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Maria: And welcome back everybody.

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This is week 49 of Creative.

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Come Follow me for the Old

Testament, and we have three

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new profits for you to study.

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This is a week of Nahham

and have Cook and Zephaniah.

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And if you've ever had a friend recommend

a new restaurant or maybe a new store

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that you've never been into before,

and then you were just delighted with

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what you have found when you went in,

that's how I felt about these books.

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It's not that I'd never read them

before, I just had never gone through

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them in a lot of detail before, and

I was surprised at how much I liked

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them for very different reasons.

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They have different teaching styles,

they're addressing different audiences.

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They're in different time periods.

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But between the three profits, I

felt like there was this resounding

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message of appreciate the space.

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I'll try and go into this a little

more with each one, but one of my

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favorite teachings that the Book of

Mormon offers that we don't quite get

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in the Bible is this understanding of

after the fall there was this space

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granted on demand, this mortal space

to perfect themselves, to repent.

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There's a lot of beautiful verses in

the Book of Mormon that teach about

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how God granted us this space so that

men would have time to come to him.

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And I feel like that was the message

of all three of these prophets.

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It's where are you in that space?

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Each of them is gonna address

people at different points.

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Some, like, for example, when we go

into Naim, he's gonna teach the Nevis

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a hundred years after Jonah, when

things have gone downhill really fast.

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And their space of time where they could

have repented is pretty much at its end.

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And then you're gonna shift gears

and you're gonna go into Hauck.

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Who's gonna wonder?

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Why it is that God grants so much

space to some . He's gonna wrestle

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a little bit to try and understand

why God allows wicked people to do

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wickedness, especially against his people.

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Interestingly, his people aren't

doing a great job on their own, but

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he's basically saying, those guys are

worse and you're letting them beat us.

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And he, he has to wrestle

with that understanding, so he

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wonders about that space as well.

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Then you're gonna get into

Zephaniah and his words are

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more about the day of the Lord.

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It's kind of a message to all of us, both

his time to the north, to the south, to

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all the surrounding areas, and it's a

message for us about how there will be.

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A day of the Lord, there will

be an end where we will need to

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stand and we will need to decide

at that point where we stand.

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And his invitation is a really

clear one, which is choosy this day.

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I mean, those aren't his words, but

that's the message I got from Ze and I.

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It was, now you know all your

choices and you know about this

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space that's granted unto men.

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So choose ye this day who you'll serve.

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And he says it in some of the

most profound ways I've read in

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almost anywhere in scripture.

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So see, I told you, you're gonna love it.

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Okay?

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Grab your scriptures, grab your

notes, you guys, let's get started.

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When I was 19, I think I got

a chance to serve on a jury.

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And it's the only time in my

life when I've been picked and

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actually had to attend court and

got to be part of that process.

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And maybe because I was so young

and fresh at the time, I loved it.

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I thought the whole thing was fascinating.

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I loved it.

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And one of the parts I remember

most distinctly in my mind is when

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the head juror had to deliver our

verdict because we deliberated and

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debated and all came to a consensus

about what the verdict needed to be.

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And the man who was on trial was

guilty according to our understanding.

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And I remember the, the gravity in the

room when the juror had to stand up and

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read our verdict, not just because it was

a hard verdict to say, but also because he

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knew the consequences that would probably

befall the men who was on trial and.

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you could tell he appreciated

the heaviness of that

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moment and the way he spoke.

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I'll just never forget it.

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I didn't even think of that

moment for probably the last

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10 years until I read Naim.

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So when I was reading his message, this

burden, that's what's called in verse

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one, it's the burden of Niva because

when he goes to Niva, it's over a

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hundred years since Jonah's time and.

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This city that once had everyone

converting all at once and they

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were in Ack cloth and ashes.

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They have gone downhill

fast, but they've also grown.

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So where they were just kind

of one of the cities of many

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in the last time we studied it.

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Now Neva has become this great capital

of asi, which is this huge empire

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ended his swollen in its problems.

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It's it's become that wicked blood

thirsty torturous group of people

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that we read about in the past.

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And their space to repent has

run out and that's basically Nams

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message that their time has run

out and that the Lord is furious.

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In fact, it was fascinating to me.

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If you look at two and three,

it talks about the anger of God.

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That is, his anger is furious.

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That's the word that's chosen, that he'll

take vengeance on his adversaries and then

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in three Na, whom reminds them that the

Lord is slow to anger and great in power

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and will not at all acquit the wicked.

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The contrast I thought was really

interesting that he, I think

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this is the nature of God, to

have this level of temperance, to

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understand mercy and justice and

keep it in this perfect balance.

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That's the nature of God.

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In fact, it reminded me of what we

read in Peter in the New Testament.

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I think it's in second Peter.

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It's in the notes if

you wanna go look at it.

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But he talks about that chain

that leads us to godliness.

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So it starts at faith and goes

to virtue and then knowledge, and

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then from knowledge to temperance

and temperance to patients, and

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then from patients to godliness.

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That's the process I think that we're

trying to learn from Naim is he's

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saying that God can do both these

things shows us that he is God because

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he, he gave them lots of space to

repent and lots of opportunities

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to change, and they chose not to.

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So now in his perfect justice, he will

not acquit the wicked and there will be

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some harsh consequences and you'll see

some of those laid out in chapter one.

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But I think what's really interesting is.

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In addition to those consequences,

you also hear mayhem talk

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about the goodness of God.

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It's in Seven is about where it begins.

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It says the Lord is good, a

strong hold in the day of trouble.

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And he knoweth them that trust in him.

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Mahe is still a prophet of God

and God's character is good and

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everything he does is for our good.

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So that's his.

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He's trying to help them understand.

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And I think trying to help me

understand that even when there

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are harsh consequences that come my

way, his intent is to do me good.

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I think his intent with the

Assyrians is to do them good.

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They're, they're at a point, kind

of like to remember with the city

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of Amman, IHA in the Book of Mormon

and Alma and lik watched people burn

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and Amulek really wanted to rush in.

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I'm sure Alma did too, but

they really wanted to save.

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New converts from the fire and

they were held back by the spirit.

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Um, because there needed to

be consequences that play out.

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That's where Ahe is, and his

message is strong like that one.

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And I'm sure it was hard to say and

carry out, but the invitation is remember

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that God is good, he's good to all of

you, if you would just trust in him.

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In fact, I love the end of verse

seven cause I feel like his invitation

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is almost like the 10 virgins.

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You know?

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He says, I know you

not , you didn't know me.

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There is no, we've been talking

the last few weeks about President

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Nelson's message from that October

Leo Hona magazine, where he talked

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about covenants being a relationship.

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That's what I think of when I read

verse seven, that he's basically saying

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to them, We have no relationship.

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You don't know me, you don't know

my character, and when you don't

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know me, you won't trust in me.

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So this is where we've ended up.

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I think it's really interesting

also what he says in nine.

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He kind of adding to that thought.

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He says, what do you imagine against

the Lord that he will make an utter end?

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Affliction shall not

rise up a second time.

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This idea of us imagining things

against the Lord I think is really

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interesting cuz I think we all have

this tendency when things don't go well,

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you start to say things in your mind

like, why would God let this happen?

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If he's a loving God?

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Why would, and then you fill in the

blank with whatever your trial or your

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friend's adversities might be, and you

start imagining what God's purposes were

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or why he would allow things to happen.

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And honestly, for me, more

often I start to wonder if.

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Is absent, you know, why would

he let these things happen?

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He must be absent.

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And that I think is imagining

things against the Lord.

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When you've built up a relationship

with God and a trust in God, it's a

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lot easier to remember the long game.

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It's a lot easier to trust that he can

make all things work together for good.

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It's a lot easier to understand that there

are intersections of agency that will

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knock us off our feet, but he promises

that he can make all things right.

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In fact, we'll see that in the

verses here in just a little bit.

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But I love that reminder to not

imagine wickedness against God.

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This is all because of their own choices.

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They were warned, they chose it anyway

and so he as this perfect and just God

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will, will repay what they asked for.

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So that's what you'll see in the verses.

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Some other things you'll see as

you go a little further in 14 and

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15, basically the end will come.

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God will not be mocked.

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That was in the footnotes in

a few different places and.

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There is no way that you can

work your way through wickedness

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and get out on the other side.

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You either need to turn to him and repent

and let the Lord take on those burdens,

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or you suffer the consequences yourself.

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And that's kind of where they are.

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But he does make promises about this

Lord who can burst these bonds, who could

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have saved, they just didn't want it.

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But you have to love how it ends.

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In 15 he, he takes it all the way back to

God the same way Isaiah did and Aai does.

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In the Book of Mormon, he talks

about behold upon the mountains

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are the feet of him that bringeth

good tidings, that publishes peace.

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In this message of destruction and hard

and consequence, there is this persistent

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promise of peace and it is hope filled.

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And I think it's what's gonna carry

Naim all the way into chapter.

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There's some pretty strong language in

Naim chapter two, which makes you wonder

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if Naim really misses being able to talk

about publishing peace and those beautiful

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verses at the end of chapter one.

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Two's tougher cuz this is where he

has to sort of lay down the law for

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what's going on with the Nena bytes.

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But there's this interesting insertion

that I think is important to note

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because you're gonna see this message

come through some of the other books of

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scripture, and I think it's pretty cool.

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The way Mayhem introduces it.

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He says into, for the Lord have

turned away the Excellency of

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Jacob as the Excellency of Israel.

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And then he's gonna talk about all

the things that it's gonna happen, all

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the issues that Niah is gonna have.

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The reason I think this matters is

because I think what Mayhem is trying

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to teach us is that it's not so much

that the Lord helped the Assyrians win,

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especially over the children of Israel.

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The Lord doesn't bless the wicked.

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That's not how that works.

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What happened is because

the children of Israel.

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Didn't show up.

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They lost their blessings.

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They turned against the covenant

relationship that the Lord has

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perpetually invited them into.

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They turned against it.

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And so the Lord had to

pull back his light.

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And when the Lord pull backs, his

light, darkness floods the same way.

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If I, you know, mess with a light

switch, I can turn on the light,

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but I can't turn on darkness.

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Darkness comes when the light is off.

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And that's basically what's happened here.

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It reminded me of if you ever played on

a team, you know, like when we would play

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volleyball, there would be many games

where I can remember losing, but it's not

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because the other team was so great or had

all these , you know, had all this talent.

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It's cuz we didn't show up the right way.

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We had lots of fouls, we would serve

into the net, we mess, you know, we

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didn't show up and so we lost the game.

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That's kind of what he's

saying here to the Ninevites.

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It's not that the Lord is helping them

win, it's that because the Israelites

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lost their covenant connection.

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He can't help them.

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And then, You know, the light goes

out and darkness fills the room.

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That's what's happening here.

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So when you go through the chapter,

you're gonna see the warnings

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about that, that they're gonna

cry out at some point in time.

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The Assyrians are gonna get conquered by

the Babylonians, and the Babylonians are

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gonna show no more seat to this group.

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And they don't deserve it, quite frankly.

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Like they, they're not repentant.

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They were torturous to all the

neighboring areas and conquered

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everything in their path.

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And the Babylonians are gonna

wipe them out basically.

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And so the warning like intent is you're

gonna be empty and void and waste.

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In fact, he warns that the king

who used to be able to dominate the

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land and go out and get and bring

it back to his young, that that's

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not gonna be an option anymore.

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There will be nothing for him to get.

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And that's kinda what

happens with the Assyrians.

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They don't have any

place to conquer anymore.

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In fact, they get conquered.

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One of the coolest things

I learned this week.

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About this was the way the Lord shows

up for those who have been abused, asy.

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A wicked, torturous, abusive nation.

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And there will come a point

when the Lord says Enough.

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In fact, I feel like

that's what he says in 13.

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Behold, I am against the

sayeth, the Lord of hosts.

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There is no question where the

Lord stands when it comes to abuse.

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And I think we've heard that in conference

talks for the last several conferences

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about understanding how the Lord shows up

for those who have been abused, and this

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is the end of the line for the ne bytes,

their gross wickedness is it will stop.

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And if you, if that's something

that triggers your heart, go into

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the notes because there were so

many quotes from just this last

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conference and the one before that.

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Ah, so good.

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Anyway, I just think to know that the

Lord stands up and says This is finished.

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You're done, is a comforting

thing for all involved.

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So go study the notes.

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Prophets teach that those who live

by the sword will die by the sword.

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And that's basically the outcome you

see in Niva in this last chapter.

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This is where Naim talks about the

bloody city and what's gonna happen.

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I've always read that verse as

like, because they cause so much

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bloodshed in their conquering that

they're called the bloody city.

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And I think that that could still be true.

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But I also was thinking about what we've

learned about the repentance process and

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what I learned in the doctrine covenants

about, you know, after judgment, if you

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have chosen not to repent and not to turn

to the savior, then all the sins that

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you've committed, you have to suffer for.

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And I wonder if a, a piece of the

bloody city is that it's not so much

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this neon sign of how wicked you

are, it's about where you'll end up

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and what's gonna happen to your soul

and how hard it will be for you to.

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Take on the consequences of your choices

when you're as far off course as Neva was.

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I also think there's a warning

in here about that there are

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no second generation saints.

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I was just talking to my sister Sarah

about this idea that every generation, no

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matter how stalwart your parents were, you

all, we all have to decide where we stand.

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I mean, thinking about it, just a hundred

years ago, they were pretty solid.

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Everyone converted under Jonah, but within

a few generations it's completely gone.

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All of that testimony is gone.

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And so I think it's just this big

reminder to carry on the covenant,

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you know, to do everything I can as a

parent to, to pass on these promises and

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this testimony to the next generation.

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Cuz they're gonna need to form their own.

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I think it's why President Nelson told

us to take hold of our testimony and,

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you know, choose, choose for yourself

and your generation, how strong

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your link is gonna be in the chain.

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And that's kind of the message

I see in chapter three.

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He warns about the destruction

that's gonna happen in the city,

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that it's gonna be so deep that

they're gonna stumble over bodies.

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Like that's, that's the level

that we're talking about.

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The destruction when, when the Babylonians

come, is gonna be so hard that Niva will

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be lost and it will be a bloody hard loss.

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Um, and he talks about why.

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So if you go through the verses,

he'll lay out a few things like that.

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They were idle worshipers.

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They turned to witchcraft and sorcery

to sacrifice to all kinds of issues.

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One of the things that jumped out at me

though, is in verse seven, so he says at

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the end of seven it says, who will bemoan

her once shall I see comforters for the.

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Meaning once all this hard stuff

starts to happen, none of your

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neighbors will come to the rescue

because you, like we said before, you,

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they've treated everyone so viciously

that no one can come to their aid.

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What's interesting to me about that

is I think it's a warning to me too,

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you know how people learn many times

that the way the Lord often answers

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prayers is through other people.

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So if we are constantly trying to build

relationships with other people and

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show love and kindness and help to our

neighbors and our family and our friends,

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then that comes back to us, right?

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There's people he can turn to to

say, Hey, go take care of Maria.

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She's struggling because I've

created a relationship so it's

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easy for them to come and serve me.

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Like just this last time, so we were in

the hospital for Jason's fourth tumor

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just last week, and there wasn't a

release society sign up that went out.

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There wasn't any kind of formal help.

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The Eckers Lee's campaign,

people just came.

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You know, like my friend Gina just

showed up with, she sent me a text

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from Costco and said, what do you need?

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You know, like it's, that's how you

know what a Zion society feels like

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when people just show up for each other.

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But God can work with Gina because

we have this relationship where the

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Ninevites are, is they've literally taken

advantage and abused everyone around them.

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And therefore there's no one who he

can turn to and say, could you comfort?

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There's no one left.

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That I think is one of the most

haunting parts about Invos story,

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that in their desire to conquer the

world, they're at the peak of this

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hilltop and there's no one to turn to.

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Um, and it was just a sweet reminder to

me to like, be part of Zion lift and, you

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know, lift up the hands, the hang down and

do what you can cuz you need each other

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and God needs to have people to work with.

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So build relationships.

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I just love that reminder.

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But he talks about what's

happening with them.

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He says, basically, art thou better.

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This is around verse eight, he says,

Haven't you seen all the other wicked

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idolatrous groups, all the ones of

the past, they all just get conquered.

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You almost wanna picture that statue,

you know, that we were talking

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about with Daniel and Chad Rec

MechE and a bengo where it was like

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it had a head of a certain metal

and then a torso of another metal.

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And he's like, all of those

are just gonna get toppled.

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Haven't you seen how that's happened?

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All of them end up toppled and so stop,

learn from the mistakes of the past.

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And then he talks about

basically like, go ahead.

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You know, like try to . It's almost

as if Naim or the Lord is saying like,

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go ahead and try to defend yourselves.

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Build up your strongholds.

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Get as much water as you want.

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Do whatever you think will help you.

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None of it can last, because

remember the Lord is against Neva.

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So he talked about that.

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He says, basically you're gonna turn

to all those allies and those people.

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Made wicked alliances with, I almost

picture this like Gad and Roberts style.

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You know, like he's made some secret

combinations with other wicked

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nations and they're all gonna flee.

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They won't rise.

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They want help.

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It's just like we see with Satan

in the Book of Mormon, right?

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He, he wraps people up in a flas in

court and drags them down to help.

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There is no rescue in his character.

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But what I thought was really

cool is reading these last two or

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three verses in a contrast with

what we know about the savior.

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So in 18, the shepherd's slumber.

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So where we talk about Christ

as the good shepherd who never

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slumbers and never sleeps.

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This is the opposite, right?

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This is what the adversary offers.

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He sleeps through your

pain, through your struggle.

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He sleeps.

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Um, he doesn't gather.

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When things get scattered, he doesn't

gather, but the Lord does, right?

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So in the verse, it'll say,

your people are scattered on the

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mountains and no man gather at.

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In 19, there's no healing of the I bruise.

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Thy wound is grievous and all that.

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Hear about it, clap.

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I think it makes you appreciate

the God that we worship.

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He wants to be all these things.

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And it's interesting to me that when we're

describing the adversary, or at least the

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adversaries effects on people who have

turned against God, they're the exact

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opposite of what we see in the Savior.

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They cannot heal, they cannot

gather, and they cannot save.

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I tell you, I feel like I could

handle almost any adversity if

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I could just understand why.

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You know, I believe the Lord can make

all things work together for my good.

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I don't always understand

why he picks that way.

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You know, there are times when Jason's

cancer has come back and I'm like, I feel

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like I got it on the first three times.

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Why?

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Why is the cancer back again?

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This is a very common question that all

of us have, whether yours is related

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to cancer or some other adversity.

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It's if we could understand the why,

I feel like you could endure it.

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The second thing I always wanna know

is how long you know, I can endure

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almost anything if I know it will

end, and I know roughly how long.

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You know, even things like labor, I

feel like you kind of have a ballpark

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idea after six kids how long it's

gonna last and so you can endure.

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Right?

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And I just.

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That's basically Haba cook's question.

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He's facing a certain kind of adversity

in the Babylonians, or he calls

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'em the Caldeans cuz this is early

stages of the Babylonian Empire.

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And they will eventually

become the Babylonians.

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But in this stage they're, they're

beginning and they're causing all kinds

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of devastation to the children of Israel

or what's left of the children of Israel.

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And he is struggling because his

people, although they're off course

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and not choosing the right, are not

nearly as wicked as the kds are.

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And so he's saying to

the Lord, basically, why?

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I know you're just, I

know you're everlasting.

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Why are you letting these guys win?

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And one of the things that was so

insightful to me that I learned from the

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spirit was, this is God's not a referee.

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We tend to see, or at least I think what

Haba Cook was seeing is he's saying,

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here's the dues and here's the caldeans.

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They're so much more wicked than we are.

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And even though we're not doing

great , why do you let them win?

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And he's seeing them as.

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Going against each other, like

a referee would see two teams.

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And what I think the Lord is trying to

teach hauck, at least what he taught

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me, is that the Lord is in referee.

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And this isn't a game against

another group of people.

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This is a game against the natural man.

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And what he's saying to Hauck is,

please remind the Jews that they

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have light and they have knowledge,

and they are accountable for that.

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That's the standard he's holding them to.

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The same way he's gonna hold

the Babylonians to a standard

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because of their light and their

knowledge, which is limited

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compared to the children of Israel.

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So he's going to, they're not going

against each other, and he's not a

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referee out to make sure that the law

is enforced equally to both teams.

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What he's saying is, you're

focused on the wrong things.

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You need to focus on teaching the

children of Israel where they've gone

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wrong, and stop worrying so much about

the ca, the Calians with Babylon.

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So that's the overall theme of one.

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But I love the wrestle that

he has to have to get there.

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So haka in these verses, especially in

chapter one, what sounds different about

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this book is that it's not so much a

story of what happens, it's a dialogue.

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So it sort of reminded me of job.

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You remember when Joe almost had

chats with the Lord , where he

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was like, why is this happening

and have you forgotten about me?

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It's the same thing you feel

with Joseph in Liberty Jail,

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where he says, you know why?

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It's not so much that I think

Joseph wanted to get out of Liberty

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Jail, although I'm sure he did.

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It was about what was happening outside

of the jail, that all the saints were

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getting attacked and people were dying

and being raped, and all kinds of horrific

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things were happening to the Saints.

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And he was saying, why?

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Why do you let Wicked people attack?

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Why and how long is it gonna last?

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So if you go on the notes, you're

gonna find links to a bunch of d.

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Scriptures that I felt

taught this same lesson.

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A habitat does it in an interesting

way cuz he has to wrestle with the

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Lord a little bit to understand and

it's not like he gets an answer and

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all of a sudden things are okay.

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He gets a part of an answer and

then he asks to ask more questions.

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You know, it's almost like what you see

with NEI when he's in the Book of Mormon.

458

00:24:34,065 --> 00:24:37,125

He is trying to understand Lehigh's

dream and he gets a little bit

459

00:24:37,155 --> 00:24:40,335

more light and knowledge and then

asks more questions of the angel

460

00:24:40,340 --> 00:24:42,045

and says, okay, show me some more.

461

00:24:42,050 --> 00:24:43,335

And the angel says, okay, let's go.

462

00:24:43,340 --> 00:24:46,545

And that's kinda what I get a feel

from with Hauck, that he's, he's

463

00:24:46,550 --> 00:24:48,135

understanding things in layers.

464

00:24:48,735 --> 00:24:51,645

So you see in two, how

long will this go on?

465

00:24:51,645 --> 00:24:54,795

How long will I cry out and

have no one here in three?

466

00:24:55,125 --> 00:24:56,774

Why do you show this inequity to us?

467

00:24:56,774 --> 00:24:59,295

Why are you treating us this, this way?

468

00:24:59,504 --> 00:25:02,655

And four, he talks about,

therefore the law is slacked and

469

00:25:02,655 --> 00:25:04,185

judgment does never go forth.

470

00:25:04,485 --> 00:25:07,065

He's basically saying to the Lord

like, your punishments aren't fair.

471

00:25:07,455 --> 00:25:09,045

You know, we are getting punished.

472

00:25:09,465 --> 00:25:11,685

Heavily and we're more

righteous than they are.

473

00:25:11,685 --> 00:25:12,705

That's not fair.

474

00:25:12,705 --> 00:25:15,645

It's not like you remember ha's a prophet.

475

00:25:15,675 --> 00:25:18,885

So I think he inherently

knows the character of God.

476

00:25:19,125 --> 00:25:23,625

He just doesn't understand, like we

don't, you know, he's seen through a glass

477

00:25:23,625 --> 00:25:28,665

darkly and he doesn't understand and he

just have to love the compassion of the

478

00:25:28,665 --> 00:25:31,155

Lord cuz he wants to help have a cook.

479

00:25:31,215 --> 00:25:31,935

Understand.

480

00:25:32,085 --> 00:25:36,315

So around five is where the Lord's answer

begins and he talks about that he's gonna

481

00:25:36,315 --> 00:25:39,975

do something wonderful among this group.

482

00:25:40,245 --> 00:25:44,505

So in in five it says, wonder

marvelously for I will work a work

483

00:25:44,505 --> 00:25:47,535

in your days, which you will not

believe though it be told you.

484

00:25:48,435 --> 00:25:51,885

He in the first couple verses have

Aick wondered if the Lord even could.

485

00:25:52,770 --> 00:25:56,880

And now he learns in this simple

answer that not only has the Lord heard

486

00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,720

him all this time, but he actually

already has an answer in place.

487

00:26:00,750 --> 00:26:01,830

In fact, it's in motion.

488

00:26:02,460 --> 00:26:06,210

That I think happens to me all the time

where I'm struggling cuz the Lord doesn't

489

00:26:06,215 --> 00:26:08,460

unfold all the revelation to me at once.

490

00:26:08,465 --> 00:26:10,680

You know, it's almost like a

great big blanket that he's only

491

00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,570

unfolding one square at a time.

492

00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,260

And then every now and then I, you

can like step back and be like,

493

00:26:16,260 --> 00:26:18,390

wait, I know there is a full blanket.

494

00:26:18,510 --> 00:26:20,370

Even though I can only see

a portion of it right now.

495

00:26:20,370 --> 00:26:24,690

I know there is, it's gonna continue

to unfold and I'm gonna understand and

496

00:26:24,690 --> 00:26:25,680

that's where I think have a cook is.

497

00:26:26,445 --> 00:26:29,985

So he talks about it, how there's the

Lord answers like in seven, that there

498

00:26:29,985 --> 00:26:33,195

is gonna be this great and terrible

judgment that will hit these people.

499

00:26:33,195 --> 00:26:35,985

It's not that they're

gonna bypass justice.

500

00:26:36,014 --> 00:26:37,155

There will be a judgment.

501

00:26:37,635 --> 00:26:42,405

He just doesn't, he isn't telling him

how long, he isn't telling him even why.

502

00:26:42,405 --> 00:26:45,285

He's just saying, trust me, I've got this.

503

00:26:45,315 --> 00:26:48,465

There's things in motion that you

can't understand and doesn't that just

504

00:26:48,465 --> 00:26:52,335

sound like a lot of the answers you

get where it's like, wait on the Lord,

505

00:26:52,395 --> 00:26:54,375

trust me, I've got things in motion.

506

00:26:54,825 --> 00:26:57,105

Um, and so he waits.

507

00:26:57,195 --> 00:26:58,935

In fact, I love Havoc Cook's Response.

508

00:26:58,935 --> 00:27:00,405

This is one of my favorite

chapters this week.

509

00:27:00,405 --> 00:27:04,690

So he basically says, I'm

not sure I understand this.

510

00:27:04,990 --> 00:27:05,920

You just have to love this.

511

00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,590

Cause I think this is what it's

like to be a disciple of Christ.

512

00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,500

It means you're going

to talk with the Lord.

513

00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:13,510

This is what a relationship is, right?

514

00:27:13,510 --> 00:27:15,910

So if I'm gonna have a relationship

with the Lord, I'm not gonna just

515

00:27:16,150 --> 00:27:19,900

take that partially unfolded answer

and say, okay, God, you let me

516

00:27:19,900 --> 00:27:21,310

know when you got more to say.

517

00:27:21,610 --> 00:27:22,930

I'm gonna be asking.

518

00:27:23,020 --> 00:27:26,470

I mean, some of the greatest revelations

in the history have ever happened

519

00:27:26,470 --> 00:27:30,550

because questions were asked and

questions upon questions were asked.

520

00:27:30,700 --> 00:27:32,140

So that's what he says in 12.

521

00:27:32,500 --> 00:27:34,420

Aren't thou not from everlasting?

522

00:27:34,420 --> 00:27:35,530

Oh Lord my God, mine.

523

00:27:35,530 --> 00:27:37,390

Holy one, we shall not die.

524

00:27:37,395 --> 00:27:39,850

Oh Lord has to ordained them

from judgment like he's saying.

525

00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,930

I know you are the same

yesterday, today, and forever.

526

00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,370

So if we do a certain thing

wrong, we get this consequence.

527

00:27:47,610 --> 00:27:51,720

How is it that they're doing the same

offense and they don't have a consequence?

528

00:27:51,750 --> 00:27:52,770

I don't see it.

529

00:27:52,830 --> 00:27:56,640

So he's asking the Lord, help

me to see, give me eyes to see.

530

00:27:57,060 --> 00:27:58,320

And then it peaks a little bit.

531

00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,530

In 13, he says, basically he

knows that God has pure eyes

532

00:28:01,535 --> 00:28:02,970

and can see things he can't see.

533

00:28:03,060 --> 00:28:04,500

But he says to them, can't.

534

00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,940

How is it that thou can't look Ony?

535

00:28:07,020 --> 00:28:10,860

Where for look a thou upon them that

deal treacherously and hold a thy

536

00:28:10,865 --> 00:28:13,860

tongue when the wicked devour at the

man that is more righteous than he.

537

00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:18,270

How is it God that you're gonna

hold your tongue when they

538

00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,580

consume us, when they abuse us?

539

00:28:20,580 --> 00:28:22,530

How is it that you're holding still?

540

00:28:23,190 --> 00:28:26,670

And so he asked the Lord this and he says,

basically, you're making us like fish.

541

00:28:26,670 --> 00:28:29,100

That there's nori rhyme or reason.

542

00:28:29,100 --> 00:28:30,240

There's no rule of law.

543

00:28:30,945 --> 00:28:35,504

That's what he knows God for is

that he is a God of justice and

544

00:28:35,504 --> 00:28:39,254

law and it doesn't seem like

they're playing by the same rules.

545

00:28:39,254 --> 00:28:43,754

So Hauck is wrestling and he wants

to know more and the answers come as

546

00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:44,745

he goes a little bit further down.

547

00:28:44,745 --> 00:28:48,375

So we look in 17, one of my favorite

questions is he says, shall they

548

00:28:48,375 --> 00:28:52,034

therefore empty their net and not

spare continually to slay the nation's?

549

00:28:52,605 --> 00:28:54,584

This reminded me of my kids

when they go trick or treat.

550

00:28:54,915 --> 00:28:58,965

So maybe your kids don't do this, but

Sam, you know, the older they get, they

551

00:28:58,965 --> 00:29:02,145

like will come home and they'll dump

out their pillowcase halfway through

552

00:29:02,149 --> 00:29:05,625

their trick or treating so that they

can go back out and get even more candy.

553

00:29:05,625 --> 00:29:09,425

And there's just like this inherent

grieve and adjacent totally

554

00:29:09,554 --> 00:29:11,024

encourages this in our children,

555

00:29:11,534 --> 00:29:15,284

But you know, it's that idea that,

but with like, A horrific level.

556

00:29:15,284 --> 00:29:19,064

They're basically going out and consuming

and abusing everybody in their path.

557

00:29:19,095 --> 00:29:21,254

And they get to the point where

they like empty the net and then

558

00:29:21,254 --> 00:29:22,335

go back out and get some more.

559

00:29:22,395 --> 00:29:24,345

And so that's what Haba

Cook is wrestling with.

560

00:29:24,345 --> 00:29:25,725

These are our wicked people.

561

00:29:25,784 --> 00:29:27,615

Why aren't they getting consequences?

562

00:29:28,155 --> 00:29:31,245

But the answer he gets is a partial

one, and it comes in chapter two.

563

00:29:32,205 --> 00:29:36,435

I think the whole reason that Haa

gets another unfolding of this

564

00:29:36,435 --> 00:29:40,125

revelation, he gets more information,

more light, more knowledge, is

565

00:29:40,125 --> 00:29:42,075

because of what happens in verse one.

566

00:29:42,555 --> 00:29:46,035

So at the end of chapter one, we

see all of his wrestling, right?

567

00:29:46,035 --> 00:29:47,325

He has questions for the Lord.

568

00:29:47,325 --> 00:29:49,785

He's even frustrated

at the Lord's choices.

569

00:29:49,815 --> 00:29:54,165

He doesn't understand he's got these,

you know, spiritual blinders that he's

570

00:29:54,170 --> 00:29:58,245

just struggling to wrap his head around

why the Lord would choose this plan.

571

00:29:59,235 --> 00:30:02,505

But what happens in one is he

says, but I'm gonna show up anyway.

572

00:30:02,895 --> 00:30:03,705

This is his.

573

00:30:03,765 --> 00:30:07,125

But if not moment that we talked about

with Shadrach Meek and a bed Migo,

574

00:30:07,215 --> 00:30:09,915

he's basically saying, I will stand.

575

00:30:09,945 --> 00:30:14,475

So if you look in verse one, I will stand

upon my watch and set me upon the tower.

576

00:30:14,775 --> 00:30:17,745

He's called to be a prophet and

he knows the character of God.

577

00:30:18,075 --> 00:30:22,035

And so in this moment of I don't

understand and there's so much uncertainty

578

00:30:22,035 --> 00:30:25,035

and how long Lord will this continue?

579

00:30:25,365 --> 00:30:28,755

He says, but I'm gonna stand

on my watch and I will show up.

580

00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:35,310

Oh, I loved that moment when I was reading

it, cuz I think this is what opens up

581

00:30:35,310 --> 00:30:37,290

another layer of revelation for Ock.

582

00:30:37,379 --> 00:30:39,030

I know this cuz it happens for me.

583

00:30:39,270 --> 00:30:44,370

You know, there are times when I don't

understand how long things are gonna go.

584

00:30:44,399 --> 00:30:46,260

I don't understand why they're so hard.

585

00:30:46,470 --> 00:30:49,379

I don't understand why he's trying

to teach me in this specific way.

586

00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:56,250

But I show up or I try to show up and

when I try to show up, like I remember I

587

00:30:56,250 --> 00:30:59,310

told you guys something about scripture

study that this happened with scripture,

588

00:30:59,310 --> 00:31:03,480

study with me when I was really struggling

for revelation about Jason and I

589

00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,949

couldn't get the answers I needed and

I just didn't know where else to turn.

590

00:31:07,949 --> 00:31:10,470

And the answer I got was, you

need to do family scripture study.

591

00:31:10,470 --> 00:31:14,040

And I was almost angry with that

answer cuz it didn't seem like it

592

00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:15,210

could solve any of my problems.

593

00:31:15,270 --> 00:31:18,600

And then as we were having prayer

at family scripture study, Jason

594

00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,220

wasn't even there like it was a mess.

595

00:31:20,220 --> 00:31:24,389

Scripture study didn't go great, but

it was in the prayer at the end of

596

00:31:24,389 --> 00:31:28,679

scripture study that the answer I needed

came and it came clearly and it was.

597

00:31:29,084 --> 00:31:30,975

Life saving, literally.

598

00:31:31,395 --> 00:31:33,824

Um, so yes, I've been in this moment.

599

00:31:33,824 --> 00:31:38,534

You probably have to where if you just

show up, the Lord will say, okay, Maria,

600

00:31:38,540 --> 00:31:40,695

you're ready for the next unfolding.

601

00:31:40,875 --> 00:31:41,655

Let me give you more.

602

00:31:42,314 --> 00:31:43,844

And so that's what happens here.

603

00:31:44,415 --> 00:31:46,814

Basically have aah

says, I'm gonna show up.

604

00:31:47,264 --> 00:31:50,205

And because he does, the Lord

says, all right, let's go.

605

00:31:50,445 --> 00:31:53,235

And so the next verse is, I need

you to get some paper and pens or

606

00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:54,495

tables or whatever he is writing on.

607

00:31:54,495 --> 00:31:56,685

And he says, I want you to

write everything I'm gonna

608

00:31:56,685 --> 00:31:58,365

say so that people can run.

609

00:31:58,425 --> 00:32:00,105

In fact, I loved this part of verse two.

610

00:32:00,105 --> 00:32:03,794

He says, you're gonna write it plain

on tables so that anyone can understand

611

00:32:04,004 --> 00:32:05,745

that he may run that, read it.

612

00:32:05,975 --> 00:32:09,294

That anybody who reads these

coming verses will be able to

613

00:32:09,300 --> 00:32:11,054

understand the will of God and move.

614

00:32:11,385 --> 00:32:13,605

This is faith in action.

615

00:32:13,605 --> 00:32:13,875

Right?

616

00:32:13,875 --> 00:32:15,165

He's saying, I want people to.

617

00:32:15,959 --> 00:32:16,949

I want people to get it.

618

00:32:16,980 --> 00:32:19,409

I want people to get the

urgency so that they can run.

619

00:32:19,830 --> 00:32:22,620

And what he lays out

for us is pretty clear.

620

00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:27,360

He says There will be an appointed time

when Justice will come to the Babylonians.

621

00:32:27,419 --> 00:32:29,459

I know you can't see

it right now, trust me.

622

00:32:29,610 --> 00:32:33,570

So three says, for the vision

is yet for an appointed time.

623

00:32:33,810 --> 00:32:35,580

But at the end it shall speak and not lie.

624

00:32:35,580 --> 00:32:38,429

Meaning there will be a point

when the Babylonians are conquered

625

00:32:38,435 --> 00:32:40,560

and this prophecy will be proven.

626

00:32:41,070 --> 00:32:43,590

Though it, Terry, wait for it.

627

00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,219

This piece I loved, I

highlighted that a lot.

628

00:32:47,219 --> 00:32:49,139

In fact, we'll talk about in

the object lessons as well.

629

00:32:49,409 --> 00:32:53,430

Um, there are lots of times when the

Lord is saying, Wait for it, Maria.

630

00:32:53,820 --> 00:32:55,830

I have something great coming.

631

00:32:56,250 --> 00:32:57,000

Wait for it.

632

00:32:57,180 --> 00:33:00,210

Stay on the path because

it will surely come.

633

00:33:00,270 --> 00:33:01,800

That's the next line of that verse.

634

00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,850

So though at Terry, wait for it because

it will surely come and it will not.

635

00:33:05,850 --> 00:33:09,960

Terry, everything is on the Lord's

timetable and it is in motion.

636

00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:14,250

, you know, like we talked about with the

gumball machine where the, when I picture

637

00:33:14,255 --> 00:33:18,540

a prayer, I picture, if I say a prayer

and I ask for deliverance or help, I

638

00:33:18,540 --> 00:33:21,960

picture that gumball starting down that

track and it's just gonna take a long

639

00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:23,820

time to get to the bottom sometimes.

640

00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,840

And sometimes it's different than

I expected it, but something comes

641

00:33:27,930 --> 00:33:29,850

and so you just have to wait for it.

642

00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:31,500

And so that's what he's teaching him.

643

00:33:32,070 --> 00:33:35,310

But it's not a, I'm gonna sit

passively and wait, it's four.

644

00:33:35,310 --> 00:33:38,460

It says you're gonna live by faith

and, oh, you should go on the notes.

645

00:33:38,460 --> 00:33:40,590

There's a lot of great quotes about

what it means to live by faith,

646

00:33:40,590 --> 00:33:42,179

how this is a principle of action.

647

00:33:42,389 --> 00:33:46,050

This is Haba Cook had to stand and

say, I'm gonna stay on my tower even

648

00:33:46,050 --> 00:33:47,639

though I don't understand all things.

649

00:33:47,970 --> 00:33:51,030

You know, n I had to say to the

angel, I don't understand all

650

00:33:51,030 --> 00:33:52,320

things, but here's what I do know.

651

00:33:52,649 --> 00:33:53,760

That's the same message.

652

00:33:53,790 --> 00:33:57,000

And so now, because he's made that

stand and because he's writing it

653

00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,010

down now, he writes down all the woes.

654

00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:02,129

So they call these the wo Oracles

because in like five different

655

00:34:02,129 --> 00:34:06,330

places in this chapter, he says the

word woe and then lays out what's

656

00:34:06,335 --> 00:34:10,230

gonna happen to the Babylonians and

why they've had issues with greed.

657

00:34:10,230 --> 00:34:14,639

They've had, it seems like the predominant

issue is they're taking advantage of the.

658

00:34:15,660 --> 00:34:18,720

It's kind of almost the flip side

of that lack of charity that we've

659

00:34:18,720 --> 00:34:22,350

been talking about, but on on

where they have no understanding,

660

00:34:22,350 --> 00:34:24,300

they're basically manipulating.

661

00:34:24,330 --> 00:34:28,140

It reminded me of, what's the guy,

the one my kids watch on YouTube?

662

00:34:28,145 --> 00:34:30,150

I can't think of his name,

but he's the Mark Grover.

663

00:34:30,210 --> 00:34:32,740

He's the one that does the glitter

bombs, you know, and so he, He

664

00:34:32,740 --> 00:34:35,860

sets up a trap basically for

people who are packaged thieves.

665

00:34:35,860 --> 00:34:38,530

And he does the same thing with like

these telemarketers in India who are

666

00:34:38,530 --> 00:34:40,810

taking advantage of the elderly scammers.

667

00:34:41,230 --> 00:34:42,760

Anyway, it's kind of that sort of vibe.

668

00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,660

He's saying there's a certain level of

evil that comes when you deliberately

669

00:34:46,660 --> 00:34:49,610

take advantage of the weak and the

vulnerable and you will have consequences.

670

00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:51,610

And that's what the woes are.

671

00:34:51,700 --> 00:34:53,020

He's warning all about that.

672

00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,020

And then he also has some

little promises woven in.

673

00:34:56,200 --> 00:35:00,310

So in 14 it says, for the earth shall

be filled with knowledge of the glory

674

00:35:00,310 --> 00:35:02,620

of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

675

00:35:02,950 --> 00:35:05,650

And at first when I read that, I

was like, why is that shoved in

676

00:35:05,650 --> 00:35:07,090

the middle of all these woves?

677

00:35:07,660 --> 00:35:11,770

? I, it seemed like an odd like insertion

and it could be just happenstance.

678

00:35:11,770 --> 00:35:16,390

But what came to me as I was studying it

was I think this is the promise that all

679

00:35:16,390 --> 00:35:20,560

those why questions that we have, like why

did we need to have cancer a fourth time?

680

00:35:20,830 --> 00:35:21,460

Why?

681

00:35:21,460 --> 00:35:25,180

You know, like all the hard things

that happen, there will be a time when

682

00:35:25,180 --> 00:35:27,550

the earth is flooded with knowledge.

683

00:35:27,730 --> 00:35:28,960

And I'll know all the why's.

684

00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,270

I'll, I'll know all the answers to that.

685

00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:32,140

How long.

686

00:35:32,580 --> 00:35:34,470

Why did this have to take so long?

687

00:35:34,980 --> 00:35:35,310

Why?

688

00:35:35,759 --> 00:35:38,310

I will know all the, an

Jason will know the answers.

689

00:35:38,310 --> 00:35:38,939

My kids will know.

690

00:35:38,939 --> 00:35:40,620

The answers will know exactly why.

691

00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,589

Because the earth will be

flooded with knowledge.

692

00:35:43,589 --> 00:35:46,470

And this is not just wisdom of

the world, this is knowledge of

693

00:35:46,470 --> 00:35:49,350

God and in his plan for my family.

694

00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:53,370

And I think, you know, the further

into this process, the more I

695

00:35:53,370 --> 00:35:54,990

start to understand that why.

696

00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:59,100

But the more I also get comfortable

with the unknown, I don't know how long.

697

00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:00,029

I don't know why.

698

00:36:00,390 --> 00:36:03,750

And I get more and more comfortable

with it cuz I, I've come to

699

00:36:03,750 --> 00:36:04,919

trust the character of God.

700

00:36:04,919 --> 00:36:06,299

So I love that that piece is in there.

701

00:36:06,299 --> 00:36:10,080

There will be a time that I will

know why and that you will know why

702

00:36:10,410 --> 00:36:14,669

and it will flood the earth and that

will be a beautiful time to be alive.

703

00:36:14,669 --> 00:36:18,810

So I watch for those promises that are

kind of tucked into all these woes.

704

00:36:19,290 --> 00:36:24,210

Another one that happens is if you look

in, um, So after he's talked about their

705

00:36:24,214 --> 00:36:27,569

idle worship and their weak gods that

they make with their own hands, Tony

706

00:36:27,569 --> 00:36:29,850

says, but the Lord is in his holy temple.

707

00:36:30,089 --> 00:36:32,339

Let all the earth keep silence before him.

708

00:36:32,669 --> 00:36:35,520

He is a God who never

slumbers and never sleeps.

709

00:36:35,850 --> 00:36:40,890

And he sees all, I think the fact that

he mentions all these woes and all the

710

00:36:40,890 --> 00:36:44,640

wickedness that he's seen happen among

the Babylonians is something that must

711

00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,049

have been comforting to have a cook.

712

00:36:46,259 --> 00:36:49,140

Cause remember, he wondered

if the Lord wasn't seeing all

713

00:36:49,140 --> 00:36:50,310

their offenses the same way.

714

00:36:50,310 --> 00:36:52,890

If you have a referee that's not calling

things on the other team, and you're

715

00:36:52,890 --> 00:36:54,899

like, did you even see what they did?

716

00:36:55,290 --> 00:36:57,509

And what he's saying is,

oh yeah, I've got tapes.

717

00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:58,950

I can, I've seen all of it.

718

00:36:59,009 --> 00:37:00,509

In fact, there's a record kept in heaven.

719

00:37:00,509 --> 00:37:03,899

I know all their offenses

and all will be made.

720

00:37:03,899 --> 00:37:04,230

Right.

721

00:37:04,439 --> 00:37:05,220

That's the promise.

722

00:37:05,225 --> 00:37:09,629

When he says, everyone can keep

silence, he can see all things.

723

00:37:09,660 --> 00:37:10,500

That's the promise of.

724

00:37:12,015 --> 00:37:14,175

Chapter three in Havoc is actually a hymn.

725

00:37:14,235 --> 00:37:17,955

It's a song that was intended to be

sung and it's a hymn of praise, which

726

00:37:17,955 --> 00:37:21,765

is interesting cuz if you look at the

actual verses that we just read in

727

00:37:21,770 --> 00:37:26,445

two, you know that the Babylonians will

eventually come to an end, but you have no

728

00:37:26,445 --> 00:37:28,575

way of knowing when that's gonna happen.

729

00:37:28,725 --> 00:37:31,665

You know, A day to the

Lord is very flexible.

730

00:37:31,665 --> 00:37:35,055

So I feel like have a cook really

doesn't have any idea when this is

731

00:37:35,055 --> 00:37:36,255

gonna happen to the Babylonians.

732

00:37:36,285 --> 00:37:40,635

He also doesn't know how long the misery's

gonna last for his people or how long

733

00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,645

it's gonna be till they return and repent.

734

00:37:42,645 --> 00:37:46,125

Like he just, everything is still an

unknown to have a cook, but what he

735

00:37:46,125 --> 00:37:48,525

knows is you're in the Lord's hands.

736

00:37:48,645 --> 00:37:52,545

That's what he knows and that's what

brings about his hymn of praise.

737

00:37:52,935 --> 00:37:53,895

Here's what I loved about this.

738

00:37:53,900 --> 00:37:56,235

You guys remember when we were

studying Hannah and I told you

739

00:37:56,235 --> 00:38:00,135

that I got a sweet revelation when

I was studying Hannah years ago.

740

00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:05,070

About Jason and my worries because

she, when she's praying for a son,

741

00:38:05,070 --> 00:38:08,580

she goes to the temple and she just

gets the promise that a son will

742

00:38:08,580 --> 00:38:10,590

be born, that she will have a son.

743

00:38:10,980 --> 00:38:13,950

And it says that as she leaves

the temple, her countenance

744

00:38:13,950 --> 00:38:15,660

changes and she's no more sad.

745

00:38:15,930 --> 00:38:18,420

And what I love about that

is, like I told you guys, she

746

00:38:18,420 --> 00:38:19,740

doesn't, she's not pregnant yet.

747

00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:24,060

She couldn't have been pregnant

yet, but she chooses to rest on

748

00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:28,140

the promise and let that be her

light that lifts her and allows her

749

00:38:28,140 --> 00:38:29,370

to change her whole countenance.

750

00:38:29,790 --> 00:38:31,290

That's basically what

happens with Ha Cook.

751

00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:35,160

He doesn't know when this is gonna end or

how it's gonna end or when it's gonna end.

752

00:38:35,165 --> 00:38:41,700

He just knows that God's hands are all

over this work and so he can rejoice even

753

00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:43,650

though his circumstances haven't changed.

754

00:38:43,890 --> 00:38:46,470

Isn't that exactly what President

Nelson has been asking us to do?

755

00:38:46,470 --> 00:38:49,680

To stop focusing on our

circumstances, to find our joy and I.

756

00:38:50,100 --> 00:38:51,540

Get the focus of our lives, right?

757

00:38:51,810 --> 00:38:55,410

Because if the focus of our life is

right, then you can actually have joy.

758

00:38:55,590 --> 00:38:56,850

I mean, have a cook proves it.

759

00:38:57,030 --> 00:39:01,500

He has a whole hymn of rejoicing that

he gives us because he now knows he's

760

00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:03,480

in God's hands and it's gonna be okay.

761

00:39:04,380 --> 00:39:07,770

Not because he knows how or when,

but because he knows the character

762

00:39:07,775 --> 00:39:11,550

of God and he knows I'm his son

and he will take care of me.

763

00:39:11,550 --> 00:39:13,050

He will take care of this people.

764

00:39:13,230 --> 00:39:16,860

So he sings this song of praise and

I just love the way it plays out.

765

00:39:16,860 --> 00:39:19,620

He basically says to the

Lord, revive th I work.

766

00:39:19,650 --> 00:39:21,690

And then he goes back and talks

about some of the miracles that

767

00:39:21,690 --> 00:39:22,890

the Lord has done in the past.

768

00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:24,750

So he's, he's not shying away.

769

00:39:24,750 --> 00:39:27,420

Remember, this is still

an engaged conversation.

770

00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:29,490

Doesn't have the answers yet.

771

00:39:29,490 --> 00:39:32,790

So he's still kind of, instead of

wrestling with the Lord, he's saying

772

00:39:32,790 --> 00:39:37,170

like, Hey, I'm just gonna keep praying

. You know, I still pray for miracles

773

00:39:37,170 --> 00:39:39,990

even though I'm okay with whatever

the Lord decides for our family.

774

00:39:39,995 --> 00:39:42,330

But I still pray for miracles every day.

775

00:39:42,570 --> 00:39:47,250

That's kind of what happens here, is where

he's saying like, please come back to us.

776

00:39:47,250 --> 00:39:50,580

You know, come back and

remember who you are to us.

777

00:39:50,580 --> 00:39:51,870

And you know, it's this.

778

00:39:51,930 --> 00:39:54,060

And then he goes through some of

the miracles that the Lord has given

779

00:39:54,065 --> 00:39:55,620

the children of Israel in the past.

780

00:39:55,710 --> 00:39:59,760

And I just thought there was a lovely

reminder there that my prayers should

781

00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,510

be, I shouldn't shy away from asking

for the help that I want and need.

782

00:40:03,915 --> 00:40:10,234

But I also should rejoice in the many

evidences I have in my life of God's hand.

783

00:40:10,980 --> 00:40:15,000

Because when you take time to remember

those spiritual stones, I think that's

784

00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,140

what Elder Anderson called them.

785

00:40:16,140 --> 00:40:19,380

He called them these, those spiritual

memories that you preserve are

786

00:40:19,380 --> 00:40:23,400

like these glowing stones that

can hold you in dark spaces.

787

00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,890

And that's what basically

I think Haba Cook's doing.

788

00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,760

He's pulling out all these stones

of joyful memories when the Lord has

789

00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:34,590

delivered them and saying, I remember this

one and I remember this one, and so I know

790

00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:36,420

you'll be here for us when we need you.

791

00:40:36,420 --> 00:40:41,760

I just thought it was a beautiful

example of choosing faith, choosing

792

00:40:41,765 --> 00:40:43,800

hope despite dark circumstances.

793

00:40:44,460 --> 00:40:47,550

And so he says basically by the

end of the chapter, although the

794

00:40:47,550 --> 00:40:50,400

fig tree shall not blossom and

neither fruit beyond the vines, like

795

00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:51,990

everything's gonna go, I get it.

796

00:40:51,990 --> 00:40:54,870

There's gonna be famine and destruction

and it's gonna be really bad.

797

00:40:55,350 --> 00:40:59,670

All these things are gonna happen and

then 18, yet I will rejoice in the Lord.

798

00:41:00,060 --> 00:41:01,890

I will joy in the God of my.

799

00:41:02,790 --> 00:41:06,000

I love the way he even says that

it's not that he will have joy.

800

00:41:06,330 --> 00:41:07,259

He's saying I will.

801

00:41:07,259 --> 00:41:07,710

Joy.

802

00:41:07,770 --> 00:41:10,230

It's like an action . I

don't know what that means.

803

00:41:10,230 --> 00:41:15,120

I don't know what it looks like, but it

is a, he says, I will joy because of.

804

00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:16,650

Who you are.

805

00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,200

It's the same thing that Joe

eventually got to, right?

806

00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,990

He says, though, though he

slay me, I will trust in him.

807

00:41:21,990 --> 00:41:22,860

It's the same message.

808

00:41:23,460 --> 00:41:25,890

He says, uh, it's gonna get

really bad and I'm okay.

809

00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:27,960

I will rejoice in God.

810

00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,410

And then in 19, the Lord God is

my strength and he will make my

811

00:41:31,415 --> 00:41:35,400

feet like he's feet, and he will

make me to walk upon high places.

812

00:41:36,004 --> 00:41:37,625

This is such a great visual.

813

00:41:37,774 --> 00:41:39,605

I learned this from Michael Wilcox.

814

00:41:39,605 --> 00:41:42,515

I told you guys, he's one of my favorite

teachers and he has a whole book, kind

815

00:41:42,515 --> 00:41:45,845

of based on this metaphor here, where

he's, he talks about these goats, we're

816

00:41:45,845 --> 00:41:49,265

gonna talk about the object lesson, but

these are these, you know, Nubian goats

817

00:41:49,265 --> 00:41:52,145

that are in Israel and they can climb.

818

00:41:52,145 --> 00:41:55,234

You've probably seen them, like on the

Nature Channel, they're able to climb

819

00:41:55,234 --> 00:41:57,694

on the tiniest ledges and stand there.

820

00:41:57,995 --> 00:42:01,234

You know, they can like jump from

one teen tiny ledge to the other.

821

00:42:01,444 --> 00:42:05,194

Even the big males that have these

huge horns, like picture lokey,

822

00:42:05,194 --> 00:42:09,335

like that kind of horns and they

are able to balance because of

823

00:42:09,339 --> 00:42:10,595

the way their feet are designed.

824

00:42:11,314 --> 00:42:15,004

What I loved about this is I was just

reading in the Book of Mormon about

825

00:42:15,004 --> 00:42:18,935

Nefi and his bow just this morning

actually, and I was noting the idea of.

826

00:42:19,660 --> 00:42:23,170

When Nephi, when his bow breaks,

the steel bow breaks, he makes a

827

00:42:23,170 --> 00:42:25,540

wooden bow and he prays to the Lord.

828

00:42:25,540 --> 00:42:27,970

First he goes to Lehigh and he,

he wants to know where to hunt.

829

00:42:28,060 --> 00:42:30,819

And the Lord doesn't necessarily

make him a new steel bow.

830

00:42:31,180 --> 00:42:33,730

What he says is, let me show

you a place that you can hunt.

831

00:42:33,970 --> 00:42:36,910

In fact, it's a place that you can

hunt successfully with a wooden bow.

832

00:42:37,270 --> 00:42:40,210

Um, and, and I love that Nephi takes

the wooden bow and a sling just

833

00:42:40,210 --> 00:42:42,759

in case, because I think that's

what we're supposed to do, right?

834

00:42:42,759 --> 00:42:45,190

That's being anxiously

engaged in a good cause.

835

00:42:45,190 --> 00:42:48,730

Like, okay, Lord, bless me as much as you

can, and I'm gonna do everything I can.

836

00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,160

And between us, there's food, right?

837

00:42:51,220 --> 00:42:54,700

He goes out and he's successful in

his hunt and it saves his people.

838

00:42:55,029 --> 00:42:57,879

And that's kind of what he's saying

here, this idea of heins feet,

839

00:42:57,879 --> 00:43:02,410

it's, he's not saying, make, make

the cliffs wider so that I can

840

00:43:02,410 --> 00:43:03,850

easily get from one to the other.

841

00:43:03,850 --> 00:43:05,319

Change my circumstances.

842

00:43:05,319 --> 00:43:07,990

Lord, what he's saying is change.

843

00:43:08,850 --> 00:43:14,310

Give me feet that can balance on the

smallest sliver of an edge and hold.

844

00:43:14,669 --> 00:43:17,509

You know, when you look at the,

these animals, they actually

845

00:43:17,515 --> 00:43:19,470

have feet that like separate out.

846

00:43:19,470 --> 00:43:22,109

You'll see this in the object lessons

and they have grip on the inside

847

00:43:22,109 --> 00:43:25,259

that's almost rubbery so that they

can hold the edges of these cliffs.

848

00:43:25,620 --> 00:43:26,970

And that's what ick is saying.

849

00:43:27,299 --> 00:43:30,120

He's saying, I'm gonna have moments

of uncertainty and doubt and

850

00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,129

where my site is super limited.

851

00:43:32,565 --> 00:43:33,674

Give me H feet.

852

00:43:34,035 --> 00:43:35,475

I don't need you to change the cliffs.

853

00:43:35,475 --> 00:43:38,505

I don't need you to change the world

around me or any of my circumstances.

854

00:43:38,985 --> 00:43:43,365

Give me the ability to stand on those

tiny little cliffs and feel sure footed.

855

00:43:43,904 --> 00:43:46,395

When Michael Wilcox teaches about

this, he talks about with testimony.

856

00:43:46,515 --> 00:43:48,345

Marie says, this is

what we should ask for.

857

00:43:49,305 --> 00:43:52,095

There is gonna be times when

you're not gonna know all things.

858

00:43:52,995 --> 00:43:57,375

All of us are in there right now,

but if you'll ask for H Feet for the

859

00:43:57,375 --> 00:44:02,295

ability to stand in this small sliver

of what you do know to be true or what

860

00:44:02,295 --> 00:44:06,795

you do believe is good, he can give

you the ability to balance and to hold

861

00:44:06,795 --> 00:44:11,325

there until a nucl cliff opens up so

that you can leap a little further.

862

00:44:11,335 --> 00:44:13,245

Ah, don't I just love that piece of it.

863

00:44:13,245 --> 00:44:14,654

Go in the notes and you

can read more about it.

864

00:44:14,654 --> 00:44:16,755

But I loved have a cook this.

865

00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:28,500

Where have a Cook's message is

one of wait on the Lord patience.

866

00:44:28,500 --> 00:44:31,980

You know, it's just this kind

of soft, gentle be still.

867

00:44:32,009 --> 00:44:34,680

I know that I'm, God

Zephaniah is much more.

868

00:44:35,010 --> 00:44:36,090

Choose you this day.

869

00:44:36,420 --> 00:44:38,340

It is your time is running out.

870

00:44:38,340 --> 00:44:42,090

That space to repent is running

out and you need to act fast.

871

00:44:42,390 --> 00:44:44,250

And so his message is different.

872

00:44:44,340 --> 00:44:46,140

And what's interesting

to me is the timing.

873

00:44:46,140 --> 00:44:48,930

So he's someone that is in

the reign of King Josiah.

874

00:44:48,930 --> 00:44:52,140

So if you remember way back when, I

think it was in Second Kings, we talked

875

00:44:52,140 --> 00:44:55,410

about Heay, how he was this great

king of Jerusalem and he built the

876

00:44:55,410 --> 00:44:56,970

tunnel and all that cool stuff, right?

877

00:44:57,090 --> 00:44:59,790

And then there's two generations

that come after him that fall apart.

878

00:44:59,970 --> 00:45:04,710

And then his great-grandson, Josiah comes

and when he comes into power, he has

879

00:45:04,710 --> 00:45:07,830

this religious reform and this is when

they go and they try and rebuild the

880

00:45:07,830 --> 00:45:09,510

temple and they find that lost scroll.

881

00:45:09,515 --> 00:45:12,780

And it's got that Indiana Jones vibe

that that's where we are in time.

882

00:45:13,050 --> 00:45:14,220

We just don't know where.

883

00:45:14,479 --> 00:45:15,830

Zephaniah lands in there.

884

00:45:15,830 --> 00:45:18,680

Most scholars I read thought

that he must come right at the

885

00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:20,029

beginning of Josiah's reign.

886

00:45:20,029 --> 00:45:25,520

In fact, maybe ze and I's teachings are

what inspired Josiah to be a better king

887

00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,379

than his father and his grandfather were.

888

00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:31,189

So, I don't know, nobody knows exactly,

but sometime in the reign of King,

889

00:45:31,189 --> 00:45:34,879

Josiah Ze and I comes to teach the

people, and his message is clear.

890

00:45:34,879 --> 00:45:38,720

It's the day of the Lord is coming

fast and you need to change.

891

00:45:38,959 --> 00:45:40,790

And he warns about what

they're doing wrong.

892

00:45:40,790 --> 00:45:43,189

So he talks about how there's

gonna be wickedness in the land

893

00:45:43,189 --> 00:45:44,509

and the Lord's gonna cut them off.

894

00:45:44,779 --> 00:45:47,779

This promised land that they

love is not gonna last forever.

895

00:45:47,810 --> 00:45:50,600

And we know that from studying the history

we've got so far in the Old Testament,

896

00:45:50,629 --> 00:45:55,370

that even though King Josiah does a great

job and tries to reform things, it doesn't

897

00:45:55,370 --> 00:45:59,750

last, they fall back into idle worship

and sell off the gold of the temple,

898

00:45:59,750 --> 00:46:01,850

and things go downhill pretty fast.

899

00:46:02,359 --> 00:46:05,060

So he talked about how he's gonna

stretch out his hand to Judah.

900

00:46:05,089 --> 00:46:07,819

Remember he's, he's not gonna

be able to hold them forever.

901

00:46:08,460 --> 00:46:11,940

It's interesting what you see in six,

he says, and them that are turned back

902

00:46:11,940 --> 00:46:15,509

from the Lord and those that have not

sought the Lord nor inquired for him.

903

00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:20,970

I thought one of the themes of this, well

ze and I totally, but specifically this

904

00:46:20,970 --> 00:46:23,250

chapter, is this warning about apathy.

905

00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,940

It is the same thing we saw

with the brazen serpent, right?

906

00:46:26,940 --> 00:46:32,640

It's there is salvation and there is

hope and you won't even look at it.

907

00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:36,629

You won't even take the

time to consider it.

908

00:46:37,109 --> 00:46:42,810

I don't, you know, we all have times

like this where we fall into apathy.

909

00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,029

In fact, I read a, what was it?

910

00:46:45,299 --> 00:46:49,980

It was a commencement address at BYU

where he was talking about that somebody

911

00:46:49,980 --> 00:46:52,920

had accused his generation cuz he

was like a valedictorian or whatever.

912

00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,529

So he was young and he was talking

about one of his professors had

913

00:46:55,535 --> 00:46:58,980

basically accused his generation

of being passionate for apathy.

914

00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:02,100

And I thought that was such an

interesting way to phrase that.

915

00:47:02,220 --> 00:47:03,270

Cuz you can get.

916

00:47:03,885 --> 00:47:06,645

Passionate for this idea of

there's no right, there's no

917

00:47:06,645 --> 00:47:08,415

wrong, there's no nothing.

918

00:47:08,685 --> 00:47:11,415

I, I don't have to make a choice

and I don't have to engage.

919

00:47:11,420 --> 00:47:15,105

And so his message was one of

like, let's go, let's catch fire.

920

00:47:15,105 --> 00:47:17,535

Let's be better than

what people expect of us.

921

00:47:17,865 --> 00:47:20,565

And I think that's what Ze and I

is trying to teach them as well.

922

00:47:20,565 --> 00:47:22,245

There is risk in apathy.

923

00:47:22,875 --> 00:47:26,445

One of the ways he talks about the

apathy is this strange apparel verse.

924

00:47:26,445 --> 00:47:29,685

So if you look in seven and eight, it

talks about how in the end of days,

925

00:47:29,690 --> 00:47:33,045

cuz all of this is sort of a type for

what will happen at the end of time

926

00:47:33,375 --> 00:47:36,795

and what's happening with children

of Israel is they're turning away

927

00:47:36,795 --> 00:47:38,895

from their, what makes them peculiar.

928

00:47:38,955 --> 00:47:43,095

And you know, that covenant that

makes them a peculiar people

929

00:47:43,095 --> 00:47:44,265

they, they've turned away from.

930

00:47:44,325 --> 00:47:47,295

And one of the ways that

shows up is in apparel.

931

00:47:47,775 --> 00:47:48,615

Here's what was interesting.

932

00:47:48,615 --> 00:47:50,475

So if you go on seven and eight,

it talks about how there will be a

933

00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,445

great feast and that the king will

have given them apparel and they will

934

00:47:53,445 --> 00:47:55,875

come in strange clothing instead.

935

00:47:56,715 --> 00:48:00,075

I loved this from what we just learned

with Elder Redner at conference,

936

00:48:00,075 --> 00:48:02,955

where he talked about this same idea

in the New Testament, that parable

937

00:48:02,955 --> 00:48:06,955

from the savior about a king who

invites people to change their tunics

938

00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:08,025

so that they can come to the feast.

939

00:48:08,265 --> 00:48:12,405

And that those who choose not to

basically are rebellious against God.

940

00:48:12,410 --> 00:48:15,765

They're not just, they think

they're apathetic, but they're not.

941

00:48:15,765 --> 00:48:17,145

They're rebelling against.

942

00:48:17,385 --> 00:48:21,195

And so he, El Brard talked about

how many are called and fewer

943

00:48:21,195 --> 00:48:23,025

chosen, and why are they not chosen?

944

00:48:23,025 --> 00:48:24,585

You know, we know how

the scriptures play out.

945

00:48:24,585 --> 00:48:27,315

It's because they get their eyes

fixated on the things of the world.

946

00:48:27,735 --> 00:48:31,455

And so you see that same morning here

from Ze and I where he's saying this

947

00:48:31,455 --> 00:48:35,145

strange apparel isn't going to help you.

948

00:48:35,375 --> 00:48:38,865

You are designed to be distinct

and different, and you are choosing

949

00:48:39,315 --> 00:48:42,855

something else, and you like to think

that that's neutral ground the same.

950

00:48:43,635 --> 00:48:46,065

You know, a lot of us tend to

think that if we step away from the

951

00:48:46,065 --> 00:48:47,445

gospel, we're on neutral ground.

952

00:48:47,625 --> 00:48:51,525

And what we've learned over and over

again is there is no neutral that

953

00:48:51,525 --> 00:48:53,985

you're either on the Lord's side or not.

954

00:48:54,435 --> 00:48:55,545

. There, there's no middle.

955

00:48:55,935 --> 00:48:57,765

And so Zep and I is

warning them about that.

956

00:48:58,275 --> 00:49:01,755

So he says it an interesting way in 12, he

says, and it'll come to pass at that time

957

00:49:01,755 --> 00:49:06,255

that I will search Jerusalem with candles,

meaning he's gonna hope to find as much

958

00:49:06,255 --> 00:49:10,665

goodness as he possibly can when the

Lord goes out to judge and he'll punish

959

00:49:10,670 --> 00:49:12,645

them that are settled on their leaves.

960

00:49:12,945 --> 00:49:15,645

That phrase, we studied this

before, but it just means like that

961

00:49:15,645 --> 00:49:19,665

sediment that sits at the bottom of

a cup or a vase of juice or wine.

962

00:49:19,670 --> 00:49:21,945

In this case, it's what sits.

963

00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:28,080

You know, like if I've been latent in my

gospel study or my testimony building too

964

00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:33,630

long, then I, I start to have sediment

that just sits and I don't, you know,

965

00:49:33,630 --> 00:49:35,940

what he's saying is like that apathetic.

966

00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,600

I'm not working against the church,

but I'm also not getting closer to God.

967

00:49:39,870 --> 00:49:43,110

That apathy is what has to be destroyed.

968

00:49:43,110 --> 00:49:46,860

We actually have to be engaged in

the gospel of Jesus Christ, not

969

00:49:46,860 --> 00:49:48,480

because he has some like set ro.

970

00:49:49,290 --> 00:49:50,790

Bar that we're supposed to be jumping.

971

00:49:50,970 --> 00:49:55,710

But because the only way we can come to be

like Christ is if we are doing the work.

972

00:49:56,180 --> 00:49:59,700

Remember what we've been setting the last

few weeks, where he basically says, you're

973

00:49:59,700 --> 00:50:01,980

gonna come to know me by serving the poor.

974

00:50:02,190 --> 00:50:04,620

You're gonna come to know me

by living up to your covenants,

975

00:50:04,625 --> 00:50:05,970

by honoring all those things.

976

00:50:05,970 --> 00:50:08,010

That's how you become like me.

977

00:50:08,220 --> 00:50:10,140

So you can't be apathetic.

978

00:50:10,260 --> 00:50:11,850

It doesn't work in the Lord's gospel.

979

00:50:11,850 --> 00:50:15,060

So he's warning about that those,

that in the end of 12 it says that

980

00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:17,280

they, the Lord will not do good.

981

00:50:17,310 --> 00:50:18,180

Neither will he do evil.

982

00:50:18,180 --> 00:50:18,930

That's what they say.

983

00:50:19,350 --> 00:50:20,790

God's not good and he is not bad.

984

00:50:20,795 --> 00:50:22,680

I'm just, I'm not gonna make an opinion.

985

00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:24,060

Everybody can do their own thing.

986

00:50:24,065 --> 00:50:27,960

That's a very tempting strategy that

comes straight from the adversary.

987

00:50:28,020 --> 00:50:29,850

So Steph and I is warning us about it.

988

00:50:30,510 --> 00:50:34,260

Then he talks about how they're gonna

build houses, but they can't inhabit them.

989

00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:37,830

I thought this was interesting, cuz

being apathetic doesn't mean you're lazy.

990

00:50:38,220 --> 00:50:39,900

It doesn't mean you're not doing anything.

991

00:50:40,230 --> 00:50:42,990

It means you are actively

doing other things.

992

00:50:43,845 --> 00:50:47,565

You're busy in the thick of

thin things, you know, that's

993

00:50:47,565 --> 00:50:49,125

what he's warning them about.

994

00:50:49,245 --> 00:50:52,515

And I think all of us can

take care of that, right?

995

00:50:52,605 --> 00:50:55,605

There's, there's things that we

could do better in all of our lives.

996

00:50:55,905 --> 00:50:56,715

So watch for that one.

997

00:50:56,715 --> 00:50:59,175

In 13, 14, it goes even a little stronger.

998

00:50:59,175 --> 00:51:01,035

He says, the great day the Lord is near.

999

00:51:01,485 --> 00:51:04,185

I thought this was interesting cause

a lot of his message in FNI is about

1000

00:51:04,215 --> 00:51:05,865

the great day of Lord being near.

1001

00:51:06,225 --> 00:51:07,515

But it's weird, right?

1002

00:51:07,515 --> 00:51:11,205

Because this was thousands of years

ago and day of Lord still isn't here.

1003

00:51:11,384 --> 00:51:14,925

So how can the day of the Lord

be near if he still isn't here?

1004

00:51:15,345 --> 00:51:17,595

And then I had to read the Book

of Mormon to get the answer.

1005

00:51:18,765 --> 00:51:23,295

In Alma 34, we learned that this life

is the time to prepare, to meet God.

1006

00:51:23,775 --> 00:51:27,255

So I think for me, when I was reading

these verses about the day of Lord being

1007

00:51:27,255 --> 00:51:29,355

near, I think that's what it means.

1008

00:51:29,685 --> 00:51:32,445

It means we each have this

limited lifespan and we have no

1009

00:51:32,450 --> 00:51:34,575

idea how long it's gonna last.

1010

00:51:35,205 --> 00:51:39,525

And then there is a time of where

that space, that mortal space

1011

00:51:39,525 --> 00:51:40,785

that we're granted to repent.

1012

00:51:41,235 --> 00:51:41,895

Is done.

1013

00:51:42,255 --> 00:51:44,355

I don't know how it shakes

out in the next life.

1014

00:51:44,385 --> 00:51:46,965

All I know is from what the

prophets have taught, it is much

1015

00:51:46,970 --> 00:51:49,965

harder to repent in that life.

1016

00:51:49,995 --> 00:51:51,825

Even in the last conference

we heard about that.

1017

00:51:51,825 --> 00:51:55,635

So I think this is the day

to prepare to meet God.

1018

00:51:55,695 --> 00:51:58,335

That's why the day of the

Lord is near, even though it's

1019

00:51:58,335 --> 00:51:59,475

still thousands of years away.

1020

00:51:59,475 --> 00:52:03,025

In fact, I don't know how long it's gonna

be until the day of the Lord actually

1021

00:52:03,030 --> 00:52:07,575

comes, but ze and I knew that for every

person standing in his hearing the

1022

00:52:07,575 --> 00:52:09,765

day was near cuz their life inspect.

1023

00:52:09,945 --> 00:52:12,735

Life expectancy is just as

short as ours, if not shorter.

1024

00:52:12,735 --> 00:52:14,115

So the day's near.

1025

00:52:14,265 --> 00:52:17,775

So he warns in the last couple

verses he warns about if you

1026

00:52:17,775 --> 00:52:20,895

choose not to follow the light,

you'll walk around in blindness.

1027

00:52:21,165 --> 00:52:24,975

Even though when the Lord comes,

the world will be full of light.

1028

00:52:25,035 --> 00:52:28,245

I mean, have you ever wondered like

at the end of time when the Lord

1029

00:52:28,245 --> 00:52:29,745

comes again, how anybody could.

1030

00:52:31,035 --> 00:52:31,634

Follow.

1031

00:52:31,725 --> 00:52:36,105

You know, if you see the Lord, how

could you not all of a sudden convert?

1032

00:52:36,105 --> 00:52:40,035

And I think there's a couple reasons why

that doesn't work out, but I think a big

1033

00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:44,174

one is what we learned in the doctrine

covenants about how darkness comprehend.

1034

00:52:44,174 --> 00:52:48,585

Its not the light, it doesn't see it,

it doesn't recognize it, it doesn't,

1035

00:52:48,589 --> 00:52:52,035

it isn't warm to those who won't see.

1036

00:52:52,305 --> 00:52:56,025

And so he warns you'll be walking

around in blindness and their, none of

1037

00:52:56,025 --> 00:52:59,805

your gold or your silver or your power

that you think you have can save you.

1038

00:53:00,194 --> 00:53:02,805

You need to have the Lord in the margins.

1039

00:53:02,805 --> 00:53:05,805

By chapter two, I have choosy this day.

1040

00:53:05,805 --> 00:53:08,714

That's, that's the big message

of ze and I, at least in those

1041

00:53:08,714 --> 00:53:11,355

first three verses, cuz he's still

talking to the children of Israel.

1042

00:53:11,355 --> 00:53:13,855

And I sometimes wonder if maybe ze and I.

1043

00:53:14,415 --> 00:53:17,925

If, if these prophets were able to read

each other's writings, cuz if he could

1044

00:53:17,925 --> 00:53:21,585

have read about what happened in Niva

over a hundred years ago, he may have

1045

00:53:21,585 --> 00:53:25,755

had hope that despite the fact that the

children of Israel are way off course and

1046

00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:31,905

deserving of all kinds of harsh justice,

there's proof and evidence that the Lord

1047

00:53:31,965 --> 00:53:35,385

is merciful and they just need to turn.

1048

00:53:35,895 --> 00:53:40,035

So he asked them, gather yourselves

together before things happen.

1049

00:53:40,035 --> 00:53:42,795

In fact, in two that you see that

word before, many times I highlighted

1050

00:53:42,795 --> 00:53:46,185

all of them before the anger

comes before the Lord judges you.

1051

00:53:46,405 --> 00:53:51,135

You've got this, a tiny fraction of

space left in this window of mercy.

1052

00:53:51,585 --> 00:53:52,545

Take advantage of it.

1053

00:53:53,055 --> 00:53:57,555

So in three he says, how Seek the

Lord, seek E, the Lord, all unique

1054

00:53:57,555 --> 00:54:01,065

of the earth, which have rot, his

judgments, seek righteousness, seek

1055

00:54:01,070 --> 00:54:04,575

meekness that it may be that you

may be hid in the day of the Lord's.

1056

00:54:05,670 --> 00:54:08,880

It's the same promise we see in the New

Testament that no matter how far off

1057

00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:13,890

course they are, if they turn to the Lord

in that pivotal moment, he can forgive and

1058

00:54:13,895 --> 00:54:16,830

he can say, go thou way and say no more.

1059

00:54:16,980 --> 00:54:20,940

You are your hid from his

anger when your heart turns.

1060

00:54:21,180 --> 00:54:23,220

So that's what he's trying

to get them to understand.

1061

00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:26,730

It just reminds me of, I think I said

this once before, but Elder Maxwell

1062

00:54:26,730 --> 00:54:30,060

talked about if you can, this isn't a

quote, this is just a summary, but he

1063

00:54:30,060 --> 00:54:33,600

says like if you think that there's a

possibility that there will be a day

1064

00:54:33,605 --> 00:54:37,980

when every knee shall bow and every

tongue confess, then why not today?

1065

00:54:38,190 --> 00:54:42,509

Like even if there's a fraction of you

that has just a desire to believe that

1066

00:54:42,509 --> 00:54:46,410

that's possible, then change change today.

1067

00:54:46,500 --> 00:54:50,070

Cuz you just don't know when the

day of the Lord will come for you.

1068

00:54:50,070 --> 00:54:53,460

So I just, that's what I felt

as I was reading these verses.

1069

00:54:54,330 --> 00:54:57,900

I also love the promise that he's the

author and finisher of your faith.

1070

00:54:58,500 --> 00:55:01,560

That's what Z and I is trying to teach

them, like he will make you a new path.

1071

00:55:02,190 --> 00:55:06,360

Niva a hundred years ago is proof

of this, that they were ripe for

1072

00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,900

destruction and had a profit that was

coming to say in 40 days it's done.

1073

00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:14,310

And because of their repentance,

a whole new path opened up and

1074

00:55:14,310 --> 00:55:16,410

that's what he is trying to help

them understand here as well.

1075

00:55:16,470 --> 00:55:18,330

I just think it's the same thing we see.

1076

00:55:18,450 --> 00:55:20,400

If you look in DNC 88, what first is it?

1077

00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:21,120

It's in my margins.

1078

00:55:21,150 --> 00:55:22,200

32 dnc.

1079

00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:22,590

88.

1080

00:55:22,590 --> 00:55:23,040

32.

1081

00:55:23,279 --> 00:55:27,120

This is where the revelation is

basically saying like, I will give you

1082

00:55:27,210 --> 00:55:29,310

as much as you are willing to receive.

1083

00:55:29,910 --> 00:55:31,590

I think that's the promise here as well.

1084

00:55:31,620 --> 00:55:36,480

He's saying All the goodness, all

the mercy, all the forgiveness

1085

00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:38,040

I can offer, I will give.

1086

00:55:39,385 --> 00:55:40,755

Whatever you're willing to receive.

1087

00:55:41,175 --> 00:55:43,095

It's, it's us that gets in the way.

1088

00:55:43,095 --> 00:55:46,935

It's not the Lord's hand that

isn't extended far enough.

1089

00:55:46,995 --> 00:55:47,955

So that's a message or two.

1090

00:55:48,135 --> 00:55:51,495

The rest of chapter two is focused

on the woes and the warnings

1091

00:55:51,495 --> 00:55:53,205

to all the surrounding nations.

1092

00:55:53,235 --> 00:55:56,205

Um, and they're pretty strong, cuz

remember this is a type and shadow

1093

00:55:56,205 --> 00:56:00,105

for the days, at the end of days when

all wickedness will be destroyed.

1094

00:56:00,195 --> 00:56:04,485

And this is kind of like a, a

microcosm of that happening now.

1095

00:56:04,490 --> 00:56:06,825

So there's, he's talking about the

destruction that will happen to all those

1096

00:56:07,185 --> 00:56:09,135

surrounding areas before Zion can come.

1097

00:56:10,065 --> 00:56:13,815

After talking to all those other nations

and warning them, Seth and I goes

1098

00:56:13,815 --> 00:56:16,485

right back to the heart of things by

talking to those in Jerusalem saying

1099

00:56:16,485 --> 00:56:18,015

like, you're running outta time.

1100

00:56:18,405 --> 00:56:21,675

And so you'll see that he talks about

how the Lord was in their midst.

1101

00:56:21,735 --> 00:56:24,525

You know, old Testament terms,

the word midst doesn't just

1102

00:56:24,525 --> 00:56:26,895

mean like somewhere around.

1103

00:56:26,955 --> 00:56:30,285

It means in the heart of he's right

there in the middle and you've missed it.

1104

00:56:30,345 --> 00:56:32,355

You know, it's like if you've ever

heard somebody talk about a Black

1105

00:56:32,355 --> 00:56:35,115

Friday sale and the thing they

bought was the thing you need to buy,

1106

00:56:35,115 --> 00:56:37,245

and you're like, ah, I missed it.

1107

00:56:37,455 --> 00:56:40,125

That's what he's saying to the, the

children of Israel, that there's

1108

00:56:40,125 --> 00:56:42,915

gonna be some point in time when

you realize how close the Lord

1109

00:56:42,915 --> 00:56:44,985

was to you and you missed it.

1110

00:56:45,135 --> 00:56:49,875

Um, and that is a, that is

a warning all in of itself.

1111

00:56:50,055 --> 00:56:52,905

When you a little further, he does

this interesting teaching strategy.

1112

00:56:53,505 --> 00:56:56,865

I've actually found this has been

really helpful to me as I've been

1113

00:56:56,865 --> 00:57:00,285

talking to family members and friends

who are struggling with their faith

1114

00:57:00,285 --> 00:57:04,485

or who have lost it entirely, that I

found that it doesn't help me very much

1115

00:57:04,485 --> 00:57:08,745

to combat their points of doctrinal.

1116

00:57:09,345 --> 00:57:10,185

Frustration.

1117

00:57:10,515 --> 00:57:15,944

What really seems to make any kind of

sway is just to build up what is good.

1118

00:57:16,725 --> 00:57:19,815

You know, I read this from a prophet

once where he talked about our job when

1119

00:57:19,815 --> 00:57:22,964

we're doing missionary work is not to

tear down the houses of other people.

1120

00:57:22,964 --> 00:57:24,254

I can't remember which profit this was.

1121

00:57:24,315 --> 00:57:25,185

I'll see if I can find out.

1122

00:57:25,190 --> 00:57:25,935

I'll put it in the notes.

1123

00:57:25,995 --> 00:57:29,745

But our job is not to tear down

the houses of other belief systems.

1124

00:57:29,745 --> 00:57:35,415

Our job is just to build next door,

this beautiful goodness, and eventually

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00:57:35,415 --> 00:57:38,024

they're gonna basically kind of walk

over and say, tell me more about

1126

00:57:38,029 --> 00:57:40,964

this house . You know, the same way I

might walk over to my neighbors and be

1127

00:57:40,964 --> 00:57:42,435

like, I really like your garage doors.

1128

00:57:42,495 --> 00:57:43,274

Where did you get those?

1129

00:57:43,575 --> 00:57:44,774

That's the same kind of idea.

1130

00:57:44,774 --> 00:57:46,785

He's saying, build up what's good.

1131

00:57:47,384 --> 00:57:50,535

So when I'm talking to friends

and family, I'm trying hard.

1132

00:57:51,035 --> 00:57:54,975

In fact, just this week I, I

remembered this as I was studying Z

1133

00:57:54,975 --> 00:57:57,555

and I, that there's a conversation

I could have done better , where

1134

00:57:58,004 --> 00:57:59,714

I need to just teach what's good.

1135

00:58:00,105 --> 00:58:04,650

So when friends or family have questions

or frustrations, Don't worry so much

1136

00:58:04,650 --> 00:58:06,000

about the fine points of doctrine.

1137

00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:09,600

Just talk about what's good, what is

good in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

1138

00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:11,520

What hope do you have in it?

1139

00:58:11,790 --> 00:58:16,920

Why do you turn to it over and over and

over again in times of struggle and trial?

1140

00:58:17,220 --> 00:58:18,600

Because that's what Zep and I is doing.

1141

00:58:18,660 --> 00:58:19,650

He talks about Zion.

1142

00:58:19,740 --> 00:58:22,440

Instead of focusing on all the things

they're doing wrong, he builds up

1143

00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:26,610

this beautiful mansion of Zion and

says, look how good it will be.

1144

00:58:26,850 --> 00:58:31,050

So he talks about pure language that will

come, that they'll all be united again.

1145

00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:34,680

That there will be offerings, that

there will be no more wickedness,

1146

00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:38,430

no more, you know, no more great

and spacious building people whining

1147

00:58:38,430 --> 00:58:40,350

at you and making you feel small.

1148

00:58:40,410 --> 00:58:41,370

All that's gonna go away.

1149

00:58:41,370 --> 00:58:44,800

There's no more evil, no more warfarin,

no more bloodshed, all these promises.

1150

00:58:45,660 --> 00:58:47,480

There's no more lying, no more deceit.

1151

00:58:47,970 --> 00:58:54,240

And then when you have this beautiful

goodness built, the result, You'll sing

1152

00:58:54,660 --> 00:58:58,410

like when you're a part of this, when

you belong in that neighborhood, this

1153

00:58:58,410 --> 00:59:02,250

built that's built in this beautiful

Zion type way, you'll sing out.

1154

00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:03,820

So that's what you see in 14.

1155

00:59:03,930 --> 00:59:05,160

Seeing oh, daughter of Zion.

1156

00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:07,200

Be glad and rejoice with all I heart.

1157

00:59:07,650 --> 00:59:10,350

They're supposed to rejoice

that this can happen.

1158

00:59:10,350 --> 00:59:11,880

Remember, this is another Hannah type.

1159

00:59:12,150 --> 00:59:15,420

Take joy in this moment, even

though you're not experiencing

1160

00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:17,100

the circumstances yet.

1161

00:59:17,100 --> 00:59:19,590

Take joy that this can and will happen.

1162

00:59:19,950 --> 00:59:21,120

So he talks about what will come.

1163

00:59:21,390 --> 00:59:23,250

So the Lord will take

away your judgements.

1164

00:59:23,250 --> 00:59:24,780

He will invite you back home.

1165

00:59:24,870 --> 00:59:25,830

So that's in 15.

1166

00:59:25,860 --> 00:59:27,150

He cast out that enemy.

1167

00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:28,770

He has taken away th judgments.

1168

00:59:28,770 --> 00:59:31,110

He's in the midst of the, in 16.

1169

00:59:31,110 --> 00:59:32,550

He tells you to fear thou not.

1170

00:59:32,730 --> 00:59:34,260

And let not your hands be slack.

1171

00:59:34,260 --> 00:59:35,490

Don't get apathetic.

1172

00:59:35,550 --> 00:59:36,750

You know, we've already

been warned about that.

1173

00:59:36,990 --> 00:59:39,090

You gotta be anxiously

engaged in this work.

1174

00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:42,900

In 17, and this is one of my favorites,

he says the Lord, that God in the

1175

00:59:42,900 --> 00:59:45,690

midst of the is mighty, he will save.

1176

00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:47,910

He will rejoice over the with joy.

1177

00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:51,900

He will rest in his love and he

will joy over the with singing.

1178

00:59:52,620 --> 00:59:57,090

I love this cuz often we talk about how

we'll feel when we have the savior in

1179

00:59:57,090 --> 00:59:58,770

the midst of us that we'll feel joy.

1180

00:59:58,950 --> 01:00:01,980

But what he teaches in this verse

is that the savior feels joy too.

1181

01:00:02,430 --> 01:00:06,330

That he loves you and he wants you home.

1182

01:00:06,330 --> 01:00:10,440

It's when a time out for woman, I

talk about those missionary mom hugs.

1183

01:00:10,500 --> 01:00:14,250

You know, like you build that up

in your head and then you finally

1184

01:00:14,250 --> 01:00:16,380

get to that moment when you can

have them back in your arms.

1185

01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:18,960

That's, that's what I think

the Lord is experiencing.

1186

01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:23,100

It is the profound joy of, there's

no more separation between us.

1187

01:00:23,130 --> 01:00:27,210

I'm right here in the midst, and that

doesn't mean I'm nearby hovering.

1188

01:00:27,215 --> 01:00:30,240

It means I'm right at the

heart of you and I'm here and

1189

01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:31,680

there's no one to separate us.

1190

01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:34,890

Again, that's the promise of

the second coming, that there

1191

01:00:34,890 --> 01:00:36,270

will be no more separation.

1192

01:00:36,390 --> 01:00:38,550

The Lord will be among us.

1193

01:00:38,700 --> 01:00:40,650

And that doesn't mean around us.

1194

01:00:40,655 --> 01:00:41,610

It means in.

1195

01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:46,530

Near us and we can rest on that

promise and he can take joy in it.

1196

01:00:46,830 --> 01:00:51,420

So I love what he comes from that he says

in 18 I'll gather them that are sorrowful.

1197

01:00:51,570 --> 01:00:56,550

In 19, I will undo all that afflict

and I will save her that halted.

1198

01:00:56,580 --> 01:01:01,890

It is a promise of whatever damage

has been done, whatever breaches have

1199

01:01:02,090 --> 01:01:04,260

occurred, he will repair the breach.

1200

01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:05,550

He will undo.

1201

01:01:05,940 --> 01:01:08,280

I don't think it means

you'll forget all the hard.

1202

01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:11,610

I think part of the reason we'll become

like him is cuz we've been through the

1203

01:01:11,610 --> 01:01:17,490

hard, what he promises is that he will

undo and heal what needs to be healed.

1204

01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:23,100

There's an ultimate promise there that all

will be restored and that's what he sees.

1205

01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:26,310

You'll, those that have been driven

out will be brought back home.

1206

01:01:26,580 --> 01:01:29,940

And then in 20, it kinda hits

this pinnacle point where he

1207

01:01:29,940 --> 01:01:33,720

says, I will make you a name and

a praise among all people of the.

1208

01:01:34,650 --> 01:01:38,580

There is dignity and belonging

in understanding that you have

1209

01:01:38,580 --> 01:01:40,590

a name and a place with him.

1210

01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:44,070

That's the promise of the gospel

of Jesus Christ, that all of us

1211

01:01:44,070 --> 01:01:47,400

who take his name upon us, who are

willing to live the covenants as

1212

01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:49,830

imperfectly as we do, that we belong.

1213

01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:53,430

That's the big banner message of heaven.

1214

01:01:53,430 --> 01:01:54,750

You belong here.

1215

01:01:55,020 --> 01:01:58,920

This is your home, this mortal experience,

you are just traveling through.

1216

01:01:59,130 --> 01:02:00,660

You belong at home.

1217

01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:04,260

And I think when you do your best through

the covenants and to repent when you

1218

01:02:04,260 --> 01:02:07,890

need it, that's how you'll feel when

you get there, that you belong and

1219

01:02:07,890 --> 01:02:09,300

everybody else who's there does too.

1220

01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:13,290

And I, I look forward with

a lot of hope for that day.

1221

01:02:21,037 --> 01:02:21,817

Welcome back you guys.

1222

01:02:21,817 --> 01:02:24,877

This is the creative side of

week 39, and I've got some fun

1223

01:02:24,877 --> 01:02:26,107

object lessons to help you.

1224

01:02:26,227 --> 01:02:29,977

Let these beautiful verses just

sink in a little deeper into

1225

01:02:29,977 --> 01:02:31,597

your kids' hearts and minds.

1226

01:02:31,987 --> 01:02:36,007

The first one is based on what we read

in Havoc Cook and this understanding that

1227

01:02:36,367 --> 01:02:41,407

though it's gonna take some time, if you

wait for it, the Lord's answers will come.

1228

01:02:41,407 --> 01:02:43,117

I love Ha Cook's example to me.

1229

01:02:44,047 --> 01:02:46,627

revelation that unfolds slowly.

1230

01:02:46,897 --> 01:02:50,767

And the way I wanna teach that

is creating this little roller.

1231

01:02:50,797 --> 01:02:53,467

So we're gonna actually

create a magic trick of sorts.

1232

01:02:53,467 --> 01:02:56,197

This is one of those moments where

as a parent or a teacher, you get

1233

01:02:56,197 --> 01:02:59,047

to do something that your kids will

be like, wait, how did that work,

1234

01:02:59,502 --> 01:03:03,517

Because you're gonna see this roller

roll forward and then out of nowhere it

1235

01:03:03,517 --> 01:03:05,497

starts to roll back and it's so cool.

1236

01:03:05,677 --> 01:03:08,257

So this one, you just need the

basic supplies of an oatmeal

1237

01:03:08,257 --> 01:03:10,027

container, some rubber bands.

1238

01:03:10,147 --> 01:03:11,317

The printable of course, and.

1239

01:03:12,277 --> 01:03:14,377

The few paperclips to

hold things all together.

1240

01:03:14,707 --> 01:03:16,807

The trick to this one is in the weight.

1241

01:03:16,807 --> 01:03:20,167

So for the weight on this one,

you just need a heavy ish battery,

1242

01:03:20,167 --> 01:03:21,727

like a nine volt or a size C.

1243

01:03:21,727 --> 01:03:23,977

If you don't have either of those

on hand, you could also do like

1244

01:03:23,977 --> 01:03:27,127

a few double A's kind of bundled

together and that would do the trick.

1245

01:03:27,247 --> 01:03:28,087

That's your first one.

1246

01:03:28,867 --> 01:03:31,357

The second one is all about ivex.

1247

01:03:31,387 --> 01:03:35,287

So if you haven't read in the insights,

I talk about something I learned

1248

01:03:35,287 --> 01:03:37,177

from Michael Wilcox about the iex.

1249

01:03:37,177 --> 01:03:40,177

It's this cool goat that lives

in the GD and wilderness that.

1250

01:03:41,122 --> 01:03:47,272

Catch on the tiniest ledges and work its

way up a mountain or down a mountain.

1251

01:03:47,452 --> 01:03:50,182

But since this is multimedia week,

rather than having you act this

1252

01:03:50,182 --> 01:03:53,812

out or make a craft, we're gonna

actually just go online and watch it.

1253

01:03:54,052 --> 01:03:57,832

So I give you some links in the notes of

Cool IEX videos, and I'll walk you through

1254

01:03:58,042 --> 01:03:59,752

how to apply those to these scriptures.

1255

01:03:59,757 --> 01:04:02,782

But you're gonna learn a lot about

this really cool animal and why it has

1256

01:04:02,782 --> 01:04:04,342

some big spiritual application for.

1257

01:04:05,297 --> 01:04:06,587

Okay, your third one.

1258

01:04:06,647 --> 01:04:09,827

It's Christmas time you guys, so you

should prepare yourself to make a few

1259

01:04:09,827 --> 01:04:12,257

Christmasy things in the coming weeks.

1260

01:04:12,527 --> 01:04:15,257

One of the ones I really wanted to

focus on this week was that verse

1261

01:04:15,257 --> 01:04:19,067

at the end of Zephaniah, where he

talks about how the Lord feels joy.

1262

01:04:19,277 --> 01:04:21,167

I think one of the reasons we sing.

1263

01:04:21,537 --> 01:04:22,437

Joy to the world.

1264

01:04:22,437 --> 01:04:27,537

The Lord has come is because

he feels joy, and we feel joy

1265

01:04:27,567 --> 01:04:29,577

that this time is finally here.

1266

01:04:29,757 --> 01:04:32,367

So I wanted some way to capture

that and put it on my tree.

1267

01:04:32,607 --> 01:04:34,017

So that's what we've created.

1268

01:04:34,017 --> 01:04:37,887

I designed these little printable

ornaments that are kind of 3D

1269

01:04:37,892 --> 01:04:41,277

globe ish, that have the message

of joy to the world, and also that

1270

01:04:41,277 --> 01:04:42,717

beautiful verse from Zephaniah.

1271

01:04:43,077 --> 01:04:44,847

But my intent with these is

not just to make a pretty

1272

01:04:44,847 --> 01:04:46,347

thing that hangs on your tree.

1273

01:04:46,902 --> 01:04:50,472

My hope is that you'll go into, I'll walk

you through this in the object lessons,

1274

01:04:50,472 --> 01:04:54,312

but that you'll be able to actually

change some things about your holiday

1275

01:04:54,312 --> 01:04:57,222

season to simplify and feel more joy.

1276

01:04:57,432 --> 01:05:00,582

So I'm gonna walk you through some

prophetic guidance about how to pull

1277

01:05:00,582 --> 01:05:04,242

that off and then give you the printable

tools to make those goals a reality.

1278

01:05:05,609 --> 01:05:07,499

That's it for week 49, you guys.

1279

01:05:07,529 --> 01:05:11,309

Oh, we're getting so close to the end of

the Old Testament, but I just want you to

1280

01:05:11,309 --> 01:05:16,209

be rest assured we are gonna keep things

rolling into the new I'm kind of excited

1281

01:05:16,209 --> 01:05:20,679

to just go deep into the New Testament

also, because you guys, we've spent

1282

01:05:20,679 --> 01:05:24,969

the last three years studying about the

Savior in so many other books of scripture

1283

01:05:25,239 --> 01:05:28,389

that now to have this culminating

year where we study is actual mortal.

1284

01:05:29,514 --> 01:05:30,684

I just can't wait for it.

1285

01:05:30,744 --> 01:05:32,544

Like I really can't wait.

1286

01:05:32,634 --> 01:05:35,394

So hopefully a bunch of you will

come along for the ride with us.

1287

01:05:35,664 --> 01:05:39,744

If you already have an annual subscription

or even a monthly subscription, it will

1288

01:05:39,744 --> 01:05:43,824

just keep rolling as it always has done,

um, through, through the next year.

1289

01:05:43,824 --> 01:05:47,904

But obviously if you want to extend it

or invite friends to come and join us.

1290

01:05:48,374 --> 01:05:51,674

I promise it will be a year

where we come onto Christ.

1291

01:05:51,884 --> 01:05:56,204

My focus will be heavily on how do

we come to him, how do we learn from

1292

01:05:56,209 --> 01:06:00,254

his stories, how do we help those

stories, help our kids and our classes?

1293

01:06:00,254 --> 01:06:02,054

And I think it's gonna

be a really good year.

1294

01:06:02,144 --> 01:06:03,254

So I hope you join us.

1295

01:06:03,644 --> 01:06:07,404

Um, as always, if you have questions

about this week's study, You're welcome to

1296

01:06:07,404 --> 01:06:09,054

post a question on the discussion boards.

1297

01:06:09,134 --> 01:06:12,314

If you want to chat with me, you

can join me on Instagram live.

1298

01:06:12,374 --> 01:06:14,294

That's Monday at 10:00 AM Mountain Time.

1299

01:06:14,594 --> 01:06:16,814

I'll take a half an hour to talk

through some of the insights I

1300

01:06:16,814 --> 01:06:19,544

missed, and then also give you a

heads up on the object lessons so

1301

01:06:19,544 --> 01:06:21,224

you know what supplies you need.

1302

01:06:21,654 --> 01:06:23,484

But big things are coming you guys.

1303

01:06:23,484 --> 01:06:23,964

I hope you.