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 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:13.960 Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Bible Guys. Chris. 5 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:15.640 It's good to be in the studio with you today, 6 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:20.000 bright and early shipper, on a lovely Monday morning. Yes, 7 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:22.280 it is a lovely Monday morning, at least for us, 8 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:22.879 it was today. 9 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:26.280 Well today, technically we're filming on a Wednesday. 10 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:28.440 Yeah. And the good news is you didn't have to 11 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:29.760 fight a goose on the way in today. 12 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:30.760 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 13 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:33.320 So the goose that we had mentioned for those long consteners, 14 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:34.159 it's gone. 15 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:35.960 And they redid the landscaping. 16 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:39.960 That's right. Yeah, so they relocated our lovely goose. Yes, 17 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:41.479 and now I don't have to fist fight in the 18 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:42.119 in the parking. 19 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:44.320 I don't know how they did it, and I'm not 20 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:45.200 I'm afraid to ask. 21 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:45.520 Yep. 22 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:50.320 So Hey, today, Jeff, we have a segment given by 23 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:51.640 desiree to us. 24 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:53.920 Okay, good by somebody anonymous. 25 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:54.679 Thank you. 26 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:57.200 They've not listed who says? This is this the stump 27 00:00:57.240 --> 00:00:59.600 the pastor it is stumped the past? Okay, it is 28 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:00.719 Can I read it? 29 00:01:01.159 --> 00:01:01.479 Please? 30 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:04.200 Okay? This person says, I don't know who it is. 31 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:09.200 I have recently discovered your podcast and I have been 32 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:10.400 thoroughly enjoying it. 33 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:10.840 Oh good. 34 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:12.599 I hope you don't find offense to this. 35 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:16.359 Oh. Usually that means you're, yeah, don't be offended. 36 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:20.159 But you two remind me of Mark Wahlberg and Will 37 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:21.879 Ferrell and Daddy's Home. 38 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:25.879 And so I just want to go on record and 39 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:28.760 say that I want to be Mark Wahlberg. Okay, you're 40 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:30.239 you're going to be Mark Mark Wehlberg. 41 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:32.599 Well, I mean really, I'd rather. 42 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:34.840 You're the bad boy. You're the bad boy tough guy 43 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:35.760 on this on the show. 44 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:37.120 Wait wait, wait. 45 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:38.040 Wasn't he the bad boy tough guy. 46 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:40.400 I can be the bad boy tough boy. Okay, hey, 47 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:43.439 by the wait, do you think me before before I 48 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:45.879 was a Christian, back when I was you know, scrapping 49 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:49.120 and want to be gangs and and you back in 50 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:51.480 the day, if we would have met each other and 51 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:52.959 and been opposed. 52 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:56.159 We would have fought, and then there'd only be the 53 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:57.680 Bible guy on the show. 54 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:01.879 I'm sorry about that. Bonnie would have never met her. 55 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:11.039 Yeah, no, that's it. I'm sorry man. 56 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:14.439 All right, So here it is. So he says, you. 57 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:16.400 Know, you know we're gonna get hate mail from Mark Wahlberg. 58 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:19.719 Now, yes, Mark Wahlberg does not care about the Bible guys. 59 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:20.159 I don't think. 60 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:20.639 I don't. 61 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:21.599 I don't think. But who knows. 62 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:23.599 He did the Father Stu movie. 63 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:26.039 Hey, listen, I know Mark Mark Wolberg is a Christian. 64 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:28.120 I just mean he probably he probably listened to Bible 65 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:31.400 guys all the time. He's like, I am not chrisba right, 66 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:33.080 he knows me. It's me. 67 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:36.919 So anyway, this person says, my question is, do you 68 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:38.560 think Jesus had a sense of humor? 69 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:41.520 Oh? Absolutely, I think so too. Absolutely. 70 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.919 Yeah, So there's there's there's evidence of God having a 71 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:45.560 sense of humor. 72 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:48.000 And uh and and I like what you said. 73 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:50.439 We talked about this earlier, but I don't think I 74 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:51.840 can say it as well as you. 75 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:53.120 What you had several references. 76 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:57.639 Well, I mentioned I think that my favorite one. Jesus 77 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:02.680 uses so many funny like turns of phrase or uses 78 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:06.960 illustrations that just capture his listener's attention. Like he's talking 79 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:12.439 about he's really going after the Pharisees, and he calls 80 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:14.280 them a bunch of vipers, which would have been I 81 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:16.840 think funny to the people. A bunch of snakes, right, 82 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:22.159 But then he tells them that they they strain it 83 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:27.000 gnats and swallow whole camels, talking about they get super 84 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:31.039 uptight about the simplest of little laws and then excuse 85 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:35.680 the really big sins, right, And so he uses phrases 86 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:38.520 like that a lot, I think, and that is funny. Yeah, 87 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:41.520 I think it's funny. You strain it a gnat and 88 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:43.879 swallow a whole camel. It's a funny idea to people. 89 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:44.560 Have to say that. 90 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:46.719 No, he could say it another way, right, right, right, Well, 91 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:49.439 he could have said it you work really hard on 92 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:51.759 the little laws and you ignore the big ones. He 93 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:53.319 could have said that way, but he didn't. He said it, 94 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:57.159 you strain it gnats and swallow whole camels. He one 95 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:01.120 time he's talking with people and he's talking not being judgmental, 96 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.319 and he said, you know, you're tempted to go over 97 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:05.960 and offer to get the little speck out of your 98 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:07.560 friend's eye. He sai, why don't you get the big 99 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:10.039 plank out of your own eye? That's funny, Yes, that's 100 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:10.479 a funny thing. 101 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:11.719 It's a long guy. 102 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:15.000 He does that a lot of times where he makes 103 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:16.279 these funny statements. 104 00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:18.079 So like a true carpenter by the way, Yeah, that's. 105 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:19.399 One of the reasons why I'm not a carpenter. 106 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:24.079 Jesus sawdust in your eye versus a plank of wood, Right, 107 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:27.000 that's funny, That's what a carpenter would think of. And 108 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:29.279 so yeah, it is funny. And I think that people 109 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:36.240 sometimes have a really bad view of Jesus, Like, for instance, 110 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:40.120 can people picture Jesus sitting around a campfire laughing. 111 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:41.839 Like a like a belly roll laughter. 112 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:44.439 You know, when he was young, he grew up and 113 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:47.240 you know, do we not think that he played games 114 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:49.079 with children? 115 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:49.800 Sure? Right? 116 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:50.439 Other kids? 117 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:54.160 Like when you watch The Chosen, you know, obviously there's 118 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:56.600 only so much recorded about the life of Jesus, and 119 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:00.720 most things are about, you know, about him or a 120 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:04.040 quote that he had said, right, but like they don't mention. 121 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:08.040 And then he you know, went on an outing with 122 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.120 his friends. They never said those kinds of things, and 123 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:14.399 so on The Chosen, they sort of take liberty to develop, 124 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:16.920 like what must it have been like for Jesus to 125 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:19.600 go back to Capernaum and to hang out with the 126 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:21.759 people who grew up with him, you know, and then 127 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:24.000 he reveals himself as the Messiah, you know, those those 128 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:26.120 kinds of things. And so it shows them going to 129 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:30.000 like like the regular Jewish festivals, and then. 130 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:31.800 They're playing a game that would have looked like a 131 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:33.560 like a like a hacky. 132 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:37.439 Sack game, and Jesus jumps in and he starts playing, right, 133 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:40.160 And it's really interesting because it's like it's like, wow, 134 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:42.720 there's a new thought for a lot of people. He 135 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:47.000 probably grew up playing games with these people that in 136 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:47.560 his home town. 137 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:51.839 I think paintings and then religious ritual have kind of 138 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:56.560 made Jesus into this really pale, skinny, white guy that 139 00:05:56.680 --> 00:05:59.120 never made it out of you know, out into the sun, 140 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:01.839 right and ever kind of a sissy. 141 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:04.759 Look to him, a halo all the time, And. 142 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:10.000 That's exactly the opposite of the person the Bible describes. 143 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:12.480 Jesus was a carpenter, which means he would have had 144 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:15.680 to plane every board by hand, right, He would have 145 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:19.199 had to drill every hole by hand. He didn't have 146 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:21.839 power tools, and so his arms probably he probably looked 147 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:24.279 like Popeye. He probably had a grip like a vice. 148 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:28.040 And then when he shows up his very first followers, 149 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:30.680 he goes and gets dock workers, guys who are fixing 150 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.680 their nets. These are manly men, and manly men don't 151 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:37.959 follow sissies. They don't leave their industry and go follow 152 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:41.120 a sissy. Right, So you've got the you've got these 153 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:44.000 manly men who recognize a manly man. That's very different 154 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:45.920 from most of the paintings we see. But I think 155 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:48.480 we get this sad view of Jesus from these sad 156 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:51.560 looking paintings. Yeah, and you know, frail and light and 157 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:52.600 then you know, and. 158 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:54.199 By the way, let me just go on record and 159 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:56.360 say a lot of people I've done this before where 160 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:59.199 I've talked about how the paintings are so inaccurate, and 161 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:03.759 people some how they think that it's disrespectful or irreverent 162 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:08.439 to talk about a painting. We're not being disrespectful to Jesus. 163 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:10.800 The painting is we're just misrepresenting him. 164 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:13.600 Painting is misrepresenting him, and it's the only thing that 165 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:15.040 we know in our culture. 166 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:15.800 Right. 167 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:20.279 And by the way, Jesus wasn't white. Most of the 168 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:22.399 paintings picture Jesus has white. 169 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:23.720 He would have been a Middle Eastern man. 170 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:26.519 It's just crazy how we have this image in our 171 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:30.639 minds that is just not a depiction of the real Jesus. 172 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:33.199 And then and then the last big thing is one 173 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:37.240 of the accusations against Jesus was that he enjoyed going 174 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:39.319 to parties too much. That's one of the things the 175 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:43.639 Pharisees and the priests used against him as a hey, 176 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:45.480 he's not a good guy. He goes to parties too much. 177 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:48.600 Whether you're talking about Matthew's party or other people. Simon 178 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:51.160 had a party. Different people have parties and he went 179 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:53.319 to those. As a matter of fact. Mark Lowry, he's 180 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:55.399 a Christian comedian, and he points out the fact that 181 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:58.240 jesus very first miracle at Cana was at a wedding, 182 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:00.519 and it was to make more wine just so the 183 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:03.199 party would keep going. Right, they ran out of wine. 184 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:06.240 Jesus makes more wine. That's his very first miracle, just 185 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:07.120 to keep the party going. 186 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:09.000 They didn't need more wine, they just wanted more wine. 187 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.160 Yeah, so somebody sat down making who do we want 188 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:13.120 at our wedding part Oh, don't forget Jesus. He's a 189 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:15.519 lot of fun. Yeah right, that's what that's how it went. 190 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:15.759 So. 191 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:18.600 Yeah, I think I think Jesus had a great sense 192 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:21.199 of humor, and I think when you get to heaven. 193 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:21.920 You'll laugh a lot. 194 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:25.360 Yeah, that's that's great. Hey, well that's uh, that's a 195 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:28.839 great you know what, Hey speaking of Jesus. 196 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:32.320 Oh, there you go. That's that's actually a good transition 197 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:38.559 speaking of Jesus. Guess who also spoke about Jesus, Oh, Micah, Micah. Yes, 198 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:40.879 they didn't write a little book. 199 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:44.840 Yeah, he did seven chapters long, seven chapters long, exactly 200 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:50.480 seven and uh he actually wrote about a prophecy about 201 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:51.639 where Jesus would have been born. 202 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:54.759 Yeah. So this book Micah was written about the same 203 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:57.679 time that Isaiah was writing his book. This is about 204 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:01.120 the same time, just before a series. Remember a couple 205 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:04.360 weeks ago we talked about Sinakreb invading, or last week 206 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:08.840 we talked about Sinacrab invading and trying to take over Jerusalem. 207 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:11.320 Right about this time, right before. 208 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:13.519 Seven hundred and fifty years before Jesus. 209 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:18.000 Yeah, something like that, seven hundred years right before Sinakreb 210 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:21.639 besieges Jerusalem. Micah has written a little book and it's saying, hey, 211 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:24.240 watch out a serious coming. This is God. I'm sending 212 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:26.840 my judgment. And he's just affirming in the mouth of 213 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:30.480 two or three witnesses. Isaiah being the primary prophet, Micah 214 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.480 being a secondary prophet, a minor prophet coming in but 215 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:38.600 kind of affirming Isaiah's prophet words yeah yeah, prophet yeah yeah, 216 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:43.840 vice prophet yeah, minor prophet yeah. So in Micah there's 217 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.200 lots of things. He prophesies a little bit about what 218 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:48.720 the end of time would be like when God establishes 219 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:51.320 his kingdom, all these things. But in Micah chapter five, 220 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:54.720 we'll just read a few verses. He says, mobilize, marshal 221 00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:58.039 your troops. The enemy is laying siege to Jerusalem. They 222 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:00.679 will strike Israel's leader in the face with a rod. 223 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:04.639 But you, o, Bethlehem, Ephratha, are only a small village 224 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:07.200 among all the people of Judah. Yet a ruler of 225 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:09.879 Israel will come from you, one whose origins are from 226 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:12.919 the distant past. The people of Israel be abandoned to 227 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.279 their enemies until the woman in labor gives birth. Then 228 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:19.679 at last, his fellow countrymen will return from exile to 229 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:21.960 their own land, and he will stand to lead his 230 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:24.120 flock with the Lord's strength and the majesty of the 231 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:26.919 name of the Lord is God. Then his people will 232 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:29.879 live there undisturbed, for he will be highly honored around 233 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:32.399 the world, and he will be the source of peace. 234 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:35.399 Now good, Oh yeah, are you going to read all 235 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:36.320 the way to verse seven? 236 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:37.039 Do you want me to? 237 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:37.559 I do? 238 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:40.360 I will. When the Assyrians invade our land and break 239 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:44.039 through our defenses, we will appoint seven rulers to watch 240 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:46.600 over us, eight princes to lead us. They will rule 241 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:49.639 Assyria with drawn swords and enter the gates of the 242 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:52.559 land of Nimrod. And he will rescue us from the 243 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:56.600 Assyrians when they pour over the borders to invade our land. So, 244 00:10:56.679 --> 00:10:57.600 just to look glad, I read that a. 245 00:10:57.600 --> 00:10:58.639 Little bit more of the same man. 246 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:05.159 So so this is probably the only place where they 247 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:08.279 actually get specific enough to mention that the ruler of 248 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:10.039 Israel in the future is going to come from a 249 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:11.080 small town called Bethlham. 250 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:11.600 That's right. 251 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:14.279 And now is this? I think this is true. 252 00:11:14.519 --> 00:11:16.360 This is the only time in all the Old Testament 253 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:19.279 that Bethlam has mentioned as a prophecy for Jesus. 254 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:21.679 Right, Oh boy, I think so? 255 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:23.879 Yeah, I think so too, I think so so. 256 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:25.960 So I know that this is the passage that they 257 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:29.080 that they looked up and used as evidence believing that 258 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:30.679 the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. 259 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:34.840 Yes, yeah, so there's a there is a reference in 260 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:38.720 the Gospels, if you remember. I think it's in Matthew. 261 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:40.679 I'm not quite sure about that, but I think it's 262 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:43.639 in Matthew. Where the magi as they were following the 263 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:47.679 star in the east, they swung by Herod's palace and 264 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:53.879 they actually inquired of Herod, and Herod sent for his advisors, 265 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:57.720 and the advisors looked up and looked up the you 266 00:11:57.799 --> 00:12:00.879 know where would that where would the city be listed? 267 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:04.039 You know where the where this uh you know savior 268 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:04.720 would be born? 269 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:05.519 Uh. 270 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:08.360 And and I believe that this was most likely the 271 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:09.559 passage that they looked up. 272 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:12.360 Yeah, yeah, right, it is. This is the passage. 273 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:14.759 Yes, And then and then Herod said, we'll go and 274 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:16.080 worship him. Uh. 275 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:18.440 And then when you worship him, come back and let 276 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:20.519 me know exactly where you find him, so that I. 277 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:21.960 May worship him to remember. 278 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:25.279 But Herod obviously didn't want to go worship the child. 279 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:27.440 He wanted to uh, you know. 280 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:32.639 Snuff out any competition for himself to be king. So actually, uh, 281 00:12:32.919 --> 00:12:35.600 the magi were warned in a dream member and so 282 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:38.120 then they did not return to Herod on the way 283 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:41.480 back home, and so Herod you know, once realizing this, 284 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:45.919 ordered that all the babies two years and under be slain, 285 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:48.519 the babies, all the male babies be born, and then 286 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:51.279 and then Mary and Joseph fled Egypt. So so anyway, 287 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:53.120 this this would have been the passage. 288 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:54.320 Uh and uh. 289 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:58.559 And I think that it's really interesting how Bethlehem is small, 290 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:02.840 right and says the smallest city in the tribe of Judah. 291 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:06.879 And it's amazing because you know, we also know that 292 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:10.399 the line of David is from Judah, right, so we 293 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:13.320 know it has to be Judah. And yet they chose, 294 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:16.480 you know, David's hometown Bethlehem. 295 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:18.120 And by the way, you. 296 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:21.440 Were at Israel, did you did you see did they 297 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:24.600 point out the difference between small Bethlehem and big Bethlehem. 298 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:27.240 I'm not sure. 299 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:29.879 So so so if you stand back and look at 300 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:33.600 the scope of Bethlehem, like the skyline of Bethlehem, there's 301 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:36.039 a there's a there's remnants on the city hill. 302 00:13:36.519 --> 00:13:38.519 And Bethlehem was like I mean, I'm telling. 303 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:41.360 You, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it was ancient, ancient portion 304 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:44.080 of Betham versus all the modern it's kind of sprawled 305 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:45.399 a little bit, yes, yeah, yeah. 306 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:49.080 And so Bethlehem now is one hundred times bigger than 307 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:51.600 what Bethlehem would have been back then. Oh sure, So 308 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:55.039 Bethlehem back then was like Capernaum, right, I mean, it's 309 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:58.440 just just this small little town and this is where 310 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:01.840 you know, Jesus, this is where God chose Jesus to 311 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:02.200 be born. 312 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:05.399 And so it just goes to show you. 313 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:08.639 You know, it's not about your size, right, It's not 314 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:12.120 about your humble beginnings. I mean, after all, God uses 315 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:15.120 humble people all the time. Remember the story of Gideon, yes, right, 316 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:18.000 and he says, he says Gideon, the Angel says, mighty 317 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:21.639 man of Valor. And Gideon says, well, he says, I'm 318 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:24.360 the youngest of my brothers, So who are you talking to? 319 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:27.679 He's like, our family is like the smallest in all 320 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:31.360 the city, and our city is the smallest in all 321 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:34.600 of our tribe, and our tribe is the smallest of 322 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:37.240 all the tribes. Right, And so Gideon's like, you're talking 323 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:41.080 to like the lowest possible guy that you could ever choose. 324 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:44.559 And the Angel sort of double double downs and says, no, 325 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:49.000 you're you're Gideon, the Mighty Man of Valor. And obviously 326 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:52.320 I'm paraphrasing all of that, but Essentially, that's really what 327 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:52.720 it is. 328 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:53.360 God. 329 00:14:53.480 --> 00:14:57.000 God's not gonna you know, it's not like God's not 330 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:58.639 going to use us just because. 331 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:00.960 We feel like we on a mount to anything. 332 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:04.840 We don't have to come from, you know, prominent places 333 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:06.279 in order to do important things. 334 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:11.200 Right. Well, that's that's the I think the key lesson 335 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:14.960 from the fact that God chooses to use Bethlehem here. 336 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:18.200 It's where David came from. Obviously you already mentioned that, 337 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:21.960 and so it seems significant in our minds because we 338 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:25.159 whenever we think of David's story, we think of Bethline. 339 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:27.399 Whenever we think of Jesus story and his birth at 340 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:30.120 Christmas time, we talk about Bethlehem all the time. It 341 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:32.240 so we make it a big deal in our minds. 342 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:36.039 It's a big deal, but it's so in for the listeners. 343 00:15:36.039 --> 00:15:37.679 And this is one of the secrets to learning how 344 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:39.720 to read the Bible is to try to read it 345 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:43.879 from the listener, the hearer, as it was written. And 346 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:48.000 it would have seemed so insignant. Bethlehem really right, really, 347 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:50.679 I've been there. It's just a little backwater village whatever. 348 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:53.480 It seems so small. And I think that this is 349 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:55.200 like you were saying, this is one of those things 350 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:58.519 that just reminds us that God delights in using simple 351 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:02.960 people in simple things for his majestic purposes. 352 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:03.679 Yeah. 353 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:05.679 And then also, I think the other one is when 354 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:07.960 you read a passage like this, this is seven hundred 355 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:12.600 years before Jesus is born. Yeah, and there's a note. Hey, 356 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:15.480 we always love promoting the life application study Bible. There's 357 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:17.600 a note for verse one and it says, remember, it 358 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:21.480 says that the enemy will lay siege to Jerusalem and 359 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:23.919 they will strike Israel's leader in the face with a rod. Yes, 360 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:27.159 it says this leader was probably King Zedekiah, who was 361 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:30.000 reigning in Jerusalem when Nebu Kinezer conquered the city in 362 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:33.799 Second King's twenty five. Zedekiah was the last of the 363 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:37.200 kings in David's line to sit on the throne of Jerusalem, 364 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:40.960 and Micah said in this passage that the next king 365 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:44.080 in David's line would be the Messiah. Oh wow, that 366 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:46.159 would establish a king that would never end that. 367 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:48.320 I'm not sure I've ever pieced. 368 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:49.879 That together, right, That's that's what he's saying. 369 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:50.720 That's nifty. 370 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:55.159 This is why the scholars when Herod asked for hey, 371 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:57.399 where's the next where's the Messiah supposed to be born? 372 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:00.720 The scholars knew, yeah, this is why is because hey, 373 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:03.600 Zeekiah is going to be knocked off the throne and 374 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:05.759 there won't be another king until the Messiah shows up. 375 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:09.640 So there are descendants of David who continued to sit 376 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:14.440 on the throne until this time, and most likely this 377 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:17.079 is the end, right, this would be the end, And 378 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:21.720 so Micah's prophecy is so it makes it that much 379 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:25.960 more relevant and prominent and all those other things to say, Hey, 380 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:28.200 this is about to end, but don't worry, it's going 381 00:17:28.279 --> 00:17:29.039 to pick up right. 382 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:31.519 If you read the whole book, it's only seven chapters long. 383 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:33.279 If you read the who book, you realize what he's 384 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:36.079 saying is the end of David's line is coming until 385 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:38.839 the Messiah. And so the Assyrians are the ones that 386 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:44.599 are surrounding Jerusalem with Isaiah and Hezekiah. After that it's 387 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:47.079 the Assyrians are defeated and the Babylonians come in. Do 388 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:49.880 you remember when we were talking about Hezekiah and the 389 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:52.079 Babylonians came in and wanted to know, so, hey, how'd 390 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:56.720 all that happen? Remember, so Assyria was descending empower and 391 00:17:57.079 --> 00:18:01.559 Babylon was beginning to ascend empower that point. Finally Babylon 392 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:04.359 wipes out Assyria and then they come after Israel. And 393 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:07.720 so it's not very long after this prophecy, a little while, 394 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:10.079 but not very long. And then he's saying that the 395 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:14.480 only king next, the next king from David's line, will 396 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:15.039 be the Messiah. 397 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:15.680 Yeah, I'm not sure. 398 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:16.880 And they waited seven. 399 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:19.799 Hundred thoughts on the timing of that, like when this 400 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:22.240 was written and who was king at the time. Like 401 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:24.240