Samson and the Giants: Parallels with Christ in a Violent Age

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All right, Zach, I don't know.
What am I going to do?

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All right, I don't know.
Nephilim, Nephilim.

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Nephilim.
Did somebody say Nephilim?

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Oh, hey, Clay, how's it?
Going good.

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How are you doing?
I'm doing good.

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All right.
Well, as you can see, Zach is

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out today on travel and so I had
to call in the trusty sidekick.

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Clay, That's right.
Clay thrower.

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Not going to be a great
replacement, but I'll try to be

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a halfway decent replacement.
All good, all good big.

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Shoes to fill from for Zach.
So yeah, yeah, I think it'll be

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fine.
But so I heard Nephilim.

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Nephilim Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.

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So we got to at least say that
at least once.

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And then also, yeah, I may have
brought.

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Oh nice.
Energy drinks.

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Nice.
All right, so this is I know.

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You're a fan of red, white and
blue bomb sickles?

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That's right.
That's right.

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I got you a gorilla mine so
different brand.

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OK, so.
It's got caffeine and.

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It's got everything.
It's got everything so I

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probably.
Should it doesn't have beta

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island, so you're not going to
you're not going to get the

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tingles.
OK, great.

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But it should be, it should be
pretty good all.

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Right.
And for some reason, my mic just

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dropped testing test.
OK.

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All right.
So if you don't like it, I

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understand.
Do you like it?

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That one's pretty good.
Pretty much every gorilla.

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Mine is, is decent.
OK, so I got just plain Jane

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blue Raspberry.
All right, So even though

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there's I was talking to Sharon
about this, the other, you know,

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there's no such fruit as a blue
Raspberry.

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Yeah, there's a rasp.
Yeah.

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So I think they colored it blue
because they already had too

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many Reds.
So they put the Raspberry

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coloring in there.
But then they put this really

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kind of neon blue there because
I already had cherry and

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strawberry and watermelon shades
of red, so they just went with.

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I think that I think that's
right.

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Oh yeah, it's pretty good.
Yeah, it's pretty.

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Good.
It's solid.

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Yeah.
I think prime might be better

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than your your usually go to,
but yeah.

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But that's still pretty, yeah.
My usual go to while we are

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playing.
D&D.

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Playing D&D?
That's right.

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That's right, I'm also Michael's
D&D friend.

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Yeah, yeah.
So.

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We did that the other night.
Yeah, just.

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A couple that pretty epic
session.

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Super epic.
I got a lot of compliments,

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which is good, but it's also
pressure.

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Yeah, 'cause you're like.
How you have a high bar to hit

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every time?
'Cause.

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How do you do so well?
Keep keep the bar up there.

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So maybe I need to have like one
that's really bad.

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To reset, don't do that.
But I was, I was, I was telling

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somebody how awesome it was that
you were.

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You added another character to
the story so seamlessly.

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I was like, that was perfect.
Yeah.

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Yeah, well, thank you.
Yeah.

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So one of our players, brothers,
well, he was just like, hey, can

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I sit in?
And I was like, yeah, I was

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like, well, do you want to play?
Like, I think I can squeeze you

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in there.
And he was he was like, yeah.

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So I gave him some options of
how to to do it.

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You know his his build.
Yeah, yeah.

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And his build was nice.
Too, Yeah.

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And it's going to, it's going to
be a nice addition for.

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Sure.
I built it up thinking it was

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going to be one time.
And then he did so well and

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liked it so much.
I was like, well, I, I, I

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didn't, I didn't talk to you,
but I talked to a couple others

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and I was like, what do you
think about adding them

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permanently?
And then before I could even say

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anything, James was like, I'd
like to see him come back.

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I was like, OK, if, if he's
saying that, well, let's just

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add them permanently.
So that's good.

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But he's going to do a lot of
damage because I gave him like

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a.
I glanced at his stuff and it

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looked it looked pretty.
Good.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, so sounds good.

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So we are here to talk about
Speaking of a great warrior.

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Yeah, super strong guy.
Super.

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Strong guy, Samson.
Samson.

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Who doesn't love Samson like?
Samson.

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He's the one that sang that
song.

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Hey there, Delilah.
I think that song was based on

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that.
Had to be.

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Had to be.
All right, so recent Blurry

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Creatures episode.
Yeah, I got to give a lot of

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shout out to credit and shout
out to Blurry Creatures episode

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320 with Abe Helper.
He's the one that we, you know,

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we listen to and I listen to and
got some good ideas from and

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just stuff that I've never heard
before, stuff that, you know, I

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mean, maybe, maybe we have heard
before, but stuff I didn't hear

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before and, you know, I, I
thought was really interesting

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so.
Yeah, I, I listened to it and I

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thought they, they'll bring out
a lot of parallels.

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So we're going to basically take
their material, summarize it,

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maybe add some of the things
that we we think about it on top

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of that.
So I think we're ready to

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transition, which means since
you're the guest here, you know

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what you got to do.
We got to take it to the next

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level.
From the hearts of the low

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country in South Carolina, it's
the Take Two podcast where we

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take theology to the next level.
All right, Samson, one of the

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judges.
What do you remember from Samson

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Sunday School class?
Probably the most that everybody

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else remembers.
He was a really strong dude.

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Got his hair cut because of a
woman.

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Yeah.
Lost solid strength.

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So you're saying everyone should
grow their hair out?

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Oh, I mean, I mean, I wasn't
allowed to grow my hair out when

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I was younger, but I can tell
you right now if I was able to

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grow my hair out now, I would do
it.

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Yeah, but I but I can't.
So I can only dream of having

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long flowing locks like he did.
Yeah, I, I had pretty thick hair

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and my dad had a little bit of a
receding hairline and everyone

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was like, oh, your hair is
different than your dad's.

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It's very thick.
You, you probably will not go

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bald.
Of course, my mom's father was

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bald.
And I guess I told, I've been,

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I've heard for forever that's
who you get your baldness from.

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And recently like, well, there
are some exceptions to that, but

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basically I think if your
mother's father is bald and

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you're male.
I think he was.

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I think my mom was, but my dad
had my dad has pretty thin hair

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and my hair was just like his.
But mine got that way when I was

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literally like 15 or 16.
It it started thinning really

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early.
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So yeah.
That's just just the I mean, God

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gave some people beautiful
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Everyone else he he gave hair.
Thankfully I have a decently

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round head, that's what I've
been told.

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So no weird.
That's good.

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No weird spots.
And they may have one or two

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weird spots, but other than
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Yeah, so.
All right.

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So Samson yeah, the the normal
stuff we hear Delilah really

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strong took down a temple.
But I think what this podcast

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that we both listened to was is
pulling out some of those

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details that you don't know hear
about, but then also connecting

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them to the bigger story arc and
saying that there's a lot of

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similarities here.
And then we can talk about, you

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know, maybe what conclusions we
can draw from that.

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Right, yeah, the, I think, I
think the parallels and the

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connections between main
biblical figures and where it's

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situated in the Bible is, is a
really cool parallel that that

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the podcast brought out.
So I think it, I think it'd be

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cool to go through some of those
things.

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Right, Yeah, so one of those is
his birth is announced by the

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Angel of the Lord the.
Angel of the Lord.

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Which we've talked about and
that happens all the time.

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And we've talked about it.
I think I was on a podcast where

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we might have talked about the
Angel of the Lord a little.

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Bit yeah, Angel of the Lord is.
When it's capitalized it's

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usually meaning the Christophany
or Theophany.

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So pretty sure that it's Jesus
Incarnate, you know, pre.

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Jesus Preincarnate.
Correct?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it only happens a few times

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in Scripture.
It's not.

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It's not a very common thing.
No, no, five times.

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It happens.
You know, I think a lot of

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people remember the times when
it came to Abraham, right?

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And then, you know, again to
Sarah.

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But then there's the one where
it comes to Samson's parents.

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Yeah, so to his mom 1st and then
to his dad.

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Yeah, the dad's like, wait, I
want to see him too.

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Basically, he's like, you got to
see the end of the Lord.

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Can we, can we call him back?
Can I see him?

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So that was a cool part of the
story.

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Yeah.
And then thousands of years.

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And then we have basically
around the birth narrative of

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Christ.
We have John the Baptist.

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That's right.
And I think that's just a

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singular event.
And Elizabeth doesn't get

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visited, does she?
I don't just Zechariah in the

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temple.
Right.

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But then there is a double,
because Mary and Joseph both see

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right.
And then there you point out

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that's Gabriel, not the Angel of
the Lord.

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That's Gabriel, right?
Yeah.

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Which I which, you know, both
times it's talking about Jesus

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in some way or another.
So I was saying it's not Jesus

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wouldn't announce his own birth.
That would be kind of weird.

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Yeah, it's Michael did it
instead.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or Gabriel's.

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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The other Archangel.
Yeah.

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And so then we also have this as
you move through the story,

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Samson's dad's like, hey, want
to cook you a meal, which is not

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uncommon for the Angel Lord.
Abraham cooks Angel Lord meal

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and he eats the Angel Lord there
is like he's on a diet.

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He's like, don't, I won't, I
won't eat, but you can make a

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sacrifice.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And he in the sacrifice, he like
steps into the smoke.

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Yeah, steps into the flames or
something, and it says that he

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picks it up and then he ascends
into heaven with it.

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Yeah, Yeah.
Which is it's kind of bizarre.

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It is it is so something's
really crazy going going on

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because we don't have this type
of activity, you know, with like

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Deborah or trying to think of
the left-handed judge who like

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stabs the guy.
Like you have a bunch of

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different J who'd have a bunch
of different judges are on the

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scene.
None of them have this type of

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activity associated with them
like Samson is having and we see

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a couple other places in
scriptures from on the sins.

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There's a there's a big one,
Yeah.

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Towards the end of the the
Bible, Yeah.

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But Jesus, Yeah, Jesus.
Just at the.

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Beginning of acts, Yeah, he
ascends them to heaven.

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And then the only other person,
Elijah.

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Elijah, that's right.
But that one, he gets taken by a

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chariot.
Chariot.

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So that's a little bit
different.

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Yeah, and then Enoch walked with
the Lord and was not so.

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We don't know how Enoch went up.
That's right.

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Yeah.
Probably with like a shot of a

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tuba or something, right?
Maybe about maybe he wrote a

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Nephilim up there, I don't know,
something like that.

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Yeah.
So at the very outset we find

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these kind of odd things that
are happening with the story of

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Samson.
Anything else you want to say

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here?
You had a note here about Judges

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13 and the Angel of the Lord.
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just the Angel of the Lord
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Yeah.
That it it appears to be the

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Theophany or the Christophany.
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All right, And then Samson takes
well, his parents are told that

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he is supposed to take a
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Right.
His mom's supposed to do it

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while she's pregnant, right?
And then he's supposed to do it

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the whole his whole life.
His.

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Whole life.
And one of the things that the

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commenter on Blurry Creatures
was saying is that we see this

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kind of mentioned in #6 and
there's some people that maybe

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take it for a short period of
time, but we don't know anyone

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other than Samson, who is
supposed to basically maintain

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it his whole life, right?
Which would be a little weird.

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Never cut your hair your whole
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I mean, even Absalom cut his
hair once a year.

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Right.
And does it say how old he got

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whenever the story picks up,
whenever he's looking for a wife

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and all that stuff?
Because I wonder how long you

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know.
Yeah.

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How long do you kind of stay out
of?

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The straight or something,
right?

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Yeah, like I don't.
Know yeah, I think at some point

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in time it starts falling out so
yeah I don't think it'll.

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Just I don't know if you like,
wrapped it up in a man bun or

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something, you know?
Yeah, you probably had some.

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Type of, yeah.
I mean, I would think that if it

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gets long enough, you have to do
something with it to like, yeah,

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keep it out of the way.
Yeah, unless you started on bald

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and then he had, you know, the
Yeah, we don't know.

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So part of that Nazarite vow we
already talked about no cutting

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your hair, nothing from the
fruit of the vines.

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That would have meant no grapes,
no raisins and no wine or grape

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juice.
So no, no version of a grape.

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And then no touching dead
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So for normal Jew, if you touch
the dead body, it would make you

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unclean for a while.
And it go richly bathe and stuff

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to get back.
Yeah, but I mean, like, that's

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kind of like someone dies.
Someone's got to move them and

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bury them and stuff and then
bomb them.

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And then you're ritually unclean
for a little bit.

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Wasn't a sin.
It's just he had to be getting,

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you know, ritually cleansed in
order to then go back into the

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temple.
But for him, you know, he was

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never supposed to touch a a
dead, dead body.

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So we see this kind of parallel
and we will see him break all

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three of these, right.
And then this has always been a

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question and I've asked others
about it.

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Oh really, 'cause I've I've had
this question from when I was a

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little kid whenever I heard that
you go go say it.

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Yeah, that Jesus is a Nazarene.
Right.

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And I was like, that sounds
really similar to the Nazarite

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vow.
Nazarite vow, Yeah.

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So was Jesus.
Did he take a Nazarite?

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Yeah, well, and we know that,
that he drank wine, right?

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And we don't know anything about
his hair or whether he touched a

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dead body.
Well, we know he touched dead

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bodies, right?
If he they got upset when they

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need Lazarus, right?
Was it Lazarus?

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He called Lazarus out.
But he didn't touch him.

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We don't know the one girl that.
He said was the girl that was

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sleeping, Yeah.
That's right.

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I'd have to go back and look to
see if he actually touched her

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when he brought her back to life
where he just commanded her.

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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So that's the second.
So there's a question mark there

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maybe, but we know.
And then you were saying wine,

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which he definitely drank at the
Last Supper.

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Is it recorded anywhere else?
And he drank it anywhere else

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though.
Yeah, I think so.

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Like.
You know when he when he made

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the water into wine at the at
the wedding.

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Luke, does it say he drank 734?
I have a note that it may record

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him drinking wine.
It says the Son of man has come

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eating and drinking.
And you say, behold, A

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gluttonous man and a drunkard, a
friend of tax collectors and

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sinners.
So it's implied there that he is

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drinking wine with his disciples
there.

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So the the folks on the podcast
that they definitely thought

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that there was a parallel
because if you look at the

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Septuagint translation of this
Nazarite vow, I guess it's the

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same word as the city that as as
Nazarene.

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Right.
I think there was something with

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the Greek, the Greek word
Nazarene and Nazarite.

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Can we translate it the same
almost or something like that?

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Right.
So maybe Matthew's picking up on

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something there.
But this this was a really

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speculative section, but I
don't, you know, I don't know.

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There's there's some things that
just kind of like seem like they

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would make sense and and like
you're getting like you were

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saying is that I think I think
it's Matthew, right references

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it.
There's a Nazar right vow or

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something that.
Yeah, it's Matthew 223 says, and

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he shall be called a Nazarene.
Let me just pull there.

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And that's the word that could
potentially could be translated

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differently, right?
So and I think he says on the

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podcast that there's scholars
have looked into this and

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there's nothing they can find
any Old Testament prophecy that

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match this.
Right.

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So what was Matthew?
So what is Matthew referencing?

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Is he referencing a Apocrypha
book like Book of Enoch or or

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Book of Maccabees or, you know,
something like that or, or is it

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a translation error that there's
something Nazarite that he's

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referring to?
Yeah, maybe Jesus took a

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Nazarite thou for a while.
Oh, yeah, for not maybe not his

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whole life, but maybe when he
was preparing to become, you

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know, to come out on.
This yeah, we're trying to

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speculate, trying to connect the
dots because we don't.

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All the dots aren't connected
for us.

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Matthew 223 says and and came
and lived in the city of

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Nazareth.
This was to fulfill what was

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spoken through the prophets.
He shall be called a Nazarene.

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So like where where do the
prophets say that?

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That's the question.
So maybe a little bit unsolved

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mystery.
Some of the theories are that it

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Matthews referring to Nazarene
and Nazareth as a word play

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Nazir.
He may be making a theological

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illusion.
Isaiah 11 one calls the Messiah

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a branch, a Netzer in Hebrew.
And some scholars scholars think

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Matthew is linking Nazareth and
Netzer kind of as a play on

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words.
Matthew may have summarized

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multiple prophetic themes
despised set apart under this

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phrase because those from
Nazareth were despised because

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you know, you hear people say
nothing good comes out of

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Nazareth.
So perhaps it was that the other

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one when we talked to he wasn't
under a Nazarite vowel,

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especially towards the end of
his life, but maybe there was a

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time when he was younger.
We we just don't know.

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But but it is odd that those two
words are so similar and, you

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know, you try to make, you know,
some type of connection between

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them, Right.
All right.

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So really from there, the next
thing we see about Samson is

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that he's fallen in love.
We don't we're not given an age.

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Is he 1820?
2 Didn't they get married like

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really young sometimes too like.
I think the ladies were younger

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and the men would go off and
like, you know, try to make a a

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profession, build a house and
stuff.

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And get the house ready.
Then they build on to their

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parents house and stuff like
that.

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Yeah, and be prepared to kind of
like support the family.

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Judge 14, it says, well, let's
let's read this in contact.

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Judges 14 is where he falls in
love.

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So let me just turn there.
This, I think, was really

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interesting, this part, this
part of the Yeah, the story too.

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And it says then Samson went
down to Timna and saw a woman in

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Timna, one of the daughters of
the Philistines.

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So he came back and told his
father and mother, I saw a woman

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in Timna, one of the daughters
of the Philistines.

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Now therefore get her for me as
a wife.

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Then his father and his mother
said to him, Is there no woman

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among the daughters of your
relatives or among all our

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people, that you go to take a
wife from the uncircumcised

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Philistines?
But Samson said to his father,

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get her for me, for she looks
good to me.

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However, his father and mother
did not know that it was the

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Lord, for he was seeking an
occasion against the

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Philistines.
Now, at the time the Philistines

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were ruling over Israel.
So you have these folks, this

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Philistines, probably European
looking, would have come in from

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a boat.
So we don't know.

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Yeah.
So they're they're not like the

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Arabs of the land, like
descendants of Ishmael or that

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so and we think maybe there's
some giants among the

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Philistines.
I think that's highly probable.

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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I mean, the the Philistine army
that you Fast forward 100 years

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and and David is fighting a
Philistine army that has Goliath

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and his four brothers, and
they're giants and they're

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giants, Yeah.
And they're probably the remnant

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of other giants that you know
have been slowly killed off ever

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since Joshua and his conquest
was supposed to eradicate the

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Holy Land of the giants.
You go back 100 years.

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There's probably more.
And some people think that maybe

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these, you know, because there
are a lot of myths, Achilles,

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Hercules and stuff.
So if you do kind of subscribe

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to this Nephilim thing where
it's, you know, these kind of

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demigod people were brought
about, you can see how that

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could give rise to some of
these.

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Grand tales.
And if you had a group of them

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with maybe some normal people,
like migrating out of the Greek

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area or somewhere along there
down to where Israel is, I mean,

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maybe that's what's happening
and the Lord's wanting to

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eradicate them from Israel.
And so somehow the Lord has made

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Samson fall in love with this
woman and.

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That's what I thought was
interesting is, is he put, he

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basically made, not made, but
he, you know, put the desire and

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Samson like fall in love with
this woman for a purpose.

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It's crazy what ends up
happening.

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But yeah, I thought that was
really unique that there as, as

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the notes say that that the
Philistines that was outside of

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the the Jewish people.
There was a love for this, for

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this bride that he wanted.
And it's the same way Jesus, you

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know, outside of the Jewish
people.

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He wanted the whole world.
He wanted the Gentiles of

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everybody.
Yeah.

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Yeah, so Jesus makes a nation,
makes a bride out of the

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nations, right out of the gleam.
And Samson's going to do do the

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same thing, or at least try to.
So.

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So this is maybe one of those
stories that depends on how good

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your Sunday school teacher was.
You may have picked up on this

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story you never heard.
It before maybe you know I have

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a very bad memory.
You can ask my wife and my

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mother, they both will attest
that I have a horrible so I

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probably was taught that part of
the story.

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I just, you know, just to
highlight stick out like we

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talked.
About I'm thinking of the lion

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like the the fact that so
they're going to go down to Tim

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now, right?
And he's going to care.

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I'll kill a lion with his bare
hands.

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Right.
Yep, I remember that part.

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Yeah, yeah.
Because that was that goes

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together with the whole he's
super strong.

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Right.
And so he hasn't.

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I I don't think killing
something is fine.

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Like you kill something and then
leave it again and then they go

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on down to Timna.
They make some arrangements,

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then they come back to where
they are living and then on

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their way back to Timna, I think
for, I guess the ceremony

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leading up to the wedding, he
wants to go look at the what

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happened to this lion carcass.
And so now we're going to get

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the first record of him breaking
one of his Nazarite vows,

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because, I mean.
Well that that was what I had a

452
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,760
question is the vow not to touch
a dead body or anything dead?

453
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,800
I think it's anything dead.
'Cause if it's anything dead,

454
00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,800
then yeah, he broke it.
But if it's a dead body.

455
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:49,880
If it's just the bones, you're
saying maybe he?

456
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:51,880
Well, if it's not a, that's an
animal.

457
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,080
That's not a human, not a human
body.

458
00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,120
Yeah, I think, I think it's any,
any dead body.

459
00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:01,400
So I understood whenever I heard
it taught, I've taught.

460
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,000
I've heard taught.
So that means that you would So

461
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,520
then like sacrificed animals?
Yeah.

462
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:07,280
Do they?
Are they?

463
00:23:07,360 --> 00:23:12,920
Somehow food like any type of
meat that he would eat, I guess

464
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,160
in some, I guess there's,
there's a difference between

465
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:19,840
like a carcass that's laid right
versus food that's been prepared

466
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,160
and taken care of.
I, I guess you'd have to make

467
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:27,520
that distinction.
I mean, unless at least he's

468
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,480
tempting fate.
I guess there's a way you could

469
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,120
maybe get a stick in and get
some honey.

470
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,160
But anyway but this.
Is this is Also this is weird.

471
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,000
I've always felt this is really
weird.

472
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:37,960
Yeah.
So like, I've always pictured,

473
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,400
like in the rib cages of this
line, there's a beehive there,

474
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:41,920
right?
Yeah, yeah.

475
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,800
And so he sticks something in
and get some honey and eats it.

476
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,280
Yeah.
And they didn't talk about like

477
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,720
any parallels or any weird
prophecy or anything but this

478
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:50,960
just.
It is really.

479
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:52,440
It's in there for a reason, you
know?

480
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:53,400
Every.
I feel like everything's in

481
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,880
there for a reason, right?
But I don't know what it is.

482
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,320
Yeah, I've always assumed to me,
oh, this is interesting.

483
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:04,280
So interesting that he's willing
to risk breaking his bow even if

484
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:08,320
he didn't by touching this or by
fully breaking it by getting

485
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,360
that honey out and and eating it
out of the out of the carcass,

486
00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:12,720
which he's supposed to stay away
from.

487
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,320
Or maybe, I don't know, maybe he
thought that I'm going to marry

488
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,000
this Philistine woman.
I'm kind of like breaking my

489
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:20,760
vow.
Or I'm not.

490
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,280
Maybe I'm not living up to what
I need to be doing anyways.

491
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:24,760
Maybe I should just eat the
honey.

492
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:25,800
Yeah.
I don't know.

493
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,040
Regardless, he goes off, he gets
the honey, he rejoins his

494
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,000
parents as they go down.
They're in the middle of this

495
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,800
feast.
He makes this bet with 30 people

496
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,200
there, 30 of the Philistines
like, and he gives them

497
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,520
basically this Riddle.
And it sounds like something a

498
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,560
ChatGPT might come up with, but.
It wasn't a great Riddle.

499
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,680
You have to know the answer for
it to make any sense at.

500
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,720
All right.
But basically it's it's the

501
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,600
answer to the Riddle is I got
honey out of this lion, like out

502
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:58,000
of the killer or out of the, you
know, I got something sweet and

503
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,520
there's several days going on.
You'd think he'd learn, but he

504
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,240
doesn't.
This woman basically comes in

505
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,840
about, you know, you should tell
me the answer if you love me.

506
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:10,640
This is foreshadowing right
here.

507
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,440
And he breaks down and tells
her.

508
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:17,480
She tells her relatives and he's
very wroth.

509
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:19,920
Yeah, he was mad.
Yeah.

510
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:28,120
And so then he goes over to Gaza
and I wonder if that's any

511
00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:30,400
relationship to present day
Gaza.

512
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,840
I didn't look that up, but it
was a question that came to mind

513
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,600
where some other Philistines
were.

514
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,960
And the Palestine is, I don't
think it's the same people

515
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,200
groups, but it's the Philistine
name that's been romanized and

516
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,000
then applied to the people who
live there.

517
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,200
So Palestine is basically a
derivative of the word Philista

518
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:48,640
or.
Or philistine, I think.

519
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,520
I've heard that.
But so he goes over to and kills

520
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:59,680
30 Philistines in Ash, Ashland
and over in around Gaza to

521
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,240
settle the debt.
And he gathers their clothes and

522
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,840
then brings them back.
And from what I understand,

523
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,440
clothes were an expensive
commodity back then.

524
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,920
So 30 pieces, you know, 30 sets
of clothing would have been no

525
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,360
small feat, right?
All right, so.

526
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,400
And here we see at something you
think 30 people were killed.

527
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,600
And this is God's judgment on
the Philistines.

528
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,400
I'm thinking 30.
I mean, 30 is not nothing,

529
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,200
right?
But it seems like a lot to just

530
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,360
get 30 people.
But maybe this is still fear.

531
00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:36,640
Or, you know, 'cause God's
working to eventually get the

532
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,960
Philistines out.
Well, this is the first.

533
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,120
This is probably the first
glimpse they had of his

534
00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:43,640
strength, right?
I don't think there's anything

535
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,600
before that really showed off
how strong he was.

536
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,840
Taking out 30 dudes is
impressive.

537
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,480
So then he goes back and he kind
of sulks back in his hometown.

538
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:03,880
And from there, he's going to
decide, OK, I think I do still

539
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:08,560
want that Lady.
Even after she betrayed me.

540
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,440
Right.
And so he goes back and lo and

541
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,120
behold, she's married to some
Philistine.

542
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:23,840
And now he's even more Roth mad.
He's very mad and so this is is

543
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:32,000
he captures 300 foxes, ties them
in groups of 2, so 150.

544
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:33,880
That's a lot of pairs, a lot of
foxes.

545
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,560
Again, this is a crazy part of
the story that that's, that's

546
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:41,200
that takes time and that right.
Where do you find 300 foxes?

547
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,360
300 foxes.
Yeah, and if you put your hand

548
00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:46,760
up, they'll probably bite you.
That's an inside D&D joke.

549
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:53,880
But yeah, so yeah, I always
wonder on these numbers because

550
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,960
I've read something some things
that when you're telling a story

551
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:01,040
of victory back in this time,
you all it was just given that

552
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,800
you exaggerated the numbers,
maybe it's 30 foxes and just and

553
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:05,760
it's.
Still impressive.

554
00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:07,520
It's still, it is still
impressive.

555
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,200
I always just wonder, you know,
are we missing?

556
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,680
For sure.
The precision, you know there.

557
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,960
But regardless, he captures a
large number of foxes. 300 will

558
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:20,200
go with that, ties her tails
together and then puts a burning

559
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,640
torch on it and then lets go.
And they're presumably going to

560
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,280
be afraid of the fire and just
kind of run in crazy patterns.

561
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,000
And if you let them go near
agricultural fields, going to

562
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,000
burn them all up.
Right, put it hurting on the

563
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,120
crops.
Yeah, and so the Philistines are

564
00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:43,520
not happy, so they come out and
we know here he touches the part

565
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,960
of a dead animal because he
picks up the jawbone of donkey.

566
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,440
Oh yeah?
Well, he does that after his his

567
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,120
his wife and father-in-law get
killed.

568
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,000
Yeah.
And so he retaliates.

569
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,600
He goes to take out some
Philistines and he looks down

570
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,200
and there's a jawbone of a
donkey, which is crazy.

571
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:03,800
He picks it.
Up How big is a jawbone of a

572
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:04,680
donkey?
I don't know.

573
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,120
But and like, what shape is it?
Like, yeah, I don't know.

574
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,760
I've never you.
Never see one teeth side or I

575
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,080
don't know.
I don't know.

576
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:15,880
Was it, was it broken in half?
Yeah.

577
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:16,680
I don't know.
Yeah.

578
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,040
Did he break?
It in half and do a wield it.

579
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,240
Yeah, I don't know.
He thought this is a good

580
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:23,040
weapon.
Yeah.

581
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,520
And I'm not going to fight just
with my hands anymore.

582
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,680
I I need a weapon and kills 1000
people with it.

583
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,960
Crazy number again.
Yeah, 1000 people.

584
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,960
Yeah, it's a lot.
It is a lot.

585
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:42,240
And then David fought Goliath
alone.

586
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:49,040
And so we see some of those
unique, you know, maybe David

587
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,720
taking on some Philistines
alone, Samson taking on some

588
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,640
Philistines alone, maybe some.
Small parallel there, yeah.

589
00:29:58,480 --> 00:29:59,840
All right, so we just keep
moving on.

590
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:04,160
After the jawbone.
Samson is very, very thirsty and

591
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,520
he cries after God.
Do I have to die at the thirst

592
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,720
and fall into the hands of the
uncircumcised?

593
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:15,160
And this is kind of parallels
Jesus being crucified by Romans,

594
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,480
who would be considered the.
Uncertain size.

595
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,880
But God provides water from a
rock.

596
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,120
That sounds familiar as well.
That sounds familiar because

597
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,120
that's how God gave water to the
Israelites as they are, you

598
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,480
know, going through is, you
know, the wandering through the

599
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,880
deserts.
And that's a that's a plug for

600
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:35,440
another episode of Blurry
Creatures.

601
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:39,040
The guy on there talks about the
real Mount Sinai that he thinks

602
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,720
that they found and he.
It's not the traditional site,

603
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,040
right?
It's not over there like in

604
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,200
Yemen, in South Yemen.
I I didn't look at exactly where

605
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,520
it was, but he supposedly has
pictures on this episode and he

606
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,200
shows the rock that he thinks
was hit by Moses.

607
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:53,280
And it's all blackened and
stuff.

608
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,720
Well, and it's and it's.
Massive like split like this.

609
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,120
Yeah, and it's massive too.
Like I guess I would picture in

610
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:00,600
Sunday school like a little tiny
rock.

611
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,320
Yeah, yeah.
But no, it's it looks like it

612
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,080
would have been a waterfall.
It's like a a rock and it's like

613
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,200
a little water fountain.
Everyone's got to come by and

614
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,960
take a little drink out of it.
Exactly.

615
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,200
No, this is like it looked like
it could be a waterfall.

616
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,400
So.
And the, so the one I, I saw a

617
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:19,880
video of this, I think we have
it at our church and the, I

618
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,400
think it's in Yemen.
And there's these Yemenis,

619
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,120
Bedouins that kind of guard it
and they have a fence around it.

620
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,640
And like these people like snuck
in in the the and it's guarded

621
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,040
by the government if it, I think
it's Yemen.

622
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:35,600
Yeah, it was.
It was locked down for a long.

623
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,120
Time and the rocks are all
blackened up there.

624
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,400
Oh yeah, I heard, I heard he has
pictures of the blackened.

625
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,160
Rock, yeah.
So I mean, it makes sense to me

626
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,520
that that would probably be the
actual site of of mount.

627
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,120
Sign Sorry to derail.
It no, that's good.

628
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:49,520
That's.
Good.

629
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,400
Yeah.
So that that's another parallel

630
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,600
is the the water coming out of a
rock?

631
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,520
Yeah.
All right.

632
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,760
And so then things kind of
settled down.

633
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:05,240
He then, once a female lady
again needs a companion.

634
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,640
And so he starts singing.
Hey there, Delilah.

635
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,520
Right now we're back to the part
of the story that most everybody

636
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,840
remembers.
This is the this is the the one

637
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,360
that gets, I guess taught the
most out of there.

638
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:26,280
And so he pursues Delilah.
She gives him wine to drink, get

639
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:30,440
some drunk.
So now we see two of the three

640
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:36,000
valve parts of his valve broken.
He's touched a a carcass, he's

641
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:41,640
drank from the fruit of the
vine, and Delilah is offered

642
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:47,880
silver to betray Samson.
That's a that one's like, I was

643
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,680
like, whoa, I guess I never
remembered that one.

644
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,720
But that one's a really cool
parallel.

645
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,600
Is betrayed by somebody he loved
for silver.

646
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,280
We don't it doesn't say
necessarily 30 pieces or

647
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:04,160
whatever, but still it's it's
it's a, a coincidence.

648
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,720
There's there's a lot of
coincidences between the story

649
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:11,720
and Jesus story.
So Delilah kind of seduces

650
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:16,720
Samson and says, hey, tell me
what makes you so strong?

651
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:22,360
And the first time he tells her
fresh bowstrings or straps, and

652
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:26,840
then she's like, Samson, Samson,
the Philistines, They're upon

653
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,720
you.
And he breaks them right, And

654
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,880
then beats them up.
Yeah, they're mad at her, and

655
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,120
she's mad at him.
He lied to me.

656
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:42,840
The guilt trip, yeah.
So he says, well, it's new ropes

657
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,520
that have never been used
before.

658
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,240
Which I thought that was the
unique part of the story because

659
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:53,920
earlier in this story when he
gets taken captive by pretend he

660
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,480
he has it says that he got tied
with new ropes.

661
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:58,800
And I thought it was just weird
to use that language again.

662
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:04,120
Yeah, he, he, I think was it you
or somebody else said maybe he

663
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,200
didn't know exactly what was
going to cause his strength to

664
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,440
go.
Yeah, I think maybe he thought

665
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:13,719
the spirits upon me.
I'm just going to mess around.

666
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:14,880
I I don't.
I don't.

667
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,040
It's hard for me to believe that
he actually thought cutting his

668
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,480
hair was going to take away his
strength, right?

669
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:28,360
And then he would tell her that.
I think the guys on the podcast

670
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,239
that we listened to Blurted
Creatures thought he did

671
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:32,639
understand that that was the
case.

672
00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:35,560
Yeah, I think they thought.
That, but I I think, I think

673
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,360
maybe he's just.
Well, and that's what that's

674
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,239
what I'm saying.
The new ropes thing stood out to

675
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:43,719
me 'cause it's like he used it
that somebody used it to bind

676
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:47,560
him earlier and then he says it
here, right?

677
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,520
That is a, it's a unique
phrasing.

678
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,159
New ropes, you know.
Yeah, I guess because maybe old

679
00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:55,880
rope ropes are weaker because
they've been stretched and I

680
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,600
don't know sure.
The next one was weaving his

681
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,120
hair into a loom.
It doesn't say celestial loom.

682
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,600
It just says normal loom.
It's another inside joke.

683
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:06,600
I like it.
Sorry, sorry about that.

684
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,160
The, you know, we'll have to get
all the DND guys to listen to

685
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,920
the, to the episodes of so they
get the the inside jokes.

686
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:16,280
But and so he breaks his hair
free from a loom, which would be

687
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,600
really weird to wake up and see
your hair woven into some.

688
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:22,920
You'd go to sit up and you'd be
like, what's happening?

689
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,000
And so she's really mad, like
you've lied to me and it seems

690
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,840
like he would say yeah and you
have tried to ambush me 3 times.

691
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,800
Now, and this is a, this is,
this is also unique.

692
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,520
Again, there's three times, you
know, it's that three number

693
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:42,400
repeating, right?
You know, I, I instantly went

694
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,920
back to think about when the
disciple, you know, said he

695
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,560
didn't know Jesus.
Three times, you know, And it's

696
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,120
not exactly the perfect
parallel, but I don't know, that

697
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:54,920
just stuck out to me too.
But on the fourth time he tells

698
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:59,840
her I got my hair.
So she does, and he wakes up and

699
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,120
he doesn't.
He's he doesn't know.

700
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:03,360
Right, he thinks everything's
fine.

701
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:08,560
Thinks everything's fine and
everything's not fine and he

702
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:14,040
gets bound.
They gouge his eyes out and he

703
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,040
is basically taken as a
prisoner.

704
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,640
So I think everyone knows this.
They make an allusion to him

705
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,160
being blinded and Paul being
blinded.

706
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,200
Yeah, maybe.
Maybe.

707
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,240
And then I think everyone knows
this part.

708
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,520
He's put in this pillar.
They're having some big party.

709
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,480
And he says, hey, can you just
put my hands by these two

710
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:35,720
pillars?
And so his hands are

711
00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:37,600
outstretched.
So this was something else, like

712
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,440
in his depth, his hands.
This one is really cool.

713
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,800
I like this one.
Yeah, just like Jesus's hands

714
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:46,560
are outstretched and when he he
died and his hair has grown,

715
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,960
grown back a little bit.
So he's got, you know, I don't

716
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:51,760
know, a little bit of.
Starting to get some hair a.

717
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,160
Little bit of stubble up there
and.

718
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,880
You would think that they would
if they knew that's what his

719
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,280
strength.
They would keep it pretty close

720
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,400
shaved.
Yeah, I guess it's just symbolic

721
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,240
because ultimately his strength
is coming from the spirit coming

722
00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:05,000
upon him.
I think every time it says the

723
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,600
spirit came upon him, right?
Every time he really did some

724
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:11,080
amazing feat of strength, it
was, it said, the spirit came

725
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:12,600
upon him.
And I guess the spirit had

726
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,240
departed when when his hair got
cut.

727
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:21,200
And then so he makes a
sacrificial move to push the

728
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:25,880
pillars down, collapse into the
temple, killing 3000 people.

729
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,000
And so we see this parallel.
We kind of are mentioned to

730
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,560
Jesus.
His arms are outstretched.

731
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,800
And Jesus's greatest victory
came about through his death,

732
00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:36,360
victory over sin and and death
and hell.

733
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,920
And Samson's greatest victory
comes about through his death,

734
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:40,720
Right.
Yeah.

735
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,920
Pretty cool.
All right.

736
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,880
And then another parallel that
they mentioned.

737
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,280
I don't know that this is so
unique, right?

738
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,200
Because your family is always
going to come get your body.

739
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:55,760
You would hope.
Yeah, but Jesus was body was

740
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,320
retrieved by friends and family,
and so was Samson's.

741
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,160
All right.
So as we've gone through here,

742
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,440
we just, you know, have like a
little list of all these

743
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,240
parallels that we've mentioned.
You know, when you add them all

744
00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:08,040
up, there's a lot.
There's a good bit, yeah.

745
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:11,720
And so it's.
I guess the conclusion is kind

746
00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:15,480
of tip a type of Christ in some
sense, right?

747
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,760
Yeah, yeah.
A person who lived, you know,

748
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,480
set apart life, did great,
amazing things with God's power

749
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:25,720
to save the people.
Yeah.

750
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,200
I guess in a nutshell, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

751
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:30,720
So it's birth announced by an
Angel.

752
00:38:30,720 --> 00:38:33,520
That Angel sends it in a sack
and, you know, sends up to the

753
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:35,600
heavens.
Spirit of the Lord comes upon

754
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,880
him.
He's spoken riddles to the

755
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,080
people.
Jesus spoke in parables to the

756
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:44,000
people.
He took a donkey, Jawbone, and

757
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,200
the victory.
This one I like too because it

758
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,960
was the greatest victory in life
of the the the episode talked

759
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,880
about that Jesus's greatest
victory in life was riding on

760
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,800
the donkey of the day of
Pentecost and them celebrating

761
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,320
the Messiah and that had it to
do with a donkey and his

762
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:01,960
greatest.
Samson's greatest victory had to

763
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,560
do with a donkey when he was
alive.

764
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,960
Really unique.
And they also mentioned Balaam,

765
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,280
but like we don't really know
how to tie Balaam his donkey

766
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:13,360
into this.
That's a weird story as well.

767
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,320
The Tonka donkey, but yeah.
Both Jesus and Samson were

768
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,800
betrayed for silver.
Both achieved greatest victory

769
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,560
in their death.
Both died with her arms kind of

770
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,960
stretched out.
Death destroys her enemies.

771
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:31,000
Philistines for Samson, sin,
death and hell for Jesus and

772
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,040
then buried by those that love
them so.

773
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:37,680
And then the kind of final thing
was, and I never thought about

774
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:41,560
this, but we're never given a
physical description of Samson.

775
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:43,520
Oh yeah, yeah, I like that part
too.

776
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:48,280
So he may have been like 6-4 and
standing out or he could have

777
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:53,240
been, you know.
Five 11511 Yeah, yeah, I'm not

778
00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:56,840
as quite as daunting as as he
would have been, but but maybe I

779
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:57,960
am.
Yeah, maybe.

780
00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:01,160
Maybe he just like.
Like a regular guy with long

781
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,360
hair and that was the only
discerning factor.

782
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,720
Yeah, and then the Super spirit,
you know, supernatural strength

783
00:40:07,720 --> 00:40:11,400
came upon them and he is able
to, you know, do these feats.

784
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:12,240
Well, is it?
Is it?

785
00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:14,280
Did they say this in?
Yeah, I think they talked about

786
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,600
this in the in the pod as well.
That that the counterfeit, you

787
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:18,960
know, Satan always has a
counterfeit.

788
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,400
And when demons come up and
inhabit somebody, they have

789
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,400
superhuman strength.
A lot of times that's one of the

790
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,720
characteristics.
And but they don't change

791
00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:28,400
appearance.
You know, they still look the

792
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,440
same with superhuman strength.
So this is God's version of that

793
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,800
potentially is the spirit of the
word came upon him and gave him

794
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,560
superhuman strength.
So even though like we like to

795
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,600
imagine he looked like Hulk
Hogan recipes, you know, like.

796
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,360
That.
He he probably didn't.

797
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,920
Right.
Yeah, yeah, maybe, maybe not.

798
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:49,600
He probably just looked normal.
So Samson was the Super soldier,

799
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:54,880
empowered by the Spirit to begin
the defeat of the Philistines

800
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,720
and and wiping out these giants,
the Raphaim.

801
00:40:57,720 --> 00:41:01,160
Probably descendants of the
Nestle somehow.

802
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,160
Yeah, all of them.
Yeah, 'cause this is one of the

803
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,600
last, I think this is one of the
last mentions of giants and then

804
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:10,320
before Goliath, and then they're
pretty much not mentioned in the

805
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:11,440
Bible anymore.
Right.

806
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,920
David takes out Goliath and then
like later on in Second Samuel,

807
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,400
some of David's men take out
some of the Clive's brothers.

808
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:23,400
Yeah, yeah, Jesus.
So Samson's a super soldier

809
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,480
parallel.
Jesus being a superhuman in a

810
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,560
defiant sense, and then also
defeating sin, death and hell.

811
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:33,040
Samson gets 4 full chapters in
the book of Judges.

812
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:40,920
I don't know that guy who prayer
Jabez may get.

813
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:45,160
Oh no, that's later on.
I'm thinking of JJ who?

814
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,880
I don't know.
Yeah, the guy that comes back

815
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,800
and puts, you know, there's some
other figures that get a couple

816
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,480
chapters, but I think this is
probably the the bulk.

817
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,160
I don't know if anyone even get
that.

818
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,400
That it's a it's a lot of detail
that we get, yeah.

819
00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:03,000
Hebrews 11 includes him as a
hero of of the faith, despite

820
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,280
his flaws.
That's pretty big.

821
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:06,720
Yeah.
And and this is something that I

822
00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:11,200
I liked that they discussed too.
Is it, I feel like that Samson's

823
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,920
always use not in a negative
connotation, but like it's

824
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,640
always preached upon her.
Like, you know what?

825
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,680
What was?
Good example of a bad example.

826
00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:22,160
Good example of a bad example
like, and they use it to say

827
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,560
stay away from women or do this,
you know, like, and then nobody

828
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,640
really ever focuses on the good
aspects.

829
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:31,560
Like he kept this vow for a
really long time and he, he, he

830
00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:33,680
carried out God's judgement on
the Philistines.

831
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,600
Like, I mean, that's, that's
probably the bulk of it.

832
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,840
We just focus on the the the
screw ups as as humans, that's

833
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,840
what we like to do.
We like to focus on the screw

834
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,560
ups of people.
It makes us feel better about

835
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:47,160
ourselves.
We already talked about

836
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:50,800
Philistines having some remnants
of giants and Samson's Day

837
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,000
timeline this about 1100 years
before Christ.

838
00:42:54,000 --> 00:43:00,040
So all right, so interesting
character, kind of a type of

839
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,320
Christ that we see that maybe
you haven't made those

840
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,320
connections before and all the
stories.

841
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:06,520
So anything else you want to
say?

842
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,720
I don't think so.
I just think it was, you know, I

843
00:43:09,720 --> 00:43:12,520
think it was really cool to see
the parallels, to get something

844
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:16,280
other than this really strong
guy that messed up, to see that

845
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,760
it's a good prototype of the of
the coming Christ.

846
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:20,680
Yeah.
And I think maybe the moral of

847
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:25,720
the story is that when there are
details in the story, pay

848
00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:29,920
attention to them because God's
adding them through a prophet

849
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:31,840
for a reason.
Yeah, maybe we don't always

850
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:33,320
understand them, but they're
there.

851
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,040
That there was a reason they
were put in there.

852
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:36,920
That's right.
All right.

853
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,400
Well, I think that closes out
and I, I, you know what you've

854
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:40,880
got to do.
Oh, I know what I got.

855
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:42,800
OK, All right.
I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm coming for

856
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,800
Zach's job.
That's our take.

857
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:48,600
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858
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,920
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