WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:14.320 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome and thank you for tuning 4 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:15.960 in to the Bible Guys today. 5 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:18.239 I like how you said that with a snap of 6 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:21.640 your fingers. Yeah, you know it's it's the second cool guy. 7 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:22.559 What do you call this? 8 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:24.519 Is it? 9 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:25.079 Finger guns? 10 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:26.079 Finger guns? Yeah? 11 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:30.000 Hey, welcome to the Bible Guys. Yeah, finger guys. 12 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.000 Super cool guy, Yeah, super cool because you pull it off. 13 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:34.240 I pull it off. 14 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:35.960 Let me ask you a question. Do you think people 15 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:37.359 have to be cool to pull off finger guns? 16 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:39.920 Yeah? Yeah, yeah, because I can't. I can't pull it off, 17 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:41.600 but you always look cool when you do it. 18 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:44.039 Keep doing it, I keep doing it, Chris Man, I'm 19 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:47.640 not sure anybody can pull off fingers, but. 20 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:51.679 Anyway, Hey, so you know in our listeners are longtime listeners, 21 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:56.399 know how committed we are to excellence and broadcasting always right, always, 22 00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:57.719 And not only that. 23 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:01.000 Our most reliable sources of news are like CNN. 24 00:01:01.399 --> 00:01:09.120 Yes I'm kidding. Uh So we love to bring meaningful news, yes, 25 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:16.000 and useful news and reliable news to our listeners when 26 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.000 we come across something that we feel like is important. 27 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:22.640 This is and so sometimes we've read news about marriage stuff, 28 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:25.200 we've read news about family stuff, we've read news about 29 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:27.640 faith stuff. But this one's kind of a special interest thing. 30 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:30.879 It's kind of a book review, right, and we haven't 31 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:33.359 done one of these yet. So here from the very 32 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:37.400 most trustworthy of sources, the Babylon B, which, if you 33 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:40.079 don't know, the Babylon B is a satire website. We 34 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:44.200 love it. Babylon B has this headline. Man, people are 35 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:48.159 going to love reading this one, says Moses while writing Leviticus. 36 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:52.159 The humor on this I love. 37 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:57.040 So here here mount Sinai. Hot off the success of 38 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:01.079 Genesis and Exodus, Moses express compace that everyone would love 39 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:04.480 his follow up work, Leviticus. The leader of the Israelite 40 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:06.799 seemed sure that the warm reception of his first two 41 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:09.800 books that he had received made it a safe bet 42 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:11.960 that the next installment of the series would be a 43 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:15.879 smash hit. This is so fun, oh man, people are 44 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:17.960 gonna love reading this one, Moses said, as he wrote 45 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:21.199 a passage about how the priest was going about diagnosing mold. 46 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:25.879 It's my first foray into a more technical, perceived dural genre. 47 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:29.240 There hasn't been anything like it. Moses did admit that 48 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:30.960 he'd been writing under the guidance of the Lord and 49 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:33.759 therefore couldn't take all the credit for Leviticus. He uses 50 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:36.120 my natural talent in writing, but the story ideas are 51 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:39.360 all his, Moses explained. But that doesn't make Leviticus any 52 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:42.680 less riveting. An advanced excerpt of the book failed the 53 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:46.400 spark excitement for its upcoming release. Dathan A Benjamite said 54 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:49.599 it's just a bunch of regulations, so basically a rule book. 55 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:53.080 Maybe the Levites don't really like it. However, a local 56 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:56.240 Levite named Seth was not impressed. This ain't it, chief, 57 00:02:56.439 --> 00:03:00.759 He said, it's like reading an instruction manual. Moses brother Aaron, 58 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:04.080 who spoke before Pharaoh, was reportedly less than enthused by 59 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:06.199 the new work. The part where me and my sons 60 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:09.280 are ordained is cool, Aaron said of the book, but 61 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:12.000 the part where they die after offering strange fire was 62 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:15.800 much less to my liking. Moses has shrugged off early 63 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:18.159 criticism of the book. Maybe releasing a preview was a 64 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:20.280 bad idea. You really have to see it how it 65 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:23.520 all comes together, and then bam, Leviticus. You know, it's 66 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:26.840 going to be huge a publishing time. Whileviticus turned out 67 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:29.680 to be a disappointment among the Israelites, Moses said he 68 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:32.000 was not deterred from his next great idea to write 69 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:36.599 a book detailing the numerical populations of Israelite Trible. 70 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:43.479 My goodness, is brilliant. Who Ever wrote this is brilliant. 71 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:46.680 I'm literally copying and pasting this right now and saying 72 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:47.599 this to Dave Wilson. 73 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:48.520 It's fantastic. 74 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:50.159 It's hilarious. 75 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:52.960 Whoa man. So if you don't know, if you're new 76 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:55.520 to the Bible, stuff, where the Bible, guys, We're here 77 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:55.840 to help. 78 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:56.240 We are. 79 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:59.159 And so the first books, at the first five books 80 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:04.479 of the Bible are called the Books of Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, 81 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:09.280 and Deuteronomy. Genesis tells about the creation of the world. 82 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:13.639 It talks about the flood, talks about Adam and Eve 83 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:18.040 and Noah and Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Joshua, 84 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:21.759 the beginning of the nation of Israel, the promises of God. 85 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:24.399 Why the world is the way it is. I mean, 86 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:29.240 it's a brilliant book. It's fantastic. And then Exodus is 87 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:35.279 it talks. Genesis ends with Joseph being in Egypt and 88 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:40.480 rescuing his people. But then between Genesis and Exodus, the 89 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:45.600 people become enslaved by is by Egypt, and then God 90 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.839 sends Moses to rescue them, right, and so then he 91 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:52.600 leads them out. He gives them the Ten Commandments. You know, 92 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:56.040 they make movies out of these two books, right, and 93 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:58.680 then Leviticus comes in. It's all the rules for what 94 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:00.879 they can eat but they can eat, how they build 95 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:06.160 their tabernacle, how they manage civil government, and all these 96 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:09.360 things right now, and then numbers after that. The fourth 97 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:14.399 book is really about how God had Moses divide up 98 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:21.360 the nation and begin to build kind of tribal identities. 99 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:23.399 They already had them, but began to kind of acknowledge 100 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:26.279 them and build this cohesive nation. That's really what it was. 101 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:28.399 There's a lot of counting, a lot of numbers. It's 102 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:30.959 kind of a dry book. And then Deuteronomy is a 103 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:33.480 rehash of those two books. Right, So his first two 104 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:35.839 books are killer and then the last three books are kind. 105 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:38.480 Of which is why why it's so brilliant. 106 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:39.439 It's hysterical. 107 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:41.879 Yeah, yeah, So you know, if you start the Bible 108 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:44.519 start reading the Bible. If you never read the Bible 109 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:47.959 consistently and you want to pick it up, we actually 110 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:51.279 don't recommend that you start from the beginning goes straight 111 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:53.959 through in terms of developing habits and things like that, 112 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:57.160 like eventually, yes, of course reading through it is important. 113 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:00.199 Yeah, I do recommend Genesis, but I just tell people, hey, 114 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:02.160 don't don't feel obligated to just keep going to the end, 115 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:03.360 because it's not written that way. 116 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:05.879 Right. Well, that's what I was trying to say, if 117 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:07.959 I didn't say it clearly, is that people say, oh, 118 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:09.879 I'm just going to read it from the beginning like 119 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:11.920 a book, all the way to the end, right, So 120 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:15.560 and so they go Genesis, Exodus, and then they just 121 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:18.480 can't make it through, and people just say they're just 122 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:21.279 like I just I just I couldn't make it, And 123 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:23.199 then that will discourage you so much to where you'll 124 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:25.399 stop reading because they're so long too. 125 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:27.680 So the discovery is, you know, when you pick up 126 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:31.839 a novel my dad just passed away, my mom brought 127 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:34.399 my dad loved Louis Lamore. You ever read the old 128 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:37.040 Cowboy books? I never did, No, I've read them all. 129 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:39.879 But so my mom brought my dad's entire He has 130 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:42.560 every single Louis Lamore book and he brought she brought 131 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:45.439 them all. Well, a Louis Lamore book novel, you know, 132 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.000 it's gonna be some cowboy book and it's one hundred 133 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:49.800 and fifty pages, two hundred pages or whatever. You start 134 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:52.600 at beginning, they begin to create there's some kind of 135 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:55.040 problem that happens, and then it's resolved by the end. 136 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:57.560 And so that's how you read a novel. And people 137 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.839 make the mistake of thinking that's you read the Bible, 138 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.000 and what they miss out on is that the Bible 139 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:07.000 is actually a collection of sixty six books right right, 140 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:09.560 and each of the books has its own purpose. But 141 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:11.720 if you're trying to figure out how do I get 142 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:15.360 to know God, that's not in book one in Genesis, 143 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:17.519 you need to get back in deeper into the book. 144 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:21.199 And so so you know, that's the confusing part about 145 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:23.319 sometimes about the Bible. And so what do you recommend? 146 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:24.600 Where do you recommend people start off? 147 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:27.439 The Book of John John, so in the New Testament, 148 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:31.240 the Gospels of the first four books of the Bible, Matthew, Mark, Luke, 149 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:34.199 and John, all of them record the events in the 150 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:36.920 life of Jesus. Right, So a lot of times that 151 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:38.920 can get repetitive too, because. 152 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:41.360 You'll be like, hey, didn't I just read this, And it's. 153 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:45.079 Because the different authors recorded some of the same events 154 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:46.439 from Jesus' life. 155 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:48.720 So so I'd say start with the Book. 156 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:50.720 Of John and then and then move forward, and then 157 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:52.399 move into the Book of Acts and then the writings 158 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:55.560 of Paul and then that's that's the best way. And 159 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:57.639 I think by the time you get to the end 160 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:00.279 of the New Testament you will have developed a really 161 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:04.480 strong habit of reading straight through. Yeah, so that's that's 162 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:05.240 where I recommend it. 163 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:07.399 Yeah, that's great. And if you're looking for the Book 164 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:09.959 of John, it's two thirds of the way through the Bible, 165 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:11.759 so you get to two thirds of the way back 166 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:14.920 that's where John is. Or you can just use the 167 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:16.879 the table contents in the front of your Bible and 168 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:18.560 find it, sure John and find it. Yeah, it's great. 169 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:22.439 Any of those are really good ones. So speaking of 170 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:28.439 good books, Isaiah is in is a good book in 171 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:32.559 the Bible. We like it, and that. 172 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:33.759 Happens to be where we are. 173 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:35.960 But you were going to say something like profound and 174 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.279 you're like, speaking of your books Isaiah's good. 175 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:42.279 Yeah, that's it. So we're always we're always trying to 176 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:45.200 figure out the worst possible transition, yes, out of the 177 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:50.120 goofy thing into the second half. But Isaiah we've been 178 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:54.720 reading from, and he is a prophet and he also 179 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:58.279 works with King Hezekiah. So yesterday we read the first 180 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:02.679 half of Isaiah chapter thirty seven where Hezekiah runs to 181 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:06.159 God while the king of Assyria is threatening to wipe 182 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:09.919 them out and mocking Hezekiah's God. Right, so that's kind 183 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:11.919 of what happens. Well, let's pick up in the second 184 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:14.120 half of Isaiah chapter thirty seven. We'll start off with 185 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:15.919 the verse twenty one. We'll just read it, I think 186 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:19.519 the end of the chapter. It says, then Isaiah, son 187 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:22.720 of Amas sent this message to Hezekiah. This is what 188 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:25.600 the Lord, the God of Israel, says. Because you prayed 189 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:28.639 about King Sanakrab of Assyria, the Lord has spoken this 190 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:32.279 word against him. The Virgin daughter of Zion despises you 191 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:34.559 and laughs at you. The Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her 192 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:37.759 head in derision as you flee. Whom have you been 193 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:41.000 defying and ridiculing against Whom did you raise your voice? 194 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:44.559 Whom did you look with such haughty eyes. It was 195 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:47.679 the Holy One of Israel. By your messengers, you have 196 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:50.320 defied the Lord, you have said. With my many chariots, 197 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:52.919 I have conquered the highest mountains, yes, their modest peaks 198 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.360 of Lebanon. I've cut down its tallest cedars and its 199 00:09:55.440 --> 00:09:58.519 finest cypress trees. I've reached its farthest heights and explored 200 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.960 its deepest forests. I've dug wells in many foreign lands 201 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:04.480 and refresh myself with their water. With the sole on 202 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:07.879 my feet, I have stopped up the rivers of Egypt. 203 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:12.480 Have you not heard? I decided this long ago. Long ago, 204 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:14.879 I planned it, and now I'm making it happen. I 205 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:17.919 planned for you to crush fortified cities into heaps of rubble. 206 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:20.159 That is why the people have so little power and 207 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:23.120 are so frightened and confused. They are as weak as grass, 208 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:26.279 as easily trampled as tender green shoots. They're like grass 209 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:29.639 sprouting on a housetop, scorched before it can grow lush 210 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:32.759 and tall. But I know you well, where you stay 211 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.440 and when you come and go. I know the way 212 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:38.320 you have raged against me. And because of your raging 213 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:40.200 against me and your arro against which I have heard 214 00:10:40.200 --> 00:10:42.600 for myself, I will put my hook in your nose 215 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:45.039 and my bit in your mouth. I will make you 216 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:47.559 return by the same road on which you came. Then 217 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:51.639 Isaiah said to Hezekiah, here is the proof that what 218 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:55.720 I say is true. And then God tells has Akiah, 219 00:10:56.399 --> 00:10:58.840 this year you will eat only what grows up by itself, 220 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:00.879 And next year you will eat it springs up from that. 221 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:03.080 But in the third year you will plant crops and 222 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.720 harvest them. You will ten vineyards and eat their fruit. 223 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:08.320 And you who are left in Judah, who have escaped 224 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:11.360 the ravages of the siege, will put roots down in 225 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:13.919 your own soil and grow up and flourish. For a 226 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:16.399 remnant of my people will spread out from Jerusalem, a 227 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:19.960 group of survivors from Mount Zion. The passionate commitment of 228 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:22.879 the Lord of Heaven's armies will make it happen. And 229 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:24.960 this is what the Lord says about the King of Assyria. 230 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:27.519 His armies will not enter Jerusalem. They will not even 231 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:30.000 shoot an arrow at it. They will not march outside 232 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:32.360 its gates with their shields, nor build banks of earth 233 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:35.080 against its walls. The king will return to his own 234 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:37.200 country by the same road on which he came. He 235 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:39.519 will not enter this city, says the Lord. For my 236 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:41.759 own honor and for the sake of my servant David, 237 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:44.799 I will defend this city and protect it. That night, 238 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:46.679 the angel of the Lord went out to the Assyrian 239 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:50.600 camp and killed one hundred and eighty five thousand Assyrian soldiers. 240 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:54.759 When the surviving Assyrians woke up the next morning, they 241 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:59.519 found corpses everywhere. The then king Senakreb of Assyria broke 242 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:02.279 camp and returned to his own land. He went home 243 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:05.399 to his capital of Ninevah and stayed there. One day, 244 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:08.000 while he was worshiping the temple of his god this Rock, 245 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:14.320 his sons, a drama Lek and Schererzer killed him with 246 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:17.200 their swords. Then they escaped to the land of Errat, 247 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:22.759 and another son, Esar had On became the next king 248 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:24.720 of Assyria. Wow. 249 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:27.960 Yeah, I mean, well there you go. So he went 250 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:30.360 home and then got killed by his two. 251 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:34.840 Sons worshiping in the temple of his false god. Wow wow, 252 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:35.960 isn't it crazy? 253 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:36.759 Yeah? 254 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:40.799 And so God sounds a little ticked off it at 255 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:44.360 at the pridefulness of Senacrib. 256 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:49.159 Right. Well, you know somebody who you know, it's it's 257 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:52.679 it's exactly like so I just made reference yesterday in 258 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:58.039 the podcast that that it sounded like David right, oh 259 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:00.480 when he says, who is this philistine? That'll if I 260 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:06.120 the the the living God, and that's that's sort of 261 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:08.679 that's sort of how I felt when I watched have 262 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:09.879 you seen these series? 263 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:10.279 David? 264 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:14.159 So it's on you know, streaming right now, and uh, 265 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:17.519 they're they're walking through David. It's it's pretty darn good. 266 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:22.240 It really is in terms of like the actual you know, dramatization, 267 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:24.279 the the the especial effects. 268 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:25.480 I mean, it's it's top notch. 269 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:28.000 There's only two things about it that I already mentioned 270 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:31.519 them before that I didn't like that weren't quite accurate. 271 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:35.159 Uh they were very minor things, but still things are things, 272 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:38.480 right Johnny Tiller right, So so I uh so I 273 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:42.279 didn't like that, but everything else about it was just 274 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:45.759 pretty phenomenal. But anyway, all that's say, uh, the feeling 275 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:49.720 that you get when you experience this recreation of somebody 276 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:53.399 standing up there and saying, I defy this God of yours, 277 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:56.519 and all of a sudden, the nation of Israel cowards 278 00:13:56.600 --> 00:13:59.559 because he's such a giant and and and this guy 279 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:01.840 is being allowed to be a bully. 280 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:03.519 He's being allowed and. 281 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:06.639 You just feel like somebody rise up and shut this 282 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:09.840 guy up. You know, who's just mocked God. He just 283 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.960 openly mocks God. And I'm telling you that the emotion 284 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:16.200 of that is just so strong, and I could even 285 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:20.639 imagine how, you know, times a million, how God must 286 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.159 have felt, you know, with with his arrogance as he 287 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:28.559 openly says, you're God, this fairy tale guy of yours. 288 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:30.159 Is not going to destroy you from my hand. 289 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:34.120 And so yeah, I would imagine that's probably the reason 290 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:36.840 why the angel came and single handedly took out one 291 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:38.799 hundred and eighty five thousand Syrians. 292 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:42.279 Yeah, well, you know, God hates pride. Yeah, pride is 293 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:44.480 one of the things that you read in the Book 294 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:48.600 of Proverbs. Solomon lays out these seven things that God hates, 295 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:51.440 and one of those is that prideful. Look right, God 296 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:54.240 just despises it when people think the spirit and when 297 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:58.039 people think they're all that right. So this king Sanakreb 298 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:01.759 is like, he says, listen, who are you ridiculing? Man? 299 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:05.799 You think you're the one that came rolling into Lebanon 300 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:08.120 and took those trees? You think you're the one that did. 301 00:15:08.600 --> 00:15:11.799 God said, I was planning this a long time ago. 302 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:16.279 I was planning to bring judgment on Lebanon. I was 303 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:18.399 planning to bring judgment on all these countries that you've 304 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:21.480 already defeated, and you were just a tool, dude, and 305 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:23.759 you're still just a tool. That's right. That's that's what 306 00:15:23.799 --> 00:15:26.679 God's saying to him. I always plan to do this. 307 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:31.600 But now I know you well, I know where you stay, 308 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:36.080 I know when you come and go. I know the 309 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:39.759 way that you've raged against me. And so instead of 310 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:43.000 acknowledging me, you think you did all this yourself. And 311 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:45.679 God says, listen, I know where you live, and you're 312 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:49.120 going to pay. And that's exactly right, isn't that what 313 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:51.320 he says? I know you well, where you stay, when 314 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:53.159 you come and go, I know what you've said about me, 315 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:56.720 right right, he says, I'll put my hook in your 316 00:15:56.759 --> 00:15:58.360 nose and my bit in your mouth. 317 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:02.240 Yeah that's incre Oh that's a word. 318 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:06.879 Yeah. So we had a I worked for a while 319 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:12.360 for one of the wealthiest men in Michigan, and after 320 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:17.759 he made his massive fortune, he bought uh two ranches 321 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:21.840 in Metamora and they were side by side. So he 322 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:24.720 owned about at the time about five hundred acres and 323 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:27.759 one side was just for his estate. It was beautiful. 324 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:30.639 I worked in the landscaping side of his estate. The 325 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:35.679 other was a cattle ranch. And he was a hobby 326 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:39.399 a hobbyist cattle breeder, and it was just it was 327 00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:41.480 so different from the career that he built his wealth on. 328 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:49.080 So he began breeding world champion blank black angus beef. 329 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:53.559 So he owned a couple of the top breeder bulls 330 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:56.600 in the world. One named black Jack at the time 331 00:16:56.679 --> 00:17:01.200 that was worth million upon millions of dollars. The other 332 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:04.519 was Regal. Regal was worth millions of dollars. Regal lived 333 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:07.880 on our ranch. Blackjack lived in Kentucky, but Rego lived 334 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:09.279 on our ranch. And so we go horse around with 335 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:13.160 him sometimes. So you got this eighteen hundred pound nineteen 336 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:18.160 hundred pounds, just giant chunk of muscle. Yeah, right, huge. Now, 337 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:21.839 black angus bulls don't have big horns. They got these 338 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:23.960 big flat heads and they'll just smash you. They'll smash 339 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:26.920 you against the fence. So on more than one occasion, 340 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:28.599 that was in my twenties. So we were dumb and 341 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:30.799 we would horse around with regal. Sometimes we'd get him 342 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:33.119 in a pen, but you could grab the hook in 343 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:34.920 his nose, the ring in his nose, and we could 344 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:38.319 move him wherever we wanted to. Wow, there was eighteen 345 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:42.599 hundred pounds of muscle right could kill us without even thinking. 346 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:45.759 But you grab that hook, give a little tug. He 347 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:47.720 immediately because it was put in his nose when he 348 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:50.039 was young, when he was little, right when he couldn't 349 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:52.319 fight back, and it would immediately pull him back into 350 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:55.440 this moment where okay, one, it was uncomfortable too, It's 351 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:56.799 just what he had to do. He had to follow you, 352 00:17:57.039 --> 00:17:59.400 and it was amazing. Now I rarely ever got out 353 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:01.240 in front of him purpose, but we grab that hook, 354 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:04.279 we can move h where we wanted moving. And this 355 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:07.000 is what God is saying is I'm gonna humble you. 356 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:10.480 You are so willful, you are so prideful. You think 357 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:12.480 you're doing all these things. I'm gonna put a hook 358 00:18:12.519 --> 00:18:14.240 in your nose. I'm gonna put a bit in your 359 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:17.240 mouth like a horse again, same things, pound horse. 360 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:17.519 Yeah. 361 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:18.799 Not only am I going to make you do what 362 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:20.200 I want you to do, but I'm gonna do it 363 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:22.640 with these Yes, you're going to become. You're going to 364 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:26.440 become this great power that could be controlled by something 365 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:27.079 as small. 366 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:29.480 As a bit yeah or a hook. Yeah, which is amazing. 367 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:30.960 I'm going to put a bradle on you. And the 368 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:33.119 way he did it was he sent one angel. You 369 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:35.000 want to do you ever think about how powerful angel a? 370 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:37.079 Remember the pastors we just read yesterday or a couple 371 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:39.839 days ago, it said that God surrounds you with his angels. Yes, 372 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:43.720 you want to know how much protection you have? One 373 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:46.759 angel kills one hundred and eighty five thousand Assyrian soldiers. 374 00:18:46.920 --> 00:18:50.799 Yeah, so this would make a good episode of something, right, 375 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:53.839 so you know, if you if you if you thought 376 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:55.000 that the battle. 377 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:59.319 Or a good story in a book, yes, yes, like 378 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:03.559 God thought of that already. Yeah, hey, let's write this down. 379 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:07.240 I'm thinking of the battle scene in the Colisseum and 380 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:11.839 Gladiator we're on the field Patriot Day or Brave Heart 381 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:16.519 or saving Private Ryan from that matter, right where it's 382 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:20.039 like there's a raging battle scene that takes place where 383 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:23.640 you can measure what's happening. Well, you know, we've also 384 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:27.119 seen movies that are ridiculous where one where you know, 385 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:32.079 entire armies fall victim to you know, one superpower like 386 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:35.720 one soldier. Right, So it's the Captain America or the 387 00:19:35.759 --> 00:19:36.519 Seven Rings. 388 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:38.160 I mean, it's just you know, you name it, right, 389 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:42.720 it's there. And so this one angel takes out one hundred. 390 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:45.920 And five Come on, I mean visually, how could you 391 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:46.880 not see that in your brain? 392 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:50.039 Yeah? It's amazing, Yeah, it is amazing. Ye. And then 393 00:19:50.279 --> 00:19:53.559 he left just enough so not everybody died. One hundred 394 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:56.319 and eighty five thousand died, right, right, So he leaves enough. 395 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:58.920 They wake up the next morning and there's corpses everywhere. 396 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:02.319 Can you imagine how horrifying that would be? And then 397 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:07.480 he lets Sanakra live the king right right, And so 398 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:09.880 there's that hook in my nose, there's that bradle of 399 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:12.880 my mom. Go home, and he does the Bible says, literally, 400 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:14.680 he goes home with the tail between his legs. He 401 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:16.559