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 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:17.280 Good morning, good morning, we talked the home met through 5 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:21.480 good morning, good morning to you and you and you. 6 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:25.000 I did a little slower that just I know, and 7 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:27.199 it was even better, so much more soul. 8 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:30.640 Yes, actually slow slower than the movie. 9 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:34.320 It was so good, you know. 10 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:38.000 I think I think people would like it if you 11 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:39.119 say it one day it's. 12 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:40.359 Not happening, it's not happening. 13 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:43.200 Well, it's yours. I can't steal it from you, No, 14 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:46.240 I see, people would rather have you do it. 15 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:50.439 Speaking of rather, would you rather? Yeah, it's one of 16 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:53.759 our favorite segments, not necessary transition, but thank. 17 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:56.280 You, necessary transitions. That's one of our new things, not 18 00:00:56.439 --> 00:00:58.399 necessary transitions. 19 00:00:58.840 --> 00:00:59.560 Yeah, Would you rather? 20 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:02.880 One of my favorites because it gives you a choice 21 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:05.200 of ridiculous things and it's fun to think about. 22 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:08.400 There's the first one. Would you rather run into an alien? 23 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:13.079 Or would you rather run into Bigfoot? Yeah? 24 00:01:13.239 --> 00:01:15.760 Like actually run into them, or like. 25 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:18.760 Encounter them, probably just encountering down to them. I don't 26 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:20.680 think like, oh excuse. 27 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:25.840 Me, road, Yeah, the night, Yeah, yeah. 28 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:27.400 I don't think hit them with the car. Yeah, run 29 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:29.400 into me and the count truck. That's why I'm gonna 30 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:29.840 interpret it. 31 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:32.040 Flying down the road through the woods about seventy miles 32 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:35.159 an hour and just blast bigfoot, denali I haven't. 33 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:37.000 I have an answer. I have an answer, and you 34 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:39.319 know what it is? It aliens or no, excuse me, 35 00:01:39.400 --> 00:01:39.959 it's bigfoot. 36 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:42.359 Oh me too, bigfoot total top of the line there. 37 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:44.599 I want Bigfoot to be real. Yeah, and I don't 38 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:46.079 care about aliens, but I want Bigfoot. 39 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:46.560 Yeah. 40 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:49.040 Well, not only that, but like if one alien is 41 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:52.719 actually finally proven to be real, which which by the way, 42 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:56.319 side note, no aliens are proven. We had a couple 43 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:01.400 guys recently get on the witness stand and say, uh, 44 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:05.439 we we think that we saw some things, and you're like, 45 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:06.359 who are you? 46 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:07.159 What did you see? 47 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:11.199 Yeah, well you know what I'm talking about, right, Whereas 48 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:14.719 like remember then then then the media said, uh, we 49 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:16.960 just proved aliens are real, and nobody cares. No, we 50 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:19.159 didn't prove anything, but a couple of guys get there 51 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:21.680 and talk about stuff and it wasn't as if they 52 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:24.000 said we met an alien and his name was fred h. 53 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:25.879 Yeah. We we we need Nailien to come to like 54 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:27.000 a press conference meeting. 55 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:29.120 Right, That's that's when I'll believe it. 56 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:38.599 Right anyway, boom, yeah, as you said, boom, Bigfoot, Yeah, 57 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:42.800 totally cool. Bigfoot would have less implications about the universe, 58 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:47.080 but it would also, you know, satisfy your theory that 59 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:48.360 Bigfoot is always blurry. 60 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:49.439 Yeah, always blurry. 61 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:51.919 Ye, he lives in a state of blurryness. That's right. 62 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:53.800 That's why all the pictures are blurry, right, everyone, because 63 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:54.919 there's lots of pictures of him. 64 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:58.159 Right, but always blurry. You want to the next one, 65 00:02:58.280 --> 00:02:59.960 I do you do. 66 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:00.960 You think big Foot's real? 67 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:01.960 Uh? 68 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:04.159 No, I don't. I kind of hope you is. 69 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:09.319 Okay, you would you rather have a one conversation with 70 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:11.879 your past self or your future self? 71 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:14.199 Oh, this is a great question. 72 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:16.360 If you can go back in time and have a 73 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:18.960 conversation with your past self, or if you can go 74 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:21.960 forward in time and have a conversation with your future self. 75 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:28.000 Go back and help myself out, or go get some 76 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:32.840 help for your current self. It's essentially the same, it is. 77 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:35.199 That's essentially the same. You know, we just got into 78 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:38.199 a loop, right, it's a loop. 79 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:41.039 Well, it also depends on whether you believe the timeline 80 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:44.879 works like Back in the Future or the Avengers, because 81 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:49.919 because do you remember do you remember that conversation and 82 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:53.520 endgame where ant Man comes back and says something about, hey, 83 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:55.960 let's go back and do a time heist, and then 84 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:58.759 somebody says something like, well, then we'll never know because 85 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:01.159 it will affect our current reality. And then the Hulk 86 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:05.240 jumps in and says, time doesn't work like that, and 87 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:09.879 he gives this incredibly awful explanation, just a terrible explanation, 88 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:11.280 and he goes, just. 89 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:12.919 Think about it. He goes, if you go back in 90 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:15.520 the past and that past is your current reality, he goes, 91 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:18.040 then the how could the past be the past when 92 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:19.160 it's actually your future? 93 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:22.120 And really, all he really did was he actually took 94 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:26.399 the timeline and made it about yourself from your perspective, 95 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:29.319 which is a horrible, horrible way too. 96 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:31.680 And that's the only thing I just loathed about the 97 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:36.319 whole thing. I loathed it. But anyway, during. 98 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:39.240 That funny scene, he says, where did you learn that? 99 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:41.000 Hulk says, where did you learn that? And he goes 100 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:44.000 and they started naming they're like every movie Back to 101 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:47.920 the Future. Somewhere in time time after time, time bandits, 102 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:49.680 and they just started going on and on and on 103 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:54.040 about every single movie, right that it affects Looper, right, 104 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:58.199 just all those different things. And so anyway, it depends 105 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:01.519 on how you believe the timeline works. Right, So if 106 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:04.560 the timeline works like every other movie besides The Avengers, 107 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:06.639 I would want to go back and actually talk to. 108 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:08.759 My past self. Oh okay, and I. 109 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:13.439 Would say, let's let's learn some things so that my 110 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:14.879 current reality could be a lot better. 111 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:16.319 That's what I would do. 112 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:19.319 But you don't think having that same conversation with your 113 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:21.879 future self wouldn't have the exact same result. 114 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:26.720 Well, it would definitely change my things from fifty three on. 115 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:28.839 But what if you went to your future self and 116 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:31.120 you said, give you the one thing that you would 117 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:33.120 tell your fifty three year old self, and he's like, 118 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:34.079 hey man, you're. 119 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:35.800 Going to get hit by a bus in two weeks. 120 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:41.279 Right, No, he wouldn't exist, he mean in heaven. He'd 121 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:41.800 be in heaven. 122 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:45.439 So my point is is that hopefully I've learned enough 123 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:48.959 right to where I mean, is there a big drastic 124 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:50.920 things that my seventy year old self would tell me? 125 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:54.079 What if you say, well, what would you tell yourself 126 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:56.560 right now, at fifty three, what would you go back 127 00:05:56.560 --> 00:05:57.839 and tell your thirteen year old self. 128 00:05:58.399 --> 00:05:59.439 It would probably be. 129 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:05.279 Well, I almost hate to say it, it sounds selfish, 130 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:08.000 but it would be a financial thing. But then it 131 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:11.279 would also be relationship things, right. 132 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:15.879 Not not spousal in twenty sixteen, Yeah, do everything you 133 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:18.959 can between now in twenty sixteen to save up as 134 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:23.399 much money as possible and spend all of it on bitcoin, right, yeah, 135 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:25.720 because you're gonna buy it for pennies and then it's 136 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:29.480 going to be selling for one hundred thousand dollars, right right, yeah, And. 137 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:31.600 Then and some of it relational, some of it some 138 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:34.879 of the work related maybe, right, Hey, that's good. 139 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:38.000 I like that. Maybe i'd take back a sports almanac. 140 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:42.240 Oh right, yeah, Oh that's good. 141 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:44.439 I like it. That's good for you, what about you? 142 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:49.600 I'm splitty the way it feels good both directions. I'm 143 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:52.560 more of a forward thinker than I am a backward thinker. 144 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:55.720 Yeah, so okay, all right. Number three. 145 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:59.160 Would you rather go a year without desserts or have 146 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:04.959 to eat a spoonful full of with Sabbi every single day? 147 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:07.959 That's easy for me, Actually, I don't eat a lot 148 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:10.800 of desserts. So I don't want to eat a spoonful 149 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:13.720 of sabi every day sixty five with Sabby's. 150 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:15.160 I don't want to eat with sabbi ever. 151 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:18.240 Oh I love a sabi, I don't like I just 152 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:21.120 don't eat it straight. I don't like whatsabi. It's like 153 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:22.279 Majer and cars too. 154 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:23.639 I got a little piece of with sabi in the 155 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:25.240 back of my throat, on that hanging down part in 156 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:27.360 the back of your throat. I thought I was gonna die, 157 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:29.399 like die die cars too. 158 00:07:29.839 --> 00:07:32.480 Yes, Major thinks it's ice cream and. 159 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:36.439 He goes the ice cream has turned don't eat the 160 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:37.199 ice cream? 161 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:41.600 Okay, so I would too. 162 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:42.360 All right. Number four? 163 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:46.480 Would you rather have tons of mediocre friends or one 164 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:48.920 really loyal dog? 165 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:53.040 I already have both. That's hilarious. Oh thanks. 166 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:59.319 The Baba guys with Christ and his mediocre friends have 167 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:04.160 or no, sorry I said that wrong. Definitely, but one 168 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:08.240 really loyal dog or tons of mediocre friends. If that's 169 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:12.040 the choice, Wow, I don't even know. 170 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:14.800 What the other options are. 171 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:17.959 Like, Does that mean that you can't have a loyal 172 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:19.319 friend if you have mediocre friends? 173 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:21.879 It seems to be the implication, right. 174 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.480 It seems I think that it's supposed to be exclusionary, 175 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:27.759 like you won't have any really loyal friends, only tons 176 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:30.879 of media friends. Seems to be, although the lawyer in 177 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:34.039 me doesn't the lawyer may says, it doesn't say you 178 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:36.759 don't have great friends, you just have a pile of 179 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:37.519 mediocre ones. 180 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:38.799 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 181 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:40.840 All right, So I'm gonna have to choose one based 182 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:43.279 on what you said, which is the assumption here. So 183 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:46.240 I'm gonna say I would rather have a ton of 184 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:48.879 mediocre friends than one really loyal dog. 185 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:51.039 Really, I think I would do. 186 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:53.720 Yeah, that makes sense your personality. 187 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:57.960 Yeah, I'm a huge extrovert and dogs die, they do, 188 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:02.879 they do friends, but longer, it takes longer. Yeah, I 189 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:03.799 don't know what about you. 190 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:05.279 Yeah, it would be the dog for me. 191 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:10.840 Really yeah yeah, yeah, that's that's crazy. All right, last one, 192 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:12.279 go ahead. 193 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:15.320 Because I think the whole that that's that's basically your 194 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:21.919 Facebook what Oh yeah, yeah, Okay, would you rather be 195 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:29.399 the smartest or the funniest person in the room. 196 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:31.279 I'm actually going to say the smartest? 197 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:32.919 Me too, Yeah, me too. 198 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:33.480 Yeah. 199 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:36.840 Wisdom is the principal thing. Yes, that's what Solomon said. Yep, 200 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:40.200 And I like smart, smart doesn't mean wise. 201 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:44.039 But and by the way, it doesn't mean you're not funny. 202 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:45.120 You're not the funniest. 203 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:50.360 Right If you're the smartest and the second funniest. 204 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:50.960 Then you're golden. 205 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:55.639 Yeah right, Yeah, Smartest is a pretty great thing to 206 00:09:57.080 --> 00:09:58.960 strive to be, right, but. 207 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:02.679 You can be. Have you met super smart people that 208 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:07.840 aren't wise? That aren't smart people? Oh? Yeah, yeah for sure. 209 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:11.720 So it's not saying wise, it's acknowledged. This is a 210 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:14.320 knowledge based thing. So the one who knows all the 211 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:16.759 facts or the funniest. 212 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:20.559 Now, that reminds me of you know, the do you 213 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:22.639 see the Hunger Games? Remember that? 214 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:26.600 Remember the technology couple? Uh they were just so awkward socially. 215 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:28.320 Yeah, yeah, yeah, they were just they they it. 216 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:31.639 Was just like they laughed to themselves and they understood everything, 217 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:35.559 you know. So yeah, I think of like, you could 218 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:39.000 be really really smart and be like completely awkward socially 219 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:42.159 and yeah. 220 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:43.399 You know who was really smart in the Bible? 221 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:45.120 Oh Solomon? 222 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:50.919 Oh has the kaya learned by watching the bad stuff 223 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:53.519 happening in Israel direction? 224 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:57.240 Speaking of smart? Yes, that's a good transition. 225 00:10:56.840 --> 00:11:01.799 Speaking of which we have to tell Desiree that we 226 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:03.600 changed the pattern or the order. 227 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:08.720 Yes, yes, so, yes, that's right. 228 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:13.360 Hezekiah is mentioned in Second Chronicles, chapter twenty nine. So 229 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:17.799 we've been reading a little bit with Isaiah. Isaiah warns Judah. Already, 230 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:20.440 we have read some of Isaiah where he had warned 231 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:25.559 Samaria and the northern tribes and then they get wiped out. 232 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:28.840 We read that in Second Chronicles, and now here we 233 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:32.320 are again. In Second Chronicles, chapter twenty nine, verse three. 234 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:35.039 He says, in the very first month of the first 235 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:38.519 year of his reign, Hezekiah reopened the doors of the 236 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:41.960 Temple of the Lord and repaired them. So he's in 237 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:46.960 his first hundred days. Yeah, and he's reforming. He's making changes, man. 238 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:48.360 Yeah, that's that's welcomed. 239 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:50.720 A whole bunch of executive orders right. 240 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:52.600 Here, right on the first day he signs them. 241 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:54.720 Yeah. First month of the first year of his reign, 242 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:57.480 he summoned the priests and levites to meet him at 243 00:11:57.480 --> 00:11:59.480 the courtyard east of the temple, and he said to them, 244 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:03.279 listen to me, you levites, purify yourselves and purify the 245 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:06.279 temple of the Lord, the god of our ancestors. Remove 246 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:09.960 all the defiled things from the sanctuary. Our ancestors were 247 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:12.360 unfaithful and did what was evil in the sight of 248 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:14.279 the Lord, our God. They abandoned the Lord in his 249 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:16.720 dwelling place. They turned their backs on him, and they 250 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:19.200 also shut the doors to the temple's entry room, and they 251 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:21.919 snuffed out the lamps. They stopped the burning incense and 252 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:24.679 presenting offerings at the sanctuary of the God of Israel. 253 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:27.759 That is why the Lord's anger has fallen upon Judah 254 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:31.120 and Jerusalem. He has made them an object of dread, horror, 255 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:33.639 and ridicule, as you can see with your own eyes. 256 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:36.159 Because of this, our fathers have been killed in battle, 257 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:38.960 and our sons and daughters and wives have been captured. 258 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:41.000 But now I will make a covenant with the Lord, 259 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:42.799 the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger will 260 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:45.679 turn away from us. My sons, do not neglect your 261 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:48.360 duties any longer. Lord has chosen you to stand in 262 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:50.559 his presence, to minister to him and to lead the 263 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:53.919 people in worship and present offerings to him. Then these 264 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:56.159 levites got right to work. From the klan of Kohath. 265 00:12:56.200 --> 00:12:58.679 It was Mayhaff the son of a Amesi, and Joel, 266 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:01.720 the son of Azariah, from the clan of Mauri. It 267 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:05.840 was Kish son of Abde and Azariah the son of Jahaleel. 268 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:09.600 There's a name from the clan of Gershon. It was Joah, 269 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:13.200 the son of Zima and Eden son of Joah from 270 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:17.120 the family of Eliza Fan. It was Shimri and Jail 271 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:20.679 from the family of Asaf. There's Zachary and Matt and 272 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:22.279 Ayah from the family of he Man. 273 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:24.480 What man. 274 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:30.679 So Unnyman, Yeah, I don't know, it's spelled he Man. 275 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:32.799 Which that's I'm just gonna leave it that man. 276 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:33.480 I want it to be as. 277 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:37.559 Probably is Hima all the powers of gray school Yea 278 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:42.559 from the family of Himan. Probably Jehiel and SHIMII from 279 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:48.000 the family of Jeduthan is Shama Ayah and Uzel Usaiel whatever. 280 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:50.679 These men called together their fellow levites, and they all 281 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:53.320 purified themselves. And then they began to cleanse the temple 282 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:56.159 of the Lord, just as the king had commanded. They 283 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:58.879 were careful to follow all the Lord's instructions in their work, 284 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:00.759 and the priests went into the same where the temple 285 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:03.519 the Lord declines it. It took out to the temple 286 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:06.399 courtyard all the defiled things they found. From there, the 287 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:09.240 levites carted it all into the kid Ron Valley. They 288 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:11.559 began to work in early spring, on the first day 289 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:13.600 of the new year, and in eight days they had 290 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.039 reached the entry room of the Lord's temple. Then they 291 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.279 purified the temple of the Lord itself, which took another 292 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:22.960 eight days, so the entire task was completed in sixteen days. 293 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:26.399 Yeah you want me to keep going, No, we can. 294 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:27.720 We can dedicate the temple tomorrow. 295 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:31.399 Yeah, well, we'll dedicate temple tomorrow. Actually, Hezekiah can dedicate it. 296 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:32.120 We'll read about it. 297 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:38.559 Okay, But hey, listen, I love the feeling of reform, 298 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:39.480 and good. 299 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:41.440 News is a great thing. 300 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:46.080 And I you know, sometimes when you're in under a 301 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:49.639 regime or an administration where you're just like when. 302 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:52.559 Will it end? It's just more bad news, you know. 303 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:55.720 And then somebody comes along and says, hey, I'm not 304 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:58.840 going to waste any time. In this case, it's Hezekiah 305 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:03.200 saying I'm going to finally listen to everything. Not only 306 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:05.759 that was spoken by the Lord, our God, but for ancestors, 307 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:09.159 but but what history dictates. We can look back and 308 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:12.360 we can see what happened in history, and let's connect 309 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:15.240 the dots to everything. God has said, And so he 310 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:18.639 decides to, you know, tell the people like, you know, 311 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:21.480 let me educate you. Right, let's learn from the history. 312 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:24.399 Let's learn from the past. And and my sons, do 313 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:26.919 not neglect your duties any longer. He's talking to the 314 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:31.200 future generations about the past generations. Uh. And and by 315 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.399 the way, there's a sermon in there somewhere where where 316 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:36.440 you know, let's not learn the hard way. Let's learn 317 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:39.279 from those who have gone before us. Right, let's learn 318 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:41.080 from let's learn from those who've already. 319 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:43.480 Made the mistakes. Yeah, exactly, let's let's get wisdom. 320 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:45.960 And by the way, that's that could be both proactive 321 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:49.399 and also reactive. And we could we could learn from 322 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:51.759 past mistakes, but also we could we can go and 323 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:54.600 seek people out and say, give me some advice. 324 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:56.759 Have you ever have you ever done that? Have you 325 00:15:56.759 --> 00:15:57.159 ever done? 326 00:15:57.200 --> 00:16:00.759 Like yes, at a baby shower at your church, you know, 327 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:02.440 there's a couple of you know, who are pregnant. They're 328 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:04.279 having a baby shower, and you go around the room 329 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:06.840 and you say, okay, let's all give them one piece 330 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:07.360 of wisdom. 331 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:09.840 Have you ever done that? Ye? Where you say, like, hey. 332 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:11.480 If I haven't been to a lot of baby showers. 333 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:12.799 Okay, we just do that. 334 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:15.759 Yeah, when we're really really small, when our church was 335 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:18.399 like two hundred people, my first church, we would, you know, 336 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:21.159 have a celebration for this young couple and we would say, 337 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:23.240 let's go around the room and let's give them one 338 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:24.039 piece of advice. 339 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:26.639 And I'm telling you it is some of the best. 340 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:28.759 I was used to look around because I was younger 341 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:31.279 at the time, and I thought to myself, Gosh, there's 342 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:34.399 so much wisdom in the room, right from so many 343 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:37.360 godly people. And if they're going to look back over 344 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:39.679 thirty years of parenting and say, if you're going to 345 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:43.399 learn one thing, learn this, it's like, you know, pay attention, 346 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:48.639 grab a pen, write this down. And So Hezekiah is 347 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:51.919 just doing wonderful things, opening the temple of the Lord. 348 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:55.519 You know, he's about to dedicate it sixteen days, cleaning 349 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:59.240 everything up, removing all the false, defiled things from the sanctuary. 350 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:00.639 Gosh inspiring. 351 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:06.079 Remember when we talked about how what was that guy's name? 352 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:10.559 It's here you know now he man that was a 353 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:14.799 cool name, tig Lath Policer. He was the one who 354 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:21.079 invaded from Assyria and wiped out northern Israel. That was 355 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:26.599 prophecy fulfilled. So it's not like the people in Judah 356 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:30.559 hadn't already heard the prophecies. This is a small space, right, 357 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.279 I mean from top to bottoms, ninety miles or so, 358 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:36.519 from from well from Jerusalem up to the sea Galilee 359 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.839 so to Samaria, so it's it's not a very big space. 360 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:43.200 The prophets in the north were speaking and connected to 361 00:17:43.240 --> 00:17:45.640 the prophits in the south, and vice versa. Sometimes the 362 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:48.039 prophets were going in both directions at the same time, right, 363 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:51.920 Elijah did Elijah did? They were going in up north 364 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:53.680 and down south the same time, so they would have 365 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:57.319 heard these things. So to see this Assyrian king come 366 00:17:57.319 --> 00:18:00.519 in and wipe out Israel and then to pause and go, 367 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:03.359 you know, Isaiah said that was going to happen, right, 368 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:05.839 and then it did. Oh wait a minute, what did 369 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:08.319 Isaiah say in chapter one? He said, it's gonna happen 370 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:12.240 to us too, right, right, And it's in that context 371 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:17.079 that Hezekiah goes, I don't want to learn by experience. 372 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:21.480 I'm going to learn from the experience of others, and 373 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:25.200 so he changes his direction. It's literally in the first 374 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:28.000 month of the first year of his reign. He goes, listen, 375 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:32.759 I'm cleaning house. We're gonna we're going to do everything 376 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:34.400 the way that God said to do it. We're going 377 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:37.599 to rebuild, We're going to re enlist all of the leaders. 378 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:40.640 And you know, the lee Btes were pretty stagnant. They 379 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:42.920 hadn't been doing anything. A lot of Christians will get 380 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:46.759 that way sometimes they haven't been doing anything. And then 381 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:50.720 it took them sixteen days from the time they finally 382 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:53.920 opened the doors to the entrance into the town, just 383 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:57.160 to clean out all the jump. So they had remember 384 00:18:57.160 --> 00:18:59.079 remember we had read about how that one with the 385 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:03.319 One King, he'd put a new bowl. He had moved 386 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:06.359 the sea, the big bowl of water over, he put 387 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:08.799 it in a new altar, and he did all these things. 388 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:11.000 They brought in all these other gods. They brought it out, 389 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.599 and then it just turned into a warehouse. They weren't 390 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:15.640 using it even for their bad worship. They just weren't 391 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:19.720 using it right. They had gone completely secular with regard 392 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:21.799 to the way that the government was doing things. They 393 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:24.920 had left off all of their religious stuff. Well here 394 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:27.160 in the temple, they were doing their religious stuff out. 395 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:31.799 In the mountains. As did that because he saw the Assyrians, and. 396 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:34.160 Yeah, he was one who brought in all the the 397 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:35.400 fake altar and all that stuff. 398 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:36.119 Yeah. Yeah. 399 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:38.839 So Satan Chronicles twenty nine to eleven, there's a note 400 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:41.039 in the Life Application of Study Bible says the Levites, 401 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:43.240