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You're listening to The Bible Guys,
a podcast where a couple of friends talk

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about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Hey everybody, I'm Chris,

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this is Jeff, and we are
the Bible Guys, and we're here

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today to bring you a great segment
and a great word. Oh boy,

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Well, then we better up our
game because we've been mailing it in all

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week. So if this is going
to be a great one, we got

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to really step it up. Yeah. Well the segment today, well I

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know, so the fact that we're
bringing our a game today means we have

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to roll it back out. It
feels like we haven't asked Chris his favorite

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question in a while. That's right, it's been several weeks. So what

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made Chris mad this week? Yes, that's our favorite. This question,

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Our favorite question is what made Chris
mad? I'm not sure it's everybody's favorite.

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Oh, it's everybody's face, It's
it's it's a few people's favorite.

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It's everybody's favorite. So I definitely
thought of one immediately, which is why

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we love it so much. It
takes see like three and a half seconds

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to think of Oh I made me
mad as I came in I noticed that

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we were doing it, and I
said, I already have one, because

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I've been building up for like three
weeks or whatever. Yeah, we haven't

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done one. We've done one.
So here's the reason why is because it

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was probably a couple of weeks ago. I saw somebody stuck in the snow,

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and so what I'm doing is I'm
leaving my subdivision. And there was

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this girl who was I don't know, she was like a college student,

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you know, she was probably like
twenty one years old. She was a

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different culture, you know, and
I don't know if she expected me not

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to stop because you know, or
something like that, just because the age

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difference or the culture difference or whatever. But she she didn't even look my

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way. So I mean when I
mean she was stuck listening to me.

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Our subdivision like it actually like it's
flat, you know, the road is

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flat, and then when it goes
down into the main road there's like a

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hill. Well, somehow she had
driven so fast toward our subdivision, which

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I means she wasn't going fast like
up and down, up and down the

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road. She must have been crossing
the road because she was heading directly.

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You know, you don't you don't
get that kind of speed and then somehow

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make a left hand turn and go
perpendicular with that kind of speed. She

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must have hit this hill so hard
because she ended up going up at like

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a thirty degree angle. She stuck, her whole car stuck in snow,

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and it almost was about a foot
away from the lamppost. And then she

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and her car was dented with the
next to the sign, and she's completely

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stuck. I'm literally snowing really hard. I'm pulling out of my subdivision.

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I'm late somewhere, but I'm thinking, hey man, this poor girl must

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have just gotten there because she stole
in her car. So I got out

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of my car. I decided to
walk over to the window. Of course,

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immediately this snows like a foot deep, which means like my shoes are

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already, you know, completely wet
and dran straight. So I'm already sacrificing

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a lot just to even go up
to her. I am a good guy.

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And then she rolls down her window
and I said, hey man,

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I go this doesn't look fun,
and she says, well, I was

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just about to call a towing company, and because she was at a thirty

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degree angle, I thought I bet
you that if I leverage myself and and

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I and I put my back against
this you know light pole, I could

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rock her out of there because gravity's
on, you know, on my side.

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And I said, what if I
push you out? And you're pretty

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tough, You're tough. I'm a
scrappy guy. You're a tough guy.

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Yeah. Yeah, So I said, what if I push out and she

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goes? I don't think so,
I'm in here really deep, and she

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really was. Her whole car was
submerged in this snow. And I said,

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let's try. So I literally shimmy
myself in between. And she's reversing

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it, and I'm rocking this thing, and I'm giving it everything I have

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right right, and you know,
she's she's spinning the tires and I'm telling

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like, I'm almost screaming at this
point, and I give it everything I

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have. And sure enough, man, I rock her out of there,

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and she and she backs out into
into this street in the main throwaway and

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then and then she pulls back out
and uh and literally I'm like, you

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know, trying to get myself out
of this snow bank. And here's what

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made me mad. You would,
oh no, right, you would think

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that she would take just a second
to roll down the window and go,

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oh my gosh, thank you so
much for stopping, thank you for doing

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that, because I've just saved her
two hours of waiting for triple A.

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Right, I've just saved her probably
about one hundred and seventy five dollars for

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just a tow truck call let alone
where she wants to be towed, right,

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you know whatever, or just a
pulling out, you know, maybe

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that whatever, whatever, all that
stuff. She just avoided all of that,

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all right. But by the way, I would have even here he

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comes to save the day. I
would have even thought at least a wave

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would be good. Right, Yeah, So she pulls out, she drives

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by me, She looks over me, and she just gives like a little

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nod. You know, wasn't even
like a smile nod. It was more

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like a like you're a stranger at
the elevator, or I'm going to give

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you a courtesy nod. Okay,
right, and then drives away. Wow.

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And I'm standing there, and of
course, you know I'm old when

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I'm blaming the gen this generation,
this generation, right, And I'm thinking

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to myself, like I'm like I'm
like, and so then here's and then

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here's no one else. This is
horrible. I actually thought to myself immediately

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I judged her and thought, this
is a girl who has everything handed to

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her in life. She knows no
value of money. Her dad's you know

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why, because it didn't save her
one hundred and seventy dollars. So you're

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not just mad at her, you're
mad at her parents. Now, yes,

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her parents are bad parents, bad
parents. I'm like, I'm like,

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I didn't save her. She was
just gonna call dad. Wow,

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right, so dad gives her everything. Apparently dad does everything for her,

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because what kind of person would not
say, oh, my goodness, thank

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you, because we don't know the
price of much do it? Because you're

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kind of a scary guy, Chris, she didn't want to roll her window

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down. I was not friendly,
which exactly, Yeah, you're so scary

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to her that she wouldn't put the
window down. So if you have any

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thoughts on this one, why don't
you just share though senat info at the

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Bible guys dot com. Chris know, in that moment, I became because

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I just judged her, and I
actually thought to myself, this generation because

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anybody who is fifting up would have
literally gone, oh my goodness, Well,

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Chris, maybe you just laid up
treasures in heaven. Maybe you don't

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need the praise, not anymore,
because I just graped. God took away

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my thinking. I was. I
was mad for this whole generation, like

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I became outraged for the whole generation. Right, So you just want to

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tell everybody straighten up. When when
Chris stops to help you, you should

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thank you. No, no,
all enthusiastically, not a Remember, Jeff,

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I don't get mad for me.
I get mad on behalf of the

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world, which means if anybody stops
and helps you, that's right. If

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anything lets you in, anybody who
helps you, by the way, somebody

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lets you in on a merge,
give him the wave. Think be thank

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you because everything's okay after the wave. When someone sacrifices for you, be

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thankful. Yeah, and express express
people show a little gratitude. People come

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on, okay, thank you,
Chris, You're welcome. So there you

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go. It is half of the
world. Yeah, well, thank you.

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You're looking out for us. What
would we do with you looking at

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not even kidding when I say I
can't believe she didn't. She didn't say

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thank you. I was a palled. So this is like my fourth time

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to hear the story, and I
keep laughing every time. So yeah,

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all right, okay, So he
people, if you haven't heard that story

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before, He's been ranting about this
for three weeks, so I'm glad he

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could get that off his chest.
And I've only told her a couple of

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times. They just happened to be
in front of you, that's all,

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okay. So today we are continuing
in the grouping of verses that we started

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off in Matthew, then we got
to Mark, and now Luke. The

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first portion of this passage is talking
about what it's going to be like with

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Jesus' return right the end times.
Really, it's what he's talking about.

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So here's what it says. In
Luke, chapter twenty one, verse five,

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it says some of his disciples began
talking about the majestic stone work of

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the temple and the memorial decorations on
the walls, but Jesus said, the

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time is coming when all these things
will be completely demolished. Not one stone

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will be left on top of another
teacher. They asked, when will all

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this happen? What sign will show
us that these things are about to take

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place? And he replied, don't
let anyone mislead you, for many will

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come in my name, claiming I
am the Messiah and saying the time has

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come. But don't believe them.
And when you hear of wars and insurrections,

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don't panic. Yes, these things
must take place first, but the

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end won't follow immediately. Then he
added, national go to war against nation,

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and kingdom against kingdom. There'll be
great earthquakes, and there'll be famines

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and plagues in many lands, and
they'll be terrifying things and great miraculous signs

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from heaven. But before all this, there will be a time of great

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persecution. You'll be dragged into synagogues
and prisons, and you will stand trial

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before kings and governors because you are
my followers. But this will be your

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opportunity to tell them about me.
So don't worry in advance about how to

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answer the charges against you, for
I will give you the right words and

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such wisdom that none of your opponents
will be able to reply or refute you.

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Even those closest to your parents,
brothers, relatives, and friends will

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betray you. They will even kill
some of you, and everyone will hate

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you because you are my followers.
But not a hair of your head will

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perish. By standing firm, you
will win your souls. And when you

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see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then
you will know that the time of its

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destruction has arrived. Then those in
Judea must flee to the hills, those

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in Jerusalem must get out, and
those in the country should not return to

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the city. For those will be
the days of God's vengeance. The prophetic

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words the scriptures will be fulfilled.
How terrible it will be for pregnant women

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and for nursing mothers in those days, for they will be disaster in the

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land and great anger against this people. They will be killed by the sword

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or sent away as captives to all
the nations of the world. And Jerusalem

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will be trampled down by the gentiles
until the period of Gentiles comes to an

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end. Wow, So there you
go, and it goes on from there.

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We're going to go back and we're
going to pick up the other the

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ending of those three chapters over the
next three days next week. But yeah,

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so there's a little bit of confusion
here because some of what he's talking

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about is the very end times,
and some of what he's talking about is

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the destruction of Jerusalem is coming into
their lifetime. So Jesus, for us,

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what we're asking is when is this
going to happen? They were asking

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when is it going to happen?
And Jesus said, it's going to start

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with the destructor of Jerusalem and then
in some time all these other things will

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happen. Yeah. Well, now
some of these things have happened. We

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look back at it, the destruction
of Jerusalem and people fleeing into the hills,

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and some of it has not yet
happened. We're looking forward to it.

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And by the way, that's one
thing. Yeah, that's one thing

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that's very different about the Luke passage, and that remember yesterday we talked about.

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The thing that was different is we
knew that it was Peter, James,

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John and Andrew that did the asking. So once again we read in

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Luke and they said they asked him, right, so now we know who

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is doing the asking. However,
in this particular one they talked about.

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And by the way, let me
just side note this and say, whenever

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Jesus gives details, just let us
not look over the magnitude the weight of

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the fact that Jesus predicts the destruction
of the temple, and then of course

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it happens in seventy eight, right, But then then he adds a detail

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in the Book of Luke, at
least Luke remembers and records it. Right,

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even though he said it in front
of everybody. He says that there

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will be fleeings, right he said, for he said, you must flee

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to the hills, and those in
Jerusalem must get out, and they'll go

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into the country. They should not
return to the city. And so he

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talks about how there's going to be
this great mass exodus. Now whenever thing's

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unfold in scripture, exactly the way
that Jesus talks about it, what it

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should do is it should reinforce the
fact that God's promises are true. So

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the way that translates for translates for
us is I'm about to read about some

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of the fleeing here, But what
I'm saying is is that, like that's

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how we know when God gives us
promises about our lives, about you know,

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who He's called us to be and
having a future, and you know

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how he'll we should never doubt when
he says, I'll always be with you,

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and I'll give you peace that passes
understanding. I'll give you strength and

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the power to endure, and all
these different things. We should believe them

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because what Jesus says is true and
it's backed up right here, which is

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just wonderful. So there's a side
note that talks about the city of Masada,

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and it says, when Jesus fortress, it's a fortress. Yeah,

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well, yeah, it's a fortunate
life. Afbcation study Bible. There's a

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lot of maps and a lot of
pictures and that's right that and so they

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have a picture actually of this place
from an air of view, which is

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extremely cool. Yeah, you're right. It's not a city, it's a

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fortress. It's a place on a
hill. And it says Jesus warned the

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destruction of Jerusalem would lead to a
mass migration of Jerusalem and Luke twenty twenty

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one. But then some of those
who left Jerusalem went to Masada, a

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towering rock fortress that sits fourteen hundred
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picture, holy Cow on the western
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the first Jewish Revolt began in sixty
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took over Masada, which had been
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after this destruction of Jerusalem and seventy
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of Jewish resistance into the fortress.
Only the fortress of Messada remained. And

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I'll let you tell the end of
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actually visited Masada. Yeah, yeah, I've been to Masada. So Haird

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the Great actually built a big portion
of this. It's a giant hill fourteen

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hundred feet high. You get to
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down there by the Dead Sea.
It did not exist back then. You

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had to hike up it, and
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side of it where you can hike
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cable car, this is good choice. Yeah, it's one hundred degrees

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out there. Chose yes. So
Heird the Great had built this where there's

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a palace built into the mountain,
like caves and things, just big terraces

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out and then this fortress all around
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difficult to get to. So when
and it was like going to be his

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last stand. If he ever got
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go. There was his plan.
He built several fortresses like this. He

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never used, there's no evidence that
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built it. So they these these
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last stand for the Jewish people against
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going to destroy everything, and there's
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there with their families, and over
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Romans laid siege all the way around
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and then they began to build a
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way up. It took months and
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then finally they invaded, and as
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hundred and sixty people committed suicide rather
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there. It's kind of their Alamo, right yeah, right, kind of

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thing where where they they stood knowing
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stood and fought until the last man. Right. It's kind of that same

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idea here that these people knew that
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weren't going to die at the hands
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that is. And even today,
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the Dead Sea. Yeah. And
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our curious listeners who want to google
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Just google a picture of that and
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and you'll see that the front where
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where Herod built his fortress and this
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rations of food, right Oh yeah, yeah, he had They had food

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up there for for months and months
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a cistern, they had water,
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then there's walls. If you look
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the way around that whole mesa right
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things. It's really neat. I've
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and I are standing there looking through
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The valley where the Dead Sea is
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it was like some officers quorders or
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it's really really humbling, right,
anytime you're in a place like the Alamo

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or like Masada where people died bravely, you know, it's a very humbling

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thing. Make you think of the
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because that's what that was. Yeah. So, like I said, portions

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of these prophecies are all of them
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but he is referencing some of the
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The edmuin prophet's side by Daniel.
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of all these prophecies. Some had
happened, some were going to happen very

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soon, some will happen in the
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that. So one of these it's
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in the other two, and I
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once in Matthew, once in Mark, it mentions, what was it

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the the religious object that causes desecration
standing in the temple? Remember where you

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should not be? And he said
the day it's coming when you can see

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that. So this happened several times. The sacrilegious object, other translations would

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have it be the abomination of desolation, all those kinds of things. So

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it refers to the desecration of the
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many times. It happened repeatedly in
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nebuknezraluded the entire temple and he took
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Second Chronicles. That in one sixty
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pig de Zeus on the altar in
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they would view that as this object
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eighty seventy when the Roman general Titus
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burned out temple, so after they
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set up an idol there in the
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on, just years later, after
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the emperor Caligula made plans to put
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temple and then died, So it's
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go there, there's the Alaksa Mosque
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which is a sacred space for Islam. So for many, many, many

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many times, non sacred Jewish items
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said, that's one of the signs
of the end, is that you're going

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to lose control of this place.
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the temple, there was no temple. And then in the six hundred seven

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hundreds, you know, the Muslims
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a fight back and forth, back
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Crusades, finally now you've got the
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and all that kind of stuff there. So it's really an amazing thing.

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How Jesus described that it would happen, and they immediately knew it was happening,

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and it happened to over and over
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keeps happening. So, yeah,
that's that's pretty incredible. Yeah, And

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and so again when when, uh, it's important to know because we didn't

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say this today, we said it
yesterday. But when Jesus talks about the

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things that are becoming, uh,
it's not for the purpose of scaring us,

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right, because because he said,
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he said, don't don't be fearful. Right, what did he say?

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He said, There'll be a time
you'll be dragging the synagogues, he said,

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but don't worry in advance about how
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I'll give you the right words and
show you such wisdom. And and

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then and he also says don't be
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So so it is it is a
thing too. It's a very fearful

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thing to worry about all the persecution. And uh, you know the fact

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that he said many of you will
die. He even said, uh,

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there was there'll be some who will
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you will be even betrayed by friends
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those predictions are very scary. But
the reason why he's saying, don't be

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afraid. Shouldn't be surprised when family
members turned against us, or when friends

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turned against us for our faith,
right, right, And so he says.

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When he says don't be afraid,
what he's really saying is is that

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in the end, when you have
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know, everything's going to be okay, even if you lose your life,

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because you can't threaten threaten their Christian
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to it, you know, I
just got done reading what was it.

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It was the apostle Paul who wrote, if God before us, who could

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be against us? Right to whom
shall we be afraid? Romans? Right,

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Yeah, in Romans, And so
you know, when it comes down

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to it, that's really what he's
saying. He's saying, stay with me,

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you know, be on my side. And and if God is for

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you, there's nobody that really can
truly stand against you. That's right,

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and that should be an encouraging time
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You don't have to be afraid,
he tells us, He says,

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so that we know he's in control, but he didn't tell us he's things

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to be terrified. And then if
you do face persecution that brings you to

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the end of your life. He
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There, you're not going to go
through this alone. Right, And

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then it's interesting he says, not
even a hair of your head will perish,

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which is interesting because he just said
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So clearly Jesus is understanding this world
is not really home. This isn't all

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there is what he's saying, because
he goes on, he says, by

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standing firm, you'll win your souls. He's saying here he's talking about eternity.

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So that's what you remember yesterday you
made that joke about me talking about

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cancer and saying, hey, you
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because that's what I said, and
I really believe that you can't threaten a

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real Christian with heaven. And so
Jesus is not really concerned about this world.

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He's concerned about you. But man
alive, Heaven is so much better,

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and he's been there. So he
goes, yeah, so this is

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gonna be difficult. I'm not telling
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just telling you how good heaven is. And then all of eternity, not

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a hair of your head is going
to be disturbed, nothing. You will

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be in paradise. So don't worry
about this peace too much. And I

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think that that's the real lesson.
We can take care. So he didn't

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tell you these things are scary.
You told him, so you know that

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he's in control. And he wins. Yeah. And in the meantime,

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you know, until our lives,
you know, possibly could get threatened.

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You know, you may get persecuted
from your faith and it won't be a

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life threatening thing, but it'll be
more like it'll cost you maybe a little

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bit of a reputation, or it'll
cost you a relationship. And so when

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our faith does get persecuted to the
point where it starts to cost us,

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this is an encouragement for us to
stand strong and stay true to God,

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because no matter the cost, standing
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That's right. So the next week
we're going to pivot back and read the

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second half of these three chapters that
we read, and he talks about signs

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happening in the stars and Jesus's return
and so it's super exciting, right,

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so look up. That's right,
that's right, all right, Well,

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hopefully you'll tune in and we'll see
you then next time on the bibble Guys,