WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.720 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 --> 00:00:13.960 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bob Guys. Here 4 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:16.920 we are, we are here, and we're starting a brand 5 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:18.920 new episode today. We're super excited about it. 6 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:20.280 A brand new episode. 7 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:24.199 Yes, and we just filmed the yesterday's episode about three 8 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:24.600 minutes ago. 9 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:27.480 That was an old episode. No, yes, brand it is 10 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:30.320 brand new and improved, new and improved. 11 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:33.759 Yes, yeah, why not? Hey, so today's excuse me. 12 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:36.759 I understand you've listened to an episode of The Bible 13 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:37.359 Guys before. 14 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:38.799 Oh, yes, I have. 15 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:43.679 It's new and improved. You know those commercials, oh right, 16 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:45.439 the old commercials where they get like man on the 17 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:47.719 Street things and they say it's new and improved. Have 18 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:51.560 you ever tried to use just soap that didn't work? Yes? 19 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:53.359 I did, Well, this is new and improved. There's so 20 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:57.520 old time radio stuff. I used to listen to old 21 00:00:57.520 --> 00:00:59.840 time radio shows all the time. You never did, like 22 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:02.520 Lone Ranger and all those I know. 23 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:04.480 I actually no, oh, I love. 24 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:06.040 The old time radio shows. And it was all those 25 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:08.719 old funny you know, core Ox and all those things. 26 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:11.239 You know, and then it was always the old stuff 27 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:13.480 didn't work. But now there's a new and improved one. 28 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:17.680 So yesterday's episode, yeah, well, but today is a new 29 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:19.359 and improved Bible guys episode. 30 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:22.200 I've always thought it was fascinating how people used to 31 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:25.200 sit around the radio, though, right, it's like, and I've 32 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:29.000 mostly seen that depicted in movies, right, like wooi'es round 33 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:35.159 up or what's the other one I'm thinking of in 34 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:37.640 the movie where they all sat around the movie Oh Annie, 35 00:01:37.959 --> 00:01:41.879 remember Annie, the musical Annie. Yeah, people would sit around 36 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:43.599 and listen to the radio, gather around the radio. 37 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:45.120 So you know, we didn't have a TV now as 38 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:49.840 a kid, but I probably owned three hundred old time 39 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:55.719 radio programs on cassette and records. Oh wow. Yeah, well, 40 00:01:55.719 --> 00:02:00.239 I listened to The Shadow, and I listened to at 41 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:04.000 a Lone Ranger, and I listened to Gangbusters, and I 42 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:11.560 listened to Amos and Andy and oh yeah. 43 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:12.039 I'm not even sure i've heard an episode of The 44 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:15.719 Lone Ranger, although I've seen the movie, the Black and 45 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:17.240 White movie or the you know. 46 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:18.240 What I'm saying, the series. 47 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:21.000 I remember the radio programs came up before the movies. 48 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:24.080 I know that okay, but I but I did. Used 49 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:28.240 to watch The Lone Ranger. He'd leave behind his silver bullets. 50 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:31.240 And then it always stopped so there'd be a commercial. 51 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:33.759 And the commercials were almost always man on the street 52 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:37.639 type commercials. Yeah, okay, yea proof proof that what we're 53 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:40.319 doing other people like what we're doing now, right, that's 54 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:41.439 what I was making for. 55 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.000 Well, hey, today we're going to dive into mail bags, 56 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:47.080 and so mail bags it has a theme, has its 57 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:47.520 own theme. 58 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:50.599 Mail bags. There you go. 59 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:55.120 Mail bags is actually only possible if you right in. 60 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:58.520 So we just encourage you send us an email at 61 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:02.280 info at the Bible guys dot com, or you can 62 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:07.080 comment in on any of our you know, uh, YouTube 63 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:09.639 or speaker or anything like that. If you want to 64 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:12.280 give us feedback or ask questions, we'd love to consider 65 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:12.800 using them. 66 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:13.639 That'd be awesome. 67 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:16.039 And Karen G writes in for this, Karen G. 68 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:19.599 And she writes this, which Bible character do you think 69 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:22.479 had the best sense of humor? And then there's a 70 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:25.199 second question, and which one would you want to be 71 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:27.479 your best friend? And I guess that can be the 72 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:31.000 same answer, Oh best friend, who do you think of 73 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:31.840 the best sense of humor? 74 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:32.639 Best sense of humor. 75 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:35.400 Well, I'm tempted to answer first because I don't want 76 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:39.039 to think my answer. Go ahead, John, John, Yeah, he's 77 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:41.520 the one that you know, he's like, he's like they 78 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:46.479 both ran to the tomb, and the disciple that Jesus 79 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:50.319 loved arrived first with no reason whatsoever other than. 80 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:51.240 Say he was faster. 81 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:55.879 Yes, there was no theological issue about this. 82 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:58.800 Right, And and the fact that he always referred himself 83 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:02.120 as the decay that Jesus loved, and the fact that 84 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:06.960 he uh oftentimes was he was way more colorful than 85 00:04:07.039 --> 00:04:10.520 the other gospel writers. I think that he had the 86 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:13.560 best sense of humor, and so I like that. 87 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:16.279 But we know he was the youngest of Jesus disciples, 88 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:19.800 and he beat Peter, who was the oldest of Jesus disciples. Right, 89 00:04:19.959 --> 00:04:21.839 So do you remember I can remember the first time 90 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:23.879 I beat my dad in a race. Oh do you 91 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:27.560 remember ever beating your dad or your older brothers? Yeah, yeah, 92 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:30.600 there's a big memorable moment. So that's kind of funny. 93 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:33.000 But yeah, that's a great one. I think Elijah was 94 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:35.600 kind of funny. Yeah, I think you know, when he's 95 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:39.439 mocking the prophets of bail, Hey, keep jumping around and 96 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:43.199 cutting yourself. Maybe maybe Bale's just sleeping. Maybe maybe he's 97 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:46.079 in the John Right, that's kind of funny. So he's 98 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:49.120 kind of just I like his sense of mocking people. Uh, 99 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:51.360 he's pretty hardcore. I mean he also killed eight hundred 100 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:52.279 of them, so there's that. 101 00:04:52.360 --> 00:04:57.519 But they make fun of you and now you die. 102 00:04:57.800 --> 00:04:59.600 Right, Okay, Well who do you think could be? Like 103 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:01.199 the want to be the best friend? 104 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:05.720 The best friend j is I mean, obviously Jesus is 105 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:06.399 not included. 106 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:11.319 I'm a big fan Jesus. Jesus is my best friend. 107 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:13.480 Jesus is a friend of my. 108 00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:22.720 Yeah, I would say best friend honestly, I would like 109 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:24.199 I'm gonna pick Barnabas. 110 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:28.879 Barnabas ooh, the Son of Encouragement. He is the best 111 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.120 friend is He's the best friend in the Bible? 112 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:31.519 Yes? 113 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:35.680 All right, man, that's pretty good. That was a good one. 114 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:39.199 I think David would be a great friend. David was 115 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:41.800 a great friend to Jonathan. Jonathan was a great friend 116 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:42.240 to David. 117 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:46.879 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, And you can't go wrong 118 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:47.319 with David. 119 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:50.959 You know, having a king as a friend is not 120 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:51.480 a bad thing. 121 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:55.319 Yeah, a warrior king, right, where's my guy is? You know, 122 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:56.959 only known in certain circles. 123 00:05:57.079 --> 00:05:59.079 So he's going to go out and fight, and then 124 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:01.360 he's going to write songs and sing and then they're 125 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:04.240 gonna have big parties. David's gonna dance. I think David 126 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:07.519 be tons of fun and I think it's crazy fun. 127 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:10.720 And you're safe with David, yeah. 128 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:13.800 Because of his mighty men. His entourage was pretty great. 129 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:15.240 Yeah, yeah, so I would. 130 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:17.120 I would definitely think David would be the most fun 131 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:20.600 to hang out with, okay or Solomon because he's crazy rich. 132 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:22.319 Oh song me pretty good. 133 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:24.519 Yeah, he's smart, he's kind of smarty pants. 134 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:28.040 Yeah. I would. Samson be fun, but he'd be unpredictable. 135 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:30.959 Well, and he was living kind of a wildlife. 136 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:33.360 Yeah yeah, yeah, Well, I mean that's the fun. 137 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:37.399 Let's have David's fun. Let's have David's fun and not 138 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:41.399 you know, David's dancing and having parties, but he's celebrating God. 139 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:46.399 Yeah. But Samson, Samson's like the Tales of Foxes come on. 140 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:49.199 Yeah yeah, yeah, it's pretty bad. 141 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:50.079 Yeah. 142 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:52.000 I think that's it is, between your sense of fun 143 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:53.879 and my sense of fun. Growing up, you never know 144 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:55.800 what's gonna happen. Yeah, that's truth. 145 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:58.600 It's like it's like, oh, it's a wild Friday. 146 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:01.399 Night, so you're you're picking bars. He's a son of encouragement, 147 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:01.720 I am. 148 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:02.000 Yeah. 149 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:05.399 And he made everything better. He did everything Barnabas did, 150 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:06.000 he made better. 151 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:08.040 Yeah. And he was the kind of friend that helped, 152 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:09.160 actually helped. 153 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:13.319 Yeah, he did. Okay, well, there you go. You choose Barnabas, 154 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:15.839 I choose David as our best friends. 155 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:16.519 Yes. 156 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:20.040 And then as far as the funniest people in the Bible, 157 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:20.560 you think, I. 158 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:23.959 Think John John, and you chose Elijah Elijah. These are 159 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:24.560 good answers. 160 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:27.680 Okay, we've done well, man, we nailed it. We should 161 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:30.120 just shut the episode down now seven minutes and we peak. 162 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:34.600 I agree, I agree. And by the way, even though 163 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:38.199 that we did so well on the you know that segment. 164 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:38.439 We nailed it. 165 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:42.519 You know who didn't do well? Who as a king 166 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:44.079 you did it? 167 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:44.639 This week? 168 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:48.439 Is a Has? Wow, he did not do well. 169 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:49.560 He did not know. 170 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:51.600 In fact, he did so not well. 171 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:58.160 That actually the only three big mentions and main accounts 172 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:00.959 of a Has really point out how evil he was. 173 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.360 Well speaking of that in Second Chronicles, chapter twenty eight. Yeah, man, 174 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:07.720 that was a great, great terrible transition to thank you. 175 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:08.680 That's all three this week. 176 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:10.079 Thank you, thank you. 177 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:10.879 You're on the street. 178 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:14.120 Hey. By the way, think about how much we've jumped around. 179 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:17.079 We went from Amos, we skipped right over Second Kings, 180 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:21.600 we went to Isaiah, and then we went to Micah, 181 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:24.120 and now we're going to be in Second Chronicles. 182 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:26.839 This is all kind of a hot spot of God 183 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:30.000 engaging with people. Yeah, so these kings a Has and 184 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:34.639 Hezekiah and who is the one up there in Jotham 185 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:38.879 and all that, and then Micah has to go talk 186 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:42.679 to all these guys. It's all happening about the same time. 187 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.639 So there's a bunch of prophets and then the whole 188 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:47.240 series of kings back to back to back to back 189 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:49.559 to back that God's dealing with. And so this is 190 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:51.679 kind of a hot spot of God communicating. He's about 191 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:54.600 to go silent right after he's done with Isaiah, right 192 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:59.080 right Malachi, he goes, he goes quiet, and so there's 193 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:05.639 a a window here of God intensely communicating with his people. 194 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:08.720 So in Second Chronicles, chapter twenty eight, it says a 195 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:11.399 Has was twenty years old when he became king and 196 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:14.440 he rained Drusalm sixteen years. He did not do what 197 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:16.080 was pleasing in the sight of the Lord, as his 198 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:19.080 ancestor David had done. Instead, he followed the example of 199 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:22.080 the kings of Israel. He cast metal images for the 200 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:25.039 worship of Bail. He offered sacrifices in the valley of 201 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:28.360 Ben Hinham, even sacrificing his own sons in the fire. 202 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:31.519 In this way, he followed the detestable practices of the 203 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:33.919 pagan nations the Lord had driven from the land ahead 204 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:37.480 of the Israelites. He offered sacrifices and burned incense at 205 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:39.600 the pagan shrines and on the hills and under every 206 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:43.039 green tree. Because of all this, the Lord his God 207 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:47.039 allowed the King of Arab to defeat Ahaz and to 208 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:51.279 exile large numbers of his people to Damascus. The armies 209 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:53.639 of the King of Israel also defeated AHAs and inflicted 210 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:56.639 many casualties on his army. In a single day, Pekka, 211 00:09:57.120 --> 00:10:00.519 son of Ramalaiah, King Israel's king, killed the und twenty 212 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:04.240 thousand of Judah's troops, all of them experienced warriors, because 213 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:07.519 they had abandoned the Lord, the god of their ancestors. 214 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:14.039 Then Zikri, a warrior from Ephraim killed Masiah, the king's son, Azrakam, 215 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:17.919 the king's palace commander, and al Cana, the king's second 216 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:21.639 in command. The armies of Israel captured two hundred thousand 217 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:24.759 women and children from Judah and seized tremendous amounts of plunder, 218 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:27.679 which they took back to Samaria. But a prophet of 219 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:29.720 the Lord named Ovid was there in Samaria. When the 220 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:32.159 army of Israel returned home, he went out to meet 221 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:34.399 them and said, the Lord, the God of your ancestors, 222 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:37.000 was angry with Judah, and let you defeat them. But 223 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:40.399 you've gone too far, killing them without mercy, and all 224 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:42.960 Heaven is disturbed. And now you are planning to make 225 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.840 slaves of these people from Judah and Jerusalem. What about 226 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:48.480 your own sins against the Lord your God. Listen to 227 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:51.000 me and return these prisoners you've taken, for they are 228 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.960 your own relatives. Watch out, because now the Lord's fierce 229 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:57.480 anger has been turned against you. And some of the 230 00:10:57.559 --> 00:11:03.039 leaders of Israel as Aria son of Johonnah, and Vera 231 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:11.639 Kaiah son of michellema Wo Jekiah, jay His Kaiah, the 232 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:13.679 son of Shalem, and a mass of the son of 233 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:17.559 had I agreed with this and confronted the men returning 234 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:20.480 from battle. You must not bring the prisoners here, they declared. 235 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:24.039 We cannot afford to add to our sins and guilt. 236 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:26.399 Our guilt is already great, and the lord's fierce anger 237 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:29.519 has already turned against Israel. So the warriors released the 238 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:31.799 prisoners and handed over the plunder in the sight of 239 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:34.240 the leaders and all the people. Then the four men 240 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:37.039 just mentioned by name came forward and distributed clothes from 241 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:40.200 the plunder to the prisoners who were naked. They provided 242 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:42.519 clothing and sandals to wear, and gave them enough food 243 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:44.879 and drink, and dressed their wounds with olive oil. And 244 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:47.159 they put those who were weak on donkeys and took 245 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:49.360 all the prisoners back to their own people in Jericho, 246 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.559 the city of Palms, and then they returned to Samaria. 247 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:56.759 Wow, there it is. 248 00:11:57.919 --> 00:11:58.480 There you go. 249 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:05.879 So, so there's a write up about a has and 250 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:09.440 it's a part of our Life Application Study Bible. Yes, 251 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:11.960 so we love the Life Application Study Bible. And we 252 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:14.759 don't get any sponsorship from them, even though we've been 253 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:15.399 promoting them. 254 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:16.519 For how long years? 255 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:17.240 Years? 256 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:20.919 Years, And we definitely and by the way, I've had 257 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:22.200 people come up to me in the lobby and the 258 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:25.159 church lobby, and because they're new to the Bible, it's 259 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:32.720 completely understandable that people may not understand that there's a translation, right, 260 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:35.399 So then the translation is like, what translation of the 261 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:37.759 Bible are you going to read from? You know, it's 262 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:40.000 been translated from the Greek, so it's you know, the 263 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:43.480 King James version was back in the sixteen hundreds. There's 264 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:46.559 the NIV, which is the New International Version. There's the NLT. 265 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:49.399 There were people in the lobby that came up to 266 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:52.320 me and they were confused. They thought the Life Application 267 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:53.759 Study was a translation. 268 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:56.639 Oh right, yeah, you know what I mean. It's like, no, no, no, no. 269 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:00.679 So what we're reading from is the New Living Translation 270 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:05.519 and LT that's the translation, that's the conversion into English. 271 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:10.639 And then on top of that that, that Bible is 272 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:14.799 coupled with a study and it's the Life Application Study Bible, 273 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:19.600 and it's an actual Bible that puts together what like helpful. 274 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:23.120 Little notes, notes on key passages and explains the hard 275 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:26.919 things to understand, yes, and gives you some historical background. 276 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:29.840 There's on this page that we're looking at right now. 277 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:34.320 There's one, two, three, four, five, six different notes on 278 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:38.360 key verses. It also has a whole chunk explaining who 279 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:42.440 a Has was. Yes, and then there's a photo of 280 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:47.200 some QNEA formed tablet that proves that a Has was 281 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:50.759 a real guy that we found in archaeology, and it 282 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:53.240 tells the little story of how they found that and 283 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:58.320 that he was paying a tribute to the Assyrian king. Right. Yeah, 284 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:00.679 So that's what you get is you get some notes 285 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:07.039 that explain it, you get some uh maybe some bigger 286 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:10.799 elements that kind of highlight major characters and explain the 287 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:13.080 big picture of their story. And then there's also some 288 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:17.879 historical maps and archaeological proofs and stuff of what you're 289 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:19.000 what we're reading about. 290 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:19.919 Which is extremely cool. 291 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:23.919 Yeah, and it's super super approachable, right right, So sometimes 292 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:25.679 I was we were laughing. I had to read all 293 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:26.679 those goofy names. 294 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:30.320 Dude, I've said this before, but I said, normally you 295 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:31.480 get through them like a chance. 296 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:35.840 Yeah, but I stumbled to it. Yeah, But Michelle Moth 297 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:37.200 that one got me, Like, like. 298 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:39.679 When we were determining like who was going to do 299 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:41.600 the intro of the outro, who's going to read, who's 300 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:42.480 going to do this, Who's going. 301 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:42.720 To do that? 302 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:44.879 I said, dude, I said, you could read, And I 303 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:47.039 said for two reasons, I said, number one, because you 304 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:49.919 have a really good reading voice. I said, but besides that, 305 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:52.360 you tackle these names like a champ, and I don't 306 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:53.039 think I want to do it. 307 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:54.120 I would just barf it all up. 308 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:59.799 And uh and today, Yeah, when you came across Kayas 309 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:02.720 Hill him off yeah and Jay his kayah, those two 310 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:04.159 back to back, I just couldn't get. 311 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:08.360 So, you know, you read those names and you go, oh, 312 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:11.600 I can't understand the Bible. Skip the names. Just you 313 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:14.039 say that guy and that guy is sometimes that guy 314 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:17.919 and this other guy that's okay, right, or or I 315 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:22.279 have a friend they'll just use you know, the first letters. Jay, 316 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:25.320 you know A was the son of J, M. B 317 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:27.919 was the son of M. Right whatever. Because you don't 318 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:29.960 know those names or the names of the towns, don't 319 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:32.519 get bogged down on those. The big story is this 320 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:39.440 Judah rebelled against God. God allowed even and even though 321 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:45.720 because a has was so wicked. So God allowed the 322 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:51.120 the armies of Samaria in northern Israel to defeat them. 323 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:56.039 Then this guy obed he was a prophet. He goes 324 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:59.519 and says, hey, so you defeated the army. Don't take 325 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:01.879 the women in children captive and abuse these people, turn 326 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:04.799 them into slaves. God's going to judge you now because 327 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:07.639 of your own sins. Right. And then those four guys, 328 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:10.120 I couldn't read their names, those four guys, four guys 329 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:12.200 speaking of Hey, you know what, we should show compassion. 330 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:14.200 And so what do they do? They bound their wounds, 331 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:16.600 they clothed them, they put them on donkeys, got them 332 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:19.200 back home. That's that's a big picture. You can understand 333 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:20.600 the story if you don't get bogged down in the 334 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:24.200 big words. Yeah, that's it. And really understanding is more 335 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:26.159 important than being able to read a word out loud. 336 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:30.039 That's that's the thing. And so what a good study 337 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:32.559 Bible does for you is that it gives you these 338 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:35.759 extra notes, Like you know, a has was so deprived 339 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:37.840 that he sacrificed his own son to the pagan gods. 340 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:39.960 And this was a practice of the Canaanites, whom his 341 00:16:40.039 --> 00:16:41.759 rights were supposed to have driven out of the land 342 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:44.799 in the time of Joshua. Yeah, because they didn't finish 343 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:49.080 the job in Joshua's time. Four hundred years later, they're 344 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:51.799 still tempted by the sins of that group of people. 345 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:54.600 Yeah, and I'm not sure if that was Dagon, but 346 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:55.679 dagone was. 347 00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:58.720 Probably the god that they did that with. 348 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:02.440 Yeah, this one was. It says, oh, it does. 349 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:05.319 Say that, Okay, because uh, you know the. 350 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:10.440 Uh, it's just it's detestable to even think there were 351 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:13.240 so many kings that decided to do that. And back then, 352 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:16.359 by the way, they had so many sons because they 353 00:17:16.680 --> 00:17:21.599 they you know, slept with so many wives and concubines, 354 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:24.319 so they had sons everywhere, right. 355 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:27.319 And so and then you know, the sad thing to me, 356 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:30.359 if we're going to really drive home an application today, 357 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:35.279 the sad thing to me is, you had Jotham was 358 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:42.200 a good guy. You had Hezekiah was a good guy. 359 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:44.880 But a Has just kind of throws off his family 360 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:49.519 heritage at this point, right Usiah. So Usiah was a 361 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:53.920 good guy following God. Usiah's son, Jotham is a good 362 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:58.160 guy following God. So a Has his father and grandfather 363 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:03.279 were godly men, and he was so tempted by the 364 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:06.519 way that the Samaritan or the Samerian nation was living, 365 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:11.680 you know, northern Israel, that he saw their temples, he 366 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.039 saw their worship practices, all this magic that they were 367 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:18.960 doing all this stuff, and he decided he threw off 368 00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:21.400 the temple of God, he threw off the worship of 369 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:25.119 the One True God, and decided to embrace this other wickedness. 370 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:31.039 And I think about you know, we had read a 371 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:34.359 couple of weeks ago how the kings of Judah had 372 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:39.319 started making alliances with the kings of Israel. They shouldn't 373 00:18:39.319 --> 00:18:41.640 have anything to do with the kings of Israel, because 374 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:43.720 the kings of Judah were serving God and leading the 375 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:48.039 people to serve God, and Israel was clearly always walking 376 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:51.000 away from God. Always, they almost never had a good 377 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:54.359 king that led them to follow the Lord. And instead 378 00:18:54.359 --> 00:18:57.359 what happens is they start whereas that Jeroboam allows his 379 00:18:57.480 --> 00:18:59.960 daughter to be married to the king of you know, 380 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:02.359 to the prince in Israel, all those things you. 381 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:03.920 Got to give him, give it up for him at 382 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:06.359 least trying trying to unite the kingdom. 383 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:12.839 Right, yeah, but God said, don't hang out with these people. Right. 384 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:16.279 God has driven a wedge between the people who are 385 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:20.440 following God's ways and sending judgment on the people who 386 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:21.319 are walking away. 387 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:25.400 From suggesting that was forbidden. Oh yeah, I didn't know that. 388 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:30.119 Yeah, I think so, huh yeah, And so they shouldn't 389 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:34.160 have have been hanging out with them. God is always 390 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:39.000 calling his people to get away from culturally, leave the 391 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:42.680 culture of the of those who are rejecting God right, 392 00:19:42.759 --> 00:19:47.440 don't be you should be different, and they are hanging 393 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:49.400 out with them. So if you hang out with them 394 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:51.279 long enough, you're going to be like them. And so 395 00:19:51.319 --> 00:19:57.039 what happened was Usaiah didn't really bend over to their ways, 396 00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:02.279 and Jotham didn't, but Usiah's grandson did, right, which would 397 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:03.640 be Jeroboam's great grandson. 398 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:05.720 So me, it's a good time to go back to 399 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:08.559 I was going to read this this little block on 400 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:12.920 a has It says our heritage influences but doesn't necessarily 401 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:14.440