Jesus' Resurrection and Return (3D Jesus Part 7)

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And now here's our host, Susan Michael.

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Well, hey there.

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Welcome back.

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This is the 3D Jesus series and this is our final week seven.

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Today we're going to talk about the resurrection and the ascension and the return of Jesus.

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Now last week we ended with Jesus, his trial, his crucifixion, and he was put into the tomb

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before the Sabbath, the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea.

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We're going to pick up this week now to talk about a couple of items in this story.

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So Jesus was resurrected from the dead as we know and he appeared on earth for 40 days

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and he appeared to over 500 people who saw him.

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And this started a movement.

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A lot of people had seen him, realized that he was resurrected, and that burst and began

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the church which really was birthed on the day of Pentecost.

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But that's how we had hundreds gathered there, 120 gathered in the upper room.

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So let's talk about now, I want to talk about where was Golgotha?

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Where was Jesus crucified and where was he buried?

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When you go to Jerusalem today, you're going to see two different places that somewhat

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claim to be the garden or the tomb of Jesus.

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One is called the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

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And this church is built over the traditional site all the way back to the early Christians

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saying that this was the hill Golgotha and this was the tomb that Jesus was put in.

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A lot of Protestants and evangelicals don't really like the Church of the Holy Sepulcher

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because it is run, there's five different stations of the cross inside there and there's

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seven different denominations that have charge over certain areas of it and all those denominations

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are your liturgical churches.

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So they are Eastern Orthodox and Catholic.

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And so there is incense and there's icons and there's altars and also the church that

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you go into today is a thousand years old.

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It's a Crusader church, so it's dark and it's just not an inspiring experience, particularly

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for evangelicals and Protestants.

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And so about 100, 150 years ago there was a man that looked out his window in a nearby

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area right north of the old city of Jerusalem and he saw a hill that looked like a skull.

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And he said this could be Golgotha.

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And so they looked and they found some old tombs there and so they cultivated it and

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there had obviously been a nice garden there at one time.

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And so they really, I think they thought that maybe this was the real tomb of Jesus.

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But as the years went by and archaeology developed, it's pretty well been proven that the tomb,

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that the Church of the Holy Sepulcher is built over, is a first century tomb.

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And the other one that's in what we call the garden tomb, in a lovely garden and a lovely

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setting and you get to see an empty tomb there.

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It's a wonderful place to hold services and meditation.

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That actual tomb is from centuries before the time of Jesus.

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So it's not a first century tomb.

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So last year they actually uncovered or could have been two years ago now.

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They uncovered in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher for the first time in many years and got down

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to the first century tomb level and they were able to verify that it is a first century

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tomb.

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So more than likely that is the tomb that Jesus was laid in.

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And so that church today is inside the city walls and we know that Golgotha was outside

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of the city because they didn't execute people inside Jerusalem.

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They executed them outside the city.

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But at the time of Jesus, the place where this church is was outside the city walls.

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And it's in an area that was a known quarry.

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So the fact that there would have been a limestone hill makes perfect sense and then tombs nearby,

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it all really makes perfect sense.

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But when you go into the church, you can't see anything unless you stand in line for

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a long, long time and then you crawl down some little hole and you see some little piece

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of stone.

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That's about all you're going to see.

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For Golgotha, you climb upstairs and go into a place where there's an altar and under the

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altar there's a glass and you can look through the glass and you'll see stone.

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So supposedly that's part of the top of Golgotha.

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We do know that Jesus was not crucified on top of Golgotha because the Romans did not

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execute people up out of sight, they executed people as a warning to others that this is

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what will happen to you if you disobey.

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And so they actually executed them along a busy road so that many people would see them.

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So he would have been executed down below the hill itself.

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And then when he died taken to what must have been a nearby tomb.

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So the garden tomb, you'll go there when you go with me to Jerusalem.

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It's a lovely garden with birds singing and you can really have some prayer time and some

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worship time and visualizing a tomb like what Jesus would have been buried in.

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Now, the Mount of Olives.

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Also want to talk about the Mount of Olives because after Jesus was resurrected he appeared

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to his disciples and to over 500 people over a period of 40 days.

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And in Acts chapter 1 it says that he spent 40 days teaching them about the kingdom of

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God.

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Wow, we don't have any of those teachings.

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I would love to hear those teachings.

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I want he was teaching his disciples now that he was resurrected, now that they saw who

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he was, now that they had greater understanding.

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I would love to read or hear those teachings.

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But we don't have them.

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And then when the 40 days had come to an end, he is on the Mount of Olives.

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And he is bidding his farewell to his disciples.

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And now the Mount of Olives, the significance of the Mount of Olives as the place for Jesus'

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ascension.

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And also I believe the place of his return because the angels said he will return in

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like manner as you see him going.

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And I believe that that entails also the place and I'll come to that in a minute.

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So the Mount of Olives because it is right there, it's actually 80 meters higher than

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the Temple Mount.

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So from the Mount of Olives you have this magnificent view of the Temple at that time,

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of the Temple Mount, of the whole city of Jerusalem.

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It is really magnificent.

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We love to spend time on the Mount of Olives and do some teaching about this history and

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about the city of Jerusalem.

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So also because it's right there facing the Temple, it is a burial site.

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It's been a burial site for 3,000 years.

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And there are over 150,000 Jewish graves on the Mount of Olives.

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Now the Mount of Olives is first mentioned in connection with King David and we read

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about it in 2 Samuel 15.

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And David is being betrayed by his son Absalom.

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And Absalom has proclaimed himself as king in Hebron and David knows that he's just going

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to come up now to Jerusalem and take over and that he's got the loyalty of a lot of

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the people.

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And so David is fleeing Jerusalem and it says that he leaves and he goes through or across

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the Keydron Valley and up the Mount of Olives and he's weeping.

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Now I want you to just remember the story of Jesus, the son of David, coming to the

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Mount of Olives and looking out over Jerusalem and weeping for the city.

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You could say David was a type and a shadow of Jesus.

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Whatever, you can't make this stuff up.

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Now moving on, the book of Ezekiel also has a very, very interesting vision that once

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again tells about the significance of the Mount of Olives and in this vision he sees

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the cherubim, which are the angels.

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So these cherubim and above them is the glory of God and it says, and then the glory of

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the Lord went up from the midst of Jerusalem, of the city, and stood upon the mountain which

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is to the east side of the city.

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And so it is believed that the presence of God left the temple at a certain time when

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the Jewish people had betrayed the Lord, judgment was coming, the city was being taken over,

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being destroyed.

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At some point in there that the presence of God left the city and here Ezekiel sees it

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leaving from the Mount of Olives.

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Of course we Christians consider Jesus to be that presence of God, that the glory of

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God in Jesus and so where does he leave from?

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The Mount of Olives.

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But now, because there's another prophecy about the Mount of Olives and this is in Zechariah,

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I'm going to read it to you in a minute, but the prophecy here says that the Lord is going

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to stand, is going to come and stand on the Mount of Olives, there will be a great earthquake

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and it will be divided the north from the south.

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So because of this prophecy that the Lord, the Messiah, they believe, the Jews believe,

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is going to come from the Mount of Olives to the Mount of Olives and then enter the

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temple from the east gate.

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And so because of that they are buried on the Mount of Olives so that they will be

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the first to be resurrected and so they're buried with their feet towards the temple

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and their heads towards the Mount of Olives so that when they are resurrected they are

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facing the temple and they just go straight in.

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So it's a very significant place in the Scriptures and for the Jewish people.

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Now it's from here the Mount of Olives that Jesus wept over Jerusalem and he predicted

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its destruction.

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But he also predicted the return of the Jewish people when he said that Jerusalem will be

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trampled by the Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled.

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So he was predicting the Gentiles would rule the city until a certain time in history,

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in the future, when that time is over.

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And we've seen that time end in our lifetimes.

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In 1967 Israel had full sovereignty over all of Jerusalem, over the old city, over the

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Mount of Olives, over the east side of the city, west side of the city, the whole city

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came under Jewish sovereignty.

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That was the day that Jesus was talking about when the time of the Gentiles was fulfilled.

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It would be back under Jewish sovereignty.

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Now he also said to the city of Jerusalem, you will not see me again until you say, Baruch

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Habab Hashem Adonai, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

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Now what does that mean?

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Well Baruch Habab means welcome.

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If you go to the home of an Israeli today, they're going to open the door, they're going

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to say Baruch Habab or Bruckim Habayim if you're plural.

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But it means welcome.

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So he's saying, you're not going to see me again until you welcome me back.

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Now Zechariah 12-14 describes these very events that Jesus is alluding to.

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I want to just read a few passages to you from Zechariah 12.

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It says, On that day when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will

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make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all nations, and all who try to move it will be injured

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themselves, skipping down.

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So we're talking about a day of war, a day when the nations come against Jerusalem.

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And so skipping down now he says, And I will pour out upon the house of David in the inhabitants

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of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and supplication, and they will look upon me the one they have

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pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly

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for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

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On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be great.

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And it says a few lines later, The land will mourn.

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I believe this is a day of welcoming when the people of Israel look upon the Messiah

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and recognize him for who he is, and they welcome him back.

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Because then in Zechariah 13 it says, And on that day a fountain will be opened to the

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house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from their sin and impurity.

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It's going to be a one beautiful day, and then in Zechariah 14 it goes on to say, Then

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the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as he fights on a day of battle.

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On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount

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of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley with half of

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the mountain moving north and half moving south.

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You will flee by my mountain valley.

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Skipping on down, Then the Lord will come, Then the Lord my God will come, and all the

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holy ones with him.

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On that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness.

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It will be a unique day, a day known only to the Lord, with no distinction between day

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and night.

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When evening comes there will be light.

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On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea,

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and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea.

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In summer and in winter the Lord will be king over the whole earth.

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On that day there will be one Lord and His name, the only name.

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Wow!

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That is the day that we are all looking for and we see it all coming together here in

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these chapters, Zechariah 12 through 14.

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Now I want to talk just a minute before I close out this series about the concept that

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the Jews rejected Jesus and that is why he was crucified.

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This has been a very, very troubling concept throughout history and many church fathers

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talk condemnation and contempt of the Jewish people because of the crucifixion of Jesus.

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So I just want to make a few observations here.

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It is a very complicated issue but a few observations if you will allow me.

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First of all we have heard the story.

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It was a handful of Sadducees that sent Jesus to his death.

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It wasn't the crowds in Jerusalem.

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It wasn't all the Pharisees.

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It was a handful of Sadducees on the Sanhedrin.

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They turned him over to the Romans and it was the Romans who crucified Jesus.

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Now he died because of our sin.

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So there is plenty of blame to go around for the death of Jesus.

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And I just want to bring that up.

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Secondly, I want to talk about all the Jewish people that accepted Jesus because large numbers

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followed him.

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He was so popular that the priests were afraid to arrest him during the holiday.

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They needed to do it before and before anybody knew about it.

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And after the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem, 3,000 in one day were baptized.

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So there was a large number of people following Jesus.

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And the entire leadership of the early church was Jewish.

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You know, I am so thankful for the Jews that accepted Jesus because they started the early

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church.

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They led the early church.

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And then as Gentiles started coming into the church, something that they had never ever

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expected, they had to grapple with this.

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They went back to the scriptures and they came to the decision that we, Gentiles, could

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come in freely, that we did not have to become Jewish.

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We did not have to obey the Mosaic law that was put on the Jewish people and that we could

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come straight to Jesus.

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And I am so thankful for them.

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They were, most of them were martyred.

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They sacrificed greatly because of their faith in Jesus.

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So I don't know how many rejected Jesus.

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It was a small number, but they were powerful.

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They had the power.

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But there were many that accepted him and that followed him and loved him.

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And I am so grateful for them because they got the church started and we need to be grateful

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for them.

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Now my closing point.

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What does all this mean for you?

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Now I hope Jesus has come alive to you.

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While I have concentrated on the physical and the cultural and the religious context

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of Jesus, I hope that he has just kind of come alive for you.

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He makes more sense.

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You understand how real he was and how true these stories are about him.

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But I want to close this series by talking about the meaning.

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Jesus was born into a Jewish world because that was the context that God had prepared

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for the Messiah.

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They were the people to whom God had revealed the concept of sin and the concept of blood

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sacrifice as a tonement for sin.

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They were the people to whom he had promised a Messiah.

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That's why Jesus came as Jewish.

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It had all been prepared for him.

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And so he comes into this context.

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Now our sins had separated us from a very righteous and holy God who had created us so that we

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could actually be his family, but we had fallen into sin and there was a barrier between us.

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So he came to earth as a man, as Jesus, and paid the price for our sins so that we could

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walk in fellowship with him.

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You know, I want to liken it to a courtroom.

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You go in and you are as guilty as everything.

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You are bound by chains.

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You've been brought out of the jail.

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You know you're guilty.

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You did it.

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Whatever this accusation is, you know you did it.

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You are guilty and you're just waiting for the judge to say what your sentence is.

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And the judge looks at you and he says, your sentence has been paid.

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And he hits the gavel.

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You are free to go.

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That's what Jesus did for us.

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He had paid the price.

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He did the prison time for us so that we could go free.

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That's how much our God loved us and loves us today.

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And that is the price that Jesus paid on our behalf.

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Now if you don't yet know Jesus as your personal savior and you haven't had that moment of

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freedom when the chains fall away and you're pronounced, you're free to go and you walk

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free of the burden of sin that you've been carrying, if you haven't experienced that,

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just ask Jesus to do it in your life right now.

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Ask Him to come into your heart and to set you free and that you will follow Him.

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Your life will never be the same.

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Jesus will have become totally 3D for you.

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So that wraps up our series.

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I have one resource that I want to recommend for you.

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We link to it down below in the show notes and it's a book.

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It's called It Must Be Finished, Making Sense of the Return of Jesus.

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I highly recommend this book.

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It talks not just about the return of Jesus, but why Jesus had to leave, why He must return

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and ties the whole Bible together in a really, really beautiful way.

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It will all make perfect sense.

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So please, pick up your copy.

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It must be finished.

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So that does it for our 3D Jesus series.

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Come back next time.

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We're going to give you links to the resources that we mentioned and we've got a special

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announcement next week of our next series.

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So I'll see you back then.

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Until then, God bless.

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