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 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:14.759 All right, trying, Yeah, here we go, just shifting. 5 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:17.320 I'm trying to get it right. Yeah, because I'm hunching. 6 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:18.239 I'm puching like this. 7 00:00:18.559 --> 00:00:25.039 Yeah. Well straight, that's right, that's right, that's right. 8 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:27.039 You know that get stuck that way. 9 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:27.760 I have. I have like. 10 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:31.039 Bulging discs in my spine. Not that anybody cares. I'm 11 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:34.039 sure some do, but but but I actually, uh, I 12 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:35.640 hunch over a lot, and I put my neck out 13 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:37.439 like this. So I've been trying to get in the 14 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:40.799 habit of good posture like this and then my neck 15 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:41.320 and everything. 16 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:44.560 So anyway, good morning everybody. We're old and we are 17 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:44.920 the bibble. 18 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:50.240 Yeah, a nice thing. We're going to be talking about vitamins. 19 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:54.799 Were talking about doctor's appointments, right, right, appointments me some liniments. 20 00:00:55.000 --> 00:01:01.719 Anytime you start using the word liniment, pocket full of butterscotch. 21 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:02.000 Because. 22 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:06.799 You ever talked to like your parents and they're like, hey, 23 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:07.560 what's what's going on. 24 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:09.319 I went to the supermarket today. 25 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:11.519 Cut my hair done is a really big deal. 26 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:14.920 So anyway, hey, well, listen, We're going to start off 27 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:18.840 this segment with my daughter's favorite thing to do, which 28 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:23.400 is dad joke competition. Okay, so Tory actually bought me 29 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:24.840 get this for Christmas. 30 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:26.359 She bought me a coffee mug. 31 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:30.680 And the coffee mug is a pie chart, a breakdown 32 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:33.280 of like of dead jokes, like where's the real humor? 33 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:36.519 Who laughs? Who doesn't laugh? The pie chart is very funny. 34 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:38.560 And then on the back of the mug there's a 35 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:41.879 QR code and every single day, if you. 36 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:44.920 QR code it you it'll bring up a dad joke 37 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:48.840 of the day. That's a great So it has become. 38 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:53.560 I have to do it, like I feel obligated to 39 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:56.359 do it. It has become my coffee mug every day. 40 00:01:56.359 --> 00:01:58.719 I now no longer can enjoy any other coffee mug, 41 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:00.480 only that one, because I have to do this one. 42 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:01.400 So did you do one today? 43 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:02.359 I did it? 44 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:04.359 Said, what do you call two ducks and a cow? 45 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:06.040 Quackers and milk? 46 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:09.520 Okay, it's pretty okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's the 47 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:11.159 point of a dad joke. All right, Well, this is 48 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:13.719 a competition, so you can't just mail it in with 49 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:19.039 the quackers and milk and joke that's right, you better 50 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:20.879 bring it for the competition because I got some good 51 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:21.400 ones today. 52 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:24.439 Well Desiree chooses them. But okay, okay, go ahead, she 53 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:25.800 loaded me up. Go ahead. 54 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:28.680 My friend keeps saying, cheer up, man. It could be worse. 55 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:31.400 You could be stuck underground in a hole full of water. 56 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:33.199 I know he means well. 57 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:37.840 Whow like that one? 58 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:41.879 Well that first I was like, this sounds like a reach, yeah, 59 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:43.759 because they're trying to describe like I was like, what 60 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:44.479 is he saying? 61 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:46.599 But then the fact that he said I. 62 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:49.560 Know he means well indicates that the guy was using 63 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:52.199 these Well yes, I'm. 64 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:53.919 Just saying like it was well written. That's all. 65 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:56.319 Okay, all right, here we go. Ready, Okay, when I 66 00:02:56.360 --> 00:02:59.280 was young, I was scared of the dark. Now that 67 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:02.280 I see my lectric bill, I'm scared of the lights. 68 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:07.039 Okay, okay, that's not bad. My friends and I are 69 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:12.080 in a band called Duvet. We're a cover band. Oh geez, 70 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:16.560 not nothing like a little bit of sheets and blankets jokes, 71 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:17.800 right right. 72 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:20.879 Okay, how about this one? My wife asked if our 73 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:24.759 kids are spoiled? I said, I think most kids smell 74 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:26.560 that way. 75 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:29.439 Okay, I like that one. 76 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:31.479 I like that was winning so far. 77 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:33.479 Well, I think you got one. 78 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:35.639 Yeah, you got one, really good one. 79 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:36.599 I think this is a good one. 80 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:37.000 Okay. 81 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:42.439 Lance is not a common name nowadays, but in medieval 82 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:44.919 times people were named Lance a lot. 83 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:49.319 I like that one. 84 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:50.599 That's a good one. 85 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:52.879 That one wins in my opinion. I like that. 86 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:58.159 Okay, really, I have a couple of sock puppets for sale. 87 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:06.599 Anyone interested in taking them off my hands? Yeah? Okay, 88 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:08.960 that was good. That's good. That's a good one. 89 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:12.120 That's a good one's gonna have. We have We're gonna 90 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:14.960 have fans go, you say, first, I get the socks. 91 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:16.920 I get the sock puppets. It's really fun. 92 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:20.759 Okay, to start my diet today, I removed all the 93 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:23.519 bad food from my house. It was delicious. 94 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:27.439 Oh wow, Wow, that's pretty good. That's how I like 95 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:28.759 to do it. All Right, here we go. 96 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:33.199 My wife likes it when I blow air on her 97 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:35.480 when she's hot, but I'm not a fan. 98 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:43.720 Right, Okay, that's not bad. Okay. 99 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.240 There's a man who's addicted to break fluid, but he 100 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:47.920 says he can stop anytime he wants. 101 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:51.079 Wow, that's pretty good. I like it a lot. 102 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:51.959 That's a clever one. 103 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:54.439 That's a good one. Okay, this is my last one. 104 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:55.959 What was that your last one? 105 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:56.720 That was my last one? 106 00:04:56.759 --> 00:04:58.879 Okay, here, here you go. Hopefully this is one that'll 107 00:04:58.879 --> 00:04:59.800 push me over the edge. 108 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:03.920 Okay, you're yawning right in the middle of the I 109 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:05.720 know for you, I know, Liz. 110 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:08.240 Sorry, sorry, baby, Right here we go. 111 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:12.360 How can you tell the difference between a crocodile and 112 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:13.120 an alligator? 113 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:13.839 I don't know. 114 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:17.680 Easy. One you'll see later and the other you'll see 115 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:20.519 in a while, after a while, it says, in a while. 116 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:25.399 But but yeah, yeah, I don't know, man. 117 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:26.680 I think I think it's a tie. 118 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:28.519 I think the Lancelot joke was funny. 119 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:29.480 It was really good. 120 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:31.480 It's a good one. It was well written. That's what 121 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:34.920 I liked about it. Yeah, yeah, I think and yours 122 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:36.800 yours with all the kids smell that way or whatever. 123 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:39.480 That Yeah, that was pretty good. Yeah, the spoiled kids. 124 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:44.240 If Tory wasn't teaching right now, she's a teacher, fourth 125 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:46.959 grade teacher. If she wasn't teaching right now, I might 126 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:49.720 call her live right now and tell her the Lance 127 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:50.120 a Lot joke. 128 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:53.759 That's how much I liked her. She'll love that. Puppets. 129 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:55.439 Right, that's for you, toy. If you listen to the 130 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:57.360 podcast at some point and sock Puppets was a good one, 131 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:00.480 I think you had two really good ones. Yeah, I 132 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:01.759 had one really good one. 133 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:06.079 Okay, hopefully that segment wasn't revolting. 134 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:11.600 And you know what, speaking of revolting, no, today, this 135 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:14.360 next story is about a priest who revolt, revolts against 136 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:15.920 the wicked queen revolts. 137 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:19.199 Yes. Wow, Okay, is that terrible? 138 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:21.160 Yeah? That was a that was a horrible one. I 139 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:24.079 think it doesn't get much worse than that one. Chris. 140 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.040 Yeah, well, I mean, come on, give it up. 141 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:28.120 No, I love it. I love it. 142 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:29.120 A little bit intuition there. 143 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:32.920 Okay, So, for all of our astute listeners that have 144 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:35.360 been paying attention for a while, a week or two ago, 145 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:40.079 Jayhu wiped out Ahabs. You know Jay who comes in 146 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:44.839 and starts Jezebel against Jezebel and then on the road 147 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:47.000 he winds up white and wiping out a Hasaiah. Remember. 148 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:49.839 Yeah, So well that wasn't a couple of weeks ago. 149 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:50.519 It was a couple of days ago. 150 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:52.120 A couple of days ago. It was last week. 151 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:55.000 We started it with today, No not when. 152 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:58.519 He wipes out a Hazaiah. Oh yeah, yeah, the king, 153 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:02.720 the king from Judah, from Judea. So then a Hazaiah's 154 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:06.079 mother becomes the queen, which is weird, right, It must 155 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:08.800 have been single or something. So Isaiah's mother her name 156 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:12.040 was Athalia Athalia Dahlia, which, by the way, I like 157 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:13.000 the name of Athalia. 158 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:13.720 It's very pretty. 159 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:17.480 Yeah, it's spelled it A S A I L I 160 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:20.800 A I think originally, but whoever wrote it had a 161 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:22.160 list Athalia. 162 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:22.720 Wow. 163 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:29.480 No, wow, I's trying, okay. So yeah, Second Chronicles chapter 164 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:31.199 twenty three is what we're reading now. So we're jumping 165 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:33.879 over to the Second Chronicles instead of the Kings one. 166 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:40.079 Because we're we're doing chronological reading and Second Chronicles oftentimes 167 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:44.720 tells the same story of the Second King Second Kings. 168 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:46.920 So says in the seventh year of Italia's reign, Jehoyta, 169 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:50.079 the priest decided to act. He summoned his courage and 170 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:52.360 made a pact with the five army commanders. As Ariah, 171 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:57.680 son of George, jero m jirom Ishmael's son of Jahant 172 00:07:57.879 --> 00:08:03.959 what jo Hannen je Johannan j Johannen sure, yeah, let 173 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:07.680 me start again. A Israah son of jero Hem Ishmael's 174 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:11.079 son of Jejohannan is Israahs son of Obid, Thank you, 175 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:15.720 Obd ma Asia son of ad a Ayah. And Alisha 176 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:19.680 Fat son of Zikri. There we go these men in 177 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:22.360 just case we're warning which Alicia Fat we were talking about? Right, 178 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:26.439 you're right, right, it's not Elisha Fat, son of Bob Johnson. 179 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:31.079 It was el son of These men travel secretly throughout 180 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:33.080 Judah and some of the levites and clan leaders and 181 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:35.360 all the towns come to Jerusalem and they're all gathered 182 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:37.320 at the Temple of God, where they made a solemn 183 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:41.039 pact with joe Ash. The young king. Jehoyda said to them, 184 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:43.480 here is the king's son. The time has come for 185 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:46.000 him to reign. The Lord has promised that the descendant 186 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:47.519 of David will be our king. And this is what 187 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:49.679 we must do. When you priests and levites come on 188 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:51.440 duty on the Sabbath of third of you will serve 189 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:54.440 as gatekeepers, another third will go over to the royal Palace, 190 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:56.840 and the final third will be at the Foundation gate. 191 00:08:57.000 --> 00:08:59.840 Everyone else should stay in the courtyards of the Lord's temple. Remember, 192 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:01.759 only the priests and levites on duty may under the 193 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:03.519 temple of the Lord, for they are set apart as holy. 194 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:06.080 The rest of the people must obey the Lord's instructions 195 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:09.080 and stay outside. You Levites form a bodyguard around the 196 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:11.360 king and keep your weapons in hand. Kill anyone who 197 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:13.000 tries to enter the temple, and stay with the king 198 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:15.399 wherever he goes. So the levites and all the people 199 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:17.720 of Judah did everything is jehoia to the Priest ordered. 200 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:21.000 The commanders took charge of the men reporting for duty 201 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:24.200 that Sabbath, as well as those who were going off duty. 202 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:26.279 Jehoya To the Priest did not let anyone go home 203 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:30.240 after the shift ended. Then Jehoiada supplied the commanders with 204 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:32.240 the spears and the large and small shields that had 205 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:34.720 once belonged to King David and were stored in the 206 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:37.120 Temple of God. He stationed all the people around the 207 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:39.519 king with their weapons ready. They formed a line from 208 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:41.559 the south side of the temple around to the north side, 209 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.080 and all around the altar. Then Jehoyaa and his sons 210 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:46.480 brought out joe Ash, the king's son, placed the crown 211 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:48.120 on his head and presented him with a copy of 212 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:51.480 God's Laws. They anointed him and proclaimed him king, and 213 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:53.600 everyone shouted, long live the King. 214 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:57.600 Oh I think I miss courted. This wasn't the revolt story. 215 00:09:57.720 --> 00:10:00.480 Uh ah, well this is it is a revolution. It's 216 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:00.879 a coup. 217 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:04.720 Okay, yeah, but it's it's Yeah, but is that different 218 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:05.440 than a revolt. 219 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:07.960 Well, there's no war going on right. 220 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:08.759 Now, right right? 221 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:11.879 Yeah, as you were reading, I'm like, hell, yeah, this 222 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:14.360 is coming up. But no, they just they crowned them. 223 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:15.919 Okay, well you want me to read the rest of it. 224 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:21.639 The Death of Athelia, Yeah, sure, yeah, go ahead, And 225 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:22.840 there's only a few verses right there. 226 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:24.879 Right second, King's eleven thirteen. 227 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:27.240 Years, I said. When Athalia heard all the noise by 228 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:30.360 the palace guards and the people, she hurried to the 229 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:32.519 lord's temple to see what was happening. And when she arrived, 230 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:34.320 she saw the newly crowned king standing in his place 231 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:36.600 of authority by the pillar. This is Joe ash right, 232 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:40.080 as was the custom at the times of coronation. The 233 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:42.600 commanders and trumpeters were surrounding him, and people from all 234 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:44.799 over the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. And when 235 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:47.360 Athalias saw all this she tore her clothes intospair and 236 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:50.600 shouted trees and treason. Then Jehoya did the priest ordered 237 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:52.440 the commanders, who were in charge of the troops, take 238 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:54.360 her to the soldiers in front of the temple and 239 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:56.919 kill anyone who tries to rescue her, for the priest 240 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:58.720 had said she must not be killed in the temple 241 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:00.879 of the Lord. So they see and let her out 242 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:03.159 to the gate where horses enter the palace grounds, and 243 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:04.080 she was killed there. 244 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:06.399 Oh okay, well that sounds like a revolt. 245 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:08.759 Yeah, okay, so it happened. 246 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:11.440 It did happen, So there you go. 247 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:16.440 So uh so, really, this whole scripture is the transition 248 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:27.200 of power and anointing coronation of a descendant of King David, right, yes, yeah, 249 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:28.720 and uh and it is. 250 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:35.440 A priest jehoi jeho jehoida. The priest decided to act. Yeah, 251 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:37.879 so you know it is. 252 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:44.840 It is uh one thing to read this and think, well, 253 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:47.440 you know, what what does that have to do with me? 254 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:50.799 I think there's a sermon in almost every scripture, right, Yes, 255 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:53.320 didn't didn't you learn in Bible college you can take 256 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:55.720 any verse of the Old Testament and pointed to Jesus. 257 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:57.039 Any passage, any passage. 258 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:59.519 Yeah, that's what it was. So here's here's what I 259 00:11:59.559 --> 00:11:59.919 would say. 260 00:11:59.919 --> 00:12:00.000 Here. 261 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:01.440 There's the sermon that I see in here. 262 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:05.320 It's actually found in verse number one, where it says, 263 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:09.240 in the seventh year of Athelia's reign, Johoya the priest 264 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:12.360 decided to act. He summoned his courage and made a 265 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:13.759 pack with the five army commanders. 266 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:15.399 And you know what, you know what that tells me. 267 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:19.679 It tells me that sometimes enough is enough, because you know, 268 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:21.879 seven years is a long time to put up with, 269 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:29.799 you know, pagan ritualistic practices. You know, have you ever 270 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:32.000 it reminds me of like I worked at a fancy 271 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:35.000 restaurant called the Moon Baker when I was in high school. 272 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:37.360 And I only worked there for like five months, but 273 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:40.879 it was the most detestable environment, and so I would 274 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:43.399 literally come in every day and I would go to 275 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:45.559 and know it sounds strange, but it was the handicap 276 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:46.600 bathroom stall. 277 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:48.159 It was sort of the only place that I could 278 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:49.080 just to be alone. 279 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:50.960 So we'd go into the men's room in the handicap 280 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:53.360 bathroom stall, and I would get changed, put on my 281 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:56.519 bow tie, and I would literally get on my knees 282 00:12:56.559 --> 00:13:00.200 in the corner because it was a large stall, and so, know, 283 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:02.440 go over there and I would get on my knees 284 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:04.399 and I would just say, God give me this strength 285 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:08.919 to be a Christian in this horrific environment. Right, it 286 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:11.559 was horrific, It was awful, and I just remember thinking, 287 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:14.919 this is the most detestable environment ever and h and 288 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:16.879 so it was really hard. It was difficult to be 289 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:19.200 a Christian in this environment. And then they then they 290 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:21.960 wanted to make you know, make me work on Sundays. 291 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:24.519 It was just an awful environment. So basically it's like 292 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:27.600 enough is enough. That's what reminds me of And so 293 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:29.919 finally enough became enough and to where I stood up 294 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:31.759 and I actually like stood up to the managers. I 295 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:34.480 stood up to people, and I actually told the manager, 296 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:36.000 I'm like, this is this is awful? 297 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:37.440 What kind of place are you running here? 298 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:39.919 And then I just quit because I knew my job 299 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:41.559 was going to end after that, right right, right, But 300 00:13:41.559 --> 00:13:44.039 I finally told him my thought and that that's what. 301 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:44.600 It feels like to me. 302 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:47.399 It's like in the Seventh years, like he finally summoned 303 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:49.039 the courage to say that's it. 304 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:50.559 We're not doing this anymore. 305 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:53.799 We're gonna we're going to anoint a king from the 306 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:57.679 descendants of the King of David. And we were going 307 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:00.960 to try to write this place and uh, and so 308 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.240 enough is enough And so he gets his you know, 309 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:05.519 armor and and and and by the way, how cool 310 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:09.200 is it that he gets symbolic uh spears. 311 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:11.240 And shields that weapon that belonged to King David's. 312 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:12.440 Isn't it cool? 313 00:14:12.519 --> 00:14:14.840 Yeah, it's just it's like it's almost like it's a callback. 314 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:17.480 It's a throwback of saying like, we want this to 315 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:20.279 feel like it used to, right, we want we want 316 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:23.200 it to serve God, love God. And so the priest 317 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:26.240 takes a stand enough is enough. And I think that's 318 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:27.200 a good sermon somewhere. 319 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:33.639 Yes, absolutely. So Athailia was a king a Hasiah's mother 320 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:39.240 when he got killed by was it Jahu, she seizes 321 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:43.840 the throne and then begins killing everybody in the family. 322 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:47.840 Crazy right, destroy everybody in the rest of Judah's royal 323 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:52.080 family the game of thrones for seven years, and and 324 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:57.200 that's what she's doing. Well, then, in a previous chapter, 325 00:14:57.320 --> 00:15:01.399 it tells us that a has Aiah's sister, Jehosh she 326 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:04.480 was the daughter of King Jehoram in the north. She 327 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:08.639 gets a hold of a Hasaiah's infant son, joe Esh, 328 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:12.039 and she takes him and hides him in the temple. Oh, ok, 329 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:14.120 isn't that cool. Yeah, So that's who joe Ash was. 330 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:18.639 He was an infant when Athalia began executing everybody else 331 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:22.120 in the family. So a Hasi had a bunch of sons, 332 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:25.279 He had a bunch of family members. They all could 333 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:27.440 have been the heir, and so she's wiping them all out. 334 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:32.600 But this this lady Jehashabah, she sneaks him away a 335 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:34.120 Hasiah and hides him in the temple. 336 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:35.080 Yeah. 337 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:37.720 Yeah, And so he's being raised in the temple for 338 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:41.960 seven years, and at seven years old, then this levite goes, okay, 339 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:44.799 this priest, he goes, we're ready. We're gonna make joe 340 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:46.639 Ash the king because she's that bad of a queen. 341 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:49.679 And so that's what's happening here is they bring out 342 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:52.440 the boy. Nobody knows he's alive. He's been hiding in 343 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:54.799 the temple for seven years, wow, right, or six and 344 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:57.320 a half years whatever. Nobody knows he's alive. And so 345 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:00.639 when she hears the commotion. If you ever seen any 346 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:03.720 of the models, several of the temple or several of 347 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:06.639 the palaces were right near the temple. So if you 348 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:09.559 had a big party, trumpets are blasting, people are celebrating. 349 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:11.799 There's some kind of a long lived the king thing 350 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:14.200 going on. She was close enough she would have heard it. Right, 351 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:16.279 it's not a very big David. The city of David, 352 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:17.799 and even by the time you get to this time 353 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:21.440 wasn't very large. It'd be like a it'd be like 354 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:25.799 a large subdivision, right, if you have a thousand houses 355 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:28.480 in your subdivision. It'd be about like that, right, be about. 356 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:31.360 It wouldn't be huge, less than a square mile maybe 357 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:32.960 right out of square mile. So it's not very big. 358 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:36.720 So there's trumpet is planning, there's soldiers, client cliank clank clink, right, 359 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:38.440 there's all this stuff. And they bring out this boy 360 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:40.559 and they surround him and now he's standing at the 361 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:44.240 pillar where they anoint kings, right, and she screams treason. 362 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:48.360 And I think it's funny because the priest goes, don't 363 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:52.279 kill her here, not inside the temple. Take take her outside, 364 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:55.759 all right, figure out and execute her outside the thing. 365 00:16:56.320 --> 00:17:01.120 And they set up Joe ash to be a godly Yeah. 366 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:04.400 Well you know what that there's another sermon in there 367 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:07.640 somewhere too, right, So God's in it for the long game, 368 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:12.759 you know, think about uh, think about the effort that 369 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:16.880 had gone into putting a plan in place so that 370 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:20.119 they can make things right. Right, So think about that. 371 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:22.200 There's something to be said about that. There's something to 372 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:24.440 be said about incredible intentionality. 373 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:25.160 Right. 374 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:27.400 So they're planning for the future and they're doing it 375 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:29.519 and there you know, it's it's a seven year. 376 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:32.200 Plan, it seems like, right, right. So yeah, so there's 377 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:35.279 the there's the sermon of there's enough is enough. I 378 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:36.160 can't take it anymore. 379 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:38.559 We're gonna annoy him even though he's only seven. We're 380 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:41.359 gonna annoyin him now, right, because we can't take it anymore. 381 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:43.960 But then there's also the fact that you know that 382 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:47.319 God calls us to play the long game when it 383 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:49.480 comes to you know, moving. 384 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:52.400 His kingdom forward, you know, everything that he has. 385 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:54.400 For our lives and planning for the future, all the 386 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:56.640 things that God wants for us, right right. 387 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:59.920 Yeah, there's a really great note second second Chronicles twenty three. 388 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.720 It says Athalia thought she had it made. After assuming 389 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:07.039 the throne, she killed all potential heirs to it, so 390 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:10.279 she thought. But even the best plans for evil go sour. 391 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:13.839 When the truth was revealed, she was overthrown immediately. It 392 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:16.240 is much safer to live according to the truth, even 393 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:19.079 if it means not obtaining everything you want. What a 394 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:19.640 good note. 395 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:20.680 Yeah, that's a great note. 396 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:23.119 Right, there's another really good note here, since we're reading 397 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:26.599 notes today. After seven years of rule by Athalia the 398 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:29.799 queen mother, Jehoiada, the priest finally got up his courage 399 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:32.400 and took action to get rid of the idolatrous ruler. 400 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:34.839 To confront the king or queen with the demands of 401 00:18:34.839 --> 00:18:36.920