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Speaker 1: How do you face? For listeners, Welcome to the Bible

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Speaker 1: Explain Podcast, where we are in First Chronicles twenty one

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Speaker 1: today and we're going to be talking about the plague

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Speaker 1: that God sends on Israel, almost making it to Jerusalem,

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Speaker 1: but then God relents in his anger when he sees

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Speaker 1: the city. We're also going to see how David responds

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Speaker 1: to this plague and also this angel that he sees

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Speaker 1: with his sword about to destroy Jerusalem. We'll get into

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Speaker 1: all of that in just a minute. So guess what.

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Speaker 1: I finished episode two of the podcast. You guys remember

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Speaker 1: a couple months ago I told you that I was

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Speaker 1: going to go back and redo my first seventy episodes. Well,

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Speaker 1: I finished episode one about a month ago, and I

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Speaker 1: just finished episode two a couple days ago. I have

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Speaker 1: it linked in the description, So once you're finished with

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Speaker 1: this episode, go check out episode two of the Bible

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Speaker 1: Explained podcast. And it is a fun topic. We are

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Speaker 1: talking about how God created the firmament, what Scripture says

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Speaker 1: about the firmament, and also what some people think the

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Speaker 1: firmament is. So I'd love for you guys to go

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Speaker 1: check that episode out linked in description. But in the meantime,

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Speaker 1: grab your cup of coffee or your cup of tea

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Speaker 1: this morning, and let's go ahead and read first Chronicles

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Speaker 1: twenty one fifteen through thirty together. I will, as always

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Speaker 1: be reading from the web. God sent an angel to

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Speaker 1: Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy,

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Speaker 1: Yahways saw and he relented of the disaster and said

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Speaker 1: to the destroying angel, it is enough, now withdraw your hand.

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Speaker 1: Yahway's angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan.

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Speaker 1: The Jebusite David lifted up his eyes and saw Yaway's

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Speaker 1: angel standing between earth and sky, having a drawn sword

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Speaker 1: in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and

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Speaker 1: the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces. David

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Speaker 1: said to God, isn't it I who commanded the people

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Speaker 1: and done very wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done?

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Speaker 1: Please let your hand, oh Yahweh, my God, be against

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Speaker 1: me and against my father's house, but not against your people,

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Speaker 1: that they should be plagued. Then Yahwey's angel commanded Goad

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Speaker 1: an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan,

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Speaker 1: the Jebusite. David went up at the saying of God,

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Speaker 1: which he spoke in Yahweh's name. Ornan turned back and

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Speaker 1: saw the angel, and his four sons, who were with him,

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Speaker 1: hid themselves. Now, Ornan was threshing wheat as David came

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Speaker 1: to Ornan. Ornan looked and saw David, and went out

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Speaker 1: sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I

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Speaker 1: sell it to me for the full price, that the

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Speaker 1: plague may be stopped from afflicting the people. Ornan said

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Speaker 1: the King do that which is good in his eyes. Behold,

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Speaker 1: I give the oxen for the burnt offerings, and the

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Speaker 1: David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by

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Speaker 1: fire on the altar of the burnt offering. Then Yahweh

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Speaker 1: At the beginning of this chapter, can see that there

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Speaker 1: And we don't know what that sin was, but most

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Speaker 1: whichever one. So God chooses three days of the pestilence.

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Speaker 1: this pestilence strikes Israel, and it says in verse fourteen

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Speaker 1: We do not know. But this was really bad. This

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Speaker 1: In fact, it says in verse fifteen, God sent an

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Speaker 1: In other words, God had compassion on his people. Jerusalem

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Speaker 1: how God is merciful and he wants us also to

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Speaker 1: Nineveh were enemies of God. And yet God looked at

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Speaker 1: the destroying Angel, going back to our passage for today,

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Speaker 1: it is enough now withdraw your hand, But the angel

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Speaker 1: threshing floor of this man named Ornan, the Jebusite. Now,

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Speaker 1: actually our Arauna Arauna, and most likely it's just a

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Speaker 1: would imagine, because David was able to see him. And man,

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Speaker 1: So they're like, you know what, we're sick of this

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Speaker 1: not on these people. And God relents of the destruction

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Speaker 1: check out the second episode that I did of Genesis.

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Speaker 1: you guys tomorrow, bright and early six am or whenever

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