Elijah Meets the Still Small Voice — Book of Elijah Part 2 | NDS Bible Study
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2 hours and 4 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of the NDS chat, TopLops and CoDameron are joined by special guest Matt to talk about Elijah and the Bible. We talk about what it means to be a Christian in the 21st century and how to deal with the pressure from NDS fans.
Transcript
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Why are you you don't have us put a thing on there, dude
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to another episode of Nephilim Death Squad
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Show them the drop down where they can buy coffee from the standard
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There is no drop down where you can buy coffee from the standard
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Is the Nephilim Death Squad youth group summer camp
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I guess the pressure of the Nephilim Death Squad fans
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Actually never did say to take that episode down
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So wait, you mean that I threatened their lives
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As an ambassador for the company that he works at
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Because I feel like you're getting a little bit
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Had to take a little break, and now we're going to get back to it, but I hope you enjoyed the prayer.
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All right, but not with bath salts, but not with bath salts, but not with bath salts, but not with bath salts, and then we'll do it, but this is very interesting.
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Raven always looks like he's dealing with acid reflux.
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No, I used to have acid reflux, and they told me that was a permanent disposition as a child, and now I don't have it.
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You're just going out of your way to say cuss words.
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Okay, and as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him and said unto him, arise and eat.
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It just seems like the angels are doing stuff on the earth, dude.
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And he looked, and behold, there was a cake baked on the coals and a cruce of water at his head, and he did eat and drink and laid him down again.
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And the angel's like, hey, man, I got the little fire going, baking you a little cake on the fire, and here's some water, man.
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You know how angels will take human form periodically?
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Or maybe this dude is just such a gangster where they're like, we don't even have to say fear not.
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He looks, behold, there's a cake and a cruce of water.
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Well, that's my thing is what I'm wondering is.
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So the next time I'm in here, I would like for Matt, because sometimes he'll come in and he'll be like, yo, here's a bottom of the blender.
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Because I care about you, because you're my friend.
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And in his fridge, I like to say it was 64 eggs.
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Like red meat and eggs, you could like live an incredible life if you just ate that.
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Oh, you're probably gassy when you're eating other stuff other than that.
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Can I ask you, do you think that the angel took the time to bake the cake?
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He made like the little cake, like a bread, like a loaf of bread.
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Elijah like gets it and just goes back to sleep.
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What if he gave him something like a small raven and he's like, is it cake?
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And the angel of the Lord came again the second time and touched him and said, arise and eat.
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I feel like that's like the story of my life, dude.
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Not necessarily like the arise and eat, but just like God's like, hey, bro, I got some stuff for you to do.
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If I look back to when I'm like a kid getting kicked out of my house and living on the street and just being a loser and an idiot and like hooked on Oxycontins and just this complete idiot and imbecile.
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And somehow, like somehow this is where my life's at right now.
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I feel like there was a time where the Lord just looked at me and was like, dude, the journey is too great for you.
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But if you have a wife that's like super hot that loves you and you have really cool kids that love the Lord and one just got married to a wonderful young man who you love.
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And you have like a podcast where you can preach the gospel.
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Like there's not like what like what else would somebody stop doing that?
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I know that part's a lot, but I'm just like, what else?
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You just said a bunch of shit that's high five worthy.
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Like what if God was like when he came to Solomon's, I'll give you whatever you want.
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I mean, I probably want the door handle to work.
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Like the driver's door just stopped working last night.
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Like you go to pull on it and it's not doing anything.
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I'll like everything else the way it is right now.
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Matt getting out of the passenger door, just like fumbling over, falling out the other side.
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But I'm just saying, so that's like this little thing.
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The screen turns black and then it goes pilgrim slash stranger.
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You know what's funny about that is like those things do just remind you that you're a pilgrim
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And so it's like, yeah, I'm not trying to be comfortable in this room and just, you know,
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relax on the lazy boy chair and just get cozy in the world.
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That was a lot for you to track with in the last episode.
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I don't think he talked to anybody today before he got here.
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Like where if you're the first person I talk to, I just don't feel right.
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That's why sometimes before I start a show, I go, ha!
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He says this, you adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world
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Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
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So like if the car door doesn't work for a while, it's kind of okay.
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I'm just getting out the passenger doors, just reminding me.
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In the 501c3 that I used to go to when I would play in the worship with my guitar,
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Like if people want to have these big lofty titles, like friend of God is maybe like the
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raddest title you could have if you're a human.
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So the angel of the Lord came again the second time and touched Elijah and said,
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Arise and eat because the journey is too great for you.
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And he arose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of that meat 40 days and 40
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Isn't that interesting that that happens again?
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Moses, we just read it in the earlier thing too, right?
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This guy's going through some wild stuff and he sounds pretty depressed here.
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You think he'd be like pumped after he just ran super fast.
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But do you think there's anything else here that happened?
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Or do you think maybe he had some sort of like, I mean, you kill 850 men.
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I just think this is a human just on another level that we have no understanding of today.
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Because like what we call like a man of God today is a guy who like, he just like preaches
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I'm just saying he preaches a sermon on Sunday morning to people in air conditioning on soft
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No, and through the church, great men of God have done that.
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They preach to people who came there to sit in air conditioned buildings to hear that.
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Is this why you turn off the AC when we do the podcast and you gave us such hard chairs?
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Because suffering, it builds strength, character, closeness to God.
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So all I'm saying is that like Elijah is just a dude on another level.
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So yeah, there's probably a lot going through his head for 40 days.
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By the way, more than 20 times, 24 times does 40 days and 40 nights appear in the Bible.
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But there are references to the same story some of those times.
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You also got the 40 days between Jesus' resurrection and then his ascension into heaven.
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Preaching and teaching things pertaining to the kingdom of God for 40 days.
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Jonah's warning that Nineveh would be destroyed in 40 days.
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In Acts, it says these are the things that he began to do and teach.
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He's at the right hand of the Father interceding for us.
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But yeah, dude, this story is still going, man.
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Like if you just think you have this cold, dead religion that you can frame in and put on the wall and say, that's my religion.
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He's like, yo, just killed off 850, had like this giant victory on behalf of the kingdom of God.
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Now I'm going 40 days and I'm going to Horeb, the mountain of God.
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It's like he just beat that whole being in banishment from King Ahab.
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He's like, wait, I'm going to hang with some humans again, man.
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Like top kills like 850 people on Twitter and then he gets banished.
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And then he's like, he sits there and it's like, it's a heavy thing.
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In verse 9, he came there unto a cave and lodged there.
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Like dudes in the Bible, they're not like sweet little cupcake dudes like today, bro.
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They're like, this dude just goes and lives in a cave again.
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Lodged there with no AC, none of the nice things, no TikTok.
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And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, what are you doing here, Elijah?
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Like, Elijah, he's like, bro, what are you doing here?
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Like, I feel like the Lord did that with me to get me broken from the love of drugs.
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You're like, he talked me through why I love drugs so much and, like, made me deal with it.
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Like, he goes into the synagogue, and there's a man with a withered hand.
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He goes straight to the man with a withered hand.
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He says, let's put Judas in charge of the money.
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He says, we're going to deal, like, whatever your thing is, we're going to deal with it.
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And he said, I've been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts, because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant.
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They've thrown down your altars, and they've slain your prophets with the sword.
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And they seek my life now, too, to take it away.
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He's the only one that loves you still, and he's like, everything is taken away from me.
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I'm just, I'm still stuck on, like, for, meaning because.
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We're not going to feel how he feels, because we're building a great community of retarded people who feel the same way.
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You can definitely get to a place where you're saying, like, you're just zealous over the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
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And you're saying, like, man, I've been jealous for who you are in the earth, God.
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Like, you made everything, and all the people just despise you and brush you off like they're done with you.
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Like, the world thinks they're done with Jesus.
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Just put that right next to Matt's face when he's scowling.
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You should get a t-shirt where it's that scowling face and that scripture.
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What would be a good interchangeable expression to use in place of jealous for you?
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You guys just look at it as, like, a bad thing?
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Like, you, okay, God who can do whatever he wants, never had to make us, never had to do any of this, isn't just, like, intrigued by your life or curious about your life.
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He's jealous over what you're doing with your time.
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You don't understand how if your wife was hanging out with some other dude and, like, whatever the other dude did, like, he's hanging out at the bar, she goes to the bar with him, they go to lunch together, you'd have this thing called jealousy, which I know is, like, this bad thing.
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Like, it is a bad thing or whatever, but you don't understand, like, in relation to a spouse, that that would be a very natural reaction.
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Dude, in some crazy way, God has that feeling towards us, and some of us get that feeling towards him.
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We're looking at the church and we're saying, like, the church has gone a-whoring on God.
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Like, this system has completely gone a-whoring on God and forsaken his name and loved the world and spitting in God's face because they love the world so much, and they're just using him for personal gain.
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I'm jealous for his relationship with these people that he's supposed to have.
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All right, I'll just pull up Blue Letter Bible.
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And he said, go forth and stay—I don't know, you're struggling with the fact that he could be jealous for God?
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He just wants to know the definition of jealous.
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Well, no, because you're trying to say, oh, I can't say what it means.
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To be jealous, to be envious, to be zealous of, to excite, to jealous anger.
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Let's keep reading, because this is like—we're going to be circling the drain here if we try to,
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because we'll have to explain the next word that zealous translates to.
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And he said, go forth and stand upon the mount before the Lord.
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Now he's communicating, like, face-to-face with God.
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He said, go forth and stand upon the mount before the Lord.
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And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind ripped the mountains and broken
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And after the wind and earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
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There's a difference between God and the effects of God.
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And the Lord passed by and did all this stuff, but he wasn't in that.
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Remember even Jesus talking about the born-again experience?
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He tells the dude Nicodemus, he says, it's kind of like the wind, man.
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You don't really know where it comes from, but where it goes.
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There's like the Lord, he's dealing with Elijah.
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And it ripped the mountains in broken pieces of the rocks.
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Like this isn't a normal wind, but the Lord was not in the wind.
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And after the wind and earthquake starts shaking everything, but the Lord's not in the
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And after the earthquake of fire, but the Lord was not in the fire.
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These things are happening, but he's not those things.
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But after the fire, there was a still small voice.
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I just think people aren't ready for that, dude.
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If like the voice of God comes from an angel that just like burst through your window and
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is like, ah, it has like some cool thing to say.
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And they want to tell everybody these visions they had and these dreams they had and all this
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And there's some super Holy spirit, spirit realm person.
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And if you're too busy with all this other stuff, you're going to miss it.
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This is a big deal, man, because sometimes you talk to people and like, oh, God told me
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And the thing that they're saying sounds foolish as well.
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But we're like, can you really hear the voice of God when you're so busy?
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But I know like the number one thing that crushes my spiritual life is busyness.
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All the information, all the stuff coming in, all the.
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You can because you have like a capacity for like more.
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I don't have that big of a capacity because I'm not that bright.
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Like I have to put all of everything in me into God because if I'm kind in this and kind
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of in that kind of in all these other things, like I'm just not going to hear the voice
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So there's all these things happening and these are the effects of God, but they're not God,
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So it was so when Elijah heard it that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out
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and stood in the entering into the cave and behold, there came a voice unto him and said
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again the second time, Elijah, what are you doing here?
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This is why you have to read the Old Testament.
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People are wankers when they say, oh, I don't read the Old Testament.
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Imagine if you told your wife when she starts telling you stories of her life before you married
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So it doesn't, that's the old, that's the old, that's the Old Testament.
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This is, you find out, this is where you find out like what God has been through with
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If all you want is like all the benefits you get from the New Testament, go ahead.
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But you're completely missing out on who God is and what his heart is like.
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Like, this is where we really begin to understand what he's been through and how
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He said, I've been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts.
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Because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and
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And I, even I only am left, and they seek my life to take it away.
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So is it like he hasn't learned, or is he just saying like, yo, dude, same thing.
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But does God need him to explain it, or does God need him to explain it?
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It is a weird dialogue, though, because he's like, he already has the conversation, and
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then he's like, he tells him, yo, go here and witness all this crazy shit that
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I'm about to do, and then I'll talk to you again.
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And then he does all this shit, and then he talks to him again, and then he's like, so
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It's kind of weird, because it feels like that's how the conversation started.
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He's like, you didn't see me break that mountain, dog?
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I don't think we understand what this is like, dude.
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I just feel like when God destroys a mountain and creates a tornado of fire and all this
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And you and I know each other and love each other.
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If you look at it this way where he's kind of like, God's like, he's like, yo, you're
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And he's like, yeah, I'm just kind of depressing.
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It's funny because God's like, he's like, all right.
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You guys don't know anything about that because you guys have this whole thing with the chat.
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You guys have all these people in your life all the time.
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Now, there's also this element we're going to see moving forward that he actually wasn't alone.
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But this is like this loneliness that he's going through.
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This is like Noah, I mean, for like the 40 days, right?
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And then I think Noah's big issue while he was probably drinking in the cave is because even though I guess he had his family, but you got to feel alone, right?
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Like no matter what, no matter how many times Jesus was with people, he was never really with people.
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Like he was like in the room, but not something else.
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So like, but he was living the human experience.
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Like how much like could he really not be alone?
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I'm just saying, dude, this is a thing that men of God go through.
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Just go through the scripture and study it out.
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And he said, I've been very jealous for the Lord God, a host because the children of Israel forsaken thy covenant, thrown down your altars and slain the prophets with the sword.
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And I'm the only one taking this serious, Lord.
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And now they're seeking my life to take it away.
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Can we just, I'm not trying to do like the super holy prayer, God.
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I can't wait till you guys become super serious about the Bible.
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But I mean, the repeating of things, the repeating of things is a thing in scripture.
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It's like when we underline or like put it in bold or like whatever, all caps, like repeating a thing in scripture is like a thing.
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It's like, get this, like get this, repeating it, get it, make sure you get it.
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And the Lord said unto him, go return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus.
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And when you come, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
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What authority did Elijah have over the king of Syria?
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I mean, I don't exactly know much about this dude.
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But in somehow, some way, God's given him authority to go anoint a king of another nation, not Israel, Syria.
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So he goes and anoints the king of Syria, Hazael.
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And Jehu, the son of Nimshi, shall thou anoint to be king over Israel.
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So now he's anointing the king in Syria and the king in Israel.
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So in Elisha, the son of Shaphat of Abel-Mehella, shall thou anoint to be prophet in your room or in your place?
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Like, yeah, I'm taking you out, but you're not running out of here.
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You're giving a two-week notice, and you're going to find your replacement before you go.
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Not that there wasn't other prophets on the planet at that time, because come to find out there are,
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but, like, this was a very specific prophet, and he says, dude, we need another one.
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So Elisha is going to get anointed prophet in the place of Elijah.
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And it shall come to pass that him that escapes the sword of Hazael, who's going to be the king of Syria,
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shall Jehu, who's going to be the king of Israel, shall Jehu slay.
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And him that escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
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But just keep in mind, bro, I know we haven't talked about this yet.
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This is why it's super offensive to a lot of people that the creature called the Pope will let people kiss his hand.
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I even think that's what's wrapped up in when Judas comes and betrays Jesus with a kiss.
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And Jesus goes, bro, you're going to betray the Son of Man with a kiss?
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These creatures that have come through the line, they say they're from the line of Peter or whatever.
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The flip side of the coin is like, how many people are in this nation at this time that's supposed to be the covenant people?
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Several million people and there's only 7,000 that haven't bowed to Baal?
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Even after they sold the stuff at Mount Carmel.
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But I guess, I don't know, but then we're talking about repentance of these people beyond, or is it not there yet?
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So God shows them first that he's with them, right?
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The whole thing that goes down in the caves is, look, I'm with you.
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I guess that's the cool thing about the NDS homies, man.
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When they call in, it's like we're all connected now, right?
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It's interesting because in Revelation, it talks about 1113, 7,000 people killed in an earthquake.
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I just find it interesting because a lot of the same numbers repeat themselves throughout the Bible.
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And it's interesting that you have 7,000 people that didn't bend the knee or give Baal a kiss.
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And then 7,000 people that are killed in an earthquake later on in Revelation.
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Nowadays, people are getting paid $7,000 to promote Israel.
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And it's crazy, too, because the $7,000 would translate to about 40 pieces of silver in today's currency.
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And it'd take people about 40 days of work and nights to make that sort of money?
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No, if they came from Puerto Rico, you'd be very intrigued with Puerto Rico, right?
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So he departed there and found Elisha, the son of Shaphat, who was working in the temple
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because he had gone through cemetery school, and now he was one of the priests and one
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of the big shots inside organized religion of that day.
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He was plowing with 12 yoke of oxen before him.
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So he departed there and found Elisha in the college.
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He had a lot of letters behind his name and had a lot of education within that worldly
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They found him praying for the Republican Party.
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Think about when Samuel is told to go to the house of Jesse and anoint one of the sons
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So Samuel, the prophet, is told to go to the house of Jesse and anoint one of the sons
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Until Samuel finally says, hey, man, do you have another kid?
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We've got another one, but we think so low of him that we didn't even invite him to come
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Surely you're not going to anoint him king, but we didn't even invite him to let him see
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There's an interesting thing with the working man in the scripture, bro.
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It's an interesting thing that Adam gets put in the garden to work and keep it even
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Shout out to Z-Man, by the way, who's in the chat welding.
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So I just want to make this point about the working man, dude.
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Like, that's who God operates with in the earth.
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He's getting anointed in a place of the prophet.
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The creator of the universe comes down to the earth as a man and picks 12 people.
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He could have went and picked people from the temple or the college as well.
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I think that's why there's been this thing to feminize the church in America today, bro.
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That it's like not like you don't see these rough dudes in the church.
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You see like, you know how many times you see like the wife in the church, but the husband's not.
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I actually see a lot of that, like a husband stays home, doesn't go to the church kind of a deal.
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That's what I'm saying because the dude looks at it and says, I don't get down with this, dude.
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Whether it is or not, whatever, we can all argue and fight about that.
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But that's why the dudes are not going because they're saying like, this is fake.
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Whereas the females are more like, I think it's fake too, but I just have a heart that this is going to change.
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He tells everybody that he's going to rise from the dead.
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Like females have like this different patience and spiritual insight.
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The dudes are missing because they're grimy, rough working men who maybe even have had drug problems because they know that they're pilgrims and strangers and they don't fit in on the earth.
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They're like punch in, punch out, mow the lawn, wash the car, do the 401k.
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And maybe like a lot of them go to drugs because they know they're a pilgrim and a stranger.
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People that are junkies aren't far from the kingdom of God, dude.
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Most of them, the more you get down with them, you find out they just know that they don't belong here.
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They don't belong here, but the church hasn't reached them yet.
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But the church is going to start reaching them, dude.
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And those are probably going to be the people that like take us to the next level.
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This is why it's like a crime that the church has been so feminized.
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So he departed there and found Elisha, the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with 12 yoke of oxen before him.
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And Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle upon him.
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So he was saying like, Elisha knows what's happening.
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Remember when Jesus called the fishermen and they left their boats behind?
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So I'm sure you guys are going to have a field day with that.
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No, this is like, is this the robe that Adam took from the garden that was then passed to?
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And then Noah got raped and then it was passed to.
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Then it was stolen from him and then it goes to like Nimrod.
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I think Noah was just drunk and he just saw his butt.
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And then now, and then it gets lost and it shows up in a Joseph's coat of many colors.
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And then he puts it on somebody else, but there's something special about it.
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No, just on straight Bible, I'm just in the zone and I can't get sidetracked.
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Because you've been incredibly gracious for everything you're doing for the show.
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I think it's just a big deal that he threw his cloak on him.
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But when you have a dude like Elijah that's being fed by angels and ravens and God and
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seeing all this stuff, his cloak probably means something.
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But then that's weird, too, because then it's like, now this is like a powerful item.
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Okay, but Paul in the New Testament, it says like handkerchiefs and aprons were taken off
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of him, put on people with diseases and evil spirits, and the diseases left them and the
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There was a presence in that physical clothing.
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I get excited about it, but I think I want to mock it at first, but then I want to listen
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This wouldn't fly with the other Bible studies he does.
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No, my go-to is like make a joke, because you guys like to attack me, too, like especially
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Okay, don't forget Peter's shadow was healing people in the book of Acts.
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They brought out beds and stuff to lay on the street so that the shadow of Peter walking
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It seems like things, the woman who touched Jesus' hem of his garment, she gets healed.
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Yeah, it looks like there's things that can get so saturated with the presence of God that
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I don't know if that's what's happening here or not.
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This is why, I mean, I don't know if you know this, but like the Nazis were looking for the
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That's what they used like to poke Jesus in the side.
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And the Holy Grail and a number of other things.
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They were looking for like these ancient artifacts.
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Listen, if you poke Jesus in the side with a spear, or even like maybe the Shroud of Turin,
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like there's got to be some kind of special properties to this stuff.
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There's no like all these, the spear, whatever.
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Maybe those are rad things for people who need to access the spirit realm through those things.
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We access the spirit realm through God himself.
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Why can't they just be like rad in the sense of like a high-
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No, we found the Ark of the Covenant, and they brought it in, and we kept it in the library?
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The thing now is the Holy Spirit that lives within me.
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And so all these things, maybe the occult does want to get a hold of those things for somehow accessing the spirit realm through those things, through those physical things.
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I don't access the spirit realm through physical things like that.
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You should have been at church this week, because Pastor Rick, who rules-
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Who is excluded from all the stuff that he just said about the church, that Matt just said about the church.
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He calls it Holy Spirit because he feels like the Holy Spirit is too impersonable, and I kind of agree with him.
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I'd be asking God to send Holy Spirit all the time now.
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Okay, in the Bible, he's called the Holy Ghost.
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I don't think our boy Steven from Biblical Hitman would agree with you guys right now on calling him Holy Spirit without the in front of him.
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What if every time you picked up, I go, hello, the Matt Heppner.
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You're addressing God, and it's a tricky thing, because he is referred to as a he and an it.
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I go, Father God, in the name of Jesus Christ, can you send Holy Spirit?
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I usually talk to God, and I'd be like, in the name of Jesus, even in your prayer, I guess you mentioned Holy Spirit.
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I ask the Holy Spirit to come to the gym with me today.
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Anyway, Pastor Rick was just saying, dude, it's important.
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This is what we should be asking for, first and foremost, every time.
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So now we could ask the Holy Spirit to be here?
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He says, if you ask your father for bread, is he going to give you like a snake or a scorpion?
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He said, how much more if you ask your father for the Holy Spirit, will he give it to you?
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You can call God whatever you want to call God.
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If you know the Lord, he speaks to you the way you know how to communicate.
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God, the Father, if you drop the from Holy Spirit, I believe Stephen from Biblical Hitman,
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I don't remember the last week or the week before.
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And he was talking about how like that's something tied to some other spirit.
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But when we get baptized, it's in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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Like I'm going, Father God, in Jesus' name I pray.
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But when you're talking about it in the spirit of baptism, it's in the name of the Father,
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So in the same sense, couldn't I drop the the and say Holy Spirit?
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I feel totally comfortable saying like whatever.
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I feel like when he actually cares, he's like, I don't care.
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As long as you know the Lord, like that's what matters in this.
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Like what if I call you the Raven or if I call you David?
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I tell people call me Raven because like the the is like weird.
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If you call me the David, I'm going to be like, that's weird.
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Like if you know the Lord, that's what matters.
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This argument got lost in the fact that I just felt like saying he said that he took that off
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Every time he does say it, he goes, we invite Holy Spirit in.
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Nobody ever asked him until he decided to say it himself.
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Z-Man says, does the extra T in Matt stand for the?
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Can you guys talk to Stephen from Biblical Hitman about this topic?
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I kind of don't care if it's like the Holy Spirit or the Raven or like other people.
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Stephen will be in next week and we'll talk about it.
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Did you see that I sent something in the private chat?
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He left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and
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And he said unto him, go back again for what have I done to you?
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Elijah's just like, bro, you don't even know what you're signing up for.
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He'll never be able to go back to his mother and father like this calling that's on his
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But if God told him to, why is he being so goofy about it?
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This is what I was talking about with, uh, what's his name?
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People said they wish you were on that episode yesterday.
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I just, but when I was talking about the door, I was like, all right, so you get cold to
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the door, you're at the door and you don't go through.
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Um, I pray thee kiss my father and my mother and I'll follow thee.
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And he said unto him, go back again for what have I done to thee?
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Cause it's like, it's like, there's the door and you kind of like you're presented it.
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Dude, I was like throughout that whole episode, he kept using expressions like the door.
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So it's like, you're telling me all this stuff about how to be on the other side of this
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Maybe I was overthinking it, but it was like the language that he was using was like, it's
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like, you know, it's a, it's kind of like a wide path that gets you to the truth.
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I like, listen, I like the conversation that we have with him.
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But like through this path, he has walked up to the door and he has noticed.
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These things he's had experiences with Jesus or he's calling it the Christ and with God.
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And I know that's like a hard because like for me, too, like I said, I, we were at the
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You never know where people are at in the journey, dude.
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I'm at the dude yesterday and he's like a Buddhist guy.
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Like maybe as he digs in a little deeper and he's on the path for truth, maybe he does go,
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I want to tell him that like, yeah, we were at the door and we were kind of like standing
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there and we were doing this thing like in between with whatever we were doing with comedy
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And then at some point you're like, well, you got to go through.
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But you can't stand here forever because it's like, it's just not a good thing.
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You're going to get clothes and you're going to cut in half.
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But it's a heavy message and what I'm telling him and what I never do is like, I told you,
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I'm not going to like preach, like accept Jesus into your life right now.
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But like what you're telling me, what that whole show told me.
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But it's like, hey, there's a decision to be made here and I think you're at it and you
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You got enough information and that's a dangerous place to be.
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Once you get enough information, it's like you better be convicted.
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And then you're like surrounded by some heavy hitters that do know.
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Well, if he hangs around Ed Mabry, he's going to figure it out, dude.
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You just give people time and pray for them and love them.
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Shout out to Top leaving the chat visible yesterday.
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It says, and he returned back from him and took a yoke of oxen and slew them and boiled
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their flesh with the instruments of the oxen and gave unto the people and they did eat.
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Then he arose and went after Elijah and ministered unto him.
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So just like the fishermen left everything behind to go follow Jesus, he even like some
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of the stuff that he used in his career, he even like burned that up and had a feast
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with the people and said, guys, let's celebrate.
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Almost like to say, guys, I may never see you again, dude.
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Like what I'm signing up for, I'm not coming back.
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That's why Elijah's like, damn, what did I, does he even know what he's getting into,
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Like, like once you sign up for this, any man having put his hand to the plow and looking
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That reminds me of like the pillar of salt situation.
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I guarantee you in my Bible where that's at, I guarantee you there's a reference to
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Real quick though, how much better are our Bible studies than the other ones you do?
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These are about 40% of what my other ones are like.
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Well, one thing that's in Luke 14, 33, it says, so likewise, whosoever he be of you that
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forsakes not all that he has, he cannot be my disciple.
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So this is an example of Elisha forsaking all that he has.
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I don't think people will understand that that passage even exists.
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So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsakes not all that he has cannot be my disciple.
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If there's anything in your life that you're still saying like, no, this is mine, Jesus
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says, yeah, no problem, but you can't be my disciple.
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This is what I'm saying about the episode yesterday, because I've had that situation
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where it's like, I like, I like the thing I do and I don't want to give it up.
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Wait, what's wrong with the thing you're doing?
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Before the thing that I was doing, I like this thing that I do.
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Jesus said unto him, no man having put his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for
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Everybody should put a star next to that in their Bible.
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If you're not willing to forsake everything, then don't sign up for this.
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Pretend he's on Twitter and say mean things to him right now.
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I'm like, you guys have gone too far now to keep playing the game of like, well, we're
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kind of comedians still and we're kind of this and that.
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He's going to keep drawing you closer and closer and closer now, dude.
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I mean, you weren't really technically funny to begin with.
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I can't pull anything up because I'm not the guy with the computer.
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Well, no, but this I'm saying, I'm so excited for you to get it and be serious about the
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kingdom of God because right now you're just playing playtime and joke time and Joke City
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USA and you sit in on some Bible studies, but it's mostly playtime for you.
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But did you see how quick his brain when I said, no man having put his hand to the plow
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and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.
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You see how quick he said, oh, that reminds me of Lot's wife.
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But when he does care, it's going to be at like a whole other level.
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And it came to pass when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, escape for
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Look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain.
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Escape to the mountain is also, that's the book of Revelation, right?
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Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy,
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which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life.
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And I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me and I die.
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Behold now, the city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one.
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So he's saying, all right, escape, get to the mountains.
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Lot's like, oh, man, I'm afraid of the mountains, man.
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So the angel tells him, yeah, I've accepted you concerning this thing also,
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that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken.
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So Lot, like, saves another city because that's the one he wants to go to.
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Haste the escape there, for I cannot do anything till you are come there.
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Therefore, the name of the city was called Zoar.
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The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
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Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
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And he overthrew those cities and all the plain and the inhabitants of the cities
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So did you see how the Raven cross-referenced that?
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Like, I know he's just joke town and play time.
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But, like, it's a big deal that, like, immediately he hears a passage like that
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That's because your guys' brains are like that.
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But you're just doing it with, like, Twitter and Facebook
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and, like, whatever the other things are today, I don't know.
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But, like, as he starts to do that more and more in the Scripture,
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it's going to be – he's going to give Satan a handful, dude.
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He's going to really, like, be a handful for the forces of darkness.
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No, no, I just want to let Blue Letter Bible know that we have a handful of bulls
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It's up to you guys if you want to keep going or not.
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We have a show after, but we'd be cutting it close.
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I want to get really loud because there's people outside the door.
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And Ben-Hadad, the king of Syria, gathered all his hosts together.
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This is not the one that Elijah has been sent to anoint king of Syria.
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Ben-Hadad, the king of Syria, gathered all his hosts together.
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And there were 32 kings with him and horses and chariots.
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And he went up and besieged Samaria and warred against it.
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And he sent messengers to Ahab, king of Israel, into the city and said unto him,
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And thus saith Ben-Hadad, the silver and the gold is mine, your wives also, and your children, even the goodliest are mine.
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And remember, all this revolves around lowercase g gods of territories.
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They don't just go to war just between, like, humans.
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This is all happening in the spirit realm as well.
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And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am yours and all that I have.
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It just reminds me of the so-called America today, bro.
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It was like there's some nations that just give themselves away.
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Like, this doesn't make any sense that he's just like, okay, yeah, man, you're going to come take – go ahead.
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It doesn't make any sense that, like, in America, we just started, like, shipping all our jobs overseas.
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But I'm just saying there are nations that just give themselves up.
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And the messengers came again and said, Thus speaketh Ben-Hadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me your silver and your gold and your wives and your children.
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Yet I will send my servants unto you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house and the houses of your servants.
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And it shall be that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put in their hand and take it away.
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He says, Bro, I'm not just taking all that stuff.
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But it was, like, in response to him being like, Okay, yeah, it's yours.
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If you give somebody an inch, they take a foot.
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Oh, if you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to want a glass of milk.
01:38:10.340
If you give a rave and a cookie is technically how it goes.
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Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeks mischief.
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For he sent me unto me for my wives and for my children and for my silver and for my gold, which, again, is money.
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And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent.
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Wherefore, he said unto the messengers of Ben-Hadad, Tell my lord the king all that thou did send for to thy servant at the first.
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Yeah, he should have just came back and said, like, F you, bro.
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I was trying to be nice by giving you my wives and my children and all my gold and silver.
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But, yeah, I guess there's no really good answer once you say, I'll give you my wives and children.
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He's like, well, then what's stopping you from taking the rest?
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Yeah, Ahab is the biggest wanker, like, in history.
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And the messengers departed and brought him word again.
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And Ben-Hadad sent unto him and said, The gods, notice, it's always gods, man.
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The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
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And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him.
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Actually, this is one place where Ahab's not a wanker.
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Let not him that girds on his harness boast himself as he that puts it off.
01:39:32.220
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
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It's kind of crazy, though, to talk like that, though, when you were like, Fine, take the first wave of children.
01:39:50.080
And it came to pass when Ben-Hadad heard this message, as he was drinking.
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As he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array.
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And they set themselves in array against the city.
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They're drinking out of the big gold goblets and stuff.
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Z-Man says, quote, You're talking a lot of shit for somebody not strapped up, Ahab.
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And behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab, king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Have you seen all this great multitude?
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Behold, I will deliver it into your hand this day, and then you shall know that I am the Lord.
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So here's God, even dealing with this wicked dude, Ahab.
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And he said, Thus saith the Lord, even by the young men of the princes of the provinces.
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So he says, Get all the young princes, put them together, and you set the battle together, Ahab.
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Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were 232.
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And after them, he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being 7,000.
01:41:24.060
But that's the same ones that he was talking about before that didn't kiss Baal.
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Ahab just has an army of dudes that didn't kiss Baal.
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But Ben Haddad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions.
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He and the kings, the 32 kings that helped him.
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Anybody gets funny if you text at 333 in the morning?
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No, it was 333 because technically it was more like 433 because of the time change.
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And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first and Ben Haddad sent out and they
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told him, saying, there are men come out of Samaria.
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And he said, whether they become out for peace, take them alive.
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Or whether they become out for war, take them alive.
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So he sees these people coming from the army of Israel.
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So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city and the army which followed
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And Ben Haddad, the king of Syria, escaped on a horse with the horsemen.
01:42:42.940
And the king of Israel went out and smote the horses and chariots and slew the Syrians with
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He tried to start the fight, but he didn't end it.
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And the prophet came to the king of Israel and said unto him, go, strengthen yourself
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For at the return of the year, the king of Syria will come up against you again.
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And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, their gods are gods of the hills.
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Therefore, they were stronger than we, but let us fight against them in the plain.
01:43:15.220
Yeah, they're saying like the principalities and powers that rule in this area.
01:43:21.840
But that's why we couldn't do shit to Afghanistan because they had a principality of mountainous
01:43:35.340
Not really, but I'm just saying, I'm straight Bible, but verse 23, like, do you see how like
01:43:41.680
Do you see how they know this has to do with lowercase g gods?
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And like, that's why we got to switch this up a little bit.
01:44:00.540
We were talking with Pastor Joe and Franco about that, about the principality aspect,
01:44:16.100
Couldn't beat them in the battle because they have like this jungle terrain, but they gave
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the American troops, uh, Dysonian glass as part of like the old school night vision
01:44:26.380
And when they'd put it on, they would see entities, demons and stuff in the, in the hills
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Now the Dysonian glass is like weird properties, which are like, people are still investigating
01:44:39.240
But they were seeing like spirit realm stuff and the American soldiers put it on screams.
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Like they were, they were hearing stuff, visual, there was like a hearing aspect where
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they were doing like this, uh, kind of psychological, what even is the narrative for America that
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Was realistically, we went to Vietnam because we needed resources.
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That was like, they're, they get raped and pillaged for the resources.
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I mean, now they're like when the tire industry took off, they had to do that in the
01:45:19.860
So just tons of people just died and we're just like, yeah, we needed their plastic.
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And then we figured out how to make it ourselves.
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And now we can get rid of all the, all the Mexicans.
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Like if that was the narrative, the real reason was just keep the war machine going.
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Well, I mean like underneath it, I think it was the acquiring of plastic, but yeah, there
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Is he like using his phone in the middle of the school?
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I hear you guys are very like serious about the electrician.
01:45:53.860
And do this thing, take the Kings away, every man out of his place and put captains in their
01:45:58.620
rooms and number the, number the, an army, like the army that you have lost horse for
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So this is like the council was talking to the King of Syria and saying, Hey man, put
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another army together, but this time we'll fight them in the plane, not in the mountains
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And it came to pass at the return of the year that Ben Haddad numbered the Syrians and
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went up to a fact to fight against Israel and the children of Israel were numbered and
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And the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids, but the Syrians
01:46:33.180
So it's like this very little army of Israel, but the Syrians like fill the country, kind
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And there came a man of God and spoke unto the King of Israel and said, does say it the
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Lord, because the Syrians have said the Lord is God of the hills, but he is not God of the
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Therefore, will I deliver all this great multitude into your hand and you shall know that I am
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It's because these dudes are trying to punk me and say, like, I'm not the God of everything.
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You just happen to be on the lucky end of this deal.
01:47:17.280
And they pitched one over against the other seven days.
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And so it was that in the seventh day, the battle was joined in the children of Israel
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slew of the Syrians, a hundred thousand footmen in one day.
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That's a lot, dude, especially in an ancient army.
01:47:31.620
And there, a wall fell upon 27,000 of the men that were left.
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Like, these are just some of these rad stories where it's like, what?
01:47:46.940
And the whole thing just tipped over and crushed 7,000 of them?
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We could probably do a better deep dive on that.
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And Ben-Hadad fled and came into the city into an inner chamber.
01:48:00.480
And his servants said unto him, Behold, now we have heard that the kings of the house
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Let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins and ropes on our heads and go out to
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the king of Israel because he might save your life.
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So they girded sackcloth on their loins and put ropes on their heads and came to the
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king of Israel and said, Thy servant Ben-Hadad saith, I pray thee,
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Remember the same guy that was going to take his wives and children?
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Now the men did diligently observe whether anything would come from him and did hastily
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So his servants, they caught it that he said that.
01:48:47.740
Then Ben-Hadad came forth to him and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
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And Ben-Hadad said unto him, The cities which my father took from your father, I'll give
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And you shall make streets for you in Damascus as my father made in Samaria.
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Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant.
01:49:02.420
So he made a covenant with him and sent him away.
01:49:08.380
And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbor, In the word of the
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Then said he unto him, Because you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, behold, as soon
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as you are departed from me, a lion will slay you.
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And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him and slew him.
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Yeah, it's now we're dealing with different people.
01:49:41.800
A certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbor, like, by the word of
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the Lord, Hey man, this is a thing for the Lord.
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Wait, wait, the Lord said for me to tell you to punch me?
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Then said he unto him, Because you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, behold, as soon
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as you are departed from me, a lion shall slay you.
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And the guy's like, I'm not going to punch you.
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This is the stuff that the raven is going to have, like, a couple weeks from now.
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He's going to be like, bro, remember that passage we were reading a couple weeks ago?
01:50:22.140
Because you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, as soon as you're departed, a lion's
01:50:29.760
And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him and killed him.
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Then he found another man and said, smite thee, I pray you.
01:50:41.640
He needed to have, like, a black eye, like a bloody nose.
01:50:45.860
This is like a, you know, anytime you're out in public and anybody ever comes up to you,
01:51:02.360
Speaking of that, can we get that picture where the raven's, like, getting his boxing gloves
01:51:06.560
That's in my studio, the one we don't use anymore.
01:51:10.720
No, I just like that because a lot of people know the raven was a boxer and was, like,
01:51:20.180
Well, before we do, let's roll over some of this stuff into this.
01:51:22.020
Then he found another man and said, all right, well, you punched me, and the man did.
01:51:27.060
So the prophet departed and waited for the king, by the way, and disguised himself with ashes
01:51:38.520
And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king.
01:51:52.280
He says, your servant went out into the midst of the battle, and behold, a man turned aside
01:51:55.720
and brought a man unto me and said, keep this man.
01:51:58.580
Oh, so he's looking like a dude that was in the battle?
01:52:01.900
And he says, look, somebody captured somebody and gave him to me and said, you
01:52:06.840
If by any means he's missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else you shall pay
01:52:12.780
So he says, hey, hey, king, I need some justice here.
01:52:23.060
In the midst of the battle, he brought a man unto me and said, you have to keep him, your
01:52:31.740
And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone.
01:52:35.200
He said, man, so I was supposed to watch this servant, but watch this captured enemy.
01:52:40.760
And the king of Israel said unto him, so shall thy judgment be.
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If that guy told you to watch him and you let him go, then it's your life now for his
01:53:07.480
Because sometimes this is how you had to get across to people.
01:53:13.060
This part reminds me of Nathan talking to David.
01:53:19.600
So he says, all right, man, the same way you said, that's how it's going to happen.
01:53:24.400
And he hasted and took the ashes away from his face.
01:53:27.300
And the king of Israel discerned that he was of the prophets.
01:53:35.760
And he said unto him, thus sayeth the Lord, because you have let go out of your hand a
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Like, God's like, dude, I got this guy delivered into your hand to kill him.
01:53:47.800
He was about to take all your wives and all your children.
01:53:50.880
And I delivered him into your hand and you let him go.
01:53:57.280
Well, of course, the application now, we're not killing people.
01:54:04.580
So it's the same things of like God kills a thing off in your life.
01:54:07.400
Like, say if I was to go back to snorting Oxycontins, God would be like, bro, are you effing kidding
01:54:13.940
Like, I delivered that enemy into your hands and you let it live?
01:54:25.720
So he got Ahab to speak his own judgment on himself.
01:54:34.540
That's like with Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar where he's like-
01:54:37.400
Dude, in our kingdom, it's very mysterious with like riddles and parables and things to
01:54:43.920
It's also interesting to put a king in that position.
01:54:46.340
Like Daniel Nebuchadnezzar, he was like, ha ha, that's the punishment.
01:54:53.360
But that's the rule that I said, therefore, we got to do it.
01:55:08.280
This isn't like a normal Bible study with church people.
01:55:12.780
So it's like very intriguing how you understand this stuff.
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Say it to the Lord, because thou has let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction.
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There's things in our life that God has appointed to utter destruction.
01:55:26.420
So he was supposed to cut this guy's head off when he came groveling.
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Therefore, thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.
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Like, what you don't kill will end up killing you.
01:55:44.140
But watch out for the thing that you don't kill off.
01:55:47.700
That's a very real thing in the kingdom of God.
01:55:49.560
And the king of Israel went to his house, heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.
01:56:08.060
We're going to read in 21 where he goes to kill Naboth.
01:56:14.920
So you just see Ahab just being this straight wanker, man.
01:56:19.360
And then he kills people that he should be letting live.
01:56:24.100
He's the most evil of all the kings of Israel is what it says at that time.
01:56:28.820
So we'll get into 21 next week, dude, where he does crazy stuff.
01:56:40.640
Every single chapter that we read, there's something in it that's a lot of fun.
01:56:46.480
Because this chapter, to be honest, when I did read it again, I'm like, I don't know
01:56:50.680
what, number one, I don't know what they're talking about.
01:56:58.060
You're slowly getting out of it, and you're entering into the kingdom of God, and you're
01:57:07.420
And Ben Hadad said unto him, so he made a covenant with him and sent him away.
01:57:19.100
The puzzle is the most complicated and not fun in the beginning.
01:57:24.340
Like, as soon as you get a couple more pieces together, like the Raven has done, notice how
01:57:29.740
I say the scripture, and then he goes, yeah, that's like Lot's wife.
01:57:32.620
He's starting to put the puzzle pieces together.
01:57:37.860
He just did another whiff of smelling salts as you're saying his praises.
01:57:42.860
I think this is the type of guy that you're supposed to take and appoint his destruction.
01:57:50.760
I don't know enough about the modern stuff, bro.
01:57:57.840
Well, listen, I don't want to talk about the crimes of Israel.
01:58:03.240
I mean, that's a good application, bro, is look at Israel today the same way you look
01:58:11.420
I don't know enough about Netanyahu to say anything about him.
01:58:15.380
I know he used to be like a, he was in like the military.
01:58:27.440
But sometimes Modi does too, the president of India.
01:58:32.060
But like the way he's, plus he wears the skirt thing, like the cool Indian stuff.
01:58:35.640
And he just hits hard, even though I don't know what he's saying.
01:58:40.780
The skirt is just so you, it's easier to poop in the street.
01:58:42.860
If somebody says he's just like Ahab, I was like, yeah, probably, bro.
01:58:45.060
Like these guys, these kings today are just like the kings back then, dude.
01:58:49.580
Isn't it weird that the Star of David has six points and six triangles and then like six
01:58:58.780
So whatever that symbol is that they use for Israel today, I don't know.
01:59:03.460
We talked about that before the Star of Rem-Fam.
01:59:05.960
There's not really a, as far as I know, any star that's supposed to symbolize Israel.
01:59:10.140
I don't know what would, maybe they would say if there's 12 points on it, it's the 12
01:59:15.680
There's got to be a 12 on it in some way for them to count.
01:59:21.640
When he makes the fire, the sacrifice, the 12 stones are on it.
01:59:25.820
There's other places where it references 12 stones.
01:59:30.780
I imagine the so-called Star of David, like we see Jewish people with the tattoo or the
01:59:45.120
The more I learn about Israel, the more confused I am about it.
01:59:50.940
It's very confusing that that nation even exists, bro.
01:59:53.840
Like, which is one of the things that proves the Bible to be real, in my view.
01:59:59.140
But like, how does this nation even exist, bro?
02:00:03.600
And the entirety of the Bible revolves around this nation.
02:00:07.200
And somehow they exist around a bunch of people that have sworn to wipe them off the map.
02:00:15.120
Because it's not like Mexico and Canada is like swearing to wipe us off the map.
02:00:20.900
The stuff you tell me that they do that's so bad, it sounds terrible.
02:00:46.780
Listen, the fact is, I just don't even know anymore.
02:00:49.460
The more I learn about it, the more I'm like, this is obviously crazy.
02:00:54.620
The news cycle is just going to have you flustered.
02:00:56.940
That's the, like, the modern news cycle is designed to just have you in confusion, bro.
02:01:02.840
So, like, our view of Israel, like, that's fine to look at the news, the current news of Israel.
02:01:08.780
But you've got to have the more 5,000-year view in mind first.
02:01:13.240
Then look at the view of whatever Israel is supposedly doing on the earth today.
02:01:25.860
Okay, but now is there fakers on, like, the real news, too?
02:01:39.360
And I think we should bring it in for a landing here.
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You're not going to have any excuse before God to say, like, oh, I lived in a day of an apostasy church.
02:01:59.000
Pray that God explains it to you because he promises to do that in John 14.
02:02:03.200
It says the Holy Spirit will teach you all things and bring all things to your memory.
02:02:06.860
Because sometimes people say, oh, Matt remembers a lot of stuff in the Bible.
02:02:18.540
And the number one way to fellowship with God is through his word.
02:02:24.300
Maybe get away from all of the noise pollution that's in, like, the modern news cycle.
02:02:29.720
Like, stop doing that with the Kardashians and the Republicans and the Democrats and the Walmart.
02:02:35.400
People are going to go take all the stuff at Walmart because of the shutdown or whatever.
02:02:38.800
If that's still the news, that's probably not still the news anymore.
02:02:40.760
Well, actually, because of the government shutdown, I won't be going to New York.
02:02:45.580
I pay attention to – yeah, I mean, it works out great, the modern news cycle for me.
02:02:50.460
And I really do want to say a, like, really heartfelt thank you to all the homies in the chat.
02:02:55.400
Like, I'm just grateful to be, like, a part of this community of people that live –
02:02:59.100
All around the country and all around the planet.
02:03:01.940
Well, it's really incredible what you guys have built, dude.
02:03:03.940
Like, I don't usually like to compliment you guys.
02:03:07.020
I'm so grateful that you allowed God to work through you to, like, create this atmosphere
02:03:12.760
and, like, create this thing you guys have built.
02:03:15.080
And I'm incredibly grateful to somehow, like, step right in here and I could preach the gospel.
02:03:19.700
Like, I'm just very grateful and I appreciate you guys a lot, especially the people –
02:03:28.160
He kept doing the thing like – he's like, look at this.
02:03:33.180
I like when he emails companies and he goes to Standard Coffee Shop slash NDS Studios.
02:03:54.660
I'm a little upset nobody brought us a coffee from the Standard Coffee Shop.
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But go leave the Standard Coffee Shop a five-star review.
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And until about 30 minutes when we talk to Samuel Urban, don't forget to obey, submit, and comply.