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July 18, 2024Ep. 200. Micah 5-7 | The Ruler From Bethlehem
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The ruler of Israel was going to come from Bethlehem, but his coming forth "is from of old, from ancient days." Jesus was not created. He is the creator. Jesus does not have a beginning. He was from the beginning with God and was God. He is the true shepherd of the people of God, the people of faith. I love these Old Testament prophesies and their fulfillment in Christ. Everything Jesus did was to fulfill what the Scriptures declared. So, this prophecy of the true King being born in Bethlehem was fulfilled by Jesus. We think of baby Jesus lying in the feeding trough of animals. We think of Mary and Joseph and shepherds and animals. We think of the star in the sky and the angels proclaiming the glory of God. But we don't give much thought to the timing of Ceasar Augustus' registration that brought Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem at the perfect moment to fulfill all Scripture. Everything fell into place for Mary to be at the time of birth that night. She could not have gone into labor early. God had orchestrated this moment.
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July 17, 2024Ep. 199. Micah 1-4 | We Walk in the Name of Our God
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As a prophet, Micah precedes Jeremiah but is a contemporary of Isaiah. That means everything we have been learning about Daniel, the prophecies of Ezekiel, Jeremiah's faithfulness, and Jerusalem's destruction is still 130-200 years away.

I love Micah's "But as for me" statements as he contrasts himself with the false teachers, prophets, priests, and seers.

Pay particular attention to the statements "in that day" and the prophecies relating to "the mountain of the Lord."

Micah and Isaiah have a lot of things in common when it comes to their language, and he may have set the stage for some of Jeremiah's words. He is even mentioned in the book of Jeremiah, chapter 26. In fact, Micah's prophecies to and against Hezekiah will serve as a defense for Jeremiah's prophecies against Jehoiakim. But the really big things I want to discuss from the book of Micah will come tomorrow, so I'll see you then.
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July 16, 2024Ep. 198. Daniel 7-12 | In the Last Days
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Can I just tell you that I am not smart enough to understand everything the prophecies of Daniel are revealing to us? There are plenty of people who are smarter than me, and many more who just pretend to be smart, that have all sorts of opinions on these six chapters. For now, I will remind you that when we get to Revelation I will come back to chapter 7 since that is the one I have the best grasp on, and I'll keep the rest of my thoughts to myself so I don't try to speak and teach out of my depth.
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July 15, 2024Ep. 197. Daniel 4-6 | Lions' Den
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We are not told where in the timeline chapter 4 fits into the story, but we are able to discern how chapters five and six come together at the end of the seventy years of captivity when Babylon is brought to an end by the Persian empire. Daniel would have been quite old when he was thrown into the lion's den. Of course, we see God deliver Daniel just as he also delivered Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. God was not obligated to save, but we see how God used each instance to make his name known throughout the world's empires. First, through the Babylonian empire with Daniel's three friends, and here, through the Persian and Mede Empires by delivering Daniel from the mouths of the lions.

I do find it both remarkable and inspriting that the enemies of Daniel said "We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God." In other words, Daniel was such an upright man of integrity that no wickedness could be found in him and subsequently used against him. I would love to live in such a way that the only thing people could hate about me is my affection for my God and King.
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July 14, 2024Episodes 190-196 summary
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July 14, 2024Ep. 196. Daniel 1-3 | The King Has a Dream
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The book of Daniel begins in the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim, King of Judah. Jeremiah has been a prophet for 21 years. Jehoiakim will be King for another eight years, then Jehoiachin for three months, then Zedekiah for eleven years. After that, Jerusalem will fall to Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon. The third year of the reign of Jehoiakim is also the first year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel is of the royal family in Judah and is taken captive to Babylon, where he and the other nobles are to be trained in the language and arts of the Babylonian people for three years. But just one year into his three-year training, Daniel interprets a dream for the King, which elevates him to a place of power along with his three friends, later renamed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

Daniel's chapter three does not give us any indication as to where it fits in the timeline. It could have been a year later or 42 years later, since Nebuchadnezzar was King for approximately 43 years. We often picture Daniel and his friends as little boys when they were first taken into captivity, but since the four of them are in leadership positions within a year, it is doubtful that they are too young. In this third chapter, we do see the resentment the Babylonian people felt for the Jewish exiles now in leadership. It is similar to the Babylonians' contempt for Daniel in Chapter 6.
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July 13, 2024Ep. 195. Ezekiel 37, 47 | The Prophet's Visions
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There is some debate as to whether Ezekiel's vision relates to a physical resurrection or a spiritual one. I certainly lean toward the spiritual resurrection, but I can see some merit in the argument for a physical one. I believe the resurrection is a spiritual one because, in part, due to verse 11, "These bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.' " This is the sentiment of the captives in Babylon after Nebuchadnezzar decimated Jerusalem. These are not physically dead looking forward to a physical resurrection, but a people destitute and in the midst of the discipline of the Lord wondering if there is any hope left for them. God, through the prophet, declares that he has plans to bring these "dead" people to life one day.

But it isn't the return at the end of the 70-year captivity to which God is referring, for he says he will make the two nations of Israel and Judah into one again and then set over them one King. In fact, "David" will rule over them. (a reference to the Messiah/Jesus) They will all submit themselves to one Shepherd. (again, a reference to Christ) As if those two references weren't enough, we see that God will put his "Spirit within" them. We know that the new Spirit and new heart promised by God to his people will eventually have them turning to him in faith and obedience. Since we see the Jewish people still largely resistant to God, we know this has not yet taken place.
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July 12, 2024Ep. 194. Ezekiel 6,36 | The Mountains of the Lord
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I have long believed that the most significant things God has done in human history have been done in the little piece of land we call Israel. It was where our Savior was crucified. It is where the Anti-Christ will set himself up as God. It is where Christ shall return one day, and it is where the New Jerusalem will be.

These two chapters show us an interesting view of God's relationship with the land and the nation he longs to build there. In chapter six, we see the promise of destruction and the mountains strewn with the dead. This chapter was written before the fall of Jerusalem to Nebuchadnezzar and in conjunction with the departure of God's glory from his holy city. But chapter 36, which occurred after the fall of Jerusalem, holds out, for the people of God, the promise of life on the previously dead mountains. Again, God promises to give his restored people new hearts and spirits so they would no longer rebel against him but serve him in faithfulness. God does all this restorative work for the glory of his name.
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July 11, 2024Ep. 193. Ezekiel 18, 20 | The Soul Who Sins Will Die
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We are once again faced with a text that we will try to roll over to the New Covenant if we don't approach it carefully. "The soul who sins will die." But "If a man is righteous and does what is just and right, he shall surely live." However, "If he fathers a violent son who does wicked things, he will not live." But if that wicked man fathers a son who holds to the Law and does rightly, he shall surely live. If an evil person turns from his wickedness and obeys the statutes of God, then he will live. But if a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and instead does abominable things, none of his righteousness shall be remembered, and he will die. But if a wicked person turns away from his wickedness and behaves justly, he shall live.

It is quite repetitive isn't it? And I'm just summarizing the actual text found in Ezekiel. If we roll this forward to the New Covenant we may find ourselves arguing that a righteous person could turn away from his righteousness and die because of their wickeness. But what do we see here in Ezekiel 18? This is not a righteousness based on faith, but a righteousness as viewed from the perspective of the works of the Law. Notice how the righteous person is holding fast to the statutes and commands of God while the wicked person is forsaking the commands of God? Not a single mention of faith here. And the "righteousness" here is based on individual performance, whereas we know that we have received "the righteousness of God."
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July 10, 2024Ep. 192. Ezekiel 13-16 | The Lord's Faithless Bride
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We need to grasp the profound nature of God's love and the depth of his emotions in his relationship with his people. In Ezekiel 16, God uses the marriage metaphor to depict his relationship with Israel. He refers to them as a 'faithless bride' who would offer herself to all who passed by. This is not a literal act of infidelity, but a powerful metaphor God uses to emphasize the betrayal. Each idol Israel turned to was like another lover the unfaithful wife gave herself to. Israel was an 'adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband.'

In the New Testament, we see that people of faith, also called "the assembly" (or the church), are given to Christ as a bride. Ephesians 5 discusses how a husband and wife should relate to one another, but then Paul says he is really talking about Christ and the church. In Corinthians, Paul rebukes a father and son for sharing a wife. He reminds them that believers have become one with the Lord, and to engage in such sexual sin was to join Christ to that sin. He even quotes Genesis 2 and adds, "The two will become one flesh."
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