(328) “The Dark Side of the Glory”

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You don't mess around with the glory of God.

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Right. You know, this move of God that's coming.

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We've heard prophetic words that pastors are

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going to die in the pulpits when the glory hits

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and they're not righteous before God. We haven't

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seen that happen yet. But when this great move

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of God is breaking out, things are going to happen

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that are not expected. God promises in Joel 2

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.28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity. Welcome

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to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that

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promise outpouring, we equip for that outpouring,

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so that we may engage in that very outpouring.

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I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome

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to the podcast today. We're so delighted that

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you've joined us today. We have a very interesting

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study that the Lord put on Philip's heart today.

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And it's really going to end up being two episodes

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because we're going to look at both the goodness

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and severity of the Lord, as Romans 11 .22 points

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out. And today, we're going to look at the dark

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side of God's glory. Thanks so much for joining

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Holy Spirit in these last days. So let's talk

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about this. Philip, how did this come to you?

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Just in the morning prayer time, just getting

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quiet, and it was just like the dark side of

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God's glory. Wow. What a stunning title. And

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actually, when I was studying for this, I found

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a spot on one of these things we were talking

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about where I have it written on the side, the

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dark side of God's glory. Wow. But I had forgotten

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it was there. So it was like an anchor. Yeah.

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Come back to the anchor. Pretty much. I thought,

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okay, we're on the right track. And with all

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the stuff that is going on, it's just like there's

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an all -out war on Christianity, on ministries,

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on speakers, mega churches, and all these things.

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It's just like the media is searching for any

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little bit of dirt that it can find to mar Christianity.

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Also, we need to have that awareness that when

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this move of God that has started, that there's

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a severity of God that not many people are aware

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about, or they've not heard about, or maybe they

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just aren't listening. Because when the glory

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falls, it reveals a lot of stuff. And it's better

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that God's glory reveals it to yourself before

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maybe you do something and somebody else reveals

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it to the world. Yeah, absolutely. You know,

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it reminds me of the importance of understanding

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that Our Father is righteous, and he's just,

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and he's true. And he gave us very clear guidelines

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to live by. And he's slow to anger. Very much.

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Very slow to anger. And he's very patient. But

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there comes a time when... His patience runs

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out, and he has to deal with things. You have

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to get it in your understanding that he is our

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father. Think in terms of parenthood. Parents

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are going to put up with just so much for just

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so long. And then, you know, a good parent is

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going to deal with something before it becomes

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a lifelong problem. So God doesn't always say,

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one, count to five, and you better do it. You

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know, it's interesting to me. in my own personal

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experience, when God speaks to me about doing

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something, and testimonies I've heard over and

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over again, he'll say something, and you don't

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do it. And he'll say it again, and you don't

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do it. And it's kind of like the third time he

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says it, you know you better do it. It is kind

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of like one, two, three. Kind of like Peter,

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you know, he goes in threes, you know, when God

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talks to Peter. And so strike three, you're out.

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Right, right. So, I want, in the book of Romans,

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chapter 11, 22, and we'll be reading, this is

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the New King James Version. Therefore, consider

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the goodness and severity of God on those who

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fell. Severity, but toward you, goodness. If

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you continue in his goodness, otherwise you will

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also be cut off. Ooh. Ooh. So that's our warning.

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This is Apostle Paul out of the New Testaments.

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Yeah. And in context, this is talking about the

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olive tree and how some branches are cut off

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so that others can be grafted in. But don't be

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too proud because he'll just as easily cut you

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off too. Yeah. Yeah. So in Deuteronomy chapter

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4, Verses 23 and 24. Take heed to yourselves,

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lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your

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God, which he made with you. And make for yourselves

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a carved image in the form of anything which

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the Lord your God has forbidden you. For the

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Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous

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God. You can read through the Old Testament.

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When God is dealing with his people, I am a jealous

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God. You'll read it in the Psalms. God is jealous

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for us because he wants to be your lover, not

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a graven image. So in the Old Testament, with

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Israel, he's dealing with graven images. And

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also in the New Testament, We got a good taste

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of that when we went to Turkey and we went to

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Ephesus. Yeah. And I can see when Paul, when

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he, it may not have been, I think it was Ephesus

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where he was. Oh, that was Athens. But it's the

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same deal. Same ruler. How he was taken back,

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how the whole city was going into idolatry. And

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when we're walking through the streets of Ephesus.

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Here's all these images to Diana, temple to Diana.

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And other gods. And other gods. And we actually

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got to sit in the theater there where they shouted

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for two hours, great is Diana the Ephesians.

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And what a feeling that was. But it gave us a

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picture of how much idolatry was really out there.

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And so, you know, that's what Paul was dealing

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with for all the seven churches and different

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things they're dealing with. But even in our

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era right now, you know, there's the idols we

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make in our life. A minister saying once, you

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know, in the Middle East, you know, people worship

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idols. You go to India, they got millions of

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gods. And we've been to India a few times. And,

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you know, we've seen this firsthand, actually.

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You know, but you can make an idol out of anything.

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It could be your car. It could be your hobby.

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Whatever you like to do, if you're spending too

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much time on that, you know, sometimes God has

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to take things away. You know, it's like we have

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a model railroad we're building. But if we spend

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a lot of time in that, God can take it away real

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easy. Oh, yeah. A tree could fall on that part

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of the house and knock your train board to smithereens,

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you know. And so there's times like we won't

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touch it for months, you know, which is kind

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of the season we're at right now. You know, it's

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just you have to focus on the creator that created

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all these things. or created the materials that

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somebody else created and that you're enjoying.

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So anyway, so God is a jealous God. And so let's

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go back into the book of Exodus, and the children

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of Israel are in the wilderness, and they're

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having their trials, and you have the sons of

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Korah come up, and Dathan, and Dathan, I don't

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know if he was actually a priest. No, Dathan

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and Abiram were from the tribe of Reuben. The

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tribe of Reuben. So they're not even priests.

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None of them are. Korah was a Levite, but he

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wasn't of the tribe. He wasn't the priestly tribe.

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So you have people that are not in authority

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that are rising up, and they want to kind of

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take control and make it. You know, you brought

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us out here from Egypt to die out here, and we

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want to take matters in our hands now. So let's

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look in Numbers chapter 16 and verses 1 to 3.

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250 leaders of the congregation. You know, when

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you have how many million people out there, you

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know, you have the different ones that were set

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in place to kind of govern, you know, different

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things. So you don't have to bring everything

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to Moses, but bring it to these leaders, you

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know. Moses doesn't want to sit all day and listen

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to everybody's gripes when there's other people

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that can do that, you know, so I can spend more

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time with God, which he loved to do. So anyway,

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Representatives, these 250, of the congregation,

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men of renown, they gathered together against

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Moses and Aaron and said to them, You take too

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much upon yourselves, for all the congregation

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is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among

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them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above

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the assembly of the Lord? Oh, wow. This is what

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happens a lot in churches today. There's those

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that can rise up. Maybe they don't think the

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pastor is doing a good enough job. So they get

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together with the board. If they know that there's

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enough people on the board on their side that

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can swing a vote and they can put the pastor

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out. And this happens all the time. And there

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are reasons maybe if the pastor is living in

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sin. You know, there are reasons for things to

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happen. But when they kind of want to take authority

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by themselves, you know, then you force the pastor.

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He's going to go on a fast. And, Lord, you need

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to—that's what Moses did. You know, he fell on

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his face, and they cry before the Lord when something

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happens, which is the proper thing to do. It's

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like, did you pray about this? You know, is this

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the way you're supposed to do? So anyway, Moses

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answers to them. This is in Numbers 16, verses

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6 to 7. Do this. Take censers. You know, this

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is where they put the incense and the censers

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and way before the Lord, the priests. You know,

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they're the only ones, the appointed ones that

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can do this. And he says, put fire in them and

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put incense in them before the Lord, before Yehovah

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tomorrow. And it shall be that the man whom the

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Lord chooses is the Holy One. You take too much

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upon yourselves, you sons of Levi. And Moses

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said to Korah, Tomorrow you and all your company

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be present before the Lord, you and they, as

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well as Aaron, who is the high priest. Let each

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take his censer and put incense in it, and each

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of you bring his censer before Yehovah, two hundred

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and fifty censers, both you and Aaron, each with

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his censer. Here it comes. The judge has come.

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Here come the judge. He's here. And so the Ark

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of the Covenant is here in the tabernacle of

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the congregation. Oh, and this is the place of

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the glory. Okay, so we continue on in verses

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28. And Moses said, By this you shall know that

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Jehovah has sent me to do all these works, for

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I have not done these of my own will. Moses didn't

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want all their nonsense. If these men die naturally

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like all men, or if they are visited by the common

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fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.

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But if the Lord, Yehovah, creates a new thing,

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and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them

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up with all that belongs to them, and they go

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down alive into the pit, then you will understand

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that these men have rejected Yehovah. Now it

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came to pass, as he finished speaking all these

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words, that the ground split apart under them,

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and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed

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them up with their households and all the men

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with Korah with all their goods. So they and

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all those who were with them went down alive

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into the pit. The earth closed over them, and

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they perished from among the assembly. Wow. Can

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you picture that? An earthquake? The ground opens

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up, and everything you have falls in. I mean,

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God just opened it up right in that spot. Everything

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falls in, and the ground closes after them. Wow.

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So then Israel, who were among them, fled at

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their cry, for they said, Lest the earth swallow

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us up also. And a fire came out from Yehovah.

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Probably came out of the tabernacle. It doesn't

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say that, but that's probably the picture I think

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we get here. And it consumed the 250 men who

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were offering incense. So their fire was strange

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before the Lord because they were not holy. They

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were in rebellion. Oh, wow. And so the next day.

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This is verses 41 to 50. On the next day, all

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the congregation of the children of Israel complained

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against Moses and Aaron. Wow. And you have killed

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the people of the Lord. Moses did not kill them.

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God did it. This is the severity of the Lord.

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And God had to do this to let them know that

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he means business. Now it happened when the congregation

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had gathered against Moses and Aaron that they

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turned toward the tabernacle of meeting. Now

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this is the same place where the fire came out

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the day before. And suddenly the cloud covered

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it and the glory of Yehovah appeared. Now this

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happened yesterday, the cloud. And what happened?

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The earth opened up and swallowed them all. So

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here we are the same thing now. The glory is

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appearing before the tabernacle. And they turned

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toward the tabernacle of meeting, and suddenly

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the cloud covered it, and the glory of Yehovah

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appeared. Then Moses and Aaron came before the

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tabernacle of meeting, and Yehovah spoke to Moses,

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saying, Get away from among this congregation,

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that I may consume them in a moment. and they

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fell on their faces. So Moses said to Aaron,

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Take a censer and put fire in it from the altar

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and incense in it, and take it quickly to the

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congregation and make atonement for them, for

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fire has gone out from before the Lord, the plague

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has begun. Then Aaron took as Moses commanded

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and ran into the midst of the assembly, and already

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the plague had begun among the people. So he

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put in the incense and made atonement for the

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people, and he stood between the dead and the

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living. So the plague had stopped. Now those

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who died in the plague were 14 ,700 besides those

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who died in the Korah incident. Wow. So Aaron

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returned to Moses at the door of the tabernacle

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of meeting, for the plague had stopped. Wow.

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So 14 ,000 people, and God knew which... Each

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one was. I mean, they could have ran and maybe

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hid into somebody else's tent that was righteous,

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but God knew where each one was. And we don't

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know what kind of plague this was. Whatever it

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was, they died instantly. They died instantly.

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You know, that's kind of like the neutron bomb.

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You remember hearing stories of that? Yeah. It

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would leave buildings, but... it would take the

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people out. And I thought, wow, that reminds

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me of Book of Revelation where it says their

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eyes were consumed. Do you remember that? Yeah,

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and the eye sockets. That's scary. So that sounds

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like the neutron bomb. And God has his own kind

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of a glory bomb here, but not the kind we want

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to see. And so we saw what happened in all this

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rebellion, keeping order in the camp. And after

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that, when the rebellion was gone, They could

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keep on moving, you know, to wherever the next

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place would be. But that didn't have to happen.

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So there's a rebellion. If there's a split and

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it's involved the church you're in, you really

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need to pray to get the mind of the Lord. What

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were you supposed to do? Not get ruled by emotion,

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but get moved by the Spirit of God because that's

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the way you want to go. And you want to intercede

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for the people involved to come to repentance

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because it's the goodness of God that leads us

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to repentance. Yeah, that is it. And so there's

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another instance in the Old Testament, and this

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Hophni and Phinehas, and these were the sons

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of Eli, which was the high priest in Shiloh.

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And Shiloh, if you ever go to Israel, and if

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you're in a tour when you go to Israel, I'm sorry,

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get your passport now so you can go. And if you're

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a tour, there's not many that do it, you know,

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that go to Shiloh, or Shiloh as it would be in

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Hebrew. where the tabernacle of Moses was for

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360 years in the mountains of Israel. And how

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far is it from Jerusalem? How far drive is that,

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Sharon? Within an hour. Yeah, it's within an

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hour. Within an hour, you can go where Shiloh

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was. And if your tour group is not going there,

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stay an extra couple days and see some sites,

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which maybe they won't take you. You will be

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blessed because this is a place where the glory

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of God was for 360 years. Yes. And they're still

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excavating it. Still excavating it. And we were

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just back there just last November. It was an

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awesome time we had. And this was a place where

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a pilgrimage, where people would come up. Sure.

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And this was supposed to be three times a year.

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Three times a year. You know, they come up to

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the temple after the temple was built. So this

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was three times a year before. And in the excavations

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of this place, they found like shards of pottery,

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you know, bones and stuff. And this is where

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the people would eat and where they'd be. But

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they could look down the certain place. They

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figured this is where the tabernacle was because

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there isn't any food or jars or stuff that would

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be there. Or shards of pottery. You can find

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it everywhere there, except in certain places.

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And maybe the civilizations that were there afterwards,

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but they can usually date stuff by what they

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find. And so now it's roped off. We used to be

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able to go where the tabernacle was and where

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the Ark of the Covenant stood there. And so anyway,

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corruption came into the priesthood. And the

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sons of Eli, they were taking, you know, people

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would come up with a sacrifice, but they were

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doing stuff they weren't supposed to. I mean,

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the pieces of the shoulder and places that the

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priest would get, and that would be their portion

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for the priests. But they were taking the sacrifice,

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and it was raw. It wasn't being cooked. And doing

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other things. And then what really irked God

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is that they were getting a little too friendly

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with the women that would come to the congregation

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and doing things they weren't supposed to. And

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their father heard about it, but he didn't do

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anything about it. He scolded them, but he didn't

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stop them. He scolded them, but he did not enforce

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it. And as a result, more year after year, this

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is what they found. that less and less people

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are coming up here because of the sin of what

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is going on, because it's impure what's going

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on. And Eli is not doing anything about it. And

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Eli is in his 90s now. So anyway, to go to the

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story, what happens here? And so Israel is in

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battle with the Philistines. They don't have

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a king at this point. That has not been put into

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place yet. But they have Samuel. And Samuel,

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when you read this, you'll want to read this

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story where Samuel was just a little guy when

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Hannah and Elkanah, they would come up to the

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feast and they would bring their children with

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them. And Hannah had no children at this time.

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And she cried out before the Lord. This is the

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condensed version. And Eli prayed for her that

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the Lord would grant her wish and give her children.

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And she says, Lord, if you give me a son, I will

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dedicate him to you. And so the Lord came back

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and gave her a son, Samuel. And when Samuel was

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old enough and when he was weaned, the scripture

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says, and she lent him to the Lord. She really

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gave him back. And when they went up to the tabernacle,

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she left him there with Eli. And she doesn't

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know all the nonsense going on there. and left

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him with Eli unto the Lord. And so here we are,

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and it's Samuel with a very young age, and he's

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sleeping, and he hears his name, you know, Samuel,

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you know, and he woke up and goes to Eli, yes,

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you called me. And that happened two times. And

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Eli said, if that happens again, say, here am

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I, Lord. And so little Samuel hears it again,

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and he answers, Here I am, Lord. And the Lord

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tells all the stuff to tell Eli that he has not

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judged what he is supposed to do. And he was

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scared to do it, because here's this little guy

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being trained in the priesthood, and all the

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things are being revealed to Samuel. And Eli

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says, you know, the next morning, Tell me what

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the Lord said. And he said, Well, it's the will

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of the Lord. Let God do what he seems good. That

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was Eli's answer. And so anyway, here comes the

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Philistines, you know, which was happening a

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lot. And we'll start now in 1 Samuel chapter

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4. And the word of Samuel came to all Israel.

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Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines

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and encamped besides Ebenezer. And the Philistines

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encamped in Aphek. Then the Philistines put themselves

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in battle array against Israel. And when they

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joined battle, Israel was defeated by the Philistines,

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who killed about 4 ,000 men of the army in the

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field. 4 ,000 men. And when the people had come

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into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why

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has the Lord Jehovah defeated us today before

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the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the

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covenant of the Lord from Shiloh to us, that

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when it comes along us, it may save us from the

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hand of our people. So the people sent to Shiloh,

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that they might bring forth there the ark of

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the covenant of the Lord of hosts, who dwells

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between the cherubim. And so you have the ark

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there, which is a representation of the glory

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of God. And when you read in the book of Revelation,

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it was chapter 11, I think, and it talks about,

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and the temple was opened in heaven and the Ark

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of the Covenant was there. I mean, wowee, on

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earth as it is in heaven. So everything of the

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temple, the tabernacle. All these things, it's

00:26:05.210 --> 00:26:09.190
what's in the temple of God in heaven. And it's

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the place where you read where the glory comes

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from. The glory pours out from the throne. The

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river of life comes out from the throne of God.

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And here's the Ark of the Covenant with the angels,

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live angels over there. So here on earth, you

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have the Ark of the Covenant with these angels

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overshadowing it. And so they take this holy

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ark. And they carry it into battle, you know,

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because only the priests can carry this thing.

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And so Hophni and Phinehas, are their knees shaking

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at this, you know? They should be. They should

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be, you know, because when there's sin involved,

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you can't expect the glory of God to come. It'll

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come, but it might not come the way you like.

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It might come as the dark side like this. So

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this is another picture. of the dark side of

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God's glory. It's not a consuming fire, but something

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else happens. So anyway, and the two sons of

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Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the

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ark of the covenant of God. I mean, their perception

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of the glory did not work. And here it is, it's

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in Revelation 11, 19. Then the temple of God

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was opened in heaven, and the ark of his covenant

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was seen in his temple, and there were lightnings,

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noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great

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hail. Great hail in heaven? Wow. Or was the hail

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on the earth? Good question. But anyway, this

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is the glory of God. The glory of God is in everything.

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The glory of God, you know, even in all the plagues

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of Egypt and all these things, you know, it was

00:27:49.890 --> 00:27:53.960
the glory was in the river. Everything turning

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to blood. The glory was in the darkness. The

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glory was in the firstborn that were slain in

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all Egypt. God was in all of those plagues, and

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he was judging Egypt on each of their different

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gods. So anyway, so the ark goes into battle,

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and the ark was taken, and Israel was fallen

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before the Philistines, and they lost the ark.

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And Hophni and Phinehas. and a man, Hophni and

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Phinehas, they were slain. And a messenger went

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back to Eli, and he's sitting on a stool, and

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he's blind at this time, spiritually and naturally,

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he's blind. Maybe a picture of the natural is

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where he is in the spirit. And it said his heart

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trembled because of the Ark of the Covenant.

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And a messenger came and said that, you know,

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Israel has fallen and your two sons, Hophni and

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Phinehas, are dead. And the ark of the Lord was

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taken by the Philistines. The glory was taken

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by the heathen. And it says he fell off his chair,

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Eli, fell backwards and broke his neck and he

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died. And Phinehas' wife was in labor and she

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gave birth right at that time. And she named

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the child Ichabod, which means the glory has

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departed. What a thing to speak over your child.

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The glory has departed. And we don't know anything

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more after that. Because then after that, Shiloh

00:29:25.579 --> 00:29:29.579
was destroyed by the Philistines. And here we

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are 3 ,000 years later more. You can go back

00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:36.759
and you can see where history took place. But

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the glory did not do what they thought it to

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do. So you can't take presumption, always what

00:29:42.339 --> 00:29:44.779
God is going to do, especially if things aren't

00:29:44.779 --> 00:29:48.039
right. Yeah, you have to line up with God's righteousness

00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:51.380
in order to get his justice. Otherwise, if you're

00:29:51.380 --> 00:29:54.099
out of line with his righteousness, you'll get

00:29:54.099 --> 00:29:58.019
his justice in other ways. Yeah, for sure. And

00:29:58.019 --> 00:30:01.160
so we have another instance. This is Hezekiah.

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And this is in 2 Kings, you know, chapter 19,

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and that's verses 1 to 4. And this is Assyria

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is coming against Israel. And they send their

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messenger, was it Rav Shaka, I think if I said

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it right. And he presents this letter, you know,

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to Hezekiah that we're going to take you captive

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as you surrender. And he lays out, have all the

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other, all the kings of Israel, all these other

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nations that have come against us, you know,

00:30:31.700 --> 00:30:33.900
their gods did not save them. And your God's

00:30:33.900 --> 00:30:36.500
not going to save you either, you know, and you're

00:30:36.500 --> 00:30:39.819
going to be taken. And so as Hezekiah, he takes

00:30:39.819 --> 00:30:42.960
this letter and he lays it out before the Lord.

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And let's go on and read here. And it was so,

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when King Hezekiah heard what the messengers

00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:52.119
came and told him, that he tore his clothes,

00:30:52.380 --> 00:30:55.319
covered himself with sackcloth, and went into

00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:59.000
the house of the Lord. And then he sent, like

00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:02.420
him, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe

00:31:02.420 --> 00:31:05.380
and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth,

00:31:05.400 --> 00:31:09.039
to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. And they

00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:12.460
said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, this is a day

00:31:12.460 --> 00:31:16.339
of trouble, and rebuke and blasphemy, for the

00:31:16.339 --> 00:31:19.700
children of Israel have come to birth, but there

00:31:19.700 --> 00:31:23.059
is no strength to bring them forth. It may be

00:31:23.059 --> 00:31:25.660
that the Lord Jehovah, your God, will hear all

00:31:25.660 --> 00:31:29.119
the words that Reb Sheka, whom the master of

00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:31.579
the king of Israel has sent to reproach the living

00:31:31.579 --> 00:31:34.940
God, and will rebuke the words which The Lord

00:31:34.940 --> 00:31:37.900
Jehovah your God has heard. Therefore, lift up

00:31:37.900 --> 00:31:40.839
your prayer for the remnant that is left. And

00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:46.619
in 2 Kings 19, verses 34, 35. And so this is

00:31:46.619 --> 00:31:49.720
the answer that Isaiah is given back for him.

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For I will defend the city to save it from my

00:31:54.440 --> 00:31:58.259
own sake and from my servant David's sake. And

00:31:58.259 --> 00:32:00.380
now you have a righteous king because Hezekiah,

00:32:00.500 --> 00:32:04.299
he was a righteous king. And it came to pass

00:32:04.299 --> 00:32:06.700
on a certain night that the angel of the Lord

00:32:06.700 --> 00:32:09.859
went out. And so you have Assyria that is out

00:32:09.859 --> 00:32:12.380
there in the camps. They're just waiting to come

00:32:12.380 --> 00:32:15.339
in. And that night the angel of the Lord went

00:32:15.339 --> 00:32:18.200
out and killed in the camp of the Assyrians,

00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:25.720
doesn't say how, 185 ,000, 185 ,000 soldiers.

00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:29.599
And when people arose early in the morning, you

00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:32.160
know, they're going to go up and go in and take

00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:34.920
Jerusalem. And the King James says they were

00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:37.859
all dead corpses. They rose up and they died.

00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:43.140
180 ,000 people? Can you picture? How many people

00:32:43.140 --> 00:32:46.019
live in the town you live in? I mean, our town

00:32:46.019 --> 00:32:49.740
of Harrison has, what, 18 ,000, 14 ,000 people?

00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:53.559
What's Little Rock? How many hundreds of thousands

00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:56.309
there? Can you imagine like one quarter of the

00:32:56.309 --> 00:33:00.690
population of a city totally woke up and all

00:33:00.690 --> 00:33:04.029
of a sudden they're dead? I mean, God did that.

00:33:04.190 --> 00:33:07.509
He spared his people. Because they put their

00:33:07.509 --> 00:33:09.690
trust in him. Because they put their trust in

00:33:09.690 --> 00:33:13.690
him. And he was a righteous king. He was a righteous

00:33:13.690 --> 00:33:17.859
king. And another righteous king. One of the

00:33:17.859 --> 00:33:21.160
most righteous kings was King David, which, you

00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:24.119
know, was before Hezekiah. And he was the second

00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:28.140
king of Israel, Saul being the first. And King

00:33:28.140 --> 00:33:30.539
David loved God with all his heart. And you could

00:33:30.539 --> 00:33:33.440
read the Psalms and everything that he said.

00:33:33.519 --> 00:33:36.759
And in times of great distress, You know, I loved

00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:39.640
about David. He was complaining or bringing forth

00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:42.680
the Lord. All these things are going on. But

00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:45.200
at the end, he encourages himself in the Lord.

00:33:45.259 --> 00:33:48.440
And most of the Psalms he writes ends up in victory.

00:33:49.099 --> 00:33:53.059
But he made some major blunders, you know, which

00:33:53.059 --> 00:33:56.539
really caused things to happen. And this is in

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2 Samuel 24, verses 1 to 2. And the anger of

00:34:02.180 --> 00:34:06.910
the Lord was aroused against Israel. And we don't

00:34:06.910 --> 00:34:10.909
know quite why. It doesn't say why, you know.

00:34:11.769 --> 00:34:16.429
And he moved David against them to say, go, number

00:34:16.429 --> 00:34:20.170
Israel and Judah. That's his whole kingdom. So

00:34:20.170 --> 00:34:22.809
the king said to Joab, the commander of the army

00:34:22.809 --> 00:34:25.889
who was with him, Now go throughout all the tribes

00:34:25.889 --> 00:34:29.710
of Israel from Dan to Beersheba. That's exciting

00:34:29.710 --> 00:34:31.809
to go to Dan and Beersheba. That was the first

00:34:31.809 --> 00:34:35.429
tour I was on to Israel. We call it from Dan

00:34:35.429 --> 00:34:38.070
to Beersheba, all the way to the north, all the

00:34:38.070 --> 00:34:40.969
way down into the south of Israel. It was an

00:34:40.969 --> 00:34:43.510
amazing journey. We went all the way to Eilat,

00:34:43.510 --> 00:34:44.550
which is even farther. All the way to Eilat,

00:34:44.670 --> 00:34:47.929
yeah, it was even farther, yeah. And so go to

00:34:47.929 --> 00:34:50.630
Dan and Beersheba. Count the people that I might

00:34:50.630 --> 00:34:54.639
know, the number of the people. Oh, wow, you

00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:57.880
know, and Joab argues with him, you know, but

00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:00.500
he didn't prevail. And it took a while to do

00:35:00.500 --> 00:35:06.219
that, too, I'm sure. In verses 11 to 15, now,

00:35:06.260 --> 00:35:08.960
when David arose in the morning, the word of

00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:12.679
the Lord came to the prophet Gad. Oh, they were

00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:17.059
his best friends, Gad and Nathan, his two prophets,

00:35:17.340 --> 00:35:21.280
you know. They kept him in line. It's like, you

00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:24.199
know, when Samuel come into town, that one time

00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:27.639
when he's coming to crown the next king of Israel,

00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:31.380
and he goes to Bethlehem, and he goes to David's

00:35:31.380 --> 00:35:35.239
father, Jesse, and his 12 sons, to another one

00:35:35.239 --> 00:35:37.780
of them king. And the elders of the town said,

00:35:38.039 --> 00:35:41.820
comest thou peacefully? Because usually if the

00:35:41.820 --> 00:35:43.900
prophet comes to town, it could be good or bad.

00:35:45.260 --> 00:35:47.440
The word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad,

00:35:47.539 --> 00:35:51.059
David's seer, saying, Go and tell David, Thus

00:35:51.059 --> 00:35:54.840
says the Lord, I offer you three things. Choose

00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:58.000
one of them for yourself, that I may do it to

00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:02.320
you. So Gad came to David and told him, and he

00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:05.500
said to him, Shall seven years of famine come

00:36:05.500 --> 00:36:08.480
to you in your land? Or shall you flee three

00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:11.199
months before your enemies, while they pursue

00:36:11.199 --> 00:36:14.900
you? Or shall there be three days? plague in

00:36:14.900 --> 00:36:18.719
your land. Now consider and see what answer I

00:36:18.719 --> 00:36:22.659
should take back to him who sent me. So Gad has

00:36:22.659 --> 00:36:24.519
got to be this messenger. And do you think he

00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:28.760
wanted to do this? He loved David. And so for

00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:32.019
David, David said to God, I am in great distress.

00:36:32.860 --> 00:36:35.400
Please let me fall into the hand of the Lord,

00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:38.579
for his mercies are great, but do not let me

00:36:38.579 --> 00:36:42.269
fall into the hand of man. Wow, and that was

00:36:42.269 --> 00:36:44.750
a wise answer. And he thought, well, for what,

00:36:44.769 --> 00:36:46.949
three days, did he say it would be? Yeah, three

00:36:46.949 --> 00:36:49.409
days. So that's the shortest of all the plagues.

00:36:50.090 --> 00:36:51.610
Let's get this thing over with. Let's get it

00:36:51.610 --> 00:36:54.949
over with, yeah. So the Lord sent a plague upon

00:36:54.949 --> 00:36:58.289
Israel from the morning till the appointed time.

00:36:58.730 --> 00:37:04.250
From Dandabeshiva, 70 ,000 men of the people

00:37:04.250 --> 00:37:10.090
died. Wow. So the king over you has killed some

00:37:10.090 --> 00:37:16.099
of you. 70 ,000. Think of the grief that caused

00:37:16.099 --> 00:37:20.179
to the families of those 70 ,000. It's true.

00:37:20.340 --> 00:37:22.780
But God was angry with Israel. We don't know

00:37:22.780 --> 00:37:24.500
what they did. And we don't know what it was.

00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:27.579
There's some sin going on. So God is judging

00:37:27.579 --> 00:37:31.199
the sin. And in God's eyes, it's not David's

00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:34.619
fault because he put him up to do this. But this

00:37:34.619 --> 00:37:38.780
is just another sign of the dark side of God's

00:37:38.780 --> 00:37:43.489
glory. Wow. Wow. And now we go to the book of

00:37:43.489 --> 00:37:49.030
Acts. Yeah. So in the book of Acts, in Acts chapter

00:37:49.030 --> 00:37:53.710
4, you see where the disciples are seeing a move

00:37:53.710 --> 00:37:57.269
of God, and they're praying for boldness. They're

00:37:57.269 --> 00:37:59.389
praying for more boldness. Peter and John had

00:37:59.389 --> 00:38:02.670
just... had the situation of healing the man

00:38:02.670 --> 00:38:05.730
that was lame. Silver and gold have I none, but

00:38:05.730 --> 00:38:07.409
such as I have, give I unto thee. Isn't that

00:38:07.409 --> 00:38:11.510
where that is? And they've been confronted by

00:38:11.510 --> 00:38:15.789
the Sanhedrin, who has warned them sternly, don't

00:38:15.789 --> 00:38:19.530
preach in this name. But they also can't deny

00:38:19.530 --> 00:38:21.630
the fact that God did something amazing in the

00:38:21.630 --> 00:38:24.969
name of Jesus. So they're praying together with

00:38:24.969 --> 00:38:27.489
the disciples, and they're saying, now, Lord,

00:38:27.610 --> 00:38:31.050
look on their threats. and grant your servants

00:38:31.050 --> 00:38:34.489
that with all boldness they may speak your word,

00:38:34.630 --> 00:38:37.369
by stretching out your hand to heal, and that

00:38:37.369 --> 00:38:39.670
signs and wonders may be done through the name

00:38:39.670 --> 00:38:42.630
of your holy servant Jesus. And when they had

00:38:42.630 --> 00:38:45.250
prayed, the place where they were assembled together

00:38:45.250 --> 00:38:48.480
was shaken. And they were all filled with the

00:38:48.480 --> 00:38:51.280
Holy Spirit. And they spoke the word of God with

00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:55.380
boldness. That's one of the keys that we should

00:38:55.380 --> 00:38:58.500
be looking for as we are being more and more

00:38:58.500 --> 00:39:00.619
filled with the Holy Spirit, that we become more

00:39:00.619 --> 00:39:03.019
and more bold. So the Holy Spirit can follow

00:39:03.019 --> 00:39:05.519
when he wants to. Exactly. Where he wants to.

00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:08.219
Now the multitude of those who believed were

00:39:08.219 --> 00:39:11.320
of one heart and one soul. Neither did anyone

00:39:11.320 --> 00:39:13.820
say that any of the things he possessed was his

00:39:13.820 --> 00:39:17.030
own, but they had all things in common. And with

00:39:17.030 --> 00:39:19.230
great power the apostles gave witness to the

00:39:19.230 --> 00:39:22.309
resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace

00:39:22.309 --> 00:39:25.409
was upon them all. Nor was there anyone among

00:39:25.409 --> 00:39:28.269
them who lacked, for all who were possessors

00:39:28.269 --> 00:39:31.130
of lands or houses sold them, and brought the

00:39:31.130 --> 00:39:33.809
proceeds of the things that were sold, and laid

00:39:33.809 --> 00:39:36.610
them at the apostles' feet, and they distributed

00:39:36.610 --> 00:39:40.809
to each as anyone had need. Wow, that's, I mean,

00:39:40.829 --> 00:39:43.869
there's a difference between communism and commune.

00:39:44.780 --> 00:39:47.840
Amen. Because they communed together. They had

00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:50.900
a community. They had a community. A community

00:39:50.900 --> 00:39:53.719
works. Communism does not work. Yeah, we have

00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:56.099
to have the Holy Spirit. Yeah. It doesn't even

00:39:56.099 --> 00:40:01.940
work well with just plain Christians. It only

00:40:01.940 --> 00:40:05.679
works when you have people that are fully, fully

00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:08.300
filled with the Holy Spirit and loving God and

00:40:08.300 --> 00:40:12.500
loving each other to make that work. Yeah. Too

00:40:12.500 --> 00:40:15.460
much can happen there, too. Greed gets in, usually

00:40:15.460 --> 00:40:17.699
is what happens. So that's what happened here.

00:40:17.940 --> 00:40:23.260
Go on with chapter 5. So everyone pretty knows

00:40:23.260 --> 00:40:25.840
the story of that where Ananias and Sapphira,

00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:31.880
they sold land and they presented it to Peter,

00:40:31.980 --> 00:40:35.860
the apostles, but they sold it, but they kept

00:40:35.860 --> 00:40:39.739
some back. Right. So they were not being truthful.

00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:44.199
about what they were saying. And so they come

00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:46.059
in and said, we sold this line and we're getting

00:40:46.059 --> 00:40:50.039
it. Peter said, why have you not told the truth?

00:40:50.119 --> 00:40:51.980
And you haven't lied to us, you've lied to the

00:40:51.980 --> 00:40:56.940
Holy Spirit. And Ananias fell down dead. Now,

00:40:57.179 --> 00:40:59.460
wait a minute, you know, this isn't the Old Testament.

00:40:59.880 --> 00:41:02.059
This isn't, you know, wrath of God. We look at

00:41:02.059 --> 00:41:05.000
all these things when there's unrighteousness

00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:08.679
and sin happening, you know, God dealt very severely.

00:41:09.599 --> 00:41:12.000
with punishments, you know, than either a nation

00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:14.579
or a person. I mean, the glory of God has just

00:41:14.579 --> 00:41:18.780
fallen again, you know, with everyone that, you

00:41:18.780 --> 00:41:21.880
know, they're all speaking in tongues and they're

00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:25.300
rejoicing in the Lord. And then this happens.

00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:29.179
Yeah. You know, why would this happen? But when

00:41:29.179 --> 00:41:32.420
the glory of the Lord is revealed in a move of

00:41:32.420 --> 00:41:35.599
God, you know, when the presence of God has come

00:41:35.599 --> 00:41:39.550
down, It's like, is this way of God's saying

00:41:39.550 --> 00:41:42.690
you cannot let this sin enter the camp? And had

00:41:42.690 --> 00:41:45.650
to make an example of this. Yes. Because this

00:41:45.650 --> 00:41:48.909
is the only instance that we can find in the

00:41:48.909 --> 00:41:51.570
New Testament where someone died after this.

00:41:51.650 --> 00:41:55.090
And actually, his wife came in, Sapphira came

00:41:55.090 --> 00:41:58.349
in, and Peter said, did you agree for this, this,

00:41:58.389 --> 00:42:01.070
this, and this? And she said, yes. And then said,

00:42:01.170 --> 00:42:03.630
the same men that carried your husband out are

00:42:03.630 --> 00:42:05.590
going to carry you out now. And she fell down

00:42:05.590 --> 00:42:08.880
dead. Yeah. And what happened? And they bury

00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:10.699
the same day because that's what they do. They

00:42:10.699 --> 00:42:14.599
bury before the sun goes down. And great fear

00:42:14.599 --> 00:42:18.800
fell upon the church. Right. Like you don't mess

00:42:18.800 --> 00:42:22.260
around with the glory of God. Right. And there's,

00:42:22.260 --> 00:42:24.039
you know, this move of God that's coming. And

00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:26.679
we've heard prophetic words that pastors are

00:42:26.679 --> 00:42:29.639
going to die in the pulpits when the glory hits

00:42:29.639 --> 00:42:33.420
and they're not righteous before God. We haven't

00:42:33.420 --> 00:42:36.670
seen that happen yet. I mean, in other places

00:42:36.670 --> 00:42:39.050
that has happened. We hear about this in other

00:42:39.050 --> 00:42:42.010
nations. There has been stories like this. But

00:42:42.010 --> 00:42:44.550
when this great move of God is breaking out,

00:42:44.630 --> 00:42:47.809
things are going to happen that are not expected.

00:42:48.150 --> 00:42:50.849
You have to walk in your own plumb line. You

00:42:50.849 --> 00:42:52.869
know, up in our tabernacle, we have a plumb line

00:42:52.869 --> 00:42:55.409
hanging up there, you know, to keep straight.

00:42:55.670 --> 00:42:58.090
Keep the line straight. Because the plumb line

00:42:58.090 --> 00:43:01.380
is, you know, is what... construction workers

00:43:01.380 --> 00:43:04.639
and builders used to plumb a wall to keep it

00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:07.159
straight. And I remember they used that when

00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:10.239
I was working in construction and we would put

00:43:10.239 --> 00:43:13.059
the walls up. We put plywood and put these forms

00:43:13.059 --> 00:43:15.760
up. Then the iron workers would come in and they

00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:18.679
put all the iron, crisscross the iron in the

00:43:18.679 --> 00:43:21.179
walls because we were doing big buildings. And

00:43:21.179 --> 00:43:23.039
then we would come back and back the wall with

00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:26.820
plywood and clamps. I'd watch they'd straightening

00:43:26.820 --> 00:43:29.480
the wall with clamps, you know, with these like

00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:31.739
come alongs, you know, that they would use and

00:43:31.739 --> 00:43:35.179
they would. drop a line from the top of that

00:43:35.179 --> 00:43:38.780
wall down to the bottom until it was lined up

00:43:38.780 --> 00:43:41.679
perfectly. And then they would pour the concrete.

00:43:42.099 --> 00:43:46.480
To have a good foundation, you have to have a

00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:49.880
straight wall. And for us to have good foundations,

00:43:50.119 --> 00:43:53.559
we have to be walking straight. Right. And so

00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:57.360
this judgment comes because things were not.

00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:00.599
Right. And, you know, things were not straight.

00:44:00.820 --> 00:44:04.320
And the glory of God came down and it took away

00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:08.840
two members of the congregation. Yeah. And so,

00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:11.920
Sharon, why don't you elaborate on the man that

00:44:11.920 --> 00:44:15.699
was healed by the pool of Bethesda? So we remember

00:44:15.699 --> 00:44:18.690
how... There was this pool of Bethesda where

00:44:18.690 --> 00:44:22.289
the water would be troubled at times, and the

00:44:22.289 --> 00:44:24.710
belief was that the first one who gets in there

00:44:24.710 --> 00:44:29.030
gets healed. And Jesus came by. And here's this

00:44:29.030 --> 00:44:31.389
man that's been there. I think he'd been there

00:44:31.389 --> 00:44:36.110
for 38 years. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke,

00:44:36.150 --> 00:44:39.769
and John are out there now in the Hebrew language.

00:44:40.710 --> 00:44:43.530
Translated from the Hebrew version. Yeah, the

00:44:43.530 --> 00:44:47.309
Hebrew, which the Greek was taken from. So when

00:44:47.309 --> 00:44:50.250
you go right to the Hebrew. You can get a better

00:44:50.250 --> 00:44:52.210
perspective of a lot of things. And I looked

00:44:52.210 --> 00:44:54.750
at that, and there's nothing there about an angel

00:44:54.750 --> 00:44:58.130
troubling the water. I think that was a legend.

00:44:58.489 --> 00:45:02.469
And from what I understand, there is a pool there,

00:45:02.610 --> 00:45:05.170
and it might not be the one that we call the

00:45:05.170 --> 00:45:07.769
Pool of Bethesda. It might actually be the one

00:45:07.769 --> 00:45:11.710
that's the Pool of Siloam, that in its day when

00:45:11.710 --> 00:45:14.230
it was flowing well, that it was one of those

00:45:14.230 --> 00:45:18.239
that had a surge. from time to time, that the

00:45:18.239 --> 00:45:20.820
water would come up. It's kind of like Old Faithful

00:45:20.820 --> 00:45:25.340
in Yellowstone, that in a certain time, the thing

00:45:25.340 --> 00:45:28.219
goes off and that there would be this surge.

00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:30.860
And there are springs that are like that. You

00:45:30.860 --> 00:45:32.920
know, there are some artesian springs that have

00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:37.000
this. continuous flow all the time. But then

00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:39.139
there are some that will have a surge, and this

00:45:39.139 --> 00:45:42.880
was one of those. So I think that there was probably

00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:45.880
a legend that came up, and, you know, according

00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:48.440
to your faith, so be it unto you. So if people

00:45:48.440 --> 00:45:50.460
are looking to be healed by God, and they think

00:45:50.460 --> 00:45:51.739
they're— They say, look, the water's moving.

00:45:51.820 --> 00:45:55.099
It must be an angel. Yeah, yeah. So, you know,

00:45:55.099 --> 00:46:00.440
Jesus didn't respond to that. legend. He just

00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:02.900
asked this man, do you want to be whole? And

00:46:02.900 --> 00:46:07.000
he goes on complaining about, well, I can't get

00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:09.139
in there first. I don't have anybody to help

00:46:09.139 --> 00:46:12.420
me. And Jesus asks him, do you want to be made

00:46:12.420 --> 00:46:16.019
whole? And he said, of course. And Jesus says,

00:46:16.139 --> 00:46:19.460
well, take up your bed and walk. And at the time,

00:46:19.460 --> 00:46:24.579
it was a Sabbath, and there was a tradition that

00:46:24.579 --> 00:46:27.480
the Pharisees had that was based on Scripture.

00:46:28.619 --> 00:46:33.280
back in Nehemiah's time, I believe it was, because

00:46:33.280 --> 00:46:36.260
when they rebuilt the walls and they were having

00:46:36.260 --> 00:46:38.679
this issue where people would come in on the

00:46:38.679 --> 00:46:42.980
Sabbath to sell their wares. And Nehemiah said,

00:46:43.099 --> 00:46:45.539
this is wrong. You can't be doing this. And he

00:46:45.539 --> 00:46:48.280
shut the gates on the Sabbath so that they wouldn't

00:46:48.280 --> 00:46:52.159
carry their goods in on the Sabbath. And the

00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:54.519
Pharisees took that and turned it into, it's

00:46:54.519 --> 00:46:56.800
wrong for you to carry anything on the Sabbath.

00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:01.280
you know, adding to what God said and making

00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:04.820
it something else. So anyway, you know, it was

00:47:04.820 --> 00:47:07.519
not a law that you could not carry. It was a

00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:11.880
tradition that the Pharisees had. And so Jesus

00:47:11.880 --> 00:47:14.059
was all the time breaking their traditions and

00:47:14.059 --> 00:47:16.400
trying to help them understand, you know, your

00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:19.079
traditions are making the Word of God of none

00:47:19.079 --> 00:47:22.900
effect. So anyway, later, Jesus meets him at

00:47:22.900 --> 00:47:28.219
the temple, and he says to him, now, Go and sin

00:47:28.219 --> 00:47:32.900
no more, lest a worse thing come on you. So it's

00:47:32.900 --> 00:47:36.340
obvious that the man was in the condition he

00:47:36.340 --> 00:47:40.099
was in because God's judgment was actually on

00:47:40.099 --> 00:47:46.099
him to try and help him to get over whatever

00:47:46.099 --> 00:47:48.079
it was that he was doing that he shouldn't be

00:47:48.079 --> 00:47:50.699
doing or do the thing he should be doing, whichever

00:47:50.699 --> 00:47:54.679
way it goes. And so Jesus gave him a stern warning.

00:47:54.980 --> 00:47:58.239
Start doing right now. Quit your complaining

00:47:58.239 --> 00:48:02.860
and start living by the word and you'll be okay.

00:48:02.980 --> 00:48:06.500
But, you know, don't keep sinning or it's going

00:48:06.500 --> 00:48:10.000
to get worse. So, you know, even in the New Testament,

00:48:10.139 --> 00:48:15.519
there's a plumb line. And so Jesus pointed that

00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:19.260
out. I forgot to mention, we're going to go back

00:48:19.260 --> 00:48:23.570
a little bit in the book of Acts. And actually,

00:48:23.590 --> 00:48:27.030
this does happen afterwards. Oh, yeah. This is

00:48:27.030 --> 00:48:30.829
Herod, you know, wicked Herod, you know, that

00:48:30.829 --> 00:48:35.170
had John the Baptist beheaded, had Peter in prison,

00:48:35.230 --> 00:48:38.429
and he was going to bring him out on Easter,

00:48:38.530 --> 00:48:41.269
after Easter. It really means Pesach. It means

00:48:41.269 --> 00:48:43.969
Pesach. And he was going to bring him before

00:48:43.969 --> 00:48:45.730
the people, which probably means he was going

00:48:45.730 --> 00:48:49.559
to execute him. So anyway. This is in Acts chapter

00:48:49.559 --> 00:48:54.440
12, verses 21, 24. So on a set day, Herod, arrayed

00:48:54.440 --> 00:48:57.820
in royal apparel, sat on his throne and gave

00:48:57.820 --> 00:49:00.880
an oration to them. And the people kept shouting,

00:49:01.099 --> 00:49:04.820
the voice of a God and not of a man. Then immediately

00:49:04.820 --> 00:49:08.739
an angel of the Lord struck him because he did

00:49:08.739 --> 00:49:13.300
not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms

00:49:13.300 --> 00:49:17.170
and died. But the word of God grew and multiplied.

00:49:17.750 --> 00:49:20.489
Hallelujah. Oh, what a terrible way to die. Yeah.

00:49:20.550 --> 00:49:26.570
Now, that's judgment of God, you know. Very true.

00:49:26.570 --> 00:49:29.010
Right here in Scripture, you know. Yeah. You

00:49:29.010 --> 00:49:31.909
know, we always hear God's not going to do this,

00:49:31.909 --> 00:49:34.889
God's not going to do that. No, it's right here

00:49:34.889 --> 00:49:37.789
in Scripture. I heard someone saying, God do

00:49:37.789 --> 00:49:41.210
what he want to do. Yes. Not what we think, you

00:49:41.210 --> 00:49:46.690
know. Absolutely. Yeah. One last one. We're going

00:49:46.690 --> 00:49:50.650
back into the wilderness with the tabernacle.

00:49:50.650 --> 00:49:54.010
The children of Israel are traveling to the Promised

00:49:54.010 --> 00:49:58.170
Land, the long way around. And to the sons of

00:49:58.170 --> 00:50:02.369
Aaron, Nadad and Abihu, for some strange reason,

00:50:02.590 --> 00:50:05.150
because they knew the fire of God, they saw it.

00:50:05.349 --> 00:50:08.449
The sons of Aaron each took his censer and put

00:50:08.449 --> 00:50:12.860
fire in it. put incense on it, and offered profane

00:50:12.860 --> 00:50:16.380
fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded

00:50:16.380 --> 00:50:20.280
them. And I don't know what profane means. Well,

00:50:20.300 --> 00:50:23.719
I think it means fire that didn't come from God.

00:50:24.119 --> 00:50:27.199
In other words, it wasn't holy fire. It wasn't

00:50:27.199 --> 00:50:29.500
off the altar. Yeah, the holy fire that came

00:50:29.500 --> 00:50:32.559
from God that lit the flames on the altar in

00:50:32.559 --> 00:50:35.409
the first place. That was holy fire. And so they

00:50:35.409 --> 00:50:37.929
always talked about taking coals from off of

00:50:37.929 --> 00:50:41.030
the altar to offer incense. And so these guys

00:50:41.030 --> 00:50:44.630
must have had some other fire from, you know,

00:50:44.650 --> 00:50:47.670
their campfire maybe or someplace else. So it

00:50:47.670 --> 00:50:51.489
says, the Lord had not commanded them. So fire

00:50:51.489 --> 00:50:54.889
went out from the Lord and devoured them. And

00:50:54.889 --> 00:50:58.820
they died before the Lord. And Moses said to

00:50:58.820 --> 00:51:02.420
Aaron, this is what the Lord spoke, saying, by

00:51:02.420 --> 00:51:05.800
those who come near me, I must be regarded as

00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:10.480
holy. And before all the people, I must be glorified.

00:51:11.500 --> 00:51:15.420
So Aaron held his peace. That must have been

00:51:15.420 --> 00:51:18.440
a terrible, terrible day for dad and his brothers.

00:51:18.639 --> 00:51:22.000
Aaron was the mouthpiece for Moses. Yeah. And

00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:24.079
he was the high priest. He had just been anointed

00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:28.389
as a high priest. And the sons, they were all

00:51:28.389 --> 00:51:31.190
anointed. And so these boys carried the anointing.

00:51:31.250 --> 00:51:34.969
In the priesthood. Yeah. And, boy, they blew

00:51:34.969 --> 00:51:37.849
it really quick. But integrity got lost here.

00:51:38.090 --> 00:51:41.489
Yeah. So the Lord gave me a little devotional.

00:51:41.710 --> 00:51:45.750
It's from my little devotional book. You can

00:51:45.750 --> 00:51:48.409
see I've got my markers in it, too. It's very

00:51:48.409 --> 00:51:51.269
well worth reading. Get it from our bookstore.

00:51:51.789 --> 00:51:54.010
It's called In Quietness and Confidence, Keys

00:51:54.010 --> 00:51:57.780
to Overcoming. And it's little readings from

00:51:57.780 --> 00:52:00.340
my journals. And from time to time, I go back

00:52:00.340 --> 00:52:03.960
to make sure that I'm actually doing what the

00:52:03.960 --> 00:52:06.559
Lord said to do. See that plumb line? The plumb

00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:07.980
line's there. Maybe your next book will put a

00:52:07.980 --> 00:52:12.099
plumb line on it. Maybe. So I felt like we should

00:52:12.099 --> 00:52:15.679
close with this little reading. It's called Instantly

00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:19.460
Obedient. And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron,

00:52:19.619 --> 00:52:22.079
took either of them, his censer, and put fire

00:52:22.079 --> 00:52:24.800
therein, and put incense thereon, and offered

00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:27.380
strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded

00:52:27.380 --> 00:52:30.300
them not. And there went out fire from before

00:52:30.300 --> 00:52:33.179
the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before

00:52:33.179 --> 00:52:36.420
the Lord. That's Leviticus 10, 1 and 2 from the

00:52:36.420 --> 00:52:39.059
King James. That's the same scripture that Philip

00:52:39.059 --> 00:52:43.739
just read. Nadab and Abihu had just been anointed

00:52:43.739 --> 00:52:46.960
to stand in the office of priest. They were at

00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:50.400
the beginning of their ministry. My fiery presence

00:52:50.400 --> 00:52:53.440
had just come down to receive the offerings I

00:52:53.440 --> 00:52:56.980
had commanded. They had been on Mount Sinai in

00:52:56.980 --> 00:52:59.420
my presence and shared a fellowship meal with

00:52:59.420 --> 00:53:03.480
me. They knew the awesomeness of my fiery presence.

00:53:03.960 --> 00:53:07.639
They should have remained still in my presence

00:53:07.639 --> 00:53:11.860
waiting for orders. All of the implements of

00:53:11.860 --> 00:53:15.510
worship had been made and anointed and sanctified

00:53:15.510 --> 00:53:18.949
for use. They were like little boys wanting to

00:53:18.949 --> 00:53:22.409
play with their new toys. But I had not commanded

00:53:22.409 --> 00:53:26.190
them to offer incense yet. There was a time and

00:53:26.190 --> 00:53:29.269
a place for that in my order, but that was not

00:53:29.269 --> 00:53:33.329
the time, nor was it the place. Obedience to

00:53:33.329 --> 00:53:37.570
my commands is your protection. Presumption,

00:53:37.650 --> 00:53:41.639
whether in action or timing or both, is stepping

00:53:41.639 --> 00:53:45.559
out of my order and therefore out of my protection.

00:53:46.820 --> 00:53:49.820
So you see, all of these things that we've been

00:53:49.820 --> 00:53:52.619
discussing today have to do with getting out

00:53:52.619 --> 00:53:56.039
from under the order of God. And when you get

00:53:56.039 --> 00:53:58.980
out from the order of God, you get out from under

00:53:58.980 --> 00:54:03.460
his protection. As the day of my coming draws

00:54:03.460 --> 00:54:07.579
nearer, my presence is intensifying in the earth.

00:54:08.250 --> 00:54:12.070
The more intense my presence is, the more critical

00:54:12.070 --> 00:54:15.849
your obedience will be. Your life will depend

00:54:15.849 --> 00:54:19.130
on your hearing and obeying. If you don't hear

00:54:19.130 --> 00:54:24.570
my orders to do or not to do, don't move. Don't

00:54:24.570 --> 00:54:27.030
act simply because you think it's the thing to

00:54:27.030 --> 00:54:31.489
do. In returning and rest, you shall be saved.

00:54:31.670 --> 00:54:35.090
In quietness and in confidence shall be your

00:54:35.090 --> 00:54:39.860
strength. Choose rightly. my child, to be still

00:54:39.860 --> 00:54:44.019
and get your orders from me. Your life depends

00:54:44.019 --> 00:54:48.599
on it. Wow. Well, Sharon, do you want to pray

00:54:48.599 --> 00:54:51.780
for our listeners? Father, we just thank you

00:54:51.780 --> 00:54:56.780
for this sobering word today that helps us keep

00:54:56.780 --> 00:55:01.679
listening to you for orders, that we will do

00:55:02.199 --> 00:55:04.539
according to your word, that we will do according

00:55:04.539 --> 00:55:07.219
to your spirit, because our hearts are inclined

00:55:07.219 --> 00:55:13.460
to serve you out of love for you and out of adoration

00:55:13.460 --> 00:55:16.480
and just that our lives would be worship to you,

00:55:16.559 --> 00:55:20.840
that our very being in your presence as your

00:55:20.840 --> 00:55:25.920
children is pleasing to you. And that we don't

00:55:25.920 --> 00:55:30.099
have to perform in a certain way that our performance

00:55:30.099 --> 00:55:32.780
somehow gives us brownie points or something.

00:55:33.099 --> 00:55:37.920
Lord, we know that just being your children and

00:55:37.920 --> 00:55:41.780
looking to you with hearts of love will be our

00:55:41.780 --> 00:55:44.519
protection. Walking with you, walking in your

00:55:44.519 --> 00:55:47.019
ways, following your ways because we love you.

00:55:47.599 --> 00:55:51.170
Lord, we ask that you work. a deeper experience

00:55:51.170 --> 00:55:53.809
of that in all of our listeners and viewers.

00:55:54.489 --> 00:56:00.989
Lord, that we will all keep your heart in our

00:56:00.989 --> 00:56:04.849
view, that we'll keep your face in our view,

00:56:04.909 --> 00:56:07.710
that we'll keep your word in our view, that we'll

00:56:07.710 --> 00:56:11.570
keep your spirit. flowing in us, Lord. Help us

00:56:11.570 --> 00:56:14.110
to just keep coming back, to just keep coming

00:56:14.110 --> 00:56:16.349
back, just keep coming back when we find that

00:56:16.349 --> 00:56:18.789
we've walked away, even just in a little bit.

00:56:19.150 --> 00:56:21.630
Lord, that you'll help us, that you'll draw us,

00:56:21.889 --> 00:56:24.449
that you'll draw us by your Spirit and your loving

00:56:24.449 --> 00:56:26.969
kindness and your tender mercies. And Lord, if

00:56:26.969 --> 00:56:29.550
there's any areas where we need to repent, we

00:56:29.550 --> 00:56:32.190
ask you in your goodness to lead us to repentance

00:56:32.190 --> 00:56:42.710
now. In Jesus' name, amen. If you enjoyed today's

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