Welcome back to the Daily Bible Podcast! We're so glad you've joined us. And now your hosts, Pastor PJ and Pastor Rod.

Hey, everybody. I don't know what happened before you heard my voice, so I'm not gonna thank anybody for anything. That's right, because no need to, I have no idea. We have no idea what's gonna happen, but we're glad that you're back listening to us today. Yes, we are. Yeah. In fact, you know what, not to create too much anticipation for anything, but the next couple of days you may hear an even different voice on the podcast. Ooh, first time. Voice on the podcast? Is it Pastor Amanda's first time? Nope. Actually on the podcast. Nope. Nope. That's not happening. No. In fact, we were talking about that with this magazine cover that they're doing. We're just like, Hey, we need to make abundantly clear that this is not a pastor's burn. Pastor's PJ and Amanda Bonner, that's not a thing. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, we love women. We just want you to know that we do well. We believe that scripture says that women should not be in pastoral roles. True. And therefore we believe God has a different role for them. We are complimentarians. Yes. Not compliment, difference being we're not complimenting women as in, Hey, you look great today. Hey, we should be doing that too with our wives. You should do that. If you're a husband and you have a wife, you should compliment her. Yeah. But compliment with an. E speaks to the completeness of something, and we believe that men and women complete one another by fulfilling their distinct roles. God calls men to lead. He calls women to support and to follow. As a helpmate, we learned this in the garden. God gave Adam to lead and name the animals. God gave Eve to be his help mates. In the New Testament, Paul forbids women from holding authority in the church and teaching men, and so we believe that's something that still is binding on us today. Hence we are called complimentarians and we believe this is God's good design. It doesn't diminish women at all. Some people think that when this happens, oh, surely then you must be Neanderthals who tell your women to wear red dresses and you guys are evil for being the patriarchs and all those things. Look, we love the women that God have given us. I think we have some of the most quality women in all of creation and Christiandom. All of those things. But we also believe God designs roles in a similar way, although not in a parallel one-to-one God designs roles among all echelons of society. There's governmental roles and there's one person that's higher in ranked than the other. It doesn't mean that they're better qualitatively, it just means they have a different role. And we believe that's the same here in marriage. There's different roles in the church. There are different roles, and therefore we want to honor the roles that God designs. And we believe when we do that, things are better for. Everybody. Totally. And at the same time, our ladies do teach one another. Your wife is teaching women's Bible study coming up here. That's right. I think on Saturday. It's coming Saturday. That's right. And I know my wife teaches in there as well. And so it's not as though we're going, let the men come in and teach the ladies Women's Bible study. 'cause women can't teach that. In fact, I think that shows that we do. Believe that women have the ability to handle the word of God and can have the wisdom and insight and intellect to bring to the table there. And our ladies do a great job in that role with the ladies again. Yeah, you're right. This is a part of God's design, God's plan. And we want to follow God's design in God's plan because that's, we wanna do that in every area of life. And when he makes something plain and clear in scripture, we wanna say, Hey, we're gonna, we're gonna do what God's calling us to do there. Yeah. And it is countercultural. We do believe that we actually, we know we're not just believing it. We know that our position is something that is in favorable today. Lots of people look down on something like this as though we're backward thinking, we're Neanderthals, we must hate women. They might use words about us like that, but really I think we respect women, we respect them, we protect them. We think that they play a special role in. The body life of the church, and God calls the men of the church and the pastors of the church to protect and to esteem these women. In fact, Proverbs 31, even as early as the Old Testament, Proverbs 31, is saying things like her children praise her. Her husband also, he rises up and calls her Blessed, we're called to affirm and to. Encourage them in the gifts that they've given in their right apportion gifts. And the same thing is true for us. Men should not raise babies in the same way that women do. We don't even have the machinery to do that. And that makes it evident that God has designed us in different ways, complimentary roles that support God's mission for the church. Yeah, and I like the word protection that you use there because if we were to go the, to the alternate alternative, if we were to say, Hey let's put a woman. On stage as a pastor and let her preach, we would not be protecting her because she would be in a role that is not honoring to the Lord because she would be doing something that God does not delight in. She would be doing something that God has prohibited her from doing. And so there's a protective role in there as well that we're saying, Hey we care about you standing before Jesus in the bema seat someday, and we wanna make sure that we're not encouraging you to do something that's gonna transgress God's law. Just like we don't want them to encourage us to do something that's also gonna transgress God's law. You know what? Interesting enough too, I think one of the characteristics that we see in the garden that I think is still endemic today among men is that when God called out Adam and said, Adam, what are you doing? He was hiding behind his eve. Yep. She was leading at that point, and he was happy to let her. I think that would happen today. Yeah. By and large, and this is why God. Encourages and charges men to take the lead because we're so often inclined to not do that. He wants us to do it. He doesn't, not that women aren't capable. I've known I've been under female pastors. This is my background. I was Assemblies of God and I've known very gifted, godly women that have led in pastoral roles. Now, obviously my convictions are different now. My scriptural convictions have. Developed and changed. But it doesn't change the fact that I know women. There are women out there that are better teachers than I am. They're better, they're more gifted, they have better skill sets. It doesn't change the fact that God has designed men to do certain things and to design women to do other things. And I think it's beautiful that God does do that. He encourages men to thrive by leading, taking charge and healthy God honoring ways. He encourages women to thrive by learning to submit to the will of their husband, which is what when God says to Eve, your will be for your husband. You will desire. And he uses the same words when he talks to Cain and Abel your desire is for sin, lurks at the door, desiring to have you. And so I think there's something about that kind of tension where she wants to take charge and he wants to let her, I think is always there. But God in his wisdom says, no, I'm gonna make you. I'm gonna make you lead 'cause it's gonna be good for you and it's gonna be good for. Yep. Let's get to our DVR today, second Kings. I'm not done talking about this yet. Let's keep on going. Okay. I'm just kidding. Second Kings 24, 25, and second Chronicles 36. So we're finishing up Kings and Chronicles which is a big section of. The Israel story, from here, this is the end. We're going into exile officially now, and then we're gonna deal with post exilic Israel before we get into the New Testament. But this is wrapping up the Monarch monarchial period of Israel prior to the exile. And really this is wrapping up the monarchial period of Israel prior to the next king that's gonna sit on the throne of Israel. Who's gonna be Jesus at the the millennial reign in the future. There are earthly kings that are gonna reign in. Jerusalem, but as far as the Davidic King goes, this is the end until Christ comes back and sits upon the throne. Two Kings 24, we've got the various kings here, and we're gonna tick through 'em pretty quickly here as the text does. So it opens with Jo Jolla, Kim 6 0 9 to 5 98 BC was his reign there. And it's not just Babylon that's going to come against. The people of Jerusalem, but it's also the nations. So sometimes as we're reading Jeremiah, it talks about God exacting vengeance on Babylon, but also on the nations. And part of that is because here come the nations to team up with Babylon, against Judah and against Israel. So we read about some of those nations there in verse two. The Moabites, the Ammonites, the Syrians, they're there along with the Babylon Babylonians to go against Israel there. And though God is using them as an instrument, remember and we're gonna get to Habakkuk in a few days here they're not. Their actions are still gonna be considered wrong and sinful in God's eyes. God is still gonna judge them for their wickedness and in part their wickedness against Israel, even though he uses them in this notice verse three. This is again for the sins of Manasseh. And so Manasseh is mentioned again, the son of Josiah. And it's for the sins of Manasseh, the straw that broke the camel's back. That was the main problem. Verse seven, Egypt had been defeated and so that is significant for us to note because Judah was so often tempted to trust in Egypt. They would no longer be able to do that. So we go from Je Hoya Kim to Je Hoya Chin. Je Hoya Chin comes up next in 5 97 bc. This is verses 11 through 17. Nebuchadnezzar comes back here and what's significant here is this is the exile where Daniel and his three friends are gonna be taken captive and taken to Babylon. And so with many of the people, the treasures that the temple were taken captive, 10,000 people go in this. This deportation. So this is 5 97. This is the second deportation that we find here. And then the chapter 24 ends with Zetia being installed as King by Nebuchadnezzar after Jo Hoya Chin's surrender there. Chapter 25 you've got Zika's ninth year. So we're in 5 88 bc. This is when Nebuchadnezzar comes and lays the final siege to the city of Jerusalem. This is gonna last for 30 months, and in 5 86 BC during Zika's 11th year the city is gonna fall to the Babylonians. Zetia is gonna be punished like we talked about yesterday. As we read about in Jeremiah's account, Zetia is gonna be punished by the king of Babylon and and then the temple is gonna be destroyed in verses eight through 10. There. After this Alaya is gonna be installed, as we also talked about, Alaya is gonna be installed as the governor to keep peace, but he's going to face his own downfall as the locals are gonna stand up and rebel against him in the end. And. Take him out. He's gonna be assassinated. Chapter 25, as it lands here, verses 27 through 30. You get this interesting note about Jo Hoya Chin who was originally surrendered to Babylon, taking captive to Babylon to live there. He's released from captivity and lives out the rest of his days in the King's Court there in Babylon, which I don. I don't totally know what to do with that. As far as it being just simply a note here that's given in scripture. I don't think it, it doesn't feel like a good thing, but it's an interesting note that's added about this king here. That is just the way that Second Kings ends. You expect it to end differently yet it's oh, by the way, Jehan was let go and he hung out in the King's palace. The end. I think the significance of that, my best guess would be that God is showcasing the fact that he still shows favor to the Davidic King. The line of the Kings of David are not done yet. Despite the fact that they are being severely judged for their wrongs, God still has his eye on them for their good, and so I think it's important that he ends in Second Kings. On that note, suggesting the story's not over yet. It might look like it's over, but trust me, I'm still working here even to the point of giving a Judean King. Favor in the heart of an, of a, of an evil kingdom that hates them or hated them enough to at least to destroy the land. So I think that's really cool. Pretty cool. And it shows that God's not done with them yet. I think that means dot to be continued story not over. One thing I, we didn't mention is perhaps why they killed Giah, the governor. It doesn't seem sensical to me except for maybe this notice that Ishmael, son of Niah is the one who. Drove the dagger. He's called one of the royal family. And that would make sense to me. His family was deported, his family was wrongly treated. And so it makes sense that they would see Aliyah as a traitorous. They would see him as being a threat not in the strictest sense, 'cause they, he can't do anything. He's now a puppet of the Babylonian kingdom. But he would stand for all that they oppose. And so they would say, look dude, don't do this. You are a traitor by sitting in the seat of the kings and therefore you need to get out of that king. Need to get outta that seat. And so even though he's warned not to do what he's doing or to take the threat of Ishmael seriously, he says, no, you're not telling the truth. Don't worry about it. He ends up getting assassinated. And I think partly because the political instability that's left in the wake of all the destruction that's taken place here, and then you have loyalists, those who still love Judah and Jerusalem saying, no, she shall rise again. Let's install a new king. And then you have people that are saying, this is the way it is now. So get Elia steps in, he's trying to say, submit to Babylon. Let's carry on and do what we're called to do while we still have the land. People don't like that. Including the royalists, the nationalists, those who are still loyal to the line of David perhaps. And they dispose of him because of that. So that's a little bit of political intrigue that I think might be worth noting as to why they kill Giah two Chronicles 36 is the parallel of a lot of this. And so that's the final chapter in the book of two Chronicles. And remember, Chronicles is dealing with the Judean kings, only, not the kings of the Southern Kingdom. It's going to end in a similar way detail in the fall of Judah. But then it's the very end of it going to reveal to us and remind us that it's written post exile. This is written after the time in Babylon and when the people had come back. But it opens with Jehovah has was before Je Joh Kim. And so we find him leading this off, but. He's not gonna reign for very long. Je Hoya Kim is going to be made king there in verse five. As we read about in chapters 24 25, we get a lot of similar information here. Je Hoya Chin is made king there in verse nine. What's interesting though is it says of je Hoya chin here that in verse 10 that he made his brother. His brother Zeki King over Judah and Jerusalem. But it wasn't Johan's brother. It was Zaka, wasn't Johan's brother. We read in Kings that Zika was Johan's uncle, and so it's probably a textual variant there that the word may mean or suggest relative rather than brother or kin rather than brother. But if you're reading both of these back to back, that's why you read in the King's account that this was his uncle. And here at Re's Brother, it's possible that the word could mean relative or. Or kin rather than. Specific naming of yeah, this was the uncle or the brother in this context. But then you get zedekiah after him. No, just the wickedness that persisted during zia's reign. Verse 15, the Lord sent persistently to them by his messengers. God's persistent mercy, continuing to pursue these people. He has compassion on them. And on his dwelling place and on Jerusalem there. And yet, what did they do? They kept mocking the messengers, despising his words, scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, and there was no remedy. And that's the downfall of Jerusalem there. But I did mention that this is post exilic, and we read about Cyrus. In verse 22, and that the reason why that's there is because they knew this to be true. Because they had just experienced this. Cyrus announced that he had been tasked by the Lord to see that the city was re reestablished and the temple rebuilt. So he's gonna send in 5 39, 5 38 bc the exiles back to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple and rebuild the city. Notice here, sometimes scripture will repeat words to make an emphasis to draw your attention to something. Even as you're reading through the narrative, there's often subtle themes that are sprinkled throughout. So just point out to you one repeated word that I think is important, and it's the fact that Pastor Peter just noted here in verse 15, God had compassion on his people. But because they rejected his compassion, they then verse 17, had no compassion from the Chaldeans, the Babylonians. And so there's an interesting dynamic there. If you won't enjoy the compassion of the Lord, you will suffer under no compassion from man. I think that's an insightful point. That is insightful. Let's pray and then we'll be done with this this section. God, we rejoice over finishing this. Historical section of Israel's life in the Old Testament of second kings, first kings, first Chronicles, second Chronicles. And Lord we pray that we'd be reflective and learn the lessons that you would desire us to learn, especially what we were just talking about there not to despise your compassion as you continually pursue us. You pursue us with your word through our time in. Each and every day through our time as your word comes to mind by your spirit through sermons that we listen to and other things. And so God we pray that we would heed your word, that we listen to it, that we would submit to it and live faithfully in response to it as well. We pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep reading your Bibles, tuning again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said