The NXR Podcast - February 22, 2025


THE FRIDAY SPECIAL - Zionism, Modern Israel, & “The Divine Council” w Isker @BonifaceOption


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In this episode, Beth and Jenna talk about the role of angels and gods in the creation of the world. They discuss the role played by angels and the role they played in providing guidance to the original creators of the earth.

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00:00:26.800 It is this impulse that Paul speaks to at the start of this chapter.
00:00:31.980 Israel, and in fact, all of humanity, was in slavery in the old creation.
00:00:37.940 Mankind was under guardians and stewards. 0.76
00:00:41.300 Who were they?
00:00:42.240 The answer has already been given by Paul in Galatians chapter 3, verse 19.
00:00:47.440 The law was appointed through angels.
00:00:50.260 And then again later in Galatians 4, verse 8, 0.97
00:00:53.060 Paul points out that the Gentiles worship what are by nature not gods. 0.93
00:00:59.160 In 1 Corinthians 10, verses 19-22, the Gentile pagan worship was worship of demons. 0.93
00:01:07.420 The babelic old creation was one in which humanity was subject to the heavenly host. 0.97
00:01:13.340 And Christ has redeemed both Jew and Gentile from this slavery. 0.98
00:01:18.440 The elementary principles of the world of Galatians 4.3 0.69
00:01:22.300 is this social, political, and religious order. 0.89
00:01:26.560 Israel's, of course, was different. 0.76
00:01:28.880 The law was divinely given and good and righteous, 0.92
00:01:32.840 but it was unable and never intended
00:01:35.820 to redeem humanity from this bondage.
00:01:38.660 Only Christ could do this,
00:01:41.300 which leads Paul directly to Galatians 4.4,
00:01:44.360 that the time was finally fulfilled
00:01:46.300 and the father sent forth the son to be born of a woman,
00:01:49.660 fully man, and born under the law
00:01:51.720 within the elementary principles of the world
00:01:54.120 to redeem those under the law
00:01:56.200 and to make them heirs of the world with him.
00:02:16.300 So this episode is a fan favorite, right?
00:02:26.820 Gets into a little bit of my forte with the unhinged Fortean type stuff. 0.85
00:02:32.760 But it's, of course, biblically true.
00:02:35.540 Yeah, so we're going to talk about giants.
00:02:36.920 Yeah, we're going to talk about giants.
00:02:38.260 Yeah, we're going to talk about the divine counsel and gods, lowercase g, gods.
00:02:44.040 once. I think it's helpful, and you feel free to respond to this, but I think it's helpful to
00:02:52.020 understand that in one sense, you know, Paul says, you know, to the Corinthians that idols are no
00:02:57.620 gods at all. And that one of the reasons you can actually eat meat under the new covenant that has
00:03:03.440 been sacrificed to idols, that the Christians could have liberty and a clarity of conscience
00:03:09.700 and eating meat that had been sacrificed to the idols
00:03:11.980 is because one of the arguments Paul makes
00:03:14.520 is because idols are no gods at all.
00:03:16.460 And yet at the same time, they were, right?
00:03:20.580 There were other gods and some of these gods,
00:03:23.940 so it's like the sons of God,
00:03:25.960 Job chapter one and chapter two,
00:03:28.160 you see this, that God is seated
00:03:30.400 and he's surrounded by the sons of God.
00:03:33.640 These are angels.
00:03:34.800 Yeah, Deuteronomy 32.
00:03:36.040 Right, yeah, there are multiple places in scripture.
00:03:38.080 And then, you know, Satan is among them.
00:03:40.700 You know, from where have you come from?
00:03:42.100 Walking to and fro over the face of the earth.
00:03:44.180 And so, there are other gods.
00:03:46.260 And angels, comparatively, like if a man were to encounter, I mean, what are all the reactions that we see?
00:03:52.340 Whether it's Joshua, like, I mean, they fall prostrate.
00:03:55.820 They're in fear and trembling.
00:03:57.240 Yeah.
00:03:57.680 That's the human instinct, you know.
00:04:00.060 And the good angels that serve the Lord have to stop them from committing idolatry.
00:04:06.400 Don't worship me.
00:04:07.080 Yeah, don't fear.
00:04:08.500 I'm just a messenger.
00:04:10.020 That's when an angel says, do not fear, have no fear.
00:04:15.240 It's not just, hey, don't be afraid and scared.
00:04:18.760 Yeah, calm down.
00:04:19.460 It's okay.
00:04:20.160 Yeah, he's saying, do not fear me like you fear the Lord.
00:04:24.400 That's right.
00:04:24.740 Don't revere me.
00:04:25.500 Don't worship me.
00:04:26.500 And so this divine counsel, this idea of there being multiple gods,
00:04:31.960 only one God who's the creator, who is forever to be praised, amen,
00:04:36.860 Then the God who created ex nihilo out of nothing, who created all these other gods, lowercase g, gods.
00:04:44.140 But there is biblical language for the sons of God.
00:04:47.720 And some of these sons of God, a.k.a. angels, rebelled against the one true God.
00:04:55.700 And these fallen gods then, these fallen angels, where did they fall?
00:05:02.120 To the earth.
00:05:03.080 Yeah.
00:05:03.400 And who did they rule over?
00:05:04.940 and that is the ancient world. The ancient world is that you have Yahweh who is, you know, 0.89
00:05:13.500 and you could even argue Christ, that God the Father designated portions of the world to 0.88
00:05:19.220 different angels, sons of God, but he had one capital S son of God, Christ, and he gave to him,
00:05:26.780 his portion was this tiny little person, Abraham. And that one was given to Jesus.
00:05:33.900 And this land, right, that's God's land, and that's where his sanctuary is, and the rest is given to other sons of God, fallen sons of God who become demons.
00:05:44.380 That is the context, the spiritual climate of the ancient world before the incarnation of Christ.
00:05:51.380 And you see this in ancient literature, right?
00:05:56.220 You look at, I mean, I think you look at descriptions of like the Peloponnesian War and Athens and Sparta are fighting.
00:06:05.420 And how are they determining?
00:06:06.400 Like, okay, when are we going to, you know, they have their strategy meeting, their Pentagon meeting.
00:06:10.160 Like, when are we going to attack?
00:06:11.860 Right.
00:06:12.280 Well, let's sacrifice a bull and look at the entrails. 0.52
00:06:15.060 And they did it.
00:06:16.060 And they're like, all right, we attack at dawn.
00:06:17.780 Right. 0.97
00:06:18.140 It isn't because, oh, these are just superstitious people that have these rights and they're just really dumb because they're ancient people and we're so smart because we're modern. 0.87
00:06:28.120 No, they really did believe this because it really did work. 0.93
00:06:31.440 Demons had power.
00:06:32.740 They really were gods and it's not just nations at war, but those gods were at war. 0.97
00:06:36.040 If you look at Greek gods, Roman gods, if you look at these things and you say, oh, that's so silly. 1.00
00:06:43.180 They're so dumb. 0.98
00:06:44.060 Yeah, because these gods, they have incredible power, but they can't actually be true because 1.00
00:06:49.900 look at how petty they are. They're not virtuous. But in the biblical narrative, there were
00:06:55.680 lowercase g gods, the sons of gods, angels, and we're talking about fallen angels.
00:06:59.840 That are rebellious.
00:07:00.680 That were rebellious and at war, not just with God, but these are fallen angels. They're
00:07:04.620 rebellious, and so they're petty. They're at war with one another. This fallen angel,
00:07:08.880 and think about that even from the book of Daniel, right? The angel is held up by the
00:07:13.960 prince of persia he's not talking about a man a human prince no he's talking about an angelic
00:07:18.340 fallen angel over that is regional over that area that principality principality is like a region
00:07:25.120 prince is the ruler so there's a spiritual angelic ruler over a principality like um like a province
00:07:32.000 you know and and he holds him up he's fallen and and these spiritual rulers are not just at war
00:07:38.340 with the sons of men but with each other yeah they're warring against each other and this is
00:07:42.740 the ancient world. Yeah, I mean, you see this as well in the book of Exodus, right? Moses and Aaron
00:07:49.660 go to the court of Pharaoh, and they perform these signs, right? His staff turns into a dragon.
00:07:55.600 Just sleight of hand. Yeah, it's just David Copperfield, right? Yeah, smoke and mirrors.
00:08:00.240 And what do the priests, the sorcerers of their pagan, you know, demon gods do? They do real magic.
00:08:07.480 They do the same things, right? At least at first. And with the first few plagues,
00:08:11.020 They are able to mimic them and copy them.
00:08:13.800 They have real power that they're given from their gods.
00:08:18.120 And it's also interesting that the plagues of Egypt, right, all correspond to the gods of Egypt.
00:08:25.100 With one of their gods. 0.95
00:08:26.340 One of their false gods.
00:08:26.800 Each one of them.
00:08:27.600 Yeah.
00:08:27.740 Exactly.
00:08:28.300 What a coincidence, huh?
00:08:29.560 Yeah, the river, you know, the Nile River, the river god, or the sun god, Ra, or all these different gods.
00:08:35.700 The frog god is this deity.
00:08:38.400 Yeah, the Haunted Cosmos guys talk about this.
00:08:42.580 I thought it was so good.
00:08:43.060 Ben Garrett had that insight of just saying that the magicians, these demonic priests, priestess,
00:08:53.000 they were able to one-for-one kind of ratio and keep up with Moses.
00:08:57.760 They couldn't undo them, though.
00:08:59.120 They couldn't undo them, but they could perform the same signs until it gets to the third one.
00:09:04.020 But the third one, this frog fertility deity, fertility god,
00:09:11.000 also happened to be the god of magic, divine power and magic.
00:09:16.340 And now it stops.
00:09:17.240 And so as soon as Moses, god through Moses,
00:09:20.980 defeats that particular god of Egypt,
00:09:23.260 then the magicians can't perform anymore.
00:09:25.940 The magic stops.
00:09:26.940 Yeah.
00:09:27.820 Because it's real.
00:09:29.680 Yeah.
00:09:29.980 And you see this too.
00:09:31.160 These things are real.
00:09:31.980 These guys who come and see this star in the sign in the heavens, and they come from the east to see Jesus.
00:09:41.900 What are they called?
00:09:43.040 They're magi.
00:09:44.240 They're magicians from the east that see this sign.
00:09:48.340 From the Orient.
00:09:49.380 Yeah. 0.53
00:09:49.780 And so, what are they?
00:09:51.800 Well, they're pagan priests, pagan sorcerers that come and they pay homage to Jesus.
00:09:59.160 It's funny.
00:09:59.900 It's like, well, you wouldn't think the demons would want them to do it, but they did anyway, right?
00:10:05.520 But nevertheless, like the Bible describes a world that is not materialistic.
00:10:11.320 It's not this like post-enlightenment world that's just rational and scientific.
00:10:15.720 It is a world where there are demon gods with power.
00:10:20.780 And it's all throughout the pages of scripture.
00:10:22.960 And so when Paul is talking about elementary principles of the world,
00:10:27.100 that's what the world is under, this old creation.
00:10:28.960 right after babel right right this this world and you see it too in exodus and or in genesis and
00:10:35.840 exodus um they have the egyptians have laws of clean and unclean right and it's it's funny 0.92
00:10:41.900 because they're almost the opposite right what's the unclean animal to the egyptians it's sheep 0.98
00:10:46.420 right so that's why they had to go to goshen like oh you guys go over there to goshen stay away from
00:10:50.900 us because sheep are disgusting to us we don't want them they're unclean animals so you go over
00:10:56.100 there sheep just for the record they are disgusting they are they are they're really
00:11:01.720 gross uh but according to god's law right these are clean animals right right and and for the
00:11:07.920 reason why they they have cloven hooves they're not on the cursed ground right they have you know
00:11:12.600 shoes right and they they chew the cut they they there are something that points to uh what god
00:11:20.080 wants for his people he wants us to um he wants us to be clean not not trotting the the unclean
00:11:26.160 earth and he wants us to chew his and meditate upon his word um and he's very puritan of you 0.58
00:11:31.740 yeah that's what uh bunion yeah but they're right he's right yeah they're right he's like what does
00:11:35.920 it mean you know as he's exegeting you know leviticus like and what does it mean that it
00:11:39.760 chews the cud but did it choose on the gospel truth meditating on it day and night and bunion
00:11:44.600 had it right, man. And you look at the four categories, too, of animals that you have in 0.91
00:11:50.820 Leviticus. It's fascinating because it's set within this old creation world. There's four
00:11:57.260 different kinds. There's clean domesticated animals. There's clean wild animals. There's
00:12:05.080 unclean domesticated animals, pigs. And there are unclean wild animals. Well, what are those?
00:12:10.000 Well, the clean, domesticated animals, those are faithful Israelites. 0.98
00:12:15.020 The clean, wild animals, those are God-fearing Gentiles. 0.99
00:12:18.620 The unclean, domesticated animals, why are pigs so bad in Israel? 1.00
00:12:23.160 It's not talking about Gentiles, even though Gentiles eat them. 1.00
00:12:26.540 For you to be a pig, to be like a pig in Israel, means that you're an apostate. 0.99
00:12:31.620 That you are violating the law of God. 0.99
00:12:33.380 You're part of Israel in terms of the old covenant, but you actually don't have faith. 0.72
00:12:37.540 Yeah, you're circumcised without faith. 0.63
00:12:38.800 Right. 0.87
00:12:39.000 Yeah, and that man, that pairs so nicely with Jesus saying, don't throw pearls.
00:12:43.520 Cast your pearls among the swine. 0.99
00:12:44.500 Before swine, meaning Gentiles who don't believe. 0.99
00:12:47.240 No, meaning you, religious rulers in Israel who have rejected me.
00:12:52.600 When you see, like if you're going to make like an anthropomorphic cartoon of the Pharisees, right? 0.99
00:12:57.980 They should all be pigs. 1.00
00:12:58.900 They should all be pigs. 1.00
00:13:00.440 Right. 0.99
00:13:01.260 And so these are the categories that exist in the world that God has set up.
00:13:06.640 And all throughout this, despite the influence of demons and their demon gods like Baal and Molech and so forth, 0.93
00:13:13.620 there are Gentiles that come to worship the true God. 1.00
00:13:17.260 Because knowledge of God comes from what? 1.00
00:13:20.920 From Adam down to Noah and to the Gentiles.
00:13:26.640 Jethro is a priest of God. 1.00
00:13:28.980 He's a Gentile. 1.00
00:13:30.480 You have Melchizedek, who is a priest of God, who's a Gentile. 1.00
00:13:33.560 The priest and king of Salem. 1.00
00:13:37.100 There was something in the Old Covenant,
00:13:38.900 and this is a point that Jim Jordan has made,
00:13:41.460 and I think he's right about it,
00:13:43.040 that Psalm 19, the heavens declare the glory of God
00:13:47.140 and the firmament is handiwork.
00:13:49.320 They're able to read the stars and the constellations
00:13:53.660 and the zodiac and be able to understand truths about God
00:13:56.660 that we can't anymore.
00:13:59.060 That I think was clear for them and not as clear.
00:14:01.480 Yeah, I think it's less clear for us now
00:14:02.960 because you see the stars at night and now it's daytime.
00:14:09.480 Everything is revealed now via the sun.
00:14:12.420 That's so good.
00:14:13.200 I like that.
00:14:13.780 So now it's like because it's daytime, because the sun has come.
00:14:17.960 The sun has risen.
00:14:18.800 Dawn has come. 0.99
00:14:20.660 The S-O-N sun has risen. 1.00
00:14:23.760 That's Psalm 19 though. 0.88
00:14:24.500 The sun, he's set a chamber for the sun and it pursues its course and so forth.
00:14:30.720 And so here we are now.
00:14:32.060 The spiritual revelation and the stars are quieter, more dim, still there.
00:14:36.820 And you see this. 1.00
00:14:37.840 But that's all the Gentile nations had. 1.00
00:14:40.180 Yeah, yeah, for the most part. 1.00
00:14:41.760 Or tradition that's carried on from Noah onwards, right?
00:14:45.680 Knowledge of God.
00:14:45.780 When you think about Athens, like pre-Christ, it's like, how were they so sophisticated?
00:14:53.080 How were they so…
00:14:54.280 How was Aristotle able to know the things he was able to know?
00:14:56.780 And to me, there's only one of two possible answers or a combination of both.
00:15:02.760 I think it's that.
00:15:03.740 One is that they had Moses.
00:15:05.460 Yeah.
00:15:06.020 That Plato had Moses.
00:15:07.320 Yeah.
00:15:07.720 That's a thesis that people…
00:15:08.880 And I think that's very possible.
00:15:10.500 It's not that far away.
00:15:11.760 It's not that crazy.
00:15:12.400 There was trade between Phoenicia and Greece.
00:15:15.460 Right.
00:15:15.660 Right.
00:15:16.080 So, one is that Plato had Moses.
00:15:20.160 He had the Pentateuch.
00:15:21.220 Yeah.
00:15:21.480 Actually had some special revelation.
00:15:22.900 But two is that they were particularly good at reading the first book of natural revelation and that the stars spoke and the skies and the world and these angelic, they spoke louder than they do today and the Greeks were particularly perceptive.
00:15:40.940 And just look at…
00:15:41.940 And listening.
00:15:42.780 If people are listening, these guys are just talking about some weird stuff.
00:15:46.400 It's not that weird.
00:15:47.040 No, it's not.
00:15:47.920 Not for my channel.
00:15:49.820 But look at…
00:15:50.920 He's not talking about mermaids?
00:15:52.280 This is just capital orthodoxy.
00:15:55.080 You look at the end of Genesis, the blessings that Jacob gives to his sons, they all follow along the line of the constellations.
00:16:08.600 You look at how Israel is ordered in the wilderness, three tribes on either side of the tabernacle.
00:16:18.100 Those all follow the pattern of the constellations.
00:16:20.900 You see this in Revelation as well, right?
00:16:24.440 That the Zodiac like plays a role. 0.99
00:16:27.260 Even in first century synagogues, right? 0.99
00:16:29.700 They uncover the mosaics on the floor. 0.95
00:16:31.840 And what do they find, right?
00:16:33.160 They find the 12 signs of the Zodiac, right?
00:16:35.740 Because they correspond with the 12 tribes of Israel, right?
00:16:38.840 There's this correspondence between the handiwork of the firmament
00:16:41.980 and the general revelation or the special revelation rather of God
00:16:49.160 and the order that he's placed in the world.
00:16:50.900 That when God tells Abraham that his people, his descendants will be like the stars of the sky, that has meaning.
00:17:05.200 Because in Genesis 1 and the fourth day of creation, what's created that day?
00:17:15.680 It's the sun, the moon, and the stars, the heavenly host.
00:17:18.240 and they're given governance over time and seasons,
00:17:23.080 well, that's the heavenly host that's created on that day.
00:17:29.220 And so for God to say, your descendants, your seed is going to be like the stars of the sky.
00:17:34.740 It's not just in terms of numerically,
00:17:36.620 because we get the numeric amount from the sand of the sea.
00:17:39.560 They're going to be like the stars of the sky.
00:17:42.860 They're going to be placed in the firmament.
00:17:45.620 They're going to be like angels.
00:17:47.500 Seated in heavenly places.
00:17:49.420 Yeah, yeah.
00:17:50.260 They are going to be.
00:17:51.080 With the son Christ.
00:17:51.900 And what are prophets throughout the old covenant?
00:17:56.420 They're members of this divine council.
00:17:57.920 They go up to God and they deliberate with him.
00:17:59.860 You see Abraham do this, right?
00:18:01.320 He's bargaining with God saying,
00:18:03.340 what about 50 righteous, 40, right?
00:18:05.460 He's deliberating with God
00:18:06.880 as though he's a member of the divine council, right?
00:18:09.720 You see this in the book of Kings, right?
00:18:13.480 One of the prophets sees the divine council meet
00:18:15.600 and a spirit says, I'm going to go and deceive Ahab. 0.68
00:18:20.780 And so that's part of the world that God has made. 0.92
00:18:26.180 And in the Old Covenant,
00:18:28.480 Old Covenant's ruled by angels and by the heavenly host
00:18:31.740 because Adam is supposed to be the sub-regent.
00:18:37.320 He's created to be just under God.
00:18:39.960 Here is Adam.
00:18:40.780 But he gives it away.
00:18:41.740 And he fails.
00:18:43.320 He rebels against God and is cast from that position.
00:18:46.980 And that position doesn't just disintegrate or go into the ether.
00:18:50.600 It's not just left vacant.
00:18:51.660 He hands it over to someone.
00:18:53.360 Yeah.
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00:21:01.040 Yeah. And who is that?
00:21:02.320 Right. Well, and then later, so he forfeits it and it's filled by nefarious leaders.
00:21:11.460 It's filled by the prince of the power of the air.
00:21:13.160 Right. That's right. And then, so Adam, it's given to Adam. Adam forfeits it to Satan,
00:21:20.000 but then Christ comes and he's tempted in the wilderness.
00:21:24.640 Yeah, and what is the temptation in the wilderness that Satan offers?
00:21:27.400 I'll give you all the kingdoms of the earth and Jesus, like a good post-war sentiment boomer,
00:21:32.360 says, I'm not interested in politics.
00:21:34.660 I didn't come for that.
00:21:36.120 I didn't come for that. 0.97
00:21:36.900 I want a pure, pietistic, spiritual Christianity that has no tangible earthly benefit at all.
00:21:43.960 Owen Strand would have loved it, you know, but that's not what Jesus said.
00:21:47.200 No.
00:21:47.600 No.
00:21:48.840 What Jesus says is, he's not saying,
00:21:51.020 I don't care about the kingdoms of this world.
00:21:52.960 What he's saying is that I don't need you, Satan,
00:21:55.140 to give them to me.
00:21:57.040 I'll take them.
00:21:58.080 Yeah, I'm taking them from you.
00:21:59.100 I'm coming to bind the strong man.
00:22:01.240 I don't want you to give them to me
00:22:02.540 because of my idolatry and sin.
00:22:05.140 Because if he sins, the world is not saved.
00:22:06.600 Then it's all done.
00:22:07.820 Instead, by my righteousness and obedience,
00:22:10.360 I will take the kingdoms of the world. 0.52
00:22:11.840 So the kingdoms of the world given to Adam.
00:22:13.820 Adam forfeited to Satan.
00:22:15.120 And then Satan, they're taken by Christ.
00:22:18.220 And then Christ gives them back to us. 0.78
00:22:21.380 Yeah, the second Adam. 0.71
00:22:22.680 As co-heirs in Christ.
00:22:24.000 Right, and this is what's significant about the ascension.
00:22:28.100 And the point, I think, that gets lost, right?
00:22:29.980 We celebrate Ascension Sunday every year.
00:22:32.520 And a point that often gets lost in that is it isn't just the second person of the Trinity going back into heaven and ruling.
00:22:39.440 It is the second person of the Trinity joined to humanity who's taken on human flesh.
00:22:46.620 He is God and man, fully God and fully man, ascending up to rule at the right hand of God. 0.52
00:22:54.360 He's retaking, a man is retaking Adam's throne.
00:22:59.160 That is what's significant about the ascension.
00:23:02.360 That's what's significant about the new covenant, that now no longer is it angels and the heavenly host ruling over everything.
00:23:11.960 It is man in Christ that is ruling over everything.
00:23:15.960 And you see this, right?
00:23:17.680 And that's what we're getting at the outset of the episode in Galatians.
00:23:21.560 Real quick, could you read that text?
00:23:23.660 What is it?
00:23:24.000 Galatians 3 and 4?
00:23:25.020 Galatians 4.
00:23:26.500 It's just a couple verses.
00:23:27.720 But if you could just read that.
00:23:28.900 Right? So, right after Paul says that you all are sons of God, right? And I mentioned this in the sermon that I preached at your church this week. You're sons of God, which is a title, right? Which is a title of nobility, right? Only sons inherit. Daughters don't inherit. Daughters get a dowry, right? Sons inherit.
00:23:53.160 And here, you're all sons of God, and therefore, there's neither Jew nor Greek, right? 0.97
00:24:00.160 Both Jews and Greeks, Jews and Gentiles inherit, slave and free men are inheritors of Christ, and male and female, right? 0.77
00:24:11.300 Paul's not pushing transgenderism here. 0.54
00:24:13.420 He's saying that men and women both are titled sons of God as heirs of Christ.
00:24:20.860 So, there's still such a thing as male and female distinctions when it comes to sex.
00:24:25.040 There's still such a thing as Jew and Greek, and there's still economic distinctions between master and slave or employer and employee.
00:24:33.640 All those still exist, but in Christ, we are co-heirs sharing in his inheritance.
00:24:41.020 Precisely.
00:24:41.480 When it comes to the heir, being an heir and inheriting the world in Christ, those things don't matter.
00:24:49.100 That's right.
00:24:49.480 Right. 1.00
00:24:49.920 Because all the meek inherit the earth, whether you're a girl or a boy or a Greek or a Jew or a slave. 1.00
00:24:55.260 Whether you're rich or poor. 1.00
00:24:56.420 That's right.
00:24:56.700 Exactly.
00:24:57.600 Right.
00:24:57.800 So chapter four, verse one, he says, I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.
00:25:09.000 But he's under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.
00:25:12.820 So, the people of God throughout the Old Covenant, right, they're like children, right, in their minority in the Old Covenant, right?
00:25:20.760 That's how we should think of the Old Covenant. 0.96
00:25:22.420 They're children in their minority. 0.96
00:25:24.480 They don't get to inherit yet.
00:25:27.720 And, right, children, right, he makes this point.
00:25:30.120 Children are like slaves in the economy of the ancient world, the biblical world, right, in the household, right?
00:25:35.440 The slave is in an heir and neither is the son while he's a minor.
00:25:39.780 Right.
00:25:40.240 He will be eventually.
00:25:41.660 Yeah. 1.00
00:25:42.560 So, he's like a slave in his minority.
00:25:45.280 But he's under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.
00:25:50.200 In the same way, we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.
00:25:57.540 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law,
00:26:04.780 to redeem those who were under the law so that we might receive adoption as sons.
00:26:11.640 And because you are sons,
00:26:12.800 God has sent the spirit of his son into our hearts,
00:26:15.180 crying, Abba, Father.
00:26:16.660 So you are no longer a slave, but a son.
00:26:19.260 And if a son, then an heir through God.
00:26:24.320 That's what Paul is telling the Galatians.
00:26:26.440 You are heirs of the same thing that Jesus is an heir of,
00:26:29.680 which is the entire world.
00:26:31.320 The entire world.
00:26:31.900 From the principalities and powers
00:26:33.980 and from the heavenly host, right?
00:26:37.020 You are an heir of that.
00:26:38.740 It's not one piece of the world, a strip in the Middle East
00:26:43.040 that belongs to one people based off of a genetic code.
00:26:47.880 But instead, it's every piece of land in the world
00:26:50.940 belonging to not seeds, but seed who is Christ
00:26:55.360 and all those who have union with him through faith
00:26:58.200 who are joint heirs.
00:26:59.780 Yeah, and so to assert.
00:27:01.260 And God is now ruling the world.
00:27:02.960 Yeah.
00:27:03.280 The heavens and the earth, all authority in heaven and on earth 0.99
00:27:05.960 through a man.
00:27:06.900 Yeah, the God man.
00:27:07.920 The God man, he did his right hand and no longer through tutors or managers, these angelic
00:27:14.240 beings like the old world with the old covenant.
00:27:16.760 But now the whole world is being ruled by a man, not angels, but a man.
00:27:22.360 And that we have that rule with him.
00:27:25.560 And so to assert that the old covenant, the old creation is still operative, which is 0.65
00:27:32.120 what you have to do to say that these promises to the Jews over here are still happening, 0.60
00:27:36.440 is still a thing, or that there is a thing as Jew or Gentile. 0.86
00:27:39.660 This particular race of people still gets a divine right to this particular land.
00:27:43.960 And they're the holy chosen people.
00:27:45.760 To hold to that, to be consistent hermeneutically, you have to hold to the whole package, which
00:27:52.160 means that we are still under angelic tutors, that the world actually still belongs to the
00:27:57.680 prince of the air, that Christ, what he did is actually not efficacious. 0.58
00:28:03.040 He was not successful and that Christians are not actually joint heirs with him. 0.85
00:28:08.340 Yeah, that he didn't take that throne at the ascension, right?
00:28:13.720 That didn't happen, right?
00:28:15.880 And of course, right, many people who are in Zionistic Christianity that hold to these ideas, right?
00:28:23.620 You talk to them and they think, well, Satan is powerful.
00:28:27.280 He's the prince of the power of the air.
00:28:28.540 He's ruling over everything.
00:28:30.560 And it's like, no, just read.
00:28:33.040 Read what the Bible says.
00:28:35.300 Christ is ruling.
00:28:37.260 Christ has all authority.
00:28:38.620 Satan has been dethroned.
00:28:40.020 Jesus even gave one of his parables.
00:28:41.880 He says, what do you have to do if you're going to go in and plunder a house and take all the goods?
00:28:48.020 Do you not have to first go in and bind the strong man?
00:28:51.580 Then you can send in the rest of your crew to go and plunder the goods.
00:28:55.960 Well, the house is indicative of the earth, the whole world.
00:29:00.620 And who was the strong man?
00:29:02.700 When Satan, I saw him fall like lightning.
00:29:05.480 That's the strong man.
00:29:06.440 Well, Satan was a strong man.
00:29:08.140 And where was he?
00:29:09.880 He was cast out of heaven.
00:29:11.640 I saw him fall like lightning.
00:29:12.920 And where did he go?
00:29:13.840 Woe to you, O earth, for the devil has been thrown down to you.
00:29:17.540 So the house was the earth. 0.90
00:29:19.200 The strong man was Satan.
00:29:21.100 But then a stronger man came 2,000 years ago.
00:29:25.200 And he bound Satan up.
00:29:26.880 That doesn't mean that Satan doesn't still have some influence, some effect.
00:29:30.160 He hasn't yet been cast into the lake of fire, but he has been bound.
00:29:34.580 Something significantly happened in real time in human history in the work of Christ, his earthly work, his life, death, resurrection, and ascension.
00:29:43.620 Satan has been drastically limited.
00:29:45.980 And these powers, Satan and his minions, do not have the same influence and power and authority over regions of the earth like a prince of Persia as they once did.
00:29:55.760 They don't.
00:29:56.500 Christ is now ruling and reigning. 0.99
00:29:57.940 And that means that Christians, the meek, have inherited the whole earth, not some Christian adjacent subcategory, namely Jews, inheriting one piece of the earth. 0.99
00:30:09.920 No, Jews don't get part of the earth. 0.99
00:30:12.600 Christians get all of the earth. 1.00
00:30:15.020 And you can't be a disby without, it's a package deal. 1.00
00:30:19.680 You either take it all or you leave it all on the table. 1.00
00:30:23.700 You can't say, well, land promises for Jews, but also, yeah, Christ is seated in heaven, ruling and reigning. 0.78
00:30:30.580 No, it's if that, then this.
00:30:33.140 Well, and the thing that they'll do is say, well, the inheritance, we don't get the, Jesus doesn't have the inheritance yet.
00:30:39.420 We don't get the inheritance.
00:30:40.780 And it's like, well, no, he is presently reigning and ruling.
00:30:46.400 It is all his.
00:30:48.000 And not just ruling spiritually in the 17th dimension, not just ruling in heaven.
00:30:52.880 No, but the last thing he says as a preface to the Great Commission is all authority on earth as in heaven, earth and heaven has been given to me.
00:31:02.940 Yeah.
00:31:03.280 So, therefore, go.
00:31:05.000 Therefore, go into the world and claim my inheritance.
00:31:08.000 The earth is mine.
00:31:08.680 I'm ruling over the earth from heaven, ruling over the earth now.
00:31:12.180 I've bound the strong man.
00:31:13.540 So, you go and push for the crown rights of Jesus over all the earth.
00:31:17.960 Yeah. 0.71
00:31:18.380 I mean, that is what is taking place.
00:31:20.980 I mean, we could.
00:31:21.480 We can go on forever, but I don't have time for going through Revelation, right?
00:31:27.020 Right.
00:31:27.240 But, I mean, maybe that'll be the next book and then it'll be the third appearance on the Friday special for me.
00:31:31.680 There you go.
00:31:32.120 But, right, you look at the book of Revelation.
00:31:35.000 That is what is playing out there. 0.62
00:31:36.780 You have this conflict between, right, the land people, the earth people, right, Jews and the sea people, the Romans, constantly throughout this book.
00:31:48.680 And what happens toward the end of Revelation, right?
00:31:52.820 You have the-
00:31:55.480 Stars are falling out of heaven.
00:31:56.760 You have stars falling out of heaven, but also you have God's people, right, ascend up to heaven with him, right?
00:32:04.340 And they pick up the harps of the angels and they're standing on the firmament with Christ, right?
00:32:11.100 What does that mean?
00:32:11.940 It means the martyrs who are killed in the great tribulation, which is 70 AD.
00:32:20.500 We're post, post, post-trip.
00:32:22.280 Very post-trip.
00:32:23.320 It happened 2,000 years ago.
00:32:26.040 They ascend to heaven to rule and be seated with Christ and rule with him.
00:32:31.860 And so you want to talk about the millennium and what it is.
00:32:34.500 It's that.
00:32:35.280 It's Christ receiving his inheritance and his people going throughout the land, throughout the world, and claiming it.
00:32:44.960 It's his.
00:32:46.080 It's his.
00:32:46.480 And that's a slow, I mean, Jesus talks about this in the parables.
00:32:49.360 That it's like leaven working his way through the low for a mustard seed growing into a great tree.
00:32:54.080 That takes time.
00:32:55.660 It takes a long, long time.
00:32:57.920 And in the particular moment that we're in, it looks like everything's falling apart.
00:33:01.360 Everything's so bad. 1.00
00:33:02.100 I mean, look at the transgenderism and the abortion and all the gay stuff. 1.00
00:33:09.420 Our culture is being destroyed. 1.00
00:33:11.700 It's like, yes, there are judgments that God brings on people when they have apostatized.
00:33:16.620 Like America was a Christian place with majority Christians everywhere.
00:33:22.200 And we've rejected him.
00:33:23.860 He's bringing judgment on that.
00:33:25.460 Local, temporal judgments.
00:33:27.360 But what is the ultimate result?
00:33:29.900 His church is going to remain.
00:33:31.140 His church is going to continue and it will not only survive, but it will continue to flourish
00:33:38.120 and prosper in the preaching of his word. The knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth like
00:33:43.760 the waters cover the sea. That is an ongoing process that is taking place.
00:33:47.860 That's the whole picture that he gave us, that the seed, it would first have to die and be buried,
00:33:53.060 this mustard seed. But if it died and was buried, that eventually it would rise
00:33:57.420 back through the surface of the earth
00:33:59.220 and it would grow into a great tree
00:34:00.880 that would just be a spiritual tree in heaven.
00:34:03.480 No, it would be a great tree
00:34:04.760 that would fill the whole earth
00:34:06.100 or a mountain, right?
00:34:08.060 The stone that comes
00:34:09.380 and shatters the kingdoms of this world,
00:34:11.520 but then grows into a great
00:34:13.260 all world encompassing mountain.
00:34:16.420 This is the picture of the fruit of the gospel
00:34:20.920 as it goes forth.
00:34:22.240 This is what Jesus,
00:34:23.160 it's not what he's going to do.
00:34:24.580 It's what he has done.
00:34:25.720 He has done and he is actively doing right now.
00:34:29.540 Through his church.
00:34:30.220 Yeah, and so with the last bit of our time is,
00:34:32.260 I think this will be the last time we go through Galatians, right?
00:34:36.760 I think it's important with setting that we just set all that context of everything else, right?
00:34:41.960 Then you read about this allegory that Paul uses.
00:34:45.840 And Paul, right, gives us a hermeneutic of how to interpret scripture.
00:34:49.780 Like he has an allegorical interpretation.
00:34:52.080 There is symbols and types.
00:34:55.520 He literally straight up says, and this can be understood allegorically.
00:34:58.600 Yeah, literally he says that.
00:34:59.460 Yeah, so I'll just read that now because I think this is like the linchpin that helps us to understand, right, what is going on in the new covenant?
00:35:08.060 What is happening, right?
00:35:09.580 He says in chapter 4, verse 21,
00:35:11.540 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? 0.55
00:35:16.900 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. 0.67
00:35:21.820 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.
00:35:29.380 Now, this may be interpreted allegorically, right? 0.66
00:35:32.520 One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery. 0.82
00:35:36.340 She is Hagar. 0.96
00:35:37.600 Now, Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia. 0.94
00:35:39.640 She corresponds to the present Jerusalem. 0.58
00:35:43.540 For she is in slavery with her children, right? 0.93
00:35:46.300 They're in slavery in the old covenant.
00:35:48.020 that present Jerusalem that stood at that moment when Paul wrote this, right? That stands for 0.92
00:35:53.060 slavery in the old covenant. But Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. For it is written,
00:36:02.020 rejoice, O barren one who does not bear, break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor,
00:36:06.840 for the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.
00:36:14.100 Now you brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
00:36:18.000 But just as at that time,
00:36:20.120 he who was born according to the flesh
00:36:21.740 persecuted him who was born according to the spirit.
00:36:25.060 So also it is now.
00:36:27.040 But what does the scripture say? 1.00
00:36:29.440 Cast out the slave woman and her son 1.00
00:36:32.080 for the son of the slave woman 1.00
00:36:34.120 shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.
00:36:38.080 So brothers, we are not children of the slave,
00:36:40.240 but of the free woman, right?
00:36:42.000 So, what happens, right, what is the rest of the story, right, Paul Harvey style, right, within the context of what Paul's saying here, right, what's the rest of the story there, right? 0.69
00:36:53.960 Cast out the slave woman and her son. 0.61
00:36:56.320 Well, who's the slave woman, right? 1.00
00:36:58.220 The present Jerusalem. 0.98
00:36:59.680 Yeah. 0.97
00:36:59.960 And those under the old covenant.
00:37:01.560 Israel according to the flesh.
00:37:03.100 Right.
00:37:03.320 What happens to them?
00:37:04.680 They get cast out.
00:37:05.460 They get cast out, right?
00:37:07.260 They get cast out literally and figuratively, right?
00:37:10.980 Jerusalem is destroyed.
00:37:12.160 Judea is destroyed.
00:37:13.340 Temple's destroyed.
00:37:14.240 The covenant comes to an end.
00:37:16.660 That old world comes to an end.
00:37:17.940 It's not coming.
00:37:18.620 They're cast out.
00:37:19.660 Right.
00:37:19.940 It's gone.
00:37:20.640 It's done.
00:37:21.440 Right.
00:37:21.620 And they're not heirs.
00:37:23.520 Right.
00:37:23.720 That's the other thing.
00:37:24.700 Right.
00:37:25.300 They're not heirs with the children of promise.
00:37:27.360 They don't get to inherit with the children of promise.
00:37:29.160 Right.
00:37:29.620 There's no inheritance.
00:37:31.020 That's right.
00:37:31.560 For them.
00:37:32.980 None.
00:37:33.780 Not just a teeny tiny little bit, right?
00:37:37.060 A little bit of land or something.
00:37:38.720 There's none.
00:37:39.620 Right.
00:37:40.060 But the inheritance belongs to the children of promise.
00:37:42.440 The inheritance belongs to Isaac.
00:37:43.800 In this case, who is that?
00:37:45.480 That is those united to Christ.
00:37:48.320 In faith, Christians.
00:37:49.520 Yes. 1.00
00:37:50.280 The inheritance belongs to the true children, Christians, children of the promise, not according 0.57
00:37:54.960 to the flesh, and Israel, according to the flesh, was rejected, and yet each individual,
00:38:01.700 according to the flesh, was warmly invited in through faith to repent of their sins,
00:38:07.580 to believe and accept the Messiah.
00:38:10.600 And we believe that actually leading up to 8070
00:38:12.940 and in 8070, a great many in Israel
00:38:15.260 were born again and saved.
00:38:16.980 But now 2,000 years later, no.
00:38:20.160 No, there is no covenantal hangover.
00:38:25.800 There is no...
00:38:27.100 There's no covenant left.
00:38:28.140 There's no covenant left.
00:38:29.300 Not a covenant of Hagar.
00:38:31.040 Not a covenant of nothing.
00:38:32.520 No, it's done.
00:38:34.160 There is a covenant that remains,
00:38:36.320 the new covenant.
00:38:37.580 The covenant that God has made with His Son
00:38:39.720 and all those who have union with Him.
00:38:42.700 And that's it.
00:38:43.780 And so what can we do for those
00:38:44.980 who call themselves Jews today,
00:38:46.720 for modern Jews in the modern nation state of Israel?
00:38:49.420 We can preach the gospel.
00:38:50.840 We can encourage them to accept the Messiah.
00:38:55.080 Yeah, you want an inheritance, you can have it.
00:38:57.920 Yes, you can, but only one way.
00:38:59.320 Only through Jesus.
00:39:00.220 He's the way, the truth, and the life, the only way.
00:39:02.620 And then apart from that,
00:39:05.300 That's the eternal ultimate sense of dealing with the spiritual matter of the heart.
00:39:10.480 But beyond that, there are temporal goods and temporal consequences, things that are good, things that are bad.
00:39:16.400 So in a political and cultural, then we need to exercise wisdom.
00:39:20.020 We need to think like, okay, is it in our best interest to send billions of dollars to another country?
00:39:24.400 I would say no.
00:39:25.800 But considering those things. 0.57
00:39:27.900 But the idea that we need to politically align and we need to economically benefit and we need to culturally this and we need to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, because these people are Christian adjacent and they still have some kind of covenant carved out and some promise on reserve for them and we need to ensure that they get it. 0.53
00:39:50.180 That is just not what the Bible teaches.
00:39:52.680 No, and that's, that is, I mean, the biggest point temporally right now, right, the practical implications of this is, right, what is the Judeo-Christian thing, right?
00:40:07.460 It is secularism, right?
00:40:10.480 We think it's the antidote to secularism to say, oh, we need to return to our Judeo-Christian traditions.
00:40:16.280 It's not, right?
00:40:17.700 To use the phrase Judeo-Christian, you might as well put a coexist bumper sticker on your car. 0.79
00:40:23.060 That's right.
00:40:23.900 No.
00:40:25.460 This country belongs to Jesus.
00:40:28.340 He is God.
00:40:31.100 This is his.
00:40:32.340 Not any other people, but his people.
00:40:34.760 That's right.
00:40:35.400 And therefore, if you want these blessings and benefits, you need to join yourself to him alone.
00:40:43.220 Right.
00:40:44.480 And apart from that, there is no hope.
00:40:47.700 Yeah, and so today, right, the idea that, oh, we need to, like, these are the special people that we need to carve out some space for them and give them a seat at the table and all of these things.
00:41:00.640 No, you're putting the coexist bumper sticker on your car, right?
00:41:03.360 You're rejecting the exclusivity of Christ if you do that, right?
00:41:07.820 It has to be, right, when we talk about things like Christian nationalism, right, which really just is a synonym for Christendom.
00:41:18.400 Right.
00:41:18.980 That's all it is.
00:41:19.900 Right.
00:41:20.440 There is no, it's not Judeo-Christendom.
00:41:23.600 Right.
00:41:24.200 It is Christendom.
00:41:25.380 It's Christ's kingdoms, right?
00:41:27.300 The kingdoms of this world becoming the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:41:30.540 It's Christian nationalism, not Judeo-Christian nationalism.
00:41:32.280 And if you want to ensure that whatever Christian nationalism we might attain to, 0.74
00:41:36.740 if you want to ensure that it's immediately lost, then make it Judeo-Christian nationalism. 0.84
00:41:41.960 Then you're just right back to the secularism of the post-war consensus. 0.78
00:41:45.680 We have Judeo-Christian nationalism right now. 0.69
00:41:47.900 Yeah. 0.62
00:41:48.280 We already have that.
00:41:49.100 Yeah, it's called the GOP.
00:41:50.680 Right, it's called the GOP.
00:41:51.960 It's called pluralism.
00:41:53.220 It's called polytheism.
00:41:54.680 It's called idolatry.
00:41:55.740 It's called secularism.
00:41:56.780 It's called perversion. 0.95
00:41:58.360 We already have Judeo-Christian nationalism. 0.94
00:41:59.540 We have that already. 0.96
00:42:00.600 We would like to have just Christian nationalism.
00:42:02.500 Yeah, we want to stress and understand that's what Paul does here. 0.84
00:42:07.100 It's only through Christ, right?
00:42:09.000 These promises, right?
00:42:10.540 This covenant, it's only in Christ, right? 0.99
00:42:13.260 The slave woman is cast out. 0.86
00:42:14.760 So, and I look at this and we've talked about this before in other episodes that, right,
00:42:20.780 this exclusivity of Christ today and what is happening here, the slave woman was cast
00:42:26.640 out nearly 2,000 years ago, right? 0.62
00:42:29.620 That covenant is over, it's done. 1.00
00:42:31.400 Those categories of Jew and Gentile
00:42:32.880 no longer exist whatsoever at all.
00:42:34.900 So the point to stress over and over and over again,
00:42:37.620 I think, is that the people calling themselves Jews today,
00:42:42.360 they hold to Jewish traditions
00:42:44.180 that were preserved after the destruction of the temple.
00:42:48.160 But there's no sacrifice, there's no high priest,
00:42:50.680 there's no temple.
00:42:51.620 None of the aspects of old covenant religion
00:42:54.160 exist anymore, right?
00:42:56.460 And they can't exist because Christ has come, right?
00:42:58.520 The point of them has been fulfilled, right?
00:43:00.920 So, all they have left is like a debating society.
00:43:03.820 Really, that's it, right?
00:43:04.900 That's what the Talmud is.
00:43:05.880 It's just a record of debates among rabbis, right?
00:43:09.560 That's all that they have left. 0.89
00:43:11.320 That is not the religion of the Old Testament, right? 0.98
00:43:13.660 It is a post-Christian religion. 0.87
00:43:18.020 And so, the biblical term Jew or Israelite or Hebrew, right? 0.77
00:43:23.580 That belongs to the covenant people of the Old Covenant, right?
00:43:26.700 That doesn't exist anymore. 0.96
00:43:28.520 Because that old creation is completely gone, right?
00:43:31.640 To say that it does exist is to say the world is still ruled by demons and angels and everything else
00:43:37.540 and that Christ is not seated at the right hand of God, right?
00:43:40.420 If we say that, that means, right, that term Jew today, it doesn't mean what the Bible calls Jew, right?
00:43:48.900 It means people with a particular ethnic heritage that practice a particular religion today in the 21st century, right?
00:43:56.460 Those are distinct and separate things.
00:43:58.920 And so people get those confused all the time.
00:44:00.760 They think that, well, when the Bible says Jew, it's talking about Jewish people today.
00:44:05.940 It's not at all.
00:44:08.200 Jews today have no connection. 0.99
00:44:10.240 Yeah, not biblically, right? 0.93
00:44:12.120 Not biblically.
00:44:12.800 Not biblically, not covenantally, and maybe partially ethnically in terms of DNA. 0.94
00:44:17.640 But there are plenty of non-Jews that also have.
00:44:19.600 That also have that connection.
00:44:21.000 That genetic connection. 0.98
00:44:22.020 Yeah, and so again, right, that people, that category, that distinct category that God has made in humanity in the old covenant, Jew and Gentile, those are completely gone. 0.99
00:44:35.860 So, those are not the same people. 0.93
00:44:38.240 There's not the same category any longer, right?
00:44:40.600 So, Jews in the biblical sense, right, they do not exist today anymore, right? 0.99
00:44:46.980 It's only Christians and non-Christians. 1.00
00:44:48.840 That's right. 1.00
00:44:49.600 Amen.
00:44:50.360 Well, thank you guys for tuning in.
00:44:51.740 and we hope that this has been helpful and we hope that you'll follow along as we continue this series
00:44:57.020 thanks