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Doug Batchelor - The Hero of Revelation (Part 1)

January 23, 2025 | S25:E10

Doug Batchelor - The Hero of Revelation (Part 1)
Pastor Doug Batchelor is an energetic speaker of vision and deep spirituality.
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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - The Hero of Revelation (Part 1) | January 23, 2025
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  • It's the most read book in the world,
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  • Selling close to 4 billion copies
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  • Over the past 50 years.
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  • The bible is an amazing book, unlike any other.
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  • Although it was written over a period of around 1,500 years
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  • By 40 different people on three continents,
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  • The bible maintains incredible harmony
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  • Throughout its 66 books.
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  • A long list of bible predictions have come to pass
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  • That confirms scriptures are divinely inspired,
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  • But none of them were dramatically fulfilled
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  • Than 125 prophecies about the messiah
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  • That were fulfilled to perfection
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  • In the life of jesus.
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  • Various old testament books predict with great precision,
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  • The place of his birth,
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  • His trial, the manner of his crucifixion,
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  • The timing of his resurrection,
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  • And many other aspects of his life.
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  • One thing is for certain, the dozens of prophecies
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  • And predictions about his life
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  • Could never have happened by chance alone.
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  • Jesus is the bible's central figure, but who is he?
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  • And how is your life affected by his?
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  • Join me now, as we take a closer look
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  • At this hero of revelation.
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  • Our presentation tonight dealing
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  • With the hero of revelation
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  • Is part of our prophecy encounter series.
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  • This is really a new series, we call it prophecy encounter
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  • Because we're hoping that through the study of prophecy
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  • That people will encounter the hero of revelation.
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  • And i think we all know who that is.
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  • Matter of fact, if you read the first words in revelation,
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  • It's not a revelation of the beast,
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  • It's not a revelation of the antichrist.
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  • People say, "i want to read
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  • About the antichrist in revelation."
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  • Are you aware the word antichrist
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  • Does not appear in the book of revelation?
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  • It's in the letters of john.
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  • The book of revelation is about jesus.
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  • He is the central figure,
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  • But not just the book of revelation.
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  • The whole bible is about jesus
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  • As you'll discover in our study tonight.
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  • First verse, revelation 1:1,
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  • "the revelation of jesus christ,
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  • Which god gave to him to show his servants things
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  • Which must shortly come to pass."
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  • So the book of revelation and the things
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  • We're going to study in revelation,
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  • Bible tells us way back in the time of christ
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  • They were about to come to pass.
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  • So the prophecy at least begins during the time of christ
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  • And carries on until, of course,
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  • We're in heaven if you read revelation 21 and 22.
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  • There are over 300 old testament prophecies
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  • That provide a number
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  • Of precise identifying characteristics
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  • Regarding the messiah.
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  • A lot of people in the world think that jesus was just one
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  • Of many religious leaders.
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  • You cannot really believe that and be a christian.
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  • Bible says, "there is no other name given among men
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  • Whereby we must be saved."
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  • Jesus is not just another religious teacher.
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  • God became a man.
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  • It's called the incarnation in christ to save us
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  • And we need to know who he is.
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  • The christian religion is all about jesus
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  • And you need to know who he is.
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  • The whole bible tells us about that.
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  • We're going to delve into some of these.
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  • First prophecy is in the book of genesis.
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  • Genesis 3:15.
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  • This is after adam and eve sinned
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  • And god then, speaking to adam and eve,
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  • And because of the serpent was the medium
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  • Through which lucifer spoke,
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  • God said "and i will put enmity,"
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  • That's where you get the word enemy.
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  • It means there is animosity, there is friction,
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  • There is a polar resistance, "between you and the woman,"
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  • Between the serpent and the woman.
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  • That comes up in revelation, so i want you to note that,
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  • "between your seed," the seed of the serpent,
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  • "and her seed," the seed or the offspring of the woman.
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  • The seed of the woman,
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  • It's talking about is the messiah.
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  • Goes on to say, "and he," the seed of the woman
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  • "will bruise your head."
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  • Christ would bruise the head of the serpent,
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  • And you shall bruise his heel."
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  • The progress or the walk of the christian church
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  • Has been impeded,
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  • Slowed by the work of the devil.
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  • There is a battle in this world between good and evil,
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  • Between the woman and the serpent
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  • That carries all the way through.
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  • You read in revelation 12,
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  • We don't have to guess who the serpent is.
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  • "so that great dragon was cast out,
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  • The serpent of old called the devil and satan,
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  • Who deceives the whole world."
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  • How much of the world does he deceive?
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  • The whole world.
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  • So where did jesus come from?
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  • That's a very important question.
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  • Is he just a man?
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  • Was he born like other men?
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  • Christ made some pretty bold claims.
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  • For one thing, he said in john 6:38,
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  • "for i have come down from heaven..."
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  • Well, not everybody says that.
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  • I mean, if you meet somebody that says,
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  • "i've come from heaven" and you know the bible,
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  • We talked a little last night
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  • About people who claim to be christ.
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  • And there is some prominent characters
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  • That claimed to be jesus
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  • But there's also some that are locked up here and there.
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  • And i met somebody once that claimed to be jesus
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  • That i'll never forget
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  • Because i was by myself up in the mountains.
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  • I lived in a cave back then.
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  • I was a hermit for about a year and a half
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  • And i was all by myself.
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  • And a hiker came by the cave and that was not that unusual,
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  • I'd see people from time to time.
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  • He stayed and he visited for a little bit
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  • Then said he was jesus.
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  • And at first i thought,
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  • "i've got some spanish friends named jesus, maybe that's..."
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  • He didn't look spanish.
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  • And then he said, "no i am christ."
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  • He said, "my name is michael david harper".
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  • They said, "that's my earthly name,
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  • But i've come from heaven."
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  • Well, i'll tell you, it's a little spooky
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  • When you're by yourself up the hills
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  • And you meet somebody that says,
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  • "i'm jesus, and i have come."
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  • And i wasn't quite sure what to say
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  • Because, you know, i just started reading the bible.
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  • I thought, "well, if it is jesus,
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  • I've got a lot of questions.
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  • And if it is jesus, i don't want to show a lack of faith
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  • And hurt his feelings."
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  • I mean, all kinds of crazy things
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  • Are going through your head, you know?
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  • And i didn't want to make him mad,
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  • Whether he was jesus or wasn't jesus.
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  • I didn't want.
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  • And so i said, "well, the bible says
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  • That when you come
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  • That everybody is going to see you,
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  • It will be like lightning".
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  • He says, "that's true."
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  • He says, you know, "but i'm coming specially
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  • To prepare some other people early."
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  • And he had like an answer for everything,
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  • He knew the bible and he stayed with me
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  • For two or three days
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  • And ate all my food so i knew he wasn't jesus
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  • And he didn't clean up and...
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  • And i saw him a week or so later
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  • And he actually had found an apostle.
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  • Some guy was following him around saying, "this is jesus".
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  • And then i saw him a few weeks later,
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  • We lived on the streets back then
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  • When i wasn't up in the cave
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  • And he was missing a tooth
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  • Because he had got into a fight.
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  • I felt so much better
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  • Because i know jesus has all his teeth.
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  • But you know you meet
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  • All kinds of strange people out there.
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  • Well, so, when jesus said, "i've come down from heaven"
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  • And then he told pilate in john 18:36,
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  • "my kingdom is not of this world."
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  • "i am from out of this world."
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  • Well, what is he, an extraterrestrial?
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  • Where did jesus come from?
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  • He's making some bold claims.
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  • And so we need to evaluate that.
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  • Did jesus claim divinity?
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  • Did he claim to be god?
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  • In a word, yes.
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  • And here's some verses that illustrate that.
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  • John 8:58, "jesus said to them,
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  • 'most assuredly i say to you before abraham was, i am.'"
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  • Now, you might be thinking,
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  • "well, that doesn't mean he was claiming to be god."
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  • The jews who were listening to him that day believed
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  • He was claiming to be god because god said to moses,
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  • "i am that i am."
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  • That was a title for god, the self-existent one.
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  • They took up stones to stone him for blasphemy
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  • Claiming to be god and jesus did not retract that.
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  • And he said, you know, "before abraham was,"
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  • He says, "i preexisted."
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  • And then you can read again in john 17:18,
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  • "therefore my father loves me, because i lay down my life
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  • That i might take it again."
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  • And not too many people lay down their lives
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  • And take it again.
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  • He says, "no one takes it from me.
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  • I am laying it down and i'm taking it up."
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  • And then he goes on and he says in mark 2:10,
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  • "the son of man has power on earth to forgive sins."
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  • And you can read where it says,
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  • "god and god only can forgive sins."
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  • And so, there's a lot of ways
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  • That jesus explained he had divine prerogatives.
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  • And so, yes, jesus is not just another man.
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  • He said he preexisted before he came to this world.
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  • Had power to forgive sin.
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  • How can we evaluate his claims?
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  • How do we test to see if this is true?
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  • C.s. lewis, the christian philosopher said,
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  • "you really only have three choices with jesus."
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  • No question that he lived.
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  • What year is it right now?
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  • I know i'm just testing. 2017 what?
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  • The whole dating method
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  • That the world uses is based on the birth of christ.
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  • I told you they got that off a little bit
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  • But it was ostensibly dated from christ.
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  • So you can't deny that he lived.
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  • History doesn't challenge his existence that he lived.
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  • So it's like c.s. lewis said,
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  • "he was either a liar, or he was a lunatic,
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  • Or he's lord.
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  • Those are really the only three options that we have."
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  • Hi, friends, don't go anywhere,
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  • In just a moment we will be back
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  • To complete today's presentation.
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  • Have you ever wondered about this enigmatic character
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  • In the bible called michael the archangel?
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  • Well, that's the title of the book
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  • We'd like to send you for free.
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  • Michael suddenly appears in the old testament,
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  • He is worshiped by joshua,
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  • And in other place he is involved in the resurrection.
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  • The bible says, he's connected with the second coming.
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  • The lord himself will descend from heaven
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  • With the voice of the archangel.
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  • You even find michael fighting with the devil in revelation.
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  • To get your free copy, call the phone number on your screen
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  • Make sure and share it with a friend.
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  • Well, let's get back now to today's presentation
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  • And learn some more amazing facts from the word of god.
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  • So how do we determine.
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  • Where do we go to find out?
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  • The bible tells us and jesus himself said in john 5:39,
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  • "search the scriptures,
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  • In them you think you have eternal life,"
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  • He said, "these are they that testify of me."
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  • Now when jesus said that,
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  • How much new testament was written?
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  • None. none.
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  • And so, let me see if i can illustrate something
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  • Llll i am glad to see some of you
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  • Brought your bibles here. i'm going to quickly...
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  • Oh, good, i've found it right away.
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  • This is your bible, i've divided it
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  • Just visually so you get a rough idea.
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  • You know, there's some contents and concordance
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  • And stuff in the front and the back,
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  • But approximately three quarters of the bible,
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  • Old testament, this is written before jesus.
  • 00:11:11.896 --> 00:11:15.200
  • Matter of fact, the last book malachi in the old testament
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  • Was written about 400 years before jesus was born.
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  • So there's a nice spread between the two.
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  • And then you get to the new testament,
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  • It talks about the birth of jesus christ.
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  • First words in revelation are the revelation of jesus christ.
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  • First words in the new testament,
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  • The genealogy of jesus christ.
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  • So it tells about the coming of the messiah.
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  • The old testament foretells when the savior would come,
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  • When god would become a man.
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  • And a lot of the old testament is talking about christ.
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  • There are hundreds of prophecies.
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  • So we're going to be looking now at a lot of prophecies here
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  • That were written hundreds, in some cases,
  • 00:11:50.568 --> 00:11:52.470
  • More than a thousand years before christ was born,
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  • And then we're going to see here
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  • That exactly what was foretold happened.
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  • And this is one reason
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  • I think this is not just white pages and black ink.
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  • I believe the bible
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  • Is a supernatural correspondence with humanity
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  • And god has done something miraculously
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  • To protect this book.
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  • So we're going to look in the bible.
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  • Furthermore, luke 24:27, jesus,
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  • When he was talking to the two disciples
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  • On the road to emmaus,
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  • He said, "he expounded unto them beginning at moses
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  • And all the prophets he expounded to them
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  • In all of the scriptures
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  • The things concerning himself."
  • 00:12:31.910 --> 00:12:34.078
  • So jesus gave a bible study to these two disciples
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  • And he showed them through all of the scriptures,
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  • Prior to the new testament, things concerning himself.
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  • And you're going to see
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  • That jesus is all the way through there.
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  • I've been to churches before where they supply a bible
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  • And all they have is a new testament.
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  • They say, "well, we're a new testament church,
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  • We don't, that's the old covenant."
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  • You can't understand the new testament
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  • Without the old testament.
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  • It's the moon that the woman stands on,
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  • Though she is clothed with the sun of the new testament,
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  • It's the foundation.
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  • The old testament is so important
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  • To understand the new.
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  • And again, hebrews 10:7, "he said, 'behold, i come.
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  • In the volume of the book it is written of me
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  • To do your will, o god."
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  • So the whole bible is telling us about jesus.
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  • Does prophecy foretell the messiah's family tree?
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  • And the answer is, absolutely yes.
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  • For one thing, god told abraham
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  • He was calling him from mesopotamia.
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  • He said, "through your descendants,
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  • The messiah would come."
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  • And you find that in genesis 12:3,
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  • "in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed."
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  • Through your descendants
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  • That the messiah would come through the hebrew line.
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  • Now you realize, a jew and a hebrew is different.
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  • Abraham had more children than just isaac
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  • And isaac had more children than just jacob.
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  • And jacob had more children than just judah.
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  • The word "jew" kind of comes from the descendants
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  • Of judah, principally.
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  • But we often use it to talk about hebrews, in general.
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  • But the messiah would come through
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  • The descendants of not only abraham, but isaac.
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  • You read in genesis 26:4, it says
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  • "i will give your descendants these lands,
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  • And in your seed all the nations of the world
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  • Would be blessed."
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  • Because jesus did not just come for jews, did he?
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  • He came to save everybody.
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  • "whosoever will" the promise is.
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  • He told the disciples, go to the ends of the earth.
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  • And then, not only did it come from abraham through isaac,
  • 00:14:30.728 --> 00:14:34.232
  • See abraham also had ishmael
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  • And several other children through keturah.
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  • Isaac also had esau.
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  • But he said the blessing would come through jacob
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  • And jacob prophesied.
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  • You see the prophecy in numbers 24:17.
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  • "a star will come out of jacob,
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  • A scepter" a scepter's what a king holds,
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  • "will rise out of israel."
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  • There would be this king,
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  • The king of kings that would come.
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  • By the way, that's the prophecy, probably,
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  • That the wise men in the east were reading when they came
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  • And followed the star.
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  • The star that said, there was a new king that would come.
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  • And then when he was dying there in genesis 49, jacob,
  • 00:15:07.966 --> 00:15:12.270
  • Later called israel, he prophesied that of his sons,
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  • And he had 12 sons and one daughter,
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  • The messiah would then be coming
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  • Specifically through which one?
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  • Judah, right?
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  • You all with me? you all knew that, didn't you?
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  • The messiah would come through of the 12 sons of jacob,
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  • He would come through judah.
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  • And he says there in genesis 49,
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  • "the scepter will not depart from judah,
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  • Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until shiloh come,"
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  • That means the king of peace.
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  • And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
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  • So it would come through the tribe of judah.
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  • "there will come forth a rod from the stem of jesse..."
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  • Jesse was the father of david.
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  • "and a branch will grow from his roots."
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  • It said the messiah would come from the household of david.
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  • "and the spirit of the lord will rest upon him."
  • 00:15:56.714 --> 00:15:59.617
  • Well, why does it say, "the spirit of the lord?"
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  • The very word "messiah"
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  • In the old testament means anointed,
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  • The word christ, christos, it's greek for the anointed.
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  • You know, when they christen a ship,
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  • They splash the bottle of champagne or wine on it
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  • And it's called a christening.
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  • An anointing means to shower something.
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  • Jesus was to be showered with the holy spirit of god
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  • And they called him the anointed
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  • That came through the descendants of david.
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  • Now you go to the new testament
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  • And you see was it fulfilled?
  • 00:16:33.351 --> 00:16:35.987
  • And you can read in luke 1:26,
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  • "now in the sixth month the angel gabriel
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  • Was sent by god to a city in galilee named nazareth..."
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  • Where'd the angel go?
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  • I want you to catch that
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  • Because there's going to be a problem here in the moment.
  • 00:16:49.233 --> 00:16:51.803
  • "to a virgin that was betrothed to a man
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  • Whose name was joseph of the house of" where?
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  • "house of david.
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  • The virgin's name was mary."
  • 00:16:58.309 --> 00:16:59.644
  • And this all sounds like a christmas sermon.
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  • You all know this story, right?
  • 00:17:01.045 --> 00:17:03.414
  • But both mary and joseph were descendants from david.
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  • You find the genealogy of mary
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  • Going through her father back to jesus in luke,
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  • And the genealogy follows joseph in matthew.
  • 00:17:12.690 --> 00:17:15.460
  • So either way they were both descendants of david
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  • And, furthermore, it says that jesus
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  • Would come through not just the house of david,
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  • But the mother would be a virgin.
  • 00:17:24.469 --> 00:17:25.803
  • Now that certainly is unique, right?
  • 00:17:25.803 --> 00:17:28.239
  • You read that prophecy in isaiah 7:14,
  • 00:17:28.239 --> 00:17:33.077
  • "behold a virgin will conceive and bear a son,
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  • And they'll call his name immanuel,"
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  • Which means god with us.
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  • Jump to the new testament.
  • 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:42.653
  • By the way, that's written 700 years
  • 00:17:42.653 --> 00:17:44.489
  • Before jesus was born,
  • 00:17:44.489 --> 00:17:46.224
  • Foretold that the messiah would be born of a virgin.
  • 00:17:46.224 --> 00:17:49.093
  • Now you go to the new testament and you read in matthew 1:18.
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  • It says that, "now the birth
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  • Of jesus was as follows:
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  • After his mother mary was betrothed or engaged to joseph,
  • 00:17:57.101 --> 00:18:01.038
  • Before they came together,
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  • She was found to be with child."
  • 00:18:03.107 --> 00:18:05.910
  • And, of course, we all know about the virgin birth of mary,
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  • Virgin birth of jesus, but mary was the virgin.
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  • Yeah.
  • 00:18:13.885 --> 00:18:16.654
  • What about where he would be born?
  • 00:18:16.654 --> 00:18:18.523
  • Does the bible talk so we wouldn't have any doubts
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  • About who the savior of man would be?
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  • No doubts about when god became a man.
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  • Who is it?
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  • It wasn't just one of many wise men or prophets through time.
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  • It was jesus.
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  • The place of his birth is foretold
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  • In the book of micah
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  • About 600 years before christ.
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  • He specifically said, "but you, bethlehem ephrathah,
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  • Though you are little among the thousands of judah,
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  • Unto you, yet out of you shall come forth to me
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  • The one who is to be the ruler in israel,
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  • Whose goings forth are from old,
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  • Even from everlasting."
  • 00:18:50.922 --> 00:18:52.757
  • So it's another prophecy here.
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  • What does it tell us about jesus?
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  • He's from everlasting.
  • 00:18:56.127 --> 00:18:57.762
  • See, christ didn't just appear
  • 00:18:57.762 --> 00:18:59.564
  • When he was born from everlasting to everlasting.
  • 00:18:59.564 --> 00:19:02.300
  • You know, in revelation, he's referred to as the eternal one.
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  • He's the "i am" there.
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  • He's the one who is the first and the last,
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  • The alpha and the omega.
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  • So christ is from everlasting to everlasting.
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  • He was eternal.
  • 00:19:17.048 --> 00:19:18.849
  • And it says that he'd be born in bethlehem.
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  • Did that happen?
  • 00:19:21.485 --> 00:19:23.087
  • Now, we've got a problem.
  • 00:19:23.087 --> 00:19:24.422
  • When the angel came to mary, you heard me say a minute ago?
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  • Where was she?
  • 00:19:27.091 --> 00:19:29.093
  • Galilee. and what city? nazareth.
  • 00:19:29.093 --> 00:19:32.096
  • I've got a map up here on the screen.
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  • Now you're going to see nazareth
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  • As the crow flies about 70 miles away.
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  • She's great with child.
  • 00:19:38.202 --> 00:19:39.537
  • She's a long way from home.
  • 00:19:39.537 --> 00:19:40.871
  • How are we going to get the messiah born,
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  • As he's supposed to be born,
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  • In the city of david, bethlehem?
  • 00:19:44.308 --> 00:19:46.777
  • Well, this is one of the only times in history
  • 00:19:46.777 --> 00:19:49.146
  • We need to thank a politician for doing a tax increase.
  • 00:19:49.146 --> 00:19:54.585
  • Caesar augustus.
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  • Luke 2:1, issued a decree,
  • 00:19:56.220 --> 00:20:00.024
  • "and it came to pass in those days
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  • That there went out a decree from caesar augustus
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  • That all the world should be taxed
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  • And they had to go register for the tax in their own city.
  • 00:20:06.998 --> 00:20:11.402
  • And joseph also went up from galilee
  • 00:20:11.402 --> 00:20:14.639
  • Out of the city of nazareth into judea
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  • There to be registered,
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  • To be taxed and registered with his wife,
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  • Mary" or his espoused wife "being great with child."
  • 00:20:21.979 --> 00:20:26.050
  • And, of course, while they are there we know what happened.
  • 00:20:26.050 --> 00:20:29.887
  • "and so it was, while they were there,
  • 00:20:29.887 --> 00:20:31.589
  • The days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
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  • And she brought forth her firstborn son."
  • 00:20:34.392 --> 00:20:37.795
  • And this is, of course, fulfilling that the messiah
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  • Would be born in bethlehem.
  • 00:20:39.764 --> 00:20:41.098
  • When the shepherds saw the angels where were they?
  • 00:20:41.098 --> 00:20:43.534
  • "there were dwelling in those days
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  • Outside bethlehem shepherds watching their flocks."
  • 00:20:44.869 --> 00:20:48.239
  • Now, you know it's always been amazing to me,
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  • You know what bethlehem means?
  • 00:20:51.242 --> 00:20:54.011
  • Beth means house.
  • 00:20:54.011 --> 00:20:55.379
  • Bethlehem, that means house of bread.
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  • And jesus is the bread of life.
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  • And after he was born, he was placed in a manger.
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  • A manger is a trough for putting grain for the animals.
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  • So here you've got the bread of life
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  • Born in the house of bread placed in a trough for bread.
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  • Jesus is the bread of life.
  • 00:21:12.930 --> 00:21:16.167
  • "and so she brought forth her firstborn son,
  • 00:21:16.167 --> 00:21:18.235
  • Wrapped him in swaddling clothes,
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  • And laid him in a manger,
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  • Because there was no room for him in the inn."
  • 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:25.409
  • And again the angels said "for unto you is born"
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  • They told the shepherds, "in the city of david."
  • 00:21:28.579 --> 00:21:30.915
  • Jesus would be a descendant of david born in the town of david
  • 00:21:30.915 --> 00:21:34.452
  • And it was all foretold by the prophets,
  • 00:21:34.452 --> 00:21:37.121
  • The savior who is christ the anointed, the lord.
  • 00:21:37.121 --> 00:21:41.292
  • And when christ was a baby, eight days old,
  • 00:21:41.292 --> 00:21:44.261
  • They bring him to the temple to be named and circumcised,
  • 00:21:44.261 --> 00:21:48.432
  • Which was technically the first time he shed blood.
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  • When they called his name jesus,
  • 00:21:51.168 --> 00:21:53.437
  • He will save his people from their sins.
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  • The priest there in the temple, simon,
  • 00:21:55.473 --> 00:21:56.907
  • Took him up in his arms and blessed him.
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  • And they said to his mother,
  • 00:21:59.143 --> 00:22:00.478
  • "behold, this child is destined for the fall
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  • And the rising of many in israel,
  • 00:22:03.013 --> 00:22:05.049
  • And for a sign that will be spoken against.
  • 00:22:05.049 --> 00:22:07.785
  • Yes, a sword will even pierce through your own soul,"
  • 00:22:07.785 --> 00:22:11.255
  • Foretelling, of course, the sufferings
  • 00:22:11.255 --> 00:22:12.790
  • That jesus would be going through,
  • 00:22:12.790 --> 00:22:14.859
  • "that the thoughts of many hearts might be revealed."
  • 00:22:14.859 --> 00:22:17.862
  • So even at the very beginning mary was given a prophecy
  • 00:22:17.862 --> 00:22:21.165
  • To let her know that jesus was coming, not just as a lion,
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  • But he would first have to come as a lamb
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  • And suffer for the sins of the world.
  • 00:22:28.939 --> 00:22:31.609
  • Well, then, when christ was still a child,
  • 00:22:31.609 --> 00:22:35.379
  • They're living in bethlehem,
  • 00:22:35.379 --> 00:22:36.714
  • Herod the king wanted to exterminate jesus as a baby.
  • 00:22:36.714 --> 00:22:40.184
  • You know there's three times in the bible
  • 00:22:40.184 --> 00:22:42.820
  • When the devil made an effort
  • 00:22:42.820 --> 00:22:44.422
  • To try to keep the savior from coming.
  • 00:22:44.422 --> 00:22:47.124
  • You can read about the devil thought maybe
  • 00:22:47.124 --> 00:22:49.260
  • That a savior was coming when the children of israel
  • 00:22:49.260 --> 00:22:51.362
  • Were in egypt.
  • 00:22:51.362 --> 00:22:52.696
  • So he wanted all the baby boys to be exterminated.
  • 00:22:52.696 --> 00:22:57.435
  • And yet moses was miraculously spared, the savior was spared.
  • 00:22:57.435 --> 00:23:02.206
  • And then during the time
  • 00:23:02.206 --> 00:23:03.541
  • Of queen jezebel's daughter athaliah,
  • 00:23:03.541 --> 00:23:06.911
  • She killed all of the seed of david.
  • 00:23:06.911 --> 00:23:09.280
  • Again, the devil trying to keep
  • 00:23:09.280 --> 00:23:10.781
  • The messiah from coming.
  • 00:23:10.781 --> 00:23:12.950
  • But, miraculously, joash was spared.
  • 00:23:12.950 --> 00:23:16.954
  • And then, of course,
  • 00:23:16.954 --> 00:23:18.289
  • During the time when christ was a baby,
  • 00:23:18.289 --> 00:23:19.623
  • Herod sent his soldiers to bethlehem
  • 00:23:19.623 --> 00:23:20.991
  • To kill all the baby boys, once again,
  • 00:23:20.991 --> 00:23:22.993
  • To try to keep the savior from coming.
  • 00:23:22.993 --> 00:23:26.130
  • And joseph was warned in a dream to go down to egypt
  • 00:23:26.130 --> 00:23:28.466
  • And you read in the new testament
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  • That after he received that warning.
  • 00:23:30.968 --> 00:23:32.403
  • He said, "he arose and he took the young child
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  • And his mother by night and he departed for egypt..."
  • 00:23:34.405 --> 00:23:37.808
  • Notice what matthew says, "that it might be fulfilled
  • 00:23:37.808 --> 00:23:40.744
  • Which was spoken by the lord through the prophet saying,
  • 00:23:40.744 --> 00:23:43.781
  • 'out of egypt i have called my son.'"
  • 00:23:43.781 --> 00:23:46.183
  • And, here, he's quoting hosea.
  • 00:23:46.183 --> 00:23:48.686
  • And so, even the new testament writers, like matthew,
  • 00:23:48.686 --> 00:23:52.590
  • Could often see how jesus
  • 00:23:52.590 --> 00:23:54.258
  • Was a fulfillment of all these prophecies.
  • 00:23:54.258 --> 00:23:56.760
  • They all combined and concentrated
  • 00:23:56.760 --> 00:23:58.896
  • And focused in his life.
  • 00:23:58.896 --> 00:24:01.065
  • You know, i get excited when i talk about this
  • 00:24:01.065 --> 00:24:02.833
  • Because there's just no question
  • 00:24:02.833 --> 00:24:04.168
  • That jesus is who he says he was.
  • 00:24:04.168 --> 00:24:07.404
  • All right, and then you can say
  • 00:24:07.404 --> 00:24:08.739
  • And he came when he was a child.
  • 00:24:08.739 --> 00:24:10.574
  • He moved back then, after egypt to nazareth
  • 00:24:10.574 --> 00:24:13.344
  • And he was subject to his parents
  • 00:24:13.344 --> 00:24:15.713
  • "that it might be fulfilled
  • 00:24:15.713 --> 00:24:17.181
  • That was spoken of by the prophets,"
  • 00:24:17.181 --> 00:24:18.816
  • Another prophecy, "he will be called a nazarene."
  • 00:24:18.816 --> 00:24:22.586
  • Now they're talking about when samson's parents were told
  • 00:24:22.586 --> 00:24:27.157
  • That this promised child would be a nazarene.
  • 00:24:27.157 --> 00:24:30.094
  • Several of the types in the bible,
  • 00:24:30.094 --> 00:24:31.929
  • Like samuel and samson, had the vow of a nazarite.
  • 00:24:31.929 --> 00:24:36.567
  • Typically, jesus is painted with long hair.
  • 00:24:36.567 --> 00:24:39.670
  • And yet, you know, there's a scripture that says
  • 00:24:39.670 --> 00:24:41.305
  • "it's a shame for a man to have long hair."
  • 00:24:41.305 --> 00:24:43.140
  • But the nazarites were not supposed to cut their hair.
  • 00:24:43.140 --> 00:24:45.876
  • And so some have wondered,
  • 00:24:45.876 --> 00:24:47.211
  • "did jesus's parents have the vow of a nazarite on him
  • 00:24:47.211 --> 00:24:51.448
  • Up until he was baptized?"
  • 00:24:51.448 --> 00:24:53.050
  • Because a person could have a nazarite vow
  • 00:24:53.050 --> 00:24:54.952
  • For a varying length of time.
  • 00:24:54.952 --> 00:24:57.187
  • It wasn't necessarily a lifelong vow.
  • 00:24:57.187 --> 00:24:59.757
  • Nazarites could not eat
  • 00:24:59.757 --> 00:25:01.191
  • Or drink anything from the vine.
  • 00:25:01.191 --> 00:25:03.360
  • Jesus obviously drank grape juice.
  • 00:25:03.360 --> 00:25:05.996
  • And so, he may have just been a nazarite
  • 00:25:05.996 --> 00:25:07.731
  • Up until his baptism or followed that vow.
  • 00:25:07.731 --> 00:25:10.634
  • We're not sure
  • 00:25:10.634 --> 00:25:11.969
  • But he's typically painted with long hair
  • 00:25:11.969 --> 00:25:13.737
  • And that's one of the reasons for that.
  • 00:25:13.737 --> 00:25:16.140
  • But that was foretold.
  • 00:25:16.140 --> 00:25:17.775
  • "and then he went down with his parents
  • 00:25:17.775 --> 00:25:19.577
  • And he came to nazareth,
  • 00:25:19.577 --> 00:25:20.911
  • And he was subject to them."
  • 00:25:20.911 --> 00:25:23.213
  • You know, there's all these theories that say,
  • 00:25:23.213 --> 00:25:24.848
  • You know, the reason jesus was so brilliant
  • 00:25:24.848 --> 00:25:27.418
  • Is because, from the time he was born,
  • 00:25:27.418 --> 00:25:30.421
  • His parents then took him
  • 00:25:30.421 --> 00:25:31.755
  • And he studied under these wise gurus in india,
  • 00:25:31.755 --> 00:25:36.093
  • Or he went to egypt and he studied there.
  • 00:25:36.093 --> 00:25:38.028
  • And they've got all these theories
  • 00:25:38.028 --> 00:25:39.530
  • About where jesus got his great knowledge
  • 00:25:39.530 --> 00:25:41.265
  • Because it says that he was uneducated in jerusalem.
  • 00:25:41.265 --> 00:25:44.735
  • It tells us that he learned the scriptures
  • 00:25:44.735 --> 00:25:47.237
  • Right there from his parents in home.
  • 00:25:47.237 --> 00:25:49.440
  • He didn't go off
  • 00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:50.774
  • And wasn't secretly taught by any,
  • 00:25:50.774 --> 00:25:53.143
  • You know, kung fu experts off there somewhere.
  • 00:25:53.143 --> 00:25:55.713
  • And then come back
  • 00:25:55.713 --> 00:25:57.448
  • And have this great enlightenment.
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  • He went to his parents.
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  • He lived a normal life for the first 30 years
  • 00:26:00.818 --> 00:26:04.254
  • Until his baptism.
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