Jesus the King (Walk Thru the Bible Week 46)

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Now, let's join our host, Susan Michael.

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Hey there.

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We are going to experience the final week of Jesus' life and listen as he begins to prepare

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his disciples for what lies ahead and about his eventual return.

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So join me.

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This week we are reading in the Daily Bible for the dates of November the 12th through

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the 18th, or that would be pages 1449 through 1477.

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Let me do a quick review.

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Last week we read how that Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead in Bethany, and the chief

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priests and the leaders then planned to arrest him.

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So Jesus enters Jerusalem and the crowds are hailing him as king, and this really worries

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the leadership there.

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We read how that he wept over Jerusalem because they didn't recognize him.

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And he entered the temple, he cleansed it of the money changers and the merchandising,

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and then it says he returned back to Bethany.

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So I want us to get a picture here of the physical setting, what's going on in this

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final week of Jesus' life because Bethany is over here in the east.

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And to go from Bethany to Jerusalem, you go up the Mount of Olives and come down the Mount

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of Olives through the Kidron Valley and then up to Jerusalem to the Temple Mount.

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And this is really where Jesus spent his last week.

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He went from Bethany, he spent a lot of time on the Mount of Olives, he was going into

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Jerusalem and it said he would come back to the Mount of Olives.

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Sometimes he went all the way back to Bethany for the night.

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And so you have this going back and forward.

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The Mount of Olives is an amazing place where from there he has what's called the Olivet

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Discourse, where we're going to be talking about his teachings of the disciples of the

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days that were to come.

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But what a magnificent view from the Mount of Olives overlooking that Temple Mount, the

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city of Jerusalem.

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And what a beautiful place for Jesus to look out over the city and to weep over it, to

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lament over it, to say, oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem.

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For him to teach his disciples what's coming to the Temple Mount to Jerusalem.

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It's from here on the Mount of Olives.

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And it's one day when they are leaving the Temple, coming back up to the Mount of Olives

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that the disciples say, look, Jesus, look at this magnificent building of the Temple.

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And you see now why such a great view from the Mount of Olives.

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And they were so proud of the Temple.

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And as we explained a couple of weeks ago, the second Temple was greatly enhanced and

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enlarged and completely rebuilt by Herod the Great.

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He was an amazing builder, one of the top builders in the entire Roman Empire.

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This was the largest Temple complex in the world.

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It was magnificent.

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It was gold.

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It was beautiful.

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And so you can see how the Jewish people would find great pride in this because their Temple,

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the Temple to the God of Israel was such a magnificent building.

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And Jesus says to them, not one stone will be left on another and everyone will be thrown

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down.

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He was predicting the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount and exile.

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He says you'll be taken out into the nations.

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And today when you go with me to Jerusalem, we will show you right below the Temple Mount

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are all these stones that they've uncovered that they were literally thrown off of the

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top of the Temple down into the plateau below.

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And you can see those stones today just as Jesus said that it would happen.

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So the disciples then they're sitting on the Mount of Olives and they ask them, then,

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well, when will this happen?

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And what will be the sign of your coming?

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And then this begins a very long discourse here in Matthew 24 where Jesus is telling

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them what's going to happen to Jerusalem and the destruction.

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And then he segues into and what his return is going to be like.

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This is what they asked him.

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But when you're reading here, you have to understand they asked him two questions.

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When will this happen?

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The destruction of the Temple and what will be the sign of your coming?

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And so maybe they thought it would all be at the same time, but I don't.

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I think they're literally asking him these two questions.

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So he answers the two questions.

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Some people read this is all about the Roman destruction and has nothing to do with Jesus

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the second return.

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I think that's I don't know how they get that.

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And other people read it and they think that it's all going to happen in the future.

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But I really think that part of it did already happen under the Roman Empire and part of

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it clearly has not happened and is going to happen at Jesus's return.

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And we can sort of see the break in this when he begins to describe his coming as lightning.

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When I'm reading through this whole thing, I see that point is when he segues away from

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the Roman destruction because then he's going to say, but this is what it's going to be

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like when the Son of Man returns.

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It's going to be like lightning across the sky.

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And from then on, he's talking about future events when he returns.

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There's an interesting verse, verse 30.

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This is Matthew 24 30, where he says this, then all peoples of earth will mourn when

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they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds.

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I want to point out here the word peoples of the earth.

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That's the way the NIV translated it as peoples of the earth.

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But literally it is the tribes or the peoples of the land.

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The word for land is sometimes translated earth, but there's a few times they do that

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that really I don't think it's correct.

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I think they're saying that all the people of the land, the land of Israel, that all

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the tribes of the land will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming in the clouds.

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That's exactly what Zechariah said, that they would mourn as for an only Son when they see

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the one whom they have pierced.

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And then in Revelation 1, verse 7, it confirms what I'm saying.

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And it says this, look, he is coming with the clouds and every eye will see him, even

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those who pierced him and all peoples on earth or tribes of the land will mourn because

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of him.

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So shall it be, amen.

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So why would all the peoples of the earth mourn when they see Jesus returning in the clouds?

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I really think it's talking about the peoples of the land of Israel.

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Those who pierced him, they're going to mourn, just as Zechariah said.

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Going down a few verses, verse 34, is another hard to understand verse because of the translation.

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And it says this, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have

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happened.

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Well, we read that, it sounds like, whoa, Jesus is saying that that generation of people

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would not pass away.

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So all of this must going to be happening in their lifetime.

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But that's not necessarily what the word generation means.

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It is the word jensa and it's been translated as generation, but it can also be translated

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as people group.

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So I believe when you take this in context, clearly he wasn't saying this generation because

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that didn't happen, right?

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But when you translate it as this people will certainly not pass away until all these things

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have happened.

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And so I just want to remind you, Isaiah 66 verse 22, it says this, as the new heavens

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and the new earth that I make will endure before me declares the Lord, so will your

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name and descendants endure.

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So God had promised this people will endure, this people will be my people, my nation forever.

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And so Jesus is affirming that context.

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This people will not pass away.

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In other words, all this destruction, all these things that are going to happen, but

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your future is secure because God had always promised the survival of the Jewish people

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that they would remain before him.

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So but he tells them that no one knows the timing of this except the father.

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And then he goes into parables about the importance of watchfulness and the importance

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of faithfulness.

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Of course, if we're going to go through 2000 years of history awaiting his return, it takes

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watchfulness and it takes faithfulness.

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And so that was his lesson.

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Moving on into Matthew 25 is another astounding part of Jesus's instruction to his disciples.

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And I want to take a minute here.

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So in Matthew 25, Jesus is describing his return.

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Here he describes his return as the king who will judge the nations.

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Now Jesus is always the son of David who will take up the throne of David, whether it's

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his first coming or his second coming.

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But clearly in his second coming, he is coming as the king and he's going to judge the nations.

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And this is a bit of a shift for the disciples because they've seen him now as the king.

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As the great teacher, the son of God, the suffering servant, they haven't seen him in

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his glory as king on the throne.

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So here he's describing to them how that his coming is going to be in that way.

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And so this is what he says beginning with verse 31.

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When the son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, he will sit on his

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glorious throne.

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All the nations will be gathered before him and he will separate the people, one from

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another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

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He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

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Then the king will say to those on his right, Come, you who are blessed by my Father, take

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your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

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For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat.

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I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink.

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I was a stranger and you invited me in.

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I needed clothes and you clothed me.

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I was sick and you looked after me.

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I was in prison and you came to visit me.

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Then the righteous will answer him, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you or

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thirsty and give you something to drink?

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When did we see you a stranger and invite you in or needing clothes and clothes you?

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When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?

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And the king will reply, Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these

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brothers and sisters of mine, you did it for me.

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And then he'll say to those on his left, depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal

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fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

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And then he repeats for I was hungry and you gave me nothing, I was thirsty and you gave

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me nothing and he repeats it all.

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So I want to go back.

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What have we read here?

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That when Jesus comes to earth in his glory and all the angels with him, he will take

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up his glorious throne and all the nations will be gathered before him.

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Where is this going to happen?

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Is he coming to heaven?

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No, he's coming to earth.

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And it says he will separate the people, one from the other as a shepherd separates the

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sheep from the goats.

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And then he's going to bless the sheep and with the kingdom, take your inheritance, the

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kingdom prepared for you, sense the creation of the world.

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And then they're going to say, but how, when did we do all these things?

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And he says, because you did it to the least of my brothers and sisters.

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Who are Jesus's brothers and sisters?

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They are the Jewish people.

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Can we take this verse and expand it to include the church spiritually?

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Yes, because we also are his brothers and sisters.

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We are part of the body of Christ, but we should never take away the original context.

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When Jesus said these words, his brothers and sisters were the Jewish people.

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And that is in keeping with the Hebrew prophets Zechariah and Joel, who said that the nations

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will be judged according to their treatment of his people Israel.

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This is what Jesus is reinforcing here.

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So Jesus is coming to earth as king to take up the throne of David in Jerusalem on earth.

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And he's going to judge the nations based on their treatment of the Jewish people.

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I believe also those nations that persecuted the church, we have had more martyrs in recent

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years and throughout history.

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Those nations are going to pay a price for that.

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They will.

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And heaven has a special place for the martyrs.

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Now in Luke 21, it says that each day Jesus was teaching in the temple and each evening

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he would go back out to the Mount of Olives and the people came early in the morning to

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hear him.

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Then it goes on and it says, but still they would not believe in him.

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Yet at the same time, many amongst the leaders believed in him.

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But because of the Pharisees, they would not openly.

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So this seems to contradict itself and it seems to contradict what we read last week

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where many believed in him.

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So I think that we need to read this week's passage there in Luke 21.

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We need to read it within context of what we read last week and all those scriptures

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I quoted last week.

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Yes, many believed in Jesus.

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Yes, many did not believe in Jesus.

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Yes, the leadership sought to arrest him and to kill him.

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But even some of the leaders secretly believed in him.

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So yes, yes, it's all true.

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All right, so now let's talk a little bit more about Passover.

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So it's time to prepare for the Passover meal.

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And Jesus sends the disciples into the city and tells them to look for a man carrying

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a water jar and that they're then to follow him back and to ask to speak to the master

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of the house.

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And that's how they're going to find the upper room that will be prepared for them to have

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the Passover.

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I go into much more detail about this in the 3D Jesus episode six.

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If you'd like to listen to that, I'm just going to quickly reference it now as we move

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on.

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But why would a man be carrying a water jar?

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Because that was the job of the women.

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The women went down to the pool of Siloam and they got the water and to other sources

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of water.

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It was the women's job.

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So more than likely Jesus is describing a man that's part of the Essen movement because

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the Essenes held celibacy in very high regard.

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And that's why I'm suspicious that it's possible Bethany was an Essen community and it's possible

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that Lazarus and his two sisters were Essenes.

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That's why they weren't married.

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But that's all just conjecture.

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The Bible doesn't say that.

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But we do know that in Jerusalem there was the Essen gate and there was a section of Jerusalem

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for the Essenes.

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And they were very holy people, very observant, but they were anti-temple.

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They wouldn't have anything to do with the temple and the priesthood there.

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And there was a community down at the Dead Sea, which were probably a former priest down

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at the Dead Sea, living a very, very austere lifestyle down in the desert, very holy, very

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righteous, and that's where they were writing the manuscripts and all.

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But there were Essenes throughout the whole nation of Israel.

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They were throughout the nation.

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Some of them were everyday people.

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Some were married.

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But there were those that were celibates, but not priests.

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And nevertheless, the Essenes did have a section in Jerusalem and they would have had their

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Passover two days earlier than the rest of the Jewish world because they had their own

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calendar.

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And at their Passover dinner they did not have lamb because they did not in any way

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participate in the sacrifice of the lambs in the temple.

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And so the whole scenario here doesn't make a lot of sense why Jesus had Passover dinner

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too early for Passover because Passover was Friday night.

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That was the dinner.

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The lambs were slaying on Friday afternoon when Jesus was hanging on the cross and died.

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So why did he have Passover?

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Was it the night before or two nights earlier?

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I get into more detail in the 3D Jesus, but if he was on the Essen calendar and had it

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in Essen Passover without lamb that night, then it makes perfect sense.

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Okay, so now moving on, we know about the betrayal of Jesus by Judas.

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And so I just wanted to raise a question here.

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Why did Judas betray Jesus?

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We're never told why, but in a way it's almost as though Jesus knew what was going to happen.

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And some people have a theory when they read Jesus passing the bread to Judas, he's almost

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saying go do what you need to do.

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That's very, very interesting.

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What was Judas doing?

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And so it's possible that Judas had no intention of betraying Jesus to the point of crucifixion.

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And it is possible that he thought that by having them arrest Jesus, it was going to

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bring the whole thing to the surface, that Jesus' messiahship would be made known and

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that this would all be turned around and the movement would begin against Rome.

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And what happened is it blew up in his face.

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And when he realized that Jesus wasn't going to instigate this revolt against Rome and he

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wasn't, this wasn't going to happen.

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That's when he said, what I've done is wrong.

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And I've betrayed innocent blood and he throws the 30 shekels into the temple and he goes

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and he hangs himself.

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And so it's just interesting little tidbit there.

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Now at the trial, another question I want to ask, because as you're reading through these

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stories, I'm not going to repeat all the stories.

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But when they have the trial of Jesus, who is this crowd that's crying out for Barabbas

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and crying out for Jesus to be crucified?

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You've just read how that there were thousands of Jewish people proclaiming Jesus as king.

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They were following him.

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They believed in him.

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They knew about the miracles.

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So I recently read an article, it really disturbed me because the writer, who I don't

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think they're just a journalist, and they're writing this article and said the same Jewish

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people that were proclaiming him king on the triumphal entry now turned against him and

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were crying out for him to be crucified.

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And I don't think that's right.

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I don't think it was the same Jewish people.

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I think this crowd was part of the Sanhedrin, the priestly crowd.

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These were their people, whether they were paid to be there or whether they were forced

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to be there or whether they were there willingly, we don't know.

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part of the priestly crowd because the priest did not want any kind of rebellion or revolt.

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They weren't going to let them in if they had a Galilean accent.

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If they've been seen with Jesus, they were not going to let them in.

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And so I don't think that we can make this accusation that I read in that disturbing

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article.

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So now in John 17, we have a beautiful section here where Jesus begins to pray for his disciples.

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He knows that his time is coming to an end.

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And he prays for them.

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And he prays for all those who followed him and believed in him.

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And then he prayed for you and me.

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Yes, he prayed for all those who will come to believe through the disciples.

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And that's you and me, even though we don't know the disciples personally, what they started

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and what they passed on, you and I have come to know the Lord because of it.

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And so Jesus prayed for us and he prayed that we would know him and that we would be in unity.

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And he said that the last verse, he says that the world does not know you.

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And I have made you known to them and I will continue to make you known in order that the

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love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.

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So he says here, the world does not know you, Lord, but I have made you known to them.

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This was Jesus' mission.

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It was to make the Father known to the Jewish people.

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And some rejected it.

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Some were blinded and hardened.

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Others believed and here he prays for them that they would have the love that he has

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known of the Father and that one day he himself will be in them.

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Now how will that happen?

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But by the power of the Holy Spirit, when the Holy Spirit is poured out upon his believers.

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And so then we move into the story of Jesus' crucifixion in quite prophetically, over his

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head is the sign, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.

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Of course, he dies under that sign, hits all over, his side is pierced, his blood is spilt

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out for the sins of the world and then he is buried in a tomb that is sealed and has

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a Roman guard outside.

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Can you imagine if you had been one of his followers, if you had been one of the thousands

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or if you had been one of the disciples or if you had been one of his brothers or Mary's

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mother and you had such high hopes, it looks like it is all over.

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And this sarcastic sign over his head, King of the Jews, it was nothing but a ruse.

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But how prophetic that sign is that one day he is returning and he is going to take up

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that throne in the sight of everyone and those who pierced him are going to mourn.

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He is going to reveal himself to them at that point.

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I want to have one closing point here.

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Is that God used the Jewish people, the Jewish leaders that rejected Jesus, that turned him

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over to the Romans to be crucified.

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God used them and their unbelief to bring up this sacrifice, this atoning sacrifice for

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the sins of the world and we have blamed them for it ever since.

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Yes, it is true that the Romans were the ones to crucify him.

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It is true Jesus had the power to lay down his life or pick it up again.

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He could have called 10,000 angels.

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It is true he died for our sin.

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There is lots of blame to go around but the Jewish people are the ones that called for

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his crucifixion and handed him over to die and we have blamed them for it ever since.

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But I want to end with the words of Jesus.

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He prayed for them from the cross and he said, Father forgive them for they know not what

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they are doing.

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So with that I want to remind you of our resources this week.

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We are going to link to them in today's show notes.

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The 3D Jesus episode 6 is going to go into more detail than I was able to today on some

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of this story.

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And then we have the DVDs for sale in our store written in stone, Jesus of Nazareth

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and written in stone, the secrets of the temple where you can see all these sites and just

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visualize these events.

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In the life of Jesus.

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Okay, enjoy your reading this week.

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I will see you back here next week and until then, God bless.