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Speaker 2: Well, I have a name of God to share with

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Speaker 2: you today that is very exciting because it's prophetic and

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Speaker 2: it bridges our Old Testament names of God with the

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Speaker 2: New Testament.

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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 Answers series, connecting Israel,

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

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Speaker 2: So welcome to this week's Shabbat Shalom devotional when I

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Speaker 2: seek to share just a little inspiration from bring a

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Speaker 2: little peace to the close of your very busy week. Well,

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Speaker 2: the name is Jehovah Tekenu, the Lord, our righteousness. It's

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Speaker 2: only used twice. And both times are by the prophet Jeremiah.

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Speaker 2: And both sections of scripture are very, very similar, almost

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Speaker 2: word for word. So I'm going to read to you

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Speaker 2: the first one, Jeremiah 23, verses five through six. Now

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Speaker 2: the branch of David, would be called the Lord our righteousness.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean? Well, when Jeremiah wrote his book,

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Speaker 2: God's people were in exile in Babylon. Jerusalem and the

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Speaker 2: temple had been destroyed, and Jeremiah was giving the exiles

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Speaker 2: hope that one day God would raise up a king

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Speaker 2: from the lineage of David and re-establish Israel. Well, why

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Speaker 2: did they use the term branch of David? the house

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Speaker 2: of David, meaning the royal family, the royal lineage of David,

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Speaker 2: was likened to an olive tree that had been cut

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Speaker 2: down to the ground. It looked like it was all over.

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Speaker 2: God's people were in exile. Jerusalem was destroyed. The lineage

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Speaker 2: was over. The house of David was over. God's promises

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Speaker 2: to his people were over. But yet this is saying

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Speaker 2: that a future branch of will shoot forth at just

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Speaker 2: the right time, and he will be king, and he's

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Speaker 2: going to execute judgment and righteousness, and he's going to

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Speaker 2: be called the Lord our righteousness. Now Isaiah also uses

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Speaker 2: the term branch in describing this coming king, and I

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Speaker 2: want to read to you from Isaiah 11. It says here,

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Speaker 2: there shall come forth a rod from the stem of Jesse,

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Speaker 2: and a branch shall grow out of his roots. Now

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Speaker 2: Jesse was David's father. So it's the same thing as

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Speaker 2: saying a rod or a branch from the stem of

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Speaker 2: David and a branch will grow out of his roots.

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Speaker 2: The spirit of the Lord will rest upon him. The

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Speaker 2: spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might,

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Speaker 2: the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

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Speaker 2: And it goes on and on. And then I want

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Speaker 2: to jump down to verse 11. It says, and in

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Speaker 2: that day, there shall be a root of Jesse. who

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Speaker 2: shall stand as a banner to the people for the

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Speaker 2: Gentiles shall seek him and his resting place will be glorious. Well,

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Speaker 2: when you go with me to Israel, you're going to

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Speaker 2: see an olive tree and you're going to see how

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Speaker 2: that it grows through shoots that come up from the

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Speaker 2: root of the tree. So an olive tree, the root

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Speaker 2: system is actually larger than the branches that you see

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Speaker 2: above ground. Therefore, an olive tree can be cut all

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Speaker 2: the way down to the ground, but the root can

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Speaker 2: still be living and alive, and a whole new branch

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Speaker 2: can shoot up from that root. And this is what

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Speaker 2: the prophets are describing, that even though the rain of

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Speaker 2: the house of David looked like it had been cut

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Speaker 2: down to the ground, it was dead, it was over,

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Speaker 2: it was done with, that God is saying, no, a

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Speaker 2: branch will shoot forth from the root, at just the

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Speaker 2: right time. And he's going to be a king who

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Speaker 2: will execute judgment and establish the kingdom of God on earth.

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Speaker 2: So Jesus's final words in Revelation are this, I am

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Speaker 2: the offspring of David. Jesus was born into the lineage

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Speaker 2: of David. He came and he executed righteousness by dying

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Speaker 2: for us on the cross and paying the price for sin.

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Speaker 2: But there is a day when he is coming to

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Speaker 2: execute judgment, and to bring forth the kingdom of God.

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Speaker 2: Just as we pray in the Lord's Prayer all the time,

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Speaker 2: Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as

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Speaker 2: it is in heaven. That is when the Lord, our righteousness,

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Speaker 2: comes again. And with that, I wish you a Shabbat Shalom.

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