Revelation 7 (Con't)

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Andy, will you open us up with a word of prayer? I will, sir. Father, again we come to you in Christ's name, we pray,
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Lord, that you would help us, that you would guide us, that you would direct our thoughts, you being brother
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Mike, and that we would learn how to please you more in our lives.
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So be with us now in the Holy Spirit, in Christ's name. Amen. Amen. Take your
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Bibles and open them up to Revelation. I'm going to read the last couple of verses of 6, because I think that's the unit that fits together, because the questions asked and then the answer to that question is answered in chapter 7.
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So, let's see. I'll begin in verse 15 of chapter 6 and read it through.
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It says, And the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the rocks and the caves and the mountains, and they said to the mountains and to the rocks,
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Fall on us and hide us from the presence of him who sits on the throne in the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?
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And after this I saw four angels standing in the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth or the sea or any tree.
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And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living
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God, and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying,
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Do not harm the earth or the sea or any of the trees until we have sealed the bond servants of our
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God on their foreheads. And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144 ,000 were sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel.
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From the tribe of Judah, 12 ,000 were sealed. From the tribe of Reuben, 12 ,000.
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From the tribe of Gad, 12 ,000. From the tribe of Asher, 12 ,000. From the tribe of Natali, 12 ,000.
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From the tribe of Manasseh, 12 ,000. From the tribe of Simeon, 12 ,000. From the tribe of Levi, 12 ,000.
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From the tribe of Issachar, 12 ,000. From the tribe of Zebulun, 12 ,000. From the tribe of Joseph, 12 ,000.
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And from the tribe of Benjamin, 12 ,000. And after these things, I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all the tribes of peoples and tongues standing before the throne, and before the lamb clothed in white robes and palm branches were in their hands, and they cry out with a loud voice, saying,
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Salvation to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the lamb. And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders with the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped
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God, saying, Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our
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God forever and ever. Amen. And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These who are clothed in white robes, and who are they, and where have they come from?
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And I said to him, My Lord, you know. And he said to me, These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb.
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For this reason, they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple. And he who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them, and they will hunger no longer, nor thirst any more, nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any heat.
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For the lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to the springs of water of life, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
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Okay, the question is, the end of chapter six was who was able to stand.
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So, the sixth seal, and the seventh seal, you have in this middle here, some of your
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Bibles that have headings, anybody say an interlude? Does it? Okay, either a respite, an interlude, hey little buddy, either an interlude, a respite, a break in, a parenthesis, in this parenthesis, it's been pretty sequential, one, two, three, four, five, six, they have opened.
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But now we get to, hey baby, hey, why you walking over my wife? Oh, good thing your wife came with you.
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So, you're having the question answered, who is able to stand?
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And it's answered right here between the sixth and the seventh seal. So, you're having a break in the sequential action of what's unfolding.
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And, just want to let you know, this happens. You have an interlude, respite, however you, a break in the trumpets, and you're going to have another one in the bowls.
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So, remember, you have these parallels that continue on, and I'm just going to let you know as well, in this break here, in each one, you have two pictures of the church.
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And I can make that argument, and I can prove it as we go through. There'll be two pictures. One of those will be those on the earth, and the other will be those in heaven.
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Those on the earth will be by either the seal, and we'll walk through.
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Just want to let you know the direction that I'm heading, so you don't think we're walking aimlessly through information.
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The ones on the earth will be those who are sealed. The ones who are standing before the throne, and these will be numbered, and these will be the great multitude.
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Anytime you see the great multitude, or a number you cannot count, those are the ones in heaven.
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But, hey, don't think for somehow, even though it says, wide is the road that leads to destruction, narrow is the way that leads to life, few to be that find it, and there are many on that way of destruction, okay?
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Somehow, don't think that heaven's just going to be kind of just very few people. Heaven's going to be filled with people, but hell's got more, okay?
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So, even when we get to the interlude in between the trumpets, you're going to see the two witnesses, and then you're going to see another group of people.
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Well, I'm going to make the argument that the two witnesses is the church on earth, the other two are going to be those that are in heaven.
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That's the direction that we'll be going. But, before we get there, we've got to finish answering where we started last week.
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I haven't forgotten a question that I have to answer.
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I'll answer it. Where did the Jews come from? That question was right before we left, and I'll answer it before we leave.
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So, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, I'm going to do this so that Richard doesn't rebuke me for not putting them.
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Zebulun, Asher.
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It ain't moving, is it?
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So people can't see. Can you all see that from back there? No? Yay? Nay?
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All right. What are these? There you go.
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I want to make a distinction, because there's a difference between the twelve tribes and the twelve sons, and I'm going to let you know why there's a difference, even though there's a reason why it says these are the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.
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He is bringing those two ideas together. These are the descendants of Jacob. These are from who?
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Leah. Who? Zilpah. Zilpah. Who? Would you say
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Cali? No. King James calls her a Cali. She's ugly. I'm just telling you.
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And God gave her all these because she was ugly. Jacob would love her.
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All right. Each one of these was given a blessing.
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At the end, well, I wouldn't say a blessing. Some of them were given not so good a thing.
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Some of them were giving a blessing. Some of them were not. One of them was told he was going to be a donkey.
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One of them was told he was going to be a vineyard. One of them was told he was going to live out by the beach, be a beach bum.
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And then the other one he called just a plain bum. So these are, before Jacob died, he gave every one of these a blessing or a cursing.
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And the reason why we're going to go through this is because there's some exclusions that are in this here.
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And I want to prove to you that those exclusions I do not believe are based on sin.
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Okay? Even though some of your study Bibles will say that. And you all know what
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I think about study Bibles. I think they can be wrong at times. Okay? They're just giving you their opinion.
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What do we know about Reuben? He was the firstborn, right? Firstborn.
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Firstborn. He's called primogenitor status. What was he supposed to get? Inheritance, like all the others.
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But he would get a double portion. He would get a double portion. But what do we know about Reuben? He did.
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He slept with his, not just his wife, his concubine. Yeah, the second -class wife. Hey, I don't want you to think that that's just,
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I do believe that's perverted. Okay? But don't just think of that as just some burning with lust perverted thing.
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What he did by sleeping with her was try to usurp the authority of his father.
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And in doing so, he was cursed. Remember it said he laid down on his father's couch. Therefore, he was cursed.
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You can go back and read in the 49th chapter of Genesis.
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And you can read all of these. Did he ever, did he ever, did this offspring produce anything?
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They produce, obviously, people. But did they produce anybody that would be established as someone who would be looked to as a leader?
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No. Matter of fact, he was the one that couldn't even get his brothers when they threw Joseph in the hole.
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He was going to go back and get him. Do you all remember that? I'll come back and get him and I'll take him back to dad. But he couldn't even muster up enough intestinal fortitude to get his brother out and to get him out.
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So what did Judah come along and do? Hey, you know what? He is our brother. We probably shouldn't kill him, but we can sell him.
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Okay? He never became a leader of any kind. What do we know about Simeon?
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Not much. Simeon and Levi were behind fixing to get to that. Yes, they are.
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And these two men get a cursing because of what they did.
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Leah had Dinah. And Dinah, I think in the 34th chapter of Genesis, she said she was going to go out to the women of the city.
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They were facing toward Shechem. And she meandered off in there. And the
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Shechemites, if you read the narrative, they actually kidnapped her and raped her.
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They come in. They want to make a deal with Jacob to intermarry.
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Jacob doesn't say a word in the narrative. Absolutely nothing. His brothers come home.
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He finds out what's happened. And when Hamar and Shechem come to see Jacob, there's someone not with them.
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The daughter did not come. She's back in Shechem, the city. So, they are furious.
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These two men go and say, hey, check it out. We can't marry no uncircumcised people.
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So if you circumcise yourself, then we'll intermarry. So, that's what they do.
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They wait three days. What happens? They're sore, buddy. I'm trying to think, what kind of men come in there and go, all right, check it out.
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I want all of you men to circumcise yourself.
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Yeah, I'm thinking, I got to go. What do you think about that? A lot of lovers would be like, hey, well, you guys did this to her, so.
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Well, there's a reason why. And if you read through that narrative, their land will become,
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Jacob's land will become their land. Their cattle will become, and then there's a reversal of what happens when they go in.
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So, when they're sore, Simeon and Levi go in there, and they kill every one of the males.
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And they enslave and carry off all their stuff. And they enslave the women as well.
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So, when we see the amount of group of people that goes into Egypt, it's possible that these slaves that they had taken at this time could have been with them.
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When they list those 70, 71 that go in, that's talking of Israelite people or Hebrews, not the ones that could have been slaved.
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You've got to remember, they had a bunch of people. He had gathered up with himself a lot of things.
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So, we know that these men were violent. Hey, I'm just going to be honest.
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I ain't saying what they did was right, but I understand. I understand.
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What made it so wrong is what they used to take advantage of those men.
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They used the sign of the covenant. They used the sign of circumcision, which is saying that God is going to bless them if they do this.
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And they used that as a way of going in and then wiping them out. What do we know about Judah?
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Huh? He's as strong as a lion. That was the blessing to him.
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Hey, but Judah's got some issues too. Oh, he wants to talk about that. Judah had
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Ur. He had Onan. He had
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Shalah. The Bible's just pretty straight up.
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Ur was wicked. God struck him down. He was married to Tamar.
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Leverite Law says that Onan was supposed to raise up seed within Tamar.
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Maybe that's what Leverite Law is, right? Interesting. This was a known thing to be carried out even before the
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Mosaic Law. Remember, this is 400 years or more before the
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Mosaic Law was established. Onan was supposed to go into Tamar, raise up seed for his brother because he was wicked.
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He goes into her, but he ejaculates on the ground using her as a sexual instrument.
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And what did God do to that guy? Same thing he did with Ur. Struck him dead. Judah's supposed to give
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Shalah to her to do the same thing when he's old enough. Remember what happens?
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He doesn't do it. Then it comes time for him to go to sheep shearing. Judah's going to go to his buddy,
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Hira. They're going to go shear sheep. And it's a time of festivity and partying.
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And on his way there, Tamar says, I know what kind of dude this guy is.
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I'll go dress up like a prostitute on the way. And I'll have him play with me.
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She knows something about Judah. Lucy Goosey. So she dresses up like a prostitute.
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He goes into her. He commits his extracurricular activity and leaves his seal and his staff, which are basically his
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ID for payment. He's about to bring back a goat or something. He sends his buddy back to pay.
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He walks, hey, where's the prostitute shrine? I mean, the shrine prostitute was here. They said, hey, we don't know what you're talking about.
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She ain't here. There ain't no hang out here that way. They get back to the city. He gets back home.
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Everybody knows the story, right? What does he say when he finds out?
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Cover his ears. What does he say when he finds out that Tamar was pregnant?
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He said, find out. What he said? She said, hold on.
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I'll tell you who did it. This guy.
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Judah says she's more righteous than I am. So we got a man that used his authority to rape his dad's concubine.
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We got two brothers that used the sign of the covenant in violence, although understandable, killed the men that raped the sister.
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But they didn't have to kill the whole city. Actually, if you go and you read what they did, they also went through there and they hamstrung the oxen.
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Why would you do that? That's just being brutal. Now you've got
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Judah, who is a womanizer, fails to do what he's supposed to do as a patriarch leader of the family to give
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Shale a raise up city. It is cool, though, what happens out of Tamar.
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You have Perez and Zara. Who comes out of Perez?
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You follow it on down. This is why you've got to read Chronicles. I know everybody thinks it's boring.
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It's not. Out of Selah and out of Perez comes Salmon. Who did Salmon marry? He married
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Rahab, who was the first Canaanite woman to be saved, her and her family. Who came out of that?
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Boaz. Now you can go on over here to the rest of that story. You can listen to Andy's teaching on Ruth. It's on Sermon Audio.
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Isn't it? Yes. Okay. Awesome. Who came out of Ruth and Boaz?
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Obed. Obed, Jesse. Jesse, David. David. And the sign.
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Okay. Keep on going. So if sin or exclusion, this guy was a prostitute lover.
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What do we know about Issacar and Zebulun?
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Not much. Let's be honest. All we know about Issacar is that he was hired by Leah, by taking the mandates of Rachel.
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Remember last week we talked about this briefly? You know what that name means? Anybody know what that means? Hired by wages.
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That's what she named the child saying, I paid for you.
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And Zebulun, we don't know much about. Gad and Asher, we don't know much about.
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You can go read. This dude's supposed to eat. He cooks a bunch of fancy food. This guy raids raiders.
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If you go read the story, that's what happens. Then you get to Dan and Nathalie.
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We'll deal with these in just a second. I don't know much about Nathalie. But we do know a little bit about Dan.
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Who's the most famous person to come out of Dan? I would say
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Samson. Yeah, Samson. That's the most known. But before we think that that's all that was good about Dan, because we know this,
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Samson was a moral train wreck, let's dig this first.
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Because I think this is important before we get to Dan. Let's look. What came out of Levi? Okay. These guys handled the boards, poles, sockets.
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These guys handled all the screens, covers, shields, meaning not more shields, but the coverings for the tabernacle.
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Remember, this is the priestly tribe, right? The Kohathites dealt with everything with the tabernacle.
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I mean the inner sanctum part. The Kohath had
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Amram. He also had Izahar, Uziel, Hebron.
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Who did Amram have? Moses. Put Aaron, because Aaron was born first.
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Moses. Even though Miriam is older, we ain't going to put her before the men, because the men handled the property, they have the authority.
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I'm running out of ram. Who did Aaron have? Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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What did Nadab and Abihu do? Strange fire. Nadab and Abihu do. Offer strange fire.
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He said, take them out, shake your ashes out of their body. I want Eleazar and Ithamar.
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Imagine doing that, putting on their priestly garments after God incinerated them.
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So, Aaron is the priestly tribe. This is going to lead to Dan.
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Somebody came out of here. Remember who Korah was? Korah's rebellion where God opened up the ground because he thought, hey, these guys aren't priests in the way that Aaron's descendants were.
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But what did he say? You think you've got all this authority? We can be just like you. Maybe he said in the morning,
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I'll meet you outside and we're going to have a standoff and we'll see what happens. And God said, back up. And he opened up the ground and swallowed them and then everybody else started complaining about how that was wrong and what did
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God do to them. He said, you think that's bad? Watch this, I'll do it again. And he killed them. But out of Korah's line, anybody know who came out of that?
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Sorry, this is how my mind works. This is in my brain. You know that graph last week that Keith showed?
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You're reading and you're making all that. That's my brain every time I read. Every time
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I read. Matter of fact, we were reading last week. We read in Jeremiah and we read in Ezekiel and two of those passages are right here in Revelation 7, last week.
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I don't know if you all caught that, but two of those are in there. Samuel was a descendant of Korah.
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But Moses and Gershom.
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Remember Gershom? Married by Zephora. Remember what she had to do because Moses didn't?
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She had to circumcise her son before he went and was going to be a representative before God because he hadn't done his job.
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And God said, hey, I'm just going to strike you dead. Good thing she took care of business for you. But this guy had a son named...
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Now, back to Dan. What do we know about Dan? We know that that's where Samson came from.
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But if you go to the 18th chapter of Judges, you will see what's called
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Micah's idolatry. Micah had set up an idol. He had set up a shrine and he then became basically his own priest.
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The Danites came down and raided it, took him away as captain, took the idols, moved up to where Dan is now, up on the northern part of Israel, and set up an idolatrous temple there and made this guy here their priest.
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Go read it. It's in Judges chapter 18 and it tells you explicitly who this person is.
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It's the grandson of Moses. So he becomes the priest intercessor for the tribe of Dan as the priesthood.
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A whole new way of worshipping instituted all the way,
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I think it even says, all the way until the captivity or the exile, which would have took place, remember when the northern captivity took place?
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722. 722 B .C. So this would have been in the time of the
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Judges up until 722 B .C. Idolatry continued on through the tribe of Dan.
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So we can say they were idolatrous. We don't know much about Nathalie.
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I'll deal with him in just a second even though he was born first. What do we know about Benjamin? Warriors. He said you'll be ravenous wolves.
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They were warriors. Hey, who came out of the tribe of Benjamin? King Saul, the first king.
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Not only did the first king come out of the tribe of Benjamin, if you want some
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Bible trivia, the second king of Israel was not David. It actually was Ishbosheth. Ishbosheth, when he died,
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Abner put him in his place and the kingdom was divided until David was able to unify it with Abner.
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Interesting. He took a concubine trying to usurp the authority of his dad.
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Abner tried to usurp the authority of Saul by going into the concubine of Saul at that time.
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That's what caused the division between Ishbosheth and Abner and he unified them. So they were ravenous wolves, meaning they were going to be good warriors.
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But then when you get to Joseph, you have Manasseh and Ephraim.
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They were his two sons born in Egypt. So what are those? These are half -breeds.
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Right? Let's be honest. That's what they are. Half -Egyptian, half -Hebrew.
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In chapter 48 of Genesis, these two men are brought in. Jacob says he's about to die.
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He then is going to bless these two. Manasseh should have got the first blessing.
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He reverses the order and Joseph tries to say, hold up pops, you're doing this wrong.
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I know you're blind, but it needs to be the other way. And he says it ain't going to be the other way. This is the way
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I want it. He blesses this one, even though this was the firstborn. This is the double portion that he gives to Joseph because he removes him as progenitor and moves
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Joseph in his place. Okay? Everybody follow me? Do we see all the sin that's happened so far?
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Okay? And not only did,
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I'm not sure if Joseph and Benjamin took place in this because I don't think, depending on where the chronology is when this happened, but if you read the story when they went in and they killed the city of Shechem, it says all the sons went back and raided the city.
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So you've got them partaking in some way in this as well. What do we know about Ephraim?
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Sure is where we get the aphrodite. And that leads to when the kingdom was divided because of Solomon's failure to do away with the idolatry of his wives.
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It says that in the book of Kings, it says that God entreated him multiple times.
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You've got to quit what you're doing. And he didn't. He says, I'm going to tear the kingdom away from you.
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But I'm not going to do it to you. I'm going to do it when you die. You have
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Rehoboam. Now he is, Rehoboam is a Judahite, okay? You have Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
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This is when the kingdom is divided. This goes to the north.
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This keeps the southern part of Judah and parts of Benjamin.
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Anybody know who Jeroboam was? He was an Ephraimite. What's that? Yeah, he was an
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Ephraimite. Nebit was an Ephraimite. Anybody remember what Jeroboam did? Do you know what he did?
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Yeah, you're right. He was the first king of the north. But what he actually did it's in 1
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Kings chapter 12. What he did is he said, check it out.
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He's talking to the people. If I don't make them a place to worship, they're going to come kill me and they're going to go back after Rehoboam.
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So what he did is way up in Dan where this guy started it way up in the city of Dan he set up a golden calf.
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He says, that's Yahweh. Does that sound familiar? When did that happen?
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That happened with this guy when they came out of the land of Egypt.
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Remember, Aaron's the one that did that. Hey, bring me all your gold earrings.
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Lo and behold, Moses, I threw them in there. They melted and out sprung a golden calf.
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That's not what happened. It was fashioned. So, Ephraim becomes an idolatrous tribe as well.
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Matter of fact, the whole northern kingdom because of Jeroboam's sin and it's continuation on through until 722 is the whole northern ten tribes they're not lost.
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So anybody that tells you they're lost they are not lost. They're just now. They come down.
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Those that were able to escape came down and settled in the southern and they lose their ethnic identity.
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They're not lost as if somehow there's no Gadite for all those years.
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That's not the case. They come down. They escape some of the judgment.
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They come down into the southern kingdom and then they become known as Jews because they lose their ethnic identity with the northern and their tribal identity and where do they get that from?
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They get that from basically Judahites. That's the easiest way of putting it.
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Short for Judahites or Yudah that's actually the Hebrew way of saying it becomes the Jews.
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So, you have Jeroboam leading them off into wholesale idolatry in the north and then he says goodnight.
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They're too close to Jerusalem. They'll go to Jerusalem and worship. He says I gotta put another idol in Bethel.
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You know how close Bethel is to Jerusalem? It's pretty close. He sets up another golden calf in Bethel leading wholesale idolatry for the northern kingdom and its ten tribes for however many years from I guess the fall would have been around late 9th century to B .C.
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to 722. Okay? So, a bunch of sin, isn't it?
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Yeah? It is sin. And that list that we read that Dan and Ephraim are not listed because of idolatry.
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Okay? Does that have merit? Does that have merit?
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Doesn't murder? Doesn't rape?
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Doesn't prostitution? Let's take a look at this guy.
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You remember what these guys did? These guys raped a Levitical concubine's woman to death in the book of Judges.
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They raped that woman to death. And then you remember what the Levite priest did? He chopped her up in little pieces, in twelve pieces, and he sent her out.
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So, if sin is the reason for someone to be excluded, seems like all of them would be excluded, doesn't it?
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Yeah? So, I do not believe that Dan and Ephraim are excluded from the list because of idolatry.
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I know some study Bibles will say that. I do not. It says, well, they're not listed.
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There are, in the
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Old Testament, there are twenty -seven lists of the tribes. How many have ever heard that that this list in chapter seven is unique?
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How many have ever heard that? I've heard a revelation taught through three times by the time that I have been in my new life.
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Three times. Every one of them says, this is unique. Out of that twenty -seven, three are listed the same.
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Okay? They are in numbers two, seven, and ten.
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So, how many does that leave? That leaves twenty -four.
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You know, out of those twenty -four, none of them agree with each other. So, there is some merit to this saying, hey,
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I'm sorry, and this would include the revelation listing. This one here, is it unique?
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Yeah, but so are all the other are unique. There are passages in the
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Old Testament in 1st Chronicles 2, 1 -2, give a list of the twelve tribes.
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Then from verse 3 on to chapter 8, verse 40,
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Dan's never listed again. Okay? Then you have in 2nd
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Chronicles chapter 6, verses 54 -81,
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Dan's not listed there either. But, Dan is listed first in another passage in Chronicles.
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So, if the reason for them being, his name not being listed has to do with something with sin, then you're being inconsistent with the rest of how these are listed.
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None of them are in the right order, none of them are ever listed the same, except for this time here when they're marching out.
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Anybody remember when the marching out was? When they moved? When the tabernacle moved? When the only time these stayed the same was when they moved.
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None of these agree. One of those has all 14 listed.
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Why would it have 14 listed? Because you have your 12 sons, and then it would list
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Ephraim and Manasseh. Now, what has been the structure of the book of Revelation?
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You have Old Testament abordant numbers.
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So, why is Dan and Ephraim not listed? Because they've got to keep the number 12 for the rest of the book.
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Sorry. Sorry it wasn't some big answer. Now, I will say this.
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Why did he exclude those? I have no idea. Because he felt like it.
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Why did he exclude them in other passages of Scripture? Because he felt like it. Why was he included in other passages in Chronicles?
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Because God felt it necessary in the development of the genealogies that they should be listed.
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Okay? Now, all we have done is just make an observation of what are tribes, what are descendants, and what ain't there.
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And we don't have time to go now, who are these people?
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So, next week we'll come back to our regular schedule. Any questions?
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I've got just a couple of minutes. Even though he does run a 10 minute thing out there. Any questions?
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Have I overwhelmed... Sybil, did you roll the window up on me back there? Sometimes Sybil says
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I overwhelm people with information and I can see her back there rolling the window up on me. Any questions?
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Disagreements? Confusion? If... Anybody read any of the church fathers?
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Irenaeus? Hippolytus? Not Hepatitis. Hippolytus? Okay. If you were going to read
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Irenaeus, Irenaeus says that because of this here, the
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Antichrist comes from here. And his student,
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Hippolytus, said the same thing. That ended up in some of your study
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Bibles. Dispensational eschatology jumped all over that, grabbed it with a hook and just reeled it in.
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And they put that in their system. You know there's nothing to make warrant of that? There's nothing. Hey, is...
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Do idolaters inherit the kingdom of heaven? No. And they say, well because of his idolatry, he is excluded.
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Do... Do murderers inherit the kingdom of heaven? Do rapists?
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Do... Liars. Deceivers. No. So we need to look at it and say yes.
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Is this unique in the sense that this is the only time we see in Revelation chapter 7 the listing in this order?
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That's true. But there are 24 others where they're listed and they're not listed the same way either.
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If anybody wants a copy of that, I have them listed out if you want to go and you want to spend three or four hours reading each one of them,
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I have no problem if you want to go. I do that. I mean that's just... That's what I do. If you want to look at that and go look at every one of them,
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I'll send you the list so that you can see, hey, what Mike said is true and you can look at it with your own eyes.
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Some of those larger sections in Chronicles are seven and eight chapters long.
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Some six. Then other times it'll just be listed real quickly.
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But there's no reason. There is no biblical warrant to say that Ephraim and Dan are excluded because of sin because every one of them will be excluded because of sin as well.
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Every one of them are partakers in sin. Now, next week, we will say how
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I understand these 144 ,000 with the rest of the book. And if you want to get an idea, you can flip over if you want to do some homework.
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It is the 144 ,000 are also listed again by the amount, not by tribe, in chapter 14 when it makes the distinction between the followers of the beast and the followers of the lamb.
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The followers of the beast have what? The mark of the beast. The followers of the lamb have the seal.
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Okay? We'll do that next week. Mr. Berry, while you're flipping through the
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Bible making sure what I said was correct, would you pray for us? Heavenly Father, thank you for this time to be able to be in your word.
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Thank you for the preparation that Brother Mike has gone to to teach it to us and for his willingness to share truth with us.
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Lord, we thank you for this group of people who have gathered to be in your word and be taught and instructed in it.
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Lord, we thank you for the blessing of fellow saints who have a desire to understand and apply your word.
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Lord, I pray that you'd be with us as we head into worship that you would our hearts would be open and open to hear what
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Brother Keith has to say that our hearts would be ready to worship you in spirit and in truth. In Jesus' name I pray.