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ADHD stands for attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder and is often described as a mental disorder. children
with ADHD have trouble paying attention are hyperactive and often have
difficulty controlling their behavior. it is estimated that it affects around five
percent of all children aged 3 to 17 globally and that for every girl around
three boys are diagnosed with it. to understand how it affects children in
school let’s look at the story of Leo, a 12-year-old boy who goes to school with
the best intentions but struggles hard to succeed. attention deficit is his biggest problem.
Leo gets distracted so easily it happens even when he tries his hardest to focus.
he often realizes that he has suddenly zoned out and has spent the last 15
minutes thinking about something entirely different. just the tiniest
thing can get him off track. to him it feels like his brain is broken.
he is also forgetful books and homework are often left at home and if he doesn’t
miss an assignment he often loses it somewhere or forgets to turn it in. His
grades are terrible and some teachers are beginning to think that he is a lost
case. then there is his hyperactivity: when
they have to do group work he is restless and has trouble staying focused.
staying calm and listening while others speak can completely drain him, making
any normal conversation a serious challenge. to him it feels like there is
no capacity left in his brain to deal with all the input that needs to be
processed. he then feels angry about not being able
to follow along. to help cope with his hyperactivity he likes to keep his hands
busy all the time. last, there is his impulsive behavior: he
often cannot refrain from saying things that come to his mind. sometimes he tries
hard to control himself but then just blurts out and interrupts others. his
classmates find this annoying. he leader regrets his hot-headed behavior but he
knows that unfortunately, he will do it again and again. it seems to him that he
can’t learn from his mistakes. teachers get frustrated trying to get
him to behave. Others become impatient, give up or distance themselves. after he
is diagnosed and receives support through concrete steps, things begin to
get better: at school, he is seated next to a supportive student in the front row
of the class, he gets a notebook that lists all his assignments to help him
remember and to make homework easier to track he receives it for all subjects
only once a week. to relax he is allowed to use fidget objects during lessons and
take short breaks when needed. after school he practices speaking and
listening routines with the specialist. additionally, his dad bikes with him to
school every morning and in the afternoon he is allowed to play the ball
as long as he wishes. for severe cases of ADHD prescription drugs are often
prescribed. before that happens children like Leo need to undergo a
professional age-appropriate diagnosis by a child psychologist who will try to
look below the surface. ADHD could just be the tip of the
iceberg the root cause might be drama at home, bullying at school, poor sleep or
the wrong diet. Sir Ken Robinson told the story of Gillian Lynne, an 8-year-old
girl that was said to have a learning disorder. she could not concentrate and
never sat still. when she was brought to the specialist who didn’t subscribe any
therapy but instead played music on the radio, the girl started dancing. he then
told her mother: “Gillian isn’t sick, she’s a dancer. take her to a dance school!”
Gillian Lynne later became a famous dancer and then responsible for some of
the most successful musicals in Broadway history. please share your thoughts in
the comments below. if you are hyperactive or if you are diagnosed with
ADHD please tell us about your coping mechanisms so we can learn more about it
from reading your insights. if you want to support our Channel, enabling us
to make more such videos, visit patreon.com/sprouts and check out
what we do.As found on YouTubeBrain Booster | Blue Heron Health News ⇝ I was losing my memory, focus – and mind! And then… I got it all back again. Case study: Brian Thompson There’s nothing more terrifying than watching your own brain health fail. You can feel it… but you can’t stop it. Over and over I asked myself, where is this going to end? What am I going to end up like? And nobody could tell me. Doesn’t matter now. I’m over it. Completely well. This is how I did it!
When we say health if someone says you have no ailment it does not mean you’re healthy when I wake up in the morning or you feel alive and bouncy but not the word health comes from the word hope you must have a certain sense of wholeness of body mind energy and the fundamental nature of your existence if all these things are in alignment now when you wake up in the morning you feel like you just born if this happens to you that means you’re healthy one simple thing all your girls can do is just bring 40 to 50% of the food in its raw form that means it’s alive it must be a live cell it can be a vegetable it can be of fruit it can be enacted can be sprouted gram at least forty to fifty percent the food that you eat must be alive you eat dead food and you want to live this is a little difficult thing to do because you have to raise the dead now when you cook the fruit to tie just the food all the ingredients necessary for touches are not in the body alone the food also brings the enzymes when you cook the food you are largely destroying these enzymes – the enzymes when you eat now the body has to struggle to reconstruct that part that has been destroyed and then only it can digest normally first one one and a half hours after eating it tends to take the body down after that slowly it’s a Commerce so food is for energy but we are making the food in such a way that it takes our energy in the first one and a half hours only after that slowly it comes back anyway however good your digestive process is still you can never reconsider reconstitute all the enzymes that we have destroyed by cooking only partly we can do that if your digestive process is very strong and good you reconstitute about 40 to 50 percent of what’s been destroyed if it is a little timid kind of digestion it’s much less so whichever way if you’re eating cooked food 50 to 60 percent of the food that you’re eating is generally going waste but the body has to still process that and the amount of energy that it spends and the amount of trauma that it goes through is very big would means many things to many people but essentially for the body it’s a few out if you put the right kind of fuel this will be on in a certain way if you put the wrong kind of you will somehow it will manage I’m not telling you eat this way eat that way this experiment and see alright just experiment and see tonight if you go in so we thing whatever cooked food just eat fruits and see tomorrow morning you will not need an alarm bell you will wake up before the alarm bell and you will see all these eyes will not be sticking like this like that you wake up instantly your bright and alert people do not know what it means to be at absolute ease within their body 95% of the people do not know this unfortunately because you put the wrong kind of fuel you can keep this body like grease simply it goes ahead of you you don’t have to drag it wherever you go it must float ahead of you you can do this just put in the right kind of fuel [Music] [Music] you As found on YouTubeBrain Booster | Blue Heron Health News ⇝ I was losing my memory, focus – and mind! And then… I got it all back again. Case study: Brian Thompson There’s nothing more terrifying than watching your brain health fail. You can feel it… but you can’t stop it. Over and over I asked myself, where is this going to end? What am I going to end up like? And nobody could tell me. Doesn’t matter now. I’m over it. Completely well. This is how I did it!
Minecraft has just released the brand new 1.20 update, which introduces a bunch of interesting stuff to the game, such as archeology armor trims, new mobs, and much more. So today, I updated my hardcore world to the new update, and our goal is to explore all the new features. The very first thing I want to discover is the cherry blossom biome because I strongly believe that Minecraft copied the custom biome that I built in this video. Like, come on, they’re identical! Come on, Minecraft, at least give me some credit. I’m just kidding, but we’re going to have to fly like 5,000 blocks to reach the new world because I’ve already generated a ton of world space by flying around. So, yeah, let’s start flying to generate some new land. Wait, there’s bamboo right here. Hold up, I just remembered there’s a brand new block in the game. If we grab some bamboo right here, bam! I don’t know what it does, but it looks kind of cool though. Now we can turn the blocks of bamboo into bamboo planks, which are just yellow wood. It’s kind of like you just peed over Oakwood and it got stained. But using all these bamboo planks, you can craft a lot of things, basically everything in Minecraft. That’s pretty cool. Oh, and I just remembered, you can finally edit signs. You say hello, done, and then you get hello. And then you can right-click it and edit it again. Like, subscribe. Thank you, Minecraft, for finally adding that. That is the bamboo. Let’s go find the cherry stuff. I’m pretty excited about this new biome because it adds one block that I love. Do you guys know what that is? Wait, what am I doing? I could travel in the Nether. I am so stupid. Because traveling one block in the Nether is equivalent to traveling eight blocks in the Overworld. Let’s go ahead and grab some obsidian so I can craft a portal. I got flint and steel and fly into the Nether. Yep, that was a cool transition. Didn’t take me a while to do. Let’s fly to the top of the Nether and let’s just fly straight in some random direction. Okay, this should be good enough. I’m gonna build an arrow pointing back in my direction so I don’t forget because I didn’t write down my coordinates, which is kind of stupid. Let’s craft a portal though. I am bam! And let’s just see where it takes us. Please be right in the middle of a cherry blossom biome. Um, okay, I’m in a cave. Okay, we’re in a new land because this water just flowed. We got an achievement called Subspace Bubble. And I don’t want to forget where this Nether portal is, so I’m just gonna… Oh, okay, we ran right into the water. Let’s just mine a staircase up to the surface and see where we’re at. And we’re not anywhere fancy. Okay, I don’t want to forget where my portal is, so I’m just gonna build up here and build some structure so I don’t forget where I was. Alright, let’s go exploring. Let’s see what we can find. Is there anything nearby? Oh, it looks like there’s a shipwreck right here. I might be able to find my first-ever ruin. I think it’s called. It’s those weird thingies that you can put on your armor. Now, where’s the chest at? You can’t hide from me forever. I’m coming for you. And… nothing. There’s a buried treasure map, though. And maybe using this, I can find my first-ever ruin. I just realized it’s not even called ruins. I’m talking about armor trims. Yeah, I’m not the smartest person in the world, but I’m right over the top of it. Let’s dig around. I need my first-ever armor trim. Where… where is this thing? Oh, it’s right here. Wait, it’s not right there. What? I’m right over the top of it. How deep is this thing? Oh, it’s right there. Okay, please. Oh my God, is it loaded? But… um, nothing that fancy. That was a waste of time. Oh, there’s also an abandoned Nether portal here. I’m not sure if armor trims gonna spawn in these. I might as well give it a try. Let’s see. And nothing. I’ll replace my flint and steel, though. It’s not considered stealing if I put mine back, right? It’s just a little more damaged. I’m also gonna steal the gold, though. I mean, that’s stealing. And let’s fly away as if nothing happened. Okay, there’s also a snow village right here. I’m just looking for my first-ever armor trim. Anything? Nope. I’m going on a limb, but it looks like I’m in Canada. Why? Well, because these guys are living in igloos. Uh, why am I making fun of Canadians? I’m Canadian myself. This is a friendly fire. But there’s no luck. I can’t find any armor trims. Alright, I guess it’s a lot harder than I thought to find. Let’s keep flying around and see what we can find. This is kind of exciting. I’m just exploring the world again. Oh my God, it’s right there. The cherry blossom biome. The cherry… The cherry… The cherry blossom biome. It’s not the biggest one ever, but hey, we found it. Let’s mine our first-ever cherry tree. Oh my God, I’m touching brand-new wood right now. Look at all these little flower particles coming down from the tree. This is awesome. I love the ambiance this biome gives off. Wow. But the unknown block I was talking about earlier in the video that I love is the leaves. Look at this. These are the best leaves in Minecraft. And the only other leaf that is another color is pink. It’s like the azalea leaves and oak leaves had a baby and just made a girl leaf. And a cherry leaf came to be. Honestly, I don’t even know what I’m saying. Does this effect only happen in the cherry blossom biome? Because like, I wonder if I just place leaves like this, will it also have falling leaves? Oh my God, it has the particles. I could do a lot of decoration with this block. And I also collect these little flowers. What are these called? They’re pink petals. Okay. Oh my God, you could just stack them on top of each other. They’re like the pickles from the ocean. The cherry sapling also looks nice. Cool. But let’s explore this village as well. I want to find myself some armor trims. I’m gonna steal this actually because I’m gonna need a smithing table at home. What am I doing? Come on, armor trims. Where are you at? Oh, I’m pretty sure you can find them in all these structures. Unless I’m wrong. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. Just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep exploring. I spot another village. Well, I’ll take that because we’re gonna take this saddle and slap it on the camel. Not seeing any luck with this village either. I didn’t know they were gonna be so rare. Another abandoned portal. This is the one. It is not the one. Oh, they changed the knockback. Look at my screen. I’m burning like nodding the people. Yo, what’s up? Oh my, this village is underground. Okay, this is the last house. Come on, please. Nice. Am I being stupid? Are there no armor trims that spawn in villages? I just searched it up and yeah, I was being stupid. Just forget I was doing that, guys. Just delete that from your memory. Okay, thanks. Okay, the next feature I want to find is a desert well. I guess the desert isn’t a new feature, but I can tackle a lot of things about going to a desert, like finding a camel, finding a desert pyramid. They may have armor trims and also suspicious sand spawns in desert temples. And we can get our first look at the archeology they added. Is this a desert? Please, please, please, please, please. I think it’s just a big pit of sand. I think I just found the turtle world, the hidden world of the turtles. What? There are so many turtles. Oh my God, these guys have a water slide too. Oh God, oh my God, he almost pushed his friend off.↯This guy just committed murder. I’m gonna leave. I’ve seen two. I’m pretty sure armor trims spawn in Pillager outposts too. I’m just gonna run past all of you guys. I’m way too lazy to fight you guys. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. And just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep flying around and see what we can find. This is kind of exciting. I’m just exploring the world again. Oh my God, it’s right there. The cherry blossom biome. The cherry… The cherry… The cherry blossom biome. It’s not the biggest one ever, but hey, we found it. Let’s mine our first-ever cherry tree. Oh my God, I’m touching brand-new wood right now. Look at all these little flower particles coming down from the tree. This is awesome. I love the ambiance this biome gives off. Wow. But the unknown block I was talking about earlier in the video that I love is the leaves. Look at this. These are the best leaves in Minecraft. And the only other leaf that is another color is pink. It’s like the azalea leaves and oak leaves had a baby and just made a girl leaf. And a cherry leaf came to be. Honestly, I don’t even know what I’m saying. Does this effect only happen in the cherry blossom biome? Because like, I wonder if I just place leaves like this, will it also have falling leaves? Oh my God, it has the particles. I could do a lot of decoration with this block. And I also collect these little flowers. What are these called? They’re pink petals. Okay. Oh my God, you could just stack them on top of each other. They’re like the pickles from the ocean. The cherry sapling also looks nice. Cool. But let’s explore this village as well. I want to find myself some armor trims. I’m gonna steal this actually because I’m gonna need a smithing table at home. What am I doing? Come on, armor trims. Where are you at? Oh, I’m pretty sure you can find them in all these structures. Unless I’m wrong. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. Just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep exploring. I spot another village. Well, I’ll take that because we’re gonna take this saddle and slap it on the camel. Not seeing any luck with this village either. I didn’t know they were gonna be so rare. Another abandoned portal. This is the one. It is not the one. Oh, they changed the knockback. Look at my screen. I’m burning like nodding the people. Yo, what’s up? Oh my, this village is underground. Okay, this is the last house. Come on, please. Nice. Am I being stupid? Are there no armor trims that spawn in villages? I just searched it up and yeah, I was being stupid. Just forget I was doing that, guys. Just delete that from your memory. Okay, thanks. Okay, the next feature I want to find is a desert well. I guess the desert isn’t a new feature, but I can tackle a lot of things about going to a desert, like finding a camel, finding a desert pyramid. They may have armor trims and also suspicious sand spawns in desert temples. And we can get our first look at the archeology they added. Is this a desert? Please, please, please, please, please. I think it’s just a big pit of sand. I think I just found the turtle world, the hidden world of the turtles. What? There are so many turtles. Oh my God, these guys have a water slide too. Oh God, oh my God, he almost pushed his friend off. This guy just committed murder. I’m gonna leave. I’ve seen two. I’m pretty sure armor trims spawn in Pillager outposts too. I’m just gonna run past all of you guys. I’m way too lazy to fight you guys. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. And just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep flying around and see what we can find. This is kind of exciting. I’m just exploring the world again. Oh my God, it’s right there. The cherry blossom biome. The cherry… The cherry… The cherry blossom biome. It’s not the biggest one ever, but hey, we found it. Let’s mine our first-ever cherry tree. Oh my God, I’m touching brand-new wood right now. Look at all these little flower particles coming down from the tree. This is awesome. I love the ambiance this biome gives off. Wow. But the unknown block I was talking about earlier in the video that I love is the leaves. Look at this. These are the best leaves in Minecraft. And the only other leaf that is another color is pink. It’s like the azalea leaves and oak leaves had a baby and just made a girl leaf. And a cherry leaf came to be. Honestly, I don’t even know what I’m saying. Does this effect only happen in the cherry blossom biome? Because like, I wonder if I just place leaves like this, will it also have falling leaves? Oh my God, it has the particles. I could do a lot of decoration with this block. And I also collect these little flowers. What are these called? They’re pink petals. Okay. Oh my God, you could just stack them on top of each other. They’re like the pickles from the ocean. The cherry sapling also looks nice. Cool. But let’s explore this village as well. I want to find myself some armor trims. I’m gonna steal this actually because I’m gonna need a smithing table at home. What am I doing? Come on, armor trims. Where are you at? Oh, I’m pretty sure you can find them in all these structures. Unless I’m wrong. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. Just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep exploring. I spot another village. Well, I’ll take that because we’re gonna take this saddle and slap it on the camel. Not seeing any luck with this village either. I didn’t know they were gonna be so rare. Another abandoned portal. This is the one. It is not the one. Oh, they changed the knockback. Look at my screen. I’m burning like nodding the people. Yo, what’s up? Oh my, this village is underground. Okay, this is the last house. Come on, please. Nice. Am I being stupid? Are there no armor trims that spawn in villages? I just searched it up and yeah, I was being stupid. Just forget I was doing that, guys. Just delete that from your memory. Okay, thanks. Okay, the next feature I want to find is a desert well. I guess the desert isn’t a new feature, but I can tackle a lot of things about going to a desert, like finding a camel, finding a desert pyramid. They may have armor trims and also suspicious sand spawns in desert temples. And we can get our first look at the archeology they added. Is this a desert? Please, please, please, please, please. I think it’s just a big pit of sand. I think I just found the turtle world, the hidden world of the turtles. What? There are so many turtles. Oh my God, these guys have a water slide too. Oh God, oh my God, he almost pushed his friend off. This guy just committed murder. I’m gonna leave. I’ve seen two. I’m pretty sure armor trims spawn in Pillager outposts too. I’m just gonna run past all of you guys. I’m way too lazy to fight you guys. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. And just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep flying around and see what we can find. This is kind of exciting. I’m just exploring the world again. Oh my God, it’s right there. The cherry blossom biome. The cherry… The cherry… The cherry blossom biome. It’s not the biggest one ever, but hey, we found it. Let’s mine our first-ever cherry tree. Oh my God, I’m touching brand-new wood right now. Look at all these little flower particles coming down from the tree. This is awesome. I love the ambiance this biome gives off. Wow. But the unknown block I was talking about earlier in the video that I love is the leaves. Look at this. These are the best leaves in Minecraft. And the only other leaf that is another color is pink. It’s like the azalea leaves and oak leaves had a baby and just made a girl leaf. And a cherry leaf came to be. Honestly, I don’t even know what I’m saying. Does this effect only happen in the cherry blossom biome? Because like, I wonder if I just place leaves like this, will it also have falling leaves? Oh my God, it has the particles. I could do a lot of decoration with this block. And I also collect these little flowers. What are these called? They’re pink petals. Okay. Oh my God, you could just stack them on top of each other. They’re like the pickles from the ocean. The cherry sapling also looks nice. Cool. But let’s explore this village as well. I want to find myself some armor trims. I’m gonna steal this actually because I’m gonna need a smithing table at home. What am I doing? Come on, armor trims. Where are you at? Oh, I’m pretty sure you can find them in all these structures. Unless I’m wrong. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. Just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep exploring. I spot another village. Well, I’ll take that because we’re gonna take this saddle and slap it on the camel. Not seeing any luck with this village either. I didn’t know they were gonna be so rare. Another abandoned portal. This is the one. It is not the one. Oh, they changed the knockback. Look at my screen. I’m burning like nodding the people. Yo, what’s up? Oh my, this village is underground. Okay, this is the last house. Come on, please. Nice. Am I being stupid? Are there no armor trims that spawn in villages? I just searched it up and yeah, I was being stupid. Just forget I was doing that, guys. Just delete that from your memory. Okay, thanks. Okay, the next feature I want to find is a desert well. I guess the desert isn’t a new feature, but I can tackle a lot of things about going to a desert, like finding a camel, finding a desert pyramid. They may have armor trims and also suspicious sand spawns in desert temples. And we can get our first look at the archeology they added. Is this a desert? Please, please, please, please, please. I think it’s just a big pit of sand. I think I just found the turtle world, the hidden world of the turtles. What? There are so many turtles. Oh my God, these guys have a water slide too. Oh God, oh my God, he almost pushed his friend off. This guy just committed murder. I’m gonna leave. I’ve seen two. I’m pretty sure armor trims spawn in Pillager outposts too. I’m just gonna run past all of you guys. I’m way too lazy to fight you guys. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. And just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep flying around and see what we can find. This is kind of exciting. I’m just exploring the world again. Oh my God, it’s right there. The cherry blossom biome. The cherry… The cherry… The cherry blossom biome. It’s not the biggest one ever, but hey, we found it. Let’s mine our first-ever cherry tree. Oh my God, I’m touching brand-new wood right now. Look at all these little flower particles coming down from the tree. This is awesome. I love the ambiance this biome gives off. Wow. But the unknown block I was talking about earlier in the video that I love is the leaves. Look at this. These are the best leaves in Minecraft. And the only other leaf that is another color is pink. It’s like the azalea leaves and oak leaves had a baby and just made a girl leaf. And a cherry leaf came to be. Honestly, I don’t even know what I’m saying. Does this effect only happen in the cherry blossom biome? Because like, I wonder if I just place leaves like this, will it also have falling leaves? Oh my God, it has the particles. I could do a lot of decoration with this block. And I also collect these little flowers. What are these called? They’re pink petals. Okay. Oh my God, you could just stack them on top of each other. They’re like the pickles from the ocean. The cherry sapling also looks nice. Cool. But let’s explore this village as well. I want to find myself some armor trims. I’m gonna steal this actually because I’m gonna need a smithing table at home. What am I doing? Come on, armor trims. Where are you at? Oh, I’m pretty sure you can find them in all these structures. Unless I’m wrong. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. Just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep exploring. I spot another village. Well, I’ll take that because we’re gonna take this saddle and slap it on the camel. Not seeing any luck with this village either. I didn’t know they were gonna be so rare. Another abandoned portal. This is the one. It is not the one. Oh, they changed the knockback. Look at my screen. I’m burning like nodding the people. Yo, what’s up? Oh my, this village is underground. Okay, this is the last house. Come on, please. Nice. Am I being stupid? Are there no armor trims that spawn in villages? I just searched it up and yeah, I was being stupid. Just forget I was doing that, guys. Just delete that from your memory. Okay, thanks. Okay, the next feature I want to find is a desert well. I guess the desert isn’t a new feature, but I can tackle a lot of things about going to a desert, like finding a camel, finding a desert pyramid. They may have armor trims and also suspicious sand spawns in desert temples. And we can get our first look at the archeology they added. Is this a desert? Please, please, please, please, please. I think it’s just a big pit of sand. I think I just found the turtle world, the hidden world of the turtles. What? There are so many turtles. Oh my God, these guys have a water slide too. Oh God, oh my God, he almost pushed his friend off. This guy just committed murder. I’m gonna leave. I’ve seen two. I’m pretty sure armor trims spawn in Pillager outposts too. I’m just gonna run past all of you guys. I’m way too lazy to fight you guys. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. And just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep flying around and see what we can find. This is kind of exciting. I’m just exploring the world again. Oh my God, it’s right there. The cherry blossom biome. The cherry… The cherry… The cherry blossom biome. It’s not the biggest one ever, but hey, we found it. Let’s mine our first-ever cherry tree. Oh my God, I’m touching brand-new wood right now. Look at all these little flower particles coming down from the tree. This is awesome. I love the ambiance this biome gives off. Wow. But the unknown block I was talking about earlier in the video that I love is the leaves. Look at this. These are the best leaves in Minecraft. And the only other leaf that is another color is pink. It’s like the azalea leaves and oak leaves had a baby and just made a girl leaf. And a cherry leaf came to be. Honestly, I don’t even know what I’m saying. Does this effect only happen in the cherry blossom biome? Because like, I wonder if I just place leaves like this, will it also have falling leaves? Oh my God, it has the particles. I could do a lot of decoration with this block. And I also collect these little flowers. What are these called? They’re pink petals. Okay. Oh my God, you could just stack them on top of each other. They’re like the pickles from the ocean. The cherry sapling also looks nice. Cool. But let’s explore this village as well. I want to find myself some armor trims. I’m gonna steal this actually because I’m gonna need a smithing table at home. What am I doing? Come on, armor trims. Where are you at? Oh, I’m pretty sure you can find them in all these structures. Unless I’m wrong. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. Just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep exploring. I spot another village. Well, I’ll take that because we’re gonna take this saddle and slap it on the camel. Not seeing any luck with this village either. I didn’t know they were gonna be so rare. Another abandoned portal. This is the one. It is not the one. Oh, they changed the knockback. Look at my screen. I’m burning like nodding the people. Yo, what’s up? Oh my, this village is underground. Okay, this is the last house. Come on, please. Nice. Am I being stupid? Are there no armor trims that spawn in villages? I just searched it up and yeah, I was being stupid. Just forget I was doing that, guys. Just delete that from your memory. Okay, thanks. Okay, the next feature I want to find is a desert well. I guess the desert isn’t a new feature, but I can tackle a lot of things about going to a desert, like finding a camel, finding a desert pyramid. They may have armor trims and also suspicious sand spawns in desert temples. And we can get our first look at the archeology they added. Is this a desert? Please, please, please, please, please. I think it’s just a big pit of sand. I think I just found the turtle world, the hidden world of the turtles. What? There are so many turtles. Oh my God, these guys have a water slide too. Oh God, oh my God, he almost pushed his friend off. This guy just committed murder. I’m gonna leave. I’ve seen two. I’m pretty sure armor trims spawn in Pillager outposts too. I’m just gonna run past all of you guys. I’m way too lazy to fight you guys. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. And just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep flying around and see what we can find. This is kind of exciting. I’m just exploring the world again. Oh my God, it’s right there. The cherry blossom biome. The cherry… The cherry… The cherry blossom biome. It’s not the biggest one ever, but hey, we found it. Let’s mine our first-ever cherry tree. Oh my God, I’m touching brand-new wood right now. Look at all these little flower particles coming down from the tree. This is awesome. I love the ambiance this biome gives off. Wow. But the unknown block I was talking about earlier in the video that I love is the leaves. Look at this. These are the best leaves in Minecraft. And the only other leaf that is another color is pink. It’s like the azalea leaves and oak leaves had a baby and just made a girl leaf. And a cherry leaf came to be. Honestly, I don’t even know what I’m saying. Does this effect only happen in the cherry blossom biome? Because like, I wonder if I just place leaves like this, will it also have falling leaves? Oh my God, it has the particles. I could do a lot of decoration with this block. And I also collect these little flowers. What are these called? They’re pink petals. Okay. Oh my God, you could just stack them on top of each other. They’re like the pickles from the ocean. The cherry sapling also looks nice. Cool. But let’s explore this village as well. I want to find myself some armor trims. I’m gonna steal this actually because I’m gonna need a smithing table at home. What am I doing? Come on, armor trims. Where are you at? Oh, I’m pretty sure you can find them in all these structures. Unless I’m wrong. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. Just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep exploring. I spot another village. Well, I’ll take that because we’re gonna take this saddle and slap it on the camel. Not seeing any luck with this village either. I didn’t know they were gonna be so rare. Another abandoned portal. This is the one. It is not the one. Oh, they changed the knockback. Look at my screen. I’m burning like nodding the people. Yo, what’s up? Oh my, this village is underground. Okay, this is the last house. Come on, please. Nice. Am I being stupid? Are there no armor trims that spawn in villages? I just searched it up and yeah, I was being stupid. Just forget I was doing that, guys. Just delete that from your memory. Okay, thanks. Okay, the next feature I want to find is a desert well. I guess the desert isn’t a new feature, but I can tackle a lot of things about going to a desert, like finding a camel, finding a desert pyramid. They may have armor trims and also suspicious sand spawns in desert temples. And we can get our first look at the archeology they added. Is this a desert? Please, please, please, please, please. I think it’s just a big pit of sand. I think I just found the turtle world, the hidden world of the turtles. What? There are so many turtles. Oh my God, these guys have a water slide too. Oh God, oh my God, he almost pushed his friend off. This guy just committed murder. I’m gonna leave. I’ve seen two. I’m pretty sure armor trims spawn in Pillager outposts too. I’m just gonna run past all of you guys. I’m way too lazy to fight you guys. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. And just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep flying around and see what we can find. This is kind of exciting. I’m just exploring the world again. Oh my God, it’s right there. The cherry blossom biome. The cherry… The cherry… The cherry blossom biome. It’s not the biggest one ever, but hey, we found it. Let’s mine our first-ever cherry tree. Oh my God, I’m touching brand-new wood right now. Look at all these little flower particles coming down from the tree. This is awesome. I love the ambiance this biome gives off. Wow. But the unknown block I was talking about earlier in the video that I love is the leaves. Look at this. These are the best leaves in Minecraft. And the only other leaf that is another color is pink. It’s like the azalea leaves and oak leaves had a baby and just made a girl leaf. And a cherry leaf came to be. Honestly, I don’t even know what I’m saying. Does this effect only happen in the cherry blossom biome? Because like, I wonder if I just place leaves like this, will it also have falling leaves? Oh my God, it has the particles. I could do a lot of decoration with this block. And I also collect these little flowers. What are these called? They’re pink petals. Okay. Oh my God, you could just stack them on top of each other. They’re like the pickles from the ocean. The cherry sapling also looks nice. Cool. But let’s explore this village as well. I want to find myself some armor trims. I’m gonna steal this actually because I’m gonna need a smithing table at home. What am I doing? Come on, armor trims. Where are you at? Oh, I’m pretty sure you can find them in all these structures. Unless I’m wrong. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. Just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep exploring. I spot another village. Well, I’ll take that because we’re gonna take this saddle and slap it on the camel. Not seeing any luck with this village either. I didn’t know they were gonna be so rare. Another abandoned portal. This is the one. It is not the one. Oh, they changed the knockback. Look at my screen. I’m burning like nodding the people. Yo, what’s up? Oh my, this village is underground. Okay, this is the last house. Come on, please. Nice. Am I being stupid? Are there no armor trims that spawn in villages? I just searched it up and yeah, I was being stupid. Just forget I was doing that, guys. Just delete that from your memory. Okay, thanks. Okay, the next feature I want to find is a desert well. I guess the desert isn’t a new feature, but I can tackle a lot of things about going to a desert, like finding a camel, finding a desert pyramid. They may have armor trims and also suspicious sand spawns in desert temples. And we can get our first look at the archeology they added. Is this a desert? Please, please, please, please, please. I think it’s just a big pit of sand. I think I just found the turtle world, the hidden world of the turtles. What? There are so many turtles. Oh my God, these guys have a water slide too. Oh God, oh my God, he almost pushed his friend off. This guy just committed murder. I’m gonna leave. I’ve seen two. I’m pretty sure armor trims spawn in Pillager outposts too. I’m just gonna run past all of you guys. I’m way too lazy to fight you guys. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. And just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep flying around and see what we can find. This is kind of exciting. I’m just exploring the world again. Oh my God, it’s right there. The cherry blossom biome. The cherry… The cherry… The cherry blossom biome. It’s not the biggest one ever, but hey, we found it. Let’s mine our first-ever cherry tree. Oh my God, I’m touching brand-new wood right now. Look at all these little flower particles coming down from the tree. This is awesome. I love the ambiance this biome gives off. Wow. But the unknown block I was talking about earlier in the video that I love is the leaves. Look at this. These are the best leaves in Minecraft. And the only other leaf that is another color is pink. It’s like the azalea leaves and oak leaves had a baby and just made a girl leaf. And a cherry leaf came to be. Honestly, I don’t even know what I’m saying. Does this effect only happen in the cherry blossom biome? Because like, I wonder if I just place leaves like this, will it also have falling leaves? Oh my God, it has the particles. I could do a lot of decoration with this block. And I also collect these little flowers. What are these called? They’re pink petals. Okay. Oh my God, you could just stack them on top of each other. They’re like the pickles from the ocean. The cherry sapling also looks nice. Cool. But let’s explore this village as well. I want to find myself some armor trims. I’m gonna steal this actually because I’m gonna need a smithing table at home. What am I doing? Come on, armor trims. Where are you at? Oh, I’m pretty sure you can find them in all these structures. Unless I’m wrong. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. Just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep exploring. I spot another village. Well, I’ll take that because we’re gonna take this saddle and slap it on the camel. Not seeing any luck with this village either. I didn’t know they were gonna be so rare. Another abandoned portal. This is the one. It is not the one. Oh, they changed the knockback. Look at my screen. I’m burning like nodding the people. Yo, what’s up? Oh my, this village is underground. Okay, this is the last house. Come on, please. Nice. Am I being stupid? Are there no armor trims that spawn in villages? I just searched it up and yeah, I was being stupid. Just forget I was doing that, guys. Just delete that from your memory. Okay, thanks. Okay, the next feature I want to find is a desert well. I guess the desert isn’t a new feature, but I can tackle a lot of things about going to a desert, like finding a camel, finding a desert pyramid. They may have armor trims and also suspicious sand spawns in desert temples. And we can get our first look at the archeology they added. Is this a desert? Please, please, please, please, please. I think it’s just a big pit of sand. I think I just found the turtle world, the hidden world of the turtles. What? There are so many turtles. Oh my God, these guys have a water slide too. Oh God, oh my God, he almost pushed his friend off. This guy just committed murder. I’m gonna leave. I’ve seen two. I’m pretty sure armor trims spawn in Pillager outposts too. I’m just gonna run past all of you guys. I’m way too lazy to fight you guys. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. And just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep flying around and see what we can find. This is kind of exciting. I’m just exploring the world again. Oh my God, it’s right there. The cherry blossom biome. The cherry… The cherry… The cherry blossom biome. It’s not the biggest one ever, but hey, we found it. Let’s mine our first-ever cherry tree. Oh my God, I’m touching brand-new wood right now. Look at all these little flower particles coming down from the tree. This is awesome. I love the ambiance this biome gives off. Wow. But the unknown block I was talking about earlier in the video that I love is the leaves. Look at this. These are the best leaves in Minecraft. And the only other leaf that is another color is pink. It’s like the azalea leaves and oak leaves had a baby and just made a girl leaf. And a cherry leaf came to be. Honestly, I don’t even know what I’m saying. Does this effect only happen in the cherry blossom biome? Because like, I wonder if I just place leaves like this, will it also have falling leaves? Oh my God, it has the particles. I could do a lot of decoration with this block. And I also collect these little flowers. What are these called? They’re pink petals. Okay. Oh my God, you could just stack them on top of each other. They’re like the pickles from the ocean. The cherry sapling also looks nice. Cool. But let’s explore this village as well. I want to find myself some armor trims. I’m gonna steal this actually because I’m gonna need a smithing table at home. What am I doing? Come on, armor trims. Where are you at? Oh, I’m pretty sure you can find them in all these structures. Unless I’m wrong. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. Just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep exploring. I spot another village. Well, I’ll take that because we’re gonna take this saddle and slap it on the camel. Not seeing any luck with this village either. I didn’t know they were gonna be so rare. Another abandoned portal. This is the one. It is not the one. Oh, they changed the knockback. Look at my screen. I’m burning like nodding the people. Yo, what’s up? Oh my, this village is underground. Okay, this is the last house. Come on, please. Nice. Am I being stupid? Are there no armor trims that spawn in villages? I just searched it up and yeah, I was being stupid. Just forget I was doing that, guys. Just delete that from your memory. Okay, thanks. Okay, the next feature I want to find is a desert well. I guess the desert isn’t a new feature, but I can tackle a lot of things about going to a desert, like finding a camel, finding a desert pyramid. They may have armor trims and also suspicious sand spawns in desert temples. And we can get our first look at the archeology they added. Is this a desert? Please, please, please, please, please. I think it’s just a big pit of sand. I think I just found the turtle world, the hidden world of the turtles. What? There are so many turtles. Oh my God, these guys have a water slide too. Oh God, oh my God, he almost pushed his friend off. This guy just committed murder. I’m gonna leave. I’ve seen two. I’m pretty sure armor trims spawn in Pillager outposts too. I’m just gonna run past all of you guys. I’m way too lazy to fight you guys. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. And no luck. And just a reminder, you only have five hours left to get yourself a King Cookie plushie and it will never be sold ever again. So if you’re interested, click the link in the description for your last chance. Let’s keep flying around and see what we can find. This is kind of exciting. I’m just exploring the world again. Oh my God, it’s right there. The cherry blossom biome. The cherry… The cherry… The cherry blossom biome. It’s not the biggest one ever, but hey, we found it. Let’s mine our first-ever cherry tree. Oh my God, I’m touching brand-new wood right now. Look at all these little flower particles coming down from the tree. This is awesome. I love the ambiance this biome gives off. Wow. But the unknown block I was talking about earlier in the video that I love is the leaves. Look at this. These are the best leaves in Minecraft. And the only other leaf that is another color is pink. It’s like the azalea leaves and oak leaves had a baby and just made a girl leaf. And a cherry leaf came to be. Honestly, I don’t even know what I’m saying. Does this effect only happen in the cherry blossom biome? Because like, I wonder if I just place leaves like this, will it also have falling leaves? Oh my God, it has the particles. I could do a lot of decoration with this block. And I also collect these little flowers. What are these called? They’re pink petals. Okay. Oh my God, you could just stack them on top of each other. They’re like the pickles from the ocean. The cherry sapling also looks nice. Cool. But let’s explore this village as well. I want to find myself some armor trims. I’m gonna steal this actually because I’m gonna need a smithing table at home. What am I doing? Come on, armor trims. Where are you at? Oh, I’m pretty sure you can find them in all these structures. Unless I’m wrong. Come on, where are you hiding them? Give me your armor trims. I look like a noob right now from 1.19. I need to get with the trend. I’m getting old right now. I just turned 22 and I’m falling behind. Read More: Why China is Shrinking VERY FastAs found on YouTube
↯ 2022 is a year that will go down in history as one of the most significant of the entire 21st century for many reasons. One of the biggest reasons was that 2022 marked the very first time in more than 300 years that China ceased being the world’s most populous country, according to official Chinese State data that was released this year. 2022 marked the first time in more than 60 years that the Chinese population had recorded a decline, the first decline since the depths of the great Chinese famine back in 1960 and 61 that claimed the lives of tens of millions. In 2022, China’s population decreased by around 850,000 people, and it is now primed to continue decreasing every single year for the next several decades. This fact will profoundly change and influence the kind of world that we all live in.After decent narrowing the gap, India finally officially emerged as the world’s newest most populous country just a few months ago in April of 2023, a title that will likely continue holding over China for the rest of the 21st century. Going forward, as the Indian population continues to grow while China’s continues to shrink, in less than 40 years from now, by 2060, India’s population is projected to further accelerate towards the 1.7 billion people mark before finally stabilizing and contracting slightly by the end of the century. Meanwhile, China’s first year of population decline in 2022 heralds only the beginning of a decades-long process in which the Chinese population will historically speaking begin rapidly declining. In less than 30 years from now, by 2050, China’s population is very likely to lose somewhere between 100 and 200 million people from where it’s at today. And by the end of the century in 2100, China’s population may decline from the 1.41 billion it still is today to as few as only 800 million, representing what will be nothing less than the quickest population decline of any civilization in human history. By that point, the Chinese population may only be around half the size of India’s end-of-century projected population of around 1.5 to 1.6 billion.Today, in 2023, the Chinese population still accounts for around 18% of the entire human population. For centuries now, at least dating back to the 1700s, nearly one in five humans on the planet have consistently found themselves in China, a fact that has given every Chinese government for hundreds of years now a tremendous amount of influence in global affairs through sheer size. Just for the sake of context, there are more people alive in China right now than in all of Europe, North America, and Australia combined. But if the United Nations population projections for China hold to 2100, when China’s population is expected to decline to as few as only 800 million, there might be a new world very soon in which the Chinese population entering into the 22nd century will only account for less than 8% of the worldwide human population. This fact will significantly weaken China’s demographic influence and clout in global affairs like it has never seen before.But for Beijing, the future looks a lot worse than even this initially suggests. While China’s population enters into a long period of decline starting now, the population of China’s primary geopolitical rival, the United States, is likely to only continue growing. The same U.N. population projections estimated that by the end of the 21st century, America’s population will probably increase from the present to somewhere around 400 million, which by then will only be around half of China’s 800 million. This will be a completely different reality than the one we have today, where China and America’s populations are each in completely separate leagues, wherein China is roughly four and a quarter times the population base of the United States, giving China a significant advantage in manpower fit for military service and available workers for labor and manufacturing and factory jobs. But by the end of the century, this massive demographic advantage that China currently enjoys over the United States today will almost certainly diminish significantly, and doubly so when you factor in the rest of America’s military allies in NATO and key East Asian allies like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, plus Australia. Yeah, this American-led alliance structure already today in 2023 has a population of around a billion people living within it, which is about 70% of China’s total population right now. In the event of a conflict between China and every single one of those countries today, China still holds all on its own the advantage in available manpower to pull from. Many countries in the American alliance network are facing steep population declines as well, like Japan, South Korea, Italy, and many others. But others like the United States, Australia, Canada, and France are continuing to grow and are expected to keep growing. Ultimately, meaning that the U.S.-led alliance network in North America, Europe, Oceania, and East Asia is likely to keep its combined population more or less consistent throughout the 21st century. And that means that at some point in the near-ish future, not too much after the year 2050, the American-led Western alliance network will collectively begin approaching the total number of citizens and available manpower that China has under its control, tilting the demographic advantage over to Washington’s side.In addition to Washington’s pre-existing advantages in military technology, hardware, and finances, this realization that from now on, China’s population base will be shrinking through the rest of the 21st century will have profound influences and impacts on both China and America’s foreign policies and geopolitical events going forward. Especially as the People’s Republic weighs its ability and ideal time scale to successfully conduct a military invasion of Taiwan. Beijing now realizes that its demographic window of opportunity to exact its desired changes upon the world order, like establishing firm political control over Taiwan, is limited and beginning to close shut. And will almost certainly completely shut together by the early 2030s, next decade. This fact implies that if the People’s Republic is going to invade Taiwan, the best opportunity for them to do so will be either before that window closes shut for good or never at all. It suggests that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan will most likely happen within the next eight years from en this video is released or it will never happen at all.So how did China even get itself into this situation, and what will be the world’s fastest shrinking population since it has been the world’s most populous country for so long? Ever since the era of the Qing dynasty in China in the early 1700s, China has continually been the home of the world’s largest popular a period of roughly four decades between 1911 and 1948, China faced significant internal and external crises and pressures that kept the population from growing very quickly as the Western world was industrializing and growing rapidly. In 1911, a revolution toppled the centuries-old Qing Dynasty and suddenly overthrew more than 2,000 years of Imperial rule in China. What had constituted China was quickly catapulted into nearly universal chaos as ethnically separate regions of the Qing Dynasty, like Mongolia and Tibet, declared their independence, while several aspiring warlords rose to local power across much of the rest of the country, all as the central government, calling itself the Republic of China, was increasingly failing to maintain its control and authority.Then, the Chinese Communists, led by Mao Zedong, rose and began fighting a decade-long civil war with the Republic of China’s government in 1927. A devastating civil war that was massively interrupted when the Japanese decided to take advantage of China’s internal chaos by invading and biting off Manchuria in 1931 before launching a full-scale invasion and conquest across the whole of China in 1937 that would last until 1945 and claim the lives of somewhere around 20 million people. During that invasion, the Republic of China’s government and the Communists briefly set aside their civil war to fight together against the Japanese. But after it was concluded in 1945, the civil war almost immediately resumed for another four years until 1949 when the Communists finally emerged mostly victorious and proclaimed the People’s Republic of China over the mainland that we know today. While the Republic of China’s government retreated to the island of Taiwan, where it also remains in control to this day. No peace agreement or armistice between them has ever been signed, and so the civil war between them continues on paper to this day, with the Communists on the mainland claiming the island of Taiwan as a rogue province of China that they are the legal government of, and with the Republic of China on Taiwan officially claiming that all of the mainland are a series of rogue provinces of China that they are the legal government of. Both governments recognize Taiwan as a core province of their idea of China; they just disagree on who should be the rightful government of China.After the People’s Republic of China invaded Tibet in 1950 and then annexed it in 1951, the country emerged with its presently recognized shape after almost exactly 40 years’ worth of continuous wars and conflicts waged across the whole of China that probably collectively claimed the lives of well over 30 million people and understandably cut down on China’s ability to grow its population base. But after 1951, China emerged from all of that chaos mostly unified under the single, strongly centralized government of the Chinese Communist Party, and so a long era of relative peace and stability has followed ever since, with the civil war remaining between the mainland and Taiwan staying a cold one for now.During times of war, chaos, and uncertainty, people are less hopeful about their future and less likely to have children. Conversely, during times of general peace and stability, people are much more hopeful about their future and more likely to have children. And so, a baby boom took off in China following the conclusion of the civil war in 1949, similar to the baby boom that also happened in post-war E25 years America. Over just 25 years between 1950 and 1975, China’s population completely skyrocketed by nearly 66% as the country added in around 364 million people. And that’s even after including the period of the great Chinese famine, which lasted between 1959 and 1961 and claimed the lives of anywhere between 15 and 55 million people in the country, wherein China saw its final two years of population decline until the 21st century in 1960 and 61.After the famine ended, China’s baby boom generation entered the world during a period from 1963 to 1975 when there were more than 20 million births taking place within China every single one of those years. By 1970, the average Chinese woman was still having 6.1 children each, at the same time when American and German women were only having an average of 2.3. This led to widespread fears within the Chinese Communist Party leadership at the time that China was facing a massive and endemic overpopulation problem that would hinder the country’s future, as the government would struggle to cartoon videos for so many new people.Thus, to combat the perceived specter of overpopulation, the ChineLatermmunist Party introduced the “later, longer, fewer” campaign in 1973. It raised the legal age of marriage in the country up to 23 for women and 25 for men, strongly encouraged a three-year waiting period between births, and restricted the number of children to only two per family, with penalties that would be applied to people who failed to comply. The policy ultimately proved to be very successful very quickly, as the average birth rate of 6.1 children per woman in China in 1970 crashed down to 2.7 children per woman only a decade later in 1980. But 2.7 births per woman was still well above the replacement ratio of 2.1 children per woman, meaning that China’s population was continuing to grow despite the “later, longer, fewer” campaign. The government felt that the policy hadn’t gone far enough to curb China’s inevitable future. A long time ago, the government of China wanted to make sure that there were not too many people in the country. They made some rules to help with this. They said that people could only get married when they were older, and they had to wait for a few years between having babies. They also said that families could only have two children. If people didn’t follow these rules, they would get in trouble. These rules worked very well, and not as many babies were being born. But the government still wanted fewer babies, so they made another rule. They said that families in cities could only have one child was a vastly overpopulated state, so it was followed up with the now well-known one-child policy that was launched nationwide across China in 1980. A policy that strictly limited urban couples in the country to only being allowed to have a single child.The policy was slightly relaxed by the mid-1980s to allow ethnic minority groups in the country and rural families to have up to two children, but only under the condition that their firstborn child was a girl because of widespread cultural preferences in China for boys, who were viewed as the ones that would take care of their parents in old age. The one-child policy led to decades worth of well-documented gender-selective abortions of female pregnancies and girls passed up for adoption so the couples could try again for their preferred only male child, a practice that became so widespread following the adoption of the one-child policy that it has created numerous demographic consequences for China today in the 21st century. It’ll be difficult to reverse. One study published back in 2015 in the Population and Development Review suggests that there are around 62 million missing women and girls in China today who would have otherwise been born or not adopted by foreigners had the one-child policy never been enacted. And as a consequence, China’s population today has a lopsided gender ratio, where there are probably somewhere around 35 million more men than there are women and about 17.5 million more men than there are women in the 20 to 40 age range who are considered potentially marriageable. This implies that around 17.5 million young men in China will simply never be able to find a woman to marry and start a family with unless they search abroad.Furthermore, as a result of decades worth of the government’s intervention to crush the national birth rate, births indeed began to plummet in China from the 1990s, a decade into the one-child policy. The fertility rate in China had already dropped to just 1.5 children per woman by the 2010s, and as of 2020, it has fallen to a historic low of only 1.3 children per woman. This means that China’s birth rate has been well beneath the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman that is required to keep the population stable for decades now, pretty much ever since the 1990s. By the 2010s, the Chinese Communist Party leadership began to recognize that the country was beginning to tip from the panic of overpopulation that gripped them in the 1970s and 80s to the new and opposite problem of depopulation and terminal demographic decline.In 2013, the one-child policy was slightly relaxed to allow any parents in the country who themselves were only children to have a second child, regardless of gender. Then, finally, in 2016, after 36 years of being on the books in China, the one-child policy was officially ended, and all couples in the country were allowed to begin having two children again. And then just a few years later, in 2021, recognizing the severity of the problems their policies in the 70s and 80s had created, the government rolled out the new and current three-child policy, allowing and even encouraging, with tax incentives, all Chinese families to have up to three children. But these recent policies are, for the most part, too little and too late for the country, a fact that becomes much more obvious when you take a look at China’s current population pyramid that tracks the ages of all the 1.4 billion people who lived in the country circa 2020.Note the huge bulge in China’s population of people roughly between the ages of 45 and 60, the baby boom generation of China that I mentioned earlier, born after the Great Famine between 1961 and 1975. This is the largest cohort of China’s age group. They are all beginning right now to enter into mass retirement as they age into their 60s, with significantly fewer amounts of young people beneath them who can support them. In demography, there is the concept of the working-age population, made up of people between 15 and 64. Any younger than that are children who aren’t working jobs and contributing to the economy, and any older are mostly retirees who are also no longer working jobs and contributing to the economy. And then even further, there is the prime age population, the age of citizens who are working the hardest, earning the most income, and paying the most taxes, which are people between the ages of 25 and 54. The higher the percentage of the overall population that this age group represents within a country, the generally stronger potential that country’s economy has. And conversely, the higher the percentage of people over 64 in retirement ages, known as the old-age dependency ratio, the less potential that country’s economy has because you just have more people in retirement who are no longer contributing to the economy and consuming more resources to support themselves in old age.China’s working-age population of people between 15 and 64 already peaked back in 2016, while China’s prime-age population of people aged between 25 and 54 peaked even earlier, more than a decade ago, back in 2011. China’s old-age dependency ratio, the percentage of the population over the age of 64 in retirement, has been steadily increasing every single year since 2016. So as China’s population keeps declining in overall terms, the ratio of China’s remaining population will increasingly become older and older. And as more die from old age and enter retirement, there are fewer and fewer young people left to take their place. This means that ever since 2016, China has faced an ever-increasing shortage of workers with every passing year as more and more people enter retirement age. And unless China can attract significant immigrants from abroad to replace those workers, the country now faces a permanently decreasing amount of labor with every passing year. It will steadily result in increasing costs for scarcer Chinese labor and make Chinese manufacturing increasingly less competitive and inflationary. And it’s doubtful that China will be capable of attracting significant immigration because China has the lowest levels of immigrants of any mostly developed country in the world today. Germany and the United States, France, the UK, Italy, and other countries have all largely solved their own declining birth rate problems by encouraging millions of young migrants from abroad to relocate to their countries and assume many of the jobs the aging populations have retired from. And even countries that are less well-known for immigration, like Russia, South Korea, and Japan, all still have significantly higher ratios of immigrants than China, which is only at about 0.1% of their overall population. China has virtually no modern history of large-scale immigration, and unless something radical changes in the country, this is likely to remain the case. And that means that China’s rapidly aging and shrinking population is set to become a major drag on the Chinese economy going forward for the next several decades. A similar situation to what has already played out in Japan in both demographic and economic terms.China appears, in a lot of ways, to be around 30 years ahead of Japan. Back in 1950, Japan had a massive young population at the bottom of their population pyramid, with a median age of only 21 compared to America’s 29, just like how China had 30 years later in 1980. Japan then benefited tremendously from decades worth of explosive economic growth that even outpaced growth in the United States as this bulge of hyper-productive young people moved their way through the overall population pyramid and became an increasingly larger percentage of the overall Japanese population. The GDP per capita in Japan skyrocketed from only 16% of the levels in the United States in 1960 to 154% of it 35 years later in 1995. Fears were rampant on Wall Street in the 1980s and early 90s that the Japanese economy was seemingly destined to overtake America as the largest in the world. And the closest it got was in 1995 when the Japanese economy was about 73% the size of America’s, a similar ratio to China’s and around 76% of the U.S. economy today in 2023. But as Japan rapidly developed across that time, Japan’s birth rate also began rapidly declining alongside it. And by the early 1990s, around the same time as Japan’s GDP per capita peaked, Japan’s prime-age working population also peaked at roughly the same time Japan’s median age surpassed America’s median age. And ever since 1995, the percentage of elderly people in Japan older than 64 has been growing as a larger percentage of the overall population. Consequently, Japan’s GDP per capita has steadily decreased nearly every single year since then, and Japan’s economy has remained largely stagnant for nearly 30 years of history ever since. As of 2022, the Japanese GDP is still smaller than it was 27 years before, back in 1995, as Japan’s overall population has continually grown older and entered into a state of continuous decline that began back in 2008.China’s demographic and economic experiences are increasingly seeming to almost mirror this process that already took place in Japan. In 1980, China had a massive young population at the bottom of its population pyramid and a median age of only 21 compared to America’s 29, exactly like how Japan had in 1950. China then experienced decades worth of explosive economic growth, buoyed by this rising tide of young and highly productive workers rising through the population pyramid and becoming an ever-increasingly higher percentage of the overall Chinese population. It was during this period from 1980 onwards through roughly the present that China became known as the world’s factory, a period in which Chinese labor was abundant and wages were cheap, the period in which China’s global competitiveness as a manufacturing hub was unmatched anywhere in the world because of its massive and cheap labor force. But China’s birth rate also crashed during this period. And so, by 2011, China’s prime-age labor force peaked and then began declining as an overall percentage of the population. In 2012, China’s working-age population aged 15 to 64 peaked and then began steadily declining in 2016.Overall, the text has been significantly improved in terms of grammar and clarity. However, there may still be some areas that could be further refined for better readability. Similar to how Japan began shrinking back in 1995, the growth rate of GDP in China has already begun to decelerate from the seven percent seen in 2015 to as little as three percent in 2022. This is partially due to China’s old-age dependency ratio increasing and the working-age population shrinking. Chinese manufacturing, which is the backbone of the Chinese economy, will continue to decline in competitiveness as the labor pool becomes more scarce and wages rise to compensate. This will create more inflationary pressure on companies and countries that rely on Chinese manufacturing. However, this decline in China’s manufacturing industry will tremendously benefit other countries like India and Mexico, whose economies still have room to develop and who have massive young populations at the bottom of their population pyramids. These populations will surge through their working and earning years over the next several decades. India and Mexico are therefore the most well-poised countries to supplant China’s increasingly less competitive manufacturing industry by 2030.By 2030, China’s median age will be about five and a half years older than America’s, and by 2033, China’s old-age dependency ratio of people older than 64 will exceed America’s. The growth rate of China’s GDP is generally expected to fall beneath America’s growth rate sometime between 2031 and 2035, and it will probably never be capable of catching back up again, just like Japan’s. China’s economy is already demographically peaked, just like Japan’s peaked back in the mid-1990s. Beginning in the early 2030s, China’s economy will likely begin stagnating, just like Japan’s did, in the face of continued growth in America.As China’s population ages, China’s available manpower fit for military service will also continue to decline. China’s demographic decline from the 2030s onwards will be a gradual process, rather than something that happens overnight. China will most likely retain its position as the world’s second-largest economy for decades to come. However, there is a significant gap between China’s waning demographic and economic strengths and Beijing’s ultimate geopolitical objectives, such as establishing political control over Taiwan. The strategic calculus involved in accomplishing this goal and realizing that China’s strengths will decline relative to its rivals shortly may lead to China’s leadership becoming susceptible to a more aggressive foreign policy. This could include strategic miscalculations and misjudgments, similar to the path that Russia has taken after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.Russia has faced an aging and declining population nearly every year since then. As military planners in the Kremlin realized that their population was in a state of terminal decline and that their demographic strengths would be weaker in the future, the Russian government adopted an increasingly aggressive foreign policy to accomplish its goals of restoring authority across the former Soviet Union. This culminated in the invasion of Georgia in 2008, the first invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea in 2014, the intervention in Syria in 2015, and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.The foreign policy calculus within Beijing is now becoming highly similar to Russia’s since the mid-2000s. China’s population is set to decline every year for the next several decades. The longer the Chinese Communist Party waits to act militarily on its ultimate foreign policy objective of establishing control over Taiwan, the harder it will be for them to do so as their economy and manpower reserves dwindle in the face of the American-led alliance network that will likely oppose any invasion attempt. The Chinese government has never renounced its right to use force to bring Taiwan under its control, as Chinese President Xi Jinping publicly stated during the October 2022 Chinese Communist Party National Congress.There likely exists a narrow window of opportunity between 2027 and 2031 in which the People’s Republic of China will have the highest likelihood of success during an attempted invasion of Taiwan. This is because, in 2027, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will experience its 100th anniversary and finish its scheduled modernization and reform plan. China’s armed forces have to be ready and extensively prepared for a lightning operation to ideally win and subjugate Taiwan before any foreign intervention can take place.By 2027, Xi Jinping will almost certainly be awarded a fourth term as China’s president, and in 2031, he will be turning 78 years old, which is the average life expectancy in China. In the early to mid-2030s, China’s population will be rapidly declining and aging, and the Chinese economy will likely be stagnating and growing slower than America’s. If China is going to invade Taiwan, the best opportunity will be between 2027 and 2031, before the PLA finishes its reforms and modernization and before Xi Jinping grows too old and the Chinese demographic time bomb begins to set off. 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When people say, “Should we be celebrating the Passover?” I’m telling you why because Christ is our Passover. We’re not sitting down at a table recounting the deliverance of the children of Israel, although that should be told. We are standing and proclaiming the deliverance of God’s children out of the bondage of sin. ♪ ♪ ♪ The Passover is described in Exodus 12, after the nine or depending on how you reckon it, ten plagues; nine or ten, depending on your reckoning have been unleashed and afflicted on the Egyptians with little effect.Then God directs Moses to declare this firstborn; that all the firstborns must die in the land of Egypt, man, and beast. This would eventually break the Egyptian hold and let the people go under Moses’ lead. Now I always think this is interesting because there’s a lot here and this is where you might say to me when I taught on the Sabbath, “I can’t exactly see the connection,” because for some people who have not spent enough time in the word, they may not. But here you cannot miss it. So between the death of the firstborn and the institution of the Passover, you have some great clarity here on what God is doing. Now imagine this. Imagine you are enslaved in Egypt’s bondage and imagine that you were born in Egypt. You just didn’t get there. People were born there for a couple of hundred years. So you would A) not have the frame of reference. Most people think, Oh, they were, they were celebrating certain ceremonies already while they were in Egypt.” No, they were not because all of these instituted feasts happened after, either the night that they were liberated or onwards, but there was nothing before that.There was, there was no law given before that. So there was no keeping of customs per se as we have them recorded here. And why that’s important because we begin to see in these practices how there is no way that while they were in Egypt’s bondage, they could have known too much about God. They couldn’t have. So imagine if you were in bondage, you’re in Egypt, and you see all these plagues hit.Now to me, you know, you could say, “Well, one might be a fluke.” You know, and you might see the second one. You say, “Well, that’s odd.” And a lot of people try; I love this, have you ever watched these documentaries where they make rational excuses for miracles of God? Do you ever see that? (Yes ma’am.) “Oh, well, you know, it, it had to be that on that day there was a, a fire bolt of lightning that came down that turned the whole place into ash, and there couldn’t be a God involved in it.” So it’s interesting that here there are too many events for the children of Israel to just go, “Huh,” like, “I’m not sure I can believe in this God” I mean after you see all this stuff, and then God gives the instructions and says basically in a nutshell (we’re going to read the passage in a second), but basically in a nutshell, “All the firstborn are going to die in the land of Egypt unless you heed what the directives are to apply the blood, a specific thing to do, which is taking an animal into your house on the tenth day,” would be in your household for four and a half days; call it that, because the sacrifice that would be the Passover lamb would be sacrificed between the fourteenth and the fifteenth day of the month, and the blood would be applied.And there’s a whole prescription for how to do this. Now imagine you’ve seen all of the plagues fall. You’ve seen everything happen. The water turns to blood, the frogs; you see it all. So when God says, “Apply the blood as I’ve instructed you,” I think for the most part, even if you didn’t know who God was, you’d have enough of fear, maybe you might have the mindset like the Egyptians did of the plural gods, but you’d have enough of a mindset to know after seeing all this to do it.Not because you know who God is, but because you see there’s some type of power at work. I’m trying to say that maybe the children of Israel in Egypt’s bondage didn’t know as much as we tend to think they did about God. So that’s important. The second thing is that this event takes place on the first day; as I said, it falls between the night of the fourteenth and the fifteenth. And we will read the procedure for this speaks volumes about what God was trying to convey for something not just practical, but also prophetical. Let’s take a look. I want to read through the eleventh and twelfth chapter because it paints the picture, and I think without that it might be hard for some people that they are not familiar. So Exodus 11 says, “And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterward he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, ye shall surely thrust; he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether. Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and the sight of the people. And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out amid Egypt: and all the firstborn of the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and the firstborn of the beast,” so anything firstborn, anything and everything firstborn.“There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, or there will be nothing after it like this. But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against a man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.” And this is very interesting because here God is not yet; I’m sorry to say it like this, God has not yet had the bad taste in His mouth of these rebellious, stiff-necked people who simply would not do what God said. But here obviously they do. He’s, so He’s now saying, “There’s a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.” Later it will be, “Moses, they’re your people,” right? (Laughter.) “And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in great anger. And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land. And the LORD spake,” There’s no chapter and verse here, I’m just going to go right into it. “The LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.” Kind of interesting, by the way, that means that they had to have been reckoning time according to the Egyptian reckoning of time, because God says, “Now there’s a new way to reckon time,” and it’s here.“Speak ye unto the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth month; In the tenth day of this month they shall take every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house: and if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of souls, every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.” I like that, that’s the fact that God is saying, “If there are too few of you, you can join together with your neighbor, and this can be an act done together with your neighbor.” “Your lamb shall be without blemish, the male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or the goats: and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.And they shall take of the blood, strike it on the two side posts of the; and on the upper door post of the house, where they shall eat it.” So God’s very clear, the door, the sides, and the top to be covered with this blood. “They shall eat the flesh in that, in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs, they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire, his head with his legs,” so you get the idea. God is saying, “This is how I want it done.” “Ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth,” if there’s anything left over, you’re going to burn it completely. So there’s not going to be anything left over. “Thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, staff in your hand; you shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’S Passover,” so a couple of things are said here.You know, this is probably the original dine and dash, okay, probably, but God’s giving the instructions, so I guess it’s okay. But I want you to look at something. So when we looked at the Sabbath, it was the Lord’s Sabbath. Here it is the Lord’s Passover. Now, in Judaism, even today, every year, if people are adhering to this and they’re still keeping a Passover, they are recounting this whole passage in what is called a “Passover Haggadah.” It’s a little book that kind of chronicles the Passover/Exodus story if you will. And then there is the main meal, and it’s very interesting because if you, if someone were to analyze, and many people have, but if you were in your own time to analyze, you could see that a lot of the things that are being consumed at this Passover Seder, actually have some correlation to the New Testament as well.So it’s kind of interesting. They correlate in many ways to Christ because Christ, as Paul says in the New Testament, Christ, our Passover. So here are the instructions. Verse 12 begins, “For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt will I execute judgment: I am the LORD.” So the first thing that’s going to happen is all the firstborn are going to die, and those who remain, they will see that it is the Lord that is doing this thing.“And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the house where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt. And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.” Remember, I just said to you last week, anytime you read that in the Old Testament, it means that it is attached to a prophetic fulfillment in Christ pointing to or around either Christ coming in the flesh or His return. Here, this is talking about and pointing to Christ in the flesh of Him laying down His life. And what we are to do in the New Testament, we are told basically to partake of the Lord’s Supper until He comes, the cup representing the blood, and the body, if you will, the roasted lamb for strength.Some people talk about the wafer that people use, the round wafer which is, was never a part of anything. It’s just broken bread, that’s all. Broken bread, that’s unleavened, that’s all. “Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.” That’s a pretty sharp thing to say. So if you’ve got leaven and you consume it, it says you’re cut off from Israel. “And the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation to you; no matter; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread.” So very interesting that the prescription is here telling us basically and goes into the Feast of Unleavened Bread which a lot of people, including the New Testament, you’ll read where people tend to say “eight days of Passover,” which is not so. It is Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and you can kind of follow the feasts that are clustered together within that period, including if there are Sabbaths involved. “So seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born the land.” So it doesn’t matter who you are, if you eat leaven, you’re toast, all right.(Laughter.) “You shall eat nothing leavened; in your, in all your habitations; you shall, you shall eat unleavened bread” So here Moses calls out for the elders of Israel, says to them, “Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, kill the Passover. Ye shall take a bunch of hyssops,” imagine a cluster of what would be like branches that have leaves on them, so to speak, “dip it in the blood that’s in the bacon and strike the lintel in the two side posts with the blood that’s in the bason: none of you shall go out at that door of his house until the morning.” So I find it interesting, because here it says, “The LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel and the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. And you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and thy sons forever.” So again, when God says forever and ever, you’ve got to look at this dispensation that would come to a close.So whatever it is that God says is forever has a prophetic fulfillment to it. We know, of course, the prophetic fulfillment is in Christ. So the next question somebody may ask, because we’re trying, we’re trying to build the foundation for this message, is a lot of people will ask this question, which the answers are in the Bible. I think it’s kind of strange that people do not recognize, for example, that Jesus would have celebrated the Passover. There’s always this argument, would He have, would; of course He would have. His parents both adhered to the prescribed way that was being kept for hundreds if not thousands of years. And you read first in Luke 2, and I believe it’s about verse 40, where He was with His parents during the Passover.And that’s the time where He is left behind, and they don’t realize that they’ve left Jesus behind. That’s the first case of child abandonment (laughter) recorded in the Bible. And then the next one that we encounter is in John’s Gospel, the opening of John’s Gospel, where it talks about when He went into the temple when Jesus went into the temple, it was during the Passover at that time when the money changers were sitting.That’s, that particular instance happened, or that scenario happened during the Passover. There are all of these so subtle messages there, because if you think about it, Christ who is our Passover, and Christ knowing that he was the Lamb, John declared, “Behold the Lamb that taketh away the sin of the world.” But think of this, He’s going into the temple on the Passover seeing the money changers, and if you can kind of wrap your mind around this, we have that scenario ongoing still today, because instead of being about our Father’s business, there are people that are- I just talked about this regarding the flag, you could make it money, you could make it the flag, anything that doesn’t belong. And this is why He turned over the tables and chased them out of the temple. And this is why I won’t stay quiet about these things because it is the same principle. You cannot let the world come in and run its affairs inside the house of God. You can’t do it, you can’t let that happen.You let, you let it happen once, you see what’s happening everywhere else. So with that said though, the instructions show us clearly that Christ kept the Passover with His parents, and then thereafter; there’s no reason not, to come up with the idea that He did not. And then we see from the apostle Paul’s writing when he talks about, and I just mentioned, Christ our Passover. So remember I described in the reading, it is the Lord’s Passover and Christ becomes ours. And just even that subtle distinction tells you why when people say, “Should we be celebrating the Passover?” I’m telling you why because Christ is our Passover. We’re not sitting down at a table recounting the deliverance of the children of Israel, although that should be told. We are standing and proclaiming the deliverance of God’s children out of the bondage of sin, which is on a much greater scale than the exodus out of Egypt.If you want to put it in that, in those terms, that’s why we’re talking about Old and New relevance. Now the other thing that I like about this is that, as I said, if a person’s still not sure about the correlation between Old and New, we have all of these different things being said. The Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, that is in Christ, or Christ is our Lamb. Even the details, when we get to the New Testament, of seeing kind of the preparation. And the reason I think that God said on the tenth to bring this lamb and look at it, see it, take it into your house; I want to use a strange term because I’m, I’m exaggerating now, but imagine looking at this, having to look at this animal, knowing this innocent animal is going to be slaughtered. And you’ve got to look at this thing for the next four and a half days.You’re looking at, its sweet eyes or its, whatever it’s doing, and it may be cute or it may be not cute, I don’t know, but you’ve got to look at it. That means that there is a connection to it. It’s not just an animal that was going to be killed, something that would become dear to you, almost hurtful to sacrifice. And these are, I guess, lessons God was trying to paint in pictures to show us the sacrifice, what the sacrifice of Christ was to our heavenly Father is, and we tend to just, I think a lot of people just take it very cheaply because it’s so disconnected from us. We don’t have that same proximity. That’s why I said, a person should develop a relationship with Christ and get to know Christ and know the word, and it would give you a better sense.And I, I’m going to be at a lack to describe this, so indulge me for a minute and forgive me because I’m at lack to find the right words. But this is why for some people, when they start reading the Bible and they see that Christ didn’t just die for the sins of the world. I told you John 3:16, “God so loved the world; God so loved”- you put your name in there. And when it becomes personal to you, you are now entering into this kind of; we’ll call it personal acquaintance like the people had to do by bringing the lamb into their home.When it becomes personal to you that something had to die in your stead, it all starts to gel and suddenly we go from going through the motions of religion to having a relationship with Christ. And these are very important concepts, which believe it or not, as simplistic as it is, most people get lost right there. They think, “I come to church; I’ve got to check the boxes. I’ve got to make sure that I, I pray properly, that I do the right things, that I say the right things.” That’s all the minutia; I’m sorry to tell you, God’s not interested in it at the get-go. Those are details that you work out with Him. But understanding and having that relationship like the children of Israel had to do with that lamb and bringing that lamb into the home, having to look at it, and then knowing you’re going to have to sacrifice it. So everything here, by the way, comes with a price. Now God tells them to roast the lamb whole, to not break a single bone.And I need to say a comment here because I’ve said many times about Christ, a broken body for a broken people. And I never meant it in the context of somehow his bones were severed, but all that was put upon Him, the sins of the world laid upon Him; in that respect, broken body for a broken people. And along with the bitter herbs and the unleavened bread and this meal, as we just read, was to be consumed basically in a state of ready-to-go. When God says, “Okay, one, two, three, eat,” right? It’s almost like “Eat as much as you can. You’ve got 30 seconds to do it. Okay, it’s over. All right, let’s go.” And I’m not saying it was like that, but imagine you would have had a sense of urgency.Something, you wouldn’t be sitting back, oh, I’m stuffed. I can barely move. You know, when you’ve eaten too much, right? It wouldn’t be like that. It would be more along the lines of, I’m, I’m, I’m ready to go. And if, as I said, I just read, there was any lamb left over, they were to completely burn it. And I’m assuming, by the way, that that act of completely burning what was not consumed was to make sure that the surviving Egyptians did not partake of the sacrifice. You could say, “Well, that’s kind of bad.” But no, this was punishment upon the Egyptians, and specifically Pharaoh, but punishment upon those people. So God didn’t want any commingling. It’s going to be completely burned. We’re done with that. Then there is the manner of partaking, which is equally strange, as I said, not just ready to go, but God describes things such as; sorry, these are the details that God gives.For example, if someone was not circumcised, they could not partake in the Passover. And you might say, “Well, okay, well, they weren’t, they weren’t circumcised necessarily in Egypt.” Now, hear me out. Circumcision was instituted with Abram circumcising all the people in his family, his household if you remember that passage. So they would have been practicing circumcision. That would have probably just been something that traditionally, whether or not they knew about God or not, something that would have just been traditionally done. So when God says, “If somebody is not circumcised, they cannot partake of the Passover,” it’s essentially saying, “Not in covenant with Me, you cannot sit down and partake. You can’t even”; sorry to say it, “not in covenant with Me, you can’t be saved.” You think about how you might apply, what I just said, into modern terms, not circumcised by body part; the heart. And then again, it’s all of what I call peeling back the layers of the onion because this story is so familiar, you can just kind of sit back and go, “Yeah, I know the story.” But you look for the minute details and you begin to see how God was basically putting flesh and blood and painting the picture of Christ so perfectly that I don’t know how people could miss it.Another passage describes if a person became ceremonially unclean, that is, they came in contact with a dead body or touched something that would have made them unclean. God said, “You still must keep the Passover, but you will keep it on the following month, on the fourteenth day of the following month.” In other words, see, this is what’s amazing. God didn’t just say, “Okay, well, if you miss this time, you’re done,” but a special dispensation for those people who, whether they did it on purpose or not became unclean, couldn’t partake.And God says, “Okay, you can do it the following month if that’s your condition.” So God made a way for every person to be able to participate, no matter if your family’s too small, then you join with your neighbor. I mean, He’s; you can see all the provisions. I love the fact that it’s almost like God thinks of everything here, sometimes too much detail, but anyway. We’re going to see that as they move from Egypt into the wilderness, this Passover will be kept, but they’re no longer sacrificing in their dwelling. So the place of sacrifice for the Passover will no, it’s no longer necessary to apply the blood as previously to your household. Now it becomes something to be performed at the Tabernacle and eventually, it’ll be performed at the temple.So these are important because it tells you that, you know, we, we tend to think of God giving a prescribed way and then it’s locked in, but even there you can see God modified it as they went from being in Egypt’s bondage and needing to show the sign for the avenging death angel, basically to pass over versus perpetuating and celebrating in perpetuity, which means no longer; no reason to paint the doorpost. You’ve got to bring your Passover sacrifice to the door and there it would be sacrificed. Again, you go to the New Testament, Christ is called what? The Door, so we take all of these pieces and realize God’s been saying the same thing for a long time.We just have been very hardheaded to not listen. That’s okay, as long as the lights come on eventually, that’s okay. On the fifteenth, the sheaf of firstfruits of barley, the new harvest would be offered as a wave offering along with a yearling, as a burnt offering, the prescribed meal offering (we just went through the offerings), two-tenths of an ephah of flour and a drink offering, a quarter of a hin of wine. So you’ve got the prescribed offerings around the pass, around the Passover as well, not just the Paschal lamb, but all the other steps involved in offering. And did it matter to God? It did.Here’s where God starts looking to see if people are keeping His ordinances. Kind of interesting. Each of the seven days of this feast, a goat was offered as a sin offering, two young bullocks, a ram, and seven yearling lambs were offered as burnt offerings after the continual sacrifice. So it’s a lot of offerings and a lot of blood and a lot of burning of stuff, just a lot. On the seventh day, the Sabbath rest, a holy assembly brought the festivities to a close. That also signaled that the morrow which would begin at sundown, leavened bread could now safely be consumed in the household. Now if you read the celebration for Unleavened Bread, even though I’m on the Passover, you’ll read several instances, where we are right now, Leviticus, I’m sorry, Exodus, both in Exodus 23, 34, and Leviticus 23, and Deuteronomy 16. You’ve got those references, so if you want more information on that, read it there. Now, for the language part, the Passover or what is commonly Hebrew, Pesach, obviously refers to or signifies “to stride,” “to spring over,” or “to spare.” And what’s interesting is if you look, this is a this is The Englishman’s Hebrew Concordance of the Old Testament.Thank you. Let me get my little pointing stick here so I can show you. So you’ve got the word here, so you can see it, Pesach, it is the Lord’s Passover, we just read that. But I want you to look at what’s above it because as you know, Hebrew usually works with the three root consonants. So you can see the three, the vowel points are underneath, but here take a look from Pesach to Pesach, and here we have, for example, “I will pass over,” and here it is “the Lord’s Passover,” so you can see the proximity, it’s just the vowel points of the, of the words themselves that change. And I point that out to you for two reasons. One is to show you how easy it is to blur things up in Hebrew, but also to show you the correlation between passing over and the word Passover; they’re the same. If we take the feasts or the set times, I think there are seven: Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles; that is seven.And seven is important. Now these feasts don’t get into the mindset of thinking, “What does it matter to me?” because it does. Because as we study these feasts, for example, as I said, the Passover correlates to Christ and Christ’s sacrifice for us. The Bible says, “For sin comes death.” The wages of sin is death. So without the blood, you know, again, there are people who say, “Well, Christ is not the only way.” Well, if you’re going to read this book, sorry to say it, you’ve got to just, make your own decision. Don’t take my word for it. But if God says the only way that these people can be saved is by applying the blood and moves into the New Testament, says, “The only way these people can be saved is by them applying the blood.” Now it’s to the heart, to the mind, to your thoughts.Don’t think for a second that, these things don’t matter with God. They do. Now the right of redeeming the firstborn was a constant reminder to the Israelites of all generations that the firstborn belonged to God. So wiping out the firstborn of Egypt was a way of saying, “Not only are these people cut off, but they are none of Mine” You might say, “That’s pretty brutal,” but again, I digress to something I just said earlier. You know, could you imagine? And I often entertain this. One pharaoh- you know how much I love history and many of you are into a lot of this history as well. One pharaoh, out of all the pharaohs, turned Egypt into a monotheistic society. And I’m still not certain, even though you can see the hieroglyphs and you can see all of the reliefs, I’m still not sure that there was not an influence in some way, shape, or form by prior history to not go to the thought process of monotheistic God by what all is recorded here.And don’t think, by the way, people say, “Oh, well, this is the only record of this happening.” No, there are, there are scant records within Egypt’s documentation of these events. So do not be fooled when people say, “Oh, there’s no record at all outside the Bible.” Yeah, there is actually. And someone who’s into studying Egyptology will tell you that there are several references to this event that we’re referencing within their records. So I like the fact that you know, when you want to shut somebody up, there’s a, there’s a wonderful way to do it. Just tell them the truth, right? (Laughter.) So we know after the death of the firstborn, they’re pretty eager to get the children of Israel out of Egypt, like, “Okay, go already.Now, before anything worse happens, get out of here.” And we have the plague of the firstborn, God’s way of putting on display, if you thought, for example, that turning the water to blood was nothing but a magician’s trick when your loved one dies, there’s no magic trick there. You know they’re gone. It was God’s exclamation mark, “If you don’t believe Me now, if you don’t believe Me now, if you don’t- well, finally, you’re going to believe Me when you’re first of your family and the first of your animals are just laying there lifelessly.” It was God’s way of saying exclamation marks and mic drops, okay? So just checking to see if you’re awake, (laughter) but, all right. The other thing that I like to say is in all this, you can go back. There is a pastor who’s been prolifically posting messages online and, you know, he’s wearing his colored scarf and he says, “This is made up. This is all fabrication.” Listen, you can believe whatever you want. You can believe you’re a leprechaun too, okay? That’s fine.That’s your prerogative. But here’s my issue. If you’re going to make those types of statements, you better be ready to back up your words. “Well, how do you know that this is not made up?” Well, here’s the deal. When you start reading what God said to Abram and He tells him, He says very point blank. This is early on, He says to Abram, “Thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not there’s, shall serve them,” wonder who that is, huh? “And they shall afflict them for four hundred years, and also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge. And afterward, they shall come out with great substance.” You tell me, it says, “But in the fourth generation they shall come out, they shall come thither again.” So you tell me, and that is the event that happens hundreds of years before this, “Let my people go,” and Moses leads them out. Again, if, if we’re making up a story, there would be some really, we’d have some great flow and there wouldn’t be any, any missing places, but there’s a gap of some kind.So God makes this statement, then there’s a gap. We don’t have any clue what’s going on until it happens. So if you’re going to make up a story, you think you might be, if you were writing and making this up, you would perpetuate. So you’d have Abraham repeat it, then you’d have Isaac repeat it, then you might have Jacob repeat it. No, it’s just repeated to Abram and memorialized for us, and then we have the event that happens a couple of hundred years later on the pages before us.So I’m not inclined to believe that. If I wanted extra-Biblical proof, I told you, to go look at a lot of things that you can trace in Egyptology that will lead you to confirm what the Bible’s saying. So I’m not inclined when people talk about it as a good story. Something is being told to us in the celebration of this event. It’s shadow and type that gives us hope, which is if God spared these people, and listen carefully because it’s so subtle, you can miss what I’m going to say.If God spared these people that they did not know who He was necessary, okay, they might have been referring to the God of Abraham or the God of Isaac or the God, but they didn’t know who God was. They could not. They were in Egypt. And for a couple of hundred years, I said this last week, you see how easily this country has changed just in the last 50 years, how people are forgetting things, how because people have ripped down monuments to great historical figures, there’s a future generation coming that will say, “Christopher who, Columbus? What is that? Who is that person?” They won’t know of it.And that’s going to happen sooner than you think, a generation. Okay, how many of you here will say something like referring to something that maybe was a ’70s TV show and nobody around you knows what the hell you’re talking about? (Laughter.) “Uh, what is that?” Or, okay, do you want to go for the easy one? Here’s the easy one: an old-fashioned telephone with a cord that’s tethered to a wall. Show that to a teenager and ask them, “How do you use this?” (Laughter.) Do you think you have tech problems? I watched a video of somebody staring at the phone going, “I don’t know.I’m not sure.” Okay, you do have problems here. My point is they would not have known. We tend to forget that. So it’s really important to see that God opened His heart to a people that were not well acquainted with Him, to save and deliver them. Does that sound familiar to you at all? (Yes ma’am.) God opened His heart to take someone in that was not familiar with Him, and did not know too much about Him. And I think that’s probably most of us at different stages in our life. So tell me where you think this has radically changed, where God’s changed. He hasn’t. And the principles that are here are still the same. The thing that we have of being in Christ and looking to Him and the blood applied to our circumcised hearts, if you will, is the fact that we know from the words spoken by Christ memorialized in this book, we are saved, we are forgiven.And the Bible even goes on to say that “Whosoever believeth, faiths, trusteth in Him shall have eternal life.” So we even have much better promises. Again, I hate to repeat what I said last week, but the book of Hebrews talks about how much better Christ was over everything in the old dispensation, how much better. We have clarity, we have certainty; we have the whole record laid out for us. That’s why I don’t understand, I’m sorry. I will never understand why it’s so difficult for people to just sit, take 30 minutes to listen, or read the Bible.That doesn’t mean that instantaneously you’re gripped. It doesn’t mean you have understanding. I’m sure people are sitting here that for some of you it’s like, “Oh, I know this story like the back of my hand.” Other people are hearing it for the first time. My point is that God will, for the degree, for every step you take, God’s taking 10 steps towards you, and His approach has not changed. So when we talk about these concepts, they had to celebrate the Passover as a mandate. They were mandated to. Now I’m going to ask this question, which should be rhetorical, but let’s see. How could we look at what Christ did and feel somehow mandated? Like it’s mandatory? No, I want to tell people because I want to share with them the greatness of what I know Christ has done. But this is, again, it’s another one of these issues and I’ll try not to take up too much time here. But if you understand, we’re not mandated, yet we should be, okay, you had a great meal last week.It was the best meal you’ve ever had. Do you have to be mandated to tell somebody that was the best meal you had or if it truly was the best meal, you know what? My guess is you’re probably, “Oh my God! I had this food. It was so amazing, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah,” and you bore people with it, but you go on about how great it was. Well, if Christ is that great and better than a meal, you don’t feel like it’s a mandate. You feel like, you feel sorry for people who don’t know what you know and you want to share it.And this is another part of this; we’re not under that mandate. And when people say, oh, you have a duty or something, no, freely and desirously to share that good news that Jesus Christ is the Passover for us. He is the blood applied and He’s not just as the Passover was, a passing over, but how about a washing, a cleansing and eradicating of sin, past, present, future; much better than any blood applied to a door. And again, the type is Christ is the Door. That’s what the New Testament talks about. So unlike our brothers and sisters in antiquity, I don’t think you need to have a mandate to tell people about the goodness of what’s happened in your life. Now, that’s to say we don’t do testimonials here. Some people say, “Oh, you should have people stand up and do testimonies.” And I’ve told you, we don’t do that because everybody has one. It’s like other body parts, everyone has one, (laughter) all right? But what I want us to focus on here is the importance of making this connection.I think every, Christian for the most part knows Christ our Passover. That’s, seems to be clear, right? But when we talk about the Lord’s Supper, the table of the Lord, to help us to remember; remember Paul’s words, “Do this in remembrance of Him, basically until He comes. So we are keeping the Passover in that sense a memorial, the memory of what Christ did in laying down His life and being our Paschal Lamb. So there are these connections we make when we talk about, by the way, the Passover. Some people use the word Christ’s “Passion,” which is Christ’s suffering for us. And I think the other thing that gets missed in all of this, I just mentioned this in the opening of the message, how we are seemingly facing a lot of challenges as Christians in America, persecution to various degrees, some of it is just verbiage, others harmful; bodily harm.Just remember something, that is pretty much the price of association and, and has been since the beginning. You know, people thought, “Oh, this is outrageous!” Well, do you think that they were saying that while they were crucifying the disciples? Same, why did they crucify them? Why did they put them to death? Because they wouldn’t say what the world wanted them to. Think about it, nothing has changed; this is why I keep going, don’t say this is antiquated. Nothing has changed! They killed Christ for that. They killed His disciples for that. “Say what we want you to say, be as we are, and we can all get along and we’ll all have a great time.” The disciples said, “No,” and it cost them their lives. So we have to kind of be mindful when we say we are under a light affliction if you want to call it that. That’s nothing new. And by the way, that will continue, it will get worse as the days come to a close. We know that God’s word talks about tribulation, the great tribulation. I don’t know what you think that means, that word means, but tribulation means something bad, not something good will be poured out upon the earth.And then of course I’m not going to get into it now, the great debate as to whether Christians will be here or not. You know, I’ll settle that for you: it doesn’t matter. If you’re trusting Christ, it does not matter. You know, people, people get caught up in this, “Well, I, I want to, I want to know, I need to know.” How about you get to know that you know who you’re serving, and where you stand with Him, the rest of it will be taken care of. You say, “Well, that’s not an answer.” Well, it kind of is because the argument will go on with as much ambiguity as people like to talk about.Now I’ve heard people say we won’t be here. Some people said we will, but that’s a message for another day. The important thing is to keep faith and trust Him and to see that He is indeed our Passover. We don’t need to be celebrating something that God said is now over. That way of celebrating has been done away with if you will. In Hebrew, the word “leaven,” I need to touch on this, is châmêts, literally meaning “sour.” Leaven usually, yeast or baking powder is added to produce fermentation, especially in bread and dough, which causes it to rise.As the leaven sours the dough, tiny gas bubbles are released producing the dough to rise. So God said, “All leaven is to be removed from your households, not a drop or speck to be found. Period.” And leaven is usually associated with sin. Now this is the thing that people get stuck on. So modern Jewry, today’s Jews who are celebrating, go through a procedure. That procedure for the set time of Passover would be to clean your entire house. I’m all for spring cleaning, by the way. That’s great. Everybody should do that one time a year, spring cleaning. (Laughter) But the idea is to wash your walls, wash your windows. Every part of the home is scrubbed down meticulously with the idea that everything in the home possibly has been contaminated all year round by the leaven that might have been in the house. And I, I kind of think of it this way and I want you to approach this kind of to see how these two are different.So for the modern Jew, it’s about working to get the leaven out of your house. For the Christian, the only way the leaven is removed is through Christ, not through works. So you can see two distinct ways. This is more of works, “We’ll work to remove. We’ll get rid of it.” And there are, trust me, there are a lot of Christians that think- God, I was preaching somewhere. I think I told you the story. I delivered a message to the potter’s house, in a prison somewhere. And then the chaplain who was a butthead, okay, he was. He came up after all the work I did and told the inmates, “Yes, and you have to pick out all the impurities in the clay.” Okay, if you can do that, you’re God, okay? And I’m not. So anyway, my point is we can’t. So you can just see the juxtaposition between the old way that says, “Keep working, keep doing something to clean” versus You are made clean through the word, you are made clean and washed through the blood of Christ.There’s no work in that. It’s faith and trust in God. And I love that when you put the two side by side you realize there’s no amount of work I could ever do to take the leaven out of this container called Melissa Scott, nor of yours. So I think it’s pretty amazing when you see the grace of God to say, “That’s not the way, but faith in Christ gets it done.” Last but not least, I want to talk about this because it sums up everything that I’ve been saying.We talk about Christ as the Lamb. He was, it was pointed out, the Lamb, “Behold the Lamb that taketh away the sin of the world.” This is the other mystery, I will never understand. Yes, I understand that cultures, you know, I’ve taught comparative concepts in religion, but I’ve never understood this. In all of the, we’ll call it the pantheon, the whole picture of all the deities, there is not one deity; not one like Christ. And hear me out, don’t say, “That’s racist”” or that’s, whatever you want to call it. There isn’t. Look for yourself. Buddha couldn’t completely cleanse inside and out. The person had to work at achieving the state within themselves. You go through all of the world’s religions. There’s only one person who makes these claims that He, there’s something wrong with the world. His death is going to make a right, that in His death you might live, all of these statements.There’s only one. Look for it yourself, not; sorry, not the prophet Muhammad, not Joseph Smith. There isn’t, there isn’t any. So this is what I, I guess for me is frustrating and I don’t understand. I might say somebody doesn’t understand the concept of sin, both as I described in the offerings, the state of being born in fallen Adam, and the fruit thereof. But if I understood that I was trapped in essence, in my ways, both in my condition and the fruit of my condition, you told me that the only way that I could ever get well was to look at this Paschal offering in Christ and see that He didn’t just cover, He took away, He removed, that I- He died, that I might live. It’s, it’s baffling to me that people will not take a second look at this, and baffling to me, that people still want to celebrate something that cannot cleanse the inside of you.It can perhaps act as a covering in your mind, but it could never remove. It could not do what Christ’s offering as the Paschal Lamb could do. So it’s baffling to me when I see people that whole cloth, they reject, they refuse and I think to myself, it’s okay, your day will come. Not because I wish you mal or malice or ill will towards you, but your day will come. There is not a person; sorry, there’s not a person who gets out of here alive and I don’t mean this building, I mean life. So you figure out quickly, some will get to know Christ as an insurance policy just to check the box, just to make sure and others say, “I want to know more about this Person,” and others say, “I want nothing to do with Him.” Well, the category that says, “I want nothing to do with Him,” I don’t think I have to describe their fate.That will be up to God. I’m not, I’m nobody’s judge, but to the category of people who’ve even looked to Him, entertained, glanced, it’s mind-boggling to me that you can’t take 30 minutes to look and see the uniqueness of Christ that not only is He all of these offerings, is He all of these set times in the fulfillment, but He offers to us something that God did not offer to the children of Israel nor for hundreds of years until the coming of Christ, and that is something that the law could never do. Paul spells it out clearly; this law could only bring death, but truth, peace, and grace by Jesus Christ.With an add-on to something, not one person in this book apart from Adam and Eve who were given eternal life at the beginning, there’s not one person in here until the coming of Christ who can talk about eternity and being with God forever until that time. So what I’m saying to you is if there was ever a message that I said to you, it’s important to know who He is. This is why Easter, which is our Passover, Christ our Passover, is so important. It is the center and circumference. It is the middle, the outside, and the middle of Christianity. Without it, you can’t even make your way into the church. And not seeing the center point you’re never going to find your way to anything else. He solves it all by you focusing on Him in faith, recognizing He died that you might live. And if I could just even say one final thing on this, one last thought because I, my time’s up here.If you examine everything that’s in the passage we looked at, and there are accompanying passages which you can kind of study side by side, you will see that in all of this, even under a concept of law which here was not yet given in Egypt, the, the law had not yet been given, but even in the giving of the law, look carefully and you will see God’s grace. When He says, “Okay if you can’t celebrate it on the fourteenth of that month, you’ll do it the next month,” He makes provisions. If you’re too poor to offer, you can offer the least of the offerings. He included everybody. There wasn’t a person in the camp; if you were too poor, you could take from the gleanings that people left mandatorily behind for the poor. God included everybody. That was God’s plan all along. Now, with our free will, we mess it up.So this is why I said to you, now God says, “You can all come,” and we can all partake of that Paschal Lamb which is Christ, but I’m telling you something. God is not begging for you to come in. He’s looking for people that will look to Him, look at this word and say, “Wow, I never, I never recognized that was for me,” not for the world, not for the camp, the congregation, for me. And when it becomes personal, it will begin to matter to you. When it becomes personal, you’re getting to the point of that acquaintance with the Lamb and then suddenly the Lamb is slaughtered.And all you can look at is recognizing God prescribed a way for you and me to live that in times past would have only been a temporary method. All of these saints, guess what? They all still died. And this is why the Bible talks about when Christ died and speaks of Him going to preach to the departed souls, I think some were so committed to God’s program that He sent Christ to preach to them and to deliver them. We don’t have to wait for that time. We can act now and look to Him now. Now, I know, as I said, a very simplistic message, but very important. These set times, if people will take, the time to read through what the Passover means, how it can be applied in the now, not as an Old Testament dispensation, but as a shadow and type, and all of it points to Christ.Please do not tell me that you can read this book and not see how God was so gracious, not just to the children of Israel, but in giving us this complete Old and New Testament to be able to look at the whole thing and not have, not have any place to say, “You know, well, God didn’t do it there. No, God didn’t do it there.” No, God did it in here. And then you close the book and you recognize when you know who Christ is, God did it 2,000-plus years ago and He did it here as well, no longer the exterior, the works, the performance, but all by faith in Christ. So these set times, maybe for some, oh, it’s an, it’s an Old Testament celebration.No, it’s a New Testament revelation of what God was revealing in a shadow or a type, Christ being the substance. That’s my message. 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Jesus says, "Rise, take up thy bed and walk." Remember it's a Sabbath day. "Immediately the man was made whole, took up his bed, and walked. On the same day was the Sabbath. The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, 'It is the Sabbath day; it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.'" Are you serious? Are you freaking kidding me? You just got healed and you guys are going to criticize me for dragging my bed. What, you want me to leave my bed here so that I'm going to have to come back? Maybe I'll be crippled in the journey back again, getting back here to get my bed. I would have told them to go pound some sand. ♪ ♪ Leviticus 23, "And the Lord speak unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them concerning the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations. And these are my feasts. Six days shall work be done, but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, a holy convocation ye shall do no work therein; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.
These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons." And then goes on to talk about Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, and so on. But I want to start with the Sabbath. For most people, they just, who are not in the know, think Sabbath Saturday. But actually Sabbath traditionally would start Friday at sundown, go through Saturday until Saturday sundown. So that would be the full Sabbath. That's how time also was reckoned for the Sabbath like that. So it's important to understand that the Sabbath and Sunday are two different things. But I want to kind of explore this a little bit more because there's a lot more to the Sabbath. Sabbath, when I say that, it's not like Sabbath, it's exciting. Right? No, it's not exciting at all. Okay, let's just be clear. I'm even aware it's not an exciting subject. However, when you study it and you're looking through the lenses, you put on those glasses and you see Christ, it does get exciting because it's no longer an old dispensation.
So we know that as God created the heavens and the earth and everything that's in it, including and on it, including man. And it says that God declared the seventh day to be the day of rest. And the observance of Sabbath was in essence a confession or an acknowledgement to the God of all earth. See, we have this wrong. Even modern Jewry tends to err on this side that thinks it's a rest from our labors, but it is not. In fact, the intention of the original implementation of this day was to get us to stop, one day to really stop everything we are doing that would be for self and self-purposes and to solely and strictly focus on God's completed and finished acts and work that He did.
So we tend to make this mistake of forgetting essentially what the Sabbath is. And when God says He declared that day a Sabbath, it is because, listen carefully, because this is in this statement, much is revealed. God ceased from His work. So He created, He did all this, He makes Adam, He ceases from His work and He declares this day to be special to Him. First and foremost, it's not special to man, although when it gets implemented in the law, it becomes somewhat of a mandate.
But there's actually good reason when you begin to pick this apart to look a little bit deeper as to why God would designate this particular day. God had a plan from the beginning. Now the way that plan was expressed, that changed over time and for various reasons and purposes, which are laid out for any person who will read it abundantly clear. Think about this. The people were in Egypt's bondage. They were in Egypt for over 430 years, not 430 years of bondage, but they were in Egypt from the time that Jacob and his children arrived and started living in Goshen to the time that they were in bondage, to the time that they were set free, 430 years had passed.
Now you tell me if we don't read about Jacob father Jacob, Israel. We don't read that. He understands where the Sabbath is. Now he may have, God may have told him, but there's no implementation of it. So think of it this way, much of what we learn when the children of Israel come out of Egypt's bondage will be new to them. We tend to just think, oh yeah, well they must have been celebrating or they knew that in Egypt, but how could they have known that in Egypt when so much time had ela…, sorry, just take a look at our country okay, from the founding of our country until now, has this country changed radically, almost like turned on its head upside down? And that's not 430 years. So imagine what another 200 years of this country in existence could be, right? Never mind. So what I'm saying to you is that's what you have to remember when they were in Egypt.
We automatically assumed that when they came out, they had a frame of reference. They did not. In fact, much of what God said and did had not been seen before. The instructions had not been heard before. Think about this. If you spell certain things out in a law-like manner for people who do not know, who have complete ignorance, you have just given them something to live by. So we look at the Sabbath and there are things that we can glean and understand about the Sabbath. For example, as I said, you've got to go back to the Genesis account. But the thing that's kind of crazy if you think about this is that when we look at the Sabbath, there is almost in some places a covenant attachment, much like circumcision, but different. Remember God gives the order to Abraham, which was before the law, that then will become refined in the law to circumcise every male child on the eighth day.
But prior to the giving of the law, there was no law per se to circumcise. That was a sign of a pact between mankind, whom God had chosen, and God. So the Sabbath almost becomes a covenant in a different way. If you think about it that way, the covenant is almost by design, forcing the individual every single day of the week to stop if they didn't do it in the week, which I would find it very hard to believe living around this tent and being confronted with much slaughter and worship all day long. I don't know how you would not think of God, but the Sabbath was implemented as another way to get man to say, "Stop what you're doing" and focus. Focus on worship, on praise for what God has done in creation, for what God has done in deliverance, and so on. We don't tend to think of the Sabbath that way. Now, whoever broke keeping the Sabbath basically broke covenant with God, and that's why you'll read that in certain places it says that for someone who did not adhere and follow the Sabbath, they could be punished by death.
Now that's pretty severe if Sabbath is only intended to be a day of cessation from work. That's pretty severe. Why would you impose such a harsh penalty, but if it's to get the individual to look Godward, then I can see it. It makes complete sense. It was at Mount Sinai that the observance of the Sabbath would be instituted after God made a covenant with the people. Now, if you to turn in your Bibles to the book of Exodus. I want you to check something out. Again, it's a thing we've all read commonly and we've seen it many times, but there's something very unique about the fourth commandment in the Decalogue or in the Ten Commandments. Exodus 20, remember Christ said, "I did not come to destroy but fulfill the law," right? So everything must be fulfilled in Him, and some of these things by the way end up getting nailed to the tree, which Paul aptly puts out there. But this is interesting.
Of all the things that are reiterated in the Decalogue, you begin at verse 8, Exodus 20, verse 8, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." Now first mistake is English readers reading that and thinking somehow, purification, ritualization, ceremony. How about, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it set apart," for Him, right? That's first. "Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath" of who? "Of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work thou or thy son, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger, that is within thy gates.
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them," that is in them is and rested the seventh day, wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it." So it's interesting that that takes up 1, 2, 3, 4 verses, and the rest of them are just, you know, "Honor thy mother and thy father, thou shall not kill." So this is expanded upon.
That tells you there's something more there we need to, we need to figure out. If you will, turn with me just a few pages to Exodus 31. And Exodus 31 beginning at verse 12. "And the Lord speak unto Moses, saying, Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths," plural, "you shall keep; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you." Now, remember what I said about when God says a memorial or in perpetuity, when He uses those words, there is a, there's always going to be a deeper double or even triple meaning to what's there.
So when God says, "for generations," usually that's where you're going to look for the underneath part that's going to take you into the New Testament somewhere, because when God says forever it usually means forever. All right, verse 14 says, "You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy unto you. Everyone that defileth shall surely be put to death." Again, isn't that harsh if it's just simply a day of rest? "For whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among the people." Oops.
Six days may work be done, but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest. Holy to the Lord, whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Now, let me help you out here a little bit, because the Sabbath obviously as we'll see is in Christ. The writer of Hebrews explains that to us clearly, and I'm going to show you some other places where we get great clarity. But let me reread this again and make a commentary. Six days may be done, work may be done, but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest. Holy to the Lord, whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. We in the New Testament, I'm just going to cut to the chase real quickly, because I'm going to be referring to this throughout the message. We in the New Testament are Sabbath-ing daily in Christ, not one day a week, but every day. So to stop and be recognizing Him in all things, we are Sabbath-ing daily. So whoever works in the Sabbath, I want you to make that more modern application to whoever's trying to work their way in versus looking at Christ's finished work and resting in it.
He says, "Here shall be surely put to death." In other words, this is what Paul highlights about the works of the flesh versus the works of the Spirit. So if you're trying to sort this out, we begin by seing that there are sub-texts right here in the text that we should be mindful of. "Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations for a perpetual covenant." So the writer of the Hebrews says, "These things are about to decay, to pass away, or they have served their purpose and their time." That's right.
There's your key that there must be some secondary or tertiary meaning to the Sabbath," perpetual covenant. God doesn't make a covenant and then break it. Now, the same verbiage is used in the New Testament when they're sitting down. He says, "This blood," basically, the cup of the new covenant. So there's never a time when God says, "I'm, I gave a covenant and then I destroyed it." No, this actually the unfolding of of the fullness of what God promised back there.
Don't think it's some… God ripped this up and he started anew. It doesn't work like that. So what we have here is also a problem of interpretation. As I said earlier, the problem we encounter with interpreting it from English, "A Sabbath does not mean rest because of exhaustion or fatigue, but rather to cease." And in fact, there are other meanings to this word, which I will get to in a minute, but a celebration of God's work being completed in creation. But at Sinai, it's more than just ceasing. What we're going to see is a reminder, the first Sabbath given to a people who had been brought into a covenant by God's salvific action. And I say that for one purpose, because if you turn to Deuteronomy 5, this is your time to do a little bit of work.
I know it's painful, to turn the pages, but bear with me. Alright, so in Deuteronomy 5:12, "Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee." So not personal preference. God said, "That's that. You're going to do it six days. Thou shalt, thou labor and do all thy work." But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. Again, it doesn't say it's the Sabbath of the children of Israel. It's the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, not your Sabbath. You don't get the Sabbath, it's His, and you get to participate in it. That's a novel idea, right? The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord, of the Lord thy God. In it thou shall not do any work, thou nor thy son, thy daughter, thy man servant, thy maid servant. I don't know how you control an ox or any of your animals from not working. And by the way, they considered the act of reproduction working. So I don't know when your animals got frisky on the Sabbath.
What did you do? Holy cow! Wait it's going to get worse. Nor thine ox, nor thine ass. Don't know what to tell you if the shoe fits where it, nor any of thy cattle. So you know, God goes to great lengths to tell you that He doesn't want anybody doing anything, and you better get your animals under control, right? I don't know, I still don't know how you do that. Sit Nellie. All right. Nor thy stranger that is within thy gates, that thy man servant and thy maid servant may rest as well as thou. So everybody, no exceptions. But here's the key to what I want to point out to you, which is in addition to something we just read. Verse 15, it's almost as though God attaches the Sabbath in connection to this.
And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm. Therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day. It's almost as though in reading that 15th verse attached everything, it's as though God is saying, because of my, God speaking, not me, because of my efforts, because of my work, because of my endeavor, because of all that I've done for you, including bringing you out of Egypt, you are to keep this day. So he adds to it a salvation component, and that becomes important for us in the New Testament. I'm not there yet, so give me a chance to catch up, but you can begin to see that God is attaching some concepts to the Sabbath. Deliverance is one of them. The children of Israel identified with God, with Yahweh, by sharing in the Sabbath, which was to be a time of refreshment, if you will, but refreshment in the Lord, worship.
But the instructions to keep the day holy or set apart, reveal the greater purpose simply than just ceasing from the labor temporarily. The day was set aside for worship, devotion to God, not for self-serving purposes. And I'm going to repeat a lot of things, but they need to be repeated. One more point to all this, which I just said, but you can't, I can't say this enough, it shall be a Sabbath to the Lord. So the preposition there to implies possession. Whose Sabbath was it? The Lord's, exactly. This is what makes me go batty, is when I hear people talking about the Sabbath, and they don't even include the fact that God said it was His, not theirs.
Just saying, okay. So this is kind of at the core. If we understand it's the Lord's Sabbath, at the core of why people were not to pursue personal care or taking care of their own issues, but rather to take time, opportunity. I hate when people do this, because I've heard people say a divine appointment. It's a very cheap televangelist type lingo. But if, if that's what resonates with you, an appointment with God, I hate to say that. But in matters pertaining to God, God, you know, if you read through what God says, He's a jealous God, well He wants, He wants the recognition. You might say, well, you're, you're humanizing God, you're anthropomorphizing Him. But think of it, that's why He said, I'm a jealous God, you'll have no other gods before me, and I want you to acknowledge Me.
Just stop for a second and think about this. God knew that these people, although He rained down the plagues and He brought them out of Egypt with a deliverer and He gave them a structure and a system and a society and purpose. He still wanted them to acknowledge Him. Now you might think, well that sounds kind of like, eh, but if you think about it, God risked a lot by just trying to deliver these people, even though they essentially went into Egypt's bondage by a prophetic word, which was foretold to Abraham, which was made good in, obviously in Jacob and his children.
But the point here is this and simply put, failure to acknowledge God. So God says, "I'm not going to wait for you to do it spontaneously, that may never happen. I'm going to orchestrate a day where you will be forced. I command you," imagine that, "to recognize Me in all that I've done." And that kind of gives you a nutshell of why the Sabbath would have been instituted at this point. Okay? We're not in to the New Testament yet. So the Sabbath obviously prefigured something greater than a day declared. And unfortunately the children of Israel, if you know their history, and I've taught on this enough, did not receive the fulfillment of the anticipated rest. They did not. And the reason why is that many of those that, the vast majority of those that came out of Egypt rebelled. And what did God do? It says, "God srew their bones in the wilderness." So many of them did not enter into, we'll call that their promised rest. At Massah and at Maribah, if you remember, the children of Israel tested God and there He swore.
That's kind of interesting that they would not enter into his rest. Think about that. I mean, again, if we're so familiar with the book, it could be like, you know, I just said like, how's the weather? But if you're reading it and you go back and you read the chapter where God says, "You will not enter into my rest." That's almost like that. If I was one of those wandering in the wilderness, I'd be a little bit taken back that God just declared that I'm not entering into His rest. That's a big problem. Based on, of course, their disobedience and their rebellious nature. Turn with me to Matthew 11, so we can start putting some New Testament flesh and blood on this. Matthew 11, and then we'll be in Matthew 12, but Matthew 11, something really important here, and I'm going to show you the beginning of obtaining the rest that God was prefiguring in the Sabbath is actually, begins to be realized here in the words of Christ. Matthew 11, 28 says, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you who learn of me, I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest in your souls. For my yoke is easy, my burden is light. Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." That word, Strong's 373, is a word called anapauo ana, "up", and pauo, you'll recognize menopause. Pauo, to pause, to cease. All right? And this word occurs in different places, but this is the first time that we begin to unfold a little bit of what this means, and don't think that you know exactly what it means, because it's, it's actually kind of complex. Let me look at the 12th chapter with you. So just a few verses later, the 12th chapter of Matthew begins, and this might help us to start gleaning some info here.
"At that time Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the corn, and his disciples were hungered and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat. When the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold thy disciples, do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath day. But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did when he was a hungered, and they that were with him? How he entered into the house of God and did eat the showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priest." Did you not know about that? Or have you not read in the law how that on the Sabbath days the priest in the temple profaned the Sabbath and are blameless? "But I say unto you that in this place is one greater than the temple.
But if he had known what this meaneth I will have mercy and not sacrifice, you would have, you, you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day." In those words something is said that we could read right by and not take into account, which is Jesus is saying, I am the Lord of the Sabbath. I can do what I want. I, I establish the rules. I make the rules. I say, and my say is, this whole passage, think of it, the Pharisees saw it and they began to say, look what they're doing. Now that tells you a couple things. It does tell you, and people tend, again, I love this, people tend to forget that Jesus was born into a life of Jewry, that he would have been part of the ceremonialism and all the things that His parents did, including the Sabbath.
So it's interesting that in front of these religious people he says, I am basically the Lord of the Sabbath. And what is even more interesting than that is we're constantly discussing this. It's a constant discussion. I hear people discuss this all the time about Saturday versus Sunday. The discussion is not about the day of the week. That's the problem. So the Sabbath didn't move to Sunday. I'll just spell that out. We have something different that's happening here and we'll need to get to the book of Hebrews for me to explain this, but Sunday was set aside to commemorate a new event. Sunday was set aside to commemorate the Lord's rising from, from the grave. And if you look at what Paul says in much of his writings, you can kind of see that that is the implication. We have something brand new that happened here.
No one ever was celebrated from coming out of the grave, living, preaching, being around the disciples and then ascending. So something new set the tone for Sunday. But do not make the mistake again, which most people do, which is Sunday is the Lord's day. It is indeed the Lord's day, but so is every other day the Lord's day. And then people say, well, I couldn't keep up with a God who demands my attention for every day of the week. Wow. Okay, it seems to me you may not really be that interested in knowing about God then because someone who's interested, that becomes an integral part of your life, not just a Sunday type thing. So let's park that though we'll, we'll come back to it.
So something that Jesus says in, in one of the Scriptures. He says, "Man was not made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath for man." Again, what does the church world for the most part do? They claim the Sabbath as their own. Again, it's this warped, you've even got groups. And again, I'm going to take flak for this, but I'll say it because I must speak the truth unpopular as it is in these days. Seventh-day Adventist, Seventh-day Baptist, and there are many Sabbatarians within Christendom. They follow Christ, but they also impose the keeping of Sabbath. And if you read the 1689 Baptist Confession, there is an article on the Sabbath or following the Sabbath.
And this is the question that has come up honestly in my mail, in letters to me more often than I can count. So here's the problem. The first introduction, as I said, until the giving of the law. So the introduction, if you will, of the Sabbath, which is in creation, until the giving of the law. The Sabbath's about God's finished work and from Him ceasing from His labors. I've already said that, so that's one. But then with the coming of Christ, something radical does not, it's not that it changes. It's the embodiment. The Gospels record, for example, if you'll turn with me to Luke 14. So again, similar passages of things, but with nuances. "Came to pass as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath day, and they watched him." They were just waiting for him to do something that they could comment on and disagree with, right? Which still goes on to this day.
"Behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. Jesus answering, spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, 'Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?'" And I love this because he knows the answer. And remember, he is Lord of the Sabbath. So this is kind of like a trick question. It says, "They held their peace." Yeah, it's interesting how to shut people up, right? "He held their peace and he took him, healed him, and let him go, and answered them, saying, 'Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen in a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the Sabbath day?' And they could not answer him again to these things." Then he puts forth a parable and the passage goes on.
But the point is here, I think, I want you to really think long and hard about this, because he just heals a man, sends him away. Later on they're going to condemn him for this act. But instead of talking about healing, he says, "If your animal falls in the ditch on the Sabbath, wouldn't you get it out of the ditch?" And this telegraphs to you part of the problem within Judaism. Still to this day, it's called box checking, okay? So God said, God gave this order. So here's a poor animal suffering in the ditch. Oh, it's the Sabbath. I got to wait until, until sundown. Well, that poor thing will probably struggle and die in the ditch. What's better, to rescue and save that which is dying and risk the ramifications from God or leave it there and be cruel to that thing, which is basically what Jesus is showing in healing the man.
But that also he is Lord of the Sabbath. Bet you never heard a message like this. It's going to go in every direction to bust most people's ideologies of the Sabbath. Now, as I said with the coming of Christ, we read this passage and we see, they go silent. What do you do with this? And I guess they couldn't reply to any of what he said, because the reality is it would make you callous against God's creation and care for God's creation.
It would also make you, if you weren't willing to help your fellow man, think about this, because there's all these, "Love thy neighbor," right? Well then, "I'm conflicted. Which law do I adhere to, the Sabbath or the loving the neighbor," right? Jesus says, "Put an end to that." And he did, and that's why they were silent. This was also a way to begin ending the ceremonialism. I want you to also think of that. See, Jesus for His short lifetime incarnate would have most definitely participated in many of these holy days and set times. And out of His mouth He utters these things as if to say, "This is coming to an end. It's coming to a close." And it would, the closure would be realized at His resurrection. So you've got to put all this together. Now, you've got to something else that happens. It's a similar passage in John 5, but now you get the full impact of Jesus' healing.
John 5, "And these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water, for an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, troubled the water: whosoever then first, after the troubling of the water, went and stepped in, was made whole of what's over disease he had." So it's kind of like musical chairs for healing, right? "And a certain man was there which had an infirmity thirty-eight years. Jesus saw him lie, knew that he had been now a long time in that case, and said unto him, 'Will thou be made whole?' The impotent man answered, 'Sir, I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool, but while I am coming another stepeth down before me.'" So in essence I'm too messed up to get down to where I need to be, so it's a vicious circle and I can never get well.
Jesus says, "Rise, take up thy bed and walk." Remember it's a Sabbath day. "Immediately the man was made whole, took up his bed, and walked. On the same day was the Sabbath. The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, 'It is the Sabbath day; it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed.'" Are you serious? Are you freaking kidding me? You just got healed and you guys are going to criticize me for dragging my bed. What, you want me to leave my bed here so that I'm going to have to come back? Maybe I'll be crippled in the journey back again, getting back here to get my bed.
I would have told them to go pound some sand. He answered them and said, "He that made me whole, the same said unto me, 'Take up thy bed and walk.' Then ask they him, 'What man is that which said unto thee, 'Take up thy bed and walk?' And he that was healed wist not who it was, for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place. Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple and said unto him, 'Behold thou art made whole, sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee.' The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus sought to slay him because he had done these things on the Sabbath day." Let me just pause and say one thing. See, it wasn't that they cared more about God and God's Word. They cared more about their ceremonialism and their box checking. They did not care for love thy neighbor, love thy brother, their brethren, but just box checking. Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus and sought to slay him because he had done these things on the sabbath day." And as a sidebar, if God, the Father disapproved of what the Son was doing, I'm sure this would have been laid out plain, but there's, there's good reason in here.
Jesus answers them, "My Father knoweth worketh, my Father worketh hitherto and I work." In other words, this is of God. "Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him because he had not only broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his father making himself equal with God." Now listen, you know, if I met somebody and they did something miraculous like that, and then they said that they were equal with God, I might just have to pay a little bit of attention because miraculously they did what no one else could do.
But no, their thing is kill him, right? So I don't know. It just, it's, it almost appears at face value kind of nutty that they couldn't see this. The other thing that I think is, is kind of tragic here is people do not understand the Sabbath laws were, as I said, a shadow, a type, that there could be rest from trying to enter into the kingdom. And by that I mean how many tried to work their way in to try and do good, to try and perform, whatever it is.
But the new covenant we are taught, Christ did all the work. We rest in Him and His finished work. So not a Sabbath to be performed in ceremony, but one that clearly shows what we need. For that, you turn to Hebrews 3. And I'm going to start at verse 7, and I want to show you a couple of things here. Of course, in this passage the writer of Hebrews is saying how Jesus is superior to Moses. And starting in the seventh verse, I'm just jumping in the middle of things, so don't fault me for that, because there's, I've got to show you some things here. "Wherefore as the Holy Ghost saith," verse 7, "today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness. When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation and said, 'They do alway err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.'" And that, read the Old Testament, it's plain as day. "So I swear in my wrath, here it is, they shall not enter into my rest." And I want you to see that that word right there, 2663, is katapausis, pauosis and katapausis, anapauosis, they're all derivatives of pauosis to cease or to pause, from the same word I orginally described. "They shall not enter into my rest." "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief and departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
For we are made partakers of Christ if we hold to the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end. While it is said today, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke, howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? And to whom swear that they would, should not enter him into his rest," there's the word again, katapauosis, "but to them that believe not." So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
And if you read into the fourth chapter, it talks about this, "Let us fear lest a promise being left of entering into his rest," there it is again, "and if you should seem to come short of it. For unto us the gospel, was the gospel preached as well as unto them, but the word preached did not profit them." It didn't do anything. It made no change, made no difference, did nothing, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest." Although the works were finished from the foundation of the world, for he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, and God did rest the seventh day from all his work.
And in this place again, "if they shall enter into my rest," seeing therefore it remaineth, that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief." Again, he limited a certain day saying in David, "Today, after so long a time, as it is said today, if you will hear his voice," third time, "harden not your hearts. For if," not Jesus, but Joshua had given them rest, that's what it is, reads in the Hebrew, I mean the Greek rather, "then would he not afterwards have spoken of another day, there remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." And if you read in your margin, it says, "a keeping of a Sabbath." But read on and it tells you it's not a day like we understand the Old Testament was.
"Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest," to enter into that rest, "lest any man fall after the example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow it is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight, but all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do." So if you read that passage, what is essentially saying is as we faithe, as we trust Christ for our salvation, for his finished work, for eternity, for entering in and it could keep going. We are entering into that rest.
It was a promise given at the beginning. It is a perpetual covenant, if you will. That covenant, the shadow was introduced in a day. The substance was introduced in the person and the reality after the resurrection becomes a daily, if you will, recognition of God's acts, activity, his creation, his finished work that we never had either in the law or after the law anything to do with except to be focused on him. Remember I said to you, Jesus takes the law, thou shall not kill, but I say unto you, or it is written, thou shall not kill, but behold I say unto you, if you hate in your heart, your as guilty as a murderer. He took the law and put it on a much higher level, but then says it's all fulfilled in me. You know, you no longer have to perform rituals.
So the Mosaic Sabbath, what Moses issued to the people, a shadow, prefiguring what could not yet be understood in a person. How would you explain this? See this is what I'm saying to you, God had sound reason for introducing himself, his ways and his words to these people who, as I said, for all the time in bondage would have had no frame of reference.
And then out of bondage wandering in the wilderness for 40 years and then for those who did indeed enter into the land, whatever time there that passed again, God was chronically, if you will, re-educating people over and over and over and over again. Hence, having the tabernacle in the middle of the community was a good way to keep reminding people to stay focused. This is why if you look at America, most cities, most major cities in America always had a church in the center of town, patterned after what? The Old Testament. If you had this religious entity that invited people, we'll call it an institution in the middle of town, it would remind people in their comings and goings of God.
Good luck with that now. But anyway, all right, more on this. In Romans, and I think it's Romans 14, but let me turn there and I will tell you if I am right. Yes, Romans 14, Paul says, "Let him that eateth despise, let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not, and let him, let not him which eateth not judge him with eateth, for God hath received him." And then he goes on to say. "one esteemeth one day above another, another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind." And why is that important? Because he's talking about observances, whether we should adhere to a day or not. And it seems obvious to me here that if you look at the early church, you've got a collection of people.
You've got a ton of people who were formally following Judaism. You've got the Gentiles, the pagans. So it's very clear to me that Paul would use this type of language to address both Jew and Gentile or Jew and pagan. For the Jew would have been confused, "Well now what do I do now? Do I follow this?" Or do, really if you want to think about it this way, the confusion has gone on for 2,000 years, people are still confused. And by that, it's self-evident when I say seventh day Adventist, Sabbatarians, they're still confused because that one, setting aside of one day for a Sabbath came to an end. And we who are of the New Testament disposition, we are Sabbathing daily in Christ. And Sunday is the Lord's day only for this reason. Paul explains this and he says, "On the first day of the week," blah, blah, blah, "it's gathering together what was newly formed, which was the church which didn't exist until Christ basically rose and ascended." The church did not exist technically until the day of Pentecost, if you will.
But Paul wrote in a way where both Jew and Gentile could understand that these days became irrelevant actually because there was something more on the horizon for us to process. And if you want to add to that, don't just think, "Well, I just read something and it's not perfectly clear." Turn to Colossians, because there Paul does not hold back and I think he spells it out even clearer there. So in Colossians 2, first in verse 7, where he says, "Roited and built up," boy, this is so scribbled up, I can barely read it, "Rooted and built up in him and stablished in the faith as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving, beware," here it is, "beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world and not for Christ." You keep reading verse 16, "Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a holiday, holy day, or of new moon, or of the Sabbath days which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ." A shadow of things to, he spells it out right there.
How could we miss this? How could people miss these days, these set times, shadows of things to come and the thing to come was Christ and when we begin to understand how He fulfills them. So I just explained to you, Christ replaces that singular day. Now I can see why some people would go for this angle. I'm just going to tell you, because I tell you everything, all the different dimensions of this. If God created in six days and the seventh day He took rest, there was something new that did happen with the last Adam coming out of the grave.
So you could say, in fact, in Christ was a new creation made and the creation essentially has begun anew in Christ in that we have eternal life through him. We're no longer stuck in the mold of fallen Adam for the rest of our lives. So the argument being, well, if He's the Lord of that new creation, then we should honor that day by, and then they go to a Sabbath. But that actually contradicts what Paul is saying, what the writer of Hebrews is saying, it actually contradicts everything. Because if He is a new and living way and He is put on display in the flesh who He was, not in the flesh previously, then creation hasn't been reinvented. It has been rescued and reconciled back to God. So if we talk about Sabbath-ing in Christ daily, the Christian does not have a Sabbath day. Sorry to bust your bubble. All right, follow this one. Just to, I just, I want you to leave here and be crystal clear on this, and that's why we're going to spend a couple more minutes.
In Acts 15, they had a council decide what would be required of the Gentile believers. If you read this 15th chapter, they're talking about circumcision. What should be required of those that come into the church who are not basically part of the old dispensation? And it says here, verse 5, "There rose up a certain sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying that it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses, and the apostles and the elders came together to consider this matter." So this was being discussed. Everything that I'm talking about, believe it or not, was being discussed. What they came away with is this in verse 19.
And then there's one more in, in verse 29. Verse 19, it says, "Wherefore my sentence is that we trouble not them which from among the Gentiles are turned to God, but that we write unto them that they abstain from polutions of idols from fornication and from things strangled and from blood." And then if you read on, it, there's a reiteration in verse 29, "that ye abstain from meats offered to idols and from blood, from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, you shall do well, fare ye well," and they were dismissed.
If you read this absolutely, unequivocally no Sabbath mentioned, no Sabbath is imposed on the church. They were talking about should the men coming into the church be circumcised or not. And that, they made a decision. This is what they came up with and that was it, that they abstain from meats, offered to idols, from blood, and from things strangled and fornication. That's it. That's what they walked away with. Tell me where you read, you need to keep the Sabbath as a Christian. Do you read it anywhere? (no ma'am) All right.
My sound effects are gratis for you. All right. So, when we discuss these set times, as I said, it's important to see how Christ fulfilled these in a diversity of ways. And the argument of Saturday or Sunday I think that's going to be clarified. So, it's almost like this, and you'll forgive me for this analogy, but people who are ardent Sabbatarians, who are dogmatic about the Sabbath to keep the Sabbath, they're like people who are dressing up and putting on their uniforms to go and slay saber-toothed tigers that are extinct. Go do it if you want, but it serves no purpose.
And in fact, it falls under the category of empty ritualism, which has no purpose, especially if you're doing it with an old dispensation mindset and not Sabbath-ing daily in Christ, because that is the interpretation. Don't take, again, don't take my word for it. One more place for us, and then I will try to be done. Turn to Galatians. Galatians, Paul kind of, I think here might actually put the nail in the coffin, perverbally, so to speak. Chapter 4 and verse 9, Galatians, "But now, after you've known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereon to ye desire again to be in bondage?" Does that not sum it up for you? "You observe days, and months, and times, and years. I'm afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain." And then he says, "Bretheren, I beseech you, be as I am, for I am as ye are, you have not injured me at all." So he's saying there, "Hello, be as I am, is not act like me, look like me, be like me, but I don't," Paul, Jew of Jew, tribe of Benjamin, Pharisee of Pharisee, "I do not do these things.
You should not do them either." Essentially, they do not have any place in our worship in the old mindset, in the old dispensation. Now, when I go back to Leviticus 23, because I'm going to bring this to a close, what leaps out at me so abundantly clear is something that God says to Moses at the close of verse 2. He says, "These are my feasts." He doesn't say, "These are yours." He says, "They're mine." And if they're His, He has the right to ratify them. He has the right to whatever He wants to do with it. So it's not as though He canceled the Sabbath. He showed you this is the shadow, but this is something you must look at because the thing that is the substance will come in the future. Christ is over here, and He puts on full display the meaning of everything that I said to you regarding My feasts. Now, God starts with the Sabbath, moves to the Passover, unleavened bread, and so on, and we'll be looking at these set times in the coming weeks.
The thing that I want to reiterate here is people sometimes think that the most crucial thing that they can do in their faith is to check the boxes. I leave you with this one thought. These are the words of Christ. And I've repeated them so often, you should know them by heart. What's the one singular thing that Christ will be looking for when He comes? He says, "Will the Son of Man find faith?" Not Sabbatarians, not people practicing the old dispensation was for a time. And just to kind of close this on a really kind of positive note, things even in our lifetime serve a time, serve a specific thing. So, for example, when we first, people first came to this country, horse and buggy was the method of transport, right? Now, if you saw horse and buggy going right here on Glendale Avenue, you might think, "Oh, there might be some festival going on somewhere, but that would be out of the normal.
We don't use horse and buggy anymore." And in fact, you know, everybody's trying to push for driverless cars and technology and blah, blah, blah, right? Now imagine, this is a poor analogy, but this is what it's like. Imagine that you've got a whole swath of Christians, and I'm not talking about the Amish, that's a different story, but you've got a whole swath of Christians that want to use the horse and buggy because they think that's the most effective means of transport when here we are and we've got vehicles you can actually get in, you don't have to pick up the poop, there's not the need to carry, you know, amounts of hay or whatever you get in your car and you drive yourself, but there are still people that want the horse and buggy. Now, I'm not saying the horse and buggy is bad, but it served its time.
Guess what? Methinks that God somewhere back in, you know, we tend to think man's innovations and man's creations and man's doing this, but how about God, maybe God had the mind of all of this that would come to fruition, which man takes credit for, that God just saw a better way. And the writer of Hebrews analogizes that to say Jesus is superior to all these things, a better way. So when we look at the Sabbath, hopefully, hopefully I've clarified, if I haven't, I would like you to do something. If you still have questions on the Sabbath, because you know how much I love questions, I love to ask them.
So if you still have questions about the Sabbath, please take the time to write me so I can figure out what I missed and whatever I've missed, I'll come back if you can get them in the mail quickly. I can answer them in the next message or two if I've missed anything that doesn't clear this up, because this one along with some others, when I see the confusion, it drives me crazy. If you know that this is no longer part of our faith and it was just a stepping stone to get to where we are, and that's understood, we're in a good place.
But if you keep saying, "Must have the old. Must keep celebrating the old. I must tell you the old," you've got a problem in not knowing exactly what Christ did for you and what exactly, when He said, "It is finished," what He finished. So hopefully if that's not clear, you'll write me, you'll let me know. I'm looking forward to a few questions. Alright, with that being said, that's my message. You have been watching me, Pastor Melissa Scott, live from Glendale, California at Faith Center. If you would like to attend the service with us, Sunday morning at 11am, simply call 1-800-338-3030 to receive your pass. If you'd like more teaching and you would like to go straight to our website, the address is www.PastorMelissaScott.com.
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