WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.919 --> 00:05:38.879 Up at also shown. 2 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:15.800 Yeah throw. 3 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:23.079 Hell yeah. 4 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:46.680 Throw he yawn he yawn. 5 00:04:46.839 --> 00:05:27.639 He thre there there there there. 6 00:05:36.839 --> 00:06:04.680 There all right, welcome. Well, we haven't talked theology in 7 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:07.720 a while, have we. We've talked a lot about goofy things. 8 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:10.439 I've been a lot of goofy videos, but we haven't 9 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:14.519 gotten into one of these kind of deeper theological streams 10 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:18.040 in a while. And these are not the easiest, they're 11 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:21.680 not the most popular. We know, the hardcore Jason Elsi's 12 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:25.759 fans enjoy them, and I want to thank you guys 13 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:30.639 for tagging along for being here. Actually, I wasn't really 14 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:32.839 planning on doing a theological stream, and then the more 15 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:36.240 I thought about it, the more I thought, no, let's 16 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:44.160 do that, because that's ultimately that's what matters. But so 17 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:48.160 I was listing different things that everybody's kind of talking about, 18 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:51.000 all the stuff that people are worried about. I'm goind 19 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:54.199 of surprised more evangelicals aren't freaking out thinking it's the 20 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:57.000 end of the world. But then again, I guess they 21 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:06.879 think that QAnon is gonna save everybody or whatever. So 22 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:16.879 I want to talk about prophecies anti christ. I want 23 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:21.480 to talk about that kind of stuff. What the Patristic 24 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:26.319 view is how there's actually solutions in the Orthodox canon 25 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:29.680 of scripture that you're missing in the other canon's descripture. 26 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:34.360 Now that's not to say that everybody in the other 27 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:38.040 traditions gets everything wrong. They don't. But I think that 28 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:41.920 you got two big things that you get in Orthodoxy 29 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:46.279 that are big aids to this that you don't find 30 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:52.079 in like Protestant groups, and that's the Church Fathers and 31 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:56.079 the liturgy. The Church Fathers and the liturgy become key 32 00:07:56.279 --> 00:08:01.240 aids to help us interpret the because of the Bible 33 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:04.240 itself is part of a liturgical tradition. It's part of 34 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:08.199 a tradition of daily readings in the ancient Church, and 35 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:11.279 the fact that they were part of those daily readings 36 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:14.879 is partly how we know what the Canona Scripture is, 37 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:17.639 as we've shown in many of the lectures and talks. 38 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:25.040 So we have to be aware of this and understand 39 00:08:25.079 --> 00:08:29.319 that the liturgy is a accumulation of centuries of wisdom 40 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:32.440 of the Church. Now, the reason we put such a 41 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:37.120 strong belief and emphasis in the visible Church is because 42 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:42.080 Christ promised to a historic visible group of people that 43 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:45.159 the Holy Spirit would be with that group to lead 44 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:47.600 it and guide it into truth and protect it from error. 45 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:51.960 It would not be overcome by error. Doesn't mean there 46 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.120 won't be squabbles, there won't be periods where there's a 47 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:57.639 lot of people who believe error. But in Toto, the 48 00:08:57.759 --> 00:09:01.240 Church will never at any point be completely consumed by era. 49 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:05.720 There will always be solid orthodox or right believing bishops 50 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:09.440 in the world, and faithful by extension, even in periods 51 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:13.120 of mass apostasy. So we're gonna get into some of 52 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:18.360 these kind of tough issues tonight and some of the 53 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:27.720 tough doctrines that bug a lot of people, and hopefully 54 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:37.320 I can cover this in a profitable way. There's a 55 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:39.399 specific article I want to bring out that a lot 56 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:45.279 of people don't know about. Actually, actually there's two, so 57 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:48.759 maybe I should bring both of these up. We'll get 58 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:55.399 to that later. But so the first one that we 59 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:58.759 want to talk about is if you've listened to the 60 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.320 totality of the Genesis li which we completed all those 61 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:04.279 we got all through the entirety of Genesis, and then 62 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:07.600 you heard the important prophecy in Genesis forty nine, which 63 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:11.200 is the prediction of when the Messiah would come, and 64 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:17.720 when this prediction is given Jacob prophesies something very specific 65 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:20.679 that is a key indicator that would let the people 66 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:24.039 of Israel know that their Messiah had come. That key 67 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:28.480 indicator is Genesis forty nine ten or eleven. It says, 68 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:32.519 who will rouse him? The scepter will not depart from Judah, 69 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:36.080 nor a lawgiver from between his loins until Shiloh comes, 70 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:40.360 and unto him will be the expectation of the nations. 71 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:42.840 He will bind his cult to a vine, and his 72 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:46.000 donkey's cult to its branch. He will wash his garments 73 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:50.240 in wine his blood, and his clothes with the blood 74 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:53.080 of grapes. His eyes are gladden from the vine from 75 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:56.480 the wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk. This is, 76 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:59.440 of course, of course, one of the classic Messianic prophecies, 77 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:04.000 and so we know, I mean, even in the Jewish tradition, 78 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:06.840 this is a Messianic prophety. I mean, they don't believe 79 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:09.679 that it was Christ obviously, but it's pretty well known 80 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:13.159 as a Messianic prophecy. What's the first thing that we're 81 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:16.879 told is that the scepter, that is royal lineage, is 82 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:19.600 not going to depart from the house and tribe of Judah. 83 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:26.919 The law will be ex explicated and enforced by a 84 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:35.039 logover in some way until Shiloh, until Messiah comes, and 85 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:40.759 when he comes, he will be the expectation of the gentiles. Again, 86 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:46.600 one of the great key indicators that we've covered many, 87 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:50.000 many times all throughout the Old Testament is that when 88 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:52.360 the Messiah comes, the gentiles will repent and turn to 89 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:55.000 the God of Israel over and over and over in 90 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:57.320 the Psalms, and the major prophets and the minor prophets, 91 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:00.240 over and over and over and over, and even back 92 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:05.879 in Genesis. Early in Genesis the prediction not just here, 93 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:10.919 but realize that Jacob. All Jacob's doing is summarizing what 94 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:18.200 is in the Abrahamic Covenant, the promise that when the 95 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:21.639 Messiah comes, he would be the expectation. He would bless 96 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:24.799 all the tribes and families and nations of the earth. 97 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:29.440 And keep in mind in this time and this put 98 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:33.440 your mindset in their mindset. I mean, this just seems crazy, right, 99 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:35.840 It seems how in the world could God fulfill that? 100 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:42.519 How could see somebody who's the seat of Abraham bless 101 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:46.759 all the nations and turn these nations to the true God. 102 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:49.879 How that's crazy? That's never going to happen. These people 103 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:52.679 they worship, you know, demons and sticks and rocks and 104 00:12:54.360 --> 00:13:05.600 but and even Israel falls into worshiping holes in numbers 105 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:08.799 bail Pure, the Lord of open holes. And that is 106 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:11.639 exactly what you think. That's exactly what it is. Yes, 107 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:23.840 the ancient Kroleian rites of but the butt liturgy. Now 108 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:29.000 a few verses later, this is as Joseph is prophesying 109 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:31.879 about each of the tribes of Israel what their future 110 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:34.799 will be. Now, these prophecies oftentimes have a double fulfillment, 111 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:38.759 so in one sense, the historical fulfillment is clearly about 112 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:41.759 the tribe of Judah. Here that Judah will have a lineage, 113 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:47.200 Judah will be the royal lineage. He's predicting the tribe 114 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:49.480 of Judah would be the tribe that would be the 115 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:54.720 royal lineage. That happened, Right, we know that in the 116 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:58.159 time of the kings, right, David descends from this lineage. 117 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:00.960 David is of the tribe of Judah. And we know 118 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:02.279 that in the time of the kings you have the 119 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:05.320 division of the kingdom. Right, Jereboma and Raybauam, the sons 120 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:09.159 of Solomon have a schism within Israel, and you have 121 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:13.240 the evil Northern kings who are all bad, and then 122 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:17.320 you have the Southern tribe, which is the legitimate place 123 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:20.240 of worship, the legitimate kings in the tribe of Judah, 124 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:26.159 where the tabernacle on the temple are lawfully placed. They 125 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:31.879 have a few, right, There's Josiah, there's David, but they 126 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:34.679 have a lot of bad ones too. But Israel is 127 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:37.919 really bad. I mean, Israel becomes the term for the 128 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:46.440 northern tribes and the southern tribe Judah. Right, So what's 129 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:51.639 amazing about this prophecy, first of all, is that there 130 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:58.360 will be a royal lineage all the way until Messiah comes, 131 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:04.399 implying that the will depart after that. So you will 132 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:07.399 know when the Messiah comes when there's no more dividic kings. 133 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:11.200 There are no more dividic kings. There haven't been divided 134 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:15.480 kings in two thousand years. Okay. We're not here to 135 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:18.279 talk about debate. We're not debating genetics in here. That's 136 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:20.279 not what this topic is about. We're here to talk 137 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:23.279 about old the biblical theology. Okay, So we're not going 138 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:30.799 to get into these debates about this stuff anyway. This 139 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:33.399 has nothing to do with Ashkenazi stuff. We're not debating that. 140 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:40.320 So there's an interesting prophecy though after this, which, by 141 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:42.200 the way, let me add that this shows you that 142 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:47.120 God is not inherently opposed to monarchy, because this is 143 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:50.799 a prediction of a monarchy. This is a prediction of 144 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:54.600 a royal scepter in the royal lineage through David. And 145 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:58.120 so this dumb argument that people have by the time 146 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:00.480 that we get to judges, who judges is the treatise 147 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:04.120 against the moner because they had they had judges. The 148 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:08.279 book says that because there's no king in Israel, everybody 149 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:10.799 did what was right in their own eyes. It's an 150 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:14.240 anti judges treatise. The whole Book of Judges is a 151 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:17.360 treatise for monarchy. So it's just really kind of idiotic 152 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:22.000 when people think that, oh, the bibbles against Mourner, No, 153 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:25.159 it's not. Jesus is the king of kings, so it's 154 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:30.720 not against monarchy. There are warnings, right, What does Samuel 155 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:32.919 warn everybody? He says, if you ask for the king, 156 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:36.559 he says, it's gonna be bad for you. Why is 157 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:39.360 it going to be bad. He's gonna take your daughters, 158 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:43.000 He's gonna take your h O. E s's make them 159 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:47.039 make them h O. Yes, why because of the institution itself? No, 160 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:51.559 because he says, you guys want a king after the nations. 161 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:55.919 What did the Pagans around Israel do? They worshiped their kings. 162 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:58.919 They viewed their kings, their warrior lord or lord kings. 163 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:03.720 They viewed them as semi divine or divine. All right. 164 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:09.240 The ancient inscriptions of the coins of Caesar they call 165 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:15.079 Caesar the son of God. The pagan kings always foisted 166 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:25.519 themselves upon their masses as divine or semi divine. Pharaoh 167 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:31.519 is the apex between heaven and Earth. That's why it's 168 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:40.640 a pyramid, right, So if you're if you're familiar with this, 169 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:45.119 this is pretty common. So in ancient Egyptian metaphysics, this 170 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:48.240 is the this world, this is the earth. It's a pyramid. 171 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:51.279 At the top here is Pharaoh, and he is the 172 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:56.759 meeting point, the bridge between heaven and Earth. And that's 173 00:17:56.799 --> 00:17:58.599 why he's at the top of the pyramid, because he 174 00:17:58.799 --> 00:18:02.759 is the tarnate. You can say raw. He's raw on 175 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:09.480 earth in human incarnation, not in a biblical sense. He's 176 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:11.799 not incarnate like the Son of God or something like 177 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:18.640 that in the Egyptian metaphysic, it's more like pantheism. Everything 178 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:25.000 is God, but not you. You're just like lower down 179 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:29.240 on that pyramid. Really, it's they that's good, not you. Right, 180 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:38.640 hold on, I'm gonna race this race board, all right. 181 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:41.839 So h and by the way, I've got you. In 182 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:45.920 my Ancient Metaphysics talks, we cover that all that Egyptian 183 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:49.319 metaphysics and whatnot. You can you'll find those old talks. 184 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:53.240 They're they're pretty old, they are time tested. You can 185 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:58.279 find those. So we have this prediction of when the 186 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:01.200 Messiah would be more and there will be signs that 187 00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:03.240 a company it. The signs would be that there would 188 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:07.640 no longer be a royal house, a royal lineage. The 189 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:13.000 Gentiles will begin to convert and guess what this happened? 190 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:18.240 When did this happen? When did the scepter depart from Judah? Well, 191 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:20.440 in seventy a d. There was a very important event 192 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:24.920 that happened, and it was the destruction of the Temple 193 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:33.519 in Jerusalem. So now we want to look at one 194 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:38.119 of the key texts that shows us this, and we 195 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:41.880 want to stress this because this is very important for 196 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:49.119 vindicating the Bible when we have done theology. When we 197 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:54.599 are idiots and get this wrong, we undermine our own 198 00:19:54.680 --> 00:20:00.440 view and our own coherency, our own worldview, our own 199 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:05.359 proof texts. And I'm going to show you that this 200 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:10.359 is the Patristic view. I mean, maybe a lot of 201 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:12.759 you don't know this, but this is a common mistake 202 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:16.000 people make. They're going to stick everything in the future, 203 00:20:16.200 --> 00:20:18.240 and they're going to undermine and miss one of the 204 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:22.960 key proofs of our position. If you look at Luke 205 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:28.559 twenty one, Jesus says he looked up and saw the 206 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:31.119 rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and he saw 207 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:33.839 a certain poor widow putting in two mites. And he said, truly, 208 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:35.559 I said to you, this poor widow has put in 209 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:38.839 more than all for these, out of their abundance, have 210 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:41.839 put in offerings for God. But she, out of her poverty, 211 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:45.200 in all the livelihood that she had. Then some of 212 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:47.599 them spoke of the temple and how it was adorned 213 00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:51.160 with beautiful stones and donations. And he said, the things 214 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:54.759 that you see this temple, the days will come in 215 00:20:54.839 --> 00:20:57.440 which not one stone will be left upon another that 216 00:20:57.519 --> 00:21:00.400 will not be torn down. And they asked the teacher 217 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:04.319 when will this be what will be the sign that 218 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:08.279 these things are about to take place? Take heed you 219 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:11.920 the people standing in front of him. This is a key. 220 00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:15.039 This is a big mistake. Especially people who don't know 221 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:18.279 how to interpret texts, who not studied or taken any 222 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:22.480 courses on hermeneuticts. They'll say, oh, this is talking about 223 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:26.160 the end of the world. Now, it does have an 224 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:28.680 application to the end of time. It has an application 225 00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:32.599 to all throughout time, right, But we don't divorce it 226 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:36.519 from the immediate historic context. 227 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:37.039 Right. 228 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:41.039 This is called the grammatical historical, the literal level of interpretation. 229 00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:44.680 So at this basic level, which is what's going to 230 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:48.720 build the rest of the Hermititic layers on, we understand 231 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:51.599 the immediate context and the immediate audience. Who is Jesus 232 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:54.720 talking to here? It's not directly talking to me, right, 233 00:21:55.319 --> 00:22:00.160 I might have like evangelical superpower feeling. 234 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:03.240 Say it's talking to me, dude, Jesus talking to me. 235 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:07.200 That's prelest. Yes, he's talking to you in a general sense, 236 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:10.680 But the Bible isn't written to you. Okay, that's like 237 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:13.640 schizophrenia level stuff. 238 00:22:13.720 --> 00:22:13.839 Right. 239 00:22:13.880 --> 00:22:15.960 That's why a lot of the people in the world 240 00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:20.920 think that religious people are wackos. The book's not talking 241 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:25.799 to you, dude, not in that way. So how do 242 00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:30.640 we understand how this applies to us? And again, I'm 243 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:32.400 gonna show you that everything I'm telling you is one 244 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:36.519 in line with the teaching of the Church fathers. This 245 00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:38.640 is not I know this because I made all these 246 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:41.839 dumb mistakes. I'm not saying I'm schizophrenic, but I was 247 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:44.240 raised Evangelical. I was raised Protestant. 248 00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:46.839 Oh dude, justum in the world. Let me get my 249 00:22:46.920 --> 00:22:49.240 prophecy charts out. I'm gonna chart out this out of 250 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:51.599 the end of the world, and we're gonna blow the 251 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:58.039 show far. The trumpet judgments are coming. John Hagen. 252 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:03.720 Readmind new book. My name's John Hagee, and I have 253 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:08.000 eaten twenty four blood moons, twenty four blood move twenty 254 00:23:08.039 --> 00:23:13.039 four moon by blood Moons ususual is not the most 255 00:23:13.079 --> 00:23:17.279 raw I had to throw at John Hagen in there 256 00:23:17.319 --> 00:23:19.160 for you guys. I'll know you guys. Everybody loves the 257 00:23:19.240 --> 00:23:23.640 John Hagen. What does it say? It says take heed 258 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:25.839 that you being out in deceived. Many will come in 259 00:23:25.960 --> 00:23:28.799 my name, they will say, I am he. The time 260 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:31.000 is not yet drawn near it. Do not go after them. 261 00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:33.519 But when you hear of wars and commotions, don't be terrified, 262 00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:35.920 for these things must come to pass first. The end 263 00:23:35.960 --> 00:23:39.200 will not come immediately. The end of what in the world, 264 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:42.440 not in the immediate context. The end of the world 265 00:23:43.319 --> 00:23:45.920 is not what Jesus talking about. Jesus is talking about 266 00:23:46.039 --> 00:23:49.240 the temple. That's what they're talking about. You see this, 267 00:23:49.960 --> 00:23:51.920 I'm gonna tell you. When this temple is about to 268 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:57.400 be ripped down. He says, nation will rise against nation, 269 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:00.960 kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes in many places, famines, pestilenceys, 270 00:24:01.559 --> 00:24:04.079 fearful signs, and great signs from heaven. But before all 271 00:24:04.119 --> 00:24:05.960 these things that will lay hands will persecute you, and 272 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:11.680 they will deliver you to synagogues. Are we all being 273 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:16.000 delivered up to synagogues for the people who think that 274 00:24:16.039 --> 00:24:21.759 we're suddenly in times right now? No, but the disciples 275 00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:24.519 were delivered up, weren't they In the Book of Acts exactly? 276 00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:27.640 Guess what everything that Jesus listed, there's examples of that. 277 00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:32.480 In Books of Acts. There's earthquakes, there are famines and 278 00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:38.440 pestilences mentioned. Have you read Josephus. I have. Josephus was 279 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:40.680 an eyewitness to the destruction of temple of the temple, 280 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:43.799 and he mentions all these things. In fact, I wrote 281 00:24:43.839 --> 00:24:49.440 a graduate paper, now, an undergraduate paper, and I'll put 282 00:24:49.480 --> 00:24:51.880 it here. Here is one of my undergraduate papers on 283 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:56.640 this very topic. Go read that, where I cite extensively 284 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:01.599 from Josephus, the eyewitness to this stuff. Anyway, back to 285 00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:05.960 the text, it says, they will deliver you up to 286 00:25:06.119 --> 00:25:08.200 the synagogues and prisons, but you will be brought before 287 00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:10.880 kings and rulers. For my namesake, there's not a whole 288 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:12.759 lot of kings in the world today. Are we all 289 00:25:12.839 --> 00:25:15.839 going to be brought before the king of Monaco and 290 00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:20.519 being persecuted? So how many kings are there? Really? 291 00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:20.759 Right? 292 00:25:21.079 --> 00:25:22.759 But it will turn out to you for an occasion 293 00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:25.240 for testimony. Well, guess what. That happens multiple times in 294 00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:27.400 the Book of Acts, doesn't it. Paul before Felix, Paul 295 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:31.000 before Agrippa. Yeah. Therefore, do not set it in your 296 00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:34.119 hearts to meditate beforehand what you will answer, for I 297 00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:35.720 will give you a mouth and a wisdom that all 298 00:25:35.759 --> 00:25:37.960 your adversaries will not be able to resist. Act seven, 299 00:25:38.119 --> 00:25:44.039 when Saint Stephen Jesus speaks directly through prophesies through Saint Stephen. 300 00:25:44.039 --> 00:25:47.960 I'm sorry, but John Hagy is not prophesying. Jesus is 301 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:51.319 not speaking through John Hagen. You will be betrayed by 302 00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:53.000 your parents and brothers and relatives, and they will put 303 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:54.440 you to death, and you will be hated by all 304 00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:56.079 for by namesake, but not a hair of your heads 305 00:25:56.079 --> 00:25:59.720 will be lost by your patients, possess your souls. When 306 00:25:59.799 --> 00:26:05.279 you immediate context, when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, 307 00:26:05.359 --> 00:26:08.079 know that its destruction is near. How could it be 308 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:10.240 any more clear than this? This is talking about what 309 00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:15.359 happened forty years later. Jerusalem was surrounded by armonies and 310 00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:20.160 it was destroyed. Then, let you, in the immediate context here, 311 00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:24.000 who are in Judea fleet to the mountains. Let those 312 00:26:24.039 --> 00:26:26.559 who are in the midst of her depart, for those 313 00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:28.440 who are in the country enter her. For these the 314 00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:31.200 days of vengeance, in which all things written in the 315 00:26:31.240 --> 00:26:36.279 prophets are to be fulfilled. For woe to those who 316 00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:38.319 are pregnant and nursing in those days, for there will 317 00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:42.799 be great distress in the land and wrouth upon this people. 318 00:26:43.039 --> 00:26:45.960 This is not talking about a global catastrophe. It's talking 319 00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:51.680 about the destruction of Jerusalem in seventy eighty. Now we 320 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:55.359 know that at this time, and many of these people 321 00:26:55.400 --> 00:26:58.680 fled to Petra in places like this right to because 322 00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:02.240 they were warned. Am I supposed to flee to Judea? 323 00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:06.279 Am I supposed to leave Tennessee and flee to Judea? 324 00:27:06.920 --> 00:27:08.640 Is this talking about all the Christians in the world, 325 00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:13.680 but to flee to Judea. That's ridiculous. That's idiotic. Stop 326 00:27:13.720 --> 00:27:20.440 being idiotic. What else does he say? You better hope 327 00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:23.920 your journey is not on the Sabbath. We don't keep 328 00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:26.440 the Sabbath in the way that it was kept at 329 00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:29.920 this time. This is during the period when the Sabbath 330 00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:32.559 is still being kept. In the Book of Acts, it's 331 00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:38.119 the transition period. Seventy a d completes the transition period 332 00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:41.759 from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant. It's not 333 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:45.119 just Jesus' death, roren, resurrection and ascension the Book of Acts, 334 00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:51.039 remember Pentecost. Isn't Pentecost part of the Escaton being brought 335 00:27:51.079 --> 00:27:54.200 into reality? Of course, it is. Joel predicts in the 336 00:27:54.519 --> 00:27:57.640 last days, the spirit will be poured out upon all 337 00:27:58.640 --> 00:28:04.000 my people handmaids as well. What is that talking about. 338 00:28:04.119 --> 00:28:06.359 Is that talking about the the blood Moons of Isruel? 339 00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:10.240 It mentions the blood Moon, doesn't it? But how does 340 00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:12.920 Acts interpret the Book of Joel? Does it say that 341 00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:16.559 it's the end of the world and John Hagen's goofy church. No, 342 00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:22.640 it says that at Pentecost. In Acts too, Joel is 343 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:29.400 being fulfilled. Do you see that what Joel is talking 344 00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:34.519 about is the exact same thing Jesus is talking about. Now, 345 00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:39.400 this is an interesting text here he says, these people, 346 00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:43.079 somehow in this nation that had rejected him, they will 347 00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:44.640 fall by the edge of the sword. They will be 348 00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:49.160 led away captive into all the nations. That's not talking 349 00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:51.920 about the end of the world. That happened forty years 350 00:28:52.000 --> 00:29:00.000 later the diaspora. Don't you know basic history? No, Evangelic 351 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:05.599 don't know basic history. By the way, a lot of 352 00:29:05.640 --> 00:29:07.880 Protestants and Orthodox get this wrong as well. And we're 353 00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:12.759 going to see the Church fathers rebuking many protest Orthots 354 00:29:12.799 --> 00:29:14.640 and Catholics on this topic. In fact, I'm gonna even 355 00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:22.039 show you in Catholic teaching, Catholic liturgy talks about preterism. 356 00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:27.000 But you didn't know that, did you? And I found 357 00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:30.359 that in a trad work. I couldn't believe it an 358 00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:36.400 old trad Missile actually mentions preterism. It's amazing anyway, rare fine, 359 00:29:36.519 --> 00:29:39.119 rare gems. Nobody else has ever noticed this or talked 360 00:29:39.119 --> 00:29:44.119 about this. Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until 361 00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:47.759 the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Now, even the 362 00:29:47.839 --> 00:29:51.680 evangelicals in their own wrong goofy interpretation of this can't 363 00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:53.720 make sense of that text because they've put that at 364 00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:56.359 the end of the world. So Jerusalem is going to 365 00:29:56.400 --> 00:29:59.359 be trampled by gentiles. 366 00:29:59.119 --> 00:29:59.720 For what. 367 00:30:01.319 --> 00:30:04.599 Three and a half years? But he just said that 368 00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:06.200 the Jews are gonna be led captive into all the 369 00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:08.759 other nations. That's not talk about the end of the world. 370 00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:11.279 That's what happened forty years later after he said this. 371 00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:21.039 Now I'm gonna there's many many more texts we're gonna 372 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:23.680 look at. But you understand the import of this. If 373 00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:28.200 you move all this to the future, all unfulfilled, the 374 00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:30.839 force of all of this argumentation, the force of the 375 00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:34.000 reality that was brought at the First Advent is gone. 376 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:40.720 The Church is no longer the actuality of Heaven on Earth. 377 00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:43.119 It's some aschotological thing at the end of time. That's 378 00:30:43.160 --> 00:30:46.759 not here. Now we're still waiting on all this stuff. Right. Oh, 379 00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:50.000 it's a dispensation of a different Plan B. No, there's 380 00:30:50.039 --> 00:30:53.039 no Plan B. Christ is the fulfillment of all the 381 00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:57.240 covenants in him. Every promise of God is yeay. Paul says, 382 00:30:57.519 --> 00:31:02.000 it's not some postpone thing. That's crazy talk. Nobody believed 383 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:06.160 that dumb heresy until one hundred years ago. Looking for 384 00:31:06.279 --> 00:31:08.799 my other Bible, because I've got some interesting notes in there. 385 00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:15.759 Now as we read on cosmic signs, Josephus describes all 386 00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:17.440 these cosmic signs. What do you mean there were no 387 00:31:17.559 --> 00:31:20.720 cosmic signs in the first century, mister evangelical, Yes there were. 388 00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:27.599 Josephis describes them. He was an eyewitness. The powers of 389 00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:29.880 heaven will be shaken. We lose the powers of heaven 390 00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:32.759 shooking first suit you do you know what it means 391 00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:35.480 when the prophets use the term the powers of heaven 392 00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:38.880 will be shaken. In Isaiah Knight, I think it's nineteen 393 00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:40.759 Off the top of my head, there's a text where 394 00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:46.519 it says God will come into Egypt and destroy Egypt. 395 00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:51.880 Isaiah's prophesies. God will return, He will come the powers 396 00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:53.400 of heaven will be shaken. He said, it would be 397 00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:57.799 like the luminaries will fall. That means the rulers. Luminaries 398 00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:03.880 represent rulers, doesn't always mean literally the sun and the 399 00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:07.119 moon fall down and everything's destroyed. Now, at the end 400 00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:08.839 of the world, there will be a renovation of the 401 00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:11.279