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August 26 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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In today's reading we will cover Matthew Chapters 8:5-13 and 11:1-19, and Luke Chapter 7:1-35.
Today' we will read about the healing of the centurian's servant as well as Jesus bringing a woman's son back to life for her and then learn that these very events were proof of Jesus being the Messiah prophesied about throughout the Old Covenant! Jesus himself told the John's disciples that He was the Promised One, the One the people had been waiting for, and had been written about by the prophets. We will read the scripture verses in Isaiah that specifically spoke about the healing and rising of the dead that Jesus fulfilled in His answer to John's disciples when they asked if He was the Promised One or if they should wait for someone else: Isaiah 26:19, 35:5-6, 29:18-19, and 61:1. Jesus will also confirm for us that John was the Elijah that the prophet Malachi wrote about who was to come before Jesus and prepare the way for Him. We will read Malachi 3:23. Malachi also spoke about John in Malachi 3:1.
Jewish believers in the Messiah are considered "Complete Jews." We, as Gentile believers in the Messiah, are not Jewish but have been grafted into God's family tree, much the way the Centurion army Officer was a Gentile believer. Our God is a God of unification. There is ONE family tree. We are all of ONE Spirt- God's Spirit! It is far more accurate for us to say that we are Gentile believers in the Messiah than to make up divisions such as "Christian, Baptist, Protestant, Lutheran, Presbyterian, non denominational, etc." Instead, we need to consider ourselves ONE in the family of God.
Why are these things important for our daily application? We can be confident that our faith is in the TRUE Messiah promised by God. Jesus fulfilled ALL the prophecies written about the Promised One, who would be Anointed by God. This means we need to be following all of Jesus' teachings, like we read yesterday, when we learned that it is not enough to simply call Jesus Lord. We need to be doing what God wants us to do, part of which is observing His Appointed Times, His Moadim, which are rapidly approaching for us- the Feast of Trumpets, which will be fulfilled in the blowing of the Great Shofar when God causes the Rapture, as well as the Feast of Booths, also known as the Feast of Tabernacles, which will be fulfilled by Jesus when He returns to Tabernacle, (dwell/live) with us. We learned yesterday that God values those who teach others to obey His Word so I am encouraging you to prepare your hearts to observe these festivals that God commanded to be observed forever.
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Introduction and Community Building
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Well, hello! Here we are again! Thank you for joining me for our daily reading out of the Day by Day Kids Bible, written by Karen Henley. You know, I haven't said hello in a while.
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I say hello in general, but I haven't said, hey, hi, Pearl. Hi, Jedi. Hi, Forrest. Hi, Diamond. Hi, Julie. Thank you for being here with me.
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Letty. Are you out there? How about Lex? How about Maurice? And let's see, Maria and c Cleo. I'm so glad that you guys are out there somewhere.
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Even if you don't listen or watch today, whenever you get around to hearing this, I want you to know I've been thinking about you. How low, how has everybody been doing? And to those of you that I don't know, oh, and we have Joel, Joel now.
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Hey, Joel, thank you for subscribing and following along. I'm so glad that everybody is here. Our family is growing. Our family was already this big, but we're here together.
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I'm so glad that we are here together to do this daily Bible reading. If you are using the commitment calendar, go ahead and get yours out and your sticker.
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Diamond, you got all those stickers ready? I'm sure if Jedi or Forrest don't want to do their sticker, maybe you can do their sticker for them.
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Or maybe you guys want to do your own stickers. Did Pearl do her sticker? Hurry, Pearl, get your sticker on there before Diamond does it for you.
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Oh, well, thank you for being here with me, everybody. i am so excited to bring you our daily reading.
Jesus Fulfills Prophecy
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I just love this event. Today, we are going to be seeing how Jesus fulfilled prophecy.
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We are going to be reading about how Jesus tells the followers of John the Baptist to refer to the prophecies about him when they ask him if he is the one that they have been looking for or if there is someone else yet to come.
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but We are going to start our reading off with a story about the captain's servant. This is a man who loved his servant so much that he wanted him to be saved. And he sent a message for Jesus to save him so that he wouldn't die from his illness.
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There once was a Roman army captain who lived in Capernaum. He had a servant who was very special to him. But his servant got very sick, and he was so sick, he was almost dead.
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Now Jesus had gone back to Capernaum, and the captain heard that Jesus was in town, so he sent some Jewish leaders to meet with Jesus. Our big Bible says elders, and um one of the accounts says that he went himself, but he's still got the message there.
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He sent them to ask Jesus to come to his house. He wanted Jesus to make his servant well. When these leaders came to Jesus, they begged him to help.
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The captain is a good man, they said. He loves our nation. He even built our town's worship house. So you should help him and you should make his servant well.
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Jesus went with the leaders, but the captain had sent some friends to meet him too. And they met him on his way to see the captain. They gave Jesus another message.
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This message said, Lord, don't bother to come. I'm not good enough for you to come to my house. that's why I didn't come to you myself. I'm not good enough to see you.
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Just say the word. Then I know my servant will be well again. You see, know about being in charge, the message said.
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I have a boss to obey, and I'm the boss of many other men. I tell one to come, and he comes. I tell another one to go, he goes.
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I tell my servants, do this or that, and they do what I tell them.
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Jesus was surprised to hear this. He looked at the crowd following him and he said, I have not seen such great faith in the land of Israel before.
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People will come from the east, said Jesus, and people will come from the west and they will eat a big dinner with Abraham in God's kingdom. And Isaac and Jacob will be there, but other people will be thrown out into the dark.
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They will cry there. Then Jesus sent word to the captain. You believed i would make your servant well. I will do just what you believed.
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And at that moment, the captain's servant got well.
Miracles and Compassion
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The friends he had sent to Jesus went back home and they saw that the captain's servant was well.
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Getting son back. Jesus and his friends headed toward a town called Nain. A big crowd was with them, and they came up to the town gate.
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People were coming out of the town through the gate, and the people were carrying a dead man. The dead man was the only son his mother had. The man's father had died sometime before, many people were there with his mother.
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Jesus saw the dead man's mother Don't cry, he said. His heart was very sad for her. Jesus touched the long box that held the body, and the people who were carrying it stood still.
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Jesus said, Young man, get up. And the man who had been dead sat up, and he began to walk, and he began to talk. So Jesus gave him back to his mother.
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He was alive. Everyone was surprised and they praised God. They said, this man, Jesus, is a great prophet.
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God is here helping his people.
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And the news about Jesus went quickly all over the land.
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Our last section is entitled, What Did You Come to See?
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Now John, the one who had baptized people, had some followers. And John was in jail, remember, for telling King Herod that he should not have been married to his brother's wife.
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they And they told John what Jesus was doing. So John asked two of them to go to Jesus. And he told them to ask Jesus a question. Are you the one we've been waiting for, or should I look for someone else?
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Now at that time, Jesus was making many sick people well. He was sending many bad spirits away. He was making many people see again.
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So Jesus said, go back to John and tell him everything you have seen. Tell him everything you have heard. People who couldn't see before can see now.
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People who couldn't walk before can walk now. People with skin sickness are well, said Jesus. And people who could not hear before can hear now.
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Dead people are coming to life.
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Poor people are hearing again, are hearing the good news. Good things will come to people who keep following me. So John's followers went back to tell John.
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Then Jesus talked to the people about John. What did you go out to the desert to see? He asked them. Did you go to see plants blown by the wind?
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If not, what did you think you would see? Did you think you would see someone dressed in fine clothes? No, people who wear fine clothes are in palaces.
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So what did you go to see in the desert? Did you go to see a prophet? Yes, said Jesus. But John is more than a prophet.
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He is the one Malachi wrote about. Malachi wrote that God would send someone with a message and that person would help people get ready for me.
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Here on earth, there is nobody greater than John. But in God's kingdom, even the smallest is greater than John.
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The law and the prophets told all about what was to happen to John. What was to happen until John came. I'm going to reread that. Sorry about that. The law and the prophets told about all that was to happen until John came.
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John is the prophet like Elijah, who was supposed to come. Hear this, if you have ears, said Jesus. People listened to what Jesus said, and they said that God's way was the right way.
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Even men who took tax money said this. They had been baptized by John.
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Some Jewish leaders had not been baptized by John, so they would not take what God had planned for them. They said they knew all about the law already. What are these people like?
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asked Jesus. They are like children who sit in the marketplace. They call to each other and they say, we played the flute for you, but you didn't dance. We sang a sad song for you, but you didn't cry.
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John came and did not eat bread or drink wine, said Jesus. So you say a bad spirit controls him. I come and I do eat bread and drink wine. So you say this man eats too much and he's a drunk and he's a friend of tax men and he's a friend of sinners.
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But I say, being wise is what is right. And you can see that by watching a wise person.
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And that is the end of our reading today.
Prophetic Fulfillment and Recognition
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These were great counts of what happened, don't you think? So we see that Jesus saved the servant of the Roman ah army officer. Let's see, he's a, yes, a Roman army captain, not an officer who lived in Capernaum.
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And he was a believer in in Judaism, but he was not Jewish. He was a Roman army captain. So this was very important. He was not a Jewish believer. So he was considered a Gentile.
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And yet he knew that Jesus was who he said he was. He believed in Jesus. And he had enough faith in Jesus that he didn't even have to see him. Jesus didn't have to be anywhere near him.
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Jesus only had to speak it. And his servant would be well. Jesus was amazed at his faith. And then Jesus told them,
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the people who were following that people would come from all over at the great wedding feast. He's describing the wedding feast from the East and from the West.
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And they will eat a big dinner with Abraham and Jacob and Isaac, but other people will be thrown out. And he's referring to the unbelieving Jews because they did not believe
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And that's why he said, I haven't seen such great faith in the land of Israel before. He was coming to his own people, but the people were not all receiving him. The leaders were not receiving him. He was coming for the poor people and they were receiving him, but they were also coming because they wanted to be healed and he was tending to them.
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So then we see that God brought back the woman's son and she did not ask him to do this. Jesus has so much compassion and his heart went out to this woman. And it says that his heart was very sad for her because she had already lost her husband and now she had no son to even take care of her.
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And so he brought that man back to life, that young man. And it says that he gave the man back to his mother.
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So this was reminiscent of Elijah when Elijah was being taken care of by a widow who had a son and he brought the son back to life when the when the mother asked him.
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But in this case, Jesus's encounter with the woman, she did not ask, he simply did it. Jesus was even greater than Elijah.
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Then we see that when John's followers asked Jesus if he was the one that they had been waiting for, he was actually quoting from scripture, that he was fulfilling scripture.
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And he had done so when he healed the man, ah the young man, as well as when he brought that woman's son back to life. So we're going to look at those verses that he fulfilled from the book of Isaiah.
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In Isaiah chapter 35, verses 5 and 6, Isaiah says, Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
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Then the lame will leap like a deer and the tongue of the mute will sing. For water will burst forth in the desert and streams in the wilderness.
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And then we also have chapter 26, verse 19.
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Isaiah says, we also have chapter 29, verse 18. your dead will live my corpses will rise awake and shout for joy you who dwell in the dust your due is like the dew of the dawn the land of dead souls will come to life
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and we also have chapter twenty nine verse eighteen That says,
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and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see the meek will add to their joy in the lord and the needy of humanity will rejoice in the holy one of israel
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And in chapter 61, verse 1, Isaiah says, The Spirit of the Lord God is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
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He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.
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So Jesus answered John's followers with scripture. And that's why he said to them, tell him what you have, everything you have seen and tell him everything you have heard.
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People who couldn't see before can see now. People who couldn't walk before can walk now. People with skin sicknesses are well. People who could not hear before can hear now.
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Dead people are coming to life again. Poor people are hearing the good news. And good things will come to people who keep on following me.
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Jesus fulfilled the prophecies that God gave the prophets clear back from the time of Moses. God's first prophet. Isn't that amazing?
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We can know for certainty that Jesus is the Messiah. He fulfilled all the prophecies written about him in the Old Covenant. And not only that, but Jesus tells us here that John also fulfilled what God told Malachi when Malachi said that God would send someone with a message and that person would help people to get ready for him.
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And I have that here as well.
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In Malachi chapter 3, verses 23, says, Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord.
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He will turn the hearts of fathers to the children and the hearts of children to their fathers, else I will come and strike the land with utter destruction.
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that was the last thing that Malachi wrote. That was the end of his writings. So we read all of this. So we knew that John the Baptist was going to be coming. We talked about the fact that John the Baptist would fulfill that.
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Everything Malachi had written about John and the one that God would send ahead of time to prepare the way, but make straight the paths for the Lord. And that's in another verse as well. I just don't have that one handy at the moment.
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And so we can know for certain that John the Baptist was also the one that Malachi sent to fulfill the prophecy. He made the way straight for Jesus.
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And here Jesus says that was his job, that he did that. He prepared the people to receive him. So we know that God's prophecies were all fulfilled.
Unity in Belief
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Did you know that when a Jewish believer believes in Jesus, he is considered a completed Jew? He doesn't convert to Christianity.
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He is considered, or she, they are considered ah complete Jew. Because that was the point of our old covenant, was that God was bringing his people, his chosen people,
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a Messiah, the Anointed One, who would save them from their sins and also, not just the Jewish people, but also the Gentiles. We, who believe in the Messiah and in the Old Covenant, are Gentile believers in the Messiah.
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It is so much more unifying to refer to us as Gentile and believers in the Messiah than it is to designate us as a whole different thing called Christianity.
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Because then within that, we have even more division. We have Baptist and non-denominational. We have Presbyterian. We have Protestant. We have um Lutheran.
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We have so many divisions. And really... God didn't create these divisions. People created these divisions.
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Our God is one of union and of reconciliation. In God, there is only Jew and Gentile believers. You are either a Jewish believer, and that is a whole separate people, or you are a Gentile who also believes in the Messiah.
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And that is what we are. Our God made us unified. so that we are all part of one religion. We are not part of a bunch of different religions.
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We are part of one religion. And it's the belief in God. We are Gentile believers in the Messiah. And Jesus came to be that Messiah, as we can see from his fulfillment in scripture.
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So I hope that you feel that that is something to think about. as as you go about your day and as you consider our daily application today, that God fulfilled this so that we could have Shalom.
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And Shalom, as we know, is wholeness. Not just peace. God brings us peace through Jesus in shalom. Because he puts his spirit in all of us.
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So if it's his one spirit in all of us, we are one. We have been grafted into the tree. There is one tree. There are not many trees. i have my tree. This is my family tree, but that's just our symbol here.
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My logo. Because we are all part of one family tree. We're not part of ah an orchard. There's one family tree in God's kingdom.
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and We have been grafted into it as Gentile believers in the Messiah.
Observances and Traditions
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Well, we also have some appointed times that are coming up here in ah September.
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We have it towards the end of September. I believe it is. We have the Feast of Trumpets, which is the blowing of the Shafar. And this will be fulfilled when Jesus comes ah with the rapture.
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That it will be fulfilled at that time. ah We are expected as Gentile believers in the Messiah to observe God's appointed times, his Moedim.
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And so I just wanted us to start thinking about those things. So that will be on Tuesday, September twenty third That is the day of blasting or shouting.
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It's also traditionally celebrated as the Jewish New Year, but that's irrelevant. ah That's not in the Bible or anything. It's just a celebration. We're not required to observe that. But God does expect us to observe the Feast of Trumpets with the blowing of the Shafar because we are Gentile believers in the Messiah.
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And that will be fulfilled, as I said, when the rapture happens with the great blowing of the great Shafar up in heaven. Then I want us to keep our ah mind thinking toward the following.
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Moedim, appointed time, when we begin the Feast of Booths, which will begin on October 7th, which is a Tuesday. And it goes for seven days until the, actually eight days, until the 14th of October. So from the October 7th through 14th, that is our Feast of Booths, where we live in tents for seven days.
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um Eight days on the eighth day rather was when we have an assembly. So we will talk more about that as the days approach. But I just wanted us to keep that in in mind ah because we will be wanting to observe those.
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Those are part of what we are called to observe forever, it says. So thank you for joining me today. i hope that you feel that God has given you a lot to think about and a lot to apply in your daily life.
Call to Action and Conclusion
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I know he does for me every single day. So if you don't mind, kindly do as always to click that light button and click the share button. Together, we want to spread the word about reading God's word.
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We want to teach others to obey. We read yesterday that God ah is very favorable toward those who teach others to obey his word. And that's what we want to do in sharing God's word.
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And that's why I'm telling you about these appointed times that are coming is that I'm encouraging you to obey God's word. And I want to encourage you to also share this so that other people will be aware and start preparing their hearts for these joyous times that we have coming.
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Because one day Jesus will come back again. And we want to be ready for those times. So I hope you have a fantastic rest of your day, whatever day you get around to watching or listening here on August 26th.
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And guess where I'll be tomorrow? Right here. You can find me. Have a great day, everybody.