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 --> 00:00:12.800 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible. 4 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:13.759 Guys. We're back. 5 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:16.920 We're back, better than ever. Oh man, we are better 6 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:17.239 than ever. 7 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:19.839 Can you imagine? Yeah, you imagine how much better we 8 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:20.679 would be than ever? 9 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:21.719 If what? 10 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:25.120 I don't know, Well, you know, I think I'm just hoping. 11 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:26.559 I think I told you this, be honest. 12 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:28.960 One of my favorite phrases of one of the trainers 13 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:32.920 at our church, because there's a gym there's an HFP 14 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:36.320 Heritage Fitness Project is as you're working out and you're 15 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:38.799 like sweating, and you're like and you're like, you know, 16 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:42.000 losing motivation, he goes, he goes one. 17 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:43.439 Percent better today. 18 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:48.000 Everybody's one percent better today, And so it's like, wow, 19 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:49.039 that's a great phrase. 20 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:52.560 You don't have to work out times. I know, I know, 21 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:54.840 and you are better than you will. 22 00:00:55.399 --> 00:00:58.039 Yes, that's correct, which means you can triple yourself in 23 00:00:58.079 --> 00:00:58.520 a year. 24 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:02.880 Or not, but yeah or not. I like that. I 25 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:03.640 like the sentiment. 26 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:04.719 Yeah, the sentiment's good. 27 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:07.920 So we don't know, we're better than ever today, but 28 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:09.439 we're going to give it our best shot. 29 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:12.959 We are, that's correct. So we're going to start. 30 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:17.000 With a yawn. Yeah, apparently so lighting. We just said 31 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:19.879 better than ever and he starts yawning like I couldn't. 32 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:22.000 Carry any load lighting if you know me, Yes, any 33 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:22.879 low lighting makes me on. 34 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:23.359 Yeah. 35 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.000 Okay, so this is who's most likely most likely? 36 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:27.040 And we love this segment. 37 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:29.359 Yes, So the goal is just to read the question. 38 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:31.000 We'll take turns of reading them, and. 39 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:33.560 Then we'll just have to decide who's most likely to 40 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:34.719 do this Jeff or Chris? 41 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:37.599 Yes, okay, I'll go the first. Go first. 42 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:40.560 Who's most likely to be the first one to sign 43 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:41.799 up to go skydiving? 44 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:45.040 We've already done this one like this about skydiving before, 45 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:46.799 so it has to be me. Yeah, Well, because you 46 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:47.560 went skydiving. 47 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:50.400 Well, I've gone three times and your insurance prevents you. 48 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:52.680 From Yeah, insurance won't let me do it. Yeah, we 49 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:55.760 have a key man policy and it specifically forbids me 50 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:57.840 from skydiving right now. Because I wanted to go with 51 00:01:57.879 --> 00:01:59.920 my son when he turned eighteen, I couldn't go. 52 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:02.959 Yeah, and I've done it three times, and honestly, the 53 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:07.159 last time I went, the last. 54 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:07.879 Time I went crazy. 55 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:11.800 The last time I went, I remember literally jumping out, 56 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:15.560 and as I'm jumping out, I remember thinking to myself, 57 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:17.479 this would be the last time I do this. Yeah, 58 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:20.159 I've done this three times, two twice before. It was 59 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:23.680 almost like uh huh yeah, literally, I can't believe that 60 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:24.120 I felt that. 61 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:25.039 Way, Wow, but I did. 62 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:29.199 Yeah. There are times of chime. Okay, who's most likely 63 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:31.280 to go back to school and get their PhD in 64 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:32.199 something random? 65 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:33.280 That would definitely be you. 66 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:37.719 Yeah, you know what. I was accepted in a doctoral 67 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:40.599 program this year and then paused and decided not to do it. 68 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:43.919 Oh well yeah, yeah, So I went through the whole process, 69 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:48.680 and then the day I was supposed to register, yeah, 70 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:51.840 for classes, I decided not to. It's just my schedule 71 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:55.960 is so hard. I couldn't imagine adding yep, that extra 72 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:56.439 work to it. 73 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:59.240 Well, it's actually why I stopped my master's degree. 74 00:02:59.319 --> 00:02:59.560 Yeah. 75 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:01.360 I was working for to get my master's when my 76 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:05.520 kids were young, and it was so unbelievably difficult that 77 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:09.439 I realized that my masters wouldn't at the church current 78 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:12.080 church I was at. It wouldn't pay me anymore, It's 79 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:15.759 not that type of church, and it would just be bragging. Right, 80 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:18.560 So I got my master's and it was like, it 81 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:21.439 was like, why am I doing this? I'm pretty sure? Like, 82 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:24.000 you know, knowledge is good obviously, Yeah, but I can 83 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:31.520 gain knowledge without working my tail off like this, right, I'd. 84 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:35.599 Have to think. So I like to think I's equivalent. Yeah, 85 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:39.639 well here thirty years later, right, So but yeah, so 86 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:41.919 I passed on one this year. But yeah, that's good. 87 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:42.520 Okay. 88 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:47.280 Number three, who's most likely to climb Mount Everest? I 89 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:50.960 already know immediately who this is. That's definitely you. 90 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:53.800 I think climbing Mount Everest is the dumbest thing I've 91 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:56.080 ever heard. It is so dumb. 92 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:58.240 Well, hey, a lot of people died doing it. 93 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:02.319 It's hence the dumb right. I told you I have 94 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:03.319 no compassion. 95 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:06.000 But you know, I saw the movies, you know, people 96 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:07.840 like they go up and then they freeze and then 97 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:09.360 they die, and are people. 98 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:10.520 Are like, oh, that's so sad. I'm like, that's what 99 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:11.080 they deserve. 100 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:13.439 That's what they deserve because because they have the courage 101 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:14.759 to try to do something nobody else can do. 102 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:16.240 Would you think was gonna happen? 103 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:19.639 Well, some people make it, some people do but guess what, 104 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:22.920 Oh did you hear about the tragy amount Everest, would 105 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:23.920 you think was going to happen? 106 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:26.759 Yeah, okay, and you signed up for it, so so 107 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:29.519 believe it or not. I'm not a big fan of 108 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:33.000 thin air. Yeah, right, So I don't like to do that. 109 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:37.600 Like we were in Chad night, were in the h 110 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:41.360 in right on the border of Tibet in China, and 111 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:44.000 the village that we were in, it was all Tibetans, 112 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:46.879 was at a little over eleven thousand feet it was 113 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:50.360 eleven or twelve thousand feet, and just walking around because 114 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:52.680 we were only there for two days and so you 115 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:55.600 don't really have much time to acclimatize at that at 116 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:59.079 that point, and so then there was a out of breath. Yeah, 117 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:01.160 so just kind of huffing and puffing a little bit. 118 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:07.040 And there was a fifteen hundred year old or older, yeah, 119 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:09.360 fifteen hundred year old temple at the top of this 120 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:11.480 hill in this village, and I'm looking at it, going 121 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:13.519 I want to go see it, right, right, And so 122 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:15.079 we get about a third of the way up on 123 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:17.120 the stairs and I'm like, ah, I don't want to 124 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:19.199 go see it that bad, right right right, And it 125 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:21.199 was just it was just the thin air. So I'm 126 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:22.920 not a big fan of thin air, but I do 127 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:28.439 have a desire to do the trek to base Camp Foreverest. 128 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:29.639 Oh. And that's like a. 129 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:32.560 Ten day hike from LASA and you go up over 130 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:35.000 eighteen thousand feet before you get to the end of it, 131 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:37.240 and it takes like ten days to do. And it's 132 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:40.040 bucket list before I turn fifty five, which means I 133 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:41.800 only have a year and a half left, two years. 134 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:43.959 I don't think you're going to do that. 135 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:45.800 I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna find a way. I 136 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:49.000 already I already have the sherpa. He's a friend of mine. Yeah, 137 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:50.839 and he told me he'd put it together if I 138 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:53.040 would go. So I got it. I got yeah. Yeah, 139 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:55.959 So twenty twenty five is the year I'm gonna get 140 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:58.040 to where I can do it. I have a bad knee, 141 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:00.199 so that's my one issue. But if I can get 142 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:01.759 that fixed, and I think I want to do it. 143 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:03.879 Yeah, I've done pair of sailing, I've done rock climbing, 144 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:05.279 I've been repelling. 145 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:06.680 Hire a helicopter and fly up there that I could 146 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:07.279 do that too. 147 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:07.560 There you go. 148 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:10.759 But yeah, I've done skydiving, I've done I've done some 149 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:14.000 crazy things for some reason. I do not want to 150 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:17.040 fight nature. Okay, that's that's what I don't want to do. 151 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:18.160 Don't want to fight. 152 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:20.399 Don't want to bend it to your will. Okay. Who's 153 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:22.399 most likely to start a petting zoo in their backyard? 154 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:24.560 You are? You are? 155 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:24.920 Be me? 156 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:25.560 You are. 157 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:26.199 Yeah. 158 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:28.639 And by the way, my wife would love it. And 159 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:31.319 I'm not just talking about love love. I mean love, love, love, 160 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:32.920 love love. She would love it. 161 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:33.480 Okay. 162 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:34.959 You know, we have deer in our backyard. 163 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:38.759 Our deer come and my wife puts together these little 164 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:42.519 bird feeders and they love the corn out of the 165 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:46.480 bird feeder, and then the squirrels do too. And at 166 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:49.360 one point in time she was spending like three hundred 167 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:52.279 dollars a month to feed the deer. And I said, 168 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:54.639 and I said, I said, have you totaled it up? 169 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:55.959 She's like, no, I didn't total it up. 170 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:57.879 I told her. And she's like, oh, I better stop that. 171 00:06:58.000 --> 00:06:58.240 Yeah. 172 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:00.920 I'm like I think you better, yeah yeah. 173 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:02.079 And man, those deer were fat. 174 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:05.240 Yeah, we stopped because who can afford that? That's a 175 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:05.759 car payment? 176 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:07.759 Almost all right? 177 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:09.199 And then finally, how about this one? 178 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:12.399 Who's most likely to become a part time superhero. 179 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:13.839 You are, I am too. 180 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:16.839 You are. Yeah, that's me running around the Cape Crusader. Yeah, 181 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:19.480 running around your long John's with a towel around your neck. 182 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:22.920 I wonder if it's I wonder if it's implying superpowers, 183 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:26.360 because I don't think I would do it without superpowers, right, because. 184 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:27.600 I wouldn't do it like Batman style. 185 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:30.120 No, because I hate Batman. You know that, I hate 186 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:33.720 him so so the hates a strong word. 187 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:35.160 That's a strong word. You know what. 188 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:36.519 You know what I don't like about Batman. 189 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:40.360 He's the most believable of the superheroes. 190 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:42.519 Well, that's what my wife would say. Yeah, my wife 191 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:45.000 actually likes the non powered superheroes. 192 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:46.560 I like Batman, I know. 193 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:50.600 You do know the thing I don't like about Batman is. 194 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:54.879 That they make him do unrealistic things and he's only 195 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:57.920 a guy. Like did you see the the beginning of 196 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:03.439 the of what's the Justice League movie? When he's when 197 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:06.639 he's when he's dragging behind this car. He's just a guy, bro, 198 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:10.160 He's just a guy. There's no way he could possibly 199 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:12.759 do the things that they had him do. 200 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:15.519 Oh no, I saw it in the movie. He did it. Yeah, 201 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:20.879 it was crazy speaking of not being able to possibly 202 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:25.319 just being a guy could possibly do these things. Elisha 203 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:29.800 does a ton of miracles, and the people start recognizing this, 204 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:32.639 and even the kings start to pay attention to him. 205 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:36.279 So it's possible for just a guy, he's just right, 206 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:38.000 just a guy to do amazing things. 207 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:40.639 And so does he say, like I'm Batman, So does 208 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:41.200 he say. 209 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:44.639 I'm Elisha, I'm a prophet, I'm a profit. So in 210 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:48.759 Second King's chapter three, there's a war between Israel and Moab. 211 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:52.120 At this point, King Misha of Moab was a sheep breeder. 212 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:54.799 He used to pay the King of Israel an annual 213 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:57.799 tribute of one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of 214 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:01.440 one hundred thousand rams holy Cow. But after Ahab's death, 215 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:04.000 the King of Moab rebelled against the King of Israel. 216 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:07.000 So King Joram promptly mustered the army of Israel and 217 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.200 marchik from Samaria. On the way, he sent this message 218 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:12.960 to King Jehashaphat of Judah, the King of Moab has 219 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:15.320 rebelled against me. Will you join me in battle against him? 220 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:19.240 Jehosaphat replied, why, of course, you and I are as one. 221 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:21.799 My troops are your troops, and my horses are your horses. 222 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:24.799 And then Jehashuapad asked what route will we take? We 223 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:29.200 will attack from the wilderness of Edom Joram, who replied 224 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.840 the King of Edom and his troops joined them, and 225 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:36.559 all three armies traveled along a roundabout route through the 226 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:38.759 wilderness for seven days, but there was no water for 227 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:41.200 the men or the animals. What should we do? The 228 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:43.080 King of Israel cried out, The Lord has brought the 229 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:44.759 three of us here to let them King of Moab 230 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:47.600 defeat us. But King Jehoshaphah and to Judah asked, is 231 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:49.879 there no prophet of the Lord with us? If there is, 232 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:52.639 we can ask what the Lord what to do through him. 233 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:56.320 One of King Joram's officers replied, Elishah's son of Sefat 234 00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:00.519 is here. He used to be elijah personal assistant. Jehashaphat said, yes, 235 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:02.960 the Lord speaks through him. So the kings of Israel, 236 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:05.559 Judah and Edom went to consult with Elisha. Why are 237 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:08.200 you coming to me, Elisha asked the King of Israel. 238 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:10.519 Go to the pagan prophets of your father and mother. 239 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:13.360 But King Joram of Israel said no, for it was 240 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:15.879 the Lord who called us three kings here, only to 241 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:18.840 be defeated by the King of Moab. Elisha applied, as 242 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.200 surely as the Lord Almighty lives, whom I serve, I 243 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:24.039 wouldn't even bother with you, except from my respect for 244 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:27.159 King Jehashapada Judah. Now bring me someone who can play 245 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:29.879 the harp. While the harp was being played, the power 246 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:32.360 of the Lord came upon Elisha, and he said, this 247 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:34.600 is what the Lord says. This dry valley will be 248 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:37.159 filled with pools of water. You will see neither wind 249 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:39.320 nor rain, says the Lord. But this valley will be 250 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:41.879 filled with water. You will have plenty for yourselves and 251 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:44.960 your cattle and other animals. But this was only a 252 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:46.759 simple thing for the Lord, for he will make you 253 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:50.080 victorious over the army of Moab. You will conquer the 254 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:53.320 best of their towns, even the fortified ones. You will 255 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:56.399 cut down all their good trees and stop all their springs, 256 00:10:56.399 --> 00:10:59.399 and ruin all their good land with stones. The next day, 257 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:01.879 at about the time when the morning sacrifice was offered, 258 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:05.000 water suddenly appeared. It was the flowing It was flowing 259 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:08.799 from the direction of Edom, and soon there was water everywhere. Meanwhile, 260 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:11.639 when the people of Moab heard about the three armies 261 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:13.679 marching against them, they mobilized every man who was old 262 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:16.200 enough to strap on a sword, and they stationed themselves 263 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:18.559 along their border. But when they got up the next morning, 264 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:20.720 the sun was shining across the water, making a pier 265 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:24.879 red to the Moabites like blood. It's blood, the Mobites exclaimed, 266 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:27.000 the three armies must have attacked and killed each other. 267 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:29.840 Let's go, Madam Moab and collecked the plunder. But when 268 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:31.960 the Moabites arrived at the Israelite camp, the army of 269 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:34.320 Israel rushed out and attacked them until they turned and ran. 270 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:37.039 The army Israel chased them into the land of Moab, 271 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:39.960 destroying everything as they went. They destroyed the towns, covered 272 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:42.639 their good land with stones, stopped up all the springs, 273 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:45.759 and cut down all the good trees. Finally, only kure 274 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:50.759 Har Harrisath and its stone walls were left, but men 275 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:53.559 was slings surrounded and attacked it. When the king of 276 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:56.120 Moab saw that he was losing the battle, he led 277 00:11:56.159 --> 00:11:58.799 seven hundred of his swordsmen in a desperate attempt to 278 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:00.840 break through the enemy lines. The king of Eden but 279 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:03.600 they failed. Then the king of Moab took his oldest son, 280 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:06.360 who would have been the next king, has sacrificed him 281 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:09.080 as a burnt offering on the wall. So there was 282 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:12.519 great anger against Israel, and the Israelites withdrew and returned 283 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:13.279 to their own land. 284 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:21.240 But I know, there you go, I know, so you know, 285 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:25.639 I love thee the note on the Life Application Study 286 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:28.720 Bible that talks about when it says I ruined they 287 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:33.080 ruined the land with stones, it meant that they scattered 288 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:35.559 stones across the land so that it wouldn't be fit 289 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:40.120 for plowing, because you can't plow with stones. So they 290 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:43.360 would have people just take all the fields that were 291 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:46.840 you know, valuable, a valuable commodity. It was, you know, 292 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:51.080 they were you know, plowed, they were fertile, they were 293 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:52.440 ready to grow crops. 294 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:54.840 And but that's what that means. 295 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:56.799 They would take stones and they would just mess up 296 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:00.840 all and again what it is is, you know, it 297 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:06.039 seems very harsh obviously, but Ahab would have been completely 298 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:09.440 powerful and because of his strong rule, he was actually 299 00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:14.879 he had conquered Moab, and so they paid tribute to 300 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:18.360 Ahab because of his absolute strength and power. 301 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:19.840 But when ahab died. 302 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:23.200 We've seen this before, right, when when when a president 303 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:26.559 changes hands, he goes from a strong president to a 304 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:29.639 president that appears weak. Right, all of a sudden, we 305 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:35.559 we have war in Russia. So so anyway, the point 306 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:39.279 is is that that's that's what's happening. And so he's uh, 307 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:43.080 he's he's going against uh, you know, and he's rebelling, 308 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:45.200 and he's saying, I'm not going to pay this tribute. 309 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:46.759 I'm gonna in fact, I'm gonna go to war. I'm 310 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:48.919 going to break and gain our freedom again. 311 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:50.080 And uh. 312 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:52.399 And what Israel is doing and what God is helping 313 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:55.759 Israel do, is making a statement that says, you're not 314 00:13:55.799 --> 00:14:00.600 going to defeat or rise up against the the nation 315 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:03.440 of the God of Israel. So this is a statement 316 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:06.279 about about the people who serve God. It's not just 317 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:09.559 a statement about kings and power. It's a statement about 318 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:13.679 don't mess with God is what it is right. And 319 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:16.600 so therefore they're like, Okay, if you want to rebel 320 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:17.679 against us, then you're. 321 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:19.799 Going to pay. So they filled all the wells. 322 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:23.840 They so they got shovels and and and or whatever 323 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:27.440 they were using, I suppose filled with rocks, and so 324 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:31.440 they're so they're filling the wells to where they basically. 325 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:36.639 Made the land not unusable. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, and uh. 326 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:39.200 And by the way, another thing about the life application 327 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:42.279 study Bible is uh, as soon as you see one map, 328 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:46.480 you understand everything, right. So so this is as many 329 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:49.240 people understand, the Sea of Galilee's on the northern part 330 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:52.679 of Israel, the Dead Seas on the southern part of Israel, 331 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:54.960 and then the Jordan River sort of connects the two, 332 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:59.679 and so Moab is on the east side directly east 333 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:04.279 do east of the Dead Sea, and so and so 334 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:10.080 then the the wilderness of Edom is actually just south 335 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:13.480 of the Dead Sea, right, So they would have gone 336 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:16.559 from the from the west side of the Dead Sea 337 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:21.879 down underneath the Dead Sea and then up to Moab 338 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:22.519 on the other side. 339 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:23.039 That's right. 340 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:24.720 Is that cool? 341 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:26.639 Yeah? And so that would be in what is modern 342 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:28.159 day Jordan now. 343 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:30.840 Yeah, which which, by the way, you were there like 344 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:31.639 a couple months a. 345 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:35.240 Yeah, I'll be there again shortly. But yeah. So that's 346 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:40.039 as you're heading from Aman down towards Petra. Is that 347 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:42.240 this is on the way, although Petra didn't exist in 348 00:15:42.279 --> 00:15:44.639 these days. This is eight hundred and fifty years before 349 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:48.480 Jesus and Petro was was going on in the time 350 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:51.240 of Jesus that those Navitaeans were about the same time 351 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:55.480 as Jesus. So but anyways, this is a pretty rugged 352 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:59.080 area and a rough area, and these Moabites are wicked people, 353 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:01.960 evil people. So a lot of times people ask man Alive, 354 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:08.000 it just seems unreasonable that, you know, God would would 355 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:11.440 fight all these tribes around Israel all the time, and 356 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:13.840 that God would would help Israel wipe them out, and 357 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:18.440 it just seems okay. So when this Moabite king, after 358 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:21.799 he's done fighting the Israelites and realizes we're probably going 359 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:28.279 to lose, he sacrifices the crown prince in a burnt 360 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:33.519 offering right on the wall in front of everybody. Right, so, 361 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:37.639 no wonder God goes after these people. I don't know 362 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:41.360 that the average reader, as you plow through the Old Testament, 363 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:45.840 a lot of times we miss those because that's one sentence, right, right, 364 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:47.840 That was one sentence. The king of Moab took his 365 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:49.480 oldest son who would have been the next king, and 366 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:51.440 sacrificed him as a burno offering on the wall, and 367 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:55.519 then just keep going one sentence. Right. So, every once 368 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:57.879 in a while you'll hear somebody go, you know, one 369 00:16:57.879 --> 00:17:00.559 of the big arguments I listened to. I think it 370 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:06.799 was Christopher Hitchins, one of the main atheist you know, philosophers, 371 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:09.279 and he goes, you know, I don't like the God 372 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:13.000 of the Old Testament because he commitsed genocide right in 373 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:16.440 the Bible whatever. And I'm like, I don't know that. 374 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:21.519 You and I can comprehend how unbelievably and completely evil 375 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:25.960 these people were. Yeah, their culture was such that the 376 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:28.119 people after that, it says, so there was great anger 377 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:31.839 against Israel. Now look what you made me do. Look 378 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:35.079 what you made our king do. They were not horrified 379 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:38.400 at what their king did. They were horrified at what 380 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:41.880 Israel was doing. Right. So Israel comes in and goes, hey, 381 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:44.079 you're not paying your taxes anymore. The only reason why 382 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:45.559 we let you live is because you give us one 383 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:49.599 hundred thousand sheep and one hundred thousand coats of wool 384 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:53.240 from the rams, and you stopped paying. We're coming to collect. Right, 385 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:55.960 that's just a government thing. Those are two governments working 386 00:17:56.000 --> 00:18:00.640 things out. You stop paying, there's consequences. That's that This king, 387 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:03.799 this evil king, gets up and sacrifices his son in 388 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:06.880 a burnt offering on the wall, the web, the city, 389 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:09.599 the would be king. He sacrificed the crown prince. That's 390 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:13.079 right in front of the people. And the people are 391 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:16.640 not mad at their king. They're mad at Israel. 392 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:21.880 Because they probably believe in that sacrifice. 393 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:27.160 They were totally saturated with evil in every way. Now 394 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:29.480 here's a king willing to sacrifice his son and the 395 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:31.839 burn offering in front of everybody. But what we know 396 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:34.359 about the worship this was Chimash was the god that 397 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:36.440 he would have been worshiping there, but the gods of 398 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:41.400 Bail and Molek and all these other gods Ashtereth. The 399 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:46.720 sex issues, the sexual issues in worship were as evil 400 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:53.559 as these human sacrifices were evil and the full on hedonism, 401 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:56.200