Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hey. It is Wednesday as you're listening to this, but it's our first day recording since a great Easter weekend. We had an awesome time as a church family. It looked different than we thought it was gonna look but it was a great time still. Nonetheless, we had a great event and that is largely due to the just amazing, flexibility and and generosity with time and just cheerful attitudes of you guys listening to this. Our church family did a great job in responding to some last minute changes on our part, and so we are so grateful for you guys the way that you a adjusted plans. To make extravaganza still happen on Sunday. We had a lot of people show up. We had over 400 people at church this past weekend, which was huge. And just a great opportunity to preach the gospel during main service to some people that were of different faiths, different religions that were there. I. For the egg hunt that decided to come in and listen on Sunday morning. So that was really neat and a great opportunity to be able to do that. But then man, Ali Trinidad and her whole team and all of you who volunteered and you guys know who you are just well done. Thank you so much for serving and for being flexible with us and adapting on the fly. It was we. We couldn't have pulled it off. There's no doubt about it without you guys doing what you did and being as generous with your abilities. That, that's out of pat. That's anything, any place. Anytime you hear us talk about that a lot, and you guys certainly did that this weekend.

Yeah. We couldn't be more proud of you guys. The flexibility, the willingness, the joyful attitude, even with the wind blowing you over you guys just knocked it outta the park. We are extremely proud and honored to co-labor among you.

Yep. Yeah. Yeah. And hopefully it was fun too. I think I looked around, I saw a lot of people having fun. I saw the bounce houses were full. I saw that the playground was full of kids hunting for eggs. And apparently there was one little girl who had a basket full of eggs that she had collected during one of the egg hunts. And she tripped, and the eggs went like just flying out of her basket. Aw. And it was just like. Wild Beast on Ker. They just kids descended on all of her eggs that were in her basket previously. So hopefully that little one got some eggs still in the end. But yeah. Yeah, it's midweek now as you're listening to this. So we, we are a good way into the next week here post Easter, and we're gonna be talking about the difference in, in what difference the resurrected Jesus makes after Easter for us. And that's gonna be this weekend as we continue in our series of the Gospel of John. So we'll be talking, actually, the message is gonna be called the Prosperity Gospel. And so if that's not enough of a hook for you to show up and find out it's not okay, then I don't know why, then I don't know. Then I don't know. You label it why the Prosperity gospel is awesome. Then maybe I take a second look. I'm gonna talk about why the Prosperity Gospel is legitimate. Wow. May, but. No. Yep, you said it. Yep. That's it. Clipped Mark. Bye. Yeah, no, it's we're gonna talk about what prosperity in Christ looks like following his resurrection, and so we'll talk about that on on Sunday. Can't wait to to gather back together with you guys. Yeah, we got youth back on this week. We've got women's Bible study on Saturday. We never stopped. By the way, just to be clear. We got youth. We keep going still this week, not back on. Can't stop. Won't stop. Youth is not back on this week. No, we're still on. It's just on. Still on. Remaining on. Yeah. Lots of good things going on here, but let's jump into some genealogical conversations. Did you hear, by the way, 23 and Me is filing for bankruptcy? I did hear about that. So the Chinese are gonna buy everybody's DNA, it's possible and have all of these records. That is a legitimate concern. Yeah. So I've deleted

mine. I didn't send mine in, there you go. I have deleted mine, so hopefully they actually delete it. We'll see. But I'm nervous about that. Yeah. Exchanging hands and whoever gets that information has a lot of information about a lot of people, which I, isn't it, I thought the Mormons were behind that. No they have genealogies and they're very good at that. I'm pretty sure they're the driving force behind ancestry.com. A few others, maybe that's what it's, yeah, but not 23 and me, but if ancestry.com purchased 23 and me, that would be interesting. And the Mormons never run into money. So that's, they have plenty of cash. Lord knows that they have lots of expandable funds to do something like that. So yeah, that would be something interesting to combine and that in fact, that makes sense to me. ancestry.com and 23 and Me. It's a good fit. It seems to be.

Yep. Yeah. Some people, maybe you don't know this, but there are no paid clergy in the Mormon church or the Mormon wards that is. And so I learned that for the first time when I was in living in Arizona. There was a lot of Mormons in that area, and somebody came out to me and found out I was a pastor. And they were trying to figure out what that looked like. And they're Mormon and they're like, so do you do you own the church? Is it yours? Did you buy it? Yes. That's not how it works. My church, we're not a franchise. We're not Mick Jesus over here. But then they told me that they don't have pastors or any paid clergy in the Mormon wards that it's all staffed by people that are just volunteer capacity, until you get to the upper echelons. But that's why the elders in the Mormon church or whoever can come sit down in your living room and say, let's look at your finances. This is how much you're gonna give to the church this year. Because it's not like you and me going and sitting down with somebody and being like, Hey, let's look at, let's look at your finances. Oh, you're gonna give this much to the church this year? They don't. I don't,

yeah they do check on that. They, if in fact, if you're gonna be temple worthy, if you have your temple card that allows you access into the temples, you have to have. Then thoroughly background checked and that's gonna look different at different wards. But you're right, they do. They do. Look at that. Yeah. That's a big part of what it means to be a good Mormon. Yep. And a good Christian for that matter. But

we approach it differently. Yes, we do. Yeah. We're not looking at your W2 though, is what I'm saying. Yeah. No, that's true. We don't have access to that information. Mark might, he's that accountant guy. Mark has access to our information. I think so. I think he has. Everybody's. How does he have access

to that?

I don't know. Okay. He's got it on planning center somewhere. I'm sure You think so? Let's be clear. He doesn't though. He does not. He really does not. He does not. Just to be utterly clear about this. Yeah. And it's not on Planning Center, so if you're worried that any of your information is out there, it's not. No. But Mark does run, he's the report guru we need to report. It's Hey Mark, can you run this for us? And he just does it

on it Report. Report created.

Yeah. Speaking of reports, this could be a spreadsheet, chapter one of one, Chronicles chapter one, and chapter one of one Chronicles chapter one. Is that's words. Finish that monster. Thanks man. Yeah. One Chronicles chapter one, first Chronicles Chapter two genealogies are in this this opening section here, and this is where it can slow down for us a little bit. Again, as we talked about back in, I think Leviticus and numbers it just, it, it can be difficult, but I think it's important to frame this and understand some of the background of First Chronicles and why it's written. And that's gonna give you an idea of why the. The genealogies were there for Israel and also why they're there for us. And so First Chronicles is actually post exilic meaning it was most likely written following the exile. And that's gonna be after the monarchies, after the divided kingdom Babylon. Think Daniel think tho all of that stuff going on and chronicles first and second written after that's why it's post exilic. And so you may be wondering why are we reading it now if this is chronological? And the reason being is that the content of the books. And come back to what we are reading about in First and Second Samuel and also First and Second Kings. And so that's why chronologically we're reading the content of First and Second Chronicles in concert with these other books. Though they were written after the exile. And that gets into the why they were written and they were written as historical records to remind the people of Israel who were coming back to Jerusalem about the history of the nation and they wanted the, this new generation, this. The generation coming out of exile after 70 years in exile. They wanted them to remember and to know the history of what God had done with his people. And so that's why we find in these first two chapters and beyond these genealogical records, is the chronicler wanted the people to know that this is not just made up stories. That this is not just us thinking, oh, here's a fairytale figure and here's this guy over here and this, there's this person. It's tracing with detail. The records of these family lines to remind Israel, okay, this is your lineage. This is what God was doing and that's really the thrust here. God formed the people from the very beginning. First Chronicles chapter one, verse one, Adam first man. Boom. Out of the gates there, God formed the people. God did this, God's. Telling this story, God's weaving these things. And so the message to the chronicle generation that it was written to would've been, Hey we need to follow and fear this God. And I think the message for us to take away is similar to that, let's learn these lessons that we can learn from previous generations. Believe in the historicity of the events, and also say, what does that mean for us to today?

Yeah, I guess one thing I'd note for you guys is that in chapter one, verse one, you pointed him out just a second ago, but his name is Adam which gives us fair confidence that Adam is not a mythological figure. He's not a legend, he's not an idea. Some Christians will argue, I. Because they have a commitment to Darwinian evolution that perhaps Adam is just a figurehead for the human race, that he's not actual literal person. But here at least the chronicler thinks that he's a literal person because, oh, look, here's Adam and here's his sons Adam's. Fathered Seth and Enoch and Kenan and Maha Al and Jared, and on ago. This is the lineage of a literal man, and it doesn't make sense, at least in my mind, to say Adam is potentially mythological and he's the catchall for the human race. It doesn't make sense here. So it seems like Adam is treated like a literal person and also Jesus, later on down the line is also gonna do the same.

Yeah. Jesus and Paul too, right? Paul's argument in Romans chapter five about imputed righteousness is based on the historical existence of Adam. If Adam is a figurehead, just a metaphor, then Paul's argument really doesn't hold any water. Paul is saying as through one man came sin, which if Adam is just a metaphor for the fall of humanity in general, then it didn't come through one man. And we can't point back to the. To that connection to the righteousness that comes through Christ there. So I think Paul would would agree with the chronicler and with our position here that, yeah, Adam was indeed a historical figure. One Chronicles chapter one, as we're talking about here again, post exilic. These genealogies are here because they anchor the nation to God's initial act of creation. And in this first chapter here, you'll note that eventually it gets to Esau, and that's where the focus of Chapter one is. And so the focus of chapter one goes through Esau. You'll remember Jacob and Esau and the split that took place there. And so the first chapter begins with dealing with with Esau. And after we get through Abraham there, we get through these descendants, then through Esau, and then we get into chapter two. And chapter two, we're going to get into the line of Israel or Jacob. And so in chapter two, we're dealing with more of the line of promise that's gonna go all the way down to David. And so in chapter two, you get the names Judah, in verse one, verse four, Perez verse five, Hezron verse nine, Ram. Verse 10. Abada or a ada, sorry. And then hon and then Salman, verse 11. Boaz. Now we're getting into some familiar territory. Obed. Verse 12, Jesse, verse 12. And then finally, David in verse 15. So there are other names there, but those are the names that are part of the Davidic line, which means they're part of the messianic line, which is ultimately going to produce Jesus through the descendant in offspring of David.

So as you orient yourself to this. This book here you gotta look at the headings. Those are gonna be really helpful for you. So you'll notice in chapter one, we went from Adam to Abraham. That's the beginning of a human race until you get to the promise race that was given through Abraham. And then from Abraham to Jacob, you have again the further deline delineation and clarification of the promised people getting to David. But then he's gonna expand out and start looking at the various tribes, the 12 tribes of Israel. And then we're gonna finish with Saul, and then we're gonna look at the return to exile. So all of this is important leading up to. The story of God's continued work through humanity, through a group of people, in particular the Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the patriarchs that God chose to make his name great among. So keep the big picture in mind as you read through this, and I'm, I encourage you as I do with books like this, passages like this I have my Bible read to me. So I'll use my audio bible in conjunction with what the Bible I'm looking at here on my screen is, and I'll have it read to me and I'll, it'll make my way through the names. And it often helps me catch things that sometimes I will often miss. One thing you might've caught in chapter one was Peleg, that the earth was divided in his days as chapter one verse 18, excuse me, verse 19. Peleg when the Earth was divided. Some people think, oh, there's Pangaea, that the earth was divided into its subcontinent after some major earthquake or some kind of natural catastrophe. I don't think that's what's happening here. Palate is probably a really good connection to the earth divided in the Tower of Babel. Genesis chapter 11. So that's not Pangaea, although there is some evidence for Pangea. It looks, the pieces do look like they fit together, and that seems to be more than a coincidence. But whether or not that's talked about here does not seem to be the case. So that's chapter one. Keep that in mind as you get through chapter two. And one thing that might stand out to you, of course, is David himself. In verse 14, it says here that David was the seventh. But he actually was not technically speaking anyway, he was actually the eighth of his father. And in fact, we know that because the seven sons of Jesse were paraded before Samuel. And then Samuel said, do you not have anyone else? And he is oh yeah, there's this other one in the field. He's standing the sheep. And that was the eighth. So David was the eighth technically, but he's the seventh here. Any thoughts about that pastor pj? There's a couple solutions to it. I wonder if you have any preference for any of those solutions? Only that

it's possible that one of the brothers had passed away. Yeah, was forgotten from historical records because of that, and that, that's the one that I tend to

land on. That makes sense. And that's a fair representation. Another option that people will bring to the table is that the chronicler might have put David in the seventh position because of his significance in his role in Israel. And seven being a special number, the number of completion, it's the number of God. We don't put a ton into numerology, but there are times to put something in numerology, God uses numbers to. Communicate a message. And so it's possible that what the chronicler is doing is helping us see the importance of David. So even though he wasn't literally the seventh, he is a seventh of Jesse in that positionally, he's the seventh as a, in terms of his his high role and rule in the nation of Israel, in particular Judah. So that's why you see that there, there's other possibilities, but those are the two big ones. Also, as I mentioned, I think a couple podcasts ago, maybe the last one or the one before that, verse 16 tells us that the Sun of Zia. Abishai, Joab and Assael three. They were the sisters of sisters of David and his clan. So keep that in mind. Cool stuff in here if you're willing to read through it. I know sometimes it's hard trucking, but it'll provide value if you can read through it with some patients.

Yeah. And then right after that. Verse 18, he talks about Caleb and then eventually he's also gonna talk about je and you may be wondering where are they in this line? What's going on here? Those are two of Hez Ron's sons from back in first Chronicles two nine. We think Caleb is another name for Cell Lu by there. That would be what's going on there? He's expanding on some of the other names that were. Previously mentioned there, otherwise it's a bit of a right turn. You're dealing with David and then all of a sudden here's Caleb and who is this? It's not the same Caleb from the promised land and sm got the land and all that. But yeah, so I agree there, there's nuggets in the genealogies of Chronicles that are fun to, to uncover and and reading 'em slowly, reading 'em methodically listening to them are good ways to do that. That's the way I do it. Listen to it. That's the best way. Yep. 'cause then they pronounce the names for you too.

Pronounce the names. You're not having to struggle over that then you'll catch it and you're like, oh, that's interesting. I never saw that before. Yeah.

Yeah. That's true. That's true. Logas also pronounces names for you, doesn't it? It does, but I just tend to use the command R. And have it read for me. That's my favorite in church sometimes. Yeah. Just like that. Sometimes when I'm preaching, I'll hear somebody's log, I start reading to them. Yeah. Because they accidentally started reading and then like in a, in your at home, you could turn it off easily. You're like, oh, I know how to shut that off. Yeah. But when that happens in public, you're like, I don't know how to stop em from reading. Stop the ringer

from ringing, stop the logos from reading. We forget everything in public when the pressure's on. Everything that we know just goes out

the window. There's gotta be some name for that. There's gotta be some like, yeah, probably that's our tendency to, to do that. But anyways, one of, you'll email us, Hey, let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God, thanks for your word and the more difficult parts of your word, genealogies. We should pray that we would be attentive to these, and I just ask that you would give us a good time, a rich time in this list of names that we would be able to think well about these things and wrestle with them and ask questions and not just settle with letting our eyes glaze across all of these different lists, but that we would say, okay, how is this profitable for. Profitable for me today. What can I take away? What can I learn from this? And so we ask that you would enable us to have that mindset as we come to the scriptures. We pray in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Keep in your Bibles, tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See you. Bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said