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Genesis 3 root of antisemitism as the serpent's fury against the nation bearing the promise of his defeat
1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,
3 but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”
4 The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,
5 for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
7 Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.
8 They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
9 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
11 God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
15 I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
17 To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
18 It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
20 The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.
21 Yahweh God made coats of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
22 Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”
23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
24 So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
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Matthew 25
parable of the ten virgins, five wise and five foolish, used to warn against being unprepared
1 “Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
3 Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,
4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5 Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
6 But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’
7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8 The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’
9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’
10 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
11 Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’
12 But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’
13 Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
14 “For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.
15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
16 Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
17 In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two.
18 But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
19 “Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.
20 He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.’
21 “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
22 “He also who got the two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents besides them.’
23 “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
24 “He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.
25 I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’
26 “But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.
27 You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.
28 Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.
29 For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away.
30 Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
31 “But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
32 Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
33 He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
35 for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.
36 I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?
38 When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?
39 When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?’
40 “The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
41 Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
42 for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;
43 I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’
44 “Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’
45 “Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’
46 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
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Acts 1:9-11
disciples watching Jesus ascend, angel saying he will return the same way he departed
9 When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
10 While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,
11 who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”
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Matthew 24
Jesus speaking about his own return
1 Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.
2 But he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.”
3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”
4 Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.
5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray.
6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.
8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
10 Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
11 Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.
12 Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
13 But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
14 This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
15 “When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house.
18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
20 Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,
21 for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
23 “Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe it.
24 For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
25 “Behold, I have told you beforehand.
26 If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it.
27 For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
28 For wherever the carcass is, that is where the vultures gather together.
29 But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.
31 He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
32 “Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near.
33 Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.
35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
36 But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 “As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
38 For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,
39 and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left.
41 Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one will be left.
42 Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
44 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come.
45 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.
47 Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
48 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’
49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,
50 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it, and in an hour when he doesn’t know it,
51 and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
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Revelation 1:7
reference to the return of Jesus, cited twice in the sermon
7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
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Philippians 2:9-11
every knee should bow, speaker notes the word is should not will
9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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Isaiah 45:22-23
held in tension with Philippians 2 on every knee bowing
22 “Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
23 I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.
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Romans 14:11
cited alongside Isaiah 45 and Philippians 2 on every knee bowing
11 For it is written, “‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’”
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Zechariah 14:3-4
Jesus landing on the Mount of Olives, shock waves, earthquake
3 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
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Daniel 7:13-14
the cloud rider, contrasted with the pagan god Baal
13 “I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
14 Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.
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Matthew 24:30
Jesus speaking about his return on the clouds
30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.
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Matthew 13:26
the return of Jesus on the clouds
26 But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.
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Deuteronomy 33:2
used to support Jesus returning to Mount Sinai rather than the Mount of Olives
2 He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
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Judges 5:4-5
song of Deborah, cited as prophetic language pointing toward Mount Sinai
4 “Yahweh, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.
5 The mountains quaked Yahweh’s presence, even Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
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Habakkuk 3:3-13
prophetic poetic language cited in connection with Jesus returning via Mount Sinai
3 God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
4 His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.
5 Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.
6 He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.
7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.
8 Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation?
9 You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers.
10 The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
11 The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
12 You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
13 You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah.
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Psalm 68:7-18
Jesus leading a triumphal procession sweeping across the desert
7 God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.
8 The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai— at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9 You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.
10 Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.
11 The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a great company.
12 “Kings of armies flee! They flee!” She who waits at home divides the plunder,
13 while you sleep among the camp fires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.
14 When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.
15 The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged.
16 Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.
17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
18 You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
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Isaiah 40:3-5
the king coming in procession
3 The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.
5 Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
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Isaiah 11:15-16
cited as part of the triumphal procession narrative
15 Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.
16 There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
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Isaiah 43:16-21
cited alongside other passages describing the return procession
16 Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters says:
17 who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick):
18 “Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
20 The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
21 the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.
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Jeremiah 16:14-15
compared to God leading Israel out of bondage, applied to Jesus leading a similar procession
14 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that it will no more be said, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’
15 but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
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Zechariah 12:10
they will look upon the one they have pierced, Israel's recognition of Jesus
10 I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
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Ezekiel 36:24-28
cited in context of Jesus liberating Israeli refugee camps and Israel's restoration
24 “‘“For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.
26 I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
28 You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God.
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Ezekiel 37:21-23
cited alongside Ezekiel 36 on the gathering and restoration of Israel
21 Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land.
22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. One king will be king to them all. They will no longer be two nations. They won’t be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
23 They won’t defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will be their God.
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Isaiah 49:8-12
cited in the context of Jesus rescuing gathered Israel
8 Yahweh says, “In an acceptable time I have answered you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you. I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,
9 saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.
11 I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be exalted.
12 Behold, these shall come from afar; and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.”
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Isaiah 61:1-2
cited as Jesus rescuing and restoring Israel
1 The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
2 to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
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Zephaniah 3:15
the Lord removing judgment, dispersing enemies, the king living among Israel, troubles ending
15 Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.
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Zephaniah 3:17
the Lord rejoicing over Israel with singing, calming fears, used to describe Jesus wiping away tears
17 Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
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Isaiah 25:8
cited alongside Zephaniah 3:17 on Jesus wiping away tears
8 He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
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Isaiah 30:26
cited in context of Jesus binding wounds and restoring Israel
26 Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
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Revelation 21:4
cited then retracted, speaker noted it belongs after the millennial reign
4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
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Romans 11:25-27
all Israel will be saved, collective national repentance
25 For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
26 and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
27 This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”
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Zechariah 13:1
cited in context of Jews coming to salvation, cited twice
1 “In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
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Ezekiel 36:25-27
cited alongside Romans 11 on the collective turning of Israel to Jesus
25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.
26 I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
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Zechariah 12:2-3
Jerusalem besieged, cited in context of the antichrist army
2 “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and it will also be on Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.
3 It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.
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Zechariah 14:1-3
Jerusalem besieged, Jesus facing off against the army of the antichrist
1 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided within you.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
3 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
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Joel 3:2
cited alongside Zechariah 12 and 14 on the armies gathered against Israel
2 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,
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Daniel 9:27
cited in context of the antichrist and the temple
27 He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”
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Daniel 11:31
cited in context of the antichrist polluting the temple
31 “Forces will stand on his part, and they will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and will take away the continual burnt offering. Then they will set up the abomination that makes desolate.
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2 Thessalonians 2:3-4
cited in context of the antichrist besieging Jerusalem and the temple
3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
4 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
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Matthew 24:15
cited in context of the antichrist polluting the temple
15 “When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
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2 Thessalonians 2:8
Jesus destroying the antichrist
8 Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;
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Revelation 19:19-21
Jesus destroying the antichrist
19 I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army.
20 The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
21 The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.
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Daniel 7:11
Jesus destroying the antichrist
11 “I watched at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke. I watched even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.
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Romans 11:26
all Israel will be saved nationally and collectively
26 and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
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Zechariah 12:10-13
cited again on Israel's national turning to Jesus
10 I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
11 In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
12 The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of David’s house apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
13 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
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Isaiah 2:2-4
Jesus establishing his throne in Jerusalem, influence felt around the world, cited twice
2 It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.
3 Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Zion the law shall go out, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.
4 He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
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Micah 4:1-3
Jesus establishing his throne and rule from Jerusalem
1 But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it.
2 Many nations will go and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;
3 and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.
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Jeremiah 3:17
Jesus establishing his throne in Jerusalem
17 At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
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Zechariah 14:9
Jesus establishing his kingship from Jerusalem
9 Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
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Isaiah 11:6-9
Christians helping restore creation for a thousand years, environmental restoration
6 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
9 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
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Isaiah 35:1-7
cited alongside Isaiah 11 on the restoration of creation
1 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
2 It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.
3 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
4 Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong. Don’t be afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.
5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
6 Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
7 The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.
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Zechariah 8:4-5
social restoration during the millennial reign
4 Yahweh of Armies says: “Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
5 The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”
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Amos 9:13-15
economic restoration, the planter overtaking the harvester, unprecedented prosperity
13 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.
14 I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.
15 I will plant them on their land, and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them,” says Yahweh your God.
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Zechariah 14:16
geopolitical restoration during the millennial reign
16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents.
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Psalm 2
kiss the son, take refuge in him, used as the closing invitation to surrender to Jesus
1 Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
3 “Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
5 Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
6 “Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
7 I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
8 Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
10 Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
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Ephesians 4
attributed to Paul encouraging believers to live a life worthy of their calling, cited by Lissa Hunter during the offering
1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
2 with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
3 being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;
5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.
7 But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
8 Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.”
9 Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.
11 He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
12 for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;
13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
19 who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20 But you did not learn Christ that way;
21 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
25 Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
26 “Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
27 and don’t give place to the devil.
28 Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
29 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
30 Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
32 And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
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Hebrews 13:8
God the same yesterday today and forever, cited in closing prayer by Lissa Hunter
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Recap
The message in order, in a few minutes of reading.
This was the final message in Tribe's "Unbreakable" series, focused on the nation of Israel and where the biblical story is heading. Brian walked through what he called his current eschatological framework, painting a large narrative arc from Jesus's return to the establishment of his reign in Jerusalem. The message was less a verse-by-verse study and more a broad sweep of Old and New Testament prophecy read together as a coherent story.
What was said
Brian opened by picking up where last week left off. The previous week had established that antisemitism is, at its root, the serpent's fury against the nation that bears the promise of his defeat. This week the question was: where is all of this going? He pushed back against what he called the "passenger princess" posture toward end times, the idea that it is too confusing or too distant to bother with. Using Jesus's parable of the ten virgins, he said the point of understanding these things is to be the kind of person who has oil in their lamp for what is ahead.
He described how his own understanding has grown in stages. First he believed the Christian life was simply about getting saved, living well, dying, and worshiping God in heaven forever. Then he added a basic picture of Jesus returning, landing on the Mount of Olives like a superhero, and everyone confessing him as Lord. He said neither of those pictures is wrong, but both are incomplete, and the Old Testament prophets, read in their own light rather than only as devotional encouragement for Christians today, open up something much larger.
The heart of the sermon was a narrative Brian described as his current understanding of how events will unfold. He argued that when Jesus returns, riding on the clouds as the Bible describes, he will not initially set foot on the Mount of Olives but will descend on Mount Sinai. The reason matters: a Jewish person formed entirely on the Torah and the Tanach would have deep resonance with God arriving on that mountain, surrounded by billowing clouds, earthquakes, trumpet blasts, and trembling nations, because that is exactly how God revealed himself to Israel through Moses. Brian suggested that return in that mode would get Israel's attention in a way that a landing near Jerusalem simply would not.
From Sinai, Brian described Jesus leading a triumphal procession sweeping up through the desert, with the image of wildflowers springing up in his wake. Along the way, he said, Jesus liberates Israelis who have fled persecution and collected in what Brian called refugee camps in the wilderness east and south of Israel. He compared it to scenes from films about the liberation of camps in World War Two, with Jesus arriving and opening the gates. He was careful to say the phrase "refugee camp" does not appear in the Bible, but he read several Old Testament passages as pointing toward exactly that kind of scene.
This is the moment, Brian said, when Israel looks on the one they pierced. He spent time sitting with the question of why they weep. Answers from the congregation included guilt, remorse, fear about what comes next, and the overwhelming weight of generations of trauma suddenly lifting all at once. Brian read Zephaniah 3:17 aloud with a member of the congregation and described Jesus not coming back to say "I told you so" but instead binding wounds, wiping tears, and receiving Israel the way a liberator receives people who have been through something they should not have had to endure.
Brian then described Jesus facing down the forces besieging Jerusalem, destroying the antichrist, whom he described as a literal physical person rather than a symbol or ideology, and establishing his throne in Jerusalem. He was clear this would not be a presidency or a democracy but a theocracy, with Jesus as king, whose decisions would send ripples around the world the way decisions from any seat of concentrated power do today. He asked the congregation to hold that picture without reading into it any comparison he was not making.
The final piece of the narrative placed Christians inside the story. Brian said followers of Jesus will receive resurrected bodies suited for a new assignment, helping restore creation for a thousand years, environmentally, socially, economically, and judiciously. He connected the environmental consciousness he sees in younger generations to this future purpose. He closed the series with Psalm 2, "kiss the Son," and turned it into an invitation, saying everything described for Israel is available to anyone right now. The one who will bind up Israel's wounds and open prison doors is the same one ready to do that today for anyone who falls at his feet.
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Here is a guide we have prepared for you: the passages in order, questions for the group, and room to write.
- Brian described a progression in his own understanding, from thinking the Christian life ends with floating in heaven singing 'holy, holy, holy,' to a more developed view of what Jesus's return actually looks like. How has your own picture of eternity or the end times changed over the years, and what shaped that change?
- Brian used the phrase 'passenger princess' to describe someone who stays disengaged from questions about where history is heading, and he connected it to the parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25. Where do you think you personally land on that spectrum right now, and what would it look like to be more prepared?
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Welcome to Tribe's podcast. Hey, we just wanna say thank you for making this message a part of your week. Our prayer is that these messages will inspire you to make the name of Jesus famous in your life and to the uttermost bounds of the earth. If you're ever in Jackson Hole, we'd love for you to visit our Tribe fam in person. To learn more about us, you can find us online or at Facebook by searching tribejh.com.
Welcome to Tribe's podcast. Hey, we just wanna say thank you for making this message a part of your week. Our prayer is that these messages will inspire you to make the name of Jesus famous in your life and to the uttermost bounds of the earth. If you're ever in Jackson Hole, we'd love for you to visit our tribe fam in person. To learn more about us, you can find us online or at Facebook by searching tribejh.com.
So good morning. Good morning. Now, we're all familiar with bring your kid to work today but I did not know that today was bring your parents to church day and so, for all of the parents that are here visiting their kids, I give you full permission at any point as often as you want during the service to reach over and squeeze your little baby because here they are trying to make it in Jackson Hole and you're so proud of them. Oh, yes. That's it.
Take full advantage of that. Yes. She wasn't born from us but she's like one of our kids and so, this is so great to to see. I'm glad that all of y'all are are here today. You picked a great Sunday to be with us today because today, we are going to land the plane on a series of conversations that we've been having about a unique, unique, distinct people that have withstood the test of time remained unbreakable and for a covenant keeping god's unbreakable long suffering, enduring relationship with this unique distinct people.
God's promises towards the nation and people of Israel are unbreakable and so today, we're going to land the plane with a series of conversations that that we've been having over the last couple of weeks. If this is interesting to you, if this is rubbing the fur of your cat the wrong way, you can go back and listen to each and every one of these. I I'm pretty sure we're on Connor, we're on YouTube, Apple, iTunes, Spotify, wherever you consume media, we're on there. So, you can go back and and listen and break these things down and chew on them and digest them. Here's what we normally do at Tribe.
Normally, we start with the a passage and that is our foundational text for the conversation that we're going to have and then, we spend a majority of the service kind of unpacking that text. We may look at the context preceding or after. We may go from one passage to another that relates to it but I'd like to think that typically, my style of communicating god's word is not so much preaching but it's more teaching and when it comes to teaching, I like to just let the word say what it has to say. Sometimes, we look at the Hebrew. Sometimes, we look at the Greek to to get a better understanding.
Today, we're going to take a little bit different approach to the conversation. Today, since we're only doing one service, I have over 40 different scripture references. Good answer. And in a moment, I'm going to explain how we're going to cover so much ground, alright? It's funny in in young adults recently.
One of the speakers at young adults, she had almost 40 verses and we read through each and every passage. We're not going to read each and everyone as nutritious as that may be but I'll explain how we're going to to cover this kind of ground in in just a moment. You. It's all, well, it's Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Yes, this is the kind of support that this message needs today. You may have heard me say a word a moment ago that stands out to you as as, wait, I I I heard that But I used the word conversation specifically because our format here at Tribe lends itself to conversation.
We're not in some big cathedral. We're not in a fancy auditorium, 1,500 seat auditorium. We're squeezed into a little upper room and if you didn't know the person that you were sitting next to, by the end of this morning's brief service, you're going to be well acquainted with them because you're squeezed right in next to them. Because we are in a small venue, it lends itself to conversation and so, what do I mean by that? I want to and welcome to hear your input.
If you have a question, comment, or a connection, all you have to do is raise your hand. We have a mic in the room. Not so much for those of us in the room but we have a lot of families that are traveling and out of town on spring break going hither and thither to to escape Jackson before the big summer starts and so many of our families are tuning into the live stream and I want them to hear your comments. So, that's what the mic is for. All you have to do is raise your hand and then the mic will come to you even for those of you back there in the VIP section.
Colson, you had an extra hour to to wake up. You're with us, right? Yeah. Alright. Yes.
Good. Good. Good. Good. Also, in your seat, there is a connect card and an invite to our Easter service.
So, you can deal with those things appropriately. Here's what we're we're going to look at. We've been in a series called Unbreakable and last week, I said, where is where is the the deeper root of this exponential rise of antisemitism and we we looked at that deeper root but this was the main takeaway from last week's conversation. Antisemitism is the serpent's fury against the nation that bears the promise of his defeat. This goes all the way back from Genesis three and stretches across the entire story arc of the Bible and sees its conclusion at the end of the age.
But this was our our main takeaway. Antisemitism, whether it comes from Whatever form it takes, whatever form it takes, antisemitism is the serpent's fury against the nation that bears the promise of his defeat and at the end of last week's conversation, we said, so, we've talked about antisemitism but where is this all leading? Where is this going? I think you would have to be really hard pressed to not be aware of the events that are going on around the world, the war in Iran, and Israel's various military campaigns in The Middle East. Once again, Israel is in the headlines and in the mouths of many political pundits and podcasters and maybe even in conversation, maybe.
Conversations at your work, maybe at your dinner table, and so, the big question in my mind that we are looking at today is where is all of this going? Is it going to calm down? Is it going to die out? Is the situation going to continue to get hotter? If it is, how?
Where is all of this going? And if that question is not relevant to you, you may congratulate yourself for being a passenger princess. Just along for the ride, I put my feet up on the dashboard, maybe roll the window down, twiddle my toes out into the breeze as the road trip carries on. And in a car, on a road trip, you have every right to be the passenger princess if you're not driving which is usually me. I'm the passenger princess in a road trip.
Now, all you men before you take issue with me, at least I can't back a trailer. Oh, wait. Dang it. So, in life though, in life and when it comes to faith, there are no passenger princesses. And if a person insists on being a passenger princess by either saying it's too confusing or I don't know or I'm just too concerned about myopically what's right in front of me with my solipsistic way of living.
The warning from your pastor or this pastor is there will come a time in life and I believe it is within our generation, within my lifetime that there will events will develop around the planet in The Middle East and in The United States that will not allow room for there to be any passenger princesses of the faith and just like Matthew chapter 25, Jesus admonishes and warns and gives the parable of the 10 virgins. Five were wise, five were foolish. The five that were foolish brought along just enough oil. They were the passenger princesses in that day and age. Like, hey, what I I think I've got enough.
I'm good. The five wise virgins prioritized oil for their lamp. What I'm trying to do, what the lord is trying to do through me for our tribe fam and really anyone with ears to hear is to equip you with oil for today and for the days ahead and for the days ahead. So, with that in mind, as I mentioned a moment ago, what we normally do is look at one maybe we have five verses in in a conversation. Today, we've got a lot of verses and here's what's here's what's going to happen.
Today, I'm going to paint with big, broad brush strokes, a large story arc, a large narrative. So I'm going to talk through these things. However, I'm going to supply you with the skeletal framework of which I'm I'm now I'm mixing my metaphors. I'm providing you with the skeletal framework for which I will paint this narrative. Stay stay with me.
So, here's what's going to happen. I'm going to share with you my understanding of the biblical story arc and then on the screen will be addresses of verses and here's what I would invite you to do. Either write quickly or take a picture and then go back at your leisure read through each and every one of these verses and just see. Many of the verses that we're going to cover today come from the Old Testament and I don't know if you are like me but throughout most of my years of following Jesus, when I would read the Old Testament, I would think like, oh, that's that's encouraging. God's steadfast love or his commitment.
Oh, that's encouraging. Oh, that's that, oh, I've heard that preached for me as a Christian today and those many of those passages are applicable. When we look at the Old Testament, a big swath of the Old Testament, the narrate the the literary genre is that of prophecy. So, it was written a long time ago and it applies, it can apply to me today and you hear the pastor preach about it as if Zephaniah three seventeen, which will get to is for you today and you're like, oh, that's so heartwarming and comforting and and that's great. It's wonderful but like with the genre of prophecy, there are layers to its understanding and layers to its fulfillment.
My hope is that even just one person in here today, as we go through all of these verses and like you you're you're going to hear a lot from Isaiah. You're to hear a lot from Isaiah. You're going to hear from Jeremiah. You're going to hear from Deuteronomy. Hear from Zephaniah.
You'll hear from Psalms. You will hear from the New Testament. Yay. But that you would your aperture would open in its understanding that many many of these verses and passages and even entire books of the Bible. They were for the nation of Israel for that time and that place and for that specific setting and a deeper, broader, and even more literal fulfillment yet to play out in the days ahead.
I think I've covered everything in my preamble. Are you ready either with your camera phone or your fast note taking? Here's where we're going. This is Unbreakable Week nine and I've titled today's conversation, When a Jew Rules the World. Spoiler alert, he gonna.
When a Jew Rules the World. Now, this title is taken from a friend of mine's book by the same title and and many of he's come twice, two, three times and he will be inevitably he'll he'll come again and you can ask him all about it but today, I want to share with you my eschatological framework and if that word is a new word for you, it just means end times, okay? Eschatology is the study of end times and here's what I used to think. We'll start, we'll start with this. I used to think that a person is bouncing along in life and then they get saved and then we live out the rest of our life.
Pause there. We live out the rest of our life under his lordship. We die, go to heaven, and we just worship god saying, holy, holy, holy for the rest of our life. That's what I used to think being a Christian was. Nothing wrong with that.
I think we could probably all mostly agree with that but then, as I began to grow, I developed a juvenile understanding of eschatology which brings us to this slide. Jesus comes back the way he left. We see it in Acts chapter one verses nine through 11. Remember the the disciples, now apostles standing there. They watched Jesus ascend and they're just gawking, rubbernecking up into the sky, an angel has to come and says like, hey, let's get on mission.
The same way that you saw him depart is the way that he's going to come back. Jesus himself in Matthew chapter 24 talks about him his return. Revelation chapter one verse seven speaks of his return and when he returns, in my mind's eye, oh, let's define the terms juvenile, okay? Juvenile, immature, not in any kind of negative connotation. That's important because if this is the viewpoint that you hold, I am not calling you juvenile and I'm not calling you immature.
So, don't hear what I'm not saying. It was the most accurate word that I could use for me. Alright and then, when Jesus returns, he'll land on the Mount Of Olives and I picture it like some sort of superhero like he comes back and lands on the Mount Of Olives like a superhero. Bam. The shock waves go out and you know, and and we see that in Zechariah chapter 14 verse three and four and then, in that moment, every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is lord.
We see this in Philippians chapter two. There it is. Philippians chapter two verses nine through 11. Isaiah chapter 45 verse 22 through 23. Romans chapter 14 verse 11 and in Philippians chapter two verse nine, the text does say, not will but look closely.
What is the word there? Should. Philippians, this passage for the return of Jesus landing on the Mount Of Olives Many people think that when he returns, that's it. He he he lands and everybody confesses that he's lord like they'll see him and be like, oh, everybody would be like, oh, that's Jesus. Okay.
Whoo. My bad. I was wrong. Whoo. You're Jesus.
Wow. In Philippians, it says that every every knee should bow. It doesn't say that it will but then you need to balance that or hold that intention with Isaiah chapter 45 because it does talk about it. So, quick review before we get into some some a narrative that I'm going to share with you that I believe is an accurate depiction of how things will play out but quick review, I used to think you got saved, you tried to be a good person, followed Jesus as the leader of your your life, best you can. When you die, you go to heaven and then you just float around in the clouds and you sing holy, holy, holy and like you just worship god forever in heaven.
Not a bad way. I had thought about like there's so many more places and routes that I want to climb and ski and but I guess I'll be at the in the throne room worshiping God forever. And it's not bad. I'm going to love it. I'm going to love it.
Then, as I grew, as I grew, I was like, oh, wow. So, Jesus is going to come back and when he comes back, you know, it land like a superhero and like and it's kind of game over there. Like, woah, Jesus is coming back. So, now, I want to share with you. I use this word intentionally.
My current understanding. This is my current understanding. And I I put this in my notes. Many Old Testament prophecy, there are many Old Testament prophecy passages. Once they are understood in the correct light, they explode with hope and promise and encouragement.
So, Jesus does return. Riding on the clouds. Cue the Hillsong or Vineyard song. Zion's he'll salvation. So that actually happens.
Ian, how do you know that song? That's like way Alright. Daniel chapter seven verse thirteen and fourteen speaks of the cloud rider, which which flies in the face of the gods of that age, Baal. It was described of Baal, the the pagan god Baal that he used the clouds in heaven as his transportation and god takes that motif and shoves it right back in the false gods' faces saying, no, no, no, no. There's coming one who will actually ride the clouds.
Matthew chapter 24 verse 30 speaks of Jesus. He himself is speaking about his return. Matthew chapter 13 verse 26 speaks of this same event at the return of Jesus and then here we are at Revelation chapter one verse seven again. Now instead of landing on the Mount Of Olives, what if when Jesus returns, he doesn't actually set foot in on the Mount Of Olives at his initial return? Oh, by the way, I should also let you know that I believe and we teach here at Tribe that his return is physical, not just spiritual or metaphorical.
He will physically return because that's what the Bible says. It takes a lot of work and a lot of mental and theological gymnastics to contort your theology to conform to only a spiritual or metaphorical return of Jesus. And time will prove who's right. Let's just let's just see. Bet you a Coke.
Oh, no gambling in church. He will return riding on the clouds and now this may be new for you. I believe that when he returns, he will set foot not on the Mount Of Olives but on Mount Sinai. You can look at Deuteronomy chapter 33 verse two. Judges, this is the song of Deborah verse five, four through five, Habakkuk chapter three verses three through 13.
It talks about It uses prophetic, poetic language but just try on for size. I don't know how you have typically read these passages. And if you're like, well, I don't I don't know what you're talking about because it's just the address. Well, when you have time and you go back and read this, oh, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I have read this before. How have you read it? The invitation is put on your return of Jesus glasses as you read these passages. The Bible, Jesus himself says, you'll know the truth and the truth will set you free.
See if the Holy Spirit that lives inside for every one of you who are a Jesus follower, if the Holy Spirit doesn't go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yes. As you read these passages, perhaps with fresh eyes. So he lands on Mount Sinai. He returns in the same way that Jews this is really important, that Jews saw who else arrive on Mount Sinai. Well, Moses went up Mount Sinai but who arrived on Mount Sinai?
God. When god reveals himself to Moses and the nation of Israel, this is a fun rabbit trail that you can take someday is do a word study and compare the return of Jesus aspects, elements, descriptions of the return of Jesus with god arriving on Mount Sinai. Billowing clouds, earthquakes, trembling, the nations being like, what is happening? A loud trumpet blast. All of these things are similar between the return of Jesus and the theophany, the the the event on Mount Sinai where god reveals himself to Israel and to the rest of the world.
If let's put ourselves in a a a modern, orthodox, observant Jewish Jews shoes for just a moment That has only ever studied the Torah and the Tanach which is what we would call the Old Testament. Okay, if you only study that, you never went to church, you you you lived in a place that you lived a lifestyle that you never heard of Jesus. Even here in The United States, it's not that uncommon for for modern observant Jews to not really know anything about Jesus. If he came, if he returned as we, as Christians, think of his return, would a Jew recognize that? I'm leading you with this question trying to get you to the answer of Mount Of Olives, like, what's the significance of that in the Old Testament?
Nail pierced hands of Jews like, I I don't resonate with with any of that. On the other hand, what if Jesus returned to planet Earth and his arrival had many, many, many parallels with God descending on Mount Sinai. Do you think that would get the attention of Jews in America and around the world? It might get their attention, but it doesn't mean they'll change. There you go.
Alright. Fair enough. It may get their attention, but it doesn't mean that they'll change. That is fair for as far as we've gotten right here. Okay?
So Jesus returns riding on the clouds. He lands at Mount Sinai. Before we go to the next slide, this is a good point. This is a good opportunity for questions, comments, or connections. Maybe you are in absorb mode.
I understand but anything on this? Yes, hold on and here comes the mic.
How close is the Mount Of Olives to Mount Sinai?
They it's as far away as Jackson is from Denver. Roughly roughly speaking. So, Mount Sinai, excuse me, but yeah, Mount Sinai, I have a personal conviction that Mount Sinai is a mountain that's the modern name is called Jabal El Laws in Saudi Arabia, not at the southern tip like probably most of your Bibles say in the maps in the back says where Mount Sinai is at the very southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. If you look at the narrative and all of the descriptions in the Old Testament, the Mountain Jebel El Laws known as the locals as the Mountain Of Moses fits way more of the criteria. We've talked about that.
You can go back and look at that those episodes that we've talked about in the past But from Saudi Arabia, Jabal El Luz, to the Mount Of Olives right near Jerusalem, I'm just guessing it's about 1,000 miles. So or 800 miles. So, I don't know what the difference from here to Denver is to eight hours of driving. Maybe I'm really wrong on my distance and time. Yes.
Here comes the mic.
What's the significance for those that disagree with you based on the New Testament?
Oh, that is a really good question. What does it matter where he lands? What if you are so dogmatic in your your theology that like a wineskin that has held this wine of your beliefs has no ability or capacity to be stretched. New wine requires what? New wineskins.
That when he if if his return to Earth riding on the clouds, seen by people around the world, lands on Mount Sinai, what if you're like, nope. That's not him. He's got to touch down at the Mount Of Olives. I would invite you to consider in Acts chapter one. We've already covered that verse.
It says, the same manner or way in which, not the exact spot, the same way that you saw him depart is the way that he will come back. It also says that he will set foot on the Mount Of Olives and there will be a great earthquake. We're gonna we're gonna get to that in a moment and the mountains will split from east to west and so people take Acts chapter one and we'll get to it in a moment. Zacharias, woah, says he'll set foot on the Mount Of Olives and he'll split. They put those two together and say, he has to return on the Mount Of Olives.
And if you are so dogmatically concrete set that if he doesn't set foot on his return at the Mount Of Olives, it can't be Jesus, you may miss him.
So when when is he gonna set foot on the Mount Of Olives then? Let's say the Sinai thing is right on, But his setting foot on the Mount Of Olives has got to be right on at some point.
What am I what am I about to tell Lee? And we're we're going to get there. So, big, broad brushstroke. Jesus returned riding on the clouds of heaven. He does not, although he could, does not descend and touch down at the Mount Of Olives.
He descends instead on Mount Sinai. This that and the Jews will be like, they'll be making all kinds of hyperlinks. Their minds if he lands on Mount Of Olives, they're gonna be like, I don't know what this is. I don't know what to he lands on Mount Sinai. That's gonna grab all of Israel's attention.
He comes riding on the clouds. He descends on Mount Sinai. And now for the narrative to continue the narrative that we've touched on in times past, he leads a triumphal procession sweeping across the desert. Psalms 68 verse seven through 14. It's 18.
Psalms 68 said, oh, I have an asterisk next to this. Oh, any verses that you see that have an asterisk next? Oh, there's one. Right there. That one is like a oh so good.
It's so good. There are multiple layers of understanding and meaning and and application. This can be for you today right where you are. But I wanna suggest to you that the verses that we're covering today have their greatest expression and fulfillment in a future playing out of events on planet Earth. Psalm 68 verse seven through 18.
Isaiah chapter 40 verses three through five speaks of the king. Here comes the king in a procession. Isaiah 11 verses fifteen and sixteen. Isaiah chapter 43 verses 16 through 21. And in Jeremiah chapter 16 verses 14 through 15.
That in the same way that God, and partially through Moses, led Israel out of bondage and captivity into the wilderness where he speaks tenderly with Israel, where he reveals himself, where he makes a marriage covenant promise to Israel. In that same way, the bridegroom will return and read a similar procession. This time, not by the angel of the lord or sometimes in the old testament described as the hornet. I will send the hornet ahead of you. What is who is that dude?
Jesus returns. Who is this sweeping up out of the deserts of Edom? The earthquakes, the skies crack open and thunder and rain pours down. And in his wake, there is two interesting things. Confusion, calamity, and wildflowers.
Spring crocuses, the Bible describes, springing up everywhere. Can you imagine a man walking across a desert and in his dust are not footprints but wildflowers that spring up everywhere? That's the kind of Jesus that I can get excited about. Read your Bible with fresh eyes. Then, along the way, he liberates Israeli refugee camps.
Jesus speaks of this and he talks about once again after Israel has been gathered from around the nations. Is that happening right now? Yes. That there will be a time of intense persecution that will make the tragedy of the Holocaust look like a walk in the park. Just in Europe alone, scattered across Europe, 6,000,000 Jews were murdered, systematically executed in a genocide.
What happens when they're all gathered more or less in one nation? Like shooting fish in a barrel. Jesus prophesies that there will that there will be people who flee And he says, pray your flight doesn't come at night or on the Sabbath. And woe to pregnant and nursing mothers during that time. And if you look at various Old Testament passages, they escaped Jerusalem looking for any kind of asylum or or relief from persecution and the Bible describes being out in the wilderness, out in the, if you're, if you think of Israel as a clock and 12:00 is the Golan Heights and 06:00 would be the wilderness of Engedi and the border with Egypt and Jordan.
Are you more or less following me? Look at oh, turn to your map. This is great. Let me go on my map too. Okay, here I am.
Oh, look even in the Exodus from Egypt map, it talks about Edom. Sweeping south down into the modern day wilderness of Jordan, the modern day wilderness of Northern Saudi Arabia, maybe some fleeing up into Syria, maybe some fleeing into the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. But think of South and East of Israel. The only escape that could that could the the only avenue of escape for Israel under intense persecution in the days ahead and where do they go? They're they're just fleeing out into out into the desert, out into the wilderness just like we saw at the Nova Festival when Hamas terrorist came.
They just went running willy nilly for their lives out across this this barren agricultural land. Desperate to find to find escape for themselves and for their family. They'll collect in what I would say even though Brian, I've read all through this and I do not see the single phrase refugee camp in the Bible. Look with a little bit different eyes. Study this passage.
Consider these things That at the return of Jesus, he leads a triumphal procession sweeping across the desert, and he liberates Israeli refugee camps along the way. Ezekiel 36 verse 24 through 28. That passage is not just for New Testament Christians, y'all. Ezekiel 37 verse 21 through 23. Isaiah chapter forty nine eight through 12.
Isaiah chapter 61 verses one and two. He he he rescues them. And then it says this, they will look at the one they have pierced. Zechariah chapter 12 verse 10. Revelation chapter one verse seven.
This is right now in the story arc about Israel. Do you think that Jews would recognize a Christian Jesus coming back? Or would they more quickly recognize and identify and be challenged by a greater Moses leading a procession of people into the promised land. After a return in the likened manner of Yahweh descending on Mount Sinai. This is when Israel has a oh boy moment.
They will look upon the one they have pierced and they will weep bitterly. Each one in their own tent, men separate from the women. Why let me ask you this. Why are they weeping? This is this is good to to think through.
What are your thoughts? Raise your hand. Why are they weeping? River has the mic. She's got her running shoes on ready to zip around.
Why are they weeping? What do you think? Because they denied for so long. Because they denied him for so long. That's part of it.
Yes. What else? Why aren't they weeping?
Because of the love of Jesus is so profound upon them that they can't do anything but weep in his presence.
Yes, yes, and there's more. Maybe they're afraid So, imagine the physical, emotional trauma that they, individuals, and families, and even collectively as a people will have experienced in what the Bible calls the day of the lord. He says it so many. In that day, in that great day, in that great and terrible day, the return of the lord leading up to that moment, how much Israel would have experienced. Talk to anyone in Israel today and ask him, hey, how are your nerves doing?
The only one person that I know of in this room that hasn't that has had to live with the app on their phone that tells them when they have to run to a bomb shelter and how often would that alert go off on your phone? All day. But then you would get a break at night. Right? And you could sleep soundly through the night.
Sorry. What? You sleep in your clothes. How many of you sleep in your clothes? I would expect Kieran to raise his hand.
Efficient. Feels like, I mean, wouldn't put it past me. The collective trauma that they've experienced. So there could be fear. Now now what?
Now what? Now what is it? I'm trying to seek shelter and refuge to escape political and military persecution. Now what's coming?
Also in for I looked at through Zephaniah three seventeen.
Oh, that's a good one. You wanna read that?
Oh, well, I was gonna say up in 15, it says, the lord will remove his hand of judgment and will disperse the armies of your enemies. The lord himself, the king, will live among you, and at last your troubles will be over. You will never again fear disaster. That would make me cry because that's awesome. And it's like, wow, it's final like, generations of heartbreak, of fear, of just like all of that is like gone, and suddenly you're like, woah, like, he's back.
Like, the king is in our presence.
Yes. Now read 17. 17 exalt over you by singing.
For the lord your god is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.
Jews look upon the one they have crucified, and at the same time, he wipes away their tears and binds their wounds. Zephaniah three seventeen, Isaiah 25 verse eight, Isaiah 30 verse 26, Isaiah sixty one one, Revelation twenty one four. Quick note, scratch Revelation twenty one four. I I put that in the notes, keynote, and then this actually has to do with after the millennial reign of Jesus with new heavens and the new earth. So take Revelation twenty one four and bump it way down.
Okay? Just to be clear. Why are they crying? He comes in like a bridegroom for his bride. Their fear, traumatized Oh, here comes a mic.
Gretchen needs to hear your input while she's traveling.
Well, I think it just says that they're looking on who they killed. They killed him.
Yes. And so why would that make them cry? Guilt. Yes. Correct.
Guilt. Remorse. An acknowledgment of of their brokenness, of their imperfection, of their crimes, if you will? Have you ever been caught dead to rights come face to face with your own guilt? Without any more without any more defense.
How have you felt? Broken, naked, vulnerable? Like crying? This will be Israel in that day. And he does not come back saying, I told you so.
He does not come back saying, yeah, that's right. He does not rub their noses in it. He, like like, I picture in my in my sanctified imagination just like like in a World War two movie. In a World War two movie, it's always the Americans that are liberating the the death camps across Europe But it was actually a large coalition of nations. And the Soviets, who are our allies at the time, ended up liberating a lot of those camps.
But I picture it just like you've seen in like Band of Brothers or something. Jesus comes back with his entourage. He's sweeping across the deserts. Israelis who haven't known I have to I I have to walk because the narrative is you gotta so hi everybody in the VIP section. So Jesus returns on Mount Sinai.
He sweeps up through the desert and there happens to be the Jews didn't plan this like, oh, I want to be on the path of interception for Jesus's march. They're just looking for the path of least resistance and escape. They've been collected by by the dozens, by the hundreds, maybe thousands, maybe there will even be some Christians within the sound of my voice that listen to this podcast or in this room that say, I'm going to devote my life to preparing for that time and helping to stop buying land in Jordan or Saudi Arabia out in the middle of the desert and prepare a camp for that when the day of persecution comes, I'll be ready to receive Jews and love on them with all of their stuff and Jesus comes up and like I picture in a band of brothers where the there is a security perimeter fence. Jews have been living there for I don't know how long weeks or months. Maybe maybe longer years maybe have no touch of like what's going on in Israel.
They hear reports of just chaos and explosions or in The Middle East and around the world and the the city of the old city of Jerusalem has been taken. It's fallen. Jerusalem has fallen. What's going to happen to my livelihood? What's going to happen with my family?
Where do I go from here? They only have the clothes on their back. And then they feel the earthquake and they see these dark clouds billowing up from the South. Now, what? And here comes a greater Moses and I literally in my imagination, I've I I I picture him with like bolt cutters or maybe he gives the command like open up those gates.
Open up those gates. I'm here. They're shell shocked. They're rattled. Maybe sick, injured, wounded, infirm, whatever.
He binds up their wounds and they're like, wait a minute, wait a minute. It dawns on their collective consciousness. You're the one that we pierced two thousand years ago and he's like, yeah. What are you doing here? This is the tears.
This is the tears. What are you doing? We killed you and he's like, shh, it's time for that later. Don't worry about that right now. Are you doing okay?
How's your family? I know that you have two cousins that are in the IDF and they're on the front lines. Have you heard from them lately? I mean, he knows because he's god. Here, come here.
Come here. How many healing miracles did he perform while he was walking on planet Earth the first time? Would he not be like, hey, let's let's reset that broken arm right here. Reinsert superhero Jesus. Yeah.
Yeah. Wipes away their tears, binds their wounds, and then Jews begin getting saved left and right. You are the Messiah. Romans chapter 11 verse 25 through 27 says, all Israel will be saved. The collective repentance and turning back to Jesus the Messiah.
Zechariah chapter 13 verse one. Ezekiel chapter 36 verse 25 through 27. He leads this procession back to Jerusalem, and he faces off against the army of the Antichrist that has besieged Jerusalem and polluted the temple. Now, many people who are savvy in their eschatology are looking for the sign of a third temple to be rebuilt and when that's rebuilt, uh-oh, watch out. But if you think of modern day construction with the massive buildings, those take months and months and months, if not, years and years and years.
Did you know that all of the articles for prescribed in the law of Moses that are required, the instruments basically like the barbecue tongs and you know, meat stabbers and lavers and you know, all the barbecue accoutrement for the old covenant sacrificial system. They've already been constructed. Every all of the implements for the temple have been built. They are ready to go. The red heifers that are circulating about that are required for the purification of the priest to perform the duty and to sprinkle on the instruments of, like, the the barbecue stuff and the people, the the red heifers like that that's not a rumor.
They were found in Texas. Shout out Texas. Of course, they would be found in Texas. And they're in Israel now. They're viable red evers today.
And all that needs to happen is for the ashes of a red heifer along with the other stuff sprinkled on the edge, and they're good to go. You don't need there's nothing that says you need a temple. And a tent, a tabernacle can be erected in days or weeks. So, if you're thinking like, I'm just going to hang out, be a passenger princess until I see, you know, the last build, you know, the last stone going into place on this massive construction project. Watch yourself.
A tent can be set up overnight. So, Jesus returns sweeping in across the deserts leading ransom captive Israel. The Bible, there's a verse. It's not in on this list but there's a verse that says, in that day, one man of Judah will be like so strong and invigorated that he'll fight like 10 or a 100 men. How did you feel when you first got saved?
Did you feel like you could just take on the world yourself? He faces off against the army of the Antichrist that has besieged Jerusalem and polluted the temple. Zechariah twelve two through three. Zechariah fourteen one through three. Joel chapter three verse two.
Daniel nine twenty seven. Daniel eleven thirty one. Second Thessalonians two three through four. Matthew chapter 24 verses 15. He, Jesus, destroys the antichrist.
A physical, literal person, not an ideology not symbolically I I just invite you. If you've ever thought of this as only spiritual or theoretical, just try. Here, try the the the glasses of literal fulfillment and see how the text reads then. If you tremble, you're probably reading it more accurately. He destroys the antichrist, second Thessalonians chapter two verse eight, Revelation chapter 19 verses 19 through 21, Daniel chapter seven verse 11, and then another all unfolding simultaneously.
More and more Jews are coming to salvation. All Israel gets saved collectively, nationally. Romans chapter 11 verse 26, Zechariah chapter 12 verse 10 through 13, Zechariah 13 verse one. He establishes his throne, not his presidency. This will not be any other type of system of government that you have experienced before.
Although, Saudi Arabia is what a kingdom But this will be a theocracy under the leadership of Jesus. He's not establishing a presidency. And it will be in the city of Jerusalem where his influence, I I worded this carefully. His influence will be felt around the world. Now, let me give you a an example by which you could possibly relate.
Try your hardest not to hear what I'm not saying. And I'm not making a equivalency statement. But listen to my example for just what it's worth. Does not a majority of people around the world today feel the influence of the current president of The United States. What he does from Washington sends ripples around the world.
I am not saying that president Trump is like Jesus. And if you insist on hearing that, have fun. I mean, I can't make it any more plain. I'm trying to give you an example of one man from one geographical place saying or making decisions or doing things that have ripples around the world. He will establish His throne in Jerusalem where His influence will be felt around the world.
Isaiah chapter two verses two through four, Micah chapter four verses one through three, Jeremiah chapter three verses 17. Zechariah chapter 14 verse nine. Now, we can talk about us Christians. This is the last slide. Oh, Michael?
Where's Michael? You know Michael chapter four. That's not in your bible? Thank you. We, now us Christians, get painted into the picture.
We originally get painted into the picture at the return of Jesus riding on the clouds, but this is where we this is where we step in. We will have resurrected bodies. We have the bodies that we have right now, our earth suits for ideally suited for this particular assignment. We will get new bodies for a new assignment when he returns. We will have resurrected bodies for a new assignment helping Jesus restore creation for a thousand years.
Now, that in itself is a nice, pretty statement. Restoring creation, the restoration of the earth, especially this younger generation. You are so justicly minded. You are so environmentally sensitive. And it's great.
Wonderful. What if God put that in your generation for this purpose expressly? When I was a kid, my grandmother would drive through the drive thru. She'd say, cowboy, you want a Whataburger? I'm like, sure, boo.
I want a Whataburger. She'd she'd drive through the drive thru and say, give me a Whataburger and a Coke. Hand it to me. I'd eat my little Whataburger with cheese, drink my Coke, hand it back to Boo, and Boo would just take it and pitch it right out the window. What else did you do with trash?
The shadows the shadow side of Texas. The shadow side of Texas. Back then, back then. But your your generation, you can't even throw out a piece of gum. You want to like recycle the gum.
Like the chewing gum. Like, I don't know. That's great. That's wonderful. It's how God made you generationally.
This is why I believe that God made you the way that He did. We will help restore creation for a thousand years environmentally. Isaiah chapter 11 verse six through nine. Isaiah chapter 35 verse one through seven. Socially, Isaiah chapter two verse four, Zechariah chapter eight verse four and five, economically, Amos chapter nine verse 13 through 15.
Beautiful, incredible, unprecedented prosperity I can't remember which one. It might even be the Amos one that says, pick a pick a harvest, apples. By the time you finish picking one crop of apples off of the last tree in your orchard, you're gonna have to go back to the beginning of your orchard and pick those apples because they will have grown so fast and thrived so much that the the planter will overtake the harvester. New wine will drip. Oh, Amos's new wine will drip.
What does that even look like? Remember the old hobo song, Big Rock Candy Mountain? I mean, picture that but not in like a hobo mentality. Judiciously Are there corrupt governments today? Yes, because it's full of people.
There's coming a day where from Jerusalem, despite what all may have happened judiciously in the past, there will come a day of righteous judicial judgments and and implementation of those. When the king sits on the throne in Jerusalem. For as imperfect as Israel is today, for you to judge Israel, for you to judge Jews, is the same as you judging the opera and the concert based upon before the overture starts when the orchestra pit is just warming up. Dissonance and and there's it is it's chaos in the orchestra pit. But someday, the conductor will step up to the lectern and go, with his baton.
He raises baton. The woodwinds will draw breath. The stringed instruments will place their bows and that first note. And there will be beautiful music. Geopolitically, Zechariah chapter 14 verse 16, Isaiah chapter two verse two through three.
That's the, oh, I have one more verse. That's the end of this series. I don't have the slide up there but like I say all the time, text me, we'll talk. I would like to ask for how many of you this is like new but I I think I will allow you to wrestle with to consider the narrative that was presented here. Undoubtedly, the narrative that that I that was presented here that I believe is supported by the story arc of the Bible and is true, not contrived or made up or wishful thinking but is true.
It may be very challenging to you. Maybe something that you've never heard before. The invitation is for you to be a Berean. Get into the, that's why I flooded you, swamped you with verses. Dig into these passages.
Read them. Consider them. Look at them with a new wineskin that would allow you to be stretched and this is the last verse that I have for the series. I said, how do we land the plane with this? How do we return back to the trailhead?
What is the last best verse to just to just drive everything home? Psalms two, kiss the son. Fall at his feet and kiss the son. Lest he be angry and you perish in the way. For his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are those who take refuge in him. The culmination of all of this is an invitation to fall at the foot of the king of kings and lord of lords. Fall at his feet and kiss the son. Worship him surrender your prejudice Look with envy on what Jesus will do for Israel and receive his loving, caring, concerning affection for you today. Israel ain't different than you.
You're going to do all this stuff for Israel but what about me? Don't be like the eldest son. Who's like, like, dad, this prodigal son of yours comes home after he's been whoring around and gambling and doing all these naughty things and you kill the fattened calf for him, put a robe around him, and ring on his finger. I've been your oldest son. I've done every single thing that you've asked me and the dad says, son, son, son, son, son.
Don't you realize everything I have belongs to me is yours. If you read about what he says about what what I believe he will do for battered, shattered, abused, shaken, trembling Israel. He stands ready to do for you today. To open up any prison doors that you find yourself in. To bind up any wounds that you feel the impact of.
To heal any brokenness that's in yours. That's how we know him. The Bible says, blessed are you who have not seen him and believe but what about those that are going to see him and believe? We're the eldest brother. We should not despise our younger brother.
We should fall on our face and kiss the son. Now, you take a moment and do that right now in the stillness of your
longing for you. How long must I wait to see you face to face? Oh, lover of my soul, to me. Find me ready for you. Find me ready.
Ready for you. Lord, find me ready. And waiting for you on that day you return. Find me burning and ready for you. Let's just sing that together.
Find me ready. Find me ready. Ready for you. Ready for you. Lord, find me ready.
I'm waiting for you, waiting for you all that day you return. Find me burning, ready for you.
We're gonna leave here in just a moment, but every time we get together as a tribe family, we bring our tithe and above and beyond that offering. And it's just an act of sacrifice. It's an act of recalibrating our hearts to our fathers and what's important to him. And money is just kind of the way the world works right now. Right?
Principle of exchange. And so that's something that we work hard for. And so when we bring a portion of our finances, whatever your whether tribe is your local church or you go somewhere else, you bring a portion of your finances to your local church to do the work of the ministry practically speaking, but in a supernatural way, it's calibrating your heart to the father and say, I'm willing to give up something that I work super hard for. And, honestly, for most of us in Jackson, it feels like you can't really spare a single pin. Like, you want people to be giving to you.
It's like, make your rent. But when we whether we're in that state or not, it's a heart posture. Not how many zeros are in your bank account. It's a heart posture. We say, Lord, I love you, and I trust you so much.
Here's a portion, whatever be in obedience between you and the Lord, what he's asking you to give. And it just blesses his heart. And so we're gonna do that now. And I'm just thinking we're gonna pray. I'll tell you ways to give.
But through this sermon today and as Brian was preaching, I was just thinking of the words of Paul in, I think it's Ephesians four, where he just encourages us from prison. He says, live a life worthy of your calling. In I list some things like with impatience and love and endurance. And so I just feel like that as we think about with the glasses of, you know, the lens of Jesus' return. And just as we do everyday life, live a life worthy of your calling.
What is the Lord called you to do it well? Be obedient. Whether it feels big or small, just be obedient. And bringing our tithe and our offering is just one one of those ways. But in your whole life, just be obedient.
The best place in the entire world to be is in God's will. Whatever geography, whatever job, whatever relationship, it's to be in God's will. And you find that through reading his word, through prayer, and being obedient. So I encourage you in that today with tithe but with every part of your life. Let me pray, and I'll tell you ways to give.
Heavenly father, thank you so much that you are faithful. You are faithful, and you are unchanging, says scripture. The same yesterday, today, and forever. Your ways and modes can change through the generations, but your heart does not change. Your faithfulness and love towards us does not change.
We thank you so much for that. I pray that every heart in here today giving you will just reveal yourself to us in new ways as we seek after you as we we read your word. May it just jump off the page, the things that you want us to see, Holy Spirit, in new and fresh ways. Thank you for just the the culmination of this series, just stirring our hearts individually regardless of what words came out of Brian's mouth. Holy Spirit, you do the work that only you can do in the soil of our hearts.
Lord, just bring to life the things that you want us to see. We love you and thank you so much. Thank you that we get to partner with you in the work of the ministry to make your name famous, Jesus. This is all for you. In Jesus' name, amen.
Here at Tribe, if you have cash or check, you can give in a couple ways. There's a little box with our logo right there by the door. There's a little black box at the outside door. It's a lockbox. You can drop that off anytime if you have something to put in a slot.
Or you can give, Hux, if you'll pull up the smartphone. This is the easiest way to give. You just type a number in your phone to (833) 369-7847. Type the word give, the dollar amount, the dollar sign, and then the amount you wanna give. Easy peasy.
Or you could always do it online, tribejh.com. Just a couple quick announcements. If you well, for for one, this is our Easter graphic. If you are a nineties rock fan, this might look familiar to you. And if you have no idea, that's okay.
And I won't say anything because it is the Easter sermon, and I'm gonna let Brian teach that on Easter. So, I yes. Please, these are next to the door. Next to in Yeah. Your I was just gonna say something about Caleb, but he's in the bathroom.
Grab a few of these and take them to your place of work. Don't be weird about it, like leaving this instead of a tip or something at a restaurant. Don't don't do that. That's wrong. If you give a gigantic tip, you can leave one of these.
Right? But be don't be don't be like that. But take these, spread them around. There's a ton of public places in Jackson that you can post stuff. DOG, there's a little board.
The library, there's, 35 places. So, anyway, next dismiss. Take those. This is our Easter service. And then the next two weeks, we're gonna have a 10AM service only just like today.
Next week, it'll be right here exactly like this, 10AM. We should have lower numbers because it's spring break, but if we don't, come on. We'll break the fire code. Whatever. Jesus, come.
We already And need a new home. Continue to pray for tribe's new home. That's a whole other thing. But next week, right here, exactly like this. The following week is Easter, and so we won't be here.
We will be at the Virginian. Much, much bigger space. We've got a lot planned. We're gonna have a 01:10AM service in the big conference room there just like we did last year, and then we're also gonna bring we're gonna eat food together right after. So there's a sign up on the fridge if you wanna bring Easter food.
I see a lot of empty spots. So
Don't make me call you.
I just walk around today before you go. Just kidding. That was weird. This is the last thing. This is in your seat.
If you are a guest and you wanna know what's going on around tribe, fill this out, and you'll get a text every now and again, like reminders of the things that I just said. But also whether it's your first time or if you or or you're Brian. Anywhere in between. If you have a request, a prayer request, please write it on the back. Tribe staff takes these very seriously.
When we meet together, we pray over these. We partner with you, and we just join our faith with yours no matter what you're going through. It is not too big. It is not too small. So if you want prayer for that or if you want live prayer, Cory in the green hat and myself and Lanisha will all be in this VIP room right after.
I just picked our prayer team. And always Lee. Any any of us at UCF, we'd love to pray with you truly about anything. Brian, please come up before I just preach or something.
No, this is this is fun. Would that be alright if I prayed for you before you got out of here today? Stand up. Lord Jesus, thank you so much for this beautiful spring weather that we are enjoying as wacky and weird as this winter has been. Lord Jesus, I command a blessing over each and every person here this morning.
God, I ask that you would calibrate our hearts to live with an expectancy of the redemption of planet Earth, the redemption of our hearts, our full complete salvation, the return of the king of kings. Whoo. I cannot wait for that day, lord Jesus. Give us a great week. We pray these things in Jesus name, the strong son of god and everybody said.
Amen. I love you so very much. Have a great week and remember, you got this.
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