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 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:13.759 Well, good morning, good morning. 5 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:14.919 There it is. 6 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:20.440 Moaning good morning to you. 7 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:25.359 Yes, all right, there it is. Yes, Hey, good morning everybody. Man, 8 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:27.480 this is Jeff Forrester. 9 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:33.280 There are untold millions lillions that are thrilled today. Because 10 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:34.520 you're saying to them, people. 11 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:36.960 Will comment with their letter and their email. 12 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:37.560 That's right. 13 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:40.640 Hey, listen, good morning. 14 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:42.719 We are the Bible Guys, and we want to welcome 15 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:45.759 you to another episode of this exciting adventure that we're 16 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:46.280 in today. 17 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:49.119 Man, that was so good. It just it. I mean 18 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:56.280 I feel like we peaked literally into the podcast today. 19 00:00:56.320 --> 00:00:56.759 We peak. 20 00:00:57.039 --> 00:00:57.799 That's pretty sad. 21 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:02.159 Well. Hey, so the segment today is Who's most likely? 22 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:04.200 Okay, which I like? 23 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:05.280 You like this? I like that? 24 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:06.319 Yeah, it's fun. 25 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:08.400 Right, Well then do you want to start? Sure? Okay, 26 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:08.640 all right? 27 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:12.719 Number one? Who's most likely to be a favorite sibling? 28 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:13.319 Me or you? 29 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:17.840 Me? No doubt? No, I say me, that's no doubt. Yeah, 30 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:20.159 but I'm the oldest, Oh, so I win? 31 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:21.400 Yeah. 32 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:23.400 Yeah, the oldest son is always the favorite. 33 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.519 The youngest son is the one who the youngest son 34 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:27.359 is the one who's babied. 35 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:30.159 Yeah, it don't matter. Yeah, because he's the most fragile. 36 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:33.319 I say me, no, it's no, there is no what 37 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:36.840 the fight over this one? Okay, yeah, there is no doubt. 38 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:39.120 I have a T shirt that says I'm Mom's favorite. 39 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:42.719 I have a coffee mug it says that I'm the best. 40 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:44.280 So my T shirt is bigger than your coffee mug. 41 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:45.400 It's true. 42 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:47.120 It is true. So there you go. 43 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:50.560 I can't argue with that. What stunning logic. 44 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.680 Stunning, overwhelming bali overwhelming. 45 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:57.760 Debate here, brilliant, just amazed. 46 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:01.599 So when I call my mom, yeah, every time, my 47 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:03.560 mom will be like she always answers the phone. She 48 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:07.599 could see she has call her ID. She always goes hello, right, 49 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:10.759 and go hey, it's your favorite son, and to go 50 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:11.719 which one is it? 51 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:15.439 When I send my cards, I put a K a 52 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:19.560 number five, and then I say your favorite. 53 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:21.719 I think all boys are Mama's favorite. 54 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:24.800 I think so too, Yeah, all right, number two, go ahead. 55 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:26.960 Who's most likely to go to space? Chris? 56 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:34.120 Oh, that's to be honest, I think I might put 57 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:38.680 you there just because your your desire force. 58 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:41.919 Uh, what's who I'm. 59 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:43.960 Looking for get in the gospel everywhere. 60 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:45.879 No, I want to say, I want to say adventure, 61 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:48.960 but I want to say like dumb adventure, dumb adventure, 62 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:51.240 like like I want to say. 63 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:54.080 Like I want to say like. 64 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:54.520 Like risky, risky. 65 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:59.520 I'm looking for it's like it's it's it's senseless, it's unnecessary. 66 00:02:59.680 --> 00:02:59.919 Wow. 67 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:03.159 Right now, I'm not saying you always do that. I'm 68 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:05.560 just saying you're my appetite for it. I'm saying you're 69 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:08.560 more likely to do something like that, like, hey, let's 70 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:09.759 go look at Crocodile's. 71 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:12.080 You wouldn't go to space Coasta Rica adventure. 72 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:15.120 I think I might, but I think. 73 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:18.479 You're more I would definitely go. Yeah. I think if 74 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:20.199 it didn't cost like one hundred and fifty grand to 75 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:22.080 go or whatever it is, or millions of dollars ago, 76 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:25.120 I would I would go. I would go every week. 77 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:27.960 I think I do have that adventure in me. 78 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:28.360 Right. 79 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:30.759 So I've done adventurous things, Yeah, there's no there's no 80 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:34.599 question I've done adventurous things. But I do have a 81 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:39.479 pretty paralyzing fear of both space and deep sea. 82 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:42.080 Oh okay, yeah, I would do both. 83 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:45.960 Yeah, deep sea really truly paralyzes me. I actually do 84 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:47.240 not think I would do deep sea. 85 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:50.360 Like that submarine that just collapsed imploded. Well, I mean 86 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:52.039 if I was on like as it's pretty quick way 87 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:52.240 to go. 88 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:54.479 Yeah. I think I might go on a submarine if 89 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:55.400 it was like the Navy. 90 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:56.759 Oh okay, right, like. 91 00:03:56.919 --> 00:04:00.439 Like an actual, you know, military grade submarine. I wouldn't 92 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:02.719 go in a millionaire's you know too. 93 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:05.560 Being Yeah, hey me, this is my backyard, right, okay? 94 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:06.000 Yeah. 95 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:08.000 Who's most likely to get stuck up a mountain and 96 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:10.479 have to be called to be rescued? I have to 97 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:11.360 call to be rescued. 98 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:14.080 Well, here's the thing. I don't think you'd ever have 99 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:15.080 to be called to be rescued. 100 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:17.040 Yeah, you know what. I don't do well in the mountains. 101 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:20.240 I love them, but I get I run out of 102 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:20.839 gas quick. 103 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:23.199 Okay, yeah, so I don'd say you that. 104 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:26.399 I quit One time going up a mountain. She told 105 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:28.720 me this up a mountain, I just out of gas. 106 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:30.959 And I was with Chad and he ran up ahead 107 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:33.439 of me. We were going up to this Buddhist temple. 108 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:36.040 It was like fifteen hundre year old Buddhist temple we're about. 109 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:38.319 I can't remember. It was eleven or twelve thousand feet 110 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:41.439 up and we were only we'd only been there in 111 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:44.720 that area, I hadn't acclimated. If I acclimate, like the 112 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:47.279 third day, I'm really good. But those that first day 113 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:50.199 I usually have a headache because it's thin. And then 114 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:52.800 the next day my headache. I can make that go 115 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:55.160 aay because I'll always travel with some ibuprofen or something, 116 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:58.759 so the headacheuld go away. But then the I'm just 117 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:01.560 breathless for like a day. It's like, oh my gosh, 118 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:03.480 how these people live here. And then the third or 119 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:06.160 fourth day, then I start getting acclimated. I'm fine. And 120 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:08.279 so we were going up this mountain and we've only 121 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:10.160 been there about twelve hours or something. 122 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:10.800 Uh huh. 123 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:13.720 And I was like, I don't care, you just you 124 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:17.120 just go and tell me bring me a picture, right right? Yeah? 125 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:20.360 So yeah, and I and I honestly I don't have 126 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:22.560 a desire to climb mountains. 127 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:25.360 Yeah. Yeah, Well I told you about that one time 128 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:29.160 that we were going up the mountain in Nepal in 129 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:34.759 the Himalayas and on a one track road and we 130 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:39.759 got passed by a bus. So they were like scraping 131 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:41.399 on the one side of the mountain and we were 132 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:44.160 hanging off the other side of the mountain. Its crazy, 133 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:44.839 It's crazy. 134 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:46.240 That is crazy, all right. 135 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:50.000 Number four, who's most likely to have a collection of 136 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:52.360 unusual items? 137 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:54.560 I don't know. 138 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:56.120 I think I maybe leaned toward me. 139 00:05:56.560 --> 00:05:58.480 Is that you What unusual items do you collect? 140 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:01.240 I don't have any, but but it says more likely 141 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:02.000 I have. 142 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:05.480 I have a collection of unusual items in my office. 143 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.680 So I have that little table, yeah that has I 144 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:15.519 have fossils and and and I have uh an alligator 145 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:17.759 head and I have. 146 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:20.680 Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, right, yeah, you ran. You know 147 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:22.199 what I was thinking of. I was thinking of when 148 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:24.160 I was a kid. When I was a kid, I 149 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:27.199 used to collect all sorts of crazy. 150 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:32.160 Things, did you yeah's cool. Yeah. I had collection upon collection. 151 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:36.800 Bottle caps and comic books and baseball cards as those 152 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:40.079 normal things. Yeah. Okay, so so that was called, by 153 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:43.319 the way, in the old days, those odd collections were 154 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:47.240 called cabinet, a cabinet of curiosities. And it was before 155 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:50.600 museums began. Though very wealthy would travel around the world. 156 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:52.560 They'd find all these amazing things. They bring them home 157 00:06:52.879 --> 00:06:54.639 and then charge people to come in and see them, 158 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:57.800 and so they would have uh, and then it turned 159 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:00.759 into from there, as the scientific method began and being developed, 160 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:05.160 people began to collect those cabinets of curiosities, uh, in 161 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.079 order to be able to do research on rocks and fossils. 162 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:12.120 That was when dinosaurs and fossils began to be discovered again, 163 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:17.560 and gems and all those things, and insect collections and 164 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:20.360 moth collections and all that kind of stuff. It was 165 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:23.560 called the Cabinet of curiosities, and it was a huge 166 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:26.600 collection of cabinet of curiosities that became the British Museum 167 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:30.560 of Natural History, and then that's where all those natural 168 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:33.279 history museums came from. So there you go. I didn't 169 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:36.480 know that every like yawn, but yeah, cabinet Curiosities. I 170 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:38.319 have a book in my office called Cabinet Curiosity. 171 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:39.800 So that's what I figured as much. 172 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:44.399 It was most likely to become a professional video game streamer. Definitely, 173 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:48.759 that's me. Yeah, yeah, hey it most of them all 174 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:49.319 but one. 175 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:53.160 No, no, no favorite sibling. You claim that space, you 176 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:57.480 claim that one mountain to be rescued, that's you. Unusual 177 00:07:57.519 --> 00:07:59.759 items collection, you professional game streamer. 178 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:00.000 You. 179 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:02.040 Yeah, well, we didn't need to name this who's most 180 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:04.199 likely we did see set could have called it Jeff's Amazing. 181 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:08.199 This is the Jeff's Amazing segment we're going to game. 182 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:09.800 It's called Jeff's Amazing. 183 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:11.639 That's so funny. 184 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:16.319 Okay, yeah, I tried to squeeze myself in there, but 185 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:17.279 you talked me out of it. 186 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:21.600 Get out, get out. Yeah, stop stepping on only that 187 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:22.759 kind of negativity in here. 188 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:23.839 Yeah. 189 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:28.120 Well okay, speaking of amazing, yes, we are transitioning into 190 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:32.039 the Book of Micah, which is an amazing book. 191 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:34.840 Of the Bible, just like the other books of the Bible. 192 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:40.399 Or an amazing fact is that Isaiah and Micah were 193 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:45.320 probably friends. Oh, they were contemporaries. They both served in 194 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:49.320 Israel at the same time. Oh yeah, okay, does that help? 195 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:52.360 Is that amazing? It's I'm not sure that true authors 196 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:55.240 to authors in the Bible were right and at the 197 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:55.759 same time. 198 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:59.279 Well, that is actually amazing when you consider that what 199 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:02.559 we had over authors that lived over fifteen hundred years, 200 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:03.879 and most of them didn't even know each other. 201 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:06.720 Well, the authors didn't live over fifteen hundred years. Those 202 00:09:06.759 --> 00:09:10.960 forty authors were spread over that way, I made fifteen years. Yeah, 203 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:12.720 because that would be amazing no. 204 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:17.399 I meant forty people the span of fifteen lived over. 205 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:22.200 Yeah, yeah, lived across a time span of forty of 206 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:25.480 fifteen hundred years. Yes, okay, So we are reading now. 207 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:30.480 Micah is a contemporary of Isaiah, and a lot of 208 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:35.200 his writings and interaction were with Judah, but he did 209 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:38.000 have some things to say to Israel as well. So 210 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:39.799 we're going to just jump in and look at this 211 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:43.840 Micah Chapter one. We're reading the whole chapter, aren't we. Yeah, yep, 212 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:47.120 says the Lord gave this message to Micah of Morrischeth 213 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:50.840 during the years when Jotham, a Has and Hezekiah were 214 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.279 kings of Judah. The visions he saw concerned both Samaria 215 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:58.720 and Jerusalem. Here's the vision. Attention, Let all the people 216 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.440 the world listen. The earth and everything in it here 217 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:04.559 the sovereign Lord is making accusations against you. The Lord 218 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:07.519 speaks from his holy temple. Look, the Lord is coming. 219 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:10.320 He leaves his throne in heaven and tramples the heights 220 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:12.960 of the earth. The mountains melt beneath his feet and 221 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:15.600 flow into the valleys like wax and a fire, like 222 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.399 water pouring down a hill. And why is this happening? 223 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:21.000 Because of the rebellion of Israel. Yes, the sins of 224 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:23.960 the whole nation. Who is to blame for Israel's rebellion? 225 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:28.399 Samaria it's capital city. Where is the center of idolatry? 226 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:32.360 In Judah? In Jerusalem It's capital. So I the Lord 227 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:34.879 will make the city of Samaria a heap of ruins. 228 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:37.720 Her streets will be plowed up for planting vineyards. I 229 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:40.080 will roll the stones of her walls into the valley below, 230 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:43.879 exposing her foundations. All her carved images will be smashed, 231 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:46.519 All her sacred treasures will be burned. These things were 232 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:49.720 bought with the money earned by her prostitution, and they 233 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:53.559 will now be carried away to pay prostitutes elsewhere. Therefore, 234 00:10:53.639 --> 00:10:56.240 I will mourn and lament. I will walk around barefoot 235 00:10:56.279 --> 00:10:58.840 and naked. I will howl like a jackal and moan 236 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:02.159 like an owl. For my people's wound is too deep 237 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:04.799 to heal. It has reached to Judah, even to the 238 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:09.320 gates of Jerusalem. Don't let our enemies in Gath. Don't 239 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:11.759 tell our enemies in Gath. Don't weep at all, you 240 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:15.799 people in beth Leaphra. Is that how you say that? 241 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:17.080 That's sure sounds good? 242 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:17.240 To me. 243 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:20.080 Roll in the dust to show your despair. You people 244 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:23.559 in Shaffir go as captives into exile, naked and shame. 245 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:27.679 The people of Zanan dare not come outside their walls. 246 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:32.600 The people of Bethezo mourn for their house has no support. 247 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:36.440 The people of marath anxiously wait for relief, but only 248 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:38.799 bitterness awaits them. As the Lord's judgment reaches even the 249 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:42.200 gates of Jerusalem. Harness your chariot horses and flee. You 250 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:45.440 people of lakeish You were the city, the first city 251 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:48.080 in Judah to follow Israel in her rebellion, and you 252 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:52.720 let Jerusalem into sin. Sin farewell gives to Morrischeth Gath. 253 00:11:53.159 --> 00:11:55.440 There is no hope of saving it. The town of 254 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:59.159 Acazeb has deceived the kings of Israel. Oh, people of Marishah, 255 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:02.320 I will bring a conquer to capture your town, and 256 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:04.919 the leaders of Israel will go to a dullum. Oh, 257 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:07.320 people of Judah, shave your heads in sorrow, for the 258 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:10.200 children you love will be snatched away. Make yourselves as 259 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:12.159 bald as a vulture, for your little ones will be 260 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:16.600 exiled to distant lands. Well, good morning, good. 261 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:22.600 Morning, Wow, there you go, just just a minute ago 262 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:24.519 you said, you said, there's a there's plenty of bad 263 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:25.399 news with the prophets. 264 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:28.600 Yeah, yeah, and oh yeah that was in between in 265 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:29.519 between between. 266 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:33.519 Yeah, yeah, you said that and uh and uh that 267 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:40.039 that is uh definitely understood, isn't it. So wow, he 268 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:46.240 he really speaks, God speaks against rebellion and idolatry and 269 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:50.279 the city capitals. So it's in Judah and in Samaria, 270 00:12:51.039 --> 00:12:53.879 and he says he will, uh, he will make Samaria 271 00:12:53.919 --> 00:12:56.639 a heap of ruins for streets we plowed up for 272 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:02.720 planting vineyards. So I wonder when that would take place, 273 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:06.159 because you know, oftentimes when there's a prediction that comes 274 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:10.679 upon a region, or a temple or a city or 275 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:14.919 you know, something like that, oftentimes it takes decades, right. 276 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:16.080 Yeah, for it to be fulfilled. 277 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:16.919 Yes, And. 278 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:20.759 So I wonder, I wonder when this did take place. 279 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:26.840 This would have been in that same seven forty What 280 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:31.399 was that that we we had said about Isaiah. Yeah, yeah, 281 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:36.279 it's about the same time. Yeah, So Isaiah is warning 282 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:40.559 the people, but Micah comes in with a really blunt 283 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.440 message and he's giving it to both sides. So what 284 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.240 you have is it says that he wrote this during 285 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:50.600 the that he gave messages to the kings Jotham, a 286 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:54.679 Has and Hazekiah. Both Jotham is Jotham or Joatham, I 287 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:57.559 don't know, and Hezekiah tried to be good kings. As 288 00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:00.360 a matter of fact, Hezekiah began this kind of slow 289 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:05.000 road back to God as a part of Micah's speeches, 290 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:07.600 Micah coming in and preaching and saying you're heading in 291 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:10.840 the wrong direction, and judgment is coming. As Akiah was 292 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:14.159 a king in Judah. And even though northern Israel did 293 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:17.720 not come back to God, Hasekiah tried. He tried to 294 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:21.720 come back to God. He succeeded and failed, and succeeded 295 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:23.480 and failed. But he was trying to lead the people back. 296 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:26.840 But in between, a Has was so wicked he was 297 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:30.440 I remember how horrible a Hab was in northern Israel. 298 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:34.679 A Has was on a multiple of five or ten 299 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.559 compared to a Haveb. He got to the point where 300 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:42.519 he nailed the doors of the temple shut. Right, So 301 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:45.200 not only not only did he set up fake God's 302 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:48.440 for everybody else, he forbade the people of Israel to 303 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:52.720 have any access to God's temple at all, right, so 304 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:56.399 you could not worship God, whereas Ahab never banned the 305 00:14:56.399 --> 00:15:00.559 people of northern Israel East Samaria from worship God. He 306 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:02.799 just set up all the other gods too, and a 307 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:06.519 has banned the people. He nailed the door shut of 308 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:10.000 the temple right, and so it was such an evil time. 309 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:13.000 And so Micah is coming in and he's warning the 310 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:15.240 people that when you choose to live a life apart 311 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:19.799 from God, really there's going to be consequences. As you say, so, 312 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:21.399 he names all these cities. I had a hard time 313 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:23.039 reading a lot of those. The names of those cities, 314 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:26.240 the people reading it would have known. But basically, just 315 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:28.720 choose fifteen of your own cities that you know about. 316 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:31.960 It'd be like him saying, hey, La, you've been wandering 317 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:35.279 from me, and earthquakes are coming. Hey, New York here right, 318 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:39.120 That's what he's doing, Hey, Houston, Hey, Nashville, right, Hey, Chicago. 319 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:41.879 That's what he's doing. Is he's going around and he's 320 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:45.679 just reminding them all these major places. You're not safe 321 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:49.480 anywhere in Israel or anywhere in Judah because you are 322 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:51.759 consciously choosing to walk away from God. 323 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:54.000 Notice you didn't say Detroit in there. 324 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:56.879 No, We're well you and I administering Detroit. Things are 325 00:15:56.919 --> 00:15:57.799 going pretty good, right now. 326 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:01.159 There you go, that's so funny. 327 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:05.559 No, that's not true. Well, I mean there's somethings going 328 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:07.720 there are some good things things, but not because we're 329 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:10.480 ministering in the suburbs and the suburbs of Detroit. 330 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:11.000 Right exactly. 331 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:17.080 So Micah served as a prophet to Judah from seven 332 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:20.360 forty two BC to six eighty seven BC. 333 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:22.080 Right, so that. 334 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:26.240 Would have been what like sixty years, almost fifty something years. 335 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:26.960 That a long time. 336 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:30.720 Yeah, that's pretty good, and it says the climate of 337 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:34.519 the times was king a hash set up pagan idols 338 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:36.679 in the temple and finally held the temples of the 339 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:40.600 door shut for different nations harassed Judah when he When 340 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:43.679 Hezekia became king, the nation began a slow road to 341 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:49.279 recovery and economic strength. Hezekiah probably heeded much of Micah's advice. 342 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:53.559 That's awesome that that, you know, you already pointed that out. 343 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:56.879 But that's pretty cool, you know. And so you know, 344 00:16:57.039 --> 00:17:01.440 God sends the prophets and you know, warns the people 345 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:04.720 and then you know, the people have a choice and 346 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:07.240 the leaders and the rulers. You know, I think that 347 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:11.039 I think that a lot of times we can hear 348 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:15.200 God's promises and his word, and somehow we don't think 349 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.000 that they're for us. We think that maybe their blanket 350 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:21.559 statements that are either ancient and irrelevant, or their blanket 351 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:24.519 statements that maybe you know, or for the general populations 352 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:29.039 populace or population, but we don't think they're necessarily for us, 353 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:31.759 that we don't have to adjust our ways. Have you 354 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:34.400 ever have you ever met somebody who says we just 355 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:36.119 kind of covered this a couple of weeks ago and 356 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:39.759 on this on the sermons in the series, rather that 357 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:42.039 we just did. But it's like, why should I have 358 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:45.039 to change? You know, like why why should I have 359 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:47.240 to sacrifice and change? Why should I have be the 360 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:50.759 one that you know, that that you know, God says this, 361 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:53.279 and all of a sudden, I'm doing it. When everybody 362 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:57.079 around me cheats on their taxes, everybody around me doesn't 363 00:17:57.119 --> 00:17:59.960 do these things, everybody around me gets away with these things. 364 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:02.039 Why should I be the one to have to do that? 365 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:02.920 Right? 366 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:04.960 And it's because, you. 367 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:08.200 Know, hey, when God asks us to do things, it's 368 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:10.920 because he wants blessing for our lives. He wants our 369 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:13.039 lives to go in the right direction, not the wrong one, 370 00:18:13.839 --> 00:18:16.880 you know. And so even back then, imagine how tempting 371 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:19.440 it would have been for kings. He says, Oh, you're 372 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:21.720 heading in the wrong direction. He's like, yeah, but I 373 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:26.960 have riches and fame and glory for myself, and I 374 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:29.519 have all sorts of things. So in order to turn 375 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:32.599 from what they were turning from to go God's way, 376 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:36.039 you know, you know, I think that maybe we are 377 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:37.720 a little harsh on the kings sometimes. 378 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:41.559 Well, they were doing what's politically expedient. Probably very likely 379 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:46.960 the people wanted these gods, right, because the people usually 380 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:50.480 would put pressure on the kings. This is why Solomon 381 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:55.200 allowed his wives to build little temples throughout the country, right, 382 00:18:55.319 --> 00:18:59.000 this is why they it was the people wanted. Jezebel 383 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:04.640 gave the people in Samaria all these groves in these 384 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:07.519 places to worship a lot of times what the people want, 385 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:10.960 and the kings just want power and wealth, that's what 386 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:13.240 they want, and so they give the people what they 387 00:19:13.240 --> 00:19:15.039 think they want or to be able to get. And 388 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:16.880 so a lot of times, I think, and then they 389 00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:20.200 become wicked themselves because they're not following God. So then 390 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:23.680 it's just go through the motions, do the thing, whatever 391 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:26.000 the people want. As long as I can keep my kingdom, 392 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:30.240 I'm fine. And so this is why the judgment of 393 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:32.599 God comes on all of the people, not just on 394 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:36.039 the king right. This is why he names all the cities. 395 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:39.119 There's nowhere to run, there's nowhere to hide. And so 396 00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:46.000 early in Micah's ministry, judgment does come on Samaria, northern Israel. 397 00:19:46.599 --> 00:19:53.200 And then later in Micah's ministry, Senakreb invades Jerusalem, and 398 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:57.319 that was probably what he was talking about. For Jerusalem 399 00:19:57.319 --> 00:19:59.759 as well. Hezekiah held it off for quite some time, 400 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:03.920 but it's still that judgment still came. And the reason, 401 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:05.680