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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS, AND WELCOME AGAIN TO 00:36 SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR 00:40 CHURCH MEMBERS HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND 00:42 THOSE WHO ARE VISITING, AND ALSO OUR FRIENDS 00:44 WHO ARE WATCHING - AN EXTENSION OF OUR SABBATH 00:46 SCHOOL CLASS AROUND THE COUNTRY AND ACROSS THE 00:48 WORLD - A VERY WARM WELCOME TO YOU. WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH 00:52 THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH IN OUR LESSON QUARTERLY. TODAY WE FIND 00:55 OURSELVES ON LESSON #12 ENTITLED BACK TO EGYPT . 00:58 BUT BEFORE WE GET INTO OUR LESSON, I'D LIKE TO TELL 01:00 YOU ABOUT A FREE OFFER THAT WE HAVE FOR TODAY - A 01:03 BOOK WRITTEN BY JOE CREWS ENTITLED SATAN'S CONFUSING 01:07 COUNTERFEITS AND ANYBODY IN NORTH AMERICA THAT 01:09 WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE THIS BOOK, JUST GIVE US A CALL 01:11 ON OUR RESOURCE LINE. THE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 01:17 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #191. 01:20 THAT NUMBER AGAIN IS 866-788-3966. 01:24 YOU CAN ASK FOR THE BOOK SATAN'S CONFUSING 01:26 COUNTERFEITS - THAT'S OFFER #191. 01:29 WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY THIS MORNING, LET'S 01:32 BEGIN BY SINGING SOME WONDERFUL HYMNS OF PRAISE. 01:36 I'D LIKE TO WELCOME OUR SINGERS FORWARD. 01:40 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. AND HELLO AND WELCOME. 01:43 WE'RE GOING TO SING #118 - THE FIRST NOEL - AND WE'RE 01:48 GOING TO SING THE FIRST, SECOND, FOURTH, AND FIFTH 01:51 VERSES SO WE'RE JUST ELIMINATING THE THIRD ONE, 01:53 OKAY? #118. (MUSIC) 02:12 >>THE FIRST NOEL THE ANGEL DID SAY WAS TO 02:21 CERTAIN POOR SHEPHERDS IN FIELDS AS THEY LAY; IN 02:29 FIELDS WHERE THEY LAY KEEPING THEIR SHEEP, ON A 02:37 COLD WINTER'S NIGHT THAT WAS SO DEEP. 02:44 NOEL, NOEL, NOEL, NOEL, BORN IS THE KING OF ISRAEL. 03:01 THEY LOOKED UP AND SAW A STAR SHINING IN THE EAST, 03:13 BEYOND THEM FAR, AND TO THE EARTH IT GAVE GREAT 03:23 LIGHT, AND SO IT CONTINUED BOTH DAY AND NIGHT. 03:33 NOEL, NOEL, NOEL, NOEL, BORN IS THE KING OF ISRAEL. 03:50 THIS STAR DREW NIGH TO THE NORTHWEST, O'ER BETHLEHEM 04:02 IT TOOK ITS REST, AND THERE IT DID BOTH STOP AND 04:12 STAY, RIGHT OVER THE PLACE WHERE JESUS LAY. 04:21 NOEL, NOEL, NOEL, NOEL, BORN IS THE KING OF ISRAEL. 04:39 THEN ENTERED IN THOSE WISE MEN THREE, FULL REVERENTLY 04:50 UPON THE KNEE, AND OFFERED THERE, IN HIS PRESENCE, 05:02 THEIR GOLD, AND MYRRH, AND FRANKINCENSE. 05:10 NOEL, NOEL, NOEL, NOEL, BORN IS THE KING OF ISRAEL. 05:31 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING WITH US IN SONG. 05:33 AND NOW PASTOR ROSS IS GOING TO HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER. 05:42 >>I INVITE YOU JUST TO BOW YOUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 05:45 DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, ONCE AGAIN, WE ARE SO 05:46 GRATEFUL TO BE ABLE TO GATHER TOGETHER IN YOUR 05:48 HOUSE ON THIS THE SABBATH TO STUDY THE WORD. 05:51 AND LORD, ONCE AGAIN, WE ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT TO 05:53 COME AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS. 05:55 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AS WAS MENTIONED JUST A 05:59 LITTLE EARLIER IN THE PROGRAM TODAY, WE'RE 06:01 LOOKING AT LESSON #12 IN OUR STUDY OF JEREMIAH. 06:05 WE'VE GOT ONE MORE WEEK'S STUDY IN OUR LESSON 06:08 QUARTERLY ON THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH. 06:10 THEN WE START A BRAND-NEW SERIES OF LESSONS CALLED 06:13 REBELLION AND REDEMPTION . 06:15 IT'S ALL ABOUT THE GREAT CONTROVERSY. 06:16 I KNOW HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH WE'RE TYPICALLY 06:18 THREE WEEKS AHEAD THAN WHAT IT ACTUALLY SAYS IN 06:21 YOUR LESSON QUARTERLY, SO NEXT WEEK WE WILL HAVE 06:24 NEXT WEEK'S - OR NEXT QUARTER'S LESSONS READY 06:27 FOR YOU AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO PICK UP YOUR 06:29 OWN AND STUDY ALONG WITH US. 06:30 WELL, WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO INVITE PASTOR DOUG TO 06:32 COME FORWARD AND HE'LL BE TEACHING OUR LESSON TODAY. 06:40 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS AND WELCOME, ONCE AGAIN, 06:43 FRIENDS - THOSE WHO ARE PART OF OUR REGULAR 06:45 SABBATH SCHOOL GROUP, THESE - THIS IS A HOLIDAY 06:49 WEEKEND AND SO WE HAVE SOME OF OUR REGULAR FOLK 06:52 MAYBE TRAVELING - VISITING FAMILY - AND WE 06:54 HAVE SOME WHO ARE VISITING THAT ARE NOT REGULARS AND 06:56 WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE WITH US. 06:57 AND THEN, OF COURSE, WE WANT TO WELCOME THE 06:59 SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS THAT IS ALL OVER THE WORLD. 07:03 AND THE PEOPLE THAT WE SEE EVERYWHERE THAT WE GET THE 07:05 LETTERS FROM AND THE NOTES AND THE E-MAILS AND SO, TO 07:08 OUR EXTENDED CLASS, GREETINGS. 07:11 WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU CAN JOIN US FOR OUR STUDY 07:12 TODAY AND WE'RE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH SOME OF 07:16 THE LAST CHAPTERS - NOT THE LAST - THAT'S NEXT 07:19 WEEK, BUT SOME OF THE LAST CHAPTERS IN THE STORY OF 07:23 JEREMIAH AND TODAY'S LESSON IS CALLED BACK TO 07:26 EGYPT AND IT'S GOING TO BE DEALING WITH THE CHAPTER 07:29 40, VERSE 7 OF JEREMIAH, THROUGH CHAPTER 44. 07:34 AND SO REALLY, THAT'S OUR ASSIGNMENT AND I WAS 07:37 TELLING KAREN ON MY WAY OVER, I SAID, 'THAT'S A 07:40 TOUGH LESSON TODAY. THERE'S JUST - THERE'S NOT 07:43 A LOT OF ENCOURAGEMENT IN THE LESSON TODAY - I MEAN, 07:47 WE'LL TRY AND DRAW SOME OUT, BUT IT'S A RECORD OF 07:51 SORT OF ABYSMAL FAILURE OF GOD'S PEOPLE AND A LOT OF 07:56 VERY BAD CHOICES THAT LED TO A RETURN OF CAPTIVITY. 08:01 YOU KNOW, THE EXODUS IS A WONDERFUL STORY BECAUSE 08:05 THE EXODUS TALKS ABOUT GOD BRINGING PEOPLE FROM 08:07 SLAVERY TO THE PROMISED LAND. 08:10 WHAT HAPPENS IN OUR STUDY TODAY IS THE EXODUS IN REVERSE. 08:15 THE PEOPLE GO FROM A PLACE WHERE THEY'VE GOT THE HOPE 08:18 OF PEACE AND A NEW BEGINNING AND ALL THESE 08:21 PROMISES OF GOD, IF THEY'LL STAY IN THE LAND. 08:23 THEY DON'T BELIEVE AND THEY WANT TO GO BACK TO 08:25 EGYPT AND THEY END UP BACK IN EGYPT WORSHIPPING FALSE 08:29 GODS. AND SO, YOU CAN SEE 08:31 WHY THAT'S SORT OF A SAD STORY. 08:33 BUT THERE'S SOME LESSONS THERE AND WARNINGS THERE 08:36 FOR US BECAUSE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN ALL AT ONCE. 08:38 SO YOU KNOW WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO? 08:40 LET'S DIVE IN AND GO IN YOUR BIBLES TO JEREMIAH 08:44 CHAPTER 40 AND IT STARTS - IT STARTS WITH VERSE 7 - 08:49 I'M GOING TO BACK UP TO VERSE 6 - JEREMIAH CHAPTER 08:51 40, VERSE 6, "THEN JEREMIAH WENT TO GEDALIAH 08:56 THE SON OF AHIKAM, TO MIZPAH, AND DWELT WITH HIM 08:59 AMONG THE PEOPLE WHO WERE LEFT IN THE LAND." 09:02 - NOW, IN CASE YOU MISSED THE PREVIOUS LESSONS, LET 09:04 ME GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND. 09:05 AFTER REPEATED WARNINGS AND OPPORTUNITY, THE 09:09 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD CHASED AWAY ALL THEIR 09:11 PROBATION. THEY COULD HAVE REPENTED. 09:13 THEY COULD HAVE SURRENDERED, BUT THEY 09:15 REFUSED - THEY REBELLED. 09:16 NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME, HE DESTROYED THE TEMPLE, HE 09:20 DESTROYED THE CITY, HE CARRIED AWAY MOST OF THE - 09:23 WELL, THOSE HE DID NOT KILL - A LOT OF THE 09:26 LEADERS WERE EXECUTED - THOSE WHO WERE NOT 09:29 EXECUTED - ANY OF THE ARTISANS OR SKILLED PEOPLE 09:31 WERE CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON, BUT HE LEFT SOME 09:34 OF THE POOREST OF THE PEOPLE IN THE LAND BECAUSE 09:37 THE PROMISED LAND HAD SOME GOOD LAND BACK THEN AND 09:40 THEY HAD A LOT OF - A LOT OF FRUIT AND VINEYARDS AND 09:44 FIG TREES AND DATE TREES AND - AND SO THE KING, 09:47 ACTUALLY GETS REVENUE FROM THAT. 09:50 SO THE BABYLONIAN SOLDIERS HAD NOT DESTROYED THE 09:52 FARMS BECAUSE THEY NEEDED THOSE TO EAT. 09:55 THEY HAD BESIEGED JERUSALEM. 09:59 AND SO THEY LEAVE THE POOR TO CONTINUE CARING FOR AND 10:02 TENDING THE LAND SO THAT IT WOULD HELP SUPPLY THE 10:06 KING'S CITY OF BABYLON AND THEIR SOLDIERS AND SO 10:11 FORTH. AND HE SAID, 'WELL I NEED 10:14 TO HAVE SOMEONE HERE BE GOVERNOR OVER THE POOR 10:16 PEOPLE THAT REMAINED.' SO THE KING FOUND ONE MAN HE 10:19 THOUGHT HAD BEEN LOYAL THAT HE COULD TRUST NAMED 10:21 GEDALIAH AND HE MADE HIM THE GOVERNOR. 10:24 YOU REMEMBER HOW, WHEN NEHEMIAH CAME BACK FROM 10:26 PERSIA, HE WAS MADE THE GOVERNOR? 10:29 BECAUSE THEY'RE REALLY A VASSAL STATE NOW. 10:31 THEY DON'T HAVE THEIR OWN FREEDOM. 10:32 SO NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAID, 'ALRIGHT, GEDALIAH, YOU'RE 10:35 IN CHARGE.' AND HE GIVES HIM AN ALLOWANCE. 10:37 HE LEFT A FEW CHALDEAN SOLDIERS - BABYLONIAN 10:40 SOLDIERS - THERE AND THEY WENT TO MIZPAH AND THAT 10:44 WAS GOING TO BE THE NEW HEADQUARTERS. 10:45 WHY? JERUSALEM'S ALL BLACKENED 10:47 AND SMOLDERING. IT'S DESTROYED. IT'S VERY DEPRESSING, BUT 10:50 THE TOWN OF MIZPAH, IT STILL HAD A LITTLE BIT 10:51 OF A FORTIFIED AREA, SO THEY'RE LIVING THERE AND 10:54 THAT'S FURTHER NORTH OF JERUSALEM. 10:57 AND SO JEREMIAH SAYS - YOU REMEMBER THE GUARD, WHEN HE 11:01 SET JEREMIAH FREE, HE SAID, 'LOOK, HERE'S AN 11:04 ALLOWANCE. YOU WERE FAITHFUL. 11:05 YOU DID NOT REBEL AGAINST NEBUCHADNEZZAR. 11:08 HERE'S SOME MONEY. YOU WANT TO GO WITH ME? 11:10 NEBUZARADAN - THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD FOR 11:13 NEBUCHADNEZZAR - HE SAID, 'YOU WANT TO GO WITH ME 11:15 AND THE CAPTIVES? WE'LL GO BACK TO BABYLON 11:17 AND I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU THERE. YOU CAN LIVE COMFORTABLY 11:22 THE REST OF YOUR DAYS IN BABYLON. 11:24 OR, IF YOU WANT TO STAY HERE WITH YOUR OWN PEOPLE 11:25 THAT ARE STAYING BEHIND, YOU CAN STAY WITH THEM.' 11:28 AND JEREMIAH DECIDED TO STAY WITH HIS PEOPLE. 11:31 NOW I'VE GOT A VERSE I WANT SOMEONE TO READ. 11:33 DO WE HAVE SOME OF THOSE HANDED OUT? 11:34 SOMEBODY'S GOING TO HAVE HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, VERSE 24. 11:39 WHO HAS THAT? >>"BY FAITH MOSES, WHEN HE 11:44 BECAME OF AGE, REFUSED TO BE CALLED THE SON OF 11:46 PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER, CHOOSING RATHER TO SUFFER 11:49 AFFLICTION WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD THAN TO ENJOY THE 11:52 PASSING PLEASURES OF SIN." >>WHY DIDN'T JEREMIAH TAKE 11:57 THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD UP ON HIS OFFER? 11:59 HE SAID, 'GO BACK TO BABYLON WITH ME AND I'LL 12:00 TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOU AND YOU'LL HAVE A GOOD PLACE 12:03 IN THE KINGDOM AND YOU'LL BE FED FROM THE ROYAL 12:05 TABLE AND YOU'LL BE TAX FREE AND - OR YOU CAN 12:08 STAY WITH THE POOR PEOPLE - YOUR PEOPLE THAT ARE 12:10 LEFT IN THE LAND.' HE FORSOOK, LIKE MOSES, THE 12:15 TREASURES OF BABYLON IN PREFERENCE FOR THE 12:17 SUFFERING OF AFFLICTION WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD. 12:19 JEREMIAH'S HEART, AS A PROPHET OF GOD, WAS WITH 12:22 THE PEOPLE OF GOD SO HE STAYED BEHIND. 12:24 JEREMIAH 40, VERSE 7, "AND WHEN ALL THE CAPTAINS OF 12:29 THE ARMIES WHO WERE IN THE FIELDS, THEY AND THEIR 12:32 MEN, HEARD THAT THE KING OF BABYLON HAD MADE 12:34 GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM GOVERNOR" - NOW WHO ARE 12:37 THESE CAPTAINS OF THE ARMIES? 12:39 DON'T LOSE YOUR PLACE THERE, GO TO CHAPTER 39, VERSE 4. 12:44 AFTER NEBUCHADNEZZAR SURROUNDS THE CITY - HE'S 12:47 BESIEGED JERUSALEM - HE FINALLY BREACHES THE CITY 12:50 WALL, THEY MANAGED TO GET WITHIN THE OUTER WALL - 12:54 ZEDEKIAH REALIZES THE CITY IS GOING TO BE TAKEN. 12:57 THE LAST NIGHT BEFORE THEY BREACH THE INNER WALL, HE 12:59 THINKS, 'THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE.' THE SOLDIERS SAY, 13:02 'LOOK, WE CAN'T HELP THE PEOPLE ANYMORE. 13:03 IF WE'RE CONQUERED, ALL THE SOLDIERS ARE GOING TO 13:05 BE EXECUTED, THAT'S FOR SURE. 13:06 HE MIGHT LET SOME OF THE POOR PEOPLE LIVE, BUT THE 13:08 SOLDIERS ARE GOING TO BE EXECUTED. 13:10 AND SO THEY FOUND - THERE WAS A LITTLE NARROW 13:13 OPENING THAT WASN'T CAREFULLY GUARDED BY THE 13:16 BABYLONIANS - THE SOLDIERS BROKE THROUGH AT NIGHT - 13:19 THE BABYLONIAN FORCES WENT CHARGING THROUGH WITH 13:21 THEIR HORSES, THEY MADE THEIR WAY DOWN FROM JERUSALEM TOWARDS 13:24 JERICHO AND IN THE MORNING THE BABYLONIANS HAD HARD 13:28 PURSUIT - THEY WEREN'T SO MUCH CONCERNED ABOUT 13:30 CATCHING THE SOLDIERS AS ZEDEKIAH. 13:32 SO NOTICE HERE - VERSE 4 - JEREMIAH 39, "SO IT WAS, 13:37 WHEN ZEDEKIAH THE KING OF JUDAH AND ALL THE MEN OF 13:39 WAR SAW" - THAT THE CITY WAS TAKEN, "...THEY FLED 13:42 AND WENT OUT OF THE CITY BY NIGHT," - HE ABANDONED 13:45 HIS PEOPLE - "BY WAY OF THE KING'S GARDEN, BY THE 13:49 GATE BETWEEN THE TWO WALLS. 13:51 AND HE WENT OUT BY WAY OF THE PLAIN." 13:52 - GOING DOWN TOWARDS JORDAN AND JERICHO - "BUT 13:55 THE CHALDEAN ARMY PURSUED THEM AND OVERTOOK 13:58 ZEDEKIAH" - NOT ALL THE SOLDIERS - THE SOLDIERS 14:00 LARGELY SCATTERED FROM THE KING - "...OVERTOOK 14:03 ZEDEKIAH IN THE PLAINS OF JERICHO. 14:05 AND WHEN THEY HAD CAPTURED HIM, THEY BROUGHT HIM UP 14:08 TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR" - AND THEY EXECUTED JUDGMENT ON 14:11 HIM. SO YOU GO BACK TO CHAPTER 14:12 40, VERSE 7, IT SAYS, "AND WHEN ALL THE CAPTAINS OF 14:15 THE ARMIES WHO WERE IN THE FIELDS," - NOW YOU SEE HOW 14:17 THEY WERE IN THE FIELD? THEY HAD ESCAPED THE CITY. 14:19 SO SOME OF THE SOLDIERS WERE STILL THERE EVEN 14:21 THOUGH THE PEOPLE HAD BEEN CARRIED OFF. 14:23 THEY CAME CRAWLING OUT - WHEN THE BABYLONIAN ARMY 14:25 MARCHED AWAY WITH THE CAPTIVES TO BABYLON, THE 14:27 SOLDIERS KIND OF - THEY WALKED OUT AND THEY SAW 14:30 THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD PUT SOMEBODY ELSE IN 14:32 CHARGE OF THE PEOPLE AND THAT REALLY RANKLED WITH THEM. 14:38 NOW, IF THEY HAD JUST SUBMITTED - I MEAN, THEY 14:41 HAD ALREADY BEEN CONQUERED. 14:42 THE CITY WAS DESTROYED. THE TEMPLE WAS BURNED. 14:45 EVERYTHING JEREMIAH SAID HAPPENED AND 14:47 NOW JEREMIAH SAID, 'SURRENDER AND YOU'LL LIVE 14:49 IN PEACE.' BUT THEY DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT. 14:52 SO IT SAYS WHEN THEY CAME AND THEY SAW THAT GEDALIAH 14:58 HAD THE LAND COMMITTED TO HIM AND "...MEN, WOMEN, 15:02 CHILDREN, AND THE POOREST OF THE LAND WHO HAD NOT 15:04 BEEN CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE TO BABYLON, THEN THEY CAME 15:07 TO GEDALIAH AT MIZPAH - ISHMAEL" - NOW, YOU KNOW, 15:12 THERE'S ANOTHER ISHMAEL IN THE BIBLE. 15:14 IT'S THE BROTHER OF ISAAC. 15:16 THIS GUY WAS NAMED AFTER HIM - "ISHMAEL, THE SON OF 15:19 NETHANIAH, JOHANAN AND JONATHAN THE SONS OF 15:22 KAREAH, SERAIAH THE SON OF TANHUMETH, THE SONS OF 15:26 EPHAI THE NETOPHATHITE, AND JEZANIAH THE SON OF A 15:32 MAACHATHITE, THEY AND THEIR MEN. 15:36 AND GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM, THE SON OF 15:38 SHAPHAN, TOOK AN OATH BEFORE THEM AND THEIR MEN 15:40 SAYING, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID TO SERVE THE CHALDEANS. 15:44 DWELL IN THE LAND AND SERVE THE KING OF BABYLON, 15:46 AND IT SHALL BE WELL WITH YOU.'" - 'WE'VE GOT THE 15:48 WHOLE LAND, THE SOLDIERS ARE GONE, THERE'S STILL 15:51 FOOD IN THE FIELDS - "'AS FOR ME, I WILL INDEED 15:54 DWELL AT MIZPAH AND SERVE THE CHALDEANS WHO COME TO US. 15:57 BUT YOU, GATHER WINE AND SUMMER FRUIT AND OIL, PUT 16:00 THEM IN YOUR VESSELS, AND DWELL IN YOUR CITIES THAT 16:02 YOU HAVE TAKEN.' LIKEWISE, WHEN ALL THE JEWS WHO WERE 16:04 IN MOAB, AMONG THE AMMONITES, IN EDOM, AND 16:07 WHO WERE IN ALL THE COUNTRIES, HEARD THAT THE 16:09 KING OF BABYLON HAD LEFT A REMNANT OF JUDAH, AND THAT 16:12 HE HAD SET OVER THEM GEDALIAH THE SON OF 16:14 AHIKAM, THE SON OF SHAPHAN," - THEN ALL THE 16:16 JEWS RETURNED OUT OF ALL THE PLACES WHERE THEY HAD 16:19 BEEN DRIVEN. ALRIGHT, JUST TO GIVE YOU 16:20 THE BACKGROUND AGAIN, WHILE NEBUCHADNEZZAR 16:23 BESIEGED JERUSALEM AND THEY KNEW HE WAS GOING TO 16:25 TAKE THE LAND, MANY OF THE JEWS WERE AFRAID. 16:28 THEY FLED TO THE OUTLYING COUNTRIES - EDOMITES, 16:31 MOABITES, AMMONITES - IN THE HILLS AND CAVES. 16:35 FINALLY WORD REACHES THEM - NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAS TAKEN 16:37 THE CAPTIVES - HE AND HIS SOLDIERS, THEY'RE GONE - 16:39 HE'S MADE A NEW GOVERNOR OF THE LAND. 16:41 IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S GOING TO BE PEACE. 16:43 THEY ALL CAME CRAWLING FROM EVERYWHERE THEY'D 16:45 BEEN DRIVEN AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE CAME POURING 16:48 BACK - EVEN THOUGH THE CAPTIVES HAD BEEN CARRIED 16:50 AWAY, THEY CAME POURING BACK INTO THE PROMISED 16:53 LAND - THEN ALL THE JEWS RETURNED OUT OF ALL PLACES 16:56 WHERE THEY HAD BEEN DRIVEN," - I'M IN VERSE 12 16:58 - "AND CAME TO THE LAND OF JUDAH, TO GEDALIAH AT 17:02 MIZPAH, AND GATHERED WINE AND SUMMER FRUIT IN ABUNDANCE." 17:08 YOU SEE, ALL THESE FARMS WERE LEFT THERE THAT HAD 17:12 BEEN UNATTENDED BECAUSE THE PEOPLE HAD BEEN 17:13 CARRIED AWAY - AND YOU COULD ALMOST PICK WHAT 17:16 HOUSE YOU WANTED TO LIVE IN. 17:18 NOW, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CAME 17:20 INTO THE PROMISED LAND, THEY DROVE OUT THE 17:24 CANAANITES WHO HAD BEEN THERE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. 17:26 AND THEY HAD WELL-ESTABLISHED CITIES 17:27 AND THEY HAD ESTABLISHED VINEYARDS, AND THEY HAD 17:29 FARMS, AND THEY HAD FIG TREES AND DATE TREES AND - 17:31 AND JUST PICTURE, FOR A MOMENT, IF ALL OF A SUDDEN 17:36 EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE NORTHERN 17:39 CALIFORNIA AREA JUST FLED. WEATHER'S NICE. 17:44 EVERYTHING'S FINE. ALL THE, YOU KNOW, INTERNAL WORKING SYSTEMS 17:47 ARE WORKING BUT THEY'RE JUST GONE. 17:48 AND YOU GET TO DECIDE WHAT HOUSE YOU WANT TO LIVE IN 17:51 BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL EMPTY. WHERE WOULD YOU GO? 17:54 AND SO THEY HAD THE PICK OF THE LAND. 17:57 SO WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CAME INTO THE 17:59 PROMISED LAND - THIS IS WHAT MOSES TOLD THEM - AND 18:02 I FORGET THE VERSE - I THINK IT'S IN DEUTERONOMY 18:04 - HE SAID, 'BEWARE WHEN YOU ENTER THE LAND AND YOU 18:07 DRINK FROM WELLS THAT YOU DID NOT DIG, AND WHEN YOU 18:10 EAT FROM VINEYARDS YOU DID NOT PLANT, AND WHEN YOU 18:13 EAT FROM ORCHARDS THAT YOU DID NOT PLANT, AND WHEN 18:15 YOU MOVE INTO HOUSES THAT YOU DID NOT BUILD, THAT 18:18 WHEN YOU EAT AND YOU DRINK AND YOU ARE FAT,' - THAT'S 18:21 WHAT HE SAYS - HE SAYS, 'BEWARE, LEST YOU FORGET 18:25 THE LORD THAT GAVE YOU ALL OF THIS.' SO THEY HAD THIS 18:28 ABUNDANT OPPORTUNITY TO JUST PICK ALL THESE PLACES 18:30 THAT WERE BUILT - JUST MOVE IN AND INHABIT IT. 18:33 THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR GOES. 18:35 YOU KNOW WHO'S LEFT BEHIND? THE POOREST OF THE LAND. 18:38 ALL THE RICH FARMERS HAVE BEEN CARRIED OFF. 18:40 AND NOW THE POOR PICKERS, THEY GET TO SAY, 'I GET TO 18:43 LIVE IN THE RANCHER'S HOUSE? 18:45 ALL THIS FOOD THAT'S GROWING - THAT HAD BEEN 18:47 PLANTED - I NOW GET TO HARVEST THAT?' 18:50 THEY HAD THE BEST OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE YEARS 18:52 OF PEACE, BECAUSE THE BABYLONIAN KINGDOM WAS A 18:55 FAIRLY SECURE KINGDOM. 18:56 IT WAS A WORLD EMPIRE FOR SEVENTY YEARS. 18:59 BUT THOSE SOLDIERS THAT CAME OUT OF THE HILLS THAT 19:04 HAD BEEN IN HIDING, WERE ANGRY. 19:06 THEY WERE STILL MAD AT THE BABYLONIANS. 19:08 THEY DID NOT WANT GEDALIAH TO BE KING - THEY THOUGHT 19:10 A SON OF DAVID SHOULD BE KING - AND SO THEY JUST 19:13 HAD THEIR MIND MADE UP TO REBEL MORE. 19:16 AND THIS IS WHAT - THIS IS WHAT'S HAPPENING. 19:23 YEAH, GO TO VERSE 13 - THANK YOU - "MOREOVER 19:26 JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH AND ALL THE CAPTAINS OF 19:28 THE FORCES THAT WERE IN THE FIELDS CAME TO 19:30 GEDALIAH AT MIZPAH, AND SAID TO HIM, 'DO YOU 19:33 CERTAINLY KNOW THAT BAALIS THE KING OF THE AMMONITES 19:36 HAS SENT ISHMAEL THE SON OF NETHANIAH TO MURDER 19:38 YOU?' BUT GEDALIAH THE SON OF 19:41 AHIKAM DID NOT BELIEVE THEM." 19:43 NOW, YOU CAN'T DUCK AND DODGE AND HIDE AND FLINCH, 19:47 WHEN YOU'RE A LEADER, AT EVERY THREAT. 19:49 DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN NEHEMIAH WAS TOLD 'YOU 19:51 NEED TO GO HIDE IN THE TEMPLE BECAUSE THE 19:54 SAMARITANS HAVE HIRED SOMEONE TO KILL YOU.' AND 19:57 WHAT - DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT NEHEMIAH SAID? 19:59 'SHOULD SUCH A MAN AS I FLEE?' 20:02 HE SAID, 'I'M THE GOVERNOR. 20:03 I'M NOT GOING TO HIDE.' AND NOTHING DID HAPPEN. 20:06 IT WAS A FALSE REPORT. BUT THIS WAS A TRUE REPORT. 20:09 ISHMAEL, WHO WAS IN LEAGUE WITH THE KING OF THE 20:13 AMMONITES, WHO ALSO DIDN'T LIKE THE BABYLONIANS, HE 20:16 WAS PLANNING AN ASSASSINATION. 20:19 "THEN JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH SPOKE SECRETLY TO 20:23 GEDALIAH" - AS GOVERNOR - I'M IN VERSE 15 - "IN 20:26 MIZPAH, SAYING, 'LET ME GO, PLEASE, AND I WILL KILL ISHMAEL 20:30 THE SON OF NETHANIAH, AND NO ONE WILL KNOW IT. 20:33 WHY SHOULD HE MURDER YOU, SO THAT ALL THE JEWS WHO 20:36 ARE GATHERED TO YOU WOULD BE SCATTERED, AND THE 20:37 REMNANT IN JUDAH PERISH?'" YOU SEE, GOD 20:40 HAD LEFT A REMNANT. HAVE YOU STUDIED THE 20:41 SUBJECT OF THE REMNANT? YOU'VE GOT A REMNANT - 20:45 NOAH'S A REMNANT THAT SURVIVES WHEN EVERYONE 20:47 ELSE IS DESTROYED. AND THEN THEY ALL TURN TO 20:50 IDOLATRY - THE TOWER OF BABEL - AND GOD SAVES 20:52 A REMNANT - ABRAHAM. IT'S LIKE THE REMAINDER. 20:56 AND HERE, THEY'VE BEEN CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON, 20:58 BUT GOD LEAVES A REMNANT AND HE PROMISES TO BLESS 21:00 THEM IF THEY WILL TRUST HIM. 21:02 BUT THIS MAN, WHO WAS A LOYAL SOLDIER, JOHANAN, HE 21:08 SAYS TO GEDALIAH, 'LOOK, YOU NEED TO TAKE THIS GUY 21:12 OUT. HE'S A BAD EGG. HE'S GOING TO DESTROY 21:14 EVERYTHING FOR EVERYBODY. HE'S GOING TO ASSASSINATE 21:17 YOU AND THEN WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN? 21:18 BECAUSE YOU WERE CHOSEN BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR? 21:20 IT'LL LOOK LIKE ANOTHER REBELLION.' AND HE SAID, 21:22 'NO, NO, DON'T WORRY. I DON'T BELIEVE IT. 21:24 HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT.' "BUT GEDALIAH THE SON OF 21:29 AHIKAM SAID TO JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH, 'YOU SHALL 21:32 NOT DO THIS THING, FOR YOU SPEAK FALSELY CONCERNING 21:34 ISHMAEL.'" WELL, NOW YOU DON'T EVER WANT TO 21:39 RECOMMEND AN ASSASSINATION. 21:41 OR YOU DON'T EVER WANT TO RECOMMEND THAT KIND OF 21:44 PRE-EMPTIVE ACTION, BUT YOU KNOW, IF HE HAD GIVEN 21:46 HIM PERMISSION IT WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD. 21:49 IS THERE EVER A TIME WHEN A KING NEEDS TO ACT - A 21:53 LEADER NEEDS TO ACT IN WHAT MAY SEEM LIKE A 21:55 BRUTAL WAY - TO PRESERVE PEACE? 21:57 WHEN SOLOMON CAME INTO POWER - YOU REALIZE WHAT 22:00 SOLOMON'S NAME - IT'S RELATED TO THE NAME 22:02 'SHALOM' - AND WHEN HE CAME INTO POWER, HE KNEW 22:09 HE NEEDED TO DEAL VERY SEVERELY WITH TWO OR THREE 22:11 PEOPLE. ONE OF THEM WAS ADONIJAH, 22:14 HIS OLDER BROTHER, WAS GOING TO TRY AGAIN TO TAKE 22:16 THE THRONE, AND AS SOON AS HE SAW HIM MAKING 22:19 MOVEMENTS TO TAKE THE THRONE, SOLOMON DIDN'T 22:21 FOOL AROUND, HE HAD HIM EXECUTED. 22:24 NOW YOU - I KNOW, THAT SOUNDS BRUTAL. 22:25 THERE WAS ANOTHER MAN NAMED SHIMEI WHO HAD 22:28 CURSED DAVID AND SHIMEI WAS A RING LEADER TO TRY 22:32 AND GIVE THE THRONE BACK TO THE BENJAMITES - YOU 22:34 REMEMBER SAUL WAS FROM THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN - SO 22:36 SHIMEI - TALKING ABOUT DURING THE TIME OF SOLOMON 22:38 - SOLOMON'S YOUNG - AND HE THINKS, 'LOOK, IF I DON'T 22:41 LET THEM KNOW THAT I'M IN CHARGE' - AND SO, WHEN 22:44 SHIMEI MISBEHAVED, SOLOMON EXECUTED HIM. AND THEN HE HAD TO 22:50 SEND ABIATHAR, THE PRIEST - HE BANISHED HIM - BECAUSE HE 22:53 WAS A PRIEST HE WOULDN'T EXECUTE HIM. 22:55 WHEN HE DEALT STRONGLY WITH THOSE THINGS AT THE 22:58 BEGINNING, HE HAD FORTY YEARS OF PEACE. 23:01 NOW GEDALIAH'S A NEW RULER. 23:04 HE'S BEING TOLD, 'THIS GUY'S GOING TO CHALLENGE 23:06 YOUR RULE.' IT WAS A TIME FOR HIM TO DEAL, IN A 23:08 STRONG WAY, WITH A REBELLION. 23:10 HE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO HIS COUNSELORS. 23:12 BUT LISTEN TO WHAT HAPPENED. 23:13 SO WE'RE JUMPING OVER TO - AND, BY THE WAY, WE'RE 23:16 STILL READING THE SECTION UNDER SUNDAY, POLITICAL ANARCHY . 23:20 SO WE'RE GOING TO CHAPTER 41, "NOW IT CAME TO PASS 23:23 IN THE SEVENTH MONTH THAT ISHMAEL THE SON OF 23:28 NETHANIAH, THE SON OF ELISHAMA, OF THE ROYAL 23:32 FAMILY" - SO HE WAS FROM THE ROYAL FAMILY - "AND OF 23:36 THE OFFICERS OF THE KING, CAME WITH TEN MEN TO 23:39 GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM, AT MIZPAH. 23:43 AND THERE THEY ATE BREAD TOGETHER IN MIZPAH." 23:45 - THEY SAID, 'OH YEAH, WE'VE COME TO VISIT YOU. 23:46 LET'S HAVE A MEAL.' - "THEN ISHMAEL THE SON OF 23:49 NETHANIAH, AND THE TEN MEN WHO WERE WITH HIM, AROSE 23:52 AND STRUCK GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM, THE SON OF 23:55 SHAPHAN," - THIS IS THE GUY WHO WAS THE GOVERNOR 23:57 OF THE LAND - "...AND KILLED HIM." 24:00 KIND OF LIKE BRUTUS. YOU REMEMBER THE STORY 24:03 OF HOW JULIUS CAESAR WAS KILLED? 24:06 ALL THE SENATORS GATHERED AROUND AND THEY ALL 24:08 STABBED HIM. AND HE HAD THESE TEN 24:11 SOLDIERS - THEY ATE WITH HIM! 24:13 NOW DOES THE BIBLE TALK ABOUT SOMEONE EATING WITH 24:15 JESUS AND THEN BETRAYING HIM? 24:17 'EVEN MY FRIEND THAT ATE BREAD WITH ME HAS LIFTED 24:19 UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME.' WHEN YOU EAT WITH SOMEONE, 24:22 IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THE SIGN OF A COVENANT OF PEACE. 24:25 AND SO THEY EAT TOGETHER - 'YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY 24:26 ABOUT US.' - AND THEN THEY KILL HIM. 24:29 THEY WANTED TO WAIT UNTIL THEY GOT THE FREE FOOD. 24:32 THAT'S PRETTY BAD. NOW THAT CAUSED A LOT OF PROBLEMS. 24:36 SO NOW ISHMAEL - AND I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE TIME 24:37 TO READ ALL OF THIS - AND SOME OF THIS IS - IT'S 24:40 JUST A VERY SAD STORY OF INTRIGUE - HE "...STRUCK 24:43 DOWN" - VERSE 3 - "ALL THE JEWS WHO WERE WITH HIM, 24:46 THAT IS, WITH GEDALIAH AT MIZPAH, AND THE CHALDEANS 24:50 WHO WERE FOUND THERE, THE MEN OF WAR." 24:51 - THERE WERE A FEW SOLDIERS THAT HAD BEEN 24:52 STATIONED BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR - NOT MANY 24:55 - "AND IT HAPPENED, ON THE SECOND DAY AFTER HE HAD 24:57 KILLED GEDALIAH, WHEN AS YET NO ONE KNEW IT," - AND 24:59 HE GOES ON AND HE TALKS ABOUT HIM KILLING ANOTHER 25:01 EIGHTY MEN AND THROWING THEM IN A PIT. 25:03 YOUR LESSON LEAVES THAT OUT AND I UNDERSTAND WHY. 25:07 IT'S ALL PRETTY SAD. 25:09 AND FINALLY, JOHANAN, THE ONE WHO HAD STOOD UP FOR 25:13 GEDALIAH, HE GOES WITH SOME MEN, HE TRACKS DOWN - 25:17 ISHMAEL CAPTURES ALL THE PEOPLE. 25:19 HE SAYS, 'GO WITH ME.' HE BASICALLY TAKES ALL THESE 25:21 PEOPLE AND SAYS, 'I'M YOUR NEW KING' - BECAUSE HE'S 25:25 FROM THE ROYAL FAMILY - 'I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU TO 25:27 EGYPT.' AND HE KEEPS - TAKES ALL THE PEOPLE BY 25:29 BRUTE FORCE AND HE STARTS TO CARRY THEM TOWARDS THE 25:32 AMMONITES BUT JOHANAN, HE GOES AND HE RESCUES THEM - 25:37 AND THAT'S VERSE 11 - "BUT WHEN JOHANAN THE SON OF 25:41 KAREAH AND ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES 25:42 THAT WERE WITH HIM HEARD OF ALL THE EVIL THAT 25:44 ISHMAEL THE SON OF NETHANIAH HAD DONE, THEY 25:47 TOOK ALL THE MEN AND WENT TO FIGHT WITH ISHMAEL THE 25:49 SON OF NETHANIAH;" - BY THE WAY, THAT'S JEREMIAH 25:52 41:11 AND 12 - "AND THEY FOUND HIM BY 25:55 THE GREAT POOL THAT IS IN GIBEON." 25:56 - THE GREAT WATERS OF GIBEON - "SO IT WAS, WHEN 25:59 ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WERE WITH ISHMAEL SAW JOHANAN 26:02 THE SON OF KAREAH, AND ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES 26:04 WHO WERE WITH HIM, THAT THEY WERE GLAD." 26:06 - HE'D COME TO RESCUE THEM. 26:08 SO ISHMAEL AND SEVERAL OF THE SOLDIERS FIGHT AND HE 26:11 MANAGES TO ESCAPE WITH EIGHT MEN. 26:12 HE GOES UP TO THE KING OF THE AMMONITES. 26:14 NOW THE KING OF AMMON - THEY WERE ENEMIES EVEN 26:18 JUST A FEW CHAPTERS BEFORE - THEY WERE ENEMIES OF 26:19 ISRAEL - SO WHAT HE'S DOING, IT SEEMS REALLY TREACHEROUS. 26:23 SO NOW THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. 26:27 I'M JUST GOING TO TRY AND GIVE YOU - OH, SOMEONE'S 26:29 GOING TO READ FOR ME ECCLESIASTES 9:18, IN JUST 26:33 A MOMENT. WHENEVER THEY'RE READY, 26:34 YOU LET ME KNOW. NOW THEY'VE GOT TO FIGURE 26:36 OUT WHAT TO DO BECAUSE NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD 26:39 EXTRACTED ANOTHER VOW FROM THE PEOPLE: 'YOU SERVE 26:43 ME, YOU WILL HAVE PEACE. I'LL PROTECT YOU. 26:46 YOU'RE GOING TO BE A PROVINCE OF BABYLON NOW, 26:47 BUT YOU'LL GET TO LIVE IN YOUR OWN LAND. 26:49 YOU CAN WORSHIP YOUR OWN GOD AND GEDALIAH WILL BE 26:54 YOUR GOVERNOR AND HERE'S THE RULES.' AND THEY ALL 26:56 SAID, 'OKAY. ALL THE KING HAS SAID WE WILL DO.' BUT NOW THEY 27:00 KILLED THE KING'S GOVERNOR. SO WHEN YOU KILL THE ONE 27:03 APPOINTED BY THE KING AS GOVERNOR, IT'S AN ATTACK, 27:05 AGAIN, ON THE GOVERNMENT THAT THE KING HAD JUST SET UP. 27:08 NOW THE PEOPLE SAY, 'WHAT WILL WE DO? ISHMAEL KILLED GEDALIAH. 27:11 EVEN THOUGH WE DIDN'T WANT HIM TO DO IT, WE'RE GOING 27:13 TO HAVE TO RUN FOR OUR LIVES BECAUSE 27:15 NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S COMING BACK AGAIN.' AND THIS 27:17 WOULD BE THE THIRD OR FOURTH TIME THE KING OF 27:19 BABYLON HAD COME TO PUNISH ISRAEL. 27:22 GO AHEAD, READ ECCLESIASTES 9:18. 27:25 >>"WISDOM IS BETTER THAN WEAPONS OF WAR; BUT ONE 27:29 SINNER DESTROYS MUCH GOOD." 27:32 >>CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW SAD THE POOR PEOPLE WERE? 27:36 HERE THEY FINALLY HAD A CHANCE FOR PEACE, THEY 27:40 GATHERED FOOD IN ABUNDANCE. 27:42 GEDALIAH SAID, 'FILL ALL YOUR VESSELS.' - THEY 27:44 COULD HAVE STORED UP FOOD LIKE JOSEPH. 27:45 THERE WAS A SUCH AN ABUNDANCE COMPARED TO WHAT 27:47 THEY NEEDED BECAUSE THERE WEREN'T NEAR AS MANY 27:49 PEOPLE AS THERE WERE FARMS. 27:51 AND THEY COULD HAVE MOVED INTO THE BEST HOUSES IN 27:54 THE COUNTRY. AND THESE PEOPLE WERE 27:56 GETTING READY TO ENJOY LIFE LIKE THEY'D NEVER HAD IT BEFORE. 28:01 AND THIS ANGRY CAPTAIN AND TEN MEN RUIN EVERYTHING - 28:07 'ONE SINNER DESTROYS MUCH GOOD.' AND BECAUSE OF WHAT 28:11 HE HAD DONE NOW THEY'RE AFRAID AGAIN AND THEY - INSTEAD OF 28:13 LIVING IN PEACE THEY'RE LIVING IN FEAR AND THEY 28:15 THINK THEY'VE GOT TO RUN TO EGYPT BECAUSE 28:17 IT'S THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT WAS STILL - 28:18 HAD RESISTED NEBUCHADNEZZAR SO FAR. 28:21 AND SO THAT'S WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES WHEN WE GO 28:26 INTO CHAPTER 42. SO JUMP TO CHAPTER 42 AND 28:30 WE'LL READ THE FIRST FEW VERSES HERE AND GIVE YOU 28:32 A PICTURE OF WHAT'S GOING ON. 28:33 SEEKING DIVINE GUIDANCE IS THIS SECTION. 28:36 "NOW ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES, JOHANAN THE 28:40 SON OF KAREAH, JEZANIAH THE SON OF HOSHAIAH, AND 28:44 ALL THE PEOPLE, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST, 28:47 CAME NEAR AND SAID TO JEREMIAH THE PROPHET," - 28:49 OH, WAIT A SECOND, I WANT YOU TO NOTICE WHERE THEY ARE. 28:52 IF YOU GO TO VERSE 17 - IF YOU'RE STILL IN YOUR BIBLE 28:55 - CHAPTER 41, VERSE 17 - THEY LEFT MIZPAH AND THEY 28:59 DEPARTED AND THEY WENT "...IN THE HABITATION OF 29:02 CHIMHAM, WHICH IS NEAR BETHLEHEM...ON THEIR WAY 29:06 TO EGYPT. THEY ARE HEADING BACK TOWARD EGYPT. 29:10 NOW WHAT THEY'RE AFRAID OF - I ALMOST WISH I HAD A 29:11 BIG MAP - MIZPAH'S FURTHER NORTH - MIZPAH IS KIND OF 29:16 MORE DOWN IN A VALLEY - GREAT FARMING AREA - 29:18 THAT'S WHERE THE CAPITAL WAS. 29:20 WHEN JOHANAN CAME TO RESCUE THE PEOPLE FROM 29:24 ISHMAEL, THEY WERE HEADING TOWARDS JERUSALEM. 29:27 THEY KILLED SOME OF THE SOLDIERS. 29:29 ISHMAEL ESCAPED TO THE AMMONITES AND NOW HE'S GOT 29:31 THIS BIG CROWD OF POOR PEOPLE THAT ARE LEFT IN 29:33 THE LAND - SOME SOLDIERS - AND THEY GO, 'NOW WHAT DO WE DO? 29:37 IF WE GO BACK TO MIZPAH, ISHMAEL HAS KILLED 29:40 BABYLONIAN SOLDIERS. HE KILLED THE PEOPLE THAT 29:44 WERE CHALDEANS - THESE ARE FROM THE ROYAL CASTE. 29:47 YOU'VE HEARD THE TERM BABYLONIAN, 29:48 YOU'VE HEARD THE TERM CHALDEAN? 29:50 CHALDEAN WERE THE HIGHEST CASTE OF THE BABYLONIANS. 29:53 THEY WERE, LIKE, OF THE PRIESTS OF THE RELIGIOUS 29:55 ORDER. EVEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS FROM THAT ORDER. 29:58 THEY WERE EDUCATED IN THE SCIENCES. 30:00 THEY WERE THE LEADERS. SO ISHMAEL HAD KILLED SOME 30:03 OF THEIR SOLDIERS AND SOME OF THE CHALDEANS. 30:05 WORD WAS GOING TO GET BACK TO BABYLON. 30:07 HE WAS GOING TO SEND ANOTHER ARMY. 30:09 THEY WERE AFRAID TO STAY NOW BECAUSE IT WILL LOOK, 30:11 ONCE MORE, LIKE THEY REBELLED. 30:12 THE PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT TO. THIS ONE GUY, 30:14 ISHMAEL, DID IT ALL. BUT THEY DON'T KNOW IF 30:17 NEBUCHADNEZZAR IS GOING TO BELIEVE THEM. 30:18 SO JOHANAN'S GOT ALL THE PEOPLE AND HE SAYS, 'NOW 30:21 WHERE DO WE GO?' AND OF ALL THE PLACES, 30:23 WHERE DO THEY STOP? IT SAYS THEY STOP AT 30:26 CHIMHAM, WHICH IS NEAR BETHLEHEM. 30:32 SO THIS BIG DECISION ABOUT WHERE TO GO IS AT BETHLEHEM. 30:36 THEY COME TO JEREMIAH SEEKING THE WORD OF GOD IN 30:39 BETHLEHEM - AND YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING, 'WHAT IS 30:41 THIS PLACE, CHIMHAM?' IT BELONGED TO DAVID. 30:48 I DON'T KNOW HOW DEEP YOU WANT ME TO GO INTO THE 30:49 HISTORY OF THIS, BUT I'LL GO A LITTLE DEEPER. 30:51 DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN DAVID FLED FROM ABSALOM? 30:55 THERE WERE SOME FAMILIES THAT SUPPORTED DAVID 30:58 WHEN HE FLED FROM ABSALOM. 31:01 ONE OLD MAN WHO WAS VERY WEALTHY AND POWERFUL WAS 31:04 NAMED BARZELEI AND HE FED DAVID AND HIS SOLDIERS 31:07 WHEN THEY FLED FROM ABSALOM AND DAVID SAID, 31:09 'COME BACK WITH ME' - AFTER HE WON THE BATTLE 31:11 AGAINST ABSALOM HE SAID, 'COME BACK WITH ME. 31:13 I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.' 31:14 BARZELEI SAID, 'LOOK, I'M EIGHTY YEARS OLD.' HE 31:17 SAID, 'I CAN'T TASTE WHAT I EAT. 31:19 I CAN'T HEAR THE SOUNDS OF MUSIC ANYMORE. 31:20 I'M JUST GOING TO BE A BURDEN. 31:21 WHY DO YOU' - HE SAYS, 'TAKE CARE OF MY SON. 31:23 DO SOMETHING NICE FOR MY SON, BUT DON'T - I'M JUST 31:25 GOING TO GO HOME AND DIE.' - THAT'S WHAT HE SAID - 31:28 AND HIS SON'S NAME WAS CHIMHAM AND SO DAVID GAVE 31:34 A PART OF THEIR FAMILY'S POSSESSION THAT BELONGED 31:37 TO JESSE, AND DAVID AND HIS FAMILY, WHICH WAS IN 31:39 THE OUTSKIRTS OF BETHLEHEM, TO THIS FAMILY 31:42 AND THAT'S HOW IT KEPT THAT NAME. 31:44 SO WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS THE AREA AROUND 31:47 THE VILLAGE OF BETHLEHEM IS WHERE THEY STOPPED. 31:50 IT HAD A NAME. IT HAD BELONGED TO DAVID. 31:53 BETHLEHEM IS WHERE JESUS WAS BORN. 31:55 NOW, WHAT IS GETTING READY TO HAPPEN IN THIS 31:57 TERRITORY OF BETHLEHEM, WHERE DAVID WAS BORN, 32:00 WHERE JESUS WAS BORN? VERY IMPORTANT SPOT 32:02 - YOU KNOW WHO ELSE? RUTH. 32:05 THAT ALL HAPPENED IN BETHLEHEM, DIDN'T IT? 32:06 BETHLEHEM MEANS 'HOUSE OF BREAD'. 32:10 SO NOW THEY'RE GOING TO COME TO JEREMIAH ASKING 32:12 FOR THE WORD OF GOD IN BETHLEHEM. 32:15 MAYBE I'M MAKING TOO MUCH OUT OF THAT, BUT I THINK 32:17 IT'S INTERESTING. SO ALL THE PEOPLE COME TO 32:19 JEREMIAH - HE'S STILL WITH THEM. 32:21 YOU WONDER, WHAT WAS JEREMIAH DOING?' 32:23 - KAREN ASKED ME LAST NIGHT, 'WHAT WAS JEREMIAH 32:25 DOING DURING ALL THESE BATTLES AND INTRIGUE WITH 32:27 ISHMAEL?' I SAID, 'HE WAS JUST STAYING WITH THE PEOPLE. 32:30 WHEREVER THEY WERE, THAT'S WHERE HE WAS. HE WAS A PASTOR.' - 32:35 "AND THEY SAID TO JEREMIAH THE PROPHET," - I'M IN VERSE 2, 32:38 JEREMIAH 42, VERSE 2 - "'PLEASE, LET OUR 32:41 PETITION BE ACCEPTABLE TO YOU,'" - LISTEN TO HOW 32:43 SINCERE THEY ARE - "'AND PRAY FOR US TO THE LORD 32:47 YOUR GOD, FOR'" - WHY DON'T THEY SAY 'OUR GOD'? 32:51 YOU'LL FIND OUT LATER - "'PRAY TO THE LORD YOUR 32:54 GOD, FOR ALL THIS REMNANT (SINCE WE ARE LEFT BUT A 32:57 FEW OF MANY, AS YOU CAN SEE), THAT THE LORD YOUR 33:00 GOD MAY SHOW US THE WAY IN WHICH WE SHOULD WALK AND 33:03 THE THING WE SHOULD DO.'" - WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW. 33:05 WE'RE BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE - "THEN 33:08 JEREMIAH THE PROPHET SAID TO THEM, 'I HAVE HEARD. 33:11 INDEED, I WILL PRAY TO THE LORD YOUR GOD ACCORDING" - 33:13 YOU NOTICE HE SAYS, 'THE LORD YOUR GOD'? 33:16 - "ACCORDING TO YOUR WORDS, AND IT SHALL BE, 33:19 THAT WHATEVER THE LORD ANSWERS YOU, I WILL 33:20 DECLARE IT TO YOU. I WILL KEEP NOTHING BACK 33:22 FROM YOU.'" - GOOD OR BAD, I'LL TELL YOU - "SO THEY 33:25 SAID TO JEREMIAH, 'LET THE LORD BE A TRUE AND 33:28 FAITHFUL WITNESS BETWEEN US, IF WE DO NOT DO ACCORDING TO 33:32 EVERYTHING WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD SENDS US BY YOU." - DOESN'T 33:35 THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? WHEN THEY CAME OUT OF EGYPT DID 33:37 IT SAY, 'ALL THE LORD HAS SAID WE WILL DO'? 33:40 THEY SAID, 'WHATEVER YOU TELL US WE'RE GOING TO' - 33:42 YOU KNOW, JEREMIAH HAD JUST SAID BABYLON'S GOING 33:45 TO FALL, THE KING'S GOING TO BE CARRIED OFF, ALL 33:48 THESE THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN - OR RATHER HE SAID 33:50 JERUSALEM'S GOING TO FALL TO THE BABYLONIANS, THE 33:51 KING'LL BE CARRIED OFF - EVERYTHING JEREMIAH 33:53 FORETOLD, EVEN THOUGH ALL THE FALSE PROPHETS SAID, 33:56 'OH, IT WON'T HAPPEN.' EVERYTHING JEREMIAH SAID 33:58 HAPPENED, SO THEY'RE STARTING TO THINK, 34:00 'JEREMIAH'S REALLY A PROPHET.' AND SO NOW 34:03 THEY'RE SAYING, 'OKAY JEREMIAH, MAYBE YOU WERE RIGHT. SO PRAY. 34:06 TELL US WHAT TO DO NOW.' SO, YEAH, 'I'LL PRAY. 34:08 I'LL - AND I'M GOING TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH.' 'OH, 34:12 BUT WHATEVER THE LORD TELLS US - YOU - WE'LL DO 34:14 IT. JUST TELL US. WE WANT TO KNOW GOD'S 34:17 WILL.' YOU KNOW WHAT THE MOST IMPORTANT 34:19 THING IS, IF YOU WANT TO KNOW GOD'S WILL? 34:21 FIRST MOST IMPORTANT CRITERIA IN KNOWING THE 34:24 WILL OF GOD IS TO GENUINELY BE WILLING TO DO IT. 34:27 IF YOU'RE REALLY WILLING TO DO IT, HE WILL TELL YOU. 34:32 SO THEY SAID TO JEREMIAH, "LET THE LORD BE A TRUE 34:34 AND FAITHFUL WITNESS...WHETHER" - 34:36 NOTICE VERSE 6 - "WHETHER IT IS PLEASING OR 34:39 DISPLEASING," - WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT - "WE WILL 34:41 OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD OUR GOD TO WHOM WE SEND 34:45 YOU, THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH US WHEN WE OBEY 34:48 THE VOICE OF THE LORD OUR GOD. 34:51 AND IT HAPPENED AFTER TEN DAYS" - YOU NOTICE THAT 34:54 NUMBER TEN KEEPS COMING UP? 34:55 WE GOT TEN PEOPLE THAT SLAY GEDALIAH. 35:00 NOW YOU'VE GOT TEN DAYS - "AND IT HAPPENED AFTER TEN 35:04 DAYS THAT THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JEREMIAH. 35:09 THEN HE CALLED JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH, ALL THE 35:13 CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES WHICH WERE WITH HIM, AND 35:15 ALL THE PEOPLE FROM THE LEAST EVEN TO THE GREATEST 35:16 AND SAID TO THEM, 'THUS SAYS THE LORD, THE GOD OF 35:20 ISRAEL, TO WHOM YOU SENT ME TO PRESENT YOUR 35:22 PETITION BEFORE HIM: 'IF YOU WILL STILL REMAIN IN 35:27 THIS LAND, THEN I WILL BUILD YOU AND NOT PULL YOU 35:31 DOWN, AND I WILL PLANT YOU AND NOT PLUCK YOU UP. 35:35 FOR I RELENT CONCERNING THE DISASTER THAT I 35:37 BROUGHT UPON YOU.'" - WHAT DOES 'RELENT' MEAN? 35:39 'I'M SORRY' - 'I REGRET' - ALL - NOW GOD IS SAYING, 35:43 'I'M LOOKING AT THE SMOLDERING RUINS OF 35:45 JERUSALEM AND THE BROKEN-DOWN TEMPLE AND I 35:47 THINK IT'S ENOUGH. I'M SORRY.' DID THE LORD 35:50 RELENT FROM THE JUDGMENT THAT HE WAS GOING 35:53 TO SEND TO NINEVEH? YOU KNOW, GOD'S - YOU 35:56 KNOW, ONE TIME, THE BIBLE SAYS, 'I'M SORRY THAT I 35:58 MADE MAN.' HE SAID, 'LOOK, I'M GOING TO FORGIVE YOU. 36:05 IT WASN'T YOUR FAULT.' AND HE GOES ON AND SAYS, "'DO 36:11 NOT BE AFRAID'" - VERSE 11 - OF THE KING OF BABYLON, 36:14 OF WHOM YOU ARE AFRAID; DO NOT BE AFRAID OF HIM,' 36:17 SAYS THE LORD, 'FOR I AM WITH YOU, TO SAVE YOU AND 36:18 DELIVER YOU FROM HIS HAND.'" - HE'LL UNDERSTAND. 36:21 HE'S NOT GOING TO COME AND DESTROY YOU NOW - "'AND I 36:23 WILL SHOW YOU MERCY, THAT HE MAY HAVE MERCY ON YOU 36:26 AND CAUSE YOU TO RETURN TO YOUR OWN LAND.' BUT IF YOU 36:31 SAY, 'WE WILL NOT DWELL IN THIS LAND,' DISOBEYING THE 36:34 VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD, SAYING, 'NO, BUT WE 36:36 WILL GO TO THE LAND OF EGYPT WHERE WE SHALL SEE 36:39 NO WAR,'" - THEY THOUGHT, 'WELL, THE ECONOMY'S GOOD THERE. 36:42 THE BABYLONIANS HAVEN'T REACHED THERE YET' - "'NOR 36:44 HEAR THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET,'" - THEY HAD JUST 36:46 GONE THROUGH A TERRIBLE BATTLE. 36:47 THEY WERE SHELL SHOCKED - "'NOR BE HUNGRY FOR 36:51 BREAD,'" - THEY HAD JUST GONE THROUGH A FAMINE - 36:55 "'AND THERE WE WILL DWELL' - THEN HEAR NOW THE WORD 36:57 OF THE LORD, O REMNANT OF JUDAH!' 36:59 THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL: 37:02 'IF YOU WHOLLY SET YOUR FACES TO ENTER EGYPT, AND 37:05 GO TO DWELL THERE, THEN IT SHALL BE THAT THE SWORD 37:08 WHICH YOU FEARED SHALL OVERTAKE YOU THERE IN THE 37:10 LAND OF EGYPT; THE FAMINE OF WHICH YOU WERE AFRAID 37:14 SHALL FOLLOW CLOSE AFTER YOU THERE IN EGYPT; AND 37:17 THERE YOU SHALL DIE. SO SHALL IT BE WITH ALL 37:20 THE MEN WHO SET THEIR FACES TO GO TO EGYPT 37:23 TO DWELL THERE. THEY SHALL DIE BY THE 37:25 SWORD, BY FAMINE, AND BY PESTILENCE. 37:27 AND NONE OF THEM SHALL REMAIN OR ESCAPE FROM THE 37:29 DISASTER THAT I WILL BRING UPON THEM.' FOR THUS SAYS 37:32 THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL: 'AS MY ANGER 37:35 AND MY FURY HAVE BEEN POURED OUT ON THE 37:37 INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, SO WILL MY FURY BE POURED 37:40 OUT ON YOU WHEN YOU ENTER EGYPT. 37:42 AND YOU SHALL BE AN OATH, AN ASTONISHMENT, A CURSE, 37:45 AND A REPROACH; AND YOU SHALL SEE THIS PLACE NO 37:47 MORE.' THE LORD HAS SAID CONCERNING YOU, O REMNANT 37:51 OF JUDAH," - HE WAS BEING AS CLEAR AS HE COULD - 37:53 "'DO NOT GO TO EGYPT!' 37:56 KNOW CERTAINLY THAT I HAVE ADMONISHED YOU THIS DAY." 38:00 - NOW DOES GOD KNOW THEIR HEARTS? 38:04 AND HE SAYS IN VERSE 20, "FOR YOU WERE HYPOCRITES 38:08 IN YOUR HEARTS WHEN YOU SENT ME TO THE LORD YOUR 38:10 GOD, SAYING, 'PRAY FOR US TO THE LORD OUR GOD, AND 38:13 ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD SAYS, SO 38:15 DECLARE TO US AND WE WILL DO IT.' AND I HAVE THIS 38:18 DAY DECLARED IT TO YOU, BUT YOU HAVE NOT OBEYED 38:21 THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD, OR ANYTHING WHICH HE 38:23 HAS SENT YOU BY ME." - IT SAYS YOU HAVEN'T 38:25 LISTENED TO ANYTHING I'VE SAID SO FAR. 38:26 WHY WOULD THINGS CHANGE NOW? 38:28 - "NOW THEREFORE, KNOW CERTAINLY THAT YOU SHALL 38:30 DIE BY THE SWORD, BY FAMINE, AND BY PESTILENCE 38:33 IN THE PLACE WHERE YOU DESIRE TO GO TO DWELL." 38:35 IN THE TEN DAYS FROM WHEN THEY HAD ASKED JEREMIAH - 38:39 'WHATEVER GOD SAYS WE'LL DO IT' - THEY HAD TALKED 38:42 THEMSELVES INTO WHAT THEY HAD WANTED TO DO. 38:44 THEY HAD CONVINCED THEMSELVES 'NEBUCHADNEZZAR 38:47 IS GOING TO COME. HE'S GOING TO PUNISH US 38:48 BECAUSE ISHMAEL KILLED GEDALIAH AND THE ONLY SAFE 38:51 PLACE TO GO IS EGYPT. THE BABYLONIANS ARE 38:55 PROBABLY DONE WITH WAR FOR NOW. THEY'RE NOT GOING 38:56 TO ATTACK EGYPT. WE'LL BE SAFE THERE. 38:58 THE ECONOMY IS GOOD THERE. THERE'S FOOD THERE. 39:00 WE'VE GOT ALREADY A SETTLEMENT THERE. 39:02 EGYPT'S THE PLACE TO GO.' AND THEY HAD ALL, KIND OF, 39:05 TAKEN A COUNCIL AND DECIDED TO GO TO EGYPT AND 39:07 JEREMIAH SAYS, 'DON'T GO TO EGYPT. 39:10 STAY IN THE LAND. GOD'LL BLESS YOU. HE'LL PLANT YOU. 39:13 YOU'LL PROSPER. YOU'LL HAVE PEACE.' 39:15 OH, YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK BACK ON HISTORY AND SOMETIMES YOU 39:17 WISH YOU COULD DO TIME TRAVEL. 39:20 DO YOU EVER THINK - YOU EVER READ THE BIBLE AND 39:21 WISH YOU COULD DO TIME TRAVEL? 39:23 EVERY TIME I READ THE STORY OF THE CROSS I WISH 39:27 I COULD GET IN A TIME MACHINE AND GO BACK AND BE 39:29 THERE IN THE PALACE WHEN PILATE IS THINKING OF 39:32 RELEASING JESUS AND TALKING TO HIM. 39:36 AND YOU WISH YOU COULD CHANGE THINGS. 39:39 THINGS COULD HAVE BEEN SO DIFFERENT. 39:42 I WISH I COULD GO BACK. AND YOU COULD REASON WITH 39:44 THE PEOPLE AND SAID, 'OH, YOU'RE GETTING READY TO 39:47 MAKE A BIG MISTAKE. NEBUCHADNEZZAR IS COMING 39:49 TO EGYPT TOO AND IT'S GOING TO BE WORSE FOR YOU 39:52 DOWN IN EGYPT.' AND WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM THIS? 40:00 DO WE SOMETIMES SEE WHAT GOD SAYS IN HIS WORD AND 40:02 WE SAY, 'I KNOW WHAT HIS WORD SAYS.' AND I SAID, 40:05 'LORD, I LOVE YOU AND I WANT TO FOLLOW YOU, BUT I 40:07 WANT TO DO WHAT I WANT TO DO.' AND IN SPITE OF THE 40:10 FACT WE KNOW WHAT GOD SAYS AND IN SPITE OF THE FACT 40:12 WE KNOW WHAT THE WAGES OF SIN ARE, WE STILL SAY, 40:15 'BUT I KNOW WHAT I WANT AND I WANT WHAT I WANT 40:18 WHEN I WANT IT.' AND THAT'S THE WAY WE ARE SOMETIMES. 40:23 AND THIS IS THE WAY THE PEOPLE WERE. 40:25 SO NOW WE'VE GOT TO GO ON - MOVING RIGHT ALONG TO 40:29 CHAPTER 43 AND WE'RE UNDER THE SECTION RETURNING TO 40:34 EGYPT - BETTER KNOWN AS THE EXODUS IN REVERSE. 40:40 "NOW IT HAPPENED, WHEN JEREMIAH HAD STOPPED 40:43 SPEAKING" - HE TOLD THEM EXACTLY WHAT GOD SAID. 40:45 NOW WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THAT? 40:47 IF YOU WERE JEREMIAH - IS THAT THE WAY TO BE POPULAR? 40:51 HOW DO YOU THINK HIS OFFERINGS WERE AT CHURCH 40:54 THE NEXT WEEK? (LAUGHTER) 40:56 PROBABLY NOT MUCH. JEREMIAH DIDN'T CARE. 40:59 HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO BE FAITHFUL AND TELL YOU WHAT 41:02 THE LORD SAYS.' BUT - "NOW IT HAPPENED, WHEN JEREMIAH 41:07 HAD STOPPED SPEAKING TO ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE 41:10 WORDS OF THE LORD THEIR GOD, FOR WHICH THE LORD 41:12 THEIR GOD HAD SENT HIM TO THEM, ALL THESE WORDS, 41:15 THAT AZARIAH THE SON OF HOSHAIAH, JOHANAN THE SON 41:21 OF KAREAH, AND ALL THE PROUD MEN SPOKE, SAYING TO 41:24 JEREMIAH, 'YOU SPEAK FALSELY!'" - 41:26 THEY THOUGHT HE WAS A TRUE PROPHET BEFORE - 41:28 "'THE LORD OUR GOD HAS NOT SENT YOU TO SAY, 'DO NOT 41:30 GO TO EGYPT TO DWELL THERE.' BUT BARUCH THE SON 41:33 OF NERIAH HAS SET YOU AGAINST US, TO DELIVER US 41:36 INTO THE HAND OF THE CHALDEANS, THAT THEY MAY 41:38 PUT US TO DEATH OR CARRY US AWAY CAPTIVE TO 41:39 BABYLON.' SO JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH, ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE 41:44 FORCES, AND ALL THE PEOPLE WOULD NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF THE 41:47 LORD, TO REMAIN IN THE LAND OF JUDAH. 41:49 BUT JOHANAN THE SON OF KAREAH AND ALL THE 41:52 CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES TOOK ALL THE REMNANT OF 41:53 JUDAH WHO HAD RETURNED TO DWELL IN THE LAND OF 41:57 JUDAH, FROM ALL NATIONS WHERE THEY HAD BEEN DRIVEN 41:59 - MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN, THE KING'S DAUGHTERS, AND 42:02 EVERY PERSON WHOM NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF 42:05 THE GUARD HAD LEFT WITH GEDALIAH THE SON OF 42:07 AHIKAM, THE SON OF SHAPHAN, AND JEREMIAH THE 42:10 PROPHET AND BARUCH THE SON OF NERIAH. 42:13 SO THEY WENT TO THE LAND OF EGYPT, FOR THEY DID NOT 42:16 OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD. 42:18 AND THEY WENT AS FAR AS TAHPANHES." 42:20 - TAHPANHES IS A TOWN IN THE EASTERN DELTA, NOT TOO 42:25 FAR FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN IN EGYPT. 42:28 NOW, SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME NEHEMIAH 9:17 42:33 AND JUST - ALRIGHT, WE'LL GET READY FOR THAT. 42:35 I'M GOING TO READ NUMBERS 4:14 - 3, RATHER - NUMBERS 42:39 14:3 AND 4. WAS THIS THE FIRST TIME 42:42 THEY SAID, 'LET'S GO BACK TO EGYPT'? 42:46 WHEN THEY CAME OUT OF EGYPT - FIRST OF ALL, ALL 42:50 YOU HAVE TO DO IS GO TO EXODUS 16 AND THEY BEGAN 42:53 TO COMPLAIN ABOUT WHY GOD BROUGHT THEM OUT THERE TO 42:55 KILL THEM WITH THIRST, BUT THEY'RE A LITTLE MORE 42:57 SPECIFIC WHEN YOU GET TO NUMBERS 14 WHEN THE SPIES 43:00 CAME BACK AND SAID, 'OH, WE'RE NEVER GOING TO BE 43:02 ABLE TO ENTER THIS LAND. THAT PROMISED LAND - 43:05 THERE'S GIANTS THERE.' AND THEY SAID, 'WHY HAS THE 43:08 LORD BROUGHT US TO THIS LAND TO FALL BY THE SWORD 43:11 THAT OUR WIVES AND OUR CHILDREN SHOULD BECOME VICTIMS? 43:15 WOULD IT NOT BE BETTER FOR US TO RETURN TO EGYPT?' 43:18 SO THEY SAID TO ONE ANOTHER, 'LET US SELECT A LEADER AND 43:21 RETURN TO EGYPT.'" - THEY PICKED THE WRONG LEADER. 43:26 IT'S WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THEY PICKED SAUL INSTEAD 43:27 OF SAMUEL - OR THE LORD, REALLY, TO BE THEIR 43:30 LEADER. GO AHEAD, READ HERE - I'M 43:32 SORRY, NEHEMIAH 9:17, PLEASE. 43:35 >>"THEY REFUSED TO OBEY, AND THEY WERE NOT MINDFUL 43:37 OF YOUR WONDERS THAT YOU PERFORMED AMONG THEM. 43:40 BUT THEY STIFFENED THEIR NECKS, AND APPOINTED A 43:42 LEADER TO RETURN TO THEIR SLAVERY IN EGYPT." 43:45 >>ALRIGHT, THAT'S A LITTLE MORE SPECIFIC. 43:47 WHAT IS EGYPT A SYMBOL OF? 43:48 SLAVERY OF EGYPT - WHAT WERE THEY RETURNING TO? 43:53 SO IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER - CHRIST SAVES US FROM 43:57 SLAVERY TO WHAT? HE SAVES US FROM SLAVERY. 44:03 IT'S AMAZING THAT ANYBODY WOULD SAY, 'I WOULD RATHER 44:06 LEAVE MY FREEDOM AND GO BACK TO MY SLAVERY.' BUT 44:10 THAT'S WHAT ENDS UP HAPPENING. AND HERE THEY THOUGHT IF 44:13 THEY LEFT THE PROMISED LAND AND WENT BACK TO 44:15 EGYPT, IT WOULD SOMEHOW BE BETTER WITH THEM. 44:17 AND JEREMIAH SAID, 'YOU ARE GOING TO BE CONSUMED 44:18 BY THE SWORD, BY FAMINE, BY DISEASE. 44:22 YOU'RE GOING BACK TO DISASTER. 44:24 WHEN YOU LEAVE THE LORD'S LAND, WHEN YOU DON'T OBEY 44:26 THE WORD OF THE LORD, YOU'RE HEADING FOR 44:28 DISASTER. IF YOU'LL STAY IN THE LAND 44:30 - YOU MIGHT HAVE TO LIVE BY FAITH - GOD'LL 44:33 TAKE CARE OF YOU. HOW DOES THAT APPLY TODAY? 44:36 HAVE YOU, IN YOUR CHRISTIAN LIFE - YOU KNOW, 44:38 BEING A CHRISTIAN IS A BATTLE EVERY DAY. 44:40 YOU'VE GOT TO LIVE BY FAITH. 44:41 YOU STRUGGLE WITH SIN AND TEMPTATION. 44:45 SOMETIMES YOU SEE WHAT LOOKS LIKE THE WICKED 44:48 AROUND YOU PROSPERING AND YOU THINK, 'IT'S HARD TO 44:50 BE A CHRISTIAN.' WELL, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS, 'THE 44:52 WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR IS HARD.' IT'S MUCH HARDER TO 44:55 BE LOST THAN TO BE SAVED, BUT SOMETIMES THE DEVIL 45:00 TALKS US INTO THINKING, 'OH, YOU KNOW, WHY EVEN 45:02 TRY ANYMORE. JUST THROW YOUR HANDS IN 45:04 THE AIR AND BE LIKE THE WORLD AND STOP TRYING TO 45:06 SWIM AGAINST THE CURRENT ALL THE TIME. 45:08 I'M JUST GOING TO FLOAT BACK TO EGYPT.' BUT IS IT 45:11 BETTER IN EGYPT? NO, YOU JUST LOOK - IT 45:14 ALWAYS ENDS UP BEING A DISASTER AND THIS IS 45:17 WHAT HAPPENED HERE. IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME 45:19 GOD'S PEOPLE SAID, 'LET'S GO BACK TO EGYPT.' 45:22 SOMETIMES WE, IN OUR HEARTS, PRAY TO 45:23 GO BACK TO EGYPT. IT'S THE SAME 45:25 KIND OF THING. YOU CAN LOOK IN EXODUS 16 45:30 - I THINK I ALREADY QUOTED THAT ONE TO YOU. 45:32 LOOK IN 1 CORINTHIANS 10 - 1 CORINTHIANS 10, VERSE 5, 45:38 "BUT WITH MOST OF THEM GOD WAS NOT WELL PLEASED, FOR 45:42 THEIR BODIES WERE SCATTERED IN THE WILDERNESS. 45:45 NOW THESE THINGS" - THAT THE ISRAELITES WENT 45:47 THROUGH COMING OUT OF EGYPT - "...THESE THINGS 45:49 BECAME OUR EXAMPLES, TO THE INTENT THAT WE SHOULD 45:52 NOT LUST AFTER EVIL THINGS AS THEY ALSO LUSTED. 45:55 AND DO NOT BECOME IDOLATERS AS WERE SOME OF THEM. 45:57 AS IT IS WRITTEN, 'THE PEOPLE SAT DOWN TO EAT AND 45:59 DRINK, AND ROSE UP TO PLAY.' NOR LET US COMMIT 46:02 SEXUAL IMMORALITY, AS SOME OF THEM DID, AND IN ONE 46:05 DAY TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND FELL; NOR LET US TEMPT 46:08 CHRIST, AS SOME OF THEM ALSO TEMPTED, AND WERE 46:10 DESTROYED BY SERPENTS; NOR COMPLAIN, AS SOME OF THEM 46:13 ALSO COMPLAINED, AND WERE DESTROYED BY THE DESTROYER. 46:16 NOW ALL THESE THINGS" - IT'S THE SECOND TIME IT'S 46:18 SAYING IT - "ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENED TO THEM AS 46:21 EXAMPLES," - WHAT HAPPENED TO ISRAEL ARE EXAMPLES. 46:25 PAUL SAID THIS, OF COURSE, TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO SO 46:27 WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM WERE EXAMPLES TO PAUL. 46:31 THEY'RE CERTAINLY EXAMPLES FOR US TODAY. 46:33 "ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENED TO THEM AS EXAMPLES AND 46:35 THEY WERE WRITTEN FOR OUR ADMONITION, UPON WHOM THE 46:38 ENDS OF THE AGES HAVE COME." 46:40 NOW HAVE THE ENDS OF THE AGES COME UPON US? 46:44 AND MAYBE THESE THINGS ARE WRITTEN FOR US - THAT 46:46 SOMETIMES THE CHURCH IS GOING BACK TO EGYPT. 46:48 YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD AND 46:50 IN THE CHURCH TODAY AND IT SEEMS LIKE - KAREN AND I 46:54 WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS THIS MORNING - MORE AND 46:57 MORE WE SEEM TO BE MODIFYING THE MESSAGE THAT 47:01 GOD HAS GIVEN HIS PEOPLE TO TRY AND REACH THE 47:04 CULTURE AND WE KEEP MORPHING THE MESSAGE AND 47:07 COMPROMISING THE MESSAGE THINKING 'IF WE COULD JUST 47:09 MAKE IT MORE ATTRACTIVE SOMEHOW' - AND WHAT WE DO 47:12 IS, WE DILUTE IT. >>AMEN. 47:14 >>AND THE WHOLE IDEA IS WE THINK, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, IF 47:16 WE JUST GET A LITTLE CLOSER TO EGYPT IT'LL BE 47:19 MORE ATTRACTIVE TO THEM.' AND THE NEXT THING YOU 47:21 KNOW, WE'RE MAKING A GOLDEN CALF. 47:23 AND LITTLE BY LITTLE - BUT PEOPLE ARE CHOOSING OTHER 47:27 GODS AND THIS - I BETTER HURRY UP BECAUSE THAT 47:29 HAPPENS IN OUR STORY TOO. SO THEY GOT DISCOURAGED 47:33 AND THEY WANTED TO GO BACK TO EGYPT. 47:36 TAKEN INTO EXILE - SO FINALLY THEY GO TO 47:40 TAHPANHES - THEY'RE IN EGYPT. JEREMIAH GOES WITH THEM. 47:43 YOU KNOW, WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID NOT 47:45 HAVE ENOUGH FAITH TO ENTER THE PROMISED LAND, JOSHUA 47:48 AND CALEB HAD ENOUGH FAITH, BUT WHEN THEY HAD 47:50 TO WANDER FOR FORTY YEARS BECAUSE OF A LACK OF 47:52 FAITH, DID JOSHUA AND CALEB LEAVE THEM OR DID 47:54 THEY WANDER WITH THEM? >>WITH THEM. 47:56 >>HE WANDERED WITH THEM. 47:57 SO JEREMIAH - THEY GO TO EGYPT - HE COULD HAVE RAN 47:59 AWAY AND GONE TO BABYLON, BUT HE SAID, 'NO, I'LL GO 48:02 WITH YOU BECAUSE I LOVE GOD'S PEOPLE.' SO, AT 48:06 LEAST FOR THE TIME BEING, HE WENT WITH THEM AND NOW 48:09 YOU GO TO JEREMIAH 43, VERSE 8, "THEN THE WORD OF 48:12 THE LORD CAME TO JEREMIAH IN TAHPANHES, SAYING, 48:14 'TAKE LARGE STONES IN YOUR HAND,'" - HE'S GOING TO 48:17 ILLUSTRATE ANOTHER PROPHECY - "'AND HIDE THEM 48:20 IN THE SIGHT OF THE MEN OF JUDAH, IN THE CLAY IN THE 48:22 BRICK COURTYARD WHICH IS AT THE ENTRANCE TO 48:24 PHARAOH'S HOUSE IN TAHPANHES;'" - SO THEY'RE 48:26 RIGHT THERE IN THE CAPITAL. 48:27 THEY'VE GONE RIGHT NEAR PHARAOH'S HOUSE. 48:28 THEY'VE LEFT THE LORD'S HOUSE AND THEY'VE GONE TO 48:31 PHARAOH'S HOUSE - "'AND SAY TO THEM, 'THUS SAYS 48:35 THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL: 'BEHOLD, I WILL 48:37 SEND AND BRING NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING''" 48:39 - BOY, YOU REALIZE - DO YOU REALIZE HOW JEREMIAH 48:41 COULD BE KILLED FOR WHAT HE'S SAYING? 48:43 HERE JEREMIAH IS NOT FAR FROM THE PHARAOH'S HOUSE 48:46 AND HE PUT SOME STONES IN THE COURTYARD NEAR THE 48:49 PHARAOH'S HOUSE AND HE SAYS, 'KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR 48:51 IS GOING TO COME RIGHT HERE. 48:52 HE'S GOING TO CAPTURE YOU. HE'S GOING TO CONQUER 48:54 YOU.' HE SAID IT TO THE KING OF ISRAEL - THAT 48:57 TAKES COURAGE - NOW HE'S SAYING IT RIGHT NEXT DOOR 49:00 TO THE PHARAOH'S HOUSE. THAT'S CALLED TREASON AND 49:04 YOU COULD BE IN A LOT OF TROUBLE FOR DOING THAT. 49:07 IT SEEMS LIKE A LACK OF PATRIOTISM. 49:11 "'THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS...'BEHOLD, I WILL 49:14 SEND AND BRING NEBUCHADNEZZAR OF BABYLON, 49:16 MY SERVANT, AND WILL SET HIS THRONE ABOVE 49:19 THESE STONES THAT I HAVE HIDDEN. 49:21 AND HE WILL SPREAD HIS ROYAL PAVILION OVER 49:23 THEM.''" - RIGHT HERE IS WHERE HE'S GOING TO BE - 49:26 "''WHEN HE COMES, HE SHALL STRIKE THE LAND OF EGYPT 49:29 AND DELIVER TO DEATH THOSE APPOINTED FOR DEATH, AND 49:31 TO CAPTIVITY THOSE APPOINTED FOR CAPTIVITY, 49:33 AND TO THE SWORD THOSE APPOINTED FOR THE SWORD. 49:35 I WILL KINDLE A FIRE IN THE HOUSES OF THE GODS OF 49:38 EGYPT, AND HE SHALL BURN THEM AND CARRY THEM AWAY 49:41 CAPTIVE.''" - JUST LIKE HE CARRIED AWAY THE ARTICLES 49:43 FROM THE LORD'S HOUSE - "''AND HE SHALL ARRAY 49:46 HIMSELF WITH THE LAND''" - HE'LL TAKE ALL THE GOOD OF 49:48 THE LAND, THAT MEANS - "''...AS A SHEPHERD PUTS 49:50 ON HIS GARMENT, AND HE SHALL GO OUT FROM THERE IN PEACE. 49:54 HE SHALL ALSO BREAK THE SACRED PILLARS OF BETH 49:56 SHEMESH THAT ARE IN THE LAND OF EGYPT; AND THE 49:59 HOUSES OF THE GODS OF THE EGYPTIANS HE SHALL BURN 50:02 WITH FIRE.''" WOW, HE'S BASICALLY SAYING, 'YOU 50:06 FLED TO EGYPT FOR PROTECTION. 50:09 YOU ARE AFRAID OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR. 50:10 IF YOU HAD STAYED IN THE PROMISED LAND, 50:13 NEBUCHADNEZZAR WOULD HAVE LET YOU LIVE THERE IN 50:14 PEACE, BUT NOW HE'S COMING HERE.' YOU EVER HEAR THE 50:17 EXPRESSION, 'YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE'? 50:20 I THINK IT'S IN THE BOOK OF AMOS, IT TALKS ABOUT A 50:24 PERSON WHO'S RUNNING FROM A BEAR AND, YOU KNOW, HE 50:27 ENCOUNTERS A WOLF OR SOMETHING AND THEN HE RUNS 50:30 INTO THE HOUSE TO HIDE FROM THE WOLF AND HE LEANS 50:33 AGAINST THE WALL AND A SNAKE BITES HIM. 50:35 AND IT'S JUST SAYING, 'IF YOU'RE OUT OF GOD'S WILL, 50:39 THERE IS NO PLACE YOU CAN HIDE. 50:41 THERE IS NO PEACE. THERE'S A LION IN 50:44 THE WAY, AS THEY SAY. AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S 50:47 EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED, IF YOU READ YOUR HISTORY. 50:49 NEBUCHADNEZZAR DID FINALLY TAKE EGYPT. 50:51 YOU LOOK AT THE MAP OF THE GOLDEN KINGDOM OF BABYLON, 50:53 YOU'LL NOTICE THAT WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD 50:55 FINISHED HIS CONQUEST, IT INCLUDES EGYPT. 50:59 AND SO, THEY DID NOT FIND PEACE BY HIDING IN THE 51:04 LAND OF EGYPT. ALRIGHT, NOW LET'S JUMP 51:06 DOWN TO JEREMIAH 44, VERSE 7. SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ 51:10 FOR ME JEREMIAH 7:18 - OKAY, IN JUST A MOMENT. 51:14 I'M GOING TO READ VERSES 7 AND 8 OF JEREMIAH 44, "NOW 51:19 THEREFORE, THUS SAYS THE LORD, THE GOD OF HOSTS, 51:21 THE GOD OF ISRAEL: 'WHY DO YOU COMMIT THIS GREAT EVIL 51:23 AGAINST YOURSELVES, TO CUT OFF FROM YOU MAN AND 51:26 WOMAN, CHILD AND INFANT, OUT OF JUDAH, LEAVING NONE 51:30 TO REMAIN, IN THAT YOU PROVOKE ME TO WRATH WITH 51:33 THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS, BURNING INCENSE TO OTHER 51:36 GODS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT" - YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE IN 51:37 EGYPT WORSHIPING THE LORD, THAT'S ONE THING, BUT NOW 51:39 YOU'RE WORSHIPING THE GODS OF EGYPT - "WHERE YOU HAVE 51:43 GONE TO DWELL, THAT YOU MAY CUT YOURSELVES OFF AND 51:45 BE A CURSE AND A REPROACH AMONG ALL THE NATIONS OF 51:47 THE EARTH?" - AND WHAT, PARTICULARLY, 51:49 WAS HE TALKING ABOUT? IF YOU GO TO JEREMIAH 51:53 44:16 - OR VERSE 18 - IT SAYS, 'THEY WERE BURNING 51:58 INCENSE TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN' - VERSE 17 - "BUT 52:02 WE WILL CERTAINLY DO WHATEVER HAS GONE OUT OF 52:04 OUR OWN MOUTH, TO BURN INCENSE TO THE QUEEN OF 52:05 HEAVEN" - WHERE DOES IT SAY ONE OF GOD'S NAMES 52:09 IS THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN? WHAT WERE THEY DOING 52:12 BURNING INCENSE TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN? 52:15 NOW, SOME OF YOU WHO HAVE GROWN UP WITH MAYBE A 52:18 ROMAN CATHOLIC BACKGROUND, RECOGNIZE THAT TERM 52:21 BECAUSE THAT IS A TERM THAT IS SOMETIMES USED FOR MARY. 52:24 BUT IT ACTUALLY COMES FROM PAGANISM BECAUSE THEY 52:29 OFTEN BELIEVED THAT THE SUN WAS THE PRIMARY GOD 52:32 AND THE MOON REFLECTING THE SUN WAS THE FEMININE 52:35 SIDE OF THE GOD OF THE DAY - SHE WAS THE GOD OF THE 52:39 NIGHT AND THE MOTHER OF THE OTHER GODS AND SO THEY 52:43 WOULD BURN INCENSE TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN. 52:45 IT WAS SORT OF A COMBINATION OF MOON 52:47 WORSHIP AND ALSO WORSHIPING THE SUN, THE 52:49 MOON, AND THE STARS AND ALL THOSE THINGS THEY 52:51 WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO WORSHIP. 52:52 IT WASN'T THE FIRST TIME IT'S MENTIONED IN JEREMIAH. 52:55 GO AHEAD, READ FOR US YOUR VERSE IN JEREMIAH 7:18. 53:00 >>"THE CHILDREN GATHER WOOD AND THE FATHERS 53:02 KINDLE THE FIRE AND THE WOMEN KNEAD THEIR DOUGH TO 53:05 MAKE CAKES TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN AND TO POUR OUT 53:08 DRINK OFFERINGS ONTO OTHER GODS THAT THEY MAY PROVOKE 53:11 ME TO ANGER." >>NOW NOTICE, THIS IS 53:13 JEREMIAH 7 SHE JUST READ - THAT WAS BACK IN JUDAH. 53:17 THEY WERE WORSHIPING THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN THERE. 53:20 AND BURNING CAKES - YOU EVER HEARD OF HOT CROSS BUNS? 53:23 BURNING CAKES - THESE - THIS IS SOMETHING - WHAT 53:26 THEY USED TO DO TO THE GREEK GODS AND BURNING 53:33 BUNS - SO EVEN - THAT'S PART OF THE REASON THAT 53:36 THE PLAGUE CAME - THEY WERE WORSHIPING OTHER GODS. 53:39 LOOK AT WHAT THE THING IS THAT KING JOSIAH - ONE OF 53:45 THE THINGS HE WAS TRYING TO EXPUNGE FROM THE LAND - 53:48 LOOK IN 2 KINGS 23 - 2 KINGS 23, VERSE 5, "THEN 53:52 HE (JOSIAH) REMOVED THE IDOLATROUS PRIESTS WHOM 53:56 THE KINGS OF JUDAH HAD ORDAINED TO BURN INCENSE 53:59 ON THE HIGH PLACES IN THE CITIES OF JUDAH AND IN THE 54:02 PLACES ALL AROUND JERUSALEM, AND THOSE WHO 54:04 BURNED INCENSE TO BAAL, TO THE SUN, TO THE MOON, 54:08 TO THE CONSTELLATIONS, AND TO ALL THE HOST OF HEAVEN." 54:10 SO JOSIAH, EVEN - HE HAD BROUGHT A REVIVAL IN THIS 54:14 AREA BECAUSE THEY HAD STARTED GETTING INVOLVED 54:16 IN WORSHIPING THE SUN AND THE MOON AND THE STARS AND 54:18 HE EXPUNGED IT FROM THE LAND AND THEY WENT BACK TO 54:21 IT AGAIN AND - ONE MORE TIME, YOU KNOW WHAT IT 54:23 SAID THERE IN JEREMIAH 7:18? 54:26 'THE CHILDREN GATHER WOOD, THE FATHERS KINDLE THE 54:28 FIRE, THE WOMEN KNEAD DOUGH" - IT LOOKS LIKE 54:30 FAMILY WORSHIP - THAT'S WONDERFUL, EXCEPT THEY'RE 54:32 WORSHIPING THE WRONG GOD. IT'S WHAT THEY 54:36 CONTINUED TO DO. THEY KEPT GOING AFTER THE 54:38 GODS OF EGYPT AND NOW THEY'RE IN EGYPT, 54:40 WORSHIPING THE GODS OF EGYPT, AND THIS WAS THE 54:43 WHOLE REASON THAT THEY HAD LEFT. 54:45 SO DO YOU REALIZE WHAT'S JUST HAPPENED? 54:48 WHEN THEY'RE DESTROYED AND CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON, IT 54:50 WAS THE WHOLE PLAN OF SALVATION IN REVERSE. 54:54 INSTEAD OF BEING SAVED FROM THEIR SLAVERY AND 54:57 BROUGHT TO THE PROMISED LAND, BECAUSE THEY - AFTER 55:00 BEING SAVED - THEY WORSHIPED FALSE GODS - 55:03 THEY NOW WENT BACK TO THEIR SLAVERY. 55:06 THEY'RE BACK IN EGYPT. THEY SAID, 'LET US GO BACK 55:09 TO EGYPT.' GOD FINALLY GAVE THEM WHAT 55:10 THEY WANTED. THEY'RE IN EGYPT. 55:13 THEY'RE WORSHIPING FALSE GODS AND JEREMIAH SAID, 55:15 'JUDGMENT IS COMING.' THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS. 55:18 SOME PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAVED AND LIKE THE PRODIGALS, THEY RUN 55:20 BACK TO EGYPT AND, IF THEY DON'T GET OUT OF EGYPT, HE 55:25 SAYS JUDGEMENT IS COMING ON THE LAND. 55:28 AND SO, YOU'VE JUST WITNESSED, THROUGH THE 55:30 STORY OF JEREMIAH, HIS SAVING THE PEOPLE - NOW 55:33 WHO ENDS UP BECOMING THE ONES WHO KEEP THE TRUTH? 55:36 THE ONES WHO ARE CARRIED TO BABYLON: DANIEL IS 55:39 FAITHFUL. EZEKIEL IS FAITHFUL. THE - EZRA - THOSE WHO 55:44 COME BACK FROM BABYLON END UP BEING THE REMNANT. 55:47 IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE ONES WHO STAYED IN THE 55:48 LAND, IF THEY HAD WORSHIPED THE LORD. 55:50 GOD ENDED UP BRINGING A REMNANT OUT OF BABYLON, 55:52 BACK INTO THE PROMISED LAND, BUT THIS GROUP, THEY 55:54 JUST EXPERIENCED THE WHOLE EXODUS IN REVERSE. 55:57 AND SO, IT'S KIND OF A SAD STORY. 55:59 WHAT HAPPENS TO JEREMIAH? YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO 56:04 WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK. (LAUGHTER) WE'RE 56:06 OUT OF TIME. 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