Episode Transcript
If you take your Bibles and turn to Hosea chapter 10, Hosea chapter 10,
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God willing we'll be expounding verse 9 this morning.
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Originally I had it titled verse 9 and 10 when I started doing my study.
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And God just blessed and I can't even get into 10, there's so much in 9.
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And I just had such a wonderful study in God's Word.
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Our study begins in verse 9 this morning where Hosea says, if you look now in Hosea 10, 9, "O Israel,
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thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah."
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Thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah. Let's pray.
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Father, we thank You so much for Your precious Word.
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Thank You for the great time we've had together this morning.
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I want to thank You for the people who are here and for those who've tuned in as well.
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What wonderful fellowship it is, Lord.
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What a wonderful opportunity, Father.
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What a wonderful privilege to be able to open Your Word and literally hear from our Creator.
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And Father, we hear now through a book.
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And one day, Father, Lord, the Word will come back to us in person as it did before.
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We'll hear from Him for all eternity.
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But as for now, Lord, I pray that we'll have our eyes opened by Your Spirit this morning
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to perceive Your wonderful truth which is just as true and just as powerful and transforming,
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Father God.
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Lord, as it would be if the Savior spoke at Himself standing here this morning,
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we thank You in Jesus' name.
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Glorify Your name, Father.
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May all eyes be on You.
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Amen.
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"O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah or since the days of Gibeah."
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Israel, you have sinned since the days of Gibeah.
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In the days of Gibeah, it's referring to a terrible time in Israel's history.
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It was a time when some homosexual men, very much like in the time of Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah,
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when some homosexual men of Gibeah, a city that belonged to the tribe of Benjamin.
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Now, remember there were 12 tribes of Israel.
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And one of the tribes was the tribe of Benjamin and Gibeah was a city within the tribe of Benjamin.
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And they wanted to rape another male Israelite that happened to be traveling through town
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and staying the night at another person's home.
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A very terrible time.
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And at the urging of that man, that good man in the city, they raped the man's wife instead of him.
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All night long, they raped her until she died.
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And when the other tribes of Israel heard about this,
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they were furious at the wickedness of what had happened in Gibeah.
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And they asked the man what happened to his wife.
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And in Judges chapter 20, we're going to read some snippets from there.
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Judges chapter 20 verses 4 through 14, it says,
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"And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said,
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'I came into Gibeah that belonged to Benjamin, I and my concubine to Lodge.
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And the men of Gibeah rose against me and beset the house round about upon me by night
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and thought to have slain me and my concubine have they forced or raped that she is dead.
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And I took my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the
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inheritance of Israel, for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
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Behold, you are all the children of Israel. Give here your advice and counsel.'
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And all the people arose as one man saying, 'We will not any of us go to his tent.
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Neither will any of us will we any of us turn into his house.
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But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah.
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We will go up by lot against it and we will take 10 men of and 100 throughout all the tribes of Israel.
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And in 100 of a thousand and a thousand of 10,000 to fetch
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a victual for the people that they may do when they come to Gibeah, Benjamin, according to all
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the folly that they have wrought in Israel. So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city,
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knit together as one man. And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin saying,
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'What wickedness is this that is done among you? Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of
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Bilal which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel.'
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But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren, the children of Israel.
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But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah to go out
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to battle against the children of Israel. So let me put this in short for you.
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When this man's wife was raped until she died, as gross as it is, he cut her up into pieces,
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sent her body parts throughout the different tribes of Israel, the shock factor.
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And when they said, 'What is this all about?' when this portion of a woman's cadaver comes,
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he says, 'Well here's what happened. This is what happened to my concubine, to my wife.'
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And so all the other tribes said, 'Here's what we'll do. We're not going to put up with this.
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We're going to go to the tribe of Benjamin. Instead of making war against them, we're going to give
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them the option and say, 'Hey, this happened in your jurisdiction. So give us the men,
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turn the men over to us who raped this man's wife and killed her and then we'll put them to death.'
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That would have been the right thing to do, right? But they wouldn't listen to the other tribes.
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Instead, you know what the people of the tribe of Benjamin did? They said, 'No, we're not going to
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turn them over. Not only are we not going to turn them over, we're willing to stand here and fight
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against you to protect those murders and rapists.' Oh boy, that was a dark time in Israel's history.
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Verse 18 of that same chapter goes on to say, 'And the children of Israel arose and went up to
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the house of God and asked counsel of God and said, 'Which of us shall go up first to the battle
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against the children of Benjamin?' And the Lord said, 'Judah shall go up first.'
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He said, 'God, which one of us should go up to fight them first?' He said, 'Send the tribe of Judah
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to fight them first.' Verse 35, 'And the Lord smote Benjamin before Israel, and the children of
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Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day. 20 and 5,000 and 100 men, all these drew the sword,
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so the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten, for the men of Israel gave place to the
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Benjamites because they trusted unto their liars and weight, which they had set beside Gibeah.
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And the liars and weight hasted and rushed upon Gibeah, and the liars and weight drew themselves
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along and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.' That's what happened to Gibeah. They got
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whooped. Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liars and weight that
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they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city. And when the men of Israel
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retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about 30 persons.
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For they said, 'Surely they are smitten down before us as in the first battle.' But when the flame
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began to rise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them,
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and behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven. And when the men of Israel turned again,
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the men of Benjamin were amazed, for they saw that evil was come upon them. Therefore, they
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turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness, but the battle overtook
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them." If any of y'all are reading this in your own Bible, underscore the battle overtook them.
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If you have your Bible opened, it's very important. We'll get back to that in just a moment. And if
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you're not, that's okay. You can read it off the screen. "And them which came out of the cities
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they destroyed in the midst of them." So basically, here's what happened. Judah goes up first,
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and Judah starts to get beat. They send someone else, they start to get beat. By this time,
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Benjamin's feeling very, very bold that, man, we're whooping these people. What they didn't
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realize was God had a plan. And while they're out whooping them, God's got some Israelites
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sneaking behind them, and they set their city on fire and start killing everyone in the city.
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And they realize, we've been beat. We have been beat. They look in amazement. They thought
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everything was going fine. They thought they were going to be able to get away with this,
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do their wickedness, live any way they want to, and nobody could stop them because they were
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a powerful army. Now, that's how a nation can get. That's how a country can get. Our army's powerful.
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We'll live however we want to, and nobody's going to tell us what to do. Nobody's going to tell us
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how to live. Not even God's going to tell us how to live. That's the way people get. That's the way
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America has gotten. That's the way a lot of nations get. But you see here in the end, the battle
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overtook them. And so, Hosea in our text this morning said, "O Israel, thou has sinned from the
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days of Gibeah. You've been sinning since then." Now, they may have thought that they were better
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than the people of Gibeah in Hosea's day. They may have looked back and thought, "Man, that was a bad
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time in Israel's history during the days of Gibeah when those people raped that man's wife and killed
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her and they fought against all the Israelites. We're a whole lot better than them." Just as bad.
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Just as bad. Since the days of Gibeah, nothing had changed about their rebellious hearts.
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Sins may have looked different, but their rebellious heart, which is the root cause of all
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sin, had not changed at all. Now, the Jews in Jesus' time, they were just like the Jews in Hosea's time,
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which were no different than the Jews in Gibeah's time. You see how that works? The Jews in Jesus'
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time were just like the Jews in Hosea's time, which were no different than the Jews in Gibeah's time.
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The Jews in Jesus' time, they thought that they were better than the people in Hosea's time.
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But their sin was no different than their forefathers, which is why they rejected and
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killed Jesus in their time. In Matthew 23, verses 29 through 32, Jesus told them, "Woe unto you,
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scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the
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sepulchers of the righteous and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have
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been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves,
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that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your
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fathers.'" And what Jesus was saying is this, you think you're better than your forefathers who
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killed the prophets God sent to you. You make them nice grave sites. You bring flowers and put
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on the prophets' tombstones and you say, "Man, if that would have been us back then,
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we wouldn't have killed the prophets." He said, "But I want you to understand something. You are
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the children of the people who killed the prophets and you're going to fill up the measure of their
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sin." How? Because God had sent them the greatest prophet of all, his son, and they were going to
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kill him. They were no different than the people in Hosea's time. They were no different than the
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people in Gibya's time. The people in Gibya, they weren't very religious people. The people in Jesus
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Day were. But no matter how they acted on the outside, they were all rebels on the inside against
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the law of God. Here's a kingdom truth for you this morning. "Some sins may appear more dignified
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than others, but every sin is an assault on God's word. Some sins may appear more dignified than
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others, but every sin is an assault on God's word." Now, referring back to the people in Gibya, Hosea
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said, look back in your text now, in Hosea 10, 9, he said, "There they stood," which is where our
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title came from this morning. "There they stood, there stood the tribe of Benjamin in support of
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the wicked sinners in Gibya. There they stood against the people of Israel, against the word of
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God, against any righteous judgment. They stood against God. They stood against the people who
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came to enforce God's law. There in Gibya, they stood against God's holy word." When John the
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Baptist was decapitated for preaching the word of God, there they stood. You see how that principle
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goes? It's no different. When Jesus was on the cross and they're standing before him, mocking him,
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crucifying him, there they stood. When Jesus was in the tomb and they put these Roman soldiers
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around the tomb to make sure Jesus didn't get out of there, there they stood against the word of God.
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It's all the same wicked, stubborn heart of their father, the devil, standing against our father,
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God. One group of people, the seed of the serpent standing against the seed of the woman,
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the tribe of Benjamin, instead of being ashamed of what had taken place in their land, instead of
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joining in the other tribes, condemning the perpetrators for the rape and murder they
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committed, they came out to fight for their right to commit those heinous crimes and to live that way.
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As hard as it is to imagine, they came out to kill and listen and to die if necessary
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to ensure that the godlessness in their land might continue. Isn't that amazing? They were willing to
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kill. They were willing to be killed to make sure their ungodly way of life could continue.
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Here's a kingdom truth this morning, some people are not correctable.
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Some people are not correctable. They will be rebels to the death.
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So if God were to just give them a lot of pain and twist their arm, he could get them. No.
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People say, well, if people could just get a glimpse of hell, they would all repent and come
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to Jesus. No. Some people are not correctable. They will stand and fight to the death against
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their God. There are some people who can be correct with a loving rebuke.
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I had someone tell me one time, I said a word that wasn't a curse word, and it's a word that
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I've heard some of y'all people say before. And it's not considered to be a foul word by most people,
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but when you think about it, it is. And someone, when I said the word, this was years, years,
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years ago, back in my 20s, someone said, Richard, why do you want to say words like that? And I
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said, well, they're not wrong with that word. And he said, well, think about what you're saying.
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Think about what the word means. I started thinking about it. I realized, you know, really,
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that's a disgusting word that shouldn't come out of a Christian's mouth. And all it took was that
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loving rebuke to get me to change. I quit saying it. There are some people who can be corrected
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with chastisement. If you were to find them, whip them, imprison them, kick them out of the church,
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they'll straighten up real fast because they don't want to go through anything like that ever again.
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But there are some people who are so obstinate, who are so determined to stay their course of
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wickedness, that they're ready to kill for it and they're ready to die for it. And when people are
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willing to kill and be killed for their sins, that shows you the level of the commitment that they
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have to their sin in their rebellion against their Creator. Some people are so committed to their sin
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that no amount of love, no amount of reasoning, no amount of punishment, and no amount of fear
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will deter them. There's absolutely nothing that can be done to correct their wicked ways.
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Israel had sinned from the day of Gibeah. Nothing had changed. As they were rebellious
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unto the death in Gibeah's day, so they were rebellious unto death in the Hosea's day. God
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had sent them prophets, but they wouldn't listen to them. Nothing would change their ways. They
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would remain steadfast in their rebellion to the death when Assyria came. As Israel was in the days
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of Gibeah, as Israel was in the days of Hosea, so Israel was in the time of Christ, now listen,
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and so the world will be in the last days. And this is why Hosea's prophecies to Israel then
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are in-time prophecies as well. Hosea is a prophetic book, and so when we're reading what Hosea is
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writing to them, we have to know how and when do we interpret biblical prophecy. How do we know
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when a prophecy in that time applies to our time? How do we know? Does it move from one
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generation to the next? Is it just for those people there? Because people say all the time,
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"Well, that was written to Israel." We'll hear people say that. "Well, that doesn't apply to us."
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You've heard them say that, Doug. They don't know their Bible. They don't understand prophecy.
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Or that was written in the Old Testament. They may say that too. They don't understand. "Well,
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that's before Jesus died on the cross." They'll use all these things they don't understand.
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I want you to understand this morning how prophecy works. Hosea is a book of prophecy.
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Listen carefully. And prophecy is not limited to the time in which the prophecy was given.
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Prophecy is limited to the circumstance in which the prophecy was given.
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So here's a kingdom of truth for you this morning. Remember it. When it comes to prophecy,
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similar circumstances are treated as similar times. And we'll say it again. When it comes to prophecy,
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similar circumstances are treated as similar times. If the same circumstances,
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let me explain what I'm saying there. If the same circumstances in Hosea's time
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were also in Jesus' time and will be in the end time, you follow me? See what Hosea is doing here?
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By saying, "You've sinned since the days of Gibya." What Hosea is doing is this. What you saw in Gibya,
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when Gibya came out and stood against God to fight for their right to live in their lewdness,
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and how God came in and judged Gibya and caused them to be overtaken by the other 11 tribes,
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what happened there became prophetic. So if the same circumstances that happened in Gibya,
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when they were judged and they were overthrown, if those same circumstances happened again in Hosea's
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time, they can expect the same result. And if those same circumstances happened in Gibya's time,
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were in Hosea's time, and now were in Jesus' time, they also can expect the same result.
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Similar circumstances are treated as similar times. The prophecy here in those circumstances
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applies during this time because the same circumstances exist, applies now in Jesus'
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time because those same circumstances exist. They came out in full force against our God,
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against His Christ. They came out willing to kill Jesus Christ so they could maintain
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their rebellious lifestyle. And just a few years later, God sent the Roman government in
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and destroyed their city and their temple. And Jesus told them it was going to happen before He
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left. He said there won't be one stone left upon another. So when you get to the end time
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of our dispensation, you get to the end time of this world when those same circumstances exist
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again and people are willing to die for their wicked lifestyle and willing to stand against God,
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the same thing's going to happen again. God's going to come judge them and they also will fall
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before His army. This is how you treat biblical prophecy. Similar circumstances are treated
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as similar times. In Hosea's time, the people had first refused God's instruction.
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Then they had refused God's correction. So He would send prophets in, not going to listen.
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He would send correction. They would suffer economic times. They would suffer through
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war or whatever. They refused His correction. They would come underneath. They would become
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tributaries to another kingdom. They still refused His correction. So they refused God's
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instruction. That's His word. They refused His correction. That's His discipline. And if a
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nation refuses God's instruction, this is the kingdom and truth for you. People who won't
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receive correction must receive destruction. If a nation refuses God's instruction and then God's
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correction, the only thing left is their destruction. If they refuse instruction and
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correction, the only thing remaining is their destruction. People who won't receive correction
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must receive destruction. The people in Noah's time would not receive correction.
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So they received destruction. The people in Gibeah were the same way. They would not receive
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God's correction. So they received God's destruction. The people in Hosea's time were the same way.
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And the people in Jesus' time were the same way. As a whole, the nation of Israel would not receive
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the correction of John the Baptist. Yeah, there were a lot of people that came to John the Baptist,
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but the nation as a whole did not. And the people's leaders came out and they didn't
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believe John the Baptist. They didn't believe the Lord Jesus Himself. They were so committed to
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their sins that they were willing to kill for them. They cut off John's head and they crucified
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Jesus whom John preached. They were willing to stand against God and kill and die for their
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ungodliness. And that's why Rome came and attacked them after Jesus rose from the dead. They stood
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against God. That was the reason for, look back in your text now in Hosea 10 verse 9, that was the
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reason for the battle in Gibeah. See where it says the battle in Gibeah? That was why they had
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the battle in Gibeah when the 11 tribes came, look back in your text, against the children of
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iniquity. The children of iniquity fought for the perpetrators so that the 11 tribes would not
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overtake them. Now the King James translated, if you'll look there, the battle in Gibeah against
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the children of iniquity did not overtake them. I believe that's a very bad translation there.
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A lot of people always want to get on to any other translation of the King James and they'll
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try to pick something out and say, "See where this is wrong? Man, if you study a translation,
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a translation is only a translation. No translation is inspired by God.
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Only the original writings, the men were inspired by God, the translators were not. So it's up to
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us to study out the languages and the context to make sure we have the proper translation.
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And as I've studied this, it's not correct. It's just not correct. It says here,
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"The battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them." But we know it
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did. What did we just underscore a few minutes back when we were reading about the battle in Gibeah?
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The battle did overtake them. It specifically says that they overtook them.
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So eleven tribes did win the battle. They did overtake them. Many of you all underlined that
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in your scriptures. So much so that they almost entirely eliminated the tribe of Benjamin.
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They actually had to take measures to keep the tribe of Benjamin from being extinct.
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Here's a modern translation of Hosea 10.9. Words the verse this way, "O Israel,
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you have done evil from the days of Gibeah. There they took up their position so that the fighting
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against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah." So they came out so that the
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eleven tribes would not overtake them, but by God's judgment they did overtake them. Does that make
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sense? So we know that they did overtake them in Gibeah. If you want to write out in your margin
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outside of Hosea 10.9 underscore what it says, "Did not overtake them." Underscore that and draw a
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line out to your margin and write down Judges chapter 20 verse 42. Judges chapter 20 verse 42
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which says, "The battle overtook them." So there they stood against God, but the tribe of Benjamin
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discovered that they couldn't fight against God and win. Here's a kingdom truth for you this morning.
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"He that stands against God shall one day fall before him." He that stands against God
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shall one day fall before him. There they stood against God in the time of Gibeah. There they
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stood against God in the time of Hosea. There they stood against God in the time of Christ.
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And in the not so distant future, they will take their stand against God again.
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It will be a battle like this world has never seen. The nations of this earth will stand together
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in battle against their God. Not having received his instruction, not having received his correction,
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they will receive his destruction and we will receive his salvation. That's how it works.
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When Christ comes, those people will receive their destruction. Why? They wouldn't listen to God's
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instruction. They would not receive God's correction. They will receive God's destruction.
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On the other hand, the people who are here that believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,
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they have received God's instruction. They have accepted God's correction.
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"I'm a sinner. I need a Savior. God, you're right. I'm wrong." And so instead of receiving
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God's destruction, they'll receive God's salvation through the Savior who's coming. That makes sense.
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When you see wording like this in the New Testament, you have to understand this in a lot of all of
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these passages in Scripture. A lot of times in the New Testament, you'll see the word salvation.
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And when you think of salvation, you have to understand salvation is not always being
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justified from your sins. A lot of times it's being delivered from your circumstances. You see?
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You have one salvation that's justified from your sins. "I trust in what Jesus did for me on the
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cross. I am now justified. My sins are atoned. My sins are forever put away. I am now saved through
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the blood of Christ." That's being saved from your sins. But you know what? Being saved from
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your sins does not mean being saved from your circumstances, right? What are the circumstances
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we're in right now? We have terrible leadership on the earth. We have terrible sins being taken
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place. No one gets surprised anymore when the news pops up on their phone that there's an active
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shooter. No one gets surprised by that anymore. We expect it. We deal with cancer. We deal with
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heart attacks. We deal with death. We deal with perverseness of all kinds. That's the circumstances
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we live in. As we get to the end of times, in the world as a whole would not receive God's instruction.
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They would not receive God's correction. When we get to that time when they're willing to stand
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and kill and fight against God and His people, that's going to be the circumstances we're in then.
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That's the circumstances the church will be in. And when that time comes,
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God's going to send His Son Jesus again. And those who would not receive the instruction and
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correction will receive destruction. Those who have received the instruction and correction
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will receive salvation. The people, let me put it to you simply, the people who had been saved
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from their sins will when Jesus comes again be saved from their circumstances. Isn't that wonderful?
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That's the rapture. That's the glorious second coming of Jesus Christ.
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Now listen to how the Old Testament words, what I just explained,
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Isaiah chapter 63, verse 2 through 4. This is talking about Jesus in His second coming.
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The prophet Isaiah is asking Jesus a question in the Old Testament. It's beautiful. He's asking
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Jesus a question. Listen to what the prophet Hosea says. "Wherefore or why art thou red in
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thine apparel? Why are your clothes so red, Jesus? And thy garments like Him that treadeth
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in the wine fat." Jesus, you look like you've been out in your clothes and you've been stomping on
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grapes. Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp. And as you stomp on these grapes, what happens?
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The blood of the grape comes up all over your clothes. Why do you look like this, Jesus? Like
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you've been out stomping on red grapes. Why are your clothes so red? Like you've been stomping
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on grapes. Jesus answers, "I have treaded the winepress alone." Well, I've been out in the winepress
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all right. I've been stomping on grapes all right and I did it all by myself. "And of the people
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there was none with me, for I will tread them in mine anger." You see, He's not stomping on
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grapes, He's stomping on sinners. He's stomping on people. He's stomping on the people who would
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not receive His instruction. They would not receive His correction. Now He's going to come back and
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give them their destruction. You see? He says, "I have trodden the winepress alone and of the
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people there was none with me, for I will tread them in mine anger and trample them in my fury,
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and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
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For the day of vengeance is in my heart." Y'all looking at verse 4? There's two things
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taking place when He comes again. "The day of vengeance in the year of my redeemed."
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You see that? "The day of vengeance is in my heart. I'm furious. I'm ready to come back and
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take vengeance on this wicked world. For all the thousands of years they've rebelled against me.
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But when the day of vengeance comes, that also is the year of His redeemed."
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So as they receive Him stomping them in anger and there's none left that rebel against Him,
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we receive our redemption from our circumstances.
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We will be saved from our circumstances. They'll be destroyed in theirs, in their wicked rebellion.
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There they stood, and there they will fall. Let's pray. Father, we thank You so much for Your
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precious Word. Thank You, Father, Lord, for the writings of Your prophets.
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Lord, when we put the prophets in the Old Testament, the prophets in the New Testament together,
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they give us a beautiful, harmonious, 3-D image of Your prophetic plan for mankind.
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Thank You, Father, that we will not be blood on Your garments. Your heel will not stomp on us
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to shed our blood because Your heel was pierced on the cross and You shed Your blood for us.
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You will not be covered in our blood because we are covered in Yours.
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Thank You, Father, for that great contrast in Jesus' precious name. Amen.
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