUAL IMMORALITY, AS
SOME OF THEM DID, AND IN ONE
00:46:02.02\00:46:05.19
DAY TWENTY-THREE
THOUSAND FELL; NOR LET US TEMPT
00:46:05.19\00:46:08.10
CHRIST, AS SOME OF
THEM ALSO TEMPTED, AND WERE
00:46:08.10\00:46:10.60
DESTROYED BY SERPENTS;
NOR COMPLAIN, AS SOME OF THEM
00:46:10.60\00:46:13.17
ALSO COMPLAINED, AND WERE
DESTROYED BY THE DESTROYER.
00:46:13.17\00:46:16.07
NOW ALL THESE THINGS" -
IT'S THE SECOND TIME IT'S
00:46:16.07\00:46:18.31
SAYING IT - "ALL THESE
THINGS HAPPENED TO THEM AS
00:46:18.31\00:46:21.11
EXAMPLES," - WHAT
HAPPENED TO ISRAEL ARE EXAMPLES.
00:46:21.11\00:46:25.78
PAUL SAID THIS, OF COURSE,
TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO SO
00:46:25.78\00:46:27.78
WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM
WERE EXAMPLES TO PAUL.
00:46:27.78\00:46:31.05
THEY'RE CERTAINLY
EXAMPLES FOR US TODAY.
00:46:31.05\00:46:33.92
"ALL THESE THINGS
HAPPENED TO THEM AS EXAMPLES AND
00:46:33.92\00:46:35.99
THEY WERE WRITTEN FOR
OUR ADMONITION, UPON WHOM THE
00:46:35.99\00:46:38.79
ENDS OF THE AGES HAVE COME."
00:46:38.79\00:46:40.73
NOW HAVE THE ENDS OF
THE AGES COME UPON US?
00:46:40.73\00:46:44.67
AND MAYBE THESE THINGS
ARE WRITTEN FOR US - THAT
00:46:44.67\00:46:46.33
SOMETIMES THE CHURCH
IS GOING BACK TO EGYPT.
00:46:46.33\00:46:48.77
YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S
HAPPENING IN THE WORLD AND
00:46:48.77\00:46:50.44
IN THE CHURCH TODAY AND
IT SEEMS LIKE - KAREN AND I
00:46:50.44\00:46:54.64
WERE TALKING ABOUT
THIS THIS MORNING - MORE AND
00:46:54.64\00:46:57.91
MORE WE SEEM TO BE
MODIFYING THE MESSAGE THAT
00:46:57.91\00:47:01.85
GOD HAS GIVEN HIS
PEOPLE TO TRY AND REACH THE
00:47:01.85\00:47:04.05
CULTURE AND WE KEEP
MORPHING THE MESSAGE AND
00:47:04.05\00:47:07.06
COMPROMISING THE MESSAGE
THINKING 'IF WE COULD JUST
00:47:07.06\00:47:09.56
MAKE IT MORE ATTRACTIVE
SOMEHOW' - AND WHAT WE DO
00:47:09.56\00:47:12.26
IS, WE DILUTE IT. >>AMEN.
00:47:12.26\00:47:14.76
>>AND THE WHOLE IDEA IS
WE THINK, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, IF
00:47:14.76\00:47:16.80
WE JUST GET A LITTLE
CLOSER TO EGYPT IT'LL BE
00:47:16.80\00:47:19.23
MORE ATTRACTIVE TO
THEM.' AND THE NEXT THING YOU
00:47:19.23\00:47:21.47
KNOW, WE'RE
MAKING A GOLDEN CALF.
00:47:21.47\00:47:23.51
AND LITTLE BY LITTLE -
BUT PEOPLE ARE CHOOSING OTHER
00:47:23.51\00:47:27.94
GODS AND THIS - I
BETTER HURRY UP BECAUSE THAT
00:47:27.94\00:47:29.74
HAPPENS IN OUR STORY
TOO. SO THEY GOT DISCOURAGED
00:47:29.74\00:47:33.62
AND THEY WANTED
TO GO BACK TO EGYPT.
00:47:33.62\00:47:36.15
TAKEN INTO EXILE -
SO FINALLY THEY GO TO
00:47:36.15\00:47:40.02
TAHPANHES - THEY'RE IN
EGYPT. JEREMIAH GOES WITH THEM.
00:47:40.02\00:47:43.93
YOU KNOW, WHEN THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID NOT
00:47:43.93\00:47:45.36
HAVE ENOUGH FAITH TO
ENTER THE PROMISED LAND, JOSHUA
00:47:45.36\00:47:48.03
AND CALEB HAD ENOUGH
FAITH, BUT WHEN THEY HAD
00:47:48.03\00:47:50.43
TO WANDER FOR FORTY
YEARS BECAUSE OF A LACK OF
00:47:50.43\00:47:52.17
FAITH, DID JOSHUA AND
CALEB LEAVE THEM OR DID
00:47:52.17\00:47:54.40
THEY WANDER WITH
THEM? >>WITH THEM.
00:47:54.40\00:47:56.34
>>HE WANDERED WITH THEM.
00:47:56.34\00:47:57.74
SO JEREMIAH - THEY GO TO
EGYPT - HE COULD HAVE RAN
00:47:57.74\00:47:59.71
AWAY AND GONE TO BABYLON,
BUT HE SAID, 'NO, I'LL GO
00:47:59.71\00:48:02.11
WITH YOU BECAUSE I
LOVE GOD'S PEOPLE.' SO, AT
00:48:02.11\00:48:06.25
LEAST FOR THE TIME
BEING, HE WENT WITH THEM AND NOW
00:48:06.25\00:48:09.48
YOU GO TO JEREMIAH 43,
VERSE 8, "THEN THE WORD OF
00:48:09.48\00:48:12.05
THE LORD CAME TO
JEREMIAH IN TAHPANHES, SAYING,
00:48:12.05\00:48:14.29
'TAKE LARGE STONES IN
YOUR HAND,'" - HE'S GOING TO
00:48:14.29\00:48:17.59
ILLUSTRATE ANOTHER
PROPHECY - "'AND HIDE THEM
00:48:17.59\00:48:20.03
IN THE SIGHT OF THE MEN
OF JUDAH, IN THE CLAY IN THE
00:48:20.03\00:48:22.43
BRICK COURTYARD
WHICH IS AT THE ENTRANCE TO
00:48:22.43\00:48:24.23
PHARAOH'S HOUSE IN
TAHPANHES;'" - SO THEY'RE
00:48:24.23\00:48:26.07
RIGHT THERE IN THE CAPITAL.
00:48:26.07\00:48:27.14
THEY'VE GONE RIGHT
NEAR PHARAOH'S HOUSE.
00:48:27.14\00:48:28.97
THEY'VE LEFT THE LORD'S
HOUSE AND THEY'VE GONE TO
00:48:28.97\00:48:31.94
PHARAOH'S HOUSE -
"'AND SAY TO THEM, 'THUS SAYS
00:48:31.94\00:48:35.31
THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE
GOD OF ISRAEL: 'BEHOLD, I WILL
00:48:35.31\00:48:37.38
SEND AND BRING
NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING''"
00:48:37.38\00:48:39.58
- BOY, YOU REALIZE - DO
YOU REALIZE HOW JEREMIAH
00:48:39.58\00:48:41.82
COULD BE KILLED
FOR WHAT HE'S SAYING?
00:48:41.82\00:48:43.99
HERE JEREMIAH IS NOT
FAR FROM THE PHARAOH'S HOUSE
00:48:43.99\00:48:46.45
AND HE PUT SOME STONES
IN THE COURTYARD NEAR THE
00:48:46.45\00:48:49.09
PHARAOH'S HOUSE AND HE
SAYS, 'KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR
00:48:49.09\00:48:51.16
IS GOING TO COME RIGHT HERE.
00:48:51.16\00:48:52.69
HE'S GOING TO CAPTURE
YOU. HE'S GOING TO CONQUER
00:48:52.69\00:48:54.76
YOU.' HE SAID IT TO
THE KING OF ISRAEL - THAT
00:48:54.76\00:48:57.90
TAKES COURAGE - NOW HE'S
SAYING IT RIGHT NEXT DOOR
00:48:57.90\00:49:00.50
TO THE PHARAOH'S HOUSE.
THAT'S CALLED TREASON AND
00:49:00.50\00:49:04.24
YOU COULD BE IN A LOT
OF TROUBLE FOR DOING THAT.
00:49:04.24\00:49:07.41
IT SEEMS LIKE A
LACK OF PATRIOTISM.
00:49:07.41\00:49:11.48
"'THUS SAYS THE LORD
OF HOSTS...'BEHOLD, I WILL
00:49:11.48\00:49:14.08
SEND AND BRING
NEBUCHADNEZZAR OF BABYLON,
00:49:14.08\00:49:16.65
MY SERVANT, AND
WILL SET HIS THRONE ABOVE
00:49:16.65\00:49:19.29
THESE STONES THAT I HAVE HIDDEN.
00:49:19.29\00:49:21.66
AND HE WILL SPREAD
HIS ROYAL PAVILION OVER
00:49:21.66\00:49:23.79
THEM.''" - RIGHT HERE
IS WHERE HE'S GOING TO BE -
00:49:23.79\00:49:26.76
"''WHEN HE COMES, HE
SHALL STRIKE THE LAND OF EGYPT
00:49:26.76\00:49:29.06
AND DELIVER TO DEATH
THOSE APPOINTED FOR DEATH, AND
00:49:29.06\00:49:31.37
TO CAPTIVITY THOSE
APPOINTED FOR CAPTIVITY,
00:49:31.37\00:49:33.64
AND TO THE SWORD THOSE
APPOINTED FOR THE SWORD.
00:49:33.64\00:49:35.77
I WILL KINDLE A FIRE IN
THE HOUSES OF THE GODS OF
00:49:35.77\00:49:38.07
EGYPT, AND HE SHALL
BURN THEM AND CARRY THEM AWAY
00:49:38.07\00:49:41.48
CAPTIVE.''" - JUST LIKE
HE CARRIED AWAY THE ARTICLES
00:49:41.48\00:49:43.48
FROM THE LORD'S HOUSE
- "''AND HE SHALL ARRAY
00:49:43.48\00:49:46.28
HIMSELF WITH THE LAND''"
- HE'LL TAKE ALL THE GOOD OF
00:49:46.28\00:49:48.38
THE LAND, THAT MEANS -
"''...AS A SHEPHERD PUTS
00:49:48.38\00:49:50.82
ON HIS GARMENT, AND HE SHALL
GO OUT FROM THERE IN PEACE.
00:49:50.82\00:49:54.96
HE SHALL ALSO BREAK
THE SACRED PILLARS OF BETH
00:49:54.96\00:49:56.99
SHEMESH THAT ARE IN
THE LAND OF EGYPT; AND THE
00:49:56.99\00:49:59.69
HOUSES OF THE GODS OF
THE EGYPTIANS HE SHALL BURN
00:49:59.69\00:50:02.06
WITH FIRE.''" WOW,
HE'S BASICALLY SAYING, 'YOU
00:50:02.06\00:50:06.63
FLED TO EGYPT FOR PROTECTION.
00:50:06.63\00:50:09.04
YOU ARE AFRAID
OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
00:50:09.04\00:50:10.91
IF YOU HAD STAYED
IN THE PROMISED LAND,
00:50:10.91\00:50:13.01
NEBUCHADNEZZAR WOULD
HAVE LET YOU LIVE THERE IN
00:50:13.01\00:50:14.38
PEACE, BUT NOW HE'S
COMING HERE.' YOU EVER HEAR THE
00:50:14.38\00:50:17.95
EXPRESSION, 'YOU CAN
RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE'?
00:50:17.95\00:50:20.35
I THINK IT'S IN THE BOOK
OF AMOS, IT TALKS ABOUT A
00:50:20.35\00:50:24.02
PERSON WHO'S RUNNING
FROM A BEAR AND, YOU KNOW, HE
00:50:24.02\00:50:27.16
ENCOUNTERS A WOLF OR
SOMETHING AND THEN HE RUNS
00:50:27.16\00:50:30.83
INTO THE HOUSE TO HIDE
FROM THE WOLF AND HE LEANS
00:50:30.83\00:50:33.09
AGAINST THE WALL
AND A SNAKE BITES HIM.
00:50:33.09\00:50:35.76
AND IT'S JUST SAYING,
'IF YOU'RE OUT OF GOD'S WILL,
00:50:35.76\00:50:39.50
THERE IS NO PLACE YOU CAN HIDE.
00:50:39.50\00:50:41.47
THERE IS NO
PEACE. THERE'S A LION IN
00:50:41.47\00:50:44.17
THE WAY, AS THEY
SAY. AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S
00:50:44.17\00:50:47.08
EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED,
IF YOU READ YOUR HISTORY.
00:50:47.08\00:50:49.04
NEBUCHADNEZZAR DID
FINALLY TAKE EGYPT.
00:50:49.04\00:50:51.05
YOU LOOK AT THE MAP OF
THE GOLDEN KINGDOM OF BABYLON,
00:50:51.05\00:50:53.75
YOU'LL NOTICE THAT
WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD
00:50:53.75\00:50:55.55
FINISHED HIS
CONQUEST, IT INCLUDES EGYPT.
00:50:55.55\00:50:59.95
AND SO, THEY DID NOT
FIND PEACE BY HIDING IN THE
00:50:59.95\00:51:04.46
LAND OF EGYPT.
ALRIGHT, NOW LET'S JUMP
00:51:04.46\00:51:06.93
DOWN TO JEREMIAH 44,
VERSE 7. SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
00:51:06.93\00:51:10.83
FOR ME JEREMIAH 7:18 -
OKAY, IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:51:10.83\00:51:14.90
I'M GOING TO READ VERSES
7 AND 8 OF JEREMIAH 44, "NOW
00:51:14.90\00:51:19.11
THEREFORE, THUS SAYS
THE LORD, THE GOD OF HOSTS,
00:51:19.11\00:51:21.51
THE GOD OF ISRAEL: 'WHY
DO YOU COMMIT THIS GREAT EVIL
00:51:21.51\00:51:23.41
AGAINST YOURSELVES, TO
CUT OFF FROM YOU MAN AND
00:51:23.41\00:51:26.61
WOMAN, CHILD AND INFANT,
OUT OF JUDAH, LEAVING NONE
00:51:26.61\00:51:30.12
TO REMAIN, IN THAT YOU
PROVOKE ME TO WRATH WITH
00:51:30.12\00:51:33.02
THE WORKS OF YOUR
HANDS, BURNING INCENSE TO OTHER
00:51:33.02\00:51:36.06
GODS IN THE LAND OF
EGYPT" - YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE IN
00:51:36.06\00:51:37.99
EGYPT WORSHIPING THE
LORD, THAT'S ONE THING, BUT NOW
00:51:37.99\00:51:39.76
YOU'RE WORSHIPING THE
GODS OF EGYPT - "WHERE YOU HAVE
00:51:39.76\00:51:43.03
GONE TO DWELL, THAT YOU
MAY CUT YOURSELVES OFF AND
00:51:43.03\00:51:45.80
BE A CURSE AND A REPROACH
AMONG ALL THE NATIONS OF
00:51:45.80\00:51:47.90
THE EARTH?" - AND
WHAT, PARTICULARLY,
00:51:47.90\00:51:49.37
WAS HE TALKING
ABOUT? IF YOU GO TO JEREMIAH
00:51:49.37\00:51:53.68
44:16 - OR VERSE 18 -
IT SAYS, 'THEY WERE BURNING
00:51:53.68\00:51:58.65
INCENSE TO THE QUEEN OF
HEAVEN' - VERSE 17 - "BUT
00:51:58.65\00:52:02.65
WE WILL CERTAINLY DO
WHATEVER HAS GONE OUT OF
00:52:02.65\00:52:04.62
OUR OWN MOUTH, TO BURN
INCENSE TO THE QUEEN OF
00:52:04.62\00:52:05.62
HEAVEN" - WHERE DOES
IT SAY ONE OF GOD'S NAMES
00:52:05.62\00:52:09.06
IS THE QUEEN OF
HEAVEN? WHAT WERE THEY DOING
00:52:09.06\00:52:12.16
BURNING INCENSE TO
THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN?
00:52:12.16\00:52:15.26
NOW, SOME OF YOU WHO
HAVE GROWN UP WITH MAYBE A
00:52:15.26\00:52:18.13
ROMAN CATHOLIC
BACKGROUND, RECOGNIZE THAT TERM
00:52:18.13\00:52:21.67
BECAUSE THAT IS A TERM
THAT IS SOMETIMES USED FOR MARY.
00:52:21.67\00:52:24.94
BUT IT ACTUALLY COMES
FROM PAGANISM BECAUSE THEY
00:52:24.94\00:52:29.14
OFTEN BELIEVED THAT
THE SUN WAS THE PRIMARY GOD
00:52:29.14\00:52:32.35
AND THE MOON REFLECTING
THE SUN WAS THE FEMININE
00:52:32.35\00:52:35.32
SIDE OF THE GOD OF THE
DAY - SHE WAS THE GOD OF THE
00:52:35.32\00:52:39.45
NIGHT AND THE MOTHER OF
THE OTHER GODS AND SO THEY
00:52:39.45\00:52:43.02
WOULD BURN INCENSE
TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN.
00:52:43.02\00:52:45.16
IT WAS SORT OF A
COMBINATION OF MOON
00:52:45.16\00:52:47.13
WORSHIP AND ALSO
WORSHIPING THE SUN, THE
00:52:47.13\00:52:49.50
MOON, AND THE STARS
AND ALL THOSE THINGS THEY
00:52:49.50\00:52:51.13
WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO WORSHIP.
00:52:51.13\00:52:52.53
IT WASN'T THE FIRST TIME
IT'S MENTIONED IN JEREMIAH.
00:52:52.53\00:52:55.90
GO AHEAD, READ FOR US
YOUR VERSE IN JEREMIAH 7:18.
00:52:55.90\00:53:00.24
>>"THE CHILDREN
GATHER WOOD AND THE FATHERS
00:53:00.24\00:53:02.31
KINDLE THE FIRE AND THE
WOMEN KNEAD THEIR DOUGH TO
00:53:02.31\00:53:05.91
MAKE CAKES TO THE QUEEN
OF HEAVEN AND TO POUR OUT
00:53:05.91\00:53:08.68
DRINK OFFERINGS ONTO
OTHER GODS THAT THEY MAY PROVOKE
00:53:08.68\00:53:11.79
ME TO ANGER."
>>NOW NOTICE, THIS IS
00:53:11.79\00:53:13.15
JEREMIAH 7 SHE JUST READ
- THAT WAS BACK IN JUDAH.
00:53:13.15\00:53:17.36
THEY WERE WORSHIPING
THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN THERE.
00:53:17.36\00:53:20.56
AND BURNING CAKES - YOU
EVER HEARD OF HOT CROSS BUNS?
00:53:20.56\00:53:23.83
BURNING CAKES - THESE -
THIS IS SOMETHING - WHAT
00:53:23.83\00:53:26.97
THEY USED TO DO TO
THE GREEK GODS AND BURNING
00:53:26.97\00:53:33.94
BUNS - SO EVEN -
THAT'S PART OF THE REASON THAT
00:53:33.94\00:53:36.81
THE PLAGUE CAME - THEY
WERE WORSHIPING OTHER GODS.
00:53:36.81\00:53:39.88
LOOK AT WHAT THE THING
IS THAT KING JOSIAH - ONE OF
00:53:39.88\00:53:45.12
THE THINGS HE WAS TRYING
TO EXPUNGE FROM THE LAND -
00:53:45.12\00:53:48.36
LOOK IN 2 KINGS 23 - 2
KINGS 23, VERSE 5, "THEN
00:53:48.36\00:53:52.99
HE (JOSIAH) REMOVED
THE IDOLATROUS PRIESTS WHOM
00:53:52.99\00:53:56.73
THE KINGS OF JUDAH HAD
ORDAINED TO BURN INCENSE
00:53:56.73\00:53:59.20
ON THE HIGH PLACES IN THE
CITIES OF JUDAH AND IN THE
00:53:59.20\00:54:02.07
PLACES ALL AROUND
JERUSALEM, AND THOSE WHO
00:54:02.07\00:54:04.71
BURNED INCENSE TO BAAL,
TO THE SUN, TO THE MOON,
00:54:04.71\00:54:08.11
TO THE CONSTELLATIONS, AND
TO ALL THE HOST OF HEAVEN."
00:54:08.11\00:54:10.88
SO JOSIAH, EVEN - HE HAD
BROUGHT A REVIVAL IN THIS
00:54:10.88\00:54:14.82
AREA BECAUSE THEY HAD
STARTED GETTING INVOLVED
00:54:14.82\00:54:16.82
IN WORSHIPING THE SUN AND
THE MOON AND THE STARS AND
00:54:16.82\00:54:18.99
HE EXPUNGED IT FROM THE
LAND AND THEY WENT BACK TO
00:54:18.99\00:54:21.92
IT AGAIN AND - ONE
MORE TIME, YOU KNOW WHAT IT
00:54:21.92\00:54:23.83
SAID THERE IN JEREMIAH 7:18?
00:54:23.83\00:54:26.56
'THE CHILDREN GATHER
WOOD, THE FATHERS KINDLE THE
00:54:26.56\00:54:28.36
FIRE, THE WOMEN KNEAD
DOUGH" - IT LOOKS LIKE
00:54:28.36\00:54:30.60
FAMILY WORSHIP - THAT'S
WONDERFUL, EXCEPT THEY'RE
00:54:30.60\00:54:32.70
WORSHIPING THE
WRONG GOD. IT'S WHAT THEY
00:54:32.70\00:54:36.17
CONTINUED TO DO.
THEY KEPT GOING AFTER THE
00:54:36.17\00:54:38.04
GODS OF EGYPT AND
NOW THEY'RE IN EGYPT,
00:54:38.04\00:54:40.28
WORSHIPING THE GODS OF
EGYPT, AND THIS WAS THE
00:54:40.28\00:54:43.58
WHOLE REASON THAT THEY HAD LEFT.
00:54:43.58\00:54:45.68
SO DO YOU REALIZE
WHAT'S JUST HAPPENED?
00:54:45.68\00:54:48.55
WHEN THEY'RE DESTROYED
AND CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON, IT
00:54:48.55\00:54:50.95
WAS THE WHOLE PLAN
OF SALVATION IN REVERSE.
00:54:50.95\00:54:54.89
INSTEAD OF BEING
SAVED FROM THEIR SLAVERY AND
00:54:54.89\00:54:57.53
BROUGHT TO THE PROMISED
LAND, BECAUSE THEY - AFTER
00:54:57.53\00:55:00.63
BEING SAVED - THEY
WORSHIPED FALSE GODS -
00:55:00.63\00:55:03.60
THEY NOW WENT
BACK TO THEIR SLAVERY.
00:55:03.60\00:55:06.97
THEY'RE BACK IN EGYPT.
THEY SAID, 'LET US GO BACK
00:55:06.97\00:55:09.17
TO EGYPT.' GOD
FINALLY GAVE THEM WHAT
00:55:09.17\00:55:10.91
THEY WANTED. THEY'RE IN EGYPT.
00:55:10.91\00:55:13.11
THEY'RE WORSHIPING
FALSE GODS AND JEREMIAH SAID,
00:55:13.11\00:55:15.58
'JUDGMENT IS
COMING.' THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS.
00:55:15.58\00:55:18.81
SOME PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAVED
AND LIKE THE PRODIGALS, THEY RUN
00:55:18.81\00:55:20.98
BACK TO EGYPT AND, IF
THEY DON'T GET OUT OF EGYPT, HE
00:55:20.98\00:55:25.12
SAYS JUDGEMENT IS
COMING ON THE LAND.
00:55:25.12\00:55:28.36
AND SO, YOU'VE JUST
WITNESSED, THROUGH THE
00:55:28.36\00:55:30.09
STORY OF JEREMIAH, HIS
SAVING THE PEOPLE - NOW
00:55:30.09\00:55:33.56
WHO ENDS UP BECOMING
THE ONES WHO KEEP THE TRUTH?
00:55:33.56\00:55:36.16
THE ONES WHO ARE
CARRIED TO BABYLON: DANIEL IS
00:55:36.16\00:55:39.17
FAITHFUL. EZEKIEL IS
FAITHFUL. THE - EZRA - THOSE WHO
00:55:39.17\00:55:44.51
COME BACK FROM BABYLON
END UP BEING THE REMNANT.
00:55:44.51\00:55:47.24
IT COULD HAVE BEEN
THE ONES WHO STAYED IN THE
00:55:47.24\00:55:48.74
LAND, IF THEY HAD
WORSHIPED THE LORD.
00:55:48.74\00:55:50.51
GOD ENDED UP BRINGING
A REMNANT OUT OF BABYLON,
00:55:50.51\00:55:52.95
BACK INTO THE PROMISED
LAND, BUT THIS GROUP, THEY
00:55:52.95\00:55:54.98
JUST EXPERIENCED THE
WHOLE EXODUS IN REVERSE.
00:55:54.98\00:55:57.95
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