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 --> 00:00:14.000 practical ways. We want to welcome you with a wonderful, 4 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:15.599 heartfelt welcome to the Bible, guys. 5 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:18.239 From the depths of our hearts, we welcome you, which 6 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:19.960 is really deep, deep. 7 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:23.640 Deep, We have deep hearts. That's right, Yes, bleeding sometimes yes. 8 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:27.000 Well that's weird, but okay, oh bleeding hearts, like yeah, yeah, 9 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:30.359 I see compassion, mercy. You think like a hunter all 10 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:34.200 the time, always always yep. Well, hey, today is a 11 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:37.759 special day because because you know, our longtime listeners know, 12 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:40.240 we only bring the finest news and information from it 13 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:45.079 from the finest resources. Yes, we scour the internet. Yes, 14 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:47.200 and thus far we. 15 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:49.560 Have decided that babylon Bee is the best. 16 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:52.560 It's the only viable information source on the entire Internet. 17 00:00:52.759 --> 00:00:54.679 I think we agree, don't you If you don't know, 18 00:00:54.719 --> 00:01:00.280 babylon be's a satire site. But here's here's the new thing. 19 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:02.880 And this is just a special interest. Yeah right, this 20 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:06.319 isn't so much uh you know, it's not geopolitics or 21 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:08.000 anything like that. Interest. 22 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:09.000 I personally like this one. 23 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:11.239 Yeah, this is a good one. So we just thought 24 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:13.599 it was important. Uh, this is kind of one of 25 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:16.040 our consumer updates. That's what this is. It's a consumer 26 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:21.120 update former people of new uh resources and new things 27 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:23.599 for their own benefit and safety. Right, Okay, give a 28 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:25.760 set up. Yeah, there you go. So here it is 29 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:29.519 new check engine light for women, will show Ryan Gosling's 30 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:32.280 face so they'll actually pay attention to it. And you 31 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:33.920 got us, You've got that's the headline. 32 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:34.680 It's hilarious. 33 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:37.799 There's like there's like a spinometer and then Ryan Goslin's 34 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:40.439 face with this really slick look and it says, hey girl, 35 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:41.519 check your engine. 36 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:45.079 Yep, so Detroit, Michigan. As part of a new campaign 37 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:47.400 to make cars safer for women, General Motors unveiled in 38 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:50.680 an innovative new customization that replaces the old check engine 39 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:53.680 light with Ryan Gosling's face so that women will pay 40 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:56.879 attention to it. Oh my goodness, it's Ryan Gosling, shouted 41 00:01:56.920 --> 00:01:59.959 Nora Walker. Ah, he's saying, hey girl, check your engine. 42 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:03.439 He's so sweet. Off to the mechanic love. In a 43 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:06.040 press release, General Motors admitted that creating warning lights that 44 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:08.280 will actually garner a woman's attention has always been a 45 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:11.240 bit of a white whale. Now, thanks to our executive 46 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:14.280 or to our exclusive partnership with Ryan Gosling, women will 47 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:17.960 finally know when their engine is about to explode. Thanks Ryan, 48 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:23.080 interest in new GM models has exceeded expectations, leading to 49 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:25.400 a nationwide shortage. By the end of the year. We 50 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:28.159 expect every woman to drive a GM vehicle. CEO Tom 51 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:31.360 Motors said, this is easily the most successful campaign we've 52 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:35.120 ever launched. At publishing time, the Ryan Gosling check engine 53 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:38.479 light has been recalled after GM discovered women would actively 54 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:41.360 damage their cars to get Ryan Gosling to appear on 55 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:42.120 their dashboard. 56 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:44.919 It's so funny. You know what that does? 57 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:48.919 That like slams, That slams women drivers. It has this 58 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:50.639 undertone of so many things. 59 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:53.360 So just to be clear, I did not pick that article, 60 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:59.560 desirat it. Oh no, I'm just saying, if you have 61 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:02.240 any hate mail to tell us why we shouldn't have 62 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:04.560 read that, send it to Desire Bible. 63 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:04.840 Guys. 64 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:09.000 She just thought it was a good idea. 65 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:11.960 I think, Well, so maybe she has one of those 66 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:12.599 GM cars. 67 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:15.840 Yeah, I don't know. I only drive GM. 68 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:17.680 Oh yeah, yeah, I'm driving. 69 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:18.919 Uh what am I driving? 70 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:20.479 I'm driving? Pick up Chevy. 71 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:24.039 Yea, yeah, you're driving a Chevy. Yeah yeah, So for you, 72 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:26.479 who would have to be on the dashboard in order 73 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:30.719 to get your attention? I know it's going to be 74 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:33.400 Zach Efron, but beyond Zach Effron, if they didn't put 75 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:35.599 Zach Effron on the dashboard, who else would it be? 76 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:37.599 I just wanted some movie with Zach Effron this morning, 77 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:38.159 I believe you. 78 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:38.759 I did. 79 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:41.159 It was it was. 80 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:45.240 I would have to go with either Carrie Underwood or 81 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:46.960 I would go with Shania Twain. 82 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:48.919 Okay, both of them, both of them singing to you. 83 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:49.680 Who's a classic? 84 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:51.919 Oh yeah, both of them singing to you, Hey, check 85 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:55.680 your angine? Yeah yeah, okay, a little bit. 86 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:57.879 Of a country day to check you injured? 87 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:03.840 That's funny. So uh yeah, So you're a country music fan? 88 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:04.800 I am? Yes? 89 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:07.759 Okay, yes, Well I lived in Atlanta for ten years 90 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:10.120 and I drove a pickup truck even though I was 91 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:13.639 never off road, and listen to country music and wore 92 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:15.360 flannels wow all the time? 93 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:17.759 All right, that makes you country boy? Then, well full 94 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:21.000 blown at least that truck. Look, you drove your grocery 95 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:24.920 getter pickup truck, right, that's exactly a full wheel drive. 96 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:31.920 That's exactly you're never had any by the way, grocery 97 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:34.800 stores and golf golf courses those are that's where you 98 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:35.720 took that full draft. 99 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:37.399 I very much compared it to like, have you ever 100 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:40.120 seen a golf course where a person looked like a 101 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:42.959 golfer because they had all the equipment, all these but 102 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:43.920 they're not a real golfer. 103 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:47.000 That was me with a pickup truck. But I did 104 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:48.439 love country. 105 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:50.199 Well I don't. I don't look like a golfer. I 106 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:52.199 look like a guy who stole some clubs from somebody's 107 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:57.839 yard and climbed the fence. That's awesome. 108 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:02.399 Climb the fence not even paid, that's so great. 109 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:08.639 Okay, well, speaking of country, oh okay, Ahab and Jahasafat 110 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:10.800 are trying to figure out how to build an alliance 111 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:15.800 to protect their own countries. Nice, nice spam. Got it? 112 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:17.560 Is that why you said you like country. 113 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:19.680 Music or you just well I was asking you that 114 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:21.600 because I wanted to get to country and just don't 115 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:24.160 get me. That was plan, that was the transit. That 116 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:26.560 was the Oh hey, there's an opportunity, because if you're 117 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:30.560 a new listener, you just don't know. We have successfully 118 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:35.079 come up with some really bad transitions from this silly 119 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:37.560 time into the conversation about. 120 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:39.519 The text for reading by the clunkiest part of the ship. 121 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:42.839 But we do it. We do it on purpose. I 122 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:44.639 don't know if our fans listen to it or like 123 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:49.720 it at all, but we love it. So just indulges 124 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:50.360 for a second. 125 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:51.120 It's funny. 126 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:56.680 Okay, So, speaking of clunky transitions in First Corinthians chapter, 127 00:05:56.839 --> 00:05:59.560 First Kings chapter twenty two, Oh wow, you really? Yeah? 128 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.120 First there, one Kings twenty two. 129 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:04.279 I didn't think my reading glasses. I forgot them. 130 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:08.439 I noticed that. Yeah, because yes, last week Chris was 131 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:10.480 super cool and had some reading glasses. 132 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:12.480 I tried them out. Yeah yeah, and they were very helpful. 133 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:13.439 They look good. 134 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:16.040 I'm just not in the habit of remembering them. 135 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:18.800 Well, okay, so so it lasted a week. 136 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:20.959 So now I have to like pull the book away 137 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:21.600 from me like this. 138 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:24.319 Okay, so we're going to read this, and I think 139 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:26.519 it's the entire chapter, isn't it? Yeah? 140 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:27.319 One through twenty eight? 141 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:29.360 Yeah, yeah, and this is kind of a big deal. 142 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:33.279 This whole yeah, this whole chunk here is kind of 143 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:36.680 a big deal. It's a pivotal moment in the history 144 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:39.680 of both Israel and quite honestly, Judah. This is kind 145 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:42.720 of the beginning of the bad part for Judah. Here's 146 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:44.839 what it says. For three years, there was no war 147 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:49.360 between Aram and Israel. Then during the third year, King 148 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:52.680 Jehashaah of Judah went to visit King Ahab of Israel. 149 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:55.560 During the visit, the King of Israel said to his officials, 150 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:58.120 do you realize that the town of Raymonth Gilead belongs 151 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.040 to us, and yet we've done nothing to recapture it 152 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.759 from the King of arm. Then he turned to Jehoshaphat 153 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:06.399 and asked, will you join me in battle recover Raymuth Gilead. 154 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:09.680 Joshaphat replied to the King of Israel, why of course 155 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:11.920 you and I ares one. My troops are your troops, 156 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:14.920 and my horses are your horses. Then Jehoshaphah added, but 157 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:18.319 first let's find out what the Lord says. So the 158 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:21.319 King of Israel summoned the prophets, about four h hundred 159 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:22.639 of them, and asked them, should I go to war 160 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:26.040 against Raymuth Gilead or should I hold back? They all replied, yes, 161 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:28.319 go right ahead. The Lord will give the king victory 162 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.560 but Jehashaphah asked, is there not a prophet also of 163 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:34.639 the Lord here? We should ask him the same question. 164 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:37.519 The king replied to Joshaphah, there is one more man 165 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:40.199 who could consult the Lord for us, but I hate him. 166 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:43.800 He never prophesies anything but trouble for me. His name 167 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:47.759 is Macaiah, son of Imla. Jehoshaphat replied, that's not the 168 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:49.839 way kings should talk. Let's hear what he has to say. 169 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:52.680 So the King of Israel called one of his officials 170 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:55.560 and said, quick, bring Makaiah son of Imlah. Josh Fat 171 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:58.279 enjoyed great riches in high esteem, and he made an 172 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:00.000 alliance with Ahab of Israel. 173 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:02.399 Are you reading on second chronicles? 174 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:04.519 Oh? Oh, what did I do? 175 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:06.800 You have to skip that section and pick up skip. 176 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:09.360 That section, pick up right here? Yep. Yeah. 177 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:11.519 But anyway, by the way, that little interruption was brought 178 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:14.240 to you by the chronological. 179 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:16.199 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. This is a chronological Bible. So 180 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:19.319 these stories are being told both in first kings and 181 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:22.680 in second chronicle. That's correct. So okay. King Ahab of 182 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:25.639 Israel and King Jehoshaphat Judah, dressed in their royal robes, 183 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:27.959 were sitting on thrones at the threshing floor near the 184 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.279 gate of Samaria. All of Ahab's prophets were prophesying there. 185 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:33.600 In front of them, one of them, Zedekiah, son of 186 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:40.759 Kana Kanana Kanana kan Annaana Na. I don't know, you 187 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:45.080 make me read him. This guy Zedekiah, made some iron 188 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:47.279 horns and proclaimed, this is what the Lord says. With 189 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:50.559 these horns, you will gore the Aramans to death. All 190 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:52.759 the other prophets agreed. Yes, they said, go up to 191 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:55.399 raymuth Gilead and be victorious, for the Lord will give 192 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:59.039 the king victory. Meanwhile, the messenger went to get Makayah, 193 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:01.600 said to him, look, all the prophets are promising victory 194 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:03.120 for the king. Be sure that you agree with them 195 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:06.559 and promise success. But Makaiah replied, as surely as the 196 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:08.559 Lord lives, I will say only what the Lord tells 197 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:11.320 me to say. When Makaiah arrived before the king, a 198 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:13.519 haveb asked him, Makaiah, should we go to war against 199 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:17.919 the raymuth Gilead or should we hold back? Makaiah replied sarcastically, yes, 200 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:19.759 go up and be victorious, for the Lord will give 201 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:22.799 you the king victory. But the King replied sharply, how 202 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:24.519 many times must I a man that you speak only 203 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:26.039 the truth to me when you speak for the Lord. 204 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:29.159 Then Makaiah told him, in a vision, I saw all 205 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:32.600 Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep without a shepherd, 206 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:35.440 And the Lord said, their master has been killed. Send 207 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:38.240 them home in peace. Didn't I tell you? The King 208 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:41.840 of Israel, exclaimed the Jehoshaphat. He never prophesied anything but 209 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:45.159 trouble for me. So good. Then Makaiah continued, listen to 210 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:48.120 what the Lord says. I saw the Lord sitting on 211 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:50.360 his throne with all the armies of heaven around him 212 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:52.360 on his right and on his left. And the Lord said, 213 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:55.039 who can entice Ahab to go into battle against raymuth 214 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:58.320 Gilead so he can be killed? There were many suggestions, 215 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:00.159 and finally a spirit approached the Lord and said, I 216 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:02.559 can do it. How will you do this, the Lord asked. 217 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:05.000 The spirit replied, I will go out and inspire all 218 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:08.080 of Ahab's prophets to speak lies. You will succeed, said 219 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:10.000 the Lord, Go ahead and do it. So, you see, 220 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:11.679 the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouths 221 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:14.320 of all your prophets for the Lord has pronounced your doom. 222 00:10:14.759 --> 00:10:18.720 Then Zedekiah, son of Kananaa, cannot cannot anna. 223 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:22.360 It's so wild by the way, just for fun, it's 224 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:25.919 k e n aa nah. 225 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:28.759 Yeah, and you're supposed to say the vowels. All of 226 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:32.159 them cannot anna. I think you got it now, Yeah, 227 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:35.639 I think so. Uh. Anyways, Zedekiah walked up to Makaiah 228 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:38.720 and slapped him across the face. Since when did the 229 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:40.279 spirit of the Lord leave me to speak to you, 230 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:43.559 he demanded. Makiah replied, you will find out soon enough, 231 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:46.480 when you're trying to hide in some secret room. Arrest him, 232 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:48.639 the King of Israel ordered. Take him back to Ammon, 233 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:51.639 the governor of the city, and to my son joe Ash. 234 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:54.159 Give them this order from the king. Put this man 235 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:56.279 in prison and feed him nothing but bread and water 236 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.200 until I returned safely from the battle. But Makiah replied, 237 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:01.279 if you return safe, he'll mean that the Lord has 238 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:04.720 not spoken through me. Then he added to those standing around, 239 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:06.279 everyone marked my words. 240 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:11.799 Yeah, well there you go, Yeah, there you go. And 241 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:14.879 uh so, what happens here's the question. 242 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:16.200 What happens when they battle? 243 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:19.720 We can't tell you it's coming, dun dun dum. 244 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:20.600 It is a cliffhanger. 245 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:24.200 I wonder considering, let me see, four hundred false prophets 246 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:26.840 said go ahead and fight, You're going to win, right, 247 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:30.879 and a prophet from God said, don't go. Ahab's going 248 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:32.799 to die. So I wondered, what's going to happen? Right, 249 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:36.559 it's a cliffhanger. Yeah, right, but I don't want to 250 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:37.480 ruin it. Uh. 251 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:41.279 Not only did the did the one prophet say you're 252 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:43.639 going to die, but there was the one prophet said 253 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:48.039 that there was a lying spirit put in the four 254 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:49.000 hundred prophets. 255 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:52.240 That's the craziest part of this whole story, right, Yeah, 256 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:54.399 you want to start at the beginning, yeah, and and 257 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.840 then we'll get to that part. Okay, okay, sure. 258 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:02.080 So King Ahab of all of Israel and King Jehasaphat 259 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:07.840 of Judah, they were just in the rower ropes. So 260 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:14.519 Jahasaphat and Ahab they're the two kings currently right. 261 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:17.960 Now king of northern Israel. Right. The ten tribes or 262 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:21.000 the twelve tribes have separated. Yes, so the ten are 263 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:26.000 what's called Israel. Judah and Benjamin are what we would 264 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:28.919 call Judah, and they make up the big chunk of 265 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:31.919 the southern half, and then the northern half of Israel 266 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:36.559 is the other ten. So Jehashaphat is leading Judah. Ahab, 267 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:40.799 the wicked king is leading northern Israel. 268 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:44.919 So and so the four hundred prophets gave a false 269 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:46.360 vision to who which king. 270 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:51.480 To Ahab? Right, Yeah, so Jehashaphat is a pretty good guy. 271 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:55.600 He's a pretty good king. But this begins really bad news. 272 00:12:55.759 --> 00:12:57.600 You know, I started reading. It's terrible. I wish, I 273 00:12:57.600 --> 00:12:59.559 wish we would have read both. Maybe we should have. 274 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:04.960 Here the second Chronicles eighteen mentions that Jehoshaphat gave Ahab 275 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:12.000 or had his son marry Ahab's daughter Athalia, and so 276 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:17.320 they go into a partnership. And this is why Jehoshaphaht says, oh, yeah, 277 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:20.480 we're like great friends, my soldiers, your soldiers, whatever we 278 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:23.120 need to do, because we're family now. But this is 279 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:26.519 a terrible move because God is always warning the people 280 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:30.120 of Israel do not marry people who follow false gods. 281 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:34.720 But for political expediency, very similar to his grandfather Solomon, 282 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:37.679 he decides, you know what, I'm going to marry off 283 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:42.159 my son to you know, the daughter of Ahab, and Jezebel. 284 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:48.799 And this begins when Jehoshaphat's son becomes king. The people 285 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:52.600 of Judah begin worshiping false gods. So they had this 286 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:56.799 long run of not worshiping false gods, right, but this 287 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:59.720 right here making an alliance. This is why the Bible says. 288 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:01.919 I had a conversation with a young man here recently 289 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:06.679 about starting business U and he was and was acting advice, 290 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:07.960 and I said, you know, the main thing I would 291 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:12.159 say is the Bible says, don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Right, 292 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:14.679 Their values and your values won't be the same. Their 293 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:16.879 priorities and your priorities won't be the same. And that's 294 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:19.240 what he does here. This is what Jehoshaphat does, is 295 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:22.159 he hooks his wagon to Ahab and Ahab and Ahabs 296 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:25.600 people were wicked people following false gods. And eventually you 297 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:28.440 either are right now or soon shall be just like 298 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:30.720 the crowd you run with. And that's what happens, right right. 299 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:34.440 So anyways, every time you say that phrase, I want 300 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:35.480 to say, thanks dad. 301 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:40.399 Yeah that's my dad. So but it's true. Yeah, it's truemorable, 302 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:41.159 sure is. 303 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:43.000 It's it's almost always true. 304 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:46.000 And what I was going to say, is you know 305 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:50.799 the unequally yoked you know commandment the warning comes from 306 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:55.000 Jesus talking about, you know, being lined up with a 307 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:58.480 big piece of wood that you know, straps together oxen 308 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:00.879 or horse, and you know you have to do that 309 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:02.799 with the same strength through else the carriage to go 310 00:15:02.840 --> 00:15:03.919 in circles or the plow. 311 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:06.519 And let me ask you this question. 312 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:10.200 Paula firms it yes, and the Old Testament yes. 313 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:12.759 And so here's my question for you is how many 314 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:16.000 as a pastor for thirty something years, how many people 315 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:19.759 have you had a conversation with where they didn't pay 316 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:22.840 attention to the being unequally yoke thing? They ended up 317 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:27.279 getting married and now later on it causes the number 318 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:28.679 one problem in the marriage. 319 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:31.799 Oh yeah, a huge number of people, not only a marriage, 320 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:37.080 in business and in so many different alliances. But yeah, 321 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:40.639 it rarely works out, Yeah, very very rarely works out. 322 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:44.039 So yeah, and I would say that it's really important 323 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:48.039 to take that seriously before you even enter into a relationship. 324 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:50.440 I remember my daughter who's now married, you know, and 325 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:53.399 she's been married for you know, five years, but I 326 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:54.759 remember she had come. 327 00:15:56.360 --> 00:15:57.200 To us since she. 328 00:15:57.159 --> 00:16:00.000 Had told us that she was being asked out on dates. 329 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:03.360 And you know, she's a very pretty girl. You know, 330 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:05.519 at the time, she was like a senior in high school. 331 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:08.639 And and she really didn't she's not listening. What do 332 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:10.840 you mean because you said she was pretty at the time. 333 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:14.159 That's what you just said. 334 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:14.879 She's still pretty. 335 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:15.639 Oh okay, But. 336 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:18.080 I'm trying to say at the time of this story, 337 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:20.240 Oh okay, so she's a pretty girl at. 338 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:21.720 The time, she was a senior in high school. 339 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:23.919 That's it was comma, Oh, I see, So are you 340 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:25.720 saying that there was a time when she was not 341 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:27.559 pretty but at this time she was pretty. 342 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:30.000 No, she's a pretty girl period. 343 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:33.440 Okay, okay, okay, time I'm trying to cause trouble. I'm 344 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:34.720 trying to protect you. 345 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:37.120 At the time, she was a senior in high school. Yes, 346 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:39.639 And she comes to us and she goes, hey, I 347 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:42.200 was just asked out by babblah blah. And she tells 348 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:44.720 us and it was actually like somebody that we knew 349 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:46.919 that was a good looking guy, and he was a 350 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:49.799 sharp guy and everything else, and and my. 351 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:51.519 Daughter says, but no, I'm not going to do it. 352 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:52.960 He said, why And she. 353 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:55.159 Says, well, because we're we don't have the same values, 354 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:57.960 and she was referring to spiritual values, and she was 355 00:16:58.000 --> 00:16:59.200 referring to other things as well. 356 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:03.480 And then somebody had said one of her friends just 357 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:05.400 go out and date what it'll hurt. And then my 358 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:08.839 daughter said, but what's the point. What's the point? 359 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:14.200 And then she also same daughter I also modeled, she 360 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:17.400 had a really good friend across the street that lived 361 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:19.440 across the street from us, and her friend would come 362 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:23.240 over and her friend was actually not a good influence whatsoever. 363 00:17:23.720 --> 00:17:26.079 And they were friends all the way throughout junior high school. 364 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:29.240 And then somewhere right around her high school years, my 365 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:31.960 daughter said, I think I'm going to have to start 366 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:35.240 distancing myself from what's her name across the street. And 367 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:37.119 we said why, and she said, well, she's just really 368 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:38.880 not a good influence. And as parents, we would have 369 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:41.880 never have known that. And we were like, oh, what 370 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:44.559 do you mean, and she said, yeah, she's trying. You know, 371 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:46.160 this is what she wants to do all the time, 372 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:49.400 and it's really bad news. And so she just distanced 373 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:52.279 herself and then gave her a speech and said, I 374 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:54.440 just think that we're maybe interested in different things and 375 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:56.880 we have different values, and I just don't want to 376 00:17:56.880 --> 00:17:59.000 do these things, and I think that we're just different people. 377 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:03.480 And that family got so mad that her brother found 378 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.240 out and started to vandalize her house. And it was 379 00:18:06.279 --> 00:18:09.839 a big deal, And it was all because my daughter 380 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:14.720 demonstrated that she just she's like, I'm only going to 381 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:17.720 align myself with people who I want to be like 382 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:21.319 that have my values, that are spiritually the same, you know, 383 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:22.799 in the same boat. 384 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:25.359 And she didn't even go out on a date until 385 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:26.160 that actually happened. 386 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:32.279 That wild. Yes, it is crazy, it's wonderful, but it's true. Yes, right, 387 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:35.400 God's principles are true. It turns out we live God's way. 388 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:39.319 It works out God's way, right, right. So then we 389 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:41.920 have this whole thing where you know, a have he's 390 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:44.759 such a powder. Oh, I don't want to talk to Makaia. 391 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:47.680 He only ever gives me bad news, right right, And 392 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:51.559 Jehoshaphat goes, what kind of king are you? In your whine? 393 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:52.920 Is that how king's talk? Right? 394 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:56.200 So as if God's words only supposed to tell you 395 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:56.400 what you. 396 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:59.759 Want to hear. Yeah, Well, Jehoshaphat had this dignity about him. 397 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:04.160 He was very prosperous. Ahab's country wasn't so prosperous, so 398 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:07.440 there were all these issues. But Jehoshaphat just acts like 399 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:11.200 a king. Right, he makes a bad decision here making 400 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:14.240 this alliance, but he behaves like a king. And Ahab 401 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:16.839