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 --> 00:00:18.519 practical ways. Good Morning morning. We talked that through. Good morning, 4 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:20.440 good morning to you. 5 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:25.679 So funny man, every time, every time it makes me laugh. 6 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:28.480 So what did I tell you to sing good morning yesterday? 7 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:32.719 For? Oh? We were sitting out a video to video. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 8 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:36.840 we are so Heritage Church is uh busting at the seams. 9 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:38.799 That's a really good thing. So we were creating a 10 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:43.439 video to tell people to or ask people to consider going, 11 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:45.240 you know, making some room, either. 12 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:47.200 Going to our Stony Creek service or go to the 13 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:49.799 go to the eight o'clock eight thirty service, or go 14 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:52.240 to the one service one o'clock service because the two 15 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:54.880 in the middle are totally packed, or go to the overflow. 16 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:57.039 Yeah yeah, yeah, we were thinking nobody wants to listen 17 00:00:57.039 --> 00:00:59.520 to this video, right, and so then that's when I said, hey, 18 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:01.560 you should sing good morning. Everybody will listen to that video. 19 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:07.040 Then it's funny. It is a good okay. 20 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:09.879 Yeah, well, hey, if this is one of our favorite segments. 21 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:12.319 Yes it is. We love this segment. I think I 22 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:14.480 love would you rather one must go. 23 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:16.920 And she yes, the one must go is what we have. 24 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:19.680 And so you're choosing which one stays and which one 25 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:22.879 goes away forever. And it means for the world ever, 26 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:25.519 for the world forever, Yes, for the whole world. 27 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:26.439 It's not just for us. 28 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:27.760 People cannot have one or the other. 29 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:30.079 You want to do it with a different context. You 30 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:31.359 want to do it just for us. 31 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:34.280 Just for us. Yeah, like if I make the decision, 32 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:38.120 then you also don't get it correct, Okay, No, like 33 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:39.200 just for us individually. 34 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:42.599 Yeah, just just like whatever you would do, and it 35 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:45.799 affects nobody else except for you. Okay, that's kind of 36 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:48.719 boring in it. Yeah, all right, let's forget it. That's 37 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:51.719 a bad idea for everybody, for everybody. Because as soon 38 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:53.120 as I thought about it, I thought, who cares? 39 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:55.200 Okay, I've got it for you, because the. 40 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.400 First one is garlic her pickles. It's like, who cares? 41 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:03.120 Yeah I do. Well, yeah, I'm a cooker, I'm an cook. 42 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:04.079 Yeah, that's true. 43 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:06.079 There's a big between garlic and pickles. 44 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:08.240 All right, here we go the first one, Jeff, for 45 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:11.800 the world, which wing goes forever? Which one goes a 46 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:12.240 way forever? 47 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:16.800 Pickles or garlic Okay, So my daughter lives for Deal pickles. 48 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:19.680 Oh yeah, I don't know that I've ever met anybody 49 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:22.719 who eats more Deal pickles than my daughter. Wow. You know, 50 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:27.479 but I love you, Jenna, but I have to choose 51 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:29.560 pickles are the ones who go away forever. 52 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:32.639 Yeah, because garlic is Garlic is so important. It is 53 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:33.520 so important. 54 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:37.639 It's because I love steak, right, you gotta have garlic. 55 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:40.280 So I got a sou vied for Christmas. Do you 56 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:44.280 know what souvite is? Not? Okay, so very quickly, it's 57 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:46.800 a machine. You stick it in a tuble water. Then 58 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:49.840 you you vacuum seal whatever it is you're cooking with 59 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:51.680 all the spices and stuff in it. Stick it in 60 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:54.159 the water and it takes it to the exact temperature 61 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:56.240 and you can't overcook it. Then you just take it 62 00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:58.960 out of that that that bag, put it on the girl, 63 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:03.199 see on both sides, and it's perfectly cooked. But because 64 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:06.199 it's pressure sealed in the thing, it just pulls all 65 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:10.199 the flavors in really strong. So I made I just 66 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:13.120 got a bunch of Delmonico's. You know those are like 67 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:16.120 the sweet spots of the rabbis, right, Yeah, So I 68 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:20.879 got some Delmonico steaks and I put salt pepper rub 69 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:23.560 on it, and then I chopped up garlic and put 70 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:26.599 it on top, put some time on top of that 71 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:30.759 with a little bit of butter, and sealed it like that, 72 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:33.680 and it just pulled all that garlic, the flavor into 73 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:35.960 that meat, telling you it. 74 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:40.759 Was so good that being So, it's vacuum sealed in water. 75 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:43.000 So the water is the temperature that cooks it. 76 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:45.479 Yeah, So if you set the water, if you set 77 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:47.199 the right because it's inside the bag. So if you 78 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:49.280 set the water at one thirty, your meat never is 79 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:51.280 going to go over one thirty. You can't overcook it. 80 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.719 It just gets more and more and more tender. 81 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:56.719 And then you leave it in there for a long time. 82 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:58.280 I put it in there for four hours. If I 83 00:03:58.280 --> 00:03:59.800 want to, I could. I could start it this morning 84 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.719 back at lunchtime and it'll be fall apart tender and 85 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:05.840 then I just take it out, put it on the grill, 86 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:08.800 kicks both sides, sere it, so you get that my 87 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:12.400 ard reaction, you know, with the seer on it, and 88 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:16.000 it's good to go. It's phenomenal. Yeah, So you have 89 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:18.160 to have garlic, is what I'm trying to say not pickles. 90 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:21.600 Wait a minute, you're trying to say that continued exposure 91 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:24.040 on a piece of meat at a certain temperature one 92 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:26.639 thirty will never continue to cook that meat. 93 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:30.800 It can't. It's stuck at one thirty. 94 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:34.199 So one thirty over prolonged time stays at one thirty. 95 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:35.439 It stays at one thirty. 96 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:38.240 Yeah, it never overcooks, So you just get more and 97 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:41.120 more tender. So the meat that I just blow your mind, Chris, 98 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:44.399 because apparently I don't understand cooking. This is why. This 99 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:47.279 is why all the great steak houses have better steaks 100 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:52.319 than your house. That's why, well, guess what. I don't cook, 101 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:54.959 But that's why steakhouses do. It's because they've been doing 102 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:58.920 SUVD for for twenty years, and it's only coming to customer, 103 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:03.639 you know, the mainstream for maybe last ten. Yeah. Really, 104 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:07.279 So anyways, so I have to say garlic over. I'm 105 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:09.120 going to keep garlic and get rid of pickles forever. 106 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:11.920 I love my daughter, but and I agree with you too, 107 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:13.079 keep the garlic. 108 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:16.199 I say, keep garlic because the world needs it, and 109 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:18.959 nobody technically really needs pickles. 110 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:21.160 That's correct. Yeah, Well I don't know, but I need 111 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:23.560 pickles too, but not that piles. Okay, we got to 112 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:28.000 keep moving. Now, get behind candy corner jawbreakers, that's no 113 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.600 no brainer. Candy corn goes away. Yeah, get rid of candy. Yeah, 114 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:33.000 I agree too, Okay. 115 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:35.600 Candy corn. Yes, let me help you to finish it. 116 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:37.040 I don't know. I don't know. 117 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:46.399 It's bugs life, okay, all right. Number three Walkman's or pagers? Both? 118 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:47.480 I vote both. 119 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:52.439 It was it was the speed in which you responded. 120 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:59.040 I say, pagers go away. Okay, although that's pages do 121 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:04.360 serve a purpose though, hm, Walkman's are just for fun. Yeah, 122 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:07.560 I'm gonna change my mind. I'm gonna say walkman's okay, okay. 123 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:13.639 Number four fanny packs or cross I already know the answer. No, 124 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:14.560 crocs go away? 125 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:16.319 Oh wow, well we disagree. 126 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:16.959 I hate crocs. 127 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:18.399 Okay, they're comfortable. 128 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:22.600 Uh yeah, but people who wear them are not my friends. 129 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:24.399 They can't go to heaven. 130 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:25.319 Yeah they cannot. 131 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:28.079 Okay, there's a band. There's a band on crocks that actually. 132 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:30.800 Crocs with socks. Okay, yes, if you wear crocs with socks, 133 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:33.839 I don't chances are I do not like you as 134 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:34.160 a person. 135 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:36.240 Okay, all right, And. 136 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:38.879 If you don't want any If you don't like the office, Yes, 137 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:40.680 if you don't like the office, chances are I don't 138 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:41.240 get along with you. 139 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:42.279 Okay, those are the two. 140 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:43.040 Those are the two. 141 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:44.000 Can't be friends. 142 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:47.000 Okay, last one? Were you really wanting to burn through this, 143 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:47.600 aren't you? 144 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:49.439 Well we're at six minutes and thirty six seconds. 145 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:54.199 Okay, number five Voldemort' or Darth Vader? Which one goes away? 146 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:56.160 I think that's a no brainer for history. That's a 147 00:06:56.199 --> 00:07:00.199 no brainer. Oh yeah, what is it? Yeah, it's far 148 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:05.120 as Voldemort because because he can be defeated by a kid. 149 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:11.800 Oh wow, Darth Vader blows up planets. Okay, Voldemort threatens 150 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:13.079 to do bad stuff. 151 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:15.480 Right, and it doesn't. It doesn't really do. 152 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:17.000 Any He never actually pulls it up. 153 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:18.839 For seven books, he doesn't really do much. 154 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:20.560 Right, right, He doesn't really do much. He's just he's 155 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:22.519 a scary guy, but he doesn't actually do anything. And 156 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:23.600 then he's defeated by a kid. 157 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:26.120 Well he's a kid. He's really defeated by himself. 158 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:30.680 Yes, that's true. Yeah, but but yeah, Darth Vader is 159 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:31.439 way worser. 160 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:35.240 Yeah, he's way worser and has a way better storyline. 161 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:35.879 Yes, that's right. 162 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:39.279 Yeah, it's not as creepy. That's right, that is not 163 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:40.199 as wizardy. 164 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:44.879 Yeah, and I think I think they're just better stories. 165 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:46.759 Yeah, I agree better, I agree. 166 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:50.600 All right, Well, hey, wow, we solved it, Riven solved it. 167 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:54.519 We have people were so worried about that, and now 168 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:56.439 they're gonna have peace the rest of the day. 169 00:07:56.839 --> 00:07:59.279 If you don't agree with us, then comment. 170 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:00.000 Find a better podcast. 171 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:08.240 You don't agree with us, leave this podcast, stop listening now, 172 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:11.279 and go find another way. That's right, that's so funny, 173 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:14.759 all right, Jeff, we need to move on. First Kings 174 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:20.680 chapter twoh, I'm sorry, speaking of one must go. They're 175 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:22.120 burning through kings like flying. 176 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:28.720 That's an awesome transition. Well, so there's there's Jerbaum we 177 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:32.039 know about. Yes, Jea Bohm's reign lasts twenty two years. Yes, 178 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:36.600 then Nadab he only lasts two years because Basha kills him. 179 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:37.759 Yeah, Basha kills him. 180 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:39.600 Then Basha's twenty four years. 181 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:42.080 And by the way, you're listening to the Kings of Israel. 182 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:44.840 That's right of Israel. So jere Baum and Basha they 183 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:46.639 team up for forty six years. 184 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:50.000 But then this is the Northern this is the northern 185 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:50.919 yeah section. 186 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:54.440 But then they go Ela ZIMRII. Ela lasts two years, 187 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:58.000 gets killed, Zimri last seven days because he's the one 188 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:02.360 who kills Ela, and then Zimri commits suicide. He burns 189 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:05.120 a building down on top of himself. Tibney then is 190 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:08.559 the king for four years. He gets so let's pick 191 00:09:08.600 --> 00:09:09.120 up with Tibney. 192 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:11.159 He wants to, Yeah, I do want to. 193 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:15.039 Kristy's chapter sixteen, verse twenty one says, but now the 194 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:17.720 people of Israel split into two factions. Half the people 195 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:20.399 tried to make Tibney, son of Gibnath their king, while 196 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:24.399 the other half supported Omri. But Omriy's supporters defeated the 197 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:26.639 supporters of Timney. So Tibney was killed and Omri became 198 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:29.080 the next king. Wow, there you go. So this last 199 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:31.919 a little while. Their fight for about four years or so. 200 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:35.799 Where they they're in this civil war. Then it says, 201 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:38.480 but Omri began to rule over Israel in the thirty 202 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:41.159 first year of King ASA's reign in Judah. He reigned 203 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:44.000 twelve years in all, six of them in Terza, when 204 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:47.799 Omri brought the hill known when Omri bought the hill 205 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:51.080 known as Samaria from its owner, Simer, for one hundred 206 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:53.519 ffty pounds of silver. He built a city on it 207 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:57.000 and called the city Samaria in honor of Shemer. But 208 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:59.559 Omri did what was evil in the Lord's sight even 209 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:01.759 more than in any of the kings before him. He 210 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:04.639 followed the example of Jereboam's son of Nebat, and all 211 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:07.120 the sins he had committed and led Israel to commit. 212 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:09.759 The people provoked the anger of the Lord, the God 213 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:12.240 of Israel, with their worthless idols. The rest of the 214 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:14.120 events of Omri's reign, the extent of his power and 215 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:15.600 everything he did, I record in the book of the 216 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.399 History of the Kings of Israel. When Omri died, he 217 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:21.519 was buried in Samaria. Then his son Ahab became the 218 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:24.720 next king. Don't dunt dahn, I'm talking about darth Vader. 219 00:10:25.720 --> 00:10:27.840 Ahab is like the darth Vader of the Old Testament. 220 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:28.360 Right. 221 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:31.960 Ahab, son of Omri, began to rule over Israel in 222 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:34.480 the thirty eighth year of King Ace's reign in Judah. 223 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:37.879 He reigned in Samaria twenty two years. But Ahab, son 224 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:40.240 of Omri, did what was evil in the Lord's sight 225 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:43.720 even more than any of the kings before him, Yeah, 226 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:45.799 no doubt. And as though it were not enough to 227 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:48.840 follow the example of Jereboam, he married Jezebel, the daughter 228 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:51.799 of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians, and he began to 229 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:57.000 bow down in worship of Bail. First, Ahab built a 230 00:10:57.000 --> 00:10:58.919 temple in an altar for Bail and Samaria, and then 231 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:01.240 he set up in a shap He did more to 232 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:03.120 provoke the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel 233 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:05.559 than any of the other kings of Israel before him. 234 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:08.960 It was during his reign the hile, a man from Bethel, 235 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:13.039 built rebuilt Jericho. When he laid its foundations, it cost 236 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:15.639 him the life of his oldest son, a Biram, And 237 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:17.759 when he completed it and set up its gates, it 238 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:21.039 cost him the life of his youngest son, Segoub. This 239 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:23.879 all happened according to the message from the Lord concerning Jericho, 240 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:25.799 spoken by Joshua's son of Nunn. 241 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:27.840 Holy Christmas. 242 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:29.759 Well, do you remember there was a lot in there? 243 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:30.159 Yeah? 244 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:33.039 Remember, Well, let's cover that part first. You know, after 245 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:37.679 Jericho fell under Joshua's leadership. Yep, there was a curse 246 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:43.000 that whoever rebuilt Jericho, that Jericho should never be rebuilt again, 247 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:46.200 but whoever rebuilt it would have deadly costs in their family. 248 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.039 And that's what happened there, Yeah, which is crazy, And 249 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:52.399 it was what a couple hundred years later. 250 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:58.279 Yeah, yeah, So you immediately burned through these kings, right, 251 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:06.200 like I said, Yeah, Ela, Zimri, Tidney, Amri, and Omri 252 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:09.799 lasted twelve years. And and I love how it does 253 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:11.679 in the Bible. And there's a little chart by the 254 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:14.399 way in our life Application study Bible that sort of 255 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:17.000 gives you a timeline, and you'll notice that the kings 256 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:22.320 of Judah are only three kings. Judah only had Reybaum 257 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:26.279 and then Bijah. I never know how to pronounce that 258 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:30.279 guy's name, and and Bijah only lasted three years, and 259 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:34.240 then Asa lasted forty one years, right, and so it's 260 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:37.080 like that's it. Three kings, that's it. And then in 261 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:41.240 the meanwhile, the northern portion of all the other tribes 262 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:44.840 burns through all these different kings, and there's these rebellions 263 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:50.080 and and all these different one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. 264 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:53.960 There's eight kings compared to the three, that's right. So 265 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:56.360 there's a lot going on in the north. 266 00:12:56.399 --> 00:13:01.000 So Ray Boham was partially following God, yeah, right, and 267 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:04.120 and he had moments where he pointed people to God. Yes, 268 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:06.200 but he was trying to blend the two religions. It 269 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:10.519 didn't work. Abijah did religion well, not Jerobom. That was 270 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:12.039 not re Boam, that was Jerobo. 271 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:13.840 Yeah. 272 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:17.759 So Rebaeam is Solomon's son, yes, and he just kind 273 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:19.120 of did what his dad did. 274 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:21.000 Should have just looked at the charge. 275 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:25.360 But then Abaijah did the wrong thing. And so his 276 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:28.360 his term was short. And then Asa was a good 277 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:30.000 king all the way up to the very end of 278 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:32.440 his of his career. He was a good king, and 279 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:34.879 he pointed the people towards God, and he was always 280 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:37.519 faithful to follow God. And so you see, God gave 281 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:40.200 him a very long reign during that time, and the 282 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:44.000 people prospered. But when the when, when there is no 283 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:47.360 God centered morality in a country, these these kings are 284 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:50.639 assassinating each other, they're wiping each other out, they're taking 285 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:53.399 advantage that people are in civil war. It's just this 286 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:57.000 horrible time in northern Israel. But in Judah there was 287 00:13:57.039 --> 00:13:59.639 a lot of peace and prosperity during that time because 288 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:04.679 ray Boem mostly followed the Lord and Asa did faithfully 289 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:07.759 follow God, and so those two it lasts a long time. 290 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:11.600 Hey, I like the fact that in Amri's reign, he 291 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:16.320 only reigned for twelve years. And when he he it 292 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:20.200 says he bought a plot of land that he named 293 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:23.120 Samaria for one hundred and fifty pounds of silver. One 294 00:14:23.159 --> 00:14:24.720 hundred and fifty pounds is pretty good. 295 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:26.799 Yeah, seems like it pretty good. A bit of money, 296 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:28.399 pretty good amount of silver. I wonder how much it 297 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:30.480 would be worth today. Yeah, try it, I'll ask. 298 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:34.240 And then he said he built a sami or built 299 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:36.879 a city and called it Samaria. So here it is 300 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:39.519 we see the beginnings of you know, it's very famous. 301 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:41.399 The woman at the well was in Samaria, right, Yeah, 302 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:43.320 that's right, because Jesus said, I have needs to go 303 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:45.840 through Samaria, right, and he meets her at the well, 304 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:48.279 and so that's a very famous story. So here it 305 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:50.679 is the beginnings, and he built the city and he 306 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:51.360 was buried in it. 307 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:53.639 Yeah, a lot of things happened in Samaria. It is 308 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:56.759 pretty but it's fifty four, five hundred and seventy six 309 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:01.240 dollars what he bought the whole hill for fifty and 310 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:02.639 seventy six dollars in today's money. 311 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:06.360 Oh, that's not a lot at all, doesn't seem like it. No, 312 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:10.360 that must have been a pretty desolate piece of land. Yeah, 313 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:14.799 you're kidding me, sucker. Nothing can grow there. You can't, 314 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:16.720 you can't. You can't raise sheep on that thing. 315 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:20.080 This place is horrible. Yeah, I'll give you a fifty 316 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:22.240 four thousand bucks. 317 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:23.720 He just bought a desert. 318 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:27.080 Yeah. Yeah, so he built a hill there, Samaria. Yeah, 319 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:31.720 and so a lot of things happen there. Eventually there's 320 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:34.720 a lot of attention because this becomes a key spot 321 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:38.120 in northern Israel, and it also represents false worship at 322 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:41.759 that point, right, yeah, but then we have Ahab enter 323 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:44.919 the scene, right, and it just gets worse from here. Yeah. 324 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:47.120 King a has right for the next couple of weeks, 325 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:50.600 has to go whale. That's right, Well, no, wrong, wrong 326 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:51.639 story what yeah? 327 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:54.919 Yeah, Captain one, Oh okay, I see, I see. 328 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:58.440 Yeah, but King Ahab, this is the beginning of a 329 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:01.679 couple of weeks of just are you here Israel? Just? 330 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:05.440 And then not only is it bad? Ahab shows up. 331 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:07.159 Ahab marries Jezebel. 332 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:09.519 Yeah, and she's worse than him. 333 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:12.639 I can't remember my dad we had an old car. 334 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:14.039 It was an old. 335 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:15.559 Man. 336 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:17.879 It looked like a Chevy Nova. I forget the other 337 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:20.240 there was another one like it, a Pontiac that was 338 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:22.879 just just like it. Anyways, my dad it was green. 339 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:25.679 My dad used to call it Jezebel because yeah, yeah, 340 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:31.559 it was difficult, it was it. Nope, nope, nope. But anyways, yeah, 341 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:33.720 I used to call it Jezebel. And you know, just bad. 342 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:36.519 She just bad all the time. I'm just always mad 343 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:39.320 at this. This yep, so this is. 344 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:42.039 The Jezebel is a term that is used in that way. 345 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:44.600 Yeah, well she was a wicked woman. Ahab was bad. 346 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:47.159 She was bad with a capital B. 347 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:51.559 Bad. Right, Yeah, he's the Darth Vader and she's the Emperor. 348 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:54.480 Yea, she is bad news. So the two of them 349 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:56.720 are ready to lead the people of Israel into just 350 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:00.360 all kinds of wickedness, quite honestly. 351 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:05.480 Yeah and so and so here's the example of Ahab 352 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:13.279 coming in and uh unapologetically deciding to abandon God's ways. 353 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:18.079 You know, have you ever met somebody who they just 354 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:21.920 go out of their way to defy and almost seem 355 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:27.079 to dare you know, there's a certain comedian I'm not 356 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:30.839 going to mention his name, but but he goes out 357 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:35.519 of his way publicly to talk about atheism, and he 358 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:39.200 goes out of his way to defy the logic of 359 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:42.920 all Christians and laughs at them publicly. And sometimes I 360 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:46.440 wonder about kind of mocks God publicly, and and I 361 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:50.000 sort of wonder about that, and and and I think 362 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:53.000 this person is a funny person, and I sort of 363 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:57.200 like him in his acting. But I wonder about like 364 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:00.640 it's like, dude, be careful, be careful what you say. 365 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:02.559 It's one thing to have doubts. It's one thing to 366 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:04.920 you know, say hey, I'm not sure I believe, and 367 00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:08.319 you know, just to remain having a posture of humility. 368 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:11.200 And but it's but it's saying no, he's it's almost 369 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:13.400 like shaking his fists, saying like I'm going to make 370 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:16.960 fun of anybody who believes this, and I defy, I 371 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:20.440 defy the false God that you believe in. That's sort 372 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:23.279 of what he does. And uh, and I just I 373 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:25.640 always wonder about it. I always wonder, like good gravy, 374 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:29.440 like be really careful, buddy, you know. But that's what 375 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:33.119 aheps doing. He is he is from day one, he 376 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:37.960 is publicly declaring like I am defying the history of 377 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:41.359 anything anything that our country has ever had to do 378 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:45.359 with God. And I'm and I'm and I'm immediately worshiping 379 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:48.000 Bail and making it publicly declared. You know, as we 380 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:51.119 all know, this is where Elijah is going to come in, right, 381 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:57.400 Elijah's going to come in and and defeat all the 382 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:00.880 prophets of Bail. But this is this is the birthplace 383 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:03.440 of all of this, and so a have is just 384 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:05.359 I can even imagine being in a place where it 385 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:06.480 feels totally dark. 386 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:11.799 So you can see in this contrast between the Northern 387 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:17.400 Kingdom Israel that has so many wicked kings, like there's 388 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:20.319 not a redeemable king among them. Yeah right, and you're like, 389 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:23.799 are you serious, dude, It's just every one of them 390 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:27.240 rebels against God, does horrible things. And then you've got 391 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:30.880 the other side, Asa being the best of them. But 392 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:36.920 God gives prosperity and success and relative peace and long term, 393 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:39.000 there's only three kings during that time, two of whom 394 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:42.759 had long, long careers, and God just gives stability. And 395 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:47.000 so you find people leaving their trashed country and wanting 396 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:51.759 to move down into to Judah. Because they see the prosperity, 397 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:54.000 but they just don't understand where the prosperity came from. 398 00:19:54.599 --> 00:19:56.880 And you know, I think nations do that sometimes, where 399 00:19:57.119 --> 00:20:01.279 you know, nations rise up there. I think the US was, 400 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:06.000 you know, built on biblical Judeo Christian ethic and and 401 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:09.160