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2 Chronicles 2:1-10 - Yahweh is Above Every God · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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  Speaker 1: How do their faith listeners. Welcome to the Bible Explain
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  Speaker 1: Podcast on this lovely Monday morning, and thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for starting out your week with the Bible Explained Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be reading Second Chronicles two today and then
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  Speaker 1: talking about the difference between Solomon and David, specifically when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to their dedication to yahweh. We'll get into
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  Speaker 1: that in just one moment. So how are you all,
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  Speaker 1: especially with the fall weather coming up? What are some
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  Speaker 1: fall activities that you enjoy doing. Something that I try
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  Speaker 1: to do every fall is I try to make a
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  Speaker 1: delicious pumpkin or apple pie. But this year I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I'm gonna make it because I've been gluten
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  Speaker 1: free unfortunately for the past year, and I had my
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  Speaker 1: pie crust recipe perfected. You know, it was a perfect
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  Speaker 1: pie crust. Like even my husband was like, Wow, this
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  Speaker 1: is a really good pie crust, and he's super picky.
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  Speaker 1: So what am I gonna do? I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I can find a good gluten free pie crust recipe.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I can make the normal pie
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  Speaker 1: and just let my husband have the whole thing. But
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  Speaker 1: that is just so not fun, you know, I want
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  Speaker 1: to be able to eat it too. It's just depressing to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, let my husband eat the whole thing and
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  Speaker 1: I'm just watching him. I mean, I do that already.
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  Speaker 1: I do make him bread quite often, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: There's something about the pie, like I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: just give my husband a pie without me being able
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  Speaker 1: to eat it. I know that's selfish, but I'm okay
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  Speaker 1: with it. All right. Let's read Second Chronicles two one
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  Speaker 1: through ten as usual. I'll be reading from the web
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  Speaker 1: this morning, but feel free to grab the version of
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  Speaker 1: the Bible that you prefer and pause the podcast to
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  Speaker 1: go get your delicious cup of coffee or cup of
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  Speaker 1: tea this morning, and tell me what type of tea
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  Speaker 1: that you drink during the fall months. I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: hear about that as well. All right, let's jump into
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  Speaker 1: God's Where to Get once again. This is the Second
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  Speaker 1: Chronicles two one through ten. Now, Solomon decided to build
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  Speaker 1: a house for Yahweh's name and a house for his kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty
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  Speaker 1: thousand men who are stonecutters in the mountains, and three
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  Speaker 1: thousand six hundred to oversee them. Solomon sent to him,
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  Speaker 1: the king of Tire, saying, as you dealt with David,
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  Speaker 1: my father, and send him cedars to build him a
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  Speaker 1: house in which to dwell. So deal with me. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: I am about to build a house for the name
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  Speaker 1: of Yahweh, my God, to dedicate it to him, to
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  Speaker 1: burn before him incense of sweet spices for the continual
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  Speaker 1: show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening
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  Speaker 1: on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on
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  Speaker 1: the set feasts of Yahweh are God. This is an
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  Speaker 1: ordinance forever to Israel. The house which I am building
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  Speaker 1: will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
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  Speaker 1: But who is able to build him a house? Since
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  Speaker 1: heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain him. Who
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  Speaker 1: am I then, that I should build him a house,
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  Speaker 1: except just to burn incense before him? Now, therefore, or
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  Speaker 1: send me a man skillful to work in gold, in silver,
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  Speaker 1: in bronze, in iron, and in purple, crimson and blue,
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  Speaker 1: and who knows how to engrave engravings. To be with
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  Speaker 1: the skillful men who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: whom David my father provided send me also cedar trees,
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  Speaker 1: cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon. For I
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  Speaker 1: know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: my servants will be with your servants even to prepare
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  Speaker 1: me timber in abundance, for the house which I am
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  Speaker 1: about to build would be great and wonderful. Behold, I
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  Speaker 1: will give to your servants the cutters who cut timber,
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  Speaker 1: twenty thousand cores of beaten wheat, twenty thousand baths of barley,
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  Speaker 1: twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil. So,
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  Speaker 1: now that Solomon has firmly been established as the king,
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  Speaker 1: he decides he is now going to build God's House.
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  Speaker 1: But it's really interesting about this. It actually took Solomon
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  Speaker 1: approximately four years to get around to building God's House.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not actually sure why why it took that
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  Speaker 1: long for Solomon to do it, but it took him
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  Speaker 1: a while. But now is the time. It says Solomon
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  Speaker 1: decided to build a house for y'away's name and a
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  Speaker 1: house for his kingdom. So that means that Solomon was
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  Speaker 1: going to build a house for himself and also a
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  Speaker 1: house for God. Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to
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  Speaker 1: bear burdens, eighty thousand men who are stonecutters in the mountains,
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  Speaker 1: and three thousand to six hundred to oversee them. So
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  Speaker 1: Solomon starts making all of these preparations, and he also
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  Speaker 1: sends this a letter to him, the King of Tire, which,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Hiram, the King of Tire, is the
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  Speaker 1: same guy as Hiram, King of Tire. But as usual,
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  Speaker 1: people in the Old Testament often have two different variant
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  Speaker 1: spellings of their names because there are multiple languages going
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  Speaker 1: on at this time, and so there are variant spellings
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  Speaker 1: of names. Just like, I guess if I were to
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  Speaker 1: go to I don't know, Japan, they might call me like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, what would my name be in Japanese?
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  Speaker 1: All right? If I go to the Netherlands, they might
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  Speaker 1: call me Jennifer, right, because the Jay it would be silent.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, I don't know, Okay. Going back to what
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  Speaker 1: I was saying, though, Solomon is deciding that he's going
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  Speaker 1: to build this temple to God and also a palace
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  Speaker 1: for himself, and he makes all these preparations and he
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  Speaker 1: sends this a letter to Hiram, the king of Tire,
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  Speaker 1: asking him to send even more lumber to Israel. And
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  Speaker 1: I didn't catch this when we talked about it back
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  Speaker 1: in First Kings. Why in the world did Solomon have
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  Speaker 1: to ask for more lumber, Because now that we've gone
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  Speaker 1: through all the preparations that David made for the temple,
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  Speaker 1: there is no way that Solomon needed more lumber for
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  Speaker 1: the temple to God. Let's go back and look at
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  Speaker 1: all of the preparation that David did for the temple.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go back to First Chronicles twenty two and start
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  Speaker 1: in verse two. David gave orders to gather together foreigners
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  Speaker 1: who were in the land of Israel, and he sent
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  Speaker 1: masons to cut dressed stones to build God's house. David
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  Speaker 1: prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors
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  Speaker 1: of the gate, and for the couplings, and bronze in
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  Speaker 1: abundance without weight, and cedar trees without number for the Sedonians.
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  Speaker 1: And the people of Tire brought cedar trees in abundance
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  Speaker 1: to David. That means that David gathered so many cedar
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  Speaker 1: trees that you couldn't count them. Jumping down to verse
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  Speaker 1: fourteen of this same chapter. Missus David speaking to Solomon.
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  Speaker 1: Now behold in my affliction. I have prepared for Yawey's
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  Speaker 1: house one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents
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  Speaker 1: of silver and bronze and iron without weight, for it
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  Speaker 1: is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone,
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  Speaker 1: and you may add to them. There are also workmen
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  Speaker 1: with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber,
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind
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  Speaker 1: of work. Of the gold, the silver, the bronze, and
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  Speaker 1: the iron. There is no number. Arise and be deal,
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  Speaker 1: and may Yahweh be with you. So that's pretty clear
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  Speaker 1: that David gathered eight literal tons of silver, gold, iron, bronze, stones,
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  Speaker 1: timber so that God's house could be built like it
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  Speaker 1: was without number. Is what scripture says a handful of times. Then,
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  Speaker 1: going to First Chronicles twenty eight, we read this not
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  Speaker 1: too long ago, but I'm going to go back through
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  Speaker 1: it real quick. David went so far with these preparations
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  Speaker 1: that he had everything measured out by weight. All right,
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  Speaker 1: here's what First Chronicles twenty eight, starting in verse eleven, says,
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  Speaker 1: Then David gave to Solomon his son, the plans for
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  Speaker 1: the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries,
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  Speaker 1: for its upper rooms, its inner rooms, and the place
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  Speaker 1: of the mercy seat, and the plans of all that
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  Speaker 1: he had by the spirit for the courts of Yahwei's
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  Speaker 1: house the surrounding rooms. And then jumping down to verse fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: of gold by weight for all the gold, vessels of
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  Speaker 1: every kind of service, for all the vessels of silver
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  Speaker 1: by weight, by weight for the lamp stands by weight,
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  Speaker 1: for the tables of the show, bread, the forks, the basins,
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  Speaker 1: the cups of pure gold, the golden bowls by weight
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  Speaker 1: for every bowl, the altar of incense, plans for the chariot,
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  Speaker 1: the cherubim that spread out and cover the arc of
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  Speaker 1: Yahway's covenant. All this verse nineteen, David said, I have
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  Speaker 1: been made to understand, in writing from Yaway's hand, even
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  Speaker 1: all the works of this pattern. So David said to
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  Speaker 1: Solomon his son, be strong and courageous and do it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be afraid, don't be dismayed, for Yahweh God, even
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  Speaker 1: my God is with you. He will not fail you
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  Speaker 1: nor forsake you. Until all the work for the service
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  Speaker 1: of Yahway's house is finished, and then directly after this,
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  Speaker 1: David gives Solomon all of the plans to build God's temple.
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  Speaker 1: So that is pretty darn clear that I think Solomon
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  Speaker 1: had enough trees just based upon David's preparation that he
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  Speaker 1: didn't need to ask for any more. And I also
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  Speaker 1: took the opportunity to look up how many trees are
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  Speaker 1: needed to build a twenty seven hundred square foot home,
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  Speaker 1: which I couldn't find like a precise number, obviously because
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  Speaker 1: every home is different, but just for the framing alone,
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  Speaker 1: it takes approximately forty to sixty trees for a twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred square foot house. Because twenty seven hundred square
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  Speaker 1: foot that was about how big Solomon's temple was. It
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  Speaker 1: was relatively small temple. The exact well, we don't know
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  Speaker 1: if we have the exact dimensions, but the approximate dimensions
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  Speaker 1: of the temple was ninety feet long, thirty feet wide,
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  Speaker 1: and forty five feet high, so it was kind of
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  Speaker 1: a small temple. Now, granted, probably Solomon's temple for the
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  Speaker 1: framing needed more wood than forty trees, just due to
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the temple was taller than the average home.
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  Speaker 1: But still, you know, if you think about it, if
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  Speaker 1: there were cedar trees without number that David had provided
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  Speaker 1: and the average home to frame, it takes about forty trees.
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  Speaker 1: Just doing the math, I would imagine that Solomon had
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  Speaker 1: enough trees to build the temple to God unless he
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  Speaker 1: made it into like a log cabin overlaid with gold.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. That might take thousands of trees at
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  Speaker 1: that point. I don't know. I don't know. But my
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  Speaker 1: whole point is that if there's trees without number that
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  Speaker 1: David gathered, why is Solomon asking for more trees from Hiram,
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  Speaker 1: the King of Tire. Because Solomon makes it seem like
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  Speaker 1: he's using these trees for God's temple. At least that's
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  Speaker 1: how I interpret this. Going back to Second Chronicles two
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  Speaker 1: verse three, Solomon sent to Hiram, the King of Tire, saying,
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  Speaker 1: as you dealt with David, my father, and sent him
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  Speaker 1: cedars to build him a house in which to dwell.
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  Speaker 1: So deal with me. Behold, I am about to build
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  Speaker 1: a house for the name of Yahweh, my God, to
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  Speaker 1: dedicate it to him, to burn before him incense of
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  Speaker 1: sweet spices for the continual showbred and for the burnt
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  Speaker 1: offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons,
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  Speaker 1: and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This
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  Speaker 1: is an ordinance forever to Israel. So I always read
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  Speaker 1: that and took it to mean that Solomon was asking
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  Speaker 1: for more trees for God's temple. But that's probably not
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  Speaker 1: what he was doing. I think I missed the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Solomon was probably asking for trees for his own palace,
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  Speaker 1: because he kind of says that right in verse three,
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  Speaker 1: as you dealt with David, my father and sent him
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  Speaker 1: cedars to build him a house in which to dwell,
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  Speaker 1: So deal with me. So Solomon is not asking for
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  Speaker 1: more trees for God's house. He's asking for trees for himself,
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  Speaker 1: which isn't a bad thing, you know, It's not bad
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  Speaker 1: for Solomon to need trees to build his own house, like,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that. But it just seems that
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  Speaker 1: Solomon is very different from David with his dedication to Yahweh,
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  Speaker 1: because if you look back in first Chronicle seventeen, you
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  Speaker 1: know Avid felt guilty that he was living in a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful cedar house without the temple of God being built.
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  Speaker 1: But Solomon did not have that same concern. Now, granted,
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  Speaker 1: I might be judging Solomon's motives a little bit here,
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  Speaker 1: but I feel like that is another giveaway of how
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  Speaker 1: Solomon just did not have a perfect heart toward God.
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  Speaker 1: And in fact, if you keep reading in this letter
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  Speaker 1: that Solomon sends to Hiram, here's what he says in
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  Speaker 1: verse five, the house which I am building will be great,
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  Speaker 1: for our God is greater than all gods. Now, there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing specifically wrong with that verse, right, Obviously, Yahweh is
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  Speaker 1: above every other God. He is supreme. He is the
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  Speaker 1: only God. And there are other verses that say something
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  Speaker 1: similar to what Solomon said in this letter, for example,
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  Speaker 1: for Chronicles sixteen, twenty five and twenty six. For great
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  Speaker 1: is the Lord and most worthy of praise. He is
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  Speaker 1: to be feared above all gods. For all the gods
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  Speaker 1: of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens.
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  Speaker 1: And there are other verses similar to this one as well.
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  Speaker 1: So what Solomon said was not wrong. God is above
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  Speaker 1: every other god, and that is stated repeatedly in scripture. However,
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  Speaker 1: it is clear by Solomon's behavior, especially later on in
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  Speaker 1: his life, that he did believe in other gods. He
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  Speaker 1: just thought that Yahweh was the best one, and so
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  Speaker 1: he'd worship Yahweh before the other ones. But he did
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  Speaker 1: actually believe that other gods had validity, and he worshiped
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  Speaker 1: them as well. Here's what first Kings eleven one through
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  Speaker 1: eight says. Now. King Solomon loved many foreign women, together
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  Speaker 1: with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sedonians,
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  Speaker 1: and Hittites, of the nations, concerning which he always said
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  Speaker 1: to the children of Israel, you shall not go among them,
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  Speaker 1: neither shall they come to you, for surely they will
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  Speaker 1: turn away your heart after their gods. Solomon joined to
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  Speaker 1: these in love. He had seven hundred wives, princesses and
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  Speaker 1: three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away. When
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  Speaker 1: Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after
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  Speaker 1: other gods, and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh
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  Speaker 1: his god. For Solomon went after Asterith, the goddess of
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  Speaker 1: the Sedonians, and after Milkom, the abomination of the Ammonites.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh. Sitan didn't
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  Speaker 1: go fully after Yahweh as David, his father did, then
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  Speaker 1: Solomon built a high place for Kemish, the abomination of Moab,
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  Speaker 1: on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molik,
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  Speaker 1: the abomination of the children of Amen. So he did
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  Speaker 1: for all of his foreign wives who burned incense and
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  Speaker 1: sacrificed to their gods. So that right there shows that
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  Speaker 1: Solomon believed that some of these other gods had validity,
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  Speaker 1: that maybe he should worship them as well as Yahweh.
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  Speaker 1: This was thing that the Israelites often did, and God
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  Speaker 1: would just get so angry because he's like, I am
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  Speaker 1: your God. These other gods that you're worshiping are literally
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  Speaker 1: man made structures. It can't hear, it can't think, it
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  Speaker 1: can't walk, it can't move, it can't do anything for you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worship that thing. And not to mention, the Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament law also says that these gods that the people
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  Speaker 1: were really worshiping were actually demonic in nature, and worshiping
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  Speaker 1: demons is bad for the soul. So that's why God
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  Speaker 1: would get so angry at his people, because He's like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm right here, like I'm living among you, and you
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  Speaker 1: constantly fall away. You constantly worship all of these other gods.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do it. So it seems that Solomon believed that yes,
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  Speaker 1: Yahweh was supreme, but that these other gods did in
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  Speaker 1: fact have validity of some sort. Back to our passage
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  Speaker 1: for today, Second Chronicles two, verse six, Solomon continues in
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  Speaker 1: his letter, who is able to build Yahweh house? Since
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  Speaker 1: heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain him? Who
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  Speaker 1: am I then that I should build him a house,
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  Speaker 1: except just to burn incense before him? Now, therefore, send
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  Speaker 1: me a skillful man to work in gold, silver and
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  Speaker 1: in bronze, in iron and purple, crimson and blue, who
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  Speaker 1: knows how to engrave engravings. To be with the skillful men,
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  Speaker 1: and who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom
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  Speaker 1: David my father provided. Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees,
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  Speaker 1: and algum trees out of Lebanon. For I know that
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  Speaker 1: your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: my servants will be with your servants even to prepare
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  Speaker 1: me timber in abundance, for the house which I'm about
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  Speaker 1: to build will be great and wonderful. Behold, I will
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  Speaker 1: give to your servants the cutters who cut timber, twenty
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  Speaker 1: thousand cores of beaten wheat, twenty thousand baths of barley,
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  Speaker 1: twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
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  Speaker 1: Now a bath was a tenth of a core or
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  Speaker 1: about five point six US gallons or twenty one lids,
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  Speaker 1: So twenty thousand baths of barley, for example, would weigh
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  Speaker 1: about two hundred and sixty two metric tons. So Solomon
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  Speaker 1: obviously was not expecting these men to work for free.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, I will compensate you and your men. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to give them all this food, all this wine,
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  Speaker 1: this barley, this wheat, and all this oil as well.
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  Speaker 1: So we will see how Hiram responds to this letter
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  Speaker 1: and I always walk away learning something new that sticks
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  Speaker 1: with me throughout the day. She explains scripture in a
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  Speaker 1: way that feels simple and approachable without ever losing depth.
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  Speaker 1: Listening to this podcast has helped me grow in my faith,
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  Speaker 1: understand God's word better, and even spark some really meaningful
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  Speaker 1: conversations with my daughter, Emma. She is ten, and we
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  Speaker 1: both look forward to every episode. Thank you so much,
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  Speaker 1: Autumn and Emma for that very very nice review. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the one thing I do have to say is that
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  Speaker 1: it says that each episode is short but powerful. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna guess that Autumn and Emma are listening to my
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  Speaker 1: old podcast episodes right now, because those are about five
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  Speaker 1: to ten minutes long, and then in like season three,
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  Speaker 1: they got to about fifteen minutes, and then they kind
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  Speaker 1: of moved up to twenty minutes. Now, regularly my podcast
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  Speaker 1: episodes hit like thirty to forty minutes, and so I
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  Speaker 1: always joke, you know, we're a third of the way
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  Speaker 1: through the Bible. By the time we get to the
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  Speaker 1: Book of Revelation, you're gonna be listening to like two
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  Speaker 1: hour long podcasts of me just like monologuing about the
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  Speaker 1: end time's prophecies. Oh yeah, Well, hopefully I don't do
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I might. I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 1: I might actually do that because of how interesting the
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  Speaker 1: Book of Revelation is gonna be. All right, faith for listeners,
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  Speaker 1: I hope that you all have a fantastic rest of
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  Speaker 1: your day. I will see you guys tomorrow six am
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  Speaker 1: or whenever you choose to wake up and listen. Until then,
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  Speaker 1: happy listening, and God bless you all.