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welcome welcome welcome once again to
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book by book
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and to the fourth in our series of
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studies on the book of nahum
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in the old testament i'm richard buse
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joined here
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by paul blackham my colleague and also
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by our special guest
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gordon bridger who is a preacher and a
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writer
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and a trainer of preachers and it's very
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good to have you here today gordon thank
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you
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for joining us thank you for inviting me
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and we see where we are we're right by
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the
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river thames once described by winston
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churchill
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not just as a river he said but as
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liquid history
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well it's history what they were doing
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but with a vengeance it's interpreted
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history here in the bible
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as we come to the book of nahum and
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chapter two today
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and we're taking up the theme of the
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lord will restore that's our theme today
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let me read from chapter two verse one
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an attacker advances against you nineveh
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guard the fortress watch the road brace
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yourselves
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master all your strength verse 2 the
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lord will restore the splendor of jacob
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like the splendor of israel though
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destroyers have laid them waste
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and have ruined their vines verse 8
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nineveh is like a pool and its water is
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draining away
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stop stop they cry but no one turns back
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plunder the silver plunder the gold
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the supply is endless the wealth from
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all the treasures
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she has pillaged plundered stripped
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hearts melt knees
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give way bodies tremble every face goes
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pale verse 11
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where now is the lion's den the place
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where they fed their young
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where the land and loudness went and the
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cubs
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with nothing to fear and so it goes on
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here is a vivid description of the
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restoration
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of the splendor of jacob but also the
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destruction
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of nineveh and we must have noticed the
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vividness the striking abruptness of
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this description
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as we get right here what can we learn
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from all of this
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well it's just the way that there's
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nahum and the
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he really addresses nineveh and i don't
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know i like to imagine he went and
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preached there like jonah did maybe
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and the way the language is so sharp and
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abrupt like
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guard the fortress watch the road brace
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yourselves
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martial all your strength or a prophecy
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isn't it it's all prophecy none of this
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has happened yet but he's describing it
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almost as if he can see it happening
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around him
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and i sort of imagine i wonder if he
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stood in nineveh
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a bit like jonah had done a hundred
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years before but he
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is announcing a judgment that cannot be
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avoided and he's as if he's looking
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around
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like and he's seeing it almost the
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colors the sights the sounds the vivid
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you know the movement these these
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shields are the soldiers red
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the cladding scarlet chariots flashes
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they're rushing about
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it's as if it's all how it's so vivid in
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the urgency of it and the
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short sentences plunder the silver
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plunder the gold supply is endless
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people stop stop no one's paying
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attention it's as if the film's
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rolling and he can see it and he's
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describing it
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and it's like it's short sharp notes as
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if it's happening and he's just
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like a journalist trying to get it down
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as it's happening around him
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i think the the the power that those
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words could have had if he'd really
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preach that to an inner or they or
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even if he sent it as a as a letter i
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don't know but this
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the power of it it's a bit like in
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mark's gospel where he creates that
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sense of urgency whether he's
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just happened immediately
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that's how it is and he gives that sense
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and that you come away from chapter two
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with just that sense of
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wow it's so real and vivid and urgent
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i know and then but it's it's it's
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interesting verse two
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it comes as a sort of strange maybe
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interruption
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about this restored splendor of jacob
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uh in this description of all of the
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ruin
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why is this important gordon what do you
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think well i think in the whole of the
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bible
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judgment and salvation go together and i
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think we need to see that
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that always god in his love is is
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seeking
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uh our salvation it's not his will the
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deity should perish
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but also come to knowledge of himself
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and i think it's it's
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fascinating to read these words in verse
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two lord will restore the splendor of
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jacob like the splendor of israel
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and to wonder what dan had in mind
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perhaps
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he saw a time when the north and the
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south will be united again
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and that kind of restoration perhaps he
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saw that one day
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judgment will come not only to israel in
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the north but to judah in the south
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but god would do a restoring work for
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those who put their trust in him
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and found refuge in him and bring them
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back to their own land
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or perhaps there's an even deeper
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spiritual truth here
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that looks on to the new testament
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because the old testament prophets are a
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message for the church today
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as well as for the church of its own day
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and maybe
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there's a hint here that the restoring
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work of god
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will be restoring those like jacob yes
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with all their deceptiveness and the con
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men that he was and
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the weaknesses in his makeup turning
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jacob
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into israel a prince with god someone
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god can
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could properly use and that it's
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referring to that which points us right
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forward to the new testament and the way
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in which the spirit
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comes into our lives and can restore us
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from glory to glory paul puts it
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from one degree of likeness to jesus to
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another
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which goes right on until one day we'll
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be in his presence
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and and meet him face to face and be
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like him without sin
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so it's a glorious picture but nam seems
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to point
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in that direction yes indeed actually
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that that description of
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oncoming glory awaiting glory of the
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resurrection
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actually you picked that up in a
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wonderful bit and i
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found it here on page 144
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in your in your wonderful commentary
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um on nahum where you describe
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something relates to the international
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fellowship of
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of evangelical students ifes actually of
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which my mom
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was the first ever treasurer hey maybe
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before it's not got millions of members
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but mom was the first treasurer way back
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and she kept then all the
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money for ifes in a biscuit in under her
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bed
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so it's grown fantastically but here's a
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bit
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where you describe from lindsey brown's
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report he was then the chairman of the
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secretary of it all for example he says
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a young student in vietnam wrote in a
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letter
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now how did you put it this is probably
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my last communication with ifes
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pray for me and the students and the
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church in vietnam
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for wisdom to face the coming trial our
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lord has risen
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we are going to suffer to die and be
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raised up with him
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in glory that's from a student
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who sees the coming glory himself in the
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way that you've just described so
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wonderfully for us
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and we're stunned by that and also very
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very
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inspired indeed i mean actually
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through these verses three to ten where
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nineveh is pillaged and plundered and
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stripped
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can we find some clues here about
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assyrian sin
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in these vivid images i think so because
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you think about how assyria had gone out
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and re
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and brought that sort of destruction and
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all sorts of other cities
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and empires now it's come home to then
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what they've sown they're now
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reaping but if we look carefully first
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of all they had that enormous confidence
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in their own military
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and yet their own military fails them
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here and so that's interesting
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they trusted in something that couldn't
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deliver them
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and then there's though they're carried
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away to exile there in verse
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seven um which is interesting because
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they
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had in turn invaded and destroyed people
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and carried them off to exile
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and then it's like ah the all the things
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that
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they had done are done to them they're
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carried off to exam and again in the
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commentary there's that
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gordon's coming about the female slaves
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moan light doesn't beat on their breasts
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why are they moaning
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because the gods have failed them yes
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you know they trusted in all these
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rubbish assyrian gods who can't do
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anything and just
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promote cruelty and violence and then
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when it came to it
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they can't help them at all and there's
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that sense of desperation
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yes indeed and actually when you think
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about how it finally happened
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when you read about the archaeologists
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and their discoveries of how
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nineveh fell they say that the moats
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were
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successfully crossed after two and a
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half months siege
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then the triple walls were reduced and
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then they also discovered
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that entrance had been gained by
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the eastern moat which had been filled
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up with rubbish and that
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made that they were able to affect a
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great breach uh
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in the north end of the of the wall so
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yes as you say
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the exile is decreed yeah exactly as
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they had carried others into exile and
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the females slaves
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because their gods have failed them and
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the river gates
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had thrown out in the palace club so
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literally that that very thing you're
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saying
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happened exactly as nahum describes that
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the
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the river defenses that they thought
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they trusted in something
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and then in the end that was the very
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thing that destroyed them and then you
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can see as well that they
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plunder the silver plunder the gold the
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supply is endless the wealth from all
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its treasures
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treasures she's pillaged plundered
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stripped see how they they had
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my masses of money and resources because
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they'd stolen it
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so all these sins of assyria they'd
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stolen
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plundered trusted in military those were
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the very things that were at the heart
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of the judgment that came against them
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yes
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so if assyria then is god's instrument
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to you know fulfill his purposes then
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why does god
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um promise to destroy syria
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i think it's clear from for instance
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isaiah that the reason is that
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syria went beyond the mandate she was
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given
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beyond the commissioning from the lord
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there's a lovely bit in isaiah 10 verses
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12
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to 15. when the lord has finished all
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his work against mount zion and
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jerusalem
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he will say i will punish the king of
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assyria for the willful pride of his
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heart
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and the haughty look in his eyes
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for he says maybe just read on this bit
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by the strength of my hand
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i've done this and by my wisdom because
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i have understanding
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i removed the boundaries of nations i
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plundered their treasures
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like a mighty one i subdued their kings
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as one reaches into a nest so my hand
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reached for the wealth of the nations
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as men gather abandoned eggs so i
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gathered all the countries
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not one flapped a wing or opened its
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mouth to chirp
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but it's saying they went further than
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yesterday's beyond
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gods and boasted about it i thought that
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was a striking thing they're like oh
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we're so
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strong we didn't need any help we was
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our own in our own brilliance and power
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the world's like no and you mentioned
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that bit in your commentary as well
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actually very helpful page 141
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which i just was looking at a moment ago
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here we are then in verse 11 and 12
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friends with assyria referred to as the
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lion
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now is that how we should view the
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nations of the world especially when
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they seem to oppose the lord
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well animals of some sort yeah i agree
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it's like we've all thought about the
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book of daniel and the book of
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revelation
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and in daniel and revelation the nations
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sort of in their rebellion are like a
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beast startling do you know in daniel he
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has them like
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like um there's a is there a cheater
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and all those and all that this yeah
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yeah the the symbolized is these vicious
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animals of savagery and and that's the
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way they are and they they seem
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so and then in revelation you get that
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and the the beast that's lots of it
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different savage animals and it's all
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the nations like
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embodied in that one thing here it's a
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savage lion
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and it's like now where's the lion now
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it's more like a little kitten really
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it's got nothing it's harmless
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it's been reduced right down to size and
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i think that's fun about
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how that happens with like the roman
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empires if you were in the first century
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and you'd said something like nero
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you know everyone would equate in their
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shoes or caesar
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no it was frightening now of course what
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is it
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nero and people like that the that's
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what people call the dogs and pets isn't
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it
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you know um i think caesar come here
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i think it's a cat and there's a brand
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of cat food or something you know with
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these
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and that's funny isn't it how that just
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ended up being
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nothing so all these beasts which seem
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so savage and all-powerful and
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terrible the lord brings them all down
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to size
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you know all these characters herod yeah
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you know
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gone furo heyman
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you know and that's even in that one
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story they're all brought down to
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all of them and nowadays you know
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whoever is the one now
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they're all going to be brought down to
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sight and you know the lord doesn't
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forget the victims
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he brings them down to size these
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tyrants no and according to your
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commentary actually gordon the lion
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was an image often found on stone
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reliefs
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commissioned by the assyrian kings one
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of them i got a little note sennacherib
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boasted like a lion i raged
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why is that imagery rather appropriate
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for assyria
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well i think because they're thinking of
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terms of the land not only being a
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strong
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animal but they're thinking of the
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beastial side
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i think they rejoiced and boasted of the
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cruelty in which they could treat their
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enemies
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absolutely yes yes i know
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yes and yet again in daniel 6
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in the story of daniel and the lamb's
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den oh yeah there's a picture of god in
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control of that situation
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and the lamb is not able to
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defeat daniel and kill him yeah
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there's much to encourage and yet of
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course the martyrs
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yes they seem very close so that story
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that you relate there
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about the the student in vietnam or i
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remember a martyr
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archbishop giannanillo of uganda in the
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mid 70s
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i remember he's preached at our church
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and i remember going to the great
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uh conference of the lausanne congress
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on evangelization
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he was there speaking out and as i said
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goodbye to him at the end of that i
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shook his hand and i thought to myself
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because he was under the regime of idi
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amin the dictator in uganda
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i thought i'm definitely going to see
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you again i never did
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because a little bit later we learned
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that he'd been shot i think at the hands
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of idi army
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himself and i remember thinking about
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his words that he once spoke at a great
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conference when he said
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it is through suffering that the seeds
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of the gospel are sown
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scattered abroad and nourished
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people like him go on speaking to us
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people like him and their witness that
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goes on
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forever we live under their shadow we
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live under that inspiration
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god bless you today god bless you as you
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follow up
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on the studies we've taken today and
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we're going to meet you again
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in another study before too long
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you
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