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 --> 00:00:13.000 practical ways. Hey, everybody, we just want to let you 4 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:16.519 know we appreciate you tuning in, listening or watching the 5 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:17.399 Bible guys today. 6 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:20.239 I love that roll in because if people didn't know, 7 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:23.280 they might be thinking that they were tuning into something different, 8 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:26.559 really amazing. And so there's a warning. Hey, just so 9 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:32.880 you know you're listening to the Bible guys, we should 10 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:37.119 just change the role and we go okay, heads up, warning, warning. 11 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:40.520 Yeah, this is not a scholarly approach. 12 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:44.799 This is a discussion of fun and practical things revolving 13 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:46.960 around the Bible, which, by the way, I have always 14 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:49.359 believed one of the main reasons why. 15 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:51.240 In fact, I just talked about this when we were 16 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:51.920 on vacation. 17 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:54.079 Not vacation, but I went down a couple of days 18 00:00:54.119 --> 00:00:55.439 earlier this year, your daughter in Florida. 19 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:56.479 You had a couple of vacations. 20 00:00:56.679 --> 00:00:57.640 Yes, yes, we went to that. 21 00:00:58.880 --> 00:00:59.280 I did not. 22 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:00.960 Yes, that's anyway. 23 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:02.840 When I was on the vacation part of my thing, 24 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:04.959 I was walking and I was talking, and I said, 25 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:07.280 you know the reason why I become a communicator or 26 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.239 actually a pastor in general. It's because I wanted to 27 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:13.200 be able to communicate that the Bible is relevant, it 28 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:18.359 is practical, it is applicable, right, and it's understandable, and 29 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:23.640 so it's it's it's one of the reasons why you know, 30 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:26.879 I'm so passionate about communicating is because that's what the 31 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:29.599 Bible is. It's meant for that, so fun and practical 32 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:30.760 way is there's nothing wrong with that. 33 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:33.640 So while you were saying that, you were also walking. 34 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:36.319 You were walking and talking on your vacation. 35 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:38.079 We were walking to a restaurant. 36 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:40.359 That's those that skill sets. One of things I've always 37 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:41.680 loved about you. You're reality to walk in. 38 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:43.920 I was able to rub my stumach and pat in 39 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:44.799 my head at the same time. 40 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:48.000 We haven't even get into that segment yet. 41 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:51.799 Okay, all right, So this is our one of our 42 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:53.359 favorite segments that has a jingle. 43 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:56.519 We are going to do mail bags. 44 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:00.319 Mail Bags is when somebody writes in by the way, wait, 45 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:01.959 there's no physical mail bag. 46 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:05.519 It's an email. There's not it's always a quote unquote bag. 47 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:08.159 That's right, by the way, if you want to email us, 48 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:11.479 it is info at the Bible guys dot com hopefully 49 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:14.240 put it on the screen if you're watching, and you 50 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:18.479 can also text in, you know, through YouTube and all 51 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:19.439 these different different ways. 52 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:22.759 So that's right. Anyway, Carry your pigeon, carry a pigeon anything. 53 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:27.759 This comes from Marissa L. Hi. Marissa L Yeah. Marissa 54 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:28.319 says this. 55 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:32.319 Throughout your years of ministry or out traveling, did you 56 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:36.439 ever have an quote I can't believe I actually did 57 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:39.159 that unquote moment and what was it? 58 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:43.800 Yes, we did plenty of so many of those. That's 59 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:49.159 a great question, Marissa. Yeah, okay, you first, Oh, I've 60 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:53.400 had a few. Most of them are usually on like 61 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:57.479 a day off. So typically when when I go overseas, 62 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:00.280 it's like five or six days, ten twelve hour days 63 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:02.439 of working. But then we kind of have this policy, 64 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:04.240 and you've been a part of this, where we will 65 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:07.439 take a day and we'll do something fun right somewhere, 66 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:10.120 and so on those fun days sometimes I think maybe 67 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:13.719 I shouldn't have done that. We went whitewater whitewater rafting 68 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:17.319 in Nepal in the Himalayas during monsoon season. 69 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:18.120 God bless you, Chris. 70 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:19.479 Yes, God bless you Chris. 71 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:20.280 Thank you so much. 72 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:23.039 I was just hoping it wasn't picked up, that was it. 73 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:27.639 And it's during monsoon season and all of the rivers 74 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:30.120 were shut down except the river we were on, and 75 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:32.039 we got in the middle of that, and I thought 76 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:35.439 this was a really bad idea. So the owner of 77 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:37.439 the you know, they didn't even have a sign a waiver. 78 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:41.520 We didn't sign anything. We just get in these raging rapids. 79 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:43.479 I've showed you the video of where we got in 80 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:49.479 on that river, and it was already Class three rapids 81 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:52.680 there and he's explaining to us, now listen, if you 82 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:57.159 go overboard, don't worry. We have the three time world 83 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:01.759 champion recovery team wow, our group. And I raised my 84 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.400 hand and he said yes, And I said I I 85 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:08.439 don't want to be recovered. I'd rather be rescued. Can 86 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:13.159 you send that rescue people. He just kind of shrugged 87 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:15.039 his shoulders and left and we got in. And I'm 88 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:17.319 telling you there were moments on that white water rafting 89 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:20.319 trip I thought, this is it. This is That's. 90 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:20.600 How I die. 91 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:25.240 Yeah, So that's so great. So mine is. 92 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:28.639 When we were in Egypt, we also had a day 93 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:31.000 where we were just sort of sightseeing and we went 94 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:33.720 to go see the Pyramids, And for those of you 95 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:36.279 who don't know, the Pyramids are one big giant tomb 96 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:40.279 of the Pharaoh and you can climb, you can actually 97 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:42.639 pay to climb all the way up into the Pyramids. 98 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:44.839 And it's exhausting cliss it's. 99 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:46.600 A grueling climb, and you get up in. 100 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:49.439 There, it's hot, and it's hot, so yeah. 101 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:51.240 And your muscles are anyway, so I'm all the way 102 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:53.240 up in there. It took like thirty minutes to get 103 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:55.920 up there, it seemed like. Anyway, And there's this. 104 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:58.680 Room where there's. 105 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:00.959 A box and it's made out of own it's part 106 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:02.519 of the you know, one big. 107 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:06.639 Marble that's kind of built into the into that sarcophagus room. 108 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:11.000 Yeah, and so it's the box where the pharaoh sarcophagus 109 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:13.839 was for I'm assuming thousands of years, but since then 110 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:15.959 all the treasure has been removed. But you can walk 111 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:18.120 into that room and there's like this box. Well there's 112 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:20.399 like a rope that says do not cross, do not touch, 113 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:24.240 And there was a guy in there and the security guy, 114 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:26.519 and the security guy said, hey, since you're the only 115 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:27.800 two in here, he goes, I just want to let 116 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:29.759 you know I'm gonna go down and I'll be back up. 117 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:32.600 So he left us in the room alone, and it's like. 118 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:35.319 A twenty minute thirty minute walk down, and so I 119 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:37.439 knew nobody's going to be there, and so I looked 120 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:39.399 over at my buddy and I said, hey, I want 121 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:43.079 to climb in and lay in the tomb where it was. 122 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:45.240 And so I actually climbed over the rope, but you're 123 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:48.399 not supposed to do. Laid in there, and I folded 124 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:51.720 my arms like a cross and he took a picture 125 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:54.480 and I have a photo of it. But I'm just thinking, gosh, 126 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:57.319 every time I see the pyramids, right, that thing was 127 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:02.319 created right for that pharaoh, and I laid there where 128 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:03.399 he was for thousands. 129 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:05.399 That was the one that you can go up into 130 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:08.160 the middle of. That's the great pyramid, right, that's a 131 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:11.480 great pyramid of Cufu. Oh no, is it? I thought, well, 132 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:14.399 it's in Giza. Oh it's yeah, yeah, it's a great 133 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:16.959 pyramid of Kufu. So I did the same thing when 134 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:19.079 I went there, which is hysterical. I don't have a 135 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:20.879 photo of it because I didn't want any evidence, but 136 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:22.240 I just did it just to be funny. 137 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:23.680 Yeah, yeah, it's so funny. 138 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:25.680 Is I told that story a long time ago, a 139 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:27.680 couple of years back, and You're like, I did the 140 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:29.160 same thing, and I'm like, no, you didn't. 141 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:32.040 And by the way, I don't know anybody who has either. 142 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:35.240 I don't know. I don't know either you and I 143 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:38.399 both have done it, which is hilarious. Okay, so those 144 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:40.879 are two crazy things that we've done that we can't believe. 145 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:44.040 How about have you had any encounters with animals or 146 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:48.360 any of those kinds of things or vehicles or those 147 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:51.439 kinds of things. Yeah, I think you probably have more 148 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:51.720 than me. 149 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:54.199 The only the only thing that the only story I 150 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:57.800 tell is that when I was in Kenya, which I think. 151 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.680 You were there that weekend, uh, the the when. 152 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:04.240 I was in that missionary house, that Methodist missionary camp with. 153 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:08.000 You, when you two. I hear that it was. 154 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:09.639 Like two in the morning, and I heard the dogs 155 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:15.000 barking outside, like like in a really fierce way, and 156 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:17.839 and I almost walked outside because they were in a 157 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:20.240 pen right now. I almost walked outside to see what 158 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:22.839 was going on, but I didn't. I was super close, 159 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:24.240 you know, two in the morning, I thought, oh, good, 160 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:27.560 look at the stars. And the next morning our leaders 161 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:30.720 came in and said, you know, it's really possible. The 162 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:34.000 reason why they were barking is because the wild dogs 163 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:36.720 that roam Africa could have been out there very close 164 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:39.399 in the field. And they said, you know, had you 165 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:41.360 walked out and that was the case, you would have 166 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:41.959 surely died. 167 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:46.240 Well, so when we were when we are in bed, 168 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:49.160 they let go their guard dogs. So their guard dogs 169 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:51.560 are inside the fence of the compound. Oh wow, and 170 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:53.879 those guard dogs will tear you up too, so yeah, yeah, 171 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:55.839 so either side of that, Yeah, that was that was 172 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:58.759 I remember when that happened. That was a crazy one. Yeah. 173 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:01.240 How about that time we were in Hanzania together and 174 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:05.319 the driver drove right into a Pride alliance. Yes, remember 175 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:08.160 that we didn't have any doors doors. You reached out 176 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:10.160 smacking on the head if you want. Thank goodness, they 177 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:12.360 were you could see their bellies were distended. They'd already 178 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:15.160 eaten that morning. But well, you know, hey, how many 179 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:16.920 times have you been completely full and you still lated 180 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:21.800 a twinkie? Right? One more chicken nugget? I mean, you're 181 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:23.839 literally white meat. They might go, hey, I haven't had 182 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:25.480 that before, you know what I mean? 183 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:30.600 I have a video of the lion who eyeballing me walking. 184 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:32.799 She was walking towards me and then she just turned 185 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:33.519 at the last minute. 186 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.240 I'm like, I'm like, I am within striking distance. You 187 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:39.159 could have smacked her on the head. Yeah, it's crazy. Well, 188 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:42.080 we've done a lot. Well, thank you, Marissa. There's honestly, 189 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:44.240 I bet you we could go for another hour just 190 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:48.879 telling snippets. That's dumb things we've done somehow. You know, 191 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:51.960 this is how you know that God protects dumb people, right, 192 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:55.080 because we've done some stuff. Yeah, not because of ourselves, 193 00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:59.360 but in spite of ourselves. That's right. It was a 194 00:08:59.360 --> 00:08:59.720 fun one. 195 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:01.759 I like that was Thank you, Marissa. 196 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:05.320 Thank you. So we are continuing with the Life of 197 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:08.480 Solomon Solomon, which we began last week. And how do 198 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:12.720 you transition from I can't believe I actually did that 199 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:20.720 to this Chris Well speaking of traveling the world, Solomon 200 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:25.399 had the world travel to him. Ooh, there you go, man, 201 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:28.120 that's fantastic, because that's what this is all about. That's right. 202 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:30.159 This whole thing is about the visit of the Queen 203 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:32.960 of Sheba. Yeah. You know what funny thing is we 204 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:34.039 said it right before the recording. 205 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:35.799 You're a cheesy transition life forgotten. 206 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:40.200 Right right there, you go. Well, the best cheesy transitions 207 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:42.960 are the one you don't think about, speaking of traveling 208 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.000 the world, the world travel to Solomon. Okay, so we 209 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.759 are in Second Chronicles, chapter nine, and we're going to read. 210 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:51.679 I think most of this entire chapter says when the 211 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:56.600 Queen of Sheba, which Sheba is down in Ethiopia what 212 00:09:56.840 --> 00:09:59.799 we would consider modern day Ethiopia. When the Queen of 213 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:02.200 she But heard of Solomon's fame, she came to Jerusalem 214 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:04.759 to test him with hard questions. And she arrived with 215 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:07.840 a large group of attendants and a great caravan of camels, 216 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:11.320 load with spices, large quantities of gold, and precious jewels. 217 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:13.639 When she met with Solomon, she talked with him about 218 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:16.679 everything she had on her mind. Salomon had answers for 219 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:19.399 all her questions. Nothing was too hard for him to 220 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:21.960 explain to her. When the Queen of Sheba realized how 221 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:24.440 wise Solomon was, and when she saw the palace he 222 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:27.600 had built, she was overwhelmed. She was so amazed at 223 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:30.159 the food on his tables, the organization of his officials 224 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:33.240 and their splendid clothing, the cupbears and their robes, and 225 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:35.279 the burnt offering Solomon made at the temple of the Lord, 226 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:38.200 and she exclaimed to the king, everything I heard in 227 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:41.120 my country about your achievements and your wisdom is true. 228 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:43.320 I didn't believe what was said until I arrived here 229 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:45.480 and sought with my own eyes. In fact, I had 230 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:47.960 not heard the half of your great wisdom. It is 231 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:51.159 far beyond what I was told. How happy your people 232 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:53.600 must be. What a privilege for your officials to stand 233 00:10:53.639 --> 00:10:56.440 here day after day listening to your wisdom. Praise the Lord, 234 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:58.919 your God, who delights in you and has placed you 235 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:01.559 on the throne as king. Rule for him. Because God 236 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:04.559 loves Israel and desires this kingdom lasts forever. He has 237 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:06.360 made you king over them, so you can rule with 238 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:09.159 justice and righteousness. And then she gave the king a 239 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:12.879 gift of nine thousand pounds of gold, great quantities of 240 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:16.799 spices and precious jewels. Never before had there been spices 241 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:18.440 as fine as those the Queen of Sheba gave to 242 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:22.159 King Solomon. In addition, the crews of Hiram and Solomon 243 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:25.639 brought gold from ofir They also brought red sandalwood and 244 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:28.399 precious jewels. The king used the sandalwood to make steps 245 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:30.559 for the temple of the Lord and the royal palaces, 246 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:33.840 and to construct leers and harps for the musicians. Never 247 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:38.440 before had such beautiful things been seen in Judah. I 248 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:42.799 continue right, yes, verse actually vers Nomber twelve. Oh yeah. 249 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:45.039 King Solomon gave the Queen of Sheba whatever she asked for, 250 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:48.200 gifts of greater value than the gifts she had given him. 251 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:52.240 Then she and all her attendants returned to their own land. 252 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:56.759 Each year, Solomon received about twenty five tons of gold. 253 00:11:57.480 --> 00:12:00.000 This did not include the additional revenue he received from 254 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:03.080 merchants and traders. All the kings of Arabia and the 255 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:06.120 governors of the provinces also brought gold and silver to Solomon. 256 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:09.360 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold, 257 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:12.120 each weighing more than fifteen pounds. He also made thirty 258 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:14.960 smaller shields of hammered gold, each weighing more than seven 259 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:17.360 and a half pounds. The king placed these shields in 260 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:19.759 the palace of the Forest of Lebanon. Then the king 261 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:22.399 made a huge throne decorated with ivory and overlaid with 262 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:25.320 pure gold. The throne had six steps with a footstool 263 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:28.240 of gold. There were armrests on both sides of the seat, 264 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:30.279 and the figure of a lion stood on each side 265 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:33.480 of the throne. There were also twelve other lions, one 266 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:36.120 standing on each end of the six steps. No other 267 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:38.320 throne in all the world could be compared with it. 268 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:41.279 All of King Solomon's drinking cups were solid gold, as 269 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:43.679 were all the utensils in the palace of the Forest Elebanon. 270 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:46.240 They were not made of silver, for silver was considered 271 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:50.039 worthless in Solomon's day. The king had a fleet of 272 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:54.120 trading ships, manned by the sailors sent by Hyrum. Once 273 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:57.799 every three years, the ship's returned loaded with gold, silver, ivory, apes, 274 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:01.399 and peacocks. So King Solomon became richer and wiser than 275 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:04.240 any other king on earth. Kings from every nation came 276 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:06.080 to consult him and to hear the wisdom God had 277 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:09.360 given him. Year after year, everyone who visited brought him 278 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:13.000 gifts of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules. 279 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:16.879 Salomon had four thousand stalls for his horses and chariots, 280 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.120 and he had twelve thousand horses. He stationed some of 281 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:22.679 them in the chariot cities, and some near him in Jerusalem. 282 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:25.039 He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River 283 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:27.200 in the north to the land of the Philistines and 284 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:29.440 the Bard of Egypt in the south. The king made 285 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:32.919 silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone and valuable cedar 286 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:35.360 timber was as common as the sycamore fig trees that 287 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:38.320 grow in the foothills of Judah. Salomon's horses were imported 288 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:40.960 from Egypt and many other countries. And we can just 289 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:44.559 go on and on and on, yeah, with his unbelievable 290 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:47.120 wealth and power and wisdom. 291 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:50.799 So again, it's just one of those things where you know, 292 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:53.799 growing up breeding the Bible and going to Bible College 293 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:57.600 and being in church world. You know, when you hear 294 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:01.080 all these references to King Solomon or or David, you 295 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:03.840 don't think that think of them as like multi billionaires, 296 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:06.759 right right, You just don't. You know, you think of 297 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:10.399 you know, what it means to fight battles, and then 298 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:12.840 you know all the different things that are written about 299 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:16.440 them in terms of their character, integrity, their lessons, their 300 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.879 faith right and all their hardships and struggles and all 301 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:23.320 their you know, things that they had overcome, and you know, 302 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:26.480 you just don't think of them sitting there receiving ready 303 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:29.279 for this twenty five tons of gold. 304 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:33.879 I looked that up. I looked it up and today's value. Yeah, 305 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:37.039 that's one point nine billion dollars. 306 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:38.320 And that was every year. 307 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:40.720 That was that was every year, not including the gold 308 00:14:40.759 --> 00:14:43.000 he got in tribute from all of the kings of 309 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:46.360 Arabia and all of the governors of the provinces. Yeah, 310 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:49.279 that's that's just some that's some of his revenue gold. 311 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:51.320 By the way of gold, that's just of gold. It 312 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:53.200 doesn't mention all, you know, it doesn't even add up. 313 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:55.000 It doesn't tell us the totals on the number of 314 00:14:55.080 --> 00:14:57.039 gems and all that kind of stuff that's also coming 315 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:57.279 to him. 316 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:59.440 I'm a little fascinated by him receiving apes. 317 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:04.360 Yeah, apes and peacocks. Yeah, well y had his own zoom, right, 318 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:06.639 that's that's kind of what they're hinting at there. And 319 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:10.279 that's one of those traditional tribute of one thousand apes. 320 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:12.080 What do you do with apes? 321 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:15.279 But I guess I guess that was kind of a thing. 322 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.440 So so here were some peacocks. You can imagine the 323 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:22.240 big peacocks walking all around here his palace. 324 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:28.000 Imagine peacocks on that landscape. The beautifulful landscape, right, it 325 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:29.600 had to have been just glorious. 326 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:32.360 So then the Queen of Sheba shows up, which. 327 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:35.519 I can't even believe you said the words that would 328 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:38.360 be modern day Ethiopia without saying. 329 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:41.919 I was just Ethiopia a couple of days ago. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, 330 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:42.559 I can't believe you. 331 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:44.039 I can't believe you didn't say that immediately. 332 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:47.159 And so, by the way, this is a this is 333 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:52.039 a cool quick reference. Uh so you tell tell everybody 334 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:53.919 why you went to Ethiopia, what what was the idea? 335 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:56.559 So, you know, I worked with the Timoth Initiative, and 336 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:01.240 so we had a large gathering of our you know, 337 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:05.279 major contributors and donors. And every year we do this, 338 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:07.799 it's a Global Partner's Weekend. You can find that online. 339 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:10.120 Global partners Weekend. We do two of them. We raise 340 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:11.759 a lot of money in those times. But for a 341 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.960 lot of people, they give a lot of money and 342 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:17.200 don't always have you know, they're giving to an idea, 343 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:19.240 and so we're always trying to find ways to make 344 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:21.519 the idea be very real and tangible because a lot 345 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:23.039 of these people they're not going to get on a 346 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:25.240 plane and go to the places that we're investing in 347 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:28.759 where we start new churches, we make disciple makers, all 348 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:31.080 these kinds of things. So one of the ideas the 349 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:33.240 CEO had was, hey, let's send the chairman of the 350 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:36.720 board and his wife to Ethiopia. And because Ethiopia was 351 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:38.840 getting ready to have a big baptism and so they 352 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:41.320 were going to baptize three hundred and fifty something new 353 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:45.279 believers this one event. And so my wife and I 354 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:49.679 at GPW the Global Partners weekend gathering, they call us 355 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:51.600 up on stage with our suitcases. They send us with 356 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:54.639 a friend of ours called mez Gebu within the first 357 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:58.159 half an hour of the start of the weekend. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, right, 358 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:00.879 And we took off right from there, got on a plane, 359 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:03.440 flew all the way to Ethiopia. We were on a 360 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:06.880 plane and in airports for twenty two hours. We landed, 361 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:09.519 We got three hours of sleep, and then we went 362 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:13.119 to this baptism and we broadcast the baptism live yeah, 363 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:15.000 and told the story of the guy. It was pretty neat. 364 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.119 And then that we baptized, and then they had all 365 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:20.680 these other baptisms and they were singing and dancing and celebration, 366 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:24.680 and then we were able to sleep that night in bed, 367 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:26.160 and then we got on the plane and flew back 368 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:30.359 to the US. So forty something hours of flying in 369 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:34.440 so we could do this, you know, one hour baptism. 370 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:35.160 In one hour baptism vent. 371 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:37.200 Yeah, that it was pretty rough. 372 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:40.160 It had been one of the craziest things to sign 373 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:43.400 up for that I've heard of. Yeah, because obviously we 374 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:47.119 I've been to you know, Africa, I don't know, eight 375 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:49.759 nine times or whatever, and and I've seen, you know, 376 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:53.559 different villages, and I've seen baptisms work. We've been there 377 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:58.240 together in Kansanaia where those baptisms are incredible, phenomenal. They're phenomenal, 378 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:02.119 but getting there is it's like it's brutal, brutal, Yeah, 379 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:04.440 And so for you to spend forty hours to do 380 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:07.880 that for one hour baptism was one of the most insane. 381 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:13.400 So we get there and this lake is a it's 382 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:16.559 a volcanic lake. So the top of the volcano had 383 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:19.319 blown off and then it flooded, and so we're in 384 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:21.440 there and they wanted me to go down in the 385 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:23.920 water baptized. The water was like chocolate milk. It was 386 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:26.759 so yeah, it was really it wasn't it wasn't great. Yeah, 387 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:30.640 and so I was like, no, no, it's okay, I'll witness. No, no, 388 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:32.720 we want to go to your guest of honor. So 389 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:34.079 I go down the water, and just before I go 390 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:37.000 in the water, I said, well, I hope the crocodiles 391 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:38.640 don't like white meat, because I'm going to be the 392 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:42.200 only option, right right, But thank goodness, nothing bit me 393 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:44.279 while I was in the water. Yes, and yeah, it 394 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:47.160 was a little scary. But anyways, there's amazing things happening. 395 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:50.839 Thousands of new churches are being planted all over Ethiopia, 396 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:55.480 and it's it's really phenomenal. But you know, the Queen 397 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:59.960 of Sheeba goes back from according to tradition, she leaves Jerusalem. 398 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:02.799 She's so impressed by Solomon and his wisdom but also 399 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:07.920 his faith that she adopts Judaism and imports Judaism into 400 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:11.920 Ethiopia to the point that thousands of years later one 401 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:16.160