The Kingdom of God 2: A Comprehensive Biblical Theology

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Well, Zach, have you gotten
enough rain lately?

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Oh.
My goodness, make it stop.

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It's like, it's like I can work
all day.

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Clear skies, time to get off
work.

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Rain.
We have some ground beef in our

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refrigerator that for the past
three days I've supposed to like

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grill up and just have ready for
everyone.

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And like every time when it's
like perfect grilling time, it

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is lightning and raining and
then it'll end.

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It's like 930.
I'm like, I don't want to go out

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and grill at 9:00 or 9:30.
I know it's crazy.

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When Jill and I were first here
and I was actually working on

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the other side of the Navy base,
but my in laws were here and

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there.
There's an alligator.

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I don't even know if he's still
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They called him Charlie like
this huge alligator.

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You know, if he's got his own
name, it's like legendary.

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And like what?
Let's go look at that.

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And so may actually it was my
parents, not Jill's parents.

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And so like, we're like, we, we,
we can take you on base when we

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go look at this alligator.
Because, you know, to Arkansans

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and, and this is crazy,
alligators are a big deal.

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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah.

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And, you know, sorry to
interrupt my own story, but

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Chloe just had some, some, they
went out to Bushy Park and there

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were some tourists there and
they were like, there's an

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alligator.
And it's like this big.

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And she's like, oh, that's not a
lot to get excited over.

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That's pretty small.
But that was, that was our

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mindset, you know, 'cause you
don't see alligators out out

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there.
So we're like, let's go look at

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this big alligator just attacked
by these mosquitoes when we were

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out there.
Sorry, not not by the alligator.

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Sorry.
I saw your action.

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It looked like it was so many of
these large tiger mosquitoes

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that it looked like I had fur
like and I was like, we got to

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get out of here.
Like it was bad today because of

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all the rain for the first time
in, I don't know, 20 something

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years since we've been here.
Those tiger mosquitoes are just

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like crazy so much that we all
got an e-mail like, hey, we know

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the mosquitoes are crazy.
We're like trying to see what

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they're they're doing.
Like like all over.

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I'm like this is this is this is
probably how it is up in Canada

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or Maine or something, but.
Man, we're.

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Only supposed to have nests down
here, not like the swarms and

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swarms and mosquitoes.
Man, have you like I, we went to

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this camp in Wisconsin when I
was a kid at our church every

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now and then and it's like some
of these flies and stuff.

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You're just like the flies were
a like huge.

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They were everywhere and they
would buy it.

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I'm like this is not.
I don't like any of this.

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I think I told you this before
and I've used it again and it

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continues to work when I, it's
like I need to take it and then

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wear it and then not wear it.
But I have this dragonfly that's

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like on this little metal wire
and it kind of just, it clips

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onto your hat and it kind of
just sits there and bobs back

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and forth.
And it's it's, I haven't done a

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controlled experiment, but I can
only say that when I've worn it,

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I've not had deer flies and
horseflies bother me.

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Man, that's, I wonder what, what
else you can like, like use that

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same concept for other things,
you know, and just like wore

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things off.
That's pretty good.

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Well, you could, you know, like
on football fields they'll put

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like a fox or something like a
or a wolf or coyote little

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statue and they'll have to move
and stuff because it'll keep use

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away from like eating the field.
Stuff so much.

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Yeah, man.
Wow.

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Yeah, There you go.
Mosquitoes.

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I they.
That's a pet peeve called back

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to the other episode.
Mosquitoes, man, So, so bad.

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And some people, yeah, you get
eaten up by gnats and mosquitoes

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more so than the average person
might.

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My son does too.
Yeah, Jill and I were walking

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the other day and this is when I
didn't have the dragonfly out

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and there are these two horse
flies that just would not leave

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me alone.
And I would, like, turn around

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and I would like, like if you
would just fight me like a man,

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I would kill you.
But you know.

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Fight me like a man.
I love that, but they're like,

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you know, and you're trying to
like swat them away And I even I

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was like, Jill, I'm just going
to have to run a little bit

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because we're on a walk.
So I like ran maybe 60 yards and

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they're like Jill's like they're
on me now.

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I'm like, well, probably they'll
leave you.

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And they did leave her.
They they followed.

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They eventually followed my
scent back up back to me.

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Man, what is it about my?
I just must be so such a sweet.

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Guy, you're like a legend in the
mosquito community.

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They're like, he's coming back
around.

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They're like, oh.
This is our chance.

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This is amazing.
Yeah, it is.

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My, my.
I don't get eaten up that bad.

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Jackson is.
Jackson Jackson is like he will

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like it'll be like a normal day.
Type.

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No, I should.
What's your?

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Blood type A+.
Me too, yeah.

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A + a.
Plus, yeah.

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That's right.
Boom.

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So but you don't get.
But I don't get so it must.

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Be something else.
I don't know.

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High cholesterol.
I don't.

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Know Jackson, man, he just like
he'll be out there and, and

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we're like excuse aren't that
bad, but then the next day

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you'll just see where he got
like man, he needs to take a

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play out of Jayden's book.
Jayden is our kid.

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It'll be like 90°, perfect
hoodie and pants.

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Weather.
I'm like, what are we doing?

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And Jackson's always wearing
like a tank top and shorts.

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Like you should wear what
Jayden's wearing when you go to,

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especially when you go to church
and it's like West Ashley.

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You're like so many gnats.
I used to break out pretty bad

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now that you say that when I was
playing and I would have welts

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after it.
And I remember one time we were

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playing army guys and like, I
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and we were like, you know,
fighting and stuff.

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And I looked over and I had like
a line of mosquitoes on me.

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And I was like, I'm just going
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I'm not going to mess with him.
And I had no belt.

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I don't know what it was.
Wow.

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Yeah, I've tried that.
Since then.

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It hasn't worked.
So.

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Yeah, well, in the Kingdom of
God, no mosquitoes.

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If they are, they're not biting
me.

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Yeah, they'll be a different.
It'll be it'll.

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Be I'll shoot them with my laser
beam eyes.

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That's great.
This is episode 2 in this

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Kingdom of God series.
I'm really looking at the

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biblical theology of the Kingdom
of God, where we see this

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through scripture.
And you probably are thinking

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Kingdom things are in there and
you would be right.

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But they're like everywhere in
there, everywhere you look.

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So join in with us as we take it
to the next level from the

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hearts of the Low Country in
South Carolina.

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It's the Take Two podcast where
we take theology to the next

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level.
You want to give a 32nd recap of

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what we talked about last week?
A minute and 30A.

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Minute.
Great, great, great.

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Yeah.
So we talked about the Kingdom

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and we read through a bunch of
scripture I thought was great,

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laid the foundation for what the
Kingdom is and what there was.

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Some contradictions maybe?
Yeah, yeah, it's seemingly.

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So, you know, some, some verses
would say the Kingdom is here,

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some verses say it's not here
yet, you know, some, you know,

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how do we get there?
You know, by being a child or

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being a net that's drawing you.
So all of these different

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things.
And we really kind of decided

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that the Kingdom was proclaimed,
proclaimed by Jesus and the

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apostles and that they had
inaugurated it, but it's not

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consummated yet.
So we're kind of in this in

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between period.
And we enter into that through

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faith.
And when it is, we see it in its

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fullest.
It's going to be God's basically

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rulership over all of the
cosmos.

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I I love that so much that that
is a great intro.

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It's not just a place we go
after death.

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It's not just ethics.
It's not not the church, but

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it's kind of God's active work
where he is ruling.

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And like Michael said, we'll be
consummated down the line in the

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future.
On this podcast, we want to go

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through this Kingdom of God
theme that we see because it's

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everywhere.
Like you read scripture, almost

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any Bible store and you're going
to see a picture like pointing

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to one day it came, we'll be
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And it starts pretty early on in
the narrative, Genesis 1 to 2.

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We're already getting into it.
And you know, you read a lot of,

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read a lot about this.
You read a lot about the Garden

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of Eden.
Eden, Does it still exist?

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Somewhere I'm I'm, you know,
running around.

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It would be great to run into
those angels guarding it and

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see, you know, be like that.
Would maybe not.

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Maybe not be great to run into
the angels that'd.

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Be terrifying.
That's a good, good point.

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You know, Eden in a way is this
temple Kingdom where you know,

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God created Adam and Eve to be
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We kind of see it'd be good
maybe down the line when we can

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do have we ever, have we done
covenantal stuff on here?

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I think maybe we.
I know, I know, I know.

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You definitely.
I've taught on the covenant so

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often I can't remember if we
have done it cause I've done

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that series maybe 3 or 4 times
at our church.

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Yeah, you've done it a lot.
It'd be interesting, you know?

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But we should do it if we
haven't I.

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I think that would be great.
We'll have to look through the

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archives and even hit on this
like suzerain vassal theme

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where, you know, we've got Adam
and Eve and and their job.

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It's so interesting with, you
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It's not like these statues.
It's like they are ruling on

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God's behalf, picturing God, and
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Kingdom, not just keep an Eden,
but they're going.

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To take it be fruitful,
multiply.

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That, that's right, that that
that's and it doesn't go that

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way.
But even from the beginning,

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that's the way it's set up is
looking for this person who is

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going to roll on Earth
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Adam was kind of set up to do
that, but it didn't work.

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Out that way, he didn't do his
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Didn't didn't work out.
They did not exercise Dominion

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in the right way, not fruitful
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They they fell into and didn't,
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supposed to.
Then we get to the fall and we

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don't just read about, you know,
the fallen Genesis 3, but we do

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read about this.
It's just like downward

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trajectory all the way really,
until we get to Abraham, right?

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There's all these bad things.
That happen, I mean there are

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some people that like that, that
is some confusing passages, you

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know, but there are some
highlights in between there and

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Abraham.
But yeah, for the most part, you

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see a degradation of mankind to
the point where he wipes it all

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out with a flood.
And then you have the tower

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Babel in between there and
Babel.

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Babel, you know.
Whatever.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, whatever works
for you.

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And I think as we look through
some of this, I think it's, you

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know, humanity is basically
saying, hey, God, we don't, we

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don't want your rain.
We're going to build our own.

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And I think we see, you know,
rival false kings, you know,

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risen up all all throughout this
too.

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And then we get to where we are.
We're also going to talk about

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probably Abraham a lot in the
near future.

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We get to Genesis 12 kicking off
the patriarchs.

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And we see kind of this path
forward, this one day, this

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Kingdom will be established,
kind of starts here.

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And it's so weird to me because

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there's potentially, we don't
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of years it's been between the
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You have, you know, if if you
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covenants and it depend on how
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the identic covenant, then the
Ademic covenant, you know,

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basically, you know, go again,
be fruitful, multiply.

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the seed of Eve would crush the

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head of the shining 1.
I don't know if he was a serpent

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or not.
It could have been just the.

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You know, yeah, it's
interesting.

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I've heard some crazy things
with the Hebrew behind it and

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all these things, you know?
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And then there's we know that
there are, even if, if the

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genealogies are 100%, you know,
lined up, it's still, you know,

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a long time between that.
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next covenantal idea with Noah
when he comes out of the ark and

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he's like, you know, man shall
not shed, you know, man's blood.

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You know all, you know all some
of the, some of the first

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dietary laws and stuff we see
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because in between there you

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have the tower of Babel and
stuff.

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And, and so now you God is going
to, it's like, OK, I'm going to

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start to make good on these
promises and I'm going to call

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this guy out of this country and
start this line.

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It's, it's, it's pretty to me,
it makes a, a, a good story.

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But if you're in the middle of
the story, you're like, where

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are you at?
What are we doing here, you

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know?
Yeah, that's a good point.

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It's been like all these years,
like what's what?

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It'd be so interesting to yeah,
just see what it was like for

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for Abram.
And just like what I, you know,

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pastors made this big deal about
him, you know, Nana, the moon.

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God, I love that.
It's Nana.

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That's that's like so good and
just seeing that ship, like, I

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wonder what's going through his
head or, you know, if he was

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like, oh man, this is, you know,
these are false gods.

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Clearly, you know, I I'm so
curious, you know, about all of

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that kind of stuff.
But we see, you know, this

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covenant, you know, blessing the
nations, all these things as

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Kingdom family will will kind of
come from Abraham.

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And then we make our way down
all these different patriarchs

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through the.
Rest of Isaac, Jacob, I think

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all three of well, well, we know
Abraham had this coming to faith

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moment.
And I think, you know, there's a

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time where we don't get as much
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actually on Jacob's life.
But, you know, it seems like

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Jacob is not necessarily living.
You know, there's this time

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where I think he's transformed
by, you know, meeting when he's

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on the run.
Yeah, Yeah, yeah, right.

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And then he becomes, you know,
from this guy who's a usurper

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basically to, you know, he's one
of the yeah, I'm going to

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remember you because of your
father's Abraham, Isaac and

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Jacob.
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, you

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know.
Yeah, it is crazy.

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You're looking at these family
trees and it's like, you know,

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you would just, you would just
think, oh, oldest, you're,

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you're going to be the king.
And it's like almost every time

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it's like God is working in
these ways that you just don't

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anticipate from Abraham's
children where Isaac was the

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begotten son is like, Oh,
Ishmael, no, you know, Jacob and

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Esau.
And then even you get to Jacob's

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kids.
And it's this is where you start

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seeing a little more clarity.
You probably, you know, Jacob's

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blessing talks about the scepter
will not depart from Judah.

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So that's like a good hint
there.

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But you're kind of like, OK,
Joseph's really good.

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It's just like you don't, you
don't see everything coming

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unless it's in it's in hindsight
and how God works in these

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pretty, pretty amazing ways
takes us to the exodus and we

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actually get like this anti
king, this evil king, this

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that's enslaving them, you know,
and we talk about the plagues

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and Yahweh overcoming all these
false gods.

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It's such a great picture of,
you know, Kingdom versus Kingdom

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where we get Moses.
We, you read a lot in Exodus, I

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don't know the verbiage exactly,
but it's like that they will

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know I am the one true God or I,
I will reveal myself for, you

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know, they'll know it's about
revealing who Yahweh is and the

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Lord will reign forever.
And we start getting a little

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little bit of shaping up of this
nation, Israel, that, you know,

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doesn't have a, a human king
yet, but, you know, it starts

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getting a little bit more
narrowed down.

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Yeah.
And through that, you know, I'm

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thinking about Moses and Aaron.
And then Aaron is going to start

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this priesthood, which is in a
sense going to pre picture

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Christ and his his, his role.
But really to the Kingdom of

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Israel specifically, but to the
world at large, you know,

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they're going to be proclaiming
Yahweh's Kingdom, you know, is

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here.
I think that's great.

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And then we'll get to Exodus 20.
We get the law, the 10

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commandments.
We get all of these things, and

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it starts shaping, you know, how
is Israel supposed to live in

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this theocracy?
Here are specific things they

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need to observe.
Here's pictures of God's justice

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and mercy.
This guy is supposed to worship

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God.
And you know, you read that

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today and you're like, man, a
lot of regs, a lot of

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regulations.
Yeah, there were a lot of

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regulations and I think the
regulations, they seem like a

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lot because they don't make
sense to us.

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But it's only 613, right?
Yeah, Have you read the tax

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code?
It's like, yeah, there's a lot

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of everywhere you look in
federal documents.

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It's pretty.
Crazy, right, Right.

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Yeah.
And in this sense, it is like

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another covenant.
But this is a Joel said that

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this is a outlook not working of
the Abrahamic covenant.

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I don't know if I'd describe it
that way because it's almost

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like a here and now covenant
that's conditional that

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eventually I'm going to use to
help get to further on.

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But you know, it's got it's,
it's markedly different than

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Abraham.
Yeah, this, this is the one I

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struggle with.
And I just, I don't know where I

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land, where part of me just
wants to say, man, very

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conditional, like you're saying,
very conditional.

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And eventually, you know,
through this nation of Israel,

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we get Jesus.
It kind of, it kind of fulfills

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its purpose, but it's not like
this.

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It's just like buried for that
specific.

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Time because there's times where
he's like, and when you disobey

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this, I'm going to do all these
things and I would basically

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wipe you off the map except for
I'm going to remember my

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covenant with your, you know,
forefathers Abraham, Isaac and

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Jacob.
And it's like, because of that

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Abrahamic covenant, I'm not
going to utterly destroy you

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under the Mosaic covenant.
And eventually the Mosaic

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covenant is going to be, you
know, be broken.

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Right, that exactly right.
We get to the judges and think

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things aren't going super great.
What's the what's the refrain we

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always hear?
Every man did right in his own

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eyes.
Man over and over and over and

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when.
I was younger.

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I thought that was, oh, that's a
good thing.

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And they're trying to do right.
You know, everyone does, right?

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You know, they may not have it
exactly right, but they're all

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trying to do right.
And then the more I've gotten

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on, it's like, Oh no, that's not
a good thing.

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That's that's so funny and you
look at it and it's like these

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well meaning people, these
judges are lifted up and you

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know, it's interesting.
They either don't it's not like

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they unite the whole nation to
make they come from a section

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here, section there.
It's like.

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Sometimes they divide.
And and sometimes they even

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divide.
Yeah, that that's a great

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points.
And you know, Israel's asking

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for a king eventually and all
these things.

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And really, them wanting a king,
it's not the problem.

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It's really them wanting to be
like all the other nations, what

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they want.
It's like, you know, I've

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always.
Struggled with this because if

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we go back three steps where we
get to the Sinai covenant,

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there's rules on there for when
you get a king.

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Yeah.
So yeah, they have all the

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King's going to copy the law and
all these things.

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And so it's like.
You don't multiply horses and

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you know it's baked.
Into there.

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That's so good.
Yeah, that's great.

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But then there is an offense,
rightly so, that God takes when

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they ask for a king.
So it's it's it's always been a

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a head scratcher like and I
don't you might say, well, those

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rules were in place for when the
Messiah king comes.

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I'm like doesn't seem, doesn't
seem to fit but.

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Yeah, and and part of me like
when I read that my take away is

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same thing.
What Israel wasn't chastised as

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much.
It's like the whole point was a

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king in some capacity.
Like the whole nature of it.

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It's just the way they asked
because he had all these

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pictures.
And yeah, that that is so

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perplexing.
I will say this because I'm

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going to forget this.
If you look at Ruth, which you

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know, comes on the heels of
judges in our English, the

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Bible.
I'm trying to read the and I

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think I said this in one of our
other podcasts, but it's it's so

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good.
It says in the days when the

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judges ruled in Israel.
So this is at the time of the

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judges.
The severe famine came upon the

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land.
So a man from Bethlehem and

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Judah, so interesting from
Bethlehem and Judah left his

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home and taking his wife and two
sons with him.

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The man's name was Elimelech,
and I'm going to look this up

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because I'm blanking on it, but
do you know what Elimelech

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means?
I guess I should look this up

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fast and we'll see what ChatGPT
says.

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But I, I it has some significant
meaning that that speaks of a

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king in some capacity, like it's
Speaking of this desire for a

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king Chat chat's thinking in
Hebrew, but it means.

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God is my king.
Isn't that interesting that

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that's how Ruth starts this
throwaway name?

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Like we don't learn that much
about this guy, right?

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Means God is my king.
And then the book of Ruth

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famously ends talking about
David Obed or you kind of learn

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this.
And so it's bookended in the

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time of judges all about a king.
That's pretty amazing.

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It is crazy.
And so you see, it's just baked

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in every like you look at this.
I like this term biblical

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theology, not necessarily
theology that comes from the

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Bible, but the this this through
line that you see through all of

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Scripture and it's like you see
these little like little Easter

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egg kind of things hidden there
and it's like we don't know

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Hebrew.
You miss some of this, unless

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someone can point this out.
Yeah, so, so you're talking

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about a limelec A?
Limelec and I was.

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Like, so clearly there's got to
be a crossover to a Bemoc.

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Oh yeah, What's what's that?
And that means my father is

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king.
And that's interesting.

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Yeah, that is very interesting.
So anyway, I just didn't want to

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forget Ruth before before we
passed over because I don't

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think that was in the in the
notes.

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So we get to this monarchy and
Israel, we finally get a king

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Saul's great.
Saul does everything right,

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right?
Yeah, it's so you'd think it's

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going to be so good.
The Spirit comes upon him, he's

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prop sighing like, oh, Saul's
going to be numbered among the

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prophets and he does all these
things.

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I think that there's this this
series that came out the house.

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David, I watched.
This I watched.

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How much of you all?
Of it.

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All of it.
Yeah, OK, so I have, I quibble

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with some details because that's
that's my nature.

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Sorry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

444
00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:42,400
But I thought there were some
things that were really well

445
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:46,080
done, like this scene where he
doesn't slaughter everything and

446
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:50,920
you can feel the tension that he
might feel there, but you know,

447
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,240
he just doesn't get things
right.

448
00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:59,080
And I don't think he sees the
motivation behind it somehow,

449
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,520
because I'm reading it, I'm
trying to understand the nature

450
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:07,440
of who Saul is.
But, but, but he when he does

451
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,120
repent, he's not really sorry
for it, you know?

452
00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:12,240
Yeah, you can.
Yeah, you can tell that whereas

453
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,240
David, when he's confronted like
he's done these really bad

454
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,040
things, but when he's
confronted, he's like it's it's,

455
00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,160
it's on me.
It's it's all my fault

456
00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,320
ownership.
Yeah, that series, I really

457
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:23,680
liked what they did with David's
mom.

458
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,320
I felt like that was very
faithful to scripture that she

459
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,040
yeah, no, it's like, it's like,
I like the series.

460
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:31,800
I always struggle with these
things.

461
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,120
I never really watch The Chosen,
which I'm sure is great.

462
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,760
I just haven't watched it.
But I probably have the same

463
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,160
quibbles where I'm like, oh man,
I wish this series was almost

464
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,080
like cut in half because a lot
of stuff is good, but there'd be

465
00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:45,120
whole episodes and like, it's
total conjecture.

466
00:22:45,120 --> 00:22:47,360
That's like a little too much.
But a lot of stuff, even if it

467
00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:48,760
was conjecture, I like some of
it.

468
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:50,560
But some of the stuff I was
like, I don't know about that,

469
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:52,000
but I I liked what you're
saying.

470
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,480
Like, you can kind of feel some
of that attention.

471
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,440
He could like Samuel's talking
and he could feel like, I don't

472
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,400
know, it's like you kind of
understand it a little bit

473
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,400
better.
Yeah, and, and one more thing,

474
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:07,280
and it shouldn't matter, but you
know, David himself in there,

475
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,920
the actor's fine.
He doesn't look like my picture

476
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:11,400
of what David would look.
Like that makes it.

477
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,680
Tough.
But you know, Jonathan looks

478
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,960
exactly like what I would think
David would look like, you know,

479
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:21,560
So anyway, and he's described as
having Ruddy, Ruddy cheeks, like

480
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:28,000
that youthful kind of blushy
cheeks that we can find someone

481
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,640
that has Persian descent
because, you know, I think

482
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,240
Abraham is, is a Semite, you
know, it's not not, you know,

483
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:39,000
you know, not necessarily Arab
types descent.

484
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,480
With ready.
Cheeks, you know, I see him all

485
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,040
the time.
Like that's probably what David

486
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,240
looked like.
That's, you know, you they could

487
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,800
have found they could, they
could have cast the appearance

488
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,400
better.
You know, he probably does it.

489
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,040
He does a good job of acting.
You know, that's great.

490
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:55,000
We should, I mean, no one
probably cares, but we should,

491
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,280
we should do a House of David
the Chosen, like podcast thing.

492
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:00,480
See, because there's a lot of
things I did appreciate about

493
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:01,480
it.
And then there was others like,

494
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,280
yeah.
I only go through the first

495
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,480
season on the Chosen and I was
like.

496
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,680
Yeah, I I've actually never
watched an episode of The

497
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:09,560
Chosen.
I'm out.

498
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,640
And.
I don't even know if I made it

499
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,200
through the first season.
Yeah, I got to the part where

500
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:19,440
he's basically practicing.
He just is practicing in the

501
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:20,680
woods or something.
I'm like.

502
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,960
That like, I'm not loving.
Yeah, because I can.

503
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,760
Yeah.
It's so anyway, we don't have to

504
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:28,360
go.
Off too much?

505
00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:30,760
We've digressed a little bit.
So we're at the monarchy.

506
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:34,520
Saul doesn't do great.
David, man, man after God's own

507
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,680
heart.
He's he's kind of set up as this

508
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,080
ideal weight, though very flawed
at the same time.

509
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,560
Right, right.
And you almost get the sense,

510
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,240
you know, what we talked about
in Ezra and Nehemiah, You're

511
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:47,640
getting David like.
Oh yeah, right.

512
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,160
It's going to be perfect.
It's going to be great.

513
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,240
No, it's not.
David's an old man and it's like

514
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:54,880
it's going pretty South.
Right.

515
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,280
Yeah, it's all crazy.
And then the same thing with

516
00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:58,840
Solomon.
That's why.

517
00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:02,120
OK, now it's going to happen.
We built the temple.

518
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,760
We are ruling over other
nations.

519
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,040
All these nations are bringing
in so much gold.

520
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:08,800
We're not even or so much.
I don't know if there's so much

521
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,560
gold, but a lot of gold, a lot
of silver, maybe so much bronze

522
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:12,960
or something.
Some metal in there is like,

523
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,280
we're not even weighing this
because it's just too much to

524
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:16,720
try to weigh.
Yeah.

525
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,440
And then it's like, yeah.
And almost like whatever Solomon

526
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,520
does flies in the face of what
you were talking about in

527
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,400
Deuteronomy or wherever, where
it's like, don't get all these

528
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:25,360
horses.
Don't.

529
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,080
It's like he's like doing check,
check, check.

530
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:31,040
Don't marry, Yeah, don't marry.
Don't make all these, you know,

531
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,760
alliances with all these foreign
nations and stuff.

532
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:37,920
That's what it that's what all
those marriages are.

533
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,880
Text textbook doing.
Exactly.

534
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,080
Don't multiply yourself, wives.
And, and it's crazy because,

535
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:48,080
yeah, these are even the, the
ideals, the Kingdom falls, it's

536
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,480
split.
It's it's taken over.

537
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,080
And we have these prophets and
they're talking about a future

538
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:55,920
Kingdom.
The Messiah has prophesized at

539
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,200
length.
We got all these great Christmas

540
00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:01,000
texts that come from the
prophets about this Messiah

541
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,840
that's gonna come.
That's gonna be amazing.

542
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,840
That show up in Handel's
Messiah.

543
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:06,320
Hey there.
Yeah, there you go.

544
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:11,080
In exile, there's just this
longing, there's this hope for

545
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,400
this Kingdom.
You know, Daniel's vision, we

546
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,520
talked about a little bit last
episode where man, there'sion,

547
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,440
Kingdom that's gonna reign
forever, that that won't be

548
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:21,680
destroyed.
It's it's going to be this great

549
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,360
thing.
There's this hope for this new

550
00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:25,280
king.
I hope for this temple.

551
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,120
You read places like Ezekiel.
There's just so much text

552
00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:30,960
devoted to a temple.
Zechariah talks about this

553
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,600
temple, the city, There's like
no walls.

554
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,240
It's going to be amazing.
Ezekiel has all these dimensions

555
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,960
where you try to do the math and
it doesn't really make sense.

556
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,760
You're like, OK, these rooms,
how is this going to work?

557
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,600
But you're like, man, a lot to
look forward to.

558
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,760
Yep.
And then out of that exile, we

559
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:53,960
have this exile, the prophets
and the exile because I don't

560
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,080
know where you were in in your
mind where, where we are each of

561
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:56,480
the exile.
Oh.

562
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:57,440
Yes, great.
Yeah, Yeah, I was.

563
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,080
I was kind of zooming through
this kind of fast.

564
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,320
Yeah.
So, but now that we have, you

565
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,240
know what we just talked about
Ezra, Nehemiah, and then the the

566
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:08,040
silent years where Israel is
like thrown between different

567
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:12,120
kingdoms, they have autonomy,
what for like 30 years?

568
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:13,760
Yeah, it's yeah, really not a
whole.

569
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,680
Lot and then Rome comes in and
it's like, we'll we'll pick you

570
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:21,400
up and take ya and rebellion's
there and then out of that we

571
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:25,440
see, you know, this guy who's
born to a family in Bethlehem

572
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:30,680
and is going to start
inaugurating the Kingdom for

573
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,760
real.
And in a very strange way,

574
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,400
everyone's looking around,
they're like, hey, don't do it

575
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,920
this way.
We want you to get after it.

576
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:38,920
Jesus.
You're just, you know, being a

577
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,480
servant and being humble.
And it just doesn't seem like

578
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,120
what we're.
When are you going to overthrow

579
00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:46,160
Rome and establish your Kingdom?
Even even his disciples are

580
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:47,560
like.
That's what you're.

581
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,400
On your left and right, yeah,
they're, they're they're they're

582
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:50,760
getting pumped.
Yeah, it's great.

583
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,720
Even.
I love it even, you know,

584
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,280
parents are getting involved.
Like, hey, my son, are we going

585
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:56,920
to have these these roles and
all of this?

586
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,760
And.
Yeah, What's there?

587
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:01,840
There's just so much.
And even I think we've read some

588
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:05,560
of this even in acts like very
beginning, like hey.

589
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:07,840
OK, now is the.
Kingdom is this is.

590
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:09,200
This.
And now are you establishing it?

591
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:10,080
Yeah.
Yeah.

592
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,320
And and so really, you know,
it's been inaugurated.

593
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,680
We read Acts really through much
of the rest of the New

594
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:21,040
Testaments that Jesus is
raining, it's been inaugurated,

595
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,840
it's not fully consummated and
and the church needs to live out

596
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,280
some of these Kingdom values.
Christians, we need to live in

597
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,440
the light of this Kingdom
proclaim Jesus is Lord, these

598
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:32,920
kind of things.
And then, you know, you read

599
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,360
Revelation, you can get all
jazzed up, excited because of

600
00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:39,160
what is held out in the future.
Yeah, and you read that?

601
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,080
You know exactly what's going to
happen, man.

602
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,680
Just I don't think we even need
a podcast.

603
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:46,800
It's so clear.
People know, Just read it you'll

604
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,520
you'll understand it.
If you don't, if you can't parse

605
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,840
out every detail, you can get
the big picture that Christ

606
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,560
returns, defeats evil creations,
renewed, the Kingdom of the

607
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,920
world becomes the Kingdom of the
Lord and God dwells with his

608
00:28:59,920 --> 00:29:02,760
people and they reign with him
forever.

609
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,400
And so we, I mean, we really
just hit the high points that

610
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,960
most people are familiar with,
but it's like king, king, king,

611
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,840
king.
It's just like everywhere you

612
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:11,400
look.
I'm.

613
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,040
Going to steal this outline for
that class I'm teaching for one

614
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,600
of those classes because that's
this is what I want to do in

615
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,560
that because it's kind of
highlight the the big story of

616
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,760
of the Bible because for new
believers, sometimes it it can

617
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,920
get lost.
And even even for everyone knows

618
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,960
Jesus can't even been in church,
but it's just a good I like

619
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,120
thinking through some of this
framework because it's just good

620
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:36,880
to that's the gospel king Jesus.
It's like, man, it makes it in a

621
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,840
way simple and and really puts
it in perspective.

622
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,520
We talked about the already not
yet the church in the Kingdom,

623
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:48,560
this royal announcements, a lot
of a lot of good stuff to ponder

624
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,120
and think about because it's in
your face.

625
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,520
But sometimes you can miss it.
You get into these stories and

626
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,880
you just don't think about the
the big picture.

627
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,440
The more I've, I've been reading
these books and I just really

628
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,840
love this series that DA Carson
is editor for and it's about

629
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,200
biblical theology and he's just
taking a subject and trying to

630
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,520
look at it over all of
Scripture.

631
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,160
Or maybe he'll pick a topic over
like four or five books and try

632
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,200
to pull out that big through
line.

633
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,520
And I'm like, oh, this is so
great because growing up in a

634
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,360
church that really prioritized
Scripture, actually, I mean,

635
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:21,840
just everyone knew scripture so
much.

636
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,480
It's like sometimes I feel like
we were down in the weeds and

637
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:26,560
missed some of the fours.
Yeah.

638
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,680
So it's like I love, I love kind
of going the other way now and

639
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,840
dwelling on that more.
Kingdom of God.

640
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:34,880
What else you got to add to the
conversation?

641
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,560
Anything you can think of that
we need to highlight?

642
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,400
No, I think I think that's good.
Hopefully this has been a good

643
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:46,280
two-part series for you and, and
maybe are there, you know, you

644
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,680
mentioned some resources last
episode.

645
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,280
Did you say it was a kid?
What, what, what's the book that

646
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:54,880
you read?
It said on the Kingdom of God.

647
00:30:55,240 --> 00:31:00,200
On the Kingdom of God, George
Ladd, George Ladd Ladd.

648
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:04,040
He is great and it's like a lot
of his stuff you can find for

649
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,520
free online.
Like it's been old enough where

650
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,160
if you buy a book, they're
they're cheap because I think it

651
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,320
might be past copyright stuff.
George Ladd, he's got some good

652
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,360
resources on a website called
Monergism.

653
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,040
You can just pull the PDFs
really easy.

654
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,600
Or I just bought a book for like
10 bucks and it's a short little

655
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,880
book, but it just talks about
the Kingdom of God so well.

656
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,400
And he does a lot where he ties
it to his eschatology, but it

657
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,480
makes it, he does a really good
job of keeping it simple 'cause

658
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,480
my frustration with eschatology
is everyone's got like a 18 step

659
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:31,880
process that I can't keep up
with.

660
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,480
And everyone's like slightly
like, well that's that pre mil.

661
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,760
My pre mil is it's just hard to
keep track.

662
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:38,000
Yeah, yeah.
I think that's good.

663
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,960
And then this DA.
Carson resource DA.

664
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:44,800
Carson, he's got this series.
It's called The New Testament

665
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,120
Studies in Biblical Theology.
And it's maybe like 40 books.

666
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,560
And he just works with a bunch
of authors that will take a

667
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:52,960
theme.
Like one of the books I read for

668
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Ezra Nehemiah, it was called
like the already not yet, but it

669
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,800
just looked at this already not
yet from their perspective and

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00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,400
kind of tried to draw out the
big picture.

671
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And they they've got a million
different ones that it's just,

672
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,760
it's just an interesting way.
And those books, what I like

673
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about them is they're they're
not superficial.

674
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So they're not like a simple
read, but they're not overly

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00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,760
academic.
They're like this middle ground

676
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:16,120
where they've been like
researched It's.

677
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,800
Good, detailed stuff, but it's
not like we're going to bore you

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00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,440
in.
This scholar said this, this

679
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,280
scholar said this, this scholar
said this, and we're going to

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00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,000
use this methodology to
differentiate.

681
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,920
It's like, right, It's a great
middle ground where you're

682
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:33,040
getting really quality stuff and
it's maybe a slightly different

683
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,080
lens than you're used to.
And I've only read, I think four

684
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:37,800
or five in the series, but I'm
like, every time I read this,

685
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,760
I'm like, these are so, so good
just to frame things a little

686
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:41,480
bit.
Differently that's.

687
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Good.
And if you're really interested,

688
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,200
you should look up if you've
ever heard of GK Beal, he's got

689
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,240
some like monster books on
biblical theology.

690
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,480
He'll be like let's look at the
biblical theology of sin where

691
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,600
basically he'll look at our
idols and he'll look at like

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00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,040
every time idols mentioned in
scripture.

693
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,760
It's like a 40 hour audio book
where it's almost that's too big

694
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,880
to get my arms around.
Like I like the the big picture,

695
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,280
but I need it condensed a little
bit.

696
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,080
But if you're really getting
after it, I've started listening

697
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:08,480
to some of these and I just
never finished them.

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00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,160
So anyway, Kingdom of God, read
some more on it.

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That's our take.
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