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673. What's Next in the Bible Study Podcast ? The Prophets: Jonah, Amos, Hosea, Micah, Isaiah, Nahum, Zephaniah, Jeremiah, Habakkuk, Daniel, Ezekiel) · Faith by annm2705

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  This is just a summary of where we've been and where we're
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  heading with this podcast. So at the beginning, I don't
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  know when we started this, but we started in the book of
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  Genesis. We went through Genesis, Exodus,
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  Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, First
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  Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, Second Kings, First
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  Chronicles, Second Chronicles. We've gone through Ezra,
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  Nehemiah and Esther. Then we also did, we went back
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  to the let's see which ones we did.
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  We did Haggai and let's see, Haggai and Zechariah, those were
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  the last two that we did. So we kind of jumped around and
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  we are heading into the prophets, the book of the
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  Prophets. And what I decided to do was my
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  study Bible has this, the summary of all the kings.
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  And so when we were reading First Kings and 2nd Kings and
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  also First Chronicles and Second Chronicles, which is almost
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  redundant in some ways of the information that was in First
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  Kings, this is a time period where where just to give
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  everyone an idea of where we are.
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  So Solomon was king and then he died and then there was a
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  disagreement or there were these two sides, that of Israel that
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  wanted to have a king and they wanted different people to be
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  kings. So 10 of the tribes went to the
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  north and they had a a set of kings, a series of kings.
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  And then Judah was in the South, and inside of the territory of
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  Judah was the territory of Benjamin.
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  So Judah and Benjamin were together in the South, and those
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  two had separate kings, and their kings, I believe, were
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  more like the anointed ones. They followed the succession.
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  But the kings of Israel of the 10 tribes were ones that were
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  appointed basically by the people and they were a poor play
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  basically. So this study Bible shows what
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  happened. So this all started when
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  Solomon's reign ended and kings were brought about.
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  The 1st 2 kings were Jeroboam and Rehoboam.
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  Rehoboam. Now both of these from the kings
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  of Israel and the kings of Judah.
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  They were both evil at the time when they started.
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  I kind of summarized on each one in this chart where it talks
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  about kings and there were many series of kings in fact
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  throughout all of the kings of Israel.
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  The commentary in the Bible when it talks about if they followed
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  the Lord or if they obeyed the Lord and if they were evil or
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  not is what is talked about in the Bible.
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  So I was just curious like how many were kind of good guys and
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  how many were bad guys? So of Israel, the kings of
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  Israel, every single one of them was, they did evil in the eyes
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  of the Lord except for one, and that was Jehu.
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  And he was assigned by God to pronounce judgement on some.
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  And, and I believe he was in charge of the destruction of
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  Ahab's family. I believe that's what he did,
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  but he had a purpose with God. God uses someone's free will
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  where they're intent on evil. So he wasn't necessarily a good
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  person, but he used him to accomplish judgement.
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  And that's what God often does, as we see through history.
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  So then on the kings of Judah, they were not a whole lot
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  better, but they had about almost, not quite less than
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  half, less than 50% of their kings.
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  I didn't 8 out of 19 kings had something good said about them.
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  So there were 19 kings of Judah. They had much longer reigns.
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  The the better ones had longer reigns.
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  But actually that's that's not fully true because it looks like
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  some of the evil ones had really long reigns as well.
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  But Israel was conquered by Assyria and then Judah was
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  conquered by Babylon, and both of these places, the, the
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  separated tribes, both of them were conquered because of their
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  disobedience to God. So just before, like I said,
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  most of the kings of Israel, all of the kings of Israel, there
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  were 18 of them. Jehu was the mixed 1.
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  He did good and evil, good only because he was pronouncing God's
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  judgement. But they were conquered by
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  Assyria and that happened much earlier.
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  That was in around 722 on this timeline that I have in front of
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  me, 722 BC. So they were conquered first and
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  then the kings of Judah, they, Jerusalem fell.
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  So let's go back to the kings of Israel.
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  Their capital was Slimeria and the capital in for Judah was
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  Jerusalem. So they had Jerusalem.
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  The kings of Judah had 19 and eight of them were considered.
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  You know, there was something good that was said about them.
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  They were conquered by Babylon. But they did, you know, the same
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  things that Israel did. They committed the same kind of,
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  you know, crime's a guess of God, if you want to call it
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  that. And so during this time, and
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  this is applicable because later on in the New Testament, it
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  tells us, you know, there are parables that are talked about
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  how God sent prophets. So during the time of this evil
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  reign and these like 2 separated factions it within Israel, the
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  northern tribes, the 10 northern tribes and the 2 southern
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  tribes, they God sent prophets to turn people back to God.
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  So they were just getting out of control and God started speaking
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  to people and placing them in with all the people who were not
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  obedient to God. And so the first one that's
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  identified in the study Bible was Elijah.
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  And Elijah was, you know, he was.
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  He was certainly one that I think it was.
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  Yeah. During the time of Ahab, Ahab
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  was the king of Israel. He was married to Jezebel.
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  I think a lot of people who studied have heard of Jezebel.
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  And she pretty much ruled everything.
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  He seemed like a weaker one that just responded to her, but he
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  didn't ever stand up to her. And it was just like their whole
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  family got decimated because of their evilness that was in there
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  and none of them would repent. And that was God gave them
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  opportunities. Jezebel's even talked about in
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  the Book of Revelation that she would have been saved if she had
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  repented, but she wouldn't repent of her sins.
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  So anyway, during this time, and Jezebel was the one that was
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  trying to kill all of the Lord's prophets.
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  So there were others besides these people that were named and
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  there were also false prophets back at that time too, because
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  there were prophets, people that got information from evil from
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  Bale, which is something evil, an evil spirit behind that.
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  And I think it was Elijah had the showdown between the
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  prophets of God and the prophets of Bale and the prophets of God.
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  Well, he was the last one because Jezebel had been killing
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  off all of them, but he was the only one.
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  And there were hundreds, I believe of prophets that were
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  from Bale. And so they were having a
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  showdown between an offering and who's who's God would actually
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  light the fire. And of course that was Elijah's
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  did because Elijah was the true God and the other is a false
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  God. And so then a lot of the false
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  prophets were actually killed at that point, but God protected
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  Elijah. Elijah has a very interesting
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  story that we read about where he was Ravens provided food for
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  him. There was a woman who provided
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  food for him. He actually healed through God.
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  He healed, you know, this is like back in the Old Testament
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  before the Holy Spirit came upon.
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  So this is really interesting because I don't, when I think
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  about this, I think I don't know if we really are taught
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  properly. The Holy Spirit certainly did
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  come to the apostles at a certain time.
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  But when you look back in the book of Elijah, he prayed to God
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  and the Son of this woman was healed.
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  I think he had actually died, and he was actually healed
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  through God, but God used him. So there were these miracles in
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  the Old Testament as well, not as frequent as what happened in
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  the New Testament. So this is, you know, just
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  evidence of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, being present in
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  our world from the beginning. It talks about the Spirit
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  hovered over the waters. And so like at the creation, the
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  Holy Spirit has been active in the world, and it's a matter of
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  whether we are aligned with God, if we receive the Holy Spirit,
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  or if we are unprotected by God and subject to being influenced
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  by the evil spirits that we don't see but do affect us.
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  And anyone who's found the Holy Spirit, their eyes have been
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  opened and they look back on their lives and they see how
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  evil has influenced them in the past because things that are not
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  of God, things that have been that have happened in people's
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  lives. So there's there's definitely
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  evidence of that anyway. So Elijah was taken up to God.
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  He didn't have a humanly death, a death like we know he was
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  taken up. And people apparently knew about
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  it. Because when I was reading in
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  detail the account of it, I think there were like 500 people
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  who were standing along and saw him go up into the clouds.
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  And he gave Elijah the power that he had.
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  Elijah asked to have double the portion, double the power that
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  Elijah had. And Eli, Elijah told him, if you
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  see me going into the clouds, I believe then you will receive
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  that. And he did see that and did get
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  power. And then he was a prophet who
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  kind of took the place of Elijah.
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  So God pulled Elijah up out of this earth and then Elijah was
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  his the the next in line who, you know, did those things after
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  Elijah was gone. So then the very next prophet
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  that is talked about is Jonah. And I think I always, you know,
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  I didn't really know where Jonah was placed.
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  I think about, you know, the the spreading of the gospel, but
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  this is not the spreading of the gospel with Jonah.
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  We have to remember what this time frame was.
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  And I'm saying this for my own benefit too, because I was
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  thinking it was, it was something or you know, later on
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  in the Bible, but it is in the Old Testament and it occurred,
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  it's in this block around between 790 BC and 770 BC.
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  So, and it was during the reign of there were two different
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  kings that are listed in here in this chart.
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  It's Jehoash or Jeroboam the second.
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  And those were the kings of Israel.
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  And then the kings of Judah were Amaziah during when this
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  happened with Jonah. And so we will start with Jonah
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  and then we will go to Amos Hosea.
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  These are the sequence of how they were coming about and when
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  they were written. Then we'll go to we, I believe
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  we read. No, we didn't read Micah.
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  So we'll read Micah. We'll read Isaiah Nahum was
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  next, Zephaniah was next, Jeremiah was next, Habakkuk was
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  next, then Daniel, then Ezekiel. And let's see, I think that's
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  that's the end. Yeah.
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  Daniel kind of continues way past Ezekiel, but from start to
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  finish, like when they came into sight.
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  So that's what that's kind of what's coming up next.
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  We're going to jump around in the Bible.
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  We're going to do things in order and cover this time frame.
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  So it probably would have been good if we would have read about
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  the kings and then gone and read about the prophets too.
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  But I didn't notice this chart in my study Bible to guide me in
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  that. So we'll just go in the order of
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  these and we'll talk about who were the kings at the time.
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  So we kind of get a placement of what they're talking about
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  because it's really hard, challenging at times to realize,
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  is this something that they were prophesying that happened, that
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  was revealed, and then it happened during the time that
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  they were living? Or was this a future prophecy?
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  Now some of them we can certainly tell that they are
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  definitely future prophecies, for example, future prophecies
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  that we haven't even seen yet. We're told by these people, you
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  know, several thousands of years ago and they still have not all
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  come through fruition, but a lot of them have.
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  So the prophets, the book of the prophets is going, not really
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  the book, but all the different prophets will be interesting to
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  go through, especially for me now because I have a much better
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  understanding having this is like the second time I'm going
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  into a really deep study of the Bible and I had already been
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  through the New Testament, but I wanted to start at the Old
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  Testament and continue. So this is my second time.
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  But the first time that I read the Bible was pretty much like a
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  broad overview. And then I've been studying it
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  since and now I'm doing, as you can tell from the podcast, some
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  of them are half 1/2 an hour, Some of them are an hour for a
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  chapter or maybe a couple chapters that they're really
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  short. So we're going really deep into
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  the word on on these podcasts. So if this interests you, follow
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  this podcast and join in. I'm going to try to do these
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  mostly every day and we'll get through the whole, my goal is to
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  get through the Bible a second time and to read every book in a
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  very great detail. So hope you stick around for
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  this or just jump in whenever you have time.