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Is the one who I'm going to disappoint if you get this wrong and I might wrap for about 5 or 10 minutes, who was the character we started last December.

Last year this time, December.

It is, John the Baptist who was the Forerunner of Jesus, right?

And so a reason I didn't find it out to actually happen that way but then when I came back around this year, I was like, oh, you know be a great idea to teach on Jesus because last year I told him John the Baptist was a 4Runner.

And so mostly though what we're going to be talking about when it relates to Jesus is the relationship between him and the father.

This is sometimes called maybe the sunship of Christ where it delves into, you know, how their relation, how, how do Jesus and the father, how that relationship is displayed in scripture.

Some ground, you know, some background.

So when we talked about Christ, you know, we can't help it specially this time of the year to the place of birth.

Now, if you remember last week, Pastor Harmon actually touched on this subject and we talked about it many times in the past between Malachi and Matthew, actually, not really Matthew because book was written later.

But you get the idea, the chronological system, there is, if there's four hundred years of Silence.

It's over 400 years.

God had not sent a prophet, or in Israel and the world had not heard a word from God in that entire time frame.

Can you imagine if you know, you pray, then you did all the things that you knew were right to do.

And you never heard from God for like four hundred years.

If you could live that long of your very long time, you think that God had abandoned you, right?

You would come to the place.

You think, man.

Lord, that you've abandoned me you.

You forgot about me.

And I really think that this is part of the fulfilling of Isaiah 53, you know, and all the prophecies concerning Jesus are bound up in all things, scripture in the Old Testament.

But Isaiah is one that sticks out the most into this, 400 years of Silence.

I think fulfills Isaiah 53 to where it says that for, he shall grow up before and is a root out of dry ground.

And you have no formal, and it's I think it's rude out of a dry ground is actually signifying.

The 400 years of silence mean that, you know, there is no spiritual growth.

It's just the bearing spiritually desert, you know, there's nothing there.

No stream of water that can be seen.

And so it's like, a spiritual drought has happened in the world.

And so this, I think is referencing towards the timing of Jesus coming up, right?

And so, this would be like the most unexpected time for the Messiah, really in the In the Jewish people because they would expect that he would come while there is prosperity.

While there's good things happening, but it comes at a time too.

That's crucial.

When you have the Jewish people under Roman oppression in a sentence and they want Liberation.

They want Deliverance.

They want Justice.

They want to be off of out from underneath the hands of the Romans.

And so I think God allow this drought to happen, you know, spiritually in a sense to bring about this prophecy to be fulfilled.

So 400 years of Silence.

And nobody hears from God and Jesus actually that they first hear from, it's John the Baptist right?

He's the Four Runner.

Runner comes on the scene.

He's preaching the kingdom and you know that he's got people that are hearing him through that.

And so about what time was Jesus, born about 3 BC, right?

And how much older is John the Baptist than Jesus by about?

Three to six months by, about 6 months around that time.

Three to six months out, sayings about accurate, for the difference, are in their, their age.

And so they were, of course, cousins.

And of course, you know, this all fulfilled again, Isaiah 7:14 where it says therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign.

Go to Virgin shall conceive and bear a son.

And we talked about this verse before and about its significance in the prophecy for this.

And I actually added in the butter and honey part here.

I added this verse because it's interesting that we should notice.

That Jesus grew up on the same guy that every other baby would have grown up and Isaiah's basically giving his contacts.

It's basically like he's going to eat yogurt and honey, because this is, you know, typically what they would give children an ancient world, like curdled milk, yogurt type of food and then honey would sweeten the sourness of it basically.

So you never had a very delicious Diet before they had to grab her and all that other good stuff, right?

So this is the ancient Gerber diet is butter and honey, right?

And he actually says about the Lord Jesus mother went as his mother was a spouse to Joseph and they came before they came together.

She was found the child of the Holy Ghost, but I kind of like how I'm Matthew kind of Begins the phrase.

And now, this is how this is Jesus's birth happened on this watch.

This is how it happened and Matthew gives us an extreme detailed account of it right in Matthew.

Chapter 2 verse number one, if we head over to that Passage.

I'm Alec.

I this is not when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod.

The king behold there.

Came wise men from the East Jerusalem.

And somebody reverse number two, and number three.

Dang, where is he?

That is born King of the Jews.

We have seen his star in the east things, you would trouble and all Jerusalem with him.

Why was Herod troubled?

Try this thing really couple are due to the fact that obviously he now had a rival and hear its title was what my know, what his title was.

He was known as king of the Jews.

Actually was Herod a Jew.

No, no, he's not a Jew.

So he he basically gave himself his title as king of the Jews, but he would himself was not a Jew.

But why trouble hair?

It is because he wanted to keep that title and that, that that so greatly.

But, you know, he also had some other troubles if they now he had a rival, a potential rival, you know, the people weren't exactly super, super happy with Heritage to some degree.

I mean, there was some things that are that done, that put them on the naughty list of the Jews, for sure, you know, there were things about her that they didn't care for.

And so that also became a Potential Threat to Herod as well.

And so obviously him favoring the Romans over the Jews, definitely was something that the Jewish people would not have cared for And now we come to, when we talk about Christ, we come to this part where it is about the wise men, who are these wise men talk about this before.

But I'm getting some things that John Guy where they come from.

Babylon.

Yeah, why Babylon

Give me the scriptures tonight.

How did?

Who made that foundation for them?

Daniel did.

Sorry.

So Daniel became head over all of that and we can see that actually in Daniel chapter number 2 verse number 48, after he interprets the vision.

The Bible says that Daniel was made a great man and give him all of the Providence.

And so he became Governor over all the wise men of Babylon.

And so, therefore, Daniel was basically allowed to set up a, what you consider an institution.

Maybe that would be a place of learning and education in a place of the scriptures.

Right?

It wasn't just a place of of just knowledge, but a place of spiritual study, you could say it was probably some type of institution there that these men came from.

I would imagine that's speculation.

But let's put things together here.

If there was a Daniel, Daniel would have had something setup.

I think like that because Daniel was not just spiritually, why's, he was also wise, I think knowledgeable, you know, he's very knowledgeable man, who is considered to be the greatest of all these men and so he was able to keep his own ground with them and then he actually requested that handle some of the Affairs of Babylon.

And so maybe Daniel had some more important things himself to care for a right in that sense, in that.