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Episode 334- Burros 2.0- Acts of the Apostles- Part 3 · The Burros of Berea Podcast

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Alright, welcome back to the Burzabria 2 .0.
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Man, I am really excited about tonight. We've
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got Danny Morton. Where's Adrian, Danny? What's
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up? He's coming. Is she? I don't know if you
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guys noticed, but Adrian's like in and out of
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the video. She's like exit stage left. We've
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also got big daddy Carter. Oh, better turn my
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volume off guys. Sorry about that. Big daddy.
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I got these noise. My phone makes a lot of noises.
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If I don't shut it off, it's going to ruin it.
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It's going to ruin it all night. So we also have,
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surprisingly together, we have Kristen Bingaman
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and Shelly Sangry. How are you guys today? Great
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and good. Glad to have you guys here. Karen Rogers
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and yet another sound. That was my watch. Did
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you guys hear that? So unbelievable. So I need
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to be more prepared, don't I? Karen, how are
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you tonight? I'm fine. Great. We do not have
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Karen and Eric O'Shea tonight. They have something
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going on down in Fort Worth, Texas. And so they
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did request some prayer for them. And let's,
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let's just do this. Let's just hop right into
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it because there's a lot in Acts chapter one
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that I want to cover. And so let's see, Shelley,
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would you be willing to open us up in prayer?
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Sure. Okay, great. Father, I thank you so much
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for this day. I thank you for your word and I
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thank you for this group of people that we are
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able to come together and to study the scriptures
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together. I pray that our conversation tonight
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will be pleasing to you. I pray that you will
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grant us discernment as we are studying your
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word. And I pray for Eric and Karen in Texas
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today. I just pray that you would bring the peace
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that only you can bring and that they would feel
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your presence there and that they would remember
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that you are in control of all things. And I
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pray these things in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.
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Thank you so much. So guys, this screen that
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you're looking at, we're just messing around.
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I'm messing around with zoom. This is the Mount
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of Olives that we're looking at and what we're
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going to be getting into action. Well, there
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is Adrian. Oh, jeez. Have you got your screen
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blurred by any chance, Danny? I don't know. Yeah,
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it doesn't matter. Let me just take us out of
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this immersive view. Now we're back to what we
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were before. I don't know if I like it. I don't
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know if I like it. It's so weird. I got to go
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to the Mount of Olives for once. You were there
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for a hot second, weren't you? Quick plane ride.
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Yeah, so anyway last week we were talking about
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we ended on Those two men that were there on
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the Mount of Olives and I remember Eric had said
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he wanted to talk more about it Did anybody look
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into anything this week any further? I know Karen
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and I have had a couple of conversations About
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these two witnesses with these two men. Is there
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anything further you think we need to cover that
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we didn't cover last time? I wanted to say that
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when I was telling my friend Annie Gilman about
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our study, she hadn't seen it or anything, she
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jumped right in and talked about the cherubim.
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And I said, it's funny you say that because that's
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what Danny said. Yeah, right on there. That was
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definitely confirmation. I think there's a lot
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to it. That was good. And then Karen, you and
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I were talking about how in the tomb that there
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were two men, one at the head where Jesus's head
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would be and one at his feet. And we started
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thinking about the cherubim angels that were
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on the mercy seat at the head and at the foot,
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you know, like looking over the mercy seat. So
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that was just something that came to mind too,
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in regard to the two. That's good. That's good.
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There's a lot of twos in this, you know, in these
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texts here. So Does anybody have anybody willing
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to read some of the Bible here? We're going to
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move on from the two witnesses. If anything else
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comes up, guys, just jump in and let's go with
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it. But I wanted to read further into this. So
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starting with verse 12, where they begin to replace
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Judas, is anybody willing to read verse 12 through,
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honestly, through the rest of the chapter? So
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that goes to 26, so that's quite a few verses,
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14 verses. Sure, I'll read it. All right. I'm
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in the NAS, so. Okay, perfect. Then they returned
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to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which
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is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day journey away.
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When they had entered the city, they went up
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to the upper room where they were staying. That
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is, Peter and John and James, Andrew, Philip,
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and Thomas Bartholomew. Matthew, James the son
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of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot and Judas the
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son of James. These all with one mind were continually
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devoting themselves to prayer along with the
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women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his
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brothers. At this time Peter stood up in the
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midst of the brethren. A gathering of about 120
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persons was there together and said, Brethren,
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the scripture had to be fulfilled. which the
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Holy Spirit foretold by the mouth of David concerning
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Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested
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Jesus. For he was counted among us and received
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his share in this ministry. Now this man acquired
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a field with the price of his wickedness, and
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falling headlong he burst open in the middle
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and all his intestines gushed out. What a scene.
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And it became known to all who were living in
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Jerusalem. so that in their own language the
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field was called, I may not say this, Hakodama,
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that is, field of blood, for it is written in
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the book of Psalms. Let his homestead be made
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desolate, and let no one dwell in it, and let
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another man take his office. Therefore, it is
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necessary that one of the men who have accompanied
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us all the time, that the Lord Jesus went in
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and amount among us. beginning with the baptism
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of John until the day that he was taken up from
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us. One of these must become a witness with us
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of his resurrection. So they put forward two
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men, Joseph called Barbaeus, who was also called
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Justus and Mathias. And they prayed and said,
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you Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show
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which one of these two you have chosen to occupy
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this ministry and apostleship. from which Judas
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turned aside to go to his own place. And they
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drew lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias,
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and he was added to the eleven apostles. Awesome.
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Thank you, Danny. So right after this ascension,
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and they go back to Jerusalem in the upper room,
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it says there's 120 people that are there with
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them. But the one thing that I wanted to just
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to point out Is that they named the 11 apostles
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and then it says they're doing something incredibly
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important It says these all with one mind were
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continually devoting themselves to prayer Along
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with the women and marry the mother of Jesus
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and with his brethren so this big gathering and
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What are they doing? praying prayer So we have
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the Holy Spirit that starts This is like Karen
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had said, you know last week and the week before
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this is about the Holy Spirit Coming to the world
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and beginning, you know to to do exactly what
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Jesus had said the father had promised by sending
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him and What do they do? They go to the upper
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room. Jesus told him to go back to Jerusalem
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That's where they went and then they are sitting
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there and they're in prayer. So they're waiting
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That's exactly what they're doing. They're waiting
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so Then at this point, while they're praying,
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Peter jumps up and he's like, um, guys, the scriptures
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had to be fulfilled with the, which the Holy
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Spirit foretold by the mouth of David concerning
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Judas. Did any of you guys research any of that
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this week about what Peter is actually talking
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about? Like where, where he's getting this quote?
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It's in Psalm 41 nine. Okay. Do you, by any chance
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do you have it? Could you look it up and read
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it I can okay I Have now I have my NSV in my
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in 2k machines, so I got two of them here 40
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So I'm 41 9 9 yeah, I didn't look at the context
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which I should have Say that I like that yeah,
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even my close friend in whom I trusted who ate
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my bread has lifted his heel up against me. And
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they were eating bread at Passover. Right. Yeah.
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So and he said something about when he passed
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the cup, that was right before he betrayed him
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because he knew. Yeah. Jesus himself quotes.
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I think it's John. Is it John 12, 35? Let me
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look it up here. Is that is that correct? I think.
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Yeah, I think it's John 12, 35, where Jesus Actually
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says it or John 13 18 it was betrayed But it
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was like a foreshadowing if you go to John, I
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think it's John 13 18 Jesus himself says this
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John 13 18 states He says I do not speak of all
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of you I know the ones I have chosen but it is
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that the scripture may be fulfilled he who eats
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my bread has lifted up his heel and against me.
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So we know that Peter was there, he heard Jesus
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say this. Peter was the one asking Jesus closely,
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who is this one that's going to do it? And then
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we know that, you know, the one of them grabs
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a bread and sops with him, right? So Jesus is
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recognizing this, and they're pulling this directly
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from something that David had said. Now, are
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any of you familiar with the man Ahithophel from
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the Old Testament? All right. Wasn't he one of
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the advisors? Was he one of the advisors to David?
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Yes. When was it when, um, Absalom rebelled?
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Yes. And then didn't they thwart his advice?
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Was the one who whose advice got thwarted? Yes.
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Then he decided to kill himself because he was
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so upset that Do you know how he killed himself?
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He hung himself. Yeah, sound familiar? Yeah.
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So I think it's 2 Samuel chapter 15 is where
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we hear that story. And Ahithophel was a very
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close friend of David's. And so whenever we hear
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like he ate my bread, it doesn't necessarily
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mean like in the case of Jesus and Judas, they
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were actually eating the unleavened bread, but
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with David by saying it that way, it was more
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like, you know, being in fellowship with, being
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in close proximity to and in love and like family,
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like brethren. And Ahithophel was a very close
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friend of David's and had been a good godly advisor.
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As a matter of fact, it says it, I think it says
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in second Samuel, it literally says that it was
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like when he spoke, he spoke an oracle of God.
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Let me see if I can find that. It's in second
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Samuel. where is it 15 well it's like all of
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15 through 17 um let's see i tried to have all
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of this ready and it's just too much it's too
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much i'm sorry all right i'm getting there so
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uh in second samuel 1623 second samuel 1623 this
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is what it says about ahithophel Verse 23, the
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advice of Ahithophel, which he gave in those
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days, was as if one inquired of the word of God,
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so was all the advice of Ahithophel regarded
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by both David and Absalom. Okay, so this man
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was highly regarded, very close to David. It
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seems like he was from Giloh, G -I -L -O -H,
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I think it was, which is in Judah. So David was
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from Judah from Bethlehem and then also Ahithophel
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was from Judah. So he was like in his same tribe.
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And like I said, it was as if one inquired of
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the word of God. So Ahithophel was very respected
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and very trusted. But he decides to give David
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some bad advice because he's siding with Absalom.
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And then What's really fascinating, whenever
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David discovers this, do you know what David
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does? He flees, he weeps, but he flees to the
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Mount of Olives and he weeps. And then there's
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this other character that comes in by the name
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of Hoshiai and David consults with him and sends
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him in to thwart Ahithophel and it works. David,
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of course, is crushed. So in Psalm 41 .9, you
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can't really link it. It doesn't say the name
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Ahithophel. But I believe that that's who David's
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talking about, because it makes sense to me,
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because after Ahithophel, once he discovered
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that his word is no longer respected, that it
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says that he put his affairs in order, he put
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his home in order, and he went and hanged himself.
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And that's such a shadow and a type. of the Judas
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character, because he has remorse after he does
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what he does. And then he goes and hangs himself.
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And it says right here that that said that he
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bought a field. But in the Gospels, it never
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says that doesn't say he bought a field. I don't
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think. And maybe it maybe the other one hung
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himself. Do you think they were in the same place
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or close by? Honestly, I don't know. I mean,
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the Mount of Olives is right there. They are
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in Judah. And so I would assume it's relatively
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close. I mean, that's where, you know, Judas
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is. And by the way, like I was doing some research
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on Judas because as a matter of fact, I've got
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a lot to bring tonight just in this very, this
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very subject because this theme or this pattern
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of the betrayer is, it goes way back. It goes
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all the way back to the patriarchs. And it seems
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to recapitulate. In very important parts of israel's
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history and i think that that's what's going
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on here why? Peter would be able to recall that
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verse because jesus said it because jesus recalled
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that verse because this is a theme and this was
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a type and shadow of what the christ would go
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through but And i've lost my train of thought
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there but by saying going back in history Can
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you guys think of another time in Israel's history,
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like all the way back to the early 12 tribes
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or the 12 brothers when someone was betrayed?
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Yeah, Joseph. Oh, Joseph. Yeah. OK, so Joseph
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was betrayed and they were they were just going
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to kill him. Initially is what it says. But do
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you know who gave the idea that they should sell
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Judah, that they should sell him? Ruben. Judah.
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Ruben was trying to save him, but Judah was the
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one that gave the suggestion to sell him. And
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they did. And do you know how much they sold
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Joseph for? 30 pieces of silver? The same thing.
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20 pieces of silver. I guess that's the price
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of inflation. Yeah, that's fine. But 20 pieces
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of silver. So you see this betrayal and Joseph
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and Judah, right? This gets crazy. Like, this
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is kind of crazy how this works out in this book.
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Big Daddy, do you remember whenever we worked
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on the mirror, we were talking about Ahithophel
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and Judas? Dude, it's like we got six mirrors
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going on here. We'll have to share that with
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you guys once, eventually. So we all know the
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story of Joseph and how after that betrayal that
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Joseph went through taken down into Egypt and
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eventually would rise to be second in command
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of all of Egypt and save the world, basically.
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And we know that that's definitely a type of
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Christ. But there was a betrayal. He forgives
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them. He forgives them. The betrayal is the engine
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that gets them, that gets these savior characters
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to the place to where they can save people. All
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right, so you got to get there. The idea of Ahithophel
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and David being close and then Ahithophel betraying
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David during Absalom's rebellion, eventually
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we know what happens. Absalom obviously dies
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and David is restored and brings Israel to its
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highest height as the king over all of Israel.
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So by the time we get to Jesus and Judas and
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everything that's happening with them and Peter
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now describing how this needs to fulfill scripture,
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this was necessary to fulfill scripture. What's
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fascinating, I never saw this before and I don't
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know and I'm probably wrong. If I am, I want
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you guys to tell me. But did you ever wonder
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why Luke, when he tells you of the two men that
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were selected, that the first one he gives three
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names? Have you ever wondered why? Let's go back
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to that. Acts. Acts chapter one. I was wondering
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why they drew lots. Is that considered divination?
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No. I mean, even though the Holy Spirit obviously
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chose him, but what kind of thing is drawing
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lots? So the scripture says the lot is cast,
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but the the Lord determines the says the lot
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is cast in the lap, but the the Lord determines
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its outcome. And it was something whenever Joshua
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drew lots in order to give the land to Israel.
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So it was common practice for the Israelites
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to draw lots. They believe that whatever it landed
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on that God determined it in his sovereignty
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for them. So. All right. So before we get into
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the men's names, let's say it like this. This
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was another fascinating thing to me. So beginning
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with the baptism of John, this is what Peter
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says in verse 21, therefore it is necessary that
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of the men who have accompanied us all the time
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that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
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beginning with the baptism of John until the
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day that he was taken up from us. So that means
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that we know about the apostles. But there were
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other people traveling around with them. I mean,
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that should be a given, but you know, for most
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of my life, I just thought it was the him and
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the 12 walking around, but there were, there
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was a bunch of people with them. And of course
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we knew all of the women that it names and then,
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but you don't hear about a lot of the other men
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until after the fact, you know what I mean? Like
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we knew about Mary Magdalene. It usually was
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just a number of disciples following you. Yeah,
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we knew that he sent out the 70, so obviously
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there's more than 12, but they're never named.
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There's 120 in the upper room. Right. That's
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a lot. That's a crowded room. It really is. I
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don't know how big that upper room was, but pretty
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big. But so they wanted these men that had been
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there from the beginning. So what they do, the
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group, the collective, It says, so they put forward
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two men, verse 23. Now watch this name. Joseph
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called Bar -sabbas, who was also called Justice.
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Don't you think that's kind of interesting that
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he decided to tell us three names? And what's
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amazing is that the guy with the three names
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isn't the one that's selected. So I was thinking
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about this and I was like, Lord, why would you
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put those three names there? Okay, now I know
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that it's easy to go back. There was a lot of
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people named Joseph, a lot of people named Judas
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back then. So you see in other places in the
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book of Acts where Luke will say, for example,
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Barnabas, his name, he had another name besides
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Barnabas. I forget what it was. He was a Levite
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and I think his name was, I think his name was
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Judas, maybe, I don't know. We can look it up.
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But he says whose surname was whatever. and was
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called whatever. But in this one, I thought it
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was kind of interesting. So Joseph is a Hebrew
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Semitic name that goes way back. It's an ancient
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name. Obviously one of the tribes is named after
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Joseph, right? Barsabbas, that's very close to
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Barabbas, but Barsabbas is an Aramaic name. And
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although people, the naming convention of people
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at that time, those Aramaic names could be found
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in the southern kingdom like of Judah, but mainly
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it was spoken in the northern area where the
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Assyrians had come in, okay? And justice is a
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Latin name. And so I was thinking about it and
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while I was talking to the Lord about it, it
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just hit me. Earlier in this book, the great
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commission was to go to Jerusalem and Judea,
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then to Samaria. than the uttermost parts of
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the earth so this man's name sort of represents
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that in the order in which what did you say big
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daddy he's a traveler yeah he's around he's known
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now people were given latin names i mean obviously
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sol of tarsus was also known as paul which was
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his roman name is his latin name paul was also
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the same type of traveler right what would what
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would be the purpose if you stayed around jerusalem
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why would you purposely have separate names Right.
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Why would you for what reason would you want
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to fit in differently having a different name
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more of a Latin name? Are you gonna travel throughout
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Asia in the same way that Paul was? Mm -hmm.
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He's a traveler. It seemed like the name was
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showing a function doesn't it kind of Yeah, go
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ahead Karen, yeah, and everybody wants to call
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him Yeshua Jesus I mean, this is what This whole
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thing about his name is I mean, they don't change
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anyone else's name Mm -hmm, and I do know Yeshua
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is metatron So they do want us to use another
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name because remember how they said you can't
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you can't preach in that name Jesus so his name
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is super strong and this thing to make him Yeshua
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is Just a deception Yeah, I've heard I was looking
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into that to Karen once before and is there a
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difference between Yeshu and Yeshua Well, neither
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one his name is Jesus. He was born, you know,
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that's what everybody knows him by that name
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Right, but why do they want to change his name?
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But nobody else's name is getting changed Joseph
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doesn't get changed. None of the other ones get
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changed It just shows how powerful his name is
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Someone just left a comment about that on my
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channel and then someone replied yes you I think
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is a what was a derogatory term actually used
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against Yeah, Jesus. Yeah, they're mocking. I'm
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gonna see if I can find it. I don't know if I'm
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gonna be able to. But I'm heading off the subject,
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so. Yeah. I just wanted to show you that names
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are important because you're pointing this out.
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And why would they change the name of the Lord
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that we all get saved by his name? I don't know
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anybody that got saved by Yeshua. honestly, I
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actually I watched something by Michael Heiser
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a while back and He was saying that when it came
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to the ancient Hebrews and the name the name
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was not Specifically like what you call someone
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the name was about the character So like the
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name of God would be more about his character
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Than what he is called. So I don't remember what
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which video it was, but I know that I saw it
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a while back Well, it's like Joshua's name wasn't
27:11
right But like Joshua's name is Yahoshua, right?
27:15
We say Joshua and maybe they use the just sound,
27:19
but from what I understand, the J wasn't even
27:21
in the language until what, the 13th or 14th
27:24
century? No, the sound was. It was an I. Yeah,
27:27
it was an I. When it's followed by a consonant,
27:29
it's the I sound like Israel. When it's followed
27:31
by a vowel, it's the J sound like Judah. But
27:33
it was an I and Tyndale added the little tail
27:36
to make it, which it was a J sound to make it
27:39
an actual different letter. But it did have the
27:41
sound J. Yeah. I mean, I was going to say it's
27:44
not like people didn't go J in ancient times.
27:46
I'm sure they did. Well, there's Judah and there
27:49
was I mean, people weren't there was a lot of
27:52
names. Joseph, that started with the J sound.
27:54
It was just spelled with an I. But they knew
27:56
when it was followed by a vowel, it was followed
28:00
by a vowel. It was the J sound followed by a
28:02
consonant. It was the I sound like Israel. Yeah.
28:04
You must be yoking. Okay, sorry, I got way off
28:10
track there. I was just kidding. But Rick, I
28:15
think you're correct on the function. You know,
28:18
they weren't like us. We give our names like
28:21
whatever, but in the Bible, they had functions.
28:24
I mean, they're not carried with their name,
28:25
too. So I was really, I thought that it was kind
28:29
of interesting that Luke's pointing out something.
28:32
I think the reason why he uses all these names
28:34
actually comes up later in Acts 15. because I
28:38
believe that Luke is talking about his brother.
28:41
Barsabbas is a name. It's a unique name. And
28:45
in Acts chapter 15, he talks about Judas Barsabbas
28:50
at the Jerusalem council. And so I think that
28:53
maybe early on he's showing that this is this
28:56
is Joseph who is called Barsabbas. So it'd be
28:59
Joseph Barsabbas, but he's also called Justice,
29:02
which is a Latin name. OK, so. Yeah, go ahead.
29:08
At least from what I've, um, put time into this
29:12
is that when men would leave out and travel,
29:17
they usually, depending on what they were, their
29:20
name was, where they came from, came with, could
29:23
have come with a stigma or could have come with
29:25
something that carried baggage with it. So to
29:28
have a different name would be to shed away from
29:31
that stigma, get away from that thing. And you
29:33
could blend into where you're heading to the
29:36
unit. It didn't carry it with you. So you could
29:39
do be their business or live in a different town
29:42
or city in it as a different sort of a different
29:44
person. What's kind of interesting in this letter
29:47
is that this is initially when it's written,
29:50
it's not a, it's not a mass letter like we have
29:53
it today in the Bible. It was more of a private
29:55
letter because it was written to theopolis. So
29:58
for Luke to expose his multiple names is sort
30:03
of a mass letter would have been a detriment
30:05
to him, not into a private letter you don't want
30:09
to expose if he's using name different names
30:13
for i'm not saying the fairest reasons but for
30:15
protection of himself just remember that they're
30:18
about to meet some very heavy persecution you
30:22
know very shortly in in their lives so yes so
30:26
you don't want to expose this stuff and and we
30:30
we talk sometimes when we're reading the bible
30:32
that it's like it's written in a code To some
30:36
degree, I believe that's absolutely true because
30:39
the information that's in the letter that are
30:43
written are very important and written to certain
30:46
people. It's usually sent with a messenger. The
30:50
messenger would be able to read it and be able
30:53
to decipher the information within it so that
30:56
the listeners at the time when they receive it
30:58
had full understanding. The people, if the letter
31:01
ever got lost, got picked up. or the messenger
31:04
that sent the letter got arrested. You know,
31:07
most average person most likely, unless they
31:09
had done understanding of it, could not read
31:12
it and fully understand what it meant. Because
31:14
there's certain names at all that are written
31:17
throughout the letters that mean different things.
31:20
Parables, again, or information that means something
31:23
else to mean something to somebody, but to somebody
31:26
else that's completely gibberish. So adding into
31:30
the part about him kind of exposing him, You're
31:34
right, Rick, maybe that it's close to Luke because
31:37
one Luke knows all three of his name. So he had
31:40
to be in Luke's inner circle and to expose it
31:45
is, you know, he wouldn't have done that if this
31:47
was a mass letter. Mm hmm. Well, and it's also
31:51
a theophilist would be in Jerusalem. And because
31:54
later when it connects to Judas bar, Sabbath,
31:56
it would make sense that these men were known.
32:00
In Jerusalem, I don't think that my guess is
32:04
that these guys were Judahites, most likely.
32:07
And so the office will probably know who they
32:09
are. And Luke is trusting Theophilus with the
32:12
information. He's not willingly given it to him
32:15
because it Theophilus is most likely going to
32:17
do something nefarious with it. Assumingly again,
32:20
this everything we say to some degree of speculation,
32:23
but getting in the context of what these things
32:26
are going on during the period of time it's happening.
32:29
It seems to make a lot of definite sense that
32:33
if they're traveling they would have multiple
32:35
names So they could just blend in better Mm -hmm.
32:41
Yeah, that's good They did that in because area
32:44
too. They were called the names dealers They
32:46
would when somebody came into because area they
32:49
would you know kill that they would kill the
32:51
guy take his stuff Take his identity and then
32:53
go and sell his stuff They were called the names
32:56
dealers. So It could be used for different reasons.
33:00
Sounds like modern times here. It's like the
33:04
criminals here. It's like the scams on. My name
33:08
is going, my name is John. And you know, from
33:10
like Indonesia, trying to scam you out of money.
33:16
Well, no, that's his American name. Maybe he
33:18
has three names too. And then as soon as you
33:23
say I'm gonna call the company that you're from
33:25
or the credit card then they say something rude
33:27
and hang up on you Yeah, I missed the first the
33:31
first episode that you did So I don't even know
33:34
if you talked about this, but even the name Theophilus
33:36
there's debate over whether that was an actual
33:38
name because it also translates to lover of God
33:41
so they didn't know if that was just sort of
33:44
a An anonymous name as well. I mean, yeah, you
33:48
you bring up a point that A lot of what we have
33:51
is what we take it on face value because we don't
33:53
have the original author who explained to us
33:55
that the opposite was either a real person or
33:58
he couldn't have been. Don't know. We have no
34:00
idea. We're limited so much on information. Well,
34:04
we did, we did link him. I tried to link him
34:07
to the awful has been an honest, the high priest
34:09
of the time there were, um, but that doesn't
34:12
mean he was, um, Because it would have been great
34:16
if he had said oh Theophilus been an honest that
34:18
would have been awesome because then we would
34:19
have known but he didn't All right. So when they
34:23
cast the lots for these guys The lot they they
34:28
pray Let's read that again what it says And they
34:34
prayed and said because they selected Joseph
34:38
called bar Sabbath who was also called justice
34:40
and Matthias or Matthias I don't know how you
34:43
say it and they prayed now they're praying again
34:46
and said, You, Lord, who know the hearts of all
34:50
men, show which one of these two you have chosen
34:54
to occupy this ministry and apostleship from
34:57
which Judas turned aside to go his own way. And
35:00
they drew lots for them, and the lot fell to
35:04
Mathias. Do you know what Mathias's name means?
35:09
Gift of God. Oh, Matthew. I thought that was
35:12
pretty neat. What's that? Isn't that what Matthew
35:16
means? Or that's what John means, I think. Gift
35:19
of God, gift from God. I looked it up. It means
35:22
gift of God. So I thought that was kind of neat.
35:27
So they're showing. I personally, this is just
35:29
me. All right. And this this podcast, we speculate
35:33
and we're allowed. So don't exegete me to death.
35:36
I think what's going on here is that there's
35:40
nothing wrong whatsoever with Joseph Barsabas
35:45
justice. there's nothing wrong with him. He was
35:48
a well -selected man, somebody that they all
35:51
trusted and thought should be in the position.
35:53
Nothing wrong with him. And there's obviously
35:56
nothing wrong with Matthias either. I think the
35:59
showing of the three names, Luke is going to
36:01
tie into this later because I think he's showing,
36:04
obviously the book of Acts is about this great
36:06
commission. Yes. All the way till Paul gets to
36:09
Rome, right? So we're watching the growth. of
36:13
the church and the spreading. But then there
36:14
comes a point, whether it's pivotal, where it
36:17
switches. Because you see Philip go to Samaria,
36:20
right? It makes sense. They're following the
36:23
order. They get to Samaria and then boom, you've
36:25
got Stephen, you've got the Gentiles. Now, Saul
36:30
comes in and now he's the apostle of the Gentiles
36:32
and he starts, you know, spreading the gospel
36:34
around. So I think that that name is important.
36:38
I think that showing those three names sort of
36:40
That's just me. But I think it's sort of alluding
36:43
to where God gives his gift of Matthias at this
36:47
moment, because he's from this this gift of God
36:50
from this area singular name while they're in
36:53
Jerusalem. That's just me. All his works are
36:57
known from eternity past. Yeah, that's true.
37:01
And the other guy got the short stick. Yeah.
37:07
Yeah, he sure did. It was God's will, so. I have
37:11
one more question about that the apostles. Okay,
37:14
so paul is an apostle too. Does that make 13?
37:17
Or is he not a is he not one of the 12 because
37:20
he he didn't actually walk with jesus. He just
37:23
had the encounter with him So what would that
37:25
make paul? Like if he's an apostle, does that
37:27
make it 13? He says that he's an apostle born
37:30
out of season season, right? And he was born
37:33
for the yeah for specifically for the Gentiles
37:39
So he's 12 plus one. Yeah, kind of like the way
37:43
that it works with the tribes where you have
37:47
Joseph that's replaced with Ephraim and Manasseh.
37:52
I'm sorry. Go ahead, Kristen. I was thinking
37:56
of Dinah. You know, there were 12 brothers, but
37:59
then there was one sister. And she was the baddest
38:04
of all of them. Yeah, she was the baddest. Good
38:11
means bad in a good way. Like sick. Why are we
38:17
so wicked good? It was wicked. Well, I appreciate
38:21
you, Rick, looking into all this stuff because
38:24
there's a lot here that I never would have like
38:27
not only the three names, but when you were connecting
38:30
it back to. Ahithophel, you know, even though
38:33
I've read the scripture, the names get confusing,
38:36
the battles get confusing. Everything starts
38:38
to jumble. You almost need a chart. But I appreciate
38:42
you doing that. And Rick Carter, too. I know
38:44
you guys do some really deep dives. Yeah. Thank
38:48
you, Karen. The question that I wanted to ask
38:52
you guys as a group, because this has always
38:55
confused me, is It always seems like when the
39:00
apostles use the scriptures and say that this
39:04
must be fulfilled, that it makes no sense to
39:06
me at all. In other words, like, you know how
39:12
Matthew will say, like out of Egypt, I've called
39:14
my son. And if you go to Hosea 11, he's talking
39:18
about Israel out of the Exodus. But Matthew takes
39:23
that and he applies it to Christ. And like, how
39:28
did how did Peter know? For example, like so
39:33
you were talking about Psalm one Psalm 41 9 but
39:37
these other these other ones are like Psalm 109
39:44
and Psalm 69 like if you go to Psalm 69 25 Look
39:48
at Psalm 69 25 with me real question is how did
39:51
David know? He's not looking back Well, he's
40:00
looking at his present. He's looking at his present
40:02
and what he's dealing with, but it has ramifications.
40:04
It means something later. And I don't know that
40:06
he knows it all. Yeah. I don't know if he knew
40:09
that. Yeah. So like if you go to Psalm 69, it
40:16
starts off. Yes. So it says here in Psalm 69,
40:22
a cry of distress and implication on adversaries.
40:26
Catch that a cry of distress and imprecation
40:29
on adversaries for the choir director record.
40:31
I'm in Psalm 69 verse 1 For the choir director
40:35
according to shosh and him a psalm of David save
40:39
me Oh God for the waters have threatened my life
40:41
I have sunk in deep mire and there is no foothold
40:44
I have come into deep waters and a flood overflows
40:46
me I am weary with my crying my throat is parched
40:49
my eyes fail while I wait for my God Those who
40:53
hate me without a cause are more than the hairs
40:55
of my head. Those who would destroy me are powerful,
40:58
being wrongfully my enemies. What I did not steal
41:01
I then have to restore. O God, is it you who
41:05
knows my folly and my wrongs are not hidden from
41:07
you? That's obviously David. Because that can't
41:12
be Jesus verse 6 may those who wait for you not
41:15
be ashamed through me Oh Lord God of hosts may
41:17
those who seek you not be dishonored through
41:19
me Oh God of Israel Because for your sake I have
41:23
borne reproach this honor has covered my face
41:25
I have become estranged from my brothers and
41:28
an alien to my mother's sons For zeal for your
41:31
house has consumed me does that sound familiar?
41:35
The zeal of your house is consuming they use
41:37
that in the Gospels to talk about when Jesus
41:40
is kicking them out, calling them a den of thieves,
41:43
and whipping them. The zeal for your house has
41:45
consumed me. It was fulfilling of the scripture.
41:48
And the reproaches of those who reproach you
41:50
have fallen on me. When I wept in my soul with
41:53
fasting, it became my reproach. When I made sackcloth
41:56
my clothing, I became a byword to them. Those
41:59
who sit in the gate talk about me, and I am the
42:02
song of the drunkards. But as for me, my prayer
42:05
is to you. O Lord, at an acceptable time. O God,
42:08
in the greatness of your loving -kindness, answer
42:11
me with your saving truth. Deliver me from the
42:14
mire and do not let me sink. May I be delivered
42:17
from my foes and from the deep waters. May the
42:20
flood of water not overflow me, nor the deep
42:23
swallow me up, nor the pit shut its mouth on
42:26
me. Now a lot of these verses we know like answer
42:29
me a load for your loving kindness is good According
42:32
to the greatness of your compassion turned to
42:34
me and do not hide your face from your servant
42:36
For I am in distress answer me quickly. Oh, oh
42:40
draw near to my soul and redeem it Ransom me
42:43
be ransom me because of my enemies You know my
42:47
reproach, huh be heard in these You know some
42:51
boys can be heard in these and these words whose?
42:55
job Yeah, I was gonna say that's Joe and it's
42:59
still a picture of Christ Mm -hmm. It is and
43:02
so if we keep 21 first 21 Yeah, look at it. They
43:06
also gave me golf for my food and for my thirst
43:08
They gave me vinegar to drink. Who's that Christ?
43:12
Exactly May their table before them become a
43:15
snare and when they are in a piece may it become
43:17
a trap May their eyes grow dim so they cannot
43:20
see and make their loins shake continually pour
43:23
out your indignation on them and may your burning
43:27
anger overtake them. Now watch this. May they
43:30
forgive them. He said, forgive them. And he's
43:35
saying, get vengeance on them. Right. So verse
43:39
25, but the thing is God poured his indignation
43:41
out on his son. Yes, he did. So everything that
43:46
David's crying out for is actually going to be
43:48
put on his servant. That's what that's what's
43:50
going on in verse 25 He says may there can't
43:53
be desolate may none dwell in their tents now
43:56
if you go back to acts That's what Peter is quoting
44:01
that verse So how is that the scriptures being
44:05
fulfilled? How is Peter putting that together?
44:09
How is the whole like the Holy Spirit has got
44:11
to be telling Peter something so Whenever we're
44:14
trying to understand prophecy or understand the
44:16
fulfillment of scripture, like how do you guys
44:18
put that together? Could you have ever read that
44:21
verse and then placed it in this position in
44:23
the story? Do you see what I mean? Am I making
44:26
sense? I don't know. I mean, I could be wrong,
44:28
but I think that when it comes to the ancient
44:31
Hebrews, the males at least, they were completely
44:34
immersed in the Tanakh. They ate, they slept
44:40
and they breathed the Tanakh. They knew it in
44:43
and out and that was that was their life So it
44:47
might seem hard for us to understand today because
44:50
even though there are those of us who we we do
44:52
study our words I think that a lot of them even
44:54
had the Tanakh or at least the entire Torah completely
44:57
memorized So, I don't know for them. It might
45:01
have just been easier because this is something
45:03
that was completely in their nature Not not in
45:08
their nature, but it's just it was become there
45:10
was the way that they were raised And we just
45:13
don't have anything to compare that to, I think.
45:16
They're still that way too. Yeah. And Rick, to
45:20
continue what Shelley's saying, they knew the
45:23
scriptures so well, you'll see some scriptures.
45:26
Jesus wouldn't quote the whole scripture. They
45:27
don't quote the whole whole testament because
45:30
they know that they knew what they were talking
45:32
about. Which makes it hard for me because I don't
45:36
know what they're talking about. Really don't
45:39
like I can use chat GPT till the cows come home
45:43
and I do I'd love to try to research and help
45:45
me get the you know Man, like there's some things
45:48
I'm just not gonna get and so at this point whenever
45:52
Peter says in order to fill the scripture and
45:56
then he reads Psalm 69 and I think it's Psalm
45:58
10 some whoops, sorry, so no no nine Yeah, let's
46:04
see 109 8 some 109. Let's go to Psalm 109 real
46:07
quick doesn't Doesn't that almost make like everything
46:11
from the Old Testament is almost prophetic? Because
46:14
it never has a fulfillment until the days of
46:17
Christ a lot of ways it feels like it You know,
46:20
it feels like everything's prophetic. It's all
46:23
Jesus said the law and the prophets were about
46:26
me In the Psalms to Rick he said I came to fulfill
46:32
the Psalms to yes all to the Psalms to me is
46:36
messianic. Mm -hmm That's a picture see my Bible
46:39
study in in Rick brought a little bit about it
46:43
and the deepness of the mirrors and the propheticness
46:47
if you know how much of at least the Old Testament
46:52
is prophetic and if you take it from a prophetic
46:55
context it takes you it really is mind -numbing
47:01
about the amount of information that probably
47:04
is in this that to some degree we we we try to
47:08
They let's be literal about it, but can we, our
47:13
language and how we talk to each other, we're
47:16
so descriptive. We use, um, we use words on top
47:20
of words to describe different things, to try
47:22
to, to paint some type of narrative in our, in
47:25
our everyday conversation and our language. And
47:28
I promise that in the, in the writings, they're
47:31
doing the same thing. And it's the hard part
47:34
is trying to figure out. what they mean and if
47:39
you take sometimes through study and and take
47:42
it prophetically based on what do we have to
47:46
reconcile because if Peter is telling the truth
47:49
and Jesus said the same thing and John that in
47:52
order for the scripture to be to be fulfilled
47:55
that means that the things that were said during
47:57
the Old Testament days was not there is no near
48:00
fulfillment does it have a near fulfillment very
48:03
possibly it does But then you can't reconcile
48:07
what Jesus said or Peter saying and saying that
48:09
so that the scripture can be fulfilled and they
48:11
have to be fulfilled now. You have to reconcile
48:15
that. It has to add up. You know what, though,
48:19
Big Daddy? So these Psalms that we say, it's
48:23
just like Danny just said a minute ago, like
48:25
they know it. Go to Psalm 109, then I'll make
48:29
my point in Psalm 109. You remember in Psalm
48:32
69, I read the heading, right? And it said. something
48:36
about adversaries. Do you remember that? Well,
48:39
look at Psalm 109. Vengeance invoked upon adversaries
48:44
for the choir director of Psalm of David. So
48:47
this is an adversarial Psalm. So, you know, they
48:50
have Psalms of praise. Karen called me the other
48:52
day and we read Psalm 148 and 150. I was having
48:55
a very bad day. My day got better, Karen. It
48:56
was wonderful. If you praise God, if you praise
48:59
God when things are bad, praise Him. And yes,
49:02
you're right. It's so true. So. Maybe they're
49:06
singing songs all the time, you know, and then
49:09
these are their songs that they're singing. And
49:11
so when an adversary comes, that's the thing
49:13
that comes to mind. And if Christ is Messiah,
49:18
it's like, that's the other thing. It seems like
49:21
Jesus and the apostles were the only ones who
49:23
knew that Messiah was gonna be cut off. Because
49:26
everybody else was expecting this Messiah to
49:28
come and usher in the kingdom and it was gonna
49:31
be forever, right? But yet Jesus is an apostles,
49:34
they knew he was gonna be cut off. And then we
49:37
also know Jesus says about Judas is better that
49:39
he had never been born. Right. Right. And so,
49:43
but Judah, Judas, Judas was born and you know,
49:48
fulfills his role. The disciples knew he'd be
49:51
cut off because he was telling him that he would
49:53
be cut off. The struggle part is they didn't
49:56
understand until after it already was taken place.
49:59
So it's almost like Jesus was the only one that
50:01
knew he was going to have to die. Listen what
50:12
in fact, what did he what did he call Peter when
50:15
Peter said you can't die? What do you call him?
50:18
Yes an adversary. Oh Very good the adversary.
50:24
Yes Until they had the Holy Spirit. They were
50:28
not bold. That's right away when he got arrested
50:31
I mean, their boldness didn't come until they
50:33
got the Holy Spirit. That's right. I have to
50:35
disagree. I have to disagree. Really? Yeah, Peter
50:38
had a ton of boldness, man. He grabbed a sword
50:40
and cut a dude's ear off. He had way too much.
50:43
Yes, it is. Just worldly. Okay, not the right
50:46
kind of boldness. You're right. Jesus explains
50:48
that. Wrong sword, buddy. Wrong sword, Peter.
50:53
That's not the sword I'm talking about. I mean,
50:55
bold for him. Yes. They would die for him and
50:57
they wouldn't die for him when he went to the
50:59
cross. They ran. Right. Well, Peter didn't say
51:01
that I would die for you, Jesus. And he ran away
51:05
and he denied him. Jesus is the one that put
51:09
that stopped Peter from fighting in the in the
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physical. Right. He did. Peter was fighting in
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the physical, right? So he took the sword cut
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off Malchus's ear. He's ready to rock, you know,
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like let's go to war and But Peter Jesus says
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Peter put away your sword Right, and then he
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heals map Malchus So it's obvious that Peter
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whatever that war that that Jesus was teaching
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Peter was not the physical war It's never been
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about the physical. I think they thought it was
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a physical kingdom even Till he died and then
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they're like, oh well there go our hopes and
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they ran away first Yeah, but they still went
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and they waited and they got the Holy Spirit
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and then they knew Yeah, the kingdom was That's
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good. You're right I could be wrong, but in Acts
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1, I thought that also, and I know that people
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have different takes on this, but in verse 6
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of Acts 1, when they say, Lord, is it at this
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time that you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?
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To me, when I read that, I get the impression
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that they're still waiting for a political kingdom,
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even at that point. Until they got the Holy Spirit,
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they didn't get it. They did not get it. I have
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to read this question, and it goes into Acts...
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Let me look at the verse real quick. Here's the
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question that I had. Now I could be wrong in
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this and the same thing. But why would that?
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Why would the disciples that spend all that time
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with him asking that question about the restoring
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of the kingdom? Right. So why would they ask
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him that question restoring kingdom when they
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knew from the very beginning, when they, when
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they had already talked about from the point
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of when the baptism of John, he's at the baptism,
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Johnny telling him that the kingdom's at hand.
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So they're now asking the question, when are
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you going to reestablish your kingdom? That doesn't
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seem like a disciple question. In my opinion,
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it was physical. Well, again, we love to speculate
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and we get into we read today about when it called
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out the 12 in verse 13, the question would be,
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is are the disciples there? The way that Luke
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is writing this are the disciples actually there
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when this stuff happened? Because of these the
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timing of this is is not far after which part
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which part I'm confused Rick which part in the
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first eight verses You're talking about during
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the ascension that yes are the disciples even
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okay are the disciples there because they're
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gazing up It seems like they are well the group
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that they're the Jesus is with of course. They're
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gazing up 100 % But are the 12 there? They wouldn't
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have seemed to have asked that question in my
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opinion That would have been like a comp, you
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know, more of a, an outsider view that had the
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perspective, again, of the Messiah coming into
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rule and reign over the kingdoms of the earth.
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That's like an earthly question, not a heavenly
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question. Christ was pointing to the heavenly
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things, not to the earthly things. That's an
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earthly question. So you get into 13 and it's
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Mrs. When they arrived, you know, they didn't
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know what to do. They didn't know what to do.
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It went to the room upstairs where they were
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staying in the, again, I'd need an English teacher
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to help me, at least in my translation of the
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Bible. It seems like the way that they use the
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they there, that that's a third party, that the
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disciples were still locked up in the room. They
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were still afraid to get away. So you're thinking
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that, I think what he's saying is that, so hold
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on, let's go back to X1 at the very top and let
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me see. Let me see if I can pick up what you're
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laying down here. So acts one. So gathering them.
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All right. So gathering them. Verse three. To
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these he also presented himself alive and after
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suffering by many convincing things. So it's
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not mentioning. Yeah. OK, it's the apostles.
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Verse two until the day when he was taken up
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to heaven after he had by the Holy Spirit given
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orders to the Apostles whom he had chosen to
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these he also presented himself alive after his
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suffering by many convincing proofs appearing
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to them over a period of 40 days and Speaking
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of the things concerning the kingdom of God gathering
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them together, which is still the Apostles He
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commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to
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wait for what was father had promised So if we
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hold your thought if they don't leave Jerusalem,
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they should still be in Jerusalem, right? And
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that's where they stayed they were so right.
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So he commanded them not to leave Jerusalem So
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at this point, they're not on the Mount of Olives
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yet, right? Which he said you heard of me for
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John baptized with water But you we baptized
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with the Holy Spirit not many days from now verse
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6 So when they had come together, they were asking
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him saying Lord Is it at this time you were restoring
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the kingdom to Israel? He said to them it is
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not for you to know times or epochs Alright,
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so they're still in Jerusalem at this point when
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he's telling him this And after he said these
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things, he was lifted up while they were looking
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on. So when did they go from Jerusalem to the
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Mount of Olives? Like, when did that happen?
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I see what you're saying. Well, it says right
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after the angels, the two men said he's going
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to go, then they returned to Jerusalem and they
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walked the Sabbath day, right? Yeah, but he ascended
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off the Mount of Olives. Mount of Olives is not,
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I mean, it's technically in Jerusalem, but it's
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not in Jerusalem. You know what I mean? Not in
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the city. After he went up, then they went and
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they waited because it was it was ten days. Right.
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Because he was walking with them for 40 days.
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But I don't think they still got it. I think
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they got it till they got the Holy Spirit. They
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still thought it was going to be a physical kingdom.
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I still think that they thought that and then
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they got it. And then they started preaching
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about the kingdom and they to their death. I
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mean, look at Stephen. Yeah. Well, I tell you
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what, let's end this one right here with a cliffhanger.
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I don't know. I don't know. I don't understand
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prophecy. I don't understand why prophets, sometimes
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they say things, sometimes they do actions, sometimes
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they see visions, sometimes they sing a song.
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And what seems to be taken out of context is
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perfectly useful for the disciples to use. And
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it's just my ignorance of the scriptures. And
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that's okay right now. That's why we're studying.
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We're trying to understand. And so what we're
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going to do, we'll come back next week for Acts
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chapter two. And that's a very fun chapter. So
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Shelly, Big Daddy, Danny and Adrienne, Kristen,
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Karen, all of you guys. Thanks so much for being
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here tonight. Thank you for hosting. Thank you
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for all your that you do. Oh, you're all you're
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all of you. Wonderful. So much fun. All right.
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Well, we'll talk to you guys again next time
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on the Birds of Berea. Peace out later. ha ha