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Flight JAO01
Joel 1-3; Amos 1-9; Obadiah
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Joel 1 (NKJV™)
1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
2 Hear this, you elders, And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! Has anything like this happened in your days, Or even in the days of your fathers?
3 Tell your children about it, Let your children tell their children, And their children another generation.
4 What the chewing locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten; And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.
5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you drinkers of wine, Because of the new wine, For it has been cut off from your mouth.
6 For a nation has come up against My land, Strong, and without number; His teeth are the teeth of a lion, And he has the fangs of a fierce lion.
7 He has laid waste My vine, And ruined My fig tree; He has stripped it bare and thrown it away; Its branches are made white.
8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the husband of her youth.
9 The grain offering and the drink offering Have been cut off from the house of the LORD; The priests mourn, who minister to the LORD.
10 The field is wasted, The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine is dried up, The oil fails.
11 Be ashamed, you farmers, Wail, you vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The vine has dried up, And the fig tree has withered; The pomegranate tree, The palm tree also, And the apple tree--All the trees of the field are withered; Surely joy has withered away from the sons of men.
13 Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; Wail, you who minister before the altar; Come, lie all night in sackcloth, You who minister to my God; For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God.
14 Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly; Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land Into the house of the LORD your God, And cry out to the LORD.
15 Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand; It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
16 Is not the food cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seed shrivels under the clods, Storehouses are in shambles; Barns are broken down, For the grain has withered.
18 How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are restless, Because they have no pasture; Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.
19 O LORD, to You I cry out; For fire has devoured the open pastures, And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.
20 The beasts of the field also cry out to You, For the water brooks are dried up, And fire has devoured the open pastures.
Joel 2 (NKJV™)
1 Blow the trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm in My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; For the day of the LORD is coming, For it is at hand:
2 A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness, Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains. A people come, great and strong, The like of whom has never been; Nor will there ever be any such after them, Even for many successive generations.
3 A fire devours before them, And behind them a flame burns; The land is like the Garden of Eden before them, And behind them a desolate wilderness; Surely nothing shall escape them.
4 Their appearance is like the appearance of horses; And like swift steeds, so they run.
5 With a noise like chariots Over mountaintops they leap, Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble, Like a strong people set in battle array.
6 Before them the people writhe in pain; All faces are drained of color.
7 They run like mighty men, They climb the wall like men of war; Every one marches in formation, And they do not break ranks.
8 They do not push one another; Every one marches in his own column. Though they lunge between the weapons, They are not cut down.
9 They run to and fro in the city, They run on the wall; They climb into the houses, They enter at the windows like a thief.
10 The earth quakes before them, The heavens tremble; The sun and moon grow dark, And the stars diminish their brightness.
11 The LORD gives voice before His army, For His camp is very great; For strong is the One who executes His word. For the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; Who can endure it?
12 "Now, therefore," says the LORD, "Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning."
13 So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.
14 Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him--A grain offering and a drink offering For the LORD your God?
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly;
16 Gather the people, Sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and nursing babes; Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, And the bride from her dressing room.
17 Let the priests, who minister to the LORD, Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, "Spare Your people, O LORD, And do not give Your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"
18 Then the LORD will be zealous for His land, And pity His people.
19 The LORD will answer and say to His people, "Behold, I will send you grain and new wine and oil, And you will be satisfied by them; I will no longer make you a reproach among the nations.
20 "But I will remove far from you the northern army, And will drive him away into a barren and desolate land, With his face toward the eastern sea And his back toward the western sea; His stench will come up, And his foul odor will rise, Because he has done monstrous things."
21 Fear not, O land; Be glad and rejoice, For the LORD has done marvelous things!
22 Do not be afraid, you beasts of the field; For the open pastures are springing up, And the tree bears its fruit; The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in the LORD your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you--The former rain, And the latter rain in the first month.
24 The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.
25 "So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you.
26 You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, And praise the name of the LORD your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; And My people shall never be put to shame.
27 Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: I am the LORD your God And there is no other. My people shall never be put to shame.
28 "And it shall come to pass afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions.
29 And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.
30 "And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.
32 And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, As the LORD has said, Among the remnant whom the LORD calls.
Joel 3 (NKJV™)
1 "For behold, in those days and at that time, When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will also gather all nations, And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will enter into judgment with them there On account of My people, My heritage Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; They have also divided up My land.
3 They have cast lots for My people, Have given a boy as payment for a harlot, And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
4 "Indeed, what have you to do with Me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? Will you retaliate against Me? But if you retaliate against Me, Swiftly and speedily I will return your retaliation upon your own head;
5 Because you have taken My silver and My gold, And have carried into your temples My prized possessions.
6 Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem You have sold to the Greeks, That you may remove them far from their borders.
7 "Behold, I will raise them Out of the place to which you have sold them, And will return your retaliation upon your own head.
8 I will sell your sons and your daughters Into the hand of the people of Judah, And they will sell them to the Sabeans, To a people far off; For the LORD has spoken."
9 Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, Let all the men of war draw near, Let them come up.
10 Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'"
11 Assemble and come, all you nations, And gather together all around. Cause Your mighty ones to go down there, O LORD.
12 "Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; For there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down; For the winepress is full, The vats overflow--For their wickedness is great."
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and moon will grow dark, And the stars will diminish their brightness.
16 The LORD also will roar from Zion, And utter His voice from Jerusalem; The heavens and earth will shake; But the LORD will be a shelter for His people, And the strength of the children of Israel.
17 "So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, Dwelling in Zion My holy mountain. Then Jerusalem shall be holy, And no aliens shall ever pass through her again."
18 And it will come to pass in that day That the mountains shall drip with new wine, The hills shall flow with milk, And all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water; A fountain shall flow from the house of the LORD And water the Valley of Acacias.
19 "Egypt shall be a desolation, And Edom a desolate wilderness, Because of violence against the people of Judah, For they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah shall abide forever, And Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 "For I will acquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted; For the LORD dwells in Zion."
Amos 1 (NKJV™)
1 The words of Amos, who was among the sheepbreeders of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
2 And he said: "The LORD roars from Zion, And utters His voice from Jerusalem; The pastures of the shepherds mourn, And the top of Carmel withers."
3 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they have threshed Gilead with implements of iron.
4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, Which shall devour the palaces of Ben-Hadad.
5 I will also break the gate bar of Damascus, And cut off the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven, And the one who holds the scepter from Beth Eden. The people of Syria shall go captive to Kir," Says the LORD.
6 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they took captive the whole captivity To deliver them up to Edom.
7 But I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, Which shall devour its palaces.
8 I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, And the one who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; I will turn My hand against Ekron, And the remnant of the Philistines shall perish," Says the Lord GOD.
9 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, And did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
10 But I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, Which shall devour its palaces."
11 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because he pursued his brother with the sword, And cast off all pity; His anger tore perpetually, And he kept his wrath forever.
12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, Which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah."
13 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of the people of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead, That they might enlarge their territory.
14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, And it shall devour its palaces, Amid shouting in the day of battle, And a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.
15 Their king shall go into captivity, He and his princes together," Says the LORD.
Amos 2 (NKJV™)
1 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.
2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, And it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; Moab shall die with tumult, With shouting and trumpet sound.
3 And I will cut off the judge from its midst, And slay all its princes with him," Says the LORD.
4 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they have despised the law of the LORD, And have not kept His commandments. Their lies lead them astray, Lies which their fathers followed.
5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."
6 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for silver, And the poor for a pair of sandals.
7 They pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor, And pervert the way of the humble. A man and his father go in to the same girl, To defile My holy name.
8 They lie down by every altar on clothes taken in pledge, And drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
9 "Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, Whose height was like the height of the cedars, And he was as strong as the oaks; Yet I destroyed his fruit above And his roots beneath.
10 Also it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, And led you forty years through the wilderness, To possess the land of the Amorite.
11 I raised up some of your sons as prophets, And some of your young men as Nazirites. Is it not so, O you children of Israel?" Says the LORD.
12 "But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, And commanded the prophets saying, 'Do not prophesy!'
13 "Behold, I am weighed down by you, As a cart full of sheaves is weighed down.
14 Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, The strong shall not strengthen his power, Nor shall the mighty deliver himself;
15 He shall not stand who handles the bow, The swift of foot shall not escape, Nor shall he who rides a horse deliver himself.
16 The most courageous men of might Shall flee naked in that day," Says the LORD.
Amos 3 (NKJV™)
1 Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying:
2 "You only have I known of all the families of the earth; Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities."
3 Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?
4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?
5 Will a bird fall into a snare on the earth, where there is no trap for it? Will a snare spring up from the earth, if it has caught nothing at all?
6 If a trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid? If there is calamity in a city, will not the LORD have done it?
7 Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.
8 A lion has roared! Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken! Who can but prophesy?
9 "Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, And in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say: 'Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; See great tumults in her midst, And the oppressed within her.
10 For they do not know to do right,' Says the LORD, 'Who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.'"
11 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "An adversary shall be all around the land; He shall sap your strength from you, And your palaces shall be plundered."
12 Thus says the LORD: "As a shepherd takes from the mouth of a lion Two legs or a piece of an ear, So shall the children of Israel be taken out Who dwell in Samaria--In the corner of a bed and on the edge of a couch!
13 Hear and testify against the house of Jacob," Says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
14 "That in the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will also visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; And the horns of the altar shall be cut off And fall to the ground.
15 I will destroy the winter house along with the summer house; The houses of ivory shall perish, And the great houses shall have an end," Says the LORD.
Amos 4 (NKJV™)
1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, Who oppress the poor, Who crush the needy, Who say to your husbands, "Bring wine, let us drink!"
2 The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: "Behold, the days shall come upon you When He will take you away with fishhooks, And your posterity with fishhooks.
3 You will go out through broken walls, Each one straight ahead of her, And you will be cast into Harmon," Says the LORD.
4 "Come to Bethel and transgress, At Gilgal multiply transgression; Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days.
5 Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, Proclaim and announce the freewill offerings; For this you love, You children of Israel!" Says the Lord GOD.
6 "Also I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities. And lack of bread in all your places; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD.
7 "I also withheld rain from you, When there were still three months to the harvest. I made it rain on one city, I withheld rain from another city. One part was rained upon, And where it did not rain the part withered.
8 So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water, But they were not satisfied; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD.
9 "I blasted you with blight and mildew. When your gardens increased, Your vineyards, Your fig trees, And your olive trees, The locust devoured them; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD.
10 "I sent among you a plague after the manner of Egypt; Your young men I killed with a sword, Along with your captive horses; I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD.
11 "I overthrew some of you, As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD.
12 "Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel!"
13 For behold, He who forms mountains, And creates the wind, Who declares to man what his thought is, And makes the morning darkness, Who treads the high places of the earth--The LORD God of hosts is His name.
Amos 5 (NKJV™)
1 Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:
2 The virgin of Israel has fallen; She will rise no more. She lies forsaken on her land; There is no one to raise her up.
3 For thus says the Lord GOD: "The city that goes out by a thousand Shall have a hundred left, And that which goes out by a hundred Shall have ten left to the house of Israel."
4 For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: "Seek Me and live;
5 But do not seek Bethel, Nor enter Gilgal, Nor pass over to Beersheba; For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, And Bethel shall come to nothing.
6 Seek the LORD and live, Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph, And devour it, With no one to quench it in Bethel--
7 You who turn justice to wormwood, And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!"
8 He made the Pleiades and Orion; He turns the shadow of death into morning And makes the day dark as night; He calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth; The LORD is His name.
9 He rains ruin upon the strong, So that fury comes upon the fortress.
10 They hate the one who rebukes in the gate, And they abhor the one who speaks uprightly.
11 Therefore, because you tread down the poor And take grain taxes from him, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, Yet you shall not dwell in them; You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink wine from them.
12 For I know your manifold transgressions And your mighty sins: Afflicting the just and taking bribes; Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.
13 Therefore the prudent keep silent at that time, For it is an evil time.
14 Seek good and not evil, That you may live; So the LORD God of hosts will be with you, As you have spoken.
15 Hate evil, love good; Establish justice in the gate. It may be that the LORD God of hosts Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore the LORD God of hosts, the Lord, says this: "There shall be wailing in all streets, And they shall say in all the highways, 'Alas! Alas!' They shall call the farmer to mourning, And skillful lamenters to wailing.
17 In all vineyards there shall be wailing, For I will pass through you," Says the LORD.
18 Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! For what good is the day of the LORD to you? It will be darkness, and not light.
19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him! Or as though he went into the house, Leaned his hand on the wall, And a serpent bit him!
20 Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light? Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?
21 "I hate, I despise your feast days, And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.
22 Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them, Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs, For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
24 But let justice run down like water, And righteousness like a mighty stream.
25 "Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 You also carried Sikkuth your king And Chiun, your idols, The star of your gods, Which you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond Damascus," Says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.
Amos 6 (NKJV™)
1 Woe to you who are at ease in Zion, And trust in Mount Samaria, Notable persons in the chief nation, To whom the house of Israel comes!
2 Go over to Calneh and see; And from there go to Hamath the great; Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory?
3 Woe to you who put far off the day of doom, Who cause the seat of violence to come near;
4 Who lie on beds of ivory, Stretch out on your couches, Eat lambs from the flock And calves from the midst of the stall;
5 Who sing idly to the sound of stringed instruments, And invent for yourselves musical instruments like David;
6 Who drink wine from bowls, And anoint yourselves with the best ointments, But are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Therefore they shall now go captive as the first of the captives, And those who recline at banquets shall be removed.
8 The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, The LORD God of hosts says: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, And hate his palaces; Therefore I will deliver up the city And all that is in it."
9 Then it shall come to pass, that if ten men remain in one house, they shall die.
10 And when a relative of the dead, with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, "Are there any more with you?" Then someone will say, "None." And he will say, "Hold your tongue! For we dare not mention the name of the LORD."
11 For behold, the LORD gives a command: He will break the great house into bits, And the little house into pieces.
12 Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
13 You who rejoice over Lo Debar, Who say, "Have we not taken Karnaim for ourselves By our own strength?"
14 "But, behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel," Says the LORD God of hosts; "And they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath To the Valley of the Arabah."
Amos 7 (NKJV™)
1 Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king's mowings.
2 And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said: "O Lord GOD, forgive, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he is small!"
3 So the LORD relented concerning this. "It shall not be," said the LORD.
4 Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, the Lord GOD called for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the territory.
5 Then I said: "O Lord GOD, cease, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he is small!"
6 So the LORD relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," said the Lord GOD.
7 Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand.
8 And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said: "Behold, I am setting a plumb line In the midst of My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.
9 The high places of Isaac shall be desolate, And the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste. I will rise with the sword against the house of Jeroboam."
10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
11 "For thus Amos has said: 'Jeroboam shall die by the sword, And Israel shall surely be led away captive From their own land.'"
12 Then Amaziah said to Amos: "Go, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah. There eat bread, And there prophesy.
13 But never again prophesy at Bethel, For it is the king's sanctuary, And it is the royal residence."
14 Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah: "I was no prophet, Nor was I a son of a prophet, But I was a sheepbreeder And a tender of sycamore fruit.
15 Then the LORD took me as I followed the flock, And the LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.'
16 Now therefore, hear the word of the LORD: You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel, And do not spout against the house of Isaac.'
17 "Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Your wife shall be a harlot in the city; Your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword; Your land shall be divided by survey line; You shall die in a defiled land; And Israel shall surely be led away captive From his own land.'"
Amos 8 (NKJV™)
1 Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.
2 And He said, "Amos, what do you see?" So I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me: "The end has come upon My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.
3 And the songs of the temple Shall be wailing in that day," Says the Lord GOD--"Many dead bodies everywhere, They shall be thrown out in silence."
4 Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, And make the poor of the land fail,
5 Saying: "When will the New Moon be past, That we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, That we may trade wheat? Making the ephah small and the shekel large, Falsifying the scales by deceit,
6 That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals--Even sell the bad wheat?"
7 The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: "Surely I will never forget any of their works.
8 Shall the land not tremble for this, And everyone mourn who dwells in it? All of it shall swell like the River, Heave and subside Like the River of Egypt.
9 "And it shall come to pass in that day," says the Lord GOD, "That I will make the sun go down at noon, And I will darken the earth in broad daylight;
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist, And baldness on every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, And its end like a bitter day.
11 "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD, "That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD.
12 They shall wander from sea to sea, And from north to east; They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD, But shall not find it.
13 "In that day the fair virgins And strong young men Shall faint from thirst.
14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, Who say, 'As your god lives, O Dan!' And, 'As the way of Beersheba lives!' They shall fall and never rise again."
Amos 9 (NKJV™)
1 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said: "Strike the doorposts, that the thresholds may shake, And break them on the heads of them all. I will slay the last of them with the sword. He who flees from them shall not get away, And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.
2 "Though they dig into hell, From there my hand shall take them; Though they climb up to heaven, From there I will bring them down;
3 And though they hide themselves on top of Carmel, From there I will search and take them; Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea, From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;
4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies, From there I will command the sword, And it shall slay them. I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good."
5 The Lord GOD of hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, And all who dwell there mourn; All of it shall swell like the River, And subside like the River of Egypt.
6 He who builds His layers in the sky, And has founded His strata in the earth; Who calls for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the face of the earth--The LORD is His name.
7 "Are you not like the people of Ethiopia to Me, O children of Israel?" says the LORD. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, The Philistines from Caphtor, And the Syrians from Kir?
8 "Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, And I will destroy it from the face of the earth; Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," Says the LORD.
9 "For surely I will command, And will sift the house of Israel among all nations, As grain is sifted in a sieve; Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground.
10 All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, Who say, 'The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.'
11 "On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, And repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old;
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, And all the Gentiles who are called by My name," Says the LORD who does this thing.
13 "Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "When the plowman shall overtake the reaper, And the treader of grapes him who sows seed; The mountains shall drip with sweet wine, And all the hills shall flow with it.
14 I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
15 I will plant them in their land, And no longer shall they be pulled up From the land I have given them," Says the LORD your God.
Obadiah 1 (NKJV™)
1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom (We have heard a report from the LORD, And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle"):
2 "Behold, I will make you small among the nations; You shall be greatly despised.
3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, You who dwell in the clefts of the rock, Whose habitation is high; You who say in your heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'
4 Though you ascend as high as the eagle, And though you set your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down," says the LORD.
5 "If thieves had come to you, If robbers by night--Oh, how you will be cut off!--Would they not have stolen till they had enough? If grape-gatherers had come to you, Would they not have left some gleanings?
6 "Oh, how Esau shall be searched out! How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!
7 All the men in your confederacy Shall force you to the border; The men at peace with you Shall deceive you and prevail against you. Those who eat your bread shall lay a trap for you. No one is aware of it.
8 "Will I not in that day," says the LORD, "Even destroy the wise men from Edom, And understanding from the mountains of Esau?
9 Then your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau May be cut off by slaughter.
10 "For violence against your brother Jacob, Shame shall cover you, And you shall be cut off forever.
11 In the day that you stood on the other side--In the day that strangers carried captive his forces, When foreigners entered his gates And cast lots for Jerusalem--Even you were as one of them.
12 But you should not have gazed on the day of your brother In the day of his captivity; Nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah In the day of their destruction; Nor should you have spoken proudly In the day of distress.
13 You should not have entered the gate of My people In the day of their calamity. Indeed, you should not have gazed on their affliction In the day of their calamity, Nor laid hands on their substance In the day of their calamity.
14 You should not have stood at the crossroads To cut off those among them who escaped; Nor should you have delivered up those among them who remained In the day of distress.
15 "For the day of the LORD upon all the nations is near; As you have done, it shall be done to you; Your reprisal shall return upon your own head.
16 For as you drank on my holy mountain, So shall all the nations drink continually; Yes, they shall drink, and swallow, And they shall be as though they had never been.
17 "But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance, And there shall be holiness; The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame; But the house of Esau shall be stubble; They shall kindle them and devour them, And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau," For the LORD has spoken.
19 The South shall possess the mountains of Esau, And the Lowland shall possess Philistia. They shall possess the fields of Ephraim And the fields of Samaria. Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 And the captives of this host of the children of Israel Shall possess the land of the Canaanites As far as Zarephath. The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad Shall possess the cities of the South.
21 Then saviors shall come to Mount Zion To judge the mountains of Esau, And the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.

New King James Version®, Copyright © 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Joel 1-3; Amos 1-9; Obadiah - The Bible from 30,000 Feet - Skip Heitzig - Flight JAO01

The Bible from 30,000 feet, soaring through the scripture from Genesis to Revelation.

Turn in your Bibles, did you bring one.

Of course.

Yes.

Good. Turn in your Bibles to the book of Joel. We're going to cover three books this evening. We're flying over the book of Joel, the book of Amos, and the book of Obadiah. Now Joel has three chapters. Amos has nine chapters. And Obadiah has a single chapter.

We have in the past gone through all of these books verse by verse. In fact, I did a series called something like Major-- Minor Prophets in the Major League, I think I called it. And we looked at each one of them. And we did it in-depth.

But this is the Bible from 30,000 feet. And if you're new to it, we're just flying over these books, noticing the landmarks, the great themes of the book, how it ties and fits in with the rest of the Bible, and then we move on. We just want to get people to understand and have a familiarity with the theme of each book of scripture.

And I'm guessing that not a lot of you have spent a lot of time in books like Amos and Obadiah. Not a lot of people do. But there's some great messages in every one of these books. So we're going to be in those three, Joel, Amos, and Obadiah.

We call these the minor prophets not because they're less significant than Isaiah, or Jeremiah, or Daniel, or Ezekiel. We call them minor prophets not based on inferiority or superiority, but simply brevity. The minor prophets say a lot with fewer words. And because they use less words, less literary real estate, we call them minor prophets. That's how the term came about.

They have good, powerful, significant things to say. And they are quoted in the New Testament with one exception. And that is the book of Obadiah is not quoted in the New Testament. But the other books we look at tonight are.

But think of it this way, you remember when the first cell phones came out? Remember how big they were? The were like the size of a small child. They were just so large. We just thought they were so cool. You see somebody with that thing, look at that thing.

And then now, think what you can do with that little device. You can get on the internet. You can download apps. You can get Bible studies. You can search anything. And you can use it as a phone. And they're so tiny. They're like little tiny little things that you hold up and you can just do so much compared to what the major prophet phone was several years ago.

Well, let me give you the themes of these three books before we jump in. They all begin with the letter D. The theme of Joel is the day of the Lord. I'll explain what that little phrase means. It comes up quite frequently in the scriptures, 26 times altogether the phrase the day of the Lord comes up. That is the theme of the book of Joel, the day of the Lord.

The theme of the book of Amos is denunciation of the nations. Nations that are gathered around Israel and Judah, and even Israel and Judah itself. It's a short book packed with denunciatory proclamations. So the day of the Lord, Joel. Denunciation of the nations in Amos.

And then finally, the last one, Obadiah, the doom of Edom. Edom, one single country that was next to Israel.

We start with Joel, and that takes us back to the 9th century BC. And we're dealing with the Northern Kingdom. I think by now you know that history. I don't have to rehash it. But for those of you who might be new, the kingdom of Israel, historically, after Solomon was split into North and South.

10 of the 12 tribes of Israel was called the Northern Kingdom or simply Israel. Sometimes referred to by its largest tribe, the tribe of Ephraim. God will address them as Ephraim, but he means all the 10 tribes of Israel in the north. And then two tribes down south, Judah and Benjamin, referred to as the nation of Judah.

The prophet Joel is addressing Israel, that northern set of 10 tribes dealing with the day of the Lord. Now a little bit of a hint, and it's not really unique to Joel, we've already noted and I'm glad we have been thus far that you know how this works by now. You know how that there is sometimes a prophecy or a vision or a prediction made, and it finds its fulfillment in the near future and in the far future. Right? Near and far fulfillment.

And so there's a little bit of lag on that. I just thought, well my students aren't measuring up. But know you know that. Maybe it's just you had a hard day, some of you. I don't know. But Joel looks through the lens of an immediate judgment to be able to view something else that the Bible will speak of and amplify in that phrase the day of the Lord as an ultimate judgment.

So I'm wearing glasses tonight. And I love these glasses because they are what the doctors call progressive lenses. Used to be bifocals and trifocals, but now they've done glass where they can just kind of do it so nice and easily that you don't even notice the transition. So I can read up close with the bottom part of the lens. I can read the computer right in the middle. And then the top part is for far away.

And so the lenses of the prophets were often like this, and then like this. You could see up close. But then there was also something where that becomes a template for something in the future. What is the judgment? What is at hand in the book of Joel?

It seems as if there was a national disaster in terms of a swarm of locusts that infiltrated the land. Not uncommon in that part of the world, but it was an invasion of locusts that becomes-- that event becomes a harbinger of a future event.

In this case, a future couple of events. The invasion of locusts to the northern 10 tribes was an unusual swarm, and I'll tell you why in a minute. But it becomes predictive. It becomes anticipatory of a swarm of Assyrian soldiers who will pounce on the Northern Kingdom and destroy it, taking captive hundreds of thousands of them. And that will happen in 722 BC.

So Joel chapter 1, verse 1. "The word of the Lord came to Joel." Joel, what a great name. Two words in that one name. Yoh or Yah, which is Yahweh. It's the beginning part of Yahweh, way the covenant name of God, that tetragrammaton, the I Am that I Am. Yahweh, Yah or Yoh, and then El, which is God. So it simply means Yahweh is the Lord or Yahweh is God. That's his name.

"The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethual. Hear this, you elders, and give ear all you inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your days or even in the days of your fathers? Tell your children about it. Let your children tell their children, and their children another generation."

It's a great verse, because that is the principle of how truth gets passed along. I hope you train your children in the truths of God. Many of you have a testimony of your grandparents or your parents reading you Bible stories, praying with you, and you had that legacy.

Even if you didn't, start now. Pass that on to the next generation, and to the next generation. It's been said that Christianity is always one generation away from extinction. We don't want to slacken our input into the next generation. So you tell them what the Lord has done good or bad.

Verse 4, "What the chewing locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten. And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten."

Now we have in that verse four-- it would seem-- different varieties of locusts. That's one way to look at it. Or we see four stages of a locust development and the activity that they aspire to when they're in that stage of development.

Go down to verse 6. Notice the segue way. "For a nation has come up against my land. The locust came in, millions of them, a locust nation, swarming through the land. Strong and without number, his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a fierce lion. He has laid waste my vine and ruined my fig tree."

Now you know from your reading of the book of Isaiah that a vine or a vineyard is emblematic of the nation of Israel. God called Israel his vine. I planted a choice vine on a very fruitful hill, Isaiah chapter 5.

I dug a wine press. I put a wall around it. And I built a watchtower. So using that same imagery of a vine and a fig tree, he laid waste my vine and ruined my fig tree. He has stripped it bare and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

This plague of locusts was an unusual plague for a couple of reasons. The plague seems to have come in from the north, which caught the prophet's attention. Most of the plagues in that part of the world of locusts blow in from the south from Egypt. But this one came in from the north, and it got Joel's attention.

Moreover, as you read through the details of the book-- we don't have time to look at all the verses-- these locusts respond to instructions. And yet it says in the book of Proverbs that locusts have no king. They just act in sort of like swarm instinct. So it's unusual. It gets the prophet's attention, and he uses that as a lens to speak of something that is going to happen.

Locusts of this sort breed in the desert. They're about two inches long. Their wingspan is out four to five inches long, and they travel in large groups like a column of 100 feet, and they can be up to 10 or 20 miles long.

When they come in during midday, they can almost-- they do. It's like an eclipse of the sun it can be so dark. They bring darkness with them. They block the sun. And when they leave, the bark of the trees is gone. The green grass is gone. The foliage is gone. It's like the earth has been scorched by fire.

And they can be significant. I don't know if you caught this several weeks ago. A couple months ago, the swarm of locusts that hit Las Vegas, Nevada. And it showed up on radar, a massive green cloud like a weather system coming in. And it just hit Las Vegas, the environs downtown. And it happened before, but this was a significant thing that measured even on the radar.

Now with that in mind, let me suggest that Joel and this imagery becomes a bridge between two different elements that are sort of tied. One is a literal infestation. He speaks about a literal one here that's figurative of another.

There was in Israel's history a plague of locusts when they were in the land of Egypt. It was the eighth plague. And it was a plague of locusts that decimated the land. That was Exodus.

If you fast forward to the book of Revelation, during the tribulation period there are locust-like creatures that come to the Earth and torment men upon the earth for five months. The scripture says, "And the shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle."

You may remember that from your studies in Revelation 9. Now with that fresh on the walls of your brain, now read Joel chapter 2, verse 4. "Their appearance is like the appearance of horses. Like swift steeds, so they run. With a noise like chariots over the mountaintops they leap.

Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array. Before them the people writhe in pain. All faces are drained of color."

So what we may actually have here, and fitting all of these scriptures together, is not one, not two, but three events. A natural disaster that became a harbinger of a invasion of the Assyrian Empire. Which then became predictive of what will happen in Revelation chapter 9 with this infestation on the earth of these kind of locusts.

Now I want you to notice a theme that's in this book. I mentioned it at the beginning. It's the theme the day of the Lord. 26 times the Bible mentions it. Five of those times are in the book of Joel. More than any other prophet, he speaks about the day of the Lord.

So look at chapter 1, verse 15. "Alas, for the day! For the day of the Lord is at hand. It shall come as destruction from the Almighty." Now I'm emphasizing that because I'm going to get back to that, destruction from the Almighty.

The day of the Lord-- Yom Yahweh-- that's the Hebrew. Yom. You've heard that term before. It's a Hebrew word for day. Yom Kippur. Yom Yahweh, the covenant name of God. This is God's day, the day of the Lord.

Chapter 2, verse 1. "Blow the trumpet." The Hebrew word shofar, the ram's horn. "Blow the ram's horn in Zion. Sound an alarm in My holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble. For the day of the Lord is coming, for it is at hand."

Now pause there for a moment. The ancient Israelites did use the term the day of the Lord, but they interpreted the idea of the day of the Lord they said his coming as the day when all of the enemies around them will be punished. And of course they'll skate scot free because they're the chosen people. So they looked at the day of the Lord as something good.

With that in mind, look at verse 2. It's "a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains, a people come great and strong, the like of whom has never been nor will there ever be any such after them even for many successive generations."

Go down to verse 10 of chapter 2. "The earth quakes before them, the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon grow dark, the stars diminish their brightness." You're familiar with some of this imagery. Jesus used it in Matthew 24 to speak of the great tribulation period.

"The Lord gives voice before His army, for His camp is very great. For strong is the one who executes His word. For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible, who can endure it?"

It seems that what would be local and immediate for the Northern Kingdom of Israel, would also be global and ultimate for the rest of the world. That there was a day coming, a period coming, a period of judgment for the Northern Kingdom, but that's simply a lens. Like the locust was a lens for the Assyrian invasion, the Assyrian invasion is a template, a lens for something far greater in the future.

The term the day of the Lord does not refer to a 24 hour day, a 24 hour period. It refers to a process of time by which God interrupts world history with His own agenda in terms of judgment. God intercepts world history with His own agenda in terms of judgment. He interjects a special period of divine judgment into the history of the world. That's the day of the Lord.

Today is not the day of the Lord. This is the day of mankind. This is man's day. This is our day. We're having our heyday. We're making our choices. We're setting our agenda. We're doing our thing. We're exercising our will. And God is very patient, and that will continue till He sees fit to stop it.

At some point in the future an event will eclipse the day of mankind called the day of Christ. The day of Christ is mentioned four times. And it refers to the second coming of Jesus Christ for His people or with His people to the earth. That will then usher in this process of time called the day of the Lord.

The day of Christ, I believe, begins with the rapture of the church. Christ comes. Jesus said, "If I go," John chapter 14, "I will come again and receive you to myself that where I am, there you may be also."

After the day of Christ, there will be a period of events on the earth described by Joel as the worst period in human history. Jesus said the same thing. I'll quote it in a minute. That will be the day of the Lord.

Jesus put it this way, "For then there will be great tribulation such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be." So Joel and Jesus are looking to the future going, Amen, what he said. They're both agreeing with each other.

There's coming a period that the Holocaust, World War II, all the bad things that have ever happened, all the famines, all the decimation are child's play in comparison. And if you wonder, really? Is that possible? Things are pretty bad now. Things have been pretty bad in the past. Could it really get any worse? What's the answer to that, Bible students?

Yes.

A whole lot worse. All you have to do is sit down, if you have a strong stomach and enough time, and read slowly, Revelation chapter 6 through 19. You get the detail blown out vision version of the day of the Lord and what's going to happen on planet Earth. It occurs after the church is taken away. There's a seven year tribulation period. It culminates with Armageddon. But it happens suddenly. The beginning of it is sudden.

In 1 Thessalonians, Paul said, "The day of the Lord will come unexpectedly like a thief in the night. When they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them." So what we have in the day of the Lord that is seen by locusts that swarm into Israel, followed by the Assyrian captivity in 722 BC, followed by the ultimate day of the Lord in the future is a progressively intensification of God's wrath.

Where we see in the Book of Revelation seven seals as judgments, seven trumpet judgments, seven bowl judgments. We read about smoke, and fire, and heat, and lightning, and hail, and darkness, and beasts, and falling stars, and demons that come out of the bottomless pit to torment people. So if you're wondering, could it ever get any worse? The answer is a resounding, oh, yes! And that's how bad it will get.

Now notice something about this, and this is why Christians, I believe, will not go through the tribulation period. There's been debate on that. There's a group of people that call themselves post-tribulationists in their theology. I believe in a pre-tribulation rapture. Some people think I'm wet behind the ears, and that the only solid theology is their post-hosties, I call them, post-tribulationists. That Jesus comes back at the end of that.

But notice why I don't believe in m verse 15 of chapter 1 says, "For the day of the Lord is at hand. It shall come as destruction-- from whom-- the Almighty." Jesus said this, "In the world, you will have tribulation." Everybody has tribulation from the world, from the source of a world not at odds with God, or that is at odds with God, not in sync with God.

The world gives us plenty of grief and persecution and tribulation and mocks you. You've probably experienced some of it this week, even today. You get hassled by the world. The world is not your friend. The world system is not your friend.

Wrath and tribulation that comes from the world as a source is one thing, but wrath and tribulation that has its source in God as punishment is quite another. So you can't equate the tribulation that comes from the world with the final tribulation that will be sent by God. Something you're not intended to face.

Chapter 2 verse 20, "But I will remove far from you the northern army." Now we could infer that to mean the Assyrians, although the Assyrians really came from the east. But it's an interesting rendition. "I will remove far from you the northern army and will drive him away into a barren and desolate land with his face toward the eastern sea."

That is the body of water in Israel that is on its eastern boundary, which is the Dead Sea, 1,290 feet below sea level. You'll see it when you go to Israel with us. Or you've seen it if you've gone to Israel with us. That's the eastern sea.

"And his back toward the western sea." That forms the Western border, or that's the Mediterranean Sea. Then notice, "His stench will come up and his foul odor will rise because he has done monstrous things."

Now I said that this swarm of locusts came in from the north. And there's a reference here to a northern army. In the future-- and it could have a hint of this. I'm not going to be definitive, but I do see a perfect template where these things just sort of groove together. An army that comes from the north described in Ezekiel chapter 38 and 39.

There is an army that is referred to that can be identified, at least in part, from Russia, that will sweep down to Israel. Ezekiel 38, the prophet said, "You will come up against my people-- speaking to those people in the north-- you will come up against my people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. I will put my hooks in your jaws and draw you into that land."

And the question has always been in Ezekiel 38 and 39, not only, who is that nation? That's pretty easily identified with Russia and allies. What is interesting are the allies. Because part of the allies, according to Ezekiel, is Iran. And what's interesting is there seems to be-- there's never been one like there has been today-- an alliance that has formed between Iran and between Russia.

And the hook in the jaws could be-- can't be definitive, but could be, kind of lean this way-- is the growing Islamic population in those people groups within the greater Russia delegation, as well as allies with Russia. That could be the hook that brings them in.

And that is that antagonism toward that plot of land that has given the neighbors so much trouble for so long. And that is that little piece called Israel. If we could just get rid of Israel. And the Bible says, in the end days, Zacharias said, all the nations of the world will come against that little plot of land.

Now notice the stench again in verse 20. I want to keep going on this, but I'm giving you these themes, stench and foul odor. If you read Ezekiel-- excuse me, if you read Zechariah 14 that talks about the Lord standing up, fighting for His land against those nations that come in, Zachariah 14, and then you read Ezekiel 39, it indicates that not only will there be a wide spread decimation of that army that comes in from the north, but that it will take seven months to bury their dead. Seven months to bury the dead. They'll have to bring in professional buriers to do the job. So fascinating how it could all fit together.

Verse 28, "It shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My spirit on all flesh. Your sons and daughters shall prophesy." Does that ring a bell? "Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out my spirit in those days. And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood and fire, pillars of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness, the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord."

Now notice verse 28. "It shall come to pass afterword." After all of that darkness, then afterwards, I'm going to pour out My spirit on all flesh. And it's speaking to the nation of Israel. It's interesting in Judaism, a day, a 24-hour day does not begin with daylight. It begins with night. It begins with sunset. That's the beginning of the day. And it goes all the way through the night into the next day until sunset the following day. So it begins with night, then it is followed by a glorious day. Just like a time of darkness, and then afterward, a time of light.

Now of course, Acts chapter 2, Peter quoted this, a set of prophecies referring to what was happening in Jerusalem. And so this causes people to get puzzled, because it's one thing to read the book of Acts. It's another thing to read the context from which Peter, in the book of Acts, was quoting in the book of Joel. Because the context is clearly dealing with the nation of Israel, the nation, the flesh, the sons and daughters of all flesh of the nation of Israel, and the ultimate judgment of the tribulation period.

And so people scratch their minds when they go back, and they go, why then did Peter say that what Joel wrote about was fulfilled? Well, he never said it was fulfilled. What he said is this is that which was spoken of by Joel. And then he quotes all these verses that we just read, including the verses that speak of the final judgment of the great tribulation, the smoke and fire, et cetera.

Why? Why did Peter even quote that? Here's the answer. Here's how these scriptures fit. Just as the locust plague prefigures a future judgment on the world, so Pentecost prefigures a future outpouring on the nation of Israel.

You may want to hold that thought, this future awakening of Israel, this future outpouring on Israel. Because by the time we get to the book of Romans 9, 10, and 11, Paul the Apostle is going to say, and so, all of Israel shall be saved. And you're wondering, what does that mean, all Israel will be saved? Well, you're going to have to wait till we get to that portion on a Sunday morning in the book of Romans.

But look at Chapter 3, verse 9. "Proclaim this among the nation's. Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, let all men of war draw near, let them come up." Could be a reference to Armageddon when the nations pour in and assemble.

Then look at verse 10, an interesting take on a familiar scripture. "Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble and come all you nations and gather together all around, cause your mighty ones to go down there, O, Lord."

Down in verse 13, "Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come go down, for the wine press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great." I commend you read after this when you go home, Revelation 19. That same imagery when Jesus comes back of treading the wine press from Isaiah and from the book of Joel. Treading the wine press, putting in the sickle, all a symbol of God's judgment.

Now in Isaiah chapter 2, we have the reverse. We have the original scripture that says, and they will beat their swords into plowshares. Remember that? Their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to make war anymore. It's a beautiful promise of future peace in the world.

And by the way, it is that scripture that is on the door of the United Nations. They will beat their swords into plowshares. It's a great thing for the nations to see, the delegates to see as they come in. The only problem with them putting that on the United Nations is ain't never going to happen this side of the second coming.

It's going to take Jesus to return. It's going to take the tribulation period to judge the earth and Jesus to set up his kingdom before they turn-- before this world turns its implements of war into implements of peace. It will happen. He will make sure it happens. But it won't happen until then.

Here it's different. Here it's reversed. They will beat their plowshares into swords and they're pruning hooks into spears. Until the peace comes, brought in by Jesus alone, this is what the world will face every single generation until the end of the age.

And I commend people who work for peace. I do. I think we should. But Jesus said, blessed are the peacemakers. We should do everything we can. Paul said, if it's possible, live at peace with all men. Guess what I've discovered? It's not always possible. You can try. You can set negotiations, but I do not believe in the ideology called pacifism.

As long as human beings impaired by the fall are walking the earth, you can put your sword down. You can get rid of all your implements of destruction. You can do that now. But I warn, you not everyone will. You can turn in all your nukes, all your guns, all your knives. But there'll be somebody out there who goes, oh, good. Now you're vulnerable. I'm going to get them all, and I'm going to abuse you.

There will always be a bigger bully. That's why nations have figured it out that with negotiation comes a bank of power that in case negotiations don't work out, you've got something to back it up. That's reality.

I'd like to be a pacifist, but here's why I'm not. You're walking down the street on Central, you're a pacifist. You don't believe in violence of any sort at all. If you're a Tolstoyan pacifist-- that is a pacifist along the lines of Leo Tolstoy in War and Peace-- you don't even believe in a police force or judges. And you say that's because of what Jesus said on the Sermon on the Mount.

But you're walking down Central and there's a thug who doesn't ascribe to your ideology. And he has a bat. And he has a hold of a little girl. And he starts hitting her. What do you do? Well, you say, I go over, and I have a good talk to him. Great. Good luck. What if the talks fail? What if he says, not only am I going to kill this little girl and smash in her head, you're next.

Love demands that you do everything you can to stop that man. And that is not a pacifistic position. So until they beat their swords into plowshares, just word up here, they're going to beat their plowshares into swords.

But verse 20, "But Judah shall abide forever." That's the glorious aftermath. That's the glorious future. "Judah shall abide forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation." So it will always be there. If you don't make it to Israel on this trip, or the next tour, or in this lifetime, you'll see it.

But it's going to be really different. It's always good to get a before and an after. There'll be a Jerusalem in the kingdom age that won't even look like present Jerusalem. Read the last several chapters of Ezekiel, you'll find out how different the topography is.

Then in-- after the earth is destroyed and there is a new heaven and a new earth, there is a capital city that comes down out of heaven that's the size of the moon, and it revolves around the Earth. And that's the city called New Jerusalem. That's the capital city of the eternal state that looks vastly different than the millennial Jerusalem and certainly present Jerusalem. If you want to see the Jerusalem or the topography of what it was like at the time of Christ, you can still go to Israel today. And a lot of it is still intact. Anyway, my plug's over. Let's go on to Amos.

Amos has a theme, the denunciation of the nations. Now Joel is from the south. That's the first guy we read. Joel is from the south. And he preaches to the south. Amos is from the south, Tekoa, and he preaches to the north, the 10 kingdoms of the north or the 10 tribes of the north.

He is not a professional prophet. He's not a priest like Isaiah. He has no religious background. What I like about this guy is he's a farmer. He's a sheep breeder from Tekoa out in the desert. It's right by Bethlehem, six miles from Jerusalem. And he is also a tender of Sycamore fruit, it says in this book.

So he's like the country preacher who came to town. Verse 1 and 2 are prophecies about eight nations. I'll list them for you. Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, Amman-- those are two nations to the east of Israel-- Moab, also to the east, Judah-- that's the southern two-- and Israel. That is the top 10 of the Israelite kingdom.

Verse 1, "The words of Amos, who was among the sheep breeders of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah the king of Judah, in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash the king of Israel two years before the earthquake."

Remember King Uzziah? He was a good guy. You remember this? Isaiah 6, "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord High and lifted up, the train of his robe filled the temple." Uzziah was a great king. But Uzziah made a king-sized mistake at the end of his reign. He was the king who wanted to be a preacher. He wanted to be a priest. So he intruded into the priest's office.

It says in 2 Chronicles 20:16, he went into the Tabernacle and he started burning incense like priests do. And the priest saw him and said, dude, you can't be here. I'm paraphrasing a little bit. He didn't say, dude, but dude, you can't be here. Get out of here. And the King, being the King, got upset. Like don't you know who I am? I'm the King.

And he protested at the priest Amaziah getting mad at King Uzziah for trying to act like a priest. So when he's having a little hissy fit, King Uzziah, the priest looks at him and noticed his head is turning white. And his hand is turning white. And he becomes leprous, as white as snow, and the Bible says he contracted leprosy from that day onward, and he had it till the day of his death.

According to Josephus, the time he did that, went into and intruded into the priestly office, the historian Flavius Josephus says a great or a giant earthquake took place in the land. That could be exactly what we're seeing referenced here when it says in verse 1, two years before the earthquake. OK.

Chapter 1, verse 3. We are going to look at a few verses and notice a pattern. "Thus says the Lord, for three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment." Look at verse 6. "Thus says the Lord, for three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment."

Verse 9, "Thus says the Lord, for three transgressions of Tyre-- that's the northern city up in Lebanon-- and for four." Verse 11, "Thus says the Lord, for three transgressions of Edom, and for four." And finally, verse 13, "Thus says the Lord, for three transgressions of the people of Ammon, and for four. I will not turn away its punishment."

These are several groups who are around Israel and who messed with Israel. And you know there is a principle-- I think you know this by now. If you mess with the nation of Israel, God messes with you. You mess with God. And if you do, God messes with you. Because Zechariah the prophet said concerning Israel, "Whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye." It's like poking somebody's eye. God doesn't take kindly to that.

So you got to ask yourself, where are the Phoenicians today? Oh, that's right. They don't exist. Where are the Babylonians today? There is Iraq, but the Babylonians don't exist. Where are the Philistines today? Seen a Canaanite lately? They don't exist.

You may want to write in the margin of your Bible Matthew chapter 25, the judgment of the sheep and the goats. It's the judgment of the nations after the day of the Lord as previewed by Jesus himself. And it's the judgment that he will give to the nations based on how they treated his brethren, the Jewish people, during the day of the Lord, during the tribulation period.

Chapter 2, verse 4. "Thus says the Lord." Now watch this. That was Chapter 1. Chapter 2, verse 4. "Thus says the Lord, for three transgressions of Judah, and for four. I will not turn away its punishment because they have despised the law of the Lord. They have not kept his command. Their lies-- literally idols-- led them astray, or lead them astray. Lies which their fathers followed."

Verse 6 of chapter 2, "Thus says the Lord, for three transgressions of Israel." Now remember, he's a southern prophet from the Bethlehem region, but his ministry is in the Northern Kingdom. So follow what he says, "For three transgressions of Israel and for four, I will not turn away its punishment because they sell the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals."

Now the people are listening to this prophet and they're going, I like this guy. Amen! Judgment on Edom! Judgment on Gaza! Judgment on Phillistia! Judgment on Tyre! Yes! Hire this guy. Come back next Sunday when he's preaching. Like him.

But it's like he's drawing a spiral. He's going all around and then he deals with Judah down south, and they're going, uh-oh, that's like our neighbor. And then he ends up on their doorstep with Israel, the 10 northern tribe kingdom.

And saying, you're not exempt. Just as God judges Gentile nations for the light they have received based upon nature, Romans chapter 1, they are therefore without excuse. Because God reveals his character in nature and in conscience.

At the same time, God will judge His people, based on not natural revelation, but special revelation, the scriptures, the law. Notice what it says in verse chapter 2, verse 4, "Because they have despised the law of the Lord." So he implicates Judah and Israel, that is the 12 tribes of Israel.

Let's note the reason further. Chapter 3 of Amos, verse 1. "Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, oh children of Israel, against the whole family, which I brought up from the land of Egypt saying, you only have I known of all the families of the earth." In other words, you're my special treasured people. "Therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities."

Do you see the correlation? They're thinking, well, how can God judge us? We're the chosen people. It's because you are the chosen people. You see, punishment is commensurate with privilege. Jesus said, "To whom much is given, much shall be required." God gave them the law, they will be judged accordingly as Paul also said in Romans chapter 3.

Now the next few chapters, chapters 3, 4, and 5 of the book of Amos, famous Amos, are more judgments and more reasons for God judging Israel. In chapter 5, verse 1, notice God even tells Amos to take up a lamentation. Who wrote the book of Lamentations? Jeremiah wrote a whole book of Lamentations lamenting for Jerusalem.

This is Amos lamentation for the Northern Kingdom. So he's become a songwriter. And it's a very sad lament or song. It's a country song. There's nothing can be done anymore except sit down and write this song and cry, because he's watching the death of the Northern Kingdom. Be a great country song.

Chapter 6, verse 1. "Woe to those who are at ease in Zion and trust in Mount Samaria." Now Samaria is the central part of the 10 northern tribes the nation of Israel. So he's hitting the capital of the south and the capital of the north. "Notable persons-- it continues in verse 1-- notable persons in the chief nation to whom the house of Israel comes."

Now again look at verse 3. Woe, there's that word again. Verse one, woe. Verse 3, "Woe to you who put a far off the day of doom who caused the seed of violence to come near."

Now woe in the Hebrew language is the word oy. You've been around your Jewish friends, and they're verklempt. They'll say, Oy! Oy vey! That's the Hebrew word oy, woe. Whenever you read, woe, W-O-E, interpret it to mean W-O-A-H, whoa! Like slow down. Slow down, ponder this. Think of what is coming. Slow it down. Ponder what is coming up. Look and listen because this is important.

Chapter 7, 8, and 9 are six visions. Not going to read them all, I'm just going to tell you what they are. Six visions. You know anything about prophets? They sometimes said great things, but they sometimes saw crazy stuff. And in fact, when we get to Zachariah, he's going to see some really crazy, weird visions, as well.

And these are visions from God. This crazy stuff is emblematic. It's not like a late night falafel with onions or pepperoni pizza. They're legitimate visions. By the way, the difference between a dream and a vision, those things happen in your dreams. A dream happens when you're asleep. A vision happens when you're awake. So these are visions that he gets.

Chapter 7 is a vision of swarming locusts which happen to be Assyrians. Chapter, or the second one in chapter 7, the second vision, a consuming fire which speaks of a coming drought. The third in that same chapter is a plumb line, a dangling plumb line. When you wanted to get a straight wall, the ancient level was to hang a weight at the end of a rope. That's a plumb line. And so God is judging his people based upon the plumb line, the straight edge of His truth, of His special revelation in scripture.

Chapter 8 is the fourth vision, a basket of summer fruit or ripe fruit. It's again the symbol of the harvest, the vintage, putting in the sickle. It's ripe for reaping, for plucking. That's second coming motif. That's second coming stuff.

Any of you know the Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe? She wrote it during the Civil War. She wrote about-- she wrote about the second coming of Christ. My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. And talks about plowing up the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored and all of that is emblematic of Revelation chapter 19, basket of ripe fruit.

Now these visions are like previews when you go to the movies, and you get there early, and you're sitting enjoying your popcorn and you have a few minute preview of coming movies. They call them trailers. These are trailers, previews of coming attractions. That's what these visions are.

Chapter 9 continues. The fifth vision is a vision of God judging His people. And finally, the sixth one in chapter 9 is a vision of future blessing. On that note, look at verse 11. "On that day-- this is the future blessing-- on that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down." Or the tent of David, the New International Version translates it, I believe.

"The tabernacle of David-- or David's fallen tent-- which has fallen down and repair its damages. I will raise up its ruins and rebuild it as the days of old." This is quoted in Acts chapter 15. "I will bring back the captives of My people, Israel. They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them. They shall plant vineyards drink wine from them. They will also make gardens and eat fruit from them. I will plant them in their land. They will no longer-- and no longer shall they be pulled up from the land I have given them, says the Lord your God."

Israel to date, since May 14, 1948, is back in their land. God planted them in that land. However, the full final spiritual restoration as predicted by Ezekiel, we're still waiting for. We're still waiting for that to happen.

The dynasty of King David was pictured as a tent, a large spanning protective tent. And that tent of David, when the nation was not split, before the split with Solomon and David and when David ruled, he ruled over all 12 tribes. His tent extended over the north and the south. There was a cohesion, a unity of the 12 tribes of Israel.

The prophecy, the prediction, is that there will be a reuniting of all of the tribes of Israel. And if you want to know which tribes, they're even enumerated in the Book of Revelation with 144,000 that are saved. So the dynasty of David will be restored. They will be reunited.

And when will that happen? It begins to happen when the church age is over. When the church age is over, and I put it this way, when the last Gentile-- whatever number that is-- is saved, the time clock begins again for Israel. We're in an age of grace, an age of the church. But Romans puts it this way, "Blindness in part, has happened on to Israel until the full number of Gentiles be gathered in. Then all Israel will be saved as it is written."

So there is a number, some magic number of saved-- of Gentiles to be saved. Whatever number that is, when that number is up, I believe that is when the rapture of the church takes place. And then the time clock, Daniel's 70th week is put on the blocks for fulfillment.

So if you happen to be a Gentile here tonight, and you haven't given your life to Christ, you might be that lucky lottery number, and you're holding up the show. So would you please get saved so we can all get out of here and that thing can happen?

We have three minutes to cover the final book. But it's only one chapter. We can do this. Obadiah is a one hit wonder. You know what a one hit wonder is? It's a group or a musician that really never makes it, but they have one song right? And that one song makes them known.

So La Macarena, the Del Rios. That was a one hit wonder. In the year 2000, The Baha Men wrote that great anthem of culture, Who Let The Dogs Out? Who? Who? Who? Who? Brilliant lyrics. No wonder one hit wonder.

This is the shortest book in the Old Testament. We know nothing about Obadiah. We know nothing about his parents. We know nothing about his hometown. We know nothing about his sandal size. We only know his name. And his name means servant of the Lord.

Probably this book was written one year after the Babylonian captivity. Babylonian captivity happened. It's full destruction of Jerusalem happened in 586 BC. So this book probably was written in 585 BC. We're going backwards, right? BC.

Obadiah 1, verse 1, the vision of Obadiah. "Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom-- that would be present day Jordan-- we have heard a report from the Lord, a messenger has been sent among the nations saying arise, let us rise up against her for battle. Behold, I will make you small among the nations. You shall be greatly despised. The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock."

If you've ever been to Jordan, down south by the Dead Sea, there's the ancient Rock City of Petra. Considered impregnable, impenetrable in its era, because the only access to it at that time was through a little tunnel, a siq it's called. It's only in some places 12 to 15 feet wide. And so the ancients used to say, a dozen men could fend off an entire army from that. So they took great pride in the clefts of the rock.

"Whose habitation is high-- high in elevation-- who say in your heart, who will bring me down to the ground?" If you want to know, go look at it today. It's empty. It's been brought down. Verse 4, "Though you ascend as high as the eagle-- I mentioned very, very high in elevation-- though you set your nest among the stars, from there, I will bring you down, says the Lord."

Now you've never been, many of you, most of you have never been to Petra. But you've seen it in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Remember that stone cut into that opening into that building? The building isn't there. That's all fake, but that opening is called The Treasury in Petra. It's still there. You can see it today if you go there. If you don't go there, you won't see it. You'll have to just look at Indiana Jones for the rest of your life.

Verse 4, "Though you ascend," oh, yeah I said that. OK. Verse 11. "In that day that you stood-- that is stood aloof-- on the other side, in that day that strangers carried captive his forces when foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem."

Go down to verse 13. "You should not have entered the gate of My people in the day of their calamity. Indeed, you should not have gazed on their affliction in the day of their calamity nor laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity."

When the Babylonians took Jerusalem, the Edomites helped them, looked the other way, applauded, and later came in and looted the very city. Jacob and Esau are the progenitors of Israel and Edom. The Edomites come from Esau. The Israelites come from Jacob.

Jacob and Esau were twin brothers. They had been fighting ever since the womb. Jacob grabbed Esau's heel when he was being born. That was kind of emblematic of their future history. They fought in the womb and outside of the womb. And to this day, the descendants of Jacob and the descendants of Esau, the Arabs and the Israelis, have been at it.

Verse 14. "You should not have stood at the crossroads to cut off those who escaped." I'm going to take you to verse 17 because we're out of time. We're a minute and a half over. Do you forgive me? Can we read this one verse? You'll let me? I shouldn't stop and pick up one verse next time? Of course, I wouldn't do that. I'd be lame.

Verse 17. "But on Mount Zion." Here's now a glimpse in the midst of this of the golden age, of the kingdom age that most all the prophets speak about. "But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance. There shall be holiness. The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions."

It's the end of the book. That's the end of our study. But do you know, do you know this? We keep talking about the coming of Christ, the coming again of Christ, the millennial kingdom, the new age.

Do you know that for every one time the Bible mentions or prophesies or deals with the first coming of Jesus, it deals with the second coming eight times? That's the proportion. Eight times more it speaks about the second coming than the first coming.

Every time the Bible speaks about atonement it speaks about the second coming twice. 50 times the Bible tells us to personally be ready for it. And Jesus assured His disciples that He was leaving them, but He would come again.

And when He comes again, they'll beat their swords into plowshares. There will be peace in the land. There'll be peace in the world. The day of the Lord will be over. And this glorious reality will be our future.

Father, thank you for your love for the world, Jew and Gentile. You have a plan for both. You have sent the promises. You have sent the Messiah under the safekeeping of the Jewish people, and how well they did with safekeeping the scriptures. But through them, Lord, you have opened up salvation to the ends of the earth.

And you have grafted in a wild olive branch, us. Not natural, not of your genetic stock of Israelites, but heirs of the promise, sons of Abraham by faith. And thank you Lord, that we have received that Jesus, the Jewish Messiah, the promised hope of Israel who will come again. Who will come to judge the world, but who will come again with His church to rule and reign over the world that He judged and created and will recreate.

Lord, our hope is in Him. We take our cues from Him. All praise and glory is for Him. He is the object, He is the subject of our songs. He is the one we live for. He is the one we want to honor and glorify. In Jesus' name, Amen.

We hope you enjoyed this message from Skip Heitzig of Calvary Church. For more resources, visit calvarynm.church Thank you for joining us for this teaching from the Bible from 30,000 feet.

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We're going back to the beginning in this first flight. Written by Moses and inspired by God Himself, Genesis means origin. From the formation of all created things and the fall of man to the flood and the fallout of man's rebellion, Genesis 1-11 chronicles the beginning of everything. It all starts here.
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This flight takes us through the biographical part of Genesis and God's response to man's rebellion. Four men are prominent in the formation of the nation of Israel: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Through this lineage, God would fulfill His promise of salvation for humanity.
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The central event in this flight through Exodus is the redemption of God's people, the Israelites, from their bondage in Egypt. We fly over Egypt and the wilderness where Israel wandered for forty years. The plight of the Israelites, their disobedience, and God's deliverance all foreshadow Jesus Christ.
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The Sinai Peninsula is the backdrop for this flight to Exodus, where God gave Moses the Ten Commandments along with detailed instructions for how He was to be worshiped. Miraculous signs of God's absolute power abound, along with the revelation from God that would define Israel's national identity.
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Leviticus describes the worship life of the nation of Israel. We discover how the Israelites were instructed to make atonement for their sin through sacrifice. The overarching theme of this book can be summed up in one word: holiness. After centuries of captivity in Egypt, the Israelites needed a reminder of who God is, His absolute holiness, and how they were to live set apart for Him.
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Numbers 1-36
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Numbers contains two censuses of the Hebrew people. The first is of the generation that left Egypt, including how they were organized, their journey in the wilderness, and their refusal to enter the Promised Land. Due to their disobedience, the first generation of Israelites failed to enter the land God had promised; however, God remained faithful by leading a new generation into the Promised Land.
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After forty years of wandering, the Israelites were finally ready to enter the Promised Land. The book of Deuteronomy can be organized around three messages Moses gave while the Israelites waited to enter the land. With the key word of this book being covenant, Deuteronomy speaks of the special relationship God established with His people.
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Joshua 1-24
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In this flight over the book of Joshua, we get to know its namesake, who shared in all the events since Exodus and held the place of military commander under Moses' leadership. We'll also get a tour of the Promised Land and follow Israel's conquest of Canaan, after which Joshua divided the land among the twelve tribes.
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The Israelites experienced a period of victorious conquests in Canaan after Joshua's death. But as their obedience to God's laws and their faith in God's promises diminished, Israel became entrenched in the sin cycle. God divinely appointed Judges to provide leadership and deliverance during this chaotic time. Sadly, God's people repeatedly did what was right in their own eyes.
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In this flight, we'll see the godly love and courage of two very different women from very different backgrounds. And we'll meet Boaz, who became Ruth's kinsman-redeemer, a type of Christ. Although the book of Ruth is short, it is prophetically important in terms of the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Ruth's story of romantic grace places love at the center of each of its four chapters.
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In this flight, we find the nation of Israel in desperate need of direction and leadership. We will meet the man whose good looks, physical stature, and success in war made him an obvious choice from a human perspective, but Israel's first king had a tragic flaw: pride. From the ashes of King Saul's calamitous reign, God raised up an unlikely man who would become Israel's next king, a man after His own heart.
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David went from shepherding livestock to serving as God's sovereign king in Israel. His faith and obedience assured him military and political victory as one by one he defeated Israel's enemies. In this flight, we both celebrate David's successes and identify with his failures as we get to know this man whom God called, "a man after My own heart."
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After years of being a powerful unified nation under King David, Israel, because of their disobedience, became a divided nation under many different kings. This book reveals a story of good kings and bad kings, true prophets and false prophets, and faithfulness and disobedience to God.
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Despite the many kings who took control of Israel, the nation still lacked true leadership. Second Kings continues the history of a divided Israel, and we see what happens when a nation passes from affluence and influence to poverty and paralysis.
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The book of 1 Chronicles recounts the lineage of King David as well as God's promise that He would establish His reign on earth through this man after His own heart. As we see how God fulfilled His promises to David, we discover how that presents a witness of His faithfulness to us today.
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2 Chronicles 1-36
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After King Solomon's reign and death, the nation of Israel went on a spiritual roller coaster ride that ended with the division of the kingdom and the people's exile. From the temple's building to its decline and destruction, we see a parallel to 1 and 2 Kings from a spiritual viewpoint.
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Ezra 1-10
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The book of Ezra begins with King Cyrus' decree for the children of Israel to rebuild the temple at Jerusalem. Ezra tells of two different returns: the first led by Zerubbabel to rebuild the temple, and the second by Ezra to bring reformation to the people. In this flight, we see God's faithfulness in keeping His promise to return His people to their homeland.
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Nehemiah 1-13
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At the end of Ezra, the temple in Jerusalem had been rebuilt and dedicated, but the city walls were still in ruins. After gaining permission from the king of Persia, Nehemiah led a group to repair and rebuild the walls. Though he was met with hostility and conflict, we see how Nehemiah gathered his spiritual strength from God during trialing times.
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Esther 1-10
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Esther reads almost like a fairy tale: A Jewish maiden becomes queen of Persia. The villain launches an attack to destroy the Jews. In the end, his plot is thwarted by the hero and the brave maiden, who risks her life to save her people. Though the name of God isn't mentioned once in this short book, we clearly see God's providence and faithfulness in dealing with His people.
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Job 1-42
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The book of Job opens in the throne room of heaven with a conversation between God and Satan regarding the faithfulness of a man named Job. God allowed Satan to test Job, and Satan caused Job to lose his health, wealth, and even his beloved family. But in the midst of Job's tragic circumstances, God revealed His sovereignty and faithfulness, and Job's steadfast faith prevailed.
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Psalms 1-150
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The book of Psalms is a collection of songs, prayers, and poetry that express the deepest of human emotions. These artistic masterpieces were compiled over a period of roughly 1,000 years from the time of Moses to the time of Ezra and the return from the Babylonian exile. As we fly over the Psalms, we'll see beautiful writings of gladness and grief, pleading and prayers, and reverence and worship—all with one overarching theme: a complete dependence on the love and power of God.
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Proverbs 1-31
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Known for the wisdom it contains, the book of Proverbs reveals how to deal with everyday situations. But more than just good advice, it is God's words of wisdom, which we need in order to live righteously. These proverbs are universal principles that apply to all people for all times, because they speak of the character of God and the nature of man—both of which remain constant.
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Ecclesiastes 1- 12
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The book of Ecclesiastes records King Solomon's intense search to find meaning and fulfillment in life. In this flight, we discover some significant truths—namely, that all worldly things are empty and that life's pursuits only lead to frustration. After tasting all that this world has to offer, Solomon ultimately concluded that life without God is meaningless.
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Song of Solomon 1-8
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The Song of Solomon portrays a moving love story between King Solomon and a shepherdess. The story reveals the intimacy, love, and passion that a bridegroom and his bride share in a marriage relationship. Even more than the fulfillment found in the love between a husband and wife, we'll discover that the spiritual life finds its greatest joy in the love God has for His people and Christ has for His church.
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Isaiah 1-27
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The prophet Isaiah's ministry lasted around fifty years and spanned the reigns of four kings in Judah. His prophecies are quoted in the New Testament more often than any other prophet's. In this first flight over Isaiah, we focus on his prophecies of condemnation that pulled no punches and pointed out Israel's need for God.
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Isaiah 28-66
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Of all the Old Testament prophets, Isaiah is thought by many to be the greatest, in part because of his clear prophecies about the Messiah. In this second flight over his book, we see his continued work and how God used his prophecies of both condemnation and comfort to generate change in the individuals he encountered.
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Jeremiah 1-20
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The book of Jeremiah is a series of oracles written in the southern kingdom of Judah over a period of fifty-plus years. It speaks of judgment, the promise of restoration, and the protective hand of God over those He loves. In this flight, we catch a glimpse of the man behind the prophecies as he allowed God to speak through him in unusual ways to open the eyes of the people of Israel.
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Jeremiah 21-52; Lamentations 1-5
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The prophet Jeremiah allowed God to speak through him in unusual ways to open the eyes of the people of Israel. As we complete our flight over his book, we find the prophet reinvigorated by God's promises as he continued to prophesy Babylon's impending invasions and, ultimately, Judah's captivity. Then our flight continues over the poetic book of Lamentations, which Jeremiah wrote as he wept and grieved over Jerusalem's destruction, ending the book with a prayer for Israel's restoration from captivity.
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Ezekiel 1-48
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Written by Ezekiel the priest, this book takes place during the second Babylonian captivity and documents the fulfillment of several prophecies from previous Old Testament books. In this flight, we see God continue to offer promises of restoration through Ezekiel, bringing the nation hope despite their tribulations.
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Daniel 1-8
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Chronologically, the book of Daniel links the time of the kings in 2 Chronicles to the restoration of Jerusalem in the book of Ezra. It begins with the first Babylonian captivity and ends with Daniel's vision of seventy weeks. In it, we witness both prophetic history and the four prophetic visions of Daniel, as well as powerful stories that reveal a faithful man of God who was unwilling to compromise his beliefs.
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Daniel 9-12
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Midway through the book of Daniel, the focus shifts from the historic to the prophetic. Daniel's four prophetic visions reveal the stunning accuracy of biblical prophecy, as well as Daniel's uncompromising faith in God's fulfillment. From the rise and fall of human kingdoms to the Messiah and the day of judgment, Daniel's visions drove him to his knees in fervent prayer for the people of Israel.
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Hosea 1-14
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Hosea prophesied to the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Jeroboam II, and he had a clear message to deliver: Israel had rejected God, so they would be sent into exile and become wanderers in other nations. On this flight, we see a clear parallel between Hosea's adulterous wife—whom God had instructed Hosea to marry—and Israel's unfaithfulness. But even as Hosea endured a rocky marriage, he continued to share God's plan that He would bring His people back to Himself.
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Jonah 1-4
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Rather than focusing on prophecy, the book of Jonah narrates a prophet's story. Jonah was blatantly disobedient to God's call, but despite his defiance, God redirected his path through a unique situation. The resulting revival in Nineveh shows us that God's grace reaches beyond the boundaries of Israel to embrace all nations.
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Micah 1-7; Nahum 1-3; Habakkuk 1-3
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God used three prophets—Micah, Nahum, and Habakkuk—to criticize, comfort, and inspire: Micah encouraged social justice and the authentic worship of God. Nahum prophesied against the Assyrians for returning to their evil practices. And though Habakkuk didn't address Israel directly, his message assured them that evil does not endure forever. Through these prophets, God's people confessed their sins and grew confident in His salvation.
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Zephaniah 1-3; Haggai 1-2
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The prophet Zephaniah addressed the social injustice and moral decay of Judah and her neighbors, proclaiming the coming day of the Lord and His wrath upon the nations—both an immediate judgment and a future end-times judgment. God sent Haggai the prophet to preach to the restored community of Jews in Jerusalem after their return from exile in Babylonia. Haggai encouraged the nation to set aside their selfishness and finish rebuilding the temple, an act of obedience that would align their desire with God's desire.
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Zechariah 1-14; Malachi 1-4
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As we fly over the last books of the Old Testament, we first look at the expanded message of rebuilding the temple when Zechariah encouraged Israel to anticipate their ultimate deliverance and the Messiah's future reign. One hundred years after the temple was rebuilt, the book of Malachi revealed that God's chosen people had once again slid back into their sinful practices. Malachi declared God's promise of a coming messenger, John the Baptist, and a coming Messiah.
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Intertestamental Period
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In between the Old and New Testaments lies 400 years of history. During this intertestamental period, God chose not to speak to His people through prophets as He orchestrated people, politics, and events in preparation of the coming Messiah. Scholars have come to call these four centuries the silent years. Remarkably, the silence would be broken by a newborn baby's cry in Bethlehem.
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Matthew 1-28; Mark 1-16; Luke 1-24
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These three Synoptic Gospels give us our first glimpses of Jesus' life and death here on earth. Matthew, Mark, and Luke present Jesus Christ as the promised Messiah, the Servant of the Lord, and the Son of Man, respectively. On this flight, we'll see the service, sermons, sacrifices, and sovereignty of Jesus as we witness the fulfillment of many Old Testament prophecies.
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John 1-21
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The spiritual depth of John sets it apart from the other Gospels, with one-third of its content dedicated to the last week of Jesus' life. Rather than focusing on what Jesus did, John focused on who Jesus is, presenting Him as God incarnate and highlighting His deity. On this flight, we'll see seven miraculous signs of Jesus, as well as seven statements that He used to identify Himself as God.
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Acts 1-28
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The book of Acts presents the history of a dynamic, growing community of believers that started in Jerusalem and went on to spread the gospel throughout the known world. In this book, the gospel writer Luke also recorded how the early church received the Holy Spirit, who enabled them to witness, love, and serve with boldness and courage, even when faced with persecution.
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Romans 1-16
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The book of Romans is the apostle Paul's letter to the church in Rome, and it focuses on God's plan of salvation for all humankind. Romans is the most systematic of Paul's letters, reading more like an elaborate theological essay rather than a letter. On this flight, we look at Paul's strong emphasis on Christian doctrine as well as his concern for Israel.
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1 Corinthians 1-16
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In 1 Corinthians, Paul confronted the problems that had infiltrated the influential church at Corinth and defended his position as an apostle of Christ. He later rejoiced over their repentance and acceptance of his God-given authority. On this flight, we discover the power of a new life in Jesus as we see how Paul shared the heart of the gospel with his fellow believers.
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2 Corinthians 1-13
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After Paul wrote 1 Corinthians, false teachers began spreading opposition to him in the Corinthian church. Paul sent Titus as his representative to deal with them, and most of the church repented. Paul wrote this epistle to express his joy at the turnaround and to appeal to them to accept his authority, which was confirmed by the many hardships he suffered for the gospel. On this flight, we find beautiful truths to carry with us through our own times of suffering.
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Galatians 1-6
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Galatians is a firm statement of the doctrine of justification by grace through faith. When Paul wrote this letter, the false doctrine of legalism and faith by works had infiltrated the church throughout Galatia. As a result, believers had traded their freedom in Christ for bondage to the old Jewish law that had been fulfilled by Jesus. On this flight, we discover the differences between law and grace as well as the practical application and results of the proper doctrine of grace.
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Ephesians 1-6
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Who are we in Christ? In Paul's letter to the church in Ephesus, he answered that very question as he addressed a group of believers who were ignorant of their spiritual wealth in Jesus. He explained how the Christian is the bride of Christ, a temple in the Lord, and a soldier for the gospel. On this flight, we see how Paul also emphasized unity among believers, describing the church as a body that works together for a common goal.
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Philippians 1-4
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Referred to as the epistle of joy, Philippians contains the message that joy is possible in all of life's circumstances, including suffering. Paul wrote this very personal letter while in prison, and despite his trials, he rejoiced over the caring and generous church in Philippi and encouraged them in unity, humility, and prayer.
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Colossians 1-4
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On this flight, we see how the young church in Colossae became the target of a heretical attack that included angel worship, the depreciation of Christ, and reliance on human wisdom. In Paul's letter to this church, he refuted the heresy by exalting Christ as the very image of God, the preexistent sustainer of all things, the head of the church, and the first to be resurrected.
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1 Thessalonians 1-5; 2 Thessalonians 1-3
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The apostle Paul wrote 1 and 2 Thessalonians in response to a report that some errors and misunderstandings about his teaching had crept into the church at Thessalonica. But Paul also used the opportunity to encourage the believers there, exhorting them in the Word, warning them against pagan immorality, and urging them to remain steadfast in God's truth in the face of persecution.
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1 Timothy 1-6; 2 Timothy 1-4
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These loving letters to Timothy, a young pastor in Ephesus, reveal Paul's true love for his brother in Christ. Timothy was facing a heavy burden of responsibility, so Paul not only instructed him about the conduct of the church and its ministers but also encouraged him to stand strong for the faith against false teachings, to endure hardship, and to preach the Word.
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Titus 1-3; Philemon
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Paul's brief letter to Titus focuses on Titus' role and responsibility in the organization and supervision of the churches in Crete. Throughout the letter, Paul also stressed the importance of sound doctrine and church order. In Philemon, on the other hand, the apostle took a more personal approach and spoke on the application of the great principles of Christian brotherhood to social life.
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Hebrews 1-13
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Although this well-written book's author is unknown, it reveals a man with a great desire to encourage Jewish believers to live in the grace of Jesus, especially since many of them were slipping back into the rites and rituals of Judaism to escape persecution. The letter centers on the person and work of Christ, inspiring believers through all the ages to pursue Jesus in every area of life.
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James 1-5
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While it's vital for Christians to understand that salvation comes by faith, the book of James emphasizes an active faith, characterized by good deeds that flow from salvation. In this unmistakably Jewish epistle, the author encourages believers to live out and grow in their faith by embracing trials, carefully controlling their speech, and letting God's love flow through them to others.
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1 Peter 1-5; 2 Peter 1-3
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The apostle Peter wrote these letters to encourage persecuted Christians and to defend the authenticity of God's Word against false teaching that had infiltrated the church. He called on believers to grow in their faith so they might detect and combat the spreading apostasy. On this flight, we see how these letters uniquely encourage us as we live in conflict with our culture, giving us incentive for holy living as we look forward to Jesus' second coming.
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1 John 1-5
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In this letter, John lived up to his nickname—the apostle of love—as he urged the church to continue living a life of faith in Christ. He defended the nature of Jesus against heretical teachings and warned his readers about those who taught such things. John not only addressed the preeminence of God's love for us but also emphasized our duty to love others in return. This flight shows you how God can transform your life when you follow Him wholeheartedly.
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2 John, 3 John; Jude
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These three epistles were written to encourage the church to keep a strong biblical foundation. The authors exhorted believers to walk in love but to be discerning in their expression of love, to have and enjoy fellowship with other Christians, and to stay strong in the faith. On this flight, you'll discover why it's so vital to balance love and truth to reach a lost world with the gospel of Jesus.
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Revelation 1-11
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Considered to be one of the most powerful books in Scripture, Revelation is a direct vision from God to the apostle John. It's both a warning to the world of a coming tribulation and a source of hope for believers as we anticipate Jesus' return. The book is filled with prophecies of future judgment, but in it, we find a glimpse of heaven and the glories awaiting Jesus' bride, the church.
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Revelation 12-22
Skip Heitzig
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In the second half of Revelation, we read some of the most thrilling text in the entire Bible, getting a preview of a future judgment, Jesus' thousand-year reign on earth, the eventual fate of unbelievers, and the church's eternal destination in the new heaven and earth. As we conclude our journey at 30,000 feet over the Scriptures, we discover how the history of the world culminates as we look to Jesus in all His splendid glory.
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8/19/2020
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Visit to the Cockpit Q&A with Pastor Skip
Skip Heitzig
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Our midweek series The Bible from 30,000 Feet came to a close with a final Visit to the Cockpit Q & A session. In the last message of our series, Pastor Skip answers questions from the congregation on topics throughout the Bible, from creation to the end times.
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There are 58 additional messages in this series.
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