WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:00.560 It 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:03.520 is the twentieth of February, twenty twenty-six. 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:04.800 I am Corey J. 00:00:04.800 --> 00:00:08.880 Mahler, and this is at any cost, this is episode seventeen. 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:11.040 It is a QA episode. 00:00:11.040 --> 00:00:14.320 And I have a little bit of housekeeping before I get into 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:16.240 the questions for tonight. 00:00:16.240 --> 00:00:18.880 I have twelve questions I would like to get through in addition 00:00:18.880 --> 00:00:21.520 to perhaps some from the chat. 00:00:21.520 --> 00:00:24.960 The little bit of housekeeping is if anyone from Restream sees this, 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:27.520 please stop signing me out of the plug-in and OBS. 00:00:27.520 --> 00:00:28.880 I don't need to reauthenticate. 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:30.880 I am using the same hardware. 00:00:30.880 --> 00:00:33.600 Just verify it's the same hardware and stop doing that. 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:35.200 It's very annoying. 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:39.200 For a service that is supposed to make things more convenient, not 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:42.720 less. I think that's pretty much all of the housekeeping, so pr 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:46.400 irrelevant for most of you, but if someone from Restie Restream happens 00:00:46.400 --> 00:00:49.920 to see this, it would be nice of them to fix that. 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:55.200 So getting right into the questions here. 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:58.400 This is going to be a little bit of a Bible study 00:00:58.400 --> 00:01:01.360 tonight, and I'm fairly certain we're going to run a little bit 00:01:01.360 --> 00:01:02.800 long because of that. 00:01:02.800 --> 00:01:06.240 I don't think those who are watching this on a Friday night 00:01:06.240 --> 00:01:08.800 are going to object to running a little bit long though, so 00:01:09.440 --> 00:01:13.440 the first topic, it's not really a question, just a topic that 00:01:13.440 --> 00:01:15.040 I wanted to address. 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:17.840 No one specifically asked about this, but the issue has come up 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:22.160 a number of times and I posted about it earlier. 00:01:22.160 --> 00:01:26.640 We are at a point now where technology is good enough with 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:32.720 regard to faking a person's likeness and voice that 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:35.760 you really need to have a discussion. 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:39.200 Assuming most of those listening to this are on the younger end 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:39.760 of things. 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:42.160 Most of you probably are not in your 50s and 60s. 00:01:42.160 --> 00:01:45.600 Most of you are going to be 20s, 30s, maybe 40s. 00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:49.600 So you're elderly parents in some cases, you're not so elderly parents 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:53.840 in others, or you're less tech adept family members, because we all 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:55.920 typically have those as well. 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:58.800 You need to have a discussion with them about the state of 00:01:58.800 --> 00:02:02.880 technology and how easy it is to get scammed. 00:02:02.880 --> 00:02:08.000 And part of that for elderly parents is going to be awkward 00:02:08.320 --> 00:02:10.960 because you may have to take away their debit cards. 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:15.920 Now, credit cards are probably less of a problem because they have 00:02:15.920 --> 00:02:22.480 fraud protection, but debit cards and wire transfers and things like that. 00:02:22.480 --> 00:02:27.040 If you can, you probably need to restrict your elderly parents from 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:31.840 access to those things because they will probably be scammed eventually. 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:36.880 It's the reality of the situation in which we live right now. 00:02:36.880 --> 00:02:39.600 The scams are getting particularly bad. 00:02:39.600 --> 00:02:43.520 And it's because, like I said, deep fakes, the fake videos and 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:47.840 the fake audio are so good now that even those who know 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:51.680 for what to look can be deceived by some of them. 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:54.720 We're to the point where you basically can't believe your eyes. 00:02:54.720 --> 00:02:57.520 It's going to be a major problem for the courts obviously with 00:02:57.520 --> 00:02:59.120 regard to that sort of evidence. 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:03.440 Perhaps it's going to bring back the importance of eyewitness evidence, but 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:08.560 for those who are in a position with elder again, elderly parents 00:03:08.640 --> 00:03:12.720 or less tech adept members of your family, have that discussion with 00:03:12.720 --> 00:03:18.160 them. Basically, tell them never trust anything that's just video or audio 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:20.080 because it can be faked. 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:22.480 And you're not going to have any way to be able to 00:03:22.480 --> 00:03:26.000 tell if it is fake, because it is that good now. 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:27.840 If I had been so inclined and 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:33.120 desired to do so, I could have made this introduction me, but 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:35.200 AI. I'm never going to do that. 00:03:35.200 --> 00:03:36.480 I don't like using it. 00:03:36.480 --> 00:03:37.840 So I'm not going to do that. 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:39.920 But I could have done that to prove the point and then 00:03:39.920 --> 00:03:43.360 cut in with me, and many of you would have been fooled 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:46.240 by that, because that's how good it is now if you use 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:48.560 the best available tools. 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:52.400 So just a couple little tips for how you can 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:57.360 help parents deal with this and others in your family. 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:00.640 Set up a key phrase, a passphrase, whatever you want to call 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:02.640 it. It doesn't have to be a word. 00:04:02.640 --> 00:04:04.320 It can be a full sentence. 00:04:04.640 --> 00:04:07.600 Because for instance, you can use a sentence as a password on 00:04:07.600 --> 00:04:08.160 your computer. 00:04:08.160 --> 00:04:12.080 Your password does not have to be gibberish or one word. 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:13.200 It could be a sentence. 00:04:13.200 --> 00:04:16.240 It could be the first sentence from your favorite poem, say something 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:17.440 you can remember easily. 00:04:17.760 --> 00:04:18.480 That's part of it. 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:20.480 You need to be able to remember this thing. 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:25.280 But set up some sort of phrase where your family knows it, 00:04:25.280 --> 00:04:29.040 and then you can work it into a conversation to let the 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:31.280 other person know it's actually me. 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:33.120 Because no one else would know it. 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.040 So do make sure it's something no one else would know. 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:36.560 Don't make it something that's super common. 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:40.320 Make it something your family can remember and that someone else will 00:04:40.320 --> 00:04:42.560 not be able to easily discover. 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:45.120 Another thing that you can do, this is sort of the second 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:48.080 tip here, there are additional things, but these are two good things 00:04:48.080 --> 00:04:50.000 for a starting place. 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:54.640 Set up a question and answer, but you may be thinking, well 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:57.920 that's like my bank tells me, you know, what's my favorite restaurant, 00:04:57.920 --> 00:04:59.040 or where were you born? 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:01.520 Or those questions are actually fine. 00:05:01.520 --> 00:05:02.880 Those are totally fine questions. 00:05:02.880 --> 00:05:04.720 You can pick any question you want. 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:08.480 The key here, the little trick I want to teach you, make 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:11.520 the answer unrelated to the question. 00:05:11.520 --> 00:05:15.600 Because then it makes it very difficult, if not almost impossible, to 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:19.600 guess. So if someone has their question as, what is your favorite 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:21.440 restaurant? Right? 00:05:21.440 --> 00:05:24.400 Say the answer is purple snow. 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:27.360 No one is ever going to think of that answer or come 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:31.840 across it randomly, but you've now created a pair, a question and 00:05:31.840 --> 00:05:34.720 answer pair, that is actually quite secure. 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:39.520 Because no one's going to guess it and it's unrelated, right? 00:05:39.520 --> 00:05:40.240 That's what you want. 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:41.680 You want that disconnect. 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:45.200 The problem is when you use those questions they're terrible questions, if 00:05:45.200 --> 00:05:47.280 you give the right answer. 00:05:47.280 --> 00:05:51.600 Because quite frankly, for a scammer who has access to your personal 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:54.240 information, say some of your bank records were leaked or your credit 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:56.000 card statements got leaked. 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:58.400 Well they might have a pretty good idea of what your favorite 00:05:58.400 --> 00:05:59.440 restaurant is. 00:05:59.440 --> 00:06:03.200 If it's the one you've been charging on your card twice a 00:06:03.200 --> 00:06:05.120 week for ten years. 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:09.360 So those questions are not good when you give the real answer. 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:12.880 When you give a constructed answer, they're very good because then they're 00:06:12.880 --> 00:06:17.040 basically immune immune to equivalent brute force, right? 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:20.480 So just two little tips to help with these things with your 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:23.760 family. In addition to the one of just don't talk to people 00:06:23.760 --> 00:06:27.600 who randomly call and claim to be your son or your daughter. 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:31.600 Or your cousin, or whatever it happens to be, you cannot do 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:34.320 that these days because of where the technology is and how many 00:06:34.320 --> 00:06:36.000 scammers there are. 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:38.800 Part of it, of course, is that we need to disconnect certain 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:43.280 countries from the internet, but that has not happened yet. 00:06:43.280 --> 00:06:43.600 So 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:50.400 on to the second question for tonight. 00:06:50.400 --> 00:06:52.880 This one from the forum. 00:06:52.880 --> 00:06:55.920 Does your family know about your views and if so, have they 00:06:55.920 --> 00:07:00.000 shunned you or have they expressed disapproval of your views? 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.720 How do you recommend we deal with our families if they discover 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:06.640 without us telling them that we espouse certain viewpoints that they may 00:07:06.640 --> 00:07:07.600 vehemently disagree 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:15.200 with. This is quite similar to a question that I answered last 00:07:15.200 --> 00:07:20.160 time about a man dealing with his wife and her feeling isolated 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:23.120 because of her views and trying to find friends that have similar 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:24.560 views and things like that. 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:27.600 So in part I would say go back and listen to that 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:31.040 answer because that is a big part of the answer to this 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:32.880 question. But 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:38.000 insofar as I am concerned, I'm willing to go so far as 00:07:38.320 --> 00:07:41.840 I usually don't answer personal questions that involve other people. 00:07:41.840 --> 00:07:43.440 That's my general rule. 00:07:43.440 --> 00:07:45.920 But I'm willing to say that I'm on good terms with my 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:50.080 family. Certainly there are some extended family, you know, back in California, 00:07:50.080 --> 00:07:52.800 who do not agree with my views. 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:54.160 That's just the reality of it. 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:58.800 That's not ex that's not unexpected these days, certainly given my views, 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:02.560 right? And the state of our country and propaganda and things like 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:06.000 that. But no, I'm on good terms with my immediate family. 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:08.320 We don't necessarily agree on everything. 00:08:08.320 --> 00:08:12.000 But even if you have a family that is right wing, say 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:15.120 far right wing, right, you probably still won't agree on everything. 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:16.960 That's just the nature of being a human being. 00:08:16.960 --> 00:08:21.680 We are going to disagree over sometimes stupid stuff, sometimes serious stuff. 00:08:21.840 --> 00:08:22.160 But 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:28.720 we With your family, there are going to be some differences concerning 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:33.040 distance. If you have, you know, your immediate family, particularly if you're 00:08:33.040 --> 00:08:36.240 living in the same house as your immediate family, you need to 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:37.840 get along with them. 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:41.280 And I would say go read the article that I just wrote 00:08:41.280 --> 00:08:44.080 on women in defense of women, I'll put it in the show 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:49.120 notes, because it's similar to some of the things I said there 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:51.680 that need to be repeated here. 00:08:51.680 --> 00:08:55.360 There are times when you are dealing with immediate family, particularly in 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:59.600 your n in your own household, where winning does not need to 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:00.560 be the goal. 00:09:00.560 --> 00:09:04.000 Because winning comes at too high of a cost in those in 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:05.680 those circumstances. 00:09:05.680 --> 00:09:07.040 Because you need to keep the peace. 00:09:07.040 --> 00:09:08.960 That's basically the baseline there. 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:11.680 You need to keep the peace in the home as best you 00:09:11.680 --> 00:09:15.920 can. You know, insofar as it depends on you, live at peace 00:09:15.920 --> 00:09:17.760 with all, right? 00:09:17.760 --> 00:09:20.880 So So with your immediate family that's the general rule. 00:09:20.880 --> 00:09:24.160 More distant family, you can have a little more conflict because you 00:09:24.160 --> 00:09:24.880 don't live with them. 00:09:24.880 --> 00:09:26.160 You don't see them as often. 00:09:26.160 --> 00:09:28.640 If it's family you see once a year and you get into 00:09:28.640 --> 00:09:32.560 an argument about politics at your family potluck. 00:09:33.040 --> 00:09:36.240 don't do that because there's not really any reason to. 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:39.040 But if you do, the consequences are not as dire, as if 00:09:39.040 --> 00:09:42.800 you are at enmity with someone who lives literally down the hall 00:09:42.800 --> 00:09:44.560 from you in the same building. 00:09:44.560 --> 00:09:46.480 That's more of a challenge. 00:09:46.880 --> 00:09:47.200 So 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:52.240 it's going to depend on that immediate versus distant family. 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:56.320 And then part of it overlapping with my previous answer from the 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:59.360 last episode regarding that man and his wife. 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:01.520 Just don't bring some things up. 00:10:01.520 --> 00:10:06.400 Yes, your question asks specifically if they happen to discover them without 00:10:06.400 --> 00:10:09.520 you telling them, then you have to address it. 00:10:09.520 --> 00:10:14.640 And you should make clear that you value that relationship with your 00:10:14.640 --> 00:10:18.240 family, with your family members, highly, and you do not want to 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:22.880 let politics and social issues and things like that destroy that relationship. 00:10:22.880 --> 00:10:25.520 And so basically you agree to disagree. 00:10:25.520 --> 00:10:28.400 That is not something that we can do in the larger society 00:10:28.560 --> 00:10:30.000 because that's a different arena. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:33.600 It's the public square versus the private home. 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:37.360 In the private home we can agree to disagree, because keeping the 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:39.280 peace is very important. 00:10:39.280 --> 00:10:43.680 And so if it comes up in the way that they have 00:10:43.680 --> 00:10:48.160 discovered your views, then Make it very clear again that you value 00:10:48.160 --> 00:10:50.960 the relationship with your family and you want to live at peace 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:51.840 in your home. 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:54.800 You don't want to be fighting over these things all the time. 00:10:54.800 --> 00:10:56.960 So maybe you set some ground rules. 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:59.920 We don't discuss X, Y, and Z topic. 00:10:59.920 --> 00:11:02.560 We don't discuss politics at the dinner table. 00:11:02.560 --> 00:11:04.480 There's nothing wrong with that. 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.120 Growing up, that's certainly something my family did not do. 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:10.640 We've always been discuss religion, politics, social, whatever it happens to be. 00:11:10.640 --> 00:11:13.920 But In many families, you're going to not want to do that 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:16.800 because you don't need to have that sort of strife and fighting 00:11:16.800 --> 00:11:19.200 in the family and the stress and things that attend it for 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:20.000 many people. 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:22.080 That's not what the home is supposed to be. 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:24.240 The home is supposed to be a sanctuary, it's supposed to be 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:28.000 a refuge from the world, and you will not have that if 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:30.160 you're constantly fighting over certain things. 00:11:30.160 --> 00:11:31.440 So set bounds. 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:33.200 There are topics that are out of bounds. 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:38.240 Or, you know, we don't discuss these topics at home, but you 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:40.160 know, maybe you go out with your father and have a beer 00:11:40.160 --> 00:11:43.120 at a bar or something, and then you discuss politics there. 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:45.280 Maybe that's how you bound it. 00:11:45.280 --> 00:11:47.840 So you can keep the peace at home, but still have the 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:48.720 option to discuss it. 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:54.000 It's going to depend on your circumstances, your family, your tolerance for 00:11:54.160 --> 00:11:56.320 argument and strife and things like that. 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:58.480 Some families have a very high tolerance for it. 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:01.040 And so you discuss politics at the dinner table. 00:12:01.040 --> 00:12:03.680 Some families have a very low tolerance for it and so you 00:12:03.680 --> 00:12:05.040 avoid it totally. 00:12:05.040 --> 00:12:06.960 The goal is to keep that peace in the home 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.360 and not let these issues that we know are important and that 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:15.840 are worth having a knockdown, drag out, knives out fight in the 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:16.800 public square. 00:12:16.800 --> 00:12:21.760 Obviously I'm speaking about metaphorical in this case, not literal knives, metaphorical 00:12:21.760 --> 00:12:27.040 in this case, but worth having that sort of fight in the 00:12:27.040 --> 00:12:30.240 public square, but you don't have it at home. 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:36.000 These things are different and they should be treated differently. 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:37.760 The third question 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:42.480 trying to number the question as I go to make it easier 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:47.440 to Tag them in the future so people can find things easily. 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:51.600 This one has a number of subtopics, so I will get into 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:53.600 each of those. 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:56.720 What should devout Christian men in modern America do about the lack 00:12:56.720 --> 00:12:58.720 of marriageable women? 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:03.440 I was wondering if you could comment on each of these strategies. 00:13:03.680 --> 00:13:05.840 So he has a number of strategies here, there are seven of 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:10.640 them. Dating women from other major traditional Christian denominations, for example for 00:13:10.640 --> 00:13:17.680 example, Roman Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Presbyterianism, so asking this obviously from given that 00:13:17.680 --> 00:13:21.040 list has to be a Lutheran or Baptist, which doesn't narrow it 00:13:21.040 --> 00:13:25.200 too much, but temporarily moving abroad, for example, to Eastern Europe where 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:28.720 feminism is not as pervasive, find a European woman who speaks English 00:13:28.800 --> 00:13:31.200 and bring her back here. 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:36.160 Dating Anabaptist or Mormon women who grew up under male authority dating 00:13:36.160 --> 00:13:39.200 women who have lapsed in their faith yet may still have maintained 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:43.680 their purity, dating women with some type of learning disability that has 00:13:43.680 --> 00:13:46.800 prevented her from attending college, I will go ahead and not make 00:13:46.800 --> 00:13:48.320 the obvious joke there. 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:52.240 Dating half damaged women who may have retained some aspects of purity 00:13:52.400 --> 00:13:54.320 but not all aspects. 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:58.480 Dating women who have a small percent of non white admixture. 00:13:58.480 --> 00:13:59.760 Is this ever acceptable? 00:13:59.760 --> 00:14:02.720 If so, do you have a recommended cutoff? 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:07.360 In the Stonequire episode entitled Young Man's Life, you seem to advocate 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:11.760 approaching baristas and cashiers, yet my experience has been that approaching women 00:14:11.760 --> 00:14:14.400 already puts you in their frame, that is, they see you as 00:14:14.400 --> 00:14:17.920 needy or desperate Should I just be content with being single? 00:14:17.920 --> 00:14:19.920 I am at the point where I really think it's better for 00:14:19.920 --> 00:14:22.640 me to just focus on myself and not actively try to pursue 00:14:22.640 --> 00:14:27.280 women who don't seem to be interested in getting married anyway. 00:14:27.280 --> 00:14:32.160 So obviously a number of sub questions here and topics to address. 00:14:32.160 --> 00:14:35.920 Insofar as that last bit is concerned, focusing on yourself in the 00:14:35.920 --> 00:14:39.120 sense of, you know, getting in shape and focusing on your hobbies 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:42.960 and having a life is important because women recognize if you have 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:44.080 that or don't. 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:46.640 And yes, as a man, you don't want to come across as 00:14:46.640 --> 00:14:50.800 desperate because that gives women the ick, as they would call it. 00:14:50.800 --> 00:14:54.080 Even if they don't recognize the reality of it, that's just a 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:57.120 biological and a psychological reaction women have. 00:14:57.120 --> 00:14:58.880 They can't even control it. 00:14:58.880 --> 00:15:00.880 So don't get mad at them for it. 00:15:00.880 --> 00:15:01.760 That's just how they are. 00:15:01.760 --> 00:15:03.600 It's how God made them. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:08.720 So yes, focusing on those things and making sure that you have, 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.920 you know, a personality and a life because a wife is something 00:15:11.920 --> 00:15:15.280 you bring into your life that is a piece of it. 00:15:15.280 --> 00:15:16.960 She's not the total. 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:18.480 She's not the sum of your life. 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:20.320 She's not everything you have. 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:24.000 In fact, you should be more of her life than she should 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:25.200 be of yours. 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:27.840 That is how it works when things are functioning properly, which makes 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:30.720 perfect sense because of course she's the one keeping the home, she's 00:15:30.640 --> 00:15:33.840 the one taking care of the children, the house, all those things, 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:36.560 you have more of a life outside the home than she does. 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:39.360 It's not to say she can't have friends and hobbies and things 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:43.600 like that, but the larger chunk of a man's life is outside 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:45.040 his home, often. 00:15:45.040 --> 00:15:47.280 Not Not always you can have a little bit of a balance 00:15:47.280 --> 00:15:49.600 there, but you have things you go out and do in the 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:50.800 world. That's important. 00:15:50.800 --> 00:15:52.320 You need to have that. 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:56.080 Even if you work at home, you need to have a part 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:59.600 of the house set aside for when you work at home, close 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.360 it off, and don't deal with your wife during certain hours. 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:07.040 Because psychologically she is not going to like the fact that it 00:16:07.040 --> 00:16:09.920 looks like you're just staying home all the time. 00:16:09.920 --> 00:16:12.560 There are some women who can sort of deal with that and 00:16:12.560 --> 00:16:16.560 deal with the dissonance there and not have that reaction, but most 00:16:16.560 --> 00:16:17.520 women can't. 00:16:17.520 --> 00:16:19.280 And so you need to have that separation. 00:16:19.280 --> 00:16:22.000 For men who go outside and work outside the home, it's not 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:23.440 m as much of an issue. 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:29.440 But to get into the specific subquestions here, dating outside, your particular 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:32.160 strain of Christianity is entirely fine. 00:16:32.160 --> 00:16:36.160 I've spoken to the topic before, and the big question is going 00:16:36.160 --> 00:16:38.800 to be: will she follow your leaders? 00:16:38.800 --> 00:16:41.120 Does she recognize that you are the head? 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:44.720 Does she recognize that you get to make these decisions because you 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:47.200 are the one who will answer to God for them? 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:52.720 And so if she is Presbyterian and you are Lutheran, she has 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:54.240 to become Lutheran. 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:56.800 That is part of the deal if she is going to marry 00:16:56.800 --> 00:17:00.640 you. It is not being unequally yoked in the fullest sense, because 00:17:00.640 --> 00:17:03.840 obviously you're not just marrying an outright pagan, which is what we 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:07.280 get into later here, but it is being unequally yoked in a 00:17:07.280 --> 00:17:08.640 minor sense. 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:12.400 Because she is going to have a lot of the duties and 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:15.280 a lot of the time raising your children. 00:17:15.280 --> 00:17:18.080 Part of that will be instructing them in the faith. 00:17:18.080 --> 00:17:21.600 Now it is incumbent on you to see that they are instructed 00:17:21.600 --> 00:17:25.680 rightly, but you will not be the one doing all of that. 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:27.360 She will do part of that. 00:17:27.360 --> 00:17:29.520 And so you need to make sure that she is teaching the 00:17:29.520 --> 00:17:33.840 things that you believe, because you are the head and she has 00:17:33.840 --> 00:17:34.800 to follow. 00:17:34.800 --> 00:17:38.160 And if she's not willing to do that, then you are just 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:41.920 signing up for strife in your marriage and suffering in your home 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:45.280 So you need to take that into account. 00:17:45.280 --> 00:17:50.160 But yes, it is generally fine to date Christians outside your denomination, 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:51.040 outside your tradition. 00:17:51.040 --> 00:17:52.400 That's not a problem. 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:56.000 The problems arise tangentially related to that. 00:17:56.320 --> 00:17:59.040 If she will not follow your lead, if she will not submit, 00:17:59.040 --> 00:18:02.160 which Scripture says wives are to submit to their husbands in all 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:05.280 things, then you have a very real problem. 00:18:05.280 --> 00:18:08.160 If she was raised as a proper Christian, you shouldn't have as 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:10.240 much of an issue. 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:14.960 Do also recognize, of course, there is the issue that comes alongside 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:20.720 that. How will her family react to her marrying outside their tradition, 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:25.200 outside their denomination, is that going to be a source of strife? 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:30.800 Generally speaking, this of course does not always happen particularly these days, 00:18:30.800 --> 00:18:34.000 but historically the woman became part of the man's family. 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:39.760 And so she had significantly less interaction with her family, her parents, 00:18:39.760 --> 00:18:43.920 grandparents, cousins, siblings, all of that, because she became part of your 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:45.680 family, part of your clan. 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:49.600 These days that's not always going to be the case, and it 00:18:49.600 --> 00:18:51.440 doesn't even necessarily have to be the case. 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:54.480 You'd like to get along with your in-laws, and she'd like to 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:55.360 get along with hers. 00:18:55.360 --> 00:18:56.640 That's how it should be. 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:59.920 But if her family is going to be very involved in your 00:18:59.920 --> 00:19:03.840 life, say her mother is going to do a lot of babysitting, 00:19:03.840 --> 00:19:07.600 things like that, then it is a very real concern if they 00:19:07.600 --> 00:19:11.680 are going to cause strife for you in your marriage because they 00:19:12.080 --> 00:19:14.560 disagree with you on these issues. 00:19:14.560 --> 00:19:15.840 It's a matter of wisdom. 00:19:15.840 --> 00:19:19.120 You have to investigate this and make sure that her parents aren't 00:19:19.120 --> 00:19:22.320 going to cause trouble for you because they're Roman Catholic and think 00:19:22.320 --> 00:19:26.320 that you're an evil Presbyterian or whatever it happens to be, or 00:19:26.320 --> 00:19:30.800 they're Baptist and think that you're an evil baby sprinkling Presbyterian or 00:19:30.800 --> 00:19:32.640 whatever they want to call you. 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:36.240 Make sure you're not signing up for strife there. 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:38.880 And you may have to have a very frank discussion with them 00:19:39.760 --> 00:19:43.760 about how you're going to raise your children and what the boundaries 00:19:43.760 --> 00:19:46.320 are for what they are permitted to say to your children or 00:19:46.320 --> 00:19:49.840 not say to your children, because ultimately they're your children. 00:19:49.840 --> 00:19:52.160 You are the one who will answer for them. 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:54.240 So apply your wisdom there. 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:56.960 Investigate these issues. 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:00.640 As far as temporarily moving abroad, I obviously don't recommend that because 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:03.600 I don't think men should go shopping for wives in other countries. 00:20:03.600 --> 00:20:06.240 You should marry a wife from your own country. 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:10.800 Now, is there as much of a problem if say I'm not 00:20:10.800 --> 00:20:13.200 saying go shopping for a wife, but let's say you m you're 00:20:13.280 --> 00:20:14.160 English, right? 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:17.520 English descent, just for the sake of the hypothetical, and you live 00:20:17.520 --> 00:20:18.480 in the US. 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:22.080 And you meet a nice English girl from England somehow. 00:20:22.080 --> 00:20:25.120 She's hiking, you meet her, however it happens to be. 00:20:25.120 --> 00:20:26.720 Is there a problem there? 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:27.920 No, there's no problem there. 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:28.960 That's totally fine. 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:30.080 You can do that. 00:20:30.080 --> 00:20:33.200 It's not going to happen that often, but it's not objectionable because 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:36.560 you are ultimately from the same nation. 00:20:36.560 --> 00:20:38.800 Just a little bit of separation there. 00:20:38.800 --> 00:20:41.840 Same thing for if you're German and marry a German from Germany 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:46.080 versus a German descended person from the US or Again, it's this 00:20:46.080 --> 00:20:48.720 matter of concentric circles, right? 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:52.320 You are more closely related to those of your nation and then 00:20:52.320 --> 00:20:53.920 of your larger nation. 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:58.560 So say in the case of Germany versus Germanics versus Western Europe 00:20:58.560 --> 00:21:03.600 versus Europe, concentric circles, you are going to encounter more and greater 00:21:03.600 --> 00:21:05.760 problems the greater the distance. 00:21:05.760 --> 00:21:08.240 And so yes, if you are German and you marry someone who's 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:12.800 Chinese, significantly more problems you've created for yourself and your children than 00:21:12.800 --> 00:21:14.480 if you marry someone who's Dutch. 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:16.560 Maybe a little bit of tension there because the Germans and the 00:21:16.560 --> 00:21:19.680 Dutch are different, but they're not that different. 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:22.960 The Germans and the Chinese are extremely different. 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:26.400 So no, I don't recommend going and shopping for wives in other 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:28.320 countries. Don't do that. 00:21:28.320 --> 00:21:32.320 Dating an Anabaptist or a Mormon who grew up under male authority. 00:21:32.320 --> 00:21:33.040 That's fine. 00:21:33.040 --> 00:21:35.600 There are plenty of Anabaptists, plenty of Mormons here. 00:21:35.600 --> 00:21:39.680 And they are of our nation, so same blood, same race. 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:40.880 That's completely fine. 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:43.600 Again, you're going to have the same sort of issues that you 00:21:43.600 --> 00:21:48.320 had with dating someone from another denomination, but perhaps a more extreme 00:21:48.320 --> 00:21:49.440 version of that. 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:53.760 Do recognize that in those communities, typically if someone leaves they are 00:21:53.760 --> 00:21:55.120 going to be shunned. 00:21:55.120 --> 00:21:57.920 Now, as you are a man and you're looking for a wife, 00:21:57.920 --> 00:22:00.320 it's not as big of an issue, because again she is properly 00:22:00.320 --> 00:22:02.160 joining your family. 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:04.400 You're not joining hers really. 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:07.440 And so the fact that she's going to be shunned is going 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:08.400 to be a problem for her. 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:11.760 That's going to be hard for her emotionally, psychologically, recognize there are 00:22:11.760 --> 00:22:15.680 going to be hurdles to overcome, but as long as you have 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:20.160 family who are going to support you and support her, you can 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:22.720 probably do that and you'll be just fine. 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:26.480 You probably want to move away from the Anabaptists of the Mormon 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:27.520 community, though. 00:22:27.520 --> 00:22:30.480 You probably don't want to live right next door and have stolen 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:34.960 one of their women, as some of them will view it. 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:38.640 The next part, dating women who've lapsed in their faith yet may 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:42.080 still have maintained their purity, completely fine, same sort of consideration. 00:22:42.320 --> 00:22:43.440 Bring them back into the faith. 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:45.040 In fact, you're doing a good thing. 00:22:45.040 --> 00:22:46.800 Bring them back into the faith. 00:22:46.800 --> 00:22:49.760 Make sure that they are willing to follow your lead. 00:22:49.760 --> 00:22:53.680 Recognize that maybe you're going to have some challenges there, some struggles, 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:56.160 because she's had struggles with her faith. 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:59.280 Make sure your faith is firm enough to be able to support 00:22:59.280 --> 00:23:02.240 hers. So make sure you're ready to do that role. 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:04.880 You have to do that anyway as a husband because God is 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:06.880 going to ask you where is your wife when you get to 00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:09.760 the judgment because you're her head. 00:23:09.760 --> 00:23:13.840 So same sort of challenge there. 00:23:13.840 --> 00:23:17.920 The question about women with a learning disability, that's going to depend 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:21.200 really heavily on what you mean by that, because there's a wide 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:26.080 spectrum. You know, there's a difference between a woman who has really 00:23:26.080 --> 00:23:29.600 mild autism or a woman who is profoundly mentally retarded in the 00:23:29.600 --> 00:23:31.280 technical sense, right? 00:23:31.280 --> 00:23:33.520 Wild Wild difference there. 00:23:33.520 --> 00:23:33.840 So 00:23:35.760 --> 00:23:38.960 I can't really give a general answer to that one. 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:44.000 I don't think producing severely mentally disabled children would be wise. 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:47.600 I think I've been fairly clear about that many times, many places. 00:23:47.600 --> 00:23:47.760 But 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:53.120 if it's a woman who has some mild problem, dyslexia or something, 00:23:53.120 --> 00:23:56.160 something mild, there's no problem there, there's no objection there. 00:23:56.240 --> 00:23:59.920 Again, just recognize that if it's something that has a genetic component, 00:23:59.920 --> 00:24:02.240 you will pass it on to your children potentially. 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:03.920 And so there are risks. 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:05.920 But you know, weigh these things. 00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:07.680 Everyone has problems, generally speaking. 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:10.560 There are very few people who don't have some sort of 00:24:11.760 --> 00:24:15.600 mild genetic something or some sort of baggage, right? 00:24:15.600 --> 00:24:19.600 And it obviously depends on how broad you cast that net, how 00:24:19.600 --> 00:24:21.360 broadly you define it, you know. 00:24:21.360 --> 00:24:24.400 I have gray hair, like, is that genetic? 00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:28.160 Absolutely. Some men grow gray much earlier than others. 00:24:28.160 --> 00:24:31.440 I'm forty and my beard is, you know, half grey at this 00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:35.920 point, so it just depends on how broadly you define these categories. 00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:40.480 The next one dating half damaged in quotes here. 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:44.240 Women who have maintained some aspects of purity, but not all aspects. 00:24:44.480 --> 00:24:49.120 basically, these are women who have been not necessarily wildly promiscuous, but 00:24:49.120 --> 00:24:51.840 have not been Entirely chased, I think is what we're getting to 00:24:51.840 --> 00:24:57.040 here. This is going to be a matter of wisdom. 00:24:57.040 --> 00:25:00.320 Do you have what it takes to deal with a woman who 00:25:00.320 --> 00:25:01.600 has that baggage? 00:25:01.600 --> 00:25:04.080 And part of it is going to be baggage that she literally 00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:09.840 cannot herself get rid of because it is genetic baggage in some 00:25:09.840 --> 00:25:13.040 cases. There's some things where this is now just part of who 00:25:13.040 --> 00:25:16.240 she is biologically and psychologically and she will never get rid of 00:25:16.320 --> 00:25:20.800 it until the resurrection, the general resurrection, right? 00:25:20.800 --> 00:25:22.400 In the new creation. 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:25.920 And so make sure you are the sort of man who can 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:27.120 handle that. 00:25:27.120 --> 00:25:29.520 I'm not going to say it's always unwise or it's always 00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:34.960 bad. I did set a general sort of formula for how to 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:38.800 calculate that, and you can go find that in my comments archive. 00:25:38.800 --> 00:25:41.200 I won't say it here because it'll probably get the video flagged 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:43.680 in some way, but Way, but you can go and find that, 00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:44.800 and I stand by it. 00:25:44.800 --> 00:25:47.040 I think it is a general rule of thumb. 00:25:47.040 --> 00:25:51.200 There are men who can have a fudge factor, deal with women 00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:55.120 who are a little more damaged, and there are men who can't. 00:25:55.120 --> 00:25:58.640 You know the sort of man you are, you know what you 00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:02.560 can handle, what you can't handle, and whether or not you will 00:26:02.560 --> 00:26:04.880 be comfortable settling a little bit. 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:05.200 And 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:09.600 do of course recognize that women these days are also settling because 00:26:10.080 --> 00:26:13.120 men are also damaged goods in a lot of cases. 00:26:13.120 --> 00:26:17.680 So recognize that maybe your damaged goods a little bit too. 00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:21.600 So give her a little grace, a little leeway, and hopefully she 00:26:21.600 --> 00:26:22.800 will return that. 00:26:22.800 --> 00:26:26.400 But the central part there is recognize that maybe you are the 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:29.440 sort of man who can deal with that and maybe you aren't. 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:33.760 And if you have a great opportunity to marry a good woman 00:26:33.760 --> 00:26:35.920 who was maybe a little bit 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:43.440 off the reservation in university, not wild party girl, right, but maybe 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:45.920 she made some mistakes, did something she should not have done, and 00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:47.840 yes, they're more than mistakes, they're sin. 00:26:47.840 --> 00:26:50.800 But does that mean she can't be a good wife? 00:26:50.800 --> 00:26:51.920 I don't think so. 00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:55.920 You know, if she had one or two serious boyfriends in university 00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:59.840 and yes she slept with them Does that mean that she absolutely 00:26:59.840 --> 00:27:01.040 can never be a wife? 00:27:01.040 --> 00:27:03.360 No, that would be ridiculous to claim that. 00:27:03.360 --> 00:27:04.320 Is it ideal? 00:27:04.320 --> 00:27:05.040 Absolutely not. 00:27:05.040 --> 00:27:08.080 Of course not, because a woman is supposed to be a virgin 00:27:08.080 --> 00:27:09.600 on her wedding night. 00:27:09.600 --> 00:27:12.320 And one of the ways you can look at that is that 00:27:13.040 --> 00:27:16.640 one of the examples that is held up for marriage in Scripture 00:27:16.800 --> 00:27:18.880 is the requirements for the priests. 00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:20.240 And what was the requirement? 00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:24.400 They had to marry a wife of their own race and she 00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:26.080 had to be a virgin. 00:27:26.080 --> 00:27:29.360 God's pretty clear about what he wants for marriage, and so there 00:27:29.360 --> 00:27:33.600 is an ideal, but we live in a fallen world, and you 00:27:33.600 --> 00:27:36.400 know, if you're millennial, you're getting up there in years, I know 00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:37.520 that personally. 00:27:37.840 --> 00:27:41.040 And so maybe there will be a little bit of settling in 00:27:41.040 --> 00:27:42.560 order to find a wife. 00:27:42.560 --> 00:27:45.440 And you just have to make it through this life. 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:50.000 That's not fatalist or pessimistic or cynical or whatever it happens to 00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:53.520 be. But I think this is something that we don't really think 00:27:53.520 --> 00:27:54.880 of enough. 00:27:54.880 --> 00:27:58.080 All you have to do with your marriage is survive for sixty 00:27:58.080 --> 00:27:59.040 years, right? 00:27:59.040 --> 00:28:03.040 Find the happiness where you can, live a good life together, let 00:28:03.040 --> 00:28:06.720 small things slide, but recognize that is really only about sixty years, 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:09.520 or if you're a millennial, then maybe you know, forty years or 00:28:09.520 --> 00:28:14.880 something, but it's not the highest bar to hurdle, and all the 00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:18.320 problems we have today are gone in the next life. 00:28:18.320 --> 00:28:20.720 You just have to get through this one. 00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:23.280 So keep a perspective on things. 00:28:23.280 --> 00:28:26.080 Don't look for perfection because you won't find it in this life. 00:28:26.080 --> 00:28:28.160 It doesn't exist in this life. 00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:32.400 Find something that is good for you and that you can make 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:35.520 into a good life. 00:28:35.520 --> 00:28:40.800 The next sub question is dating women who have a small percent 00:28:40.800 --> 00:28:43.120 of non-white admixture. 00:28:43.120 --> 00:28:47.200 I'm sort of tempted to get out my tablet which I have 00:28:47.840 --> 00:28:51.600 set up here, of course, now it's decided to disconnect. 00:28:51.600 --> 00:28:53.760 I think it probably went to sleep, but I don't think I 00:28:53.760 --> 00:28:55.840 need to do that because I think everyone kind of understands the 00:28:55.840 --> 00:28:56.560 percentages here. 00:28:56.560 --> 00:28:58.000 They're pretty straightforward, right? 00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:05.520 So you are effectively half your father, twenty five percent your grandfather, 00:29:05.520 --> 00:29:08.160 twelve and a half percent your great grandfather and then you know 00:29:08.320 --> 00:29:10.800 six point two five three point one two five so on and 00:29:10.800 --> 00:29:11.760 so forth back. 00:29:11.760 --> 00:29:16.480 So after a certain number of generations, it becomes trivia, if even 00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:21.520 that. So you get people sometimes in the US context, usually they've 00:29:21.520 --> 00:29:24.640 just had some sort of weird family legend that's a complete wild 00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:27.520 fabrication. Someone said it while he was drunk a hundred years ago 00:29:27.520 --> 00:29:28.560 or something. 00:29:28.560 --> 00:29:31.440 And they'll say, Oh, I'm part Cherokee. 00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:35.280 And you do a genetic test and they're zero percent Cherokee. 00:29:35.280 --> 00:29:38.960 Well, let's say you had an ancestor at some point way back 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:40.240 who was Cherokee. 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:42.560 Let's say it's nine, ten generations ago. 00:29:42.560 --> 00:29:45.200 You are effectively zero percent Cherokee. 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:45.520 So 00:29:46.560 --> 00:29:52.560 Marrying someone who has some small admixture from another race is not 00:29:52.560 --> 00:29:55.680 going to be a problem, generally speaking. 00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:58.880 Is there a slightly elevated risk of genetic and other issues? 00:29:58.880 --> 00:29:59.600 Of course. 00:29:59.600 --> 00:30:00.640 That's the reality of it. 00:30:01.280 --> 00:30:01.600 But 00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:06.880 that doesn't mean that it rises to the level where it would 00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:11.040 be unwise to marry a woman who has, you know, a sixteenth, 00:30:11.040 --> 00:30:15.760 a thirty-second, whatever it happens to be, from some other group. 00:30:15.760 --> 00:30:18.880 Part of it is also going to depend on which other group. 00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:21.360 Because again, it's that matter of distance. 00:30:21.360 --> 00:30:26.160 If you are half Irish and half Russian, that is not going 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:32.240 to give you the same risk of genetic disorders and psychological stresses 00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:37.280 that you would have if you were half Russian and half Thai. 00:30:37.280 --> 00:30:42.080 It's that distance, it's that incompatibility of the cultures, you are going 00:30:42.080 --> 00:30:42.880 to have more problems. 00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:45.840 And anyone who is of mixed race who is being honest with 00:30:45.840 --> 00:30:48.720 you is going to say, Yes, I feel torn between two worlds, 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:52.480 because you literally are biologically in yourself, you're torn between those two 00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:56.880 worlds. And so if you marry a woman who has that, recognize 00:30:56.880 --> 00:30:58.880 she's going to have those issues, right? 00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:03.040 That's going to be part of her psychological makeup and the biology 00:31:03.040 --> 00:31:07.040 as well, because that is how she was made. 00:31:07.040 --> 00:31:11.360 Because her parents made that unwise decision. 00:31:11.360 --> 00:31:17.280 But if it's four, five, six, seven, eight generations back, she's not 00:31:17.280 --> 00:31:18.000 going to care. 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:19.680 That's faded into time. 00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:21.360 It's not going to matter. 00:31:21.360 --> 00:31:24.480 So you're not going to have issues with that. 00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:25.840 Again, is it ideal? 00:31:25.840 --> 00:31:28.480 No. But we don't live in an ideal world. 00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:31.680 There are going to be things where you have to give a 00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:35.200 little bit of leeway, a little bit of grace, basically. 00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:36.880 And this is one of them. 00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:40.640 So no, if it's something like that, I don't think it's really 00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:42.000 worth having that consideration. 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:44.080 Again, it depends on the admixture. 00:31:44.080 --> 00:31:48.560 You know, someone who is half Japanese is not going to have 00:31:48.560 --> 00:31:54.400 the same sort of stresses and psychological baggage as someone who is 00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:57.600 half Ugandan and half you know European. 00:31:57.600 --> 00:32:00.960 I'm using European because that's obviously most of the audience and what 00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:01.600 I am. 00:32:01.600 --> 00:32:04.400 So use wisdom there. 00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:07.200 I've spoken about that a number of times before, touched on it 00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:08.800 in Stone Choir. 00:32:08.800 --> 00:32:12.640 But yes, once you start getting into one sixteenth, one thirty second, 00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:17.840 one sixty fourth, it's practically not even worth c worth considering anymore. 00:32:17.840 --> 00:32:23.680 So I think that pretty much answers all of the sub questions 00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:24.000 there. 00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:28.160 Except for No, I don't think you have to be content being 00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:30.320 single. Just go out find a woman. 00:32:30.320 --> 00:32:32.400 You're a man, find a younger woman. 00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:34.320 Go date a zoomer. 00:32:34.320 --> 00:32:35.440 Good luck. 00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:38.960 I recognize there are problems, but there are problems with men as 00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:42.000 well. We're all damaged, we're all kind of broken goods. 00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:45.360 We're living in an interim generation essentially. 00:32:45.360 --> 00:32:49.360 So the goal is to get through this to make a better 00:32:49.360 --> 00:32:51.280 world for those who come after us. 00:32:51.280 --> 00:32:53.920 And part of that is that there have to be those who 00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:56.000 come after us to have that better world. 00:32:56.000 --> 00:33:00.240 So go find yourself a 24-year-old and date her. 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:04.800 That's entirely fine. 00:33:04.800 --> 00:33:05.120 The 00:33:06.080 --> 00:33:07.680 next question 00:33:09.120 --> 00:33:10.560 Question four 00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:14.560 is about English and the Septuagint 00:33:16.320 --> 00:33:19.680 Do you think God is preparing to use English as a new 00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:23.040 scriptural language similar to Greek for the Septuagint? 00:33:23.040 --> 00:33:26.400 Will the future faithful English translation of Scripture be used similar to 00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:28.880 the Septuagint to spread the word of God? 00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:33.520 Thoughts behind the question in your series on the Septuagint, the basic 00:33:33.520 --> 00:33:36.560 idea was that the scriptures needed to be translated into Greek because 00:33:36.560 --> 00:33:39.520 it was the lingua franca, which is a term I always find 00:33:39.520 --> 00:33:43.760 funny. This permitted its spread throughout the Greek and Roman Empires. 00:33:43.760 --> 00:33:47.120 English is known worldwide now and likely to remain the lingua franca 00:33:47.360 --> 00:33:48.800 for quite some time. 00:33:48.800 --> 00:33:52.560 Even far flung tropical islands know some English due to commerce. 00:33:52.560 --> 00:33:54.160 That is true. 00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:57.040 This seems to me like a similar set of factors for why 00:33:57.040 --> 00:34:01.680 God preserved the word of Greek after he permitted Hebrew to die. 00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:04.640 I might go so far as to say he killed Hebrew, but 00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:10.240 I don't necessarily know that it is the equivalent for a number 00:34:10.240 --> 00:34:10.960 of reasons. 00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:13.600 I think that English I'll start out by saying I think that 00:34:13.600 --> 00:34:18.080 the English translation will be the word of God, the sort of 00:34:18.080 --> 00:34:22.080 official word of God in English for English speakers. 00:34:22.080 --> 00:34:25.680 But I don't think that we're at a point in history, given 00:34:25.680 --> 00:34:31.040 just the realities of technology and commerce and things like that, where 00:34:31.040 --> 00:34:36.240 we need to have one language of scripture as the universal one. 00:34:36.240 --> 00:34:41.040 Because like I said previously, I have a German translation of the 00:34:41.040 --> 00:34:43.680 Septuagint somewhere in this room. 00:34:43.680 --> 00:34:45.120 I don't know where I've said it. 00:34:45.120 --> 00:34:45.360 But 00:34:46.240 --> 00:34:48.800 there's no reason the Germans should use English. 00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:50.080 The German is just fine. 00:34:50.080 --> 00:34:54.560 You can translate Greek into German with minimal difficulty. 00:34:54.560 --> 00:34:56.880 And you can do the same thing for French and Dutch and 00:34:56.880 --> 00:34:59.440 Danish and whatever else. 00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:02.160 So I think that is what should be done today. 00:35:02.160 --> 00:35:07.040 Because we don't have these prohibitive costs with regard to printing, and 00:35:07.040 --> 00:35:09.120 everyone can buy a copy. 00:35:09.120 --> 00:35:13.280 You know, unfortunately, the German copy of the Septuagint I'd order from 00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:16.160 Germany and so it wasn't cheap, but at the same time it's 00:35:16.080 --> 00:35:19.200 trivial compared to what these things used to cost. 00:35:19.200 --> 00:35:21.920 Because it used to be a significant chunk of your wages for 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:25.760 the year, if not more than that, at some points in history, 00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:29.120 it could have been multiple years worth of the wages of a 00:35:29.120 --> 00:35:31.200 day laborer. 00:35:31.200 --> 00:35:31.520 And 00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:35.040 I just don't think we're in a situation where we have to 00:35:35.040 --> 00:35:38.160 have English as the one copy used everywhere. 00:35:38.160 --> 00:35:42.160 And there's also the fact that, as a general rule, and I 00:35:42.160 --> 00:35:46.160 guess this sort of gets into a question for later, but I 00:35:46.160 --> 00:35:49.200 think I won't address that sub-point then. 00:35:49.200 --> 00:35:55.440 The question is, have we already completed the spread of the gospel 00:35:55.600 --> 00:35:57.600 to all nations? 00:35:57.600 --> 00:36:02.880 Traditionally, a number of Lutheran theologians and teachers have believed that was 00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:03.760 fulfilled 00:36:04.640 --> 00:36:09.280 In the time of the apostles, and then, if not in the 00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:13.760 time of the apostles, that plus the age of Christendom. 00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:17.680 I am inclined to believe that is true, because at this point, 00:36:17.680 --> 00:36:22.000 pretty much everyone on the planet has access to scripture in a 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:26.960 comprehensible language, except for obviously those who are profoundly mentally disabled or 00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:31.360 speak some very weirdly Weird language that doesn't have a ready translation, 00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:34.240 but even those are extremely uncommon these days. 00:36:34.240 --> 00:36:36.640 And then you're getting, I think, a little too fine in the 00:36:36.640 --> 00:36:40.560 resolution of nation nation meaning race. 00:36:40.560 --> 00:36:45.680 Because all the great races of man, which is say Europeans, Africans, 00:36:45.680 --> 00:36:48.800 and Asians, in the broad sense of Asian and the broad sense 00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:53.680 of race, have the word of God, have been proselytized, have heard 00:36:53.680 --> 00:36:58.640 the gospel, and so I think the great Commission has been effectively 00:36:58.640 --> 00:37:03.760 completed. So I don't think we need English to pursue that at 00:37:03.760 --> 00:37:06.640 this point because I don't think it's something we need to pursue. 00:37:06.640 --> 00:37:09.360 I think we're more in the stage of knocking the dust off 00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:12.800 our sandals for those who have rejected God. 00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:16.800 Does that mean that we should stop all efforts to proselytize other 00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:18.480 nations? No, I don't think so. 00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:21.120 But I think we should focus only on those who are eager 00:37:21.120 --> 00:37:24.480 to hear the word and willing to receive it. 00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:29.280 So you know I'd like to see Japan proselytized because MacArthur botched 00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:33.200 that one, and I wouldn't want to be serving his eternity currently 00:37:34.160 --> 00:37:36.240 on account of that and some other things. 00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:41.440 But you know, that is something that we could still do because 00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:46.400 many of them are willing to receive the word greatly and happily. 00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:49.200 Whereas some places are not. 00:37:49.200 --> 00:37:51.280 Should we be proselytizing the Jews? 00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:53.440 No. They rejected God. 00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:58.400 They've rejected efforts to convert them for centuries, millennia at this point, 00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:02.160 and they spit on God, they hate God, they pray against Christians, 00:38:02.160 --> 00:38:05.920 they spit on Christians, knock the dust off your sandals and be 00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:07.360 done with it. 00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:10.480 But the basic answer to the question is I think we can 00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:14.080 translate scriptures into every language that warrants that warrants it and so 00:38:14.080 --> 00:38:17.840 we don't need to have a lingua franca for scripture. 00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:22.560 The English translation will be the translation for English speakers, but I 00:38:22.560 --> 00:38:27.040 think there should also be an equivalent the translation for German and 00:38:27.040 --> 00:38:36.560 for French and for other languages as well. 00:38:36.560 --> 00:38:38.240 Question five 00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:44.080 is going to be where we get into the Bible study, and 00:38:44.080 --> 00:38:48.800 I'm definitely going to run long on this episode, because there is 00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:51.600 a fair amount to go over 00:38:52.560 --> 00:38:54.960 for this. 00:38:54.960 --> 00:38:55.280 So 00:38:56.320 --> 00:39:02.880 I will first do some readings of scripture because the question actually 00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:06.240 I'll first ans I'll first read the question, but then I will 00:39:06.240 --> 00:39:09.280 do some readings of scripture to set sort of the background and 00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:11.440 then give my answer to the question. 00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:13.520 I don't want to be a bother as I know you are 00:39:13.520 --> 00:39:16.080 generally not fond of end times discussion. 00:39:16.080 --> 00:39:17.360 More More or less true. 00:39:17.600 --> 00:39:20.720 But I am curious as to what signs are not yet fulfilled, 00:39:20.720 --> 00:39:22.720 as I have heard you mention over the years I have been 00:39:22.720 --> 00:39:25.840 listening that there are a few that remain outstanding. 00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:28.400 And I think that is true. 00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:32.960 But in order to couch that properly, we sort of need to 00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:35.760 understand what the signs of the end times are. 00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:38.400 So I'm going to go through a number of readings here. 00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:40.800 Some of them are a little long, this one is going to 00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:42.320 take a little while, but like I said, this is going to 00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:42.400 be 00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:47.920 where the the Bible study starts, which again I don't think anyone 00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:50.000 who's listening to this on a Friday night is going to object 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:51.520 to a Bible study. 00:39:51.520 --> 00:39:56.160 So of course logos is going to be uncooperative here. 00:39:56.160 --> 00:39:58.320 There we go. 00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:03.520 So I am going to open up both logos and the Septuagint 00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:08.080 because there are a couple of times where I know I'm going 00:40:08.080 --> 00:40:11.360 to get different numbering in the Septuagint, and I want to be 00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:13.120 able to use the one with which I'm familiar just so I 00:40:13.120 --> 00:40:14.480 can find it more easily. 00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:16.400 We will start with the New Testament though. 00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:19.760 We'll start with Matthew 24. 00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:21.440 And this will be verses 00:40:22.640 --> 00:40:26.160 three through fourteen is what I'll read here. 00:40:26.160 --> 00:40:28.880 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to 00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:32.560 him privately, saying, Tell us when will these things be, and what 00:40:32.560 --> 00:40:34.880 will be the sign of your coming into the end of the 00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:39.040 age? And Jesus answered them, see that no one leads you astray, 00:40:39.040 --> 00:40:41.600 for many will come in my name saying I am the Christ, 00:40:41.600 --> 00:40:44.720 and they will lead many astray, and you will hear of wars 00:40:44.720 --> 00:40:46.320 and rumours of wars. 00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:49.440 See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but 00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:53.840 the end is not yet, for nation will rise against nation, and 00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:57.440 notably there that could be translated race will rise against race, it 00:40:57.440 --> 00:41:00.800 is the same word in Greek, and kingdom against kingdom, and there 00:41:01.200 --> 00:41:04.160 will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 00:41:04.160 --> 00:41:06.960 All these are but the beginning of the birth pains. 00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:09.680 Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to 00:41:09.680 --> 00:41:12.800 death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's 00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:16.320 sake, and then many will fall away and betray one another, and 00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:20.160 hate one another, and many false prophets will arise and lead many 00:41:20.160 --> 00:41:24.400 astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will 00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:27.520 grow cold, but the one who endures to the end will be 00:41:27.520 --> 00:41:30.880 saved, and the gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the 00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:35.280 whole world, as a testimony to all nations, or races, and then 00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:37.200 the end will come. 00:41:37.200 --> 00:41:39.920 And yes, of course, there's the abomination of desolation, which you see 00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:43.600 next, but I'm just going to read that section for now. 00:41:43.600 --> 00:41:48.400 The next section will be from Second Thessalonians 2. 00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:56.880 And I will read from three through twelve for this one. 00:41:57.120 --> 00:42:00.160 Let no one deceive you in any way, for that day will 00:42:00.160 --> 00:42:04.480 not come unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness 00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:06.240 is revealed, the son of destruction. 00:42:06.240 --> 00:42:10.480 destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so called God or 00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:13.680 object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple 00:42:13.680 --> 00:42:17.120 of God, proclaiming himself to be God. 00:42:17.200 --> 00:42:19.440 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I 00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:23.520 told you these things, and you know what is restraining him now, 00:42:23.520 --> 00:42:25.760 so that he may be revealed in his time? 00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:28.800 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. 00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:31.360 Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is 00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:35.200 out of the way, and then the lawless one will be revealed, 00:42:35.200 --> 00:42:38.240 whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth, 00:42:38.240 --> 00:42:41.120 and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. 00:42:41.120 --> 00:42:44.480 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan, 00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:48.080 with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked 00:42:48.080 --> 00:42:51.840 deception for those who are perishing, because they refuse to love the 00:42:51.840 --> 00:42:53.520 truth and so be saved. 00:42:53.520 --> 00:42:57.360 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe 00:42:57.360 --> 00:43:00.880 what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did 00:43:00.880 --> 00:43:06.720 not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 00:43:06.720 --> 00:43:10.640 And the next section I will read is from Second Timothy 00:43:13.520 --> 00:43:16.800 Getting a collection of the signs here for the end times, of 00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:20.400 course. Read one through nine. 00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:23.600 But understand this that in the last days there will come times 00:43:23.600 --> 00:43:27.680 of difficulty, for people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, 00:43:27.680 --> 00:43:35.520 proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, 00:43:35.520 --> 00:43:42.160 without self control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, 00:43:42.160 --> 00:43:45.920 lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of 00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:48.400 godliness, but denying its power. 00:43:48.400 --> 00:43:52.720 Avoid such people, for among them are those who creep into households 00:43:52.720 --> 00:43:56.800 and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various 00:43:56.800 --> 00:44:00.480 passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of 00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:01.360 the truth. 00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:06.160 Just as Janus and Jombres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose 00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:10.880 the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. 00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:14.000 But they will not get very far, for their folly will be 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:17.280 plain to all, as was that of that of those two men. 00:44:19.600 --> 00:44:29.200 The next section from first John this time. 00:44:29.200 --> 00:44:32.240 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that 00:44:32.240 --> 00:44:36.240 Antichrist is coming, so now many Antichrists have come. 00:44:36.240 --> 00:44:38.880 Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:41.760 They went out from us, but they were not of us, for 00:44:41.760 --> 00:44:44.960 if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. 00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:47.840 But they went out, that it might become plain that they are 00:44:47.840 --> 00:44:49.200 all not of us. 00:44:49.200 --> 00:44:52.320 But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all 00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:53.040 have knowledge. 00:44:53.040 --> 00:44:56.400 I write to you not because you do not know the truth, 00:44:56.400 --> 00:44:59.280 but because you know it, and because no lie is of the 00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:03.040 truth. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is 00:45:03.040 --> 00:45:04.080 the Christ? 00:45:04.080 --> 00:45:08.560 This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son, 00:45:08.560 --> 00:45:11.360 no one who denies the Son has the Father. 00:45:11.360 --> 00:45:14.640 Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. 00:45:14.640 --> 00:45:17.440 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. 00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:20.240 If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you 00:45:20.240 --> 00:45:23.680 too will abide in the Son and in the Father, and this 00:45:23.680 --> 00:45:26.960 is the promise that He made to us, eternal life. 00:45:26.960 --> 00:45:30.320 I write these things to you about those who are trying to 00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:33.840 deceive you, but the anointing that you receive from Him abides in 00:45:33.840 --> 00:45:37.440 you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you, but 00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:40.960 as his anointing teaches you about everything and is true, and is 00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:45.040 no lie, just as it taught just as it is taught you, 00:45:45.040 --> 00:45:48.800 abide in him. 00:45:48.800 --> 00:45:52.880 Just a couple few more here, actually. 00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:56.240 One more from a gospel and then on to Revelation, of course, 00:45:56.240 --> 00:45:58.880 as you would expect for signs of the end times. 00:45:58.880 --> 00:45:59.600 Next one from Luke 00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:04.400 I think it's twenty five Yes 00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:09.280 And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and 00:46:09.280 --> 00:46:13.520 on the earth distress of nations again or races in perplexity because 00:46:13.520 --> 00:46:16.960 of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with 00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:20.080 fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world, for 00:46:20.080 --> 00:46:23.200 the powers of the heavens will be shaken, and then they will 00:46:23.200 --> 00:46:25.760 see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and 00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:26.800 great glory. 00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:30.720 Now Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and 00:46:30.720 --> 00:46:35.600 raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near. 00:46:35.600 --> 00:46:39.520 And then I will read some passages from Revelation. 00:46:39.520 --> 00:46:41.520 I think one of them I will just recommend that you read 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:43.920 because it's an entire chapter. 00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:46.400 But starting with Revelation 6 00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:54.400 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked and behold there was 00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:58.240 a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sack cloth, the 00:46:58.240 --> 00:47:02.000 full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell 00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:04.480 to the earth, as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when 00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:06.480 shaving Shaken by a gale. 00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:09.920 The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and 00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:13.040 every mountain and island was removed from its place. 00:47:13.040 --> 00:47:15.280 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:19.200 generals and the rich and the powerful and everyone slave and free 00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:22.880 hid themselves in the caves, and among the rocks of the mountains, 00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:26.400 calling to the mountains and rocks, fall on us and hide us 00:47:26.400 --> 00:47:28.960 from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and 00:47:28.960 --> 00:47:31.600 from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their 00:47:31.600 --> 00:47:38.560 wrath is come, and who can stand. 00:47:38.560 --> 00:47:40.880 Revelation seven is also relevant here. 00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:43.920 I won't necessarily read this one, but that is about the tribulation, 00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:46.880 the end times, the period of tribulation where things get worse near 00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:48.080 to the end. 00:47:48.080 --> 00:47:51.840 And I think the last one that I will read, I'm not 00:47:51.840 --> 00:47:54.160 going to read Revelation thirteen because it's the whole chapter. 00:47:54.160 --> 00:47:55.360 It's about the beasts, right? 00:47:55.360 --> 00:47:56.320 The two beasts. 00:47:56.320 --> 00:48:03.840 And then Revelation eleven I'll read part of that. 00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:07.040 And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will 00:48:07.040 --> 00:48:10.880 prophesy for one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sack 00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:14.480 cloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that 00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:16.320 stand before the Lord of the earth. 00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:19.600 And if any one would harm them, fire pours from their mouth 00:48:19.600 --> 00:48:21.360 and consumes their foes. 00:48:21.360 --> 00:48:24.320 If any one would harm them, this is how he is doomed 00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:25.200 to die. 00:48:25.200 --> 00:48:28.320 They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may 00:48:28.320 --> 00:48:31.600 fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over 00:48:31.600 --> 00:48:34.800 the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth 00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:37.680 with every kind of plague as often as they desire. 00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:41.520 And you can read the rest of that section if you are 00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:44.800 so inclined, which I do recommend, of course. 00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:48.880 And then like I said, Revelation thirteen is the other section there, 00:48:48.880 --> 00:48:50.000 but what do we pull out of this? 00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:52.240 What are the signs of the end times, right? 00:48:52.240 --> 00:48:57.280 Well, I will break it down into seven categories of signs, some 00:48:57.440 --> 00:49:01.760 very clearly fulfilled, some pretty much all cyclical in terms of their 00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:06.080 fulfillment, but some not yet fulfilled, depending on how you exegete these 00:49:06.080 --> 00:49:10.160 passages. And so the first one is wars, rumors of wars, famines, 00:49:10.160 --> 00:49:13.360 pestilence, earthquakes, those sorts of things. 00:49:13.360 --> 00:49:15.680 These are always with us. 00:49:15.680 --> 00:49:17.520 They get worse near the end. 00:49:17.520 --> 00:49:19.040 Are they getting worse now? 00:49:19.040 --> 00:49:20.000 Some of 'em perhaps. 00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:23.520 We've had some bad pestilence, there's bad famines in some places. 00:49:23.520 --> 00:49:26.240 I don't think earthquakes are necessarily getting worse right now. 00:49:26.240 --> 00:49:29.920 We certainly have wars and rumors of wars, and perhaps we're going 00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:32.320 to war, we'll see what happens there. 00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:34.640 So is that fulfilled? 00:49:34.640 --> 00:49:35.680 I think sufficiently. 00:49:35.680 --> 00:49:39.440 It will get worse near the end, but that doesn't mean it 00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:44.240 couldn't be the end now or very soon, according to this sign. 00:49:44.240 --> 00:49:47.280 The second set, false prophets. 00:49:47.280 --> 00:49:51.200 Again, always an issue, ongoing from the beginning. 00:49:51.200 --> 00:49:53.120 You have the Mormons, right? 00:49:53.120 --> 00:49:54.880 You have their false prophets. 00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:57.120 You have various other false prophets. 00:49:57.120 --> 00:50:00.720 Islam started as essentially a Christian heresy. 00:50:00.720 --> 00:50:04.400 False prophets there abound in that part of the world. 00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:06.480 It will get worse near the end. 00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:09.920 It's pretty bad now, and it's been getting worse, so I think 00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:12.720 that one counts as fulfilled. 00:50:12.720 --> 00:50:15.200 The third one is the Great Apostasy. 00:50:15.200 --> 00:50:17.920 You have many whose love will grow cold near the end, who 00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:20.960 will turn away from the faith, and I think that you could 00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:26.640 reasonably interpret current conditions as being the Great Apostasy. 00:50:26.640 --> 00:50:31.840 If this is not the Great Apostasy, I hesitate even to consider 00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:35.200 how bad things will get when it does occur because things are 00:50:35.200 --> 00:50:40.960 pretty bad right now with regard to Christianity the world over. 00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:43.840 And so we may be in the middle of it, and it 00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:48.480 may be fulfilled, or the one that is the real one may 00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:50.320 be even worse. 00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:54.640 The fourth one, Antichrists, which again is going to be those who 00:50:54.640 --> 00:50:57.680 either claim that they are speaking for God and are lying or 00:50:57.680 --> 00:51:01.120 false teachers, typically that's what the Antichrists are. 00:51:01.120 --> 00:51:02.960 Always with us. 00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:04.720 Get worse near the end. 00:51:04.720 --> 00:51:07.040 Things are pretty bad right now with regard to that as well. 00:51:07.040 --> 00:51:10.160 Plenty of false teachers out there lying about God, lying and lying 00:51:10.160 --> 00:51:12.320 in God's name. 00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:14.960 The fifth, the Antichrist. 00:51:14.960 --> 00:51:18.720 This one depends upon your exegesis. 00:51:18.720 --> 00:51:21.760 Because there are those who say there is going to be one 00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:27.760 final Antichrist who stands up, declares himself to be God, and then 00:51:28.080 --> 00:51:30.320 he's the last one. 00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:33.200 He's Satan's man on earth. 00:51:33.200 --> 00:51:37.840 Right. So the Book of Concord says that the popes are antichrist, 00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:40.960 each one of the popes is a sort of mini antichrist in 00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:44.240 so far as he teaches falsely and says that you have to 00:51:44.240 --> 00:51:47.600 obey him in order to be saved and things like that. 00:51:47.600 --> 00:51:50.000 Of course I hold to that because I do hold to the 00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:52.080 Book of Concord as a Lutheran. 00:51:52.080 --> 00:51:55.120 But whether or not there is a final antichrist, I'm sort of 00:51:55.120 --> 00:51:57.280 inclined towards saying yes. 00:51:57.280 --> 00:51:59.920 And so that person hasn't appeared. 00:51:59.920 --> 00:52:02.240 I don't think we can reasonably say anyone on the stage right 00:52:02.240 --> 00:52:02.320 now 00:52:03.280 --> 00:52:05.440 is acting like that person. 00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:08.160 It doesn't mean he couldn't be that person, but I don't think 00:52:08.160 --> 00:52:09.120 we have a final one. 00:52:09.120 --> 00:52:12.000 So if you believe there is a final antichrist that is a 00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:14.240 specific man, not fulfilled. 00:52:14.240 --> 00:52:16.560 That would be one of the answers to the question. 00:52:16.560 --> 00:52:18.240 That hasn't been fulfilled. 00:52:18.240 --> 00:52:20.880 The next one is the cosmic signs, right? 00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:24.080 The moon blood red and the stars falling from the skies and 00:52:24.080 --> 00:52:26.400 the sun being darkened and things like that. 00:52:26.400 --> 00:52:28.560 Pretty obviously not fulfilled. 00:52:28.560 --> 00:52:31.360 I don't think the blood moon that's coming up counts as the 00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:32.560 moon turning to blood, right? 00:52:32.560 --> 00:52:34.720 I think it's something more extreme than that. 00:52:34.720 --> 00:52:39.600 And so the cosmic signs have not been fulfilled. 00:52:39.600 --> 00:52:45.120 The seventh and final one here, the two witnesses, prophets, martyrs, all 00:52:45.120 --> 00:52:46.320 of those things. 00:52:46.320 --> 00:52:49.760 If it is two specific men, and if it's not symbolic of 00:52:49.760 --> 00:52:52.720 the church and the church age and the church's witness and however 00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:56.480 you want to exegete that, if it's not symbolic, if it is 00:52:56.480 --> 00:53:00.880 two literal men who are the final prophets on the earth before 00:53:00.880 --> 00:53:06.480 the second coming, before the trumpets sound, and Christ returns and draws 00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:10.400 it all to a close, well they haven't appeared yet. 00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:11.760 I don't see them. 00:53:11.760 --> 00:53:14.160 I think it's going to be very obvious who they are if 00:53:14.160 --> 00:53:16.000 they are two specific men and they appear. 00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:17.840 So that one also not fulfilled. 00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:20.960 I know some people who've joked that it the final two prophets 00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:24.000 are woe and I, but I I don't think so, and I 00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:25.120 kind of hope not. 00:53:25.120 --> 00:53:27.520 And at any rate I don't have the ability to call down 00:53:27.520 --> 00:53:30.960 fire, so I I don't fulfill the prophecy, right? 00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:33.520 So no, I don't think that they've appeared either. 00:53:33.520 --> 00:53:36.480 So, those would be the signs that have not occurred. 00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:39.760 And so, sort of the mini Bible study on the end times. 00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:43.520 Maybe eventually I'll get around to something longer, but part of it 00:53:43.520 --> 00:53:46.080 is because obviously it it takes a long time to go through 00:53:46.080 --> 00:53:47.760 all these verses and a lot of it is unknown. 00:53:47.840 --> 00:53:49.760 I didn't even get into Daniel, right? 00:53:49.760 --> 00:53:55.440 So the signs that are very clearly not fulfilled would be a 00:53:55.440 --> 00:54:01.440 final antichrist, and then the cosmic signs and the two final prophets. 00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:04.960 I think you can say very clearly those are not fulfilled, unless 00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:07.760 you take the final prophets as symbolic, in which case it's a 00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:10.880 relationship to the church and the church's witness and persecution. 00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:14.240 Then you can say that one's fulfilled, but the others remain. 00:54:14.240 --> 00:54:17.280 The most obvious and the one that no one can deny the 00:54:17.280 --> 00:54:18.720 cosmic signs. 00:54:18.720 --> 00:54:20.480 They aren't occurring right now. 00:54:20.480 --> 00:54:22.720 When they occur, I do not think there will be any way 00:54:22.720 --> 00:54:25.760 to deny that they are occurring unless you simply don't want to 00:54:26.080 --> 00:54:30.080 believe it and hate God. 00:54:30.080 --> 00:54:35.600 The sixth question You mentioned in passing that multi-generational households are more 00:54:35.600 --> 00:54:39.040 natural. How does this work with patriarchy and a son leaving his 00:54:39.040 --> 00:54:40.560 father and mother? 00:54:40.560 --> 00:54:42.240 Who rules the household? 00:54:42.240 --> 00:54:45.760 It seems to me that this creates longhouse conditions and many say 00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:49.840 it is third world favela coded. 00:54:49.840 --> 00:54:52.640 There are a number of aspects to this To this. 00:54:52.640 --> 00:54:58.880 The patriarch always rightfully, correctly, exercises some authority and some control, and 00:54:58.880 --> 00:55:01.600 that's true whether you are under his roof or not. 00:55:01.600 --> 00:55:06.960 Because you should still honor your father even when you no longer 00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:08.960 live near him, even if you live on the other side of 00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:10.160 the country from him. 00:55:10.160 --> 00:55:12.960 It doesn't mean you have to obey everything he says, but you 00:55:12.960 --> 00:55:14.160 still honor him as your father. 00:55:14.160 --> 00:55:16.800 The fourth commandment is still binding on you. 00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:21.440 He's still the patriarch, he's still the head of the clan, the 00:55:21.440 --> 00:55:22.240 tribe, right? 00:55:22.240 --> 00:55:24.880 He still has authority because of that. 00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:29.520 In the same way that the firstborn has certain privileges for his 00:55:29.520 --> 00:55:32.400 entire life, because he is the firstborn. 00:55:32.400 --> 00:55:36.240 So, does the father have some authority? 00:55:36.240 --> 00:55:39.600 Yes, regardless of whether you're in his house or not. 00:55:39.600 --> 00:55:44.160 But does the patriarch, does your father or his father, if he's 00:55:44.160 --> 00:55:48.000 still alive, have the right to tell your wife and your children 00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:48.560 what to do? 00:55:48.560 --> 00:55:50.000 The answer is no. 00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:52.800 Because you're the head, and so he should come to you and 00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:53.760 talk to you. 00:55:53.760 --> 00:55:56.560 But once you reach that age of maturity, he should talk to 00:55:56.560 --> 00:55:58.320 you man to man. 00:55:58.320 --> 00:56:01.920 He's no longer issuing you commands as a father to his young 00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:04.640 son. He is talking to you as another man who has his 00:56:04.640 --> 00:56:08.000 own household, who has duties, he should speak to you in that 00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:11.120 way, and you still respect him as your father, as your elder. 00:56:11.120 --> 00:56:13.920 Again, the fourth commandment is still binding on you. 00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:18.400 But that power dynamic changes as you age, and once he gets 00:56:18.400 --> 00:56:20.720 very old, it changes again, because now 00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:25.600 someone some other male has stepped into that role because he can 00:56:25.600 --> 00:56:26.480 no longer fulfill it. 00:56:26.480 --> 00:56:30.000 You can think of, you know, the priest retiring at fifty. 00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:33.520 These days obviously you live longer than that, and so you are 00:56:34.320 --> 00:56:38.640 going to be around much longer, but a man who is eighty-nine 00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:41.680 years old is not going to have the same active role in 00:56:41.680 --> 00:56:47.360 heading up his clan, his tribe, his extended family, in the way 00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:48.960 he did when he was fifty-five or sixty. 00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:54.960 So the power dynamics and the duties and things evolve over time 00:56:55.200 --> 00:56:58.560 just because of the reality of being mortal. 00:56:58.560 --> 00:57:00.720 So does your father have some authority? 00:57:00.720 --> 00:57:02.640 Absolutely yes. 00:57:02.640 --> 00:57:05.600 But does he have the same sort of authority he had when 00:57:05.600 --> 00:57:06.400 you were a child? 00:57:06.400 --> 00:57:09.200 The answer is absolutely no. 00:57:09.200 --> 00:57:11.440 You have to deal with that and balance that. 00:57:11.440 --> 00:57:15.200 This is part of just living around other human beings, but 00:57:16.160 --> 00:57:20.240 really the word that is probably more accurate than multi-generational house is 00:57:20.240 --> 00:57:23.920 compound. I know the FBI hates that word and they probably flagged 00:57:23.920 --> 00:57:27.440 me for using it, but that's the reality of it, you know. 00:57:27.680 --> 00:57:31.040 Having a chunk of land and a number of houses on it, 00:57:31.040 --> 00:57:33.840 even if you know you have a big house that's connected, maybe 00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:36.960 you have a wing with your family and then your parents on 00:57:36.960 --> 00:57:39.760 the other side, you don't have to all be in the exact 00:57:39.760 --> 00:57:40.800 same spot. 00:57:40.800 --> 00:57:43.120 You have to have some separation. 00:57:43.120 --> 00:57:46.720 But leaving your father and mother is not in the sense of 00:57:46.720 --> 00:57:48.880 being totally disconnected from family. 00:57:48.880 --> 00:57:52.080 That's entirely contrary to everything else said in scripture. 00:57:52.080 --> 00:57:55.440 So we can't possibly interpret it in that way, because that would 00:57:55.440 --> 00:57:59.520 be to set Scripture against Scripture, beset God against Himself. 00:57:59.520 --> 00:57:59.840 So 00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:04.400 leaving your father and mother is coming out from under the sort 00:58:04.400 --> 00:58:06.720 of control they had when you were a child. 00:58:06.720 --> 00:58:11.120 But it doesn't mean to abandon them or physically separate from them. 00:58:11.120 --> 00:58:14.640 It just means that you are now the head of your household, 00:58:14.640 --> 00:58:18.160 you now have these duties and responsibilities, and your father is going 00:58:18.160 --> 00:58:21.920 to deal with you as he would deal with another man instead 00:58:21.920 --> 00:58:24.000 of as a child. 00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:27.120 Yes, you're always going to be his son, but you're no longer 00:58:27.120 --> 00:58:27.760 a child. 00:58:27.760 --> 00:58:30.720 You're a man and have to be treated as a man and 00:58:30.720 --> 00:58:34.240 he has to recognize that and you have to recognize it as 00:58:34.240 --> 00:58:39.760 well. So no, living in a multi-generational house or particularly a compound 00:58:39.760 --> 00:58:43.040 of multiple generations of your family is a good thing. 00:58:43.040 --> 00:58:44.480 That is something that should be done. 00:58:44.640 --> 00:58:47.280 And not just because of the fact that then your parents can 00:58:47.280 --> 00:58:50.080 help with childcare, but you can take care of your parents when 00:58:50.080 --> 00:58:51.360 they get elderly. 00:58:51.360 --> 00:58:54.960 Which is one of the duties of the firstborn, which is why 00:58:54.960 --> 00:58:58.880 the firstborn received the double share of the inheritance. 00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:02.880 Part of the thing that came along with that was your parents 00:59:02.880 --> 00:59:04.320 are your duty when they get old. 00:59:04.320 --> 00:59:06.800 You have to provide for and care for them. 00:59:06.800 --> 00:59:09.680 And so that's one of the reasons that has always been recognized. 00:59:09.680 --> 00:59:13.760 It's in scripture, it's been recognized in European law and elsewhere in 00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:17.040 the world for basically the entirety of human history. 00:59:17.040 --> 00:59:21.040 The firstborn has duties, the firstborn has privileges, and that is how 00:59:21.040 --> 00:59:23.200 it should be. 00:59:24.160 --> 00:59:27.760 The seventh question here. 00:59:27.760 --> 00:59:30.240 Hopefully the dog barking does not come through. 00:59:30.240 --> 00:59:31.520 I have my window open. 00:59:31.520 --> 00:59:34.480 Which is why I'm in short sleeves, because apparently spring has begun 00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:35.280 here in the South. 00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:39.280 We get up and down little winters, but it was quite warm 00:59:39.280 --> 00:59:42.080 today. It was almost eighty. 00:59:42.080 --> 00:59:45.760 The seventh question What is your response to people who say that 00:59:45.760 --> 00:59:48.720 the West was so successful purely because of genetics? 00:59:48.720 --> 00:59:51.920 And that it had nothing to do with it being Christian for 00:59:51.920 --> 00:59:57.520 so long, and cite ancient Greece or Rome as proof. 00:59:57.520 --> 01:00:00.000 I'm going to take a sip of tea before I answer this 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:01.920 one. 01:00:08.800 --> 01:00:13.440 So I would start by pointing out neither Rome nor Greece was 01:00:13.600 --> 01:00:16.160 the peak of Western civilization. 01:00:16.160 --> 01:00:18.640 And I know there are people who try to say that you 01:00:18.640 --> 01:00:22.400 know Rome was the height of Western civilization. 01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:25.680 Well sure, if you want to say Rome in the sense of 01:00:25.680 --> 01:00:28.240 the Holy Roman Empire, then I would agree with you. 01:00:28.240 --> 01:00:30.560 Because I would say that was the peak, the true peak of 01:00:30.560 --> 01:00:32.640 Western civilization. 01:00:32.640 --> 01:00:38.320 And we have been sort of riding on the coattails of that 01:00:38.320 --> 01:00:39.600 ever since. 01:00:39.600 --> 01:00:42.160 Granted, we're sort of riding it into the ground at this point 01:00:42.240 --> 01:00:44.320 because we've not maintained it. 01:00:44.320 --> 01:00:46.560 So I guess you could think of an airplane that still has 01:00:46.560 --> 01:00:50.000 forward momentum, but the engines have died. 01:00:50.000 --> 01:00:53.840 So no, I wouldn't say that Greece and Rome were the height 01:00:53.840 --> 01:00:54.800 of our civilization. 01:00:54.800 --> 01:00:59.040 I wouldn't even say that they were particularly impressive compared to what 01:00:59.040 --> 01:01:01.200 we achieved under Christendom. 01:01:01.200 --> 01:01:05.360 And you can think of any number of examples, but I would 01:01:05.360 --> 01:01:05.600 say 01:01:06.800 --> 01:01:11.520 obviously, yes, philosophy, the Greeks and the Romans contributed a great deal, 01:01:11.520 --> 01:01:16.720 but much of what we have in terms of modern formalized and 01:01:16.720 --> 01:01:22.080 systematized philosophy Was done by Germans in the Holy Roman Empire. 01:01:22.080 --> 01:01:24.800 And then, of course, Prussians as well, which were the inheritors of 01:01:24.800 --> 01:01:27.520 the Holy Roman Empire. 01:01:27.520 --> 01:01:31.920 But insofar as Greece and Rome are concerned, they still had a 01:01:31.920 --> 01:01:37.840 number of extremely backwards and immoral practices, and those were not purged 01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:40.320 until they were Christianized. 01:01:40.320 --> 01:01:43.680 And many of the things that we take for granted today as 01:01:43.680 --> 01:01:47.600 being part of a proper civilization, I'm going to go ahead and 01:01:47.600 --> 01:01:50.880 assume the person asking the question is moral. 01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:53.520 These are things that came along because of Christianity, right? 01:01:53.520 --> 01:01:55.680 We don't expose infants anymore. 01:01:55.680 --> 01:02:00.800 We don't leave out infants we think are not worthy of being 01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:03.680 preserved in the wilderness to die. 01:02:03.680 --> 01:02:06.480 Now of course, yes, we have abortion and that is a great 01:02:06.480 --> 01:02:07.680 moral evil. 01:02:07.680 --> 01:02:11.520 We have sort of regressed into pagan practice of Practice with regard 01:02:11.520 --> 01:02:13.760 to abortion, because that's what we're doing. 01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:15.600 It's child sacrifice. 01:02:15.600 --> 01:02:20.160 It's worse actually than Rome, because Rome didn't engage in ritualized child 01:02:20.160 --> 01:02:24.400 sacrifice. They just exposed infants they thought were not worth preserving and 01:02:24.400 --> 01:02:27.200 other cultures did that as well in that time. 01:02:27.200 --> 01:02:29.360 Human sacrifice was not really a thing, though. 01:02:29.360 --> 01:02:33.360 It's one of the reasons they hated the Carthaginians because they participated 01:02:33.360 --> 01:02:37.040 in human sacrifice because of the relationship to the Canaanites, and that's 01:02:36.960 --> 01:02:38.400 sort of a whole rabbit trail. 01:02:38.400 --> 01:02:41.120 But that's part of the reason they oppose them. 01:02:41.120 --> 01:02:41.440 So 01:02:43.040 --> 01:02:48.320 the fundamental point, starting point, is the foundation that Roman Greece were 01:02:48.320 --> 01:02:51.120 not the height of Western civilization. 01:02:51.120 --> 01:02:53.200 So if you want to look at the height, the height was 01:02:53.200 --> 01:02:54.560 under Christianity. 01:02:54.560 --> 01:02:58.560 And no, the outcome was not inevitable because of our genetics, because 01:02:58.720 --> 01:03:02.480 if it had been, our people would have been more advanced in 01:03:02.480 --> 01:03:06.560 other parts of the world before Christianity. 01:03:06.560 --> 01:03:11.200 And you would see the advance continuing as Christianity is declining. 01:03:11.200 --> 01:03:12.000 What are we doing? 01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:15.120 We're regressing as Christianity falls away. 01:03:15.120 --> 01:03:21.520 Sure, our science is progressing in some very limited areas, so rocketry, 01:03:21.520 --> 01:03:24.400 AI, and a little bit with regard to medicine, which is really 01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:27.920 mostly just because of AI and computing power, but in every other 01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:30.160 area, we are regressing. 01:03:30.160 --> 01:03:32.320 Look at our arts. 01:03:32.320 --> 01:03:33.920 Is that progressing? 01:03:33.920 --> 01:03:36.320 Would you say that's in a better position than it was under 01:03:36.320 --> 01:03:38.160 Christendom? Absolutely not. 01:03:38.160 --> 01:03:39.520 We have degenerated. 01:03:39.520 --> 01:03:42.800 And that's regardless of which art you look at, whether it is 01:03:42.960 --> 01:03:47.840 music or the theater or poetry or painting, stained glass, whatever it 01:03:47.840 --> 01:03:48.400 happens to be. 01:03:48.400 --> 01:03:50.800 I'm always going to be partial to stained glass since it's literally 01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:52.000 my last name. 01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:56.880 But all of these areas we have regressed, we are less advanced, 01:03:56.880 --> 01:03:57.520 we are 01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:01.600 less advanced than our ancestors. 01:04:01.600 --> 01:04:05.680 We are degenerate compared to them in every sense of that term. 01:04:05.680 --> 01:04:08.240 And so I don't think that anyone looking to Rome or Greece 01:04:09.040 --> 01:04:13.840 has a proper understanding of history, because again, I think the height 01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:17.920 of Western civilization was the Holy Roman Empire, which lasted into the 01:04:17.920 --> 01:04:24.400 eighteen hundreds, and then I would say briefly resurged in the mid-1900s. 01:04:24.400 --> 01:04:27.520 That was the last gasp of old Christendom. 01:04:27.520 --> 01:04:33.360 Our goal is to rebuild Christendom, because Christendom was effectively slaughtered as 01:04:33.360 --> 01:04:38.240 a sacrificial victim in the last century. 01:04:38.240 --> 01:04:38.560 But 01:04:39.520 --> 01:04:42.480 a nation is not just blood. 01:04:42.480 --> 01:04:46.320 I think this is another this is sort of my second fundamental 01:04:46.320 --> 01:04:47.120 point here. 01:04:47.120 --> 01:04:48.960 A nation is not just blood. 01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:51.120 And a nation isn't just blood and soil. 01:04:51.120 --> 01:04:54.640 This is always the part that everyone forgets. 01:04:54.640 --> 01:04:57.520 And some people sort of touch on it with regard to culture 01:04:57.520 --> 01:05:00.880 and things like that, but the three elements of what make up 01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:04.000 a nation are blood, soil, and myth. 01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:06.160 And I don't want to get into it too deeply here because 01:05:06.160 --> 01:05:09.520 it's a very complicated topic and it would take a long time 01:05:09.520 --> 01:05:12.560 to cover, and I'm not even sure that I've necessarily drawn out 01:05:12.560 --> 01:05:17.920 all the conclusions from it yet, but without that myth aspect, you 01:05:17.920 --> 01:05:19.760 don't have a proper nation. 01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:23.120 And so you can't disentangle these things. 01:05:23.120 --> 01:05:25.040 They are all part of the sum. 01:05:25.040 --> 01:05:26.880 It is a gestalt. 01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:29.360 The sum is greater than its parts. 01:05:29.360 --> 01:05:36.080 The myth of Western civilization, the myth of more properly called Christendom, 01:05:36.080 --> 01:05:37.440 is Christianity. 01:05:37.760 --> 01:05:41.840 And so you can't look at just blood and soil and say, 01:05:41.840 --> 01:05:44.880 well, these two things would necessarily because you can't do that. 01:05:44.880 --> 01:05:49.840 You've removed a necessary element, something that is integral that cannot be 01:05:49.840 --> 01:05:54.720 removed from the equation, and then tried to extrapolate out with what 01:05:54.720 --> 01:05:57.760 is left that is insufficient. 01:05:57.760 --> 01:06:04.640 Western civilization, Christendom became great because of all three of those things. 01:06:04.640 --> 01:06:10.000 Our people, our territory, and our myth, our religion, Christianity. 01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:14.080 And for those who are offended by the term myth, I mean 01:06:14.080 --> 01:06:16.560 it in a very specific philosophical sense. 01:06:16.560 --> 01:06:21.360 I'm not saying something that is false because myth in a very 01:06:21.360 --> 01:06:25.680 real way is a distilled truth that is greater than a blunt 01:06:25.680 --> 01:06:29.200 truth. I'll get into that at some point to explain it in 01:06:29.200 --> 01:06:32.640 a more thorough fashion, but just know that myth doesn't mean false. 01:06:32.640 --> 01:06:34.960 When I say myth I mean something that is true in a 01:06:34.960 --> 01:06:36.560 fundamental sense. 01:06:36.560 --> 01:06:39.360 And Christianity is a core part of that. 01:06:39.360 --> 01:06:41.920 So I don't think that you can remove that part and then 01:06:41.920 --> 01:06:44.000 say that it would have been the same outcome. 01:06:44.000 --> 01:06:45.280 It wouldn't have been. 01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:47.520 It would have been something fundamentally different. 01:06:47.520 --> 01:06:50.800 And you get into some of the aspects of can you really 01:06:51.040 --> 01:06:52.960 draw out a counterfactual right? 01:06:52.960 --> 01:06:55.600 It's you know, proven negative sort of thing, but 01:06:56.560 --> 01:07:03.040 you didn't have this great takeoff of our civilization in parts of 01:07:03.360 --> 01:07:08.640 our lands, parts of our territory that had not been Christianized until 01:07:08.640 --> 01:07:11.280 they were Christianized. 01:07:11.840 --> 01:07:12.160 And 01:07:13.120 --> 01:07:16.960 just as one example of that, one of the reasons our science 01:07:16.960 --> 01:07:22.400 took off and became what it became, one of the reasons that 01:07:22.400 --> 01:07:26.400 we're doing what we're doing right now, you are all watching someone 01:07:26.400 --> 01:07:30.640 who is potentially thousands of miles away from you? 01:07:30.640 --> 01:07:34.160 We can do that because the men who discovered all the fundamental 01:07:34.160 --> 01:07:38.160 principles that made all these things possible, who made those advances, with 01:07:38.160 --> 01:07:43.920 very few exceptions, essentially no exceptions early on, believed in God. 01:07:43.920 --> 01:07:48.000 And so when they went to look at the natural world, they 01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:51.040 believed firmly they were going to find laws, they were going to 01:07:51.040 --> 01:07:55.360 find order, because they believed in a divine lawgiver. 01:07:55.360 --> 01:07:58.640 That's the reason that our one of the reasons that our science 01:07:58.640 --> 01:08:01.040 took off and the rest of the world didn't. 01:08:01.040 --> 01:08:03.200 Because the rest of the world did not believe in a divine 01:08:03.200 --> 01:08:08.320 lawgiver. They believed in a bunch of warring, squabbling, minor gods, or 01:08:08.320 --> 01:08:13.280 chaotic gods who did not deal in order, but dealt in caprice 01:08:13.280 --> 01:08:14.560 and punishment. 01:08:14.560 --> 01:08:18.640 And so you didn't have that fundamental conception of the world as 01:08:18.640 --> 01:08:22.080 something that was designed and ordered and with rules that could be 01:08:22.080 --> 01:08:25.280 discovered. Christianity gave us that. 01:08:25.280 --> 01:08:28.560 And so Christianity restored that to us because of course we had 01:08:28.560 --> 01:08:31.760 it before we fell into paganism and then were brought back to 01:08:31.760 --> 01:08:37.360 Christianity. But that was a necessary part of our civilization achieving things 01:08:37.360 --> 01:08:38.960 that others did not. 01:08:38.960 --> 01:08:42.480 The Chinese aren't dumb. 01:08:42.480 --> 01:08:46.800 The Chinese have the intelligence to achieve many of the things we've 01:08:46.800 --> 01:08:49.280 achieved. Maybe not some of the things in the arts and other 01:08:49.280 --> 01:08:52.800 things like that, because Confucianism sort of crushed the Chinese soul. 01:08:52.800 --> 01:08:56.320 So whatever they used to be there not because of their ideology, 01:08:56.320 --> 01:08:57.760 because of their myth. 01:08:57.760 --> 01:08:59.120 And so you can look at it. 01:08:59.120 --> 01:09:03.360 We sort of ran the counterexample, we ran an A B experiment. 01:09:03.360 --> 01:09:06.880 You have the myth of Christianity in Europe, you have the myth 01:09:06.880 --> 01:09:09.360 of Confucianism in the East. 01:09:09.360 --> 01:09:11.520 Because the Chinese, again, aren't dumb. 01:09:11.520 --> 01:09:15.120 They have an average IQ that enables them. 01:09:15.120 --> 01:09:17.600 They have a smaller standard deviation, things like that, but they have 01:09:17.920 --> 01:09:21.200 enough highly intelligent men that they could achieve great things. 01:09:21.200 --> 01:09:22.880 They never did. 01:09:22.880 --> 01:09:26.960 It's only recently when they have been able to benefit from taking 01:09:26.960 --> 01:09:30.160 all the all of these things from the West and using them 01:09:30.320 --> 01:09:34.240 that they have achieved anything of note. 01:09:34.240 --> 01:09:35.520 So we ran the example. 01:09:35.520 --> 01:09:38.960 We ran the experiment, and we discovered that yes, Christianity is a 01:09:38.960 --> 01:09:41.040 necessary part of the equation. 01:09:41.040 --> 01:09:44.960 So I think that people who try to advocate that it would 01:09:44.960 --> 01:09:48.880 have been inevitable just because of blood and soil, don't understand the 01:09:48.880 --> 01:09:53.760 issue, and are typically just arguing in a mercenary fashion because they 01:09:53.760 --> 01:09:55.520 don't like Christianity. 01:09:55.520 --> 01:09:58.320 And it's larger because they don't understand Christianity. 01:09:58.320 --> 01:10:04.160 They think that so-called Judeo Christianity is Christian, and it's not. 01:10:04.160 --> 01:10:07.280 Because Christianity is antithetical to Judaism. 01:10:07.280 --> 01:10:09.360 Judaism is our enemy. 01:10:09.360 --> 01:10:13.760 And And there is no overlap there except for enmity. 01:10:13.760 --> 01:10:16.640 So I think that's really the reason that these people try to 01:10:16.640 --> 01:10:19.760 say that you know Christianity was not a necessary part of it. 01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:21.120 It's mercenary. 01:10:21.120 --> 01:10:25.040 It is seeking an end that is not warranted or justifiable according 01:10:25.040 --> 01:10:27.680 to history or according to reason. 01:10:27.680 --> 01:10:28.000 So 01:10:29.440 --> 01:10:32.960 I think that answers that question. 01:10:32.960 --> 01:10:35.520 Definitely going to run a little over this time like I said, 01:10:35.520 --> 01:10:37.200 but that's fine But that's fine, so I think I'd like to 01:10:37.200 --> 01:10:40.080 try to get through the questions I prepared and then maybe a 01:10:40.080 --> 01:10:43.360 couple questions from the chat. 01:10:43.360 --> 01:10:45.520 Was this the eighth question? 01:10:45.520 --> 01:10:46.880 Make sure I remember to do that. 01:10:46.880 --> 01:10:49.840 Was the second temple legitimate in the way the first was? 01:10:49.840 --> 01:10:52.160 Was God present in it? 01:10:52.160 --> 01:10:55.280 I don't see anything about his entering it like the first, and 01:10:55.280 --> 01:10:57.440 of course the Ark is gone, correct? 01:10:57.440 --> 01:11:00.240 If he is not there, the tearing of the curtain as a 01:11:00.240 --> 01:11:06.560 new complexion are the Levites or the Jews just LARPing? 01:11:07.840 --> 01:11:11.520 This is a broad topic, and I think I would like to 01:11:11.520 --> 01:11:15.040 get into it more deeply in the future at some point, but 01:11:15.040 --> 01:11:18.080 I can certainly answer a lot of it now. 01:11:18.080 --> 01:11:23.600 And the answer is the second temple was legitimate, but it was 01:11:23.600 --> 01:11:28.400 not as impressive, it was not as holy, it was not the 01:11:28.400 --> 01:11:29.520 same thing as the first. 01:11:30.400 --> 01:11:33.840 God clearly did not deal with the second temple in the way 01:11:33.840 --> 01:11:37.840 he dealt with the first temple. 01:11:37.840 --> 01:11:38.160 And 01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:41.920 sort of the starting point there would be if you read the 01:11:41.920 --> 01:11:44.480 Old Testament, this will perhaps be new information for some of you, 01:11:44.480 --> 01:11:47.520 but I want you to keep this in mind when you read 01:11:47.520 --> 01:11:49.840 the Old Testament, and you should go and read the parts of 01:11:49.840 --> 01:11:52.400 the Old Testament that deal in these things. 01:11:52.400 --> 01:11:57.440 When you look at the Old Testament, there are many places in 01:11:57.440 --> 01:12:02.400 which there is no reasonable way to read what is happening other 01:12:02.720 --> 01:12:03.040 than 01:12:04.000 --> 01:12:07.120 God being physically present. 01:12:07.760 --> 01:12:12.000 And the God who is physically present, of course, has to be 01:12:12.320 --> 01:12:17.920 Christ. The Father is spirit only, the Spirit is spirit only. 01:12:17.920 --> 01:12:20.960 Christ has a physical body. 01:12:20.960 --> 01:12:26.800 And so when you have a theophany, a physical manifestation, appearance of 01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:30.640 God in the old testament, it is actually a Christophany that is 01:12:30.880 --> 01:12:34.400 Christ. And I don't want to get into the issue of time 01:12:34.720 --> 01:12:37.920 and whether it's the preincarnate Christ or whether that has any meaning 01:12:37.920 --> 01:12:40.400 for God, but because it's off in the weeds. 01:12:40.400 --> 01:12:41.680 That's not and this essential. 01:12:41.680 --> 01:12:44.000 It's not necessarily what we're talking about here. 01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:48.000 But there are times where God is literally physically present speaking to 01:12:48.000 --> 01:12:49.680 people in the Old Testament. 01:12:49.680 --> 01:12:55.040 Perhaps one of the most obvious examples would be and you know, 01:12:55.040 --> 01:12:58.240 this is one that people love to argue about, and I'll I 01:12:58.080 --> 01:13:00.800 I keep adding to my list of things to do, but I 01:13:00.800 --> 01:13:02.720 will write an article about on this one at some point because 01:13:02.720 --> 01:13:04.800 it's important, needs to be addressed. 01:13:04.800 --> 01:13:09.440 When Aaron and Miriam object to Moses and are basically trying to 01:13:09.440 --> 01:13:10.960 usurp. That's the fundamental point. 01:13:10.960 --> 01:13:12.720 They're trying to usurp the authority of Moses. 01:13:12.720 --> 01:13:15.600 They're insulting God in the process because they're saying, Is this really 01:13:15.600 --> 01:13:17.040 your prophet God? 01:13:17.040 --> 01:13:20.080 Right? They're just behaving like Jews. 01:13:20.080 --> 01:13:23.600 And what happens there is you have it says God came down 01:13:23.600 --> 01:13:26.400 in the cloud and spoke to them. 01:13:26.400 --> 01:13:31.840 God's physically present speaking, that's Christ speaking to Moses and Miriam and 01:13:31.840 --> 01:13:34.400 Aaron face to face. 01:13:34.400 --> 01:13:39.680 And so you have a physical manifestation of God. 01:13:39.680 --> 01:13:44.480 This time it's the tent of witness, instead of the the temple, 01:13:44.480 --> 01:13:45.520 right? The first temple. 01:13:45.520 --> 01:13:47.600 The tabernacle is what this is. 01:13:47.600 --> 01:13:49.600 Whichever one you want to call it. 01:13:49.600 --> 01:13:54.400 And so you have this presence of God, but you have the 01:13:54.400 --> 01:13:59.120 same thing happen in some places with regard to the temple. 01:13:59.120 --> 01:14:05.440 God is physically present with Old Testament Israel in these instances, it 01:14:05.440 --> 01:14:07.840 doesn't happen with the second temple. 01:14:07.840 --> 01:14:11.040 It's not that God isn't present in the second temple, but he's 01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:12.560 not present in the same way. 01:14:12.560 --> 01:14:15.920 Because the Jews have turned against him, they have rejected him, and 01:14:15.920 --> 01:14:17.120 he is withdrawn from them. 01:14:17.120 --> 01:14:20.560 He is no longer present in the same way with them that 01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:24.160 he was with the first temple. 01:14:24.160 --> 01:14:27.600 And you can see this in many places in Scripture when you 01:14:27.600 --> 01:14:28.160 actually read. 01:14:28.160 --> 01:14:29.920 I recommend go read the book of Haggai. 01:14:29.920 --> 01:14:31.040 You can read the whole thing. 01:14:31.040 --> 01:14:31.760 It's two chapters. 01:14:31.760 --> 01:14:33.760 It takes almost no time. 01:14:33.760 --> 01:14:37.520 And it speaks of the glory of God in the temple, and 01:14:37.520 --> 01:14:40.080 it speaks of a greater glory that is coming. 01:14:40.080 --> 01:14:43.280 The greater glory in this case is the new Jerusalem, which is 01:14:43.280 --> 01:14:47.360 to say paradise, that is one of the terms used for paradise. 01:14:47.360 --> 01:14:50.320 One of the ways you can see that is that the things 01:14:50.320 --> 01:14:54.240 set about it cannot be for this world, this fallen world in 01:14:54.240 --> 01:14:55.440 which sin still exists. 01:14:55.440 --> 01:14:58.320 It's for the new world, the new creation in which sin has 01:14:58.320 --> 01:15:00.560 been removed and erased. 01:15:00.560 --> 01:15:00.880 But 01:15:01.840 --> 01:15:06.240 one of the examples here, and perhaps I should have just left 01:15:06.240 --> 01:15:09.360 up the scripture on my screen there because I'm going to go 01:15:09.360 --> 01:15:11.280 back to it. 01:15:11.280 --> 01:15:15.520 But an example that we have, let me pull up the scripture 01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:19.840 for you here, is in Ezra six, which of course is second 01:15:20.080 --> 01:15:25.280 Ezra's six in the Septuagint and I think I want to start 01:15:25.280 --> 01:15:25.600 with 01:15:30.320 --> 01:15:32.400 verse thirteen perhaps. 01:15:32.400 --> 01:15:35.040 I won't read all of it because there are some crazy names 01:15:35.040 --> 01:15:35.600 in this one. 01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:38.800 The person who is going to translate the Septuagint really needs to 01:15:38.800 --> 01:15:42.800 anglicize some of these names because Thoth Thani is not a great 01:15:42.800 --> 01:15:45.760 thing to have to try to say in English. 01:15:45.760 --> 01:15:51.840 But here you have the rebuilding of the temple, right? 01:15:51.840 --> 01:15:54.640 And they completed this house until the third day of the month 01:15:54.640 --> 01:15:57.840 of Adar, which was the sixth year of the reign of Darius 01:15:57.840 --> 01:15:59.040 the king. 01:15:59.040 --> 01:16:02.080 And then you have all of the sacrifices in the next chapter. 01:16:02.080 --> 01:16:05.520 And what I want you to recognize here, what I want you 01:16:05.520 --> 01:16:08.720 to notice, is that what do you not have? 01:16:08.720 --> 01:16:13.200 There's no mention of the glory of God filling the temple. 01:16:13.440 --> 01:16:16.560 It's not the same sort of presence as you had with the 01:16:16.560 --> 01:16:19.280 first temple, where you have the glory of God filling the temple 01:16:19.280 --> 01:16:22.000 in such a way that people can't even enter it. 01:16:22.000 --> 01:16:27.200 And so for instance, we'll compare this to Second Chronicles here. 01:16:30.480 --> 01:16:32.880 Pull up Second Chronicles, which actually I could have just done that 01:16:32.880 --> 01:16:36.240 in the Septuagint because it is the the same numbering in this 01:16:36.240 --> 01:16:39.280 case. So in Second Chronicles 01:16:40.480 --> 01:16:45.040 you have the consecration here, Solomon consecrating this, and then you have 01:16:45.040 --> 01:16:49.600 the glory of the Lord filling the temple in a way that 01:16:49.600 --> 01:16:52.080 again did not happen with the second temple. 01:16:52.080 --> 01:16:53.840 You have the glory of the Lord filling it in such a 01:16:53.840 --> 01:16:59.920 way that people can't enter into the house because God's presence is 01:16:59.920 --> 01:17:02.480 so overwhelming they can't be in his presence. 01:17:02.480 --> 01:17:05.200 One of the reasons you have the veil and the high priest 01:17:05.200 --> 01:17:07.920 can only go in certain times and all these things. 01:17:07.920 --> 01:17:10.640 Because to be in the presence of that sort of holiness as 01:17:10.640 --> 01:17:14.400 a fallen being is to be destroyed. 01:17:14.400 --> 01:17:18.000 It's why when you have some of the prophets who encounter God 01:17:18.080 --> 01:17:21.280 say, Woe is me, for I am a man of unclean lips, 01:17:21.280 --> 01:17:23.680 and I dwell among a people of unclean lips, and I have 01:17:23.680 --> 01:17:25.120 seen the Lord God. 01:17:25.120 --> 01:17:28.720 That would strike you dead if you were not sanctified in some 01:17:28.720 --> 01:17:31.280 way, and so while you have the ember The embers and things 01:17:31.280 --> 01:17:34.080 like that that sanctify these men so they're not destroyed by being 01:17:34.080 --> 01:17:37.920 in the presence of a holy God as a sinful being. 01:17:37.920 --> 01:17:41.200 But one that I actually want to read here is from Exodus 01:17:41.200 --> 01:17:43.120 forty. Let me pull that up 01:17:48.480 --> 01:17:51.360 So this is Moses setting up the tent of witness. 01:17:51.360 --> 01:17:54.000 This is one of the great examples of this. 01:17:54.000 --> 01:17:56.640 And he positioned the gold altar in the tent of witness in 01:17:56.640 --> 01:17:58.800 front of the veil, and he burnt on it the incense of 01:17:58.800 --> 01:18:02.720 the mixture according as the Lord instructed Moses, and the altar of 01:18:02.720 --> 01:18:05.440 the offerings he placed near the doors of the tent of witness, 01:18:05.440 --> 01:18:08.160 and he set up the courtyard around the tent in the altar, 01:18:08.160 --> 01:18:10.640 and Moses finished all the works. 01:18:10.640 --> 01:18:13.920 This is Moses sending up the tabernacle, of course. 01:18:13.920 --> 01:18:17.280 And the cloud covered the tent of witness, and the tent was 01:18:17.280 --> 01:18:19.280 filled with the glory of the Lord. 01:18:19.280 --> 01:18:22.880 And Moses was unable to enter into the tent of witness, because 01:18:22.880 --> 01:18:26.160 the cloud was overshadowing it, and the tent was filled with the 01:18:26.160 --> 01:18:28.240 glory of the Lord. 01:18:28.240 --> 01:18:33.120 You do not see this description in Scripture of the Second Temple, 01:18:33.120 --> 01:18:35.600 because the second temple does not have the glory of the Lord 01:18:35.600 --> 01:18:39.040 in the same way as the first, because again, the Old Testament 01:18:39.360 --> 01:18:42.480 Israelites, the Jews rejected God. 01:18:42.480 --> 01:18:44.080 And so God withdrew his presence. 01:18:44.080 --> 01:18:45.920 It's one of the reasons they were defeated in war. 01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:46.640 They were destroyed. 01:18:46.640 --> 01:18:48.400 They had famines, they were sent to exile. 01:18:48.400 --> 01:18:54.000 The ten northern tribes were completely destroyed, turned into the Samaritans, destroyed 01:18:54.000 --> 01:18:56.880 through Macegenation, which is what the Assyrians did. 01:18:56.880 --> 01:19:01.360 You had the Babylonian captivity exile of the southern kingdom of Judah. 01:19:01.360 --> 01:19:03.680 You had the destruction of Jerusalem, you had the burning of the 01:19:03.680 --> 01:19:07.120 first temple, all these things because they rejected their God. 01:19:07.120 --> 01:19:10.240 I hope that when I say these things you're recognizing that maybe 01:19:10.240 --> 01:19:12.000 we should take them as a warning. 01:19:12.000 --> 01:19:14.800 It's one of the chief purposes for having the history of Old 01:19:14.800 --> 01:19:18.160 Testament Israel documented is for us to take it as a warning 01:19:18.160 --> 01:19:20.880 of what we should not do and what will happen to us 01:19:20.880 --> 01:19:24.480 if we do. 01:19:24.480 --> 01:19:26.640 But the final part that I want to read for this is 01:19:26.640 --> 01:19:30.240 from Matthew twenty seven, which of course was mentioned in the question 01:19:32.160 --> 01:19:36.720 starting with verse fifty fifty one 01:19:40.400 --> 01:19:43.280 And behold the curtain of the temple was torn in two from 01:19:43.280 --> 01:19:46.800 top to bottom, and the earth shook, and the rocks were split, 01:19:46.800 --> 01:19:49.680 the tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who 01:19:49.680 --> 01:19:51.440 had fallen asleep were raised. 01:19:51.440 --> 01:19:54.800 And coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they went into 01:19:54.800 --> 01:19:56.800 the holy city and appeared to many. 01:19:56.800 --> 01:20:00.320 When the centurion and those who were with him said, When the 01:20:00.320 --> 01:20:03.360 centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw 01:20:03.360 --> 01:20:06.000 the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and 01:20:06.560 --> 01:20:11.280 said, Truly this was the Son of God. 01:20:11.280 --> 01:20:16.000 This is of course the crucifixion narrative, and you have this tearing 01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:19.040 of the temple, of the curtain in the temple. 01:20:19.040 --> 01:20:19.520 Why do you have 01:20:20.480 --> 01:20:24.720 that? This is symbolic, because what does the curtain do? 01:20:24.720 --> 01:20:29.200 It separates the large part of the temple from the holy of 01:20:29.200 --> 01:20:33.040 holies, from the presence of God, and so this is torn in 01:20:33.040 --> 01:20:36.560 two because now man is in the presence of God because if 01:20:36.560 --> 01:20:39.680 you are Christian you have the Holy Spirit, you can't get closer 01:20:39.680 --> 01:20:41.200 to God than that. 01:20:41.200 --> 01:20:45.360 And so you have the indwelling of the Spirit, you're the indwelling 01:20:45.360 --> 01:20:46.320 of God. 01:20:46.000 --> 01:20:49.760 God is no longer separated from his people in the way that 01:20:49.760 --> 01:20:53.040 he was separated in the Old Testament. 01:20:53.040 --> 01:20:56.640 And so is God present in the temple until this point? 01:20:56.640 --> 01:20:58.960 I think it's very clear that yes he is. 01:20:58.960 --> 01:21:01.440 but just not in the same way as he was with the 01:21:01.440 --> 01:21:08.960 first temple, before they betrayed him and lost any status they had. 01:21:08.960 --> 01:21:12.800 This is where God finally leaves the temple. 01:21:12.800 --> 01:21:13.760 He's done. 01:21:13.760 --> 01:21:15.120 He's done with that. 01:21:15.120 --> 01:21:18.320 Because of course this is the new covenant in Christ's blood. 01:21:18.320 --> 01:21:21.920 And so the old one no longer has any meaning, no longer 01:21:21.920 --> 01:21:25.920 has any force, there's no longer any sacrifice or anything like that. 01:21:25.920 --> 01:21:27.520 And so the tearing of the curtain is 01:21:28.560 --> 01:21:29.840 the final straw. 01:21:29.840 --> 01:21:32.240 It is the definitive period. 01:21:32.240 --> 01:21:35.280 It is God removing his presence from this temple. 01:21:35.280 --> 01:21:38.160 In this case, the rebuilt one, not the first one, because the 01:21:38.160 --> 01:21:40.160 first one was destroyed. 01:21:40.160 --> 01:21:40.480 And 01:21:41.440 --> 01:21:44.080 so it's worth noting the sort of tangential point. 01:21:44.080 --> 01:21:45.520 No one should try to rebuild this. 01:21:45.520 --> 01:21:48.240 That is an insult to God, that is blasphemous. 01:21:48.240 --> 01:21:51.520 That is something that should never be permitted, and so the people 01:21:51.520 --> 01:21:54.560 we have today who are trying to do that are evil, but 01:21:56.480 --> 01:21:59.760 God sort of put another capstone on this obviously with AD seventy 01:21:59.760 --> 01:22:02.800 when he came and completely destroyed Jerusalem, using the Romans as his 01:22:03.600 --> 01:22:05.440 weapon of choice. 01:22:05.440 --> 01:22:09.840 But yes, the basic answer to that is that the fullness of 01:22:09.840 --> 01:22:14.400 the presence of God among Old Testament Israel was in the tent 01:22:14.400 --> 01:22:20.000 of witness, first the tabernacle, then the first temple, and only in 01:22:20.000 --> 01:22:23.360 a diminished way with regard to the second temple. 01:22:23.360 --> 01:22:25.680 So were they right to still treat it as holy? 01:22:25.680 --> 01:22:29.040 Yes, because God's presence is always holy, even if it is sort 01:22:29.040 --> 01:22:32.320 of withdrawn to some degree, but 01:22:33.600 --> 01:22:36.400 it was not the fullness of his presence that they would have 01:22:36.400 --> 01:22:38.320 had if they'd stayed faithful. 01:22:38.320 --> 01:22:42.080 And I think that is true in a sense of every nation 01:22:42.080 --> 01:22:42.720 on earth. 01:22:43.200 --> 01:22:47.280 Because God is going to be with his people the more faithful 01:22:47.280 --> 01:22:48.000 they are. 01:22:48.000 --> 01:22:52.000 It's not a quid pro quo, it's not any of the various 01:22:52.000 --> 01:22:56.080 heresies, you know, prosperity gospel or therapeutic gospel, so called or anything 01:22:56.080 --> 01:22:56.480 like that. 01:22:56.480 --> 01:22:58.640 It's God is true to his promises. 01:22:58.640 --> 01:23:01.920 He has promised to be with his people, and he has promised 01:23:01.920 --> 01:23:04.720 to care for his people and provide for them and do these 01:23:04.720 --> 01:23:07.680 things if we are faithful. 01:23:07.680 --> 01:23:11.040 So we should take the narrative, we should view all of these 01:23:11.040 --> 01:23:17.520 things as a warning, as a possibility for us, whether we are 01:23:17.520 --> 01:23:21.600 faithful and receive the benefits or faithless and receive the curses. 01:23:25.680 --> 01:23:28.720 The next one is just sort of a little comment on something 01:23:28.720 --> 01:23:30.480 that I said in a previous episode. 01:23:30.560 --> 01:23:32.480 I'm going to take a another sip of tea first. 01:23:32.800 --> 01:23:34.160 Getting a little cold now, but 01:23:38.800 --> 01:23:44.560 I'm actually going to refresh my tea because it is cold. 01:23:46.960 --> 01:23:49.760 I guess that answers the question in the chat about what's burning 01:23:49.760 --> 01:23:50.960 in the background. 01:23:50.960 --> 01:23:52.960 It is a tea candle. 01:23:53.200 --> 01:23:56.880 It is a beeswax tea candle to be specific. 01:23:56.880 --> 01:23:58.320 The ninth question. 01:23:58.320 --> 01:23:59.200 Great episode. 01:23:59.200 --> 01:24:01.200 I am really glad you are doing this podcast. 01:24:01.200 --> 01:24:02.800 It's been personally helpful to me. 01:24:02.800 --> 01:24:03.920 I have a disagreement. 01:24:03.920 --> 01:24:06.400 It's not hard for Americans to follow leaders. 01:24:06.400 --> 01:24:09.760 It is hard to find the leaders capable of leading Americans. 01:24:09.760 --> 01:24:12.560 If we ever find those leaders, men will fall in line with 01:24:12.560 --> 01:24:14.960 gusto. I think it's a bit of both. 01:24:14.960 --> 01:24:16.800 I think it's fair to say that it is both. 01:24:16.800 --> 01:24:21.920 Americans are a little less orderly, a little less hierarchical for a 01:24:21.920 --> 01:24:26.160 number of historical reasons, perhaps that will be cured in time, but 01:24:26.160 --> 01:24:31.520 yes. There is also the challenge of finding the right sort of 01:24:31.520 --> 01:24:35.920 man who has the abilities and the disposition, the presence, all these 01:24:35.920 --> 01:24:39.920 things that are necessary for someone who's going to lead Americans. 01:24:39.920 --> 01:24:41.600 And I know there are those who are currently thinking, well, George 01:24:41.600 --> 01:24:43.200 Washington had all those. 01:24:43.200 --> 01:24:47.360 Was George Washington really leading what we would call Americans at that 01:24:47.360 --> 01:24:52.640 point? Because many of those men would have considered themselves British still. 01:24:52.640 --> 01:24:56.800 Yes, they were breaking from Britain because of the things Britain was 01:24:56.800 --> 01:25:04.000 doing, but they still would have considered themselves Englishmen, more so 01:25:04.000 --> 01:25:07.040 than specifically American in many cases. 01:25:07.040 --> 01:25:07.360 So 01:25:08.640 --> 01:25:11.600 we've had developments since then. 01:25:11.600 --> 01:25:16.080 We are definitely more entrenched in some of our behaviors and our 01:25:16.080 --> 01:25:18.960 predispositions than positions than we were back then. 01:25:18.960 --> 01:25:21.680 So there are some very real challenges for any leader in the 01:25:21.680 --> 01:25:24.080 American context, and I think it is both. 01:25:24.080 --> 01:25:26.960 I think there's o there's always the challenge of finding the right 01:25:26.960 --> 01:25:29.600 man for the time and the place and the people and all 01:25:29.600 --> 01:25:30.640 those things. 01:25:30.640 --> 01:25:34.320 But there's also the fact that we are a more difficult people 01:25:34.320 --> 01:25:36.480 to lead than some. 01:25:36.480 --> 01:25:39.520 The you could take extreme examples, right? 01:25:39.520 --> 01:25:41.520 The Japanese are going to fall in line. 01:25:41.520 --> 01:25:43.600 The Chinese are going to fall in line as long as you 01:25:43.600 --> 01:25:44.880 threaten them and pay them, right? 01:25:44.880 --> 01:25:47.040 It's a different sort of culture there. 01:25:47.040 --> 01:25:51.840 The Germans are going to follow orders more readily and more strictly 01:25:51.840 --> 01:25:53.040 than Americans. 01:25:53.040 --> 01:25:55.440 And that's true with regard to the Germans versus the British or 01:25:55.440 --> 01:25:57.600 the Germans versus the French, right? 01:25:57.600 --> 01:26:03.840 So different races, different cultures are going to behave differently, and Americans 01:26:03.840 --> 01:26:07.280 are not the easiest culture in the world to lead. 01:26:07.280 --> 01:26:10.000 Sometimes kinda squabble like drunken cats. 01:26:10.400 --> 01:26:13.520 It's just the reality of it, and the right wing also has 01:26:13.520 --> 01:26:15.280 a little bit more of it than the left for a number 01:26:15.280 --> 01:26:18.160 of reasons I've got into before in previous episodes. 01:26:18.160 --> 01:26:19.760 So no, I do think it's both. 01:26:19.760 --> 01:26:25.760 I don't think it's one or the other in this case. 01:26:25.760 --> 01:26:29.200 The tenth question I asked this in the chat and I hope 01:26:29.200 --> 01:26:30.480 you will help me understand. 01:26:30.480 --> 01:26:34.800 You often cite the passage in the Old Testament where King Josiah 01:26:34.800 --> 01:26:38.000 rediscovers the law, which was written in Hebrew. 01:26:38.000 --> 01:26:41.280 Hebrew at the time was an objad, and according to your argument 01:26:41.280 --> 01:26:44.160 in Stone Choir cannot be read perfectly without knowing what the text 01:26:44.160 --> 01:26:44.880 already says. 01:26:44.880 --> 01:26:48.560 For those who don't know an objad is a language, a writing 01:26:48.560 --> 01:26:53.360 system for a language that has only the consonants, not the vowels. 01:26:53.360 --> 01:26:55.200 A number of languages are written that way. 01:26:55.200 --> 01:26:57.840 Ethiopic used to be written that way, for instance. 01:26:57.840 --> 01:27:00.560 How can it be that the scriptures were either fully lost or 01:27:00.560 --> 01:27:01.520 fully recovered? 01:27:01.520 --> 01:27:05.680 Thanks. This one's actually very easy to answer because if you have 01:27:05.680 --> 01:27:10.400 the objad and you have the priesthood, you can read it. 01:27:10.400 --> 01:27:15.200 And if you have trouble, you can ask God because the priests 01:27:15.200 --> 01:27:16.160 actually were permitted to do that. 01:27:16.480 --> 01:27:17.760 They could ask God. 01:27:17.760 --> 01:27:19.200 And you could use the 01:27:20.400 --> 01:27:21.840 there are a couple different terms for it. 01:27:21.840 --> 01:27:23.600 The Urim and the Thumim, right? 01:27:23.600 --> 01:27:25.440 You can ask God questions. 01:27:25.440 --> 01:27:28.800 And so if they did not know how to read this, they 01:27:28.800 --> 01:27:33.280 had an option to directly ask God what they got wrong or 01:27:33.280 --> 01:27:35.200 what they didn't understand. 01:27:35.200 --> 01:27:38.480 If you just have the Abjad, and you no longer have the 01:27:38.480 --> 01:27:42.320 priesthood, which we just went over when that was completely destroyed, then 01:27:42.320 --> 01:27:44.560 it's no longer of any use. 01:27:44.560 --> 01:27:49.200 Because you don't have the option to appeal to an actual authority 01:27:49.520 --> 01:27:50.800 when you don't know. 01:27:50.800 --> 01:27:54.640 So you need a full language like Greek, which does indeed have 01:27:54.640 --> 01:27:55.920 written vowels. 01:27:55.920 --> 01:27:57.360 As any proper language should. 01:27:57.360 --> 01:28:00.160 The objad just seems like a crazy way to write things down 01:28:00.160 --> 01:28:01.200 to me. 01:28:01.200 --> 01:28:04.000 But the basic answer is they had the priesthood still. 01:28:04.000 --> 01:28:07.600 So it was not a problem for them, but if you were 01:28:07.840 --> 01:28:13.760 say today you were to discover a pristine, perfect copy of the 01:28:13.760 --> 01:28:18.720 original Hebrew language and I mean ancient Hebrew scriptures. 01:28:18.960 --> 01:28:22.560 Preserved an assault cave somewhere you found a perfect copy you knew 01:28:22.720 --> 01:28:28.480 for absolute certainty that it was a c an exact copy. 01:28:28.480 --> 01:28:30.240 You would not be able to read it because you're under the 01:28:30.240 --> 01:28:35.280 priesthood. So So, it would not be superior to the Greek in 01:28:35.280 --> 01:28:38.800 any way because you would have to use the Greek to read 01:28:38.800 --> 01:28:40.000 the objad. 01:28:40.000 --> 01:28:41.280 We'll just use the Greek. 01:28:41.280 --> 01:28:42.240 We have the Word of God. 01:28:42.240 --> 01:28:44.240 He preserved it in the Greek for us. 01:28:44.240 --> 01:28:46.400 For a number of reasons we went over in the Septuagint series 01:28:46.720 --> 01:28:47.920 and I've gone over elsewhere. 01:28:47.920 --> 01:28:52.160 So yeah, the short answer is just the priesthood existed. 01:28:52.160 --> 01:28:55.280 No longer does. 01:28:55.280 --> 01:28:57.520 And those were the 01:28:59.520 --> 01:29:04.080 ten questions that I had written down that I wanted to answer. 01:29:04.080 --> 01:29:08.880 And so I will move on to the questions from the chat. 01:29:09.040 --> 01:29:10.480 Very easy one to start off. 01:29:10.480 --> 01:29:12.880 Someone asked me about the length of my beard, how long that 01:29:12.880 --> 01:29:17.920 took. I have never run the experiment of shaving it and then 01:29:17.920 --> 01:29:19.920 seeing all it takes to grow. 01:29:19.920 --> 01:29:20.880 But not very long. 01:29:20.880 --> 01:29:22.560 My beard grows very fast. 01:29:22.560 --> 01:29:25.920 I get a five o'clock shadow at about ten in the morning, 01:29:25.920 --> 01:29:29.760 so I'm very glad that I have never had a job where 01:29:29.760 --> 01:29:31.120 I had to shave every day. 01:29:31.120 --> 01:29:33.120 That would have driven me insane. 01:29:33.120 --> 01:29:36.480 I would have had to shave at lunch. 01:29:36.480 --> 01:29:41.200 The The next question, that was the eleventh, this is the twelfth. 01:29:41.200 --> 01:29:45.920 Someone just asked about Indian genetics and go listen to the last 01:29:45.920 --> 01:29:48.160 episode. I actually answered that one. 01:29:48.160 --> 01:29:51.440 They are primarily from Shem, but with some admixture. 01:29:51.920 --> 01:29:56.000 It is correct to say that Hindi is an Indo-European language, but 01:29:56.000 --> 01:30:00.240 it is specifically an Indo-Iranian language, and the reason for that is 01:30:00.240 --> 01:30:02.720 what I went into, thankfully consonant here. 01:30:03.040 --> 01:30:06.560 What I went into last time in that some of the admixture 01:30:06.560 --> 01:30:10.880 for the Indian people is from the Iranian region, from the groups 01:30:10.880 --> 01:30:14.000 that were there, and then obviously also the pastoralist and others. 01:30:14.000 --> 01:30:16.720 But I went into that last time, so just go and listen 01:30:16.720 --> 01:30:20.320 to the episode from last week. 01:30:20.320 --> 01:30:23.360 And now I will try to scroll through the chat and see 01:30:23.520 --> 01:30:26.160 if we had other questions. 01:30:32.960 --> 01:30:37.840 With regard to, for example, hatred and other sins, in quotes, here 01:30:37.920 --> 01:30:41.520 notably, what do you make of the argument that something God does 01:30:41.520 --> 01:30:43.920 can still be a sin if you do it? 01:30:43.920 --> 01:30:48.160 For example, Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, so it is God's 01:30:48.160 --> 01:30:50.880 to hate, and if you hate you are putting yourself in God's 01:30:50.880 --> 01:30:56.320 place. There are times where things like that can be sinful. 01:30:56.320 --> 01:30:58.480 The clear example would be 01:31:00.320 --> 01:31:04.480 to be careful how I say this, because vigilante justice is not 01:31:04.480 --> 01:31:11.120 always necessarily sinful, but if you have a proper government, that is 01:31:11.120 --> 01:31:17.120 in place, enforcing the moral law, performing its role assigned by God, 01:31:17.120 --> 01:31:22.080 then vigilante justice would be sinful, it would be improper. 01:31:22.080 --> 01:31:24.720 Assuming again the government is doing what it should. 01:31:24.880 --> 01:31:27.840 I'm not going to condemn certain instances, we can all think of 01:31:27.840 --> 01:31:32.080 them, I'm not going to name them, where individuals have done things 01:31:32.080 --> 01:31:34.160 because the government failed. 01:31:34.160 --> 01:31:34.480 But 01:31:35.360 --> 01:31:39.680 the question of vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, right? 01:31:39.680 --> 01:31:44.240 Well, you can't read that as saying that men can never punish 01:31:44.560 --> 01:31:48.560 sins, crimes, whatever it is you're calling them, because that would be 01:31:48.560 --> 01:31:52.240 to set scripture against itself, because Genesis nine, six. 01:31:52.240 --> 01:31:54.800 He who sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood 01:31:54.800 --> 01:31:58.160 be shed, for man was made in the image of God, right? 01:31:58.160 --> 01:31:59.200 So God commands 01:32:00.320 --> 01:32:02.560 vengeance in Genesis 9.6. 01:32:02.560 --> 01:32:04.400 He commands the death penalty. 01:32:04.640 --> 01:32:06.880 He requires it of us. 01:32:06.880 --> 01:32:12.320 And so you can't read that as being a blanket prohibition. 01:32:12.320 --> 01:32:16.720 Rather, it is can be read in a number of different ways. 01:32:16.720 --> 01:32:18.480 Two key ways, I would say. 01:32:18.480 --> 01:32:21.760 One is that you do not avenge yourself, you do not take 01:32:21.760 --> 01:32:24.240 vengeance on your personal enemies. 01:32:24.240 --> 01:32:29.120 And then second is what I went over with regard to vigilante 01:32:29.200 --> 01:32:32.400 justice. It is left to those to whom God has entrusted the 01:32:32.400 --> 01:32:37.680 sword of the state, assuming everything is functioning as it should. 01:32:37.680 --> 01:32:41.120 So, is it a sin for us to hate 01:32:42.400 --> 01:32:45.200 not when we are required to do so? 01:32:45.440 --> 01:32:48.560 Because, you know, David says, Do I not hate those who hate 01:32:48.560 --> 01:32:49.520 you, O Lord? 01:32:49.520 --> 01:32:51.840 I hate them with a perfect hatred. 01:32:52.320 --> 01:32:56.240 That's David speaking in the spirit, a man after God's own heart. 01:32:56.240 --> 01:32:59.920 So there are things we are required to hate, but this is 01:32:59.920 --> 01:33:02.640 again a matter of wisdom, this is something where you don't just 01:33:02.640 --> 01:33:06.160 have a blanket command that you always do this one thing, right? 01:33:06.160 --> 01:33:09.840 Forgive your personal enemies, hate God's enemies. 01:33:09.840 --> 01:33:11.120 You have to do both. 01:33:11.120 --> 01:33:14.720 You don't get to forgive God's enemies because they're his enemies, not 01:33:14.720 --> 01:33:18.080 yours. He chooses to forgive them or not, not you. 01:33:18.080 --> 01:33:27.120 But he commands you to forgive your personal enemies. 01:33:27.360 --> 01:33:32.800 That was the thirteenth question. 01:33:32.800 --> 01:33:39.040 Let me look for next one. 01:33:39.040 --> 01:33:40.320 Fourteenth question. 01:33:40.320 --> 01:33:43.680 Assuming I am numbering these correctly, which I believe that I am, 01:33:43.680 --> 01:33:46.880 which I should probably note these down so I can edit to 01:33:46.880 --> 01:33:49.200 the show notes. 01:33:49.200 --> 01:33:53.600 My church is planning a satyr meal. 01:33:53.600 --> 01:33:56.560 You have expressed in the past this is Judaizing. 01:33:56.560 --> 01:33:57.360 I agree. 01:33:57.360 --> 01:33:58.160 Glad we agree. 01:33:58.160 --> 01:34:01.280 Is it worth addressing my church leadership regarding this? 01:34:01.280 --> 01:34:05.360 If so, any advice or resources to help pull from when formulating 01:34:05.360 --> 01:34:06.160 my argument. 01:34:06.160 --> 01:34:08.320 I attend a Presbyterian church 01:34:10.000 --> 01:34:14.400 I would have to look into which specific resources for that. 01:34:14.400 --> 01:34:18.480 Let me note that down. 01:34:18.720 --> 01:34:21.200 See that was asked on X, so I can reply to that 01:34:21.200 --> 01:34:22.480 one later. 01:34:24.320 --> 01:34:28.080 Obviously, yes, Judaizing, don't do it. 01:34:28.080 --> 01:34:32.720 It is sort of a constructed thing that the Jews have created 01:34:32.720 --> 01:34:37.120 as part of Judaism, not part of the Old Testament practice 01:34:38.080 --> 01:34:43.200 of the ceremonial religion of the Old Testament, which was not Judaism, 01:34:43.200 --> 01:34:46.880 not part of Christianity, it's not something Christians should be doing. 01:34:46.880 --> 01:34:52.640 It is it's LARPing, and it's doing it in a particularly pernicious 01:34:52.640 --> 01:34:57.360 way because it is giving the Jews a legitimacy they do not 01:34:57.360 --> 01:34:59.040 have. So 01:35:01.200 --> 01:35:07.120 yeah, don't don't participate in that insofar as addressing your leadership is 01:35:07.120 --> 01:35:11.280 concerned. If you do that, there is a non-trivial chance, I'd say 01:35:11.360 --> 01:35:14.480 probably about a coin flip as to whether or not they will 01:35:14.480 --> 01:35:17.920 take that as a direct assault against them and choose to persecute 01:35:17.920 --> 01:35:20.320 you and drive you from the church. 01:35:20.320 --> 01:35:22.560 It may be that's worth doing. 01:35:22.560 --> 01:35:26.000 It may be that that is important enough that you need to 01:35:26.000 --> 01:35:26.720 do it. 01:35:26.720 --> 01:35:30.560 I would do it if I were your in your shoes, because 01:35:30.560 --> 01:35:33.280 what I would be doing is testing them. 01:35:33.280 --> 01:35:37.360 I would be giving them the opportunity to turn from their wicked 01:35:37.360 --> 01:35:41.120 path or to double down and prove that they have decided to 01:35:41.120 --> 01:35:42.640 be evil. 01:35:42.640 --> 01:35:45.840 And that gives you the information you need to know as to 01:35:45.840 --> 01:35:48.800 whether you should find a new church or not. 01:35:48.800 --> 01:35:52.240 Because if they are willing to repent of wickedness, that's a great 01:35:52.240 --> 01:35:54.240 sign. Christians commit sins. 01:35:54.240 --> 01:35:55.440 Christians make 01:35:56.400 --> 01:35:59.680 errors. Christians misjudge things. 01:35:59.680 --> 01:36:00.320 That happens. 01:36:00.320 --> 01:36:01.280 We're imperfect. 01:36:01.280 --> 01:36:03.040 We're fallen. 01:36:03.040 --> 01:36:06.160 The issue is whether or not you repent when you are called 01:36:06.160 --> 01:36:10.480 to repent, when you are informed of your error. 01:36:10.480 --> 01:36:13.920 Because once you have been informed of the error, and then you 01:36:13.920 --> 01:36:17.120 double down, it is now willful sin, it's a different thing, and 01:36:17.120 --> 01:36:19.600 you need to not be in a church that is committing that 01:36:19.600 --> 01:36:20.320 sort of willful sin 01:36:21.440 --> 01:36:22.960 because at that point they're wicked. 01:36:22.960 --> 01:36:24.400 They're evil leadership. 01:36:24.400 --> 01:36:28.480 You should not want to be under an evil shepherd. 01:36:28.480 --> 01:36:28.800 So 01:36:29.680 --> 01:36:33.600 I would probably say it would be a good idea to go 01:36:33.600 --> 01:36:37.280 ahead and address your leadership, but bear in mind that you may 01:36:37.280 --> 01:36:40.800 very well be driven from your church because of it. 01:36:40.800 --> 01:36:42.480 So there is some 01:36:44.880 --> 01:36:46.720 Wisdom there that needs to be applied. 01:36:46.720 --> 01:36:48.400 There's an issue of wisdom. 01:36:48.400 --> 01:36:53.440 If you have you know a wife, children, others entrusted to your 01:36:53.440 --> 01:36:56.720 care, bring that into your calculus. 01:36:56.720 --> 01:37:01.680 Don't just do this and you know consequences be what they are. 01:37:01.680 --> 01:37:05.440 Because then you have other considerations because God has entrusted things to 01:37:05.440 --> 01:37:05.920 your care. 01:37:05.920 --> 01:37:07.760 God has given you duties. 01:37:07.760 --> 01:37:11.040 If you are a single man, then it's probably a different thing, 01:37:11.040 --> 01:37:13.760 because the worst they can do is you know harass you and 01:37:13.760 --> 01:37:15.920 cause you trouble, which is not nothing. 01:37:15.920 --> 01:37:18.080 I'm not trying to trivialize that. 01:37:18.080 --> 01:37:22.320 But it's not as weighty of a consideration in this case as 01:37:22.320 --> 01:37:25.680 if you have others under you entrusted to your care. 01:37:25.680 --> 01:37:30.080 But I will try to look into some sources on that. 01:37:30.080 --> 01:37:32.560 I don't necessarily have any that off the top of my head. 01:37:32.560 --> 01:37:35.920 The biggest thing would just be God fulfilled all of the things 01:37:35.920 --> 01:37:37.840 in the Old Testament. 01:37:37.840 --> 01:37:40.560 Why are you still participating in them? 01:37:40.880 --> 01:37:46.160 Ask them if they would be comfortable sacrificing a goat, or praying 01:37:46.160 --> 01:37:48.720 over a goat and sending him into the wilderness. 01:37:48.880 --> 01:37:50.800 That's no longer a thing. 01:37:50.800 --> 01:37:52.720 That was never a thing for those of us who are not 01:37:52.720 --> 01:37:54.240 part of Old Testament Israel. 01:37:54.240 --> 01:37:56.240 That was the ceremonial law. 01:37:56.240 --> 01:38:02.480 We're Christians, we we don't do that stuff. 01:38:02.960 --> 01:38:06.560 Someone asked me about determinism, I think I will note that for 01:38:06.720 --> 01:38:07.920 later and not 01:38:08.800 --> 01:38:10.720 get into that right now because that 01:38:12.800 --> 01:38:14.400 is a can of worms. 01:38:14.400 --> 01:38:19.120 I can certainly say go read the article that I wrote on 01:38:19.120 --> 01:38:23.840 fate, because I think that's probably a good starting place for my 01:38:23.840 --> 01:38:25.760 position on those issues. 01:38:37.600 --> 01:38:41.520 someone said hibiscus tea it's actually Earl Grey, but at least you 01:38:41.680 --> 01:38:49.920 got there there's an herbal component in it. 01:38:54.400 --> 01:38:56.720 The Fifteenth question 01:38:57.600 --> 01:39:02.560 Why myth and not worship as the third pillar of civilization? 01:39:02.560 --> 01:39:05.920 I can sort of answer that one quickly because I would say 01:39:05.920 --> 01:39:08.800 worship is under myth. 01:39:08.800 --> 01:39:11.760 It is part of the practice of the myth. 01:39:11.760 --> 01:39:18.400 It's sort of the myth perhaps you could say concretized or actualized 01:39:18.400 --> 01:39:21.440 into society, into the culture Culture itself. 01:39:21.440 --> 01:39:24.160 Because worship is part of the culture which is going to be 01:39:24.160 --> 01:39:28.800 an outgrowth of all three of those components, blood soil, and myth. 01:39:28.800 --> 01:39:33.360 And so I think that myth is the umbrella, the overarching reality, 01:39:33.360 --> 01:39:35.600 and worship is part of that. 01:39:35.600 --> 01:39:38.640 I don't think worship is the umbrella itself, rather it is a 01:39:38.640 --> 01:39:46.480 subcomponent of it. 01:39:46.480 --> 01:39:51.200 The next question, and I think perhaps the last question for this 01:39:51.200 --> 01:39:54.000 episode didn't actually run quite as long as I thought I would, 01:39:54.000 --> 01:39:57.280 but hour and forty minutes, give or take. 01:39:57.280 --> 01:39:59.600 Have you heard of the Wisconsin Synod? 01:39:59.600 --> 01:40:01.600 There is a I have to turn to the side here because 01:40:01.600 --> 01:40:02.880 my camera's in my way. 01:40:02.880 --> 01:40:05.600 There is a lot of them around here. 01:40:05.600 --> 01:40:10.240 I assume you mean Wells, which yes, I've heard of Wells and 01:40:10.720 --> 01:40:14.000 the LCMS and Wells have similar problems. 01:40:14.000 --> 01:40:16.400 The LCMS has 01:40:18.480 --> 01:40:22.960 a little bit more protection against it with regard to individual congregations, 01:40:22.960 --> 01:40:27.040 partly because of the side, partly the size, rather, and partly because 01:40:27.040 --> 01:40:30.000 of the bureaucratic structure of the LCMS. 01:40:30.000 --> 01:40:34.160 Whereas Wells is going to very quickly follow wherever the leadership of 01:40:34.160 --> 01:40:38.240 Wells is going, and they're not going good places. 01:40:38.240 --> 01:40:41.840 I have not been particularly impressed with what I have seen from 01:40:41.840 --> 01:40:44.320 them. And I'm not saying I like the LCMS leadership either. 01:40:44.320 --> 01:40:45.680 Obviously, I do not. 01:40:45.680 --> 01:40:48.960 Matt Harrison and I are not friends, let's say. 01:40:48.960 --> 01:40:54.080 So. Wells is going to have the same problems as the LCMS. 01:40:54.080 --> 01:40:55.760 It's going to depend on the leadership. 01:40:55.760 --> 01:40:59.440 Maybe they're good congregations, but I think in the Wells context, good 01:40:59.440 --> 01:41:06.000 congregations will have more trouble withstanding evil demands, wicked demands from synod 01:41:06.080 --> 01:41:10.400 leadership. Whereas in the LCMS, you're going to have a little more 01:41:10.400 --> 01:41:14.880 leeway. You're going to have a little more wiggle room for dealing 01:41:14.880 --> 01:41:18.960 with and avoiding whatever synod would like you to do. 01:41:18.960 --> 01:41:24.640 And my recommendation stands as: if you are a Lutheran church, leave 01:41:24.640 --> 01:41:31.520 your synod, join up with faithful Lutheran bodies outside of the LCMS, 01:41:31.520 --> 01:41:36.480 Wells, the existing structures, because not one of them is good. 01:41:36.480 --> 01:41:38.320 And I'm not just condemning Lutherans here. 01:41:38.320 --> 01:41:41.440 I am specifically condemning Lutherans here, but not just Lutherans. 01:41:41.440 --> 01:41:45.760 I don't believe there's a single faithful corporate church body in the 01:41:45.760 --> 01:41:47.680 United States. 01:41:47.680 --> 01:41:49.920 They are all wicked. 01:41:49.920 --> 01:41:54.800 They all have leadership that are going after the world and the 01:41:54.800 --> 01:41:58.080 approval of the world, and all of the various things that have 01:41:58.080 --> 01:42:00.800 come along with it, all of these false doctrines, all of these 01:42:00.800 --> 01:42:03.040 various forms of wickedness. 01:42:03.040 --> 01:42:03.360 So 01:42:04.320 --> 01:42:10.400 leave. You have the advantage speaking to Protestants, you probably own your 01:42:10.400 --> 01:42:14.080 building. You probably own your land, or rent it, whatever it happens 01:42:14.080 --> 01:42:15.760 to be, lease it. 01:42:15.760 --> 01:42:21.440 Your overarching corporate body doesn't own your building. 01:42:21.440 --> 01:42:23.760 You're not a Roman Catholic. 01:42:23.760 --> 01:42:29.120 Roman Catholics can't leave, regardless of what evil thing the Pope does, 01:42:29.120 --> 01:42:33.120 because the Pope owns their building, the Pope commands everyone in the 01:42:33.120 --> 01:42:36.160 leadership above them, the Pope can remove their priest 01:42:37.360 --> 01:42:39.200 so on and so forth. 01:42:39.200 --> 01:42:43.600 In the LCMS context, Lutheran context, or the Presbyterians, or Baptists, or 01:42:43.760 --> 01:42:47.280 Baptists probably don't have an overarching body anyway, but if you have 01:42:47.280 --> 01:42:52.240 an overarching corporate structure, they don't have that much control over you. 01:42:52.240 --> 01:42:56.480 You can leave, you can remain faithful, regardless of the evil things 01:42:56.480 --> 01:42:57.840 they're doing. 01:42:57.840 --> 01:43:00.320 So just don't be part of it. 01:43:00.320 --> 01:43:04.880 And whatever you do, do not rewrite your by laws, so that 01:43:04.880 --> 01:43:08.400 in the case of a split or anything like that, your property 01:43:08.400 --> 01:43:12.640 reverts or whatever language they use to the corporate body. 01:43:12.640 --> 01:43:15.200 That is one of the sneaky things they've been trying to do 01:43:15.520 --> 01:43:20.640 to try to enforce control over congregations, sort of control they do 01:43:20.640 --> 01:43:23.600 not have, because of the way these things have been structured in 01:43:23.600 --> 01:43:24.960 the US context. 01:43:24.960 --> 01:43:27.760 So take advantage of the structure we have. 01:43:27.760 --> 01:43:30.640 Whether it's good or bad could be debated. 01:43:30.640 --> 01:43:32.320 I don't think our structure is great. 01:43:32.320 --> 01:43:35.200 I don't like congregationalist polity. 01:43:35.200 --> 01:43:37.760 But it has benefits today. 01:43:37.760 --> 01:43:41.760 Take advantage of those before it winds up being a problem for 01:43:41.760 --> 01:43:46.160 you. Don't wait until Synod tells you to do something evil. 01:43:46.160 --> 01:43:49.920 Get out from under them before they try to do that to 01:43:49.920 --> 01:43:54.400 you. So that's my general recommendation and sort of a brief comment 01:43:54.400 --> 01:43:56.640 on the LCMS versus wells. 01:44:01.360 --> 01:44:06.720 And I think the last question I will answer tonight. 01:44:07.120 --> 01:44:11.600 Notice down. 01:44:11.600 --> 01:44:15.680 If you get excommunicated with a family in tow, is it permissible 01:44:15.680 --> 01:44:18.160 to have communion with your wife in a house church until you 01:44:18.720 --> 01:44:21.120 find a new church. 01:44:21.120 --> 01:44:25.120 So if it's just your wife or just your wife and children, 01:44:25.120 --> 01:44:28.400 I would say that probably is just the other side of don't 01:44:28.400 --> 01:44:29.440 do it. 01:44:29.440 --> 01:44:36.080 Because the Lord's Supper is supposed to be something for the gathered 01:44:36.080 --> 01:44:39.520 church. And yes, where two or three are gathered in my name, 01:44:39.520 --> 01:44:41.840 and we'll count your wife as separate for the sake of this 01:44:41.920 --> 01:44:45.520 and not go with the headship count versus the versus the individual 01:44:45.520 --> 01:44:48.320 body count, I guess as it were here. 01:44:48.320 --> 01:44:48.640 So 01:44:49.600 --> 01:44:54.720 yes, God is present, yes Christ is present as he promises, but 01:44:54.960 --> 01:44:58.000 it is supposed to be the gathered church. 01:44:58.400 --> 01:45:00.400 That partakes of the sacrament. 01:45:00.400 --> 01:45:05.520 And so get together with two or three like-minded men, go ahead 01:45:05.520 --> 01:45:09.040 and ordain one of you as being the head of this home 01:45:09.040 --> 01:45:12.560 church, and then by all means, have the Lord's Supper as part 01:45:12.560 --> 01:45:15.200 of what is now your church service. 01:45:15.200 --> 01:45:17.360 Because now you have a home church. 01:45:17.360 --> 01:45:20.880 But I do think that it is proper to form that home 01:45:20.880 --> 01:45:22.880 church. I'm not saying you have to have a legal document or 01:45:22.960 --> 01:45:25.360 anything like that, but I do think it is proper to take 01:45:25.360 --> 01:45:29.360 that step of forming a home church first, instead of using it 01:45:29.360 --> 01:45:32.720 in a way that if you're Lutheran you'll be familiar with the 01:45:32.720 --> 01:45:36.720 confession say as a form of private practice or private devotion, which 01:45:36.720 --> 01:45:39.280 is something that is not how it should be used. 01:45:39.280 --> 01:45:40.800 It's not how it's intended to be used. 01:45:40.800 --> 01:45:43.760 It's not how it's spoken of in the scriptures. 01:45:43.760 --> 01:45:44.080 So 01:45:45.040 --> 01:45:49.680 take the time and the effort to form that home church. 01:45:49.680 --> 01:45:51.920 And yes, it's a good thing that you want to have the 01:45:51.920 --> 01:45:55.280 Lord's Supper, and you think that it is not a good thing 01:45:55.280 --> 01:45:58.080 to go without it for a period of time, but 01:45:59.040 --> 01:46:01.840 you're not going to be damned because you don't have the Lord's 01:46:01.840 --> 01:46:04.000 Supper for a few weeks or a few months or even a 01:46:04.000 --> 01:46:05.040 few years. 01:46:05.040 --> 01:46:08.320 Preferably don't go that long, you know, form a home church, but 01:46:08.800 --> 01:46:13.440 it is not absolutely necessary that you have the Lord's Supper every 01:46:13.440 --> 01:46:15.280 week. It's a good thing. 01:46:15.280 --> 01:46:16.560 It's a good thing to have every week. 01:46:16.560 --> 01:46:19.600 I'm glad that we have moved to having it that way in 01:46:19.600 --> 01:46:20.560 the Lutheran Church. 01:46:20.560 --> 01:46:23.760 There were historical reasons that that wasn't the case in some places, 01:46:23.760 --> 01:46:27.280 but I do think it's good to have it every week, but 01:46:27.280 --> 01:46:30.320 it is not absolutely necessary in the sense that you have to 01:46:30.320 --> 01:46:32.320 worry for your soul because you have not had it in a 01:46:32.320 --> 01:46:33.280 few weeks. 01:46:33.280 --> 01:46:38.960 So form the home church and worship together and have the Lord's 01:46:38.960 --> 01:46:40.480 Supper as part of that worship. 01:46:40.480 --> 01:46:41.840 That's how it's meant to be used. 01:46:41.840 --> 01:46:46.080 It's meant to be the gathered church participating in the body and 01:46:46.080 --> 01:46:52.480 blood of our Lord and Savior as the gathered church. 01:46:52.640 --> 01:46:53.280 I think 01:46:54.320 --> 01:46:57.520 that I got through all of the questions in the chat. 01:46:57.520 --> 01:47:01.360 If I missed one, by all means, add it to the forum. 01:47:01.360 --> 01:47:06.080 I know that there are some outstanding questions, and I created a 01:47:06.080 --> 01:47:08.800 thread on the forum where I will be adding those so people 01:47:08.800 --> 01:47:12.320 can see if I noticed your question, I will have added it 01:47:12.320 --> 01:47:14.080 to that thread. 01:47:14.080 --> 01:47:17.200 So if you do not see it there, that means I missed 01:47:17.200 --> 01:47:20.640 it. Please add it to the request category on Omniphora. 01:47:20.640 --> 01:47:24.640 There is a link in the description, regardless of on which platform 01:47:24.640 --> 01:47:26.160 you are watching this. 01:47:26.160 --> 01:47:29.200 So that is the best way to submit questions because that helps 01:47:29.200 --> 01:47:30.480 me to organize them. 01:47:30.480 --> 01:47:33.280 Then I can mark them as red when I remember to do 01:47:33.280 --> 01:47:37.040 that, I try to do that, and I can tag them in 01:47:37.040 --> 01:47:40.880 the individual episode where I answered them, so it's easier for people 01:47:40.880 --> 01:47:43.280 to find them in the future and things like that. 01:47:43.280 --> 01:47:45.280 But that is just the preferred way. 01:47:45.280 --> 01:47:48.480 If you ask in the chat or on X or wherever else, 01:47:48.480 --> 01:47:51.280 I will try to note it down, write it down, add it 01:47:51.280 --> 01:47:52.880 to a future episode. 01:47:52.880 --> 01:47:55.760 But like I said, I know there are some outstanding questions. 01:47:55.760 --> 01:47:57.920 One in particular I know people have wanted me to answer 01:47:59.200 --> 01:48:04.480 is I had a viral post on X about beauty, which was 01:48:04.480 --> 01:48:09.040 not necessarily my intent, but that is sort of how it went. 01:48:09.040 --> 01:48:12.080 About the nature of beauty and the morality and how you index 01:48:12.080 --> 01:48:12.960 these things. 01:48:12.960 --> 01:48:16.320 And I want to do that one as a standalone episode, so 01:48:16.320 --> 01:48:18.880 I'll release that as at least audio. 01:48:18.880 --> 01:48:22.080 I'll post it on YouTube and elsewhere as well, probably just with 01:48:22.080 --> 01:48:23.760 an image because I'm not going to record video now. 01:48:24.000 --> 01:48:25.920 necessarily for that one. 01:48:25.920 --> 01:48:28.320 But I want to do that one as a standalone because it's 01:48:28.320 --> 01:48:34.160 going to be longer form, and it is an important question that 01:48:34.160 --> 01:48:39.600 bears careful addressing because of the reality of the transcendentals and the 01:48:39.600 --> 01:48:41.120 nature of God and things like that. 01:48:41.120 --> 01:48:43.760 I'm not going to get into it right now, obviously, but I 01:48:43.760 --> 01:48:46.320 do remember that one has been asked a number of times. 01:48:46.320 --> 01:48:47.360 I will get into it. 01:48:47.360 --> 01:48:48.800 I will answer that one. 01:48:48.800 --> 01:48:51.520 It is on my to-do list. 01:48:51.520 --> 01:48:55.280 But I But I think that is going to be it for 01:48:55.280 --> 01:48:56.240 this week. 01:48:56.240 --> 01:48:59.200 I did get through the questions that I had prepared and then 01:48:59.200 --> 01:49:00.560 some of the ones from the chat. 01:49:00.560 --> 01:49:04.160 So again, if you have questions, please do submit those on the 01:49:04.160 --> 01:49:06.880 forum, preferably, but other places are fine too. 01:49:06.880 --> 01:49:09.920 Thank you for those of you who submitted questions and for those 01:49:09.920 --> 01:49:11.600 who participated in the chat. 01:49:11.600 --> 01:49:14.160 It is always nice to have the opportunity to answer these questions, 01:49:14.160 --> 01:49:16.240 and I'm glad that all of you find this find this useful 01:49:16.320 --> 01:49:19.920 too useful enough at least to join me on a Friday night. 01:49:19.920 --> 01:49:23.040 So I hope you have a great rest of your weekend. 01:49:23.040 --> 01:49:26.160 Make sure that you of course go to church on Sunday. 01:49:26.160 --> 01:49:29.840 And until hopefully Thursday, I would like to do it Thursday instead 01:49:29.760 --> 01:49:31.440 of Friday next week. 01:49:31.440 --> 01:49:35.200 Until Thursday, I hope that God is with all of you and 01:49:35.200 --> 01:49:36.800 continues to bless you. 01:49:36.800 --> 01:49:41.520 So God bless and have a great evening and a great weekend. 01:49:41.520 --> 01:49:42.960 Till next week.