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Speaker 2: Hey there, welcome to the final part of our Connecting

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Speaker 2: the Bible to Today series. You know, for many Christians

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Speaker 2: there is a disconnect between the Bible and today, especially

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Speaker 2: between the Old Testament and today. Well for some Christians

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Speaker 2: there's even a disconnect between the Old Testament and the

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Speaker 2: New Testament. So I want to connect the dots for

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Speaker 2: you because the story that began in Genesis is still

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Speaker 2: going on today.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a break and hear a message from one

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Speaker 1: of our sponsors. Welcome to the Israel Answer Series, Connecting

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Speaker 1: Israel the Bible, and you join Susan Michael as she

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Speaker 1: explores timely issues and current events from a scriptural perspective

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Speaker 1: to equip the Christian world with a balanced and biblical response.

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Speaker 1: Be shore to subscribe for future episodes which will ignite

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Speaker 1: your faith and bring the Bible to life in your

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Speaker 1: everyday world. Now, let's join Susan with your Israel answers.

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Speaker 2: We often have this idea in the Christian Church that

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Speaker 2: God finished with the Jews in the Old Testament and

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Speaker 2: sort of gave up on them. In the New Testament.

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Speaker 2: We have a new plan with the new people the Church.

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Speaker 2: But the plan or story that began in Genesis is

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Speaker 2: not over. It's still being written today. And Paul said

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Speaker 2: in a Romans eleven when speaking of the Jewish people specifically,

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Speaker 2: that the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. So

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Speaker 2: what is this story that began in Genesis. Well, I

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Speaker 2: don't have time to tell you the whole story today,

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Speaker 2: but I'm going to link in our show notes to

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Speaker 2: a previous episode where I do just that. But what

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Speaker 2: I want to do in our short time today is

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Speaker 2: to connect that story to today. That story is the

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Speaker 2: story of God's love for the world, his plan to

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Speaker 2: redeem the world, and it's also a story of the

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Speaker 2: battle against God's plan. And central to this story is

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Speaker 2: the calling and the role of the Jewish people. Now,

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Speaker 2: the calling of Israel is not because God loves them

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Speaker 2: more than any other people. God did not line up

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Speaker 2: all the peoples of the earth and say, Okay, I

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Speaker 2: like this people better than all the rest, so I

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Speaker 2: choose them. No, God did not choose them above the

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Speaker 2: other peoples. He created them to be his people and

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Speaker 2: to fulfill the purpose of bringing his plan of redemption

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Speaker 2: to the world. So the story that we read in

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Speaker 2: Genesis actually began before the creation of the world world,

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Speaker 2: And I want you to understand this. In Ephesians one,

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Speaker 2: verses four and five, it says this, just as He

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Speaker 2: chose us in him before the foundation of the world,

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Speaker 2: that we should be holy and without blame before Him

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Speaker 2: and Love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by

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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of

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Speaker 2: His will. So the story that we begin reading about

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Speaker 2: in Genesis, the creation of the world, is actually not

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Speaker 2: the beginning of the story. It's from eternity. It's from

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Speaker 2: before the creation of the world. And I have to say,

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Speaker 2: in Revelation thirteen eight it even refers to the lamb

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Speaker 2: that was slain before the foundation of the world. So

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Speaker 2: what does this mean. It means that Jesus was always

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Speaker 2: destined to die on our behalf on the cross. So

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Speaker 2: there was no Old Testament plan and New Testament plan.

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Speaker 2: There was not a Plan A and a Plan B.

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Speaker 2: Jesus was always Plan A. We were predestined to be

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Speaker 2: adopted into the family through Christ. Jesus. Well, how does

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Speaker 2: that happen but through his death. So God was not

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Speaker 2: surprised by Israel's rejection of Jesus. In fact, he used

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Speaker 2: it to carry out the plan, and the apostle Paul

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Speaker 2: says it's because of their rejection that the Gospel went

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Speaker 2: to the Gentiles. So the point is this God is

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Speaker 2: so much greater than our failures. His promises are true,

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Speaker 2: and he will fulfill his word, his will, his promises.

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Speaker 2: So the story of the Bible is really the story

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Speaker 2: of the people of Israel. From that story we learn

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Speaker 2: so much about God, about his requirements, about how he

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Speaker 2: engages his people. In the New Testament, we add to

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Speaker 2: that story a new people believers in Jesus and one

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Speaker 2: new Man, made up of both Jews and Gentiles. When

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Speaker 2: the New Testament comes to an end, both the Jewish

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Speaker 2: people and the Christians are scattered throughout the Roman Empire.

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Speaker 2: The two groups developed into two very separate and different faiths.

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Speaker 2: I've already talked about that in Part one and two

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Speaker 2: of this series. Great animosity even developed between the two groups,

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Speaker 2: and anti Semitism has pursued the Jewish people and even

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Speaker 2: used the Christian Church in this pursuit. I talked about

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Speaker 2: that in Part three. But God, the creator of the universe,

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Speaker 2: the sovereign God over all of history, and above all

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Speaker 2: principalities and powers, has brought the Jewish people back to

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Speaker 2: their homeland after two thousand years of exile. I talked

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Speaker 2: about this in Part four and five of this series.

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Speaker 2: He has begun to fulfill everything that he promised to

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Speaker 2: the Israelites back in Sinai, all what the Hebrew prophets

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Speaker 2: have predicted. So the point I want to make today

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Speaker 2: is this that the story that we read in Genesis

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Speaker 2: to Revelation began before Genesis, and it is continuing after

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Speaker 2: the Book of Revelation was written and the New Testament

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Speaker 2: was closed. The story is not over. God did not

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Speaker 2: take a break after wrote the Book of Revelation. He

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Speaker 2: has been busy at work preparing the world for the

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Speaker 2: ultimate fulfillment of the promises. The covenants are about to

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Speaker 2: see their ultimate fulfillment. The Abrahamic Covenant, God's promises to

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Speaker 2: Abraham of a land of people and a mission to

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Speaker 2: bless the world. The Mosaic Covenant, in which he promised

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Speaker 2: the Jewish people certain blessings in return for their relationship

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Speaker 2: with him. The Davidic Covenant, in which he promised to

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Speaker 2: David an everlasting throne and a descendant of David to

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Speaker 2: sit on that throne, and the New Testament that Jesus

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Speaker 2: cut for us with his own blood. All of these

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Speaker 2: wait the ultimate fulfillment, and the prophecies of Isaiah and

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Speaker 2: Zechariah are all going to be fulfilled. So what a

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Speaker 2: privilege it is to live in this generation. God is

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Speaker 2: bringing his people back to the land. He is setting

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Speaker 2: the stage for the fulfillment of all of his promises,

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Speaker 2: all of his covenants, and it is the final and

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Speaker 2: great act of history. Now, when you get this in

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Speaker 2: your gut, in your spirit, that is the day that

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Speaker 2: the Bible becomes the most exciting book on the planet.

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Speaker 2: It stands up and it comes alive. It goes three D.

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Speaker 2: If this has not yet happened for you, I urge

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Speaker 2: you to listen to my three D Bible series and

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Speaker 2: then take the year long walk through the Bible series.

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Speaker 2: I promise you will never be the same. Now, in

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Speaker 2: today's show notes, I'm going to link to you these resources.

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Speaker 2: I want you to listen to the whole connecting the

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Speaker 2: Bible to today's series. I want you to listen to

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Speaker 2: the three D Bible episode about the story of the Bible,

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Speaker 2: and I want you to make a commitment of that

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Speaker 2: year long walk through the Bible and let's see the

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Speaker 2: Bible come alive to you. Let's see it impact your

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Speaker 2: life today because it is so true and it is

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