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 --> 00:00:13.640 practical ways. Hey, we're back the Bible Guys. That's right, 4 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:14.160 that's right. 5 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:16.839 I'm Jeff and this is Kyle and Chris is out 6 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:19.440 of town this week, but we are super excited to 7 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:22.719 be back. And today we have some bonus material. This 8 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:24.519 isn't even on the list, and we're gonna go ahead 9 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:27.280 and deal with the story that we were going to scuest. 10 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:30.160 Absolutely super excited about that pretty pretty important story too. Yes, 11 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:33.560 not cover. So before we get into that, though, we're actually. 12 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:36.240 Gonna play quick game and uh, it's it's who's most 13 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:36.920 likely too. 14 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:39.719 Who's most likely between you and I? Okay, okay, okay, 15 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:40.799 I haven't seen these by the way. 16 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:42.439 Yeah, and I'll be honest, I didn't look ahead of time, 17 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:43.640 ahead of time, so I do know. 18 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:46.000 So we're just taking a vote on you're gonna you're 19 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:50.079 gonna read a thing and that DESIREE arbitrarily chose, and. 20 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:52.320 Then who's most likely you must either do these things 21 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:53.280 or become these things. 22 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:54.840 Okay, So be there uncomfortable? 23 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:55.240 Yeah, I know. 24 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:57.799 So there's five of them. So first one is who's 25 00:00:57.840 --> 00:00:59.920 most likely to become a meme? 26 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:00.719 You or I. 27 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:04.519 Oh, well, I've only seen several dozen memes of me, 28 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:07.239 usually on a Sunday morning. I was just gonna say 29 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:09.359 something dumb from stage, and immediately it's a meme. 30 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:10.319 I was just gonna say. 31 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:13.680 I think being with so many creatives on our team, 32 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:15.439 I feel like anything on the same way. Anytime I 33 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:18.000 say something stupid or make a funny face expression. Next 34 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:19.879 thing you know, I'm on a group chat and somebody's 35 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:22.200 replying with my face doing the same thing. 36 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:24.120 And I and I have seen some memes of you. 37 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:27.599 I have, so the one that's most common one of 38 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:31.680 our drummers, Mark Crummins. Yes, is so quick to make 39 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:35.040 so he always hears something that he thinks is funny, 40 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:37.280 he puts it up there. We could probably find a 41 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:41.000 dozen of them just searching from Mark. But so they 42 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:42.719 make a bunch of memes of you too. 43 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:45.239 Oh yeah, yeah, for sure, yes, And it's usually if 44 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:47.319 it's a if it's a if it's a dumb look 45 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:49.159 at the camera and they'll put something over top of 46 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:51.359 it exactly something like that. 47 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:53.359 So you're not the only one, but I think we're 48 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:56.599 both gonna get definitely equal opportunity for getting made fun of. 49 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:57.079 That's right, good. 50 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:57.799 I gotta have thick skin. 51 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:00.400 That's how it is, that heritage. 52 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:01.400 We don't take ourselves. 53 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:03.680 The way we show love is by eating our own. 54 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:05.920 Yes, all right, here you go. 55 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:08.039 Number two, it was most likely to show up at 56 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:10.479 an event in costume by mistake. 57 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:13.639 Mostly to show up an event in costume by mistake. 58 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:16.039 I typically resist costume. 59 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:16.520 I was. 60 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:18.039 I was going to say, I think it'd be me, 61 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:19.159 It's gonna be you. 62 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:20.599 But it's not because the costume. 63 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:22.599 It's because I think I don't always pay attention to 64 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:23.639 the spider print. 65 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:26.479 Well that's yeah, that's I'm gonna agree with that one. 66 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:26.840 I do. 67 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:29.080 The details just kind of escape me. It's more the 68 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:31.000 bigger picture of things, and so I could see myself. 69 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:33.280 In fact, I think it's happened before now that i'm remembering. 70 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:35.080 There was a time there was something that happened and 71 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:36.599 I thought it was a I showed up and I 72 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:38.680 was like, I am the only one here. 73 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:42.199 Yeah, I typically resist costumes. We'll do a couple of 74 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:44.520 things every year where you know, kids events and things, 75 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:46.039 so we have to wear costumes to go for it. 76 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:47.879 Then I'll get in on it. I was Luigi a 77 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:50.400 couple of years ago. I was what was that last year, 78 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:51.639 I had all the SpongeBob people. 79 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:53.759 Ye, your whole family was a SpongeBob. That was really great. 80 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:55.479 People love that, by the way. That was really fun. 81 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:58.479 So last year, my wife and I, you know, usually 82 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:00.800 I don't I'm not a huge costume person neither, but 83 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:02.800 if I'm gonna wear something, especially it's a themed, We're 84 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:04.639 gonna go and get into it. So last year we 85 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:06.520 dressed up as old people, which, by the way, is 86 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:08.879 a very fun costume to do. So we I mean, 87 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:10.599 and the thing is, we were able to find stuff 88 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:12.360 at home, you know, like most of stuff because you're 89 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:15.639 getting pretty yeah, exactly exactly, but it's fun. So we 90 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:17.439 we you know, found a lot of stuff at home 91 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:20.120 in goodwill. And then we went to our family Halloween party, 92 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:22.439 and mind you it's only the kids dressed up, a 93 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:25.240 bunch of adults there and me and Kristen we committed 94 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:27.120 to like the first hour we were there, like the 95 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:30.000 stay in character. We're just in character, like the first hour, 96 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:31.560 and then got to the point where I was like, 97 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:33.840 this is exactly Literally, people were just watching us and 98 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:35.400 waiting to see we're going to say all the kids 99 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:36.240 were just surrounding us. 100 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:37.879 I'm like, wow, this is this is this is a 101 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:39.919 lot of pressure. So anyways, that would be me. 102 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:43.879 My wife and I were just in Venice a couple 103 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:46.719 weeks ago, and you know they have those during Carnival, 104 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:50.479 they have those Venetian you wear the courtier outfits with 105 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:53.240 the little mask, you know, And Bonnie was like, hey, 106 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:54.919 we should do that, and I was like, I can't 107 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:56.680 think of any world, any universe. 108 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:58.120 Now, I would be like that's a good. 109 00:03:57.919 --> 00:03:59.680 I no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no. 110 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:02.120 I'm not fun with a powdered wig, you know, and 111 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:04.159 all that lay buckles. 112 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:07.639 And just have a little masks phra you too, now yeah? 113 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:08.280 Yeah, okay. 114 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:11.840 So third thing, who's most likely to eat something weird 115 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:13.199 just to see what it tastes? Like? 116 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:15.840 Oh I will, I will in the heartbeat, that's you, 117 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:17.759 for sure, Yep, that is you for sure. 118 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:18.079 Yeah. 119 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:20.199 I would say when it comes to eating strange things, 120 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:23.120 I'm not very adventurous. I'll be honest, No, especially if 121 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:26.079 it involves spice, or if it looks weird or has 122 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:28.519 a strange texture. I'm happy you know, people like, no, 123 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:30.519 you have to try it. I don't feel that pressure 124 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:32.879 like that doesn't it's but you have to. I'm like, 125 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:35.720 do I I feel anxiety about it? 126 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:38.759 Okay, right, but there's just something in me goes. I 127 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:39.519 wonder what it tastes. 128 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:43.040 Yeah, people like curiosity, right, Yeah, people like it, they're 129 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:44.680 eating it, they're happy about it. 130 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:47.560 Well, I wonder why, right, And a lot of those 131 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:49.600 tastes are acquired tastes is what you find out. 132 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:51.839 But I try at. 133 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:54.279 Least not even for some people, probably not adventurous at all, 134 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:56.519 but for me it was. I remember five six years ago, 135 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:59.000 we're in Florida, but we're in like a like a 136 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:01.639 like a you nique part of Florida where it's very 137 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:04.120 like everybody like very local, locals only kind of thing. 138 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:06.000 We went to a restaurant that was known for some 139 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:07.879 of the exotic food, and the one I was willing 140 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:08.920 to taste was alligator. 141 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:10.839 Oh yeah, that's pretty tasty. Yeah, everybody's good. 142 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:13.079 That's pretty good. And that just kind of sound funny 143 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:14.279 to say I meet an alligator. Yeah. 144 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:19.519 I ate I a camel burger in Fez in Morocco, 145 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:23.000 just because I've never had camel before I was really good, okay, 146 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:23.759 really really good. 147 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:25.839 Yeah yeah, comparable to normal like burger meat. 148 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:27.399 Yeah, it was really good. Okay. 149 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:29.800 I like to know, all right, Fourth thing, who's most 150 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:31.639 likely to find a hidden treasure? 151 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:33.399 Hidden? 152 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:34.160 Well? 153 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:36.480 Where where you finding the hidden treasures? Like digging up 154 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:38.639 a hire treasure or finding like a hidden treasure in 155 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:39.319 a market place? 156 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:42.480 Okay, that's I was thinking, just like the old school 157 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.160 hidden treasure like a box from like you know. 158 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:49.240 So I love going into markets, okay, like when you're 159 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:51.319 in the developing places. 160 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:52.959 And in Ecuador. 161 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:54.759 My wife and I were in Ecuador and we were 162 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:57.399 way out in the mountains, uh In, in an. 163 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:02.279 Area where the relatives still live. 164 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:02.720 Right. 165 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:04.839 So we were in this open air market it's open 166 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:09.399 once a week, and I was with a security guard, 167 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:13.079 a safety guard who was guarding the wife of the 168 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:17.439 former head of the World Bank for they're in Ecuador. 169 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:20.000 And I mentioned her. I said, hey, you know what 170 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:21.360 I love. I love to get like a little. 171 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:23.959 Statue of the people. I want to remember their faces, 172 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:25.240 take it home so I pray for these people. 173 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:26.560 She's like, okay, So we're. 174 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:29.079 Going around the market, she's asking, asking, asking, and she goes, okay, 175 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.600 this guy. So we go into this guy's place and 176 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:33.439 he starts pulling out these things. So I wind up 177 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:37.160 buying I found this, You've seen it before. It's carved 178 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:39.000 out of some kind of a marble or some kind 179 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:41.000 of beautiful green rock, you know what I mean, Yeah, 180 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:43.920 beautiful face, but then it's like chipped out. I couldn't 181 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:45.800 figure out what it was, and so I bought it. 182 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:48.040 And it only cost me like forty bucks or something 183 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:50.720 like that, and I have it sitting them out. But 184 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:53.160 when I got to the airport, all of a sudden, 185 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:57.040 I'm surrounded by cops and the head of the antiquities 186 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:00.800 comes out and they're inspecting this. They think I'm a 187 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:05.000 grave robber and I stole this treasure. And he goes, oh, 188 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:07.800 this is very old. I can't prove that you stole 189 00:07:07.879 --> 00:07:10.800 it whatever, And they just are reading me the right act, 190 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:12.720 like I'm going to get arrested over this thing. And 191 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:14.000 I was like, I bought it in a market, and 192 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:15.920 I showed him. I took a picture, and thank god, 193 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:17.920 I took a picture, and I said, this is where 194 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:19.639 I bought it from. I was with her, you know, 195 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:22.759 and her husband's pretty famous all this stuff. My wife 196 00:07:22.759 --> 00:07:24.800 and I were like, well, you know, we're not criminals. 197 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:27.920 And so finally the guy goes, Okay, what do you 198 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:30.839 do for a living? Do you sell antiquities? I said, like, no, 199 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:33.120 I'm a pastor. I bought it to pray for the 200 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:34.240 people I was working with. 201 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:34.759 That was it. 202 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:36.160 It just reminds me of all the people. 203 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:38.399 It's very tribal looking, right, And I said, I bought 204 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:39.560 it just to pray for the people. 205 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:40.160 And he looked. 206 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:42.040 He kept looking at me and looking at it, looking 207 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:47.839 at me, and he goes, I cannot prove without confiscating it. 208 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:50.800 I can't prove that this is an antiquity. He said, 209 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:52.759 I'm going to let you have it as long as 210 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:54.839 you keep praying for my people. And he let me 211 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:55.279 keep it. 212 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:57.279 But so I think I have a little treasure in 213 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:01.319 my house. Yeah, yeah, there you go like that, Aloe. 214 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:04.120 So you're the most likely to discover the head treasure. 215 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:07.040 You're the most likely to try something you know new 216 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:08.000 over your food. 217 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:11.519 I'm most likely to show up at a costume person. 218 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:14.600 Sorry, missing then invite and showing up with the costume. 219 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:17.079 And then I think both of us could become memesday. 220 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:19.319 Yes, So do you have a fifth one. Is there 221 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:19.839 a last one? 222 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:20.079 Yeah? 223 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:21.920 I think, well, just because of time, I think we 224 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:23.839 should get into I think we should get into it. 225 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:26.079 Okay, yeah, think we should get into rehab. Here I 226 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:29.160 was all excited about those you don't know why. Yeah, okay, 227 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:32.519 So here's the bonus material for today. We were going 228 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:35.159 to skip over rehab, but then I thought, oh, no, 229 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:36.679 you know what, we need to tell this story. This 230 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:38.039 is important for a lot of reasons. 231 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:40.960 So, uh, it's, on its surface, it's a pretty on 232 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:43.000 the nose kind of a story. So let's just read 233 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.600 the whole story and then we'll talk briefly about rehab. 234 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:50.919 So in Joshua chapter two, it says, then Joshua secretly 235 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:53.559 sent out two spies from the Israelit camp at a 236 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:57.080 Keasha grove. He instructed them scout out the land on 237 00:08:57.120 --> 00:08:59.919 the other side of the Jordan River, especially around Jericho. 238 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:01.960 So the two men set out and came to the 239 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:04.679 house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there that night. 240 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:08.120 But someone told the King of Jericho, some Israelites have 241 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:10.759 come here tonight to spy out the land. So the 242 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:13.320 King of Jericho sent orders to Rahab, but bring out 243 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:15.480 the men who've come into your house, For they've come 244 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:18.759 here to spy out the whole land. Rayhab had hidden 245 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:20.639 the two men, but she replied, yes, the men were 246 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:22.960 here earlier, but I don't know where they were from. 247 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:25.480 They left the town at dusk as the gates were 248 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:27.840 about to close. I don't know where they went. If 249 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:30.120 you hurry, you can probably catch up with them. Actually, 250 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:31.960 she had taken them up to the roof and hidden 251 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:35.159 them beneath bundles of flax she'd laid out so the 252 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:38.960 King's men looking for the spies along the road leading 253 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.519 to the shallow crossings of the Jordan River, And as 254 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:43.480 soon as the King's men had left, the gate of. 255 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:44.559 Jericho was shut. 256 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:47.080 Before the spies went to sleep that night, Rayhab went 257 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:48.960 up on the roof to talk with them. I know 258 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:51.000 the Lord has given you this land, she told them. 259 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:53.480 We are all afraid of you. Everyone in the land 260 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:55.559 is living in terror, for we've heard how the Lord 261 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:57.879 made a dry path for you through the Red Sea 262 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:00.080 when you left Egypt, and we know what you did 263 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:02.519 to Sihan and Og, the two Emirit kings east of 264 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:06.080 the Jordan River, whose people you completely destroyed. No wonder 265 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:08.440 our hearts have melted in fear. No one has the 266 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:11.679 courage to fight after hearing such things. For the Lord, 267 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:14.240 your God, is the supreme god of the heavens above 268 00:10:14.279 --> 00:10:16.519 and the earth below. Now, swear to me by the 269 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:18.120 Lord that you will be kind to me and my 270 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:20.919 family since i've helped you. Give me some guarantee that 271 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:23.679 when Jericho is conquered, you will let me live along 272 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:25.639 with my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and 273 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:28.960 all their families. We offer our own lives as a 274 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.759 guarantee for your safety. The men agreed, if you don't 275 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:34.399 betray us, we will keep our promise and be kind 276 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:37.399 to you when the Lord gives us the land. Then, 277 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:40.159 since Rayhab's house was built into the town wall, she 278 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:43.399 let them down by a rope through the window escape 279 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:45.399 to the hill country. She told them, hide there for 280 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:47.840 three days from the men searching for you, and then 281 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:50.440 when they've returned, you can go on your way. Before 282 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:52.600 they left, the men told her, we will be bound 283 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:55.360 by the oath we've taken only if you follow these instructions. 284 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:57.399 When we come into the land, you must leave this 285 00:10:57.559 --> 00:11:00.440 scarlet rope hanging from the window through wi you let 286 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:05.360 us down and all your family members, your father, mother, brothers, 287 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:07.600 and all your relatives must be here inside this house. 288 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:10.080 If they go out into the street and are killed, 289 00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:12.279 it'll not be our fault. But if anyone lays a 290 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:15.720 hand on people inside this house, we will accept responsibility 291 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:18.279 for their death. If you betray us, however, we are 292 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:20.960 not bound by this oath in any way. Accept your terms, 293 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:23.279 she replied. She sent them on their way, leaving the 294 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:26.159 scarlet rope hanging from the window. The spies went up 295 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:28.120 into the hill country and stayed there three days, and 296 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:30.759 the men who were chasing them searched everywhere along the road, 297 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.480 but they finally returned without success. Then the two spies 298 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:36.159 came down from the hill country, crossed the Jordan River 299 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:38.360 and reported to Joshua all that had happened to them. 300 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:40.759 The Lord has given us the whole land, they said, 301 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:44.720 for all the people in the land are terrified of us. 302 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:45.960 Wow. Yeah, it's good. 303 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:52.000 Yeah, this is obviously, like you said, pretty straightforward kind 304 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:52.639 of story here. 305 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:53.799 But we see rayhab. 306 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:56.519 The one thing I'm just impressed by is just how 307 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:58.720 quick she was, like like she was in. 308 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:01.200 Survival mode, right, you see it back and forth. 309 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:04.440 The way she's almost like not bargaining, but she's like, hey, 310 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:09.080 if I do this, she's negotiating, she's she's strong, and 311 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:11.759 she even says how afraid she was. So I'm sure 312 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:13.559 there's some terror when she's going through this, but she 313 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:17.399 was legitimately going out there and and really, uh, you know, 314 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:19.919 bargaining for her life. And and I think it's really 315 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:21.759 cool the way, uh they were kind of in the 316 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:23.559 same way. They're like, hey, we're going to make sure 317 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:26.240 we stay true to this. We're going to make sure 318 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:29.000 that if they betray us, you know, there's this oath. 319 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:30.440 And I just thought that was really cool, the way 320 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:32.360 there's like this back and forth between people who just 321 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:33.039 met each other. 322 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:35.200 And then I think I thought it was interesting too, 323 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:36.240 like the whole flax thing. 324 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:38.120 I just was looking this up because it said flax, 325 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:40.039 and you know, it's not a thing, I at least 326 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:41.759 for us around here. You know, we don't really think 327 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:42.759 about flax too often. 328 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:44.679 But uh, I think there's flax seed oil. 329 00:12:44.759 --> 00:12:45.679 Oh yeah, there you go. 330 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:47.799 Okay, that was like where if I heard okay, So it 331 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:49.519 was it was interesting because all flax was harvest in 332 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:52.399 the fields and piled high on the rooftops to dry 333 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:55.000 flax rows to a height of three or four feet, 334 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:57.639 so stacked on the roof made an excellent hiding hiding 335 00:12:57.639 --> 00:12:58.480 place for the spies. 336 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:00.120 And that's why it was interesting because. 337 00:12:59.879 --> 00:13:02.000 I wondered how they hid that way, because you just 338 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:04.159 envisioned like cartoon style like hiding. 339 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:05.240 You're like, how did you know? When you're like, how 340 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:06.039 did nobody say all this? 341 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:08.159 But being up on the roof three to four feet 342 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:09.799 high in the flax, it's pretty cool. 343 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:10.000 Yeah. 344 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:13.919 Have you ever seen when maybe they're harvesting out in 345 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:15.720 a field and they're cutting everything, they just make those 346 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.279 great big giantis like that. That's what it would have been, 347 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:20.000 as it would have been a big pile that they 348 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:21.759 brought in from the field set up on the roof 349 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:23.720 to dry because up on the roof it's going to 350 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:25.200 be a little bit more of a breeze, it's going 351 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:27.200 to be really dry out in the sun, and so 352 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:29.679 they would have just climbed into the middle of that great, 353 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:30.480 big giant pile. 354 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:31.080 That's what happened. 355 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:31.559 That's really cool. 356 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:35.080 So Rahab is important on the number of levels. One, 357 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:41.559 she recognizes your god is the god of heaven. Yes, right, So, hey, 358 00:13:41.559 --> 00:13:43.639 we can't gloss over the fact. This is the Bible 359 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:47.399 calls are a prostitute in this translation other translations a harlot. 360 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:53.000 The so certainly not one of the upstanding ladies of 361 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:55.720 the of the community, right, And it might have been 362 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:57.399 one of the reasons why they were they hid there 363 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:01.720 was the fact that respectable people would have gone less traffic. 364 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:05.799 Right. Maybe people try to look away. 365 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:10.679 From that society in the red light district a lot 366 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:15.120 of times, nobody's making eye contact, nobody's studying faces, right, 367 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:17.039 that kind of thing. So that might have been why 368 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:19.320 they went to her place. Was it was an easy 369 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:21.960 place that men were coming and going anyways, it was 370 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:25.159 easy to get in and out. Nobody's actually carting you 371 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:28.600 at that moment paying attention, right, that kind of thing. 372 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:31.120 And so it wasn't that they were living in sin 373 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:33.879 and just hanging out with prostitutes in the thing. It 374 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:38.360 was the practicalities being spies, the practicality of being unnoticed 375 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:41.879 was what they were going for. Oftentimes. Also, you know 376 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:45.840 the word that's translated into English prostitute here or harlot 377 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:49.679 in the like the King James or the nasb would 378 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:53.840 be also can be a woman who has that kind 379 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:56.559 of a business, but also running like a hotel or 380 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:59.440 an inn. Right, so her brothel would also be an 381 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:02.679 inn kind of a thing, and it built into the 382 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:05.440 wall of the city. It would have been very If 383 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:09.559 you know about caravan series, they would often be you know, 384 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:12.159 you'd put your animals, bring your animals in your your camels, 385 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:14.480 all that stuff would come inside, close the gate, and 386 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:17.519 then the upstairs would be all these you know, pretty 387 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:20.639 sketchy hotel rooms, flee bit and hotel rooms kind of thing. 388 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:22.799 That very likely is what's happening here. 389 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:23.279 And that makes sense. 390 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:25.279 People would have been coming and going, and therefore their 391 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:26.399 face would not have stood out. 392 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:28.320 That's what they're hoping for it, that's where we stand out. 393 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:28.720 That's right. 394 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:31.840 So this rehab probably wasn't a prostitute like you would 395 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:34.480 think of a woman standing on the corner, but rather 396 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:38.519 running this CD hotel that nobody's paying attention to. 397 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:40.480 Yeah, right, well, and then, and I know you're getting 398 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:40.960 around to it. 399 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:43.919 The significance of using her and the fact that eventually 400 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:45.440 in Hebrews, I don't know if you want to get yeah, 401 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:48.840