Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - October 19, 2023


Ep 893 ｜ Are Missionaries Colonizers？ ｜ Q&A


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Why does the Bible mention unicorns? Is sharing the gospel some form of evil colonization? Is it smart to move out of blue states and into red states? We will answer all of these questions and more on today's episode of Relatable.

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00:00:00.880 What's my Christian flirting advice? 0.98
00:00:04.040 Is it selfish or smart to move out of blue states and into red states?
00:00:10.040 Is sharing the gospel some form of evil colonization?
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00:00:30.000 All right, guys.
00:00:40.580 Welcome to Relatable.
00:00:41.640 Thanks for watching slash listening.
00:00:43.400 We're going to get into some of your questions today.
00:00:45.380 A lot of really interesting questions.
00:00:47.060 Most of them have to do with theology, the Bible, but some of them are just fun.
00:00:51.540 I like to try to switch it up as much as I can.
00:00:53.640 Let's get right into it.
00:00:55.340 Okay, this was one I had to look up because I had never heard this before.
00:01:00.360 But this is a question of why does the Bible include unicorns?
00:01:06.540 Thoughts on unicorns in scripture, just rhinos.
00:01:09.560 Okay, interesting.
00:01:10.680 I had never heard this before.
00:01:12.840 Obviously, unicorns are typically seen as these fantastical animals that don't exist in real
00:01:17.200 life and have never really existed.
00:01:19.700 And so I looked this up.
00:01:21.080 One of my favorite resources is gotquestions.org.
00:01:23.920 Seems really solid.
00:01:24.920 They've answered almost like a million questions.
00:01:27.820 Honestly, they should sponsor this podcast.
00:01:29.920 But I have their Got Questions app.
00:01:32.700 And so I'm like always asking questions to Got Questions.
00:01:35.600 And even if it's not an infallible resource, obviously, but it does have all the references.
00:01:39.760 It has books that they recommend, but it also has scripture references to back up what they're saying.
00:01:43.820 So I read their answer on this.
00:01:47.120 So I'm just going to go with what they said.
00:01:49.520 In several passages, list passages in Numbers, Deuteronomy, Job, Psalm, Isaiah, the King James
00:01:56.000 version of the Bible mentions a unicorn.
00:01:57.760 The original Hebrew is the word reyam, which was translated monokeros in the Septuagint and unicornis in the Latin Vulgate.
00:02:09.160 Later versions use the phrase wild ox.
00:02:13.720 The original Hebrew word basically means beast with a horn.
00:02:16.520 One possible interpretation is the rhinoceros.
00:02:18.380 But since the Hebrew tau alpha in Numbers refers to more than one horn, it's likely the translators use creative license to infer a wild and powerful, but recognizable animal for their versions.
00:02:33.160 So the ram is believed to refer to our rocks or urus, large cattle, which roamed Europe and Asian ancient times.
00:02:43.400 They stood over six feet tall and were ancestors of domestic cattle.
00:02:46.560 They became extinct in the 1600s.
00:02:48.540 In the Bible, the wild ox usually refers to someone with great power.
00:02:51.920 In Numbers 20 through 22 and 24, 8, God compares his own strength to that of a wild ox.
00:02:57.120 In Psalm 22, 21, David imagines his enemies as wild oxen.
00:03:01.700 The bull represented several different deities, including Baal, Malak, Egyptian, Apis.
00:03:07.480 The Israelites tried to adopt these beliefs when they made the golden calf.
00:03:11.840 So we don't know exactly if it's a unicorn, if it's some kind of cattle that went extinct.
00:03:17.940 We just don't know.
00:03:19.140 So I don't really have any necessarily deep or theological thoughts on that.
00:03:23.660 But it is interesting.
00:03:24.980 It reminds me of the debate about the dinosaurs.
00:03:27.800 Were they really dinosaurs?
00:03:29.460 Were they just really big beasts that have since gone extinct that weren't like the dinosaurs that we see paleontologists come up with today?
00:03:36.940 We're not really sure.
00:03:38.420 Next question.
00:03:39.080 This is an interesting one.
00:03:40.100 Is sending missionaries around the world colonizing?
00:03:44.360 Now, there's an assumption in this question, and I'm not sure if the questioner realizes the assumption that is clear to me in this question.
00:03:51.960 And that is that colonizing is always bad.
00:03:55.140 It's always evil.
00:03:55.920 It's unbiblical. 0.95
00:03:56.500 And so therefore, I guess the person who is saying that sharing the gospel is colonizing is saying that we shouldn't.
00:04:05.040 We shouldn't go and share the gospel because that is a form of colonization, which is always evil. 0.99
00:04:10.080 First of all, while colonialism does have some violent and bad parts of it, that doesn't mean that going and conquering a nation and changing the culture there is necessarily always unbiblical or wrong.
00:04:25.800 Obviously, we see God-ordained conquest several times in the Old Testament.
00:04:30.380 I'm not saying that that is the basis for all conquest in the modern world or in the modern West.
00:04:36.300 But look, all major nations, all developed nations have engaged in some kind of imperialism and some kind of colonialism.
00:04:46.280 I think that there probably have been good historical examples and bad historical examples of both.
00:04:52.180 But this idea that it's always objectively evil and unbiblical, I don't think that there's a good basis for that. 0.70
00:04:59.480 But here's what I would say.
00:05:00.820 I would go to Matthew 28.
00:05:02.480 We've talked about this before.
00:05:04.080 It was pointed out to me in a sermon at church, actually, and I hadn't thought about it like this.
00:05:07.940 That when Jesus says in Matthew 28, 18,
00:05:11.140 Really, if you look at the original text, all people groups, all ethnos, all ethnic groups,
00:05:27.360 baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
00:05:30.800 teaching them to observe all that I've commanded you.
00:05:32.960 And behold, I am with you always to the end of the age.
00:05:35.560 So in that, we read a few things, but two of the things that we see is that we have both
00:05:40.000 the right and responsibility, the right and responsibility to share the gospel to people
00:05:46.200 of all people groups.
00:05:48.720 Now, it's not the same thing as colonization.
00:05:51.580 Colonization, again, includes not just sharing of the gospel and the conversion through the
00:05:57.500 Holy Spirit of Christians, but also changing the culture, changing the country in general,
00:06:01.980 trying to conform it to that of those who are doing the conquering.
00:06:06.880 Obviously, like we had the 13 colonies in the United States, and so that's a form of
00:06:13.040 colonialism.
00:06:14.740 That's a form of colonization.
00:06:16.060 So it's not just in sharing the gospel.
00:06:18.880 That's not the only characteristic of colonizing.
00:06:22.620 And there are many missionaries who go share the gospel that are not colonizing these nations.
00:06:26.860 And I would say that that is part of the Christian tradition, actually, that when you go into
00:06:32.020 China and share the gospel, or you go into wherever it is and share the gospel, you are
00:06:37.460 actually not trying to make those people more American or more Western or more European.
00:06:43.740 You're not trying to tell them to abandon all of their food and all of their cultural preferences
00:06:49.600 and all of their traditions and familial, you know, cultural familial ties or things like
00:06:56.120 that.
00:06:56.400 You are not trying to conform them to the likeness of the Western American man.
00:07:00.540 You are trying to conform them through the Holy Spirit to the image and the likeness of
00:07:05.600 Christ.
00:07:06.060 And so it is godly for a person to embrace his culture, to love his country, to be fully
00:07:17.700 whatever it is, Indian or French or Zimbabwean and be a Zimbabwean Christian or be a Christian
00:07:27.120 Zimbabwean rather, be a Christian Kenyan, be a Christian Chinese person, be a Christian Indian, 0.70
00:07:34.340 a Christian South Korean, like all of those things are good.
00:07:37.940 Retaining the ethnicity or retaining some of the traditions, some of them, some of them
00:07:45.180 are probably, you know, in some cases simple when they're tied to a religion that is not
00:07:50.900 Christian, but retaining those things while fully submitting yourself to Christ, dying to 0.95
00:07:56.680 your former self, becoming your new self in the image and likeness of Christ that is good
00:08:01.080 and godly.
00:08:01.560 So it is not, you're not always trying to colonize a place when you're going and sharing
00:08:06.720 the gospel, but you have the right to do so.
00:08:09.720 Like there are plenty of accounts now, the so-called anti-racist Christian accounts that
00:08:15.940 are saying you shouldn't go share the gospel.
00:08:18.040 You don't have a right to do that.
00:08:19.660 That's Christian white supremacy or whatever it is to go share the gospel. 0.97
00:08:23.600 Look, those people do not have any authority.
00:08:26.380 They have no authority, zero, zilch.
00:08:29.820 They're also dumb.
00:08:31.540 And they're not Christians because they don't believe in Jesus's authority. 0.90
00:08:35.660 They don't believe in the Great Commission, which is the crux of Christianity.
00:08:39.040 One of the co-intendents, one of the calls of Christianity going and making disciples of 0.96
00:08:45.000 all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Trinity.
00:08:49.660 Jesus, who has all the authority, he says, in heaven and on earth, tells us to do that.
00:08:56.160 All authority.
00:08:57.060 So his authority supersedes, transcends any authority of any Black Coffee with White Friends Instagram
00:09:05.440 account or whatever it is, or any progressive so-called Christian influencer that tells you
00:09:11.480 that sharing the gospel is racist and wrong.
00:09:14.500 He has more authority than any government, than any constitution, than any law, than any policy,
00:09:22.460 like any cultural, social change.
00:09:24.460 He has more authority than all of those things, and we ultimately answer to him above all things.
00:09:31.600 And he tells us, this God with all the authority in the universe, he tells us to go, therefore,
00:09:38.360 and make disciples of all nations and to baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and
00:09:43.820 the Holy Spirit.
00:09:44.780 So that is my answer to that.
00:09:54.460 Would I rather spend a week with Klaus Schwab on a beach, or live in Antarctica for one year?
00:10:07.060 A week with Klaus Schwab.
00:10:08.380 If you don't know who Klaus Schwab is, he is the villainous head of the World Economic Forum.
00:10:14.420 He has terrible, deleterious, destructive ideas about how we should reorder the world
00:10:21.060 to become basically an oligarchy under the thumb of the elite.
00:10:31.140 He would be a part of that elite ruling class in the name of saving the climate, in the name
00:10:37.980 of equity and equality and sustainability.
00:10:40.380 And so, I mean, he's literally suggested things like blocking out the sun for a period of time.
00:10:48.980 That sounds apocalyptic.
00:10:52.240 So that we could, you know, save the planet.
00:10:55.380 It's really scary.
00:10:56.840 And all of these people are very intent on depopulation.
00:11:01.320 So would I rather, would I spend a week with Klaus Schwab on a beach, or live in Antarctica
00:11:05.760 for one year?
00:11:06.700 Is Klaus Schwab going to kill me?
00:11:08.120 If he's not going to kill me, I mean, we'd probably get some good digs.
00:11:12.260 Like, I doubt that he stays at some, like, hut that he found on Vrbo.
00:11:18.160 I bet that he probably has his own island.
00:11:21.020 He probably has his own mansion.
00:11:23.580 Would he leave me alone?
00:11:25.900 And I could just do what I want to do just for a week.
00:11:29.000 And I'm guaranteed a safe return.
00:11:32.100 And, you know, if we got stranded or something, I feel like people will come looking for Klaus Schwab.
00:11:36.060 So there's some safety there, but he has some good security.
00:11:38.900 So if he's not going to kill me, if I don't need to spend time, like, spend a whole lot
00:11:42.460 of time with him, if I can share the gospel with Klaus Schwab, try to change his mind,
00:11:47.820 then, yeah, I would rather do that.
00:11:50.300 Live in Antarctica for an entire year, like a year away from my family in the freezing
00:11:54.300 cold.
00:11:54.580 I don't do cold well.
00:11:56.040 So I'm going to say a week with Klaus Schwab on a beach, as long as it's not, like,
00:12:00.240 weird, you know, um, let's see, is moving out of blue states into red states selfish
00:12:06.580 or protective?
00:12:07.580 I think this is a great, great, insightful question.
00:12:10.820 So I have advocated in the past for moving your family to a red state, like, don't deal 1.00
00:12:16.540 with the system anymore.
00:12:18.440 I can't say, though, that that is a rule for everyone.
00:12:22.440 I don't know that that is.
00:12:24.500 I can't prescribe that to every person, every family in every situation.
00:12:28.060 There is the belief that, look, there needs to be light and darkness.
00:12:32.480 There needs to be some modicum of sanity on places like Washington and Oregon and California.
00:12:37.300 And so some people have to stay to hold down the fort.
00:12:40.600 And I get that.
00:12:41.880 I do.
00:12:42.780 I don't think it's working very well right now.
00:12:45.460 And that's not because of the lack of effort on the side of sanity.
00:12:49.480 It's just because the other side is so insanely powerful, has so much corporate backing, institutional
00:12:56.400 backing, federal government backing, so much money behind them.
00:13:01.960 I mean, especially in a state like California, you have the whole entertainment industry hoisting
00:13:06.320 up one side of the aisle.
00:13:09.080 And so I do also believe that you, while I understand the light and the darkness side,
00:13:16.640 and like the people there, gosh, the conservative Christians I know in those states are just so
00:13:21.040 strong.
00:13:21.620 They're so solid that I get it.
00:13:23.700 Like, I'm like, I want you to stay there.
00:13:25.720 Part of me wants you to stay there.
00:13:26.960 But also, I do think for some families, you have to be realistic.
00:13:31.040 You have to be realistic about what your role is.
00:13:33.860 Like, what is your primary role?
00:13:35.220 Is it to change the direction of your state?
00:13:37.080 Or is it to steward your resources well and your parenting responsibility well?
00:13:43.240 Some people have been able to homeschool and send their kids to a solid, you know, church-based
00:13:49.280 biblical Christian school in some of these blue states, but some people don't have that
00:13:53.960 option.
00:13:54.500 And so if you have the option of going to a school in Oregon or Washington or Massachusetts
00:14:01.220 or something like that, where they are literally telling your kindergartner that they can be any
00:14:06.060 gender they want to be, where you can't even defend yourself in places like New York for 0.99
00:14:11.940 fear of going to prison over that, and you feel like you really have to protect your family,
00:14:19.380 do what is best for your family, especially you men, you husbands out there, thinking about
00:14:23.380 how to lead your family well.
00:14:24.840 How do you love your wife as Christ loved the church?
00:14:28.120 How do you make sure that you are caring for your children in the most responsible and
00:14:32.060 godliest way possible?
00:14:34.040 Like, I understand also why you would want to leave, because your primary responsibility
00:14:38.760 is not to change the direction of the state.
00:14:41.000 Your primary responsibility is to be a godly and strong husband and dad.
00:14:45.660 So I can't tell you that it looks one way, as in that means leaving, or that means staying.
00:14:52.780 If it were up to me, like if my husband and I were in that situation, we would move.
00:14:58.640 We would move, because it's just not an environment I want to be around.
00:15:04.520 I don't want to pay tax dollars in a state that is becoming a refuge for kids who want 0.97
00:15:10.740 to leave their homes so they can switch sex. 1.00
00:15:13.580 I don't want to pay tax dollars to a state that is going to be a sanctuary for killing your
00:15:21.600 baby through nine months.
00:15:22.780 So I will say that it is not wrong to be protective of your family, to put the priorities and needs
00:15:30.240 and safety and security of your family and your family's well-being before the future
00:15:36.940 of a state.
00:15:38.280 I don't think that that's wrong.
00:15:40.140 I don't think that that's selfish in the bad sense.
00:15:44.300 You have been given your family to steward.
00:15:47.400 It is okay to love your family more than you love some other family.
00:15:50.900 It's okay to love your family more than you love your state.
00:15:54.920 That's okay.
00:15:56.300 It's I understand you've got a calling, you've got a responsibility to stay somewhere.
00:15:59.680 Like I support you, more power to you.
00:16:02.620 Thank God for you.
00:16:04.120 But I don't think that you should feel guilty for moving your family where is best for them,
00:16:09.080 where you can best steward your resources and best protect them and raise them in a godly
00:16:13.800 way.
00:16:20.900 Code Alley.
00:16:30.260 Let's see.
00:16:31.400 Next question.
00:16:32.580 What's my favorite TV show?
00:16:35.680 Oh, I'm going to be boring and say The Office.
00:16:38.940 I mean, my husband and I like TV.
00:16:41.300 We don't watch like a bunch of TV or a bunch of new TV.
00:16:44.260 Sometimes we'll get into a new series or a series at least that's new for us.
00:16:48.420 Because I've seen most of the classic TV series, we like TV, we like culture, we like the cinema,
00:16:55.260 we like these things.
00:16:56.840 And so we do try to watch things that people are talking about as long as they're good.
00:17:01.900 I don't waste my time.
00:17:03.140 I won't like finish a series just to finish it.
00:17:05.360 If it's not good, then I won't finish it.
00:17:07.280 But just overall ranking, I would say The Office, it reminds us of a better time when humor was
00:17:13.160 actually funny and you could make fun of things and make fun of people.
00:17:16.940 And I think we actually all got along way better when we all didn't take ourselves and
00:17:21.300 our stated identities so seriously.
00:17:24.120 And it's just it literally as many times as I've seen every episode of The Office, it can
00:17:28.800 still make me literally laugh out loud.
00:17:31.960 We also like Parks and Rec.
00:17:33.300 I did not like Parks and Rec at first because it's so hokey and cheesy compared to The Office.
00:17:38.080 But the storylines and the characters, I would say, are like more lovable and more, I don't
00:17:45.120 know, just more fun.
00:17:46.360 And you can get into them a little bit more than The Office.
00:17:49.020 We also went through like a big Curb Your Enthusiasm stage.
00:17:52.380 Which I'm not like touting the morality of Larry David, but we also laughed out loud a
00:18:01.040 lot at that series, watched all those episodes.
00:18:04.200 But then also, and I would not recommend this, I would say I actually regret watching this
00:18:08.760 series, but it is understandable why it is so incredibly popular, why it has gotten as
00:18:14.960 many accolades as it has, why it like has the place in our culture that it does.
00:18:18.080 And that's The Sopranos. 0.99
00:18:19.040 And I regret it because it was so dark and so violent, kind of like House of Cards.
00:18:25.120 We watched House of Cards when we first got married, too.
00:18:27.200 Like, there's just nothing really redemptive about it.
00:18:30.060 Now, I guess I'm glad that I like understand cultural references that include like The Sopranos
00:18:35.540 in it.
00:18:35.840 But it's, it was so, I remember just being like fearful and sad during that time in my
00:18:41.160 life.
00:18:41.420 This was before I had kids.
00:18:42.740 When I was watching it, like every night before I would go to bed and I was like, this
00:18:47.380 is so evil.
00:18:48.120 So I wouldn't, this, there's nothing like lovely or pure about The Sopranos, but it's
00:18:52.260 good.
00:18:52.740 Like, I enjoyed it in that way.
00:18:55.160 But I haven't watched anything dark and violent since then, since, I don't know, probably five
00:18:59.260 years, just because I'm like, wow.
00:19:01.120 Well, that's not true.
00:19:02.600 I've probably watched a couple things.
00:19:04.420 But after I do, I always regret it.
00:19:06.820 Like, I always regret watching series that just make me sad and scared.
00:19:10.040 And I think the Lord does want to protect us from that.
00:19:12.440 So I should be more consistently disciplined on that kind of thing.
00:19:18.300 Let's see.
00:19:19.300 Favorite jewelry brands.
00:19:20.540 Well, hey, of course, Range Leather.
00:19:22.380 They advertise on this podcast.
00:19:23.700 They've got a lot of great jewelry.
00:19:25.360 I think I've got a promo code or something, Allie, that'll get you a discount.
00:19:29.140 I'm not really, other than that, though, I'm not really a jewelry gal.
00:19:32.420 I'm not really a jewelry gal.
00:19:33.780 I don't, like, I'm not really into big designers.
00:19:38.320 I don't like a lot of jewelry.
00:19:39.640 I like really simple gold jewelry.
00:19:41.540 I, and I like classic style.
00:19:43.420 Like, I love my wedding ring or my engagement ring and my wedding ring that I got, you know,
00:19:49.420 however many years ago it was that I got engaged, I guess, eight years at this point.
00:19:54.180 And I still love it because I just love classic stuff that you can love and wear forever.
00:19:59.940 And so I'm just not really, not really a necklace or earring girl.
00:20:05.640 I do have my simple earrings on.
00:20:06.940 I think these were, I got them at, like, a $10 gift exchange a few years ago at a Christmas party.
00:20:13.180 So, sorry, I don't really have a whole lot of, a whole lot of help for you there.
00:20:19.240 Let's see.
00:20:24.640 Christian flirting advice. 0.56
00:20:27.400 Winky face.
00:20:28.240 Christian flirting advice. 0.56
00:20:31.260 Hmm, hmm, hmm.
00:20:32.520 I've been out of the game for a while.
00:20:34.360 So let me think back.
00:20:35.940 I did do my fair share of flirting.
00:20:39.260 That's how I reeled in my husband because he's on the quieter side and I am on the more verbose
00:20:45.900 side and the more outgoing side.
00:20:48.920 And so to some people, and this is not me tooting my own horn because this is just me saying
00:20:54.320 how it was when I met my husband and all of that.
00:20:56.360 For some people, especially the, like, gregarious kind of people that are social and outgoing,
00:21:01.020 it comes easy.
00:21:02.140 It comes more easily for us.
00:21:04.040 I don't have to, like, I still don't have to think about, ooh, what do I talk about with
00:21:07.640 this person?
00:21:08.140 This is so awkward.
00:21:09.340 I always, I, it's, I always just, I am genuinely curious about people.
00:21:14.140 And so I ask questions about them.
00:21:15.700 And if you are attracted to someone, like I was my husband, then that can turn into, like,
00:21:21.160 a healthy form of flirtation.
00:21:23.100 I think we think of flirtation as like this, we're trying to get someone to lust after us
00:21:27.680 or we're trying to get someone to look at us or think of us in, you know, some kind
00:21:31.460 of inappropriate way.
00:21:33.480 And while it can be that, that's not effective Christian flirting.
00:21:37.060 I think the best way in my experience to flirt with someone in a way that is, you know, good
00:21:44.860 and virtuous in all of these things is to express interest in their life.
00:21:48.660 Genuine interest.
00:21:49.980 Ask them questions.
00:21:51.100 People love, everyone loves to talk about themselves.
00:21:54.860 They like, usually, to talk about their family.
00:21:57.800 They like to talk about their interests.
00:21:59.900 Be genuinely curious about the things that they love, about the things that they're curious
00:22:04.360 about.
00:22:04.800 You don't have to pepper them with questions because I have also been in that experience
00:22:09.180 where, not in a flirting way, but where the other person, it usually happens when the other
00:22:14.720 person is in, like, ministry or counseling or something.
00:22:17.580 You're trying to talk to them and they, like, don't even let you finish your answer before
00:22:21.660 they ask you the next question.
00:22:23.280 That can be annoying and it kind of feels like they're not even seeing you.
00:22:26.380 They're just, this is just what they do.
00:22:28.200 So I'm not talking about an interrogation, the fifth degree or anything like that.
00:22:32.280 But a conversation that starts with genuine curiosity and encouragement.
00:22:37.700 And people like to be built up in a real way.
00:22:40.980 So if he tells you, you know, I really like such and such book saying, wow, that's so cool
00:22:49.200 that you like that genre or whatever.
00:22:52.400 I'm going to check that out.
00:22:53.600 That is one great thing that you can do.
00:22:56.600 Now, back in the day, I'm going to age myself here.
00:23:01.100 I'm an old, an old millennial at the age of 31.
00:23:05.740 When there was my husband, when I, so when he would say, like, what kind of music he likes
00:23:13.480 and I would talk about what kind of music I like.
00:23:15.920 I burned a CD.
00:23:17.780 Whoa.
00:23:18.360 Do we even have CD players anymore?
00:23:20.220 I don't know.
00:23:20.900 I think most cars don't even come with CD players anymore, but I burned him a CD and
00:23:26.240 we would listen to that and it had like third eye blind on there.
00:23:29.540 It had like some nostalgic stuff, like a dashboard confessional and things.
00:23:33.440 And we would like sing to that in the car.
00:23:36.420 That's how my husband, my husband and I met working out at a gym, not like a lifetime fitness.
00:23:41.800 It was like a smaller boutique kind of CrossFit type place.
00:23:44.600 And we met there and we just started talking.
00:23:47.740 We were in the same classes together.
00:23:48.940 I'm sure that we thought that the other one was cute and we started chatting.
00:23:52.360 And then we just spent like weeks chatting outside, like standing up outside, like in
00:23:58.280 the parking lot until from like 630 when the workout class would end until like 1030 at
00:24:03.420 night, skipping dinner.
00:24:04.480 And we would just talk and talk and talk.
00:24:05.940 And I just knew that I was going to marry him.
00:24:08.380 I knew it like a week into it.
00:24:10.100 I just clicked with him and what everyone always said, like when you know, you know,
00:24:15.520 finally made sense to me before it did it.
00:24:18.700 It didn't make any sense because I just I didn't understand that feeling that when I
00:24:23.100 met my husband, I was like, oh, that's actually true.
00:24:24.980 When you know, you know, I just feel it in my bones.
00:24:27.940 And it was true. 0.94
00:24:29.100 And so but that was how I flirted.
00:24:31.800 Like we didn't even go on a date there for a little while.
00:24:33.900 We would just talk.
00:24:34.740 We didn't text or things like that.
00:24:36.540 We would just talk at the gym and it was just expressing interest in one another.
00:24:40.900 And if he liked something, I would, you know, go read that book or listen to that music or
00:24:46.140 watch that show and then go back and talk to him about it.
00:24:49.280 I remember my smoothest move was remembering his birthday when he had barely mentioned it.
00:24:55.540 And I knew that I was going to see him that day at the gym.
00:24:58.680 And I wished him happy 24th birthday on Monday, October 19th of 2014.
00:25:05.260 And I was like, he's so impressed that I remembered his birthday.
00:25:08.520 And he was and he was like, wow, I'm going to wife her up and she's going to have my 1.00
00:25:12.680 babies one day.
00:25:13.360 And here we go.
00:25:14.380 Here we are.
00:25:15.120 So that's the best advice that I can give.
00:25:17.760 Express interest in them, genuine interest, and then take out the interest that they have
00:25:21.520 and show your interest in that.
00:25:23.180 It should be reciprocal, too.
00:25:24.700 You shouldn't feel like you're the only one doing that.
00:25:26.720 If you're the only one expressing curiosity, then he's probably got an ego problem.
00:25:31.520 He might not even be interested in you.
00:25:32.900 He just wants the affirmation.
00:25:34.340 That ain't it.
00:25:47.060 Are Christian prophets false teachers?
00:25:52.840 Some.
00:25:53.860 Some are.
00:25:54.700 It depends on what you mean by prophet.
00:25:56.220 A prophet can be someone who just speaks the word of God and is able to decipher how the
00:26:04.600 word of God uniquely applies to current circumstances or modernity.
00:26:10.920 God has given him the gift of communication, of persuasiveness, of discernment, of insightfulness.
00:26:16.920 So that is forth telling prophecy.
00:26:20.400 So someone who understands the word of God in a very wise way and applicable way, they're basing
00:26:26.380 everything that they say and see on the word of God.
00:26:30.520 So they can have a gift of prophecy.
00:26:32.500 They have a gift of forth telling, of telling you what the word of God says as it pertains
00:26:38.500 to this modern culture.
00:26:39.580 There are a lot of pastors and preachers like that today.
00:26:41.500 And so then there are foretelling prophets.
00:26:45.060 And that is, I predict that this thing will happen.
00:26:48.320 I think you have to be really careful about the foretelling prophets.
00:26:53.040 Because look, if their prophecy does not come true, if they say this thing, which I saw this
00:26:59.140 a lot during COVID, right?
00:27:00.520 You probably saw this too.
00:27:01.560 This thing is going to happen in September.
00:27:03.820 I remember there was this one that was going around.
00:27:05.680 Oh, I saw this army and this army.
00:27:07.860 This is going to happen in September.
00:27:09.120 And I'm already, I'm just naturally skeptical of that kind of stuff.
00:27:12.980 But I was like, oh, I could kind of see that happening.
00:27:15.440 Russia and China and blah, blah, blah.
00:27:16.680 I'm like piecing it together.
00:27:17.700 Well, it didn't happen.
00:27:19.020 If that person then says, oh, sorry, sorry, I was wrong.
00:27:22.040 I really meant November.
00:27:23.700 This reminds me of Parks and Rec episode.
00:27:25.400 There's this guy that does the same thing.
00:27:26.700 But anyway, that person is not a prophet of God.
00:27:30.380 They're not.
00:27:31.060 Because a prophet of God is not wrong.
00:27:33.440 Uh, first of all, they're basing their prophets or they're basing their prophecies on what
00:27:38.100 we already know about scripture.
00:27:40.300 And if their prophecy is from God, God is not going to be like September.
00:27:44.040 Oh, I meant October.
00:27:45.620 That's, that's not how it works.
00:27:47.640 A foretelling prophecy, if it is from God, will come true.
00:27:52.280 I won't say that that can never, ever happen.
00:27:55.520 I will say it is very, very rare.
00:27:57.720 There is money to be made.
00:27:59.140 There is attention to be gained.
00:28:00.660 There are cliques to be garnered from the so-called foretelling prophets that are telling
00:28:05.720 you based on current events, not even based on scripture, what they think will happen.
00:28:10.760 If part of their prophecy comes true, but the rest of it doesn't, it's not of God.
00:28:15.000 So yeah, I do think that a lot of them are false prophets.
00:28:19.140 And, um, I think that we have to be really, really careful about that as tempting as it
00:28:25.040 can be to believe them.
00:28:27.100 Now there's a difference in predicting the future and saying, like, I probably do that
00:28:31.100 on this podcast.
00:28:32.080 I don't know what's going to happen, but I could see it going this direction, or I bet
00:28:36.300 this is going to happen, or this is how I think the election is going to play out.
00:28:39.780 Of course.
00:28:40.280 I mean, people do that.
00:28:41.460 You're, it's deductive reasoning.
00:28:43.340 It's, you know, discernment based on what you see now.
00:28:46.380 But people who say this is from God, I had a vision.
00:28:49.480 I had a dream.
00:28:50.360 I had a word come to me that this is going to happen.
00:28:53.840 Be very, very, very careful about that.
00:28:56.940 Because like I said, there's a lot of money to be made from that.
00:29:01.380 So here's what second Peter two says about false prophets, but false prophets also arose
00:29:07.820 among the people.
00:29:08.720 This is verse one, just as there will be false teachers among you who will secretly bring
00:29:13.140 in destructive heresies.
00:29:15.260 Wow.
00:29:15.760 We've seen that.
00:29:16.540 We have seen the frog in the kettle, and it slowly is boiling, and the frog doesn't
00:29:25.080 realize it and never jumps out and dies.
00:29:27.340 That happens with the destructive heresies that enter into our churches, whether it's
00:29:31.760 social justice or LGBTQ, whatever, or prosperity gospel.
00:29:36.580 We'll secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the master who brought them.
00:29:41.580 That master is capitalized, bringing upon themselves swift destruction, and many will follow their
00:29:46.160 sensuality.
00:29:47.400 And because of them, the way of truth will be blasphemed and in their greed.
00:29:51.140 So there's money to be made.
00:29:52.400 They will exploit you with false words.
00:29:54.680 Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
00:30:00.200 I would read that entire chapter if you can.
00:30:04.820 So false prophets, again, there is greed behind it.
00:30:07.980 There is basically just doing the will of Satan behind it, too.
00:30:13.840 And so we have this blessing, this immense privilege of having the Word of God in front
00:30:19.680 of us.
00:30:20.580 So if you want to know what's going to happen, if you want to know whether something is true,
00:30:25.760 go to the Word of God.
00:30:26.740 There are plenty of prophecies outlined there.
00:30:29.200 And thankfully, ultimately, we know one thing, that God is going to win.
00:30:32.660 That one day there will be no more sin.
00:30:34.280 There will be no more deceit.
00:30:35.320 There will be no more sorrow.
00:30:36.260 There will be no more sickness, that Jesus will rule in totality and perfect peace.
00:30:43.200 And so I think a lot of times these prophecies can just give us a lot of anxiety.
00:30:47.820 There's nothing that we can do to save them or prevent them.
00:30:51.460 People may even use them to try to get you to vote a certain way.
00:30:54.400 Look, we should vote.
00:30:55.620 And there's a reason to vote, you know, a particular way.
00:30:59.180 You know, I believe that.
00:31:00.180 But it shouldn't be based on these anxiety-inducing prophecies that basically call into question
00:31:07.020 whether or not God is really in control and puts this false prophet in the place of authority.
00:31:12.760 And then, of course, you give them your time, your money, and your clicks.
00:31:15.520 Just don't do it.
00:31:16.320 Be very, very careful.
00:31:17.540 Go to the Word of God if you want to know what His will is.
00:31:20.840 All right.
00:31:21.280 That's all I got time for today.
00:31:22.480 We will see you back here soon.
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