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 --> 00:00:15.080 practical ways. Well, good morning, morning, we're starting. 4 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:20.239 We talked good morning, good morning to you and you 5 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:21.359 and you. 6 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:23.239 What a way to start the week, Chris, I don't 7 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:24.640 think I've ever done it on the mone I mean 8 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:28.800 just have Do you remember a Monday starting never? Never? Never? 9 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.240 So you just shot us in distress. I can't imagine 10 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:34.719 this week getting much better. Yeah, we just shot an 11 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:39.479 adrenaline shot. Everybody's we reached the pinnacle of the week 12 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:41.600 in the first fifteen seconds. 13 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:42.359 We have. 14 00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:49.240 Good morning. Yeah wow, So hey, well, hey, good morning. 15 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:52.280 We are the Bible Guys and we are here to 16 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:54.880 talk about the Bible. Oh okay, and how about that 17 00:00:54.920 --> 00:00:55.880 in fun and practical way? 18 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:58.320 How about that? Who would have thought, you know, some 19 00:00:58.359 --> 00:00:59.679 guys toning and say, oh I thought this was a 20 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:01.439 sports scores right right? 21 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:03.000 Not not not the way we roll? 22 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:05.439 Yeah, okay, Well, hey this is one of your favorite 23 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:07.840 one of your favorite, is it? 24 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:08.200 Yeah? 25 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:11.920 You like this and that's this or that one. It's 26 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:13.640 kind of what it is. Yeah, you like these, so 27 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:14.599 this is the one must go. 28 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:16.719 Well, I like I like that. Would you rather? 29 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:18.040 Would you rather? 30 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:18.480 Oh? 31 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:19.599 Okay, okay, what I like? 32 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:22.719 Okay, But but you know this does it's very similar. 33 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:23.560 It gives your choice. 34 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:26.000 This is called one must go, and it says, hey, 35 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:28.760 one one, which one stays, and which one goes away forever? 36 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:31.719 And the thing that we can never decide is is 37 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:32.680 this for the world or. 38 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:33.239 Just for ourselves? 39 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:37.480 Yeah, it's for the world for people who cares about yours. 40 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:40.280 What we like setting ourselves up is kings of the universe. Anyways, 41 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:42.680 that's right, that's right, that's right, all right. Here's the 42 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:46.879 first one. Would you pineapple on pizza or mushrooms on pizza? 43 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:48.239 Which which one goes away forever? 44 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:50.959 For the world, it have to be pineapple on pizza. 45 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:52.959 Although I love both, I do. 46 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:53.560 I do too. 47 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:54.599 Yeah. 48 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:56.879 I always forget how much I like pineapple and pizza 49 00:01:56.959 --> 00:01:58.799 until I have a pizza with pineapple, and then I'm like, 50 00:01:58.840 --> 00:01:59.959 why don't we order this more? 51 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:00.439 Right? 52 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:00.959 Right? 53 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:04.359 But it has to be that way because pineapple on 54 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:06.040 pizza is sort of a thing that people don't like. 55 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:09.680 Yeah, yeah, so if I agree, I agree. Well, people 56 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:10.560 don't like mushrooms either. 57 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:11.400 There's a lot of people. 58 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:15.919 But the difference is pizza is in it is fundamentally 59 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:20.879 an Italian yes, right, and there is no pineapple and right, yeah, 60 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:24.039 so that doesn't open pineapple on pizza. It's not really 61 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:24.639 a pizza. 62 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:28.759 My ancestors are rolling in their ridge. 63 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:31.759 Okay, go for it. 64 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:36.120 Number two candy corn goes Away Forever or black licorice. 65 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:40.280 I'm going candy corn, candy corn without even thinking twice, I'm. 66 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:41.240 Gonna go black licorice. 67 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:43.680 Really yeah, really, So you don't like lickorice. 68 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:46.960 Well, here's the thing. I think that a lot of people. 69 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:50.000 Hate candy corn absolutely, and I personally think black licorice 70 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:50.719 is from the devil. 71 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:53.360 See, I was gonna say, whoever invented candy corn. You know, 72 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:55.599 we've taken some strong stands the last few weeks, and 73 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:57.360 I was gonna say, whoever invented candy cork can't go 74 00:02:57.360 --> 00:02:57.639 to heaven. 75 00:02:57.719 --> 00:02:59.960 There was a guy that just was that the baptism, sir, 76 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.919 it's just on Monday, and he goes. I started listen 77 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:05.360 to the Bible, guys. He goes, and I'm nude heritage. 78 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:07.599 He goes and I didn't feel welcome, And I go, 79 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:09.439 what do you mean? I was in that bathroom. 80 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:10.080 He was changing. 81 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:13.159 You get baptized, and he goes because he goes, uh, 82 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:13.599 he goes. 83 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:15.240 I was told that if I owned an android, I 84 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:16.120 wasn't going. 85 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:21.000 Well, okay, we'll make an exception for him. Okay, right right, 86 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:25.639 but yeah, candy corn is my thing, man. Okay, well, 87 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:27.240 then both they have to they have to both go. 88 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:28.400 I'm not gonna be mad about it. 89 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:32.639 I'm not mad about that. Okay, all right, all right, 90 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:33.840 go ahead. Oh is it me? 91 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:37.680 No, it's me. Peanut butter and jelly or grilled cheese sandwiches. 92 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:38.719 These are two. 93 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:43.240 Phenomenal options, and people bailed to these as easy sandwiches 94 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:43.840 that are faced. 95 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:48.520 Oh, so I promise you my last two meals. 96 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:49.080 Yes. 97 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:52.080 Last night I got home from the airport and I 98 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:53.039 had grilled cheese. 99 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:53.520 Wow. 100 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:56.360 This morning, I got up at four something in the morning. Yeah, 101 00:03:56.639 --> 00:03:58.680 my clock is off, you know, from traveling, and I 102 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:00.680 was crazy hungry. So I went on and made two 103 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:03.159 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Those are my last two meals. 104 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:04.120 Are you kidding? 105 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:04.719 I promise you? 106 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:05.919 Wow? 107 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:09.599 I don't know. Hey, since we kicked out Candy Corner 108 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:11.199 Black Licors, can we keep both of these? 109 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:15.000 Oh? I like it. I like it. We're breaking the rules. 110 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:20.839 We were on fire wild, we are wild. Take that 111 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:21.480 desert ray. 112 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:25.079 But which one would you get rid of it if 113 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:26.560 you had to? I don't know that I can choose one. 114 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:29.480 I don't know if I literally, I literally my last 115 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:31.160 two meals, I've chosen those two things. 116 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:33.720 Okay, here's what I would say. I would say, uh, 117 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:36.040 peanut butter and jelly. You got to keep that for 118 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:38.560 the kids, though, grilled cheeses for the kids. 119 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.399 Cheese, I know that's tough. 120 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:42.560 So I have a recipe. 121 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:44.360 I'm gonna keep peanut butter and jelly. 122 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:50.600 I have a recipe for grilled cheese sandwich. It's it's phenomenal. 123 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:55.040 Uh and it has also has uh like sauteed pears 124 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:55.560 and bacon. 125 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:59.399 Whoa, let me tell you how wow? 126 00:04:59.560 --> 00:04:59.959 So good? 127 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:03.360 Wow? Okay, I put one keep grilled cheese anyway. 128 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:06.160 Yeah, I like them both. But yeah, I'd probably keep 129 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:07.600 grilled cheese. But I love peanut butter. 130 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:11.360 Okay, anyways, all right, so how about this one? 131 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:16.120 Butterscotch goes away forever. I'm taking the whole flavor or 132 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:17.160 hazel nut flavors. 133 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:20.600 Yeah, okay, So all the grandmothers in the world or 134 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:22.800 all of the Swiss one of the other. 135 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:28.920 Yeah, and there they're listening right now, they're going, don't. 136 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:33.959 Okay, I would say butterscotchest too. 137 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:38.240 I love hazel Yeah, hazel on nut is it's more universal, 138 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:39.600 right yeah? 139 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:42.000 Yeah, because you can't get rid of the teller. 140 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:43.199 There you go. 141 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:44.800 It's or ferrochetes. 142 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:48.360 Oh those little candies. Yeah, that's the ones I didn't. 143 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:50.600 I know, you didn't know them. I love them. Yeah, yeah, okay, no, 144 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:51.240 it's yours. 145 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:52.519 Uh, that's you. 146 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:58.480 Okay. Banana split or classic ice cream cone? 147 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:01.959 Oh well, I'd have to do ban outa split just 148 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:04.720 because it's not as popular as the classic ice cream cone. 149 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:06.639 Right, me too. I would get rid of the banana, 150 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:09.639 but it would be difficult, right Yeah. When was the 151 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:11.240 last time you had a good ice cream cone? 152 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:12.879 Uh? Two days ago? 153 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:17.120 Really? Wow? Mine was last week, the day before I 154 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:20.800 left for going overseas. So it was what seven days ago? 155 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:24.519 We stepped a cold Stone. It was like twenty degrees outside, 156 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:27.680 fifteen degrees outside. We stopped the cold Stone price cream. 157 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:32.040 Yeah, hey, hey, I got to tell you something. That 158 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:34.120 segment was a basket of fun. 159 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:35.120 Oh good. 160 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:38.279 And speaking of baskets, huh. This story has a basket 161 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:39.439 full of severed heads. 162 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:48.600 Oh my goodness, okay, a basket of fun okay, seven, okay, okay, 163 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:52.000 very good. Come on, that is a good one. That 164 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:56.360 is a horrible, horrible transition, transition, a basket full of heads. Yes, 165 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:58.959 it's true, well true. Good job, Chris, thank you. I'm 166 00:06:58.959 --> 00:06:59.480 so proud of you. 167 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:00.000 Thank you. 168 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:02.079 Yeah, you know what. Your family's gonna be proud of you. 169 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:02.879 I'm also proud of me. 170 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:04.040 Yeah, yeah, Okay. 171 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:07.240 My wife watched the Bible Guys this morning, as she 172 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:10.279 always does, getting ready, and I get up and we're, 173 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:12.360 you know, fiddling around in the bathroom, and she looks 174 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:13.600 at me and she goes, are you going in for 175 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:15.079 a taping of the Bible Guys? I said yeah, and 176 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:17.639 she goes, stop yawning. 177 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:23.560 I said, I can't. I said, it's low lighting, Jeff. 178 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:25.480 It's just the most boring person I've ever had to 179 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:25.920 sit next. 180 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:28.120 Not about boredom, yawn from boredom. 181 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:31.360 Oh okay, all right, okay, Well here we are. We're 182 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:34.240 in Second King's chapter ten, and as you mentioned, there's 183 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:38.279 a basket of heads and Jay Hugh kills Aheb's family 184 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:40.519 is what happens here. So if this is a good 185 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.079 morning and you're having devotions and you're sitting there sipping 186 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:45.279 your tear you're coffee and looking out into the woods 187 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:49.000 at the deer walking by, we just thought we'd read 188 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:53.079 this story to kind of kick off the day, no doubt, 189 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:58.040 and hey, maybe maybe maybe this is the indication that 190 00:07:58.040 --> 00:07:59.439 when they go into work today, the heads are going 191 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:02.279 to roll or some ooh that there you go. That's 192 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:03.319 a double. That's a double. 193 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:05.720 Right, there's a two verse puns everywhere. 194 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:09.720 Okay, Second King's chapter ten, Verse one says Ahab had 195 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:12.319 seventy sons. Let me say, I met a guy this 196 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:14.759 week who has fifty four sons. Fifty four kids? 197 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:15.560 Are you kidding me? 198 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:16.480 No, No, I'm not joking. 199 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:17.000 Wow. 200 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:17.480 Yeah. 201 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:19.519 We were on a donor at one of those banks. 202 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:25.000 We were on the border of Kenya and South Sudan. Yeah, 203 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:26.600 And we were in the village and one of the 204 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:28.680 chiefs asked me, or elders asked me how many kids 205 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:30.120 I have. So I started to pull out my phone 206 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:33.080 and show my three kids, and he goes, he stops me, 207 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:35.159 and so he was just wanting to make a point. 208 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:37.840 He says, I have fifty four kids. Yeah, he also 209 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:40.559 has like eight wives or something. But yeah, wow, that 210 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:45.200 is anyway. So Abahab had seventy seventy sons. Wow uh 211 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:49.480 so not just seventy kids. Dude had seventy sons. 212 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:50.559 Which means he had daughters somewhere. 213 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:55.200 That's a couple of NFL football teams right. Anyways, Yeah, 214 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:57.960 living in the city of Samaria. So Jay who wrote 215 00:08:58.039 --> 00:08:59.919 letters and sent them to Samaria to the elders and 216 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:01.840 officials of the city and to the guardians the king 217 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:04.679 and have sons. He said, the king's sons are with 218 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:06.879 you and you have at your disposal chariots, horses, a 219 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:09.960 fortified city, and weapons. As soon as you receive this letter, 220 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:12.200 select the best qualified of your master's sons to be 221 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:15.159 your king and be prepared to fight for Ahab's dynasty. 222 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:17.840 But they were paralyzed with fear, and they said, we've 223 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:20.559 seen that two kings can't stand against this man. What 224 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:23.480 can we do? So the palace and city administrators, together 225 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:25.279 with the elders and guardians of the king's sons, sent 226 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:27.879 this message to Jaehu. We are your servants and will 227 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:30.360 do anything you tell us. We will not make anyone King, 228 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:33.039 do whatever you think is best. Jayhu responded with a 229 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:34.879 second letter. If you are on my side and are 230 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:36.840 going to obey me, bring the heads of your master's 231 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:40.080 sons to me at Jezreel. By this time tomorrow now 232 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:41.840 the seventy sons of the king were being cared for 233 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:44.080 by the leaders of Samaria, where they had been raised 234 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:46.960 since childhood. When the letter arrived, the leaders killed all 235 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:49.000 seventy of the king's sons. They placed their heads in 236 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:52.879 baskets and presented them to jay Hu at Jezreel. A 237 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:55.159 messenger went to jay Hu and said, they have brought 238 00:09:55.159 --> 00:09:57.399 the heads of the king's sons. So Jayhu ordered pile. 239 00:09:57.480 --> 00:09:59.320 Theymitted two heaps at the entry of the city gate 240 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:01.919 and leave them there till morning. In the morning, he 241 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:03.879 went out and spoke to the crowd that had gathered 242 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:06.039 around them. You are not to blame, he told him. 243 00:10:06.039 --> 00:10:07.759 I am the one who conspired against my master and 244 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:10.679 killed him. But who killed all these, you can be 245 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:12.440 sure that the message of the Lord that was spoken 246 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:15.679 concerning Ahab's family will not fail. The Lord declared through 247 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:18.360 his servant Elijah that this would happen. Then Jayhu killed 248 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:20.519 all who were left of Ahab's relatives living in Jessro 249 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:23.720 and all his important officials, his personal friends, and his priests. 250 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:27.240 So Ahab was left without a single survivor. Then Jayhu 251 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:29.759 set out for Samaria. Along the way, while he was 252 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:33.000 at beth Eked of the Shepherds, he met some relatives 253 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:35.759 of King Ahaziah of Judah. Who are you, he asked them, 254 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.120 and they replied, we are relatives of King Aziah. We're 255 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:40.360 going to visit the sons of King Ahab and the 256 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:43.600 sons of the Queen Mother. Take them alive, Jayhu shouted 257 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:45.519 to his men, and they captured all forty two of 258 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:47.320 them and killed them at the well of beth Ekid. 259 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:50.919 None of them escaped. When Jayhu left there, he met 260 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:54.840 Johannadab's son of Jack Rekab, who had been coming to 261 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:57.639 meet him. After they had greeted each other, jay who 262 00:10:57.679 --> 00:10:59.279 said to him, are you as loyal to me as 263 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:01.519 I am to you? Yes, i am. Johanna dabs It 264 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:03.639 replied if you are, Ja who said, then give me 265 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:05.799 your hand. So Johanna Dad put out his head and 266 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:08.440 jay who helped him into the chariot. Then jay who said, 267 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:10.080 now come with me and see how devoted I am 268 00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:12.399 to the Lord. So Johanna Dad rode along with him. 269 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:14.759 When Jay who arrived in Samaria, he killed everyone who 270 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:17.039 was left there from maybe Ahab's family, just the Lord 271 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:20.759 had promised through Elijah. Well, yeah, you wont think good 272 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:23.279 morning again, yeah right, good morning morning. 273 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:27.279 Yeah, that's that's pretty crazy. 274 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:28.440 That's a crazy one man. 275 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:30.960 Yeah, so I was. I was actually just glancing at 276 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:31.519 this note. 277 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:34.919 We actually love the Life Application study Bible absolutely, and 278 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:36.000 there's a note. 279 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:39.200 On here on verse number eleven, uh, which. 280 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:40.840 By the way, I guess we should start with the 281 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:43.919 fact that this was prophesied by Elijah. 282 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:44.919 Yes, right, I mean I. 283 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:47.240 Mentioned it in the scripture, right right, But like back 284 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:49.480 in like first Kings. I think it was something like 285 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:54.720 that Elijah had said to Ahab because he was it 286 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:55.320 the vineyard? 287 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:58.159 Was it was? Was it in Ahebb's vineyard? What was it? 288 00:11:58.279 --> 00:11:58.480 Yeah? 289 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:02.559 Yeah, right, yeah, that's what his name is, all these 290 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:06.960 goofy names. But because he had uh and Jezebel had 291 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:10.639 killed him to steal his property in his vineyard. Basically, 292 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:15.240 God had said he was going to wipe him out 293 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:17.840 and wipe out everybody his whole He said, none. 294 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:18.960 Of your sons will sit on the throne. 295 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:23.080 And then and then uh A have repented a little 296 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:25.960 bit and said, you're so sorry. And so then God 297 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:29.519 made a proclamation and said, okay, the prophecy will come true. No, 298 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:32.159 Elijah said this, He said, the prophecy will come true, 299 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:35.039 but it won't come true in your lifetime. He said, 300 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:37.200 it'll come true, but it'll it'll come later. And so 301 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:40.519 here it is now, it's it's it's later. And uh 302 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:44.600 and and so A have had sons, and uh and 303 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:48.320 uh and and so they're they're definitely being killed to 304 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:51.879 satisfy the prophecy. Anyway, But here's what verse number eleven says, 305 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:54.159 you ready for this? Yes, And by the way, you 306 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:57.200 could easily overlook this because of all the slaughtering that's happening. 307 00:12:57.559 --> 00:13:00.000 But it says then Jay I had noticed. 308 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:02.720 Right then, Jay who killed all who were left of 309 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:06.919 Ahab's relatives in living in Jezreel, and all his important 310 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:09.720 ready for this, all his important officials that wasn't in 311 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:15.679 the prophecy, right his personal friends Comma and his priests. 312 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:19.039 So Ahab was left it without a single survivor. Is 313 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:24.559 so Jay who definitely fulfilled what God said? But he 314 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:27.480 went too far, and so in two King's chapter ten, 315 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:31.480 verse eleven, it says this the note in his zeal 316 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:33.919 Jay who went far beyond the Lord's command with the 317 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:38.799 bloodshed or the bloodbath. The prophet Hoseiah later announced punishment 318 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:43.559 upon jay Who's dynasty for this senseless slaughter, as recorded 319 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:46.240 in Hosea chapter one, verses four and five. Many times 320 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:50.639 in history, religious people quote unquote religious have been mixed faith, 321 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:56.519 have mixed faith with personal ambition, power, or cruelty without God's. 322 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:57.639 Consent or blessing. 323 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:01.360 To use God or the by to condone oppression is 324 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:05.240 wrong when people attack Christianity because of atrocities that Christians 325 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:08.759 carried out helped them see that these men and women 326 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:11.840 were using faith for their own political ends and they 327 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:12.840 were not falling christ. 328 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:15.799 So it's it's a great note, by the way, isn't 329 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:16.200 They're great? 330 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:17.320 Yeah, it's really good. 331 00:14:17.159 --> 00:14:19.360 Because you could easily, I mean, think about all the sense, 332 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:21.480 I mean, think about all the slaughter that's happening. You've 333 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:23.960 got baskets of heads being dumped out in two piles 334 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:26.919 by the city gates, and then you've got people from 335 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:32.639 the south coming up wanting to see the King's sons 336 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:35.440 and he's like, kill them all right, and it's just 337 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:36.639 a senseless slaughter. 338 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:40.679 Yeah. So so executing the seventy that was part of 339 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:44.200 the judgment of God. It was declared, you know, and 340 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:46.679 sometimes we talk about, you know, there's difference between the 341 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:48.799 Old Testament God and New Testament God kind of a thing. 342 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:53.879 But Paul affirms this idea in Glacier chapter six, where 343 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:56.360 he says, don't be misled. You cannot mock God's justice. 344 00:14:57.159 --> 00:14:57.320 Right. 345 00:14:57.480 --> 00:14:59.320 Whatever a person soows, that's what he's going to read. 346 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:01.759 Whatever you plan, that's what you're going to harvest. And 347 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:06.960 what Ahab had planted was only evil, continually had raised 348 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:09.480 his sons to do the same, had funded all the 349 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:15.919 priests of bail and of Astrooth. He had only done evil. 350 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:18.159 And God was able to look into time and go, hey, 351 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.000 it's never going to get better. We got a rid 352 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:21.600 of all of them, right, So he's going to wipe 353 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:27.120 them out, and this is the justice of God. And Jay, 354 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:29.000 who was ordered to do it right, God had told 355 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:30.679 him in this hey I'm going to make you king, 356 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:32.320 but you've got to wipe out these kings. 357 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:34.639 Yeah. It was literally an assignment, right, It. 358 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:37.840 Was an assignment from God. And so in that situation, 359 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:40.120 then he went and did his job. The problem is 360 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:45.919 he went way beyond and senseless take the senseless taking 361 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:47.960 of a life. Now he's breaking the commandments of God. 362 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:51.039 The commandment was as a government leader, as the head 363 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:53.000 of your government, I want you to go and execute 364 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:56.159 these these evil people. Okay, that's a part of the government, 365 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:58.279 the role of government. But then you can see it's 366 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:00.440 almost like a vendetta here. He's just go and after 367 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:04.039 everybody that might like Ahab. And that's a different thing. 368 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:07.519 He killed his friends, His friends didn't do those things, right, 369 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:11.120 he he he went after other people. And certainly there's 370 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:13.600 an even debta there. I think that was a fabulous note. 371 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:16.799 So great note, And don't use God's words to justify 372 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:17.720 your bad behaviors. 373 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:22.159 And and and remember back then people ruled by fear 374 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:23.799 so and. 375 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:26.320 The world still rules that way mostly right. 376 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:29.159 Right and so uh and so he and so it 377 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:31.360 could be that jay Hu said, Hey, I'm not just 378 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:34.679 going to take out, you know, Ahab's relatives, but I'm 379 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:39.159 going to let everybody know that that even if you 380 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:41.879 side with Ahab, if you're if you know his best friends, 381 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:44.480 obviously were loyal to Ahab, right, so you know, even 382 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:47.120 if you have a loyalty or an allegiance, let it 383 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:49.600 be known right that that that it's not going to 384 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:54.120 be tolerated. So he executes his own personal agenda, uh, 385 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:58.799 you know, because he's been given this assignment, so you know, yeah. 386 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:04.720 So so politically it makes sense to me a little 387 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:08.000 bit in that environment where you know, you seized thrones 388 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:10.240 if you didn't inherit a throne, the only way to 389 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:13.039 get a throne is he to seize the throne. So 390 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:16.359 just before this, he kills Joram and a Haziah, two 391 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:20.240 other kings, so he has an opportunity here to unify Israel, 392 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:25.079 bring Judah back in, and he's taken over Ahab's world 393 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:28.079 as well. So then he wipes out a Haziah's sons, 394 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:31.799 which wasn't part of the command, right. He's he's just 395 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:34.640 he's on a slaughter fest of his own ambition here 396 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:37.680 at this moment, and it's it's pretty horrible stuff. But 397 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:39.759 you know, I think that there is something to this 398 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:43.480 idea that you know, the roosters do come home to roost, right, 399 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:46.279 the chickens come home to roost. God said, ahab, it's 400 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:48.720 going to cost you everything, not just you, your sons, 401 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:51.839