December 24, 2025 • 57 mins
Israel was enveloped in darkness. God’s deliverance would come through a Messiah as a child who embodied the attributes of Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. They were encouraged by the prophets to hold onto faith, as the zeal and passion of the Lord would accomplish these promises, culminating in the establishment of God’s eternal kingdom and the defeat of evil.
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praise and prayer. I praise the Lord from my home
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for my wife, my family, sons, daughter in laws, grandchildren,
furry kids, possessions. Everything I have has come from him.
I pray raise Him for his provision and protection over us,
for the dreams and the visions as I live out
Joel to twenty eight. I praise him for divine health
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and healing and the promises He's given us. I praise
him for his divine abiding favor, for continuing revelation by
the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and for making me
a new creation and allowing me to live in these
prophetic times no way I pray. I pray for the
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peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who love you some
one twenty two, verse six. I do that because he
asked us too, and if it's important to him, it's
important to me. I pray for America. May God forgive
us for all the things that we do against Him,
and may He shed his grace upon us, because we
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surely need it. I pray for all the people that
are being victims by those in charge of them, by
leaders and bosses and whoever. A lot of people out
there being victimized pray for the fatherless, the widows, the
persecuted and the martyred, the innocent, and those who are
victims of injustice. I pray against and about the slaughter
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of the innocence in and out of the womb, for
missing and exploited children, for the victims of human sex trafficking.
That evil still goes on today and it will until
the Lord comes back. Pray for our brothers and sisters
around the world being slaughtered and persecuted for their faith.
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I pray against the growing religious persecution and anti Semitism
that all of a sudden seems fashionable among many. And
I pray against the plans and the effort of the
spirit of the Antichrist, that until it is his time,
we stand against him. I pray for divine wholeness, health
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and healing for those who need it. If you're out
there right now, I'm praying for you so you can
pray for me. I pray for His protection over us
that Psalm ninety one covering for inspiration, and I pray
for the remnant alarm clock to go off and awaken
those who are called, that the doors would open for
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all the projects and plans He's given us, and I
pray for the kingdom finances, for the Kingdom business in
twenty twenty six. So Father Abbah, Papa Daddy, we love
you more than words can possibly say. We thank you.
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We thank you for loving us, We thank you for
taking care of us. We thank you for wanting to
be reconciled to us, so that you sent Yushua to
pay our debts. Thank you, Lord for doing that, for
letting them nail you to a cross, shed every drop
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of blood, to die, to be laid in a tomb,
but to rise again on the third day, to be
a risen savior, to be the Messiah, King of Kings,
Lord of Lords, thank you for sending the Holy Spirit
to walk with us, to teach us, to guide us,
and to encourage us. So we pray over the technology.
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We pray over this time. We pray over this word
that it would do what you desire it to do.
And I pray all these things in your Shoe's name. Amen.
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of the following information. For unto us, a child is born,
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unto us, a son is given, and the government will
be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called
Wonderful counselor Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of
the increase of his government and peace.
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There will be no end upon the throne of David
and over his kingdom to order it and establish it
with judgment and justice. From that time forward, even forever,
the zeal of the Lord of Host will perform this.
That was Isaiah nine, verses six and seven. We talked
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about that last week when we're talking about Hanakah, talked
about in the newsletter, and this again, this message has
been percolating for a week. The spirit's been dropping nuggets
in my lap, and the Lord's been speaking in the night.
So if I get a little excited again, you will
bear with me. The Home and Bible Handbook explains what
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this meant to Israel. I mean, that would be a question,
what did this mean to Israel at the time. I
know what it means to us now. I know that
you've been singing some of you have been singing it
and it's on the cards, and it's all over the
place this time of year. And let me remind you
that Yeshua is not just a reason for the season.
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He's the reason for every season and all the time.
But what was going on then for the prophet Isaiah
to write this? Well, According to to the Home and
Bible Handbook, dark days were ahead for God's people, especially
for the northern kingdom of Judah. The Assyrians would invade
from the north and humble Israel. Isaiah looked behind Huh.
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Isaiah looked beyond this time of punishment and saw a
bright deliverance. Eventually, the Lord would save his people from
their oppressors, just as he did in the days of Gideon,
through whom he annihilated the oppressive Midianites in Judges chapter
six through eight. The Lord would accomplish this future deliverance
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through the Messiah, who would rule on David's throne. The
words for unto us, a child is born, to us,
a son is given verse six links to the messiah
prophecy prediction in chapter seven, verse fourteen of Isaiah. Therefore,
the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the
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virgins shall conceive and bear as sun, and shall call
his name Emmanuel, which means God with us. So the
promised child is Messiah t smashiak the anointed one, and
the Greek they changed it to Christos. So why why
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is Isaiah declaring the promise of a coming anointed ruler
while Judah had turned away from the light into the dark,
to medium, spiritist, to ghost. You look in chapter eight
of Isaiah, starting verse nineteen, and when they say to
you seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper
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and mutter. Should not people seek their God? Should they
seek the dead on behalf of the living, to the
law and to the testimony. If they do not speak
according to this word, it is because there is no
light in them. They will pass through it hard pressed
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and hungry. And it shall happen when they are hungry,
that they will be enraged and curse their king and
their God and look upward. Then they will look to
the earth and see trouble in darkness, gloom of anguish,
and they will be driven into the darkness. I believe
not only was this a prophecy over Judah, it's the
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coming prophecy of what will happen when the Antichrist rises
to power. And that's exactly what happens when people don't
get their way, When God doesn't do for them what
they want him to do for them, they look elsewhere.
They look into the darkness, and there is no light
in them. So during this time, King a Haz was
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in charge, and he had turned away from God. He
had turned toward demonic pagan beliefs. The Home and Bible
Dictionary says Isaiah gave counsel to Ahaz during the siro
Ephremitic crisis when resin our easy N king of Syria,
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and Pecca, king of Israel, joined forces to attack Jerusalem.
The prophet o Dead rescued some captives from Israel and
Second Chronicles twenty eight, but AHAs refused the prophets of
vice and appealed to help to Tigleth Philicier, the third
of Assyria. So instead of trusting God, he sought help
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from their enemies, and that appeal resulted in entanglement and
unfortunate results that religiously and politically AHAs surrendered to Assyrian domination,
even placed an altar made from Assyrian model that he
had seen in Damascus mentioned in Second King sixteen eleven
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and he suffered the final humiliation of not being buriedorried
in the royal tombs because of what he did. Isaiah
was encouraging the people. No matter what you see and
no matter what you hear, a greater King is coming
to put things right. I tell you right now, a
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greater King is coming. Darkness may surround you, but a
great light is coming to dispel that darkness. Remember what
Zacharias prophesied about his son John the Baptist in Luke one.
I'll just read you seventy six through seventy nine, he
says to his son, And you, child will be called
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prophet of the Highest, for you will go before the
face of the Lord to prepare his ways, to give
knowledge of salvation to his people by remission of their sins,
through the tender mercy of our God, with which the
day spring from on high has visited us, to give
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light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow
of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. Well,
those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death
will be there again, and it'll be a horrible time,
But the King will come. A has was an evil man,
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just downright evil, and he had participated in the most disgusting, monstrous,
idolatrous practices. Tewod King sixteen three tells us what he did.
He made his son pass through the fire. He sacrificed
his fully grown adult son into the fire for the
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favor of Moloch, according to the abominations of the nations,
whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
And what's interesting is his father Jotham wasn't like that.
Siah Haas was the twelfth king of Judah. He reigned
approximately from seven point thirty two to seven point sixteen BC,
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and as portrayed, he was idolatrous, and he allied himself
with Assyria. Became king at the age of twenty and
he reigned for four years with his father Jotham from
seven thirty five to seven thirty one, and then sixteen
years on his own. Jodam was one of the good
kings of Judah. He's mentioned in Second Chronicles twenty seven.
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So no one knows why Ahaz departed completely from the
teachings of the Lord, but sacrificing his own children, putting
up a pagan altar, removing the godly altar sent Israel
into darkness. He desecrated the temple. To any of this
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sound familiar, just a horrible, horrible man. So what happened
in this conflict? Although he wasn't fully defeated, he had
suffered significant losses. Over one hundred thousand soldiers were killed,
his son and his main deputy was slain, and the
cities in Judah were plundered. Additionally, many Israelites residing in
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Judah were taken captive. And instead of turning to God,
he turned to Tigla Pealousy of the king of Assyria
to battle on his behalf, and the Assyrian king agreed,
attacked Damascus, captured it and killed King Resid. So while
he's there, and while he's celebrating the victory, he notices
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this pagan altar and it interests him, so he sends
back the design to his priest Uriah, who builds replica
for him, and he starts to sacrifice to the Assyrian
gods on the new altar. First, he took out the
lord's altar, intending he was still going to perform regular
sacrifices on it, but eventually he just completely dismantled it.
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He dismantled the temple, He took down the Sabbath canopy,
the furnishings. He closed the temple doors, and he set
up high places all over. This man fell, he fell
into darkness. You know, it's really interesting about this. A
similar judgment would befall Judah five hundred years later, when
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Antiochus Epiphanes shows up, and the one thing I noticed,
I noticed that there is a pattern that when Israel
does this, God uses an Assyrian to punish them and
bring them back to their senses. The first ten chapters
of Isaiah provide a striking pattern of light versus darkness.
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The imagery is there. It's a strong message that initially
doesn't present hopeful news, but it has to acknowledge the
human sin that caused the darkness and our flaws that
caused the darkness. But then he brings God's offer of redemption.
You know, it doesn't matter what you've done, doesn't matter
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where you've been. I can tell you for a fact
that redemption will come when you turn to the light,
the light of the Lord. And this hope, this hope
that Isaiah is resenting to them. It's thoughtful and it's genuine.
It's not naive or superficial optimism. It's real hoping. God
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is a confident trust in his character and promises providing
a strength during uncertain times. Now I know for a
fact some of you are going through uncertain times. You
may have gotten a bad report. Well, I can tell
you this one thing is certain. He is God never changes.
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The Lord is always there. He hears our prayers. So
hold on no matter how dark it gets. Hope is
always available to us when God is involved. Oswald Chamber says,
remember whose you are and whom you serve. Provoke yourself
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by recollection, and your affection for God will increase tenfold.
Your imagination will not be starved any longer, but what
will be quick and enthusiastic, and your hope will be
inexpressibly bright. So Isaiah is offering them hope. He does
it again in Isaiah eleven, starting verse one, there shall
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come forth a rod from the stem of Jesse, and
a branch shall grow out of his roots. The spirit
of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of
wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the
spirit of knowledge, and the fear of the Lord. His
delight is in the fear of the Lord, and he
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shall not judge by the sight of his eyes, nor
decide by the hearing of his ears. But with righteousness
he shall judge the poor and decide with equity for
the meek of the earth. He shall strike the earth
with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath
of his lips. He shall slay the wicked righteousness. There
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we go, Olujah, Lord, Righteousness shall be the belt of
his loins, and faithfulness the belt of his waste. When
you see he shall strike the earth with the rod
of his mouth and the breath of his lips. That
is a foreshadowing of revelation. That is a foreshadowing of
the second Coming. That is a foreshadowing of when the
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Lord does all these things to the Antichrist, the false prophet,
and all the angels and demons on the earth that
are wrecking havoc that have come out of the pit.
So the promise of Masiak Messiah is tied to the
dividing dynasty, but ultimately it's about the coming Messiah and
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his war against Satan's kingdom. Yes, there is a war.
We've won the battle, but we have to keep fighting.
Why again, imagine the worst terrorists in the world who
refused us to submit, and you've got Satan and the
fallen and the demons. P Too tells the starting verse
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from White of the nation's rage, and the people plot
a vain thing. The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and
against his anointed, saying, let us break their bonds in pieces,
and cast away their cords from us. He who sits
in the heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall hold them
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in derision, and then he shall speak to them in
his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure. Yet
I have set my king on my holy mountain of Zion.
Satan and the fallen and the demons. They've always known
this was coming. They've ignored it. They've tried to trick
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the Church into not believing it. But I'm here to
tell you it's true and it will happen. The angel
Gabriel tells Daniel about the coming Messiah and the establishment
of his kingdom. And we know that that coming Messiah
was Isua. And that's why the magi, the wise men,
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you know by the way Wiseman, still seek him. But
those wise men came, That's why they followed that star
for up to sixteen or eighteen months to find the child,
because Daniel had left the teachings and the writings when
he was the head of the court in Babylon. Later on,
the New Testament will confirm this word in John chapter one,
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verse forty one, when Andrew Simon, Peter's brother, goes to
look for his brother Simon and says to him, we
have found the Messiah, the anointed one which in the
scripture says, which has translated to Christ. They were translating
the writings from Jewish to a gentile audience, so they
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would do that. They changed Messiah to Christ. And they
did that because even though the authors were Jewish and
the writings were Jewish prophecy, that aspect of the Bible
and the writers was being suppressed. But doesn't matter. It's
always there. It's in the roots, it's in the steed,
it's in the word. In the Old Testament, there are
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three categories of persons who are anointed that are set
aside by God for special use, the prophet, the priest,
and the King. Issue is the fulfillment of all three
of these offices. Prophet, priest, King, and his name will
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be called wonderful counselor, Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Now,
even though they put a comma after wonderful, the way
it's written, it's one name. He's a wonderful counselor. He's
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got God's wisdom. He's unlike the corrupt human counselors of
the day. And Isaiah is consistent in this description of
him being the wonderful divine counselor. It expressed his ability
as a political guide and leader, but as a spiritual guide,
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as the living Word, the infallible source of guidance, an
inexhaustible wisdom, the truth and the way. In Isaiah twenty
five to one, he says, Oh Lord, you are my God.
I will exalt you. I will praise your name, for
you have done wonderful things. Your counsels of old are
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faithfulness and truth. I will exalt you every day and
all the time. As I was coming back from the
store this morning, I turned on the radio and I
have Serious ExM. And it was on the Christian station,
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Serious XM. The message whatever it is, And right now
all they're doing is playing Christmas music and the song Joyful,
Joyful came on. I think it was casting grounds I'm
not sure, and I was listening to the words joyful, joyful,
we adore Thee, And the first thought that came to
mind is that should be our hearts glad every day,
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not just once year, not just for a couple of
weeks or maybe even a month, All the time and
every day, in every way, we should adore him. We
should be joyful because he's there for us to adore him.
Isaiah twenty twenty nine says this also comes from the
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Lord of Host, who is wonderful in council and excellent
in guidance. What are you going through right now? What
dark experience has befalled you? What confusion has surrounded you?
James says, if anyone lacks wisdom to ask of the Lord,
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ask of the spirit need, we'll give it to you liberally.
If you ask and don't doubt. Don't go to him
and say, Okay, God, I don't think you're going to
do this, but no, no, go to him. Open your heart,
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open your mind, open your mouth, and just cry out
to him. Fall on your knees if you have to,
fall on your face if necessary, because he is mighty
God Elgibor, the God Hero the heroic God. This child
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that Isaiah's prophesying is God incarnate, the omnipotent One. The
word translated mighty has the additional meaning of being a hero.
So the Lord is the infinite hero of his people.
He's the divine warrior who has triumphed over sin and death.
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This isn't any Jewish prophet. No, this is a risen savior.
This is a king who is alive forever more. Calling
him Mighty God is an affirmation of the Messiah's divine
nature and that he is a powerful warrior, not some
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weak mamby pamby Casper milk toast guy. This is somebody
that fishermen and everyday people, brawlers like Peter and John
and his brother. They followed him, they stayed close to him.
He's strong. He was strong when he was human in
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the flesh, and he's even stronger now. He's the captain
of the host. That's who's coming back. Not a meek lamb,
but the lion of the tribe of Judah. He's everlasting father.
That's the relationship that the Messiah would have with this people, forever,
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guiding them and sustaining them and protecting them. Everlasting father.
As you know, I've came from a broken home. My
father walked out. I'm not sure I had turned seven,
yet looked at never looked back, never heard from him again.
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That kind of rejection hurts, That kind of brokenness cracks
you until the Lord can fill those cracks with gold
and turned it into something precious. And that's what he
did when he introduced me to my Abba father. So
I have an everlasting father who sustains me and protects me,
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and I know loves me. He cares for his children
as the everlasting father, a father whose care continues forever.
That's why I constantly say, Abba, I'm trying to get
you to say it. I'm trying to get you to
understand that so many like me struggle or struggles tense
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with the concept of a father and earthly father. That's
why Satan attacked the home and the structure of the family.
That's why they it still attacks it. But if you
know who your daddy is, if you have that relationship
with him as father and child, you've broken through. So
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everlasting means he means he's everywhere present at all times.
His divine attributes of both eternity and omnipresence means he
rules from the throne of David within the hearts of
the Redeemed. Never forget your shoe, and the Father a one,
everlasting Father, describes him as a king and a dad
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who provides, who protects, who cares for his children. Isaiah
says in chapter sixty three, verse sixteen, Doubtless, doubtless, you
are our father, though Abraham was ignorant of us, and
Israel does not acknowledge us. You, o Lord, our Father,
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our redeemer from everlasting. Is your name amazing, hopeful personal.
If you don't have that, if you don't understand that,
even after all the teachings I've done on Abbah and
the Lord's prayer, I want you, I beg you, I
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beseech you to take the time to make him Abbah
Papa Daddy, to cry out to him to fill that
part of your heart, to envelop you in his arms.
Believer study Bible says that this coming Messiah, we'll establish
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a peace beyond the temporary secession of warfare. We'll taken together.
The four names of the Coming Messiah are an extension
of the name Emmanuel God with us. They are not
the names in modern sense, but attributes attributes of the
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one to whom they are given. Oh Lord, we need
you right now. We need you right now, Lord, in
every day. We need to feel this. Lord, we need
to have this, We need to hold this. We need
to share it with those that are lost and hurting,
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who don't know this, who are broken on him. Will
rest the government the entitlement to rule. Statean stole that
from Adam, and man continues to tend it and take
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care of it for Satan. But the Lord will come
and forcibly take it from them. The first time he
took it spiritually and gave it to us. I wish
more used it, but we have it. But when he
comes back, he's going to complete the transition. Isaiah forty,
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starting verse nine, Ozion, you who bring good tidings, get
up into the high mountain o Jerusalem, you who bring
good tidings, lift up your voice with strength, lift it up.
Be not afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, behold
your God. Behold. The Lord shall come with a strong hand,
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and his arm shall rule for him. Behold, his reward
is with him, and his work before him. He will
feed his flock like a shepherd he will gather the
lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom
and gently lead those who are with young. He will
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protect his flock like a shepherd. Shepherd gives his life
for the flock. Hirelings flee when the enemy comes. Hirelings
flee when the wolves show up. He will gather the
lambs in his arms, intimate personal, holding them close. They
can feel his heart beat. He will carry them in
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his bosom. They'll feel secure, they'll feel loved. You know,
when you do that with God's creation, whether it's a baby,
whether it's a puppy, doesn't matter what it is. If
you hold that, hold them close to your chest and
to your heart while they're growing, there'll be a connection
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with you that goes beyond the natural. You know. I've
talked about it about what your heart is resonating and
the two buying together. He will carry them. He will
do it gently, and he will carefully lead those nursing
their young. So when you grow up, he doesn't abandon
you just well you're big now. I don't do that. No, No,
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that's why I hug my kids. I hug my sons,
and I always will. I always will, even even when
they said you can't. You can't hug them. You've gotta
stay six feet away. Now, Not this guy, not gonna happen,
Not gonna do it. Nope. I hugged them out in public.
I didn't care. Now he's gonna tell me what I
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can and can't do with my sons, with my family.
But that's who you serve, that's your shepherd. And I
will tell you this, and I talk about this a lot,
a lot. When he made SRT the she deep Dogs,
to protect his flock, to go after them and rescue them,
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and to beat back the wolves and to drive them out.
There was no greater honor to feel that love that
he feels for those in bondage, feels for those that
have been bound and overcome, to use his name to
set them free, to redeem the land, to shut down
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the enemy's access to an area. It's all done out
of love. Yes it's warfare, and yes there are casualties.
Things happen. I don't mean people die, but people get hurt,
which you don't think about that because his heart has
touched your heart and you know how important it is
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to him. That's why I'm asking you to pray. Pray
for the lost, and the dying. Pray for them that
are being persecuted and beaten and martyred and put in jail, starved,
homes destroyed, families destroyed. Stand in the gap for them,
intercede for them. Know who you are and who you serve.
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In Matthew eleven, starting verse twenty seven, the Lord says,
all things have been delivered to me by my father.
And no one knows the son except the father. Nor
does anyone know the father except the son. And I
think what he's talking about there is truly know and understand,
and have clear eyes to see. And the one to
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whom the son wills to reveal him there you go
until he reveals it. You can't know it. Then he says,
in verse twenty eight, come to me, all you who
labor in a heavy laden and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for
I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will
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find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy
and my burden is light. The children of Israel being
burdened by the Pharisees, by the hypocrites, by the Sadducees.
What he was saying is the pharisees give you religious burdens.
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I empower you to live a righteous life and give
you rest. That's what it's all about. In everything he does,
he brings shallolm, he brings rest, he brings peace. Where
he is there is peace, There is rest. If you're
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not feeling that right now, at some point, you've wandered away.
He doesn't leave us, he doesn't forsake us. We wander away,
get enticed by the the lust of the eyes, the
lust of the flesh, the pride of life, and we
wander off. Kids do that. They see something over there, Oh,
I want to go see that, Look at that, And
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they wander off until they learn can't do that. He's
the Prince of peace, and there'll be no peace until
he returns. His reign is characterized by shahlom, by health,
by well being and prosperity, by happiness, and the cessation
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of hate Satan behind all the hate. It's hard. Sometimes
you hear it, you see it. It bothers you. You
get caught up and responding to it instead of stepping
back and realizing this is satanic. I can't fight hate
with hate. The Prince of peace is the leader who
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brings peace, and he is the only one who can
bring peace. That's why when the Antichrist cuts the deal
with Israel, in the world peace peace, sudden destruction is
upon them because it was never about peace. It was
about control, it was about submission, it was about oppression.
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So the peace of Jerusalem will come when the Prince
of Peace returns. So you could take the four names
that are mentioned there and collapse them into two. A
wonderful counselor is the Mighty God, and the Everlasting Father
is a Prince of peace. And I like the fact
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that the Prince of Peace is the climactic title. It's
the final title. It's the title. When he sits down
on the throne, all that, all that's been promised will come.
Isaiah I talked about it in chapter two, verse four.
He shall judge between the nations and rebuke many people.
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They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears
into pruning hooks. Nations shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore than In Isaiah eleven,
verses six through nine. The wolf shall also dwell with
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the lamb. The leopard shall lie down with the young
goat the calf, and the young lion and the fatling together,
and the little child shall lead them. The cow and
the bear shall graze. Their young ones shall lie down together,
probably roll around the grass, and do all those things
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that young animals do. And the lions shall eat straw
like the ox. The nursing child shall play by the
the cobra's hole, and the weaned child shall put his
arm in the viper's den. And they shall not hurt
nor destroy in all my holy mountain, For the earth
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shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as
the waters cover the sea. That's the promise of everlasting peace,
back to the way it was in the garden before
we fell, before death and destruction and bloodshed came. But
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isn't that what the angel Gabriel declared to the shepherds
grazing on the mountain that night, Look two fourteen, Glory
to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good
will toward men. Glory to God in the Highest. And
there was an angelic host. And whether they were sing
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or praising or echoing the words, what an experience that
must have been. It was so overwhelming. They left their
flock and went to look for the child in the
swaddling clothes, laying in a manger, and on earth peace,
goodwill toward men. God's glory, the highest glory of all,
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is bringing peace and good will toward men. The child,
the true Prince, the one who has the right to
reign and who will usher in peace. What an amazing,
amazing night that must have been for them. And there's
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no record of what happened to them, And did they
keep track of this child? Did their lives change from
that moment? I don't know. You would hope that it would.
So the four double names I read to you from
Isaiah nine are all aspects of you. Sho a d
and his humanity combined the dual nature of the savior,
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God becomes man. Now why do you have to do that?
Why couldn't he just say I forgive you. It's all over. No,
Because how Satan got Adam to fall, God had to
undo what was done. The order was given that the
only way you could get the remission of sins was
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through blood, because the life of the flesh was in
the blood. So there could be no sheep, no lamb,
no animal that could ever do that, and no natural
man could do that. It had to be a supernatural
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man born of a woman to do it. And that's
what you sue all wan us And is Jesus the
Messiah Amasiak, the son of David, bringing into the kingdom
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his peace, of the increase of his government and peace.
There will be no end upon the throne of David
and over his kingdom to order it and establish it
with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever.
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The zeal of the Lord of Host will perform this boy.
Could we use some judgment and justice. We're living in
a world where there's very little of that. Nelson's study
Bible says of the increase may be translated to him
will increase government and peace, may be he rephrased as
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peaceful reign. The risen Lord Yashiah brings his rule of
peace to the believer's heart in the present age. Moreover,
he will establish the Kingdom of God, which will be
his reign of peace. And the fact that this coming
child would occupy the throne of David forever fulfills God's
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promise to David. God's a promise fulfilling God. If he
said it, he will do it. And the zeal of
the Lord of hosts made it happen that zeal, that passion.
The Lord had it. He showed it in Matthew twenty one,
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stunning verse thirteen, when he cleanses the temple. Mark eleven
and Luke nineteen also tell the same story. When the
Jewish Passover was near, Yshiah went up to Jerusalem and
the temple courts. He found men selling cattle, sheep and doves,
and money changers seated at their tables. So he made
a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple.
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They drove out, drove all from the temple courts, both
sheep and cattle, and he poured out the coins of
the money changers and overturned their tables to those selling doves.
He said, get these out of here. How dare you
turn my father's house into a marketplace? And his disciples
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were looking on remembered that it was written, zeal for
your house will consume me. Oh, if we only had
that today. That's zeal, which is passion, passion for God,
passion for his children, passion for righteousness and justice. His
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reign will eventually totally completely bring freedom from the enemy's
control and the universal ru rulership of the House of
David during the Millennial reign, which is why he does
it from Jerusalem. So don't let anybody tell you that
Israel has been replaced as the apple of God's eye.
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Don't let anybody tell you that was then, this is now.
The churches replaced them. No, this will happen in Jerusalem,
that he will rule and rain, and everyone on the
earth at that time will have to go to Jerusalem
for the feast or they will get no rain, they
will get no crops. God's promises are yeay and amen.
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They're not conditional, and they're not based on man's opinion.
The Fourfold names an attribute of the Child, the Messiah,
who shall be born to reign forever upon the throne
of David. Is a promise that will be fulfilled when
the Lord returns. That's our blessed hope. There's always hope.
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The miracle is either going to happen here and now,
or the miracle is going to be that he gets
us out of these broken bodies and takes us home.
But he keeps his promises, and this involves the final
triumph over Satan and the Kingdom of Darkness and the
institution of the Kingdom of God on earth, on earth
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as it is in heaven. Are you still doing the
Lord's prayer? But are you doing it with passion and
feeling and thinking about it? If not, I don't know.
Maybe make that your commitment for twenty twenty six out loud.
Make your declaration for man and demon and angels to
hear who your father is and how you feel about him.
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Remind yourself speak to your spirit, man or woman, Abah, Papa, Daddy,
you are in heaven. Holy, Holy is your name, your Kingdom. Come,
Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
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Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us
as we forgive others. It lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one. For yours Abbah.
Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
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I'm there. Personalize, make it yours. Take the example that
the Lord gave. Follow that example, but speak it from
your heart with zeal and with passion. I believe that's
how he spoke to the Father every night when he
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went off by himself Ecclesiasts three, starting verse fourteen. I
know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing
can be added to it and nothing taken from it.
God does it that men should fear before him. That
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which is has already been, and what is to be
has already been. And God requires an account of what
is past. Moreover, I saw under the sun, in the
place of judgment, wickedness was there, and in the place
of righteousness, iniquity was there. I said in my heart,
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God shall judge the righteous and the wicked, for there's
a time there for every purpose and for every work.
Injustice is temporary. What you're seeing now is temporary. As
upsetting and horrible as it is. It's temporary. But his
judgments will be forever. There will be justice, and there
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will be judgment. Righteousness is coming, and along with it
never ending peace. Now I saw heaven opened, and behold
a white horse. And he who sat on him was
called faithful and true, and in righteousness he judges and
makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire,
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and on his head were many crowns. He had a
name written that no one knew except himself. He was
clothed with a robe dipped in blood. And his name
is called the Word of God. And the armies in
heaven clothes and fine linen, white and clean, followed him
on white horses. Now out of his mouth goes a
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sharp sword, that with it he should strike the nations,
and he himself will rule them with a rod of iron.
He himself he treads the wine press of the fierceness
and the wrath of Almighty God. And he has on
his robe and his thigh a name written, King of
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Kings and Lord of Lords. Revelation nineteen, verses eleven through sixteen,
King of Kings and Lord of Lords. There is none
like him, and he is coming. I wish I knew
the time and the day. I wish I knew the hour.
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So because I don't, because we don't, I'm going to
live every day as if it's the day, and if
it doesn't happen, I'm going to go to bed thinking
it's going to be tomorrow, and then eventually I will
be right. And I'm going to believe with all of
my heart, with all of my mind, with all of
my soul, with all my spirit, that he loves us
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so much that he's going to come get us out
of here. And what happens to the people and the
earth that reject him will be horrible. He gave us
a foreshadowing of that. In Hanakkah, he gave us a
foreshadowing of that, and how Israel has been judged and
punished by God for turning their backs on Him, for
leaving the light and going into the darkness. But that
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shall not be us, because we shall be feasting at
the marriage supper of the Lamb. So during this time,
during this season, hold on, stand strong, keep the faith,
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because the King is coming. Lord. We are so so
excited and so desirous to see you face to face.
We're so ready for there to be no more sin
and death and destruction, to no longer lose loved ones,
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to no longer watch the evil of this world, no
more tears to be shed, no more pain to be felt,
no more disease. We long for that day, Lord, we
hunger for it. But until then we have hope. We
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have hope in You, We have faith in you, and
we love you, and we embrace and accept your love
for us. So what I ask right now is beside
that we all feel that we all bathed in that
glory shining down from the throne room, that you empower
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us and provide for us to go do and to
go tell the others. The King is coming, the wonderful
counselor the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace is coming.
Prepare the way, prepare the way, and I pray all
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these things. Then you shoe his name. If you agree
with me, say amen. May the Lord bless you and
keep you. May the Lord, may I rent I make
his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
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May the Lord I don't eye your shoe. Ahmasiah, Jesus
the Messiah, lift up his countenance upon you, and give
you peace, and give you shall oam. I'm Richard Grund.
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There will be no end upon the throne of David
and over his kingdom to order it and establish it
with judgment and justice. From that time forward, even forever,
the zeal of the Lord of Host will perform this.
That was Isaiah nine, verses six and seven. We talked
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about that last week when we're talking about Hanakah, talked
about in the newsletter, and this again, this message has
been percolating for a week. The spirit's been dropping nuggets
in my lap, and the Lord's been speaking in the night.
So if I get a little excited again, you will
bear with me. The Home and Bible Handbook explains what
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this meant to Israel. I mean, that would be a question,
what did this mean to Israel at the time. I
know what it means to us now. I know that
you've been singing some of you have been singing it
and it's on the cards, and it's all over the
place this time of year. And let me remind you
that Yeshua is not just a reason for the season.
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He's the reason for every season and all the time.
But what was going on then for the prophet Isaiah
to write this? Well, According to to the Home and
Bible Handbook, dark days were ahead for God's people, especially
for the northern kingdom of Judah. The Assyrians would invade
from the north and humble Israel. Isaiah looked behind Huh.
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Isaiah looked beyond this time of punishment and saw a
bright deliverance. Eventually, the Lord would save his people from
their oppressors, just as he did in the days of Gideon,
through whom he annihilated the oppressive Midianites in Judges chapter
six through eight. The Lord would accomplish this future deliverance
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through the Messiah, who would rule on David's throne. The
words for unto us, a child is born, to us,
a son is given verse six links to the messiah
prophecy prediction in chapter seven, verse fourteen of Isaiah. Therefore,
the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the
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virgins shall conceive and bear as sun, and shall call
his name Emmanuel, which means God with us. So the
promised child is Messiah t smashiak the anointed one, and
the Greek they changed it to Christos. So why why
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is Isaiah declaring the promise of a coming anointed ruler
while Judah had turned away from the light into the dark,
to medium, spiritist, to ghost. You look in chapter eight
of Isaiah, starting verse nineteen, and when they say to
you seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper
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and mutter. Should not people seek their God? Should they
seek the dead on behalf of the living, to the
law and to the testimony. If they do not speak
according to this word, it is because there is no
light in them. They will pass through it hard pressed
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and hungry. And it shall happen when they are hungry,
that they will be enraged and curse their king and
their God and look upward. Then they will look to
the earth and see trouble in darkness, gloom of anguish,
and they will be driven into the darkness. I believe
not only was this a prophecy over Judah, it's the
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coming prophecy of what will happen when the Antichrist rises
to power. And that's exactly what happens when people don't
get their way, When God doesn't do for them what
they want him to do for them, they look elsewhere.
They look into the darkness, and there is no light
in them. So during this time, King a Haz was
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in charge, and he had turned away from God. He
had turned toward demonic pagan beliefs. The Home and Bible
Dictionary says Isaiah gave counsel to Ahaz during the siro
Ephremitic crisis when resin our easy N king of Syria,
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and Pecca, king of Israel, joined forces to attack Jerusalem.
The prophet o Dead rescued some captives from Israel and
Second Chronicles twenty eight, but AHAs refused the prophets of
vice and appealed to help to Tigleth Philicier, the third
of Assyria. So instead of trusting God, he sought help
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from their enemies, and that appeal resulted in entanglement and
unfortunate results that religiously and politically AHAs surrendered to Assyrian domination,
even placed an altar made from Assyrian model that he
had seen in Damascus mentioned in Second King sixteen eleven
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and he suffered the final humiliation of not being buriedorried
in the royal tombs because of what he did. Isaiah
was encouraging the people. No matter what you see and
no matter what you hear, a greater King is coming
to put things right. I tell you right now, a
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greater King is coming. Darkness may surround you, but a
great light is coming to dispel that darkness. Remember what
Zacharias prophesied about his son John the Baptist in Luke one.
I'll just read you seventy six through seventy nine, he
says to his son, And you, child will be called
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prophet of the Highest, for you will go before the
face of the Lord to prepare his ways, to give
knowledge of salvation to his people by remission of their sins,
through the tender mercy of our God, with which the
day spring from on high has visited us, to give
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light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow
of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. Well,
those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death
will be there again, and it'll be a horrible time,
But the King will come. A has was an evil man,
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just downright evil, and he had participated in the most disgusting, monstrous,
idolatrous practices. Tewod King sixteen three tells us what he did.
He made his son pass through the fire. He sacrificed
his fully grown adult son into the fire for the
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favor of Moloch, according to the abominations of the nations,
whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
And what's interesting is his father Jotham wasn't like that.
Siah Haas was the twelfth king of Judah. He reigned
approximately from seven point thirty two to seven point sixteen BC,
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and as portrayed, he was idolatrous, and he allied himself
with Assyria. Became king at the age of twenty and
he reigned for four years with his father Jotham from
seven thirty five to seven thirty one, and then sixteen
years on his own. Jodam was one of the good
kings of Judah. He's mentioned in Second Chronicles twenty seven.
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So no one knows why Ahaz departed completely from the
teachings of the Lord, but sacrificing his own children, putting
up a pagan altar, removing the godly altar sent Israel
into darkness. He desecrated the temple. To any of this
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sound familiar, just a horrible, horrible man. So what happened
in this conflict? Although he wasn't fully defeated, he had
suffered significant losses. Over one hundred thousand soldiers were killed,
his son and his main deputy was slain, and the
cities in Judah were plundered. Additionally, many Israelites residing in
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Judah were taken captive. And instead of turning to God,
he turned to Tigla Pealousy of the king of Assyria
to battle on his behalf, and the Assyrian king agreed,
attacked Damascus, captured it and killed King Resid. So while
he's there, and while he's celebrating the victory, he notices
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this pagan altar and it interests him, so he sends
back the design to his priest Uriah, who builds replica
for him, and he starts to sacrifice to the Assyrian
gods on the new altar. First, he took out the
lord's altar, intending he was still going to perform regular
sacrifices on it, but eventually he just completely dismantled it.
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He dismantled the temple, He took down the Sabbath canopy,
the furnishings. He closed the temple doors, and he set
up high places all over. This man fell, he fell
into darkness. You know, it's really interesting about this. A
similar judgment would befall Judah five hundred years later, when
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Antiochus Epiphanes shows up, and the one thing I noticed,
I noticed that there is a pattern that when Israel
does this, God uses an Assyrian to punish them and
bring them back to their senses. The first ten chapters
of Isaiah provide a striking pattern of light versus darkness.
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The imagery is there. It's a strong message that initially
doesn't present hopeful news, but it has to acknowledge the
human sin that caused the darkness and our flaws that
caused the darkness. But then he brings God's offer of redemption.
You know, it doesn't matter what you've done, doesn't matter
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where you've been. I can tell you for a fact
that redemption will come when you turn to the light,
the light of the Lord. And this hope, this hope
that Isaiah is resenting to them. It's thoughtful and it's genuine.
It's not naive or superficial optimism. It's real hoping. God
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is a confident trust in his character and promises providing
a strength during uncertain times. Now I know for a
fact some of you are going through uncertain times. You
may have gotten a bad report. Well, I can tell
you this one thing is certain. He is God never changes.
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The Lord is always there. He hears our prayers. So
hold on no matter how dark it gets. Hope is
always available to us when God is involved. Oswald Chamber says,
remember whose you are and whom you serve. Provoke yourself
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by recollection, and your affection for God will increase tenfold.
Your imagination will not be starved any longer, but what
will be quick and enthusiastic, and your hope will be
inexpressibly bright. So Isaiah is offering them hope. He does
it again in Isaiah eleven, starting verse one, there shall
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come forth a rod from the stem of Jesse, and
a branch shall grow out of his roots. The spirit
of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of
wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the
spirit of knowledge, and the fear of the Lord. His
delight is in the fear of the Lord, and he
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shall not judge by the sight of his eyes, nor
decide by the hearing of his ears. But with righteousness
he shall judge the poor and decide with equity for
the meek of the earth. He shall strike the earth
with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath
of his lips. He shall slay the wicked righteousness. There
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we go, Olujah, Lord, Righteousness shall be the belt of
his loins, and faithfulness the belt of his waste. When
you see he shall strike the earth with the rod
of his mouth and the breath of his lips. That
is a foreshadowing of revelation. That is a foreshadowing of
the second Coming. That is a foreshadowing of when the
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Lord does all these things to the Antichrist, the false prophet,
and all the angels and demons on the earth that
are wrecking havoc that have come out of the pit.
So the promise of Masiak Messiah is tied to the
dividing dynasty, but ultimately it's about the coming Messiah and
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his war against Satan's kingdom. Yes, there is a war.
We've won the battle, but we have to keep fighting.
Why again, imagine the worst terrorists in the world who
refused us to submit, and you've got Satan and the
fallen and the demons. P Too tells the starting verse
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from White of the nation's rage, and the people plot
a vain thing. The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and
against his anointed, saying, let us break their bonds in pieces,
and cast away their cords from us. He who sits
in the heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall hold them
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in derision, and then he shall speak to them in
his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure. Yet
I have set my king on my holy mountain of Zion.
Satan and the fallen and the demons. They've always known
this was coming. They've ignored it. They've tried to trick
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the Church into not believing it. But I'm here to
tell you it's true and it will happen. The angel
Gabriel tells Daniel about the coming Messiah and the establishment
of his kingdom. And we know that that coming Messiah
was Isua. And that's why the magi, the wise men,
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you know by the way Wiseman, still seek him. But
those wise men came, That's why they followed that star
for up to sixteen or eighteen months to find the child,
because Daniel had left the teachings and the writings when
he was the head of the court in Babylon. Later on,
the New Testament will confirm this word in John chapter one,
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verse forty one, when Andrew Simon, Peter's brother, goes to
look for his brother Simon and says to him, we
have found the Messiah, the anointed one which in the
scripture says, which has translated to Christ. They were translating
the writings from Jewish to a gentile audience, so they
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would do that. They changed Messiah to Christ. And they
did that because even though the authors were Jewish and
the writings were Jewish prophecy, that aspect of the Bible
and the writers was being suppressed. But doesn't matter. It's
always there. It's in the roots, it's in the steed,
it's in the word. In the Old Testament, there are
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three categories of persons who are anointed that are set
aside by God for special use, the prophet, the priest,
and the King. Issue is the fulfillment of all three
of these offices. Prophet, priest, King, and his name will
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be called wonderful counselor, Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Now,
even though they put a comma after wonderful, the way
it's written, it's one name. He's a wonderful counselor. He's
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got God's wisdom. He's unlike the corrupt human counselors of
the day. And Isaiah is consistent in this description of
him being the wonderful divine counselor. It expressed his ability
as a political guide and leader, but as a spiritual guide,
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as the living Word, the infallible source of guidance, an
inexhaustible wisdom, the truth and the way. In Isaiah twenty
five to one, he says, Oh Lord, you are my God.
I will exalt you. I will praise your name, for
you have done wonderful things. Your counsels of old are
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faithfulness and truth. I will exalt you every day and
all the time. As I was coming back from the
store this morning, I turned on the radio and I
have Serious ExM. And it was on the Christian station,
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Serious XM. The message whatever it is, And right now
all they're doing is playing Christmas music and the song Joyful,
Joyful came on. I think it was casting grounds I'm
not sure, and I was listening to the words joyful, joyful,
we adore Thee, And the first thought that came to
mind is that should be our hearts glad every day,
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not just once year, not just for a couple of
weeks or maybe even a month, All the time and
every day, in every way, we should adore him. We
should be joyful because he's there for us to adore him.
Isaiah twenty twenty nine says this also comes from the
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Lord of Host, who is wonderful in council and excellent
in guidance. What are you going through right now? What
dark experience has befalled you? What confusion has surrounded you?
James says, if anyone lacks wisdom to ask of the Lord,
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ask of the spirit need, we'll give it to you liberally.
If you ask and don't doubt. Don't go to him
and say, Okay, God, I don't think you're going to
do this, but no, no, go to him. Open your heart,
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open your mind, open your mouth, and just cry out
to him. Fall on your knees if you have to,
fall on your face if necessary, because he is mighty
God Elgibor, the God Hero the heroic God. This child
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that Isaiah's prophesying is God incarnate, the omnipotent One. The
word translated mighty has the additional meaning of being a hero.
So the Lord is the infinite hero of his people.
He's the divine warrior who has triumphed over sin and death.
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This isn't any Jewish prophet. No, this is a risen savior.
This is a king who is alive forever more. Calling
him Mighty God is an affirmation of the Messiah's divine
nature and that he is a powerful warrior, not some
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weak mamby pamby Casper milk toast guy. This is somebody
that fishermen and everyday people, brawlers like Peter and John
and his brother. They followed him, they stayed close to him.
He's strong. He was strong when he was human in
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the flesh, and he's even stronger now. He's the captain
of the host. That's who's coming back. Not a meek lamb,
but the lion of the tribe of Judah. He's everlasting father.
That's the relationship that the Messiah would have with this people, forever,
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guiding them and sustaining them and protecting them. Everlasting father.
As you know, I've came from a broken home. My
father walked out. I'm not sure I had turned seven,
yet looked at never looked back, never heard from him again.
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That kind of rejection hurts, That kind of brokenness cracks
you until the Lord can fill those cracks with gold
and turned it into something precious. And that's what he
did when he introduced me to my Abba father. So
I have an everlasting father who sustains me and protects me,
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and I know loves me. He cares for his children
as the everlasting father, a father whose care continues forever.
That's why I constantly say, Abba, I'm trying to get
you to say it. I'm trying to get you to
understand that so many like me struggle or struggles tense
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with the concept of a father and earthly father. That's
why Satan attacked the home and the structure of the family.
That's why they it still attacks it. But if you
know who your daddy is, if you have that relationship
with him as father and child, you've broken through. So
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everlasting means he means he's everywhere present at all times.
His divine attributes of both eternity and omnipresence means he
rules from the throne of David within the hearts of
the Redeemed. Never forget your shoe, and the Father a one,
everlasting Father, describes him as a king and a dad
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who provides, who protects, who cares for his children. Isaiah
says in chapter sixty three, verse sixteen, Doubtless, doubtless, you
are our father, though Abraham was ignorant of us, and
Israel does not acknowledge us. You, o Lord, our Father,
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our redeemer from everlasting. Is your name amazing, hopeful personal.
If you don't have that, if you don't understand that,
even after all the teachings I've done on Abbah and
the Lord's prayer, I want you, I beg you, I
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beseech you to take the time to make him Abbah
Papa Daddy, to cry out to him to fill that
part of your heart, to envelop you in his arms.
Believer study Bible says that this coming Messiah, we'll establish
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a peace beyond the temporary secession of warfare. We'll taken together.
The four names of the Coming Messiah are an extension
of the name Emmanuel God with us. They are not
the names in modern sense, but attributes attributes of the
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one to whom they are given. Oh Lord, we need
you right now. We need you right now, Lord, in
every day. We need to feel this. Lord, we need
to have this, We need to hold this. We need
to share it with those that are lost and hurting,
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who don't know this, who are broken on him. Will
rest the government the entitlement to rule. Statean stole that
from Adam, and man continues to tend it and take
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care of it for Satan. But the Lord will come
and forcibly take it from them. The first time he
took it spiritually and gave it to us. I wish
more used it, but we have it. But when he
comes back, he's going to complete the transition. Isaiah forty,
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starting verse nine, Ozion, you who bring good tidings, get
up into the high mountain o Jerusalem, you who bring
good tidings, lift up your voice with strength, lift it up.
Be not afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, behold
your God. Behold. The Lord shall come with a strong hand,
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and his arm shall rule for him. Behold, his reward
is with him, and his work before him. He will
feed his flock like a shepherd he will gather the
lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom
and gently lead those who are with young. He will
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protect his flock like a shepherd. Shepherd gives his life
for the flock. Hirelings flee when the enemy comes. Hirelings
flee when the wolves show up. He will gather the
lambs in his arms, intimate personal, holding them close. They
can feel his heart beat. He will carry them in
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his bosom. They'll feel secure, they'll feel loved. You know,
when you do that with God's creation, whether it's a baby,
whether it's a puppy, doesn't matter what it is. If
you hold that, hold them close to your chest and
to your heart while they're growing, there'll be a connection
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with you that goes beyond the natural. You know. I've
talked about it about what your heart is resonating and
the two buying together. He will carry them. He will
do it gently, and he will carefully lead those nursing
their young. So when you grow up, he doesn't abandon
you just well you're big now. I don't do that. No, No,
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that's why I hug my kids. I hug my sons,
and I always will. I always will, even even when
they said you can't. You can't hug them. You've gotta
stay six feet away. Now, Not this guy, not gonna happen,
Not gonna do it. Nope. I hugged them out in public.
I didn't care. Now he's gonna tell me what I
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can and can't do with my sons, with my family.
But that's who you serve, that's your shepherd. And I
will tell you this, and I talk about this a lot,
a lot. When he made SRT the she deep Dogs,
to protect his flock, to go after them and rescue them,
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and to beat back the wolves and to drive them out.
There was no greater honor to feel that love that
he feels for those in bondage, feels for those that
have been bound and overcome, to use his name to
set them free, to redeem the land, to shut down
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the enemy's access to an area. It's all done out
of love. Yes it's warfare, and yes there are casualties.
Things happen. I don't mean people die, but people get hurt,
which you don't think about that because his heart has
touched your heart and you know how important it is
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to him. That's why I'm asking you to pray. Pray
for the lost, and the dying. Pray for them that
are being persecuted and beaten and martyred and put in jail, starved,
homes destroyed, families destroyed. Stand in the gap for them,
intercede for them. Know who you are and who you serve.
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In Matthew eleven, starting verse twenty seven, the Lord says,
all things have been delivered to me by my father.
And no one knows the son except the father. Nor
does anyone know the father except the son. And I
think what he's talking about there is truly know and understand,
and have clear eyes to see. And the one to
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whom the son wills to reveal him there you go
until he reveals it. You can't know it. Then he says,
in verse twenty eight, come to me, all you who
labor in a heavy laden and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for
I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will
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find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy
and my burden is light. The children of Israel being
burdened by the Pharisees, by the hypocrites, by the Sadducees.
What he was saying is the pharisees give you religious burdens.
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I empower you to live a righteous life and give
you rest. That's what it's all about. In everything he does,
he brings shallolm, he brings rest, he brings peace. Where
he is there is peace, There is rest. If you're
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not feeling that right now, at some point, you've wandered away.
He doesn't leave us, he doesn't forsake us. We wander away,
get enticed by the the lust of the eyes, the
lust of the flesh, the pride of life, and we
wander off. Kids do that. They see something over there, Oh,
I want to go see that, Look at that, And
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they wander off until they learn can't do that. He's
the Prince of peace, and there'll be no peace until
he returns. His reign is characterized by shahlom, by health,
by well being and prosperity, by happiness, and the cessation
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of hate Satan behind all the hate. It's hard. Sometimes
you hear it, you see it. It bothers you. You
get caught up and responding to it instead of stepping
back and realizing this is satanic. I can't fight hate
with hate. The Prince of peace is the leader who
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brings peace, and he is the only one who can
bring peace. That's why when the Antichrist cuts the deal
with Israel, in the world peace peace, sudden destruction is
upon them because it was never about peace. It was
about control, it was about submission, it was about oppression.
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So the peace of Jerusalem will come when the Prince
of Peace returns. So you could take the four names
that are mentioned there and collapse them into two. A
wonderful counselor is the Mighty God, and the Everlasting Father
is a Prince of peace. And I like the fact
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that the Prince of Peace is the climactic title. It's
the final title. It's the title. When he sits down
on the throne, all that, all that's been promised will come.
Isaiah I talked about it in chapter two, verse four.
He shall judge between the nations and rebuke many people.
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They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears
into pruning hooks. Nations shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore than In Isaiah eleven,
verses six through nine. The wolf shall also dwell with
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the lamb. The leopard shall lie down with the young
goat the calf, and the young lion and the fatling together,
and the little child shall lead them. The cow and
the bear shall graze. Their young ones shall lie down together,
probably roll around the grass, and do all those things
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that young animals do. And the lions shall eat straw
like the ox. The nursing child shall play by the
the cobra's hole, and the weaned child shall put his
arm in the viper's den. And they shall not hurt
nor destroy in all my holy mountain, For the earth
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shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as
the waters cover the sea. That's the promise of everlasting peace,
back to the way it was in the garden before
we fell, before death and destruction and bloodshed came. But
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isn't that what the angel Gabriel declared to the shepherds
grazing on the mountain that night, Look two fourteen, Glory
to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good
will toward men. Glory to God in the Highest. And
there was an angelic host. And whether they were sing
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or praising or echoing the words, what an experience that
must have been. It was so overwhelming. They left their
flock and went to look for the child in the
swaddling clothes, laying in a manger, and on earth peace,
goodwill toward men. God's glory, the highest glory of all,
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is bringing peace and good will toward men. The child,
the true Prince, the one who has the right to
reign and who will usher in peace. What an amazing,
amazing night that must have been for them. And there's
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no record of what happened to them, And did they
keep track of this child? Did their lives change from
that moment? I don't know. You would hope that it would.
So the four double names I read to you from
Isaiah nine are all aspects of you. Sho a d
and his humanity combined the dual nature of the savior,
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God becomes man. Now why do you have to do that?
Why couldn't he just say I forgive you. It's all over. No,
Because how Satan got Adam to fall, God had to
undo what was done. The order was given that the
only way you could get the remission of sins was
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through blood, because the life of the flesh was in
the blood. So there could be no sheep, no lamb,
no animal that could ever do that, and no natural
man could do that. It had to be a supernatural
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man born of a woman to do it. And that's
what you sue all wan us And is Jesus the
Messiah Amasiak, the son of David, bringing into the kingdom
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his peace, of the increase of his government and peace.
There will be no end upon the throne of David
and over his kingdom to order it and establish it
with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever.
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The zeal of the Lord of Host will perform this boy.
Could we use some judgment and justice. We're living in
a world where there's very little of that. Nelson's study
Bible says of the increase may be translated to him
will increase government and peace, may be he rephrased as
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peaceful reign. The risen Lord Yashiah brings his rule of
peace to the believer's heart in the present age. Moreover,
he will establish the Kingdom of God, which will be
his reign of peace. And the fact that this coming
child would occupy the throne of David forever fulfills God's
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promise to David. God's a promise fulfilling God. If he
said it, he will do it. And the zeal of
the Lord of hosts made it happen that zeal, that passion.
The Lord had it. He showed it in Matthew twenty one,
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stunning verse thirteen, when he cleanses the temple. Mark eleven
and Luke nineteen also tell the same story. When the
Jewish Passover was near, Yshiah went up to Jerusalem and
the temple courts. He found men selling cattle, sheep and doves,
and money changers seated at their tables. So he made
a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple.
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They drove out, drove all from the temple courts, both
sheep and cattle, and he poured out the coins of
the money changers and overturned their tables to those selling doves.
He said, get these out of here. How dare you
turn my father's house into a marketplace? And his disciples
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were looking on remembered that it was written, zeal for
your house will consume me. Oh, if we only had
that today. That's zeal, which is passion, passion for God,
passion for his children, passion for righteousness and justice. His
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reign will eventually totally completely bring freedom from the enemy's
control and the universal ru rulership of the House of
David during the Millennial reign, which is why he does
it from Jerusalem. So don't let anybody tell you that
Israel has been replaced as the apple of God's eye.
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Don't let anybody tell you that was then, this is now.
The churches replaced them. No, this will happen in Jerusalem,
that he will rule and rain, and everyone on the
earth at that time will have to go to Jerusalem
for the feast or they will get no rain, they
will get no crops. God's promises are yeay and amen.
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They're not conditional, and they're not based on man's opinion.
The Fourfold names an attribute of the Child, the Messiah,
who shall be born to reign forever upon the throne
of David. Is a promise that will be fulfilled when
the Lord returns. That's our blessed hope. There's always hope.
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The miracle is either going to happen here and now,
or the miracle is going to be that he gets
us out of these broken bodies and takes us home.
But he keeps his promises, and this involves the final
triumph over Satan and the Kingdom of Darkness and the
institution of the Kingdom of God on earth, on earth
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as it is in heaven. Are you still doing the
Lord's prayer? But are you doing it with passion and
feeling and thinking about it? If not, I don't know.
Maybe make that your commitment for twenty twenty six out loud.
Make your declaration for man and demon and angels to
hear who your father is and how you feel about him.
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Remind yourself speak to your spirit, man or woman, Abah, Papa, Daddy,
you are in heaven. Holy, Holy is your name, your Kingdom. Come,
Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
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Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us
as we forgive others. It lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one. For yours Abbah.
Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
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I'm there. Personalize, make it yours. Take the example that
the Lord gave. Follow that example, but speak it from
your heart with zeal and with passion. I believe that's
how he spoke to the Father every night when he
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went off by himself Ecclesiasts three, starting verse fourteen. I
know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing
can be added to it and nothing taken from it.
God does it that men should fear before him. That
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which is has already been, and what is to be
has already been. And God requires an account of what
is past. Moreover, I saw under the sun, in the
place of judgment, wickedness was there, and in the place
of righteousness, iniquity was there. I said in my heart,
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God shall judge the righteous and the wicked, for there's
a time there for every purpose and for every work.
Injustice is temporary. What you're seeing now is temporary. As
upsetting and horrible as it is. It's temporary. But his
judgments will be forever. There will be justice, and there
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will be judgment. Righteousness is coming, and along with it
never ending peace. Now I saw heaven opened, and behold
a white horse. And he who sat on him was
called faithful and true, and in righteousness he judges and
makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire,
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and on his head were many crowns. He had a
name written that no one knew except himself. He was
clothed with a robe dipped in blood. And his name
is called the Word of God. And the armies in
heaven clothes and fine linen, white and clean, followed him
on white horses. Now out of his mouth goes a
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sharp sword, that with it he should strike the nations,
and he himself will rule them with a rod of iron.
He himself he treads the wine press of the fierceness
and the wrath of Almighty God. And he has on
his robe and his thigh a name written, King of
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Kings and Lord of Lords. Revelation nineteen, verses eleven through sixteen,
King of Kings and Lord of Lords. There is none
like him, and he is coming. I wish I knew
the time and the day. I wish I knew the hour.
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So because I don't, because we don't, I'm going to
live every day as if it's the day, and if
it doesn't happen, I'm going to go to bed thinking
it's going to be tomorrow, and then eventually I will
be right. And I'm going to believe with all of
my heart, with all of my mind, with all of
my soul, with all my spirit, that he loves us
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so much that he's going to come get us out
of here. And what happens to the people and the
earth that reject him will be horrible. He gave us
a foreshadowing of that. In Hanakkah, he gave us a
foreshadowing of that, and how Israel has been judged and
punished by God for turning their backs on Him, for
leaving the light and going into the darkness. But that
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shall not be us, because we shall be feasting at
the marriage supper of the Lamb. So during this time,
during this season, hold on, stand strong, keep the faith,
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because the King is coming. Lord. We are so so
excited and so desirous to see you face to face.
We're so ready for there to be no more sin
and death and destruction, to no longer lose loved ones,
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to no longer watch the evil of this world, no
more tears to be shed, no more pain to be felt,
no more disease. We long for that day, Lord, we
hunger for it. But until then we have hope. We
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have hope in You, We have faith in you, and
we love you, and we embrace and accept your love
for us. So what I ask right now is beside
that we all feel that we all bathed in that
glory shining down from the throne room, that you empower
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us and provide for us to go do and to
go tell the others. The King is coming, the wonderful
counselor the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace is coming.
Prepare the way, prepare the way, and I pray all
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these things. Then you shoe his name. If you agree
with me, say amen. May the Lord bless you and
keep you. May the Lord, may I rent I make
his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
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May the Lord I don't eye your shoe. Ahmasiah, Jesus
the Messiah, lift up his countenance upon you, and give
you peace, and give you shall oam. I'm Richard Grund.
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