January 7, 2026 • 59 mins
The Porch continues its exploration of the theme of “seasons” and “times” in biblical understanding, emphasizing that every event in life has a divinely appointed time and purpose. Drawing from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, it details the balance of life under God's sovereign control. We examine how time is perceived biblically—not just as chronological progression, but as meaning-filled moments designated by God's will.
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
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out there and people will pray. We start out praise
reports and prayer request and I'm returning back to the
old way that we did things that goes on a
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little longer. If you don't want to stick around for that,
you want to jump right into the word, just go
right to the sound of the show far. But if not,
let's praise him. I praise the Father for loving us,
for sending his son to die for us. I praise
him for allowing us to call him Abbah, Papa Daddy,
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that we can boldly approach the throne of grace and
mercy as his children. We know that we won't be rejected.
I thank him for the Lord, for sending him to
pay for my sins, your sins, and cover them with
every drop of blood that's happened. To see a video
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on YouTube about he didn't come about the sins. Yes
he did. He came to set the captives free, and
he did so by reconnecting us to God. And the
only way that he could do that was by a
blood sacrifice. The only way we could be acceptable was
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by an eternal blood sacrifice. So I thank him for that.
I thank him for loving us and giving us access
to Him, for sending the Holy Spirit back to teach
us and we walk with us and to guide us,
and to strengthen and empower us. I personally thank him
for my home, my wife, my son's daughter in law's,
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for the kids, grandkids, every kid that we've had here,
and the two that are in heaven, or actually three
if you count our granddaughter that are in heaven. I
thank him that I will see them again someday. I
am blessed, be saved, healed, and delivered by the King
of Kings and the Lord of Lords. And he's allowed
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me to serve him, to do this for him, with him,
and he'll be with you weekly to share the word.
I thank him for a home, for this technology, for
the guidance, for the dreams and the visions. I thank
him for love, his un ending, abiding love, and his
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grace even when I didn't deserve it. Now, let's pray.
I pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Someone twenty two,
verse six says, pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May
they prosper who love you. If you're paying attention, there's
a lot going out in the world, and eventually it
all trickles back to Jerusalem, So keep praying. I don't
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care if you don't like their politics. I don't care
if you don't like their leaders. We are called by
the word of the Lord to pray for Jerusalem. I
pray for America. May God forgive us, May his grace
be upon us, and may those who are called leaders
serve Him, and if not, that He would remove them.
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I pray for the people being victimized by their leaders,
for the fatherless and the widows, the persecuted and the martyred,
the innocence, both in and out of the womb, even
human and animal. We have not been good stewards of
His creation. I pray for those who are victims of injustice.
He hates injustice. I pray against the slaughter of the innocence,
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for missing and exploited children, For the victims of human
sex trafficking, For our brothers and sisters around the world
being slaughtered and persecuted for their faith. Due and gentile
is a religious persecution and anti Semitism being fed by
the spirit of the Antichrist. Stand against it, pray against it,
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and stand with those that are suffering. I pray for
divine wholeness, health and healing for those who need it,
in me and in you, that we can have His
divine design to do what we have called been called
to do. Wholeness, health and healing in this time of need.
I believe he needs us for protection and inspiration, for
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the remnant to wake up and to answer the call
to stand, and when having done all, to stand, for
the doors to open, for all the projects and plans
He's given, for the kingdom finances to flow, and for
us to go out and speak and set the captives free. Now, Father,
we love you, and we praise you, and we worship you,
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and we thank you for this time. We thank you
for being with us, and we ask you Holy Spirit,
have your way, do whatever it is you want to
do this day. And I pray all these things, and
you shoe his name. Amen.
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of the following information. When I got done praying, I
started hearing that song fly Away, Fly fly Away in
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my head.
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I'm not sure what that's all about, but it was
pretty good. Let me let me start out by saying
something before we get into and we get a lot
of to cover, and it's going to go deep. I
want to I want to clarify something about the portion
about my teaching. There are a lot of people out
there that teach, and they some offer knowledge. Knowledge is good,
it helps, but that's not the only thing I'm here for.
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My goal is to offer knowledge, preparation, and the ability
to act upon what is learned. If it can't be used,
if you can't apply it, then what is the point.
So that you can memorize chapter and verse and have
all that and pass tests and maybe get credentials, and
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that's all well and good. That's not what I'm here for.
I'm here to prepare the remnant, to get us ready
so that we can do what He needs us to do.
And I will do it by using scripture in context.
I take the content and I show it to you
in context, which is why I'm always quoting directly giving
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you chapter and verse, because scripture should be more important
than my opinion. And when I'm offering you opinion, I'll
share that with you and it's up to you whether
you want to accept it or not. But the scripture
cannot be refuted when it's taken in contact. So let's
go to scripture. We're still with Ecclesiastes three, finishing up
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times and seasons, starting a verse one to everything. There
is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.
A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plants and a time to pluck what
is planted. A time to kill and a time to heal.
A time to break down and a time to build up.
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A time to weep and a time to laugh, a
time to mourn and a time to dance. A time
to cast away stones and a time to gather stones.
A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to gain, a time to lose, a time
to keep, a time to throw away, a time to
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tear and a time to sow. A time to keep
silent and a time to speak, a time to love
and a time to hate, a time of war and
a time of peace. There is a time appointed for everything,
and a time for every delight in every event or
purpose under heaven. That's what he's saying. And yes, it
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says the preacher, but he pretty much clarifies who the
preacher is. I believe it's Solomon's. Do not Solomon understood
things better than most. He had the hand of God
upon him. He did great things, and then he did
some bad things, a lot of really bad things. And
he's at the end. He's towards the end anyway, and
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he's learned that all the events are in the hand
of God, and whatever happens has happened because He has
allowed it. It happens in the time that He judges appropriate.
And that's the beauty of this life if you can
grasp that God is in control and that He has
established a time and a meaning for every event that
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takes place. And when we look at Ecclesiasts, these three
verses two through eight, we see a balance. It's amazing
how yin and yang and all these other beliefs they
always have balance. But you can't have balance without the
God of created balance. The Lord is the Folcrium is
the center. You have birth and then you have death.
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You're planting and harvesting, killing and healing, tearing down and
building up, crying and laughing, celebrating, grieving and celebrating life.
The dancing scattering stones and gathering stones. You scattered stones
around your home and in the fields to slow down
the invading army, and then you had to gather them
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and take them out of the field so that you
could do what needs to be done. To embracing and
turning away, sometimes you gotta let go searching and to
cease from searching, stop looking. We know at the end
the angel told Gabriel that people would run about to
and fro searching for knowledge. You know that comes a
point we have to stop and take what you know,
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and take what's in the word and establish it on
that a time of keeping and discarding, tearing and mending,
being quiet and speaking up, loving and hating, and that
word hate means to love less, fighting and being peaceful.
That's the balance in life, and all of them are
under the control of the Living God. Everything is in
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his hands. That's what the under the sun inference is
our experience in this life. Our temporal lives are in
the control of God. God brings prosperity and adversity. He's
in the control of everything. He's the creator, he's the sustainer.
He's involved in every purpose and meaning to live life's events.
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Our lives already getting a little excited and getting a
little jacked up, and I need to run around the
room a little bit, but that's very difficult in this setting.
We need to trust in God, trust in his timing.
I posted a meme today, not a meme, it's an
image on social media. If you follow me on Instagram
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or Facebook or any of those places, that's where it is.
Maybe I'll start using firehon talk radio or create a
page for the porch. I don't know. There needs to
be a way that I can create with you and
communicate with you and to share these things, especially if
you don't use social media. But I was talking about
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faith and it was important and I'm off script here,
but not that there really is a script, but the
thing about faith and understanding of God's in control, I said,
as I've walked this road of faith in the Lord
all of these many years, and we're coming up on
thirty eight years, I've learned that faith is not just
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believing that God can and will answer my prayers, but
that whatever the answer is will be the best for me.
I trust in His decisions, even though they are not
what I was expecting. So many times what I asked
for was not just wrong for me, but was nowhere
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near as good as what He eventually did. My faith
is in him and him alone. I trust his decisions
because I trust him. And then I added Mark eleven
twenty two where she was said, have faith in God.
God's in control of everything, his timing. We need to
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trust it. We need to understand that his actions are
eternal and complete. Ours are not. And what this does
is this demands like that image and inward reflection on
our relationship with God as our father, on a look
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up and out to being accountable to a future judgment
that eventually every one of us will stand before God
and we will do it by ourselves. You won't be
there with your grandmother or your mother, whoever your prayer
warrior was, You'll be by yourself. I have people in
my life that made life choices that probably don't agree with,
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and I simply said to them, Hey, when the end comes,
I won't be standing there with you. You'll be all
by yourself. So it really doesn't matter what I think.
It only matters what He thinks. So I need to
understand that I need to have peace, and I need
to see the beauty in a life that has a
relationship with Him, and He orders my steps. So we
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have those fourteen pairs of life opposites in verses two
through eighth. So what life is about, It's about how
we handle those opposites. The Adam Clark Commentary says, to
everything there is a season and a time to every purpose.
Two general remarks may be made on the first eight
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verses of this chapter. One, God, by his providence, governs
the world and has determined particular things in ours to
particular times. In those times, such things may be done
with propriety and success. But if we neglect the appointed seasons,
we sin against this providence and become the authors of
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our own distressors. Yes, amen to that. God has given
to man that portion of a duration called time, the
space in which all the operations of nature, of animals,
and intellectual beings are carried on. But while nature is
steadying its course, and animals faithful to their instincts, Man
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devotes it to a great variety of purposes, but very
frequently to that for which God never made time, space,
or opportunity. And all we can say when an evil
deed is done is there was a time in which
it was done, although God never made it for that purpose.
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So the Jews see times and seasons in the events
of their life, their nation from the birth of Abraham
to the present day, and the church fathers and followers.
They set everything based upon the events stated in the
Church and how it began and all those things, and
a lot of what we believe today really isn't the
truth and really wasn't what was established. So everything in
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this list are done by the disposal and the power
of Almighty God. And we have very little influence like
birth and the time of our death, and even the
things we have an option in. God can overrule us
if he wants by his providence, and I guess that's
why it's called divine providence. So biblically, time is the
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chronological sequence of life and its significance. But God is
not governed by time. He is the Lord of time
Revelation twenty two thirteen. I am the Alpha and the Omega,
the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
He is outside of time, but he's not detached from time.
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Through his providential care for us, and especially in the
incarnation of the Messiah, you show a hamashiak Jesus the Messiah.
He entered into time for a specific purpose, but not
limited to the constraints of time. He's sovereignly present in
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all the events, and he will confront his people with
warnings and reminders of his promises if what we're doing
doesn't line up with what his plan is. But as
we can see with Abraham and Sarah and others, sometimes
men do things that God did not plan for, and
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now he has to include them in his plants. Unfortunately
for us, like with Abraham and Sarah, created a problem.
He's not caught up in time, he's not governed by it,
but he encounters us, his children, and each moment of
our temporal existence, making each day, each new day, an
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opportunity for blessing or repentance or judgment. You know, in Lamentations,
Chapter three, verses twenty two and twenty three, it says,
the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His mercies
never come to an end. They are what they are
new every morning. Great is your faithfulness? What does that do?
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That emphasizes the renewal of God's mercy each day? They
are new every morning. Well, the thing to remember is
Satan's kingdom. The kingdom of darkness is in a in
verse mirror image, so it's the opposite. So if God's
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mercies are new every morning. Satan's attacks are new every morning.
Never forget that we are natural beings living in a
supernatural world because we were created to be naturally supernatural.
And until we get our glorified bodies, we have to
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deal with that dichotomy and that struggle. God is eternal,
our Father is eternal, and his existence it brackets cosmic time.
The Lord. It's same yesterday, today, and forever. In Exodus three,
starting verse thirteen, verse thirteen and fourteen, Moses said to God, Indeed,
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when I come to the children of Israel and say
to them, the God of your fathers has sent me
to you, And they say to me, what is his name?
What shall I say to them? And God said to Moses,
I am who I am. Thus you shall shall say
to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me
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to you. Well, i am is connected with a form
of the verb to be, and it's seen as expressing
the nature, character, and essence of the promise that was
quoted in verse twelve that he would be with them.
So what he's saying is my name in its inner
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significance is I am, for I AM will be present.
I am that I am. He just is. He was
there at the beginning. He will be there when everything
ends and every moment in between. That's who you're abba
father is. That's who the Lord is. The Lord was
with him in the beginning, and the beginning was the Word.
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The Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God. All things were
created through him, and nothing was made. That was made
in him was life, and the life was what the
light of men. Let there be light those you sure.
God's eternal nature is in him and has been given
to us by the purpose of self through salvation and
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the infieling of the Holy Spirit, which means, isn't it crazy?
Why you feel this way? Is that your flesh body,
your suit, mine's getting winkled. Your suit is still natural,
but your spirit is supernatural. And that's why the two
are always battling with one another to see who's going
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to be in control. But he is existing outside of time,
but intimately presently involved in human history. That's what being
eternal is. That's the meaning of eternity, before above and
beyond all creaturely existence. God is yet out of his love,
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intimately involved and close to our temporal existence. You've heard
me talk about it at the Sea conference and in
the video, and that God formed him from the clay
of the ground. Adam Adama clay red clay, and he
used the clay that is the only kind of clay
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that can contain life, that can hold in essence, and
he breathed his life into it. That's intimate, that's personal.
So this isn't a passive experience. This isn't a passive intimacy.
This is active. And because of that, he cares for us.
He's governing us, he's calling to us. But in all
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of that, he's given us the power, the freedom to choose,
the freedom to obey, and the freedom to believe. He's
given us choice and the time to make those choices.
That's why for me, and I don't know if people
get annoyed, I can tell you the time and the
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date when I got saved because He gave me the
time to make the choice to follow him. Genesis one, p. Fourteen.
God said, let there be lights in the firmament of
the heavens, to divide the day from the night, and
let them be for signs and seasons for days and years.
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That time is for us. He created that for us,
he doesn't need it. But the ancient people, the people
of the Bible, they were aware of a passage of time,
not like us. They learned to mark the seasons and
to measure durations of those seasons. There was no clock watching,
there was no tights scheduling, which I'm sure was much
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more relaxed than what we are today. They lived a
much more holistic natural life. And I think that's why
some people get off the grid. There don't know the town.
There's an island somewhere that when you cross over the bridge,
you take off your watch. That they leave people I
moved there, leave them on the bridge. They are ruled
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by the sun up and the sun down and the
stars at night, and they are no longer slaves to time.
And the health there and the happiness there is something
to be considered. Time units were based on observation and experience.
It was until the New Testaments that the time period
that the Jews learned to count hours from the Romans.
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Isn't it interesting how a lot of false path things
came out of rome tests. So the day and the
night things were divided up into watches. And I went
into a deep dive on watches. If you haven't listened
to part one, you need to. But those watches were
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determined by the observation of the sun's position in the sky.
They counted years by the cycle of seasons, by the
observation of the sun's return to its annual orbit. The
months were not an arbitrary number like hour thirty days,
but were counted from one new moon to the next.
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That's why man won't know the day of the hour,
because it's going to come at a time where they
have to watch two consecutive moons to know for sure
what time it is. But for the most part, the
most important unit of their day was the day. When
sun up, they got things done, they went to bed,
when it got talked, they got up on a light,
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came up. They did everything they had to do. And
then that cycle apparently was a healthy one. Our thing
about sleeping through the night and oh, you need to
get eight hours straight, that's a new concept. That was
not how the people of old lived. They slept for
a few hours. Sometimes they got up, they cooked, they
got ready to do certain things, or they set the
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food up, or they went out and did the animals
took care of the animals. Then they went back to
bed for a couple hours. So the Israelites counted the
day for morning to evening, counting the night in between
and one morning to the next. Because of the importance
of the festivals, they needed to pick the rising of
the moon for the observance, so they began to count
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the day from the evening before, and that's still the
custom today. So what's important for us to understand was
that their biblical view of time was that it was counted,
but it was also identified for its significance. It came
to be used for marking special days, for God's revelatory appearance,
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for what He had done for them in the past,
and what they knew he was going to do. Times
and seasons always have a purpose. That's why last week
I kept asking you what season are you in? It
has a purpose. You should know what it is. Habaccic,
chapter two, starting verse two, the Lord said to habakk
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right the vision and make it plain on the tablets
that he may run who reads it. For the vision
is yet for an appointed time. But at the end
it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries.
Wait for it, because it surely will come. It will
not tarry. Got to write it down, make the vision plain.
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It has an appointed time, his time, the fullness of
time Glatians four four. But when the fullness of time
had come, God sent forth his son, born of a woman,
born under the law Ephesians one ten, that in the
dispensation of the fullness of the times, he might gather
together in one all things in Messiah, both which are
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in heaven and which are on earth in him. So
when the fullness of time happens, it's time his time.
But even in our lives, there's a fullness of time.
There's things that he has to there's things He said, Hey,
I'm going to do this with you, and you're thinking, okay,
I'm ready. No you're not. I'm ready. No you're not.
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I'm ready. Okay, yeah you are. Now you can do
it in the fullness of time. Home and Bible Dictionary
explains what seasons are. We did it last week, but
I want to do it again because I can. In
the translations in several Hebrew and Greek terms, they have
different meanings. Seasons are an indefinite period but somewhat extended
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period of time. They are regularly scheduled, recurring time numbers
nine too. Let the children of Israel keep the Passover
at its appointed time, like the Sabbath, which is one
of the commandments. It's an appointed time. It's an ingredient
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that you add to food to improve the flavor. That
doesn't really apply to this teaching, does it. Oh? Wait,
you called to be the salt of the earth. What
happens if salt gets trot HM Seasons might have something
to do with it. It's a particular part of the year.
I read you Genesis one fourteen. The lights and the
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firmament signs of the seasons for days and years. It's
an indefinite part of the day Psalm twenty two, verse
two of My God, I cry in the daytime, but
you do not hear. And in the ninth season, and
I am not silent. It's an appointed time by God.
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That's what a season is. Psalm one oh four, Verses
twenty seven and twenty eight. These all wait for you,
that you may give them their food, and due season.
What you give them, they gather in you open your hand,
and they are filled with good. Even in the time
of your shoe and the disciples. Seasons were important. He
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used them in the parable of the Two Servants The
Tale of the Two Servants Matthew twenty starting verse forty five,
Who then is a faithful and wise servant whom his
master made ruler over his household to give them food
and do season. Blessed is that servant whom his master,
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when he comes will find so doing a season is
a proper time for action. And that's where we are.
And hold on to this because that's when we're going
to get going really good. It's a time for an action.
Isaiah fifty, verse four. The Lord God has given me
the tongue of the learned, that I should know how
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to speak a word in season to him who is weary.
He awakens me morning by morning, he awakens my ear
to hear as the learned. That's a season, a designated time. Yes,
summer and winter, seed time and harvest. Yeah, I get that.
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You know Jerusalem, they have a wet season goes from
October to March or April. Then they have a dry season.
They have harvest time. They have a time where I
get choked up. That's important we should know because a
lot of prophecy lines up with their times, the seed time,
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the time of the early rain, the time of the
latter rain. All of those fit prophecy too. So we
should know those things. We should understand those things. God
made a promise to know in Genesis eight twenty two.
While the earth remains seed, time and harvest, cold and heat,
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winter and summer, day and night shall not cease. So
we made a promise to sustain with them. With them,
I got the whythm in my feet. God promise to
sustain the rhythm of the seasons for what to reaffirm
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a created order, and to use them for signs. See
all this ties together, line upon line, precept upon precept.
You can't pick one and not the other. You can't
get so filled of knowledge that you don't understand the
prophetic and you don't understand the supernatural. There have been
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some great teachers out there, incredibly knowledgeable, but they had
no understanding of the supernatural, not even in the least.
In Matthew sixteen, verse one, phariseason Sadducees came and testing
him and asked that he would show them a sign
from heaven. And the answered said to them, when it
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is evening, you say it'll be fair weather, for the
sky is red and in the morning, it'll be foul
weather today, for the sky is red and threatening. Hypocrites.
You know how to discern the face of the sky,
but you cannot discern the signs of the times, same sign,
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different times. Everything has a season and a time in
our life, and we need to discern and understand them.
And using that scripture there the red sky. One point,
it's okay, another point it's threatening. In the day is
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going to be bad. It's not just the sign that
we're given, it's the time that we're given it. In
one Thessalonians five p' to one, speaking of the day,
the Lord Paul says to the church in Thessalonica, concerning
the times and the seasons, Brethren, you have no need
that I should write to you. Means you already know
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these things. I don't have to explain the basics. In Chronos,
the time the Greek word it's a period of time,
as opposed to seasons, which is cairos, which are specific
points of time. The Greek gave it a length, a date.
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We give it a significance. And that's what Paul's doing
with the church. He's addressing a matter of ignorance, which
should be a matter of knowledge. He's not informing them
as much as he is exhorting them to live in
the light of what they already know. And now we're
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going to get off to the races because I'm going
to share something with you, something that I stumbled upon
and then did some research about. We're in a new
season for the church. But it didn't begin on January first.
It began at the end of September when the year
of fifty seven eighty six, the Hebrew year began. Times
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and seasons. We're going to talk about this because I
believe it will answer a lot of questions of what
you've experts over the last four months. But we'll give
you an idea of what is ahead. And as I said,
this is my opinion based upon the research about this.
You pray and see what the Lord says to you.
So the Hebrew year fifty seven eighty six was a
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time seen as a time of significant spiritual shifts and
divine connections. It emphasized a theme of grace, restoration and
the rise of those who have been marginalized. Its views
is a year where believers are called to declare their
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faith and to step into new opportunities. As we align
with God's purposes out for us individually and corporately. It's
a season. It's a season to see and to speak
the word of the Lord boldly. Fifty seven eighty six.
The number five is the number of grace, represent running
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God's unmerited favor and his empowering presence signifies victory and
divine enablement. It reminds us that completion comes not through
human efforts, but through the grace of God ties us
back to the control of Ecclesiastes II. The number seven
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speaks of completion and perfection in scriptures, often tied to
cycles of fulfillment, to divine rest and the completion of
a spiritual journey. The number eight symbolizes the beginnings, resurrection,
eternal life. It points to the transition from the old
into the new, and the number six, while that carries
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some profound prophetic weight, biblically, it's associated with mankind, humankind, mankind.
I'm sorry if people are going to get offended human kind,
as humanity was created on what the sixth day. The
Hebrew letter for six is vov vav, representing the connection,
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the securing, the joining. It functions as a nail that
fixes two things together or a hook that draws something
into place. Symbolically, it's the divine connection between heaven and Earth.
So what does fifty seven eighty six mean to us? Well,
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it means that a new warfare began, and for many
of us, we've experienced stronger, hotter warfare over the last
four months, and it will get worse. Toav Shin pay
Vov five seven eighty six TV completion Shin speech pay
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fire Vov connection the time of decision. Oh Rich, why
are you telling me this? Well, she would never stop
being Jewish, nor did the early Book of Acts Church.
Matter of fact, I'm going to do a study on
this and possibly teach on it here or maybe separately.
The Church held onto its Jewish nature through the disciples
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and through their first generation students. It wasn't until the
disciples were gone and the first generation of students were
gone that the Church got off course. And that's when
the enemy got in. Remember what he said to Thessalonians
first Thessalonians five to one. But as to the suitable
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times and precise seasons and dates, brethren, you have no
necessity for anything being written to you. Why because of
how it was found that Thessalonica was the capital of
the Roman province of Macedonia. It was located in northern Greece,
right along a great highway which linked the east and
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the west, the Ignation Road. It extended all the way
from Rome to India and China. The Romans kept the
road repaired because they used it a lot. Traffic was heavy.
Thousands of people used it and passed through that city
every year. Great place to set up a church. Modern Salonica,
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as it's called today, is still an important city in
the country of Greece. And you see the founding of
the church in Thessalonica in Acts seventeen. Paul stays there
a number of weeks. He preaches the Gospel of Salvation.
He begins to give instructions to the believers that get
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saved there, like three Sabbaths in a row. He preached
in the synagogue. And what happened. A number of Jews
got converted and became Messianic believers. And there were some
gentiles who answered the call as well, and they got
assimilated into this Messianic church. Thessalonica is a Messianic believing church.
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That's why he says, you know these things, you know prophecy,
you know times and seasons. I don't need to explain
that to you. Well, just like the church in Thessalonica disappeared,
that understanding has disappeared, and we have forgotten. So time
accelerated in late September twenty twenty five, fifty seven eighty
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six again tav Is completion, covenant, shin fire, transformation, divine presence,
pay peh mouth speech, proclamation, and then vove sticks connection
hook like a tent peg, the nail that joins secures
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to hold something together. It's used to connect things, hooking
curtains together in the Tabernacle of Exodus twenty six point
thirty two. It's a season where divine speech connects to manifestation.
After fire brings something to completion. We get sanctified by
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the fire. We get cleansed and prepared by the fire.
Sometimes it gets so hot all the dross comes out.
It's a divine time of completion. But that also brings
divine separation. And it's not by accident that I've begun
to pound the drum really loudly about sanctification and separation
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and commitment to God and commitment to the Lord and
to his word. Going along to get along has infected
the church to wear it the cancer. But you are
of the remnant. If you're listening to me, if you're here,
you're of the remnant. You have a different set of ears,
a different heart, a different calling. We're in a time
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where completion will bring finality to something that He is
doing with us individually and collectively. But don't make a
fatal mistake that many make. Yes, God is the same yesterday,
today and forever, but that does not mean he moves
the same way in every season for every purpose or person.
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Case in point, he parted the Red Sea for the
children of Israel, but he did not do the same
for Joshua. The manna from heaven fed them, but stopped
when they entered the Promised Land. He does different things
at different times for different reasons. And we have to
understand that if you sat around today waiting for the
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manna to fall from heaven, you'd be waiting for a
very long time. If you went down to the Red
Sea and say, well, I got to get on the
other side to preach gospel party for me, more than
likely it's not going to happen. I'm saying it can't
possibly happen if he needed it to good. But it's
not an expect So the same God does things differently
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in different seasons. That Hebrew words amen z e m
a n for season means appointed time. The day of
the Lord is an appointed time. We cannot ignore that.
Every week my wife and I do Shabbat when we
get to the praise reports and then we get to
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the prairie request. A recurring prairie request is those that
don't know him would come to know Him to get saved, healed,
and delivered before they run out of time. That should
be a burden on your heart. So there are moments
when Heaven and Earth intersect in specific ways for his purposes.
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I've experienced that personally from two thousand and seven to now.
Specific times did specific things because he had something he
needed me to do. You've seen in Revelation the mark
of the beast. The sign of a man is six
six six. Let those who have understanding, well, what's the understanding?
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Triple vov six is manned trying to connect with God
through man made systems, religions and economies that look connected
to God but are not. Will the anti Christ be
a false Messiah connecting people not to God but to
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him to Satan, through man made systems, through false religions,
through finances. Just like Babbel, they'll be severed from the source.
There'll be a counterfeit connection. But unlike Babel, I don't
think this time he's going to stop it. He's going
to let it happen, because then he's going to come
down and destroy it once and for all. You sure
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have said in John fourteen, I am the Way, the
truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through me. I am the only way to God
and the real truth and the real life. No one
comes to the Father but through me, I am the connection.
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And isn't it interesting that this is the sixth I
Am statement that John makes note of a statement about
the connection between man and God. Y Shuah, He's the bridge,
He's the connection point. He's the viv I am, the
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viv i am the hook. I am the nail that
reconnects that which was severed and the eden. Look at
the cross. The cross is a vertical beam and a
horizontal beam that reconnects heaven and earth, the divine and
the human. So vov is a semi of connection of
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binding of continuity, connecting our spirit back to his God,
linking us back to himself. The reconnection Satan covered cut
the connection, he cut it, he destroyed it. And God
came along and said, Nah, I got some something that
will redo that. The blood of the Lamb, his love,
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his word, his promises, they're back. We have them. His
spirit flows through you. So, Bob is more than just
a letter. It's a supernatural, divinely empowered connection. And if
you even look at it grammatically in the English language,
it functions as the word and linking one thought to another. Well,
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was that in scripture, Richard? Can you back that up? Yes?
I can. God created, he prepared, formed, and fashioned the
heavens and the earth. So in Jenney within the word
and is Vov, heaven and earth was connected. Heaven and
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earth had no separation. We're in that season. We're in
a season of reconnection to His plans and his purposes.
Last week I talked about the Lord sitting me down
and making me go silent rest. The only thing I
did was here with you, was the porch. The only
thing I did was the Bible studies. The only things
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I wanted to do, especially over the last two years
was preached the word actually since the last SRT mission,
and he kind of shut things down for a while.
I now understand better why. It allowed people to get
revealed and hearts and intentions to get revealed. And some
stayed and some walked away. But it allowed the land,
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the spiritual land, to rest. It's time for a reconnection
to his plans and purposes. But you have to be me.
You have to allow yourself to be available to reconnect
and then to act. So the Hebrew letters that mark
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this year tav shinn peob It's a theme for all
of us of sealing, fire, speech, connection, spoken declarations now
sealed in a lived obedience. That which was proclaimed must
now be embodied. It's no longer time to just talk.
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It's time to act and walk the walk. Matthew twenty four,
starting verse twenty one, Read letters you sure was speaking
for there there'll be a great tribulation. There'll be pressure,
they'll be distressed, there'll be oppression. Such has not occurred
since the beginning of the world until now, or ever again.
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And if those days of tribulation which are coming run,
the verge of them had not been cut short. No flesh,
no human life would be saved. But for this sake
of the elect God's chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
That word shortened colobo k l o p oh oh
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in case I mispronounced it, and more than likely I did,
means to cut off, to amputate decisively. There are seasons
for grace and there are seasons for cutting things off.
Gee kind of lines up with Ecclesiastes three, doesn't it,
And that brings urgency. Fifty seven eighty six is a
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time of urgency. I have felt it like I've never
felt it before. And I've also experienced warfare like I've
never experienced before. And some of you been with me
for a very long time. And when I make a
statement like that, your eyes should go wide, because I've
shared with you some of what I have experienced. It's
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a time where there's been a line drawn in the sand,
a time where people have to choose are you on
the Lord's side or not? Like when Moses after the
Golden Calf said all those you know the rebellion in
Kora and all the stuff that was going on, Hey,
everybody who's on the Lord's side, come over here, and
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we know what happened. Next if not look it up.
You're either for us, meaning the Church, for the Lord,
not for me personally. I posted that video at the
beginning of the year about you know, taking a stand
and blah blah blah, and I said, will you stand
with me? And I guess somebody took it wrong. Well,
I'll stand with God about what you said. Okay, that's great,
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that's great. I don't really care about whatever. What I'm
saying is, if I'm standing with the Lord, why don't
you come over here and stand too. You're either with
us or you're against us. You're either for us, or
you're for the adversary, for the enemy, for the kingdom
of darkness. You're either forged in the fire and prepare
to be used, or you separated. This is the time
to speak and not be silent, no matter the cost.
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And that's the part where we lose some people. And
that's fine. Those people are never meant to make the journey.
Remember I quoted to you before Isaiah fifty, starting verse four.
The Lord has given to me the tongue of the learned,
that I should know how to speak a word and
season to him. It was weary. He awakens me morning
by morning he awakens my ear to hear the learned,
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not to realize he's speaking of your shure. Here the
Lord has opened my ear. And I was not rebellious,
nor did I turn away. I gave my back to
those who struck me, and my cheek to those who
plucked out the beard. I did not hide my face
from shame and spitting, for the Lord will help me.
Therefore I will not be disgraced. Therefore I have set
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my face like a flint, and I know that I
will not be ashamed. And that's what he did. He said,
his face like flint for Jerusalem. But you know what,
it was a time to speak up, no matter what
the cost. And he understood times. Remember the wedding in
Cana John chapter two, they run out of wine. Mother
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comes along and tells him, and he says, woman, it's
not our problem. It's not my problem. My time has
not yet come. So she simply tells the servants to
do whatever he tells you. He was telling her, My
time to act and be revealed has not yet come.
But the Church's time has come. Our time to act
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and be revealed has come. The remnants time to say
to the compromised church. You're our brothers and sisters, and
we love you, and we're going to pray for you.
But we can't do this anymore. The hardest part about
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being obedient like this, the hardest part is removing our
personal desires from the equation. Boy, is that's so difficult.
That's why we really have to understand times and seasons.
That's what James is talking about. James Chapter four, verses
thirteen through sixteen. He says, come now, you who say
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today or tomorrow we will go into such and such
a city and spend a year there and carry on
our business and make money. Yet you do not know
the least thing about what may happen tomorrow. What is
the nature of your life? You are really but a
wisp of vapor, a puff of smoke amidst that is
visible for a little while and then disappears into thin air.
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You ought instead to say, if the Lord is willing,
we shall live, and we shall do this or that thing.
But as it is, you boast falsely, and your presumption
and your self conceit. All such boasting is wrong. I
think the key and again my opinion, I think the
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key to all this is just simply saying to the Lord,
your will be done, his will, done his way, his time,
and his season. Had he done what I wanted him
to do when I wanted him to do it, it
would be nowhere near as good as what it will be.
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For what profit is there for the worker from that
which he labors. I have seen the task which God
has given to the sons of men with which to
occupy themselves. He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in
its time. He has also planted eternity, a sense of
divine purpose in the human heart, a mysterious longing with
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which nothing under the sun can satisfy except God. Yet
man cannot find out, comprehend, or grasp what God has
done his overall plan for beginning to the end. Ecclesiastes
three nine through eleven, the amplified version beautiful in his time.
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God's works are always well done, They're always in order,
they're always in harmony, and they have a beauty to
them all because He knows what he is doing. We,
as believers, we need to discern the times we need
to walk by faith. We need to remain expectant for
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God's actions, for him to act and his guidance especially
in challenging transitional seasons. So walk by faith and not
by sight, and do it in expectation. Last week when
I blessed you with the ironic blessing, I did it
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to end the year. Well, today's the seventh, and if
that has any meaning of completion and perfection, that I
want to bless you for the new year on January seventh,
so that you will be blessed when you come in,
and you'll be blessed when you go out. That the
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blessings of God will be upon you when you are
obedient to him. The twenty twenty six, May the Lord
bless you and keep you. May the Lord May I
don't know, make his face to shine upon you and
be gracious to you. May the Lord I don't know
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you're shu Ahamashiah, Jesus the Messiah, lift up his countenance
upon you and give you peace. Give you shall own.
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little longer. If you don't want to stick around for that,
you want to jump right into the word, just go
right to the sound of the show far. But if not,
let's praise him. I praise the Father for loving us,
for sending his son to die for us. I praise
him for allowing us to call him Abbah, Papa Daddy,
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that we can boldly approach the throne of grace and
mercy as his children. We know that we won't be rejected.
I thank him for the Lord, for sending him to
pay for my sins, your sins, and cover them with
every drop of blood that's happened. To see a video
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on YouTube about he didn't come about the sins. Yes
he did. He came to set the captives free, and
he did so by reconnecting us to God. And the
only way that he could do that was by a
blood sacrifice. The only way we could be acceptable was
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by an eternal blood sacrifice. So I thank him for that.
I thank him for loving us and giving us access
to Him, for sending the Holy Spirit back to teach
us and we walk with us and to guide us,
and to strengthen and empower us. I personally thank him
for my home, my wife, my son's daughter in law's,
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for the kids, grandkids, every kid that we've had here,
and the two that are in heaven, or actually three
if you count our granddaughter that are in heaven. I
thank him that I will see them again someday. I
am blessed, be saved, healed, and delivered by the King
of Kings and the Lord of Lords. And he's allowed
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me to serve him, to do this for him, with him,
and he'll be with you weekly to share the word.
I thank him for a home, for this technology, for
the guidance, for the dreams and the visions. I thank
him for love, his un ending, abiding love, and his
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grace even when I didn't deserve it. Now, let's pray.
I pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Someone twenty two,
verse six says, pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May
they prosper who love you. If you're paying attention, there's
a lot going out in the world, and eventually it
all trickles back to Jerusalem, So keep praying. I don't
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care if you don't like their politics. I don't care
if you don't like their leaders. We are called by
the word of the Lord to pray for Jerusalem. I
pray for America. May God forgive us, May his grace
be upon us, and may those who are called leaders
serve Him, and if not, that He would remove them.
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I pray for the people being victimized by their leaders,
for the fatherless and the widows, the persecuted and the martyred,
the innocence, both in and out of the womb, even
human and animal. We have not been good stewards of
His creation. I pray for those who are victims of injustice.
He hates injustice. I pray against the slaughter of the innocence,
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for missing and exploited children, For the victims of human
sex trafficking, For our brothers and sisters around the world
being slaughtered and persecuted for their faith. Due and gentile
is a religious persecution and anti Semitism being fed by
the spirit of the Antichrist. Stand against it, pray against it,
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and stand with those that are suffering. I pray for
divine wholeness, health and healing for those who need it,
in me and in you, that we can have His
divine design to do what we have called been called
to do. Wholeness, health and healing in this time of need.
I believe he needs us for protection and inspiration, for
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the remnant to wake up and to answer the call
to stand, and when having done all, to stand, for
the doors to open, for all the projects and plans
He's given, for the kingdom finances to flow, and for
us to go out and speak and set the captives free. Now, Father,
we love you, and we praise you, and we worship you,
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and we thank you for this time. We thank you
for being with us, and we ask you Holy Spirit,
have your way, do whatever it is you want to
do this day. And I pray all these things, and
you shoe his name. Amen.
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of the following information. When I got done praying, I
started hearing that song fly Away, Fly fly Away in
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my head.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I'm not sure what that's all about, but it was
pretty good. Let me let me start out by saying
something before we get into and we get a lot
of to cover, and it's going to go deep. I
want to I want to clarify something about the portion
about my teaching. There are a lot of people out
there that teach, and they some offer knowledge. Knowledge is good,
it helps, but that's not the only thing I'm here for.
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My goal is to offer knowledge, preparation, and the ability
to act upon what is learned. If it can't be used,
if you can't apply it, then what is the point.
So that you can memorize chapter and verse and have
all that and pass tests and maybe get credentials, and
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that's all well and good. That's not what I'm here for.
I'm here to prepare the remnant, to get us ready
so that we can do what He needs us to do.
And I will do it by using scripture in context.
I take the content and I show it to you
in context, which is why I'm always quoting directly giving
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you chapter and verse, because scripture should be more important
than my opinion. And when I'm offering you opinion, I'll
share that with you and it's up to you whether
you want to accept it or not. But the scripture
cannot be refuted when it's taken in contact. So let's
go to scripture. We're still with Ecclesiastes three, finishing up
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times and seasons, starting a verse one to everything. There
is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.
A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plants and a time to pluck what
is planted. A time to kill and a time to heal.
A time to break down and a time to build up.
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A time to weep and a time to laugh, a
time to mourn and a time to dance. A time
to cast away stones and a time to gather stones.
A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to gain, a time to lose, a time
to keep, a time to throw away, a time to
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tear and a time to sow. A time to keep
silent and a time to speak, a time to love
and a time to hate, a time of war and
a time of peace. There is a time appointed for everything,
and a time for every delight in every event or
purpose under heaven. That's what he's saying. And yes, it
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says the preacher, but he pretty much clarifies who the
preacher is. I believe it's Solomon's. Do not Solomon understood
things better than most. He had the hand of God
upon him. He did great things, and then he did
some bad things, a lot of really bad things. And
he's at the end. He's towards the end anyway, and
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he's learned that all the events are in the hand
of God, and whatever happens has happened because He has
allowed it. It happens in the time that He judges appropriate.
And that's the beauty of this life if you can
grasp that God is in control and that He has
established a time and a meaning for every event that
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takes place. And when we look at Ecclesiasts, these three
verses two through eight, we see a balance. It's amazing
how yin and yang and all these other beliefs they
always have balance. But you can't have balance without the
God of created balance. The Lord is the Folcrium is
the center. You have birth and then you have death.
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You're planting and harvesting, killing and healing, tearing down and
building up, crying and laughing, celebrating, grieving and celebrating life.
The dancing scattering stones and gathering stones. You scattered stones
around your home and in the fields to slow down
the invading army, and then you had to gather them
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and take them out of the field so that you
could do what needs to be done. To embracing and
turning away, sometimes you gotta let go searching and to
cease from searching, stop looking. We know at the end
the angel told Gabriel that people would run about to
and fro searching for knowledge. You know that comes a
point we have to stop and take what you know,
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and take what's in the word and establish it on
that a time of keeping and discarding, tearing and mending,
being quiet and speaking up, loving and hating, and that
word hate means to love less, fighting and being peaceful.
That's the balance in life, and all of them are
under the control of the Living God. Everything is in
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his hands. That's what the under the sun inference is
our experience in this life. Our temporal lives are in
the control of God. God brings prosperity and adversity. He's
in the control of everything. He's the creator, he's the sustainer.
He's involved in every purpose and meaning to live life's events.
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Our lives already getting a little excited and getting a
little jacked up, and I need to run around the
room a little bit, but that's very difficult in this setting.
We need to trust in God, trust in his timing.
I posted a meme today, not a meme, it's an
image on social media. If you follow me on Instagram
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or Facebook or any of those places, that's where it is.
Maybe I'll start using firehon talk radio or create a
page for the porch. I don't know. There needs to
be a way that I can create with you and
communicate with you and to share these things, especially if
you don't use social media. But I was talking about
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faith and it was important and I'm off script here,
but not that there really is a script, but the
thing about faith and understanding of God's in control, I said,
as I've walked this road of faith in the Lord
all of these many years, and we're coming up on
thirty eight years, I've learned that faith is not just
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believing that God can and will answer my prayers, but
that whatever the answer is will be the best for me.
I trust in His decisions, even though they are not
what I was expecting. So many times what I asked
for was not just wrong for me, but was nowhere
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near as good as what He eventually did. My faith
is in him and him alone. I trust his decisions
because I trust him. And then I added Mark eleven
twenty two where she was said, have faith in God.
God's in control of everything, his timing. We need to
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trust it. We need to understand that his actions are
eternal and complete. Ours are not. And what this does
is this demands like that image and inward reflection on
our relationship with God as our father, on a look
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up and out to being accountable to a future judgment
that eventually every one of us will stand before God
and we will do it by ourselves. You won't be
there with your grandmother or your mother, whoever your prayer
warrior was, You'll be by yourself. I have people in
my life that made life choices that probably don't agree with,
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and I simply said to them, Hey, when the end comes,
I won't be standing there with you. You'll be all
by yourself. So it really doesn't matter what I think.
It only matters what He thinks. So I need to
understand that I need to have peace, and I need
to see the beauty in a life that has a
relationship with Him, and He orders my steps. So we
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have those fourteen pairs of life opposites in verses two
through eighth. So what life is about, It's about how
we handle those opposites. The Adam Clark Commentary says, to
everything there is a season and a time to every purpose.
Two general remarks may be made on the first eight
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verses of this chapter. One, God, by his providence, governs
the world and has determined particular things in ours to
particular times. In those times, such things may be done
with propriety and success. But if we neglect the appointed seasons,
we sin against this providence and become the authors of
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our own distressors. Yes, amen to that. God has given
to man that portion of a duration called time, the
space in which all the operations of nature, of animals,
and intellectual beings are carried on. But while nature is
steadying its course, and animals faithful to their instincts, Man
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devotes it to a great variety of purposes, but very
frequently to that for which God never made time, space,
or opportunity. And all we can say when an evil
deed is done is there was a time in which
it was done, although God never made it for that purpose.
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So the Jews see times and seasons in the events
of their life, their nation from the birth of Abraham
to the present day, and the church fathers and followers.
They set everything based upon the events stated in the
Church and how it began and all those things, and
a lot of what we believe today really isn't the
truth and really wasn't what was established. So everything in
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this list are done by the disposal and the power
of Almighty God. And we have very little influence like
birth and the time of our death, and even the
things we have an option in. God can overrule us
if he wants by his providence, and I guess that's
why it's called divine providence. So biblically, time is the
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chronological sequence of life and its significance. But God is
not governed by time. He is the Lord of time
Revelation twenty two thirteen. I am the Alpha and the Omega,
the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
He is outside of time, but he's not detached from time.
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Through his providential care for us, and especially in the
incarnation of the Messiah, you show a hamashiak Jesus the Messiah.
He entered into time for a specific purpose, but not
limited to the constraints of time. He's sovereignly present in
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all the events, and he will confront his people with
warnings and reminders of his promises if what we're doing
doesn't line up with what his plan is. But as
we can see with Abraham and Sarah and others, sometimes
men do things that God did not plan for, and
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now he has to include them in his plants. Unfortunately
for us, like with Abraham and Sarah, created a problem.
He's not caught up in time, he's not governed by it,
but he encounters us, his children, and each moment of
our temporal existence, making each day, each new day, an
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opportunity for blessing or repentance or judgment. You know, in Lamentations,
Chapter three, verses twenty two and twenty three, it says,
the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His mercies
never come to an end. They are what they are
new every morning. Great is your faithfulness? What does that do?
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That emphasizes the renewal of God's mercy each day? They
are new every morning. Well, the thing to remember is
Satan's kingdom. The kingdom of darkness is in a in
verse mirror image, so it's the opposite. So if God's
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mercies are new every morning. Satan's attacks are new every morning.
Never forget that we are natural beings living in a
supernatural world because we were created to be naturally supernatural.
And until we get our glorified bodies, we have to
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deal with that dichotomy and that struggle. God is eternal,
our Father is eternal, and his existence it brackets cosmic time.
The Lord. It's same yesterday, today, and forever. In Exodus three,
starting verse thirteen, verse thirteen and fourteen, Moses said to God, Indeed,
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when I come to the children of Israel and say
to them, the God of your fathers has sent me
to you, And they say to me, what is his name?
What shall I say to them? And God said to Moses,
I am who I am. Thus you shall shall say
to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me
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to you. Well, i am is connected with a form
of the verb to be, and it's seen as expressing
the nature, character, and essence of the promise that was
quoted in verse twelve that he would be with them.
So what he's saying is my name in its inner
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significance is I am, for I AM will be present.
I am that I am. He just is. He was
there at the beginning. He will be there when everything
ends and every moment in between. That's who you're abba
father is. That's who the Lord is. The Lord was
with him in the beginning, and the beginning was the Word.
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The Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God. All things were
created through him, and nothing was made. That was made
in him was life, and the life was what the
light of men. Let there be light those you sure.
God's eternal nature is in him and has been given
to us by the purpose of self through salvation and
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the infieling of the Holy Spirit, which means, isn't it crazy?
Why you feel this way? Is that your flesh body,
your suit, mine's getting winkled. Your suit is still natural,
but your spirit is supernatural. And that's why the two
are always battling with one another to see who's going
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to be in control. But he is existing outside of time,
but intimately presently involved in human history. That's what being
eternal is. That's the meaning of eternity, before above and
beyond all creaturely existence. God is yet out of his love,
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intimately involved and close to our temporal existence. You've heard
me talk about it at the Sea conference and in
the video, and that God formed him from the clay
of the ground. Adam Adama clay red clay, and he
used the clay that is the only kind of clay
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that can contain life, that can hold in essence, and
he breathed his life into it. That's intimate, that's personal.
So this isn't a passive experience. This isn't a passive intimacy.
This is active. And because of that, he cares for us.
He's governing us, he's calling to us. But in all
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of that, he's given us the power, the freedom to choose,
the freedom to obey, and the freedom to believe. He's
given us choice and the time to make those choices.
That's why for me, and I don't know if people
get annoyed, I can tell you the time and the
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date when I got saved because He gave me the
time to make the choice to follow him. Genesis one, p. Fourteen.
God said, let there be lights in the firmament of
the heavens, to divide the day from the night, and
let them be for signs and seasons for days and years.
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That time is for us. He created that for us,
he doesn't need it. But the ancient people, the people
of the Bible, they were aware of a passage of time,
not like us. They learned to mark the seasons and
to measure durations of those seasons. There was no clock watching,
there was no tights scheduling, which I'm sure was much
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more relaxed than what we are today. They lived a
much more holistic natural life. And I think that's why
some people get off the grid. There don't know the town.
There's an island somewhere that when you cross over the bridge,
you take off your watch. That they leave people I
moved there, leave them on the bridge. They are ruled
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by the sun up and the sun down and the
stars at night, and they are no longer slaves to time.
And the health there and the happiness there is something
to be considered. Time units were based on observation and experience.
It was until the New Testaments that the time period
that the Jews learned to count hours from the Romans.
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Isn't it interesting how a lot of false path things
came out of rome tests. So the day and the
night things were divided up into watches. And I went
into a deep dive on watches. If you haven't listened
to part one, you need to. But those watches were
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determined by the observation of the sun's position in the sky.
They counted years by the cycle of seasons, by the
observation of the sun's return to its annual orbit. The
months were not an arbitrary number like hour thirty days,
but were counted from one new moon to the next.
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That's why man won't know the day of the hour,
because it's going to come at a time where they
have to watch two consecutive moons to know for sure
what time it is. But for the most part, the
most important unit of their day was the day. When
sun up, they got things done, they went to bed,
when it got talked, they got up on a light,
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came up. They did everything they had to do. And
then that cycle apparently was a healthy one. Our thing
about sleeping through the night and oh, you need to
get eight hours straight, that's a new concept. That was
not how the people of old lived. They slept for
a few hours. Sometimes they got up, they cooked, they
got ready to do certain things, or they set the
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food up, or they went out and did the animals
took care of the animals. Then they went back to
bed for a couple hours. So the Israelites counted the
day for morning to evening, counting the night in between
and one morning to the next. Because of the importance
of the festivals, they needed to pick the rising of
the moon for the observance, so they began to count
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the day from the evening before, and that's still the
custom today. So what's important for us to understand was
that their biblical view of time was that it was counted,
but it was also identified for its significance. It came
to be used for marking special days, for God's revelatory appearance,
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for what He had done for them in the past,
and what they knew he was going to do. Times
and seasons always have a purpose. That's why last week
I kept asking you what season are you in? It
has a purpose. You should know what it is. Habaccic,
chapter two, starting verse two, the Lord said to habakk
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right the vision and make it plain on the tablets
that he may run who reads it. For the vision
is yet for an appointed time. But at the end
it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries.
Wait for it, because it surely will come. It will
not tarry. Got to write it down, make the vision plain.
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It has an appointed time, his time, the fullness of
time Glatians four four. But when the fullness of time
had come, God sent forth his son, born of a woman,
born under the law Ephesians one ten, that in the
dispensation of the fullness of the times, he might gather
together in one all things in Messiah, both which are
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in heaven and which are on earth in him. So
when the fullness of time happens, it's time his time.
But even in our lives, there's a fullness of time.
There's things that he has to there's things He said, Hey,
I'm going to do this with you, and you're thinking, okay,
I'm ready. No you're not. I'm ready. No you're not.
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I'm ready. Okay, yeah you are. Now you can do
it in the fullness of time. Home and Bible Dictionary
explains what seasons are. We did it last week, but
I want to do it again because I can. In
the translations in several Hebrew and Greek terms, they have
different meanings. Seasons are an indefinite period but somewhat extended
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period of time. They are regularly scheduled, recurring time numbers
nine too. Let the children of Israel keep the Passover
at its appointed time, like the Sabbath, which is one
of the commandments. It's an appointed time. It's an ingredient
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that you add to food to improve the flavor. That
doesn't really apply to this teaching, does it. Oh? Wait,
you called to be the salt of the earth. What
happens if salt gets trot HM Seasons might have something
to do with it. It's a particular part of the year.
I read you Genesis one fourteen. The lights and the
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firmament signs of the seasons for days and years. It's
an indefinite part of the day Psalm twenty two, verse
two of My God, I cry in the daytime, but
you do not hear. And in the ninth season, and
I am not silent. It's an appointed time by God.
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That's what a season is. Psalm one oh four, Verses
twenty seven and twenty eight. These all wait for you,
that you may give them their food, and due season.
What you give them, they gather in you open your hand,
and they are filled with good. Even in the time
of your shoe and the disciples. Seasons were important. He
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used them in the parable of the Two Servants The
Tale of the Two Servants Matthew twenty starting verse forty five,
Who then is a faithful and wise servant whom his
master made ruler over his household to give them food
and do season. Blessed is that servant whom his master,
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when he comes will find so doing a season is
a proper time for action. And that's where we are.
And hold on to this because that's when we're going
to get going really good. It's a time for an action.
Isaiah fifty, verse four. The Lord God has given me
the tongue of the learned, that I should know how
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to speak a word in season to him who is weary.
He awakens me morning by morning, he awakens my ear
to hear as the learned. That's a season, a designated time. Yes,
summer and winter, seed time and harvest. Yeah, I get that.
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You know Jerusalem, they have a wet season goes from
October to March or April. Then they have a dry season.
They have harvest time. They have a time where I
get choked up. That's important we should know because a
lot of prophecy lines up with their times, the seed time,
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the time of the early rain, the time of the
latter rain. All of those fit prophecy too. So we
should know those things. We should understand those things. God
made a promise to know in Genesis eight twenty two.
While the earth remains seed, time and harvest, cold and heat,
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winter and summer, day and night shall not cease. So
we made a promise to sustain with them. With them,
I got the whythm in my feet. God promise to
sustain the rhythm of the seasons for what to reaffirm
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a created order, and to use them for signs. See
all this ties together, line upon line, precept upon precept.
You can't pick one and not the other. You can't
get so filled of knowledge that you don't understand the
prophetic and you don't understand the supernatural. There have been
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some great teachers out there, incredibly knowledgeable, but they had
no understanding of the supernatural, not even in the least.
In Matthew sixteen, verse one, phariseason Sadducees came and testing
him and asked that he would show them a sign
from heaven. And the answered said to them, when it
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is evening, you say it'll be fair weather, for the
sky is red and in the morning, it'll be foul
weather today, for the sky is red and threatening. Hypocrites.
You know how to discern the face of the sky,
but you cannot discern the signs of the times, same sign,
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different times. Everything has a season and a time in
our life, and we need to discern and understand them.
And using that scripture there the red sky. One point,
it's okay, another point it's threatening. In the day is
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going to be bad. It's not just the sign that
we're given, it's the time that we're given it. In
one Thessalonians five p' to one, speaking of the day,
the Lord Paul says to the church in Thessalonica, concerning
the times and the seasons, Brethren, you have no need
that I should write to you. Means you already know
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these things. I don't have to explain the basics. In Chronos,
the time the Greek word it's a period of time,
as opposed to seasons, which is cairos, which are specific
points of time. The Greek gave it a length, a date.
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We give it a significance. And that's what Paul's doing
with the church. He's addressing a matter of ignorance, which
should be a matter of knowledge. He's not informing them
as much as he is exhorting them to live in
the light of what they already know. And now we're
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going to get off to the races because I'm going
to share something with you, something that I stumbled upon
and then did some research about. We're in a new
season for the church. But it didn't begin on January first.
It began at the end of September when the year
of fifty seven eighty six, the Hebrew year began. Times
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and seasons. We're going to talk about this because I
believe it will answer a lot of questions of what
you've experts over the last four months. But we'll give
you an idea of what is ahead. And as I said,
this is my opinion based upon the research about this.
You pray and see what the Lord says to you.
So the Hebrew year fifty seven eighty six was a
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time seen as a time of significant spiritual shifts and
divine connections. It emphasized a theme of grace, restoration and
the rise of those who have been marginalized. Its views
is a year where believers are called to declare their
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faith and to step into new opportunities. As we align
with God's purposes out for us individually and corporately. It's
a season. It's a season to see and to speak
the word of the Lord boldly. Fifty seven eighty six.
The number five is the number of grace, represent running
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God's unmerited favor and his empowering presence signifies victory and
divine enablement. It reminds us that completion comes not through
human efforts, but through the grace of God ties us
back to the control of Ecclesiastes II. The number seven
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speaks of completion and perfection in scriptures, often tied to
cycles of fulfillment, to divine rest and the completion of
a spiritual journey. The number eight symbolizes the beginnings, resurrection,
eternal life. It points to the transition from the old
into the new, and the number six, while that carries
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some profound prophetic weight, biblically, it's associated with mankind, humankind, mankind.
I'm sorry if people are going to get offended human kind,
as humanity was created on what the sixth day. The
Hebrew letter for six is vov vav, representing the connection,
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the securing, the joining. It functions as a nail that
fixes two things together or a hook that draws something
into place. Symbolically, it's the divine connection between heaven and Earth.
So what does fifty seven eighty six mean to us? Well,
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it means that a new warfare began, and for many
of us, we've experienced stronger, hotter warfare over the last
four months, and it will get worse. Toav Shin pay
Vov five seven eighty six TV completion Shin speech pay
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fire Vov connection the time of decision. Oh Rich, why
are you telling me this? Well, she would never stop
being Jewish, nor did the early Book of Acts Church.
Matter of fact, I'm going to do a study on
this and possibly teach on it here or maybe separately.
The Church held onto its Jewish nature through the disciples
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and through their first generation students. It wasn't until the
disciples were gone and the first generation of students were
gone that the Church got off course. And that's when
the enemy got in. Remember what he said to Thessalonians
first Thessalonians five to one. But as to the suitable
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times and precise seasons and dates, brethren, you have no
necessity for anything being written to you. Why because of
how it was found that Thessalonica was the capital of
the Roman province of Macedonia. It was located in northern Greece,
right along a great highway which linked the east and
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the west, the Ignation Road. It extended all the way
from Rome to India and China. The Romans kept the
road repaired because they used it a lot. Traffic was heavy.
Thousands of people used it and passed through that city
every year. Great place to set up a church. Modern Salonica,
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as it's called today, is still an important city in
the country of Greece. And you see the founding of
the church in Thessalonica in Acts seventeen. Paul stays there
a number of weeks. He preaches the Gospel of Salvation.
He begins to give instructions to the believers that get
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saved there, like three Sabbaths in a row. He preached
in the synagogue. And what happened. A number of Jews
got converted and became Messianic believers. And there were some
gentiles who answered the call as well, and they got
assimilated into this Messianic church. Thessalonica is a Messianic believing church.
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That's why he says, you know these things, you know prophecy,
you know times and seasons. I don't need to explain
that to you. Well, just like the church in Thessalonica disappeared,
that understanding has disappeared, and we have forgotten. So time
accelerated in late September twenty twenty five, fifty seven eighty
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six again tav Is completion, covenant, shin fire, transformation, divine presence,
pay peh mouth speech, proclamation, and then vove sticks connection
hook like a tent peg, the nail that joins secures
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to hold something together. It's used to connect things, hooking
curtains together in the Tabernacle of Exodus twenty six point
thirty two. It's a season where divine speech connects to manifestation.
After fire brings something to completion. We get sanctified by
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the fire. We get cleansed and prepared by the fire.
Sometimes it gets so hot all the dross comes out.
It's a divine time of completion. But that also brings
divine separation. And it's not by accident that I've begun
to pound the drum really loudly about sanctification and separation
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and commitment to God and commitment to the Lord and
to his word. Going along to get along has infected
the church to wear it the cancer. But you are
of the remnant. If you're listening to me, if you're here,
you're of the remnant. You have a different set of ears,
a different heart, a different calling. We're in a time
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where completion will bring finality to something that He is
doing with us individually and collectively. But don't make a
fatal mistake that many make. Yes, God is the same yesterday,
today and forever, but that does not mean he moves
the same way in every season for every purpose or person.
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Case in point, he parted the Red Sea for the
children of Israel, but he did not do the same
for Joshua. The manna from heaven fed them, but stopped
when they entered the Promised Land. He does different things
at different times for different reasons. And we have to
understand that if you sat around today waiting for the
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manna to fall from heaven, you'd be waiting for a
very long time. If you went down to the Red
Sea and say, well, I got to get on the
other side to preach gospel party for me, more than
likely it's not going to happen. I'm saying it can't
possibly happen if he needed it to good. But it's
not an expect So the same God does things differently
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in different seasons. That Hebrew words amen z e m
a n for season means appointed time. The day of
the Lord is an appointed time. We cannot ignore that.
Every week my wife and I do Shabbat when we
get to the praise reports and then we get to
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the prairie request. A recurring prairie request is those that
don't know him would come to know Him to get saved, healed,
and delivered before they run out of time. That should
be a burden on your heart. So there are moments
when Heaven and Earth intersect in specific ways for his purposes.
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I've experienced that personally from two thousand and seven to now.
Specific times did specific things because he had something he
needed me to do. You've seen in Revelation the mark
of the beast. The sign of a man is six
six six. Let those who have understanding, well, what's the understanding?
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Triple vov six is manned trying to connect with God
through man made systems, religions and economies that look connected
to God but are not. Will the anti Christ be
a false Messiah connecting people not to God but to
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him to Satan, through man made systems, through false religions,
through finances. Just like Babbel, they'll be severed from the source.
There'll be a counterfeit connection. But unlike Babel, I don't
think this time he's going to stop it. He's going
to let it happen, because then he's going to come
down and destroy it once and for all. You sure
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have said in John fourteen, I am the Way, the
truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through me. I am the only way to God
and the real truth and the real life. No one
comes to the Father but through me, I am the connection.
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And isn't it interesting that this is the sixth I
Am statement that John makes note of a statement about
the connection between man and God. Y Shuah, He's the bridge,
He's the connection point. He's the viv I am, the
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viv i am the hook. I am the nail that
reconnects that which was severed and the eden. Look at
the cross. The cross is a vertical beam and a
horizontal beam that reconnects heaven and earth, the divine and
the human. So vov is a semi of connection of
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binding of continuity, connecting our spirit back to his God,
linking us back to himself. The reconnection Satan covered cut
the connection, he cut it, he destroyed it. And God
came along and said, Nah, I got some something that
will redo that. The blood of the Lamb, his love,
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his word, his promises, they're back. We have them. His
spirit flows through you. So, Bob is more than just
a letter. It's a supernatural, divinely empowered connection. And if
you even look at it grammatically in the English language,
it functions as the word and linking one thought to another. Well,
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was that in scripture, Richard? Can you back that up? Yes?
I can. God created, he prepared, formed, and fashioned the
heavens and the earth. So in Jenney within the word
and is Vov, heaven and earth was connected. Heaven and
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earth had no separation. We're in that season. We're in
a season of reconnection to His plans and his purposes.
Last week I talked about the Lord sitting me down
and making me go silent rest. The only thing I
did was here with you, was the porch. The only
thing I did was the Bible studies. The only things
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I wanted to do, especially over the last two years
was preached the word actually since the last SRT mission,
and he kind of shut things down for a while.
I now understand better why. It allowed people to get
revealed and hearts and intentions to get revealed. And some
stayed and some walked away. But it allowed the land,
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the spiritual land, to rest. It's time for a reconnection
to his plans and purposes. But you have to be me.
You have to allow yourself to be available to reconnect
and then to act. So the Hebrew letters that mark
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this year tav shinn peob It's a theme for all
of us of sealing, fire, speech, connection, spoken declarations now
sealed in a lived obedience. That which was proclaimed must
now be embodied. It's no longer time to just talk.
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It's time to act and walk the walk. Matthew twenty four,
starting verse twenty one, Read letters you sure was speaking
for there there'll be a great tribulation. There'll be pressure,
they'll be distressed, there'll be oppression. Such has not occurred
since the beginning of the world until now, or ever again.
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And if those days of tribulation which are coming run,
the verge of them had not been cut short. No flesh,
no human life would be saved. But for this sake
of the elect God's chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
That word shortened colobo k l o p oh oh
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in case I mispronounced it, and more than likely I did,
means to cut off, to amputate decisively. There are seasons
for grace and there are seasons for cutting things off.
Gee kind of lines up with Ecclesiastes three, doesn't it,
And that brings urgency. Fifty seven eighty six is a
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time of urgency. I have felt it like I've never
felt it before. And I've also experienced warfare like I've
never experienced before. And some of you been with me
for a very long time. And when I make a
statement like that, your eyes should go wide, because I've
shared with you some of what I have experienced. It's
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a time where there's been a line drawn in the sand,
a time where people have to choose are you on
the Lord's side or not? Like when Moses after the
Golden Calf said all those you know the rebellion in
Kora and all the stuff that was going on, Hey,
everybody who's on the Lord's side, come over here, and
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we know what happened. Next if not look it up.
You're either for us, meaning the Church, for the Lord,
not for me personally. I posted that video at the
beginning of the year about you know, taking a stand
and blah blah blah, and I said, will you stand
with me? And I guess somebody took it wrong. Well,
I'll stand with God about what you said. Okay, that's great,
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that's great. I don't really care about whatever. What I'm
saying is, if I'm standing with the Lord, why don't
you come over here and stand too. You're either with
us or you're against us. You're either for us, or
you're for the adversary, for the enemy, for the kingdom
of darkness. You're either forged in the fire and prepare
to be used, or you separated. This is the time
to speak and not be silent, no matter the cost.
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And that's the part where we lose some people. And
that's fine. Those people are never meant to make the journey.
Remember I quoted to you before Isaiah fifty, starting verse four.
The Lord has given to me the tongue of the learned,
that I should know how to speak a word and
season to him. It was weary. He awakens me morning
by morning he awakens my ear to hear the learned,
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not to realize he's speaking of your shure. Here the
Lord has opened my ear. And I was not rebellious,
nor did I turn away. I gave my back to
those who struck me, and my cheek to those who
plucked out the beard. I did not hide my face
from shame and spitting, for the Lord will help me.
Therefore I will not be disgraced. Therefore I have set
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my face like a flint, and I know that I
will not be ashamed. And that's what he did. He said,
his face like flint for Jerusalem. But you know what,
it was a time to speak up, no matter what
the cost. And he understood times. Remember the wedding in
Cana John chapter two, they run out of wine. Mother
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comes along and tells him, and he says, woman, it's
not our problem. It's not my problem. My time has
not yet come. So she simply tells the servants to
do whatever he tells you. He was telling her, My
time to act and be revealed has not yet come.
But the Church's time has come. Our time to act
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and be revealed has come. The remnants time to say
to the compromised church. You're our brothers and sisters, and
we love you, and we're going to pray for you.
But we can't do this anymore. The hardest part about
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being obedient like this, the hardest part is removing our
personal desires from the equation. Boy, is that's so difficult.
That's why we really have to understand times and seasons.
That's what James is talking about. James Chapter four, verses
thirteen through sixteen. He says, come now, you who say
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today or tomorrow we will go into such and such
a city and spend a year there and carry on
our business and make money. Yet you do not know
the least thing about what may happen tomorrow. What is
the nature of your life? You are really but a
wisp of vapor, a puff of smoke amidst that is
visible for a little while and then disappears into thin air.
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You ought instead to say, if the Lord is willing,
we shall live, and we shall do this or that thing.
But as it is, you boast falsely, and your presumption
and your self conceit. All such boasting is wrong. I
think the key and again my opinion, I think the
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key to all this is just simply saying to the Lord,
your will be done, his will, done his way, his time,
and his season. Had he done what I wanted him
to do when I wanted him to do it, it
would be nowhere near as good as what it will be.
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For what profit is there for the worker from that
which he labors. I have seen the task which God
has given to the sons of men with which to
occupy themselves. He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in
its time. He has also planted eternity, a sense of
divine purpose in the human heart, a mysterious longing with
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which nothing under the sun can satisfy except God. Yet
man cannot find out, comprehend, or grasp what God has
done his overall plan for beginning to the end. Ecclesiastes
three nine through eleven, the amplified version beautiful in his time.
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God's works are always well done, They're always in order,
they're always in harmony, and they have a beauty to
them all because He knows what he is doing. We,
as believers, we need to discern the times we need
to walk by faith. We need to remain expectant for
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God's actions, for him to act and his guidance especially
in challenging transitional seasons. So walk by faith and not
by sight, and do it in expectation. Last week when
I blessed you with the ironic blessing, I did it
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to end the year. Well, today's the seventh, and if
that has any meaning of completion and perfection, that I
want to bless you for the new year on January seventh,
so that you will be blessed when you come in,
and you'll be blessed when you go out. That the
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blessings of God will be upon you when you are
obedient to him. The twenty twenty six, May the Lord
bless you and keep you. May the Lord May I
don't know, make his face to shine upon you and
be gracious to you. May the Lord I don't know
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you're shu Ahamashiah, Jesus the Messiah, lift up his countenance
upon you and give you peace. Give you shall own.
I'm Richard Grund. This has been the Porch on Firefall
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