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Dinosaurs in the Bible: Uncovering Ancient Mysteries · Relish: a Christian podcast

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  Relish pleasing or zestful flavor a quantity
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  just sufficient to flavor to be pleased or
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  gratified by enjoy we are hoping that what
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  we bring to your table today might add some spice to your life hey ron how are
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  you doing doing well how about yourself don i'm doing all right i'm pretty good
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  i'm at the giddy kind of giddy part of my state it's anyway it's been a long
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  So I get giddy at a certain point.
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  Yeah. And so you get to put up with Don and a goody giddy pointy mood. Yeah.
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  All right. Well, hopefully you can get yourself together for these questions here.
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  Looking for the tarp strap that holds me together.
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  What happened with the dinosaurs? They died.
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  Well so many times i think we take the
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  the evolutionary thing and say that dinosaurs didn't coexist
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  with human beings and that's not so because we see it in very plainly in job
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  that the dinosaurs were still in place in his time now granted job was one of
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  the earliest books in the Bible and probably coexists with a time of Noah, soon after Noah.
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  And would be consistent with Abraham's time.
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  But in Job chapter 30, oh my goodness, here we go.
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  Chapter 40 and 15, verse 15, the NIV calls this a behemoth.
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  Well, that's just big critter. But notice the attributes of this behemoth.
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  Some translations call it a crocodile.
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  Well, if this is a crocodile, it's no crocodile I've ever heard about because
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  it feeds on grass, verse 15,
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  has the strength, has strength in his loins, which means his legs are big and
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  powerful and power in the muscles of his belly, a tail that sways like cedar.
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  I could see that maybe in an alligator.
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  And the sinews of his thighs are close knit.
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  His bones are tubes of bronze
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  his limbs are like iron rods
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  of iron now if you would just whoa
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  whoa that out a little bit and think okay how about brontosaurus i mean what
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  crocodile eats grass they're carnivorous yeah this makes no sense to think of
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  this being a crocodile But Bratosaurus,
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  that makes sense.
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  And when you start going on then and bring the hills, bring their produce.
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  Really? Crocodiles on hills? Let's get real. No.
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  And wild animals play nearby, which means they're not. Whatever this creature is, is not carnivorous.
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  Otherwise, wild animals would not play nearby.
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  Under the lotus plants, he lies. Populars by the streams surround him.
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  A river rages and he's not alarmed. So this is a creature that's big enough,
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  even when a river is up and outside of its banks, it's not worried about it.
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  And we know the size of brontosauruses at that time that are talked about from
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  archaeology are good-sized critters.
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  There wasn't much that was going to really, except the T-Rex,
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  of course, they would have one. for lunch.
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  But these were easygoing animals.
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  So I can almost say just from the biblical evidence of Job chapter 40,
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  the brontosaurus was still living at this time.
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  And I think there's a tomb in upper Scotland. It's the upper part of the peninsula where England is.
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  And it actually shows a brontosaurus in the etchings at the edge,
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  the copper etchings at the edge of that tomb.
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  Well, now, where'd they get that picture from? If all the creatures were gone
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  by that time, and likely of all the dinosaurs that could have been left.
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  The brontosaurus would live probably longest because it didn't eat people.
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  Yeah. I mean, any creature that's going to eat people probably is going to get
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  eliminated by humans, right?
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  Which probably is where the dinosaurs went.
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  So, yeah, dinosaurs, you go down in 41 and the Leviathan would be another one
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  that definitely looks like a dinosaur of some nature,
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  that is oceanic in nature compared to the Brontosaurus that's in chapter 40.
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  So, the question again was about dinosaurs in the Bible or dinosaurs?
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  What happened to the dinosaurs? What happened to them? Yeah.
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  I really think man eliminated them over the course of time because they were a threat.
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  And especially the ones that would eat them. I mean, most people think anything
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  that will eat them on a regular basis is considered a threat. Yep.
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  I would agree with that. So, I mean, as we watched the frontier recede in the
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  United States, all those creatures that would attack man were eliminated over a period of time.
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  Even the bison who would threaten basically farms.
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  You couldn't farm with buffalo around.
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  Yeah, they were eliminated. And man did that.
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  I think dinosaur was eliminated by man. so a round of bible times but eliminated
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  by man eventually yep yep all right that's done yep.
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  We kind of, this is a good question anyway. I'll ask it.
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  Okay. Was your faith journey difficult in any way? Oh, mercy sakes, yes.
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  Oh, man. Was it difficult in any way?
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  I would say because- Was it not difficult in any way? Was it not difficult?
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  Yeah, I'd almost go there.
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  And probably the hallmark of my faith journey was the fact that God led me and
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  comforted me through the times of difficulty.
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  And probably the moment that that started to get through my hard head was when Michael died.
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  And the fact God gave me the scripture of James 1, verses 2 through 4,
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  consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you endure trials of many kinds,
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  because the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
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  And perseverance, when it finishes
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  as it's worked, leaves you mature and complete, not lacking anything.
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  And it's right. It's true. That is the way it works.
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  So the fact that my faith journey was difficult, and I think most people who
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  have a deep, heartfelt faith will have a difficult journey.
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  It will be marked by those things that,
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  Make us stronger. Make us better.
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  Yes. So more, yeah. I would say it was marked more by the things that made it
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  stronger than the things that didn't.
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  Marked by the things that were difficult than the things that were not.
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  Yeah. Because if it was easy, I didn't have to worry much about it.
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  I mean, yeah. You don't need to faith. You don't hardly need faith if things are easy. Yeah.
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  Because, yeah. It's easy. Mm-hmm. But you do need faith. You can do it yourself. Yeah.
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  But you need faith when things are not easy. Yeah. To get you through.
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  Definitely. Good question. Yeah. There's a series of questions here, kind of all connected.
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  Was it on Sunday that God rested when he was creating earth?
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  What fruit did Eve eat? And when will Jesus come back to earth?
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  I guess you answered that.
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  Yeah. Yeah. Well, we don't have the day of the week.
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  We use Sunday as Christians.
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  Jews used Saturday.
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  Both of those monikers, Saturday and Sunday, actually come from the Greek and
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  Roman mythical background.
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  So they aren't ours, if you will.
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  They aren't faith backgrounds. They actually have their own Greek Roman monikers.
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  So the sabbath day was the day of rest and the jews kept it on what we call now saturday,
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  yeah but sabbath it wasn't saturday it
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  was sabbath day and then they would go the first day of the week second day
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  of the week third day week you know yeah really not notable monikers but that's
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  the way they they noted it at that time i don't have a a lot of hardship with
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  people keeping the Sabbath day on Saturday.
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  That's all right. And if they want to be Jewish in that take, that's all right.
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  But I think that's the way it needs to be noted because we keep Sunday or the
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  first day of the week as our day of worship,
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  our day of rest, because that's the day Jesus rose from the dead, the day after Sabbath.
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  And so it is our rest day. It's nice in the United States. We can take them
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  both if we really want to.
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  You know, five-day work week. Yeah, five-day work week. And some places now, four-day work week.
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  What are we going to do with a three-day weekend? We got to think that out theologically.
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  Because, you know, Saturday and Sunday could both be rest days. That'd be all right.
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  If you gave both Saturday and Sunday to the Lord, that'd be two-sevenths of
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  your week you gave to God.
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  I think that'd be cool. Yeah, that would be.
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  And so then the second piece was, oh, dear.
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  What fruit did Eve root? Yeah. Well, we always like to think it's an apple.
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  It really probably wasn't.
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  Apples weren't really indigenous to that area of the world. Pomegranate was.
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  And so there's some rules of thought that think, oh, this probably was a pomegranate.
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  And they're luscious and juicy. And yeah, they would fit the moniker of a fruit
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  that would be on a tree and enticing to eat and put on your ice cream.
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  Oh, no, I guess they didn't have ice cream, but I'd put it on my ice cream.
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  So yeah, I think probably it would be not so much an apple.
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  That was probably more our English rendition of a fruit than it would be theirs. Yeah.
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  And then I think we covered when Christ is coming again.
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  And just don't think it's going to be so far in the future that you aren't ready
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  for it would be my counsel there.
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  Because it could happen any time. There's bizarre stuff going on in our world. Yeah. Yeah.
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  That could be when Jesus comes, for sure.
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  This is an interesting question here. How many horses were in the Bible?
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  How many horses were in the Bible?
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  Lots, lots of horses. And I go back to thinking about when David did his,
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  you know, when David took inventory towards the end of his reign,
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  there were lots of horses in that inventory.
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  Wow. So there, yeah, lots of horses. Yeah.
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  I don't have a good answer to that question. I wasn't expecting a number. Oodles and gobbles.
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  Oodles and gobbles. That's really scientific, isn't it?
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  But, yeah, just by the sheer number that the Egyptians used to follow the Jews
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  across, almost across the Red Sea.
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  Yeah, yeah. And then you've got David's numbering of his chariots and horses.
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  That's a lot. Mm-hmm.
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  And then Solomon's horses, yeah.
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  An awful lot, yeah. A lot of horses. A lot of, yeah. And they weren't even Amish.
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  Yeah. Sorry. Sorry, I had to put that in there.
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  It's different in this area of the world. It is different in this area of the world.
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  That is for sure. And I came across a buggy last night in South English. And I thought, really?
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  A buggy in South English?
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  Can it be? Yeah, it was. Nice. Nice.
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  What book of the Bible is the easiest to read and which one is the hardest to read?
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  The easiest, I usually send people to John because the book of John has the
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  most elementary use of the Greek language and subsequently then the most elementary
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  use in the English language,
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  of the Gospels of the New Testament.
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  Hardest to read is sort of a, I'd have to go between revelation.
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  While it's easy to read, it's hard to understand.
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  And then I go to some of the minor prophets like Ezekiel and you get reading
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  Ezekiel and you start, whoa, is he really talking? Yeah, he was saying that.
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  Those are hard words, especially those things that come out of the minor prophets
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  that are chastisement of the people of Israel because they are not being faithful.
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  Yeah. And so it's really hard to read those. And Charlene and I are reading them.
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  We read a chapter of Old Testament and New Testament back and forth during the course of the week.
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  And then on Sunday, we read one of each. So it equals out.
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  And boy, we're just really tired of the minor prophets. We're ready to move
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  on from there. Please. Yeah.
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  Genesis was fine.
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  Even now, Leviticus is looking good. He's like, wow.
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  So, yes. So, yeah. Ease and hard, I think that would get it.
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  The language in Revelation is still fairly easy, but the concepts behind them are hard.
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  Are they really hard to get our handle on? What does that really mean then?
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  What did John really see? And what does that, what John really saw,
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  mean to us today? So it's harder to interpret.
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  Makes sense. Yeah. We talked about hell being a real place at the Hillcrest
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  episode. So is heaven a real place? Oh, absolutely. Oh, yeah.
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  And so you can go and look at Revelation 22, 21, 22, and say,
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  yes, that is the heaven that will be post-white throne judgment, which is chapter 20.
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  When the white throne judgment happens, all those who are judged and their name
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  is not in the book of life will go into the fire and they'll be in hellfire.
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  The rest of them will be with God.
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  And so then that is what happens and is revealed in chapter 21 and 22.
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  Streets of gold, beautiful stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
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  And yeah, I'm just glad that lawn care is taken care of, you know,
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  and the mansion's already made and yeah,
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  with all that pearl and gold and it never says that you're going to have to
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  mow grass. No place in there.
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  It says there's trees, but it never says something about grass or making hay.
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  Any of that. You don't like mowing grass? Oh, I get a buzz out of it, but I, yeah.
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  Yeah, those things about maintenance don't appear.
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  They don't have any oiling of hinges or painting of siding.
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  That's all taken care of. Nice. Mansions. Yeah. Yeah, I can handle that.
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  Yeah. Sounds good. It sounds good. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Lovely place. I'm trying to make sure that my bid is on that real estate.
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  I've got my name on real estate there. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I'm into that.
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  Well, thanks again as always, Don. It's been a privilege, Rowan. Yeah.
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  Thank you guys at Hillcrest for sending in your questions to us and hope you
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  enjoyed it and got the answers you, well, maybe not want to hear,
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  but understand the answers.
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  I hope you understand the answers and you maybe if we didn't get it,
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  send it again. We'll try again. Yep.
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  We can do that. We can do that. That's within our skill set to try again.
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  Yeah. So until next time, take care. Enjoy the beautiful spring weather. Amen.
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