WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:14.279 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bob Guys. We 4 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:17.320 are jumping into the life of Samson. 5 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:19.039 That's right, this is gonna be a fun one. 6 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:22.399 Yeah, we guy. We ended with Gideon and there was 7 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:25.839 some really cool stuff between get in and here. Sure 8 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:29.519 between Judges thirteen you can summarize that. But before we 9 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:32.920 get to that, we have a great segment for you. 10 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:35.759 Committed to deliver to you the best of the. 11 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:38.399 News, only the finest news sources. 12 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:40.600 Yes, for those of you that are new listeners, our 13 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:43.479 longtime listeners, you know you know that we bring you 14 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:49.600 valuable information and these are what kind of story would 15 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:52.320 this be? This kind of story is like a human 16 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:56.719 interest story. Yes, yes, And here's the title from The 17 00:00:56.759 --> 00:00:59.439 Babylon Bat. So the Babylon b is our favorite news 18 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:05.680 sources satire, Yes, website, and the headline is I'm almost ready, 19 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:08.599 says wife, letting husband know he has time to watch 20 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:10.680 at least one entire Lord of the Rings film. 21 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:12.159 It's so funny. 22 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:16.079 Okay, So it goes Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Local woman Sarah Donaldson 23 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:18.719 informed her husband Jeremy that she was almost ready to leave, 24 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:20.680 alerting him that he had time to watch at least 25 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:23.519 one extended edition Lord of the Rings movie. Well, I 26 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:27.000 guess I'll start with Fellowship, said mister Donalds, settling down 27 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:30.680 on the couch. She's at least dressed, so may not 28 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:32.560 make it through the two towers. 29 00:01:32.599 --> 00:01:33.159 We'll see. 30 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:36.439 According to sources, Frodo had made it to Mordor on 31 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:39.280 at least one previous occasion when Missus Donaldson announced her 32 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:42.120 husband that she was almost ready. While her use of 33 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:44.280 the phrase be right there appears to be correlated to 34 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:48.040 a typical feature length film, Missus Donaldson's almost being ready 35 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:51.920 consistently lands in a Lord of the Rings territory. After 36 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:53.680 learning that his wife was almost ready to go out 37 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:56.000 to dinner, mister Donaldson began deciding what to go ahead 38 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.200 and eat at home. No way, I can wait until 39 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:00.799 we get to the restaurant, mister Donaldson said, I could 40 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:04.680 make a lasagna from scratch, or maybe smoke a brisket. 41 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:07.400 I could probably teach myself to make dumplings. It's gonna 42 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:10.759 be a bet. At publishing time, Missus Donaldson had updated 43 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:13.400 her husband that she just needed to use the bathroom 44 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:16.039 and then she'd be ready to go, helpfully notifying him 45 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:17.879 that he could probably finish the two towers. 46 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:20.680 Oh goodness, gracious, that is so good. 47 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:25.199 Smoke a brisket takes like twelve hours, so good. 48 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:29.039 Or teach himself how to make a lasagna from scratch 49 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:31.639 or dumplings. That's really funny. 50 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:33.719 Is it that way at your house? Because because you 51 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:35.039 have two daughters, you know what. 52 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.960 My wife is actually excuse me, my wife is actually 53 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:41.319 really good at this, like in other words, like she's 54 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:43.879 not this way she if she says I'm gonna be ready, 55 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:49.120 she's ready. My daughter Sarah was an offender, but not 56 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:53.400 nearly as much as the offense of my youngest daughter, Tory, 57 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:59.199 a toy daughter. My wife has her name typed into 58 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:02.960 the phone, and I'm not even kidding. She used to 59 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:06.680 add a turtle, like an icon of a turtle at 60 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:10.240 the end of her name on the text every time 61 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:13.039 that she made us lad somewhere, And I think it's 62 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:16.360 now like if you look up Lizz's phone and pull 63 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:19.400 up Tory's contact, it says Tory's ARBA. And I think 64 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:23.039 there's like thirty two turtles, and it's sort of a 65 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:25.400 thing between them, right, she would just keep on adding 66 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:27.400 a turtle, adding a turtle. But then what she likes 67 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:29.319 to do is she likes to send it to toy 68 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:31.759 And then, you know, have you ever had the text 69 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:34.439 being read to you like Stey reads the text? It 70 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:41.560 says from Torri's arba turtle turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle. 71 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:45.080 It's hilarious. And so anyway, so they go back and 72 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:47.319 forth on the whole thing. So Tory is a great offender. 73 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:51.439 Yeah, I have right now, my son, my middle son, 74 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:54.199 and his wife moved back from Virginia, and so they're 75 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:56.400 staying with us for a while. And so I have 76 00:03:56.560 --> 00:04:01.159 my wife, my daughter in law, and my daughter who's 77 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:04.280 twenty who still lives with us at home. And I 78 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:07.039 can't get anywhere unless we have to leave the day before. 79 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:10.360 So where we're trying to go, we have to prepare 80 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:14.759 to leave the day before because it just takes so long. 81 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:18.519 And I'm one of those, you know, to leave on time. 82 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:21.480 I was late coming to the studio today, right, and 83 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:25.920 that drives me nuts. I'm rarely ever late on my 84 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:29.720 own accord, Right, somebody's making me late. That's I'm not 85 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:31.360 a victim, and I don't play the victim. But if 86 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:33.319 I'm late, it's usually somebody else that makes me late, 87 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:36.120 not always, but ninety nine percent of time, and it 88 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:39.800 drives me nuts. I just lose my mind over I 89 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:42.199 thought we said we were leaving at five. We are 90 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:46.480 It's five forty, right, you know. So I think that 91 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:50.040 the women in my life measure time from like the 92 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:52.480 beginning of the hour to fifty nine. So if we 93 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:55.600 say five, it's five zero zero to five ninety five nine. 94 00:04:55.879 --> 00:04:58.040 That's kind of how they measure time. And it drives 95 00:04:58.079 --> 00:04:58.959 me crazy. 96 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:01.680 You know, do well in the countries that you visit? 97 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:04.560 Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, perfectly fine. What they mean is 98 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:09.439 to ish two ish two or three ish is perfect Yep. 99 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:12.759 It's just it drives me crazy. So I can really 100 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:13.759 appreciate that those of. 101 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:16.360 You don't travel abroad as much as Jeff, which is 102 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:19.560 probably everybody. There's a lot of countries that he goes 103 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:23.560 to and that I've been at where they say, uh yeah, 104 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:26.079 if they say be ready at two, you better you 105 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:31.560 better go to the trip immediately releasing being on time 106 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:32.079 for anything. 107 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:35.120 Oh yeah, we talk about Africa. Time we talk about 108 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:37.519 Cuba time. Cuba does the same thing, the same thing. 109 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:41.480 They just say, Cuba is Cuba. That's what they say. 110 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:42.480 And it's just you. 111 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:43.600 Just wait, just wait. 112 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:46.560 Yep. So they say be on time of two. If 113 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:48.480 you're in the bus of two waiting on everybody, you'll 114 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:48.879 be waiting. 115 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:52.160 One of my African friends, I'm always, you know, looking 116 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:54.079 at my watch. I'm always trying to hustle people along. 117 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:57.360 We said too, let's leave it too, and he always 118 00:05:57.439 --> 00:05:58.759 laughs at me and he says. 119 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:00.519 Time. 120 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:04.519 We have time right, So there's train Americans and Africans. 121 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:07.120 You keep time right and we have time. 122 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:09.480 Yes, they have time to do whatever they want. 123 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:10.399 We can do whatever we want. 124 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:12.279 That's really good. 125 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:17.000 So, hey, that was very useful. And again I know 126 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:21.519 that our listeners are appreciative and riveted of the important 127 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:24.879 information that we bring them. And so if if you're 128 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:27.519 a lady and you have some men in your life 129 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:31.399 that are waiting for you, just understand the pain that 130 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:33.360 we feel over it. 131 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:33.680 Right. 132 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:36.079 That's that's that's that's helping out the men on our 133 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:38.360 podcast and feel are the men that are listening to podcasts. 134 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:40.560 That's almost all men feel pain. In this area. 135 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:41.079 That's right. 136 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:44.519 So hey, it's not like men are the only ones. 137 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:46.519 Women are the only ones that are late though, just 138 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:49.120 typical guys. Guys can can do the same. 139 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:52.240 Yeah, yeah, for sure. 140 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:54.839 Perennially late men. Do you know any perennially late men? 141 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:57.319 Are you? Are you hinting at something? Jeff, what are 142 00:06:57.319 --> 00:06:58.199 you hinting at something? 143 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:00.199 No? 144 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:03.920 No, I am a person that has not necessarily had 145 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:05.600 a reputation for being on time. 146 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:07.800 It's because you squeeze a lot into your day. 147 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:11.519 That's partly thank you that Chad. 148 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:12.759 Chad asman our executive pastor. 149 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:14.879 Yes, he's that way. He's like, okay, I had to 150 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:16.519 leave and leave in seven minutes. Let me go ahead 151 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:17.560 and balance the budget. 152 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:23.120 Real quick, right, So he's always just squeezing one more 153 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:23.759 thing out of the day. 154 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:25.279 I will definitely say that is me. 155 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:25.959 Yeah, it's not. 156 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:29.360 It's not that he's lollygagging, right right. It's not that 157 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:31.360 he's curling his hair one more time. It's not that 158 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:34.399 he's trying on one more outfit, right, It's that he's, 159 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:36.319 you know, squeezing in one more thing to do. 160 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:39.879 But I am different than Chad in that he will 161 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:44.279 choose to do something absolutely productive. I may choose to 162 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:45.240 do something not. 163 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:47.600 Nine more holes, right, exactly right. 164 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:51.079 I'd be like, let me watch one more video, right, yeah, 165 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:52.920 But either way, I'm choosing to do something. 166 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:57.240 Okay, So we are pivoting. That was a rivoting segment. 167 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:02.040 I'm sure we are pivoting now into the life of Samson. 168 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:05.519 He's a real life superhero in the Bible, and, as 169 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:09.000 you think of comic book type superheroes, deeply flawed person. 170 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:11.360 At the same time, God used him in a great 171 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:14.839 way prior to him. There's several other judges. There's an 172 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:17.519 incredible story. For those of you that are Bible readers, 173 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:20.040 you need to read the rest of the story of Gideon. 174 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:22.720 Gideon makes a few mistakes, he does some stuff. It 175 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:24.600 winds up costing all kinds of crazy stuff. 176 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:29.560 He has seventy one sons. Yeah, that's crazy, and the one. 177 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:32.480 Son kills sixty nine of the others and pulls off 178 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:35.039 a coup and it's just it's crazy, right, So read 179 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:39.200 the story of Gideon. The rest of that story. There's 180 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.240 some others in there. There's an incredibly difficult story of 181 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:46.120 a guy named Jeffa in there that winds up becoming 182 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:47.799 a great judge of Israel. 183 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:48.559 It's just. 184 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:53.919 Just some really neat stories. But the next highlight, guy, 185 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.639 he's going to be several chapters here in the Book 186 00:08:56.679 --> 00:08:59.840 of Judges is Samson. And so since we're kind of 187 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:03.320 in the highlights rather than verse by verse, yeah, we 188 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:04.440 jump into the life of Samson. 189 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:06.360 Yeah, we can go back and read jet in another 190 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:07.200 series down the road. 191 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:09.000 That's right when we go verse by verse through the 192 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:12.320 Old Testament, which we haven't done yet. So we're gonna 193 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:15.200 jump to Judges chapter thirteen, and I'm just gonna read 194 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:16.960 the first twenty five verses. And this is just the 195 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:21.559 beginning of the life of Samson. It says again, Oh, hey, 196 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:25.039 the Israelites did evil on the Lord's site. Wow, it 197 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:26.799 seems to be a theme where thirteen chapters in. It 198 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:30.120 seems like this has come up thirteen times. Yeah, so 199 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:32.639 the Lord handed them over to the Philistines, who oppressed 200 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:35.799 them for forty years. In those days, a man named 201 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:38.440 Manoah from the tribe of Dan lived in the town 202 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:41.120 of Zora. His wife was unable to become pregnant and 203 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.440 they had no children. The Angel of the Lord appeared 204 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:45.720 to Manoa's wife and said, even though you've been unable 205 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:48.279 to have children, you will soon become pregnant and give 206 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:49.000 birth to a son. 207 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:50.039 So be careful. 208 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:52.919 You must not drink wine or any other alcoholic drink, 209 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:56.399 or eat any forbidden food. You'll become pregnant, give birth 210 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:58.440 to a son, and his hair must never be cut, 211 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:01.399 for he will be dedicated the God as a Nazarite. 212 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:05.080 From birth he will begin to rescue Israel from the Philistines. 213 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:07.720 The woman ran and told her husband a man of 214 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:09.879 God appeared to me. He looked like one of God's angels, 215 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:12.039 terrifying to see. I didn't ask where he was from, 216 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:13.879 and he didn't tell me his name, but he told 217 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:16.240 me you would become pregnant and give birth to a son. 218 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:18.559 He must not drink wine or any other alcoholic drink, 219 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:20.840 nor eat any forbidden food, for your son will be 220 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:22.799 dedicated to God as a Nazirite from the moment of 221 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:25.600 his birth until the day of his death. Then Manoah 222 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:27.799 prayed to the Lord, saying, Lord, please let the man 223 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:29.480 of God come back to us again and give us 224 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:31.799 more instructions about this son who was to be born. 225 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:35.519 God answered Manoah's prayer, and the angela God appeared once 226 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:37.960 again to his wife as she was sitting in the field, 227 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:40.360 but her husband, Manoah, was not with her, so she 228 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:42.600 quickly ran and told her husband, the man who appeared 229 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:44.440 to me the other day is here again. Manoah ran 230 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:46.480 back with his wife and asked, are you the man 231 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:49.000 who spoke to my wife the other day? Yes, he replied, 232 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:52.840 I am so. Manoah asked him, when your words come true, 233 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:55.440 what kind of rules should govern the boy's life and work. 234 00:10:56.720 --> 00:10:59.159 The Angel Lord replied, be sure your wife follows the 235 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:01.679 instructions I gave. She must not eat grapes or raisins, 236 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:04.360 drink wine or any other alcoholic drink, or eat any 237 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:07.080 forbidden food. Then Manoah said to the Angel of the Lord, 238 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:09.600 please stay here until we can prepare a young goat 239 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:11.639 for you to eat. I will stay the Angel the 240 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:14.080 Lord replied, but I will not eat anything. However, you 241 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:16.480 may prepare a burnt offering as a sacrifice to the Lord. 242 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:19.240 Manoah didn't realize it was the Angel of the Lord. 243 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:21.840 Then Manoah asked the Angel of the Lord, what is 244 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:24.080 your name? For when all this comes true, we want 245 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:26.600 to honor you. Why do you ask my name? The 246 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:29.120 Angel of the Lord replied, it is too wonderful for 247 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:32.960 you to understand. Then Manoah took a young goat and 248 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:35.519 a grain offering and offered it on a rock as 249 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:37.919 a sacrifice to the Lord. And as Manoah and his 250 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:40.039 wife watched, the Lord did an amazing thing. As the 251 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:42.600 flames from the altar shot up toward the sky, the 252 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:45.480 Angel Lord ascended in the fire. When Manoa and his 253 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:47.840 wife saw this, they fell with their faces to the ground. 254 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:51.840 The angel did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. 255 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:53.919 Manoa finally realized it was the Angel of the Lord, 256 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:55.480 and he said to his wife, we will certainly die, 257 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:58.120 for we've seen God. But his wife said, if the 258 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:00.000 Lord were going to kill us, he wouldn't have been 259 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:02.600 accepted our burnt offering and green offering. He wouldn't have 260 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:04.840 appeared to us and told us this wonderful thing and 261 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:08.080 done these miracles. When her son was born, she named 262 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:10.440 him Samson, and the Lord blessed him as he grew 263 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:12.360 up and the spirit of the Lord began to stir him. 264 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:16.159 While he lived in Mahanna Dan, which is located between 265 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:21.080 the towns of Zorah and Eschtahl MM hmm, there you go. 266 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:21.919 Thank you. 267 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:23.799 That's what he was. 268 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:25.639 That's my thing. I always say, there you go after 269 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:27.279 we're done. And so I was resisting it in that 270 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:28.480 moment and you threw it in. 271 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:35.399 So yeah, so pretty crazy. I mean, just the uh announcements. Uh, 272 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:38.440 you know, there's not been too many announcements think about 273 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:41.440 it in the Bible that are like this, you know, 274 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:45.519 I mean think about the even you know, even John 275 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:47.639 the Baptist. Uh. You know, there was a there's a 276 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:52.399 miraculous announcement there too, you know in in the temple. Uh, 277 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:55.360 you know, there was there's obviously a miraculous announcement to 278 00:12:55.639 --> 00:13:02.159 Mary for Jesus. Abraham was told and his wife Sarah 279 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:04.200 that they were going to have a baby right by 280 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:08.720 the angel. And would this be the only other one? 281 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:14.440 Hannah with Samuel, yep, you're right about that, yep, Samuel, yep. 282 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:18.360 And then you have Mary, Mary who the mother of Jesus. 283 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:19.159 I said that already. 284 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:21.240 Oh okay, I wasn't paying attention. 285 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:23.279 I rarely paid so many marriage I was like, I 286 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:24.919 was like, oh, he's about to pull out another Mary 287 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:29.279 and Elizabeth Elizabeth yeah mentioned that one. So but other 288 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:32.480 than that, I would say, uh, this is it. I mean, 289 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:37.559 you know, this is an incredible thing. And you know, 290 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:42.120 I find it interesting how the man immediately comes to 291 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:44.519 the conclusion we're going to die because we've seen God. 292 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:48.519 And then the woman has the reasoning. You know, she's like, well, 293 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:52.200 technically he wouldn't have accepted our burnt offering, so surely 294 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:54.159 you know he's he's not going to kill us because 295 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:57.440 so she she has the she has the level headedness, right, 296 00:13:57.919 --> 00:13:59.799 And I like that. I just like the fact that, 297 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:01.799 you know, the man is supposed to be the protector 298 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:05.000 of things. We're doomed, right, you know, And then the 299 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:06.080 woman's like, no, we're good. 300 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:08.799 It also shows that opposites do really attract a lot 301 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:11.480 of times, right in a married situation like this, one 302 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:15.120 of them is highly emotional, the other one's logical, you know, 303 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:17.559 and and we balance each other out and there's a 304 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:19.360 benefit there. So yeah, that's pretty great. 305 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:23.840 And so so yeah, what stands out to you? 306 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:25.159 And well, I was gonna let's just go to the 307 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:27.159 beginning of it. So here we are. 308 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:32.279 This is the sixth cycle of disobedience during the in 309 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:38.080 the Book of Judges, So from Joshua up to Samson it's. 310 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:40.559 How many years? How many years do we have these 311 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:41.960 Joshua Samson? 312 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:46.080 Holy yoh, there's gotta be what a couple hundred right, let. 313 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:47.399 Me find it. I was just looking at it a 314 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:51.440 minute ago. In that list of judges that we have 315 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:55.480 here in the Okay, so ath Neil is forty years. 316 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:59.039 E hud Is is eighty years. It doesn't mention how 317 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:02.799 long Sham went, but that's one twenty. Deborah was forty, 318 00:15:02.840 --> 00:15:06.159 so that's one sixty. Oh yeah, Gideon is forty, that's 319 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:10.799 two hundred. Tola is twenty three, Jaiir is twenty two, 320 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:15.679 so that's forty five more So that's what did I say? 321 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:16.919 Two hundred and forty five? 322 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:18.480 Then? 323 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:25.000 And then six for Jephtha and seven for Yeah. So 324 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:27.799 you've got about another twenty five years. So you're tooking 325 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:30.039 tongue two hundred and fifty years, two hundred and seventy 326 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:34.240 years to Samson. And during this time they have thought, 327 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:39.440 they have these six times where they go on this 328 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:43.000 it's a cycle. So this is the sixth cycle. They 329 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:47.080 ignore God, they go back to worshiping idols. God sends 330 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:50.240 judgment and it's the Midianites or the Amalekites or somebody. 331 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:53.440 Now it's going to be the Philistines. Then they're under 332 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:56.360 oppression for a period of time. Here with the Philistines, 333 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:00.919 it's forty years of oppress, and then then there's been 334 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:03.519 two hundred in something years, two hundred and seventy years 335 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.440 of freedom as the judges rise up. So we didn't 336 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:10.039 count was the number of years that the oppression would happen. 337 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:13.639 Sometimes twenty years, sometimes fifteen years, sometimes forty years of oppression. 338 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:15.600 So this is one hundreds and hundreds of years of 339 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:17.759 this cycle of back and forth and back and forth. 340 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:23.440 It's dozens probably of generations. We honor God, we dishonor God, 341 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:26.759 we honor God, we dishonor God, honor God, blessing, peace, 342 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:31.960 dishonor God, cursing and oppression from the enemies of God. 343 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:34.360 So here we are, we're on the sixth version of that, 344 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:39.600 and it starts off that generation dies and again the 345 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:41.720 Israelites did evil on the Lord's site, and they keep 346 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:43.399 going back to the same gods. They keep going back 347 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:47.559 to Bail and Astra, and so the Philistines come up 348 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:50.799 and they oppress them for forty years. Now the Philistines 349 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:53.360 were all along the coast of what you think of 350 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:58.519 modern day Israel now, particularly Gaza is where the Philistines 351 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:03.159 were Palestinians being now that same area, and then up 352 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:05.079 the coast almost all the way to Tel Aviv, that 353 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:10.200 whole area, and they outnumbered Israel. They were a warrior culture, 354 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:13.960 whereas Israel was more of a pastoral you know, animals 355 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:18.200 and farming kind of a culture. The Philistines were warrior 356 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:20.160 and they had a tech. They had technology. They could 357 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:22.640 make weapons out of iron, so they knew the secret 358 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:25.799 of iron making and the Israelites did not yet. So 359 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:28.359 they had a technological advantage and numerical advantage, and then 360 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:30.480 they had a cultural advantage, that is that they're warriors, 361 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:34.000 and so they just rough up Israel all the time. 362 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:37.839 And so they're pleading, oh, God, do something, and God 363 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:40.240 decides he's going to do something, but he's going to 364 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:43.519 do it through a baby. So his promise to set 365 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:47.440 them free, it's going to take about twenty years to develop, right, right, 366 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.160 one man, it's going to rise up, that's right. 367 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:54.119 And you know what is interesting about this whole thing 368 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:59.039 is when you were talking about, you know, this is 369 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:01.960 the sixth cycle. I was thinking of all the movies 370 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.759 in my mind and that funny on my mind goes there, 371 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:07.359 but like like you saw War of the World's where 372 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:10.240 you know, like uh, Keanu Reeves ends up being the 373 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:16.119 all knowing being who watches the earth through generations. Mankind 374 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:19.759 has followed the same pattern for years, right, talking about 375 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:22.359 destroying the earth for the technology and and uh and 376 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:26.119 all all these different uh you know uh movies where 377 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:28.839 there's where there's an observation of humanity that brings you 378 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:31.799 outside of your own timeline and uh and and it's 379 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:34.400 it's exactly one of those moments right where there's not 380 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:38.920 too many times where somebody can say, Okay, let's take 381 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:42.720 a look at the pattern of humanity over two hundred years. 382 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:46.359 You know, I guess there's great thinkers that maybe perhaps 383 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:47.960 do that more often than than I do. 384 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:50.920 Well, my family does, what do you mean? So this 385 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:54.799 just this conversation just happened in my uh my wife 386 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:58.240 on Sunday wanted to go up to Port Austin, which 387 00:18:58.279 --> 00:19:00.640 is at the top of the Thumb of Michigan. And 388 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:03.160 so we went up there and went fooled around the 389 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:06.359 water and on the pier, went to dinner. It was 390 00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:09.640 great but all, my son and his wife, and my 391 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:13.200 daughter and her boyfriend. We all get in my wife's suv. 392 00:19:13.400 --> 00:19:15.960 We go up, and on the way up, my son 393 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:18.720 started talking about it seems like humanity keeps doing the 394 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:20.839 same thing over and over and over again. And then 395 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:24.000 he said, you know the rise in the father Roman empire. 396 00:19:24.039 --> 00:19:24.920 Here we are. 397 00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:27.960 We're on the down side of our empire, very likely 398 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:30.759 the American empire. And then he said, you know, I 399 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:32.279 wonder what it's going to be like at the end. 400 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:33.759 And I said, well, Jesus said, at the end, it's 401 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:35.880