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Turn in your Bible to the book of Isaiah, chapter 48. Isaiah, chapter 48. In the book of Isaiah, chapter 48, there’s things that God wants us to know, and that is He wants us to believe Him. be surprised what God goes through in our lives, trying to teach us to trust Him. He wants us to know Him. And He makes a statement here in verse 3, I have declared the former things from the beginning, they went forth out of my mouth and I showed them, I did them suddenly and they came to pass because I knew that thou art obstinate and thy neck is an iron seneur And I brow brass interpreted that means because I know knew that you were hard headed and stiff.

That’s what that means. So he says in verse five, I have even from the beginning declared it to the before it came to pass. I showed it the less thou should have said mine idle have done them and my graven image and my molten image have commanded them. In other words, God don’t want you to believe in these false gods and idols and images. He wants you to believe Him. So He said, I will tell you in advance what will happen so that you’ll know I told you so.

God loves to say, I told you So we don’t like it, but God does. And then he says this in verse six, Thou hath heard, see all of this, and will not ye declare it? I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou does not know them. So he says, I know things, I want to reveal things, because I want you to know me. I want you to believe me. I want you to trust me.

Now, of course, in a spiritual realm, And we can apply that in a lot of ways, and I could teach a whole sermon on just that part of the message in itself. But take your Bible and turn to the book of Ezekiel, the book of Ezekiel. And look there in all around verse or chapter 37. That sounds like a good chapter, don’t it? After 37, it is an interesting little chapter. God had prophesied in advance what was going to take place with the nation of Israel.

If you remember, Solomon was the king, and Solomon was considered to be the wisest man. And in his so-called wisdom, he made some wrong decisions. You think, why would you do that if you’re so wise? And yet he had wisdom, he knew so much. And it says that even though he had 700 wives and 300 concubines, they led him astray because they had other gods. They came from other nations. So now it’s hard enough for a man to please one wife, but what if you had 700 of them?

He says, wow, 700 of them, and you’ve got to satisfy 700 wives, and they all got their own gods, their own desires and things. You go nuts. And the Bible says that they turned his heart from the Lord. And because of that, God says, not in your day, but when you die, I’m going to rip the kingdom apart. So you see, there is a price for sin. It does take its toll. Even though he built such great wealth, it was all lost.

The temple that he had built was so beautiful, it was destroyed. So you see, when you serve the Lord, God can give and give, but when you don’t, God can take it all away so easy. God wants us to learn, God wants us to trust Him. But we’re so hard headed, and He has a whole chapter in the book of Psalms about, lest you forget, lest you forget, He says, and you forgot, you forgot. You forget where your blessings come from.

You forget there’s a God in heaven that rules in the lives of man. And God can let things come your way and God can keep things from you. He can shower you with blessings and He can take them all away just as easy. So if all this is true, if there’s anybody you never want to make mad, it ought to be the Lord. Don’t make God mad or upset. Now here in the book of Psalms and 37, there’s a little vision here.

It’s called the Valley of Dry Bones. It’s a reference to the nation of Israel, and it’s actually even looking further into the future because Israel is going to be destroyed, and it’s going to get very, very bad for them as a people. But God says these bones are going to start coming together, and so they’re going to come to life, and they’re going to stand upon their feet, and they’re going to be a whole army. But why is God doing all of this?

Because God knows that if He doesn’t do it, the nation of Israel never will. You see, for 1500 years from the time they were told what to do until Christ came, they never fulfilled the law. They just wouldn’t obey. They were just rebellious. obedient people. So God says, I’m going to have to really lure the boom, almost bring them to the point of annihilation. That day is coming, that day is close. When there’s a good possibility in the very near future Israel as a nation can be totally destroyed.

There’ll always be a remnant, a few that will be deceded by which he can grow a nation again. So I want you to look at this here in chapter 36. I want you to notice there in verse 10, there’s things that God is going to cause to happen. This is Ezekiel chapter 36, page 880, and he says in verse 10, I will multiply men upon you, all house of Israel. Even all of it and the city shall be inhabited and the waste shall be built in.

In verse 11 I will and you’ll notice he keeps saying what I will do I will do I am going to do this because Israel as a nation never will. So God is going to bring them to the point of destruction and eventually the nation of Israel is going to see the Lord when he comes back in power and great glory. So he goes down through here and he says all these things and lays it down pretty clear. And then he says there in verse 15, neither will I cause men to hear in the shame of the heathen anymore.

Neither shall thou bear the reproach of the people anymore. Neither shall thou cause thine nations to fall anymore, Seth, In other words, there’s a time coming, God’s going to stop all of this because God’s going to deal. But you see, there’s nations that are going to fall and there’s going to be one nation that is going to rise. You and I are living at one of the most exciting times of human history. You see, because God says you’re hard-headed and stiff-necked, I’m going to tell you all these things in advance so that when it happens, you know that I told you them.

You see, it’s one thing when God says something and a couple hundred years later, it happens. He says something else and a couple hundred years later it happens. But here he’s talked about something and he’s been over 2,000 years. So if this thing happens, it’s really going to be a miracle, a big miracle. Because God said that he was going to divide the nation of Israel, 10 tribes would be considered the beat is Rayola. And their capital would be in Samaria.

And then you had the southern two tribes, Judah and Benjamin, and the capital would be in Jerusalem. So there were kings from Israel and kings of Judah. And so when you read the kings, that’s so that you know that. And so there were kings in two different places at the same time over God’s people. Only because there had been sinful rebellion. And God says the day is gonna come when I’m gonna have to really chase in your heart because you won’t listen.

Some people just won’t believe God. So the Assyrians came in and they conquered Israel and took them into captivity. And that’s where a lot of people think they’re talking about the lost 10 tribes and they come into Europe and America now is the, no, that’s junk. They’ll go down that stuff. And then, a couple hundred years later, here comes the Babylonians, and they take Judah, destroyed the city of Jerusalem, and the walls of the city, and the temple, and all that was destroyed, taken into Babylonian captivity.

And then, seven years later, they came back to the land, Ezra, near Mayan, some of them, and they rebuilt the wall and they built that little thing called the temple. And it says some of the older men they wept because they remembered the other temple. They remembered Solomon’s temple and that this temple was nothing compared to what they used to have. And so Ezekiel was given dimensions of the one that’s going to be built in the millennium, a future day, a future, I guess you could say temple, that’s going to be beautiful than anything they’ve ever seen.

And it talks about a lot of other stuff that we don’t have time to get into right now. But this temple that’s going to be the ones before it will be like nothing. And then David’s going to be here. King David is going to be here and ruling rain upon the earth. So we look forward to that. But look what he said in verse 22. Verse 22, therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God, I do not this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for mine own holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the heathen with a U.N.

So he has sent them everywhere and Israel should have wherever they went into all the world. They wouldn’t do it voluntarily and the God had meant for Israel to be a lighthouse to the world, to show the nations of the world what it was like to have the true and living God as their God. And they were to serve God and be a light to the Gentiles. So they wouldn’t do it voluntarily. God smashed them and scattered them, and wherever they went, they were supposed to be like little lights of the true and living God.

And still manifest what they believe and what they knew about God. And they wouldn’t do it. They went bitterly and they cursed God, they hated, and they anyway, God had to lower the boom on them. But He says, I’m not doing this so much for your sake, I’m doing it for my sake. Because God had a reason, God had a purpose. See, God loved his people. He wanted to do so much for his people. But God can’t bless disobedience.

You see, here we are 2,000 years removed from the time of Christ. We’re supposed to believe that all these things are true so that we don’t make the same dumb, stupid, He got at me. Stake they made. We should know that if I serve the Lord, God will bless me. And if I don’t, God could beat the Torah to me. So which one do I want? Do I want God to beat me all the time? Or do I want God to bless me?

I just say, if this is true and believe it is, I’m not going to serve the Lord. Because God says, this is what I will do. I will do. I will do this. for I will take you from among the heathen, get you out of all countries and will bring you into your own land. Stop and think. Even in our time, I should say a little bit, I was maybe five years old, when Israel became a nay, May the 20th, 1948, and they came from all over the world to that little sliver of land they have over there.

a miraculous thing, because God says that I’m going to scatter you. And then in the last days, He’s, I’m going to bring you back into the land. And they’ve come back and become established as a nation. No other nation has ever done that. Of all the nations and all the world. There’s nobody ever had that happen to them, but it happened to Israel. God’s God’s God would. Well, if after these twenty five hundred years, you think it’s just a coincidence?

Or is it possible that there is truly a living God that lives and moves in the affairs of man? And that God is on the throne and God can protect his people. regardless of what everybody tries to do to them, even though Hitler tried to annihilate the Jews and people are still wanting to do that today. Isn’t it amazing? That’s what they wanted to do. You don’t hear them say, we’re going to annihilate all the Catholics. We’re going to annihilate all the Baptists.

No, I want to kill all the Jews. And of course, Christians are thrown into that. Well, look what he says. Verse 25, then will I sprinkle clean water upon you? You shall be clean. In other words, this is a reference to the day when you will believe on the Messiah and you will be washed as white as snow. It’s the new birth. It’s the only thing that can cure Israel is a new birth where they believe on the Lord.

And then as a nation, God is able to fulfill His will Because God can’t bless the rebellious rebellion. See there in verse 26, and he said, a new heart will also, I give you in a new spirit. Well, I put within you, I will do this. I will, I will, I will, all the way down the aisle. This is what I’m going to do. You see, individually, there’s people that trust Christ as Savior, Jews, and there’s individuals, Gentiles, that will trust Christ as Savior, and God gives them a new man, a new birth.

That’s the new heart. A new heart is because you had a new birth. And so God has promised all of this. And so he says there in verse 27, I will put my spirit within you. Then down in verse 29, and I will also save you from all your uncleanness. And I will call you for the corn and I will in verse 30. See, this is because of what God is going to do. Verse 31, then shall you remember?

your own evil ways and your doings that were not good and your own sight and your abomination your iniquities in verse 32 not for your sake do I do this after Lord be it known he says you’re always of the house of Israel you have gotten what you have deserved but God is always merciful God is merciful if it wasn’t for the mercy of God, we would all be consumed. Because God has the right to take any of us out of here at any time because of our wickedness.

We don’t think right. We don’t love right. We don’t serve right. We just don’t live right. Regardless of your desiring, your motive to, we fail. We fail all the time. So he says, I’m going to do some things to you, but look in verse 35. And they shall say, this land was, which was desolate is become like the Garden of Eden. I’ve been to Israel six times. The land of Israel is like the Garden of Eden. It really is.

I can’t believe it. You can have six kinds of raw fish for breakfast every morning. Oh, I love that raw fish. Don’t just make you hungry. Just think about all that raw fish. They even gave us St. Peter’s fish from the Sea of Galilee. Still has heads its head on it. St. Peter’s fish leave the head on it, they cook the whole thing. Boy is that good eating. That’s good eating. And you can stand up on the Mount of Olive and you can see certain parts of the special upon the Golan Heights and you can see the land of Jordan.

It’s like a desert. You leave in from Israel and you start going down south toward Egypt. It’s It’s desert Israel. It blossoms like a rose. God has blessed those people because they’re working the land. If they follow biblical principles, saved or lost, it won’t matter. If a lost man puts seeds in the ground and waters it can grow. It’s not based upon whether or not the man is saved or lost, but they have been blessed with such wisdom to do all of these things.

I look in verse 37, thus say, if the Lord God, I will yet for this, be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them. I will increase them with men like a flock. So God says, this is what I’m going to do. Now, he kind of breaks it away and then he gets into this whole thing about this son. Valley of dry bones. And how he says that these body parts are going to start coming together.

And it seemed a little crazy at first. But look here in verse 11. Then he said to me, Son of Man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. And behold, they say our bones are dried and our hope is lost. We are cut off from our parts because they were scattered all over the world. They had no unity. They had no land of their own. They had no and still don’t have a temple. They have no king.

And yet they trying to worship Jehovah and some have no clue what they’re even doing after all these years. They’ve lost the meaning of why they were doing these things. And he says in verse 12, therefore prophesy and say unto them, thus saith the Lord God behold, oh my people, I will open your graves. That means the other nations. I’m going to bring you from out of these nations and cause you to come up out of your graves and bring you into the land of Israel.

Remember God says you caused your hard-headed and stiff-knit. I’m going to tell you all these things before it comes to pass. Hasn’t it come to pass? Some of this here are taking place. It’s not the total fulfillment. But you can’t have a peace treaty with a nation of Israel If there is no nation of Israel. So there is going to be a seven year treaty made, but you have to have a nation. The right now the Muslim nations want to deny Israel the right to exist as a people.

They want to annihilate it. They want to deny them the right to the land. Even though they’ve got 50 something countries, they want that little sliver of land too. talking about being hoggysh. They want it all. And by the way, they don’t want just Israel. They want America too. They want all the nations of the earth to worship Allah. Oh yes so much stuff I’d like to say. But anyway, he says in verse 14, and shall put my spirit in you and ye shall live and I shall place you in your, get it as your own land.

So that’s why I know that up there when he comes out of the grave, he’s telling me coming out of those gentile nations, lands around the world. And I’m going to bring you back into your own land and you shall live. And then shall he say here, then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it and performed it because you couldn’t make it happen. This has to be a miracle because But anything God has to do is because man couldn’t do it.

God did this. God’s taken rebellious individuals from all over the world because they are of the nation of Israel and God can bring them back into their land. And God can create that desire, that hunger, the one who go into their own homeland and have it all again. And they always say next year in Jerusalem, next year in Jerusalem, next year in Jerusalem. He says these two sticks are going to be made into one. You know, there’s Israel and Judah, and they’ll come together, become one nation.

Well, if you go over there, you look, there’s one nation. And says in verse 19, say unto them, thus saith the Lord God behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel, his fellows, and put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick. They shall be one in my hand, one nation once again. You see, because of Solomon, and after he died, the kingdom was divided, and God says in the last days, I’m gonna bring them back, and they’re gonna be one nation.

And the Bible talks about in the book of Hosea in chapter four, I believe it is, and he says, he says, they parted my land, they parted my land. See, they’re dividing up the land over there and say, You know, you give land for peace. You don’t give any Arab land for peace. Not as a nation of Israel, because they don’t want just a little land. They want all of your land. You don’t have a right to that land, and they want it all.

But when you check the scriptures, you find that the Bible was written hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years before Muhammad ever showed up. and their writings don’t compare it with these writings. This was first. In their book The Koran, it talks about the people of the book. And the people of the book is the nation of Israel, the Jews of the book, which is the Bible. So this was first. There’s this last. If you will, look down in verse 21, and say unto them, does saith the Lord God behold?

I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whether they be gone and will bring them them on every side and bring them into their own land. And I will make them one nation.” See if everyone says one stick, that’s how I know he’s talking about one nation. He’s going to do it. And he makes this statement. And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel and one king shall be king to them all.

And they shall be no more two Two nations neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms anymore at all. This is what God says, I’m going to do this. Now remember, this was written almost 600 years before Christ ever came. Telling what’s going to happen to the nation of Israel. You see, it hasn’t all yet been fulfilled. Parts of it has, but it ain’t done yet. has been under the dominion of Gentile nations, even when Christ was here, is under the iron heel of Rome.

And so God says that is going to destroy the temple, the walls, the city, it used to be scattered, it happened again. So it happened before with Assyria and with Babylon, and then it happens again. History repeats itself because people don’t usually learn their lessons. Remember America is only 200 years old, a little over 200 years old. Look at all the things that we’ve done in just 200 years. Israel has been around for almost 4,000 years. That’s a long time you know.

And get what he says here. He says in verse 24, And David, my servant shall be king over them and they shall have one shepherd, they shall also walk in my judgment and observe my statutes and do them.” So we haven’t had it yet where David has been here. But he’s coming. This is talking about David. Now you say, well, the knot is talking about the lineage of David. Okay? That would mean Christ. Because there is no King past Christ.

Jesus Christ when he was here is the only one even at that time they had the right to claim the throne of Israel. there wasn’t nobody else could claim the throne. He had the right to claim the throne. That’s why you have the genealogy given in the book of Matthew and also showing the end in the book of Luke. One through Mary and one through Joseph that he had the right legal right to claim the throne of Israel. And whenever he died nobody else has the right to claim the throne because none of them from that line could claim the throne because it goes to the Jack and Nia and it was a curse put up on the line.

And only because of the virgin birth could the next person Have the right to be the king. He could have a sinful nature. Interesting. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Part two of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing tool free, 1-800-576-3771.

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