WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:14.080 practical ways. Hey everybody, it's Monday, and we're so excited 4 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:15.800 that you've chosen us. 5 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:18.879 We are humbled, we are thrilled, we're excited for today. 6 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:20.559 And look at I thought, if you're wearing a Hoodie'm 7 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:22.079 gonna wear a hoodie today. Yeah, this is the first 8 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:23.640 time I ever warned hoodie on the Bible Guys. 9 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:24.039 Is it really? 10 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:24.839 Oh yeah, yeah? 11 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:27.399 After what eight hundred episodes or something, this is it 12 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:29.359 right here? This is like it's gonna be a collector's edition. 13 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:32.759 It's a collected edition. Remember that it's a rare It 14 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:37.960 minds a mean condition. My episode is men conditions. Hey, 15 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:40.240 I wear hoodies all the time because when I leave here, 16 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:40.759 I guess you're. 17 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:42.759 A tough guy, because I well, super athlete. 18 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:47.359 I was gonna say blue collar, uh, dressed down guy. 19 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:48.920 No, because you're cool, You're cool. 20 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:50.320 No, I go work out after this. 21 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:52.240 That's I gotta go work out. 22 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:52.719 That's it. 23 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:54.280 That's why I I'm a tough guy. 24 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:55.280 A tough guy. 25 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:57.119 We already covered that that you're working out to beat 26 00:00:57.159 --> 00:00:57.359 me up. 27 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:01.000 Remember, yes, yes, although i'd have to work out. 28 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:04.120 I don't know. Yeah, we'll see, and then you have 29 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:05.879 to have any time you're ready bring. 30 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:08.840 It, you'd have to atrophy for a while. 31 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:11.640 I used to tell my sons, you know, they they're 32 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:13.959 big and strong, both my sons and big guys. 33 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:15.840 They're taller than me and strong. 34 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:17.959 And I used to tell them, hey, there's a difference 35 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:20.599 between strong and old man strong. Right, that's true. You know, 36 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:23.920 that's that's true, between strong and old man strong. And 37 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.280 so I told him, I said, hey, anytime you feel 38 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:28.319 like you're ready to bring it, you go ahead and 39 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:30.200 bring it, but you better bring it all the first time. 40 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:35.840 Right. I was good ones because I ever was. 41 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:37.599 Only that's right, jes bring it all the first time, 42 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:39.079 because you're not gonna get a second chance. 43 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:43.359 So I don't know why we're talking about beating up 44 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:44.519 our sons. That was kind of goofy. 45 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:46.760 Yeah, well, you know, and sometimes the son just needs 46 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:48.959 to know that it's a tough guy. It's just and 47 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:50.879 that's why you wear hoodies. That's what I'm saying. Tell 48 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:51.680 everybody you're working out. 49 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:55.000 Yeah, I love how you attach intentions to my hoodies. 50 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:57.159 You're just sending a message to your son. 51 00:01:57.159 --> 00:01:58.840 When I wake up and I get dressed, I know 52 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:02.879 I feel tough. I'm gonna grab that north face. 53 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:08.759 Okay, well, hey, today's one of our favorite segments. 54 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:10.479 Yes, it's Dad Joe competition. 55 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:13.000 I love these these are so if we find a 56 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:14.639 good one, is Tory home today? 57 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:14.800 Oh? 58 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:15.159 She is? 59 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:16.599 Okay? So we have to call? 60 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:19.360 Yeah, sure, sure, sure, okay, all right, I'll start. 61 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:21.000 Okay, I just got fired. 62 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:24.840 As as severance, my company gave me a bag of 63 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:27.960 used coffee. They said it was grounds for termination. 64 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:31.120 New I liked it. 65 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:31.479 You like? 66 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:32.240 Did you like that one? 67 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:34.199 I mean, it wasn't it wasn't a smile. I didn't smile. 68 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:37.800 I didn't smile, but you liked it? 69 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:38.360 Okay. 70 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:42.680 Why do people in Why do people who live in 71 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:46.520 Greece hate waking up at dawn? Why because down's tough 72 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:47.000 on Greece. 73 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:48.759 That's pretty good. 74 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:52.360 That's really a good one. That is a good one. 75 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:53.960 All right too, that's really good. 76 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:57.280 My wife thinks it's weird that I stare at the 77 00:02:57.319 --> 00:02:59.960 window during a heavy rainstorm. It would be a lot 78 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:01.560 less weird if she just let me in. 79 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:11.120 Yeah, I tell my wife all the time. I'm just 80 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:12.560 thankful she lets me live indoors. 81 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:15.080 Yeah, I don't know why. I'm not house broke. You 82 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:15.520 know what I mean. 83 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:16.960 I tell you all the time. I don't know why 84 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:18.599 you let me live in this house. I'm not house broke. 85 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:19.439 Okay. 86 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:22.879 I bought a pair of velcro sneakers. Don't do it though, 87 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:24.039 they're total ripoff. 88 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:27.560 That's good, all right. 89 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:31.039 Number three, I was going to make a joke about retirement. 90 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:32.400 It did not work. 91 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:36.439 That's a good one, good one. What do you call 92 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:41.759 an apology written in dots and dashes? Remorse code code? 93 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:43.639 I knew it was going to be morse code somewhere 94 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:47.080 in there. Okay. I like my ceiling. It's not the best, 95 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:47.919 but it's up there. 96 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:56.560 I invented a new word today. Yeah, plagiarism. 97 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.199 Oh that's great. 98 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:08.199 That's a great joke. That's a good one. That made 99 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:08.960 my day right there. 100 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:11.199 That's really good. Okay. 101 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:13.400 I went to the aquarium this weekend, but I didn't 102 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:13.960 stay long. 103 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:15.599 There's something fishy about that place. 104 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:21.319 Okay. A man assaulted me with milk how dairy? 105 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:25.720 Oh no, oh no, I think. 106 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:26.680 I had five winners. 107 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:30.839 I think you did too, Call toy, Oh you're going 108 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:33.959 to call her the plagiarism one wins. Okay, okay, I'm 109 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:35.959 gonna see. By the way, I'm gonna see if she answers. 110 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:37.360 You know, she gets to sleep in. 111 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:38.879 Yeah, we're waking up. 112 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:39.759 We're waking her up. 113 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:42.800 Yes, it's early today. It's a snow day. 114 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:44.480 Today, it's a snow day for teachers. 115 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:48.519 Hello, hey, I got you're on the Bible guys. I 116 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:52.879 got a joke for you. Are you ready, yes, yes, ready, Okay. 117 00:04:53.360 --> 00:05:02.879 I invented a new word today, plagiarism. 118 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:03.480 There you go. 119 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:12.759 That's a good one, isn't it clever? That's great word. 120 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:16.240 That's good. Okay, that's it. I have a couple more, 121 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:17.199 but that was the best of. 122 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:18.800 The one about Greece. 123 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:22.800 Oh my gosh. Hey, hang on, Jeff read yours on Greece. 124 00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:25.600 Hey, why do people in Greece hate to wake up 125 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:30.560 at dawn? Why because Greece is tough on dawn? I mean, 126 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:38.079 don is tough on Greece. 127 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:41.319 But you know what, it's still funny. 128 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:45.000 Yes, okay, anyway, you can tell Christo's your Greek boyfriend. 129 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:45.519 That joke. 130 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:46.920 That's good because. 131 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:49.800 Okay, I love you. Go back to bed. 132 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:54.759 Thank you for including me. Okay, okay, I can't believe 133 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:55.279 I blew that. 134 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:58.560 I'll tell you what. There's there's clutch deliveries. 135 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:02.360 That was not total total fail right there. 136 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:05.319 Michael Jordan on the three points, you just blew it, 137 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:11.800 break all air ball. That's all right, at least at 138 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:14.959 the rim you sure of got it right. Yes, all right, Well, 139 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:18.040 hey that is dad jokes, and I think the desiree 140 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:18.680 did good on that. 141 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:27.680 Betch yes, Well, you know it's not funny. 142 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:34.279 Funny repentance that was as good as that was really good. 143 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:38.279 Yeah, so today is today Amos is calling the people. 144 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:40.480 Oh my goodness, that was so good. 145 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:42.240 If you're new to the show and you can't figure 146 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:43.959 out what's happening, but now we're sorry. 147 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:46.279 It was good the way you say it was just 148 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:50.160 so simple. You know, it's not funny repentance so good. 149 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:55.279 So we always do these goofy transitions or these goofy 150 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:57.519 segments at the beginning dad jokes or whatever, and then 151 00:06:57.519 --> 00:06:58.160 we always. 152 00:06:57.879 --> 00:06:59.800 Try to transition how do you transition. 153 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:02.879 From that into the devotions for the day, And so 154 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:05.480 we've decided we just want to do the worst possible 155 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:08.879 transition we can think of. And yeah, so we're in 156 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:11.160 the book of Amos. And now which by the way, 157 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:15.199 I love his cookies and famous, yeah, love his cookies. 158 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:19.360 And he is calling God is using him to call 159 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:20.079 the people. 160 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:20.879 Of Israel to repentance. 161 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:21.439 That's right. 162 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:25.680 So we're in Amos chapter five, and he says this, listen, 163 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:27.839 you people of Israel, listen to this funeral song. 164 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:28.439 I'm singing. 165 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:31.920 The Virgin Israel has fallen, never to rise again. She 166 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:34.360 lies abandoned on the ground with no one to help 167 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:37.360 her up. The sovereign Lord says, when a city sends 168 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:39.600 a thousand men to battle, only one hundred will return. 169 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:42.040 When a town sends one hundred, only ten will come 170 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:44.240 back alive. Now, this is what the Lord says to 171 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:46.160 the family of Israel. Come back to me and live. 172 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:49.160 Don't worship at the pagan altars at Bethel, don't go 173 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:53.040 to the shrines at Gilgal or Beersheba, for the people 174 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:55.600 of Gilgal will be dragged off into exile, and the 175 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:57.560 people of Bethel will be reduced to nothing. 176 00:07:58.120 --> 00:07:59.480 Come back to the Lord and live. 177 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:03.120 Otherwise he will roar through Israel like a fire, devouring 178 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:06.319 you completely. Your gods in Bethel won't be able to 179 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:09.480 quench the flames. You twist justice, making it a bitter 180 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:11.879 pill for the oppressed, and you treat the righteous like dirt. 181 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:15.639 It's the Lord who created the stars, the Pleiades, and Orion. 182 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:19.120 He turns darkness into morning and day and to night. 183 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:21.519 He draws up water from the oceans and pours it 184 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:21.959 down his. 185 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:22.759 Rain on the land. 186 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:26.800 The Lord is his name. With blinding speed and power, 187 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:31.000 he destroys the strong, the crushing all their defenses. How 188 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:33.679 you hate honest judges, How you despise people who tell 189 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:36.080 the truth. You trample the poor, stealing their grain through 190 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:40.320 taxes and unfair rent. Therefore, though you build beautiful stone houses, 191 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:42.960 you will never live in them. Though you plant lush vineyards, 192 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.240 you will never drink wine from them. For I know 193 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:47.159 the vast number of your sins and the depth of 194 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:50.759 your rebellion. You oppress good people by taking bribes, and 195 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:53.519 deprive the poor of justice in the courts. So those 196 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:55.879 who are smart keep their mouths shut, for it is 197 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:59.000 an evil time. Do what is good and run from 198 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:01.200 evil so that you may live. Then the Lord, God 199 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:03.879 of Heaven's armies will be your helper. Just as you 200 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:07.480 have claimed hate evil and love what is good, turn 201 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:10.440 your courts into true halls of justice. Perhaps even yet, 202 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:13.960 the Lord God of Heaven's Armies will have mercy on 203 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:18.159 the remnant of his people. Therefore, this is what the Lord, 204 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:21.240 the Lord God of Heaven's Army says. There will be 205 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:24.279 crying in all the public squares, and mourning in every street. 206 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:27.200 Call for the farmers to weep with you, and summoned 207 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:30.879 professional mourners to whale. There will be wailing in every vineyard, 208 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:32.679 for I will destroy them all, says the Lord. 209 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:38.840 Well, and we pointed out last week that. 210 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:44.159 God's warning doesn't come about like this whole like you know, 211 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:46.759 destruction and this you know this? 212 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:49.440 What am I looking? What's what we're looking for? 213 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:50.399 The judgment? 214 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:51.200 The judgment. 215 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:55.720 Yeah, the judgment doesn't happen for over thirty years. It's 216 00:09:55.799 --> 00:09:57.960 like thirty eight years, I think, is what we figured out, right, 217 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:02.320 And so here's the here's the warning for this generation. 218 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:05.200 Come back to me and live verse number four and five. 219 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:08.600 Don't worship the pagan altars at Methel, don't go to 220 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:12.679 the shrines of Gilgal or Beersheba, you know, and so 221 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:15.600 come back to me and live again in verse number six, right, 222 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:18.759 otherwise he will war through Israel like a fire, deviring 223 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:21.960 you completely. So once again, it's just it's a little 224 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:25.080 more of the same as last week because we're walking 225 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:29.000 through Amis apparently chapter by chapter. But there's a lot 226 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:32.600 to learn from taking this chapter by chapter because it's 227 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:37.320 a reminder that God is still going to give somebody 228 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:40.799 a last chance, another chance, not a last chance, but 229 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:44.759 another last chance right to come back to him. 230 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:45.759 And by the. 231 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:47.720 Way, the thing that stuck out to me when you 232 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:52.039 were reading this is I love don't you love either 233 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:56.200 worship songs or obviously Bible verses, And then a lot 234 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:59.519 of worship songs come from Bible verses where it just 235 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:02.559 talks about the majesty of God. Oh God, you're the 236 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:04.799 one that created the planet. Yes, right, you're the one 237 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:08.360 that created And in this case he says Pleiades and Orion. 238 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:13.480 Isn't that cool? How we still know where those are today? Yeah, 239 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:16.679 right in the sky. And he's the one that you're 240 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:18.840 try have been looking at him for thousands of years. Yes, 241 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:21.480 he's the one that turns darkness in the morning and 242 00:11:21.559 --> 00:11:24.519 day and to night. He draws up water from the 243 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:26.879 oceans and he pours it down as rain on the land. 244 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:28.039 Well, think about that. 245 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:33.279 I mean, he's describing evaporation for crying out loud, right, it's. 246 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:36.559 So cool before they totally understood it. Yeah, this is 247 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:38.000 one of those I was going to point that out. 248 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:41.600 This is one of those passages that really hints strongly 249 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:43.840 at the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, because they did 250 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:47.720 not understand where rain came from at that point, right, right, 251 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:51.000 And it's just a yeah, just the inspiration. 252 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:52.840 God knows, right, that's. 253 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:53.440 Right, that's right. 254 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:56.799 So God knows the world that he designed, and he 255 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:59.519 knows exactly how it works. And so yeah, that's exactly right, 256 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:02.320 and it's very cool. And by the way, there's other things. 257 00:12:02.879 --> 00:12:05.200 Let's talk about that for a second. You once told 258 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:08.399 me about a passage that I was unaware of about 259 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:09.919 burying waste in the ground. 260 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:14.320 Oh yeah, yeah, and Deuteronomy. Yeah, and so it's such 261 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:17.039 a funny passage. I should read it. I think it's 262 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:18.759 a Deuteronomy twenty five or twenty six. 263 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:21.399 Well, well, good, look it up and you keep going. 264 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:23.279 Yeah, Well, let me just sort of set it up 265 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:26.159 what you're about to read. So here's what's interesting is 266 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:28.320 that you know, some people they question the validity of 267 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:30.720 the Bible, and they think that it's just a collection 268 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:32.960 of old stories and that perhaps it was written by 269 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:35.600 human authors and that maybe, you know, even though the 270 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.320 human authors wrote about it, it wasn't directly under divide inspiration. 271 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:42.240 But what's so cool about it is is there there 272 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:46.399 are scientific things in the Bible that couldn't have possibly 273 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:49.600 been been known by mankind. So this one right here, 274 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:54.480 you know, indicates evaporation, but it doesn't exactly explain vaporation, 275 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:55.360 right right. 276 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:56.200 It just mentions it. 277 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.000 It just means a matter of fact, yeah, which is 278 00:12:58.000 --> 00:12:59.080 how God does with science. 279 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:00.000 Yeah, and it's just really cool. 280 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:03.799 But there's other parts in the Bible where there's wisdom 281 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:06.840 about science where they could not have possibly have. 282 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:08.360 Known about it. 283 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:11.480 And then you look back later after you know, modern 284 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:15.559 science discovers, they're like, wow, how is it possible that 285 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:19.440 the instructions would have been given to people in knowing? 286 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:22.799 You know, that's exactly how the earth works, right right? 287 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:25.919 Well, so the passage you were talking about is Deuteronomy 288 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:28.919 twenty three twelve, and he says, designate a place outside 289 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.480 the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. As 290 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:33.559 part of your equipment, have something to dig with and 291 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:35.399 when you leave yourself, dig a hole and cover up 292 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:38.159 your excrement. And then the funniest verse in the whole Bible, 293 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:40.879 verse fourteen, says, for the Lord your God moves about 294 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:41.759 in your camp. 295 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:47.080 But it's so funny to me go outside your camp foro. 296 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:51.720 It means because yeah, right, when you need to use 297 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:54.080 the restroom, have a little tool on the end of 298 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:57.600 your sword and dig a hole. Do your business, cover 299 00:13:57.679 --> 00:13:59.799 it over. Because the Lord your God walks among you 300 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:02.240 in the camp. It's some way I don't want, so 301 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:05.200 then you can't. Must be holy so that you'll not 302 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:06.519 see among you anything indecent or. 303 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:07.080 Turn away from you. 304 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:13.559 So this idea of burying waste has been distinct to 305 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:18.120 the Israelites and the Jews for millennia. Most of the 306 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.720 rest of the world that wasn't an issue. The Romans 307 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:23.759 started figuring out later, and they began to move waste 308 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:26.759 out of their cities and out of their towns. But 309 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:30.120 for the most part, as you go through most societies, 310 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:33.679 the water is polluted and it's because of waste, right, 311 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:36.600 and so so many other diseases happen those kinds of things. 312 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:39.679 But it turns out it wasn't until the twentieth century, 313 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:42.120 early twentieth century. I think it was a I can't remember, 314 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:45.120 the John Mirror Society or the Sierra Club or somebody. 315 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:45.960 They did this research. 316 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:48.799 They discovered that when you're out camping or something, bury 317 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:51.799 your waste. And the reason is in most soil, in 318 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:54.039 the top nine inches of soil, there's a bunch of 319 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:58.000 enzymes that will break down waste in like thirty six hours, right, 320 00:14:58.120 --> 00:14:59.799 break it down and neutralize it to where it's not 321 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:02.720 really all that dangerous anymore to the water sources. If 322 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:04.639 you leave it on top of the ground, it can 323 00:15:04.759 --> 00:15:09.080 contaminate water sources for weeks, but you bury it and 324 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:13.200 the organisms will will neutralize it. So God didn't explain bacteria. 325 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:16.639 He didn't explain all those things, you know. He didn't 326 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:19.080 get into the signs, and he just said, hey, my people, 327 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:21.480 when you need to use do your business, bury it. 328 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:24.919 And when you're done burying it, you know, then I'll 329 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:27.320 walk among your camp. And he's saying, basically, this is 330 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:29.519 all those laws in that area. Dude, around him, you're 331 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:34.360 all about health or about ceremonial cleanliness, and all the 332 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:38.159 ceremonial cleanliness things were always about being healthy people. So 333 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:41.799 the Israelites tended to be healthier people than the people 334 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:42.320 around them. 335 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:44.759 They avoid things. There's a lot of them. He talks about, 336 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:46.840 don't allow any vermin in your house. Right. 337 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:50.159 And then in Europe, as the Black Plague was moving 338 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:52.200 across or some of the other plagues were moving across 339 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:56.159 Europe and the Dark Ages, oftentimes the little Jewish enclaves 340 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:56.879 would live when. 341 00:15:56.759 --> 00:15:57.440 Nobody else would. 342 00:15:57.480 --> 00:15:59.720 And it was because there weren't any mice in their 343 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:03.440 homes because they kept cats, right, And so then oh, hey, 344 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:05.480 they must be witches or something. And it was just 345 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:08.120 that the fleas weren't getting on the Jews as much 346 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:10.519 as they were on everybody else, and so there was 347 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:14.519 far less disease. It happens that way in so many areas, 348 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:16.159 where God just says to do a thing, but he 349 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:18.720 doesn't say why, He doesn't take the time to explain, 350 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:21.080 this is how the universe works. And hey, I know 351 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:23.600 you can't see him, but bacteria exists, and you got 352 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:25.120 to He doesn't do it any of those things. 353 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:26.399 He just tells him do this. 354 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:28.200 And if we would get to the point where we 355 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:31.679 trust God that he is four our best, you think 356 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:34.799 about it in the thirty sei thousand verses that God 357 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:36.720 thought was important to tell us. He decided to give 358 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:37.559 us three to say, hey. 359 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:39.320 When you need to use the John bury. 360 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:47.320 It right, right right. Every verse matters. Everything God says matters, 361 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:50.039 and he doesn't always take the time to explain it all. 362 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:53.519 But he does give us the best way to live. 363 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:55.240 And so this is the thing he's telling them here. 364 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:59.279 How many times does he say, listen, come, where's the verse? 365 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:03.000 He says, come back to the Lord and live right 366 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:06.039 when we go our own way. And this is the 367 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:08.839 message of Amos five. You're going your own way. You're 368 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:11.279 doing he Remember, he says, you used to be a virgin, 369 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:15.759 talk about Israel, right, you were my bride. And now 370 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:20.960 remember he said earlier, you're cheating on me with other gods, right, 371 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:25.000 and all these things, and he said, you've totally defiled 372 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:27.279 yourself with other gods. But he said, come back to 373 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:29.799 me and live. So even though you've been cheating on me, 374 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:33.960 come back. You're dying in your sin. You're killing yourself. 375 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:37.960 This judgment that's coming is judgment because of your bad choices. 376 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:41.039 But then also all the other things. You're just dying 377 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:42.799 in your sin. Just come back to me, if you 378 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:45.440 come back, I'll forgive you, I'll bring you back into 379 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:51.200 the family. I'll I'll re establish your health and your 380 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.640 strength and your power. Just come back to the Lord 381 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:55.799 and live. And I think that that's a message to us, 382 00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:59.799 all of us even today, that we start wandering from Him, 383 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:02.880 start getting far from God. And God's message has always 384 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:04.759 come back and live. And this is like you said 385 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:07.599 thirty something years before, judgment actually does fall, right, So 386 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:08.720 he's being patient with him. 387 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:13.160 Yeah, and it's such a great applicable thing. As you 388 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:17.359 know here it is just this random thought about God, 389 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:22.039 you know, having knowledge that doesn't bother to explain necessarily 390 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:26.440 to us. But in the case of the waste, it's 391 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:27.440 just trust. 392 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:30.799 Me, obey, right, you know, Hey, why God? Why bury it? 393 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:34.240 And God could have you know, explained to them. Here's 394 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:38.039 exactly the scientific reason you know, to bear and such. 395 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:41.039 Such is the case with commands today. When God asks 396 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:42.799 us to do something, there are times where we think 397 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:44.759 to ourselves, why why in the. 398 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:46.599 World would God ask me to do that? Or why 399 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:49.400 why should I tithe and give my money? 400 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:53.079 You know, why should I you know, obey and quit 401 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:55.799