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Hello, everybody, and welcome to today's episode
of Walk With Me.
I am your host, JJ.
It's so good to have each andevery one of you here.
So good to have another episodeand have another day to talk
about God's Word.
So glad to have each and everyone of you here today.
Um, and I'm I'm just so thankfulfor all of you who are liking
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See the listeners going up.
I really do appreciate it.
It's not for my glory, it's onlyfor God's glory.
So I really thank each and everyone of you in this time.
And now I understand the subjectof the podcast is what a lot of
people are interested in.
This end times thing, but we'regonna take our time and go
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through it step by step becausewe don't want to miss it.
All right.
And I know I'm kind of gettingright into it without all the
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I can't wait for it.
It's gonna be a great thing.
Uh, it's gonna be focused onmarriage and living a married
life according to the Bible, andit's not, you know, and and I
don't want to get too far offinto that because I find myself
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do this three times a day andeverything's stoic and stale and
and this, it's about how to livein today's world using the
Bible.
So we're going to launch thatoff, me and my brother and our
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So you'll you'll get to meet allof us and face to face.
So uh this may still stay uhaudio format, depends on
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iHeartRadio and everything likethat.
So, but I love each and everyone of you just to kind of give
you a heads up of what's comingdown the pipe.
Um, now we do have some podcastrules, and if this is your first
time, I welcome you.
But we do have some rules here.
One rule is there's no stupidquestions.
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Now, I'm not talking aboutpeople who want to just ask
questions just to debate things.
If you if you really havesomething that's always been
bothering you, and and maybe itwas a uh something that sort of
didn't fit right, or your uhthere was a contradiction that
you saw, or or you thought yousaw, or anything like that.
If you're really trying to learnabout the word of God, go ahead
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and send us an email with thatquestion.
Now, if it's like a simplequestion, or I can say, hey,
look at this scripture here,I'll just send that question
back to you, or send the answerback to you um with the
appropriate scriptures.
Um, but if it's something that'sgonna be long and drawn out,
then well, where it's basicallytoo much to type, then I'll just
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make an episode of it.
And if I do make an episode ofit, um just put your name, or
when you send the question in,just put your name in the
subject line so I know toaddress you, or it could just be
a general question.
And the fun fact is that thisentire series is based on one
person's question that when youtry to answer it in simple
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terms, you end up leaving somuch out.
So there is no such thing as astupid question.
Um, and when we go through theseuh episodes, the second rule
this is the second rule.
The second rule is if I I'mgonna give you a scripture, it's
gonna be for time's sake.
Um then what we do as far asstudy is we want to read a verse
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or two above or a verse or twobelow, or preferably the whole
chapter, because context ofeverything is key.
We have learned recently in ourin our lives that you can take a
sentence out of and and clip itout of context and make it say
something that it never meant tosay.
So, uh, and so it's veryimportant that you keep
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everything in context,especially when it comes to the
word of God, because God doesnot issue idle words, he's not
like me, he doesn't prattle on.
He said what he's got to say andhe moves on, right?
So, that being said, let's getinto today's episode of uh we're
calling it the end time Biblestudy, right?
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Now, granted, if this is yourfirst episode, this is episode
three, and a lot of people aretalking about end times, end
times, end times, end times, endtimes, and you have all these
people with these wonderfultitles Dr.
Deacon Apostle Bishop UmJackalope um Thompson, and and I
don't know if there's a personnamed Thompson, it doesn't
matter, but it I'm saying thatum we have people who are always
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professing this is the end timeand that's beyond the Christ,
and this and then that's in theand we have to be very careful
of this because before we wouldjust laugh these people off.
Oh, you guys are kooks becauseJesus said no man knows the day
of the hour, so we would justlaugh them off as kooks.
But now, and and I'm really kindof distraught over the fact that
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people literally a couple monthsago sold everything they had,
quit their jobs, walked out andwas like, Yep, because the
raptor's coming tomorrow, gaveaway their kids, did all kinds
of things, and because theybecause somebody said Jesus was
coming tomorrow and you're gonnago to heaven, whether they were
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or not, that's not at discussionhere.
Um Jesus is coming tomorrow, andthey've literally destroyed
their lives, and now findthemselves trying to rebuild it,
and they're they're not like 19,they're like 50, 60 years old.
So um that's where this wholethe inspiration for this series,
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this season of body Bible studycomes from, this walk with me
season.
Season, I guess we're gonna callit season six.
Um, but either way, we're gonnacall it this series, all right?
The series of the end timeseries.
And if you listen to the firsttwo episodes, or if you haven't,
I would I would kind of ask youto go back and listen to the
last two episodes because whatI'm gonna say may sound
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confusing if you don't, becauseit's all one big Bible study,
all right.
We were talking about Daniel andwhat's in the name.
Uh, that was our last, that'swhere we left off.
And I was finding myself havinga hard time not getting into
this episode because if youcan't really mention Daniel in
the beginning of Daniel withoutmentioning the quote, three
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Hebrew boys.
I say quote because we all likewe all know them by a particular
set of names that was not theirnames.
I'll say that again.
We all know them by their thesenames that was not their names.
We call them, we sing aboutthem, we we write about them, we
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talk about them, but we callthem Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego.
Those were not their names.
But but JJ, I saw it in thescripture, and my preacher
talked about it, and my pastortalked about it, and my choir
sang about it, and I learnedabout it in Sunday school.
But no, those were not theirnames, their names were
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Hananiah, Meshiah, and Azariah.
Well, but JJ, where do you getthat from?
It's right in the right in theBible.
But we called them by Shadrach,Meshach, and Abednego, but those
names were their Babyloniangiven names.
Because the first thingNebuchadnezzar tried to do was
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erase the whole idea of God fromthe Hebrew Israelite society,
and this was in directfulfillment of another prophecy.
Now I told you I'm gonna bringit back to prophecy.
So Isaiah 39 and 7 says, And thysons that shall issue from thee,
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in other words, the skills thatyou have that you shall beget,
they shall take away, and theyshall become eunuchs in the
palace of the king of Babylon.
This is Isaiah 39 and 7.
This is four.
This he's talking to Hezekiah,who was dead when this happened.
So we have to really study thenames because in though in that
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time, names meant something.
It's not like today we just namea kid something because we like
the way a world, a word sounds.
Trust me, I know girls' name uhCharm.
I I don't understand, but that'sneither here nor there.
But in in biblical times, namesmeant something significant,
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which is why Nebuchadnezzarrecognized this.
And Nebuchadnezzar, first thinghe did was change everyone's
name, especially if they weregoing to be eunuchs in the inner
court.
For instance, we called DanielDaniel because that's what his
name was, and God named Daniel.
God is my judge, right?
That's what Daniel means.
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God, Dan, E, my, God, my judge,God is my judge.
But Nebuchadnezzar changed thename to Belteshazzar.
What does that mean?
Uh Bel Fareth or Bel or Baal.
This is all variations of thesame thing when in the
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Babylonian system.
Ananiah means beloved of God,but that was changed to
Shadrach, illuminated of the sungod.
If you don't believe me, look itup.
The Babylonians had that kind ofbelief system, and that's why
they call it that.
And when you are, but you knowwhat?
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Let me not get ahead of myself.
Meshael was that was hisoriginal Hebrew name, which is
Who Is As God, was changed toMeshach or Meshach, who is like
Venus.
But Venus is not a god, Venus isa planet, and Venus is an idol
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goddess, and Azariah, whichmeans in the Hebrew, the Lord is
my help, was changed toAbednego, the servant of Nego.
Abed, the servant of Nego,Abednego.
So the problem is, is that whenAshpenaz, who is the uh the
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master of the eunuchs, theleader of the eunuchs, who
Nebuchadnezzar um put in place,when he changed those, when he
issued those names, he did notsucceed in changing those names.
We allowed that.
We allowed that because that Idon't I I'm gonna call it the
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Babylonianization of the church,and and I just made that term
up, and I know, but we singabout it, just like we said
earlier.
My pastor preached about it, mypastor preached these entire
sermons on a ben the go.
And and it sounds good in thesong, and it it sounds great,
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but it's not biblicallyaccurate.
They tried to do it, butremember these three young men,
and these were not old guys, wewe call them Hebrew boys, these
were young men, and they did notembrace the Babylonian uh the
Babylonian culture, they didn'tembrace the Babylonian religion,
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which is why you talk about itall the time, these boys ended
up in the fire, in the furnacefire, fire that was so hot and
got heated seven times hotter,and it killed the men who threw
them in the fire.
Those days the name of thoseboys was Ananiah, Michelle, and
Azariah.
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And they were ready to die fortheir faith, and they were ready
to stay loyal to God, andbecause of their loyalty to God,
is what really saved them fromthat horrible death that they
were going to have.
Now, when we talk about thehistorical um section of Daniel,
because there is a section ofDaniel that is historical, and
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then there's a section that isprophetical.
Now, I feel like we should coverthe historical section of Daniel
because I don't want anyone tocome away thinking I'm saying
that the entire book isprophecy.
But yes, the book of Daniel doesum couple with the book of
Revelation.
We're gonna go, we're gonna gothrough that.
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Just hang on tight, buckle up,and let's take the walk.
Alright, so now two incidents inthe book of Daniel are reported
that that sort of shows howGod's power uh will deliver you.
And when we recognize his power,it's gonna be just um described
and recognized by these fourpeople.
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The three Hebrew young men,Ananiah, Ishiah, and Ezariah,
they verbalized everything.
They they said it, they theysaid it and they kept saying it,
and they you couldn't tell themnot to say it.
Our God in Daniel 3:17, our God,whom we serve, is able to
deliver us from the burningfiery furnace, and he will
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deliver us out of thy hand, OKing.
That sounds a little bitinsurrectionary, which kind of
tells us that you can do a thingas long as you don't cross God,
and that's all I'm gonna saythere.
I'm gonna move on because that'snot the subject of this podcast.
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And Darius had had kind ofvoiced his hope.
He voiced his hope.
He was like, hey man, listen,man.
Um, I hope the the God you servedelivers you.
When he told he told that toDaniel, this is the new king,
this is after Nebuchadnezzar.
This is now King Darius inDaniel 6 and 16 saying, I hope
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the God I serve.
Now I put in the I hope partthat the God thy serve
continually, he will deliverthee.
That's Daniel 6 and 16.
This is literally the Babylonianking that issues the order to
kill Daniel by telling Danielthat the God that he serves is
going to issue a deliverancefrom the law that Darius is
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judging him for.
You see where I'm going withthis?
So the stories of God deliveringpeople, like the pre-Hebrew boys
and Daniel, it's well known.
And we got to study all of theseaccounts.
And it's not just a great Sundayschool lesson, it's a life
lesson.
Now, to go into the fieryfurnace, because I just saw
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someone text me, what about thefiery furnace?
Okay, so Daniel 3.
Now, this is the story of thesethree Hebrew boys who are not
Shadrach, Beshach, and Abednego.
Now, being faithful, they hadobeyed uh the law of the land.
If they had obeyed that law ofthe land, they would have
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afflicted the law of God.
Now, who would you rather dealwith?
A horrible death or a horribleeternity?
This is this is kind of a choicebetween bad and worse, but you
have to have faith that nomatter what happens, I'm gonna
stick to the law of eternity.
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The law of God.
And Nebuchadnezzar was thisNebuchadnezzar had some
problems.
Like he wasn't satisfied withhaving great political power.
Like he didn't he didn't want tojust be the king of the country
or king of conquered nations, hewanted to control religion.
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And I want you to kind of clipthat onto your head.
Not only did he want to controlthe people, he also wanted to
control religion.
And he wanted to make himself anobject of worship.
See where I'm going with this?
So he built himself this um,well, he had someone build this
big old statue, and it had to beabout 90 feet high, I think, in
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today's measurement.
Maybe nine foot wide, becauseany other um measurements kind
of look crazy.
He put it outside the walls ofBabylon.
And if you're traveling, ifyou're going by the city, I mean
going by Babylon, you'd be ableto see this gold shining thing
from a mile away, from milesaway.
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Now, and it was simply acontinuation of this
Babylonianization, that's thisword that I'm making up.
Like, which is literally asystem of belief that kind of
started at the Tower of Babelunder Nimrod.
Remember, this was this kind ofshows you how far back these uh
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prophecies go.
Now, keep in mind here, byNebuchadnezzar doing this, uh he
was trying to establish thisthing that Nimrod started at the
Tower of Babylon.
And this Babylonianization wordthat I'm making up, but we'll
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perspective by the end of thisepisode, doesn't it?
Um, began with the tower andwill end with an image.
Now, for that, I want you toread Revelation 13 and see how
this ties together.
And just like that, the prophecythat Daniel deals with in the
times of the Gentiles also willbegin and end with an image.
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Now we're starting to kind oftouch on how these two books are
related.
Now, Nebuchadnezzar had thisthing, and he ordered everybody
big, small, popular, unpopular,rich, poor, politically
powerful, politically weak, um,to assemble for the dedication
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of this image.
It doesn't matter who you were,you were under his rule, you as
you gathered together for thededication of this image.
And at the sound of their music,whatever this theme song was
gonna be, that's for the sake ofGegel's saying, it was the shaft
theme song.
Now, um, whenever you heard thisnew music come on that you've
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never heard before, you neededto bow and worship the idol.
Here's where Hananiah, Azariah,and Josheel come into uh into
play because they refused tobow.
And when they were broughtbefore the king, they didn't
compromise.
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Now that has to be very strongbecause a lot of times when
we're confronting our things, wewant to seek a compromise.
The Bible does not allow forthat sometimes.
There are things that you canallow compromise, but when it
comes to worshiping God andworshiping, there are a lot of
things the Bible does not allowcompromise on.
Now, the threat of death, to thepoint they were they were
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threatened with death, and theywere willing to die.
And we talked about it before.
The enemies that threw them intothe fire, they died.
The the chains that they hadwere burned off, and then
Nebuchadnezzar said somethingvery, very, very, very odd.
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He said, In that fire is afourth man that is looks like
the son of God.
Now, how would Nebuchadnezzarknow what the son of God looks
like?
So that was the fourth bigmiracle that actually showed up,
the third miracle that showed upbecause Jesus was walking with
them.
And we call that um Theophany,which is a sort of a um a
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revelation of God that showed upwhen these boys decided they
were not going to comprehend.
Now, am I telling each and everyone of you, let me just pause
here for station identification.
Am I telling each and every oneof you to go get thrown into a
fiery furnace?
That's between you and God.
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But I would recommend that we,us, me too, develop that
unshakable faith because it willbe tried, friends.
It will be tried, walkers, itwill be tried.
And we have to be, and Paul saidin the New Testament, you've not
resisted unto blood.
That doesn't mean go out andgrab a weapon and start killing
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people who ain't coming tochurch.
That's not what that means.
That means standing beside thelaw of God to your own
detriment.
And Jesus sort of backs this upwhen he said those who seek to
save their life will lose it.
So um so this the by this is notjust a one-off theme, this is
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kind of a theme that's woventhroughout the entire Bible.
Now, we all go through what wecall fiery trials.
Matter of fact, 1 Peter uh 4 and2 says, Beloved, it's not
strange concerning this fierytrial, which is the trial.
As if you know, some strangething, like, oh my god, I'm the
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only one going through thesethings.
But if we keep true to ourfaith, we'll see more of the
things, spectacular deliverancesthat these three Hebrew boys
did.
And before you interrupt me andsay, But JJ, what's going on in
Nigeria?
I listen, I am not God.
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I don't profess to know all ofthem, but what I do know is that
if you lose your life because ofJesus, you will gain it in
heaven.
And that's all I can say of itbecause that's what the Bible
says.
Do I think it's great?
Absolutely not.
So, in other words, do I thinkit's great that that you know
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100,000 Christians have died umin Nigeria over the last year?
Absolutely not.
But we are we are told, we arewe are commanded not to forsake
our faith um because of worldlypressure, and even if that means
laying down this life, which isgoing to end someday anyway, for
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and trade it for anincorruptible crown, then it was
it just seems like it's a betteroption.
It's like trading, it's it'slike trading a paper boat for a
steel one.
It's impossible to kind ofcompare the two.
Um and we will, we will, and asthese things, as time goes on,
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as we get closer and closer tothe end, it will get worse,
folks.
When I when I well maybe not sayworse, it will become more
intense.
The trials will become harder,and we will talk about that.
Um but the time as Jesus said,the time is not yet, the end is
not yet.
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So as far as as dark as thisorder turned, remember that
we're talking about this becausethree Hebrew children, three
Hebrew men, three Hebrew boysstood up and was delivered.
Why didn't God deliver them?
Why don't you pray about thatand ask God why he didn't
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deliver the children?
It is the point of the man wantsto die, and after that, the
judge.
So, I mean, at some point wehave to understand that God
thinks on an entirely differentrealm than we think.
And we have to trust him, nottrust ourselves, because again,
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it doesn't matter what we do, itdoesn't matter how far we run,
it doesn't matter how manystandards we let go, how many
things we think we're gonna getaway with.
At some point, at some point,this this life that we have
comes to an end.
And we have to be ready to meetGod when and where that happens.
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So let's get ready now, andlet's get our faith strong now.
And the only way we're gonna dothat, and the only way we're
gonna do that is making surethat we are following the word
of God and praying.
And if you if if you're tryingto figure out where to start, if
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you don't have the baptism ofthe Holy Ghost, then if you
haven't repentance of your sins,you have been baptized in Jesus'
name.
That's where to start.
That is always the startingpoint.
Well, why you say that?
Because where they started doingthat is where the church started
in Acts chapter 2.
They repent it, baptized inJesus' name, they got the holy.
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And only after that, if we startin another fuck another episode,
only after that would they wouldthey call off the church.
So that's where you start.
Repentance.
You gotta repent of oh god,everything I I stole a piece of
candy in third grade.
No, no, no.
Is this your first repentance?
Oh God, forgive me.
I'm sorry.
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I I want to live better.
I want to I want to be, I justwant to go to heaven.
Whatever your heart tells you todo, everybody's repentance is
gonna be a little bit different.
So none of this repeat after mestuff.
So repent of your sins andrepent of the way you live and
change your life, which willhappen, and then get baptized in
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Jesus' name, get those sins paidfor, and then get the baptism of
the Holy Ghost.
We're speaking in other tonguesas the Spirit gives the
utterance.
That's all biblical.
And if you if you want to goback, we we have episodes about
that too.
So I love each and every one ofyou.
We will continue this podcastnext week.
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I hope to have y'all here.
Love each and every one of you.
We're going to be getting intothe history of the Lion's Den
and how that uh ties intoprophetical uh interpretation.
So it I know this is kind of aslow sort of foundational walk
that we're doing, but prettysoon, and there's a there's a
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purpose to all of this.
There's a purpose to all of it.
Um, because I don't want to haveto go deep into something and
then try to backfill becausethen it gets very confusing.
All right.
I love each and every one ofyou.
I see y'all on the next nextepisode.
God bless you.
Don't forget, uh, like andshare, and thank you for doing
so.
God bless y'all.
Bye bye.
Hello, everybody, and welcome to today's episode
of Walk With Me.
I am your host, JJ.
It's so good to have each andevery one of you here.
So good to have another episodeand have another day to talk
about God's Word.
So glad to have each and everyone of you here today.
Um, and I'm I'm just so thankfulfor all of you who are liking
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and sharing and spreading thispodcast around.
See the listeners going up.
I really do appreciate it.
It's not for my glory, it's onlyfor God's glory.
So I really thank each and everyone of you in this time.
And now I understand the subjectof the podcast is what a lot of
people are interested in.
This end times thing, but we'regonna take our time and go
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through it step by step becausewe don't want to miss it.
All right.
And I know I'm kind of gettingright into it without all the
preamble, but I do want to makesure I shout out our sponsors,
true bars and lyricists, uh, forhelping us with the intro and
the outro.
He's gonna be we're gonna bechanging that soon.
So if you get on and you see theuh if you see the the uh intro,
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the bump is what they call it inyou know, in these podcast
terms, radio show terms.
If you see that there's achange, don't think you
downloaded the wrong podcast.
It's the same one, but I'll letyou know before we change it,
just to let you know that that'scoming.
Thank you.
Uh quick shout out to uhexquisite creations that are
doing our some of our Tumblrmerch, and we're gonna have
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T-shirts soon.
And and big shout out to IronGate Ministry and Straight Arrow
Ministries.
Uh it's gonna be nonprofitorganizations that we're setting
up.
Straight Arrow is going to bewe're gonna be doing a podcast
very soon, very, very, verysoon, y'all.
So um keep track of that.
And then when I buy podcasts inthat sense, we would probably be
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going video, we're settingeverything up now.
I can't wait for it.
It's gonna be a great thing.
Uh, it's gonna be focused onmarriage and living a married
life according to the Bible, andit's not, you know, and and I
don't want to get too far offinto that because I find myself
getting ahead of myself, butit's not about oh, you have to
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do this three times a day andeverything's stoic and stale and
and this, it's about how to livein today's world using the
Bible.
So we're going to launch thatoff, me and my brother and our
wives.
So you'll you'll get to meet allof us and face to face.
So uh this may still stay uhaudio format, depends on
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iHeartRadio and everything likethat.
So, but I love each and everyone of you just to kind of give
you a heads up of what's comingdown the pipe.
Um, now we do have some podcastrules, and if this is your first
time, I welcome you.
But we do have some rules here.
One rule is there's no stupidquestions.
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Now, I'm not talking aboutpeople who want to just ask
questions just to debate things.
If you if you really havesomething that's always been
bothering you, and and maybe itwas a uh something that sort of
didn't fit right, or your uhthere was a contradiction that
you saw, or or you thought yousaw, or anything like that.
If you're really trying to learnabout the word of God, go ahead
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and send us an email with thatquestion.
Now, if it's like a simplequestion, or I can say, hey,
look at this scripture here,I'll just send that question
back to you, or send the answerback to you um with the
appropriate scriptures.
Um, but if it's something that'sgonna be long and drawn out,
then well, where it's basicallytoo much to type, then I'll just
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make an episode of it.
And if I do make an episode ofit, um just put your name, or
when you send the question in,just put your name in the
subject line so I know toaddress you, or it could just be
a general question.
And the fun fact is that thisentire series is based on one
person's question that when youtry to answer it in simple
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terms, you end up leaving somuch out.
So there is no such thing as astupid question.
Um, and when we go through theseuh episodes, the second rule
this is the second rule.
The second rule is if I I'mgonna give you a scripture, it's
gonna be for time's sake.
Um then what we do as far asstudy is we want to read a verse
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or two above or a verse or twobelow, or preferably the whole
chapter, because context ofeverything is key.
We have learned recently in ourin our lives that you can take a
sentence out of and and clip itout of context and make it say
something that it never meant tosay.
So, uh, and so it's veryimportant that you keep
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everything in context,especially when it comes to the
word of God, because God doesnot issue idle words, he's not
like me, he doesn't prattle on.
He said what he's got to say andhe moves on, right?
So, that being said, let's getinto today's episode of uh we're
calling it the end time Biblestudy, right?
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Now, granted, if this is yourfirst episode, this is episode
three, and a lot of people aretalking about end times, end
times, end times, end times, endtimes, and you have all these
people with these wonderfultitles Dr.
Deacon Apostle Bishop UmJackalope um Thompson, and and I
don't know if there's a personnamed Thompson, it doesn't
matter, but it I'm saying thatum we have people who are always
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professing this is the end timeand that's beyond the Christ,
and this and then that's in theand we have to be very careful
of this because before we wouldjust laugh these people off.
Oh, you guys are kooks becauseJesus said no man knows the day
of the hour, so we would justlaugh them off as kooks.
But now, and and I'm really kindof distraught over the fact that
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people literally a couple monthsago sold everything they had,
quit their jobs, walked out andwas like, Yep, because the
raptor's coming tomorrow, gaveaway their kids, did all kinds
of things, and because theybecause somebody said Jesus was
coming tomorrow and you're gonnago to heaven, whether they were
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or not, that's not at discussionhere.
Um Jesus is coming tomorrow, andthey've literally destroyed
their lives, and now findthemselves trying to rebuild it,
and they're they're not like 19,they're like 50, 60 years old.
So um that's where this wholethe inspiration for this series,
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this season of body Bible studycomes from, this walk with me
season.
Season, I guess we're gonna callit season six.
Um, but either way, we're gonnacall it this series, all right?
The series of the end timeseries.
And if you listen to the firsttwo episodes, or if you haven't,
I would I would kind of ask youto go back and listen to the
last two episodes because whatI'm gonna say may sound
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confusing if you don't, becauseit's all one big Bible study,
all right.
We were talking about Daniel andwhat's in the name.
Uh, that was our last, that'swhere we left off.
And I was finding myself havinga hard time not getting into
this episode because if youcan't really mention Daniel in
the beginning of Daniel withoutmentioning the quote, three
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Hebrew boys.
I say quote because we all likewe all know them by a particular
set of names that was not theirnames.
I'll say that again.
We all know them by their thesenames that was not their names.
We call them, we sing aboutthem, we we write about them, we
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talk about them, but we callthem Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego.
Those were not their names.
But but JJ, I saw it in thescripture, and my preacher
talked about it, and my pastortalked about it, and my choir
sang about it, and I learnedabout it in Sunday school.
But no, those were not theirnames, their names were
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Hananiah, Meshiah, and Azariah.
Well, but JJ, where do you getthat from?
It's right in the right in theBible.
But we called them by Shadrach,Meshach, and Abednego, but those
names were their Babyloniangiven names.
Because the first thingNebuchadnezzar tried to do was
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erase the whole idea of God fromthe Hebrew Israelite society,
and this was in directfulfillment of another prophecy.
Now I told you I'm gonna bringit back to prophecy.
So Isaiah 39 and 7 says, And thysons that shall issue from thee,
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in other words, the skills thatyou have that you shall beget,
they shall take away, and theyshall become eunuchs in the
palace of the king of Babylon.
This is Isaiah 39 and 7.
This is four.
This he's talking to Hezekiah,who was dead when this happened.
So we have to really study thenames because in though in that
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time, names meant something.
It's not like today we just namea kid something because we like
the way a world, a word sounds.
Trust me, I know girls' name uhCharm.
I I don't understand, but that'sneither here nor there.
But in in biblical times, namesmeant something significant,
(10:03):
which is why Nebuchadnezzarrecognized this.
And Nebuchadnezzar, first thinghe did was change everyone's
name, especially if they weregoing to be eunuchs in the inner
court.
For instance, we called DanielDaniel because that's what his
name was, and God named Daniel.
God is my judge, right?
That's what Daniel means.
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God, Dan, E, my, God, my judge,God is my judge.
But Nebuchadnezzar changed thename to Belteshazzar.
What does that mean?
Uh Bel Fareth or Bel or Baal.
This is all variations of thesame thing when in the
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Babylonian system.
Ananiah means beloved of God,but that was changed to
Shadrach, illuminated of the sungod.
If you don't believe me, look itup.
The Babylonians had that kind ofbelief system, and that's why
they call it that.
And when you are, but you knowwhat?
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Let me not get ahead of myself.
Meshael was that was hisoriginal Hebrew name, which is
Who Is As God, was changed toMeshach or Meshach, who is like
Venus.
But Venus is not a god, Venus isa planet, and Venus is an idol
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goddess, and Azariah, whichmeans in the Hebrew, the Lord is
my help, was changed toAbednego, the servant of Nego.
Abed, the servant of Nego,Abednego.
So the problem is, is that whenAshpenaz, who is the uh the
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master of the eunuchs, theleader of the eunuchs, who
Nebuchadnezzar um put in place,when he changed those, when he
issued those names, he did notsucceed in changing those names.
We allowed that.
We allowed that because that Idon't I I'm gonna call it the
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Babylonianization of the church,and and I just made that term
up, and I know, but we singabout it, just like we said
earlier.
My pastor preached about it, mypastor preached these entire
sermons on a ben the go.
And and it sounds good in thesong, and it it sounds great,
(12:37):
but it's not biblicallyaccurate.
They tried to do it, butremember these three young men,
and these were not old guys, wewe call them Hebrew boys, these
were young men, and they did notembrace the Babylonian uh the
Babylonian culture, they didn'tembrace the Babylonian religion,
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which is why you talk about itall the time, these boys ended
up in the fire, in the furnacefire, fire that was so hot and
got heated seven times hotter,and it killed the men who threw
them in the fire.
Those days the name of thoseboys was Ananiah, Michelle, and
Azariah.
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And they were ready to die fortheir faith, and they were ready
to stay loyal to God, andbecause of their loyalty to God,
is what really saved them fromthat horrible death that they
were going to have.
Now, when we talk about thehistorical um section of Daniel,
because there is a section ofDaniel that is historical, and
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then there's a section that isprophetical.
Now, I feel like we should coverthe historical section of Daniel
because I don't want anyone tocome away thinking I'm saying
that the entire book isprophecy.
But yes, the book of Daniel doesum couple with the book of
Revelation.
We're gonna go, we're gonna gothrough that.
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Just hang on tight, buckle up,and let's take the walk.
Alright, so now two incidents inthe book of Daniel are reported
that that sort of shows howGod's power uh will deliver you.
And when we recognize his power,it's gonna be just um described
and recognized by these fourpeople.
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The three Hebrew young men,Ananiah, Ishiah, and Ezariah,
they verbalized everything.
They they said it, they theysaid it and they kept saying it,
and they you couldn't tell themnot to say it.
Our God in Daniel 3:17, our God,whom we serve, is able to
deliver us from the burningfiery furnace, and he will
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deliver us out of thy hand, OKing.
That sounds a little bitinsurrectionary, which kind of
tells us that you can do a thingas long as you don't cross God,
and that's all I'm gonna saythere.
I'm gonna move on because that'snot the subject of this podcast.
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And Darius had had kind ofvoiced his hope.
He voiced his hope.
He was like, hey man, listen,man.
Um, I hope the the God you servedelivers you.
When he told he told that toDaniel, this is the new king,
this is after Nebuchadnezzar.
This is now King Darius inDaniel 6 and 16 saying, I hope
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the God I serve.
Now I put in the I hope partthat the God thy serve
continually, he will deliverthee.
That's Daniel 6 and 16.
This is literally the Babylonianking that issues the order to
kill Daniel by telling Danielthat the God that he serves is
going to issue a deliverancefrom the law that Darius is
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judging him for.
You see where I'm going withthis?
So the stories of God deliveringpeople, like the pre-Hebrew boys
and Daniel, it's well known.
And we got to study all of theseaccounts.
And it's not just a great Sundayschool lesson, it's a life
lesson.
Now, to go into the fieryfurnace, because I just saw
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someone text me, what about thefiery furnace?
Okay, so Daniel 3.
Now, this is the story of thesethree Hebrew boys who are not
Shadrach, Beshach, and Abednego.
Now, being faithful, they hadobeyed uh the law of the land.
If they had obeyed that law ofthe land, they would have
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afflicted the law of God.
Now, who would you rather dealwith?
A horrible death or a horribleeternity?
This is this is kind of a choicebetween bad and worse, but you
have to have faith that nomatter what happens, I'm gonna
stick to the law of eternity.
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The law of God.
And Nebuchadnezzar was thisNebuchadnezzar had some
problems.
Like he wasn't satisfied withhaving great political power.
Like he didn't he didn't want tojust be the king of the country
or king of conquered nations, hewanted to control religion.
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And I want you to kind of clipthat onto your head.
Not only did he want to controlthe people, he also wanted to
control religion.
And he wanted to make himself anobject of worship.
See where I'm going with this?
So he built himself this um,well, he had someone build this
big old statue, and it had to beabout 90 feet high, I think, in
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today's measurement.
Maybe nine foot wide, becauseany other um measurements kind
of look crazy.
He put it outside the walls ofBabylon.
And if you're traveling, ifyou're going by the city, I mean
going by Babylon, you'd be ableto see this gold shining thing
from a mile away, from milesaway.
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Now, and it was simply acontinuation of this
Babylonianization, that's thisword that I'm making up.
Like, which is literally asystem of belief that kind of
started at the Tower of Babelunder Nimrod.
Remember, this was this kind ofshows you how far back these uh
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prophecies go.
Now, keep in mind here, byNebuchadnezzar doing this, uh he
was trying to establish thisthing that Nimrod started at the
Tower of Babylon.
And this Babylonianization wordthat I'm making up, but we'll
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perspective by the end of thisepisode, doesn't it?
Um, began with the tower andwill end with an image.
Now, for that, I want you toread Revelation 13 and see how
this ties together.
And just like that, the prophecythat Daniel deals with in the
times of the Gentiles also willbegin and end with an image.
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Now we're starting to kind oftouch on how these two books are
related.
Now, Nebuchadnezzar had thisthing, and he ordered everybody
big, small, popular, unpopular,rich, poor, politically
powerful, politically weak, um,to assemble for the dedication
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of this image.
It doesn't matter who you were,you were under his rule, you as
you gathered together for thededication of this image.
And at the sound of their music,whatever this theme song was
gonna be, that's for the sake ofGegel's saying, it was the shaft
theme song.
Now, um, whenever you heard thisnew music come on that you've
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never heard before, you neededto bow and worship the idol.
Here's where Hananiah, Azariah,and Josheel come into uh into
play because they refused tobow.
And when they were broughtbefore the king, they didn't
compromise.
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Now that has to be very strongbecause a lot of times when
we're confronting our things, wewant to seek a compromise.
The Bible does not allow forthat sometimes.
There are things that you canallow compromise, but when it
comes to worshiping God andworshiping, there are a lot of
things the Bible does not allowcompromise on.
Now, the threat of death, to thepoint they were they were
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threatened with death, and theywere willing to die.
And we talked about it before.
The enemies that threw them intothe fire, they died.
The the chains that they hadwere burned off, and then
Nebuchadnezzar said somethingvery, very, very, very odd.
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He said, In that fire is afourth man that is looks like
the son of God.
Now, how would Nebuchadnezzarknow what the son of God looks
like?
So that was the fourth bigmiracle that actually showed up,
the third miracle that showed upbecause Jesus was walking with
them.
And we call that um Theophany,which is a sort of a um a
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revelation of God that showed upwhen these boys decided they
were not going to comprehend.
Now, am I telling each and everyone of you, let me just pause
here for station identification.
Am I telling each and every oneof you to go get thrown into a
fiery furnace?
That's between you and God.
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But I would recommend that we,us, me too, develop that
unshakable faith because it willbe tried, friends.
It will be tried, walkers, itwill be tried.
And we have to be, and Paul saidin the New Testament, you've not
resisted unto blood.
That doesn't mean go out andgrab a weapon and start killing
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people who ain't coming tochurch.
That's not what that means.
That means standing beside thelaw of God to your own
detriment.
And Jesus sort of backs this upwhen he said those who seek to
save their life will lose it.
So um so this the by this is notjust a one-off theme, this is
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kind of a theme that's woventhroughout the entire Bible.
Now, we all go through what wecall fiery trials.
Matter of fact, 1 Peter uh 4 and2 says, Beloved, it's not
strange concerning this fierytrial, which is the trial.
As if you know, some strangething, like, oh my god, I'm the
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only one going through thesethings.
But if we keep true to ourfaith, we'll see more of the
things, spectacular deliverancesthat these three Hebrew boys
did.
And before you interrupt me andsay, But JJ, what's going on in
Nigeria?
I listen, I am not God.
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I don't profess to know all ofthem, but what I do know is that
if you lose your life because ofJesus, you will gain it in
heaven.
And that's all I can say of itbecause that's what the Bible
says.
Do I think it's great?
Absolutely not.
So, in other words, do I thinkit's great that that you know
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100,000 Christians have died umin Nigeria over the last year?
Absolutely not.
But we are we are told, we arewe are commanded not to forsake
our faith um because of worldlypressure, and even if that means
laying down this life, which isgoing to end someday anyway, for
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and trade it for anincorruptible crown, then it was
it just seems like it's a betteroption.
It's like trading, it's it'slike trading a paper boat for a
steel one.
It's impossible to kind ofcompare the two.
Um and we will, we will, and asthese things, as time goes on,
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as we get closer and closer tothe end, it will get worse,
folks.
When I when I well maybe not sayworse, it will become more
intense.
The trials will become harder,and we will talk about that.
Um but the time as Jesus said,the time is not yet, the end is
not yet.
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So as far as as dark as thisorder turned, remember that
we're talking about this becausethree Hebrew children, three
Hebrew men, three Hebrew boysstood up and was delivered.
Why didn't God deliver them?
Why don't you pray about thatand ask God why he didn't
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deliver the children?
It is the point of the man wantsto die, and after that, the
judge.
So, I mean, at some point wehave to understand that God
thinks on an entirely differentrealm than we think.
And we have to trust him, nottrust ourselves, because again,
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it doesn't matter what we do, itdoesn't matter how far we run,
it doesn't matter how manystandards we let go, how many
things we think we're gonna getaway with.
At some point, at some point,this this life that we have
comes to an end.
And we have to be ready to meetGod when and where that happens.
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So let's get ready now, andlet's get our faith strong now.
And the only way we're gonna dothat, and the only way we're
gonna do that is making surethat we are following the word
of God and praying.
And if you if if you're tryingto figure out where to start, if
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you don't have the baptism ofthe Holy Ghost, then if you
haven't repentance of your sins,you have been baptized in Jesus'
name.
That's where to start.
That is always the startingpoint.
Well, why you say that?
Because where they started doingthat is where the church started
in Acts chapter 2.
They repent it, baptized inJesus' name, they got the holy.
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And only after that, if we startin another fuck another episode,
only after that would they wouldthey call off the church.
So that's where you start.
Repentance.
You gotta repent of oh god,everything I I stole a piece of
candy in third grade.
No, no, no.
Is this your first repentance?
Oh God, forgive me.
I'm sorry.
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I I want to live better.
I want to I want to be, I justwant to go to heaven.
Whatever your heart tells you todo, everybody's repentance is
gonna be a little bit different.
So none of this repeat after mestuff.
So repent of your sins andrepent of the way you live and
change your life, which willhappen, and then get baptized in
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Jesus' name, get those sins paidfor, and then get the baptism of
the Holy Ghost.
We're speaking in other tonguesas the Spirit gives the
utterance.
That's all biblical.
And if you if you want to goback, we we have episodes about
that too.
So I love each and every one ofyou.
We will continue this podcastnext week.
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I hope to have y'all here.
Love each and every one of you.
We're going to be getting intothe history of the Lion's Den
and how that uh ties intoprophetical uh interpretation.
So it I know this is kind of aslow sort of foundational walk
that we're doing, but prettysoon, and there's a there's a
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purpose to all of this.
There's a purpose to all of it.
Um, because I don't want to haveto go deep into something and
then try to backfill becausethen it gets very confusing.
All right.
I love each and every one ofyou.
I see y'all on the next nextepisode.
God bless you.
Don't forget, uh, like andshare, and thank you for doing
so.
God bless y'all.
Bye bye.
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