Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. We'd like to welcome you back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. We would like to welcome you back to We Welcome You. Another welcome to you all. Yeah, no. Hey man. I got to have lunch this past week with the pastor of Lighthouse Church, which is Lighthouse there. It's, yeah, run Collective. Does is that, did he walk in with that song playing on the stereo? I don't know because I got there after him, so we ate over at me, Luna over in Prosper, which is decent. I Luna. That's okay. Yeah. Not my favorite. I had the chicken fajita tacos. They were decent. Yeah. Anyways. Anyways, pastor Jason Holman from over there at Lighthouse Church. They're just down the street from where we meet. And just a great dude. It was super encouraging. It was a reminder, man that we are one of many in our midst and we've said this before and it's good to remind ourselves of this, that we are not here to compete against other. Churches that are preaching and proclaiming a biblical gospel. And and I'm thankful for that reminder and that connection point with Jason. So be praying for Pastor Jason and Lighthouse Church as you drive by them on Sunday mornings, as you're on their way to, to worship with us there. I think doing good work there and he's a guy that loves Jesus. And so it was fun to, to connect with him. And it was good food. Contrary to what Pastor Rod might say about me, Luna. It was decent. You know what, I think Lala's tacos are amazing. I, I initially did. I initially did, and then I don't know, there's something happened. There's, I think it's the seasoning of their meat is a little bit too citrusy for me and it just, okay. It was like, okay, this is really good. And like the whole cheese tortilla thing is a fun little like. Kitschy thing that they do kitschy. But then it was like, okay, I'm offended. Yeah, be offended then. I thought Lala's was pretty great and I didn't go for the longest. 'cause you said they weren't good. I didn't actually avoid going. It was good initially, Steve. No, you're mis you're mistaking me with Steve Yang, which I understand why, we are often mistaken for one another. I am pretty confident you gave me the meh. No, that was Steve. Because I came with glowing reviews initially. No, I remember you were not. Glow it I'll, I will go to the mad on this one man. Alright. I was initially all about it. Alright. And Steve went and Steve was like, meh, go get your spandex. We're gonna settle this. Like men wrestling singers Nacho Libre style. I just remember, I'm like, oh, okay. Pastor Peach said it was okay. It was good. But okay. At the end of the day I thought you, I'm never gonna go said that on the podcast. I'm never gonna go. I listened to you say that. I didn't say that I was, it was screaming. I was yelling red-faced on my radio. I didn't say at my radio. I didn't say that. I can't recall any other reason why I would not go. 'cause I continually recalled what you said. And maybe I misunderstood you. You never listened to my recommendations. That's not, that's true. So I feel like that would've driven you there. True. That's true. You'd have been like, I'm gonna go because Pastor Gio said it was me. I took what you said. To heart? I don't think so. I prayed about it and I thought, you know what, pastor PJ would never lead me a stray. I did You consult the therum and the th I did. Did you? Uma Thurman told me not to do the opposite of what you told me to do. Okay. So I said, okay, Uma, I'm trusting you. All right, then you should have gone earlier. Because I would've said, Hey, you should go. 'cause it's pretty good. I did not hear that. Somehow, so Meluna is not bad. Meluna is just. As the kids would say, it's mid. I didn't say it was like life changing. Hey, did you hear Spurgeon College? Speaking of mid Midwestern, did you hear Spurgeon College shut down? But not that Spurgeon College actually, the original over in London shutdown. That is a sad thing to say. It really is. I'm disappointed by that. Yeah, it was founded in the 18 hundreds. It's Legacy Trace all the way back to its namesake, but it shut down because they didn't have the funding or anything else to support That is so sad. Sad. It lasted a long time though. Yeah. And so the connection there, in case you're wondering where did that come from? You mentioned mid, we give Lewis our student ministries director a hard time because he went to Midwestern Seminary, which literally has mid in. Its in its name. And the college associate with Midwestern Seminary here in the United States is Spurgeon College. To my knowledge, that's still going. College knowledge. I hope Joe rhyming, but the original one in London shut down no more. That's really sad. Yeah. This has been an interesting googly time. This is the people that like our googly, they're with us. The people that don't are like, what in the world is happening right now? They're probably confused as to what's happening. Probably confused. So we should go to the Bible, which is not confusing. Do it. At least not always confusing. Alright, second Kings chapter 20. Pastor Rod, give me a good reason why, because now this is the third time that we're reading about this. Or at least the second, I guess we're gonna get to Chronicles and read about it too. So the second time that we're reading about this, it's familiar territory, why should I not just skim chapter 20 of Second King, chapter 20. God will often repeat himself and he's perfectly fine doing that. In fact, you have four gospels, three of which are called synoptics, which means that they possess largely synonymous information, and you're gonna see a lot of the content overlap with other content. But God's okay with doing that. And even though you may struggle to find unique. Components in each of these readings, it is still your obligation to tremble before his word. Like we were saying yesterday, we tremble before his word. We want to hear what he says and if he wants us to hear something three times, and man, I surely better listen three times and I better make sure that I'm understanding what I think the author's intention is to convey it. These three separate times. Now we're looking at three separate books. We saw Kings we're gonna see Chronicles, and we saw it in Isaiah. Each of them has a different angle for the purpose of their writing. So even though we're capturing the same information, the way it's being utilized is not the same. And it's unfortunate because we're reading this in a chronological way as opposed to how we might normally read it, which is going to be can Canon a canonical rather. And canonically. If we were saying, Hey, we're reading through Isaiah, and here's how this fits in the context of Isaiah, that's gonna be slightly different than how we read it in the context of Second Kings, or how we read it in the context of the Chronicles. All of these pieces of the puzzle, all of these story elements fit within the canonical theme that is trying to pursue, or the purpose for which it's written. So all that to say, we're reading it in a in the wrong way. In some ways we're not reading it the way the author intended, which is to be canonically or Yeah, to read it canonically from start to finish. In that book, we're trying to put the pieces together so that we understand large pieces, how the story fits. So we're at a disadvantage, but that would be my short answer. Would you add anything to that and make that better? PPJ only. Amen. I agree with you. Yeah. Yeah. I think there's things that we can glean and we can learn and we can take away from it in different context. I got another question though. Two Kings chapter 20 has, aah. Said to Isaiah, what shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me and that I shall go up to the house of the Lord? And Isaiah said, thou shall be the sign to you from the Lord. And then he talks about the fact that the shadow sh should it go forward? 10 steps or back 10 steps. And Hezeki said it's easy to go forward 10 steps, which I probably disagree with him. I, yep. Nope. Don't agree with that. So why doesn't it go backward? 10 steps. So my question is this, God. Does this for Isaiah and we saw a little bit of this with Gideon to why is this different versus Zacharia John the Baptist dad, when the angel shows up and says, Hey, you're gonna, your wife's gonna have a son? And he's what's gonna be the sign for that? God's you're gonna be mute and not be able to talk for the, until the baby's born because you didn't trust me. So why is this different than John the Baptist and or John the Baptist dad? Different in the sense of he doesn't get chastised for it. Is that what you're getting at? He's asking for a sign and God's not gonna punish him. He's gonna say, okay, here's the sign. I'll give you the sign. Or Gideon, why, Gideon says can it be dry? Okay, good lord, can it be wet? And God does it. Versus, Zechariah is like what's the sign gonna be? And God's you're not gonna be able to talk. Yeah, I think I understand what you're saying. So the difference, the way that God responds to them and. Why God responds to these guys seemingly without any chastisement, but to Zachariah with chastisement. And I think the answer has to do with the posture of the heart. In short, now, at least as we read it here, Hezekiah's response to the Lord is. Is favorable. God likes the way Hezekiah responds to him. And so I think God responds to him differently. God interacts with us individually even though there are corporate elements. He interacts with the church in a certain way. He saves or sanctifies her. There are still very real individual ways that God interacts with his people. And so I think this is a good example of that. God is saying, I'm gonna choose to respond to Hezekiah in this way, but I'm gonna choose to respond to Zachariah in this other way based on what each individual needs. So I, I think that's part of the answer. There might be more. That's not coming to mind right now, but what would you say to that? Yeah I think I agree with you in that it's hard because I don't ever read Zechariah as being disrespectful to the Lord. And maybe that's just a deficiency of we don't have the tone. We don't know. All we have is the text, but God knows his heart. The other thing I was wondering is here you have the messenger to Hezeki being Isaiah who is A man, right? He's a prophet of God. Yes, that's true. He's a man. For Zacharia, Zacharia was staring at the angel and the angel, the archangel even possibly dispatched from the presence of God to his, to him to say, Hey, look, this is what's gonna happen, and Zacharia challenges that. And so I wonder if there's a nature of the quality of the messenger that might. Change God's response as well. That's an interesting insight, but probably a little bit of all those things. Yeah, and maybe more. Maybe more that we don't see because God does know the heart, and that's the challenging part. We don't know the heart. All we have is what we see in the text, and we have a lot in the text, but to know exactly what the heart is doing at any given moment in response to God's revelation, that's really hard to know. Yeah. Yeah. One more note here on chapter 20 that I think is super sweet in verse five, where God tells. Hezekiah through Isaiah. I have heard your prayers and I have seen your tears. That's just a sweet. Personal connection between the father and Hezekiah between the God and this man, Hezekiah we just talked about yesterday. The difference between the God of the Old Testament and the New Testament. Sometimes the God of the Old Testament is made out to be the sterile God who just doesn't care about people. And here you see the God of the Old Testament say I've seen your tears and I'm going to do something about it because I love you. And that's really cool. He still does that today for us. Indeed. And I think one of the things that stands out to me in this is more evident as we move to Chapter 21. That Manassa, you notice he's 12 years old. Yeah. Which tells you exactly what you should be seeing. 12 years old man, 12-year-old Manassa shows up in the extension of Hezekiah's life. In other words, if Hezeki had not prayed to have his life extended by 15 years, Manasa would not have existed. Now it's speculating way too much. Then we're, what we're qualified to do to say what would've happened if Hezeki didn't do that? We know for a fact Manasses would not have been born 'cause Manassas 12. What kind of king would we have had otherwise, we don't know. But just suffice it to say that Hezekiah's lack of preparation to be ready to deny allows for manasses to be born. And Manasses is one of the worst kings to ever hit Judah's ground. Oh, yeah. Yeah. In fact if you look at chapter 21 the first nine verses are just his resume of all of his evilness and wickedness. And it's. It's awful. There this guy, he burns his son to one of the false gods. He's re reestablishing the high places. Even just that breaks your heart when you read that right away because Hezekiah finally came along and took down the high places when so many times we'd read of these other Judean kings. They did good, except they left the high places. Hezekiah finally takes him down. Manassas I'm rebuilding them again. He puts false gods false idols in the temple. His wickedness is. Is insanely bad and just he is a thoroughly evil person here. And God indicts him for this and and says he's going to punish them. And that's in verse 13. God says, I will stretch over Jerusalem, the measuring line of Samaria, which is what Samaria was destroyed for her ungodliness and the plum line of the house of Ahab, the king of Israel there. And I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it. And turning it upside down. And I will forsake the remnant of my heritage and give them into the hand of their enemies. So God is announcing the impending end of the Southern kingdom here. There is not gonna be any more time. There, there is, but there's at the same time like that the end is gonna come and God is saying this is happening. A lot of it is in response to manassa, not only man's actions, but a lot of it is in response to Manassa. By the way, Manasa is a difficult character. We're gonna find out why in tomorrow's episode, so make sure that you listen to that because the chronicler includes more about Manasas life than the writer of Kings does. And it, it paints a different picture. So it's gonna be good for us to walk through that and to think about. The idea of forgiveness, repentance, and also consequence of sin. Because a lot of that will come through in man's life that we don't see here. But Manassa dies, Aon, his son reigns in his place for a couple years. Aon is also just a bad dude. Evil walked in the sins of his father, didn't do what was right by the Lord. He's only gonna go two years. And then we're gonna get Josiah. Josiah thankfully is gonna be a breath of fresh air before things get even worse through exile and the downfall of the kingdom. Yeah. This is the last good king in Josiah. Yep. Yeah. Let's pray and then we will be done with a shorter episode of the Daily Bible Podcast. You're welcome. Let's pray. Yeah, we thank you so much for your word and and just for men that we can look to like Hezekiah and as we'll read about later, Josiah men, that did things well. And even yet we see their faults. We see their errors. We see that they were meant at best, and even in Hezeki. Parenting of his son Manassa. It seems like there was a deficiency there with the direction that Manasa went, though we readily admit we can't save our children. We can have a big influence on them. And God, we wanna live lives of full devotion before you and we wanna finish wealth and strong. We don't want to give up towards the end of our life and fall away. We want to be men that are always pursuing you and always loving you. And so keep us to be faithful in your word. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep reading your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. I'll see you then. Bye.

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