Class 3 from this series was used for GCT Episode 216.<\/p>\n
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\nOur first period teacher is
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\nJason Hensley.
\nHis General subject is Elijah. <\/p>\n
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\nA man of like passions, today’s
\ntopic is ahab’s Israel, brother,<\/p>\n
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\nJason, good morning everyone.
\nIt’s very nice to be here to see<\/p>\n
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\nyou all Ruth and I left
\nCalifornia on June 18th and we <\/p>\n
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\njust got back so it’s very nice.
\nIt’s very nice to be back. <\/p>\n
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\nWe ring the greetings of your
\nbrothers and sisters at <\/p>\n
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\nShippensburg.
\nSo in Pennsylvania, I’m sure <\/p>\n
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\nthey would love to see you all.
\nWe’re going to be talking about <\/p>\n
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\nElijah this week, which is a
\ntopic that I actually I <\/p>\n
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\nrequested to talk about it
\nbecause I was so excited about <\/p>\n
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\nElijah and the committee very
\nnicely said. <\/p>\n
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\nOkay that that would be fine.
\nSo what we’re going to do as we <\/p>\n
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\nwalk through this series on
\nElijah’s today, we’re going to <\/p>\n
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\ntalk about ahab’s.
\nIsrael, to First, we’re going to<\/p>\n
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\nlook at what was the text that
\nElijah was living in and then <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re going to spend time
\nessentially looking at his early<\/p>\n
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\nlife.
\nSo tomorrow is going to be about<\/p>\n
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\nElijah’s drought.
\nSo we’re going to actually spend<\/p>\n
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\nan entire class on 1st Kings 17
\nverse 1. <\/p>\n
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\nI know it’s kind of crazy but
\nit’s Phil, you know, that makes <\/p>\n
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\nit fun, right?
\nSo, we’ll do First Kings 17 <\/p>\n
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\nverse 1 tomorrow, we’re going to
\ntalk about the Ravens. <\/p>\n
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\nYou remember that Elijah fed by
\nRavens. <\/p>\n
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\nSo, we’ll discuss Elijah at the
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\nwe’ll talk about Elijah with the
\nWidow, then Mount Carmel. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is going to be an
\ninteresting thing to discuss. <\/p>\n
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\nNot caramel particularly because
\nI don’t know about you. <\/p>\n
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\nBut when somebody says Elijah,
\nwhat do you think of? <\/p>\n
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\nLike you usually think about
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\nkind of how I always pictured
\nhim. <\/p>\n
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\nI saw this guy with a really big
\nbeard, right? <\/p>\n
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\nWe know he was Harry.
\nSo he had it had a real big <\/p>\n
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\nbeard.
\nAnd you almost see him striking,<\/p>\n
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\nlike a superhero pose, right?
\nAnd his beards like blowing in <\/p>\n
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\nthe wind would, like, triumphant
\nmusic in the background or <\/p>\n
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\nsomething.
\nSo that’s how I always pictured.<\/p>\n
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\nElijah.
\nMaybe you weren’t that way, but <\/p>\n
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\nto me, he was like the superhero
\nguy who went up and said you <\/p>\n
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\nguys are losers get with it,
\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nRight.
\nAnd you’re like, wow, he’s so <\/p>\n
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\ncool.
\nI wish I could be that cool. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re going to see, I think that
\nit scripture actually paints a <\/p>\n
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\nlittle bit of a different
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\nand I think that’s going to be
\nreally helpful. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s really what we’re
\ngoing to get to. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen we talk about Mount Carmel,
\nit’s all going to kind of lead <\/p>\n
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\nup to that.
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\nwhen we talk about the voice, as
\nhe leaves caramel and goes to <\/p>\n
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\nMount Sinai and that’s where
\nwe’re going to finish it now. <\/p>\n
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\nI know that’s not the full
\nElijah story, there’s still a <\/p>\n
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\nfew other pieces here but that
\nis the point. <\/p>\n
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\nAt Mount Sinai in Elijah story
\nwhen he is told by God. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know what, you need to go,
\nanoint someone else. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it’s almost like this is the
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\ngoing to keep working with you
\nand I’m gonna keep working <\/p>\n
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\nthrough you but your time as a
\nprophet is dwindling down. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s where we’re going to
\ntake it this week and what I <\/p>\n
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\nhope we can see is that maybe if
\nyou had that Superhero picture <\/p>\n
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\nof Elijah that maybe we can have
\na more realistic picture. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s one of the things that I
\nthink is is just beautiful about<\/p>\n
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\nthe Bible and it makes it unique
\nas far as a lot of books. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that is it actually paints
\npeople as they are. <\/p>\n
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\nIt paints people as they are,
\nyou know, it says, here’s <\/p>\n
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\nsomebody who did some really
\ngood things, but they had some <\/p>\n
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\nreal struggles that they went
\nthrough and sometimes in our <\/p>\n
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\ndesire for heroes or things like
\nthat or or, you know, I read a <\/p>\n
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\nlot of books for kids, right?
\nBecause I have a lot of kids. <\/p>\n
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\nSo you read a lot of kids books
\nand you always get. <\/p>\n
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\nHere’s the bad. <\/p>\n
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\nGuy and life’s not really that
\nway. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s there’s not somebody <\/p>\n
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\nyeah, everything that person <\/p>\n
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\never did in their life was bad.
\nThere’s nobody like that, right?<\/p>\n
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\nAnd so scripture shows us that’s
\nnot true. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, you look at Elijah and
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\nHe was a good guy, but was <\/p>\n
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\nGood. <\/p>\n
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\nrecognize. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is actually the picture <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s the plan. <\/p>\n
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\nEach class is going to have a
\nmain message. <\/p>\n
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\nThis first message today is that
\nGod is in control. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the main thing that we
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\nSo I teach Middle School.
\nI recognized, you know, that as <\/p>\n
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\nremember more than one line. <\/p>\n
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\nRemember this one line, and I
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\nThese are lessons that Elijah <\/p>\n
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\nTomorrow’s is going to be that <\/p>\n
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\nThis one’s kind of long? <\/p>\n
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\nGod gives lessons that push us
\nbeyond our comfort zones. <\/p>\n
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\nus in situations where we say. <\/p>\n
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\nto do. <\/p>\n
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\nyou know, this doesn’t feel like<\/p>\n
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\nit’s what I should do, you know,
\nand and it and it makes you a <\/p>\n
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\nGod gives lessons though these <\/p>\n
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\njudgment and that’s a big one. <\/p>\n
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\nto you as Elijah’s this was the <\/p>\n
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\nCrux of Elijah’s big problem.
\nIt wasn’t that the Judgment was <\/p>\n
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\nthought he could decide when it <\/p>\n
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\nSo God decides when it’s time <\/p>\n
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\nSunday Saturday Saturday we’re <\/p>\n
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\nand this is something that I <\/p>\n
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\nsee Elijah saying, no, it can’t <\/p>\n
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\nGod, that’s not okay. <\/p>\n
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\nalmost like Elijah’s running and<\/p>\n
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\nhitting his head against the
\nwall over and over and over. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd God says, no, it actually is
\nand he brings him back over. <\/p>\n
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\naway and hits his head against <\/p>\n
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\nactually it is that way. <\/p>\n
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\nThings is that God says Elijah. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’ve devoted yourself to me.
\nI’m not going to let you go. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, I am going to teach
\nyou this and you’re going to <\/p>\n
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\nyou and make you live in a cave,<\/p>\n
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\nYou will learn this lesson. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we’re going to see that in
\nthe story of Elijah today. <\/p>\n
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\nWith ahab’s Israel, here’s the
\nplan. <\/p>\n
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\nWe have three sections as always
\nJeroboams religion. <\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s discuss a little bit
\nabout jeroboam because that’s <\/p>\n
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\nthe big reason that it provides <\/p>\n
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\na context is because Omri is
\nahab’s, father. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Omri.
\nWe’re told does worse than <\/p>\n
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\nSo we need to understand how bad<\/p>\n
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\ntherefore understand how bad <\/p>\n
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\nOmri was.
\nBecause, you know what? <\/p>\n
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\nIt says when Ahab became king he
\ndid Worse than everyone who came<\/p>\n
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\nbefore him, right?
\nSo, you know, it was like a <\/p>\n
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\nchain of Badness, right?
\nLike going up steps here. <\/p>\n
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\nSo with Ahab, you actually get
\nthat he was worse than all <\/p>\n
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\nmurmuring.
\nSo as we put this together, what<\/p>\n
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\nwe want to be able to see is
\nokay. <\/p>\n
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\nJeroboam was bad, Omri was bad
\nbad and Ahab was bad, bad bad. <\/p>\n
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\nAll right, so that’s that’s what
\nwe’re going to see is we put <\/p>\n
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\nNow again, the Bible doesn’t <\/p>\n
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\nSo we’re going to notice Yes, <\/p>\n
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\nbut there are good things he <\/p>\n
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\ndoes.
\nAnd that’s a helpful thing to <\/p>\n
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\nthat God is in control. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that education is powerful.
\nI had to put that in, you know, <\/p>\n
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\nThis is this is what God wants
\nto use to change the World to <\/p>\n
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\nChange lives.
\nIt’s not that you go up and you <\/p>\n
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\nit’s that the word of God <\/p>\n
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\nThis is what changes things when<\/p>\n
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\nabout, what does it mean to <\/p>\n
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\nI always like to have why <\/p>\n
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\nWhere we ask, why is it like <\/p>\n
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\nSo here’s something to Stew on <\/p>\n
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\nduring this class why was Ahab
\nworse than everyone else. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat made him so bad and in
\nfact, you know, like, how do you<\/p>\n
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\ndefine that Omri?
\nOmri was bad bad. <\/p>\n
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\nSo, how do you get worse than
\nbad bad? <\/p>\n
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\nLike, what does that mean?
\nDoes that mean, you know, Omri <\/p>\n
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\nworshipped Idols for like nine
\nhours every day and a have <\/p>\n
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\nworshipped them 10 hours.
\nLike how do you, how do you <\/p>\n
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\ndefine that?
\nLike, what does it look like? <\/p>\n
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\nSo, that’s what we want to try
\nand figure out what, what made a<\/p>\n
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\nSo as we start, let’s discuss <\/p>\n
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\njeroboam.
\nAll right, now let’s talk about <\/p>\n
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\nhis last name, jeroboam the son
\nof nebat of nebat, who made <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael sin, right?
\nSo, this is the last name of <\/p>\n
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\njeroboam basically, you see it
\nbasically, every time he shows <\/p>\n
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\nup, That would really be sad.
\nI don’t know if you ever thought<\/p>\n
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\nabout that, but like, you know,
\nif you were named like Jason, <\/p>\n
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\nlike that, like that that’s <\/p>\n
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\nessentially like, what what
\nhappens when it shows up with <\/p>\n
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\njeroboam.
\nSo he becomes jeroboam the son <\/p>\n
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\nof nebat who made Israel sin,
\nlike the guy who messed up <\/p>\n
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\neverything.
\nOkay? <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s jeroboam.
\nNow, let’s talk about how he did<\/p>\n
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\nit.
\nSo, basically, if you look at <\/p>\n
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\nalmost every king of Israel, you
\nwill notice Is that there are <\/p>\n
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\ndescribed as walking in the sins
\nof jeroboam, not all of them, so<\/p>\n
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\njeroboams not described that
\nway. <\/p>\n
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\nBut I mean, that’s kind of
\nobvious because he was jeroboam.<\/p>\n
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\nSo he obviously walked in his
\nown sins. <\/p>\n
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\nEla is not described that way,
\nbut all these other kings here <\/p>\n
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\nare in addition.
\nLet me show you the rest of the <\/p>\n
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\nHere’s the other kings, you <\/p>\n
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\nmight want to just take a
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\nyou the slides.
\nSo, you will notice so far we’ve<\/p>\n
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\nseen Ela was not described as
\nsinning after the way of <\/p>\n
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\njeroboam.
\nSo we have two kings. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, if you want to count
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\njeroboam out of 18.
\nThat’s pretty bad. <\/p>\n
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\nOh sorry.
\nThere there’s Scioscia I forgot <\/p>\n
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\nhe was the last one.
\nSo you got three out of 19 Kings<\/p>\n
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\nwho are not directly associated
\nwith jeroboam sin. <\/p>\n
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\nHowever, if you look at, when
\nGod destroys Israel, here’s how <\/p>\n
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\nhe describes the destruction.
\nSecond Kings, 17 21 to 23. <\/p>\n
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\nIt says, when he had torn Israel
\nfrom the House of David, they <\/p>\n
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\nmade jeroboam the son of nebat
\nKing, jeroboam drove Israel, <\/p>\n
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\nfrom following the Lord, and
\nmade them commit. <\/p>\n
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\nGreat sin.
\nThe people of Israel walked in <\/p>\n
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\nall the sins of jeroboam did.
\nAnd look at this, they did not <\/p>\n
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\ndepart from them until the Lord
\nremoved Israel out of his sight.<\/p>\n
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\nSo even though three of those
\nkings are not described as <\/p>\n
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\nfollowing in jeroboam sin.
\nGod’s Divine summary here is <\/p>\n
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\nthat sin never stopped.
\nThat was always what was going <\/p>\n
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\non with Israel?
\nokay, so as you can perhaps <\/p>\n
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\nEnvision on the Badness meter
\nhere, jeroboams sin, Would you <\/p>\n
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\nagree it ranks?
\nPretty high, right? <\/p>\n
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\nLike this is this is not so
\ngood. <\/p>\n
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\nOkay, well what we want to ask,
\nthen we’re always asking this <\/p>\n
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\nquestion, why?
\nWhy was this so sticky? <\/p>\n
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\nYou know what made it so that
\nevery single king after jeroboam<\/p>\n
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\nsaid, oh yeah those cows, you
\nknow those golden cows. <\/p>\n
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\nYeah.
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\nYou know that that I gotta do
\nthat. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy, you know, it’s it just
\nseems even kind of random like <\/p>\n
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\nwho actually wants to bow down
\nto a golden cow anyway. <\/p>\n
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\nhad very strong sticking power. <\/p>\n
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\nwas this sin? <\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s talk about what
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\nread this.
\nSee, if you notice, what is so <\/p>\n
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\nSneaky about what jeroboam does.
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\nthere’s there’s strong
\nsneakiness here and that <\/p>\n
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\nsneakiness makes jeroboam ‘s
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\nstay around.
\nSo, look for the sneakiness <\/p>\n
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\nhere, first, Kings 12, 26 to 29.
\nI’m this isn’t the ESV, by the <\/p>\n
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\nway.
\nAnd jeroboam said, in his heart.<\/p>\n
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\nNow, the kingdom will turn back
\nto the house of David. <\/p>\n
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\nIf this people go up to others
\nto offer sacrifices in the <\/p>\n
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\ntemple of the Lord of Jerusalem,
\nthen the heart of this people <\/p>\n
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\nwill turn again to their lord to
\nrehoboam King of Judah. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they will kill me and return
\nto riobamba King of Judah. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the king had counsel and made
\ntwo calves of gold. <\/p>\n
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\nHe said to the people you have
\ngone up to Jerusalem long <\/p>\n
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\nenough.
\nBehold your God’s o Israel, who <\/p>\n
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\nbrought you up out of the land
\nof Egypt? <\/p>\n
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\nHe set one in Bethel and the
\nother he put in An now, what do <\/p>\n
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\nyou notice?
\nAnybody, you’re going to shout <\/p>\n
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\nthis out if you want.
\nI don’t know if you feel <\/p>\n
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\ncomfortable with that or not,
\nbut I don’t mind. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat was that since like, the
\nWilderness outside of Sinai, you<\/p>\n
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\nmight notice.
\nIn fact, so you got two kinds of<\/p>\n
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\ncold right.
\nIn addition, he says, behold <\/p>\n
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\nyour God, who brought you up out
\nof the land of Egypt? <\/p>\n
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\nWhich I don’t know if you’re
\naware is actually a quote from <\/p>\n
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\nExodus 32.
\nSo, quote of Exodus 32 for when <\/p>\n
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\nAaron says that to the people.
\nNow, here’s an interesting <\/p>\n
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\npiece.
\nWhen Erin says to the people, <\/p>\n
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\nbehold your Gods who brought you
\nup out of the land of Egypt. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you know what he says in the
\nnext verse he says, tomorrow is <\/p>\n
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\nA feast unto Yahweh.
\nThat’s fascinating, right? <\/p>\n
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\nHere’s this cow right.
\nAnd Aaron says, oh, and by the <\/p>\n
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\nway, everybody tomorrow, we’re
\ngoing to dance around. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re going to celebrate what
\nYahweh has done and everybody <\/p>\n
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\nwould be looking in there.
\nLike, but Aaron that’s a cow, <\/p>\n
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\nyou know?
\nLike what do you mean? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd for Aaron this wasn’t a oh,
\nwe’re going to make Idols <\/p>\n
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\nbecause we know Idols have
\npower. <\/p>\n
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\nEverybody knew God.
\nDelivered them from Egypt. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Aaron was saying, well, we
\nhaven’t seen Moses. <\/p>\n
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\nWe don’t know where Moses went.
\nSo let’s get a replacement. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, let’s have something
\nwe can actually see touch. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he says this Idol here, this
\nrepresents Yahweh to us, so you <\/p>\n
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\ncan picture.
\nJeroboam is taking the power of <\/p>\n
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\nthat tradition and saying, oh
\nno, this isn’t an idol. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is Yahweh.
\nOkay, so that’s an interesting <\/p>\n
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\nWhat else do you notice about <\/p>\n
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\nthe sneakiness here?
\nI got a little excited and <\/p>\n
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\nunderlined it.
\nHe puts one cow in Bethel and <\/p>\n
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\none and Dan.
\nNow, if you’re aware of your <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael, geography Dan is in the
\nnorth and Bethel is in the <\/p>\n
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\nSouth.
\nSo you got Dan in the north <\/p>\n
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\nBethel in the South.
\nNow, there’s a few other pieces <\/p>\n
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\nhere, these locations.
\nYes, we’re strategic because of <\/p>\n
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\ntheir placement, but in addition
\nto that Bethel, if you <\/p>\n
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\ntranslates it, if you translate,
\nit means House of God who named <\/p>\n
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\nit that by the way.
\nJacob Wright. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy did he name it that?
\nBecause he saw angels ascending <\/p>\n
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\nand descending there.
\nNow, can you picture this? <\/p>\n
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\nJust put yourself in the shoes
\nof like a faithful Israelite, <\/p>\n
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\nright?
\nYou walk up to jeroboam and <\/p>\n
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\nyou’re like, jeroboam, are we
\nsupposed to Worship in <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem?
\nJeroboam says, oh yeah. <\/p>\n
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\nYep, you are.
\nBut You can also Worship in <\/p>\n
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\nBethel.
\nI mean, didn’t Jacob Wright? <\/p>\n
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\nDidn’t Jacob?
\nSee Angels ascending and <\/p>\n
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\ndescending and and didn’t he
\nnamed it House of God right? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you can Picture People Say
\noh yeah. <\/p>\n
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\nOh yeah, that’s true.
\nYou know. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what about this jeroboam
\ncould even say something like? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if it’s good enough for
\nJacob, I’ve heard it’s good <\/p>\n
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\nenough for me, right?
\nSo you can picture that. <\/p>\n
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\nObviously, I’m not saying he
\nsaid that but he could have <\/p>\n
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\nright?
\nHe could have if you wanted to. <\/p>\n
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\nSo you see that in Genesis 28
\n17. <\/p>\n
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\nThat is where Jacob names at
\nBethel. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, surely this is the
\nhouse of God, are his words now?<\/p>\n
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\nDan is a little bit different.
\nDan is interesting, it was for <\/p>\n
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\nhundreds of years, the site of
\nanother Tabernacle. <\/p>\n
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\nSo you remember that weird story
\nand judges where a woman says <\/p>\n
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\nI’ve lost Eleven Hundred shekels
\nof silver. <\/p>\n
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\nRemember that?
\nAnd her son comes up and he’s <\/p>\n
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\nlike, oh yeah, Mom, I stole them
\nand she says wow. <\/p>\n
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\nBlessed be our way, right?
\nIt’s really strange. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd, and he says I’ll give them
\nback to you. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd she says, thanks, son.
\nHere, I’ll give you 200 of these<\/p>\n
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\nshackles and you can make an
\nidol. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he says, okay, you know, and
\nhe makes an idol and then the <\/p>\n
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\ndanites come they like besieges
\nhouse, they take his Idol and he<\/p>\n
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\nruns after them and he says, why
\ndid you take my idol? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they’re like, go away or we
\nmight hurt you and he says, okay<\/p>\n
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\nand he goes home.
\nIt’s really there’s a lot of <\/p>\n
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\nweird stuff about the story
\nanyway, the danites take the <\/p>\n
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\nidol and They go up to lo and
\nbehold the city of Dan, it’s in <\/p>\n
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\njudges 18 verse 30.
\nThey go up to the city of Dan <\/p>\n
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\nand they say.
\nWe’re going to make a tabernacle<\/p>\n
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\nwith this idle at it and to
\nlegitimize the idol. <\/p>\n
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\nWe are going to have a very
\nimportant person as our priest. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s just so happens to be
\nMoses’s, grandson. <\/p>\n
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\nSo there’s another one of those,
\nif it’s good enough for Moses <\/p>\n
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\ngrandson, it’s good enough for
\nme, sort of deals. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, again, all of this is
\nTainted with the whole. <\/p>\n
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\n00:18:59,200 –> 00:19:02,000
\nThis is also Yahweh worshipped
\nat the same time. <\/p>\n
333
\n00:19:02,500 –> 00:19:06,100
\nYou know, when Micah’s mom says
\nthanks for giving me back the <\/p>\n
334
\n00:19:06,100 –> 00:19:08,000
\nmoney.
\nShe says, blessed, are you by <\/p>\n
335
\n00:19:08,000 –> 00:19:08,900
\nYahweh?
\nMy son. <\/p>\n
336
\n00:19:10,300 –> 00:19:12,700
\nThat’s judges. 17, blessed, are
\nyou by Yahweh? <\/p>\n
337
\n00:19:12,800 –> 00:19:15,700
\nAnd then she says, I’m going to
\ngive you 200 of those shackles, <\/p>\n
338
\n00:19:15,700 –> 00:19:19,100
\nbut she specifically says, I’m
\ngoing to give you 200 of them to<\/p>\n
339
\n00:19:19,100 –> 00:19:21,600
\ndedicate to Yahweh and Michael
\nmakes an idol. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:19:21,900 –> 00:19:27,400
\nNow it probably wasn’t Here’s,
\nyou know, idle whatever bail, <\/p>\n
341
\n00:19:27,500 –> 00:19:29,700
\nblah, blah, blah bail Mica or
\nsomething. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:19:29,800 –> 00:19:32,700
\nYou know, it was this Idols,
\nYahweh, same kind of thing as <\/p>\n
343
\n00:19:32,700 –> 00:19:35,800
\nthe golden calf.
\nAnd so, that’s why Micah, then <\/p>\n
344
\n00:19:35,800 –> 00:19:38,500
\ndoes this whole thing to try and
\nget a levite as his priest and <\/p>\n
345
\n00:19:38,500 –> 00:19:41,300
\nhe says, now God will bless me
\nbecause I have a levite as my <\/p>\n
346
\n00:19:41,300 –> 00:19:44,100
\npriest.
\nSo you can see all of this that <\/p>\n
347
\n00:19:44,100 –> 00:19:47,800
\nthis was Yahweh worship.
\nSo it was very sneaky in that, <\/p>\n
348
\n00:19:47,800 –> 00:19:49,600
\nit wasn’t straight out idol
\nworship. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:19:50,300 –> 00:19:52,600
\nIf anybody came to jeroboam and
\nsaid, well, wait a minute <\/p>\n
350
\n00:19:52,800 –> 00:19:54,800
\njeroboam, this isn’t right?
\nHe could say, oh, Wait. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:19:54,800 –> 00:19:56,900
\nWait, wait, wait.
\nThis is Yahweh. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:19:57,000 –> 00:19:58,600
\nYou know what?
\nWhat kind of issues do you have <\/p>\n
353
\n00:19:58,600 –> 00:20:01,400
\nwith this?
\nThis is building on tradition. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:20:01,500 –> 00:20:03,900
\nWe’re building on Jacob on
\nMoses. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:20:04,600 –> 00:20:07,400
\nLike surely you don’t have any
\nissues with them. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:20:08,900 –> 00:20:11,500
\nAnd he keeps the priesthood.
\nIn addition to that if you keep <\/p>\n
357
\n00:20:11,500 –> 00:20:15,000
\nreading through First Kings 12,
\nhe allows anybody to be priests.<\/p>\n
358
\n00:20:15,200 –> 00:20:18,100
\nSo he keeps the priesthood, he
\njust removes the exclusivity of <\/p>\n
359
\n00:20:18,100 –> 00:20:21,300
\nit and he creates a feast like
\nthe Feast of Judah. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:20:21,300 –> 00:20:23,500
\nProbably, the Feast of
\nTabernacles, he just moves it <\/p>\n
361
\n00:20:23,500 –> 00:20:26,400
\none month later, which by the
\nway, also has a precedent in the<\/p>\n
362
\n00:20:26,408 –> 00:20:28,300
\nlaw.
\nDo you remember that? <\/p>\n
363
\n00:20:28,300 –> 00:20:30,000
\nCelebrating a feast one month
\nlater? <\/p>\n
364
\n00:20:31,100 –> 00:20:32,900
\nThat that was what you were
\nallowed to do. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:20:33,100 –> 00:20:36,800
\nI believe it’s numbers nine
\nNumbers chapter 9 if you were <\/p>\n
366
\n00:20:36,800 –> 00:20:39,400
\nunclean.
\nSo God actually said, you know, <\/p>\n
367
\n00:20:39,900 –> 00:20:41,500
\nyou can celebrate a feast one
\nmonth later. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:20:42,100 –> 00:20:44,400
\nSo all of these things have
\nconnections to what they were <\/p>\n
369
\n00:20:44,400 –> 00:20:47,900
\nactually allowed to do.
\nThe point of all of this is that<\/p>\n
370
\n00:20:47,900 –> 00:20:51,300
\njeroboam probably still stated
\nthat he was worshiping Yahweh <\/p>\n
371
\n00:20:52,100 –> 00:20:56,100
\nand that’s an important piece.
\nTherefore, I think we can back <\/p>\n
372
\n00:20:56,100 –> 00:21:00,300
\nthis up by the name of his son.
\nNow, it’s important to grasp <\/p>\n
373
\n00:21:00,300 –> 00:21:01,100
\nthis.
\nI Think. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:21:02,100 –> 00:21:07,000
\nIn today’s society, we don’t
\nthink a whole lot of our names. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:21:07,500 –> 00:21:09,900
\nYou know, we name our kids like
\nnames that we think are cool and<\/p>\n
376
\n00:21:09,900 –> 00:21:13,500
\npretty and like sound nice but I
\ndon’t know. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:21:13,500 –> 00:21:16,400
\nMaybe maybe you did when you
\nwere naming your child or your <\/p>\n
378
\n00:21:16,400 –> 00:21:17,700
\nchildren.
\nMaybe you thought about like <\/p>\n
379
\n00:21:17,700 –> 00:21:20,100
\nwhat their name means or
\nsomething like that. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:21:21,300 –> 00:21:24,300
\nBut it was a little different
\nback then, everybody spoke <\/p>\n
381
\n00:21:24,300 –> 00:21:28,000
\nHebrew, right?
\nAnd if you gave, when you named <\/p>\n
382
\n00:21:28,000 –> 00:21:34,100
\nyour kid, it was basically, like
\nyou gave them a Hebrew sentence,<\/p>\n
383
\n00:21:34,100 –> 00:21:39,300
\nas a name.
\nSo, for instance, abijah means, <\/p>\n
384
\n00:21:39,700 –> 00:21:44,700
\nYahweh is my father, A biter
\nYahweh is my father. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:21:44,700 –> 00:21:47,900
\nNow if you were going to just
\ntell somebody oh by the way, did<\/p>\n
386
\n00:21:47,900 –> 00:21:50,800
\nyou know, Yahweh is my father
\nyou want to know how you’d say <\/p>\n
387
\n00:21:50,800 –> 00:21:54,100
\nit in Hebrew?
\nIt was abijah. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:21:55,700 –> 00:22:02,200
\nSo names. in scripture, have a
\nhuge significance, I think a lot<\/p>\n
389
\n00:22:02,200 –> 00:22:08,100
\nmore than we think now, This kid
\nwas named by jeroboam, right? <\/p>\n
390
\n00:22:08,100 –> 00:22:11,700
\nWe think of him as the bad bad
\nKing, who made Israel sin, he <\/p>\n
391
\n00:22:11,700 –> 00:22:14,200
\nnamed his son, Yahweh is my
\nfather. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:22:15,200 –> 00:22:18,700
\nAnd so, every time people would
\ntalk to him they’d say, hey, <\/p>\n
393
\n00:22:19,100 –> 00:22:23,200
\nYahweh is my father.
\nCan you, you know go clean your <\/p>\n
394
\n00:22:23,200 –> 00:22:26,700
\nroom or whatever, right?
\nLike this, this would just be <\/p>\n
395
\n00:22:26,800 –> 00:22:29,200
\nlike imprinted on this kid’s
\nhead. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:22:29,800 –> 00:22:31,600
\nYahweh is my father, you always
\nmy father? <\/p>\n
397
\n00:22:32,500 –> 00:22:35,200
\nSo I think that’s important, you
\nknow, it would be like, if you <\/p>\n
398
\n00:22:35,208 –> 00:22:38,900
\nnamed your son, Michael, he, who
\nis like God, right? <\/p>\n
399
\n00:22:39,100 –> 00:22:40,900
\nIt would be like, if you always
\njust called him that sort of <\/p>\n
400
\n00:22:40,908 –> 00:22:45,400
\ncalling him Michael, you I said,
\nhey, he who is like God, Right, <\/p>\n
401
\n00:22:45,400 –> 00:22:50,500
\nit makes a big difference.
\nOkay, so that’s jeroboam so you <\/p>\n
402
\n00:22:50,500 –> 00:22:54,000
\ncan see yes bad because he made
\nevery mess everybody up. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:22:54,000 –> 00:22:56,700
\nBut weirdly enough there was
\nstill this, like aspect of <\/p>\n
404
\n00:22:56,700 –> 00:22:59,200
\nYahweh Worship in it.
\nSo let’s talk about Omri. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:23:00,200 –> 00:23:02,600
\nSo things start to change with
\nhim ahab’s. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:23:02,600 –> 00:23:07,300
\nDynasty starts, one generation
\nearlier, with Omri Omri, takes <\/p>\n
407
\n00:23:07,300 –> 00:23:08,800
\nthe leadership during a Civil
\nWar. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:23:09,000 –> 00:23:12,300
\nI don’t know how much you
\nthought about like the history <\/p>\n
409
\n00:23:12,300 –> 00:23:17,200
\nof Israel but it’s really weird.
\nSo let’s let’s get introduced to<\/p>\n
410
\n00:23:17,200 –> 00:23:20,800
\na few characters here.
\nThe king at the time was Ela, <\/p>\n
411
\n00:23:21,700 –> 00:23:26,100
\nEla does not rain for very long.
\nHe is the son of bay Asha, which<\/p>\n
412
\n00:23:26,500 –> 00:23:28,300
\nprobably doesn’t mean a whole
\nlot because they didn’t really <\/p>\n
413
\n00:23:28,300 –> 00:23:32,500
\ndo anything important.
\nSo they Asha Ela, they were the <\/p>\n
414
\n00:23:32,500 –> 00:23:36,300
\nKings Eli’s, the king at the
\ntime, Omri is a commander of the<\/p>\n
415
\n00:23:36,300 –> 00:23:38,900
\nArmy zimri is a leader of the
\nCavalry. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:23:39,500 –> 00:23:43,800
\nSo these are two like Warriors
\nand the king at the top. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:23:43,900 –> 00:23:46,700
\nOkay, we’re good.
\nThat make sense to you, or your <\/p>\n
418
\n00:23:46,700 –> 00:23:51,800
\nking at the top, okay.
\nZimri decides to start a <\/p>\n
419
\n00:23:51,800 –> 00:23:57,200
\nrebellion against Ela.
\nHe goes, and he kills Ela and <\/p>\n
420
\n00:23:57,200 –> 00:24:00,800
\nhis whole family.
\nSo I don’t think we often let <\/p>\n
421
\n00:24:00,800 –> 00:24:03,100
\nthe sink in a lot when we’re
\nreading scripture. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:24:03,400 –> 00:24:07,400
\nBut can you imagine that kind of
\nthing taking place, you know, <\/p>\n
423
\n00:24:07,400 –> 00:24:11,200
\nthat that would throw a nation
\ninto chaos like the leader gets <\/p>\n
424
\n00:24:11,200 –> 00:24:13,700
\nassassinated and not just the
\nleader, but their whole family <\/p>\n
425
\n00:24:14,200 –> 00:24:17,100
\nby the leader of the Cavalry.
\nOkay? <\/p>\n
426
\n00:24:18,000 –> 00:24:22,200
\nSo that happened.
\nWhat then takes place is zimri <\/p>\n
427
\n00:24:22,200 –> 00:24:24,800
\nsays, you can figure this part
\nout, right? <\/p>\n
428
\n00:24:25,000 –> 00:24:27,000
\nI’m now King.
\nOkay. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:24:27,400 –> 00:24:31,000
\nWell maybe peace will come back.
\nNot Anarchy. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:24:31,000 –> 00:24:32,400
\nThat’s not really how it goes
\nthough. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:24:32,700 –> 00:24:34,800
\nBecause the people then say,
\nyeah, but zimri, we don’t like <\/p>\n
432
\n00:24:34,800 –> 00:24:37,400
\nyou, right?
\nYou know, you leave the Cavalry,<\/p>\n
433
\n00:24:37,400 –> 00:24:39,500
\nwhatever zimri.
\nWe don’t think you’re very good.<\/p>\n
434
\n00:24:39,600 –> 00:24:41,000
\nWe don’t actually want you as
\nthe leader. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:24:41,200 –> 00:24:43,900
\nSo the people say, no zimri.
\nYou’re not the king even though <\/p>\n
436
\n00:24:43,900 –> 00:24:46,800
\nnow he’s in the palace.
\nSo think about the chaos here, <\/p>\n
437
\n00:24:46,900 –> 00:24:49,700
\nZim reason the palace the people
\nsay no no no that’s not gonna <\/p>\n
438
\n00:24:49,700 –> 00:24:50,200
\nwork.
\nWork. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:24:50,200 –> 00:24:52,700
\nActually, we want Omri as the
\nking. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:24:53,500 –> 00:24:57,100
\nSo now you have the leader of
\nthe Cavalry against the leader <\/p>\n
441
\n00:24:57,100 –> 00:24:59,800
\nof the army.
\nThis would be like, I don’t know<\/p>\n
442
\n00:24:59,808 –> 00:25:03,000
\nwhat the Air Force versus the
\nMarines or something like it. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:25:03,400 –> 00:25:06,400
\nIt’s that’s bad, right?
\nYou really don’t want that to <\/p>\n
444
\n00:25:06,400 –> 00:25:09,400
\nhappen in the country.
\nYou’re living in like you, you <\/p>\n
445
\n00:25:09,400 –> 00:25:13,300
\nhope that that the Armed Forces
\nwill provide stability and stead<\/p>\n
446
\n00:25:13,300 –> 00:25:16,200
\nof fighting one another?
\nAnd that’s what’s going on here,<\/p>\n
447
\n00:25:16,900 –> 00:25:19,900
\nokay, so Omri then says, okay,
\nwell, how about this? <\/p>\n
448
\n00:25:20,000 –> 00:25:24,400
\nThis is Emory, I’ll come in
\nbesiege you in the palace and <\/p>\n
449
\n00:25:24,400 –> 00:25:27,900
\nzimri says, oh yeah.
\nWell, I have a plan and zimri <\/p>\n
450
\n00:25:27,900 –> 00:25:29,500
\nlights.
\nThe palace on fire and dies. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:25:31,200 –> 00:25:33,600
\nThat’s what he does.
\nHe reigns for a grand total of <\/p>\n
452
\n00:25:33,600 –> 00:25:36,200
\nseven days.
\nOkay. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:25:36,300 –> 00:25:40,800
\nNow, if you were an Israelite,
\nyou’d say who glad that didn’t <\/p>\n
454
\n00:25:40,800 –> 00:25:43,600
\nlast very long Civil War is
\ndone, you know? <\/p>\n
455
\n00:25:43,600 –> 00:25:45,300
\nNow there’s going to be peace,
\nbut guess what? <\/p>\n
456
\n00:25:45,300 –> 00:25:50,800
\nThere isn’t because what then
\ngoes on to happen is war <\/p>\n
457
\n00:25:50,800 –> 00:25:54,700
\ncontinues.
\nAnother guy shows up named <\/p>\n
458
\n00:25:54,700 –> 00:25:58,200
\nTiffany and Tiffany says, Omri.
\nI don’t want you to be king. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:25:58,400 –> 00:26:02,100
\nLet’s fight this out and half of
\nIsrael, says, yeah, actually, <\/p>\n
460
\n00:26:02,100 –> 00:26:05,400
\nthat’s a good idea, whatever,
\nthat was about so half of them. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:26:05,400 –> 00:26:07,400
\nFollow Armory, half of them,
\nfollow Tiffany. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:26:08,400 –> 00:26:11,600
\nAnd now there’s Civil War for
\nfour years. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:26:13,700 –> 00:26:15,800
\nSo here’s how you can.
\nHere’s how you can time this. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:26:16,100 –> 00:26:20,500
\nFirst king 16:15, says, in the
\n27th year of Asa, king of Judah.<\/p>\n
465
\n00:26:20,600 –> 00:26:24,500
\nSo you’ll notice the stability
\nby the way of Judah. 27 years <\/p>\n
466
\n00:26:24,500 –> 00:26:28,700
\nhere, zimri rain, for how long
\nseven days, right? <\/p>\n
467
\n00:26:29,300 –> 00:26:31,800
\n27th year of Asa zimri, rain
\nseven days. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:26:32,600 –> 00:26:36,400
\nOkay, so zimri becomes king in
\nthe 27th year of Asa. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:26:36,900 –> 00:26:41,600
\nAnd finally, Omri puts down all
\nthese rebellions and he becomes <\/p>\n
470
\n00:26:41,600 –> 00:26:47,500
\nking in the First year of Asa.
\nSo, there’s Civil War for <\/p>\n
471
\n00:26:47,500 –> 00:26:52,400
\napproximately four years.
\nOkay, so that’s the situation in<\/p>\n
472
\n00:26:52,400 –> 00:26:58,100
\nIsrael.
\nSo now you ask, you know, Omri <\/p>\n
473
\n00:26:58,100 –> 00:27:00,600
\nbrings a little bit of
\nstability, but somehow he’s <\/p>\n
474
\n00:27:00,600 –> 00:27:03,300
\nworse than all those who had
\ncome before him now, maybe just <\/p>\n
475
\n00:27:03,300 –> 00:27:07,500
\nbecause he brings Civil War, you
\nknow, and that’s clearly not <\/p>\n
476
\n00:27:07,500 –> 00:27:10,300
\nawesome.
\nHere’s how scripture describes <\/p>\n
477
\n00:27:10,300 –> 00:27:12,700
\nit.
\nOmri did, what was evil in the <\/p>\n
478
\n00:27:12,700 –> 00:27:15,200
\nsight of the Lord and did more
\nevil than all who were before <\/p>\n
479
\n00:27:15,200 –> 00:27:17,200
\nhim for.
\nHe walked in the way of jeroboam<\/p>\n
480
\n00:27:17,200 –> 00:27:19,400
\nthe son of nebat, so he did
\nthat. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:27:19,700 –> 00:27:22,600
\nAnd in the sins that he made,
\nIsrael sin provoking, the Lord, <\/p>\n
482
\n00:27:22,700 –> 00:27:26,000
\nthe god of Israel to anger by
\ntheir idols now, if you just <\/p>\n
483
\n00:27:26,000 –> 00:27:32,100
\nsaid that verse, What, what
\nwould you take out of that? <\/p>\n
484
\n00:27:32,700 –> 00:27:39,700
\nHow How is he worse?
\nIt’s it’s kind of weird, right? <\/p>\n
485
\n00:27:39,700 –> 00:27:44,800
\nBecause he it says he was worse
\nthan everybody because he walked<\/p>\n
486
\n00:27:44,800 –> 00:27:48,700
\nin the way of jeroboam and
\nyou’re kind of like well wait a <\/p>\n
487
\n00:27:48,700 –> 00:27:51,100
\nminute.
\nHow does walking in the way of <\/p>\n
488
\n00:27:51,100 –> 00:27:52,800
\njeroboam make him worse than
\njeroboam? <\/p>\n
489
\n00:27:55,400 –> 00:27:59,000
\nOkay, I think maybe we have a
\nhint. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:28:00,500 –> 00:28:04,300
\nThere’s one place outside of the
\nhistorical record that mentions <\/p>\n
491
\n00:28:04,300 –> 00:28:07,700
\nArmory.
\nAnd notice what it connects him <\/p>\n
492
\n00:28:07,700 –> 00:28:10,200
\nwith here.
\nSays for you have kept the <\/p>\n
493
\n00:28:10,208 –> 00:28:14,000
\nstatutes of Omri and all the
\nworks of the House of Ahab. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:28:14,000 –> 00:28:18,300
\nThis is Micah 6:16 and you have
\nwalked in their councils that I <\/p>\n
495
\n00:28:18,300 –> 00:28:22,000
\nmay make you a desolation and
\nyour inhabitants a hissing. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:28:22,400 –> 00:28:24,900
\nSo you shall bear.
\nThe scorn of my people, you <\/p>\n
497
\n00:28:24,900 –> 00:28:28,300
\nnotice what a connection with
\nconnects him with. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:28:30,000 –> 00:28:32,900
\nAhab.
\nAll right, it connects him with <\/p>\n
499
\n00:28:32,900 –> 00:28:40,000
\nAhab which is interesting.
\nbecause, In the time of a have <\/p>\n
500
\n00:28:40,100 –> 00:28:42,800
\nwe definitely get more fervent
\nfalse worship. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:28:43,400 –> 00:28:46,900
\nSo false worship becomes a
\nbigger deal in the time of Ahab.<\/p>\n
502
\n00:28:47,600 –> 00:28:50,000
\nSo First Kings, 18 19.
\nLook at this. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:28:51,000 –> 00:28:52,900
\nThis is what Elijah says to
\nAhab. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:28:52,900 –> 00:28:55,900
\nNow, therefore, send and gather
\nall Israel to me a Mount Carmel,<\/p>\n
505
\n00:28:56,500 –> 00:29:00,800
\nthe 450 prophets of Baal, and
\nthe four hundred prophets of <\/p>\n
506
\n00:29:00,800 –> 00:29:04,400
\nasherah, who eat at Jezebel’s
\ntable, so they were 850 false <\/p>\n
507
\n00:29:04,400 –> 00:29:07,300
\nprophets and they ate at
\nJezebel’s table. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:29:09,600 –> 00:29:10,800
\nNow, here’s why that’s
\ninteresting. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:29:12,200 –> 00:29:14,200
\nBack then eating at somebody’s
\ntable. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:29:14,200 –> 00:29:16,600
\nDidn’t just mean you know you
\nwalked up and you got some food <\/p>\n
511
\n00:29:16,600 –> 00:29:21,400
\nand you ate it or something, it
\nwas perhaps a Hebrew idiom. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:29:21,600 –> 00:29:26,200
\nThis is it in the Hebrew?
\nOh, clay, she’ll con which means<\/p>\n
513
\n00:29:26,700 –> 00:29:30,100
\neight at the table.
\nBut it shows up in a number of <\/p>\n
514
\n00:29:30,100 –> 00:29:34,700
\ndifferent passages.
\nMost notably in second Samuel <\/p>\n
515
\n00:29:34,700 –> 00:29:37,100
\nchapter 9, it says up three
\ntimes. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:29:37,300 –> 00:29:39,300
\nNow, you might remember because
\nthis was a reading, two days <\/p>\n
517
\n00:29:39,300 –> 00:29:42,600
\nago, who was told they would eat
\nat David’s table. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:29:44,000 –> 00:29:47,400
\nMephibosheth.
\nAnd what did that mean? <\/p>\n
519
\n00:29:47,400 –> 00:29:51,900
\nThat he would eat there?
\nIt meant mephibosheth. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:29:52,100 –> 00:29:56,200
\nYou’re going to be one of my
\nson’s now. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:29:57,100 –> 00:29:59,500
\nDidn’t just mean, you know,
\nyou’re going to come and sit <\/p>\n
522
\n00:29:59,500 –> 00:30:00,800
\nhere because I feel sorry for
\nyou. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:30:01,200 –> 00:30:03,000
\nIt meant you’re going to come
\nhere and you’re going to eat <\/p>\n
524
\n00:30:03,000 –> 00:30:07,600
\nwith all the rest of my family.
\nI’m adopting you into my family.<\/p>\n
525
\n00:30:07,900 –> 00:30:11,600
\nSo the fact that we get this
\nphrase about the prophets of <\/p>\n
526
\n00:30:11,600 –> 00:30:14,400
\nBaal and asherah at Jezebel’s
\ntable. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:30:14,500 –> 00:30:18,700
\nI think indicates that false
\nworship became so much more <\/p>\n
528
\n00:30:18,700 –> 00:30:21,200
\nfervent at that time.
\nSo that’s one way. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:30:22,000 –> 00:30:23,600
\nFalse worship became a lot
\nbigger deal. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:30:23,700 –> 00:30:26,700
\nThis was like family.
\nOkay. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:30:26,700 –> 00:30:28,700
\nSo perhaps that began during the
\ntime of Omri. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:30:29,000 –> 00:30:31,500
\nIn addition, here’s what Micah
\ngoes on to say. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:30:31,500 –> 00:30:36,400
\nSo Micah 6 verses 11 and 12.
\nListen, see if you pick up what <\/p>\n
534
\n00:30:36,400 –> 00:30:40,400
\nwas going on at the time.
\nIt says, shall I equip the man <\/p>\n
535
\n00:30:40,400 –> 00:30:44,000
\nwith Wicked scales and with a
\nbag of deceitful weights. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:30:44,200 –> 00:30:47,600
\nSo remember Micah said you’re
\nfollowing the statutes of Omri? <\/p>\n
537
\n00:30:49,100 –> 00:30:50,600
\nShall I quit the man with Wicked
\nscales? <\/p>\n
538
\n00:30:50,600 –> 00:30:53,300
\nAnd with a bag of deceitful
\nweights, your rich men are full <\/p>\n
539
\n00:30:53,300 –> 00:30:56,100
\nof violence.
\nYour inhabitants speak lies. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:30:56,200 –> 00:30:58,200
\nTheir tongue is deceitful in
\ntheir mouth. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:30:59,600 –> 00:31:03,900
\nSo you see what’s going on.
\nThe place is full of violence. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:31:04,200 –> 00:31:08,200
\nPeople are attacking each other
\ndestroying each other and would <\/p>\n
543
\n00:31:08,200 –> 00:31:10,000
\nyou say that describes the time
\nof honoree? <\/p>\n
544
\n00:31:11,400 –> 00:31:16,100
\nI’d say, so right, a civil war.
\nSo you have deceitful weights <\/p>\n
545
\n00:31:16,200 –> 00:31:20,600
\nyou have lies violence and this
\nis how Micah keeps describing <\/p>\n
546
\n00:31:20,600 –> 00:31:23,200
\nthat time.
\nSo Micah 7 verses 2 to 4 they <\/p>\n
547
\n00:31:23,200 –> 00:31:26,300
\nset says the goodly has perish
\nfrom the earth. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:31:26,300 –> 00:31:28,800
\nThere is no one upright among
\nmankind. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:31:29,400 –> 00:31:33,000
\nThey all lie in wait for blood
\nand each hunts the other with a <\/p>\n
550
\n00:31:33,000 –> 00:31:35,600
\nnet.
\nTheir hands are on what is evil <\/p>\n
551
\n00:31:35,600 –> 00:31:37,600
\nto do it.
\nWell The Prince and the judge <\/p>\n
552
\n00:31:37,600 –> 00:31:42,100
\nasked for a bribe, the great man
\nmutters the evil desire of his <\/p>\n
553
\n00:31:42,100 –> 00:31:44,300
\nsoul.
\nThus, they weave it together. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:31:44,600 –> 00:31:47,100
\nThe best of them is like a
\nbriar, right? <\/p>\n
555
\n00:31:47,108 –> 00:31:49,300
\nThat’s that’s a pretty terrible
\ndescription, right? <\/p>\n
556
\n00:31:49,700 –> 00:31:52,200
\nThe best of them is like a
\nbriar, the most upright of them.<\/p>\n
557
\n00:31:52,200 –> 00:31:55,900
\nA thorn hedge, the day of your
\nWatchman of your punishment has <\/p>\n
558
\n00:31:55,900 –> 00:31:58,400
\ncome.
\nNow, their confusion is a hand. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:31:59,400 –> 00:32:03,300
\nSo you can see this was not a
\ngood time because people were <\/p>\n
560
\n00:32:03,300 –> 00:32:07,000
\nterrible to each other.
\nAnd so that is how God describes<\/p>\n
561
\n00:32:07,000 –> 00:32:10,000
\nthe time of Omri.
\nThey’re lying in, wait for blood<\/p>\n
562
\n00:32:10,000 –> 00:32:13,000
\nand hunting the other with a
\nnet, okay? <\/p>\n
563
\n00:32:13,000 –> 00:32:19,200
\nSo perhaps in the time of
\njeroboam The vestiges of Truth. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:32:19,300 –> 00:32:23,400
\nYou know, this like these pieces
\nof Yahweh worship, we’re almost <\/p>\n
565
\n00:32:23,400 –> 00:32:28,900
\nfunctioning as like a stopgap.
\nSort of holding things back. and<\/p>\n
566
\n00:32:28,900 –> 00:32:32,100
\nwhen you get to the time of Omri
\nand Ahab that all starts to <\/p>\n
567
\n00:32:32,100 –> 00:32:37,400
\ndisintegrate, That disappears
\nduring a rain and the violence <\/p>\n
568
\n00:32:37,400 –> 00:32:40,200
\nthat characterized his Ascent,
\ncharacterizes the whole rain. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:32:40,500 –> 00:32:42,700
\nAnd so, you’ll notice the
\ncontrast in the sons names. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:32:42,800 –> 00:32:46,300
\nSo jeroboam name to send a
\nbudget which means Yahweh is my <\/p>\n
571
\n00:32:46,300 –> 00:32:50,900
\nfather, right?
\nOmri names his son, check this <\/p>\n
572
\n00:32:50,900 –> 00:32:54,400
\nout Ahab this is really
\nimportant. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:32:54,700 –> 00:32:58,500
\nThis is a quick Hebrew lesson if
\nyou want to say love and Hebrew,<\/p>\n
574
\n00:32:58,500 –> 00:33:04,200
\nyou say aha have.
\nOkay I have That is not Ahab. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:33:05,500 –> 00:33:07,700
\nOkay, a halves name was not
\nlove. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:33:08,000 –> 00:33:10,500
\nThat would be like a total, you
\nknow, weird irony. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:33:11,600 –> 00:33:15,400
\nIt has name is not love.
\nI’ll have it has name was OCH <\/p>\n
578
\n00:33:15,600 –> 00:33:18,500
\nof.
\nAre you gonna get that sound? <\/p>\n
579
\n00:33:18,700 –> 00:33:20,600
\nAha, which makes it a different
\nword? <\/p>\n
580
\n00:33:20,700 –> 00:33:23,800
\nIt’s not a hobby, it’s octave.
\nSo, the reason that that’s <\/p>\n
581
\n00:33:23,800 –> 00:33:26,100
\nimportant is, it doesn’t mean
\nlove. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:33:26,100 –> 00:33:28,200
\nIt means my father is my
\nbrother. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:33:29,000 –> 00:33:33,800
\nIn other words, Omri says, I
\nwant my son to be just like me. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:33:35,000 –> 00:33:36,400
\nYou’ll notice the difference,
\nright? <\/p>\n
585
\n00:33:36,400 –> 00:33:42,300
\nMy father is Yahweh versus my
\nfather is my brother So, you can<\/p>\n
586
\n00:33:42,300 –> 00:33:44,100
\nsee the difference in the names
\nof their kids. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:33:44,100 –> 00:33:46,300
\nSo this is all about Omri and
\npreserving his own way. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:33:46,500 –> 00:33:49,200
\nSo, Ahab, basically does the
\nsame thing, but gets even worse.<\/p>\n
589
\n00:33:49,500 –> 00:33:53,900
\nSo, let’s talk about that.
\nWe got 10 minutes, so Ahab and <\/p>\n
590
\n00:33:53,900 –> 00:33:56,400
\nJezebel continue the antagonism
\ntowards God, but they actually <\/p>\n
591
\n00:33:56,400 –> 00:33:58,700
\ndo worse.
\nAnd what we’re going to see is <\/p>\n
592
\n00:33:58,700 –> 00:34:01,900
\nthat they basically find what
\nare all the things that the law <\/p>\n
593
\n00:34:01,900 –> 00:34:04,200
\nsays, now, let’s do the
\nopposite. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:34:04,800 –> 00:34:08,500
\nSo this is how it goes.
\nAhab, is worse than all, who <\/p>\n
595
\n00:34:08,500 –> 00:34:12,400
\nwere before him.
\nHow well he takes for his wife, <\/p>\n
596
\n00:34:12,400 –> 00:34:15,600
\nJezebel the daughter of f Bell
\nKing of the sidonians. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:34:15,900 –> 00:34:18,400
\nNow, that’s the exact opposite
\nof what the law commands. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:34:18,400 –> 00:34:21,000
\nYou weren’t supposed to take a
\nforeign wife like that. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:34:21,000 –> 00:34:28,199
\nSo, Exodus 34 16 Excess 34:16
\nDeuteronomy 73, Joshua 23:12 <\/p>\n
600
\n00:34:28,300 –> 00:34:30,699
\nmakes it.
\nThey’ll make a very clear, no <\/p>\n
601
\n00:34:30,699 –> 00:34:35,300
\nforeign wives can’t do that.
\nSo that’s 34:16 of Exodus <\/p>\n
602
\n00:34:35,300 –> 00:34:39,500
\nDeuteronomy 73.
\nJoshua 23:12. in addition to <\/p>\n
603
\n00:34:39,500 –> 00:34:43,699
\nthat, it says a had then went on
\nto erect an altar for bail in <\/p>\n
604
\n00:34:43,699 –> 00:34:46,300
\nthe house of bail, which he
\nbuilt in Samaria and you made an<\/p>\n
605
\n00:34:46,300 –> 00:34:49,900
\nasherah That’s also against the
\nlaw. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:34:50,300 –> 00:34:54,199
\nNo making Bales know making
\nasherah it says their Exodus 34 <\/p>\n
607
\n00:34:54,199 –> 00:34:56,300
\n13.
\nYou can’t do that Deuteronomy <\/p>\n
608
\n00:34:56,300 –> 00:34:58,900
\n75.
\nYou can’t do that Deuteronomy 12<\/p>\n
609
\n00:34:58,900 –> 00:35:00,000
\n3.
\nYou can’t do that. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:35:00,000 –> 00:35:05,000
\nWe know those things.
\nNow What’s significant though is<\/p>\n
611
\n00:35:05,000 –> 00:35:10,400
\na lot of Kings broke the law.
\nYou perhaps won’t be surprised <\/p>\n
612
\n00:35:10,400 –> 00:35:14,000
\nto know.
\nJeroboam did the same things. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:35:14,600 –> 00:35:18,600
\nJeroboam married, a foreign
\nwife, jeroboam also set up a <\/p>\n
614
\n00:35:18,600 –> 00:35:21,500
\nstream so that would be the
\nplural of asherah. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:35:22,300 –> 00:35:25,400
\nSo he set up a stream you’ll
\nfind that in First Kings, 14 15.<\/p>\n
616
\n00:35:26,400 –> 00:35:30,700
\nSo again, you have to ask What
\nmajor bone worse? <\/p>\n
617
\n00:35:32,200 –> 00:35:34,500
\nHow are sorry, what made a have
\nworse? <\/p>\n
618
\n00:35:35,900 –> 00:35:38,300
\nAgain we’re told to provoke the
\nLord, the god of Israel, to <\/p>\n
619
\n00:35:38,300 –> 00:35:41,000
\nanger.
\nWell, that’s said about jeroboam<\/p>\n
620
\n00:35:41,100 –> 00:35:45,200
\nand First Kings 19, our first
\nKings 14 9 and 15 that he <\/p>\n
621
\n00:35:45,200 –> 00:35:47,800
\nprovoked, Yahweh to anger, they
\nAsha. <\/p>\n
622
\n00:35:47,900 –> 00:35:50,500
\nSame thing said about him.
\nAnd first King, 16 Ela? <\/p>\n
623
\n00:35:50,500 –> 00:35:53,300
\nThe same thing said about him
\nand First Kings 16 amarilla, <\/p>\n
624
\n00:35:53,300 –> 00:35:57,400
\nsame thing said about him.
\nSo, What’s the big deal? <\/p>\n
625
\n00:35:59,600 –> 00:36:03,500
\nWhat do they have do?
\nWell. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:36:04,600 –> 00:36:06,800
\nA had probably worshiped Idols
\nmore than anyone else. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:36:08,000 –> 00:36:10,200
\nBut I think that’s why the last
\nverse of this chapter matters. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:36:10,200 –> 00:36:13,700
\nSo much get this.
\nHave you ever read through first<\/p>\n
629
\n00:36:13,700 –> 00:36:17,200
\nKing 16 and wondered?
\nWhy does this just suddenly show<\/p>\n
630
\n00:36:17,200 –> 00:36:19,300
\nup?
\nSo if you’re reading First Kings<\/p>\n
631
\n00:36:19,300 –> 00:36:23,600
\n16, you get this whole story
\nabout zimri burning himself up. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:36:24,000 –> 00:36:27,700
\nI’m retaking over the Civil War,
\nall this like back and forth and<\/p>\n
633
\n00:36:27,700 –> 00:36:32,100
\nthen they had becomes king and
\nthen it says he married Jezebel <\/p>\n
634
\n00:36:33,200 –> 00:36:35,000
\nThey did all these things.
\nThey weren’t supposed to and <\/p>\n
635
\n00:36:35,000 –> 00:36:40,500
\nthen just like randomly you get.
\nIn his days, Heil of Bethel, <\/p>\n
636
\n00:36:40,500 –> 00:36:44,200
\nbuilt Jericho, he laid its
\nfoundation at the cost of a <\/p>\n
637
\n00:36:44,200 –> 00:36:46,900
\nbuyer on his firstborn set up.
\nIts gates at the cost of his <\/p>\n
638
\n00:36:46,900 –> 00:36:49,700
\nyoungest son, see gub according
\nto the word of the Lord, which <\/p>\n
639
\n00:36:49,700 –> 00:36:52,300
\nhe spoke by Joshua, the son of
\nnun, and that’s how the chapter <\/p>\n
640
\n00:36:52,300 –> 00:36:57,800
\nends.
\nWhat like here’s all this stuff <\/p>\n
641
\n00:36:57,800 –> 00:37:00,300
\ngoing on Israel.
\nEverybody’s fighting down at a <\/p>\n
642
\n00:37:00,300 –> 00:37:02,600
\neverybody’s bad.
\nOh and by the way, somebody <\/p>\n
643
\n00:37:02,600 –> 00:37:05,300
\ntried to rebuild Jericho, but he
\ncouldn’t and his kids died and <\/p>\n
644
\n00:37:05,300 –> 00:37:11,000
\nyou’re like, Why is that there?
\nYou know what, what’s the point <\/p>\n
645
\n00:37:11,000 –> 00:37:13,800
\nof that?
\nWhat, why does the story just <\/p>\n
646
\n00:37:13,800 –> 00:37:17,200
\nsuddenly end with this?
\nOkay, that’s a bunch of question<\/p>\n
647
\n00:37:17,200 –> 00:37:19,600
\nmarks.
\nOkay. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:37:19,600 –> 00:37:23,500
\nSo on top of that, not only is
\nit just kind of weird that it’s <\/p>\n
649
\n00:37:23,500 –> 00:37:26,300
\nthere.
\nThe story also makes no sense. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:37:26,700 –> 00:37:29,100
\nRight.
\nWhat’s up with this a guy who’s <\/p>\n
651
\n00:37:29,100 –> 00:37:31,000
\nlike?
\nOh my firstborn son, just died <\/p>\n
652
\n00:37:31,000 –> 00:37:33,400
\nwhen I laid the foundation of
\nJericho, I think I’ll keep doing<\/p>\n
653
\n00:37:33,400 –> 00:37:35,400
\nit.
\nOh my next kid died. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:37:35,400 –> 00:37:39,100
\nWhen I put it the gates.
\nOh well you know oh my next kid <\/p>\n
655
\n00:37:39,100 –> 00:37:39,800
\ndied.
\nRight? <\/p>\n
656
\n00:37:39,800 –> 00:37:42,800
\nLike like this doesn’t make any
\nsense and then he does it until <\/p>\n
657
\n00:37:42,800 –> 00:37:48,000
\nall of his kids are dead.
\nNobody who is like a sensible <\/p>\n
658
\n00:37:48,000 –> 00:37:52,000
\nlogical person would do this.
\nSo, what’s going on? <\/p>\n
659
\n00:37:54,000 –> 00:37:56,300
\nWhy did Joshua put the curse on
\nJericho in the first place? <\/p>\n
660
\n00:37:57,000 –> 00:37:58,200
\nI think that’s an interesting
\nquestion. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:38:00,000 –> 00:38:02,500
\nAll right, here’s my suggestion
\nJericho’s. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:38:02,500 –> 00:38:04,000
\nThe first city that Israel
\ntakes. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:38:04,300 –> 00:38:05,800
\nDo you remember what God says
\nabout it? <\/p>\n
664
\n00:38:07,400 –> 00:38:12,100
\nEverything in Jericho was
\ndevoted to destruction, it was <\/p>\n
665
\n00:38:12,100 –> 00:38:14,100
\ndevoted to God.
\nI don’t know if you’ve ever <\/p>\n
666
\n00:38:14,100 –> 00:38:16,500
\nwondered, you know, why it
\nwasn’t like that in any of the <\/p>\n
667
\n00:38:16,500 –> 00:38:19,100
\nother cities.
\nEverything was devoted to <\/p>\n
668
\n00:38:19,100 –> 00:38:21,900
\ndestruction.
\nSo everything they saw even <\/p>\n
669
\n00:38:21,900 –> 00:38:26,400
\nblankets clothes, all of that,
\nhad to be destroyed, why? <\/p>\n
670
\n00:38:28,200 –> 00:38:33,300
\nI think the reason is, This was
\nthe first God wants to make it <\/p>\n
671
\n00:38:33,300 –> 00:38:36,800
\nclear.
\nWe are not going back to this. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:38:37,300 –> 00:38:39,700
\nYou come take the city.
\nThis is what I think about <\/p>\n
673
\n00:38:39,700 –> 00:38:41,500
\nKanan.
\nYou’re not going to have this <\/p>\n
674
\n00:38:41,500 –> 00:38:43,300
\nworship.
\nYou’re not going to take any of <\/p>\n
675
\n00:38:43,300 –> 00:38:46,800
\nit with you, destroy everything
\nand so a can take some, right? <\/p>\n
676
\n00:38:46,800 –> 00:38:50,500
\nAnd so Aiken has to die, because
\nGod wants to make it clear, none<\/p>\n
677
\n00:38:50,500 –> 00:38:52,900
\nof this will ever be in your
\ncamp. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:38:54,000 –> 00:38:59,300
\nOkay.
\nSo then Joshua curses Jericho <\/p>\n
679
\n00:38:59,600 –> 00:39:02,300
\nand says, you will never be
\nrebuilt because what it <\/p>\n
680
\n00:39:02,300 –> 00:39:06,600
\nsymbolizes, Israel’s conquest of
\nthe land, we are getting rid of <\/p>\n
681
\n00:39:06,600 –> 00:39:10,400
\nthis way of life and we are
\ngoing to start a Godly way of <\/p>\n
682
\n00:39:10,400 –> 00:39:14,400
\nlife.
\nSo with that, in mind, Any <\/p>\n
683
\n00:39:14,400 –> 00:39:18,100
\nthoughts on what’s going on when
\nsomebody rebuilds Jericho? <\/p>\n
684
\n00:39:19,700 –> 00:39:23,600
\nI think this guy Heil was
\nadvocating, let’s go back to <\/p>\n
685
\n00:39:23,600 –> 00:39:28,400
\nthis and as his kids are dying,
\nhe says, you know, I want to go <\/p>\n
686
\n00:39:28,400 –> 00:39:30,500
\nback to the so bed, I don’t
\ncare. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:39:31,500 –> 00:39:33,100
\nIt doesn’t matter.
\nDoesn’t matter that there’s a <\/p>\n
688
\n00:39:33,107 –> 00:39:35,600
\ncurse.
\nWe are bringing this all back <\/p>\n
689
\n00:39:35,700 –> 00:39:38,100
\nand that I think is why it’s
\nthere. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:39:39,400 –> 00:39:41,800
\nBecause the question is, what
\nmakes Ahab so bad? <\/p>\n
691
\n00:39:41,900 –> 00:39:43,500
\nAnd God says, well, let me give
\nyou an example. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:39:46,400 –> 00:39:51,200
\nIn his reign.
\nPeople cared so much about this <\/p>\n
693
\n00:39:51,200 –> 00:39:54,200
\nviolent anti-god.
\nWay of life. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:39:55,400 –> 00:39:58,000
\nThat they were willing to
\nsacrifice their families for it.<\/p>\n
695
\n00:39:58,700 –> 00:40:01,000
\nThey were willing to sacrifice
\neverything for it. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:40:01,300 –> 00:40:04,800
\nAnd that’s that whole story of
\nJericho, that’s why it’s there <\/p>\n
697
\n00:40:04,800 –> 00:40:09,500
\nabout being rebuilt.
\nSo, this Becomes. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:40:10,200 –> 00:40:12,700
\nThis is all the stuff I just
\nsaid it happened. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:40:12,700 –> 00:40:15,000
\nJezebel didn’t just worship
\nidols more than everybody else. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:40:15,400 –> 00:40:18,000
\nI think, what we see is they’re
\nactually trying to reverse God’s<\/p>\n
701
\n00:40:18,000 –> 00:40:20,100
\nrule.
\nThey’re trying to rebuild <\/p>\n
702
\n00:40:20,100 –> 00:40:22,800
\nJericho, they’re trying to bring
\nit all back. <\/p>\n
703
\n00:40:23,000 –> 00:40:25,800
\nIt’s not just oh here’s a cow
\nthat represents Yahweh. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:40:26,400 –> 00:40:29,400
\nIt’s no no no.
\nWe don’t want Yahweh anymore. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:40:30,400 –> 00:40:33,900
\nIt was anti Yahweh.
\nThis is the big change. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:40:34,400 –> 00:40:37,600
\nSo you might remember.
\nThat one of the things that <\/p>\n
707
\n00:40:37,600 –> 00:40:42,100
\nhappens.
\nIs that Obadiah hides? <\/p>\n
708
\n00:40:42,300 –> 00:40:45,700
\nA hundred prophets of Yahweh.
\nYou remember why he had to do <\/p>\n
709
\n00:40:45,700 –> 00:40:48,700
\nthat?
\nBecause Jezebel was hunting them<\/p>\n
710
\n00:40:48,700 –> 00:40:53,100
\ndown.
\nThis is the first time we read <\/p>\n
711
\n00:40:53,100 –> 00:40:56,500
\nabout anything like that
\njeroboam tries to capture one <\/p>\n
712
\n00:40:56,500 –> 00:40:59,600
\nprophet of God, it’s one time
\nthat he does that he tries to <\/p>\n
713
\n00:40:59,600 –> 00:41:03,600
\ncapture him and it doesn’t work.
\nHe tries and the prophet curses <\/p>\n
714
\n00:41:03,600 –> 00:41:05,300
\njeroboam and his arm like
\nshrivels up. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:41:05,400 –> 00:41:08,400
\nIt’s a funny story.
\nHas his arms shrivels up and <\/p>\n
716
\n00:41:08,400 –> 00:41:11,400
\njeroboam like freaks out and
\nsays, Ah, please pray to Yahweh <\/p>\n
717
\n00:41:11,400 –> 00:41:12,900
\nto heal my arm and the prophets
\nlike. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:41:12,900 –> 00:41:15,100
\nOkay.
\nSo he prays and then jeroboam <\/p>\n
719
\n00:41:15,100 –> 00:41:17,100
\nsays, you want to come and eat
\ndinner with me, right? <\/p>\n
720
\n00:41:17,100 –> 00:41:20,200
\nLike it’s, it’s her again, a
\nstrange story, but it shows, <\/p>\n
721
\n00:41:20,300 –> 00:41:23,300
\nShows you there was not this
\nhostility to Yahweh at that <\/p>\n
722
\n00:41:23,300 –> 00:41:27,600
\npoint.
\nWith Jezebel, there was kill all<\/p>\n
723
\n00:41:27,600 –> 00:41:32,000
\nthe prophets of Yahweh.
\nShe says to Elijah, May the gods<\/p>\n
724
\n00:41:32,000 –> 00:41:36,100
\ndo so and more to me if you are
\nstill alive by this time <\/p>\n
725
\n00:41:36,100 –> 00:41:39,400
\ntomorrow, right, there was this
\nintense hostility. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:41:39,600 –> 00:41:42,300
\nNow what I really want to bring
\nout this is our main message as <\/p>\n
727
\n00:41:42,300 –> 00:41:43,800
\nwe wrap this up in the last few
\nminutes. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:41:45,900 –> 00:41:49,300
\nGod is in control.
\nSo, can you picture the <\/p>\n
729
\n00:41:49,300 –> 00:41:53,000
\nsituation?
\nCan you picture being Elijah and<\/p>\n
730
\n00:41:53,000 –> 00:41:59,000
\nlooking out and seeing that the
\nleadership in the country is <\/p>\n
731
\n00:41:59,000 –> 00:42:02,400
\nkilling Believers and actively
\nhunting them down? <\/p>\n
732
\n00:42:03,900 –> 00:42:05,700
\nCan you see why Elijah said
\nthings? <\/p>\n
733
\n00:42:05,700 –> 00:42:08,700
\nLike only I am left.
\nYou can imagine how he felt that<\/p>\n
734
\n00:42:08,700 –> 00:42:10,600
\nway.
\nNow he wasn’t right. <\/p>\n
735
\n00:42:13,200 –> 00:42:14,700
\nBut here’s what’s fascinating
\nabout that. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:42:16,500 –> 00:42:18,200
\nGod says to him, Elijah, get
\nwrong. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:42:19,300 –> 00:42:23,300
\nYou aren’t the only one.
\nAnd in fact, I have this all <\/p>\n
738
\n00:42:23,300 –> 00:42:28,200
\nunder control on.
\nI always have Do you know how <\/p>\n
739
\n00:42:28,200 –> 00:42:30,900
\nGod illustrates that?
\nThis is what I think is <\/p>\n
740
\n00:42:30,900 –> 00:42:34,900
\nfantastic about the story.
\nIn the Elijah story, there’s one<\/p>\n
741
\n00:42:34,900 –> 00:42:39,300
\nchapter we never look at.
\nSo, we always talk about Elijah <\/p>\n
742
\n00:42:39,300 –> 00:42:41,300
\nand the Ravens Elijah living by
\nthe Brook. <\/p>\n
743
\n00:42:41,300 –> 00:42:44,400
\nAll of this Elijah on the Widow.
\nWe talk about Mount, Carmel and <\/p>\n
744
\n00:42:44,400 –> 00:42:47,400
\nFire coming down from heaven.
\nWe talked about naboth, new <\/p>\n
745
\n00:42:47,400 –> 00:42:51,400
\nboss, Vineyard Elijah saying you
\nknow if I’m a prophet of God but<\/p>\n
746
\n00:42:51,400 –> 00:42:53,800
\nFire come down from heaven and
\nburn up these 50 men, all of <\/p>\n
747
\n00:42:53,800 –> 00:42:55,600
\nthis.
\nHow about this do you remember <\/p>\n
748
\n00:42:55,600 –> 00:42:59,700
\nthis story about?
\nElijah the story where A prophet<\/p>\n
749
\n00:42:59,700 –> 00:43:01,900
\ncomes to Ahab and says a have
\nyou’re going to win against the <\/p>\n
750
\n00:43:01,900 –> 00:43:04,600
\nsyrians.
\nAnd they have says, okay and he <\/p>\n
751
\n00:43:04,600 –> 00:43:06,000
\nfights the syrians and defeats
\nthem. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:43:06,000 –> 00:43:10,400
\nDo you remember that story?
\nYou might not, maybe you do its <\/p>\n
753
\n00:43:10,400 –> 00:43:12,400
\nfirst Kings chapter 20, it’s a
\nreal Bible story. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:43:12,400 –> 00:43:14,700
\nI didn’t just make it up.
\nSo if you want to look it up. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:43:14,700 –> 00:43:17,200
\nIts first Kings 20, and the
\nreason we don’t often think <\/p>\n
756
\n00:43:17,200 –> 00:43:19,400
\nabout it is because Elijah’s not
\nin it. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:43:21,300 –> 00:43:23,000
\nBut that’s the story where
\neverything changes. <\/p>\n
758
\n00:43:24,300 –> 00:43:27,900
\nIt’s fascinating Elijah’s life
\ngoal is I’m going to convert a <\/p>\n
759
\n00:43:27,900 –> 00:43:29,600
\nhead.
\nI’m going to convert a have you <\/p>\n
760
\n00:43:29,607 –> 00:43:34,600
\nknow how they have converts in a
\nstory where Elijah is not even <\/p>\n
761
\n00:43:34,600 –> 00:43:39,000
\nthere.
\nAnd I think that’s so like God. <\/p>\n
762
\n00:43:40,200 –> 00:43:42,400
\nYeah, he says Elijah.
\nI’m going to use you but you <\/p>\n
763
\n00:43:42,400 –> 00:43:45,600
\ngotta understand.
\nI’m the one who’s running this, <\/p>\n
764
\n00:43:46,300 –> 00:43:49,000
\nI’m the one who knows when
\nthings are going to happen and <\/p>\n
765
\n00:43:49,000 –> 00:43:51,600
\nso God changes Ahab in First
\nKings, 20. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:43:51,900 –> 00:43:54,800
\nSo that, by the time you get to
\nthe story of naboth, get this <\/p>\n
767
\n00:43:56,100 –> 00:43:58,600
\nJezebel says, we’re going to
\naccuse naboth. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:43:58,600 –> 00:44:01,100
\nDo you know what they say?
\nThey say naboth. <\/p>\n
769
\n00:44:01,100 –> 00:44:06,400
\nCursed God.
\nWhat can you imagine that like <\/p>\n
770
\n00:44:06,400 –> 00:44:08,800
\nhappening before the story of
\nFirst Kings? <\/p>\n
771
\n00:44:08,800 –> 00:44:11,500
\n20?
\nMaybe I’ll curse God. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:44:11,500 –> 00:44:13,500
\nWhy would anybody care?
\nYou know, they didn’t like, God.<\/p>\n
773
\n00:44:14,400 –> 00:44:18,100
\nAnd in fact, she uses
\nDeuteronomy and she brings two <\/p>\n
774
\n00:44:18,100 –> 00:44:23,600
\nwitnesses against him. she in
\nfact basis, what she does off <\/p>\n
775
\n00:44:23,600 –> 00:44:28,600
\nthe law and in 1st Kings 21
\nAhab, humbles himself and <\/p>\n
776
\n00:44:28,600 –> 00:44:32,400
\nrepents.
\nSo I think it’s amazing to see, <\/p>\n
777
\n00:44:33,000 –> 00:44:36,000
\nbut the whole point of this is
\nGod is in control. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:44:37,000 –> 00:44:43,900
\nAnd as we see things that scare
\nus as it feels like, things are <\/p>\n
779
\n00:44:43,900 –> 00:44:45,200
\nbad.
\nThings are getting worse. <\/p>\n
780
\n00:44:46,000 –> 00:44:50,600
\nThe point that we get from this
\nis Elijah says, I better fix it.<\/p>\n
781
\n00:44:51,100 –> 00:44:54,900
\nI better be the one to save
\neverything and God says, no. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:44:56,600 –> 00:45:01,300
\nThat’s my job.
\nYour job is to recognize. <\/p>\n
783
\n00:45:02,800 –> 00:45:07,000
\nThat I’m in control.
\nAnd I’ll fix it. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:45:08,000 –> 00:45:11,300
\nI’ll take care of it.
\nIf you can wait. <\/p>\n
785
\n00:45:12,200 –> 00:45:14,200
\nIf you can wait for my timing
\nand so that’s what we’re going <\/p>\n
786
\n00:45:14,200 –> 00:45:17,700
\nto see as we see Elijah and the
\ndrought tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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