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Robert Jeffress - It Begins and Ends with Israel (Part 2)

April 9, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - It Begins and Ends with Israel (Part 2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - It Begins and Ends with Israel (Part 2) | April 9, 2026
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  • Jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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  • Again to "pathway to victory."
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  • Genesis means the origin or the beginning.
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  • Beginning of life, the beginning of god's plan to redeem mankind.
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  • Today, i want to show you how the book of genesis also holds
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  • The origins of bible prophecy.
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  • It all begins with god's promise for abraham's family.
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  • Jeffress: the way we are saved is by trusting in god's grace,
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  • Not our works, that was secured by christ's death on the cross
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  • For us, and by faith in that we receive eternal life.
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  • Now, perhaps this illustration will help you better understand
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  • What this reckoning is all about.
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  • Let's suppose that you need a new home.
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  • You want to buy a new home.
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  • But like most of us, you don't have the cash to pay for a new
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  • Home completely, you need to take out a mortgage.
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  • You need a loan from the bank, so you need to go to the bank to
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  • Get a loan.
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  • The bad news is your financial statement is pitiful.
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  • You've lost your job, you're swimming in debt, you have $2 in
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  • Your checking account.
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  • No banker in his right mind would lend you the money for a
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  • New home.
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  • That's the bad news.
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  • But here's the good news.
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  • Your father is bill gates and bill has more than enough money,
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  • Billions and billions, to secure that loan.
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  • So you talk to your dad, you explain to him the situation,
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  • Your father says, "you know what?
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  • I understand.
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  • You've made some bad choices in your life financially, but i
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  • Want to help you.
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  • And so i'll be a guarantor for that loan of yours.
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  • And when you go to the bank instead of handing them your
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  • Pitiful financial statement, hand them my financial
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  • Statement, let them make the loan on the basis of my
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  • Resources, and i guarantee you'll get the loan."
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  • At that point, you have a choice to make.
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  • You can say to your daddy, bill, "dad, i don't want your
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  • Stinking money.
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  • I don't need your money.
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  • I'm gonna go to the bank on my own and if they won't take me
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  • For who i am and what i have, well, too bad for them."
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  • And if you do that, guess what?
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  • No home for you, buddy.
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  • Or you can humble yourself before your dad and say, "dad,
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  • You're right.
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  • I've made some bad choices.
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  • I realize i don't have the resources to buy this house,
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  • But i realize you do, so, if it's all the same to you,
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  • I'm gonna take you up on your offer
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  • And i wanna try to secure that home, not on my resources,
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  • But according to your resources."
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  • Now, that little melodrama right there illustrates the most
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  • Important spiritual truth you can ever understand.
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  • No one of us has the spiritual resources we need to secure a
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  • Home in heaven.
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  • "abraham believed god and it was counted as righteousness."
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  • Now, the promise to abraham was a land, a seed, and a blessing.
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  • Now, quickly, i want you to look at three characteristics of this
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  • Promise that are key to understanding bible prophecy.
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  • First of all, i want you to notice that god's promise to
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  • Abraham was a literal promise.
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  • Now, there was certainly a spiritual component to it as we
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  • Saw just a few moments ago, but god was actually promising to
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  • Abraham an actual piece of real estate, an actual land, that
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  • Would be his forever.
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  • This land, this new land, canaan, is not just some
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  • Metaphor for heaven in the future.
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  • It's an actual land that would belong to abraham.
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  • How do i know that?
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  • Look at how abraham responded to the promise, genesis 12, verses
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  • 4 and 5: as soon as he received the promise, "abram went forth
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  • As the lord had spoken to him; and lot went with him.
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  • Now, abraham was 75 years old when he departed from haran and
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  • Abram took sarai his wife and lot his nephew, and all of their
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  • Possessions which they had accumulated, and the persons
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  • Which they had acquired in haran, and they set out for the
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  • Land of canaan; and thus they came to the land of canaan."
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  • Abraham understood this was a literal promise.
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  • He said, "family, it's time to pack up and move.
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  • We're headed to this land."
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  • If he thought this was heaven, why would he have gone to all of
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  • This trouble?
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  • I mean, it was a big deal in abraham's day to move someplace.
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  • I mean, if you wanted to move in abraham's day, i mean, you
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  • Didn't call up mayflower or daryl flood moving company and
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  • Say, "hey, come pack me up; we're headed to canaan."
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  • Didn't work that way.
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  • You had to do it yourself.
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  • And notice, he had to pack up all the things he had
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  • Accumulated in 75 years of living.
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  • Do you have a lot of junk around your house?
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  • Just recently we cleaned out our garage.
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  • Let me rephrase that.
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  • Recently, amy cleaned out our garage.
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  • It was amazing.
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  • The junk we had in there just over these last 6 years we
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  • Had accumulated.
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  • Well, some of it we had hauled from our last residence that we
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  • Had hauled from our residence before that.
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  • We just carry the junk around with us.
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  • But you know, i'm 57.
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  • I can imagine what it's gonna be like at age 75.
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  • But abraham had a lot of stuff.
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  • Why did he go to all that hassle of moving it himself?
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  • Because he was headed to a literal land.
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  • Yeah, he was looking for heaven too.
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  • Hebrews 11:10 says he was looking for that city with
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  • Foundations whose architect and builder is god.
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  • But even though he was looking for a heavenly home, that didn't
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  • Negate the fact that he was also looking for an earthly home
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  • As well.
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  • Secondly, i want you to notice that this promise was eternal.
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  • It wasn't just for a specified time.
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  • God said in genesis 13, he reaffirmed abraham: this land is
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  • Gonna be yours forever.
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  • Look at genesis 13, verses 14 and 15: "and the lord said to
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  • Abraham, after lot had separated from him, 'now i want you to
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  • Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are,
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  • Northward and southward and eastward and westward; from all
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  • The land which you see, i will give it to you and your
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  • Descendants for,'" how long?
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  • "forever."
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  • Let me tell you, forever is a long time.
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  • We have a hard time as mortal beings understanding what
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  • Eternity is like.
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  • I came across these words from author henry willem van loon who
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  • Writes: "high up in the north in the land called svithjod, there
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  • Stands a rock.
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  • This rock is 100 miles high and 100 miles wide.
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  • Once every 1000 years, a little bird comes to this rock to
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  • Sharpen its beak.
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  • When the rock has thus been worn away, then only a single day of
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  • Eternity will have gone by."
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  • Forever is a long time.
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  • God said to abraham, "this land is gonna be yours and your
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  • Believing descendants' forever."
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  • It was a literal promise.
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  • It was an eternal promise.
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  • Thirdly and most significantly for bible prophecy, it is an
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  • Unconditional promise.
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  • It is an unconditional promise.
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  • The fact is many christians will concede: yeah, god made a
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  • Promise to abraham.
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  • He made a promise of a land, a seed, and a blessing, and god
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  • Intended for this promise to be fulfilled.
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  • But israel, abraham's descendants, messed up big time.
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  • They rebelled against god and they ultimately rejected christ.
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  • And because israel has rejected christ, the abrahamic covenant
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  • Has changed.
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  • It's changed in two ways.
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  • First of all, the promises to abraham have been transferred,
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  • These people say, from israel to the church.
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  • And furthermore, these promises have not only been transferred
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  • From israel to the church, they have been transformed from
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  • Literal promises to figurative, symbolic promises.
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  • And so they reinterpret the abrahamic covenant.
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  • They say no longer is there a promise of a land to israel.
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  • That's been changed.
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  • Now, the promise of a land is the promise of heaven for
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  • The church.
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  • They'll say the promise of a messiah who would be the
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  • Forerunner of a great nation, that great nation of israel no
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  • Longer is going to exist.
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  • The nation of israel has now become the church of
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • And then they'll say, yeah, god did promise that a descendant of
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  • Abraham's and a descendant of david would sit on the throne in
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  • Israel and jerusalem and rule over the world.
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  • But that's been changed and transferred to the church.
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  • Now, that promise means christ is gonna rule on the throne of
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  • Your heart in your life forever and ever.
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  • And that's how people reinterpret the abrahamic
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  • Proverb--covenant.
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  • God meant to fulfill this to abraham, but when abraham
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  • Rejected christ, israel forfeited those blessings.
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  • They've been transferred to the church and transformed into
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  • Symbolic promises.
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  • Now, what are we to say to that?
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  • I mean, it's true.
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  • As you read through the scripture, there were some
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  • Conditional promises made to israel.
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  • Over and over again, god promised israel blessings and
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  • Curses: "israel, if you follow my law, i'll bless you.
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  • If you disobey my law, i will curse you."
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  • In fact, as moses prepared the israelites to enter the promised
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  • Land, canaan, we find these words in deuteronomy 11, verses
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  • 26 to 28: god said, "see, i am setting before you today a
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  • Blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you listen to the
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  • Commandments of the lord your god, which i am commanding to
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  • You today; and the curse, if you do not listen to the
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  • Commandments of the lord your god, but turn aside from the way
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  • Which i'm commanding you today, by following other gods which
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  • You have not known."
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  • And all of israel's history is a story of blessings and curses.
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  • When they followed god, they were blessed.
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  • When they disobeyed god, they were judged, they spent time in
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  • Calamity, in exile.
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  • That's all of israel's history.
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  • But here's one thing to remember: these blessings and
  • 00:12:22.464 --> 00:12:25.935
  • Curses came through moses.
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  • The promise came through abraham.
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  • Abraham lived 430 years before moses.
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  • And what god is saying is: "the conditional promises i gave to
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  • Moses in no way--in no way whatsoever, negate the
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  • Unconditional promises that i made to abraham."
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  • Now, let me illustrate that for you.
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  • After our first daughter was born, julia, amy and i went to
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  • Our attorney to make out our will.
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  • And we made a decision at that time, that we were going to
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  • Leave our estate to our children upon our deaths.
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  • And we didn't know at that time how many children we would have.
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  • We sure didn't know what they were going to be like.
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  • But we made that decision.
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  • That was an unconditional decision we made.
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  • We were going to leave our estate to our children, whoever
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  • And how many they were.
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  • Now, as our girls were born and started to grow up and mature,
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  • We established our own list of blessings and curses around
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  • Our house.
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  • If our girls obeyed what we told them to do, they were blessed
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  • By us, they got their allowance.
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  • If they disobeyed us, they forfeited their allowance and
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  • Experienced other expressions of wrath from their parents.
  • 00:13:48.484 --> 00:13:53.956
  • And so all the time they were in our home, julia and dorothy
  • 00:13:53.956 --> 00:13:57.626
  • Experienced their share of blessings and curses.
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  • But you know what?
  • 00:14:02.064 --> 00:14:03.432
  • It doesn't matter and didn't matter whatever they did and
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  • Whatever temporary consequences they experienced, never once did
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  • It cause us to change our will.
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  • That was an unconditional promise we had made.
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  • They were our children and will be our children forever.
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  • And the promise of their inheritance has nothing to do
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  • With their actions.
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  • It's nothing that can be changed.
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  • It's an irrevocable decision.
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  • Now that is exactly what god is saying.
  • 00:14:30.326 --> 00:14:32.962
  • Listen to galatians 3, verses 17 and 18.
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  • Paul is making the same argument about the unconditional nature
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  • Of the abrahamic covenant.
  • 00:14:40.069 --> 00:14:41.537
  • He's saying, "what i'm saying is this," galatians 3:17 and 18,
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  • "the law," that's the mosaic law which came 430 years later,
  • 00:14:46.342 --> 00:14:52.681
  • "does not invalidate a covenant," a will, if you will,
  • 00:14:52.681 --> 00:14:57.419
  • "previously ratified by god, so as to nullify the promise.
  • 00:14:57.419 --> 00:15:01.824
  • For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on
  • 00:15:01.824 --> 00:15:06.829
  • A promise; but god is granted it to abraham by means of
  • 00:15:06.829 --> 00:15:11.033
  • A promise."
  • 00:15:11.033 --> 00:15:12.835
  • This promise of an inheritance was an irrevocable promise god
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  • Made to abraham 430 years before the law.
  • 00:15:17.673 --> 00:15:21.343
  • The law came along later.
  • 00:15:21.343 --> 00:15:23.278
  • It was a temporary series of blessings and curses.
  • 00:15:23.278 --> 00:15:26.148
  • But even though israel disobeyed god, it in no way negated the
  • 00:15:26.148 --> 00:15:29.618
  • Promise that god had made to abraham.
  • 00:15:29.618 --> 00:15:31.553
  • Listen to verses 30 to 37 from psalm 89.
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  • You find the difference here between the temporary blessings
  • 00:15:34.823 --> 00:15:37.526
  • And curses, and the eternal covenant of god.
  • 00:15:37.526 --> 00:15:40.696
  • God says if his sons, that is the israelites, "forsake my law
  • 00:15:40.696 --> 00:15:44.967
  • And do not walk in my judgments, if they violate my statutes and
  • 00:15:44.967 --> 00:15:48.804
  • Do not keep my commandments, then i will visit their
  • 00:15:48.804 --> 00:15:51.807
  • Transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes,"
  • 00:15:51.807 --> 00:15:55.577
  • And the loss of their allowance.
  • 00:15:55.577 --> 00:15:57.012
  • No, it doesn't say that.
  • 00:15:57.012 --> 00:15:58.347
  • But that's what he's talking about: the temporary
  • 00:15:58.347 --> 00:16:00.416
  • Consequences of disobedience.
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  • They're gonna suffer, israel, if they break my law.
  • 00:16:02.985 --> 00:16:06.522
  • But look at verse 33: "but i will not break off my loving
  • 00:16:06.522 --> 00:16:11.093
  • Kindness from israel nor deal falsely in my faithfulness.
  • 00:16:11.093 --> 00:16:15.297
  • My covenant, i will not violate nor will i alter the utterance
  • 00:16:15.297 --> 00:16:19.435
  • Of my lips.
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  • Once i have sworn by my holiness, i will not lie
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  • To david.
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  • His descendants shall endure," how long?
  • 00:16:26.241 --> 00:16:29.111
  • "forever and his throne as the son before me."
  • 00:16:29.111 --> 00:16:33.215
  • It shall be established, how long?
  • 00:16:33.215 --> 00:16:35.717
  • "forever."
  • 00:16:35.717 --> 00:16:37.052
  • Write that down, all you, all millennialists.
  • 00:16:37.052 --> 00:16:38.987
  • "forever."
  • 00:16:38.987 --> 00:16:40.355
  • "like the moon and the witness in the sky is faithful."
  • 00:16:40.355 --> 00:16:46.762
  • Perhaps the greatest evidence of the unconditional nature of the
  • 00:16:46.762 --> 00:16:51.767
  • Abrahamic covenant is in the way that covenant was ratified
  • 00:16:51.767 --> 00:16:55.671
  • Before abraham.
  • 00:16:55.671 --> 00:16:57.306
  • No, before abraham got very far, he wanted to make sure that
  • 00:16:57.306 --> 00:17:04.980
  • God was gonna keep his end of the bargain in this promise.
  • 00:17:04.980 --> 00:17:08.383
  • He asked for a sign that god was going to keep this promise and
  • 00:17:08.383 --> 00:17:12.020
  • That he hadn't misunderstood it.
  • 00:17:12.020 --> 00:17:14.590
  • And so in verse 8 of genesis 15, abraham asked, "o lord, how
  • 00:17:14.590 --> 00:17:18.260
  • May i know that i'm gonna possess this land, that you're
  • 00:17:18.260 --> 00:17:22.030
  • Gonna keep your word?"
  • 00:17:22.030 --> 00:17:24.233
  • In abraham's day when two kings entered into a covenant with one
  • 00:17:24.233 --> 00:17:28.737
  • Another, a treaty, a contract, in order to ratify the contract,
  • 00:17:28.737 --> 00:17:34.810
  • According to the custom of the day, they would take some
  • 00:17:34.810 --> 00:17:37.079
  • Animals, they would split the animals in two, they would place
  • 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:40.983
  • One half of the animal in one line, the other halves of the
  • 00:17:40.983 --> 00:17:44.653
  • Animal in another line, leaving a path in between the
  • 00:17:44.653 --> 00:17:47.523
  • Animal parts.
  • 00:17:47.523 --> 00:17:48.991
  • And then the two monarchs would walk side by side, each carrying
  • 00:17:48.991 --> 00:17:53.662
  • A torch through the animal pieces.
  • 00:17:53.662 --> 00:17:56.298
  • And as they did so, they were signifying that the covenant was
  • 00:17:56.298 --> 00:18:00.402
  • Dependent upon each party keeping his end of the bargain.
  • 00:18:00.402 --> 00:18:04.173
  • When they walked together, side by side, these two kings were
  • 00:18:04.173 --> 00:18:07.776
  • Saying, "i'll do my part, if you do your part."
  • 00:18:07.776 --> 00:18:11.580
  • They each had responsibilities in the covenant.
  • 00:18:11.580 --> 00:18:14.383
  • But that's how a covenant was ratified.
  • 00:18:14.383 --> 00:18:16.318
  • That helps you understand god's command in verse 9 of
  • 00:18:16.318 --> 00:18:18.820
  • Genesis 15.
  • 00:18:18.820 --> 00:18:20.189
  • Abraham wanted to know: "god, how can i depend upon you to
  • 00:18:20.189 --> 00:18:22.858
  • Keep your end of the bargain?"
  • 00:18:22.858 --> 00:18:24.226
  • Look at what god said, verse 9: "so god said to abraham, 'bring
  • 00:18:24.226 --> 00:18:28.263
  • Me a three-year-old heifer, and a three-year-old female goat,
  • 00:18:28.263 --> 00:18:31.934
  • And a three-year-old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.'
  • 00:18:31.934 --> 00:18:35.938
  • And then he brought all of these to him and cut them in two, and
  • 00:18:35.938 --> 00:18:38.907
  • Laid each one half opposite the other; but he did not cut
  • 00:18:38.907 --> 00:18:43.111
  • The birds."
  • 00:18:43.111 --> 00:18:44.446
  • Now, normally, abraham knew what was going on.
  • 00:18:44.446 --> 00:18:46.748
  • He imagined that god was gonna tell him now that you cut the
  • 00:18:46.748 --> 00:18:49.685
  • Animal pieces, you get a torch, i'll get a torch, we'll walk
  • 00:18:49.685 --> 00:18:52.921
  • Through the animal pieces together to signify that this
  • 00:18:52.921 --> 00:18:55.657
  • Deal is really gonna happen.
  • 00:18:55.657 --> 00:18:57.092
  • But notice in verse 12, god does something very strange next.
  • 00:18:57.092 --> 00:19:00.729
  • "now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon
  • 00:19:00.729 --> 00:19:04.366
  • Abram; and behold, a terror and great darkness fell upon him."
  • 00:19:04.366 --> 00:19:09.037
  • Abraham was put to sleep.
  • 00:19:09.037 --> 00:19:10.672
  • Verse 17: "and it came about when the sun had set, that it
  • 00:19:10.672 --> 00:19:14.776
  • Was very dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a
  • 00:19:14.776 --> 00:19:18.947
  • Flaming torch which passed between the pieces.
  • 00:19:18.947 --> 00:19:22.651
  • And on that day the lord made a covenant with abram."
  • 00:19:22.651 --> 00:19:27.256
  • It wasn't abraham and god who walked through those animal
  • 00:19:27.256 --> 00:19:30.192
  • Pieces together.
  • 00:19:30.192 --> 00:19:31.560
  • Abraham was over here asleep.
  • 00:19:31.560 --> 00:19:34.096
  • It was god himself.
  • 00:19:34.096 --> 00:19:35.964
  • God alone who walked through those animal pieces signifying
  • 00:19:35.964 --> 00:19:39.835
  • That this promise, this covenant, had absolutely nothing
  • 00:19:39.835 --> 00:19:44.039
  • To do with abraham and abraham's faithfulness.
  • 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:46.608
  • It had all to do with god and his faithfulness.
  • 00:19:46.608 --> 00:19:50.045
  • This was an unconditional promise god made to abraham, and
  • 00:19:50.045 --> 00:19:55.817
  • To make sure nobody missed it, and the writer of hebrews said
  • 00:19:55.817 --> 00:19:59.454
  • In hebrews chapter 6, verse 13: "for when god made his promise
  • 00:19:59.454 --> 00:20:03.025
  • To abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore
  • 00:20:03.025 --> 00:20:08.030
  • By himself."
  • 00:20:08.030 --> 00:20:10.332
  • You say, "pastor, what does all this have to do with
  • 00:20:10.332 --> 00:20:12.167
  • Bible prophecy?"
  • 00:20:12.167 --> 00:20:13.535
  • Simply this: god promised israel a certain land.
  • 00:20:13.535 --> 00:20:18.307
  • Since 1948, they've been a nation, they've been in the
  • 00:20:18.307 --> 00:20:22.244
  • Land, but they haven't been in all of the land yet.
  • 00:20:22.244 --> 00:20:25.914
  • God has kept the nation of israel.
  • 00:20:25.914 --> 00:20:28.884
  • They've endured forever so far, but god's not yet finished
  • 00:20:28.884 --> 00:20:32.120
  • With israel.
  • 00:20:32.120 --> 00:20:33.455
  • Not all of the elect israel has yet been saved.
  • 00:20:33.455 --> 00:20:36.325
  • It's true that god sent a blessing to all the world
  • 00:20:36.325 --> 00:20:38.860
  • Through jesus christ and that he rules in the hearts of
  • 00:20:38.860 --> 00:20:41.596
  • Individual believers.
  • 00:20:41.596 --> 00:20:42.964
  • That's true.
  • 00:20:42.964 --> 00:20:44.299
  • But he's not yet sitting on the throne of david in jerusalem as
  • 00:20:44.299 --> 00:20:47.569
  • God promised that he would one day.
  • 00:20:47.569 --> 00:20:49.471
  • What i'm saying to you, folks, is god still has some unfinished
  • 00:20:49.471 --> 00:20:53.942
  • Business here on planet earth.
  • 00:20:53.942 --> 00:20:56.678
  • God is going to keep his promise to abraham and abraham's
  • 00:20:56.678 --> 00:21:02.050
  • Descendants, his unconditional promise.
  • 00:21:02.050 --> 00:21:04.786
  • You say, "well, that's wonderful, pastor, but i'm not a
  • 00:21:04.786 --> 00:21:07.155
  • Jew, so why should i care?"
  • 00:21:07.155 --> 00:21:09.691
  • Because as we're gonna see in the weeks ahead, that abrahamic
  • 00:21:09.691 --> 00:21:12.894
  • Covenant, although it was to abraham and his believing
  • 00:21:12.894 --> 00:21:16.098
  • Descendants, it has ramifications for you and me
  • 00:21:16.098 --> 00:21:19.201
  • As well.
  • 00:21:19.201 --> 00:21:21.236
  • But even more importantly, the reason it is important for god
  • 00:21:21.236 --> 00:21:26.608
  • To keep this promise to israel is it's our way of knowing that
  • 00:21:26.608 --> 00:21:30.412
  • God is gonna keep his promises to us as well.
  • 00:21:30.412 --> 00:21:33.882
  • You see, ladies and gentlemen, just as god has made some
  • 00:21:33.882 --> 00:21:36.318
  • Unconditional promises to the believing jews, he's made some
  • 00:21:36.318 --> 00:21:41.123
  • Unconditional promises to you and me that we bank on
  • 00:21:41.123 --> 00:21:43.658
  • Every day.
  • 00:21:43.658 --> 00:21:45.060
  • In john 10:28 jesus said, "i give eternal life to them and no
  • 00:21:45.060 --> 00:21:50.565
  • Man shall snatch them out of my hands."
  • 00:21:50.565 --> 00:21:53.835
  • In hebrews 7:25, it says, "in as much, christ is able to save
  • 00:21:53.835 --> 00:21:59.541
  • Forever those who come to god through him, and he lives to
  • 00:21:59.541 --> 00:22:03.445
  • Make intercession for them."
  • 00:22:03.445 --> 00:22:05.247
  • In hebrews 13:5, jesus promised, "i will never leave you, nor
  • 00:22:05.247 --> 00:22:10.018
  • Will i forsake you."
  • 00:22:10.018 --> 00:22:12.687
  • The same god who can be trusted to keep his promises to israel
  • 00:22:12.687 --> 00:22:17.092
  • Is the same god we are dependent upon to keep his unconditional
  • 00:22:17.092 --> 00:22:21.730
  • Eternal promise to us.
  • 00:22:21.730 --> 00:22:24.132
  • If god changes this covenant with israel, if god revokes this
  • 00:22:24.132 --> 00:22:30.639
  • Promise he made to israel, how do we know he won't do the same
  • 00:22:30.639 --> 00:22:33.742
  • To us?
  • 00:22:33.742 --> 00:22:35.076
  • How do we know one day when we stand before him in judgment,
  • 00:22:35.076 --> 00:22:38.880
  • How do we know god won't say to us, "well, you know, i told you
  • 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:42.083
  • One time i was gonna save you by grace, but i've changed my mind.
  • 00:22:42.083 --> 00:22:46.521
  • It's gonna be on the basis of your works and guess what?
  • 00:22:46.521 --> 00:22:50.392
  • You don't have enough."
  • 00:22:50.392 --> 00:22:52.427
  • What's to keep god from doing that?
  • 00:22:52.427 --> 00:22:54.629
  • It is the character of god himself.
  • 00:22:54.629 --> 00:22:58.200
  • Romans 11:29 says, "for the gifts and the calling of god
  • 00:22:58.200 --> 00:23:03.672
  • Are irrevocable."
  • 00:23:03.672 --> 00:23:06.908
  • And just as we can depend upon the character of god to secure
  • 00:23:06.908 --> 00:23:11.112
  • The unconditional promises made to us, we can depend that god is
  • 00:23:11.112 --> 00:23:15.750
  • Going to keep his unconditional promise to abraham and
  • 00:23:15.750 --> 00:23:19.087
  • His descendants.
  • 00:23:19.087 --> 00:23:20.755
  • A promise that has great ramifications for the world in
  • 00:23:20.755 --> 00:23:25.093
  • The years ahead, as we'll see in this series, "perfect ending."
  • 00:23:25.093 --> 00:23:30.565
  • Jeffress: god always keeps his promises.
  • 00:23:34.469 --> 00:23:37.305
  • And over the next few weeks, we'll discover other great
  • 00:23:37.305 --> 00:23:40.075
  • Promises in the bible that relate to christ's second coming
  • 00:23:40.075 --> 00:23:44.379
  • And our eternal future in heaven.
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  • Jeffress: the end-time events are going to be
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  • Very frightening.
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  • It's going to consist of economic turmoil.
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  • There'll be wars, there'll be unprecedented persecution.
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  • But fortunately christians don't have to fear that period
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  • Of time.
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  • God's word.
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  • Jeffress: god's promise to abraham was literal, eternal,
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  • And unconditional.
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  • And just as god's promise to abraham is secure, we can take
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  • Comfort in knowing that god will keep his promise to us as well.
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  • The same god who keeps his promises to israel is the same
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  • God who will keep his promises to us.
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  • Well, there's much more to cover on this timeline of
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  • Biblical prophecy.
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  • And i hope you'll join us again next time when we get a bird's
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  • Eye view of the entire landscape of the end times.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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  • Series, "perfect ending."
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  • Jeffress: i'm convinced one reason people are so confused
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  • About bible prophecy is they've never seen the
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  • Big picture before.
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  • They've never seen the map.
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  • And so they're confused about it.
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  • You know, most christians have a vague understanding about the
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  • End times.
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  • They know things are supposed to get worse and worse, jesus is
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  • Coming back, and we're gonna live happily ever after.
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  • But if you ask most christians to explain the events of bible
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  • Prophecy, most christians would break out in a cold sweat.
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  • They couldn't do that.
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