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 --> 00:00:12.039 practical ways. 4 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:17.039 Hey, everybody, Jeff, Jeff, Chris. Yes, welcome to the Bible Guys. 5 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:19.440 And we are, of course, Jeff and Chris, and we 6 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:21.440 just want to say thank you for tuning in. If 7 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:25.280 this is your very first time. We have five hundred 8 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:28.519 and ninety three other episodes in our archive that you 9 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:29.399 can go back and listen to. 10 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:32.200 Wow, five hundred and ninety three, We're about that six, 11 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:36.759 We're about to six hundred next week, Yes, next Friday. Yes, 12 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:38.719 it needs to be a wild party next time. The 13 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:43.880 Oh yeah, it'd be wild and crazy up here at 14 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:45.280 the Bible Guys podcast. 15 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:49.439 I'm going to bring wild cherry life because that's how wild. 16 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:55.240 That's right, that's crazy. Might choose some bubble gum. Okay, So, Chris, 17 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:57.679 I have a big one for you today because everybody 18 00:00:57.719 --> 00:00:59.560 knows our longtime listeners know you're. 19 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:01.880 A big movie Have we ever done this moment? 20 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:03.880 No, this is a new segment, new segment, but everybody 21 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:04.879 knows you're a big movie buff. 22 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:05.719 I am a big movie. 23 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:08.560 Yeah. See Chris, Chris lives for movies. It's it's his 24 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:09.439 main purpose in. 25 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:10.560 Life for Jesus, Jeff. 26 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:13.519 Oh, yes, that's what I meant to say. What did 27 00:01:13.519 --> 00:01:19.959 I say? Yeah? Yeah, which is not true. So so 28 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:23.079 for today's segment, I'm going to read off songs. I'm 29 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:26.560 gonna read off song titles, okay, and you need to 30 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:30.120 say which movie it's from as fast as you can. Okay, 31 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:31.760 and I have eleven of them. I'm not sure why 32 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:32.319 we have eleven. 33 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:35.159 Goodness, it's very great fun. 34 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:39.439 No, it's very fast. Okay, Okay, I'm gonna read the title. Then, 35 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:40.200 A whole new. 36 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:43.439 World, A whole new world, don't you dare? 37 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:45.040 Aladdin? There you go. 38 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:47.200 I can't believe it took me that long to get Aladdin. 39 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:49.319 There you go. Okay, ready, here he goes. Ever ever 40 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:54.120 after enchanted, I would have never known that. Yeah, oh, 41 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:56.719 come on, that's okay. That's when you wish upon a star, 42 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:02.120 Pinocchio under the Sea, Little Raid, once upon a Dream. 43 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:07.680 I know you, Si, Beauty, Portobello Road. 44 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:09.719 Road. 45 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:13.520 I know this is a movie, not a not a. 46 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:15.599 I have no idea. 47 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:17.159 Bed knobs and broomsticks. 48 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:20.080 Oh I saw bed knobs and broomsticks in the seventies. 49 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:21.120 Yeah, okay. 50 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:24.960 Fact hey, by the way, side note, h the charm 51 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:26.800 of making at the end of bed Knobs and room 52 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:31.199 Sticks went when all those night the knights come to life? 53 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:33.319 Yes, yes, there, yeah, I. 54 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:39.199 Still remember the spell tragoona mccoity's Tregor and satis d okay, great. 55 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:40.960 I hope you didn't just say something evil to me. 56 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:46.080 No, aubstitute, so I know. 57 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:49.599 That's okay. Bed Knobs and Broomsticks is where it's from. Yes, okay, 58 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:52.199 here's ready. So that was a number six. This is 59 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:52.759 number seven. 60 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:53.000 Yep. 61 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:57.080 Colors of the Wind, Poconnas. I would have never known 62 00:02:57.080 --> 00:02:59.080 that you'll be in my heart. 63 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:03.599 You'll be in my heart, Yes, you'll be in my heart. 64 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:05.599 I had no idea. 65 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:08.400 Tarzan Oh yeah, that's right, that's right. 66 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:11.159 To be fair though, that really never hit. It was 67 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:13.319 an Elton John song, right, yeah, I don't be in 68 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:13.719 my heart. 69 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:14.240 I don't know. 70 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:16.000 It's all full and saying that. 71 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:16.879 Okay, I don't know. 72 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:23.919 It did never really get ready reflection may Molan. 73 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:27.000 A dream is a wish your heart makes. 74 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:30.599 The dream is a wish your heart makes. 75 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:33.800 Cinderella, Cinderella, that's right. Someday my prince will. 76 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:36.639 Come some snow White. 77 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:39.240 Snow White and the seven Doors. That's right, God helped 78 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:39.960 the outcasts. 79 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:43.000 God help the outcast. 80 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:45.560 I would I would have this one. I would have 81 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:45.840 known this. 82 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:49.719 You would have known this one. Yes, God helped the outcast. 83 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:53.000 Sounds like the Island of Misfit Toys. I have no idea. 84 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:54.280 The Hunchback of Notre Dame. 85 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:57.280 Oh yeah, I never liked that one. I think I've 86 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:58.439 only seen that twice. 87 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:00.840 Okay, and then should I worry? 88 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:03.560 Why should I worry? 89 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:04.080 Yeah? 90 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:08.599 Why? I have no idea. Oliver and Company, Oh yeah, 91 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:09.599 I have only seen that once. 92 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:11.680 There you go. Okay, so you got eight out of eleven. 93 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:14.439 All right, that's impressive, Chris. There you go, there you go. 94 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:17.600 So we're gonna give you ten thousand points apiece. Nice 95 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:19.959 for the ones that you got. Nice, So you got, 96 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:23.000 you got eighty thousand points, and for the if we 97 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:25.759 had any any of our listeners that got the ones 98 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:27.319 that you missed, we're gonna give me a hundred thousand 99 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:27.879 points apiece. 100 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:30.120 And if you trade all that in at a Chuck E. 101 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:32.519 Cheese store, that will buy me a fruit loop. 102 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:35.319 Nothing it will get you nothing is what I get you. 103 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:39.759 So congratulations, Yes, very impressive, and I'm delighted by the 104 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:42.000 fact that she chose all Disney songs. 105 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:43.399 Oh they were all Disney. 106 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:44.480 Yeah, yeah, it's all Disney. 107 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:47.600 Okay, yeah, which is right up your alley? Sure? Sure, 108 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:48.959 well you know we watched Disney. 109 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:49.279 Huh. 110 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:53.720 Although ben Outs and Broomsticks was a stretch and Portabello Road, 111 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:56.079 I still have no idea what that means. That sounds 112 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:57.800 like an opening song or something. 113 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:01.000 Right, Portobello is a is a mushroom? I know it 114 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:04.839 is roads or vehicles or places where you travel on. 115 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:06.839 Why why are you why are you? 116 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:08.879 You said you don't know what Portobello Road means. 117 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:14.639 I'm saying there, it's obviously the name of a road, yes, right, 118 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:16.800 And so it sounds like an opening song or something. 119 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:17.560 Oh it must be. 120 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:21.160 Yeah, I don't know which. Who the heck? That's not famous? 121 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:24.279 Why did you choose that song because she had a 122 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:26.600 Google something? Right? 123 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:30.160 Google sent it? Yeah, Google send it to her. Okay, Well, 124 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:33.519 hey there you go. Thank you so much, Desiree for 125 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:38.000 putting Chris in his place, right right? 126 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:41.079 I think eight out of eleven is bad. 127 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:44.040 No, it's beyond impressive. I only knew like three of them, 128 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:50.199 so really, I would have known. Uh, I would have 129 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:51.240 known under the sea. 130 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:53.439 I could by the way I could sing everyone that 131 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:53.800 I knew. 132 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:56.879 Yeah, I would have. I would have known under the sea. 133 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:58.720 And I would have known when you wish upon a star, 134 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:02.040 and I would have known God helped the outcasts. I 135 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:03.399 wouldn't known any of the others. 136 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:05.839 You would have known God helped the outcast. 137 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:11.319 Wow, Okay, how's it go. I'm not going to sing it. 138 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:12.759 Just give me the chorus. 139 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:15.120 I'm not gonna sing it. Why I would have known 140 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:18.439 the title. I don't know the words, but I would 141 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:21.120 have known the title. And the reason is I commented 142 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:23.360 on it when we were at Notre Dame here just recently. 143 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:26.279 Oh yeah, yeah, so you actually went yeah. 144 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:26.879 So yeah. 145 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:30.519 So, by the way, is it restored? Was it after Yeah? 146 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:32.720 They just they just reopened it. Yeah. I haven't gone 147 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:35.040 in yet. We were there the day before they reopened. 148 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:40.959 That's how my life works. By the way, so we've been, 149 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:42.959 I've been. I've been in Paris probably I don't know 150 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:46.639 ten times in the last two years. Long layovers and 151 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:48.639 so pop into the city, and we've been watching them 152 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:51.759 rebuild Notre Dame. But I had commented then that you know, 153 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:56.800 sanctuary using that that building to and the outcasts, and 154 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:58.680 then it was God Save the outcasts. Is kind of 155 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:00.959 the connection that I'd made there. So yeah, and then 156 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:02.680 I kept looking for the gargoyles to sing, and they 157 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:08.000 don't sing. Turns out right, turns out total jyp. Maybe 158 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:11.800 they start singing once they reopened. Okay. So anyways, one 159 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:13.839 Kings chapter fourteen, and. 160 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:17.000 By the way, I was looking for all the right 161 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:21.160 answers on that on that quiz, yes, and it turns 162 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:25.120 out that a lot of Hyja has the right answers 163 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:26.639 for Jurabom. 164 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:30.360 Unbelievably right answers. Yes, this is really amazing. Okay, so 165 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:33.360 you got to remember now the kingdom is divided. There's 166 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:36.720 the North, that's the Ten tribes, and then there's the 167 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:39.920 South Judah, the two tribes. Pretty good, You're doing pretty 168 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:42.920 great this week, Chris, Yes, way better than me. I'm 169 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:44.439 just not with it this week. 170 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:46.560 Sorry, back to the real stuff, go ahead, yeah. 171 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:50.079 Yeah, yeah, So the southern tribes Judah and Benjamin are 172 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:52.879 divided from the northern tribes the other ten tribes of Israel. 173 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:55.199 And by the way, Judah is very large, it's the 174 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:57.439 biggest one, right, Yeah, by far, yeah, by far. And 175 00:07:57.519 --> 00:08:00.000 so when it sounds like, oh, it's only two versus 176 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:00.959 is the ten? 177 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:04.600 Yeah, just it's like a sixty forty split, Yeah, sixty. 178 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:08.519 Forty split, yeah yeah, meaning that the forty the sixty 179 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:09.399 is with the ten. 180 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:12.879 Is with the ten. Yeah yeah, okay. So it says 181 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:16.439 at that time, Jeroboam's son a Bijah became very sick. 182 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:19.120 So Jeabohm told his wife, disguise yourself so that no 183 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:20.839 one will recognize you as my wife, and then go 184 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:24.560 to the prophet Ahijah Abijah and a Hijah. You also 185 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:28.240 have Jerebam and Raya Baum. Remember it really makes me angry, 186 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:32.159 makes me right, right, So so these names are close. 187 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:35.679 You have to pay close attention. So a Bijah is sick, 188 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:39.799 and Jereboam tells his wife, disguise yourself so that no 189 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:41.480 one will recognize your as my wife. And then go 190 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:44.519 to the prophet a Hijah at Shiloh, the man who 191 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:46.799 told me I would become king. Take him a gift 192 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:48.799 of ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar 193 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:51.200 of honey, and ask him what will happen to the boy. 194 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:54.799 So Jerebaum's wife went to a Hija's home in Shiloh. 195 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:57.440 He was an old man now and could no longer see. 196 00:08:57.879 --> 00:09:00.600 But the Lord had told a Hijah, Jerobome's wife will 197 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:03.200 come here pretending to be someone else. She'll ask you 198 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:05.559 about her son, for he is very sick. Give her 199 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:08.559 the answer I give you. Wow. So when i Hida 200 00:09:08.600 --> 00:09:10.360 heard her footsteps at the door, he called out, come in, 201 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:13.200 wife of Jeroboam, why are you pretending to be someone else? 202 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:15.639 And then he told her, I have bad news for you. 203 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:18.480 Give your husband, Jeroboam, this message from the Lord, the 204 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:20.440 God of Israel. I promoted you from the ranks of 205 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:23.480 the common people and made you rule over my people Israel. 206 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:25.840 I riped the kingdom away from the family of David 207 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:27.480 and gave it to you. But you have not been 208 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:30.279 like my servant David, who obeyed my commands and followed 209 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:32.399 me with all his heart and always did whatever I wanted. 210 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:35.559 You have done more evil than all who lived before you. 211 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:38.279 Holy Chris, you have made other gods for yourself and 212 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.840 have made me furious with your gold calves. And since 213 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:44.000 you've turned your back on me, I will bring disaster 214 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:46.559 on your dynasty and will destroy every one of your 215 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:50.080 male descendants, slave and free. Alike anywhere in Israel. I 216 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:52.600 will burn up your royal dynasty as one burns up trash, 217 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:55.559 until it's all gone. The members of Jereboam's family who 218 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:57.639 die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and 219 00:09:57.720 --> 00:09:59.759 those who die in the field to be eaten by vultures. 220 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:03.679 The Lord have spoken Woo wow. Then I Haijah said 221 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:06.720 to Jeroboam's wife, go on home, and when you enter 222 00:10:06.759 --> 00:10:10.000 the city, the child will die. All Israel will mourn 223 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:11.840 for him and bury him. He is the only member 224 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:14.080 of your family who will have a proper burial, for 225 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:16.159 this child is the only good thing that the Lord, 226 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:18.600 the God of Israel, sees in the entire family of Jeoboam. 227 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:21.759 In addition, the Lord will raise up a king over 228 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:24.000 Israel who will destroy the family of Jeroboam. And this 229 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:27.080 will happen today even now. Then the Lord will shake 230 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:30.000 Israel like a reed whipped about in a stream. He 231 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:32.159 will uproot the people of Israel from this good land 232 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:34.279 that he gave their ancestors, and will scatter them beyond 233 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:37.759 the Euphrates River, for they have angered the Lord with 234 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:40.360 the ashera polls they have set up for worship. He 235 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:43.600 will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and made Israel sin 236 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.759 along with him. So but Jereboam's wife returned to Terza, 237 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:48.840 and the child died just as she walked through the 238 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:51.360 door of her home, and all Israel buried him and 239 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:53.919 mourned for him, as the Lord had promised through the 240 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:59.639 prophet Ahijah. Yikes, this not messing around. 241 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:02.799 This is definitely consequences. 242 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:07.279 Yeah, paying the fiddler there you go. Yeah, well, so 243 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:11.320 do you remember when a Hija originally came to Jereboam. 244 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:14.000 He said, listen, if you do the right thing like 245 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:18.600 David did, I'll establish your family forever. God literally is 246 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:24.960 offering him the kingdom, and not only that, your descendants 247 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:28.799 and your descendants after them will rule if you just 248 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:32.879 follow God like David. Follow God. David wasn't perfect, right, 249 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:35.720 We talked about that in the previous things. This guy 250 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:40.399 had a temper, He was tempted sometimes, but his heart 251 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:43.480 was to lead his people to keep following God. Hey, 252 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:45.919 I'm not perfect at this, but let's keep pursuing God. 253 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:48.320 Let's keep chasing God. Let's build a temple for God. 254 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:52.000 Let's increase our commitment to God. Let's depend on God more. 255 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:57.080 And so God said listen, Jereboam, if you will follow 256 00:11:57.159 --> 00:12:00.399 me like David followed me, I will establish your kingdom forever. 257 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:05.399 And now God's saying I gave up on you there, Boem. 258 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:08.399 You're never going to do it. You're never going. As 259 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:11.080 a matter of fact, you've done more wicked than anybody 260 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:12.759 else who's come before you. 261 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:15.519 Yeah, anybody else who's come before you? Is does he 262 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:18.240 mean combined? Because I'm telling you what that is an 263 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:19.639 unbelievable statement. 264 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:22.639 You have done more evil than all who lived before you. 265 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:25.720 See, that's that to me feels like combined or you 266 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:28.639 just mean every You read it as everyone, right, Well, 267 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:29.720 I'm reading it that. 268 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:32.279 All the other kings of the. 269 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:34.519 Other kings, Okay, yeah, that could be true, yeah. 270 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:37.240 Which which wasn't very many. It was Saul. Saul was 271 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:42.519 was wicked. David did wickedness, but was pursuing God and 272 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:46.879 kept repenting. Solomon started off good and then started building 273 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:50.440 temples for his wives, but he was blending kind of 274 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:54.440 this worship with God and a Sera and Astro well 275 00:12:54.759 --> 00:13:00.519 Astroth and Bail and Molek right, and then now jere 276 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:02.519 Boehm has thrown it all off and created his own 277 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:07.000 gods and thrown off God completely and God, so you're 278 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:08.799 you're the worst of all of them so far. 279 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:14.960 Yeah, yeah, and Holy cal So you know, again, it's 280 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:17.320 just one of these things where when you get bad news, 281 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:21.399 you know you have to accept both good and bad 282 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:24.080 from God. So you know, didn't Job say that, right, 283 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:28.279 I'm gonna accept good and not accept bad. And you know, 284 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:31.399 in this case there's a justness to it. Right, So 285 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:34.360 God is just and this is a very harsh penalty, 286 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:39.200 but it's again, it's just the just execution of consequences. 287 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:42.600 Well it shouldn't be a surprise though, right, right, because God, 288 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:46.000 God littally said when we read at the end of Deuteronomy, 289 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:50.720 Moses is giving the law and he's reminding them again 290 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:53.240 because the law has already been established, you know, forty 291 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:56.840 years before, eighty years before, whatever it was. Forty years 292 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:01.120 the law was already established. But Moses, before he dies, 293 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:03.159 gets back up in front of the people and restates 294 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:05.960 it all again. I don't want you forget. You train 295 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:07.840 your children when you walking by the way, when you're 296 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:10.919 standing in, when you're sitting at breakfast, when you're lying 297 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:12.919 down at night. It needs to be all over your house. 298 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:15.799 Keep teaching your children or anything. And then he says, listen, 299 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.559 I'm giving you a choice between life and death, between 300 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:25.080 blessing and cursing. So the blessing isn't because of you, 301 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:28.600 it's because of God. And the cursing isn't because of you, 302 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:31.720 it's because of God. But both of those are a choice. 303 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:36.840 So you can choose God's favor, choose life, choose blessing, 304 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:41.000 or you can go against God, and then you're choosing 305 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:45.440 the curse and death. This is exactly the same thing 306 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:48.200 he did for Jereboam. It's not that God's unfair, it's 307 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:50.200 that the roosters are coming or that the chickens are 308 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:53.360 coming home to roost. You made your choice. I gave 309 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:55.519 you the choice. If you remember, are the people who've 310 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:57.600 been listening for a while, you remember we go back 311 00:14:57.600 --> 00:14:59.320 to the Jereboam thing. He said, I'm giving you a 312 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:02.720 choice today, and now here we are late in his 313 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:07.120 rule and God goes you chose the wrong way. It's 314 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:11.960 not like it was confusing. Keep worshiping me, that's all 315 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:14.039 you have to do. And instead what did you do? 316 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:16.639 You went and made golden calves and led people to 317 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:19.840 worship your golden calves. That's not a very confusing thing. 318 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:23.879 It's not confusing. It's not like, oops, I accidentally made 319 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:26.879 a couple of golden calves and began sacrificing for them. Right, 320 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:29.799 that's not what he did. This isn't an oops. This 321 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:32.240 is a full on rebellion. I don't care about you. 322 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:35.639 Well, and yesterday's podcast, we talked about the old man 323 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:38.480 and the prophet, right, and so here it says that 324 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:43.000 the Man of God came, warned him, did a miracle 325 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:46.919 in front of him, but with the altar miraculously splitting 326 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:49.000 in two, in the ashes going on the ground, and 327 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:54.039 his hand and his hand getting frozen. And so what 328 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:57.440 does he do. He begs, the prophet, pray to your God, 329 00:15:57.559 --> 00:16:00.200 that might have be restored. He gets it restored. God 330 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.039 chose the mercy just in that one simple thing. And then, 331 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:06.480 as they say, it says, he did not choose to 332 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:11.600 turn from his waist. He continued, He continued, So it's like, 333 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:15.120 you know, God will give us warning, God to reach out, 334 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:18.279 got to give us chances. Right, It's not as if 335 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:21.159 God doesn't love us. It's not as if God isn't 336 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:23.919 patient with us. That God gives us, you know, He 337 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.399 gives us opportunity over and over to repent, to turn 338 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:29.159 back to Him, to make things right, to make the 339 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:33.200 right choices. And I don't really know too many situations 340 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:36.799 where somebody makes a mistake and immediately you know, there's 341 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:40.799 this massive judgment, you know, when they're you know, in 342 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:43.639 today's day and age, we make choices, we live in 343 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:47.159 those choices. I think that God gives us opportunity after opportunity, 344 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:50.519 day after day, and usually when things come crashing down, 345 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:52.720 it isn't in a moment's notice, it's after a long 346 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:53.279 period of time. 347 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:57.519 I have had a sense God does keep some people 348 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:01.080 in short leashes. I've had that sense in my life 349 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:04.440 that I see other people get away with stuff for 350 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:06.000 a long time. And when I was a young person, 351 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:07.920 I tried to get away something, I felt like I 352 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:10.640 got caught, like the first time, over and over and 353 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:12.480 over again. It was that way. So I do think 354 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:14.440 He keeps people on some people in short leashes. But 355 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:16.680 for the most part, the Bible says his mercy endurs forever. 356 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:22.279 He's constantly extending forgiveness, he's constantly being he says in 357 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:26.359 Peter that he's being patient for your sake. He's not 358 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:29.599 moving slowly, he's just being patient for our sakes. But 359 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:33.319 with Jerobohm, he's able to look into Jerbom's life and saying, 360 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:36.720 Jerabom's never turning bag. He's he's gone past the point 361 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:40.440 of return, right. So I think that there was God 362 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:42.519 held out during this time. I think he sent the 363 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:47.079 prophet to him earlier because I think Jerobomb still had 364 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:49.559 an opportunity to choose, but then, like you said, he 365 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:52.599 chose not to and now he's past the point of 366 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:55.319 no return. And God goes, well, I'm done with you. 367 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:59.160 I can't You're never going to change. So we're done, 368 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:02.680 and it's going to hurt, right, But this is all 369 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:05.359 that God had said was going to happen at the beginning. Yeah, 370 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:08.359 God had said, this is the beginning, dude, you can 371 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:12.119 have the kingdom forever, right if you just follow me. 372 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:14.440 So I just understand this isn't you know. If you 373 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:16.839 only read this story by itself, it goes like, Wow, 374 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:19.119 God's kind of mean. But when you look at the 375 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:22.200 fact that he had opportunity after opportunity after opportunity, and 376 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:27.759 he was a nobody, he was a supervisor for building 377 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:31.519 the temple, that that was his job, and Solomon was like, 378 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:35.880 this young guy's pretty sharp. Jerre Bohm's a sharp guy. 379 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:39.720 I should I should put him in charge of more stuff. 380 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:42.440 And then God sends a hija to say, hey, jereboam. 381 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:43.599 As a matter of fact, God's going to put you 382 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:46.799 in charge of the whole kingdom, right well, ten of 383 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:50.359 the tribes. So he was just a worker and God 384 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:53.519 elevates him to king and then suddenly he just and 385 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:57.440 God says, the one condition is keep following me. And 386 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:00.759 over a lifetime he rejected God. And the pain of 387 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:03.160 rejecting God, it's always going to hurt. It's always going 388 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:07.359 to hurt. So, yeah, anyways, that's a it's a sad 389 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:09.559 thing for me. But at the same time, it's not 390 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:14.160 unjust right God, God's doing the right thing and is 391 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:15.240 doing the just thing. 392 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:19.160 Yeah, and there's and there's all sorts of pagan worship here. 393 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:19.480 You know. 394 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:21.680 He set up, he says, for he angered the Lord 395 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:24.000 with the astropolds that he'd set up for worship in 396 00:19:24.119 --> 00:19:27.440 addition to the golden cabs, right, yeah, and the astropoles. 397 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:31.279 A lot of scholars believe those were phallic symbols because 398 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:33.799 it was a sexual God and so it's just so 399 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:37.319 there's this I mean, it's just weird and distorted, and 400 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:40.799 it's you can even imagine, it's just all over the place. 401 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:44.200