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It is the 1st of January 2026.

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I am Cory J.

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Mahler, and this is at any cost, this is a question and

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answer episode.

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And happy New Year to all of you, and I think I

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will just get straight into the questions here.

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Unfortunately, Restream is seemingly having some kind of problem with their OBS

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it's not loading.

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Having some cross-origin issue.

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So hopefully they fix that by next week.

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At any rate, moving right into the questions.

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The first question is an exegetical one.

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It is a little bit longer.

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I

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may go through the fullness of the text just because it's a

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useful text to go through for a number of reasons.

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But the question is about Ezekiel thirty seven through thirty-nine, so obviously

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a not trivial, but not that substantial chunk of scripture, and how

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that plays into proper exegesis, so understanding what Israel is, what Israel

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isn't, and particularly how to respond to those who interpret that incorrectly

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and believe that it is dealing exclusively or even primarily with ethnic

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Israel, which is to say Old Testament Israel, the Jews, right.

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In the that sense.

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So more properly the Hebrews than the Jews.

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But let me pull up logos here so that we can

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get the scripture visible.

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Actually I think I would just pull up the full logos window

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for this one because I'm going to want both the Old Testament

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and the New Testament, and you don't really need to see my

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face while I'm reading, it's not that important.

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So looking at Ezekiel, I think I probably will go through the

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fullness of this just because it's going to come up again and

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again and again and not just this but similar sections of the

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Old Testament because those who have been misinformed have been falsely taught

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with regard to what Israel is and what Israel is not, are

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going to resort to passages like this in order to well, try

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to defend false theology.

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So let's just go through the fullness of it.

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Starting with 37, we'll read through 39.

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I'll probably comment along the way instead of waiting to the end,

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just because I think that's useful here.

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Eventually I will go through and do something more substantial on this

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and similar passages.

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But this is sort of the Cliffnotes version of the short version

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of it.

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And the hand of the Lord came upon me, and the Lord

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brought me out in his spirit, and set me in the midst

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of the plain, and this was full of human bones, and he

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brought me all around them in a circle, and behold, very many,

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very dry, upon the surface of the plain.

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And he said to me, Son of man, shall these bones live?

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And I said, O Lord, you know these things.

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And he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and you shall

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say to them, O dry bones, hear a word of the Lord.

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This is what the Lord says to these bones.

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Behold, I am bringing into you a spirit of life, and I

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will give sinews on you, and bring flesh upon you, and draw

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out skin over you, and give my breath into you, and you

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shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

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And I prophesied as he commanded me, and it happened when I

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prophesied, and behold a shaking, and he brought forth the bones, each

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to its joint.

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And I looked, and behold, sinews and flesh were growing upon them,

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and skin was coming up upon them, on top, but no breath

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was in them.

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And he said to me, Prophesy to the breath, Prophesy, son of

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man, and say to the breath, This is what the Lord says,

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Come from the four winds, and blow into these corpses, and they

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shall live.

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And I prophesied just as he commanded me, and the breath came

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into them, and they lived and stood upon their feet, a very

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great gathering.

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And the Lord spoke to me saying, Son of Man, these bones

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are the whole house of Israel, and they say, Our bones have

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become dry, our hope is perished, we are lost.

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Therefore prophesy and say, This is what the Lord says Behold I

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am opening your tombs, and will bring you up out of your

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tombs, and bring you into the land of Israel, and you shall

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know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, so

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that I might bring my people up out of their graves, and

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I will give my spirit into you, and you shall live, and

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I will place you upon your own land, and you shall know

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that I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will act, says the

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Lord.

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And so here we have basically one of the first things That

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they are going to bring up when they're trying to tell you,

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no, it's promises for ethnic Israel, it's not promises for Christians.

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They're going to bring up that it mentions the house of Israel.

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But in order to understand these passages in the Old Testament, You

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have to understand what is meant by Israel.

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And this is the fundamental problem that you have with so many

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when it comes to exegesis of these passages, because they've been inculcated

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with this false belief from dispensationalism and related things.

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That's the problem.

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And so the issue here is that Israel is the church.

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I'm just going to be right up front and say that bluntly.

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Israel is the church.

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I guess I should pull it up in this other logos window

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as well, so we're not looking at the preface to Emperor Charles

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here. But

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Israel is the church.

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And one of the ways you can understand this, of course, is

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when dealing with the promises, what does it speak of?

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And particularly you should look at the New Testament because we use

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the New Testament, which has a clarity to the Old Testament does

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not, when interpreting the Old Testament.

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And so, for instance, we can turn to Galatians three twenty one

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as a good place to start, and I will pull that up

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here. So starting with Galatians

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three, verse twenty one Is the law then contrary to the promises

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of God?

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Certainly not, for if a law had been given that could give

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life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.

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But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by

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faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned

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until the coming faith would be revealed.

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So then the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order

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that we might be justified by faith.

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But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a

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guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through

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faith, for as many of you as were baptized into Christ to

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put on Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither

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slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are

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all one in Christ Jesus, and if you are Christ, then you

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are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

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And so of course what is the house of Israel, the actual

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house of Israel?

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The heirs to Abraham, Abraham's true offspring.

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His true offspring are those through the promise, not through the law.

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You have this in a number of places in Scripture.

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It's very clear.

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So for instance, we can also turn to the next chapter of

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Galatians, which is even more clear on this subject than perhaps Galatians

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three. And of course we've dealt with in Stone Choir Galatians three

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twenty eight and all those issues that people bring up, so I

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won't reiterate that here.

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Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you

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listen to do not do you not listen to the law?

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For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a

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slave woman and one by a free woman, but the son of

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the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of

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the free woman was born through promise.

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Now this may be interpreted allegorically, that's an important point.

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These women are two covenants, one is from Mount Sinai, bearing children

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for slavery.

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She is Hagar.

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Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia.

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She corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with

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her children, but the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our

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mother, for it is written, rejoice O barren one who does not

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bear, break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor,

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for the children of the desolate one will be more than those

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of the one who has a husband.

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Now you, brothers like Isaac, are children of promise, but just as

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at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted

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him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is

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now. But what does the scripture say?

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Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of

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the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free

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woman. So brothers, we are not children of the slave, but of

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the free woman.

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And of course the Jews are the children of the slave woman,

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because they are not children of the promise because they are not

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in Christ, and so they cannot be in view in these Old

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Testament passages that are dealing with Israel.

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One of the ways of course you can see this, it's very

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clear in this passage here.

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There are two different Jerusalems.

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This is one that is going to come up in a number

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of places, and you can think perhaps of Psalm forty seven in

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the Septuagint number numbering Psalm forty eight in the numbering with which

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we're more familiar, because those are the Bibles we have.

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And in that it describes Jerusalem as being in, in the wording

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of the Masoretic text, the Far North, or in the wording of

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the Septuagint text, the slopes of the north.

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In either case it's talking about Jerusalem being in the north.

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Well, if you know anything about Old Testament Israel and even Israel

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today, so called, where is Jerusalem located?

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Jerusalem is located in Judah.

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Judah is the southern kingdom.

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Jerusalem's in the south.

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It's not in the north.

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And so very clearly it cannot be describing earthly Jerusalem.

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Which is also obvious by the fact that it's described in Revelation

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other places as coming down from heaven.

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This is the heavenly Jerusalem.

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It's speaking about the heavenly city it's speaking about paradise.

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That's what it is.

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It's a way of speaking about paradise.

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And so not to sort of jump ahead in the exegesis here,

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but this passage in Ezekiel, in a number of places, is speaking

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about the end times.

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It's speaking about the church, the fulfillment, it's speaking about the apocalypse,

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that's why you start to get imagery.

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I won't read through the whole thing, I don't think, but you

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start to get imagery of these countries from the north coming and

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attacking Israel.

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Well the problem is they're riding on horses, and the weapons described

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are things like daggers.

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No one is going to attack

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modern day Israel, so-called, with horses and daggers.

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This is imagery of the apocalypse.

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It is imagery of Satan's assault on the church.

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And And that's why you have different Jerusalems.

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You have the earthly Jerusalem, the children of the slave woman, you

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have the Jews who are apostate, unbelievers, not part of the promise,

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and you have the heavenly Jerusalem, which is the mother of those,

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obviously speaking symbolically, the mother of those who are believers.

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So continuing on here we'll start with verse fifteen now.

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I should tab back over to that so you can all follow

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along, probably a little easier.

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And a word of the Lord came to me saying, Son of

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man, take for yourself a rod and write on it, Judah and

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the sons of Israel who are joined to him, and you shall

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take for yourself a second rod, and you shall inscribe it for

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Joseph, the rod of Ephraim, and all the sons of Israel who

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have been added to him, and you shall join them to each

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other into one rod for yourself so as to bind them, and

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they shall be in your hand, and it shall be when the

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sons of your people shall say to you, Will you not proclaim

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to us what is this thing of yours?

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Then you shall say to them, This is what the Lord says,

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Behold I will take the tribe of Joseph, which is through the

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hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel join to him, and

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I will give them unto the tribe of Judah, and they shall

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be as one rod in the hand of Judah, and the rods,

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those upon which you write, shall be in your hand before them,

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and you shall say to them, This is what the Lord says.

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Behold I am taking the whole house of Israel from the midst

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of the nations, where they went, and I will gather them from

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all those around them and bring them into the land of Israel,

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and I will give them into one nation in my land, and

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on the mountains of Israel, and they shall have one ruler, and

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they shall no longer be as two nations, nor shall they be

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divided into two kingdoms, so that they never again defile themselves with

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their idols, and I will rescue them from all their lawless acts,

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whereby they have sinned, and I will cleanse them, and they shall

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be for me as a people, and I the Lord will be

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a god for them.

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Again you can see very clearly in this passage, it's not speaking

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about earthly ethnic Israel.

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It can't be.

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Because also later on, the next passage here, I'll read that in

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a second.

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It's dealing with the eschaton, it's dealing with eschatology, the end of

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all things, because this is the gathering end of all of those

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who are of the house of Israel, which is to say again

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the church, who will be in paradise with God as their ruler,

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made more obvious by the next passage here.

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And my And my slave or servant, same word in Greek, David

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shall be ruler in their midst, and they shall all have one

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shepherd, for they shall walk by my ordinances, and keep my judgments,

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and perform them, and they shall live upon their land that I

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have given to my slave Jacob, there where their fathers lived, and

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they shall live upon it, and David my slave shall be their

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ruler forever.

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If it's talking about an eternal ruler and it's talking about David,

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David is used in the Old Testament in this sense here, typologically

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of Christ.

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Because of course, no human ruler is going no merely human ruler,

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is going to rule them forever.

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This is Christ, this is the new Jerusalem, this is the new

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land of Israel, this is paradise, this is again talking about the

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Escoton. And of course we know that because David again, typological of

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Christ. Christ is the one shepherd.

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Very obvious in the New Testament, I am the good shepherd, I

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lay down my life for my sheep, and many other places.

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And so we cannot be dealing with an earthly kingdom, because it

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talks about them following his law, obeying his commandments, walking by his

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ordinances, no longer sinning.

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That's not something that's going to happen in this life, in this

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world, in this creation unrenewed.

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That is the next life.

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That is the creation renewed, purged of sin, where those of us

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who are in Christ will be ruled by Christ and will no

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longer sin, no longer have all of the problems we have today.

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Concupiscence will no longer be a thing, original sin.

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So it's very clearly speaking of the restoration of all things.

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I'm going to skip the bit about all of the nations coming

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and fighting against Israel.

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I've already mentioned what that means.

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Again, it's the eschaton.

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You can see this in Revelation as well.

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This is something that is typological.

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It is then echoed in Revelation speaking of the end times and

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the assault of Satan and his followers on the church.

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That's all that this is.

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I think that's probably sufficient.

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I don't think I need to read through thirty-eight and thirty-nine because

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I've really touched on how you exegete this entire passage just by

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reading through thirty-seven.

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I do, of course encourage you to go and read all of

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it, but I'm not going to take the time now to do

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it. So again, I I may touch this in an essay at

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some point, deal with it more thoroughly.

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But that gives you sort of the starting place to deal with

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those who talk about

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this being ethnic Israel because it's just very clearly not.

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The only way that you can find ethnic Israel here is if

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you ignore what it's actually saying about what God is doing, about

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what God is going to do, about the fact that they're not

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going to sin anymore, they're going to follow his ordinances.

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Look at Israel today, so called.

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Are they obeying God?

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Are they following his ordinances?

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No. The restoration so called of ethnic Israel to that land in

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nineteen forty eight does not fulfill this because it doesn't obey what

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is said here.

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They are not subject to

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David, which is to say Christ.

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They are still horrible sinning Jews.

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They don't believe in God.

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They blaspheme him daily.

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That's sort of the Cliff Notes version again and the way to

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deal with this.

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And

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it's also worth mentioning you do have sort of cyclical fulfillments of

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many of the prophecies in the Old Testament Testament, including this one.

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And so you do have times where you will have a minor

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fulfillment, which is a restoration of ethnic Israel, incidentally, not actual Israel,

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the Northern Kingdom, because they get destroyed completely by the Assyrians, but

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you do have the restoration after the Babylonian exile because the house

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of Judah was restored to the land, and then dispersed again for

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being faithless apostates again, but the ultimate fulfillment of this, the end

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of the cycle of fulfillments, is the end times, is the restoration

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of all things.

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And it's worth emphasizing that point, again this cannot be about ethnic

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Israel because the northern ten tribes are destroyed completely, they're gone.

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So you can't have some restoration of the ethnic house of Israel

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and the ethnic house of Judah because the ethnic house of Israel

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ceased to exist after the Assyrian exile.

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Incidentally also the way that you deal with those who try to

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say the one hundred and forty four thousand in Revelation are ethnic

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Jews. They can't be.

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First off, the list is wrong, because it's not actually a list

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of the tribes, but then second, it's very clearly typological.

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I've talked about that one before, so I won't get into that

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now, but I think that sort of covers it for really most

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purposes here.

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If someone has follow-up questions, of course I can deal with those

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later, but you can also think, of course, Isaiah fifty six came

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to mind while I was thinking about this question.

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Also an eschatological promise also dealing with the end times, I will

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bring them into my holy mountain and make them joyful in my

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house of prayer, their whole burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be

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acceptable on my altar, for my house shall be called a house

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of prayer for all the nations, not just dealing with Old Testament

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ethnic Israel, all nations, because the gospel is for all peoples, as

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also seen very clearly in Galatians three.

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The next question is sort of an easier, lighter question.

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Let me pull that up here.

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Basically, Anglicanism versus Lutheranism.

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Not in the sense of them being opposed, but sort of in

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the sense of which one should I be.

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So a little opposition, but I'll read the question.

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Hello, thanks for all you do.

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I recently moved, and I am considering joining a Lutheran church, but

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the hang-up is that my ancestors are all from England, both sides,

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and my grandfather was an Episcopal priest in the 1960s, until he

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passed. I respect your and Woe's opinion and would consider a Lutheran

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church, but feel the fourth commandment leads me to stay Anglican.

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Thoughts on participating in the Church of My Fathers.

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I don't have any problem with the faithful Anglican churches.

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Obviously, I disagree with some of their theology, particularly the ones that

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lean a little more heavily reformed.

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Because as I've mentioned before, the Anglican Church is a very big

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umbrella for a number of reasons, partly due to the Empire historically,

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partly just because it was never really solidified into a single confession

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to which everyone adhered without exception.

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That's very common over in the Reformed camp, and I don't think

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that I'm being unfair to the reformed.

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I think they would agree with me on that point.

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So

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there are very good Anglican churches and there are very bad Anglican

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churches. The same is true of Lutherans, of course, but and I'm

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not just saying Elka because they're not even Christian.

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There are bad LCMS churches, they're good LCMS churches.

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The same thing is true over in the Anglican camp.

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If you can find a good Anglican church, by all means attend

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it. Yes, I disagree with some of their theology.

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Yes, I think there are doctrinal issues, but I still think they're

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Christians. There are faithful Christians in the Anglican Church.

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You can be Anglican.

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There's also the historical tidbit that is worth mentioning.

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The Anglican Church proper as something separate from in this case Lutheranism

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would not have existed if Henry VIII had not martyred Robert Barnes,

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because he was initially listening to him, but then basically due to

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political shenanigans, very underhanded, but sort of the history of the human

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species, Robert Barnes was murdered, and so he was the one who

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was bringing England over to Lutheranism.

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He was a friend of Martin Luther.

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He had lived with Martin Luther for a period of time.

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Martin Luther published his confession and eulogized him.

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But because of that martyrdom, you wind up with an independent Anglican

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church distinct from Lutheranism and separated from it.

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That's unfortunate.

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It is part of history, that's just how it's gone.

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But there wouldn't be anything wrong if you were to join a

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Lutheran church.

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Effectively what you would be doing is recognizing that historical reality, that

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unfortunate historical event, and undoing it in miniature, which I would like

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to see the Anglican Church and the Lutheran Church unify under a

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true confession, which is say the Augsburg Confession, and no longer have

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that schism and no longer have that separation.

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So you can join either one.

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It's not a violation of the fourth commandment, because what you want

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to do to be true to your forefathers, not just your father,

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but your grandfather, your great grandfather, all the way back, is to

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be a Christian.

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To be a true Christian, to be a faithful Christian, and I

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do believe that you can do that in an Anglican church and

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you can do that in a Lutheran church.

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As a Lutheran, obviously, I believe the Lutheran confession is better than

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what the Anglican churches confess.

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But I don't think that Anglicans are not Christian.

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So join whichever one you happen to have in your area that

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is a good church, and work to improve it.

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That's the best thing that you can do.

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I have sort of a follow-up question here for the next one,

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a little bit more about baptism.

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Unsurprising, that's going to be a question that comes up a lot.

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Hello, Corey.

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Hopefully I am posting a question in the correct part of the

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forum. It was fine, I think I moved it, but it's good.

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Is there a morally permissible means that permits the head of the

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household, a man, obviously, to administer baptism to those that God has

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entrusted to Trusted to his care.

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I confess that I'm likely standing in the way of God's free

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gift, and that is not what I want to do.

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I would rather receive his free gifts than return thanks in his

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church. I am hesitant to bring my family into a congregation that

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is part of a corporation that is demonstrably led by an apostate.

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Certainly a problem, and that's a problem across denominations.

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You're not going to find, unfortunately, good leadership anywhere.

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The Roman Catholic Church, obviously has as a Lutheran I'm going to

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say some choice things about the Pope, but the current one is

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awful, even by the standards of popes, and they've had Medicis as

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popes. But the corporate heads of basically every denomination are they're all

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terrible. Thanks in advance for your time and consider my question.

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If I've missed it in a prior SC episode, I'm sorry.

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Thank you for your time and faithful exegesis of Scripture.

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So I have addressed this one before, but it is worth addressing

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again because it's such an important issue.

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Because the sacraments are important, and baptism in particular is important.

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Yes, of course, I'm not minimizing the Lord's Supper in any way.

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I recognize that many of those in the ancient church went to

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the lions because they would not deny the real presence, the bodily

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presence of Christ in the supper, but baptism is

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the way that you properly enter the church.

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Now, that's not to say that you cannot have faith from some

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other means, because there are means of grace, plural, and so you

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can be given faith by hearing, reading the word, right?

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That's one of the means of grace.

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Another one is baptism.

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Baptism grants faith.

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And there's a follow-up question as well later on, I think, touching

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on regeneration.

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Yes, I may I may get to that one tonight, I don't

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know, but

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Baptism regenerates.

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Baptism grants the free gift of faith.

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Baptism is how you enter the church.

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It does not mean, again, that you cannot have faith absent baptism.

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I've explained it before by saying, is baptism necessary?

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Yes, but not absolutely so, but yes.

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And I've explained that, I won't necessarily go into that right now,

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but the core of the question here is can a Christian man,

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particularly the head of the household, although I won't limit it to

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that because it's not limited to that, can he baptize the members

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of his household?

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The answer is yes.

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You can baptize your children.

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Is it the ordinary way that things are done?

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The answer is no.

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Because the ordinary way that things are done in a Christian society,

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when everything is functioning as it should, is that the pastor, a

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member of whose flock you are, baptizes your children as they are

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born. That's the way it should be.

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That is the way it was for centuries.

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That is the ideal.

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We're not necess we are not necessarily there right now for a

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number of reasons of which we're all well aware.

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So any Christian can administer baptism.

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That includes women.

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Women can baptize in an emergency because that is even further outside

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the norm.

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Because it should be the head of the household or some male

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that has an appropriate relationship to the person being baptized, and so

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usually that's the minister, the priest, the pastor, but it can be

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the head of the household, it could be an uncle, a grandfather,

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whatever. My father baptized both of my siblings, incidentally also baptized me

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in the church in my case.

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So nothing wrong with that.

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That is entirely fine.

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Use the words as instituted in the New Testament.

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Go through the ritual of it.

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Ritual is important.

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It's not justifying in its own sense, of course, but it is

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an important part of being a Christian and practicing the Christian faith.

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And make sure you have witnesses.

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That's the standard for biblical baptism.

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In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy

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Spirit, with witnesses, what Water.

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It's water and the word, because of course it's a sacrament.

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It's not just the water, it's not just the word, it's the

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water and the word together.

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So the short answer, of course, is yes, you can baptize your

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children. And if you happen to have access to a Lutheran hymnal,

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they are all going to have a baptismal rite, just follow that.

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Or I think probably most reformed hymnals or the equivalent, if they

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have something separate for their rights, their services, will also have that.

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So there's even an emergency, I'm looking at my Lutheran service book

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here, but there's even an emergency form in the back of many

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or in the front, depending of many Lutheran books.

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So in an emergency, if someone needs to baptize someone, that's something

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that's there and available.

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So if you're on an airplane and it's going down, by all

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means baptize someone with a water bottle.

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If you are any Christian, male, female, doesn't matter.

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The next question is again about denominations and

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kind of denominational differences here, this time in the context of marriage.

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As a Christian, is it permissible to marry a Roman Catholic?

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I'll read the rest of the question here, it's a couple more

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paragraphs, but I do want to point out first

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there are Christian Roman Catholics, and I know some people think how

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can a Lutheran possibly say that?

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Our confession, the Book of Concord, says that the Pope is antichrist

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and basically says everyone should desert him, and some other choice phrases,

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particularly in certain documents in the Book of Concord.

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And

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that doesn't mean that there are no Christians in the Roman Church.

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Similarly, I believe there are Christi Christians in the Eastern Churches.

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I believe the Eastern Church itself is apostate due to Palamism and

00:29:33.840 --> 00:29:37.040
other things, but there are Christians in those churches.

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Just as there are even some Christians in the Mormon Church, so

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called, I wouldn't call it a church, but they like to call

00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:50.000
themselves that in the lower levels of that, before they become a

00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:53.680
temple Mormon, which is what they call them, before they get initiated

00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:57.360
into the mysteries, because it is a mystery cult, there are people

00:29:57.360 --> 00:29:59.200
who just believe in Christ.

00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:02.960
In the simplicity of their ignorance, they hold to Christ, they believe

00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:04.960
in Christ, that makes them a Christian.

00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:06.480
Are they a good Christian?

00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:09.600
Not particularly, but that's not what saves you.

00:30:09.600 --> 00:30:13.280
What saves you is belief in Christ, faith in Christ, the free

00:30:13.280 --> 00:30:14.000
gift of faith.

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And there are Christians in the Roman Church.

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So continuing on the rest of the question.

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I'm a young man who's pursuing a relationship with a woman about

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my age.

00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:25.360
She is a Christian, as am I, but she is currently in

00:30:25.360 --> 00:30:29.680
RCIA with a strong intention to convert to Roman Catholicism.

00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:32.400
I am unsure about marrying this woman if she converts to Roman

00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:36.320
Catholicism, as the differences may be irreconcilable.

00:30:36.320 --> 00:30:38.720
Is there a middle ground that we can reach or should I

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shake the dust off my feet?

00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:45.040
This touches on a number of things.

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The core here though, and I think that's the bulk of what

00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:53.200
I'll address, is that a woman is supposed to follow her husband.

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Period. Scripture's very clear.

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Wives submit to your husbands in all things as you would unto

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the Lord.

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That certainly includes in theological matters.

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And so a wife is to follow her husband.

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If he's a Presbyterian, you are a Presbyterian, your children are Presbyterians.

00:31:12.320 --> 00:31:16.800
If he's a Lutheran, you're a Lutheran, your children are Lutherans.

00:31:16.800 --> 00:31:20.320
And that is the way things are supposed to go.

00:31:20.320 --> 00:31:26.960
Now, if a husband becomes completely apostate, right, let's say he goes

00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:31.040
from being some Christian denomination, pick whichever one you like, to a

00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:37.680
neopagan, or a Muslim, or a Mormon, or God forbid, someone who

00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:40.320
follows the Talmud, right?

00:31:40.320 --> 00:31:42.880
Then no, she can't follow him in that because you must obey

00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:44.080
God rather than men.

00:31:44.080 --> 00:31:48.800
That would be an exception to that complete submission to her husband,

00:31:48.800 --> 00:31:52.000
because it is as you would submit unto Christ, right?

00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:53.600
There's a limitation there.

00:31:53.600 --> 00:31:58.080
It's a minor limitation, because it is comparable to when slaves are

00:31:58.080 --> 00:32:02.480
to submit to their masters even to bad masters, and so wives

00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:05.680
are to submit to their husbands even when they aren't good husbands.

00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:09.440
Now husbands should endeavor to love their wives, of course, as Christ

00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:14.080
loved the church and gave himself up for her, among other passages,

00:32:14.080 --> 00:32:14.400
but

00:32:15.360 --> 00:32:19.600
you are to follow wives, you are to follow your husband, with

00:32:19.600 --> 00:32:23.600
regard to what denomination he chooses to be a Christian.

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And so to answer your specific question, she has to follow you

00:32:28.800 --> 00:32:30.640
if she is going to be your wife.

00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:33.440
So you need to have a serious conversation with her.

00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:38.000
If I am a Presbyterian or whatever you happen to be, right?

00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:41.360
Are you going to be a Presbyterian or are you going to

00:32:41.360 --> 00:32:45.200
continue to insist on being a Roman Catholic in this case, something

00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:47.920
else, and is that going to be a constant source of conflict

00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:49.040
in the marriage?

00:32:49.040 --> 00:32:50.800
How are you going to raise the children?

00:32:50.800 --> 00:32:53.120
Are you going to teach them to be Presbyterian and she's going

00:32:53.120 --> 00:32:54.320
to teach them to be Roman Catholic?

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That doesn't work.

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She has to submit.

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If she is unwilling to do that, it is going to cause

00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:04.080
you nothing but strife in your marriage, and she's already demonstrated she's

00:33:04.080 --> 00:33:06.080
not going to be a faithful wife.

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So wisdom would dictate you probably should look elsewhere.

00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:14.160
Hopefully she recognizes that her duty in scripture, her duty to

00:33:15.040 --> 00:33:17.760
God is to submit to you if you are her husband.

00:33:17.760 --> 00:33:20.560
If she's willing to do that, then there's no problem.

00:33:20.560 --> 00:33:24.640
Lead her back into what you believe to be the true faith

00:33:24.800 --> 00:33:27.600
and out of what she is currently investigating.

00:33:27.600 --> 00:33:31.280
That is it to some degree on you, and if you are

00:33:31.280 --> 00:33:33.680
able to do that, if she is willing to listen, if she's

00:33:33.680 --> 00:33:37.120
willing to submit and obey, then by all means, she makes a

00:33:37.120 --> 00:33:40.560
great wife, marry her, may you have many children, and be blessed

00:33:40.560 --> 00:33:41.520
by the Lord.

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But it comes down to whether or not she is willing to

00:33:43.760 --> 00:33:50.800
do what scripture commands her to do, to be an actual wife.

00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:58.080
The next question is again about sort of house churches and what

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to do under current circumstances.

00:34:02.080 --> 00:34:05.760
That is starting a home church, a follow-up question to that.

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What do you recommend doing if one is new in an area

00:34:08.640 --> 00:34:11.680
or traveling and does not have a group to start a home

00:34:11.680 --> 00:34:14.800
church? Is there a kind of lay service one can do at

00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:17.520
home which is different from regular daily devotions?

00:34:17.520 --> 00:34:18.640
There is.

00:34:18.640 --> 00:34:19.840
Follow up to that.

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Perhaps it would be a good idea for people interested in doing

00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:25.440
this to organize some kind of locator map or resource to indicate

00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:27.840
if there are others in the area who'd be interested in doing

00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:30.080
that. Certainly that's important.

00:34:30.080 --> 00:34:33.520
Probably a little less so when traveling because if you're organizing a

00:34:33.520 --> 00:34:36.080
group, you kind of want to have the regularity of being able

00:34:36.080 --> 00:34:37.680
to meet together.

00:34:37.680 --> 00:34:43.680
But certainly, if you cannot find a good church, because obviously do

00:34:43.680 --> 00:34:46.000
not forsake the gathering together of the saints and all the other

00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:49.280
injunctions. If you can find a good church while you're traveling, just

00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:50.160
go to that church.

00:34:50.160 --> 00:34:51.360
It doesn't have to be perfect.

00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:55.520
You're going for one service, two, three at the most, right?

00:34:55.520 --> 00:34:58.080
Maybe a couple a year if you travel frequently, whatever it happens

00:34:58.080 --> 00:34:58.320
to be.

00:34:58.480 --> 00:35:00.800
By all means, just find a church and attend it.

00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:04.640
I've done that when in various other places, even going to LCMS

00:35:04.720 --> 00:35:08.640
churches, despite the LCMS's corporate opinion of me.

00:35:08.640 --> 00:35:10.160
I'll take a sip of tea here.

00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:17.600
But yes, you can just find a faithful church and attendant.

00:35:17.600 --> 00:35:21.600
And if you can't find that, then by all means simply find

00:35:22.240 --> 00:35:25.600
a right that you can do at home, just a basic church

00:35:25.600 --> 00:35:29.360
service. You know, you're basically going to have a prayer, say the

00:35:29.360 --> 00:35:33.360
Lord's Prayer, recite the Creed, whether it happens to be the Apostles

00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:36.880
of the Nicene, or if it's the Trinity Sunday, then the Athanasian

00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:41.600
And you're not going to have the Lord's Supper by yourself.

00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:43.520
That would be inappropriate.

00:35:43.520 --> 00:35:48.240
And you're not going to have the corporate absolution, but you don't

00:35:48.240 --> 00:35:51.040
need the corporate absolution because you know that all of your sins

00:35:51.040 --> 00:35:53.280
are forgiven before you commit them.

00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:55.680
God has already forgiven all your sins in Christ.

00:35:55.680 --> 00:35:57.520
It's good to have that reminder.

00:35:57.520 --> 00:36:01.600
God is superabundant in his grace and how he delivers his forgiveness

00:36:01.600 --> 00:36:05.440
to us, his good his good gifts to us, but you don't

00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:07.120
need all of them all the time.

00:36:07.120 --> 00:36:08.960
It's not absolutely necessary.

00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:10.640
So yes, you can just follow a rite.

00:36:10.640 --> 00:36:13.280
There's a rite in the Lutheran service book I keep looking at.

00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:14.720
I should have put it on my desk.

00:36:14.720 --> 00:36:16.560
But But you can just follow that.

00:36:16.560 --> 00:36:18.160
It's available online.

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If you are part of some other denomination, then they undoubtedly have

00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:22.240
one as well.

00:36:22.240 --> 00:36:24.800
You can probably find it in your equivalent of the service book

00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:27.520
or the hymnal, whichever you happen to use.

00:36:27.520 --> 00:36:29.520
So I would say just go through that.

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That's probably the the best way to do it.

00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:39.520
The next question here, let me pull that up.

00:36:39.520 --> 00:36:44.880
Maybe I don't have that my notes there.

00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:50.960
Apparently we're significantly shifting categories here and sorts of questions.

00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:54.160
In the context of the marriage bed, are erotic fantasies shared between

00:36:54.160 --> 00:36:56.720
husband and wife, a sin?

00:36:56.720 --> 00:37:01.040
The short answer to that is no.

00:37:01.040 --> 00:37:06.560
The sort of longer answer is that to some degree it depends.

00:37:06.560 --> 00:37:07.040
Because

00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:13.520
if you are imagining your spouse is another person, that's inappropriate because

00:37:13.520 --> 00:37:19.360
that is mental adultery, coupled with an act that isn't itself adultery,

00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:23.120
but is certainly inappropriate because of the nature of what you have

00:37:23.120 --> 00:37:24.720
associated with it.

00:37:24.720 --> 00:37:27.200
Because you're supposed to be pure not just in body but also

00:37:27.200 --> 00:37:28.480
in mind.

00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:32.000
But I guess to give a not too concrete of an example

00:37:32.080 --> 00:37:35.680
as to not be inappropriate or you know, get banned.

00:37:35.680 --> 00:37:39.440
But if you want your wife to wear a cheerlead outfit, whatever.

00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:40.240
Have fun.

00:37:40.240 --> 00:37:42.320
That's between you and your wife.

00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:43.760
God's not going to object to that.

00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:45.360
You're allowed to do that.

00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:47.280
that's not a problem.

00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:52.080
Just don't do anything that's, you know, extreme or against conscience.

00:37:52.080 --> 00:37:53.680
That's sort of the the line here.

00:37:53.680 --> 00:37:56.880
Your conscience is going to tell you when you're doing something that's

00:37:56.880 --> 00:37:58.240
over the line.

00:37:58.240 --> 00:38:00.720
God gave you that to help you know what you should and

00:38:00.720 --> 00:38:01.600
shouldn't do.

00:38:01.600 --> 00:38:03.440
Listen to your conscience.

00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:07.360
That's the Holy Spirit inside you saying you shouldn't do this, right?

00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:09.360
So is it fine?

00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:11.920
Yes, but don't go overboard.

00:38:13.520 --> 00:38:20.080
Take another sip of tea.

00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:23.680
Eventually get a British audience just from sipping tea.

00:38:23.680 --> 00:38:25.920
Although they might object to the brand I drink.

00:38:27.040 --> 00:38:30.800
T people get very weird about brands.

00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:36.640
The next question is again going back to baptism just briefly.

00:38:36.640 --> 00:38:42.160
And the question is about regeneration and how that interacts with baptism,

00:38:42.160 --> 00:38:45.120
how baptism and regeneration are related.

00:38:45.120 --> 00:38:47.600
And I won't read the question because it was just sort of

00:38:47.600 --> 00:38:52.400
a paragraph objection/slash response in the comments to an episode, I think,

00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:53.920
a couple weeks ago.

00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:57.600
But the difference here is going to be between Lutherans and the

00:38:57.600 --> 00:39:04.160
Reformed in how we understand what baptism is and what baptism does.

00:39:04.160 --> 00:39:08.640
There's some difficulty in addressing this because the Reformed are not a

00:39:08.640 --> 00:39:11.280
monolithic camp.

00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:16.400
For Lutherans I can give a definitive answer because I could just

00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:19.680
pull out the book of Concord that I have it's actually I

00:39:19.680 --> 00:39:22.160
think on my floor right now, but sitting over here.

00:39:22.160 --> 00:39:23.280
And just read it.

00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:24.880
That's the Lutheran answer.

00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:26.960
So if you want the Lutheran answer, go to the Book of

00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:29.600
Concord, read the articles on baptism.

00:39:29.600 --> 00:39:30.240
That's it.

00:39:30.240 --> 00:39:31.520
That's our answer.

00:39:31.520 --> 00:39:33.760
And so the Lutheran conception is that

00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:40.400
baptism regenerates because baptism grants you faith.

00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:45.840
Faith and regeneration are not identical, but they are simultaneous.

00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:50.800
They are not divided necessarily logically even, they are certainly not divided

00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:54.160
in time in Lutheran theology.

00:39:54.160 --> 00:39:56.160
They are for the reformed.

00:39:56.160 --> 00:39:57.200
Because the reformed

00:39:58.240 --> 00:40:03.840
believe that God comes in and regenerates you prior to these things,

00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:08.800
because unless you are regenerated, you can't do any of the stuff

00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:09.680
that follows.

00:40:09.680 --> 00:40:15.040
Lutherans don't have that sort of logical or chronological distinction between the

00:40:15.040 --> 00:40:17.600
two. It's all sort of simultaneous.

00:40:17.600 --> 00:40:19.040
It's at the same time.

00:40:19.040 --> 00:40:23.360
That's the distinction between the Lutheran and the reformed position on it.

00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:23.680
And

00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:25.200
the

00:40:26.160 --> 00:40:31.280
Reformed are going to have more of a symbolic view of baptism.

00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:35.120
Baptism is a seal of your faith, as opposed to the Lutheran

00:40:35.120 --> 00:40:37.360
view, which is baptism gives you faith.

00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:41.280
Again, depending on whether or not you already have faith, right?

00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:44.800
Because we do believe in the means plural of grace, and so

00:40:44.800 --> 00:40:47.440
maybe you have faith already from reading the word or from hearing

00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:48.000
the word.

00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:51.760
In that case, baptism, yes, it is a confirmation of your faith,

00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:55.840
it strengthens your faith, but in the ordinary course of things you

00:40:55.840 --> 00:40:58.560
enter the church as an infant being baptized.

00:40:58.560 --> 00:41:01.840
And if you want to read about infant baptism, then Luther has

00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:05.440
an excellent piece on it in the book of Concord, specifically on

00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:08.960
infant baptism and why we baptize infants.

00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:13.040
Basically because the Lutheran conception, which I would say is what Scripture

00:41:13.040 --> 00:41:17.040
teaches very clearly, it is entirely God's work.

00:41:17.040 --> 00:41:21.200
And so you can't worry about the status of the person being

00:41:21.200 --> 00:41:25.360
baptized so much because God is the one doing the work.

00:41:25.600 --> 00:41:27.760
You aren't doing anything in baptism.

00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:29.680
You are having something done to you.

00:41:29.680 --> 00:41:31.120
It is a different thing.

00:41:31.120 --> 00:41:37.200
So that's basically the the difference between the regeneration view, the doctrine

00:41:37.200 --> 00:41:42.640
of regeneration in Lutheran theology versus the Reformed, without getting into all

00:41:42.640 --> 00:41:45.440
the minor distinctions of the different Reformed camps.

00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:48.400
Because if you want those, it's probably better to ask someone who

00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:49.680
is himself Reformed.

00:41:49.680 --> 00:41:52.480
I'm familiar with a lot of them, but it's probably better if

00:41:52.480 --> 00:42:00.880
a Reformed theologian answers that instead of a Lutheran one, right?

00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:05.280
The next one is shifting gears here a little bit, talking about

00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:07.360
China. I always find it funny when I talk about China while

00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:09.120
drinking tea.

00:42:09.200 --> 00:42:09.520
But

00:42:11.040 --> 00:42:14.320
refresh my tea here.

00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:18.400
Without pouring it on my stream deck, which would be very bad.

00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:27.280
The question now is about politics and China and the normalization of

00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:32.560
relations with China and the most favored nation status.

00:42:32.560 --> 00:42:38.320
And it's probably useful first to tell people what most favored nation

00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:42.320
status is, because not everyone is familiar with international law and how

00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:43.280
that works.

00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:48.480
So the most favored nation status is a particular term of art

00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:50.240
in international law.

00:42:50.240 --> 00:42:54.400
It's technically a different term under US law now because it was

00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:57.680
codified differently, but you're going to see most favored nation status and

00:42:57.680 --> 00:43:00.800
they are equivalent, so you you can ignore the other one.

00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:07.600
Most favored nation status means simply and in summary that a nation

00:43:07.600 --> 00:43:12.320
will receive the sort of treatment that is afforded to the most

00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:17.760
favored, which is to say the most prep preferenced, or the nation

00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:21.440
with the most beneficial relationship with the nation in question.

00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:25.200
So for instance, to give a concrete example to make it easier

00:43:25.200 --> 00:43:27.600
to understand, and then I'll get into a little bit more of

00:43:27.600 --> 00:43:29.840
how that works in practice.

00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:31.280
If we afford

00:43:32.240 --> 00:43:37.920
a status to Japan, right, of having no tariffs, so free trade,

00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:39.360
actual free trade.

00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:43.280
If we then grant most favored nation's status to another country, say

00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:47.680
Thailand, we have to also grant them that free s that free

00:43:47.680 --> 00:43:49.680
trade status, no tariffs.

00:43:49.680 --> 00:43:54.640
Now, how it works in practice is that if you are a

00:43:54.640 --> 00:43:59.760
member of the WTO, the World Trade Organization, you basically automatically grant

00:44:00.080 --> 00:44:03.200
this status to every other member of the WTO.

00:44:03.200 --> 00:44:06.160
That's effectively what the World Trade Organization is.

00:44:06.160 --> 00:44:08.080
It's granting most favored nations status.

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There's some more stuff to it than that, obviously, but it's granting

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that status to member nations in order to encourage free trade.

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We can get into what free trade is and why it's a

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problem and why it's not great and the WTO has a lot

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of problems.

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But that's how it functions in reality.

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And so there are you can take exceptions and you can enact

00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:30.560
restrictions and other things on countries, but it is an exception to

00:44:30.560 --> 00:44:31.920
the general rule.

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The US sort of has most favored nation status with almost every

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other nation.

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It's just sort of how we conduct business.

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And so to answer the question, I don't necessarily think that we

00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:47.760
should I guess den normalize or unnaturalize or whatever term you want

00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:53.920
to use relationships our relationships specifically with China, but we should not

00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:56.560
give them most favored nation status.

00:44:56.560 --> 00:45:00.800
In fact, I would just withdraw from the WTO and no longer

00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:04.240
just hand out MFN like candy to every other nation in the

00:45:04.240 --> 00:45:06.880
world, because it's not beneficial to Americans.

00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:12.400
It's not beneficial to us, it harms our people, it benefits large

00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:16.000
conglomerates and banks in particular.

00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:18.000
It doesn't benefit us.

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We should hand that out sparingly to nations that are actually friendly

00:45:23.520 --> 00:45:30.080
nations, nations that are proper allies, other Christian nations, our actual friends,

00:45:30.080 --> 00:45:31.840
not to everyone on the planet.

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And certainly handing it out to China has hollowed out our manufacturing.

00:45:36.240 --> 00:45:38.640
You have the so called rust belt now, which I hate that

00:45:38.640 --> 00:45:40.880
it's called that, but it's somewhat accurate.

00:45:40.880 --> 00:45:44.480
It hollowed out basically everything in our economy, in the middle, the

00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:45.360
core of our economy.

00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:48.640
It's one of the reasons that we could no longer do what

00:45:48.640 --> 00:45:51.600
we've done in past wars for good or ill.

00:45:51.600 --> 00:45:56.000
We can't field massive armament at this point because we don't have

00:45:56.000 --> 00:45:57.920
the manufacturing capacity.

00:45:57.920 --> 00:45:59.440
Everything's produced in China.

00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:01.760
Look at the stuff on you know, if you're sitting at your

00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:03.600
desk right now listening to this, look at the stuff on your

00:46:03.600 --> 00:46:05.600
desk. How much of it was made in China?

00:46:05.600 --> 00:46:07.120
Probably the majority.

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That's no way for a country to function.

00:46:09.040 --> 00:46:10.320
That's terrible.

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To say nothing of the quality issues with everything made in China.

00:46:13.520 --> 00:46:17.040
So the short answer is yes, we should get rid of most

00:46:17.040 --> 00:46:19.200
favored nation status for China.

00:46:19.200 --> 00:46:21.920
But I don't think we have to go to the point of

00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:24.560
you know terminating relations with China.

00:46:24.960 --> 00:46:28.560
We can't really do that because China is aiming to be a

00:46:28.560 --> 00:46:32.720
hegemon. They are certainly relevant in the political theater.

00:46:32.720 --> 00:46:36.960
They're nowhere near a hegemon yet, but they could certainly inflict serious

00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:40.000
harm to the United States and to most of the world.

00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:43.840
And so we have to recognize them to some degree and interact

00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:46.880
with them diplomatically, politically, things like that.

00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:50.160
But we should not be trading with them in so called free

00:46:50.160 --> 00:46:55.840
trade. Because again it's harmful to our people.

00:46:55.840 --> 00:46:58.080
So the next question

00:46:59.360 --> 00:47:06.320
someone sort of objected to my formulation in a previous episode of

00:47:06.560 --> 00:47:11.600
the nature of Christ, the two natures in Christ, God and man.

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I'm just going to go ahead and say that

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what he said, and you can find the comments certainly if you're

00:47:18.080 --> 00:47:20.880
so inclined, but I'm going to say that what he said is

00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:24.320
simply wrong, because it starts to get into the point of almost

00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:27.120
denying the deity of Christ.

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So my answer for this is always going to be what any

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Christian should answer any time the Trinity comes up or the hard

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questions like that.

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And that's going to be the Athanasian Creed.

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That's my answer.

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And yes, you can find that on the book of Concord.org if

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you just type slash C three.

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C one goes to the Apostles, C two to the Nicene, and

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C three to the Athanasian.

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So of course my answer would just be, Whosoever will be saved

00:47:55.200 --> 00:47:58.240
before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic faith,

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Catholic lower KC meaning universal, which faith except everyone do keep whole

00:48:03.200 --> 00:48:07.680
and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.

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And then skipping to Skipping to the relevant one to this question.

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Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also believe faithfully,

00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:22.000
the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, for the right faith is

00:48:22.160 --> 00:48:25.680
that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son

00:48:25.680 --> 00:48:30.000
of God, is God and man, God of the substance of the

00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:34.000
Father, begotten before the worlds, and man of the substance of his

00:48:34.080 --> 00:48:39.200
mother, born in the world, perfect God and perfect man, of a

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reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting, equal to the Father as touching

00:48:44.160 --> 00:48:48.320
his godhead and inferior to the Father as touching his manhood, who,

00:48:48.320 --> 00:48:52.320
although he be God and man, yet he is not two, but

00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:56.720
one Christ, one not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but

00:48:56.720 --> 00:49:01.200
by taking the manhood into God, one all together not by confusion

00:49:01.200 --> 00:49:04.080
of the substance, but by unity of person.

00:49:04.080 --> 00:49:08.160
For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God

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and man is one Christ, who suffered for our salvation, descended into

00:49:12.640 --> 00:49:16.480
hell, rose again the third day from the dead, he ascended into

00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:20.320
heaven, he sitteth on the right hand of the Father God almighty,

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whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead, at

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whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies, and shall

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give an account of their own works, and they that have done

00:49:29.600 --> 00:49:33.280
good shall go into life everlasting, and they that have done evil

00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:35.360
into everlasting fire.

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This is the Catholic faith, which except a man believe faithfully and

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firmly, he cannot be saved.

00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:48.080
That is the answer where anyone brings up if Christ is true

00:49:48.080 --> 00:49:51.360
God and true man or the Trinity or anything like that, obviously,

00:49:51.280 --> 00:49:54.160
there's other parts of this particular creed about the Trinity and you'd

00:49:54.160 --> 00:49:56.320
want to bring those up in that case.

00:49:56.320 --> 00:50:00.880
And then for anyone who wants to read more in depth about

00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:06.480
the theology of the natures in Christ and related matters.

00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:09.200
And I don't recommend it for everyone, because it's not for everyone.

00:50:09.200 --> 00:50:11.600
It's sort of a high level theological topic.

00:50:11.600 --> 00:50:13.120
Not everyone needs to read about it.

00:50:13.120 --> 00:50:15.920
Not everyone needs to try to understand it thoroughly.

00:50:15.920 --> 00:50:19.200
And there are going to be limitations because you're getting into mystery

00:50:19.200 --> 00:50:20.160
at this point.

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How can you be fully God and fully man?

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That seems counter to our reason.

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It seems like something that doesn't make sense because it's a mystery.

00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:32.560
The same thing as the faith ultimately is a mystery.

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There's nothing wrong with the word mystery.

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It's not a dirty word.

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It's part of our faith.

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It's part of Christianity.

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And of course the sacraments are called mysteries when you're talking about

00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:45.600
the Greek as opposed to the Latin from which we get sacrament.

00:50:45.600 --> 00:50:48.320
But my recommendation for those who want to read more about it,

00:50:48.320 --> 00:50:51.040
a good starting place is Peeper's Dogmatics.

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He deals with the issue thoroughly in a way that is very

00:50:55.120 --> 00:50:55.840
well explained.

00:50:55.840 --> 00:50:56.960
He does a very good job.

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That's a three volume set.

00:50:58.400 --> 00:51:00.560
There's a fourth volume that's just the index.

00:51:00.560 --> 00:51:02.880
You can usually find it pretty cheap second hand.

00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:05.840
Probably don't buy it new from CPH, they overcharge.

00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:09.360
But if you are so inclined, that's what I would recommend reading.

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So I can get rid of the browser there.

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Pull up the next question.

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The next question is about the Septuagint translation and sort of the

00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:25.760
recommendations that we gave in the stone Choir episode on that.

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The question is, is there any progress toward that translation presently?

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There are a lot of men who excuse me.

00:51:33.600 --> 00:51:36.960
There are a lot of men who have worked on snippets here

00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:38.080
and there, small parts of it.

00:51:38.080 --> 00:51:40.800
I know there are those who translated bits and pieces.

00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:43.760
That's not ultimately what we want, right?

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We described that very thoroughly in the episode.

00:51:46.400 --> 00:51:51.280
I am not aware of any organized overarching effort yet to produce

00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:52.720
that translation.

00:51:52.720 --> 00:51:56.000
That's going to be a significant cost, as we outlined in the

00:51:56.000 --> 00:51:59.200
episode, and it's going to be a significant undertaking.

00:51:59.200 --> 00:52:02.320
And Woe and I are not going to be the ones to

00:52:02.320 --> 00:52:08.480
do it because we're not translators, we're not sufficiently versed in the

00:52:08.480 --> 00:52:13.040
languages, I'm not fully fluent in Greek, for instance, neither is he.

00:52:13.040 --> 00:52:14.960
And so we're not the ones to do that.

00:52:15.520 --> 00:52:17.680
And again, we're also not the ones to do that for the

00:52:17.680 --> 00:52:19.600
reasons we outlined in the episode.

00:52:19.600 --> 00:52:24.800
Because for instance, when I am reading the daily readings, right, and

00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:28.480
now I read the Old Testament reading and and the of course

00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:32.640
the Psalter being part of the Old Testament, from the Septuagint.

00:52:32.640 --> 00:52:35.520
I changed over to doing that for the daily readings some time

00:52:35.520 --> 00:52:39.040
back. I'm certainly doing that for the balance of however long I'm

00:52:39.040 --> 00:52:42.960
going to keep doing it, as long as God lets me.

00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:50.160
When I read those, mentally I recall the Masoretic version, because

00:52:50.160 --> 00:52:54.480
I read the Masoretic version in the ESV so many times that

00:52:54.480 --> 00:52:58.400
I have that I have huge chunks of the Psalter effectively memorized.

00:52:58.400 --> 00:53:01.040
It's why I can just bring it to mind when I'm speaking.

00:53:01.040 --> 00:53:03.120
I can quote these things.

00:53:03.120 --> 00:53:06.880
That's not what you want when you're trying to translate something faithfully

00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:10.480
without these external malign influences.

00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:12.880
So we're not the right men to do it.

00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:13.200
So

00:53:14.080 --> 00:53:18.000
the restrictions that we spoke about in that episode are going to

00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:21.360
be absolutely key in order to produce something that is what the

00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:25.440
church can use for a hundred years, for two hundred years, however

00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:29.760
long the language doesn't evolve past the point where it is comprehensible.

00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:31.920
Because we don't want to rely on it until the point where

00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:35.280
it's like the sixteen eleven KJV, which even the KJV only people

00:53:35.280 --> 00:53:37.040
have to admit they can't read.

00:53:37.040 --> 00:53:41.120
Because certainly they read the updated one with orthography and things like

00:53:41.120 --> 00:53:44.720
that. So I'm the short answer is no, I'm not aware of

00:53:44.720 --> 00:53:46.480
any organized effort yet.

00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:49.120
But But I'm also not the one who's going to be doing

00:53:49.120 --> 00:53:52.160
it. But of course I will tell people if such an effort

00:53:52.160 --> 00:53:56.480
materializes, I will certainly inform people that it has begun.

00:53:56.480 --> 00:53:59.760
And you know, here's how you can support them sort of thing.

00:54:01.200 --> 00:54:06.000
Those are the questions that I had written down for this episode,

00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:09.440
but I think I will scroll quickly through the chat, which is

00:54:09.520 --> 00:54:22.560
thankfully loading on the website, although still not loading in the plugin.

00:54:22.560 --> 00:54:24.800
Here's an easy question.

00:54:24.800 --> 00:54:27.840
I am an aspiring attorney currently studying for the LSAT.

00:54:28.160 --> 00:54:30.800
I do recommend that I did not study for the LSAT, which

00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:33.280
is probably not the way to do it, but I am starting

00:54:33.280 --> 00:54:35.680
my legal journey somewhat late as I'm thirty years old.

00:54:35.680 --> 00:54:36.720
It's not too late.

00:54:36.720 --> 00:54:41.200
Tech background, do you recommend I prioritize law school rank or location

00:54:41.200 --> 00:54:43.120
slash scholarships?

00:54:43.120 --> 00:54:46.240
The general answer to that is always going to be rank, because

00:54:46.240 --> 00:54:47.600
that's just how it works.

00:54:47.600 --> 00:54:50.320
Particularly if you can get into top ten, but you know top

00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:52.720
twenty, whatever it happens to be.

00:54:52.720 --> 00:54:58.800
Secondary to that, and in some specific cases more important, connections.

00:54:58.800 --> 00:55:02.320
Can you get connections that will get you a good job when

00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:05.440
you graduate if you go to X law school, right?

00:55:05.440 --> 00:55:05.680
So

00:55:06.720 --> 00:55:09.360
if you go to one of your regional law schools, whatever it

00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:11.280
happens to be, maybe it's not the top 20, maybe it's not

00:55:11.280 --> 00:55:12.720
even top 50.

00:55:12.720 --> 00:55:12.880
But

00:55:13.760 --> 00:55:16.800
you can get a job with a good local firm where you

00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:19.520
want to work right at a law school, by all means take

00:55:19.520 --> 00:55:20.400
that one.

00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:25.920
But generally speaking, you want to go to a top-level firm.

00:55:25.920 --> 00:55:29.600
And I see here that you followed up by saying intellectual property.

00:55:29.600 --> 00:55:30.960
Same answer.

00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:34.320
If you want to work for a major international firm, you're probably

00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:36.000
going to want to go to one of those top ten schools

00:55:36.080 --> 00:55:37.440
if you can get into one.

00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:41.600
Because the name on your resume is going to matter a lot.

00:55:41.600 --> 00:55:44.720
In fact, a lot of times, uh I've spoken to partners at

00:55:44.720 --> 00:55:47.600
certain firms, they throw your cover letter away.

00:55:47.600 --> 00:55:50.480
You still have to write it, still has to be good, but

00:55:50.720 --> 00:55:53.680
good chance the partner is just going to shred it.

00:55:53.680 --> 00:55:56.320
And he's going to look at where you went to school and

00:55:56.560 --> 00:55:58.640
a couple other key things on your resume.

00:55:58.640 --> 00:56:02.320
So the better the school you can have on that resume, the

00:56:02.320 --> 00:56:05.520
better your odds of getting that job if that's what you want.

00:56:05.520 --> 00:56:08.000
But if you want to work for again that local firm, maybe

00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:10.640
you happen to know a partner at that firm or several partners

00:56:10.640 --> 00:56:13.840
even better, then go to whichever school they like, if they're going

00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:15.440
to hire you.

00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:15.760
So

00:56:17.120 --> 00:56:21.040
you're going to be a slave for your first year as an

00:56:21.040 --> 00:56:23.920
associate and probably your second year and maybe your third year, but

00:56:23.920 --> 00:56:26.240
I'm sure you already know that, so that's just how it works

00:56:26.240 --> 00:56:27.200
in big law.

00:56:27.200 --> 00:56:30.240
But yes, the the ranking of your school does actually matter when

00:56:30.240 --> 00:56:31.680
it comes to law school.

00:56:31.680 --> 00:56:34.720
For better or worse.

00:56:36.560 --> 00:56:39.520
A question about the South African National Party.

00:56:39.520 --> 00:56:42.800
I am insufficiently familiar with them to answer it right now, so

00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:46.880
I will note that down for perhaps next week.

00:56:50.400 --> 00:56:53.440
Does Matthew twenty one, the parable of the tenants, when the Lord

00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:55.840
said to the Pharisees the kingdom of God would be given to

00:56:55.840 --> 00:56:56.720
another people?

00:56:56.720 --> 00:57:00.080
Ethnos, of course, just being the Greek there, does this refer to

00:57:00.080 --> 00:57:02.240
the prophecy of Japheth in Genesis nine?

00:57:02.240 --> 00:57:04.640
Yes. Christ is echoing that.

00:57:04.640 --> 00:57:09.760
That was the Jews being wicked and apostate and not producing the

00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:10.640
works because

00:57:11.520 --> 00:57:14.800
I don't want to get too into depth into this right now.

00:57:14.800 --> 00:57:21.440
I've done that before, but the whole point of ethnic Israel and

00:57:21.440 --> 00:57:24.480
their place in the Old Testament was that they were supposed to

00:57:24.480 --> 00:57:28.640
be a nation of faithful priests to spread the word to other

00:57:28.640 --> 00:57:31.280
peoples. That was the whole point.

00:57:31.280 --> 00:57:36.640
God wanted to restore a faithful understanding of his word to the

00:57:36.640 --> 00:57:37.600
entire world.

00:57:37.600 --> 00:57:39.760
And so And so they were supposed to go out into the

00:57:39.760 --> 00:57:41.680
world and spread the word.

00:57:41.680 --> 00:57:44.480
That was their duty, is what God tasked them to do.

00:57:44.480 --> 00:57:47.520
He told them they were going to be a nation of priests.

00:57:47.520 --> 00:57:48.880
They didn't do that.

00:57:48.880 --> 00:57:50.560
They decided to be insular.

00:57:50.560 --> 00:57:52.000
They decided, well, God picked us.

00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:53.680
We're the best people in the world.

00:57:53.680 --> 00:57:56.240
We're not going to tell anyone about God.

00:57:56.240 --> 00:57:57.920
They became apostate.

00:57:57.920 --> 00:58:01.200
They made themselves into their own God, and they wound up worshiping

00:58:01.200 --> 00:58:03.120
Satan in the process.

00:58:03.120 --> 00:58:05.360
And so they completely and utterly

00:58:06.240 --> 00:58:10.080
failed. You know, you can talk about middle knowledge and other worlds

00:58:10.080 --> 00:58:13.600
and counter histories and things like that, but that stuff doesn't really

00:58:13.600 --> 00:58:16.320
matter. Because you look at the actual history and what happened, they

00:58:16.320 --> 00:58:19.280
failed in the task given them by God.

00:58:19.280 --> 00:58:21.280
God knew that was going to happen.

00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:25.120
He knew it was going to happen beforehand, and his plan accounts

00:58:25.120 --> 00:58:29.840
for their wickedness, their apostasy, their failure, and it fulfills the prophecy

00:58:29.840 --> 00:58:33.040
to Japheth that he will dwell in the tents of Shem, which

00:58:33.040 --> 00:58:35.200
should say he will become Christendom.

00:58:35.200 --> 00:58:36.560
And that's what we did.

00:58:36.560 --> 00:58:39.040
Our ancestors became Christendom.

00:58:39.040 --> 00:58:40.960
Our ancestors built the church.

00:58:40.960 --> 00:58:43.840
Our ancestors took the faith to the entire world.

00:58:43.840 --> 00:58:46.960
Whether they accepted it or rejected it, whether they hated us or

00:58:46.960 --> 00:58:50.080
loved us, and usually they hated us and rejected it, but we

00:58:50.080 --> 00:58:55.680
fulfilled what God prophesied all the way back by Father Noah.

00:58:55.680 --> 00:58:58.560
And so yes, Christ is echoing that there when he's speaking to

00:58:58.560 --> 00:59:01.680
the Pharisees, and he's not speaking just to them, he's speaking to

00:59:01.680 --> 00:59:03.360
the wicked apostate Jews.

00:59:03.360 --> 00:59:05.520
And that's not to say that no Jews converted, of course.

00:59:05.520 --> 00:59:06.800
I've never said that.

00:59:06.800 --> 00:59:10.800
Because it says, for instance, though Israel be as numerous as the

00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:14.560
sand of the seashore, only a remnant will be saved.

00:59:14.560 --> 00:59:18.160
Well the remnant was saved, in the first century AD, because many

00:59:18.160 --> 00:59:21.680
of them converted, and were then murdered for their trouble by their

00:59:21.680 --> 00:59:23.680
erstwhile brothers.

00:59:26.880 --> 00:59:29.280
Someone asked, is the QA for super chats only?

00:59:29.280 --> 00:59:31.040
The answer is no.

00:59:31.040 --> 00:59:34.720
Because obviously I'll just answer whatever question happens to come up.

00:59:34.720 --> 00:59:40.080
I do prioritize the questions asked in the forum, that's almost purely

00:59:40.080 --> 00:59:42.160
for sort of administrative purposes.

00:59:42.160 --> 00:59:45.280
It just makes my life a lot easier because I can link

00:59:45.280 --> 00:59:47.520
to them and I can say it was answered and then I

00:59:47.520 --> 00:59:49.520
can make it searchable and things like that.

00:59:49.520 --> 00:59:51.120
It's just it's easier for me.

00:59:51.120 --> 00:59:53.440
It fulfills the purposes of what I'm trying to do here, which

00:59:53.440 --> 00:59:57.200
is making a catalog of answers to questions instead of having to

00:59:57.200 --> 00:59:59.680
constantly answer them again and again and again.

00:59:59.680 --> 01:00:03.360
I don't have a problem with necessarily answering the same thing repeatedly.

01:00:03.360 --> 01:00:07.040
We can think for instance of Luther's comments in the small catechism

01:00:07.040 --> 01:00:09.680
about learning the same thing over and over and God teaching the

01:00:09.680 --> 01:00:12.720
same thing every day, and so there's nothing wrong with repetition per

01:00:12.720 --> 01:00:17.280
se. But it's It is useful to have a catalog of answers,

01:00:17.280 --> 01:00:20.960
and questions asked on the forum make that a lot easier for

01:00:20.960 --> 01:00:22.880
me. That's why I prioritize those.

01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:26.000
And quite frankly, it's just easier to find them because otherwise I

01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:28.880
have to search through five or six different places to try and

01:00:28.880 --> 01:00:31.920
find questions and then figure out if they've been asked before and

01:00:31.920 --> 01:00:40.000
overlap and things like that.

01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:45.680
Let's see.

01:00:45.680 --> 01:00:49.200
What would be your counter argument to those that argue the Prussian

01:00:49.200 --> 01:00:53.440
Union in Germany was an example of Christian nationalism, and therefore we

01:00:53.440 --> 01:00:56.640
have to reject it.

01:00:56.640 --> 01:01:02.640
The Prussian Union gets blown out of proportion to some degree.

01:01:02.640 --> 01:01:06.240
For those who aren't familiar, the Prussian Union was basically the leadership

01:01:06.240 --> 01:01:10.720
of Prussia getting tired of the Lutherans and the Reformed bickering all

01:01:10.720 --> 01:01:15.040
the time and just being extremely obnoxious, because that's a problem politically.

01:01:15.040 --> 01:01:17.200
The same thing was true during the Reformation.

01:01:17.200 --> 01:01:21.120
The emperor was tired of the in that case, the Roman Catholics

01:01:21.120 --> 01:01:23.200
and the Lutherans bickering.

01:01:23.200 --> 01:01:25.360
And so that's part of why some of the things he did

01:01:25.520 --> 01:01:28.480
he was wrong, but some of the things he did were political

01:01:28.480 --> 01:01:31.200
considerations because he was tired of the fighting.

01:01:31.200 --> 01:01:33.920
And he had other things that were a problem on his doorstep,

01:01:33.920 --> 01:01:36.240
the Muslims, namely.

01:01:36.240 --> 01:01:41.120
But the Prussian Union attempted to get rid of sectarian strife in

01:01:41.120 --> 01:01:43.520
Germany. It didn't succeed.

01:01:43.520 --> 01:01:46.720
It's part of the reason that the founding fathers of the LCMS

01:01:46.720 --> 01:01:50.400
left Germany and came here because they were able to be Lutheran

01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:53.520
without having to be sort of shunted in with the reformed or

01:01:53.520 --> 01:01:56.000
having the reform shunted in with them.

01:01:56.000 --> 01:01:58.640
I don't think what Prussia did was ideal.

01:01:58.640 --> 01:02:00.640
I don't think it was necessarily a good solution.

01:02:00.640 --> 01:02:03.120
I understand the political impetus.

01:02:03.120 --> 01:02:07.520
I understand the annoyance of having to deal with a conflict, but

01:02:07.760 --> 01:02:09.360
scripture's very clear.

01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:12.080
There are going to be divisions among you brothers so that the

01:02:12.080 --> 01:02:13.520
true can stand out, right?

01:02:13.520 --> 01:02:15.840
We're going to have divisions, we're going to have strife and fights.

01:02:15.840 --> 01:02:17.680
That's just how human beings function.

01:02:17.680 --> 01:02:20.960
It will be that way until the Perousia, the end of all

01:02:20.960 --> 01:02:22.080
things. But

01:02:23.200 --> 01:02:27.520
how do we deal with the Prussian Union in light of Christian

01:02:27.520 --> 01:02:31.840
nationalism? I think we don't necessarily have to say that we agree

01:02:31.840 --> 01:02:34.880
with everything that every Christian country has ever done.

01:02:34.880 --> 01:02:38.640
It's a completely ridiculous contention that we would have to do that.

01:02:38.640 --> 01:02:42.640
And so we can say that we don't like what Prussia did,

01:02:42.640 --> 01:02:45.760
but we do like that Prussia was Christian.

01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:50.880
We would have preferred that they had admitted some sort of freedom

01:02:50.880 --> 01:02:54.240
of denomination, not freedom of religion, which of course is not what

01:02:54.240 --> 01:02:58.240
the first amendment means either, because it means freedom of Christian religion,

01:02:58.240 --> 01:02:59.520
freedom of denomination.

01:02:59.520 --> 01:03:01.680
They're not going to put you in prison for being a Presbyterian

01:03:01.680 --> 01:03:04.320
or angli Anglican, right?

01:03:04.320 --> 01:03:10.000
I think the best solution, the cleanest solution, is what was initially

01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:13.840
tried and worked until the Emperor went back on his word.

01:03:13.840 --> 01:03:18.400
In the aftermath of the Diet of Worms and all of the

01:03:18.400 --> 01:03:20.320
Luther stuff, right?

01:03:20.320 --> 01:03:24.320
The prince gets to pick what is the religion of his lands.

01:03:24.320 --> 01:03:25.280
That works.

01:03:25.280 --> 01:03:28.160
In our case it would probably be something the equivalent of like

01:03:28.320 --> 01:03:32.560
states, perhaps rearranged a little bit more logically than our states, which

01:03:32.560 --> 01:03:36.640
is to say in line with geography and populations, instead of arbitrary

01:03:36.640 --> 01:03:38.400
lines on a map.

01:03:38.400 --> 01:03:42.560
But if you say that the prince gets to choose which denomination

01:03:42.560 --> 01:03:46.560
is permitted in his lands, which is the official one, then if

01:03:46.560 --> 01:03:49.360
you object, you move next door, right?

01:03:49.360 --> 01:03:51.440
You move a hundred miles to the east, the west, whatever it

01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:52.400
happens to be.

01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:55.840
I think that's probably the best way to solve the problems, particularly

01:03:55.840 --> 01:03:58.480
in the US context, because we're never going to get all Americans

01:03:58.480 --> 01:03:59.760
to agree, right?

01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:02.560
I have no illusions that I'm going to get everyone to become

01:04:02.560 --> 01:04:05.760
Lutheran, and I hope that no one else has illusions of making

01:04:05.760 --> 01:04:10.480
everyone Anglican or Presbyterian or Baptist or whatever it happens to be,

01:04:10.480 --> 01:04:12.320
right? It's not going to happen.

01:04:12.320 --> 01:04:17.760
And instead of having to fight against our Christian, even if in

01:04:17.760 --> 01:04:23.600
error, Christian brothers, and thereby commit greater sins, because I don't think

01:04:23.600 --> 01:04:26.800
that we're justified in killing our Christian brothers over this stuff if

01:04:26.800 --> 01:04:29.120
we can in any way avoid it.

01:04:29.120 --> 01:04:32.160
Instead of going down that path, I think what we have to

01:04:32.160 --> 01:04:34.000
do is have

01:04:34.960 --> 01:04:39.520
the prince of whatever territory says this is the church that's permitted,

01:04:39.520 --> 01:04:43.600
you can be a member of that church, or you can worship

01:04:43.600 --> 01:04:46.880
in your home, that should probably be allowed still, or you can

01:04:47.360 --> 01:04:50.000
go to the next door territory and be a member of that

01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:55.360
church. It solves the problem in a way that doesn't require violence

01:04:55.360 --> 01:04:58.560
among Christian brothers, which we should definitely avoid.

01:04:58.560 --> 01:05:01.440
We can still have the discussions, we can still have the debates,

01:05:01.440 --> 01:05:05.280
of course, have those a little more formalized and useful instead of

01:05:05.280 --> 01:05:07.760
just screaming at each other, which is sort of what social media

01:05:07.760 --> 01:05:09.120
is for these days.

01:05:09.120 --> 01:05:12.880
It has its uses, but I think that's the solution we're going

01:05:12.880 --> 01:05:16.640
to have to follow in the American context in particular.

01:05:16.640 --> 01:05:20.000
And I wish it is the solution that had been followed by

01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:21.040
the Prussians.

01:05:21.040 --> 01:05:22.480
Because they could have done that.

01:05:22.480 --> 01:05:24.960
It would have been perhaps a little more difficult for them because

01:05:24.960 --> 01:05:28.640
things were Things were so interspersed.

01:05:28.640 --> 01:05:31.440
But there's some of that in the US context, but at the

01:05:31.440 --> 01:05:36.640
same time, there are very clear centers of gravity for different denominations,

01:05:36.640 --> 01:05:41.920
right? You have basically the Scandinavians and the Germanics in the n

01:05:42.080 --> 01:05:44.640
in the Midwest and the territories there.

01:05:44.640 --> 01:05:46.320
Well, that's going to be Lutheran.

01:05:46.320 --> 01:05:50.000
And then you have in the South, it's basically Presbyterians and Baptists

01:05:50.160 --> 01:05:54.080
and some Methodists and things, they're going to sort that out.

01:05:54.080 --> 01:05:59.440
But that will avoid the unnecessary and I think sinful conflict while

01:05:59.440 --> 01:06:06.160
still permitting a particular governing authority to exercise that authority to see

01:06:06.160 --> 01:06:10.800
that in his belief, in his estimation, and according to his conscience,

01:06:10.800 --> 01:06:13.200
the faith is taught rightly in his lands.

01:06:13.200 --> 01:06:16.960
Because it's vitally important to remember in all this, the prince will

01:06:16.960 --> 01:06:20.240
have to answer to God for the fact that he did or

01:06:20.240 --> 01:06:23.760
did not see the faith was taught rightly in his lands.

01:06:23.760 --> 01:06:26.080
He is responsible for that, that is one of the duties of

01:06:26.080 --> 01:06:28.240
the prince, and he will answer to God.

01:06:28.240 --> 01:06:30.240
And if he's going to answer to God, then he has to

01:06:30.240 --> 01:06:30.640
have the power to

01:06:31.520 --> 01:06:32.960
do something about it.

01:06:32.960 --> 01:06:38.080
So yes, the sovereign, the state, the Christian prince does have the

01:06:38.080 --> 01:06:41.440
right and the power to say that this denomination is the one

01:06:41.440 --> 01:06:45.120
that will be acceptable in the lands under my control.

01:06:45.120 --> 01:06:48.640
But I do think at that next level up, which call him

01:06:48.640 --> 01:06:52.320
an emperor, whatever you want to call him, it hardly matters what

01:06:52.320 --> 01:06:55.040
the title is, but the next level up, I think he does

01:06:55.040 --> 01:06:57.360
have to permit that sort of federation in the lands under

01:06:58.240 --> 01:07:03.680
him because it is a greater evil to impose the one denomination,

01:07:03.680 --> 01:07:06.560
whatever it happens to be, because you are going to have to

01:07:06.560 --> 01:07:08.240
kill Christian brothers to do that.

01:07:08.240 --> 01:07:11.520
And I think that is the greater sin.

01:07:11.520 --> 01:07:18.480
So I think that's the sort of short answer to that question.

01:07:23.680 --> 01:07:27.760
See if there are any other follow up questions here.

01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:34.240
The question What is your opinion of how criticism of Israel slash

01:07:34.400 --> 01:07:39.040
the Jews is being allowed and and platformed without them ruining your

01:07:39.040 --> 01:07:44.640
life true to some degree to some degree but how none of

01:07:44.640 --> 01:07:47.840
these types are talking about race or solutions

01:07:50.160 --> 01:07:55.120
sort of a multifaceted question with a multifaceted answer.

01:07:55.120 --> 01:08:01.680
Can you talk about the Jews and even racial issues fairly openly

01:08:01.920 --> 01:08:04.480
on social media and some other places these days.

01:08:04.480 --> 01:08:06.640
Obviously the answer is yes.

01:08:06.640 --> 01:08:09.360
I'm talking about it right now, and my stream didn't just die

01:08:09.360 --> 01:08:10.320
when I said that.

01:08:10.320 --> 01:08:14.320
And I'm currently live on X and Kick and Twitch and YouTube

01:08:15.120 --> 01:08:17.360
and Rumble, right?

01:08:17.360 --> 01:08:17.680
So

01:08:18.560 --> 01:08:20.400
can you do that?

01:08:20.400 --> 01:08:26.160
Yes. Can you talk about solutions bluntly?

01:08:26.160 --> 01:08:27.440
Not really.

01:08:27.440 --> 01:08:30.240
That will get you banned and probably a knock on your door

01:08:30.320 --> 01:08:32.320
if they don't just break down your door at three in the

01:08:32.320 --> 01:08:36.320
morning. And so there are still some limitations, but

01:08:37.200 --> 01:08:41.680
I think they recognize that if you sort of bottle things up

01:08:41.680 --> 01:08:44.400
too tightly, right, you can use sort of the cooking analogy of

01:08:44.400 --> 01:08:45.520
a pressure cooker.

01:08:45.520 --> 01:08:49.200
You bottle up the pressure a little too tightly, it explodes instead

01:08:49.200 --> 01:08:50.800
of letting off steam.

01:08:50.800 --> 01:08:53.680
Does that mean that it's bad to talk about these issues in

01:08:53.680 --> 01:08:57.840
a way that isn't the fullness of it, taking it to its

01:08:57.840 --> 01:09:00.800
logical conclusions, the solutions and things like that?

01:09:00.800 --> 01:09:03.200
No, I don't think it's bad, because we're getting more men to

01:09:03.200 --> 01:09:08.320
recognize the truth, recognize the reality It is building up that necessary

01:09:08.320 --> 01:09:11.680
foundation for the political solutions that follow.

01:09:11.680 --> 01:09:16.160
Now, of course, I'm talking about politics in the ultimate theory sense,

01:09:16.160 --> 01:09:18.800
not politics in the electoral politics sense.

01:09:18.800 --> 01:09:21.840
I don't think that electoral politics has no part to play.

01:09:21.840 --> 01:09:24.800
It's just not the fullness of it, of course.

01:09:24.800 --> 01:09:29.680
But even historically, obvious examples, we see electoral politics played a role.

01:09:29.680 --> 01:09:30.000
So

01:09:31.280 --> 01:09:34.160
there's also the aspect of it though that you do have to

01:09:34.160 --> 01:09:37.440
recognize that they are still going to do a lot to try

01:09:37.440 --> 01:09:41.840
to destroy you if you talk about these things openly and sort

01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:44.160
of gain any traction, right?

01:09:44.160 --> 01:09:47.520
Unless you're controlled, because then they let you have a little bit

01:09:47.520 --> 01:09:49.920
freer leash to some degree.

01:09:49.920 --> 01:09:54.640
But if you're not controlled and you talk about these issues, depending

01:09:54.640 --> 01:09:57.120
where you are, they are going to come down on you pretty

01:09:57.120 --> 01:10:01.040
hard. If you're in Europe, they're probably going to raid your home,

01:10:01.040 --> 01:10:03.600
they're probably going to take things from your home that you may

01:10:03.600 --> 01:10:06.240
or may not get back, and if you do, it'll probably be

01:10:06.240 --> 01:10:08.640
years later and they'll be destroyed.

01:10:08.640 --> 01:10:11.600
That's just the reality of it in the European context.

01:10:11.600 --> 01:10:14.400
And you'll be lucky if they don't send you to prison and

01:10:14.400 --> 01:10:17.760
you get murdered in your cell by a Muslim prisoner.

01:10:17.760 --> 01:10:20.480
That happens more often than you hear about in the news.

01:10:20.480 --> 01:10:22.800
That is just sort of how they solve the problem over there.

01:10:22.800 --> 01:10:26.160
Or in the case of the AFD, in Germany, the alternative for

01:10:26.160 --> 01:10:29.840
Deutschland, you have the politicians who were simply assassinated before the last

01:10:29.840 --> 01:10:33.840
election cycle, and that's already been memory holed.

01:10:33.840 --> 01:10:38.000
Multiple politicians were assassinated right before the election.

01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:40.320
That's just how they conduct business now.

01:10:40.320 --> 01:10:45.200
And so there are still very real risks and very real costs.

01:10:45.200 --> 01:10:49.920
And you have to also bear in mind Antifa exists and they

01:10:49.920 --> 01:10:53.120
are still the militant wing of the left as they have always

01:10:53.120 --> 01:10:56.720
been. And one of the things that the left tries to do

01:10:56.720 --> 01:11:01.440
is gin up crazy individuals to go out and commit what is

01:11:01.600 --> 01:11:03.680
I know the left loves the term and some on the right

01:11:03.680 --> 01:11:06.480
don't, but it's true, stochastic terrorism.

01:11:06.480 --> 01:11:10.000
They are trying to gin them up to get them so animated

01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:13.120
and out of control that they just go and murder people randomly.

01:11:13.120 --> 01:11:16.480
Which is politics, of course, in sort of its truest, most brutal

01:11:16.480 --> 01:11:21.200
sense, but no, there's still very real risks of speaking about these

01:11:21.200 --> 01:11:25.920
things publicly, particularly if you are doing so using your actual name

01:11:25.920 --> 01:11:26.800
and face.

01:11:26.800 --> 01:11:33.760
Take a sip of tea here.

01:11:33.760 --> 01:11:38.320
I think that some people are talking about solutions at this point,

01:11:38.320 --> 01:11:42.000
because certainly we have some now who are recognizing that for instance,

01:11:42.000 --> 01:11:47.040
deportations have to be racially based, not just legal status so called

01:11:47.120 --> 01:11:48.880
because that's complete nonsense.

01:11:48.880 --> 01:11:51.440
So you have those who are talking about the reality of it

01:11:51.440 --> 01:11:53.600
and what has to be done, but

01:11:54.480 --> 01:11:56.080
it's sort of a balancing act.

01:11:56.240 --> 01:11:59.280
Because on the one side, on our side, it's you have to

01:11:59.280 --> 01:12:03.280
go as far as you possibly can without being shut down.

01:12:03.280 --> 01:12:07.440
Because if you get shut down, you get de-platformed, de-person, de-banked, all

01:12:07.440 --> 01:12:08.160
those things.

01:12:08.160 --> 01:12:10.320
I've had some of that stuff happen.

01:12:10.320 --> 01:12:13.760
I'm still banned from some of those processors and things, but if

01:12:13.760 --> 01:12:16.880
that happens to you, you're obviously much less effective because no one

01:12:16.880 --> 01:12:18.160
will ever hear you.

01:12:18.160 --> 01:12:22.560
And so when you get people who they're usually bad actors, but

01:12:22.560 --> 01:12:23.920
sometimes they're just dumb.

01:12:23.920 --> 01:12:25.280
There are dumb people as well.

01:12:25.280 --> 01:12:27.360
You'll get people in the comments who'll say, Well, why didn't you

01:12:27.360 --> 01:12:29.200
say what we have to do to fix this problem and we

01:12:29.200 --> 01:12:31.200
should go out and You can't do that.

01:12:31.200 --> 01:12:31.920
That's dumb.

01:12:31.920 --> 01:12:35.680
That's unwise, that is not going to help our cause, it is

01:12:35.680 --> 01:12:38.560
going to negatively impact our cause.

01:12:38.560 --> 01:12:42.720
There will come a time, perhaps, hopefully soon, hopefully in the not

01:12:42.720 --> 01:12:46.720
too distant future, where yes, those things have to be said by

01:12:46.720 --> 01:12:50.320
our politicians, but we need those men to be available and in

01:12:50.320 --> 01:12:54.400
positions where they can do it without immediately being destroyed.

01:12:54.400 --> 01:12:57.280
So that's sort of the balancing act on our side.

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And then the balancing act on their side is that pressure crooker.

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How much can they restrict without it backfiring?

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How much can they restrict without actually harming their overall goals?

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Now thankfully, I do think they make a lot of mistakes because

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they are animated by Satan, and quite frankly, Satan's kind of dumb.

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Because his whole thing is just anti God, anti Christ, anti-church.

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And so they're going to make mistakes because they are driven by

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an inhuman, a demonic malice.

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We have to take advantage of those mistakes.

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And so is it a mistake for them to grant us as

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much leeway as they are right now, I think that it is.

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And I'm willing to say that because even if they hear it,

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they're not going to change their policy policies because again they're driven

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by that demonic malice.

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So it's a balancing act.

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But yes, there are very real costs, so if you're going to

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stand up and speak the truth on these issues, be prepared for

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what is going to come your way, particularly if you are a

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married man with children.

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And that's one of the things that Woe and I pointed out

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a number of times in Stone Choir.

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Of course, we get attacked because, you know, he's divorced, and I've

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never been married, I don't have children, he doesn't have children.

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We got attacked for that.

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But the reality of it is if I had children, they'd be

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attacking my wife and children.

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So if I were to get married at some point in the

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future, they'd attack my wife.

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I recognize I would be making her a target to a certain

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degree. Not saying I'm morally culpable for it in that sense, but

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it would make her a target

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because they're always going to do that.

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Just as if you look through comments on any particular thread, you'll

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recognize that the reality underlying these things is that they hate ultimately

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the truth.

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They hate God, they hate the idea, but that is sort of

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devolved to a point where they attack whatever is standing up and

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speaking that truth.

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So if you're the person who stands up and does it, they'll

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attack you in any way they possibly can.

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And so you'll get people who will mention hypocrisy and things like

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that. Hypocrisy has nothing to do with any of this, because it's

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politics. It's pure animalistic, blunt, brutal politics of the most base kind.

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And so you'll have people on the left who are constantly saying,

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Well, you can't fat shame, right?

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You can't body shame, you can't do X, Y, and Z, you

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have to love and accept everyone.

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But if you stand up and start speaking the truth about God,

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speaking the truth, about race and all these issues, all of these

01:15:30.480 --> 01:15:33.680
little pet things that they say you can't critique or comment on

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or make a negative comment you have to defend, they will attack

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you with every last one of those.

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You can certainly see it if you scroll through comments on my

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videos, you'll find people who will, you know, attack me for having

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a beard or being bald, right?

01:15:46.320 --> 01:15:50.400
Like I I okay, I couldn't possibly care less if I cared,

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I'd be wearing a hat.

01:15:51.520 --> 01:15:53.760
The only reason I've worn a hat in some videos is because

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my head is shiny, because I'm bald.

01:15:55.920 --> 01:15:57.360
I'm aware of that.

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I don't care.

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So but they'll attack you for those things, while at the same

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time, in every other aspect of their life, they'll say you can't

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attack people for those things or anything like that.

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Hypocrisy does not play a role when it comes to the left,

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when it comes to those who are again animated by demonic malice.

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So

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it's basically a somewhat of a warning, I guess, just, you know,

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bear in mind what will come your way if you stand up

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and speak the truth?

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It doesn't mean you shouldn't, because in some cases you're going to

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have a duty to do so.

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But you are supposed to act in wisdom.

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Because yes, we're being sent out as sheep among wolves, but at

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the same time, be wise as serpents.

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So hopefully that answers your question there.

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The question about the Crusades, I will write that down for next

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time, since that is actually a really broad topic.

01:16:54.880 --> 01:16:58.080
I could give a sort of summary answer.

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And I had been thinking about the Crusades recently, actually, in response

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to something I was preparing an article that is nowhere near ready

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to be published, so don't don't be looking for that in the

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near future.

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But the Crusades is a pretty broad topic.

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I have a I think it's a ten volume set that takes

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up a giant chunk, almost an entire shelf on one of my

01:17:17.200 --> 01:17:22.800
bookshelves. Worth the read, interesting, but only if you're truly interested in

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that particular time period in history because i it is quite long.

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So

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let's see

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Question on the historical critical method.

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I'm going to write that down for next time as well because

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that is again something that's probably going to take me 20 minutes

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to comment on.

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Trying to keep my notes a little more organized to make it

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easier for people to find things in the future, so that I

01:17:52.560 --> 01:17:55.360
will add it as show notes and things like that.

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I think that I may call it a night here since sort

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of gone for I mostly want to keep these to about an

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hour. I don't want it to be, you know, not necessarily burdensome,

01:18:08.800 --> 01:18:11.200
but a huge time commitment for anyone who's listening, even if you're

01:18:11.200 --> 01:18:14.640
listening to the podcast at double speed or something like that, if

01:18:14.640 --> 01:18:17.040
people want to listen to each one, it it tends to be

01:18:17.040 --> 01:18:18.640
a bit of a commitment, and I know that you have other

01:18:18.640 --> 01:18:20.800
things going in your life, so you don't need to listen to

01:18:20.800 --> 01:18:23.520
me for two hours a week or whatever it happens to be,

01:18:23.520 --> 01:18:26.320
even though I recognize many of you did for Stone Choir, and

01:18:26.320 --> 01:18:28.960
certainly that's a different thing.

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But I do sort of want to try to keep these to

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an hour each week, and it's been right about the hour mark

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now, including exclusively rather the intro there.

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So I think that will be all for this week.

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If there are any additional questions in the chat, I will try

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to write those down and answer them in the future, which I've

01:18:48.000 --> 01:18:50.000
been trying to do for previous episodes.

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If I missed your question, by all means submit it on the

01:18:53.360 --> 01:18:55.520
forum or ask it again in chat.

01:18:55.520 --> 01:18:57.360
Hopefully I'll see it the next time.

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And I think that is it for this week.

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Thank you for those of you who submitted questions and thank you

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for those who participate in the chat.

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Particular again thanks for those who submitted them on the forum because

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that does make my life easier.

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And thank you for your time.

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I'm glad you were able to join me for this QA, the

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first one of 2026.

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Again, happy new year to all of you.

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Also Merry Christmas.

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We are still in the season of Christmas, just for a little

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bit more here coming up on the next church holiday.

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So I believe that's all for now.

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I hope you all have a wonderful evening, a good weekend, a

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good rest of your what few days are left of the Christmas

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season, and may God bless you all.

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See you next week.