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 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:12.880 Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. 5 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:13.480 There it is. 6 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:16.760 We are excited to be here, and we're hopefully you're 7 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:18.239 excited to be here too. 8 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:23.160 So our listeners don't know this, but before yesterday's episode 9 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:26.239 was recorded, we were talking about the fact we need 10 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:27.320 to change our rolling. 11 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:31.079 Yeah, and hey, listen for those people who comment to me, 12 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:33.759 which by the way, is often they'll say, they'll say, 13 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:35.000 you need to change your rolling. 14 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:37.840 In fact, this lady is a sweet lady. I know her, right, 15 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:39.280 So she's a looted to joke with me. 16 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:41.520 She goes, Chris, she goes, you need to change your 17 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:43.000 role And I said, oh, I know, it's super old. 18 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:46.119 I said, we're wearing those headphones and everything else. And 19 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:47.960 she goes, she goes, no, no, no, What I was meaning 20 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:50.679 is you look like a roly poly. 21 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:53.880 Well, you're half the man you were back then, half 22 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:54.439 the man, And I. 23 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:56.520 Said, and I said, I go, you are absolutely right, 24 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:57.399 we need to change it. 25 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:02.320 So, and that's only for our listeners that are watching 26 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:04.480 on YouTube. That's correct, right, So I real listens, you 27 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:06.599 don't know this, but it's time to update it. And 28 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:08.879 you know me, I'm always trying to figure out how 29 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:10.959 to make things better and better and better, always gooder 30 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:13.840 and gooder. You're in a constant pursuit, that's right, all 31 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:16.239 the time. And so I've been suggesting, and this has 32 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:20.200 come up a few times. I've been suggesting doing theme songs. Yes, 33 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:22.680 that's what we need. Yeah, And so I typed in 34 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:27.120 the chat GPT here's what I said. I said, help 35 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:29.280 me write a theme song for our podcast called The 36 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:31.879 Bible Guys show about a couple of friends who love 37 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:34.239 to talk about the Bible and fun and practical ways. 38 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:37.319 Write it to the tune of Three's Company. Remember that 39 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:39.200 tea of course, remember that back in the. 40 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:41.840 Yeah, so this is going to be relevant for anybody 41 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:47.959 who's like ninety, probably for like forty eight and over, 42 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:51.120 forty five and over maybe, Okay, which, by the way, 43 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:54.120 I just looked at our stats. Our buddy Jeff has 44 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:56.640 some stats on like who watches? Did you know that 45 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:00.439 forty eight percent of all of our listeners on the 46 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:03.480 YouTube side of things are between the ages of twenty 47 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:04.280 five and thirty five. 48 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:04.560 Yeah? 49 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:10.280 Great, Yeah, so to those who are if you don't know, 50 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:12.000 there's reruns, there's reruns. 51 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:16.039 Oh yeah, well they're definitely popular enough, but they don't 52 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:16.800 they wouldn't know the theme. 53 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:19.400 So the problem is they aren't really great theme songs 54 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:22.479 these days, right right? They do music friends since friends 55 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:24.400 Friends was like the last big one, wasn't it? 56 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:29.479 Maybe Yeah? Because the office? Oh no, new girl, Hey girl, 57 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:30.599 what you do? 58 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:35.199 Okay? I have no idea what you're talking about? Yeah, hey, yeah, yeah, 59 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:37.439 So let's do this and this is that's not it. 60 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:42.000 That's not every there, so that we're doing this one, yeah, 61 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:44.400 is to the two of three Company. So it's a 62 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:47.960 Bible's Bible Guys theme song to the tune of three Company. 63 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:49.319 It's an echo. Do you want to do the echo? 64 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:51.439 Okay, I'll do it, okay read yeah, all right, this 65 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:53.400 is wow And this is for all of our people 66 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:54.680 demanding the Jeff sing. 67 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:57.199 Okay, here we got ready, come and knock. 68 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:59.360 On our door, Come and knock on our door. 69 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:00.919 We've been waiting for you. 70 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:02.639 We've been waiting for you. 71 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:05.680 Where the word of God is alive and the laughs 72 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:08.520 are supplied and the but nope, I messed it up. 73 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:10.360 Where the word is alive. 74 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:13.039 Yeah, where the word is alive and the laughs are 75 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:14.879 supplied by the Bible guys. 76 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:19.120 To we grab our coffee in my we grab our 77 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:21.560 coffee and my there's a to pursue. 78 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:25.159 There's a to pursue where the stories are old, but 79 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:27.879 the sites are bold. It's the Bible guys too. 80 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:31.400 Yes, you know, but the insights are bold. 81 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:34.919 That's great, yes, yeah, sorry verse. 82 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:38.400 That is awesome, Chris. See, this is it right here. 83 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:41.520 If the ministry doesn't work out for you, maybe there's 84 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:45.800 a career in jingles, right right, So because I got 85 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:48.599 my fallback, what's what's my fallback at the ministry doesn't 86 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:51.439 work out, you're going to open your restaurants a taco truck. 87 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:55.439 Taco probably even better. Yeah yeah right, less up key. 88 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:57.400 But for you, you know you're not going to cook, 89 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:00.000 so maybe you can sing jingles. Hey little microphone. 90 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:01.000 You know you know what will happened? 91 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:01.800 Did you do? 92 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:04.919 People will spend money on your taco truck, and I'll 93 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:06.800 be the guy on the street with the cardboard side 94 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:09.919 and singing jingles outside outside of your talking. 95 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:12.280 About We'll sing jingles for food. 96 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:17.360 Please give me your callings. I've got a jingle for you. 97 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:21.240 Okay, So we did threes company, we did friends friends. 98 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:22.319 What else did we did? 99 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:22.920 Cheers? 100 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:23.399 Oh? 101 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:24.040 Yeah, cheers? 102 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:24.600 We did cheers. 103 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:27.680 I want to do dukes of hazard. 104 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:30.600 Yeah yeah, wow. And there's got to be better. 105 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.240 I mean, you know, Gilligan, we didn't. We talked about it, 106 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:34.639 but we did. 107 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:36.879 Well, that's gonna be the next one. 108 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:41.360 We got to all right, okay or Green Acres. 109 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:45.360 Green Acres is the place to Okay. 110 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:48.399 So anyways, you're showing your age there. So we are 111 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:52.519 pivoting out of Psalms? Right, So is you had proverbs 112 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:54.920 last week where we had psalms and then. 113 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:57.319 Now that song also took a pivot. 114 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:03.879 It's taking pot I keep forgetting a bad transition. 115 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:06.279 We we are pivoting out of Psalms. 116 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:09.360 Yeah, yeah, yeah, and and and you're usually right on 117 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:10.319 the right on the t I. 118 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:12.759 Know, I am. I took a week off and I 119 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:13.560 forgot my job. 120 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:15.120 Jeff, it's time for you to catch back. 121 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:18.439 I got up my game with the rest of us. Well, 122 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:20.879 you're a pro, and I keep dropping the ball. So 123 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:22.199 I don't even know how you put it with. 124 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:24.959 This fun to have a guest, a different guest every week. 125 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:27.319 Last week it was co Yeah, and you knew some 126 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:27.720 of them. 127 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:34.120 Yo. Stop you're rotten. I got Joe. 128 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:38.560 I think that's why people love you so much as 129 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:41.240 you step in it and then you're always surprised that 130 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:47.000 you stepped in it. Right, It's so funny, poor Quinn. 131 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:50.040 But he's a good sport. Is us a good sport? 132 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:51.639 Quinn's great? He did great? 133 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:53.000 You know, Quinn? Is you know what you want to 134 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:53.439 talk about? 135 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:55.439 Stopped? Stop? 136 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:05.480 This last week we had Quinn on and I said 137 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:07.639 the phrase, have you ever been on the Bible guys before? 138 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:09.800 And he's like, He's like, yeah, this is my third time, 139 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:12.240 and I've been on all with you. 140 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:15.680 Right, so he's been on with me every time. And 141 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:18.839 I asked him, ever been on the Bible before? It 142 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:19.839 was terrible. 143 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:22.360 So we were in a meeting was it a couple 144 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:24.560 of days ago? And he mentioned he brought it up 145 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:26.319 in front of everybody. He brought it up and they all 146 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:29.519 laughed at me. Yeah, it was so funny. So anyways, 147 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:31.959 you know it's not funny. 148 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:33.839 Ooh there you go. 149 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:36.360 Oh he's getting he's back some of these gentlemen, some 150 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:38.959 of these passages to talk about judgment. Ooh there it 151 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:41.079 is So chapter twenty four in the Book of Isaiah 152 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:44.800 is all about everything's getting destroyed, everything's getting everything's getting destroyed. 153 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:46.800 Which we're not reading, right, We're not going to go there. Well, 154 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:50.240 we're going to summarize it. Okay, everything gets destroyed the end. 155 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:59.439 That's Isaiah twenty four, and then it pivots into twenty five. 156 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:02.240 Yes, and judgment and salvation. 157 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:05.800 Yeah, he's thanking God that God's kind of cleaning things up, right, 158 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:09.240 and then also the fact that God rescues and saves 159 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:12.319 his followers those he loves. Right, So we're going to 160 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:16.120 read Isaiah chapter twenty five, and it says, Oh Lord, 161 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:18.639 I will honor and praise your name, for you are 162 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.920 my God. You do such wonderful things. You plan them 163 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:24.639 long ago, and now you have accomplished them. You turn 164 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:27.720 mighty cities into heaps of ruins, cities with strong walls 165 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:31.040 or turned to rubble. Beautiful palaces and distant lands disappear 166 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:34.399 and will never be rebuilt. Therefore, strong nations will declare 167 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:37.680 your glory. Ruthless nations will fear you. But you are 168 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:39.959 a tower of refuge to the poor, oh Lord, a 169 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:42.800 tower of refuge to the needy and distress. You are 170 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:45.279 a refuge from the storm and a shelter from the heat. 171 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:48.000 For the oppressive acts of ruthless people are like a 172 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:50.879 storm beating against a wall, or like the relentless heat 173 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:53.319 of the desert. But you silence the roar of foreign 174 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:56.519 nations as the shade of a cloud cools relentless heat. 175 00:07:56.759 --> 00:08:00.720 So the boastful songs of ruthless people are Stillederusalem, the 176 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.079 Lord of Heaven's armies will spread a wonderful feast for 177 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:05.439 all the people of the world. It'll be a delicious 178 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:09.279 banquet with clear, well aged wine and choice meat. There 179 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:11.800 he will remove the cloud of gloom, the shadow of 180 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:14.360 death that hangs over the earth. He will swallow up 181 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:18.160 death forever. The sovereign Lord will wipe away all tears. 182 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:22.199 He will remove forever all insults and mockery against his 183 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:25.399 land and people. The Lord is spoken. In that day, 184 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:28.000 the people will proclaim, this is our God. We trust 185 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:30.639 in him, and he saved us. This is the Lord 186 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.279 in whom we trusted. Let us rejoice in the salvation 187 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:35.759 he brings. For the Lord's hand, a blessing will rest 188 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:38.720 on Jerusalem. But Moab will be crushed. It'll be like 189 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:41.679 straw trampled down and left to rot. God will push 190 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:44.279 down Moab's people as a swimmer pushes down water with 191 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:46.960 his hands. He will end their pride and all their 192 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:50.000 evil works. The high walls of Moab will be demolished. 193 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:52.840 They will be brought down to the ground, down into 194 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:53.279 the dust. 195 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:58.000 So the note in the Life Application Study Bible says 196 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:02.679 Moab was a symbol for all who oppose God and 197 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:04.200 are rebellious to the end. 198 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:07.200 Moab was Israel's enemy for years. 199 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:09.679 And then it asked me to go see another note. 200 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:12.159 There a cross reference note to another note. 201 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:13.279 Yeah, it's kind of cool. 202 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:15.600 That's the reason why we like study Bibles. 203 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:18.879 But we're so good at right notes. You should read 204 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:22.919 some of our other notes. That's what some publisher just decided. 205 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:26.519 Another clever note that I wrote just a couple of 206 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:27.240 chapters ago. 207 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:34.159 So you we're. 208 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:35.080 In a weird mood this week. 209 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:38.080 Maybe so okay, Well, you know what, you know? 210 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:42.399 What I love is I love how this one verse 211 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:45.759 stands out to me. I love it so much, he says. 212 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:47.480 Where is it right here? 213 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:50.799 Verse number five? He says, but you silence the roar 214 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:54.159 of foreign nations as the shade of a cloud cools 215 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:56.879 relentless heat. First of all, just that alone, as the 216 00:09:56.919 --> 00:10:01.240 shade of a cloud cools relentless heat. So the boastings, 217 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:06.120 boastful songs of ruthless people are stilled. How many people 218 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:09.559 can relate to that? We have people in our lives 219 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:14.639 that sing boastful songs about themselves, their self proclaiming people. 220 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:17.360 These are people that are just you know, remember Brian Brigging, 221 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:21.120 the comedian y me me, me, you me, you know 222 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:23.639 that kind of thing. There's people in our lives and 223 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:26.600 sometimes we want to take those people down. 224 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:29.279 And I love how this verse. 225 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:34.799 Says that God will take care of those things, right, And. 226 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:38.720 So when God humbles somebody, I mean, we don't want 227 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:40.320 people to fail. We don't want them to you. 228 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:44.799 Know, but we do love when we're not the ones 229 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:47.240 that have to do the judgment. Like, have you ever 230 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:51.159 seen bag karma instant karma happen to somebody and you're like, gosh, 231 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:53.440 they kind of got what they deserved, right to. 232 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:56.799 A bad person. Instant karma. Instant bag karma said, I. 233 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:58.600 Don't believe in karma, but I understand what. 234 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:02.120 Oh, I'm sorry I don't either. Obviously, Bible guys, no, no, no, 235 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:05.240 I didn't mean that literally. I mean that's how the 236 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:08.559 YouTube channels are listened. Sure, so if you were to 237 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:12.200 google it, you would, you would google that, yes, right, And. 238 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:14.639 So I watched those clips almost all the time they 239 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:16.840 come up with my algorithm because I love seeing that 240 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:19.240 where somebody is you know, they're a jerk, and then 241 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:20.559 they turn and bog their head off. 242 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:23.879 But of course, yeah, I didn't mean that literally. 243 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:27.600 I don't believe it's just important. We don't. We want 244 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:29.919 little sound bites out there that is our ball. 245 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:31.000 Yeah. Yeah. 246 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:33.600 Half half of the Bible guys believes in karma, right, 247 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:37.679 the Bible guys. But the Bible that's say, you know, 248 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:39.840 be sure you sins will find you out. The Bible 249 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:43.519 that's say that whatever you plant you're going to harvest. 250 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:46.039 It says don't get hit with it, fall in it. 251 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:46.480 That's right. 252 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:51.879 Yeah. So the principle, the concept of it around is 253 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:54.600 technically a Biblical principle, but we don't call it karma. 254 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:55.120 That's correct. 255 00:11:56.840 --> 00:11:59.240 So the lawyer, Jeff has a little lawyer in his head. 256 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:02.279 And and theologian, Yeah, little theologian. 257 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:06.799 Yeah, so uh, that's you're exactly right. I was splitting 258 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:07.639 splitting hairs there. 259 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:09.840 I get what you meant, but yeah, but I love 260 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:11.240 how God takes care of it. 261 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:11.440 Right. 262 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:13.799 And it's the same thing with with with David. 263 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:16.000 Remember when he said vengeance is mine, says the Lord, 264 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:17.720 Because oftentimes we want. 265 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:19.759 To play judge and jury and executioner. 266 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:22.879 We're the ones that we want to take vengeance and uh, 267 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:26.240 and God tells us we have to remove ourselves from 268 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:29.039 being judge. Right, we have to remove ourselves from being 269 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:31.159 the one that takes vengeance. Leave it to God, give 270 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:34.360 it to God. Let God take vengeance on our enemies, right. 271 00:12:34.639 --> 00:12:36.639 And this is this is sort of what he's saying here. 272 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:42.879 There's an interesting thing. It's weird for us in the West. 273 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:47.159 I think in particular that we have this this the 274 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:50.720 power is in the people, not in the government. We 275 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:54.399 don't look to strong men right to just kind of 276 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:57.000 rule over us and to go conquer other lands and 277 00:12:57.080 --> 00:12:59.600 make our nations richer. Right, that that's kind of a 278 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:02.639 weird thing. But in their day and in much of 279 00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:05.399 the rest of the world still today, nations still do 280 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:07.720 look to strong men. They want the toughest guy, and 281 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:09.240 they want him to go beat up all the other 282 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:13.159 tough guys, right, right, And so sometimes you read where 283 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:17.399 God wipes out you know, Wakanda was that way? Wakanda? 284 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:20.519 Yeah, you can challenge the sure he takes the potion. 285 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:27.240 Yeah, panthers, that's rough. That was that was an obscure Yeah, 286 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:30.960 I interrupted your marvel reference. Yes, it was marvelous. 287 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:31.480 Thanks. 288 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:37.559 Anyways, one of the reasons why God brings strong judgment 289 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:42.240 on powerful kings is mentioned there in verse two. You 290 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:45.240 turn mighty cities into heaps of ruins. Cities with strong 291 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:48.559 walls are turned to rubble. Beautiful places, palaces, and distant 292 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:52.039 lands will disappear and will never be rebuilt. Therefore, so 293 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:56.879 because of this, strong nations will declare your glory. Ruthless 294 00:13:56.960 --> 00:13:59.559 nations will fear you. So God comes in and goes 295 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:02.679 as tough as you think you are. You're nothing right right, 296 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:05.879 And we will see this, which I love in a 297 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:08.519 couple of weeks. We'll see this when we get to 298 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:13.480 the story of King Nebu Canezer neby Canzer. Historically, we 299 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.679 know this to be true outside of the Bible historically 300 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:19.799 and inside the Bible, one of the most powerful I mean, 301 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:22.840 Nebu Kenezer is on the level of Alexander the Great 302 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:28.120 kind of just conquer everybody, defeat everybody around him, all 303 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:31.360 of his known world at the time. He conquered, dominated, 304 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:35.200 collected taxes, all these things, and then began to set 305 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:37.759 himself up as a god to be worshiped. Right, and 306 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:40.080 God knocks him down and next thing you know, he's 307 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:43.679 out wandering around the field eating grass like a like 308 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:46.799 a cow or a goat, right right, and a donkey. 309 00:14:47.240 --> 00:14:50.440 And he doesn't ever get his life turned around, nothing 310 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:53.679 recovers until he finally submits to God. And so this 311 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:56.000 is one of those things God will if you don't, 312 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:59.120 if you refuse to bend the knee, God will force 313 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:01.440 you to bend the knee. Be the knee right. Nice, 314 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:04.279 isn't that? Isn't that what the That's what he's talking about. 315 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:07.519 So anyways, you have all of that, But then I 316 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:14.080 love verses six through eight are talking about no even more. 317 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:20.879 Verses six through ten is talking about people view that 318 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:24.720 as a prophetic for what would be considered the millennium, right, 319 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:28.960 And if you if you follow prophecy, there's this time 320 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:32.480 at the end of time when when you're done with 321 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:34.759 most of the Book of Revelation. At that point, when 322 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:38.639 you're done with all of the end of the world prophecies. Yeah, right, 323 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:41.840 there is this banquet, right, and the whole world says 324 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:44.320 down you get to the very end of Revelation and 325 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:47.919 it quotes some of this where God's making everything new, 326 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:50.960 and it says that the whole the Lord of Heaven's 327 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:53.080 army will spread a wonderful feast. This would be the 328 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:56.759 marriage supper of the lamb Brabs for all the people 329 00:15:56.759 --> 00:15:58.960 of the world. Now remember he's writing this to Jews. Jews. 330 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:02.720 At that point, the Israelites rejected all the other people, right, 331 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:05.559 the protect They protected only them and their culture, and. 332 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:10.759 Rightfully so, right because of their paganistic views. 333 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:13.000 And yeah, it was just well, they weren't supposed to 334 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:14.879 live their lifestyle, but they were supposed to be bringing 335 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:16.879 the people to God. God it said, I'm going to 336 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:18.879 make you as a city on a hill to be 337 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:21.159 able to draw you know, your light will draw people. 338 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:24.159 But they didn't. Instead, they isolated both their faith and 339 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:27.759 their practice from everybody else, and so they weren't sharing 340 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:30.120 the gospel with others or bringing the good news. But 341 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:33.000 here he says, this good news is for all the people. 342 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:36.879 This is a jew and gentile statement, right, which would 343 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:39.039 have been weird for them to hear all the people 344 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:40.159 the world will worship God. 345 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:43.840 So theological fun topic. 346 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:47.679 So you think, and I do too, I think, But 347 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.799 but do you actually think there's going to be food 348 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:56.200 and drink in have an actual eating because you know, 349 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:59.720 some people might say not too many, but I've definitely 350 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:03.360 heard it spoken that it's just symbolic of celebration. 351 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:07.039 But yet I wouldn't think so. 352 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:11.079 Yeah, no, it's I believe that eternity is just like now, 353 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:14.440 only perfect. He's bringing us back to the garden. What 354 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:16.519 he always intended for humanity is what he's going to 355 00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:20.720 give to humanity. Imperfection is it. We broke it? Right, 356 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:24.400 So everything around us has broken now, disease, violence, war, death, 357 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:26.720 all that kind of stuff. But he's taking us back 358 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:29.599 to what was perfect. And yeah, so food all those 359 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:30.400 things will be necessary. 360 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:33.680 So again talk about a can of worms. But you 361 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:37.000 know how people always try to say, oh, the Adam 362 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:40.119 and Eve diet. You know it was before sin, and 363 00:17:40.359 --> 00:17:43.200 you know there's no evidence of like meat being eaten, 364 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:46.240 you know, all that kind of stuff. And yet if 365 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:49.279 this is true, and if it actually is food and drink, 366 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:51.839 which I believe it is. I believe it's literal. It 367 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:56.680 says choice meat in heaven. Right, so it's like, oh, 368 00:17:57.240 --> 00:17:59.839 you know there's there, you know, score one for the carnivores. 369 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:03.880 Now that that wouldn't necessarily mean that it required death. 370 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:06.599 Oh yeah, there you go. So meat. 371 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:09.640 Remember in Stocking Star Trek, they have that little thing 372 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:12.000 that makes the food, the replicator, Yeah, a replicator, and 373 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:15.119 they're like, you know Earl Gray hot, oh look. 374 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.359 At you, wow with an actual reference. Now, please tell 375 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:20.720 me the person who used to request. 376 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:21.920 That, Captain John luc Picard. 377 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:24.559 Oh, good for you. Yeah, it's just warmed my soul. 378 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:27.640 But they could they could just make any dish be there. 379 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:31.680 So you know, God's not restricted by proteins, so he 380 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:34.000 can make it work. But however that's going to happen 381 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:37.640 clear well, aged wine, choice meat. There's this banquet and 382 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:42.720 then this is very reminiscent of Revelation. Was that chapter 383 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:45.440 twenty one or whatever where it says there he will 384 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:47.559 remove the cloud of gloom, the shadow of death that 385 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:51.480 hangs over the earth, swallow up death forever, the Sovereign 386 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:52.960 Lord will wipe away all. 387 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:54.880 Yeah, that's in Revelation twenty one. 388 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:58.519 Right, He's going to remove the insults and the mockery. 389 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:00.960 The Lord has spoken, and it's very, very similar to 390 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:02.960 how God's going to fix things in the end. But 391 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:07.000 what I love about it is God's plan was that 392 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:11.559 the whole world would be there, and yet for thousands 393 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:15.039 of years, his followers have not always made the whole 394 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:18.000 world the priority. They've just made themselves the priority, right right, 395 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:20.160 And even today it's a temptation, I think for Christians 396 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:22.920 to say, well, I've got my faith. You know, my 397 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:26.000 faith is private. I don't share my faith. Well, how's 398 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:27.960 the whole world going to get there if the people 399 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:29.880 who have faith don't share it with the people who 400 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:30.519 don't have faith. 401 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:33.759