Ezekiel 38: God's Defense of Israel - 7 Oracles, part 6; ID of Gog - Rabbis, Babylon

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The Rabbis think Psalm 2:1-3 is a reference to to Gog. Is it?

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This is the confidence which we have before him. But if we ask anything according to his, will he hears us? For the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught. The fear of the Lord there is strong confidence and his children will have Refuge. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord and to put confident confidence in princes, their only father, we thank you. All of our confidence is based in you on your work, in the work of the Lord, Jesus Christ on our behalf or Assurance of Salvation comes because we have fix for faith on Jesus Christ. And what he did for us there for you saved us. And that is our confidence, not our ability to have some type of faith, not thinking not our sense of feeling of whether or not, we're saved Lord but an absolute unswerving. Unfailing belief that Jesus Christ himself provided for our personal sin. We're thankful that salvation comes out way with thankful. Also that every provision in the spiritual life comes in the same way you want us to walk by faith. That is believing your word, Reckoning, it to be true. You want us to make calculations in our thinking and move from Human Viewpoint to Divine you play. When we pray that today, if we come to study, your word will come to focus on the teaching of scripture with this would be part of that time worship. Is our Examination of faith. It is that work with you do with Ms. As we come to study until we do come to worship you and pray that you might be exalted. We pray this all in Christ name.

Will praise the Lord. Some of the technical glitches have disappeared but they are like I think shall we say moles? You think you got it, another Mound pops up somewhere else so you can keep that in prayer to I appreciate that last Wednesday. I was Or is it Sunday night? Maybe both, I was just so traumatized and frustrated. I thought Who's attending this was a passing. I'm sure it was not a Divine Viewpoint perspective but I was feeling it still.

so, we are in

Alright, zequiel 36 through 39 study. And right now we're in chapter 38, 39, dealing with God and may God in chapter 38, 39 has the seven oracle's that Ezekiel has placed out there inspired by God. Of course, but seven individual oracle's all dealing with this situation of Gog and Magog. This is an intriguing prophecy. There's a couple in the Bible that are just intriguing that you hear versions of them spun over and over again and everyone who has a Bible will figure out a way to teach something new on it and that is not my intent to teach something new. I want to teach what's there? Not something new. I'm a stated in a different way, use different examples etcetera, but the goal is to understand what is being talked about and what is taught that there. And one of the big questions they use question really is to correctly Orient to these oracles to correctly. Understand what's being said, what's being fought here? Shouldn't we understand who this guy is? Should we understand where maygog is shouldn't? We understand where these various places are the tube, all the

Various references. Now we put to bed one of those already, the reference for a rush or ruis the people try to turn into a reference to Russia through jumping across the number of languages of stuff. They try to find associations and Pull It in. Problem is at that place that term in that name never once occurs in scripture, supper right there and it really is not. When you look at the Hebrew it is not a reference to ruse. It is a ruse is simply the Hebrew forehead and means head. So, I got a head, it's my truce. So really it means the head of these other places that we have a reference to. So, so we've established that we don't have to go looking off for a tie to Russia. And the people who are doing that really in my estimation are just silly and they're engaged in a form of silliness, others? 0.000 one reason that we might consider. Ruskin, Russia Russia in really it's extra biblical, it doesn't come from inside the text itself. So David established that we were taking a look at the last couple weeks and some of the locations that we had where are Gog and Magog are and

so will that person ridiculous 38 that person or entity which is named dog. Will be brought in the battle against Israel.

and it will be brought to battle and Israel in what can only be termed an international conflict because this God will be leading other kings of other nations and pulling them all into this conflict against

against. Israel coming in from the north. No seemingly anecdotally. The rabbis have long assigned, verses 1 and 2 of Psalm 22 God. So when they read Psalm to they look at it and they say that's talk to you in about go hog. Now we ourselves and the community of pastors and teachers ascribe Psalm 2 to the second Advent of Christ and there is really no debate on that at all. It's about the second coming of Christ but the rabbis or saying someone, excuse me, Psalm 2 verses 1 and 2. The first two verses is telling us about a dog So let's read it and see if that makes sense. And we're looking at this as part of our pursuit of those things are going to help us understand or clarify. What is God, who is God? Do we know, or don't we know?

So Psalm 22 verse 1 through 3. Start out the accusation of those who applauded a vain thing amongst themselves. They applauded a vein against themselves, So reading in verse 1 of Psalm to why do the nation's rage and the people plot a vain thing. Then, fortunately, I can't ever read this passage without hearing the Messiah in the background going off and I hear the voice of my grandfather, my boss to approve fundo, that means a base with a huge voice, just a little baritone, and get out there and do the range and you can hear him rattling this off teaching. So I figured I'd share just a little bit. That's internal, that's happening. So notice I bolted hear this saying I'm the people slot a vain thing. They are watering a vain thing. Interesting. Verse 22 says, the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers. Take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, which is a reference to the Messiah. That is Anointed, is the mashiah kristof's in the

In the, in the Greek. Suisun to,

Want to double-check the great big machine.

So against the Lord, that is Jehovah or Yahweh, they have taken counsel against Yahweh, and against his anointed. Now, That's interesting. What we have is Kings and rulers of Nations who are literally talking about the Lord and planning to do that, which will overthrow him to knowingly mindfully, come against him. This isn't a way of describing, how kings can be bad boys, and not be obedient to their disobedient. It's called coming against the Lord. They are coming against the Lord. They are targeting the thoughts. The thinking, the directives re-established Prophecy of the Lord, and what is going to be happening as they will be targeting Israel themselves, but I digress. Let's see what the text says. So the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together. So we have are individuals who are taking Council which is building on applauding of anything from Bruce 1 and verse two. We have taken counsel that is their conferring one with the mother.

Remember 3 says let us break their Bonds in pieces and Cast Away their cords from us. What this is saying is that the things of God are the things in the Messiah or bonds and our cords restrain us. They tell us they keep us from doing what we want to do.

I know this can sound like several things that are going on here. One thing this may sound like is those people who are already in the millennial. In the Messianic Kingdom. And they're talking about how the rulership of the Messiah over them is keeping them from doing those things. So there are some people who started to take that and then they say, what one is talking about God in the Book of Revelation when in reference to the war of the nations against Christ against is real, big God will leave them and they're saying this as a reference to that will hold off judgment for a minute because I think the via text is going to answer that question for us and we'll get there. Okay. So know what we find. Is that this the first three verses are corresponding with something said in his equal. 38 vs 10. Okay. Ezekiel, 38, verse 10, from our Oracle. We read that says the Lord, God on that day. It shall come to pass. Fox will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan. Well gosh, that does sound a lot like what we just read in Psalm chapter 2 verses 1 through 3, in fact, we actually have the thoughts, describe the breaking bonds and pieces and casting away. Their cords from us is reviewing the inner thoughts in the thinking of these individuals Kings and others who are plotting a vain thing, who are taken counsel together against the Lord, and against his anointed. Who does that sound like that? Might be a match on that day. Shall come to pass that boat's will arise and your mind will. Yes, those are Bots and you will make an evil man.

So this making an evil plan.

Can you think of a word the matches up to make an evil plan?

How about plot? To plot is to make an evil plan. So here it is. Ezekiel 38, we have making an evil plan men over in song to we have to plot.

B, b r song comes to a double head, excuse me.

First God, responds to them. So these are the evil rulers. In the first three versus were talking and now we get God's response. He who sits in the heavens worse for Shala.

Well. That's really the response you want to hear when you have an omnipotent omniscient. God who is Ewing other people's attempts to oppose him, he lost the Lord shall hold them in derision that is. Deriding them to mock them.

Is the entire concept that we have wrapped up as I've been presenting it in the last year and a half or so. On polemics. That is every time we see a miracle that occurred throughout scripture, there is always a polemic involved. An amazing thing, it's not often talked that way and yet it is absolute reality. When we have the raising of the sons who are dead to their mothers, we have a polemic against Bale, the Canaanite god in the land, but the Canaanites and some Jews or following after, and they're being pulled. The Bale has the power of life. In fact, that's why they come and sacrifice to him. That's why they sacrifice their sons and daughters to Bayland to mail are the others in that Pantheon can deny God, and they're saying that if we don't do, Best. And he will not give his life which brings the Harvest, which comes from the new life that comes from planning. So there's a whole life cycle, we have to plow the land and so, and then we have to have water so that it will grow in. Then finally, we can Harvest it. And so they attribute that to bail. And God says bail doesn't have any hold over life. The fact everything that dies is dead, in fact, bail himself is dead. He is not an existing reality, or maybe demonic entities, that are masquerading behind the concept, but the reality there is none who has power over life, except for God alone until we see that demonstrated in, that he takes the dead Youth and raises him back to life. Who doesn't want Sundar Elijah and he doesn't want sonder. Elijah. And then we see you again under under Elijah, where we have an incursion coming in on the map of the Invaders are coming, and they're about to bury a dead man, and they accidentally drop his body in at throws over into a grave, where the bones of Elijah are and he Springs to life again, a polemic a commentary that God alone and only through, God's revelation. Will you ever see a lifetime to an individual? So we've heard stories of people being raised from the dead out in the missions and stuff like that. And I would say take it with a grain of salt, in a great deal of perspicacity, make sure you are clear in your understanding and the documentation And so forth, what we find invariably is that what we have is an augmentation, something that turned into something else along the way, if you've ever played the game of telephone with a bunch of other kids are teenagers, you know what I'm talking about that is you have a group of people and maybe the leader will say, okay, go ahead and read this. And I want you to repeat it to the person next to you and they repeat it in the repeated repeatedly whisper to the next person. Get all the way around the room told her back and then they say the last person, says whatever it is, you'll find. It's distorted and changed. So much that often has absolutely nothing to do with the original message at all. So we find that often times in our accounts. What's happening in on some of those missionary Situation's. God has never going to do in the missionary realm that, which detract from the person in the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, the authority of scripture. And the authority of God himself as being The Giver of Life. A lot of people want to say Well they're having a new Pentecost, new things are happening. Milk it. So 8. So that is a modern.

The modern portfolio. Let's just leave it at that. So he who sits in the heavens, shall laugh, the Lord shall hold them in derision her side. Then he shall speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure. He shall speak to them in his wrath. We have here.

In Ralph's. We have a picture of the word for wrath means nose, face or nostrils. And so we get the word wrath because of flaring nostrils. If you were a kid and you ever looked up in your mom's, nostrils are flaring. That was an indication. Something was wrong. You may not be observant enough to notice such things but if you were in your saw it and then you saw it again, you knew the connection, you knew what was happening? What's an apt description for what's happening for someone who is in a place of Wrath? That means anger is moving forward and is not going to be contained. It is not going to be cut, it is being expressed and it will probably be expressed further, so he will speak to them and his wrath and Cress them in his deep disclosure, deep displeasure here. Is again a term or on which means anger or angry.

So what's a parallel concept now? Have you ever been distressed by someone else? Distressed. So we can take it back to the mom connection because it works so well, when Mom is Saying you need to do this or you need to do that and you ignore or you didn't hear whatever. But then you hear that voice that Boys, the movie had your name and your middle name included and you're like, oh, okay. And there is a distressed that might come over you because, you know, there is a displeasure or an anger or at least a level of addressing the situation. That means you'd better get serious and pay pension Well here we have God saying the same thing. He shall speak to them in his wrath meaning through his wrath. They will understand what he's saying. In through his displeasure, they will be the strep. They will be alerted. That something is going on and verse 6 thing says, yet I have set my key on my Holy Hill of Zion.

My king. He has made a reference to your my king on my Holy Hill in Zion. This is again a reference to the Messiah but those who don't want to make the connection. May not see it yet, but wait until we get to the next Brewers because then our song comes when I'm calling a double head, that means two things that are joining together equally strong. Then we see that the Lord turns the matter over to his son who shall inherit the nation's, 47, I will declare the decree. The Lord has said to me, you are my son. Today I have begotten thee.

That sound like anyone, you know? You heard of this guy unique guy, uniquely begotten. Is the term that John is like to use? I think that's a really good translation. Uniquely. The garden is the reference to the Lord. Jesus Christ, referring to himself that he is uniquely begotten. He is a unique individual. I'm certain, he is as he hypostatic Union, the joining of God and man, the very means of his coming into being with the ovum of Mary and the seed that was born of the holy spirit. So without copulation, there is a virgin born child that's coming from God is a manifestation of God is completely man and yet is completely God. So very unique and so we have this reference, you're my son. Today, I have begotten. You verse 8, ask of me and I will give you To who to this Christ, the son, the meshiaak, I will give you the nation's for your inheritance from the ends of the Earth for your possession. I know this means that all the nations on the earth will be included in the he was inheritance. This is what he will get in the ends of the Earth. That means there is no text and no place so far away. We used to think that, you know, some of the South Pacific Islands were pretty far away and they were the best ends of the you know of the known universe. In fact, down in Papua New Guinea. They have all these areas and all these different people groups with different languages through that. Damn sleeve, forested area that somehow I have kept these unique languages and, you know, keep to their own areas and geographies and some of them are mountain people and summer. Donna other in the forest and they just stay where they are. Amazing. But no matter where it is on the earth, this is an indication that is part of the possession of this individual is being spoken about verse 9 and you shall break them. With a rod of iron. You shall Dash them to pieces, like, a Potter's Bessel. What are we referring to? We're referring to these rulers. To these nations, who are coming against God, coming against the Messiah and coming against Israel. You shall break them with a rod of iron that we learn here and saw them to that the Messiah rules with a rod of iron. And yet, he is known as the ruler of Peace, in an age of Peace. But the deliverance from those, who would be not peaceful. Comes because there is a rod of iron that is implemented. That means his leadership is a brutal one. And it's depicted by dashing to Pieces, not, oh, did you just break the vase? So, maybe we can glue it together or no one will see the handle came off. They got the Super Cool, Ultraviolet, glue. Now, you put it in there, get it, just right, and you run the little light around it and it's dick Simmons firm and I haven't found that stuff works as good as they say, but I tried it a few times. Or you have the idea of a clay pot that is shattered to Smithereens. Not really is a depiction here to the degree to the number of pieces that is impossible to reassemble impossible to reuse. In fact, they have in ancient times. Use place is called Potter's Fields significant because once you have taken your part, once you have shaped it, once you have put together the right degree of different elements mixed in you know iron or copper or whatever you might have put into it. It changes and transforms the nature of the part of self. But once you appear in fired it and it becomes

fired. You put it in a Kill me. Yeah once it is put in the Kiln that comes out and is completely different. The grains within it have bonded together, they have melted together and what you have coming out of something that is hard and you spoiled can be filled with water rides when it was play, which is melting fall apart. So I'm in you may put different types of varnishes or have different elements were mixed in it to make it so impervious, impervious as well. But once you have it in that state, it is hard and you can't break it down anymore. You can't take it and dashing, and grind up the pieces and reuse them because you're already fired the materials no longer usable. So what do they do? They take the pieces, they put them into the field. Next, to the Potter invariably where the father is, or is a Potter's field and that makes it a field. Never be used for agriculture. It has to be written off. So typically The Potter's are going to find a place next to a clip or a place next to a bog, or a place close to a hill or someplace where people are not going to want to use it for agricultural purposes.

You shall break them with a rod of iron. You should Dash them to pieces like a Potter's vessel.

No, for those who have the have the thought prepend that, this may be a reference to the final battle in which God is referenced which we place at the end of the Millennium before the final battle and judgment in the final destruction and the remaking of Creations. Remember, we get to the end of the Millennium. The Lord releases the angels from the pit. They will join together with all those who are opposed to God, but if not raise their hand against God or is real, or God's rulership, and he will let them rise up and one final battle and then we'll put them down and they will all be cast into the Lake of Fire. We had the final Judgment at that point. Okay. And that reference to that Uprising is a reference to God and the other nations. So that is how to describe that his dog and the other nations are some people look here. And they say, hello, Good.

And after the final judgment, then we have the destruction of all creation to send impact is relieved of all creation. We have a brand-new Heavens on Earth that are sin, free that are not at all impacted by sin, which big some people to ask the question will, why then do we have the leaves on the tree of life for the healing of the Nations?

Good question. Queuing me actually mean the well-being. That is the blessing like Adam and Eve had when they were simless in the Garden of Eden and they were able to Eat of the Tree of Life at will, but then God force them out of the garden so that they would no longer eat from the tree of life. The reason that song to cannot be a post Malone, you'll rest reference is found in this Creole versus verses 7 through 9. For we see that. God, the Father will assign the inheritance of the Nations as his Conquest spoils For the beginning of the Messianic Kingdom in the millennial age, is he? There is no a signing of Conquest oils at the end of the millennium. There is no further miss you in a cage to come.

But God has established the inheritance or The Spoils of War. The Khan after the Great War that we're going to have at the end of the tribulation price comes he will rescue Israel. He will destroy the nation's opposed to him and then he will establish rule over all of the Earth in the Messianic rule in the Messianic Kingdom. But this same thing does not happen. After that, second war, at the end of the Millennium, there is no such a recreation of the nations in that way, there is no taking the benefits of having been at War and using them. In this case, the benefits of having been at war or impart, that war was so bad and the people who lived through it, who are believers who cross over into, Millennial Kingdom will refer to their children and their grandchildren and all others and talk to each other about how bad that war is and we will have the signs of a going on during the millennial Kingdom. We have smoke going up into the sky, from certain spot, certain cities and certain countries were they will be a continuing Memorial to the fact that Christ came in and conquered all of the other nations. And so, it will be Christ's ability to rule, not just because everyone is so much better because everyone will still have a SIM nature, just as bad as a send a truth. We have. Now the difference will be, there will be no demonic Cosmic system, that will be in play and we will have the administration of All Things by the royal family of cry. We will be rolling in raining with him over all these Gentile Nations and then David and some of the royalty will be ruling over future Israel and their resurrected body. So we will be reeling raining with Christ and there will be a point where he says okay, pullback thousand years is up and let's see what's going on. And there's going to be that expression. It's another unfolding of the dispensation. So we have the situation where we have man in a garden and a perfect environment and you at man, still sends and atonement is required to deliver man from that situation. And then we have man and a fallen environment and man, sends, and turns into a Devastation on the planet until finally Noah himself and his family alone or rescued and God takes us out of the first civilization to destroy the Earth recreates, it through the flood and brings us into the second civilization. One. We're in now, save to. And in this time we find, we have an environment where God Implement a rulership. And when he sets a covenant with Noah and he says, here's the deal. If any man takes a man's life than men must take that man's life. It's part of the contract. God is set in place, and he will put a rainbow in place to show that he will not be judging be a flood anymore, but man is now required to judge with judgement. Those people who crossed the line, so we are putting in play, then the need for governments and Judgment of other man, by man, at God's request. So apparently, then we got it from that. That was not in play during civilization one men did not ride rulership over other men, but in this civilization, we do and we will require them to the degree that we neglect capital punishment, as a rule to that degree. Our civilization is judged and destroyed and goes downhill in his cursed as opposed to being blessed. Because that is built into that. No way Covenant. So that is another way that we view things to, we have this time and then we have the time I promised the time of Israel, then we have the time. So that Old Testament. Dispensation and then we have prices actually in the Old Testament. Dispensation know, some like to say we have a unique dispensation, the time of Christ, as the Messiah, for the three years of his ministry, while his kingdom is, an ounce is Proclaim to be the Messiah. The Miracles are done, the Holy Spirit. Testifies, at this is indeed, he who has been prophesied and yet is real rejection. So we are at the end of that time, the closing of the nation of Israel, the Judgment of the nation which is part of what we're studying in our Sunday teaching to the book of Acts. Purpose of the speaking and gentle languages is to show that there is a judgment upon that nation and an 80 70 it ceases to be a nation is completely destroyed by Titus in the Roman Empire and at that time as well, tongues seeds because there is no longer a purpose for them. So we gather that to a clear simple examination of the text. And then we move forward into our church age, which will end with our wraps. And again, we have a Freewheel time. We're still under the civilization to requirements of Noah. So we are required to judge a man who judges or who kills another is part of the, you know, a covenant that all mankind is under up at this time, even though we've gone through the age of Israel, the age. Learning of the things of God, even though we've gone through the church age still we have to know a covenant that is required across this time when we get to the Rapture pulls us out and then we have our time with Christ, some celebration, some military presentations will happen and then we're going to return all be dachshund fit and in our proper roles and signia Etc as a royal family of God will return with Christ and he will devastate the nation's and apparently we have something to do without at least we show up and white horses. Like he does as well. So we will be some part of the calvary, don't know if we will be drenched in blood like he is too but that's yet to be seen. But we will rule and reign with on the other side. So he will implement the rough formation of the planet unit.

Play configuration that is minimizing some of the destruction that came from the flood. There will be reversing of that so that men will no longer live to be a hundred and twenty again, live to be a thousand years old. So things will change. I have some suspicions I suspect that with the reorientation of the continents brought together, the mountains, brought down The Valleys brought up, and it's all seem to be changing, what's happening with the magnetic core that we have of yours, which will change. Some of the things were just starting to find out about the molecular biology and the public involved in what's happening in the cells and in the molecular processes in her body is much more physics type stuff going on than anyone ever. Expected. Also the direct rays of the earth, I mean of the sun. All that somehow is going to be integrated again. There are references to it someday. I'll pull out a really Mind blowing teaching on it. I thought once or twice on the the role of light, but haven't really gone in-depth into it. So, So, I suspect that. But anyway, so then we step into civilization, 3, civilization 3, rule runs for a thousand years and then at the end of that time we have that rebellion in the put down and then we move into the Eternal State. We might call that Civilization for whom a civilization. That will be the point at which we are going to live forever and ever with Christ in a particular way. May I watch some of my pastor friends and I were chatting it was last week about the leaves, which are for the healing of the Nations and a couple comments came out in the night. We met says, what are we going to need them for? Everyone's going to be sinless and perfect. So why would we need leave for healing? And I said, well, I don't know about you guys, but I plan on doing some base jumping and parkour and some Wicked mountain biking. And some, what are the cause skin suit diving where you jump off of mountains. You just have this, you know, basically, you're like a You have fins? Yeah and I plan on doing it quite a bit of that type of stuff so I think I'm going to rack up those leaves. I don't know. What are you guys going to be doing? Just sitting around knitting. What is my Response. We're not going to need healing. I don't know. I'm not sure. I have the same future planned as you guys do so. Anyways

So what we find then as a God, the father has assigned this inheritance that is associated with the nation's being destroyed and there is a conquest spoil, that is part of what is happening. So that really means, it can't be about the final battle. It has to be about the battle that precedes, the Messianic Kingdom everyone fall in. The anyone have any questions about that? That that Do I connect the dots?

Then we have the admonition for all Kings and all rulers to be wise to serve, with fear and rejoice with trembling, who have that in Psalm 2 verse 10. Now, therefore, be wise, Kings, be instructed, you judges of the Earth, verse love and serve the Lord with fear and rejoice, with trembling unique verse 12, he says, kiss the Sun Lest he be angry and you perish in the way when his wrath is kindled, but a little blessed are all those who put their trust in him. So we are some interesting things that are happening here. When we have an admonition admonition, that every King and every leader should be taking serious right now. The instructor there are consequences to your thoughts and your thinking and your personal response to God and your personal response to the son who has been gifted with this. Rulership over all these things, because you come against him, he's going to come in with a rod of iron and you will be shattered, like an irreparable claypot. It is destroyed. So be wise. The what is wisdom mean throughout the Old Testament, it's that same parallel concept. Will we have been repeating about hearing KIRO? Israel, the Lord thy God is one God not to love them with all thy heart, with all their mind, and all thy soul. And the rabbi is called at the great Shema, because it starts out with hear hear o Israel, but it doesn't mean here. And then walk away and do nothing means here and do by hearing their for doing. There's no disconnection between the hearing in the doing, it's the great Shema, the hearing that must be done. And so every Jew must do this,

Do we have the same type of thing going on with wisdom than wisdom is the person who hears who hears and therefore does, what does it mean? To be wise, means you hear the teaching of the Lord, you seek out the teaching of the Lord, and you are a hearer and a door of this teaching together, joined together, one thought, one concept wisdom is to here and Duke be wise. O'kane's be instructed, you judges on the earth because Kings and leaders are the old Haters. They get to adjudicate, everyone else, they are in a place of judgment over others, but everyone in that role here, needs to pay attention to this because verse 11, serve the Lord with fear and rejoice. With trembling swimming's in your ruling. You are to be those who serve with fear, that is a healthy. Respect them a sense of all for the place of God, and your much, much much lesser role in the grand scheme of things, even as a ruler over nature, in order of all people and rejoice with trembling What's this whole Rejoice with trembling thing? Spell the word trembling here.

Needs to Quake means to crumble. It has to do with

just an inability to not be affected by the situation.

so people who quake and become more, those who are overwhelmed by the situation,

Just talking to my mom earlier and we were talking about a few things that I was born, over the hill. In Yreka, my family had a when they call it a jerk Miller Factory there. So they made everything needed to create boxes of those things that shipping containers go in shipping containers, you put your furniture and everything in it and that's what they were doing. This is in 1964, and that's when I was born. So I came to be one of the first kids born in the new addition to the hospital in Yreka and my grandmother was up. Visiting, that's mom's mom, and grandma went through the whole, birthing thing with her, three kids at that time. So, in the 1930s,

1930s and 40s. What they did as you went to the hospital and then they knocked you out. When you woke up, you had your baby.

That mean, you got to stay in the hospital for 10 days of, you know, recovery and make sure everything was fine and then they sent your home. Boy, they changed out a little bit. Yeah, so so that's what she was used to with her kids. When she saw my Mom, they're ready to have a birth and going to be fully awake, and Mom was in so much pain. She says it's my fault but I don't know. She was in so much pain that she was shaking. Her body was shaking, she couldn't not Shake. She couldn't not shake and shiver. It's the body's response to being overwhelmed. That's our word hear crumbling. To tremble.

So Rejoice with trembling. So the idea is even when you're in a wonderful situation, it's a great situation. You want to get up and rejoice Jam. Dance do The Jig. Instead, being a place of trembling recognizing that even in Victory, I just won the election or whatever, even in Victory, there is to be a respect for the Lord. That is the recognition little place that he has all things are. We are reduced in our place. In our thinking members, 12, kiss, the son, lest he be angry. And you perish in the way in other words, just doesn't mean come up and give a smooch. This has to do with the kiss of respect more. Like, what you might see with the Germans were you might have seen in our older Generations in the classic movies and stuff. People, come up, give each other a kiss on the cheek, the Italian and some cultures still have that type of a greeting built into our society. We've lost it here, we've lost all familiarity but she's we all respect and replaced it with a cup of walnuts to be Formal in relationship is almost forbidden in our society. Now, it's a evil, a bad thing is when it's become and people are castigated for having a sense of respect, but these individuals are told to respect the son, lest he be angry and you perish in the way when his wrath is kindled, but a little not going to take much for him to destroy those of you who will oppose him. So blessed are all those who put their trust in him. So this is again, an injunction to rulers. so, while it is a rabbinical assertion that the Messiah is involved in Psalm 2. I think it quite fair to stipulate that it is God, who is plotting and leading in the plan, destruction of Israel. Do I say that correctly Gog? It is God, who is plotting and leading? There is definitely an overlap on there between Ezekiel 38. What we have going on and tell him to at the end of the song, knowing what will happen to God in the leaders who oppose your way and Israel should put sobriety in the heart of every leader of a Nation or people now, but they will become deaf dumb and stupid. After were raptured out of here, you'll find that their sensitivity to the things of God will drop to practically nothing. But yet, people will be safe enough. People that they will be ushered into even son as seemingly Nations into The millennial Kingdom after the great battle of Armageddon. Okay, next we're looking at. God can dog. Meme double or Babylon. So we're going to look at that. So, we have some reasons to believe that that may be possible but we want to look at the reasons why they're saying, And I got a Nifty.

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But you make a bigger. Good. I'll bring you up there. We'll take a look at, how is Ezekiel is referenced and so she's me not Ezekiel, but how

Babylon is referenced and whether or not it's in any of the other prophets. And if so, why are, why isn't it in Ezekiel and in this reference here. So we'll look at that as part of the day that we need to gather which should help us further to solve the name of God. Once we're done with the name of God, which has started slipping a little bit faster, through the verses will be looking at each of the oracles individually, making sure we understand them their place and then we'll move forward. So let's close in prayer. Whatever, my father, we thank you for this time. We get to come together and examine your word. We think you that tonight, we got to spend time in Psalm 2 for there are practical things to be learned. There is application, there is wisdom about our response to you and your leading. And you're thinking, we can be those who respond to you in wisdom, and we can be those who are full. So here, and yet do not do. So, they only father, we thank you for your great faithfulness to us. Thank you for your provision, through the person of Jesus Christ. You would take this time these points of teaching that you would cause them to glorify you in our lives and give us opportunity. Then to not just be heroes but also teachers because so often we learn as we sure as we teach as we tell other people, the very things that we have been taught ourselves. So give us those opportunities. If that's a new idea or concept when I pray you would Break It Wide Open to those of us who need to hear more about that. We praise you in Christ's name. Union.

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