The Prophecies of Christ's Birth

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Advent bonus episode number 2.
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That's right.
Hopefully you've taken some time

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to, you know, think about
Christ's incarnation and

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worship.
This morning Tim talked about

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marveling.
Like all that the sun does for

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the Father, it's to cause us to
marvel.

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So.
It's great to take time, be

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intentional.
And last month that we talked

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about, you know, it's good to
have resources.

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Hopefully this is a resource.
You know, some of my favorite

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theologians are like, you know,
popular theologians like John

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Piper of that guy love Wayne
Grudem.

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I know you're a Greg Cokelman,
but you also, there's another

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theologian that you asked today
for some help.

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I forgot his name.
Yeah, there's another great

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theologian, ChatGPT.
Is that the theologian you're

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talking about?
I think this is so, you know, AI

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every it's like, you know, very
crazy thoughts all over.

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This is one of those good uses
for AI would hope.

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I don't want AI to write my
pastor sermons, but I want it to

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be a tool that he can use to
gather data quickly.

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Absolutely.
And and in fact, I just in my

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work setting, we just had a day
long session on artificial

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intelligence.
And the point that he made over

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and over again was that
artificial intelligence is not

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going to steal your job.
Someone using artificial

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intelligence is going to steal a
job if you are not using it.

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So in that vein, yeah.
So I had an idea about a

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podcast.
I kind of fed the general

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outline to ChatGPT and I was
like, hey, let's let's do this.

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Can you kind of sort and
organize?

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This is what I'd like to cover.
This is the order and in with

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something that said that and we
got a, we got a script for.

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That that such AIII don't use
chop GPU as much as I should.

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But I was putting together a
lesson and I just had like 6

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pages of notes and I said
organize this for me and it just

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like made it.
It just made it meaningful where

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it's like all these are all my
ideas but now I can see them

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better.
Right.

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Yeah, No, that's good.
Yeah.

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So in that vein, this is I asked
ChatGPT like, hey, we want to do

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a podcast because Jesus
fulfilled a lot of prophecies

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throughout his lifetime.
And since it's Christmas time,

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the holiday season, we thought
we might just look at those that

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he fulfilled just through his
birth.

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So this is not all of them.
Obviously, he fulfilled more

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than this, but these are the
ones that he fulfilled.

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And so then we maybe just apply
them at the end.

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So let's get some application
there too.

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I like where ChatGPT started and
the Messiah will be born of a

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woman I mean.
That's that's like, it's the

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foundational one.
It's like we're raising the bar

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high here.
Yeah.

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Born of a woman.
Yeah.

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So.
I think by the letter of the

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law, yeah, that that is correct.
That was prophet.

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So Genesis 3:15, this first
gospel that we see in our

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Scriptures, I will put enmity
between you and the woman and

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between your offspring and her
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He shall bruise your head and
you shall bruise his heel.

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If we're going to add a New
Testament fulfillment, Galatians

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4, four, Paul writes.
But when the fullness of time

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had come, God sent forth his
son, born of a woman, born under

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the law.
So one of one, one of one right

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now.
Yeah, I mean, nails.

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This one got that one second
one.

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This one's a little.
This one starts making it a

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little bit more difficult.
Born of a virgin, Yeah.

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Bar has been raised significant.
The bar, The bar has been

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raised.
Isaiah 7 four.

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And this is one of those
prophecies.

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I, I like the knowledge you gave
a couple podcasts ago, like if

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you're looking forward to a
mountain range and you see, like

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there could be some mountains
that are a little bit closer,

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some that are a little further
off from a distance, you can't

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tell the difference.
And sometimes we would say that

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that there's a here and now
fulfilment and then an ultimate

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fulfilment of the prophecy.
So in Isaiah 7 four, that is

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exactly what's happening because
he's betrothed, he's going to

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get married, and he's telling
this king that there will a

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virgin, a current virgin will
conceive, but under normal

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means.
But then we come to know later

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that an actual virgin virgin,
one who's not, you know, had sex

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with a man, is going to
conceive.

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But in Isaiah 7 four, it says,
therefore the Lord himself shall

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give you a sign.
Behold, the Virgin shall

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conceive and bear a son, and
shall shall call his name

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Emmanuel, which means God with
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And then the fulfillment of that
in the New Testament is all this

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took place to fulfill.
This is Matthew 1/22/23.

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All this took place to fulfill
what the Lord had spoken by the

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prophet.
Behold, the Virgin shall

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conceive and bear a son, and
they shall call his name

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Emmanuel.
No, that's good.

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That's one that I think we all
here at Christmas time for good

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reason.
Good one to think about along

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that same line, not only was he
born of a woman, born of a

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virgin, but born in Bethlehem.
Another remarkable prophecy.

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You know where you start when
you throw all of these together,

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then it it's like, wow, unlikely
that this would happen, right?

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Got to stop.
You know, it's not about the

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odds and that kind of thing.
But in Micah 52 the prophet

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writes, But you, oh Bethlehem
Afritha, who are too little to

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be among the clans of Judah,
from you shall come forth for

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me, one who is to be ruler in
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And Matthew 2 verse 1 Matthew
writes now after Jesus was born

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in Bethlehem of Judea in the
days of Herod the king.

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SO3 prophecies in three
prophecies fulfilled.

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Yeah.
And I wonder, you know, we have

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record of false prophecy, false
Messiah is popping up.

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And I wonder how many of them
were born in Bethlehem, 'cause

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it seems like that'd be fairly
easy to know.

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Yeah, that, that's a, that's a
good point.

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Or if like everyone who came out
like you could be Joshua, I

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don't know, you could be the.
Oh, man, a lot more pressure.

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If like you, like you born in
certain places, you'd be like,

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oh, I could be the one.
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That that's when it starts
getting, starts getting kind of

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kind of interesting.
What's What's the next prophecy

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we got?
Michael Yeah.

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So born from the tribe of Judah
and when I was younger, not that

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this isn't still amazing, but
you know, I used to think one

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out of 12, it's probably one out
of two now, right?

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Because the ten were scattered
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I'm sure there's some of those
who ethnic Jews who came back to

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the region and stuff.
But in general, generally

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speaking, those 10, they don't
really know.

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And so then it was the lower
tribes, Judah who were taking

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over to Babylon, then came back
and it was known as Judah.

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So Israel and Judah that.
That's a good point.

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Like the flip side is what if?
I mean, obviously it wouldn't

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have said this, but what was it
from the tribe of Dan?

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Like, oh, we, we can't.
It doesn't work anymore.

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You know, Yeah, Yeah.
So.

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So God knew that Judah would
stay intact and would survive

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the captivity and come back and
be able to trace his lineage

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through there.
But the Old Testament, Genesis

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4910, the scepter, this is Jacob
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He says the scepter shall not
depart from Judah nor the ruler

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staff from between his feet
until tribute comes to him.

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In the New Testament, Luke 333,
the son of Judah.

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So he's, you know, in that big
long, you know, list of folks,

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Judah is in that list.
Nice.

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We'll keep on moving along an
ascendant of David.

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So we're really starting to to
narrow in more the Messiah would

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be from the lineage of King
David big, you know, from the

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line of the king and Jeremiah 23
verse 5, Jeremiah says, behold,

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the days are coming, declares
the Lord, when I will raise up

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for David a righteous branch.
And this wouldn't be the only

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place we would see something
like this.

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There's other places we could
have hooked as well.

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And in Matthew 11, we're opening
up that New Testament, the book

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of the genealogy of Jesus
Christ, the son of David, the

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son of Abraham.
So Matthew knows this is

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important right out of the gate.
That's what we're hitting.

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Yeah, that's really.
And if you look at Matthew's

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genealogy and Luke's genealogy,
they're not exactly the same.

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And you'd think, wow, there's
just this blatant contradiction

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in the Bible that would be the
the non charitable view of it.

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But Luke had Matthew's gospel
available to him and what's I

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think it's pretty clear that
Matthew's tracing through his

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legal father.
So that would be through

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Joseph's heritage.
And then Luke is tracing through

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Mary's heritage.
And so they both go back up to

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to David through there.
So both, I guess genetically,

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you know, it's hard.
You know, we assume that he got

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his some genetic material for
Mary, but so both biologically

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and by the law, legally he was a
descendant of David.

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And this next one's probably my
favorite prophecy that I always

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look forward to at Christmas
time, so I can't I can't wait

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for this one.
Yeah, yeah.

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So we were talking about this
one, that chat, our favorite,

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one of our favorite 3 Logans
threw this one in here.

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So you decide.
You tell us in the comments

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whether you think this is a
messianic prophet prophecy that

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was fulfilled or is this someone
seeing something that's not

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there.
I don't know.

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We'll, we'll, we'll get your
take on it, but this is from

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Numbers 2417.
A star shall come out of Jacob

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and a scepter shall rise out of
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So ask yourself right now, what
did Jesus do to fulfill this?

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Well, some have said, 'cause,
you know, Chad's getting the

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stuff from someplace, that the
star announcing his birth, that

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the wise men followed this is a
fulfillment of it.

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And maybe it is, Matthew 22
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For we saw his star when it
rose, and have come to worship

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him.
Yeah, it's great.

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I'm looking at the trying to
gather some more context.

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Out of numbers.
Yeah, 1 of Balaam's oracles that

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he's prophesying.
He goes on to say that that a

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star shall come out of Jacob
exception, shall rise out of

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Israel, shall crush the forehead
of Moab breakdown, all the sons

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of Chef Edom shall be
dispossessed.

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So I mean, in a way it could be,
you know, same thing, that maybe

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it's like this and then more.
And it's so.

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Not, not, not one you normally
hear at the old Christmas

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cantata, am I right?
Well, we'll sing about the star,

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but maybe not the prophecy of
it.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. #7 gifts from
Gentiles.

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Prophecy that the Messiah would
receive gifts from kings.

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Psalm 7210 through 11 says May
the kings of Sheba and Siba

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bring gifts.
May all the kings fall down

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before him.
Matthew 211 says Then opening

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their treasures, they offered
him gifts, gold and frankincense

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and myrrh.
All three of the wise men, and

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no more.
Yeah, exactly 3 and only three.

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Maybe you'll hear about hear us
talk about that tomorrow.

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But yeah.
So again, getting gifts as so

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this is 7 prophecies that he has
just in his birth and the the

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the events that immediately
surrounding his birth.

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So it's not like he can really
control whether Wiseman as a

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baby, a baby can't control
whether wise men come visit him

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and give him gifts.
Yeah and I I don't know what the

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it's it's, you know, it's
staggering.

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Maybe we should ask chat ChatGPT
how many prophecies we wouldn't

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have time to go through them
all.

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Did Christ fulfill 'cause you
hear these numbers and it's

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pretty, pretty staggering when
you start like looking at every

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single thing and it's.
Hard to do a mathematical

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calculation and like, because
you take all the options that

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there are and then, you know,
divide that out.

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So like if there's one in 12
tribes, you could have come from

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1 * 1.
How many cities were there?

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But then you get to this one
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like that, like the that's like
the fraction, there's zero in

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the denominator 'cause there's
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So that's a hard equation to do.
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You're like, OK, You're like
starting off on it.

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Then you're like.
Oh, is it 0 in the denominator

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or zero in anyway?
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for you to do it, and born by a
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Of normal means that that's
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And so you think about our God,
you know, what do we do with

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these prophecies?
How do we how do we think about

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all that God's done for us?
A good way to place the start is

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God is sovereign.
He is.

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Because he's the only one who
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these, namely, you know, that
virgin prophecy made all of

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that, all of that work that we
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he's acted in the past.
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Yeah, and, and part of this
sovereignty, so it's like a

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nugget of facet of it is his
faithfulness to bring about what

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he's promised.
So he promised these things and

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he has the ability to bring them
about and he does so that, you

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know, God is trustworthy.
Like if if he can bring all that

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stuff about, you know, he can,
you know, watch your life, he

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can guard your life, you know,
and we all go through tough

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times every now and then or, or
times we don't understand, not

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necessarily tough like God, What
are you doing here?

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Not sure I'm gonna trust you in
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Yeah, it's good.
His promises stand.

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We can trust his character.
I think that's great.

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Faithfulness, sovereignty.
I like this next application.

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God's love for all nations
that's, you know, just wasn't,

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just wasn't ethnic Jews, just
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And even, you know, talking
about Matthew's genealogy, you

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know, you see people like Rahab
and Tamar and Bathsheba and you

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see women, not only women, but
Gentile women all over the

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place.
And you're like, whoa, you know,

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kind of crazy.
No, that is, that is crazy.

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Ruth too, right?
That's the 4th.

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One, yeah, yeah.
And so I think that just like

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the Jews of Jesus's day, well,
Jews of all the, all the days

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through, you know, we're kind of
really focused like, Hey, we're

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God's chosen nation.
Whether you agree or disagree

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with that, America is God's
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Even like I disagree with that
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But even if you thought America
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nation, which we, I think we
would both disagree with, there

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are other nations out there that
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And so I think we can be
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on America for, for the and in
fact, in our Sunday, we our

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church has this saying that we
say every Sunday we exist to

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glorify God.
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really emphasize that sometimes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So if you know who does.
Doesn't that a good word?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, we exist to glorify God,

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period.
Stop.

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And there's different ways we do
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And as a church by bringing
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Christ's likeness.
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added among the nations to that,
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Yeah, I'm waiting for it to be
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we've been saying everyone else.
So maybe, but yeah, no, that

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that that's great.
I really like that a lot.

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Big application.
Jesus is the center of history

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that everything points to Jesus.
We see going way, way, way back

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Genesis.
We see all these prophecy

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fulfilled.
It's a big deal that Christ

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should occupy that center of our
lives as well.

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That's good.
And then lastly, there's hope

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like Christ came and fulfilled
the prophecy surrounding his

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first coming.
Christ is going to come and

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fulfill the prophecies around
his second coming.

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We can, you know, discuss what
those look like because, you

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know, we don't know exactly how
those are going to come about,

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but God knows.
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And and that's a sure thing.
So we can have expectant hearts

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as we look forward to his
ultimate return.

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Well, well, I hope you all have
enjoyed this little Burns

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episode Advent series.
Be looking out for one next

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Wednesday as well.
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