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 --> 00:00:16.000 practical ways. Everybody, it's Friday Friday. Thank goodness, It's Friday Friday. 4 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:17.719 Thank god, It's Friday Friday. 5 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:20.359 Right, it's it's what day is it, Chris? 6 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:23.879 It's the day that we fry the day did you 7 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:26.199 ever grow up not? Did you grew up in a 8 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:28.800 culture where people were like dominantly Catholic, where there's no 9 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:29.600 meat on Fridays. 10 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.159 I grew up in a pagan culture early in my 11 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:35.520 life and then yeah, yeah, yeah, and then became Christians. 12 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:39.359 I grew up in Youngstown, Ohio. Everybody's Italian. Everybody's Italian, right, 13 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:42.439 especially back then, and uh and so it was a 14 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:47.439 dominantly Catholic culture and it was no meat on Fridays. Everywhere. 15 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:49.920 It was all fish. So anyway, all that's say McDonald's. 16 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:53.799 They would have science that's say fish fries on Friday, 17 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:56.960 and they would do the fr I Friday and then 18 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:59.200 they would do fr Y Friday. 19 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:02.039 What a good idea? Yeah, Okay, anyway, there you go. 20 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:05.079 Well today, Chris, we have a big one. It is 21 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:10.400 not everybody's favorite segment. It is not No, this is 22 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:13.319 a guess the word. I'm going to give you clues. 23 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:15.920 Are you indicating it's people a segment that people don't like. 24 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:21.400 No, the segment that everybody loves is make Chrissy, Well 25 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:23.680 that makes Jeff mad. If you want to know, is 26 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:25.959 that we're not doing what made Chris mad this week. Okay, 27 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:27.280 we're doing a guess the word. 28 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:29.560 I couldn't figure out why you were downing this segment. 29 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:32.840 It's similar to taboo, and we like this segment, just 30 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:33.519 not on Friday. 31 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:35.879 And I was just that's so funny. I was just 32 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:38.719 mentioning to Jeff that I think the last I'm not 33 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:42.400 even kidding, probably ten times that we played this game, 34 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:44.400 I was the reader and you're the guesser, right right, 35 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:48.799 So for some reason, I'm finally the guesser. Yes, So 36 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:52.239 I'm looking forward to it. So if you're watching, hopefully 37 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:55.799 we'll put on the screen the words that Jeff cannot say. 38 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:59.760 Yes. Okay, So it's like taboo, yep, and I'm going 39 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:01.359 to try to help get you to do it. Okay. 40 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:03.359 Each one is worth ten thousand points. 41 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:05.799 Ten thousand Yes. When did you become the arbiter of 42 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:09.240 points just now, Okay, you took over. Yep, you surped 43 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:13.479 you you surped my point given generosity ten thousands pretty generous. 44 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:15.360 I am pretty sure I gave you like seven million. 45 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.000 Couple feels. Hey, do you want to go with ten thousand? 46 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:25.919 That's fine, yes, okay. Usually it looks like a diamond. 47 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:29.599 Sometimes it looks like a dragon or something else, and 48 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:34.599 you get it to go up in the air. Kids 49 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:38.159 would use a rope and they would get it up 50 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:45.400 in the air. Looks like a diamond, has an arrow. No, no, no, no, no, 51 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:47.639 it looks like a diamond. Little kids wild play with 52 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:51.319 it on on. 53 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.759 Days that are blowing, windy days. 54 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:58.199 Yeah, there you go. Kite. I couldn't say. I couldn't 55 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:02.680 say fly, wind, string, sky or tail. Wow, all the 56 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:04.680 things about a kite used for me. 57 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:06.800 Off of a diamond. When you said it looked like 58 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:08.360 a diamond, you should have said. 59 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:10.039 It was shaped shape of a diamond. 60 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:11.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I was like, I was like, 61 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:15.439 what looks like a diamond, because kites alongs like diamonds. 62 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:26.680 Okay, it's a region or a place. Oh okay, yes, 63 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:33.599 it's not the desert. You go into it. Usually there's 64 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:37.000 tribes that live in jungle. There you go, jungle. Nice, 65 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:42.199 very good. I couldn't say trees, animals, rainforests, plants are tropical. 66 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:42.599 Okay. 67 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:43.439 It was a hard one. 68 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:45.159 That is hard. Okay, nice. 69 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:51.680 Uh here's a place on the on a college campus 70 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:54.400 that you would go to study. 71 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:56.240 Library. 72 00:03:56.280 --> 00:04:00.400 There you library, awesome books, read, borrow, quiet, and shelves. 73 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:07.680 So it wasn't allowed to say, Okay, okay, it's a 74 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:12.520 hard one. Elon Musk is building them and we're all 75 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:15.000 going to own one in a few years. Robots, robot, yep, 76 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:20.360 that's right, that's awesome. I wasn't allowed to say machine, future, technology, 77 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:29.480 program or artificial Okay. This is a tough one. Oh man. 78 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:35.759 When it blows up it wipes out cities at a 79 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:40.120 bomb bo No, no, no, it's a natural occurrence. Like 80 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:43.000 uh yeah, there you go, volcano, good job. I couldn't 81 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:45.399 say lava erupt mountain, magma or fire. 82 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:46.120 Wow. 83 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:48.600 Hey, so what's that fifty thousand points? 84 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:49.480 Yeah? Good job? 85 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:51.600 There go. Do we share them? I mean you're the 86 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:51.959 one who. 87 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:53.920 Got these are so yours? 88 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:56.079 Just you did all the work, wow, Chris, you did 89 00:04:56.120 --> 00:04:57.879 all the work? All right? Well, what is it seven 90 00:04:57.920 --> 00:04:58.879 million to fifty thousand. 91 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:00.439 That's pretty good that you welcome. 92 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:06.199 Yeah, I'm gaining ground, gaining ground. 93 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:12.639 Okay, there's there's plenty of games in the future. There's 94 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:14.680 plenty of future recordings. 95 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:17.360 As long as do the points expire? Are they like 96 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:18.839 Delta miles? I never expired? 97 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:20.800 Yeah, maybe so I had. I did lose a ticket 98 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:22.439 over the first of the year. 99 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:25.399 Yeah, where you had a free. 100 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:28.600 Yeah, companion ticket, any ticket? Yeah. So hey, I don't 101 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:30.959 know about you, but I felt like that segment had 102 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:32.199 a lot of life. 103 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:35.560 Oh yeah, yeah, it was it exciting. Yeah, and speak 104 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:37.959 heights in jungles and libraries and robots and volcanoes. 105 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:43.199 Well, speaking of having life, this next story is about 106 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:45.759 a man who comes back to life. 107 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:46.920 Oh yeaow. 108 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:49.480 Yeah, there's other things involved in the story. 109 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:51.319 But that's part of it. Okay. And that was your 110 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:53.839 if you're a long time if you're a new listener, 111 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:56.160 one of mine and Chris's goals is to have a 112 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:59.759 really terrible transitions out of the goofy game section into 113 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:02.240 the part where we're reading about. 114 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:03.279 And I think I've done a fine job. 115 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:06.680 So this is eight hundred BC. 116 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:08.120 Okay. 117 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:11.959 And Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were written about the same time. 118 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:15.600 Oh wow, isn't that interesting. Yeah, that's really that's a 119 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:18.639 really cool little factoid. It was in the margins of 120 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:22.519 the Life Application Study Bible. So here's what it says. 121 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:25.160 We're in Second Kings, chapter thirteen. We're gonna read. Verse 122 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:28.639 fourteen says when Elisha was in his last illness, King 123 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:32.839 Jehoash of Israel visited him and wept over him. My father, 124 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:35.480 my father, I see the chariots and chariots of Israel, 125 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:38.720 he cried. Elisha told him get a bow and some arrows, 126 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:40.360 and the king did as he was told. And Elia 127 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:42.879 told him, put your hand on the bow, and Elisha 128 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:46.360 laid his own hands on the king's hands. Then he 129 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:48.839 commanded open that eastern window, and he opened it, and 130 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:52.399 then he said shoot, So he shot an arrow. Elisha proclaimed, 131 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:55.959 this is the Lord's arrow, an arrow of victory over Aram, 132 00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:00.160 for you will completely conquer the Aramans of Aphex. Then 133 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:02.199 he said, now pick up the other arrows and strike 134 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:05.839 them against the ground. So the king picked them up 135 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:07.959 and struck the ground three times. But the Man of 136 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:10.160 God was angry with him. You should have struck the 137 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:12.879 ground five or six times, he exclaimed, then you would 138 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:16.360 have beaten Aram until it was entirely destroyed. Now you 139 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:19.839 will be victorious only three times. And then Elisha died 140 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:22.800 and was buried. Groups of Mobiit raiders used to invade 141 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:24.839 the land each spring, and once, when some Israelites were 142 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:26.720 burying a man, they spied a band of these raiders, 143 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:28.879 and so they hastily threw the corpse into the tomb 144 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:31.120 of Elishah and fled. But as soon as the body 145 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:33.720 touched Elishah's bones, the dead man revived and jumped to 146 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:34.279 his feet. 147 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:35.160 Zeekes. 148 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:38.680 King Hazael of Aram had oppressed Israel during the entire 149 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:42.639 reign of King Jehoah ass But the Lord was gracious 150 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:44.399 and merciful to the people of Israel, and they were 151 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:47.079 not totally destroyed. He pitied them because of his covenant 152 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:49.439 with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and to this day he 153 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:51.879 still has not completely destroyed them or banished them from 154 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:55.480 his presence. King Hazael of Aram died and his son 155 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:59.199 Ben Haydad became the next king. Am I, reading to 156 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:02.480 verse twenty five, then joho Ash, the son of Jehoah, 157 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:06.199 has recaptured from Ben Haydad, son of Jehesel the towns 158 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:11.399 that had been taken. Jehoash's father, Jehoah has Wow Jehoash 159 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:15.040 defeated Ben Haydad on three occasions, and he recovered the 160 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:21.800 Israelite towns Wow Jehoash and Jehoah Has Jehoahs jeho Ash 161 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:24.720 the son of Jehoahs. And they only had to say 162 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:25.439 it like three times. 163 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:30.199 It's crazy. That's why I'm happy you're the reader. 164 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:32.840 I think that's why sometimes people get bogged down reading 165 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:35.360 the Bible is the names are heard. I agree the 166 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:37.559 hard the track was so I here's what I would say, 167 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:40.440 skip them. Yeah, just what do you do? You say 168 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:42.799 that guy that guy and that guy was the son 169 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:43.240 of that guy. 170 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.919 And people love it in the audience because because you know, 171 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:49.879 obviously it's not as a thing of disrespect, it's it's 172 00:08:49.919 --> 00:08:53.679 an acknowledgment that it's sometimes those things are difficult. 173 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:55.080 These names are very unfamiliar. 174 00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:56.679 Yeah. So if you're so, if you're reading through it 175 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:58.519 and you're like, okay, so then that guy I said 176 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:00.399 to that guy, then people start gett Then. I don't 177 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:01.879 do it all the time, but I do it as 178 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:03.919 as a way to say like, hey, it's okay, Yeah, 179 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:07.120 it's okay. Even preachers have a hard time because because 180 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:10.480 you know that that's that's pretty crazy. And again it's 181 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:14.360 it's it's truly no different than today. If we were 182 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:18.919 to go down the line and record incredible details of 183 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:21.600 history of all the names, the modern name you know, 184 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:24.000 the modern day names today, if you were to go 185 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:26.720 back in time to eight hundred BC and they were 186 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:29.240 to read the futuristic names, they'd be like, what kind 187 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:33.000 of names are these? No, I'm talking about like the 188 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:35.679 really funky names of the world. Oh, I mean, I 189 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:38.159 guess zar Ba is a last name. It's pretty funky. 190 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:40.919 But yeah, but still I think that people you know 191 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:42.879 back then would find them just as confusing. 192 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:46.840 I think, so yeah, so uh, I know one guy, 193 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:51.039 he just uses the first letter, so say king h oh, 194 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:52.679 that's fair. Right, So if it gets to the hard ones, 195 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:54.399 you just you can't say, I'm all, that's really fair, 196 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:56.279 so that that can be hard whatever, But don't let 197 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:59.159 the names bog you down. The stories are pretty incredible. Dude, 198 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:00.519 A guy came back to life when they threw a 199 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:01.120 body in a. 200 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:03.799 Dude, let's talk about this for a second. Okay, so 201 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:06.039 let's skip the whole bone arrow thing. We'll come back 202 00:10:06.039 --> 00:10:09.240 to that. But so I made a reference a long 203 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:12.639 time ago when Elijah, so this would have been what 204 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:18.519 four or five weeks ago, when Elijah was anointing Elisha 205 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.039 to take over his ministry, and he said, what do 206 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:24.039 you want? And Elijah said, what I want is to 207 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:29.639 have a double portion of your blessings and power in 208 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:32.080 your ministry. And so he said, okay, you're going to 209 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:33.799 have it. Actually he said, if you can, if you 210 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:36.440 see me when when when I passed from this earth, 211 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:38.440 he says, then you'll have it. And if you don't, 212 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:41.840 then you won't. But he did he saw so so anyway, 213 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:44.799 I'm not necessarily sure that what I'm about to say 214 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:48.000 is a direct correlation to that, but it's just fun 215 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:51.519 to talk about. So if you google, well not google, 216 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:55.159 but you know research, and if you say how many 217 00:10:55.159 --> 00:10:59.080 major miracles did Elijah do in his ministry, it is 218 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:04.679 eight major miracles. And you say how many miracles did 219 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:08.840 major miracles did Elisha accomplish before he died? The answer 220 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:13.919 is actually fifteen, So it's one short of exactly double 221 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:17.879 of Elisha's major miracles. And then he gets buried, and 222 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:22.679 then here this after he's buried, it says, the bones, 223 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:26.320 the bones, right, It's like, so it could be that 224 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:29.480 maybe it's been a while, it might have even been 225 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:32.120 decaying for a while. And so it ends up happening 226 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:36.360 is long after Elisha's death. These guys are burying somebody. 227 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:39.120 They look over and they see tomb raiders, they see 228 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:42.360 grave robbers, and they're scared. So they're like, oh my goodness, 229 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:44.279 let's hurry up and just throw this body in here 230 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:46.039 and let's get out of here for own safety. And 231 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:49.799 they just throw this body into Elisha's tomb. And this 232 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:52.679 dead body, you know, we don't know much about him, 233 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:56.240 but he hits the tomb of Elijah and hits his 234 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:58.840 bones and then comes back to life. And guess what, 235 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:01.200 that's miracle number sixteen. Baby. 236 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:02.039 Yeah, there you go. 237 00:12:02.279 --> 00:12:05.960 Right, So it's exactly double the amount of miracles, which 238 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:06.960 I think is just so cool. 239 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:10.519 What a surprise. By the way, Yes, you're rattling around. 240 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:12.720 You wake up, got all these bones all around, he says. 241 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:14.919 He jumped up. I jump up too, dude. Yeah, no, 242 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:15.960 kidding freaking out. 243 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:19.519 Which, by the way, is pretty crazy. We just did 244 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:25.480 Easter planning yesterday and we were talking about different things 245 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:28.360 revolving on Easter and Palm Sunday and the Passover and 246 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:30.679 different things like that. And one of the conversations that 247 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:35.559 we had was what's his name Lazarus who came back 248 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:38.679 to life? Lazarus has been dead for four days? Yeah, right, 249 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:41.840 and so the question is was he in heaven? That's 250 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:44.919 the question. Was Lazarus in heaven? Do you think he was? 251 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:48.679 I think he was in Abraham's Boosom, yeah, Paradise. 252 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:51.600 Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So but either way he had 253 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:54.519 to come back. Yeah right, and so and so John 254 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:57.480 Christ has a funny bit on that. Have you ever 255 00:12:57.480 --> 00:12:57.759 seen it? 256 00:12:57.840 --> 00:12:58.440 No where? 257 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:00.120 He says, he goes, he goes, think about it, and 258 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:03.720 he goes. The story of the story of Lazarus is 259 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:07.320 is Jesus comes along. Elazarus is dead for four days. 260 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:09.840 Jesus brings back to life, and Jesus looks like the 261 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:12.080 hero and he was. He goes, it was great. He 262 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:15.799 goes everything was great, except for for Lazarus. He goes, 263 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:17.720 He've been dead four days. He's in heaven. He's up 264 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:19.759 in his mansion, you know, and he's like, oh man, 265 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:21.600 this is great. He's like, no more pain. He had 266 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:24.120 a bum leg that was restored you know, and he goes, man, 267 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:25.639 this is really great. He goes and all of a sudden, 268 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:30.279 Lazarus gets a knock. After four days, he's like Lazarus, 269 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:32.879 He's like yeah, and he's like, so we have to 270 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:39.080 talk to you. We don't normally do this, and he's like, yeah, 271 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:42.399 what's going on. He goes, we got to send you back. 272 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:44.919 He goes to the Middle East when there's no air conditioning, 273 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:50.840 and he's like, are you kidding? This is really funny, right, 274 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:54.600 So John Chris does this thing, it's just so funny. Well, 275 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:57.799 well here's this here's this guy. You know, he's been 276 00:13:57.840 --> 00:13:59.559 dead for who you know, long enough for him to 277 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:02.679 be buried, and he gets thrown on Elisha's bones and 278 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:03.639 he comes back to life. 279 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:05.559 What was that? Funny? Guy? So funny? 280 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:06.200 Isn't that funny? 281 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:07.440 Yeah, it's that's funny. 282 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:09.360 It's funny. Didn't even think about it. 283 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:11.320 But it does highlight the fact that even though the 284 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:13.720 people of Israel, the kings of this, this miracle really 285 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:16.879 serves God's purposes in that, you know, word gets out 286 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:19.360 on this one. Yeah right, this guy's going to go 287 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:23.200 how in the world no pagan god ever raised anybody 288 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:25.440 from the dead like this, right, that that's not that's 289 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:28.120 not a thing, it's it never shows up anywhere, so 290 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:30.919 that would have gotten their attention. And then it's a 291 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:36.000 reminder that Elisha represented God's word, the true the word 292 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:38.759 of the true God, right, the one true God. Even 293 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:41.399 in his death, he still represents that that influence is 294 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:44.559 still there, right, just as a subtle reminder, not so 295 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:47.399 subtle reminder to the kings. But they didn't pay attention, right, 296 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:48.960 the people of Israel didn't pay attention to him. 297 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:51.519 So let's talk about this arrow thing. Yeah, yeah, So, 298 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:54.399 and first of all, I love how the scripture story 299 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:57.639 begins because it says Elisha was in his last days 300 00:14:57.639 --> 00:15:02.000 of z illness, King u joho ash A Israel visited 301 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:04.919 him and wept over him. My father, my father, you know. 302 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:08.879 In other words, this is like a spiritual father to Elisha. 303 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:13.440 It wasn't his literal father, right, you mean Joosh, Yeah, 304 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:17.080 Josh was weeping over Elisha and said, my father, my father. 305 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:21.399 But but it wasn't his biological fathers what I'm trying 306 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:23.519 to say, right, it was just it was just it 307 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:27.120 was a father figure, right, And so so in other words, 308 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:30.240 he loves Elisha, right, which by the way, was a 309 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:34.200 testament to him being raised in the temple, wasn't it. 310 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:39.159 No, not Jehosh. Oh, my king's right, and this was 311 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:44.679 a bad king. Yeah, yeah, you were talking about Joe Ash. 312 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:45.799 This is Jehosh. 313 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:51.799 See, this is why I know beginning of our So see, listeners, 314 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:52.320 even the. 315 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:54.919 Best of us do it on sometimes some occasions. These 316 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:57.879 names the best, that's right, that's right. So these names 317 00:15:57.879 --> 00:15:59.480 sometimes can be confusing. So you have to be paying 318 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:02.039 attention to you in the King of Israel or the 319 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:04.919 King of Judah. King of Judah is Joe Ash. The 320 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:07.639 King of Israel is Jehosh. 321 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:08.000 Good gravy. 322 00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:11.480 Yeah, okay, Joe Ash was a bad king. Okay, yeah, okay. 323 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:14.440 As a matter of fact, it says in King's thirteen 324 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:16.320 it says, but he did what was evil in the 325 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:18.759 Lord's sight. He refused to turn from the sins that 326 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:19.879 jerebo I'm son a neeback. 327 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:23.039 Okay. Number one, that changes my understanding of this passage 328 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:23.519 when you're read it. 329 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:25.639 He's just showing respect because he needs help because I 330 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:26.879 got confused. Yeah. 331 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:28.960 And then number two, Yeah, let's talk about that. So 332 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:32.320 he's showing respect. He's showing respect because he needs help, right, 333 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:34.720 because he wants to Arab is coming to defeat me. 334 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:40.320 And Elisha is consistently acknowledged by the kings of Israel 335 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:43.000 as being a powerful godly man, but more like a 336 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:45.360 good luck charm is what they're how they're trying to. 337 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:48.279 So you think, do you think joho Ash thanks for 338 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:52.440 that again the Bible. But if you think joho Ash 339 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:57.679 was a person who often consulted Elishah's advice, you think 340 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:00.720 he looked at him as like almost like somebody on 341 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:01.879 a staff that helped him. 342 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:06.160 Yeah. So the note here for this for verse fourteen 343 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:09.640 says Elisha was highly regarded for his prophetic powers and 344 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:14.119 miracles on Israel's behalf. Jehoish called him the Chariots and 345 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:16.559 Chariot series of Israel. Right, this is what he's calling. 346 00:17:16.839 --> 00:17:20.960 This recalls the title Elishah was had given to Elijah. 347 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:25.359 Jehosh feared Elisha's death because he ascribed the nation's well 348 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:28.640 being to Elisha rather than than God. That's what it was. 349 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:33.480 So it revealed his lack of spiritual understanding. So I 350 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:36.039 think this is interesting. It says Elisha was in his 351 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:39.920 last illness, not his first or his tenth in his 352 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:45.079 last illness. So, and it's forty three years between the 353 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:47.039 last time Elisha was mentioned in this time. 354 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:47.960 Yeah, I read that. 355 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:51.720 Did you read that note? Yeah? Yeah, So I hadn't 356 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:52.440 contemplated that. 357 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:54.000 I don't think I even doesn't an old man. 358 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:56.920 Yeah, And forty three years between now and the last 359 00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:58.599 time he's mentioned in the Bible. That doesn't mean he 360 00:17:58.599 --> 00:18:01.920 wasn't doing things. He wasn't serving God. Jehosh recognized me 361 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:03.599 still being a prophet and a man of God, a 362 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:06.480 powerful man of God. But just his actions aren't being 363 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:09.240 recorded at this point, and he's kind of he's in 364 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:13.599 his later years, he's coming towards his last illness. And 365 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:16.720 there's something about that that, you know, all of us 366 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:19.559 want miracles. We love this life so much, we love 367 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:22.759 all these things. We all want miracles. But even Elisha 368 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:26.880 comes to his last time a man of miracles. And 369 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:29.000 the Bible says it's appointed, and a man wants to die. 370 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:32.480 We all have an appointment, right, So the goal isn't 371 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:35.240 to never die in this physical body. The goal is 372 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:36.920 be prepared for this death, because you're going to live 373 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:41.359 for fraternity somewhere, right. And so even Elisha struggled and 374 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:43.960 it wasn't his first illness. And so if you're a 375 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:47.440 person who's struggling with illness or whatever, you know, a 376 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:49.960 perspective would be, I don't have any right to demand 377 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:52.279 anything from God. But what we do know is that 378 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:55.079 Elisha walked with God until his very last breath. Right 379 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:58.759 walking with God is preparing for eternity, accepting the fact 380 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:01.759 that I think sometimes illness and when you're I just 381 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:03.799 had a conversation with a guy who's struggling with cancer 382 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:07.279 right now, and this last week we talked at length, 383 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:10.400 and he said, you know, prior to my cancer, I 384 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:12.599 just lived life and everything was about life. It was 385 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:15.559 about now and me and my kids, and we got 386 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:16.920 to get the Disney and we got to do this thing. 387 00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:18.200 We got to buy the house, and we gotta pay 388 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:21.359 the bills. He said. He was in ministry, serving you, mystry, 389 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:24.319 but his life really was just about this life. He said, 390 00:19:24.359 --> 00:19:27.440 I got faced with cancer and he said, now it's 391 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:30.119 about I want my kids to go to heaven with me. 392 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:31.759 I want my grandkids to go to heaven with me. 393 00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:35.000 Someday I want he said, it's still all about family, 394 00:19:35.160 --> 00:19:39.000 but with a totally different perspective. Right, and he said, 395 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:41.319 I do it. Now. It looks like he's going into 396 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:44.039 remission and things are better for him. I think he's 397 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:47.400 going to live for quite some time. He has goals, 398 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:49.000 you know, he's in his sixties. He has goals for 399 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:53.440 into his seventies. We were talking about those. But when 400 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:57.079 you get an eternal perspective, your priorities are different. I 401 00:19:57.079 --> 00:19:59.920