The Prophet Jeremiah Part 14

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August 24, 2022

The Prophet Jeremiah Part 15

00:00: So we're gonna pray we will get started Lord Jesus again as we open up your word We ask through your
00:05: Holy Spirit help us to rightly understand what you have revealed there We we do not have anything apart from you and it's from your hand that we feed both our bodies and our souls
00:15: And so as we study your word, we ask the Holy Spirit help us rightly believe what you have revealed
00:21: Help us to confess and repent of our sins and trust in Christ for the forgiveness of our sins and then through the power of the
00:27: Holy Spirit bear fruit in keeping with repentance and love towards others. We ask in Jesus name.
00:33: Amen Okay, so if I should I feel like I should give a little bit of an update the if you guys haven't been tracking
00:41: You know, we had the Babylon B we had Kyle man of the Babylon be a special speaker for our spring event our fundraiser and And now the
00:50: Babylon B has been locked out of their Twitter account for daring to call Michael Levine a man So, you know,
00:59: I just I do find that kind of fascinating the the world the world we live in you you shall not oppose the the radical insanity of today's modern left
01:12: Yeah, when we have no idea what a woman is. So what was that?
01:20: Putin can have his Twitter, but Kyle man can't that's hilarious Yeah, wow
01:33: Yeah Yeah So, you know just just the days we live in it's it's gonna be in to continue to be interesting
01:41: There was a question about the rose colored stole that I wore So during penitential seasons, there are two penitential seasons during the church year
01:50: Advent is one of them, which is why at Kongsvinger we don't sing Christmas carols for a whole month
01:57: I know that sounds you what you don't do that. No, we save the Christmas carols for the time of Christmas Yeah, so so you'll note that if you look at an advent wreath, you know
02:08: You have you'll have like three blue candles one pink candle, right? And then the center candle is is white don't let
02:15: Nikki, you know that I said pink I'm not allowed to say that word, but it's technically a rose colored candle.
02:21: So there's one Sunday during Advent, which is a penitential season where the text lightens up a little bit because penitential texts and penitential seasons have a tendency to Kind of grind and so the the people who put it together thought it would be a good idea to have one
02:37: Sunday each in each of the penitential seasons where the texts were a little less intense and and so that that's where we keep in that and so My daughter -in -law
02:49: Nikki. She she's let's just say that she's liturgically on point. She's And so she she a few years ago
02:59: You know said, you know, you really should go with a rose colored stole for those two
03:04: Sundays and Of course I rolled my eyes I mean, it's mandatory that you roll your eyes and stuff like that.
03:11: You want me to wear a pink stole? No, it's not pink. It's rose Okay, yeah
03:19: Yeah Yeah, I know I know so So, you know see she went and she out of her own funds purchased that stole for me
03:29: So and I actually now that I've worn it for a couple years. I think it's a good idea
03:35: It's yeah so if when you see the rose colored stole know that we're in a penitential season that's the day things are gonna lighten up just a
03:42: Little bit just a little bit of the readings that did that. So I think that's fun. So People male and female,
03:52: I'm not a biologist, but I'm pretty sure there's women here today Yeah, I I saw a meme making the rounds yesterday that showed
04:04: Stephen Furtick and it and it basically said Do I know what the gospel is question mark?
04:12: Well, I'm not a pastor so I Was pretty well said oh, well, all right
04:20: Jeremiah we Do a little overlap from last week Jeremiah chapter 15
04:26: We're gonna start at verse 19 and then you're gonna see you know that we noted that Jeremiah has a tough gig
04:34: He's he's the guy who's gonna be the prophet a lot like Noah where like nobody's really listening to him or very few are and It's gonna even worse because at here's the deal with with the
04:47: Jeremiah he's single and God's not gonna permit him to You know to put a profile together on, you know, the local
04:56: Jerusalem dating app, you know It's in fact, it's he's off the market altogether. You can see that's part of the cost of him preaching
05:04: So therefore that says Yahweh if you return I will restore you Shall stand before me if you utter what is precious not what is worthless you shall be as my mouth
05:14: You shall turn that they shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze.
05:22: This is God talking to Jeremiah They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you for I am with you to save you and to deliver you to Claire's Yahweh I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless now
05:35: You'll know this was a promise that God specifically gave to Jeremiah and This is absolutely true for him.
05:43: He got out of a few scrapes other other prophets prior to him weren't so Didn't have that those promises and so you'll note that Christ talks about how
05:53: Jerusalem kills the prophets I think God sends them prophets and they kill him that was the what the hope was of what they wanted to do with Jeremiah as he was preaching through his ministry and God protected him from that And you'll note that each and every
06:08: Christian Even if we are to be martyred for the Christian faith God does deliver us from the ruthless even if the ruthless for a time
06:17: For the moment might prevail and and and do our physical bodies in Don't let this bother you.
06:25: The reason being is is because they can't kill the soul they can't take what Christ has given you away from you and as a result of it the
06:34: Inheritance that you have in the new earth is certain and sure So you do not need to fear those people if they if they are upset with the words that you speak that are true today
06:44: So the word of Yahweh came to me. This is chapter 16 You shall not take a wife nor shall you have sons and daughters in this place
06:52: So Jeremiah was not permitted to get married during this time That was not that was not going to be for him for that says
07:00: Yahweh Concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place Concerning the mothers who bore them the fathers who fathered them in this land.
07:07: They shall die of deadly diseases so God is doing this out of mercy because his intent is to act in judgment because of their impenitence and this is good and the impacts of sin the the consequences of sin are
07:21: Devastating they affect every single one of us Remember the wages of sin is death. The fact that children die shows that they also have a sinful nature
07:30: So they shall not be lamented nor shall they be buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground
07:35: They shall perish by the sword and by famine Their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth
07:41: Thus says Yahweh do not enter the house of mourning or go to lament or grieve for them
07:47: I have taken away my peace from this people and there's your Hebrew word Shalom I've taken away my
07:52: Shalom my peace from this people My steadfast love and my mercy so God's taken away his peace his steadfast love and his mercy
08:03: Yikes Okay, so that's all gone. So there's when God takes away his
08:09: Peace his steadfast love and his mercy. There is no grace. So, you know just a little shout -out to Someone here.
08:18: All right, so both great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried No, no one shall lament them for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.
08:28: So you'll note that this is a these are Egyptian practices as it relates to lamenting the dead and They have found their way into the cultural practices of Jews Which makes no sense.
08:42: And so what God is basically saying that you know It's so these people are going to die in such mass quantities.
08:49: There's gonna be nobody to bury them no one's gonna lament for them and oh and by the way, all those those
08:56: Religious practices that you're practicing because of the Egyptians Cutting yourself for the dead and but making yourself bald for them.
09:05: Yes Listen it there's if you can avoid baldness do that at all costs. Okay You know and I know some bald fellows and This has nothing to do with the morning for family members.
09:24: So, okay, you should not make yourself bald for them No one shall break bread for the mourner to comfort him for the dead
09:30: Nor shall anyone give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother You should not go into the house of Feasting to sit with them to eat and to drink for that says
09:40: Yahweh of armies the God of Israel behold I will silence I will silence in this place before your eyes and in your days the voice of mirth
09:48: The voice of gladness the voice of bridegroom the voice of bride Basically all parties are off the table
09:55: No one's gonna have anybody to celebrate for this is all gonna be brought to an end And so when you tell this people all these words and they say to you why has
10:04: Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us? This is judgment. This isn't evil and you know
10:11: God's anticipating they're poorly phrased question with its false assumptions. What is our iniquity?
10:19: Really Okay What is the sin that we've committed against Yahweh our
10:25: God then you shall say to them because your fathers have forsaken me declares Yahweh They've gone after other gods have served and worshipped them have forsaken me and have not kept my law
10:36: Because you have done worse than your father's or behold every one of you follows his stubborn evil will
10:43: Refusing to listen to me now. There's kind of the big core problem.
10:49: All right We live in a day where? You it is absolutely crazy talk
10:57: For somebody to talk in terms of God has said I can't do that So I am going to not allow myself that evil
11:09: Especially when it comes to any kind of thing related to sex, so I've made this clear before and all now
11:19: I have to kind of make sure people understand this I know Nadia Bowles Weber we've taught in her the first book that she wrote.
11:27: She wrote an entire chapter about our Friendship if you can really call it that And how we met in our first conversation and other things
11:38: Nadia Bowles Weber her most recent book she talks about sexual sexual things and In this book, which is partly autobiographical she confesses that she committed adultery on her husband
11:57: With an old boyfriend of hers and she says it was good for her soul
12:04: She says it was like Exfoliation, you know removing the dead skin cells from your you know from your body and She's since left her husband
12:16: Okay, is she still a practicing priestess in the ELCA?
12:22: Yes This it's unbelievable, all right and she in her in her most recent book was commenting on Augustine's st.
12:33: Augustine's work the city of God if you haven't read that book, it's really a nice Read because Augustine is been
12:40: Safely tucked away in his grave for more than a millennia and is untouched by today's weird
12:46: SJW way of thinking, you know the weird woke Liberal cult that's happening right now and In there in his in his book
12:56: He talks about the struggles that he had in the way he thought before he was a
13:02: Christian he didn't forbid himself really anything and he even fathered a child out of wedlock and He notes then as part of the his book the city of God and also his confessions
13:15: He notes then the struggles he went through as a Christian because the same sinful appetites were present in him after his conversion to Christianity and how he had to put to death what was sinful in him and to not allow himself to eat according to the the desires of his sinful appetites and naughty bulls
13:43: Weber in her book She describes Augustine's discussion regarding those things and particularly him
13:52: Not allowing himself to continue to engage in illicit sex she basically describes it as he he he laid a turd and then the earth and encased it in gold as If something that something's wrong with his way of thinking and I want you to note this
14:16: Her most recent book is a New York Times bestseller and she didn't pay a company for that to happen unlike the megachurch pastors
14:25: The world we live in right now Follows their stubborn evil hearts and they refuse to listen to God and it's worse than that they're starting to censor and push back on those who are speaking the truth and It well
14:48: Didn't we catechize our kids on the Disney movies which all basically said to follow your heart as if your heart is
14:58: The decider of what's good and what's evil? Yesterday I pointed on my social media.
15:04: I posted a link to a an article in the UK. There was a there were trans -rights activists
15:12: Protesting a feminist group getting together in the United Kingdom and the the lead photograph on the article had this woman holding up a sign saying that some women have penises and so as part of my post
15:31: I said zero women have penises and I have had people challenge this
15:38: Okay. No, I'm not a biologist and the world we live in If you self -identify as a woman and you were born biologically male, you are a woman
15:59: Okay Biology apparently has nothing to do with gender who knew
16:10: Yeah, no, the inconsistency is radical. But here's the thing. We're dealing with a cult That's what we're dealing with.
16:17: This is a cult that has established the human will the human heart as Supreme and Anybody who says no
16:32: Humanity and opinions or beliefs or feelings do not determine what truth is
16:39: We are now considered to be the heretics. We're the ones considered to be dangerous
16:49: We're the ones who need to be silenced. And so you'll know that this is nothing new.
16:55: There's nothing new under the Sun Jeremiah you know is Experiencing the same thing we're experiencing.
17:02: He's this is a microcosm of the bigger global problem that we have in front of us So every one of you follows his stubborn
17:13: Evil will refusing to listen to me Therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land that neither
17:20: You nor your fathers have known and there you shall serve other gods day and night for I will show you no
17:28: Favor and then you get this
17:34: Therefore behold the days are coming declares Yahweh when it shall no longer be said as Yahweh lives who brought you up out of the people who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt But as Yahweh lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of the countries where he had driven
17:49: Them so you'll note in the midst of this really really Hard in your face unrelenting judgment of God out of nowhere comes a gospel bit
18:03: Where is this coming from? Right? And so you'll note that God anticipates What?
18:11: That people are reading this he anticipates that somebody will read Jeremiah's prophecy and Off in Babylon off in the
18:22: Susa that were the land of the Medes and the Persians off in Captivity, they would read these words that they would repent
18:32: Cry out to God for mercy and receive from God full pardon and restoration
18:39: I would note This is a good place to kind of plug this in Jeremiah Read that Jeremiah Daniel read
18:49: Jeremiah Daniel read it and he believed it so you'll note here.
18:56: We've got these gospel promises of restoration but the the the missing part is reading and believing and And so let me throw let me throw a little
19:06: Daniel into the mix here Daniel chapter 9 hang on a second here duplicate
19:14: Daniel 9 Daniel writes
19:20: In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus by descent Amid who was made king over the realm of the
19:27: Chaldeans in the first year of his reign I Daniel perceived in the books the number of years that according to the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah The prophet must pass before the end of desolations of Jerusalem Navy namely 70 years
19:45: All right, so think of it this way the Bible is a complete book now it's been finished for almost two millennia in the time of Daniel Who was writing this he was writing a biblical book?
20:00: the most newly completed biblical books were Jeremiah and Lamentations and Daniel is reading them as the
20:11: Word of God He's recognizing that Daniel that Jeremiah legitimately heard
20:19: God's voice and that his prophecies were true. Unlike the false prophets of Jeremiah's day and he reading this perceived the promise of God that they would be restored after 70 years so then
20:33: I turned my face to the Lord God seeking him by prayer and Pleased for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes so you'll note that in response to what he heard his response was a little personal
20:49: Lent a time of prayer fasting ashes and Here we have this amazing prayer from Daniel.
20:58: I prayed to Yahweh my God and I made confession saying Oh Lord the great and awesome
21:05: God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments We have sinned we've done wrong
21:12: We've acted wickedly. We've rebelled Turning aside from your commandments and your rules
21:19: We have not listened to your servants the prophets who spoke in your name to our kings our princes and our fathers and to all the people of the land to you
21:29: Oh Lord belongs righteousness but to us open shame as at this day to the men of Judah to the inhabitants of Jerusalem to all of Israel those who are near and Those who are far away in all the lands
21:43: To which you have driven them because of the treachery that they have committed against you
21:48: To us Oh Lord belongs open shame to our kings our princes our fathers
21:55: Because we have sinned against you To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness
22:02: For we have rebelled against him and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our
22:07: God by walking in his laws Which he set before us by his servants the prophets all
22:13: Israel has transgressed your law turned aside refusing to obey your voice the curse and The curse and oath that are written in the law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us
22:26: He even recognizes what's going on in Deuteronomy 18 and that God's actions are him following through with the very curses
22:33: He promised if they did not obey because we have sinned against him He has confirmed his words
22:38: Which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us by bringing upon us a great calamity for under the whole of heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem as It is written in the law of Moses.
22:52: All this calamity has come upon us yet We have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our
22:57: God Turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth Therefore Yahweh has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us for Yahweh our
23:08: God is righteous in all the works that he has done and We have not obeyed his voice and now
23:15: Oh Lord our God who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty Hand and have made a name for yourself as at this day.
23:25: We have sinned We have done Wickedly Oh Lord according to all your righteous acts.
23:32: Let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem your holy hill because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers
23:40: Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are Around us now therefore.
23:46: Oh Our God listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy and For your own sake
23:55: Oh Lord Make your face to shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate.
24:02: Oh My god incline your ear and hear open your eyes and see our desolations and the city that is called by your name
24:09: For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy
24:16: Oh Lord here. Oh Lord Forgive Oh Lord pay attention and act delay not for your own sake
24:25: Oh my people because oh my god, because for your guys because your city and your people are called by your name
24:35: Let me be blunt To avert the judgment of God that's coming on the earth.
24:42: This is what's needed. I Fear nothing like this is coming.
24:57: So here's then that's kind of the in -between you'll note it's God is assuming you're reading this text and Here you have this abrupt
25:08: Change in tone from judgment to but I will restore you I will have mercy on you and you have to ask what brings on such an abruptness
25:18: The the understanding that the reader has read this and like Daniel has considered their own sin
25:24: Considered the sin of their people cried out to God Confessing and pleading to God to have mercy.
25:32: Does God turn away anybody who prays like that? No, not not not a single person
25:38: So therefore behold the days are coming declares Yahweh When it shall no longer be said as Yahweh lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt But as Yahweh lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country
25:50: Out of the countries where he had driven them for I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers now here's where we have to note that there's a thing that happens in Scripture and that is is that This is a this is a feature of prophecy.
26:09: That is very interesting and the feature is that These prophecies oftentimes have kind of like dual fulfillments
26:20: There's an immediate fulfillment and then there's a long range fulfillment And so, you know, let me let me see if I can do it this way.
26:28: All right yeah, this is not a bad way to do this. All right, so this is a photograph I took in Ireland and So a landscape photo here.
26:36: So we got this this nice little dock here in the front in the front of it It was a gloomy day, but you know, it rains in Ireland I don't know if you guys know that and and so I I put a
26:47: Neutral density filter on my camera so that I can run the camera at a long long exposure
26:53: You know stopped it way down to in order to keep any, you know Any amount of light from coming in and this was probably a 60 second exposure and it softened everything up But here's the idea is that we know that in landscape photos
27:08: We see this also in paintings that are landscaped that what ends up happening Is is that you usually have a foreground element and you have a background element?
27:17: This is a great example of a foreground element and a background element. And so in the same picture
27:23: You have something that's kind of immediate and something that's kind of far off Prophecy works in a similar way several prophecies in particular
27:32: We call them proleptic prophecies where there's an immediate fulfillment in the foreground of the prophecy
27:38: But there's a long -range fulfillment that that still awaits, you know
27:43: It's it's conclusion. All right, and in this particular portion of Jeremiah these prophecies you'll note
27:50: They almost have a double entendre meaning to them Listen again behold
27:56: The days are coming declares Yahweh when it shall no longer be said as Yahweh lives who brought up the people
28:02: Up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt but as Yahweh lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country, which is where Babylon is and Out of all the countries where he had driven them
28:17: For I will bring them back to their own land and gate that I gave to their fathers now
28:23: Have the people of Israel been brought out of captivity in Babylon Yeah Okay, read
28:31: Ezra and Nehemiah that's how you've pronounced Nehemiah by it's Nehemiah so but Have all the people
28:41: That where God has driven them. Have they been brought back? No So you're gonna note here.
28:48: There's this is there's a little embedded in that little language is as an eschatological promise and you know, we
28:58: Have been driven into the nations and I remind you that this theme exists in the
29:04: New Testament specifically in the opening portion of first Peter where Peter writes to Christians to the elect exiles of the dispersion
29:18: The what? That's us Y 'all are elect exiles of the dispersion and here's the fun thing about looking at zoom right now.
29:27: Some of you are Part of the dispersion you're in, South Carolina Some of you are in Germany some of you near Baston.
29:36: Yeah, others are viewing era, New Mexico Right, you know and so in when we do our
29:41: Aletheia services, we have people who join us from from South Africa We have people join us from Sweden from the
29:47: Netherlands from the United Kingdom different portions of the United Kingdom from Ireland You know New Zealand And so, you know the good when you think about it this theme here is really it's really comforting because there's something in here when
30:00: You learn to read the some of these prophecies in this way You can see that. Ah, there was an immediate fulfillment that has something to do with the people of Israel They did come back after 70 years, but wait a second
30:13: We're still waiting for Yahweh to call everybody back hint hint New Jerusalem.
30:18: All right new heavens new earth Okay, well those of us who have been driven into North Dakota and Minnesota God really is angry at us
30:27: I ain't telling you Okay, we are freezing our keisters off here, man we may
30:33: God have mercy and may he give us sunshine and Puka shells and stuff like that and the ability to surf again, but Yeah Yeah Yeah, I'm hoping for global warming please
30:49: God, you know, I don't care if the global south burns up as long as the north warms up But the thing is is we've been dispersed here and Then you'll note that in in the pictures of the
31:04: New Jerusalem You have the nation streaming into Jerusalem You know those who are in so we are the elect as exiles we've been dispersed into the nations where God has driven us and And he's calling us all back that beautiful picture
31:22: So when you kind of see the eschatological themes and you see a prophecy like that you sit there and go
31:28: You know, it seems like there's a little more to that than meets the eye Exactly so those proleptic prophecies where part of it's been fulfilled the foregrounds been fulfilled
31:38: But we can see the background hasn't we refer to them as proleptic prophecies with remainder
31:44: You guys remember when you had to do long -form division when you were in fourth grade? Okay, I've been trying to block that out
31:50: I tried to delete the fourth grade in order to make room on my brain for other parts, but it wouldn't go away But you guys remember when like, you know, how many times this for going to 13?
32:00: Okay. All right Yeah, so you end up with a remainder after that. That's kind of the idea so a proleptic prophecy with remainder means that there's a portion that still is to be fulfilled in the future and Jesus is all of that discourse.
32:14: There's proleptic pit bits in it So that I think is just just fantastic so so Yahweh says as Yahweh lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country out of all the countries where he had driven them for I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers and you'll note we're all grafted into Israel So behold,
32:36: I'm sending for many fishers declares Yahweh They shall catch them Afterward, I will send for many hunters.
32:44: They shall hunt them so that now we go back to the to the God's judgment themes and they shall hunt them from every
32:50: Mountain every hill out of the clefts of the rocks for my eyes are on all their ways They are not hidden from me nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes
32:59: But first I will doubly Repay their iniquity and their sin because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols
33:09: You'll note that God just isn't he doesn't play well with other deities
33:14: You know just he doesn't seem all that interested in getting along with them and he refuses to get the coexist bumper sticker
33:21: Put on his VW bug, you know so yeah, you'll note that so he def he refers to the images as How did he put it again
33:34: They polluted the land with the carcasses. So he just considers idols to be dead carcasses of their detestable idols
33:42: They have filled my inheritance with their abominations Which kind of leads to another thing
33:48: I should show you this because I'm I'm actually working on the fighting for the faith segment Regarding this one.
33:54: Hang on a second here. So on my social media Let's see here waiting for that to come up.
34:00: I posted a tweet from Let's see her where is she?
34:10: There you go. Jory Micah Okay, so Jory Micah claims.
34:16: She's a Christian theologian. No, she has an MA in Christian doctrine in history
34:22: Yeah, but she's no biologist, okay But listen to what she writes. I believe very much in one higher power
34:30: I grew up calling him Jesus, but maybe you grew up calling them her he someone else
34:41: There's a term for this Okay, that's that that right there is what we call blasphemy, yeah,
34:49: I like the palm, you know hand palm Jesus that that's appropriate All right, you'll know that's idolatry that's a breaking of the first commandment
34:59: That's just a flat -out breaking of the first commandment Does God? the one true
35:05: God Accept worship of a different deity as proxy worship of him
35:11: No Not at all But our world hears something like what
35:19: Jory Micah said as oh look at how loving How kind?
35:24: How progressive how generous? Her theology is right
35:31: It's all -inclusive. That's right. Right and then there's that pastor Rose, bro.
35:36: What a closed -minded bigoted hateful Gunky poopy head right, right.
35:47: He's a poopoo head anyway So the question that don't name this this
35:56: Sunday school that Yeah Thank the
36:03: Lord, okay, anyway Yeah consistency helps but the point is this is
36:09: Jory Micah truly loving No, is
36:15: This real kindness on her part to be so generous You know that all all deities regardless of which one if whether you worship a deity
36:26: Who is a male who is a female who goes by the name Jesus? Who biologically we can't tell you exactly what he is because you know, we're not biologists
36:37: You know or maybe you worship a multitude of deities You're a polytheist or maybe you you really particularly favor
36:45: Shiva over Vishnu, right? It's all the same the way in her way of thinking is that true?
36:55: No, and you'll note God here is judging
37:00: Judah for the exact same theology that Jory Micah a
37:08: Christian theologian Holds to and promotes. I always like to point out that when
37:19: God Was hanging out with Dagon God didn't play nice with Dagon It's it's a great story we'll do a little excursus here cuz
37:33: I can all right, hang on a second here I'm gonna Huh?
37:45: Okay, okay Dagon it's in the book of the book of 1st Samuel hang on a second here
37:55: No So 1st Samuel 5 here it is. Okay, let me listen.
38:01: This is so fun All right, 1st Samuel chapter 5 1st Samuel chapter 5. So in the early portion of 1st
38:09: Samuel the because of the evil and wickedness of Hophni and Phinehas who were working at the tabernacle and their father
38:18: Eli refusing to actually Reign them in because they're egregious sin Like like today's megachurch pastors, they were they were sleeping with the volunteers at the tabernacle
38:31: Have you watched the Hillsong thing yet? Holy smokes. That's terrible. Anyway, so So God ended up basically causing
38:39: Israel to lose a fight against the Philistines and the Philistines ended up capturing the
38:45: Ark of the Covenant Yeah, so and what happens next is quite fascinating So when the
38:51: Philistines captured the Ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod Then the
38:56: Philistines took the Ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon Now if you don't know who
39:03: Dagon is Just think of the Little Mermaid King Triton, you know half man half fish the merman kind of God Yeah, so that that's what you know, so that's the image of Dagon half fish half half man and And so there's there's the
39:21: Ark of the Covenant next to Dagon Is Yahweh gonna coexist with Dagon?
39:28: Is he gonna be polite in Dagon's own house? Okay, this is it.
39:33: No, this story is a scream So when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day behold Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the
39:40: Ark of Yahweh So while no one was looking Yahweh went dink Just knocked him down on his face
39:49: So they took Dagon and put him back in his place but when they rose early on the next morning behold
39:56: Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the Ark of Yahweh and The head of Dagon and is in both of his hands were lying cut off on the threshold
40:05: Only the trunk of Dagon was left. They had to call him stumpy
40:13: So God is not playing kind here and This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon and Ashdod To the state so they turned this into some kind of a religious, you know, it's superstition
40:27: You know step on a back break Dagon's, you know, second step on a crack break Dagon's back
40:33: You know weird something like that, right? The the very next thing that happens is actually
40:38: Hilarious and I have to show it to you in the King James Because the King James actually gets at the difficulty of translating this particular
40:47: Hebrew word But so the hand of Yahweh was heavy against the people of Ashdod and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors
40:54: Now Ola Ophel here this let me let me show you this in the King James and you kind of get the idea here
41:01: So King James, where's my King James? All right. There we go. And I need to make that readable
41:07: Hang on a second here All right, so they said don't you to do all right hand of Lord destroyed smoke
41:18: Mm -hmm. Did I pass it?
41:27: Hang on? Yeah, hang on But when the hand of Lord was heavy upon actually destroyed them and smoked them there it is
41:37: Emeralds early for ancient. This is an English form of the word hemorrhoids
41:44: Okay It's legitimately one of the potential ways of understanding this text is
41:52: That not only did God cause Dagon to be stumpy that when wherever the Ark went while it was in the among the
41:59: Philistines that people broke out with tumors that May have made it hard to sit down You know mandatory standing in the presence of God so just Crazy stuff.
42:16: Anyway, I Throw that out there because they're there legitimately is debate as to how to understand the word tumors
42:23: But that's in the spectrum of potential Yeah, so so it you're not wrong.
42:31: You're not completely wrong if you say that God Struck them with hemorrhoids, you know
42:38: Yeah Yeah, so all that being said you're gonna note that God seems to hold that first commandment quite seriously and You'll note that God like the
42:51: Babylon B engages in satire uses irony and humor
42:56: For the purpose of shaming people who are believing things that are ridiculous how stupid is it that you are worshiping a statue that somebody created and And that when your deity is in the presence of the actual real
43:10: God The real God shows who he really is and you you still are so far gone that you don't recognize, you know
43:18: We need to repent You know the what who what we're worshiping isn't true So we continue then
43:26: All right, so you've filled the inheritance my inheritance with abominations talking about the idols
43:31: Oh, yeah way my strength in my stronghold my refuge in in in the day of trouble to you shall the nation's come
43:39: From the ends of the earth and say our fathers have inherited nothing but lies worthless things in which there is no profit
43:45: There's a lot of that going around right now. It's tough is for free By the way I need to remind you that it was
43:51: Abraham Lincoln that warned us not to believe everything that we read on the internet So, you know Yeah, all right
44:03: It must be true. So therefore behold I will make them know this one make them know this once I will make them know my power and my might and they shall know that my name is
44:13: Yahweh Now that's where we're gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna pause there for a second and let me check questions
44:18: Because I think that would this would be a good place to throw them in isn't it this break?
44:24: Okay Naya says the Portuguese Roman Catholic translation uses hemorrhoids as well.
44:31: That is in the realm of possibility for a fell So, all right, let's see here.
44:37: Let me roll back up Wow, all right, let's see here Okay, so yeah, just a reminder that there is a discord group for Kongsvinger And the link is in the thing there
44:53: If you're present and you're here and you'd want to get the information Barb can email you the link as well I do find it again some really interesting irony that Kongsvinger has a discord group to just the name discord
45:08: Yeah Okay, but you know that everyone's meeting and sharing information and talking you can you can do things there so all right
45:19: But they will delete Twitter accounts, okay religion of the world is do whatever satisfies you
45:24: Rachel I think you're right the religion of the world does say do whatever satisfies you and it's it's a sin to tell somebody that they
45:32: That their behavior that they're using to satisfy themselves is sinful or wrong Okay Yeah, so that's that's not a bad way of putting it the human beings today basically work with the idea of my will be done
45:48: All right All right. So apparently there's no definition of what a woman is now who knew
45:53: I know Louise I you know, I'm not sure what to call you anymore. So, you know because I'm not a biologist, you know
46:00: You know We'll just have to you know to take all of you female types and reduce you down to vague and Vacuous persons, you know, you know, we
46:13: I yes That's that's already
46:36: Yeah, and then there are human beings the question was when will the wilderness start to impact, you know our views of animals it already does or people talking about the rights for our cats and dogs to vote and There are people who claim that they are trans species now
46:51: Okay, you know so that that's a thing okay, so yeah, and I Read an interesting read an interesting account.
47:04: So in I think it's in the Boston area. There's a there's a Wesley University, it's an all -school all girls
47:12: What what? Wesley University, I think Wellesley Oh Wellesley, that's it.
47:19: Okay, and it's in it's it's in Connecticut and it's an all -women's school but they've had interesting things start happening, you know over the past few years and that is is that there are some of their students are
47:31: Self -identifying as men and so there was an interesting story an account of one of the students there
47:40: After enrolling and being accepted to this all -girls University she upon getting there
47:48: Changed her name to Timothy and she self -identified as a man But when she wanted to have a position of power
47:55: She actually wanted to be on like the school council or something like that There was a riot among the other students saying down with the patriarchy
48:04: You can't be on you can't have a position of power because you're a man The Whole thing is just it's the
48:15: I mean the The the inmates are running the asylum now. It's in the asylum is like it's an airborne disease
48:22: It's you can actually catch this crazy by being exposed to it. So Holy smokes.
48:29: All right Okay, so Marlene says it's so sad because there is no healing salvation and that people will get worse through this
48:37: It does not save them at all. No cycle up psychology psychologically nor emotionally and of course in the terms of God's judgment
48:44: Exactly. Yeah So Daniel says the only thing the world can agree on is to keep the meaning of the terms to your own interpretation
48:52: Yeah, so you'll note the world that we live in if you actually have fixed definition of words
48:57: Somehow you're suspect The so you'll note that they're playing with language in such a way that the whole goal is to eliminate any
49:06: Hard definitions and not only that they're bringing in all these words that we've never heard words like these in my lifetime
49:14: Like one of the words is cisgendered. What's that? You know a sissy was somebody we'd beat up on the schoolyard, you know when
49:21: I was a kid yeah, yeah,
49:26: I Since figured out what the term means, but it's like you'll note that that each day that passes there's more and more language that we're not familiar with and When it arrives what's what's startling to me?
49:42: Is that when these terms arrive they arrive with people who already know what these definitions are and They and they switch the language on you.
49:53: So abruptly that if you say what what was that? What are you talking about? You you you you end up getting shouted at Yeah, so apparently you get shouted out with the phrase educate yourself bigot
50:08: I remember years ago when I was in the corporate world. I we were with my boss and I were attending a
50:16: Event put on by guy Kawasaki guy Kawasaki is a fellow who worked on the original
50:22: Macintosh and he he had a group that he had together. This is 20 years ago now
50:27: That was dedicated for fighting venture capital for technology startups and things like this and so we were at one of his events and we were talking what
50:36: I was talking with some lady about the project that we were working on and And and she goes so what you're really saying is is that you you need me to help you find a rainmaker
50:45: And I went a what I even I'm not looking for a witch doctor lady.
50:51: I'm looking you know The tech we're working on a tech startup over here and she used all this language
50:57: I had never heard this before and it was it was actually kind of alarming and the whole but that's what's happening in the world that we live in right now all these terms are being kicked around and You'll note that we are as Christians Because we hold to the traditional definition of these words and the way these words have been used for you know
51:18: Like all of human history That somehow we're the ones out of step with reality.
51:24: It makes us feel anxious it makes us feel like Question what's going on inside of us?
51:31: But that's the whole point everything is designed to get you to feel off -center off -balance on throw you onto your back foot
51:39: Yeah, isolated and and and you know, and then you have to cave to the pressure, you know
51:48: All right. Let's take a look at another question here. All right, so You know, the
51:54: Bible is is Inconvenient stumbling block. Yep. I the first thing I corner always checks for one arriving on the scene is male or female
52:02: How did they identify that? They look Yeah, yeah, you know, so The next time they find some skeleton and they say that this was a female who died, you know in a volcano or something
52:21: Like that I'm gonna go. Well, how do you know, you know, how could you how could you determine that? So now they have to ask deceased what their gender is
52:39: Yeah, I you know what I'm seriously thinking that you know Maybe the way to do this is try to play their game better than them, you know
52:46: I might get a necklace, you know Like a dog tag or something like that So that if I die that they could look at the dog tag and I say
52:53: I self -identify as living All right,
53:01: Marlena you have a question, yeah You've got the catechism class and youth classes and basically, you know all the world and the pressure and the culture and yeah
53:20: How can it be easier for us parents to teach because it's going crazier every day.
53:26: Yeah So can we do a special on that? So yeah, so how to parent in these times?
53:35: The best advice I can give you is that You know, so in Germany, you're gonna have you
53:41: I don't know if you have the option of homeschooling So you're gonna have a competing catechesis
53:47: You're the the German government is going to catechize your kids Whether you want them to be catechized or not, and they're gonna be catechizing them into these values
53:57: So what you have to do is you have to actually have the conversation with your kids like all the time about what they're learning and where there is a
54:07: Contradiction between what they're being taught in the schools you have to show them that that's not what
54:13: God's Word says and God's Word is true and there are people who deny what the Word says and so we had we faced that challenge ourselves in raising our kids
54:23: Part of their education was in the public schools Yeah in Southern, California, but you know our kids turned out fine
54:31: The idea then is is that we knew that what we were up against and we used it as a time to have those conversations to constantly stay involved and not be up to speed on what they were being taught and then where there were
54:45: Contradictions we we pointed them to the scriptures So that that's that's the ongoing challenge because you don't have a lot of parents do not have the option of homeschooling
54:56: That's just not an option for them So you have to you have to understand the world is going to catechize them and you have to teach them to stand their ground
55:05: Like Daniel Shadrach Meshach and Abednego. All right, they stand as examples for us.
55:10: Yes Uh -huh because of that Yeah, the
55:24: That is a problem that it's becoming tougher and tougher for Christians to stay in the public schools
55:29: As teachers because they are there they're being pressured to teach these lies, so Yeah Mm -hmm
55:48: Yeah Yeah, that is a phrase that leftists and progressives don't have their own children they have yours so keep in mind
56:00: They're gonna they're gonna do what they can to catechize your kids. You have to be you can't you have to be extremely
56:06: Involved and active in Helping your children process what they're learning and where it's contradicting the
56:12: Word of God you have to give them the Word of God and say this is not true and And the reality is is that so many of the weird lies that are being told nowadays kids know from just Everyday experience what they're being told is not true
56:29: Okay, they know this and they have that unsettling feeling and they don't understand Why everyone is sitting there saying that the
56:37: Emperor has clothes on when he's clearly naked All right they can see it, but the problem is is that the the way the peer pressure is being used is
56:48: You play along with our our world of make -believe or you're going to suffer So you have to you have to help them and find other
56:56: Christian parents Who are who so that your kids can socialize with each other and they can go on dates when they're teenagers
57:03: You know because it's gonna be an issue. So all right, I'm gonna jump off here and Lord willing we will see you all next time.