Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible podcast. Happy Friday. The 13th. Friday. It is Friday the 13th, and you're back. I am. That's what happens. Yeah. Friday the 13th and then bad things happen. Things happen. I show up on the podcast, and you're listening. Yeah. We're glad you're back. I think our listeners are glad you're back. I gave them a brief synopsis of the ministry comes up and sometimes we gotta go and respond to different ministry situations and so That's right. That's why there's two of us. That's right. Which is super helpful. Yeah. We're gonna play tag team again 'cause you're leaving. I am. You're leaving for what, two years or something? Two years, yeah. Two years. Sab. Yeah. I'll be back at the end of two years. My, my Mormon mission has come time. That's good. How long do they go? Do they go for two years? How long is two years for the men and a year and a half for the ladies? What do the LA do the ladies knock on doors? Do? I don't know if I've ever seen a female. Yeah, they do. Really? Yeah, they go in pairs as well. Okay. And so they'll, they knock on doors. Although I'm sure there are some specifications you can go online and look up their playbook. Yeah, they can put it all out there for you if you're curious enough to look into it. But they tend to avoid, I don't know, heavily male areas. Sure. So I think they're okay with families. That's been our experience with them. We had them come to our place more than once when we were in Mission Viejo. And they would typically spend time with my bride, which I think, I guess I understand that tactic, but we enjoyed having them. They're lovely people. Yeah. Yeah. And they're different than the Jehovah's Witnesses. 'cause Jehovah's Witnesses are not allowed to proselytize. If you approach them, I think they can talk to you in public. Yes, in those places. 'cause they have to get permission from the whatever organization or business, the grant. Yeah, that one too. They have to get permission to do that. So in those places, yes. I think they tend to just sit back. Oh, so it's more the place that they're at. It's not their religion as much as it is the place that they're at. Now that they say that, I last encountered a couple Jehovah's Witnesses in Fort Worth and they were sitting at the corner near the cattle drive area, but they were just sitting back and they had their literature out. So it was clear that they were. Trying to send a message. So I guess it's not their mo that's, yes. It's also true that they find themselves in places where they can't, like I saw them at the airport once. Yeah. They had a booth at the airport, which I'm sure they can't yell out and say, come talk to us or anything like that. So I think there's part of it. And they, other part of it is that they're just trying not to be contentious or cantankerous perhaps. I'm not sure. But yeah I do see them quite a bit now that I think about it. But they do go door to door. I haven't seen them recently. I haven't. That's true. Any of them knock at my door since being in Texas. But they do door knock. That's kind of their stick. That is true. They do. Yeah. 'cause we had them in California. We had some come to our doors there. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, no, we are going for a couple weeks. Not to more ary stuff, but we're getting away, which will be good. And then I come back and like ship's passing in the night you leave. Yep. Yeah. So yeah, this first one was only just a as, as a breather. Yeah. The next one is the real one. So that'll be, the real one, as in this one was fake. That other one's gonna be a lot more restful, I anticipate. Do you have plans? Yes. For the first week, we're gonna New Braunfels, and we have a timeshare down that we don't have a timeshare. We're borrowing a timeshare down there. We're sharing a timeshare. We're sharing a timeshare with another family. We're not, we're sharing a timeshare though, and. Then the next week we'll be back. But then I kick off my classes for Southern. So Cool. I'll be in class all week. Awesome. What class? Something to do with biblical counseling. Okay. I forget the title of the class, but it's. Hosted or taught by Dr. Pierre? Jeremy Pierre. Okay. Which I really appreciate. I'm big, a big fan of his thinking and his work, so it's exciting for me. Does he speak with a French accent? Does not sounds contrary to his last name. Name. He has a very clear American accent. Although, it's interesting I learned that. Doctoral level classes are called seminars. Yep. I don't know why. Do you know why? I don't know either. Why can't you just call it class? I don't know the difference. I just know that it is a difference. Yeah. All of my classes are called seminars. I thought, okay, that's interesting. I wonder if it has to do with the concentration and length of them. I don't know how your program works, but when I was at TMS, they would do, I mean they were really intense. Those were intense. One to two weeks. Yeah. Intense. We were Tabernacle. They were actually Tabernacle seminars. No, but they were. You I may be different than a class because of that. You, I was in class all day long and you're longer period of time. Maybe that's what has to do with it. I don't know. Who knows? You are, right? I'm in class all day for a whole week. If only there was something like Google to say what's the difference or GPT that would explain it to you between, but you know how much effort that takes. You just have to, you have to put fingers on the keys and then type out a thought seminar. And who's got time for that? Apparently I do. During a podcast, no less, a seminar and class are both learning environments. Thanks Google AI overview. Oh, interesting. But they differ in their size, focus, and teaching approach. Generally, a seminar is smaller, more interactive, and often focused on discussion and student participation while a class may be larger and involve more lecture based instruction. Interesting. So there's expectations that I engage with the teacher. I enjoy that. I like that. Dr. Pierre will be upset if you don't, 'cause it won't be a seminar. In fact, I'm trying to read his book. This is the second time I'm reading his book 'cause he has it as part of the recommended or required reading for this class. It seems self-promoting, but Okay. A little bit, but it fits. And this is the second time I'm reading through the book and I'm applying a reading method that you suggested based on some YouTuber. Yeah. Who was talking about how to read and I'm already over it. I'm like, I can't do, I can't do this. So this video that he, that you sent was about how to retain what you read? Yeah. And basically he's saying, read every paragraph. Yep. Summarize it in one sentence and then build upon it each consecutive paragraph afterward. Make it make sense. Essentially. What's the argument of the author? Write it down. So you're stopping at every paragraph to say, what was that about? And how does that connect to the prior paragraph? Imagine doing that for a whole 300 or whatever, how many pages it is. It would take you like 13 years per book. It, would it? I'm pretty, I'm on. I'm only on month three in the first 10 pages. So I've adopted that method a little bit here. I'm trying it out, but not it's modified. I'm not connecting it. Ah, I see back Chainlink. Chain link. Chain link. I'm just writing a one sentence summary for each paragraph, and I'm noticing because of it's natural that the author's argument builds on itself that these sentences. Connect to one another as you go through if you're summarizing it correctly. So I'm not trying to go back and say and how does it connect to the paragraph before and the paragraph before. But the guy who suggested it is some philosophy. Prophet University of North Carolina and Chapel Hill. So he is not a slouch. No, he is not. I'm not saying he's he is wrong, but man, that's a, it's laborious, intensive. Yeah, it's intensive and granted, it does accomplish what you're looking for, which is to pay attention to what you're reading. Yeah. I appreciate that. But boy, it really slows you down. Yeah. More than I care for hardback books. You run out of space, like for paper books. You, yeah. I don't think you can do it in a paper book. I try. I don't think you can even, yeah, I don't think you can even try. I'll, I think you should just give it up. Burn the book. Yeah, buy the digital version. That's the only way it works. Like 20 years from now when I'm in my sixties pulling that book off the shelf looking at it, I'm not gonna be able to read it anymore. 'cause my handwriting has to be so small to exactly scrunch in the lines. You know what doesn't suffer from size is a digital book. 'cause I can make it 15 font in 20 years maybe we won't have the digital books. Yeah. It's a risk I'm willing to take. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. I'm replacing some of my books. Paper books not replacing them, but I'm getting the digital copies as well. Of course. So if you could afford to do both Yeah. That's the best of all worlds. Yeah. Because then you can have the benefits of each of them. Yeah. But most people just can't afford to do that. That makes sense. For a few books, I want both. Yeah. Like the Bible, I. So we recommended reading on the back of the worksheet every Sunday. And so for the minor prophets, two of 'em have stayed the same 'cause they're general commentaries on the minor prophets that I think are valuable for people to pick up and have. But I've all, I've been trying to change up the other two each week. And this week we're gonna be studying the book of Obadiah, which is the shortest book in the Old Testament. And so one book that I wanna highlight for you. And you made me think about this because I just did get the digital copy of this, because I had the paper back and got the digital too. There's a book by a guy named Michael Vlock, V-L-A-C-H, and the book is called, has the Church Replaced Israel. So we're gonna be talking about some pretty heady things this weekend regarding Israel and the church. Dispensationalism those concepts. Eschatology is gonna come back up again because that's what the book is dealing with by and large. And it's important for us to understand some of these things. So I'm gonna do my best to break it down in a way that is helpful, relevant app. Applicable, but that book by Michael Vlock is super helpful, called, has the Church Replaced Israel? It's a great treatment. We'll help you understand where we're coming from, by and large as a church as far as our understanding of Israel's future and where the church is in God's plan on all that as well. So has the church replaced Israel? Good pickup for you if you're interested in such things. Let's jump into our Bible reading for today. That wide margin Bible, though you could probably fit. Notes on each paragraph in that deceptively. I don't think that's true because even though the inside has wide margins, it's hard to write on the inside. It's really hard to write on Totally on the inside. 'cause you're at a weird angle. So I love this Bible. This is one of my favorite tools. It's got heft, it's got, the details are excellence. Yeah. And the smell. Is intoxicated. Oh, the leather. Oh yeah. Every time I open it up, like good. It is next in line to the coffee. So good. So good. Which you have been cutting out or drinking less of? I've been bringing more back into my diet. Okay. I stopped so I could reacclimate to being sensitive to it, so I'm back on it again. That's good. That's good. Happily believe so. Good to get back on the Bean. That's right. Alright. First Kings chapter eight. The arc is gonna be brought to the temple and so remember the arc has been in Jerusalem, but it's been dwelling in a tent, and that was David's whole point back in second Samuel Chapter seven is he said, Hey, the arc is in a tent. I'm in a palace. I need to build a house for the ark. The built a house for God and God said, no, it's not gonna be you. It's gonna be your son. Solomon has done that now. And so now it's time to bring the ark and put it in the temple. So in the first 11 verses here, that's exactly what happens. The ark is brought to the temple and placed inside the Holy of Holies. The holy of Holies again. Is that spot that is over. The spot that we believe is the location where Isaac was offered by Abraham. Also the place where David built the altar at the end of his reign when the plague was stopped there on the threshing floor of Aruna, the Jbe site. Or yeah, Orin Aruna, either one, depending on the version that we're looking at there or the recording there. And so that, that's the Holy of Holies. The arc is brought and placed in there, and this is marked by a massive celebration and sacrifices. So much so that the number of animals offered could not be counted. It says there in verse five. And so this is this is. You just a monumental day and the arc is in its place. The glory of the Lord then fills the temple, much like when the tabernacle was completed under Moses' leadership. So we're seeing a lot of kind of replication of what happened with the tabernacle, but this time with the temple. And it's a way of God saying, I, I accept. I accept, quote unquote, the invitation to come and dwell here. I told you I was gonna dwell there to make my name dwell there. The temple fits my specifications, and so here I am, I'm gonna be there, which is must've been encouraging because I imagine it was nerve wracking building all these things according to the specifications and design that they were supposed to be built and going. Are we getting this right? 'cause with God, there's no almost. It's either you did it or you didn't do it. And so when God comes and dwells in the temple, the glory takes a residence. I have to imagine that the craftsman, Hiram Solomon they all breed the sigh of relief at that point. Now, here's something interesting. I don't know if you caught it at the beginning of chapter eight. It says here that in verse one, actually, so let just read all of verse one so you get the flow of it. Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the father's houses, of the people of Israel before King Solomon and Jerusalem, and get this to bring up the arc of the covenant. To be of the city of, out of, rather, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion. So he's saying we're bringing the ark out of the city. But isn't the temple in the city? How are you bringing it out, but also bringing it in at the same time? And the short answer that I found is that at this point in time, the temple the temple area was not considered Jerusalem proper. And so it wasn't thought of in that way until, I guess at some point. After the temple had been established and the presence of the Lord manifesting his presence or manifesting his glory in the temple, and people began to associate the two as one. So as you think about Jerusalem, remember the size of Jerusalem has changed over the course of several years. The expanding of Jerusalem happened largely under King Solomon's reign, starting with David. David took gbu. Which became Jerusalem and then expanded its borders and its territories. And it fluctuated a living city would. There's growing territory and shrinking territory depending on the season. And in this case the temple site was not considered Jerusalem proper. It wasn't considered Zion. It was considered it. After the fact. So there's something interesting for you to take a look at. Yeah. And if you go there today, it, the Temple Mount is definitely within the walls of Jerusalem, but you're right and even still today, you can go to Jerusalem and they'll point to a portion of Jerusalem, the city and say, this was the city of David. And so there's even today a, an element of old Jerusalem, so to speak, that is the city of David. And it stands out as different from the city as a whole. That's right. And even the terminology, Zion, that was applied later too for, because it was at some point a a hill, a mountainous hill that was a fortress is, was a, as a fortress that was protected, that was meant to be an outpost of their defense. And so at some point, Zion began to be associated with Jerusalem. You'll often see that terminology applied to the city of Jerusalem throughout the scriptures. And I don't exactly remember when it actually is adopted, but here it is Zion. So it's outta the city of Jerusalem, outta the city of David, Jerusalem, which is Zion, and then into the city of Jerusalem. It's confusing, but just remember you're working with his history unfolding. So even though it can be a bit tricky to trace what's happening, if you just slow down enough to find out and use your study Bibles, use your logos, Bible software, whatever it is that you do use, it's not too difficult to untangle some of these knots. Yeah, one chapter eight verses 12 through 21. David or David Solomon rather reminds the people of God's faithfulness to them in fulfilling the promises that he had made to, to David about the temple and the completion of the temple. And that's just a good thing for us to be reminded of too, that God keeps his word. God keeps his promises. In fact, that's one reason why like we're gonna be talking about this weekend. That's one reason why we are dispensationalist. We believe that there are. Yet unfulfilled promises of God that are specified for his people, Israel. And we believe that God will not lie nor change his mind. He's gonna fulfill those promises. And so here Solomon is pointing to a near term fulfillment of a promise that didn't take very long to be fulfilled. But even we're gonna jump into one Peter. In in the fall, and and this is second Peter, where Peter writes this, but he says, don't count the Lord's patience as slowness or don't believe the people that are saying, where is his promise of returning. And so even for us today, we still wait the fulfillment of promises. And yet we can look at passages like this where Solomon is saying God has been faithful to keep his promise, to fulfill his promise, and know that if he was faithful to fulfill the promise about the temple. He's gonna be faithful about sending Christ back too. It's not ours to know the day or the time or the hour. You just preach on that to the students at student ministry on Wednesday night. But he is gonna fulfill that promise at some point, and we need to be ready for that. Verses 22 through 53, then we get Solomon's prayer, which acknowledges God's greatness and the reality that no temple could truly contain him. So Solomon was humble enough to know God, I've built this house, but I don't pretend that this contains you in your fullness, that nothing man can make, can contain the God of the heavens. But he prays. In this, that God would be attentive, keeping his eyes and ears open towards the temple so that when people pray to him and repent of their sins, he would hear and respond appropriately. So this is a rhythmic prayer of Solomons as he goes through and says, Lord, if you're, if this happens and your people pray and repent, then please see, hear and act. And Solomon goes through over and over again and lists all the different ways he's asked. Asking God to respond, asking God to intervene, and God is going to eventually respond to him and say, yes I will do this. But this is Solomon's prayer saying, God please hear the prayers for your people that are from your people that are offered from this place. Yeah, this is such a cool prayer because what it does is remind us what we have in Christ. Solomon here is. Praying and he's asking God basically to be gracious. He's saying, you're gonna read the words, listen and hear a ton of different times. It's a repetition. It's the rhythm that you're talking about, PPJ, that he's throwing out there to say, Lord, please hear us. Please respond to us when we pray to you this direction. When we come to your temple. Please respond to your people. And I guess that their hope ultimately was well be. 'cause God, you said you would, you said you would hear us. We can look at a prayer like this and say, God, hear us on the basis of Christ. Hear us because of what Jesus will do or what Jesus has done on our behalf. In John 14, Jesus says, whatever you ask in my name, this I will do. We can be confident. That God will hear all of our prayers. Whatever we're praying for, he will hear them because of Jesus Christ. This is guaranteed access. Or Solomon prays, calling God to honor his promises, which is a good thing. We could say, God, you have given us Jesus Christ. You have promise to hear us. And he says He'll do what? We ask that the Father may be glorified in the Son, and he says, if you ask anything in my name, I will do it. Jesus has given us a blank check to fulfill. Unlike Solomon, who could only glimpse the glory that was to come, we can now see it in its full or beauty. God answers the prayers of his people verses 54 through 61. Solomon concludes his prayer, lands the plane with a benediction of praise, and he's worshiping God here for his faithfulness and then challenging. The people there to be faithful in response to God's faithfulness. And so I was thinking about it in terms of vehicles. Everybody has their brand of car that they like to buy, and the reason that you like to buy that brand of cars is because if it's reliability, it's trustworthiness. You've had experiences in the past, you've driven those cars for. Thousands of miles, sometimes hundreds of thousands of miles, and you know that it's gonna last. And so they have your loyalty. So Solomon's basically doing that with Israel, saying God is reliable, he's trustworthy. You can depend on him to be faithful to his word, and now there's a positive and a negative side of that. Positively you can depend on God to be faithful to the promises that he's made, to bless you for obedience, to honor you know, your reverence of him, and to take care of you and to provide for you. The negative side of that is, man, you can trust that God will be faithful to his word, that he will judge you if you're gonna be disobedient to him in, so in verse 61, he says, let your heart therefore be wholly true to the Lord our God, walking in his statutes, keeping his commandments as at this day. Hey, God is faithful, trust him. And that's the conclusion here of Solomon's message. Yeah, I love how he says in verse 56. Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people, Israel, according to all that he has promised, not one word has failed. Of all his good promises, which he spoke by Moses, his servant. And so what you see here is something that Joshua says as he's preparing to hand off the baton, so to speak, he says. All the promises that God has made to us, he's fulfilled. What's interesting is that Joshua hadn't completed the conquest as God told him, but he could say to this point, everything that we've been promised by God he has not failed to fulfill. And Solomon is echoing these same words, and this is even more true for us today, who have been able to see again, the promise of the Messiah that all of the Old Testament points to. We've seen him now play out. At least part one of his coming to us of his being born of a virgin of his, where he's gonna be born in Bethlehem, what he would be doing, Isaiah 53, that he'd be cut off. We see all these things that God has promised and is fulfilled. And if he's promised all these things and he's fulfilled them, what reason do we have to doubt him? Man, so many good reasons for us to trust him. Just as you're saying. PPJ, he's that reliable Honda Civic that never fails. It's very specific. Specific. A 2013 blood red Honda Civic. So reliable. Hey, by the way. Yeah, my son. Is now officially a licensed driver. Dude, congrats. Jacob. You passed, man. That's awesome. Isn't that cool? That is awesome. That's great. Good man. That's exciting. I get a thing on my Facebook that says, beware driver, I know you this. I do. This is your favorite thing. It's my favorite thing. I'm gonna tag you in it and say, PPJ endorse this comment. D beware drivers. Do that. DFW be on the lookout, please. Yes. Yeah. PPJ wants you to know, I want you to know and why don't you warn them about my son too, since they're, I might as well He's already there. Yeah. Yeah. This concludes with another massive sacrifice. And when I was reading this, I was thinking to myself, man, this is interesting. I would've loved to, to talk to Solomon, to say, okay, Solomon why 22,000 oxen? Why not 23,000 oxen? Like at one point were you like, okay, that's enough cows. Keep it going guys, keep it going. 120,000 sheep. This is just it's quite literally overkill. I think to just honor the. The edifice to honor the place and to show that this is noteworthy. It's interesting that there are peace offerings that he's honor offering here. These are not guilt offerings, these are peace offerings. And it's, celebrating the relationship that is there now, present in the edifice of the temple between God and his people, Israel, and the peace that exists there as a result of that. And so he's saying, we're gonna celebrate this with all of these different offerings. But it was quite the scene I imagine. And I wonder, given his wealth. Percentage wise how much this was? I don't know. I don't know, honestly, I don't know the answer to that question. Yeah. But I do think there is something about the proportional giving. We tell people to give until it hurts. Yeah. That's what Jesus calls us to. I think that's what faithful giving looks like under the new Covenant. And so for him, I wonder if this is what it took for him to feel the pain of the sacrifice. Could be and that would point to his wealth, his opulence and God's blessing of his ministry. But also notice that in the New Testament, we have something of a corollary. It's not exactly a one-to-one, but Judas is mad when this gal Mary pours out this expensive ard on Jesus' feet and washes his feet with her hair. He gets upset about. It's dude, what are you doing? This is. Pointless and stupid we could have used in this for the poor. And of course he's got ulterior motives, but Jesus says, no, this is good. Your grand is sacrificed. Whatever it is never too much for Jesus. So whatever that is, if you're thinking about sacrificing to the Lord, insofar as it's, I don't know, I don't wanna qualify it, but. It's not foolish. Yeah, it's a good sacrifice, man. Do that with joy and let the naysayers nail all they want. Yeah. Tell 'em to go get some hay. Alright, second Chronicles chapter five, you'll you'll notice his shoulders in in length in what we just read, but it covers a lot of the same material that that we just covered. The arc being brought. Into the house of the Lord. The chronicler breaks things up a little bit more and spreads things out than than one Kings chapter eight, which is let's just use 66 verses to cover all of it. And so in this portion that we're reading today, a lot of this is just a reminder of what we've just seen. But again same thing that the arc is brought in. Verse 13, the house of the Lord was filled with a cloud so that the priest could not stand a minister because of the cloud for the glory. The Lord filled the house of God. Yeah. Two Chronicles five recaps. A lot of what we just read there in, in one Kings Chapter eight, and it'll continue in chapter six because they cut off the dedication versus the blessing of the people and his verbal prayer to the Lord. But one thing I do appreciate that's in Two Chronicles five that isn't in the Kings the king section is what they sing together for. He is good for his steadfast love endures forever. That seems to be one of Israel's greatest hits. Yeah. Like they just sing that. All the time for he is good as steadfast. Love endures forever. In fact, I was surprised as I thought about this. Chris Toman is the only one that I know that has done it the way that I think scripture does it. And we just I'm reading through the Psalms and I know that you are too as we're ahead of the plan a little bit. Yep. There's that psalm where it says, God has done this for his steadfast love endures forever. Yeah. God has done this other thing for his steadfast love endures forever, and that's what Tomlin did. He did the same thing in this song. It was a bit repetitive, but that's what the Psalm does. That's in tomorrow's reading actually. That is in tomorrow. Okay. Fantastic. As we talk about that I'll. Shorten up my sentence about that, but I think it's really special. That's so cool because this is a constant refrain of scripture. This is the constant refrain of a believer. God is good, his steadfast, faithful, never ending. Love continues on and on. So cool. It is. Let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God, we we thank you that we worship in a church in that it's not the same as the temple as amazing it would've been to be there and see the glory of the Lord fill the temple. In a visible way like that. I'm thankful that we can worship you here, that we don't have to go to Jerusalem, that if families move or are relocated or going on vacation, you can go to another church and worship you there. That the way that we worship you looks different today under the dispensation of the church, and that's such a good thing and we're thankful for that blessing. But Lord, it is such an amazing thing that you chose to make your name dwell, your presence, dwell, at least in part with your people, Israel, during this time. And I pray that we would feel the. The sense of awe and reverence about that, and that would even carry over into how we approach you. On Sunday mornings, we worship the same God. It looks different, and it's a little bit easier for us. But that alone should cause us to be even more careful about how we approach you. Not to be overly casual or too flippant in it, but to revere you the way that you deserve. And so we thank you for your word to help us, encourage us that direction. We pray all these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep reading new Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See you. Bye.

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