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 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:14.720 Chris, Yes, Jeff, I had a morning miracle today. 5 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:18.559 Wow, you you went regular? You drank coffee? 6 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:20.839 No, no, no, I don't. I don't drink I don't 7 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:21.519 drink coffee. 8 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:22.879 That's right. Yeah, you're so weird. 9 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:24.719 I know. I love the smell of the way. 10 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:26.839 That's weirder than me not liking chocolate. 11 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:30.039 I don't think so. But whatever, they both come from 12 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:32.840 a bean. It's just I have a better one. So anyways, 13 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:36.600 here's my morning miracle. On the way to the that's 14 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:39.479 right on the way to the office or to the 15 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:43.759 studio today. It's just over ten miles from my house 16 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:48.840 to hear and I never hit a red light. Wow, No, 17 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:49.560 one time. 18 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:50.119 Wow. 19 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:52.960 It was green lights all the way here. That's why 20 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:55.640 it's such a peppy moved. I passed more than ten 21 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:57.960 lights and not one of them was red. 22 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:01.240 Now when did you start to notice this? From the 23 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:02.399 fourth one? The fourth one? 24 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:05.840 Yeah, the fourth one. And now the fact that I 25 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:07.400 didn't have to stop at a red light doesn't mean 26 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:10.680 I didn't have anything. I'm joking right, but no, no, there 27 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:12.439 was never any red lights the whole way. It was 28 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:13.480 green lights the whole Wow. 29 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:15.400 You know what, today's gonna be a good day. 30 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:18.959 It's gonna be a good day. So man, I feel 31 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:22.879 like just that by itself means I'm gonna just bring 32 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:25.280 the very best that I have where it's gonna be 33 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:27.719 smooth sailing through this whole wow episode. 34 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:31.239 Well, I see what it takes to bring to require 35 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:32.000 your best. 36 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:32.560 Right, that's right. 37 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:36.120 So wow, that's that's wonderful, jeff I it's riveting for. 38 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:39.319 Isn't it so exciting? It's super so I was so happy. 39 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:41.640 Actually, it is a big deal. It is because when 40 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:43.200 that happens to me, I think it's like one of 41 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:44.120 the coolest things ever. 42 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:46.599 Yeah. So, I mean, we live in the suburbs. It 43 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:48.760 normally takes me like twenty minutes to go ten miles 44 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:51.400 or more. It takes me long more than twenty minutes ago, 45 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:55.680 so to just pop through every light, you know, it's amazing. 46 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:57.840 I feel really good about it. That's that's really good. 47 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:58.560 Fun, It wonderful. 48 00:01:58.599 --> 00:01:59.439 It's gonna be a good Well. 49 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:02.400 Hey, I hope hope your day starts off and goes 50 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:05.159 just as well. As Jeff's mort has no red lights today, 51 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:08.800 that's right, and that's that's Oh, that's a that's symbolic. 52 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:11.199 That is no red lights. Let's let's chant that to 53 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:13.400 ourselves all day long. When you come up to your 54 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:16.199 crabby boss, just be like, nope, no red lights, still 55 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:18.719 red lights today. All right, Well, listen, we're gonna jump 56 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:21.439 into a segment called Guess the word, and it is 57 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:23.719 Chris will give Jeff clues. See if you can guess 58 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:26.599 the word without the forbidden italicized words if you're watching 59 00:02:26.599 --> 00:02:29.159 on YouTube, then we're gonna hopefully put the words on 60 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:31.280 the screen. And then those are the words that I 61 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:34.400 cannot say. Okay, okay, are you ready? Yes, I've not 62 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:37.719 looked at these so holy Christmas. Wow, this is hard. Okay, 63 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:42.599 uh okay, okay, here we go. Ready, Yes, I've got 64 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:46.560 the blank deep down in my heart. Joy joy, that's correct. 65 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:50.840 I was not allowed to say happiness, delight, elation, rejoicing, 66 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:52.080 or jubilation. 67 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:54.919 The joy joy, that's down in my heart. 68 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:57.240 And by the way, when we went to Costa Rica, 69 00:02:57.680 --> 00:02:59.759 your tango go so go, so go, so go, so 70 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:00.319 me go. 71 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:04.400 Yeah, I remember, I remember, Yeah, we used to do that. 72 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:07.080 In Mexico. Yep, that's so funny. That's great. 73 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:11.039 Okay, so, oh holy cow, Okay, here we go, ready 74 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:16.639 number two, no further questions. It's your blank, your honor. 75 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:21.479 Witness, witness. Wow. Wow, you watched a lot of courtroom dramas. 76 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:25.639 Yes, I was not allowed to say testimony, evidence, testify, faith, 77 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:29.360 or observe. Okay, well, I mean apparently you have too, 78 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:32.400 because you you got the you got it. But by 79 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:35.000 way I messed up. I said, it's your witness, your honor, 80 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:38.879 it's your witness to the prosecuting right, yes, okay, here 81 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:45.639 we go. Okay, here it goes. When I wake up 82 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:48.719 in the morning and I read my Bible singularly, it 83 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:49.960 is called a. 84 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:54.759 Devotion, devotion the awesome, good for you, fantastic three for three, due, 85 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:57.199 Yeah we are how we click? Yes we do that 86 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:03.039 magic behind allowed to say commitment, dedication, worship, faithfulness, or fervor, 87 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:07.560 and so obviously it was the different definition of devotion devotion, right, 88 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:08.800 So how clever is that? 89 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:09.439 That is great? 90 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.680 Okay, here goes. Ready. Okay, Oh, this is a terrible movie. 91 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:18.519 But it was called The Last Blank of Christ Supper. 92 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:22.720 Oh you don't know this movie. The last, when I 93 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:25.519 am when I am wanting to do a bad thing, 94 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.600 it is called what sin? Yeah, but it's it's a 95 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:29.839 something that's drawing me. 96 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:31.199 What is that thing called temptation? 97 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:34.160 Yes? Okay, I was not allowed to do You never 98 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:35.439 heard of the Last Temptation of Christ? 99 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:37.959 Think? So okay? I think it was like some kind 100 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:39.839 of a vulgar It was terrible. Yeah, okay. 101 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:45.360 So anyway, I was not allowed to say testing satan, sin, experience. 102 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:48.120 Or moral Oh wow, okay, hey, we got there. 103 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:49.439 That was our hardest one by far. 104 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:51.600 By far yea, but we got it. 105 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:53.800 Oh geez, we should. 106 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:55.279 Go on a TV. We should go on a game show. 107 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:58.560 We should she should Okay, last one, here, are you ready? 108 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:03.040 What is the exact name of the system that is 109 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:05.800 in a Tomahawk missile ensuring that it hits its target? 110 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:10.160 The exact name of the system. Yeah, Uh, the Patriot 111 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:13.120 missile system. Uh, Tomahawk missile. 112 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:20.399 Generally that system. Spell that out? Uh what does stand for? 113 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:26.519 I don't know, geographical, I don't know. I don't know 114 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:27.439 what stands really. 115 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:30.160 The bumpers on a bowling lane, you can say that 116 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:32.519 if you throw the ball down, the bumpers do what 117 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:37.439 to the ball guide. Yes, guidance, Yes, it's the guidance system. 118 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:39.600 Okay, guidance system. There you go. 119 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:44.079 Okay, I was not allowed to say direction, leadership, advice, support, 120 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:44.720 or council. 121 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:48.040 That was a good one. Good one, Chris, Well, you 122 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:48.600 got us there. 123 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:51.680 No, I didn't get us there. I mean I did eventually. 124 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:54.879 You never you never heard of the guidance. 125 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:56.399 Systems now that I think about it. 126 00:05:56.680 --> 00:05:58.240 But you said the Patriot What. 127 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:02.639 Patriot missiles system? That's what I thought. But Patriot missiles 128 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:05.720 are different than tomahawks, so yeah, there's a different thing. 129 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:08.439 I just picked a missile. I don't know anything about 130 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:11.680 tomahawks or other types of missiles. What are the types 131 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:12.439 of missiles are there? 132 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:16.040 There's a bunch of them, intercontinental, ballistic missiles, there's all 133 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:16.720 kinds of missiles. 134 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:19.759 Dude, are you kidding me? How do you know missiles? 135 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:24.360 You don't read about global stuff. So you're scared about 136 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:25.839 what's happening in the world. You just don't know what 137 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:26.639 that's actually happening. 138 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:28.839 We need to know the number of the name of 139 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:30.800 the bullets that are in the chamber. 140 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:35.079 Okay, okay, yeah, anyways, I don't know. I don't know 141 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:37.720 why I know those things. I'm sure a lot of 142 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:39.839 our listeners did. Smart. 143 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:42.439 I'm sure they did. I'm the only dumb one here. 144 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:44.920 No, that's not what I said. That is not what 145 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:45.360 I said. 146 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:50.360 We're selling Steven's car, and I got. 147 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:52.639 A text from Steven's your son, my son. 148 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:54.800 Yeah, I got a text from somebody who's buying it, 149 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:58.199 and they said, hey, Huntington Bacon needs a ten day payoff. 150 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:02.600 You get a ten day payoff from Huntington Bank. And 151 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:05.480 I didn't know what that meant. Apparently I've never paid 152 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:07.360 off alone early before. I've only had two loans of 153 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:10.680 my entire life, and I paid them off normally. So 154 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:13.680 apparently you called Hunting's bank and you say, what would 155 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:15.759 it cost me to do a ten day payoff? 156 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:18.720 They give you that figure because they admortized out to 157 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:21.639 that next ten days. Correct, Yeah, okay, interest you all that? 158 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:25.000 But that is a common phrase. Yes, Now, how would 159 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:27.240 somebody know this unless they've experienced. 160 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:28.920 This, because that's true, right right? 161 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:31.040 So anyway, so now I'm the dumb one. 162 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:33.680 So you're just guessing numbers. I think thirty seven fifty. 163 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:35.800 No, I don't know what you meant. I go, are 164 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:37.079 you saying that I have to pay this off in 165 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:39.639 ten days, and because because you know, I could do that, 166 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:41.720 but just let me know. And she's like, no, no, 167 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:43.839 just get a ten day payoff. I'm like, I don't 168 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.240 know what this means. So I literally text her back 169 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:47.800 and I go, I am, I said, I I don't 170 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:51.079 think I understand. I am too dumb to understand what 171 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:53.480 you are saying. No, I said, explain to me like 172 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:55.360 a child. And then she called me and she goes, 173 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:57.000 you never heard that before? And I go, how would 174 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:01.399 I have ever heard anybody talk about this? So funny? Okay, 175 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:02.680 so I am the dumb one today. 176 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:05.360 No you're not. It's okay, No, you're not. 177 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:08.279 You know, I don't like you. You're the one, like 178 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:08.839 nice Jeff. 179 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:10.680 You're the one that you're the one who led us 180 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:12.959 through the normal jet. Dude, I didn't have any red 181 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:18.519 lights today. I am not normal Jeff today. I'm amazing 182 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:23.519 Jeff today. 183 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:26.560 Yeah, that's so funny. I used a nice jets speaking 184 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:28.600 of No, you're not speaking of. 185 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.839 Amazing, Jeff. Elijah was pretty amazing, and the way he 186 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:33.720 went back to heaven was even more amazing. 187 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:39.440 Wow that speaking of amazing Jeff, he did two things there. Yeah, 188 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:41.799 Elijah amazing, Jeff. 189 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:49.679 Elijah was also amazed, pretty amazing. Pretty Elijah was pretty amazing. Amazing. 190 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:51.399 That is great. 191 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:52.480 And it takes one to know one. 192 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:53.720 You know my word? 193 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:59.240 Wow sod. Second King's chapter two, If You're If you're 194 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:01.919 a newer listener, A few weeks ago, we started trying 195 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:05.600 to have like the worst transitions from yes, our chit 196 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:07.440 chat at the beginning, by the way to the I 197 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:07.879 didn't tell you. 198 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:12.159 I was in a restaurant and a young lady came 199 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:15.120 up to me in her twenties I think, and she said, hey, 200 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:19.320 Pastor Chris. She just recognized me. She said, just tell 201 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:23.080 Jeff that I think that your terrible transitions are better 202 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:26.080 than his. What. No, by the way, I think she 203 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:27.080 was just trying. 204 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:28.960 To she just has bad taste. No, no, no, you know 205 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:29.480 who you are. 206 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:32.159 I honestly think she was trying to just say something 207 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:32.360 to me. 208 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:35.360 Be there no red lights today, Chris. 209 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:37.919 But however, I think what she was really trying to 210 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:40.399 say is is that she likes our terrible transition. 211 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:43.679 Good good good, So okay, so there it is. Second 212 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:47.960 Kings Chapter two, Verse one says when the Lord was 213 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.080 about to take Elijah up to Heaven in a whirlwind. 214 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:52.600 Elijah and Elisha. Remember, he went and got Elisha to 215 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:55.399 help him. Wait where are you in Second Kings chapter two. 216 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:58.960 Oh that's right, we're striching. We're going backwards. 217 00:09:59.039 --> 00:09:59.720 Yeah, that's right. 218 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:00.639 Okay, go ahead. 219 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:02.360 When the Lord is about to take Elijah up to 220 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:05.279 Heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal, 221 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:08.799 got it. Remember Elijah went and got Elisha to help him. Yeah, 222 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:10.840 God get told him go do three things, and one 223 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:14.399 of them must go get Alishah the right. But Elisha replied, 224 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:16.679 as surely as the Lord lives and you yourself live, 225 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:20.000 I will never leave you. Oh I'm sorry, Elijah said, Elisha, 226 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:21.279 stay here, for the Lord has told me to go 227 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:24.320 to Bethel. But Elisha replied, as surely as the Lord 228 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:26.759 lives and you yourself live, I will never leave you. 229 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:31.039 So they went down together to Bethel. The group of 230 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:33.320 prophets from Bethel came to Elishah and asked him, do 231 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:35.120 you know what the Lord is going to take your 232 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:38.519 master away from you today? Of course I know, Elisha answered, 233 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:41.399 but be quiet about it. Then Elijah said to Elisha, 234 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:43.039 stay here for the Lord has told me to go 235 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:47.000 to Jericho. But Elisha replied again, as surely as the 236 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:49.399 Lord lives and you yourself live, I will never leave you. 237 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:52.320 So they went on together to Jericho. Then the group 238 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:54.879 of prophets from Jericho came to Elisha and asked him, 239 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:56.919 did you know that the Lord is going to take 240 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:59.120 your master away from you today? Of course I know, 241 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:02.440 Elisha answered, but be quiet about it. Then Elijah and Elisha. 242 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.440 Elijah said to Elishah, stay here, for the Lord has 243 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:07.919 told me to go to the Jordan River. But again 244 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:11.159 Elisha replied, as surely as the Lord lives and you 245 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:13.879 yourself live, I will never leave you. So they went 246 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:16.559 on together. Fifty men from the group of prophets also 247 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:18.720 went and watched from a distance as Elijah and Elishah 248 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:22.080 stopped beside the Jordan River. Then Elijah folded his cloak 249 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:24.799 together and struck the water with it. The water divided, 250 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:26.600 and the two of them went across on dry ground. 251 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:29.759 When they came to the other side, Elijah said to Elisha, 252 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:31.799 tell me what I can do for you before I'm 253 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:35.200 taken away. And Elijah replied, please let me inherit a 254 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:38.679 double share of your spirit and become your successor. You've 255 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:41.759 asked a difficult thing, Elijah applied. If you see me 256 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:44.000 when I'm taken from you, then you will get your request, 257 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:46.519 But if not, then you won't. As they were walking 258 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:49.639 along and talking, suddenly a chariot of fire appeared, drawn 259 00:11:49.639 --> 00:11:52.360 by horses of fire. It drove between the two men, 260 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:55.360 separating them, and Elijah was carried by a whirlwind into heaven. 261 00:11:55.960 --> 00:11:58.440 Elijhah saw it and cried out, my father, my father, 262 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:00.960 I see the chariots and cherio tears of Israel. And 263 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:04.159 as they disappeared from sight, Elisha tore his clothes in distress. 264 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:07.960 Elishah picked up Elijah's cloak, which had fallen when he 265 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:11.159 was taken up. Then Elisha returned to the bank of 266 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:13.360 the Jordan River, and he struck the water with Elijah's 267 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:15.759 cloak and cried out, where's the Lord, the God of Elijah. 268 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:18.960 Then the river divided and Elisha went across. When the 269 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:21.440 group of prophets from Jericho saw from a distance what happened, 270 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:25.159 they exclaimed, Elijah's spirit rests upon Elisha, and they went 271 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:27.799 to meet him and bowed to the ground before him. Sir, 272 00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:29.799 They said, just say the Word, and fifty of our 273 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:33.000 strongest men will search the wilderness for your master. Perhaps 274 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:34.320 the spirit of the Lord has left him on some 275 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:38.360 mountain or on some valley. No, Alisha said, don't send them, 276 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:41.559 but they kept urging him until they shamed him into agreeing, 277 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:43.720 and he finally said, all right, send them. So fifty 278 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:46.519 men searched for three days but did not find Elijah. 279 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:49.399 Elisha was still at Jericho when they returned. Didn't they 280 00:12:49.399 --> 00:12:53.960 tell you not to go? He asked, Wow, yeah, wow, 281 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:55.360 so there you go? 282 00:12:55.720 --> 00:13:00.120 So yeah, there you go. So apparently they knew a 283 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:02.840 day that God was planning on taking Elijah. 284 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:06.320 I guess so, uh, because it just. 285 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:08.360 Starts by saying, when the Lord was about to take 286 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:11.240 Elijah to Heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha, we're 287 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:15.399 traveling from Gilgal and they said, and then apparently everybody 288 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:19.039 else knew too, right, right, So the. 289 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:23.559 Prophet in in Jericho, because it says the prophets were 290 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:27.559 the ones that came and said, don't you know now? 291 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:30.679 I almost wonder if now you know, it's not like 292 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:32.840 I'm a it's not like I know every inch of 293 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:36.519 the Bible. Hopefully that's the goal in life. But is 294 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:38.559 there a place that maybe perhaps you know, because we're 295 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:41.200 only reading highlights of the Old Testament, is there a 296 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:44.480 place where this was announced that we met perhaps maybe. 297 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:45.960 Over all these groups of prophets. 298 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:49.519 Yeah, like, did God announce like surely on this day? 299 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:52.080 You know it's this is going to happen? Because how 300 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:54.000 did everybody know? It was just one of those things. 301 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:56.240 Because they're prophets, I guess so I think, so. 302 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:57.559 Well that's what I was meaning by just one of 303 00:13:57.600 --> 00:13:57.919 those things. 304 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:01.240 Yeah, I think so okay, yeah you yeah, Well because 305 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:03.279 I don't remember seeing any announcement. 306 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:05.759 Yeah, I mean, because listen here, I'm under the belief, 307 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:11.279 I'm under the firm belief actually that it's not. God's 308 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:15.039 not obligated to tell us absolutely every detail he does, right, 309 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:19.080 so therefore you know, like uh, and by the way, 310 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:21.200 this this brings up a whole noother topic. I think 311 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:24.519 I've told you this before, like when people preach this passage. 312 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:26.840 For instance, if a preacher got up there and said, 313 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:29.519 let me tell you how the prophets knew they knew 314 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:34.879 by divine revelation or something like this, right, well better 315 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:38.279 it would be better if you said, most likely they 316 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:41.600 knew by divine revelation, right, because we don't know for sure. 317 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:43.759 It very well could be that God did make an 318 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:46.200 announcement that wasn't recorded. That's what I'm trying to say, right, 319 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:46.960 it could. 320 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:49.360 Be we can all get to that would be revelation. 321 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:53.799 Oh yeah, of course. But yeah, but I'm meaning, you know, 322 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:56.080 just through just through, uh. 323 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:58.000 Sure, saying things that the Bible doesn't say, is what 324 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.399 you're yes, you're saying. It's so I instead of connecting 325 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:01.679 the doctor. 326 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:03.759 Yeah. I remember one time going up to a pastor 327 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:07.600 and he said, do you want to know why the 328 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:11.840 woman touched his cloak or touched jesus cloak? And he said, 329 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:13.919 you know why? Jesus turned around. He was trying to 330 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:17.080 answer the wise and I I approached him afterwards and 331 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:20.799 I said, how could you possibly know the intent when 332 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:23.840 it's not recorded? And he said, well, according to Jewish custom. 333 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.279 And I was like, so that doesn't give you the 334 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:29.159 right or he actually gives nobody the right to say 335 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:32.000 I know exactly what Jesus was thinking at the time. 336 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:34.679 I said, you can't say that. I said, so as 337 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:39.159 a preacher, just say most likely or it's or you know, hey, 338 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:42.279 some scholars would believe or maybe it's possible, right, So 339 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:44.159 I would just say, you know, so. 340 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:47.799 They very clearly knew here, they knew, and the only 341 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:49.440 way they could have known would have been how. 342 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:53.320 Either number one an announcement by God audibly or number 343 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:57.200 two they just knew in their spirit because they were. 344 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:01.879 Prophets, fifty prophets of who of God, So it would 345 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:04.559 have been divine revelation either way. Either way, they couldn't 346 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:07.639 have known any other way. Fifty in Bethel, fifty in Jericho. 347 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:11.240 Yeah, but my question was was it was it announced 348 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:11.519 to God? 349 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:14.120 Yeah, there's nowhere in the Bible where there's an announcement, 350 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:17.120 but clearly he was informing these fifty in Bethel and 351 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:22.080 fifteen in Jericho. He's affirming it. Anyways. The bigger issue 352 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:27.679 is Elijah or Elijhah refused to leave Elijah. Elijah was like, 353 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:31.679 because Elijah doesn't know what's going to happen. He just 354 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:33.919 knows today's the day and uh. 355 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:37.519 And it could have been Elijah's acting like I don't 356 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:38.639 want you to see me die. 357 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:42.200 Right, but he's covering some ground, dude. To go from 358 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:46.519 Bethel down to Jericho is a long ways. Yeah, and 359 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:52.200 then that area is pretty hot, right, so he's he's 360 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:54.639 covering some ground. You know, if you were dying today, 361 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:56.360 I don't know that you'd walk from one city to 362 00:16:56.399 --> 00:17:00.679 another city, then cross the river right, and then in 363 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:03.440 that area by the way, this is really interesting. There's 364 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:05.480 something special about this, and I don't know what it is. 365 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:10.880 The highest point that you can see from that spot 366 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:16.000 as far as I know I've been, there is Mountain 367 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:20.960 Nebo where Moses ascended back to Heaven. This is the 368 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:25.519 same area where Joshua brought the people across on dragground 369 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:29.240 at the Jordan River. And this is the same place 370 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:36.160 Elijah goes back to Heaven. Same honestly, it's within all 371 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:39.519 within view right of the same spot. And then this 372 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:42.039 is the same place that John the Baptist was baptizing 373 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:45.359 and where Jesus got baptized, all at the same spot, 374 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:47.720 within within just a few miles. 375 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:48.720 Now, how do we know that? 376 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:52.079 Just based on where they were, based on biblical descriptions, 377 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:53.759 and based on the fact that when you're standing on 378 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:57.599 Mountain Nebo, right there is Jericho and that's where John 379 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:00.240 the Baptist was baptizing. That's where Joshua led the people 380 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:04.200 across that's where Jesus got baptized. And there's there's several shrines, 381 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:07.839 there's a couple of churches, there's all these things commemorating 382 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:10.160 the plane. There's you kind of come out of the 383 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:13.359 river valley spot. There's just a little hill. It's not 384 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:15.480 a big hill, but a little hill kind of like 385 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:18.400 probably the limits of the banks of the river. And 386 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:21.279 then it flattens off into a plane and then it 387 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:23.559 pops up into the mountains from there. In this little 388 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:26.039 plain is where Elijah ascended back to Heaven. 389 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:26.559 Wow. 390 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:29.880 Right, so it all happens in the same this corridor. 391 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:32.960 For some reason, lots of miracles happened there. And then 392 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:35.000 the thing that's just so you know, we're like, wow, 393 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:37.039 chariots a fire coming, by the way, the people who've 394 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:43.799 ever watched movies, that's cherots of fire. Chariots the fire 395 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:46.000 come and get Elijah. That's amazing. But the one that 396 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:48.880 I think I always forget is he rolls up his 397 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:52.640 cloak snaps the water. Yeah, and the water parts it 398 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:55.400 is a huge miracle, just a sheer amount of water 399 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:57.319 that typically would flow from the north end. 400 00:18:57.480 --> 00:18:59.920 If you've ever huge if you've ever seen a picture 401 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:00.400