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 --> 00:00:09.080 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:13.640 Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of the Bible Guys. 5 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:16.320 We're back. We can again. I just can't believe it. 6 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:18.160 We have different outfits for the whole week every week 7 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:20.920 we come back. Oh, which, by the way, most people 8 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:22.480 actually don't watch, they listen. 9 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:25.239 They listen. Yeah, that's about fifty to fifty now. But yeah, yeah, 10 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:27.480 it's pretty closely, you're pretty close, pretty close, gotcha. 11 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:29.239 Well, hey, listen, we're pretty excited. 12 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:31.839 It's like a gazillion and a half people who watch 13 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:36.399 and a gillion a gajillion and three quarters that listen. Yeah, 14 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:37.159 it's real close. 15 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:37.759 It's really close. 16 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:40.759 Yeah really okay, but but but it slightly favors to listen, 17 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:44.840 I think, so, yeah, I gotcha. Okay, Hey, we are 18 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:48.960 going to dive directly into uh which, by the way, 19 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:51.960 how many unique listeners do we have a month? 20 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:56.560 Unique listeners? Like five or six thousand? I don't know. 21 00:00:56.799 --> 00:00:58.359 Let me look at what while you're talking already know 22 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:00.359 the answer to this? Oh, go ahead, No, it's thirteen 23 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:05.159 thousand unique listeners. Thirteen thousand unique listeners play just on YouTube. Yeah, 24 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:08.000 that's just on you. That's the problem, right, that doesn't 25 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:11.000 include the But you said listeners, not viewers. Oh we 26 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:14.560 oh so that's what I was saying, just YouTube, Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, 27 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:15.599 it's YouTubers. Yeah. 28 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:18.400 Yeah, so because it averages out to be about one 29 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:19.840 thousand listens a day. 30 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:22.560 Yeah right, that's right. And then it's about that many 31 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:26.319 more on the streams. Gotcha on Spotify and apples? 32 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:29.079 Just in case you're wondering, like, you know, how big 33 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:30.640 are we talking or how small are we talking? 34 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:33.879 It's uh taking over the world, baby, it's it's smaller 35 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:35.319 than most and bigger than some. 36 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:38.159 That's right there, it is. 37 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:42.079 So we're going to dive into a segment that's who's 38 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:45.280 most likely And this is the idea, is we read 39 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:48.480 these and then we just sort of instinctively say. 40 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:51.120 Out loine, Yeah, okay, who's more likely to do these things? Okay, 41 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:52.280 you go first? All right, here we go. 42 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:56.519 Number one, who's most likely to spend hours watching cat videos? 43 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:01.079 You? I refuse? Really? Your few to watch them? Or you? 44 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:01.359 Yeah? 45 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:04.959 Yeah, answer, honestly, my daughters no, I don't watch them. 46 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:08.080 My daughter will. We'll sit there and she loves TikTok. 47 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:11.159 You know everybody herge. Yeah, hey, look at this one. Hey, 48 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:12.680 look at this one. I'm like, quich show me videos 49 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:13.719 if I want to watch them, I sit down and 50 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:15.680 watch me. I know TikTok exists. I just don't want 51 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:17.400 to watch them it all the time. She said, I 52 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:18.439 just want to hang over with you. I said, to 53 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:19.759 hang out with me. What you want me to do 54 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:21.680 is watch the video you just laughed at ten seconds ago. 55 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:23.840 That's what I did, right, Yeah, so I just don't. 56 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:27.080 Yeah, well then I'm not massive on watching cat videos 57 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:27.599 for hours. 58 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:30.159 But if we have to pick, I would pick me. 59 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:31.479 You a little bit of a you're more of a 60 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:35.199 TikTok Instagram and reels. I don't have TikTok no, no, 61 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:35.680 but I have. 62 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:37.599 I used to, but I get rid of it, but 63 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:40.639 then I I do Instagram. 64 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:41.199 Reels, Instagram reels. 65 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:43.319 Yeah yah, yeah, so yeah. 66 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:45.240 I'll pick me. Who's most likely to be an extra 67 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:48.240 in a zombie movie? I would that's going to be you. 68 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:50.120 I would definitely say that's going to be you. 69 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:52.800 If I get a call right now for Mark, you 70 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:56.759 leave from you leave right now the studio for a 71 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:58.879 chance to put on makeup and just be in the 72 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:02.120 background Michael Jackson thriller, and I would say, you see 73 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:02.759 that top of the. 74 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:06.520 Head of the fifth that was me. I have a 75 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:10.199 friend that has been an extra in several movies. Yeah, 76 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:14.599 and he had a speaking part to Meryl Streep, oh wow, 77 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:17.800 and a thing and uh, he was all excited. And 78 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:20.240 then when he watched the movie it got cut. He 79 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:22.400 walked up to the table and walked away from the table. 80 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:27.360 He was a waiter. Yet that's me right there, right, 81 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:31.919 But yeah, that's okay, it's you. Okay, who's most likely 82 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:36.240 to win an Emmy? You? What the heck? These are me? 83 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:39.919 These are you? Because we love you? No, everybody loves you, Chris. 84 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:44.840 She knows when she types in movie and Emmy and cats. 85 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:47.520 Because she said love cats. Right, that's right, she shows 86 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:48.439 through those three from me. 87 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:50.439 Okay, that's you. 88 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:53.439 Who's most likely to claim they saw Bigfoot? Well, that 89 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:54.919 would definitely be you. That's me. You got to be 90 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:59.039 in the woods to say big foot, And chances are 91 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:01.520 this guy will be in the woods. That guy won't 92 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:03.919 be Yeah, yep, yep, that'll be me. Although I have 93 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:06.039 to say I sort of grew up in the woods. Uh. 94 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:08.000 And that's a strange one. 95 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:09.520 But I used to say that phrase all the time 96 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:13.520 because in my hometown, Youngstown, Ohio, there's a historic park 97 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:16.720 called Mill Creek Park and it's unlike probably unlike anything 98 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:19.519 you've seen, although you've seen a lot, but the park 99 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:21.000 weaves through the entire town. 100 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:23.680 Have you ever heard anything like that where you can. 101 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:25.160 Go like from one end of the town to the other, 102 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:26.560 like thirty minutes just. 103 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:28.600 Through the park. Wow? Have you ever heard of that? 104 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:28.920 Oh? 105 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:29.199 You have? 106 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:31.360 Okay, so I've never heard of that anyways. 107 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:31.600 Cool. 108 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:33.959 So, so I sort of grew up in Mill Creek Park, 109 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:35.680 and I always say I grew up in the woods. 110 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:38.000 In the woods rocks. And I just was with a 111 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.319 bunch of Nepoli's, Yeah, and we were talking about trekking 112 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:43.680 the base camp and I asked him if if yeties 113 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:46.279 are real? And two this, so there are four of them. 114 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:48.120 Two of them went oh, absolutely, and two of them 115 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:51.680 went no, Right, that's hilarious. So I don't know who's 116 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:53.600 telling the truth, but it was fifty to fifty yees. 117 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:57.120 So I think Yadie's and Bigfoot, you know, our cousins 118 00:04:57.160 --> 00:04:57.560 or something. 119 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:00.319 Sure, sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, they see each other a 120 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:00.920 family reading. 121 00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:05.560 Yeah, Bob, that's funny. 122 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:10.040 Who's most likely to participate in a historic reenactment? 123 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:12.160 I'd have to. 124 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:16.040 Say, Well, the historic part would be you, but the 125 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:17.120 reenactment part would be me. 126 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:18.920 When I look at him, I go, that'd be a 127 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:21.680 fun hobby. Oh good. Then it would definitely be you. 128 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:24.759 Have you seen I don't know who has the time 129 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:27.160 or the money for it, right, it always looks like that. 130 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:28.839 Have you ever seen a Sweet Home Alabama? 131 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:30.639 With Reech Withersmoon and Patrick Dempsey. 132 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:35.079 So she, uh, she's looking for her dad and every 133 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:38.120 year back in Alabama, they do this reenactment of the 134 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:40.600 Civil War, so she has to fight. She has talked 135 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:42.879 to them right away. So she runs into the field 136 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:46.279 and all of these soldiers right from the from the 137 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:48.000 South are laying on the field and they're just there's 138 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:50.360 gun smoke everywhere, and there must be one hundred of 139 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:53.519 them and they're all dead. And so she goes, uh, 140 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:56.879 she says Emmett Snooter and she's trying to admit I guess, 141 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:59.199 And all of a sudden, one guy who's dad gets 142 00:05:59.240 --> 00:05:59.680 up and goes. 143 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:00.240 Who you look him for? 144 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:02.439 Darling? And he goes am it and then he goes, 145 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:03.600 is there an emon here? And all of a sudden, 146 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:07.439 one hundred people they left up and they gom it emmitt. Oh, 147 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:09.279 he's over by the cannons. And then they all go 148 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:10.920 PLoP and they all die. 149 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:13.920 It's hilarious. So that's really great. 150 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:17.079 Yeah, I would think it looks fun. Yeah it's it's 151 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:21.480 always interesting, but I don't have time for it. Yeah. Really, 152 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:25.360 well it's a camping and eating part. I think it's it's. 153 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:29.160 My shock face. You don't have time for it. So hey, 154 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:30.079 that was that was fun? 155 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:32.560 Okay, Yeah, now we know. Yeah, so we know you're 156 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:35.399 up for a zombie movie. Yep. And I'm gonna keep 157 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:37.959 looking for big Foot. You're gonna look for Bigfoot. Keep 158 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:40.519 so funny, keep looking. I'm not gonna start looking. Keep 159 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:42.879 looking for big When you were young, did you actually like, 160 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:45.480 oh I want to believe? Oh you do? I want 161 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:45.839 to believe? 162 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:46.800 What about wuckness monster? 163 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:50.000 I want to believe? But I don't think it's real. 164 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:52.560 Oh yeah it's you. 165 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:54.319 Don't think Bigfoot's really there? 166 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:57.040 I don't know, because it seems more believable. 167 00:06:57.199 --> 00:06:59.120 Well, we we would have proof. 168 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:03.439 We've found, we've found just in the Look it up. 169 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:06.439 The number of medium and large sized animals that have 170 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:09.000 been found or discovered just in the last you know, 171 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:11.399 fifteen or twenty years is pretty extordinary. Yeah. 172 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:13.439 Well, but yet still no eyewitnesses. 173 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:17.040 Yeah, well, lots of eyewitnesses, but only greeny fuzzy video. 174 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:18.319 Yeah right, which is convenient. 175 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:20.680 Did you ever hear who is it? Who's a comedian 176 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:27.360 who said? What if Bigfoot is just blurry? Right? That's 177 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:30.759 why all the pictures are blurry, because maybe he's blurry? 178 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:34.399 Right, that's really funny. It might be right, Yeah, so 179 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:37.759 anyways funny. Yeah, I don't think big It's blurry. 180 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:39.600 No, No, I doubt that. 181 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:43.519 But yeah, I mean you know all the alien spaceship 182 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:45.680 videos are grainy too, right, Yes, look. 183 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:47.680 At this object in the skuye. They might see all 184 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:51.759 those weird things Lockness, monster, they might all just be blurry. 185 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:54.040 Yeah right, that's so funny. 186 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:57.319 I think who knows, well, I guess, say for much 187 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:00.360 of a conspiracy guy that I am, I don't. 188 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:02.519 I don't buy any of those. You don't believe in Bigfoot, 189 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:06.199 no Orlockness or or spaceships. 190 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:08.959 Speaking of conspiracies, we've been talking about a lot of 191 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:12.839 Kings that have been conspiring to kill the others. Nice. 192 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:18.639 Oh it spoke to me. Yes, that was good. And 193 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:21.680 we're cruising through the book is Second Kings. Yeah, and 194 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:25.160 today unfortunately there's no conspiracy to assassinate I don't think. 195 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:28.079 Oh maybe maybe I take it back, I take it back. 196 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:30.120 So what you were saying is speaking of conspiracy. 197 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:32.240 There's no conspiracy. No, no, no, this this one, there 198 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:36.279 is a conspiracy. He kills conspirators. Oh there you go, Yeah, 199 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:38.480 there you go. Yeah. So that's it. So we are 200 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:41.720 in Second Kings chapter fourteen today, and if you're new 201 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:43.320 to the show and you're thinking, what the heck is 202 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:46.039 this about, we'd love to try to find like the 203 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:49.519 worst possible transition, yes, correct, between the beginning of the 204 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:51.919 show and when we get into the devotional it's the. 205 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:54.279 Most difficult part. But it's the part that I sort 206 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:57.399 of enjoy the most. I think it's because it's on 207 00:08:57.440 --> 00:08:59.039 the spot thinking yeah, yeah, yeah, it's hard as we 208 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:01.200 don't plan for it. No, right now, we don't plan 209 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:04.240 for any of this. Correct, walked into the studios. 210 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:07.360 I'm ready just go lights, camera action right here goes 211 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:11.519 King's Chapter fourteen, says Amaziah son of joe Ash, began 212 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:13.679 to rule over Judah in the second year of the 213 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:16.960 reign of King Jehoash. Don't make those two up. I 214 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:21.200 know Jehoash, I know, I know of Israel. Amaziah was 215 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:23.120 twenty five years old when he became king, and he 216 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:26.480 reigned in Jerusalem twenty nine years. His mother was Jehoyaden 217 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:30.639 from Jerusalem. Amaziah did what was pleasing in the Lord's site, 218 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:37.200 but did not like his ancestor David. No, but not 219 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:39.480 like his but not like okay that I said, but 220 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:41.759 did not like him. That makes sense. I hate my 221 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:46.360 ancestor David. Okay, but not like his ancestor David. Instead, 222 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:49.480 he followed the example of his father joe Ash. Amaziah 223 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:51.799 did not destroy the pagan shrines, and the people still 224 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:56.039 offered sacrifices and burned incense there. When Amaziah was well 225 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:59.159 established as king, he executed the officials who had assassinated 226 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:01.759 his father. However, he did not kill the children of 227 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:04.320 the assassins, for he obeyed the command of the Lord 228 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:06.399 is written by Moses in the bok law. Parents must 229 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:08.480 not be put to death for the sins of their children, 230 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:11.399 or children for the sins of their parents. Those deserving 231 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:13.559 to die must be put to death for their own crimes. 232 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:17.480 Amaziah was killed also killed ten thousand Edomites in the 233 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:20.320 Valley of Salt. He also conquered Sela and changed his 234 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:24.200 name to Jockthel probably should have left it Cela, as 235 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:27.639 it is called to this day. One day Amaziah sent 236 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:30.879 messengers with this challenge to Israel's King joe Ash. Jehoash, 237 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:35.039 the son of Jehoah has and grandson of Jehu come 238 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:38.639 and meet me in battle. The King Jehoash of Israel 239 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:41.679 replied to King Amaziah of Judah with this story. Out 240 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:43.799 in the Lebanon Mountains, a thistle sent a message to 241 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:46.000 a mighty cedar tree, give your daughter a marriage to 242 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:48.360 my son. But just then a wild animal of Lebanon 243 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:51.840 came by and stepped on the thistle, crushing it. You 244 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:54.559 have indeed defeated edom and you are very proud of it. 245 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:56.600 But be content with your victory and stay at home. 246 00:10:56.799 --> 00:10:58.960 Why stir up trouble that will only bring disaster on 247 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:02.080 you and the people of Judah. But Amazia refused to listen, 248 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:04.759 so King Jehoash of Israel mobilized his army against King 249 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:07.600 Amazia of Judah. The two armies drew up their battle 250 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:12.519 lines at Beth Shemish in Judah. Judah was routed by 251 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:14.799 the army of Israel, and its army scattered and fled 252 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:18.399 for home. King Jehoash of Israel captured Judas King Amaziah, 253 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:22.720 son of Joash and grandson of a Haziah at Beth Shemish, 254 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:24.840 and then he marched to Jerusalem, where he demolished six 255 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:27.480 hundred feet Jerusalem's wall from the Ephraim gate to the 256 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:30.080 corner gate. He carried off all the gold and silver 257 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:31.799 and all the articles from the Temple of the Lord. 258 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:35.200 He also sees the treasures from the royal palace along 259 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:41.879 with hostages, and then returned to Samaria. Wow, well, wow, Amaziah, 260 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:43.639 you bit up more. You can choo buddy. 261 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:46.840 Well, no, he's the one that won, didn't he. No, 262 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:51.080 jeho Ash one is Jehoash the king of the North. 263 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:52.799 Yes, that gummt. 264 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:56.840 I'm reading it and I'm giving confused again. But because 265 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:59.679 I'm I'm like, he went down and he raided. 266 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:00.000 From the temple. 267 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:03.440 You know what it is? It is It is the Jays. 268 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:07.240 That's what confused me again. As stinking jas Amaziah was 269 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:11.279 the son of joe Ash, and he went after joho ash. 270 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:14.600 Oh wow, I'm telling you it's confusing. 271 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:17.200 Is sometimes you made a comment last week off camera 272 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:21.159 and you had said you believe that sometimes that's what 273 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:22.480 trips people up from reading the bottle. 274 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:23.840 I think so yeah, well I think we mentioned it 275 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:25.919 on camera too. Yeah, yeah, I think we did it. 276 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:29.000 Sometimes you get remember because I said, hey, sometimes people 277 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:32.360 just will read. I have friends that will just read, 278 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:35.960 you know, King A and and King J. Right, that's 279 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:40.399 what it is are going through because it's hard to write. Yeah, yeah, 280 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:41.960 yeah yeah. 281 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:43.559 So so wow, don't. 282 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:45.519 Get bogged down by read the story. Don't get bogged 283 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:48.240 down by the names. You say, this guy and that guy. 284 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:51.559 Right, this guy, that guy so so he said a 285 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:53.559 thistle to a cedar tree. So that was the warning. 286 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:57.480 The warning was like, hey, you're the thistle and I'm 287 00:12:57.480 --> 00:12:58.360 the cedar tree. Right. 288 00:12:58.399 --> 00:12:59.600 That was kind of what that was. 289 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:04.240 And he was saying, he was saying, uh, hey, let 290 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:07.559 me tell you a little parable, right and the Lebanon 291 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:09.759 mountains and uh you. 292 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:13.159 Wiped out eat them, right, be happy with your little victory, 293 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:17.320 your little victory. Don't come messing with the big cedars Elebanon. 294 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:19.399 Right. It's hilarious. 295 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:23.039 That's great. So he's warning him don't don't bite off, 296 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:26.960 don't bite off more than you can chew. Well, which, 297 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:28.639 by the way, hey, I just want to say this 298 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:34.559 Sila here that they named jock deal. Yeah, is the 299 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:38.240 ancient city of Petra. Oh for real? Card notes? Yeah? 300 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:39.200 Well that's cool. 301 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:43.279 Does it say anything else that's interesting or just that one? 302 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:45.840 So the note says Sila was an ancient stronghold of Petra, 303 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:48.039 a city carved into a rock cliff. It was not 304 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:50.480 only a stronghold for eatam, but also a wealthy outpost 305 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:51.480 for trade with India. 306 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:54.720 So for those people who saw Indiana Jones in the 307 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:59.159 Last Crusade and they saw the car Yeah, okay, so 308 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:02.600 how does that at why was that building carved? And 309 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:04.519 how does it connect to the Bible. 310 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:07.679 They're not exactly sure. And that building would have been 311 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:10.639 carved about the time of Jesus. Wow. Yeah, so another 312 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:13.919 eight hundred years after this wow. But yeah. So the 313 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:16.279 Manayans at that point had taken over not the Edomites. 314 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:21.320 But that area is this really steep, rugged canyons, so 315 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:23.399 the canyon floors are all sand and then you got 316 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:30.960 this really heavy the Crescent moon yeah, exactly, yep. According 317 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:34.720 to the movie. Yeah, and then after the Manaians, the 318 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:36.519 Romans came in and took it. So it's kind of 319 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:41.200 a Nabutens I'm sorry, not Maneyans, Nabuteans. And they were 320 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:43.559 very sophisticated. And how they managed water. I mean, it's 321 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:46.279 just such an inhospitable place. But they carved all these 322 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:49.399 troughs in the in the rock to catch the few 323 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:51.879 times it does rain, and then these giant basins to 324 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:54.600 hold the water. And there were actually spouts that it 325 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:56.840 would run down, and water would run run along the 326 00:14:56.879 --> 00:14:58.960 side in these troughs that they cut would run along 327 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:00.360 the side of the mountain. You just scoop wa out. 328 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:02.200 It was really amazing, it was It was a really 329 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:05.440 incredible place. But that's this this area that Edomites would 330 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:08.000 have been in the Valley of Salt. This would have 331 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:11.720 been in the area of what is the southern portion 332 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.759 of modern day Jordan. Wow. Okay, yeah, so that's where 333 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:17.559 he goes down and wipes them out. And Amazi he's 334 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:21.399 twenty five, he's feeling his oats now sure, he's ready 335 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:23.799 to go, and he's like, hey, let's let's go get 336 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:26.440 jeho Ash and he's going to march up there and 337 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:30.519 whoop up on them because he thinks he can. And 338 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:35.600 jeho Ash goes hey, just that it back, buddy, right, right. 339 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:39.240 Right, And he was twenty five years old. And then 340 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:41.080 what did say he reigned twenty nine years? 341 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:43.159 Yeah? Wow, fifty four. 342 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:44.559 Yeah, that's not too bad. 343 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:48.399 And then okay, so again just for our listeners, we 344 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:54.080 all understand that Israel was one uh, you know people, 345 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:59.320 one land, right for a very long time, and then 346 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:03.600 it's up into you know, uh, I think right around 347 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:07.320 the time of Joseph, right, it was divided into twelve tribes. Right, 348 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:10.360 it was given twelve tribes because those are representative of 349 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:12.200 the twelve brothers of Joseph. 350 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:15.759 Right, that's correct. So it's around that, yeah, or the 351 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:17.720 sons of Jacob, Yes, twelve sons of Jacob. 352 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:21.759 Twelve sons of Jacob. And then and then the southern 353 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:24.840 part is Judah and Benjamin. Uh, and then the upper 354 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:27.879 parts are And by the way, Judah wasn't he the 355 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:28.679 first one born? 356 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:32.480 He was the first one, Okay, I think so, I. 357 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:35.240 Believe he was, and I think that Benjamin was the last. 358 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:35.840 That's correct. 359 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:38.480 Yeah, So it's interesting. So it's like it's like the 360 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:40.759 greatest and the last, right yeah. And then and then 361 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:44.240 the other ten tribes were the northern part of Israel, 362 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:49.240 and they were divided for just centuries, right yeah, and 363 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:52.840 then and eventually they do get back together and become one. 364 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:57.000 So yeah, and then you have but they're fighting now, right, 365 00:16:57.200 --> 00:17:02.039 And joho Ash is smart. Listen, you know, sometimes it's 366 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:06.319 just better to have peace, just be quiet. And Amaziah 367 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:12.759 is his strength and his skills don't match. So he's 368 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:15.680 got this tough army. They just come out of this 369 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:19.200 great victory. He's got momentum. Let's seize this momentum. But 370 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:23.559 you know there's a note here his strength and his ambition. 371 00:17:23.720 --> 00:17:26.119 His ambition was greater than his ability is the note. 372 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:29.359 Oh wow, right, and and that can happen sometimes. So 373 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:32.759 the sweet spot for anybody, if you're gonna make a 374 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:35.480 ven diagram where you know, you draw the circles and 375 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:37.400 try to get that sweet spot, the sweet spot would 376 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:41.559 be where your your abilities and your strength and your 377 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.960 ambition and opportunities all kind of converge. When they converge there, 378 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:48.960 And so sometimes in your youth you want to get 379 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:52.839 out ahead of yourself. And then and and you know, 380 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:56.880 you're confident in the few victories you have had. But 381 00:17:57.000 --> 00:17:58.720 what he didn't do is, we don't see anything here 382 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:01.200 where he's going and getting advice. He's not going and 383 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:05.400 finding the wise elders that his father had because joe Ash, 384 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:09.720 you know, didn't get defeated by Johoesh right in the 385 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:12.680 later times in there thing. But Amaziah comes in his 386 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:15.000 dad or you know, his son, and he's not looking 387 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:17.519 for his dad's wisdom and the wisdom of the elders 388 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:18.960 and that kind of thing. He just goes, hey, we 389 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:20.960 won one, We're probably gonna win them all. And it 390 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:24.400 can be surprising to a young person when you you 391 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:27.319 lose the first time. And I remember the first time 392 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:32.400 you lost. I remember, I remember it felt like everything 393 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:37.079 I touch turned to gold until from like I don't know, 394 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:42.559 thirteen fourteen on until like I don't remember losing a 395 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:46.440 race during that window into my twenties, right, I remember 396 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:48.720 it everything everything I did, I just I won it, 397 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:50.240 and it became a custom at it was kind of 398 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:54.440 a weird thing. And then I lost a job, I 399 00:18:54.519 --> 00:18:57.839 failed to class, I got really bad sick, and it 400 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:01.000 all happened back to back to back within like two months, 401 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:05.240