Theological Errors of the History Channel Miniseries, The Bible - Part 2

It's time for another edition of fighting for the faith. Monday March 11th 2013. Yeah, we got more that we need to cover regarding the Bible. Notice the air quotes while I said that. Not talking about the written Word of God.

I'm talking about that thing masquerading as Bible stories on the history channel. Thank you for tuning in you're listening to fighting for the faith, my name is Chris Roseboro. I am your servant in Jesus Christ.

And this is the program that dishes up a daily dose of biblical discernment the goal of which. Help you to think biblically help you to think critically. Help you compare what people are saying in the name of God to the Word of God.

No Shortage of crazy things being said out there or being acted out in a in a major History channel miniseries if you would made for television screenplay type thing. You know, there is a history in Christianity, especially, you know coming out of Europe that.

That we we as Christians have been known to do these things called passion plays. And the is it over Ammergau in in Germany that has this every four years or so. Right and the people of the town would get together and you know.

Every four years or so, they would put on what's called a passion play and that would be they that they would reenact, you know. You know Jesus's life. Teaching death the resurrection all that type of stuff and it's a big deal.

And and you know that so what they've done is they've taken you know the the the story of Jesus that we find in the Gospels and they found a way to Weave it into what would be a theatrical production and you know, so there's a history of doing things like that and so what I think of the history channel miniseries the Bible is that it's an attempt at a passion play if you would that has as a grand a Grand vision of you know, giving the overarching sweep of the entire Bible itself.

And there's nothing wrong with that idea per se but the issue comes down to as I pointed out last week is what's going to be the theology that drives it and One of the things that I have found to be rather alarming.

Having now watched four hours of the ten hours of this miniseries is that? That they've managed to do some things that I think are Actually if you take the time to think about the implications of what I'm gonna say are absolutely Frightening.

Okay, you know week one We you know in of the the Bible and by the way, Nick Stokes a listener of fighting for the faith. He he had a great idea and he doesn't think that we should call it the Bible. He thinks that you know, because You know, it's really not the Bible.

It's anything but he came up with a good play on words. He thinks we should call it the bobble, you know, because somebody obviously fumbled the ball here. Then they've bobbled it and totally messed it up and I'm thinking of adopting that idea here and referring it to it moving forward as the bobble.

So, you know if you hear me from time to time, you know I'm gonna kind of try it on and see if I like the way that sounds today if I get used to it I might oh, you know moving forward always call it the bobble.

And the reason being is because I don't want to pay it any respect. It's this there's nothing to respect in this movie if in fact The list of things that are right is so much shorter than the wrist list of things that are wrong that it's it's actually frightening and alarming and there plus there's a good precedent here and If I think I've told this on the on the air before that you all familiar with the ancient Pagan deity known as Molech.

Yeah Molech. Well, the that's not his name. Yeah, but that's the name he's constantly referred to as in the Bible and it has to do with the fact that they refused the the Jews refused to Give honor to said, you know deity and you have to put deity and air quotes there because he's not a real God but His real name was Melech and they changed the vowel points on him from Melech to Molech.

Molech means shame and so You know, so the Hebrews were actually this is just brilliant on their part. They wouldn't pay homage and respect to the false deity Melech and constantly referred to him as Molech.

It's just a brilliant idea so I may moving forward constantly refer to this movie as the Bible and So it you know, if you're not familiar with you know, this particular tactic on my part adopting the recommendation of a listener.

You know, you're gonna think that I have a speech impediment so You know that among other things anyway, but coming back to my point and that's this. There what's missing in this movie now that I've seen, you know part one part one the first Two hours really was a kind of a grand sweep from creation to the flood from Abraham and then to Moses and then this week covered basically from you know, the death of Moses from Joshua all the way up to David and It's It's it's a mess.

It's an it's an absolute mess and what you have no concept of as you're watching These portrayals of the Old Testament stories which are selected. These are these are kind of cherry-picked stories from the Old Testament is that there's no concept of redemption history and They have managed in their retelling of these of the Old Testament stories to and I apologize for the offensiveness of this word, but they have de-Judaized the Old Testament and What's really?

Missing is I mean is any concept of redemption at all? The the Passover itself has no explanation. It just gets an honorable mention and you show them showing the you know The blood of the lamb on the door it gets an honorable mention, but no mention of the meal.

No mention of what it's for the bitter herbs or anything like that. And now that we're all the way up to David You know What's what else is missing is the Shema the Shema is gone hero Israel the Lord our God is one and the entire sacrificial system as well as the tabernacle all of those I mean they are conspicuously Missing there are there's no day of atonement.

There is no sacrifice of spotless Sheep and animals for the you know for the remission of sins. There's no There's no forgiveness in this and so the gospel has is totally gone instead of getting Redemption history a redemptive history.

It has been replaced with Cherry-picked Old Testament Stories that are being woven together as Literally what I would call purpose driven leadership parables. The overarching theme for each of the different connectors between each of the stories that they're telling it has to do With vision casting leadership and whether or not somebody was participating in bringing about You know the kingdom of God and this nation of Israel or if they were Distracted from their vision from the vision and what there were what their purpose was.

I mean Samson himself. In fact, I'm not gonna get too much into the story of Samson today I'm gonna save out the Samson piece for tomorrow. But the the story of Samson is Literally retold as as if okay.

God specially created Samson. He's got a special purpose and and he keeps getting distracted away from his purpose and And so he you know, he kind of dies tragically as one who had so much potential for his Purpose but kept getting distracted away from his purpose.

And so but again what's missing in any of this is any concept of what we would call? Theologically of the scarlet thread that runs through the Old Testament and then brings us to Christ this scarlet thread of history.

Which would be the the bloodline of Jesus of God's redemptive work. There's no promise in the Garden of Eden of the forgiveness of sins. By the one who would come to crush the head of the serpent that's all gone and What I would consider very alarming is in their retelling of the story of David and David and Bath Sheba there is no Forgiveness, there's no Repentance.

I mean if anything David seems impenitent When confronted by Nathan, it's just it's absolutely mind-boggling. So we have a D Judy eyes telling of the Old Testament stories cherry-picked stories that are being woven together into a purpose-driven vision casting set of leadership parables and No gospel, no repentance.

No forgiveness of sins. None of that. It's it's just Screaming by its absence and so, you know, what we've got here is actually from my point of view is well, extremely frightening anybody who thinks that what they're getting in this mini series is historically Theologically accurate.

Well, it's anything but and so what we're gonna do on today's episode of fighting for the faith. We're gonna you're gonna need your Bible today, by the way folks and I apologize. We're gonna be doing a lot of biblical teaching today and you kind of walk through what we're gonna be doing here.

First and foremost, what we're gonna do is we're gonna I'm gonna read for you a quick news story that came across the the newswire from the the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom and Talking about the so-called miracles that came about while they were filming this Mini series and then we'll actually switch gears and I'm gonna walk you through what I would consider to be some of the more prominent sound bites from last night's part two of the of the mini series the bobble and What we'll do then that when what when we're done with all that.

We'll take a quick break and then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna Come back and I'm gonna take a little bit of time and look at the story of Rahab and then gonna take a look at The story of David and Bathsheba and I'm gonna save out a more in-depth conversation for the story of Samson until tomorrow and what's what I find to be is like completely a distraction if you if you haven't seen last night's episode of of the bobble then you're not aware of the fact that Samson is played by a very large black man and with dreadlocks, so it kind of looks like a Rastafarian, but There's a lot of people out there having a big conversation about whether or not Samson was black and it's like who cares this is like I don't I don't.

They could have had a Martian played it doesn't matter. You know the color of the skin of the actors and actresses is absolutely not even Remotely important, but what is important is the theology behind it?

So that there's a lot of people who are spilling digital ink on that particular conversation, and they're like It's like missing the forest because of you know because of a twig. It's not even a tree.

It's a twig. Anyway, so yeah, but like I said we're gonna save the discussion of the Samson story until tomorrow so with that We're going to dive into the program proper and since we're doing a quick news story that requires me to do this Okay from the Daily Mail at the United Kingdom of the Daily Mail online Headline reads the hand of God was on this Bible blockbusters producer claims miracles took place on set with mysterious visitor from the desert plague of snakes and gust of wind as strong as a Boeing 747 and Yeah That's the headline.

It's not a headline, that's a paragraph, so this is written by Hugo Guy GYE at the at the Daily Mail on you can find this a daily mail dot co dot UK. I Wouldn't know what to type in because The headline is a paragraph, but anyway he Hugo writes He says a block the blockbuster miniseries the bobble has fast become one of the biggest hits on American TV Landing more than 13 million viewers for its first episode.

But while it's runaway set success has taken the entertainment world by surprise It has not come as a shock to its creators the producers have revealed that during its production the show seemed to be marked by Mysterious omens which they claim are evidence of the hand of God.

These apparent miracles include Included a sudden swarm of snakes Around the base of the cross where Jesus was to be crucified and a boy who emerged from the desert with part of Christ's costume which had been lost for four days.

Okay British-born producer Mark Burnett told Entertainment Weekly that the series the series's success seemed almost Pre-ordained while it was being made quote the hand of God was on this. He said in an interview before the show's premiere last Sunday the edit came together perfectly the actors came together perfectly.

It just comes to life. However. He claimed that it was not just the fact that That filming in North Africa went smoothly that convinced him his production was blessed. Mr Burnett who is most famous for creating reality shows such as survivor and Produced the Bible along with this extra actress wife Roma Downey Described a number of weird things which drew the attention of cast and crew during the filming in One scene filmed during a still night on the edge of the desert Jesus tells the priest Nicodemus the Holy Spirit is like the wind and according to mr. Burnett at that moment a wind like as if a 747 was taking off blew his hair.

Almost blew the set over and sustained for 20 seconds across the desert a rogue wind, uh-huh. Everyone just looked at everyone like what just happened. Another notable occasion came during the filming of Jesus's crucifixion one of the most risky scenes due to the dangers involved in mock execution.

The production had hired a snake wrangler to keep the set free of dangerous reptiles. And he usually found one or two snakes per day, but on the day the crucifixion was filmed according to mr Burnett the handler found an unprecedented 48 venomous snakes crawling around the mountain.

Perhaps the most inexplicable Happening came while they were filming the baptism of Jesus in a reservoir. The producers were terrified when part of the actors Irreplaceable costume came off and then floated away, but help came from an unlikely source.

Four days later a kid showed up from many many many many miles away who had been seeking us through the desert to Return this to us. Mr. Burnett told the entertainment weekly He didn't know what it was why he should seek us.

But he felt that he had to return it. The Bible is airing on the History Channel in two-hour chunks on Sunday nights and has been the surprise winner in its time slot. The series will air its finale on March 31st Easter Sunday.

More I'm watching this the more I'm dreading the fact that they're ending it on Easter Sunday. It's like that's the last thing I want to do on Easter Sunday and watch the finale of this program anyway, so Now should we think that?

Oh, well see there's proof. There's miracles. There's unexplained miracles that proves that This is from God. No, it doesn't. No, it does not Jesus himself tells us in the Olivet Discourse if you're not familiar who I'm talking about go to the Gospel of Matthew and You know like chapter what 24 and read regarding the end times Jesus says that in the end times will be false Christ's false anointed ones false prophets and false teachers and They would be able to perform Miracles, they would actually be able to perform miracles and the whole idea behind these false Christ's false teachers false prophets.

And you know all these other people teaching false doctrine is that they would deceive if possible even the elect. So just because there's so-called miracles and boy, these are kind of dubious miracles.

You know what I mean? Just because there's so-called miracles involved in the production of the Bible Doesn't mean that it's actually from God. The proof is always in the theological Putting not in whether or not they're so-called miracles or unexplained omens or happenings or whatever.

In fact, they based on some of these so-called omens that are supposed to prove that God is behind it. I the the abundance of snakes would tell me it was probably the other guy not not God. And again, it's it's all about the theology.

It's all about the theology and so with that what we're gonna do is we're going to take our take a look now at the part two of the Bible and. And that requires me to do this.

And Eric Clapton's change the world which seems to be the major theme of the Bible and.

So with that what we're gonna do is I'm gonna just walk us through You know just some what I what I would consider to be some of the more interesting Relevant sound bites that help divulge and give you a picture of the theology behind this miniseries and what we'll do is we'll start with a quick little sound bite from the character who's playing Joshua after the fall of Jericho and I want you to listen to the theological statement that he's made.

So, you know, the children of Israel had have walked around Jericho once a day for six days and on the seventh day they walked around at seven times they blew their rams horns shouted their big shout and Down come the walls and then Joshua, well, he says this Has kept his promise.

All right, so God has kept his promise and if we obey the Lord anything is possible now. Now this might explain why? The producers Burnett and Roma Downey have not Spent any time actually fleshing out.

What's what was written on those stone tablets that Moses received on Mount Sinai, you know, the Ten Commandments and They haven't spent any time explaining the Mosaic Covenant like at all. The Shema is missing.

The tabernacle is a wall this the entire Levitical sacrificial system up to this point in the miniseries mysteriously missing and The fact that somebody like the historical Joshua is fully aware of the bloody mess that was instituted by the Lord In the in the sacrificial system, you know, the sacrificing of animals the Day of Atonement all of that all of those Sacrifices that are involved, you know that that God revealed on Mount Sinai the last thing you would expect Joshua to say is Well, if we obey the Lord anything is possible because Well over and again the one thing that's very clear through the entire sacrificial system is is that they need a sacrifice for their sins and that is missing from this entire endeavor so far and But but let me move forward here.

Like I said, what we're what I what I'm absolutely convinced that they've done is they've they've selected You know Old Testament stories and recast them so that this the Old Testament Isn't the story of redemptive history, but is a series of leadership parables for vision.

Casting leaders to change the world. Let me give you a little bit more of the theology. This is the opening narrative from last night's episode or installment regarding Samson and I want you to listen carefully to.

You know how they're they're going to discuss these things and what they're gonna do is they're gonna make the transition from the time of Joshua to the time of Samson and.

Well, listen to what they say a hundred years after Joshua. The twelve tribes of Israel have spread out across the promised land.

But hostile neighbors surround Kate this is interesting. Let me back this up. Let me tell you what's missing here. If you're familiar with your Old Testament at all, then you're familiar that in the book of Joshua.

It's not that just the children of Israel entered the promised land. But the the conquest of Cana was a military campaign. There's no hint that there was a military campaign in the conquest of Cana and the children of Israel coming into the promised land.

They were basically told to get rid of and you know. And be the hand of God's judgment against the people who were occupying the land of Cana prior prior to them. No mention of that. And so the way the story is told it's as if okay.

Well Joshua and the children of Israel that we they had their major battle. It was Jericho. God won it for them because of course if you obey the Lord anything is possible. And so they entered in. I mean once Jericho fell everyone just kind of went Spread out to the different four corners of the land of Cana and it became Israel in no mention then also of how repeatedly the children of Israel began to worship and serve other gods and then God sold them into slavery to.

You know to bit you know. Tribes, you know. The Moabites and others no mention of that none whatsoever. And so the way the story is being told is they they've get in there. But they still have enemies on all sides and well, listen again.

Here's the the narrative a hundred years after Joshua.

The twelve tribes of Israel had spread out across the promised land. Hostile neighbors better trained. The Philistines are the deadliest threat.

So better armed and better trained the Philistines are now a deadly threat. To the people of Israel who've come into the promised land, but they still are not really a nation.

Great leaders like Moses or Joshua to unite them.

The Israelites must rely on local heroes. Okay, let me back that up. That's kind of the important line. Listen again. Without great leaders like Moses or Joshua to unite them without great leaders to unite them without Great.

So the big problem that Israel faced in the time of the judges was they didn't have great leaders. This is not what the biblical text talks about. The problem that Israel faced at the time of the judges Was that they Began to worship and serve false Deities and they well the Bible the biblical text describes it as they went whoring After false gods and God punished them.

It wasn't that they lacked great leaders. It's that they didn't have faith and trust in the one true God and as a result of it They sinned greatly against him. No mention of that by the way, no mention of Israel's idolatry.

No mention of their sin against God and of God's judgment against their idolatry. Instead were basically fed this line again.

Without great leaders like Moses or Joshua to unite them The Israelites must rely on local heroes called judges people like.

Samson. Yeah, so that's the introduction to Samson, you know, that's so the big problem in Israel they didn't have leaders. Again this they've changed the overarching story of the Old Testament, you know, basically being going from redemptive history to now being.

These are purpose-driven leadership parables. That's what they're doing here. Now. Let me move ahead to like the next. It's the next soundbite and this is at the tail end of the story of Samson which by the way is completely Unrecognizable as a biblical story.

The details of the story of Samson are so far afield of. What the biblical text says regarding Samson? It makes you wonder if they forgot to bring a Bible with them to Morocco when they were filming this.

I mean, it's really that bad but here at the very tail end of it. We we got we got. You know, we've got Samson now. He's you know been betrayed by Delilah. He's had his eyes gouged out and. And listen listen to the narrator talk about, you know, poor Samson's plight up at up to this point.

Betrayed and blind Samson's battle with the Philistines is all. And with it the dreams of an Israelite homeland.

So I Mean this is just weird. Okay, so, you know the dreams of an Israelite homeland are. Well, they're gone along with Samson's eyeballs. It's like What are they talking about? What is this? I mean, I mean again.

Did they forget to pack a Bible when they went to Morocco to film this. Who wrote this screenplay? Because the story of Samson again is that God Delivered them into the hand of the Philistines specifically because of their idolatry and rebellion against the Lord.

But no, no instead the way this is being cast here is is that these poor Israelites? They were they were really hoping for well a united homeland. A united homeland. I again, let me back this up. This listen again.

Betrayed and blind Samson's battle with the Philistines is all. And with it the dreams of an Israelite home.

The dreams of an Yeah, the dreams of an Israelite homeland. They're just They're pooey. They're gone. Um as a result of this now, let me fast-forward just a little bit more a few more minutes. You know Samson is now dead.

He's he's he's. Tore down this temple the strong, you know, God has given him his strength bath. He's killed thousands of Philistines through this this act that it results in his own death and. Listen to the transition.

We're gonna listen to a few minutes here. Listen to the transition from the story of Samson to the story of Samuel and then ultimately to the story of Saul and David. This is a Bizarre Transition that again has nothing to do with the biblical text the biblical story and what's really going on in here.

Because these stories are about well redemptive history, but I don't I hear listening.

Samson's sacrifice kills thousands. But he could never defeat the Philistines on his own. The Prophet Samuel has urged the people to unite in God's name. Okay.

There's your segue Samson's dead and you know, the next breath in the next sentence that the narrator is is that? Samuel has urged the Israelites to unite. Listen again.

The Prophet Samuel has urged the people to unite in God's name. There is no one like the Lord but after decades of struggle He too has failed to halt the Philistines.

So The way they cast The the character of first of Samuel the Prophet is that he's a failed leader. Okay you know, he's urging Israel to unite and He has he has not succeeded in uniting Israel. And so he's being confronted now because he's a Failed leader.

Let me back this up. This is unbelievable.

But after decades of struggle he too has failed to halt the Philistines.

And the people's patience is wearing thin so it's time for some leadership transitioning work to go on.

We are grateful prophets. You have led us for many years. God has led us. Samuel I'm not as young as you were. We are worried. Who will speak to the Lord after you. Who will lead us against the Philistines?

I sounds with who will lead us. Who will lead us. So this is again. These are carefully chosen stories from the Old Testament redemptive histories gone the entire sacrificial system gone the scarlet thread that pulls us to Christ gone and.

These are leadership parables. So Samuel is a failed leader will inherit by place.

Your sons are corrupt. My sons have been brought up to trust in God and obey his laws. Everything I've done for you. I have done because I walk in God's ways. We know that they take bribes. Everyone knows it.

They shame your good name.

So when you are gone and.

The Philistines return and we look to your sons to call on God. Will God answer.

So this is this is one of those awkward, you know moments when you you know, I apologize for this phrase. But in in corporate parlance, okay, there's a there's a name for this kind of meeting. Okay, and I apologize but this is what the name of this kind of meeting is.

This is called a come to Jesus meeting. Okay, if you if you worked any any time in corporate America You're familiar with this particular kind of meeting. So basically the people of Israel are they're having a Again, I apologize.

They're having a come to Jesus meeting with the failed leader Samuel okay who for years has been urging Israel to unite but he's made no progress against the Philistines and He's his sons are corrupt.

And so.

Let's continue. No, he will not that what do you want a king?

As other nations have but look what other nations kings do. They become tyrants they make slaves of their people.

Okay. Now what's weird here? Is that if you pay attention to the biblical text on this? The way they're casting this come to Jesus meeting if you would. They're the way they're they're playing this out.

Pretty much that's the people of Israel. They're asking for a good thing by asking for a king because you know, Samuel he's up. He's a failed leader, but the biblical text itself tells us a completely Different story and I'd like to point that out to you if you have your Bible flip on over to 1st Samuel chapter 8.

1st Samuel chapter 8. Yes I want to give you the biblical Text here on how this quote come to Jesus meeting went down so that you can see what's going on here. 1st Samuel chapter 8 verse 1 when Samuel became old He made his sons judges over Israel.

The name of his firstborn was Joel the name of his second was Abijah and they were judges in Beersheba. In Beersheba yet His sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain and they took bribes and they perverted justice.

So then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Rama and Said to him behold you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now a point for us a king to judge us like all the nations.

But the thing displeased Samuel when they said give us a king to judge us. So Samuel prayed to the Lord and the Lord said to Samuel Obey the voice of the people and all that they say to you for they have not rejected you.

But they have rejected me from being king over them. So according to all the deeds that they have done from the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt even to this day Forsaking me and serving other gods.

So they are also doing to you now then obey their voice. Only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them. So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking for a king for him from him.

And he said these will be the ways of the king who will reign over you. He will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots and he will appoint for himself Commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties and some to plow his ground and to reap by his harvest and to make his implements of War and equipment for chariots and he goes on and on but you get what's going on here.

So he's basically telling them what the Lord told them but verse 19 But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel said no. There shall be a king over us that we may also be like all the other Nations and our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.

And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people he repeated them in the ears the Lord and the Lord said to Samuel obey their voice and Make them a king. Samuel then said to them to the men of Israel go every man to his city.

Now that's you know, that's first Samuel chapter 8 not its entirety. I skipped a few verses but you get the gist of what of what really is going on. But the way Burnett and Roma Downey are Portraying this again come to Jesus meeting that the the elders of Israel are having with Samuel is that Samuel is a failed Leader in fact, let me go back to the beginning of this segment and listen again to the way they're casting it.

So you can get this in its entirety again Redemptive history is out the window. This has nothing to do with Christ and the coming Messiah. This has well, these are leadership parables and Samuel is a failed leader.

Samson's sacrifice kills thousands. But he could never defeat the Philistines on his own. The Prophet Samuel has urged the people to unite in God's name. There is no one like the Lord, but after decades of struggle He too has failed to halt the Philistines.

Prophets we await you and the people's patience is wearing thin.

We are grateful prophets. You have led us for many years. God has led us. Samuel are not as young as you were. We are worried. Who will speak to the Lord after you. Who will lead us against the Philistines.

My sons will inherit my place. Your sons are corrupt. My sons have been brought up to trust in God and obey his laws. Everything I've done for you. I have done because I walk in God's ways. We know that they take bribes.

Everyone knows it. They shame your good name.

So when you are gone and.

The Philistines return and we look to your sons to call on God.

Will God answer a king as other nations have but look what other nations kings do.

They become tyrants. They make slaves of their people. Not if they are chosen by God. Anointed by his righteous prophets by you reject our God. God promised us this land. This is God's kingdom. He is our only king.

You have the ear of the Lord Samuel.

You must ask him to choose a king for us all of you.

Okay, so this is Samuel now feeling sorry for himself in his prophets study and He's gonna receive a vision from God shortly.

And you got so now he's asking who should it be and he's gonna receive a direct.

Vision from God as to who he should annoy. Which by the way is not unusual for a prophet who receives the word of the Lord directly. But this is where it gets weird. So he is now envisioning Saul the son of Kish.

He can see Saul right riding a horse. So he realizes I could never be a leader like Saul just from the vision. This is again. Listen closely to the theology here. But he consoles himself by saying I Can still be your prophet.

Again, this is this comes out of left field makes you go what? So you can let me kind of summarize up to this point. The the elders of Israel have had a quote come to Jesus meeting with Samuel who is a failed leader.

He was urging Israel to unite against the Philistines. But just wasn't able to get the job done. His sons are corrupt. The the elders of Israel want a king. What their sound with the way they ask. It actually sounds kind of reasonable so Samuel's, you know alone and he's praying to God and he receives a vision that shows him the person.

He should anoint as king and Because he feels like he's been rejected. You know, he's the he feels they've rejected him as a Leader and he then consoles himself with these words. Listen again. So he Says I can still be your prophet and I can guide your King and you just go what?

Were they reading this from and then from here it goes on to well portray Samuel anointing Saul as king and again keep listening here for what's going on again. This is no longer redemptive history. These are leadership parables.

Justly and wisely.

According to God's law King of Israel I.

As God's prophet Help you in any way I can. May I as God's prophet help you in any way I can. So he's no longer the leader. He's now the advisor to the leader.