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 --> 00:00:13.560 practical ways. Hey everybody, good morning. Yes, we are the 4 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:14.480 Bible guys man. 5 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:16.920 We are so excited to be here. Yes, it's gonna 6 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:20.760 be the best day ever, best day ever because we 7 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:23.719 have a new we have a new segment to kick 8 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:25.920 the day out. Oh yeah, fun, and it's right in 9 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:30.920 your wheelhouse. Your skill sets are magnificent. Yes, you are 10 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:33.960 a tremendous singer. We've already proven that twice this week. 11 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:38.280 You have you have jeopardy knowledge about everything. You're the 12 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:42.039 Bible scholar and I'm let me think I'm the. 13 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:43.240 Movie guy, the jingle. 14 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:48.920 That they that wait a minute and the guy who 15 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:49.399 gets mad. 16 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:54.119 Well, this is a good one though. The skills that 17 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:56.479 it takes to do the things you do are really phenomenal. 18 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:59.560 They really are so great, they really are. Okay, it's 19 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:01.920 why people love you. So here's the thing. It's a 20 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:05.159 movie buff quiz. Yeah, okay, everybody's like, oh, we've seen 21 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:08.439 this before. Yeah, except for here's the question. Can Chris 22 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:12.959 figure out these movies based on their Shakespeareified plot description? 23 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:15.439 So the plot description I'm going to give you a 24 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:19.439 plot description as if Shakespeare wrote the plot description, which 25 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:25.879 is sore. Then from that Shakespearean so type Shakespearean esque 26 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:29.079 pot description, you have to figure out a modern movie. 27 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:31.519 Okay, just so all of our listeners know, we don't 28 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:32.239 prep for any of this. 29 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:35.079 I've never read any of these, by the way, just 30 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:35.799 just the first sentence. 31 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:37.599 I just found out that this is what we're doing. 32 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:39.519 I'm so excited about this one ten seconds ago. 33 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:41.840 And uh, and I have no idea. 34 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:43.079 What to expect. Okay, here you go. Are you read? 35 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:45.159 And by the way, just to clarify, these are not 36 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:49.040 Shakespearean movies, which I thought at first. These are just 37 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:50.439 regular movies that are. 38 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:54.079 Being described as Let me finish the whole description. Let 39 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:55.799 me finish the whole description, because these are great. 40 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:58.799 What if I decide to get it before the description. 41 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:01.079 Is done, well, I need to finish it anyway. But yes, okay, 42 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:04.159 sure you can guess as soon as you want to. 43 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:06.400 But then I'm going to finish the discription. Okay, here 44 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:08.840 we go. A maiden, a maid new to the land 45 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:12.120 of learned halls, doth win favor with the trio most 46 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:14.719 fair yet fierce yet low her heart. 47 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:20.599 Straya it is it's me girls, yet low her heart 48 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:24.080 strays toward a young swain erstwhile consort of the queen 49 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:25.280 of this gilded band. 50 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:30.000 Oh my goodness, so learned halls favor with trio. 51 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:34.599 It's it's a young maiden. Who Yeah, it's gottay. 52 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:38.400 Okay, here's another one, number two, so very good? One point. Yes, 53 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:41.159 isn't this clever? It's very This is fabulous, It's actually 54 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:43.960 very clever. In a land most wondrous, a maiden marked 55 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:47.280 by Verdant, Hugh befriends one of a charm and renown, 56 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:50.800 Yet after a fateful meeting with a ruler, most revered 57 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:54.560 paths diverge in a shadow of destiny. 58 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:56.800 I'm not sure I understood anything you said. 59 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:00.360 In a land most wondrous, wondrous, a maiden mark by 60 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:01.319 Verdant Hugh. 61 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:02.240 Verdant. 62 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:10.319 Wicked, that's great, that's green bring you Okay, Yes, it's wicked. 63 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:12.960 She be friends one of charm and renowned. 64 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:16.280 I missed, Verdant Hugh. Yes, I didn't understand what you said. 65 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:20.000 Okay, I love this one. This one is great. A 66 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:25.120 young knave, But what a young knave? But eight summers 67 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:28.560 aged is left to guard his father's house by cruel 68 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:35.159 mischance on the eve of Christmas tide. That's so good. 69 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:39.280 On the eve of Christmas tide, he must outwit roguish 70 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:41.680 thieves with cunning schemes and merry mischief. 71 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:43.039 Oh, my word. 72 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:48.360 Is great. I love Shakespearean language. I love it. 73 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:52.199 Although he he what did you say? He was left 74 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:53.639 to guard his father's house. 75 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:56.360 Yes, by cruel mischance. That's what he's doing, is he's 76 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:56.960 protecting them. 77 00:03:57.439 --> 00:03:59.120 That's right, that's right. I guess that's trut. 78 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:03.039 Okay, here's another good one. A bold maiden of boundless 79 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:06.520 hope joineth forces with a hearty mountaineer and his steadfast 80 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:10.120 beast to seek her kin. A sorceress whose cold sorcery 81 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:13.000 hath cast the frost a frozen. 82 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:16.040 I was, I was like, I thought to myself, this 83 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:21.680 could be anybody. Yeah, a sorceress of cold is definitely frozen. Okay, wait, 84 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:23.920 finish a sorceress one. 85 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:26.839 A sorceress whose cold sorcery hath cast the kingdom into 86 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:27.319 a frost. 87 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:29.680 Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's definitely frozen. 88 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:32.480 Okay. I love these, man. Okay, here's the last one. 89 00:04:32.839 --> 00:04:35.319 So you're four for four, big guy. That's Chris is great, 90 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:38.279 good guy. Here we go. A maiden of noble birth 91 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:42.079 does find her heart stirred by a man no humble craft. 92 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:43.959 So royalty falls in love with a peasant. 93 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:48.240 Their paths cross upon a vessel of unmatched grandeur, whose 94 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:54.240 fate is sealed by the capricious hand of destiny. Their 95 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:58.560 paths cross upon a vessel of unmatched grandeur. 96 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:01.399 Oh, unmatched grand you're is it Titanic? 97 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:01.800 Yes? 98 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:04.079 But she wasn't of noble birth. 99 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:07.800 Well, she was rich, she was first class. 100 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:10.079 She was first class, but that is not nobility. 101 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:13.199 Well I didn't say she was nobility, she was just noble. 102 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:17.639 But noble birth is a common phrase for you still 103 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:19.600 got it like a count or a duke. 104 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:24.639 Yeah, well that was a good pay. 105 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:27.279 I'm mad at myself because I was thinking princess. 106 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:28.399 But you got you got Titanic. 107 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:31.680 Well, because unmatched grandeur right. 108 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:34.560 On a vessel? Yes, yes, immediately is a ship? 109 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:37.600 Yes? Yeah, and so yeah, unmatched grandeur can only be 110 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:38.160 the Titanic. 111 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:40.879 They even say that in the film. What a great segment. 112 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:42.759 It was great, don't you think. I mean? I barely 113 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:45.879 stumbled on reading Shakespearean language, right there. Yeah, I would 114 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:47.839 be great. I would be an incredible ship. 115 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:51.560 It is all about you to be or not to wow? 116 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:53.639 Is that the only Shakespeare phrase that you know? 117 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:54.000 No? 118 00:05:54.120 --> 00:06:00.160 I know a few, but I don't A rose color of. 119 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:02.120 Sweet? 120 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:06.680 Yes? Okay, Well, well I don't even know how to 121 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:10.519 transition this one. Uh, speaking of a maiden of noble birth. 122 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:14.120 The maiden we're speaking of here is neither a maiden 123 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:15.079 nor of noble birth. 124 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.800 No, not at all, not at all. 125 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:20.600 Oh no, that's terrible. 126 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:23.000 It's it's actually a great transition. 127 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:27.959 It's phenomenal because we're talking about Hoseaiah marrying a prostitute. 128 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:36.040 That's correct. She she is neither noble nor fair maiden. 129 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:37.720 We don't really know. 130 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:40.839 If she was fair enough, but you know I pictured 131 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:43.879 her as not fair because her name is Gomer. 132 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.399 Well, we're getting into this right, So here's a very 133 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:49.040 surprising story if you've never read. 134 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:50.800 Girl could be pretty named Gombert. 135 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:53.160 I don't know, I don't know, But don't. 136 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:54.079 You picture like buck teeth? 137 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:54.759 Yeah? 138 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:57.319 What's your name, Goomer? 139 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:01.079 What was it? Gomer Pyle's he's only going right now? 140 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:04.480 Surprise, surprise, surprise. 141 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:08.839 Okay, So there's a surprise, the surprise for people. If 142 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:11.160 you've never read the story of Hooseah, it's one of 143 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:14.759 the most beautiful stories in the Bible, particularly when you 144 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:18.639 realize the whole thing is just a picture of God's 145 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:25.319 love for us, for his people. So it's this is 146 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:27.959 a picture of God's love for the people of Israel. 147 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:32.279 That's right. And God is saying, what what Joseiah is 148 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:35.160 about to go through? God says, this is exactly how 149 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:37.199 I feel all day every. 150 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:41.680 Day, which, by the way, is first of all, it's 151 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:47.399 an unbelievable picture. Is it is something that puts it 152 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:49.680 in a way where once we read the whole story 153 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:53.560 of Hoseiah, we're like, oh, now I understand in a 154 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:57.920 way that I've never understood before. And then also you 155 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:03.600 have to give it up for Joseiah, Yeah, for obeying God, 156 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:08.240 because I would not want to obey God. I would 157 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:10.279 be like, God, why are you asking this of me? 158 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:11.839 Right? 159 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:12.560 Yes? 160 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:15.160 And yet sometimes God asks us to do something we 161 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:18.839 don't want to do, and in this case give it 162 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:20.560 to Hoaiah probeying. 163 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:25.519 So we're going to read a few of these chapters 164 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:27.600 over the next few days. I'm going to alter because 165 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:29.879 I just looked at our the next couple of days, 166 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:32.639 and we're pivoting into a different section. I think I 167 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:34.639 want to We're not going to We're not going to read. 168 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:37.799 I want to figure out. Yeah, finish out jose if 169 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:40.120 we can. It's it's a long book. I'm not I 170 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:42.240 don't want to read everything, but there are some pieces 171 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:45.200 in here that we really do need to cover in 172 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:47.840 order for our listeners to understand the whole thing. So 173 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:49.240 I hope I don't get in trouble. 174 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:52.559 With Oh, it does, right. So you're announcing, you're pre 175 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:53.679 announcing that we're going to have. 176 00:08:53.799 --> 00:08:56.200 Trext three days. We're going to hang on to Joseah. 177 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:57.080 That's great. Is that okay? 178 00:08:57.159 --> 00:08:57.639 Yeah? I like it. 179 00:08:57.679 --> 00:09:01.159 Okay, I like it. So here's what it says. In 180 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:05.240 Hoseiah chapter one. The Lord gave this message to Hoseiah, 181 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:09.600 a son of Berri, during the years when Usiah, Jotham, AHAs, 182 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:12.600 and Hezekiah were kings of Judah, and Jereboam, the son 183 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:16.120 of Jehoash, was king of Israel. Remember we've already talked 184 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:19.960 about how Usiah was mostly good king, Jotham was mostly 185 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:23.279 a good king. Ajas was a very bad king. Very bad. 186 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:25.519 And then a has his son comes in Hezekiah, and 187 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:27.159 he turns out to be a good king. So but 188 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:30.039 we haven't talked about Hezekiah yet. Anyways, when the Lord 189 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:33.000 first began speaking to Israel through Joseiah, he said to him, 190 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:35.200 go and marry a prostitute, so that some of her 191 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:39.519 children will be conceived in prostitution. This will illustrate how 192 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:42.960 Israel has acted like a prostitute by turning against the 193 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:45.879 Lord and worshiping other gods. Gee, that's a pretty clear 194 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:48.159 picture of how God feels about us when we are 195 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:52.600 are flirting with other gods and priorities. Huh. 196 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:52.879 Yeah. 197 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:55.000 And by the way, so many times in the Old 198 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:59.320 Testament there are things that happen like to Jeremiah, for instance, 199 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:03.360 or to Jonah, and we don't necessarily we aren't like 200 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:06.759 it's not given to us, like this is going to 201 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:09.080 be a picture of what's to come, or this is 202 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:11.799 a picture of God's love like it doesn't say that. 203 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:14.480 But God gives him instructions at the very beginning and 204 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:17.759 then says, here's the purpose. Why he literally lays it 205 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:21.840 out and says, go do this, because. 206 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:25.000 This will illustrate how Israel has acted. It's inane prostitute 207 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:27.519 by turning against the Lord and worshiping other gods. 208 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:30.600 And by the way, I sometimes that's what we long for. 209 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:32.879 We long for the why. Yeah, we say, God, if 210 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:34.720 you just tell me why, I'll do it. 211 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:35.679 Yeah. 212 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:38.399 And in this case, Joseiah got the why. 213 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:43.000 So Hoseiah married Gohmer, the daughter of Diblium, and she 214 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:46.639 became pregnant and gave Joseah a son. And the Lord said, 215 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:49.159 name the child Jezreel, for I am about to punish 216 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:51.960 King Jay whose dynasty to avenge the murders he committed 217 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:54.399 it at Jezreel. In fact, I will bring an end 218 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:56.960 to Israel's independence, and I will break his military power 219 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:01.559 in the Jezreel valley, when Gohmer became pregnant again and 220 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:03.519 gave birth to a daughter, and the Lord said to Hooseiah, 221 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:08.639 name your daughter. Lo Ruhama means not loved. For I 222 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:10.840 will no longer show love to the people of Israel, 223 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:13.679 or forgive them what a sad name. But I will 224 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:15.519 show love to the people of Judah. I will free 225 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:18.080 them from their enemies, not with weapons and armies or 226 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:21.080 horses and chartiers, but by my power as the Lord 227 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:26.120 their god. After Gomer had weaned lo Ruhamah, she again 228 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:28.120 became pregnant and gave birth to a second son. And 229 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:31.000 the Lord said, name him lo Ami, not my people, 230 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:33.240 for Israel is not my people, and I am not 231 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:36.120 their God. Yet the time will come when Israel's people 232 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:37.799 will be like the sands of the sea shore, too 233 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:40.320 many to count. Then at the place where they were told, 234 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:42.480 you are not my people, it will be said, you 235 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:45.559 are children of the Living God. Then the people of 236 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:47.960 Judah and Israel will unite together, and they will choose 237 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:50.559 one leader for themselves, and they will return from exile together. 238 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:53.639 What a day that will be the day of Jezreel, 239 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:56.559 when God will again plant his people in his land. 240 00:11:57.039 --> 00:12:00.399 In that day you will carry your brothers ami my people, 241 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:02.440 and you will, oh, I'm sorry. In that day you 242 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:05.679 will call your brothers Ami my people, and you will 243 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:11.960 call your sisters Ruhama, the ones I love. But now 244 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.519 bring charges against Israel your mother, for she is no 245 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:18.559 longer my wife and I am no longer her husband. Ooh, 246 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:21.000 tell her to remove the prostitutes make up from her 247 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:24.159 face and the clothing that exposes her breasts. Otherwise I 248 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:25.799 will strip her as naked as she was on the 249 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:27.399 day she was born, and I will leave her to 250 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:29.919 die of thirst, as in a dry and barren wilderness. 251 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:32.000 I will not love her children, for they were conceived 252 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:35.080 in prostitution. Their mother is a shameless prostitute and became 253 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:38.000 pregnant and shameful way she said. I will run after 254 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:40.840 other lovers and sell myself to them for food and water, 255 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:43.519 for clothing of wool and linen, and for olive oil 256 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:45.919 and drinks. For this reason, I will fence her in 257 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:48.399 with thorn bushes. I will block her path with a 258 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:51.120 wall to make her lose her way. When she runs 259 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:53.120 after her lovers, she won't be able to catch them. 260 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:55.879 She will search for them but not find them. Then 261 00:12:55.919 --> 00:12:58.039 she will think I might as well return to my husband, 262 00:12:58.279 --> 00:12:59.759 for I was better off with him than I am 263 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:02.600 now out. She doesn't realize it was I who gave 264 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:04.759 her everything she has, the gray and the new wine, 265 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:07.519 the olive oil. I even gave her silver and gold, 266 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:12.279 but she gave all my gifts to bail. Now I 267 00:13:12.279 --> 00:13:14.360 will take back the ripened grain and new wine I 268 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:16.840 generously provided each harvest season. I will take away the 269 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:19.639 wool and the linen clothing I gave her to cover 270 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:22.279 her nakedness. I will strip her naked in public, whilst 271 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:24.440 all her lovers look on. No one will be able 272 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:25.879 to rescue her from my hands. 273 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:28.639 Is that where we end? 274 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:32.279 It looks like it. Yeah, so that's a rough one. 275 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:33.200 There's a rough one. 276 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:36.399 So think about just the picture here. 277 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:38.519 So Isaiah Mary's. 278 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:41.080 What did I say, Isaiah? 279 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:46.720 Oh, that's funny, Hoaseiah Mary's Gomer and then he says, 280 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:50.080 God says, go Mary prostitutes so that some of her 281 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:54.519 children will be conceived in prostitution. So then the implication 282 00:13:54.879 --> 00:14:01.159 seems to be here that the first one, the son, 283 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:06.480 was actually the son of a Hoseia. But then the 284 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:10.879 next two it just says, then she became pregnant again, right, 285 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:14.120 so think about it. At the beginning says some of 286 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:17.480 your children will be conceived through prostitution. Right, So now 287 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:20.519 she's still the wife, so she has a son with Gomer, 288 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:25.679 But then the next two children seem to be through prostitution. 289 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:29.559 And the reason why is because in chapter two, verse four, 290 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:31.879 it says, I will not love her children for they 291 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:35.720 were conceived in prostitution. Their mother is a shameless prostitute. 292 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:39.080 And they became pregnant in a shameful way. So it 293 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:43.799 is a believe by most scholars that Gomer had a 294 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:48.759 son with Hoseia and then had the next two children 295 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:54.639 described here through prostitution through other lovers. Right, So, and so, 296 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:59.399 think about the pain of a marriage. Think about just 297 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:04.360 the practiceical you know, love relationship where you want your 298 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:06.840 wife to love you and you want her to be 299 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:09.720 faithful to you, and you know you're having a child 300 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:12.519 with this person, which you know that obviously is a 301 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:15.519 whole new level of intimacy when you you know, have 302 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:17.679 a child and you start to raise them, and then 303 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:21.960 all of a sudden she becomes pregnant with another man's child. 304 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:23.399 And then it happens again. 305 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:25.840 I mean, and then and then runs off, and then 306 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:28.000 and then pursues them and then says, oh, I'll go 307 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:33.519 back to the safety of my husband's uh uh, you know, provision, 308 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:35.559 and then I'm going to take all the gifts I'm 309 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:39.639 going to offer them to to bail is what God says. 310 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:41.000 That is she does, right. 311 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:44.559 So it's just an incredible picture because now we can 312 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:47.519 understand We're like, oh, it's the same thing with have 313 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:50.879 you ever seen the movie most ever seen that movie 314 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:55.320 where the guy pulls the train level. Yeah, so it's 315 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:58.399 a it's a it's an eighteen minute movie, uh, that 316 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:03.080 that was made about this man who ran supposed supposedly 317 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:07.279 true true who ran this train station where his son 318 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:11.440 falls into the gears of this bridge of a bridge, 319 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:13.600 and he had a choice to make because here comes 320 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:16.399 this train, and so he could either put the bridge 321 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:19.519 down and his son will get who's caught in the gears, dies, 322 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:22.360 but then he saves the lives of everybody on this train, 323 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:26.320 which was like hundreds and hundreds of people, or he 324 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:30.639 leaves the bridge up. Uh, the train crashes, hundreds and 325 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:33.639 hundreds of people die, maybe thousands, and then and then 326 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:36.080 and then he saves his son, and then, uh, he 327 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:38.000 didn't know what to do and and it's just this 328 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:43.399 agonizing moment and he eventually just makes the decision to uh, 329 00:16:43.559 --> 00:16:47.399 save the people and sacrifices on son. And then and 330 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:50.279 of course it's a picture of the gospel, right and 331 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:51.600 so and and and. 332 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:53.840 You sort of you sort. 333 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:59.600 Of have a brand new uh understanding of like, oh, 334 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:04.519 that's what it was like because the words for God 335 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:06.200 so loved the world that he gave his only son. 336 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:12.400 You know, we can't experience the weight of that, you know, 337 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:15.160 but this movie allowed us to go, Oh, that's what 338 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:18.640 it was like, right, And so all it is is application, 339 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:21.920 isn't it right. It's a real application of like what 340 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:24.599 does this really truly mean? And some of us can 341 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:28.519 go there, but most of us can't. But you know, 342 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:31.359 just and that's what this does for me. Right, This 343 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:34.119 reminds me that movie most because it's like, it's like, 344 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:37.079 no matter how many times God says you're unfaithful, you've 345 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:40.000 betrayed me, You're like a lover who's unfaithful, You're like, okay, 346 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:42.039 And then all of a sudden, it's like, hey, let's 347 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:44.559 let's create a picture of a life of a man 348 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:47.400 named a man named Hoseiah. And he goes through this 349 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:50.200 and you're like, wow, that's what it's like for God. 350 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:52.839 It's unbelievable. 351 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:57.720 So we've already positioned this story in the lives of 352 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:01.519 these kings, these five kings, right, jos A, has Hazekaya 353 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:06.000 and Jeroboam. Right, that's that's this is the group. Yep, 354 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:08.720 this is the time slot and this is a real 355 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:13.960 man Iaiah. And so it breaks my heart even more 356 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:17.480 knowing this isn't just a story. This is a guy 357 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:22.240 serving God. He's a prophet, right, and God says, listen, Joseah, 358 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:25.960 I've got a really tough job for you. Yeah, and 359 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:28.880 but this is going to send the clearest picture to 360 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:33.200 the people of Israel. He's the last prophet before Israel 361 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:35.519 gets wiped out, the last one. 362 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:36.400 Yeah. 363 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:40.079 So that's why this story is so stark and so 364 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:44.559 shocking is God has done everything he can. He's allowed 365 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:48.440 armies to come in, he's allowed famines, he's allowed all 366 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:51.680 kinds of stuff, and the people just won't change. Remember 367 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:55.240 this has been hundreds of years now since Solomon, right, 368 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:59.240 and God's just shaking them over and over and over again, 369 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:03.119 shaking them, and he can't get their attention. So He's like, Okay, Josea, 370 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:05.960 this is going to be a rough one, but go 371 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:09.880 Mary prostitute, and it's going to be brutal. Now, anybody 372 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:13.400 not to open up an old wound. But for anybody 373 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:19.160 that's listening that has been cheated on, you understand Joseah 374 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:20.839 better than just about any of the rest of us. 375 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:23.680 For any of us that have ever had family members 376 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:27.400 or friends that were cheated on, Yep, you know the 377 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:31.559 agony that Josea is going through in this and God 378 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:35.119 is saying, listen, this is my agony. This is how 379 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:40.559 I've been feeling for hundreds and hundreds of years, multiplied 380 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:44.279 by he says, at this point, almost innumerable number of people, 381 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:51.880 millions of times, for hundreds of years. This devastating. You 382 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:54.960 think about the time you heard about somebody cheating on 383 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:57.400 somebody else and how angry that made you, or how 384 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:00.759 disappointed you were, all these things. So what does God do? 385 00:20:01.160 --> 00:20:03.720 This is God's thing, God says, So you understand, this 386 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:08.119 is a love story that's coming apart. Right. I've done everything. 387 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:13.359 We went to counseling, we we changed all the past words, 388 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:15.000 we did all the stuff we could do. We moved 389 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:17.799 to a new neighborhood, we did everything we could do, 390 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:22.759 and you still keep cheating on me. And the devastation 391 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:25.160 in God's hearts. It's one of those times, you know, 392 00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:30.000 where I just feel so bad for God. And it's 393 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:32.839 weird to me because the mechanism that makes me feel 394 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:36.200 bad for God is that I'm feeling bad for Hoseiah. 395 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:39.000 Right, But again it's the human experience. 396 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:40.680 Yeah, yeah, yeah, And and. 397 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:43.279 So you know, God is God. 398 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:48.079 And sometimes sometimes it's hard to understand when he says 399 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:51.079 I'm a jealous God, and you're like, you're a jealous God. 400 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:56.240 Sometimes it's hard to you know, relate, and and I 401 00:20:56.279 --> 00:21:00.359