WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.960 It is the 3rd of July 2026. 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:04.080 I am Cory J. 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:06.640 Mahler, and this is at any cost. 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:08.720 This is a QA episode. 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:13.520 It is episode 34, and I was fairly busy this week, so 00:00:13.520 --> 00:00:17.200 I didn't prepare any of the longer questions, but I will get 00:00:17.200 --> 00:00:19.280 to the pending ones at least on the 00:00:20.400 --> 00:00:21.840 pops up in the chat. 00:00:21.840 --> 00:00:25.040 I know that obviously it's a holiday tomorrow and so probably not 00:00:25.040 --> 00:00:28.640 as many people are going to tune into this certainly live, but 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:31.680 that's not exactly the point of these anyway. 00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:35.520 As I don't have any housekeeping, I will just go ahead and 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:40.640 move into the questions and questions and I believe everything is work, 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:43.920 so everything should be fine. 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:47.040 Hopefully the music did not continue playing over 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:49.680 my introduction there. 00:00:49.680 --> 00:00:51.440 Looks like it might have tried to do that. 00:00:51.440 --> 00:00:54.560 At any rate, the OBS plugin is working this week, so I 00:00:54.560 --> 00:01:00.000 should be able to see chat, which is great news and novel. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:01.120 Question one. 00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:02.480 Sleep in paradise. 00:01:02.720 --> 00:01:04.480 Will there be sleep in paradise? 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:07.920 Is the need for sleep a consequence of the fall? 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:12.320 Is it significant that man must sleep one third of his day? 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:17.360 So this is one of those questions where I have to start 00:01:17.360 --> 00:01:22.160 by saying, I don't know absolutely certain, right? 00:01:23.520 --> 00:01:29.280 However, I think that we can look at a very clear verse 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:30.800 in scripture about sleep. 00:01:30.800 --> 00:01:33.360 There's one that I'm sure has already come to mind for some 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:33.920 of you. 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.560 Let me go ahead and pull that up here. 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:40.240 I'll pull it up on the screen as well. 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:41.600 120 twenty 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:45.280 seven one twenty 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:52.080 one twenty seven in the Mazericness of one twenty six. 00:01:52.080 --> 00:01:53.200 Let me pull that up 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:58.000 Transition to that. 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:04.080 Okay. Psalm one twenty six in the Septuagint numbering one twenty seven 00:02:04.160 --> 00:02:06.800 in most your Bibles if they're based on the Masoretic. 00:02:06.800 --> 00:02:09.920 And verse 2, It is in vain for you to rise up 00:02:09.920 --> 00:02:13.440 early, to get up after sitting down, O you who eat bread 00:02:13.440 --> 00:02:17.600 of pain, when he gives sleep to his beloved ones. 00:02:17.600 --> 00:02:19.280 Now admittedly there are two ways 00:02:20.320 --> 00:02:24.000 Right. You can interpret it just on its face and take it 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:26.800 and say, Okay, sleep is a gift from God, it's a blessing, 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:31.200 it's a good thing, therefore, it will still exist in paradise, because 00:02:31.200 --> 00:02:33.360 good things are not destroyed. 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:37.760 But I will admit that you could look at it I think 00:02:37.760 --> 00:02:41.120 this is the weaker argument, but I'm just sake of completeness. 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:43.200 I think it is the the weaker argument. 00:02:43.200 --> 00:02:46.080 You could look at it as sleep being a good thing within 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:50.960 the bounds of this fallen creation, so a blessing to man in 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:52.800 his current state. 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:55.440 I don't think, like I said, I don't think that's the stronger 00:02:55.440 --> 00:02:58.480 argument. I think the stronger argument very clearly is that sleep is 00:02:58.480 --> 00:02:59.520 a good thing, it's a blessing 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:04.080 and it will still exist in paradise. 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:07.440 And for those of us who don't like sleep, and I'm certainly 00:03:07.440 --> 00:03:08.720 in that camp, I hate sleep. 00:03:08.720 --> 00:03:11.920 It interrupts things, it's obnoxious, it s feels like a waste of 00:03:11.920 --> 00:03:16.400 time. For us, it will be a different thing. 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:19.200 Because just like everything else in this life where it's 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:24.160 with you know strings attached or caveats, things in paradise are perfect, 00:03:24.160 --> 00:03:27.120 and so sleep will be exactly what God intended for it to 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:28.880 be for man. 00:03:28.880 --> 00:03:32.000 I don't like it personally because if I'm working on a a 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:36.400 writing project or some task, whatever it happens to be, I like 00:03:36.720 --> 00:03:41.120 to get very much into the thing and get it Now, obviously 00:03:41.200 --> 00:03:43.840 there are things that take multiple days or weeks or months or 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:46.800 even years, and I don't have a problem breaking those up. 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:49.200 But if it's something that is going to take, you know, twenty 00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:52.640 hours of dedicated effort, I would rather just get it done And 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:56.480 the necessity of sleep breaks that up, and so of course do 00:03:56.480 --> 00:04:02.320 other things like you know, taking your pet out, and exercise, eating. 00:04:02.320 --> 00:04:05.040 But that's sort of a personal preference. 00:04:05.040 --> 00:04:05.920 Not everyone is that way. 00:04:05.920 --> 00:04:08.800 But I do think that most likely sleep will still exist. 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:09.760 I think it's a good thing. 00:04:09.760 --> 00:04:11.120 It's a blessing from God. 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:15.280 It just won't have the negatives that it has here in time. 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:16.240 In this creation. 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:20.000 I'm not saying time won't exist in the next creation. 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:23.360 Measurement of change is basically a measurement of time. 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:27.120 So question two is about Babel. 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:31.680 By what means do you believe God God dispersed the nations at 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:36.800 Babel. Migration is the normally used is the normal explanation for the 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:43.200 dispersion, but I have heard divine exportation used as well. 00:04:43.200 --> 00:04:44.640 I have heard that that 00:04:45.760 --> 00:04:47.360 maybe once or twice. 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:48.880 That's sort of 00:04:49.840 --> 00:04:51.920 an edge opinion we'll call it. 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:53.440 It does not come up very often. 00:04:53.440 --> 00:04:54.640 I'll pull up 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:58.480 Genesis 11 here. 00:04:58.480 --> 00:04:58.800 And 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:02.560 is the narrative of the Tower of Babel. 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:04.240 Very short, so let's go ahead and read it. 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:07.680 And the whole earth was one lip, and there was one speech 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:08.320 for all. 00:05:08.320 --> 00:05:11.040 And it came about as they moved from the east that they 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:14.320 found a plain in the land of Senar, called Shinar in most 00:05:14.320 --> 00:05:16.400 of your Bibles, and settled there. 00:05:16.400 --> 00:05:19.600 And one person said to the next, Come let us make black 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:21.040 with fire. 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:23.440 And the brick became stone for them, and they were And the 00:05:23.440 --> 00:05:25.200 clay for them was bitumen. 00:05:25.200 --> 00:05:28.480 And they said Come let us build ourselves a city, and a 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:31.600 tower whose top shall be as far as heaven, and let us 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:34.400 make a name for ourselves before we are scattered abroad upon the 00:05:34.400 --> 00:05:34.480 face 00:05:41.200 --> 00:05:45.680 And the Lord said, Look, one race and one lip of all, 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:49.280 and this they have begun to do, And nothing that they undertake 00:05:49.280 --> 00:05:51.680 to do will now be wanting from them. 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:55.440 Come and let us go down, and confuse their tongue there, so 00:05:55.440 --> 00:05:59.920 that they will not hear, each one the speech of the next. 00:05:59.920 --> 00:06:03.840 Scatter them abroad from there, over the face of all the earth, 00:06:03.840 --> 00:06:06.560 and they left off building the city and the tower. 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:10.880 Therefore its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confused the 00:06:10.880 --> 00:06:14.160 lips of all the earth, and from there the Lord God scattered 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:18.080 them abroad, over the face of all the earth. 00:06:18.080 --> 00:06:25.120 So it obviously doesn't explicitly state God used ex means, however it 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:27.040 very strongly implies it. 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:29.120 And that's confusion of language. 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:32.320 And incidentally it's worth noting two things. 00:06:32.320 --> 00:06:36.480 First I'll note the little bit of irony here, because God does 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:38.880 like irony, he does employ it, and 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:41.920 our into the heavens. 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:43.920 What does God have to do to look at it? 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:46.960 Come let us go down and look at this thing. 00:06:46.960 --> 00:06:51.120 God's mocking mankind's effort to build a tower into the heavens, because 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:54.880 God, who resides in the heavens, has to come down to look 00:06:54.880 --> 00:06:55.360 at it. 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:58.560 That's God mocking them, and it's ironic. 00:06:58.560 --> 00:06:58.880 But 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:04.000 I would point out here is the context, because obviously chapter eleven 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:05.600 comes after chapter ten. 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:07.920 Chapter ten is the Table of Nations. 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:12.240 And anyone who's really paid attention, that seems out of order, right? 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:16.240 Because the Table of Nations doesn't come to pass. 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:19.280 These nations don't really come to pass until until 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:24.560 Babel. This is a telling of what happens with the sons and 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:26.560 the grandsons and the great grandsons, etc. 00:07:26.640 --> 00:07:31.280 etc. of Noah after the Tower of Babel, after the dispersion. 00:07:31.280 --> 00:07:33.600 Obviously some of these men are around at the time of the 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:38.080 Tower of Babel, right, and there's some argument one way, argument other 00:07:38.080 --> 00:07:39.280 way about which individual 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:43.120 involved, and most of that's speculation. 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:47.280 But the fact that the table of nations comes before the Tower 00:07:47.280 --> 00:07:50.720 of Babel kind of gives us our hint here. 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:55.280 Because God is telling us what is going to happen, the means 00:07:55.280 --> 00:07:57.840 that He is going to use, and how He is going to 00:07:57.840 --> 00:08:02.240 employ those means Jesus means the narrative the Tower of Babel. 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:03.840 Because what does he do? 00:08:03.840 --> 00:08:05.760 Because what does it say about these tribes, right? 00:08:05.760 --> 00:08:08.400 So for instance here in verse thirty one, these are the sons 00:08:08.400 --> 00:08:13.200 of Shem in their tribes, according to their languages. 00:08:13.200 --> 00:08:16.720 That's the means that God uses to disperse them, and he does 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:19.520 it according to their race, according to the 00:08:20.400 --> 00:08:25.360 man, and then the subraces according to the grandsons of Noah And 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:29.440 so in the context there, because remember the verse and chapter numbers 00:08:29.440 --> 00:08:31.760 don't really exist, they're for our convenience. 00:08:31.760 --> 00:08:35.680 In the context there, it's pretty clear that the way that God 00:08:35.760 --> 00:08:38.800 divided up the earth and spread people abroad was that He simply 00:08:38.800 --> 00:08:43.280 made it impossible to communicate and they naturally drifted apart. 00:08:43.280 --> 00:08:45.520 I do happen to agree with 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:51.920 Luther and some other exegetes that Japheth seems like he wasn't really 00:08:51.920 --> 00:08:52.880 as involved here. 00:08:52.880 --> 00:08:55.440 It seems like it was really mostly the sons of Ham and 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:58.480 the Sons of Shem, at least some of them helping him. 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:03.040 And it's from archaeology and history pans out as well, and also 00:09:03.040 --> 00:09:05.680 from what little we get We get in Scripture because the sons 00:09:05.680 --> 00:09:09.200 of Japheth kind of leave the narrative early on, which maybe is 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.040 an indication. 00:09:11.040 --> 00:09:12.560 Because they left earlier. 00:09:12.560 --> 00:09:14.560 I agree with the exegetes who think that. 00:09:14.560 --> 00:09:17.600 I think that Japheth was obedient. 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:21.760 I think he was loyal to God and God commanded and moved 00:09:21.760 --> 00:09:24.800 north. And you can also see that in the fact that European 00:09:24.800 --> 00:09:29.840 languages are less confused, as it were, less distant from one another 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:31.600 than many languages in other parts of the world. 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:35.680 You know, you're not going to really be able to speak, say, 00:09:35.680 --> 00:09:40.320 Chinese and converse with someone who knows Arabic. 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:44.240 Is that the case necessarily if you know German and Dutch? 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:45.360 The answer is no. 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:48.240 Is it the case necessarily even German and English? 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:50.800 You can kinda get by with German and English because the core 00:09:50.800 --> 00:09:51.520 is still the same. 00:09:51.520 --> 00:09:55.920 There's more overlap, more similarity among the languages of the sons of 00:09:55.920 --> 00:09:59.600 Japheth. And so I think that that is a reasonable conclusion 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:04.000 in the text, but I think there is sufficient warrant for it. 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:07.200 But to answer the question directly again, I believe that he just 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:11.200 used the the standard means that is the standard interpretation. 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:15.120 Confusing their languages cause them naturally to separate and move apart from 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:16.160 one another. 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:19.360 And 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:24.000 note before I get into the the chat and some other questions 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:25.360 that I have here. 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:28.560 I did notice when I was setting up the stream and such 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:33.040 that there are pending questions in the comments on the streams. 00:10:33.040 --> 00:10:36.640 I will try to get through at least some of those, not 00:10:36.640 --> 00:10:39.200 necessarily in this episode, but I will 00:10:40.160 --> 00:10:44.080 into my notes for future episodes so that those don't get lost. 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:47.120 As always, if I don't notice a question at some point, go 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:49.200 ahead and ask it again. 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:52.560 There are too many notifications, I don't notice them all. 00:10:52.560 --> 00:10:55.920 So I'll look at chat first and then 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:01.200 I will go ahead and look at And perhaps some of the 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:03.680 other questions from the backlog on the forum. 00:11:03.680 --> 00:11:07.360 So one of the questions from chat: where do you chronologically, this 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:10.480 is question three, where do you chronologically place Job? 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:17.440 Why is God letting Satan dictate how Job should be tested? 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:19.600 I will go ahead and paste this into the 00:11:21.040 --> 00:11:22.960 Lose the question. 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:25.520 Granted, I can always just go and pull it from the transcript 00:11:25.520 --> 00:11:27.280 later, but it's nice to have it. 00:11:27.280 --> 00:11:29.840 So it's really two questions, but I'll go ahead and answer them 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:31.680 both both as question three. 00:11:31.680 --> 00:11:33.520 Chronologically, I agree with Wo. 00:11:33.520 --> 00:11:36.720 I believe that Job is the one who is interacting with the 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:42.240 ancient Israelites when they're coming out of Egypt, crossing through that territory 00:11:42.560 --> 00:11:46.720 into the promised land, into Canaan, into Palestine, whatever you want to 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:49.920 call it, depending on what it's been called down through history. 00:11:49.920 --> 00:11:51.360 I think that timeline is correct. 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:57.200 I believe it bears out if you make some fairly minor assumptions 00:11:57.600 --> 00:11:59.200 and other than that just 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:03.680 Because it doesn't give you all the exact information. 00:12:03.680 --> 00:12:06.640 There are some things where you have to it can be one 00:12:06.640 --> 00:12:09.680 man or another, and I think Job is the stronger argument. 00:12:09.680 --> 00:12:10.880 I agree with Wo on that one. 00:12:10.880 --> 00:12:14.240 That's what we said in Stone Choir, we've said it elsewhere as 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:17.040 well. So I think Job is actually the king who came out 00:12:17.520 --> 00:12:21.840 against the Israelites and crossed through our territory. 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:24.400 And that would have been a righteous thing for him to do 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:28.240 because they had just been engaged in idolatry and all sorts of 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:30.320 wickedness and he did not want that for his people. 00:12:30.560 --> 00:12:35.040 Granted, they later on fall to idolatry, but at the time they 00:12:35.040 --> 00:12:37.520 were righteous people, look at Job. 00:12:37.520 --> 00:12:39.200 But why would God let 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:42.800 sort of decide how much he can be tested, right? 00:12:42.800 --> 00:12:44.960 That's sort of the big question from Job. 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:47.760 There are some other questions there as well, obviously. 00:12:47.760 --> 00:12:50.560 You know, we appeal to it, for instance, for the fact that 00:12:50.560 --> 00:12:54.720 creation is God's greater book, because God himself, when he is talking 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:57.920 to Job of Job of his greatness appeals to creation. 00:12:57.920 --> 00:13:01.440 He does not say look at these things I've written or I 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:03.280 have inspired men to write. 00:13:03.280 --> 00:13:06.800 He says look at these things I have made, look at the 00:13:06.800 --> 00:13:12.240 greatness of my majesty, my glory, my power in creation, because it's 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:14.400 reflected in creation. 00:13:14.400 --> 00:13:18.560 But insofar as the extent of the temptation, that's always true. 00:13:18.560 --> 00:13:19.280 It's not just with 00:13:20.400 --> 00:13:20.640 because 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:24.640 Satan would love to destroy you personally. 00:13:24.640 --> 00:13:27.360 He would love to destroy any Christian personally. 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:30.400 He probably doesn't care that much about those who are not currently 00:13:30.400 --> 00:13:33.840 believers because sure they could be more wicked, they could do more 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:37.200 evil, but as long as they're not Christian and they're not doing 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:40.160 good, does it ultimately really matter to Satan? 00:13:40.640 --> 00:13:42.560 He has other things to do, right? 00:13:42.560 --> 00:13:46.720 If he has to choose between trying to further tempt someone who 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:50.240 is already on the wrong path, versus versus trying to get a 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:54.000 Christian to apostatize, it's kind of better use of his time to 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.080 mess with the Christian, right? 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:59.040 But it's always the case that you are 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:05.520 permitted to be tempted, to be tried, to be tested, insofar and 00:14:05.520 --> 00:14:07.760 only insofar as God permits. 00:14:07.760 --> 00:14:09.280 That is true for every single man. 00:14:09.280 --> 00:14:12.960 It's just in Job's case it happened to be extreme. 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:15.920 But there are other men who have been extremely tested, right? 00:14:15.920 --> 00:14:18.720 There are Christians who have gone to the lions, there are Christians 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:23.520 who have been twice for months, for years in some cases, to 00:14:23.520 --> 00:14:26.160 try to get them to renounce their faith. 00:14:26.160 --> 00:14:28.960 God knows how much you can bear. 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:32.800 And as a Christian, as a child of God, as a member 00:14:32.800 --> 00:14:36.400 of the elect, God is not going to give you tests that 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:39.600 exceed what you can bear. 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:42.000 Strength to bear up under it. 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:45.840 In Job's case, he's proving a point, and he's proving a point 00:14:46.160 --> 00:14:48.400 not necessarily to 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:53.280 Job as sort of the primary target, as it were. 00:14:53.280 --> 00:14:56.960 He's obviously the primary in the sense of he's first, but it's 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:57.600 for us. 00:14:57.600 --> 00:15:01.120 Job is written for our comfort everything in scripture. 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:04.480 Because everything in scripture is ultimately written for our comfort. 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:07.600 And of course it only is for your comfort if you are 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:09.360 a member of the elect, right? 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:11.520 If you are Christian, if you have faith. 00:15:11.520 --> 00:15:15.680 And I think I'm going to write more on that this coming 00:15:15.680 --> 00:15:18.960 week. I think I will actually type up the I I do 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:22.560 it. I just don't always type it up and then publish it. 00:15:22.560 --> 00:15:25.280 I think I will do that and it's a related subject, so 00:15:25.280 --> 00:15:28.960 I'll put that in the the show notes for this when I 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:29.600 do that. 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:31.920 So take a look at that. 00:15:31.920 --> 00:15:34.880 But with regard to your temptation, like I said, God is only 00:15:34.880 --> 00:15:38.080 going to let you be tempted as far as He knows you 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:38.800 can withstand. 00:15:38.800 --> 00:15:41.760 He will give you order to withstand it. 00:15:41.760 --> 00:15:45.440 So He did not permit Job to test him so far that 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:46.640 he broke. 00:15:46.640 --> 00:15:49.200 He gave him the strength to stand up under that. 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:52.480 And he was proving that point for us. 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:56.400 It's a point that ultimately God is in control of all things, 00:15:56.400 --> 00:16:00.000 and the glory of God's alone. 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:04.560 And it's also comforting because we can look at Job and see 00:16:04.560 --> 00:16:08.880 that no matter how much Satan tried, no matter how great the 00:16:08.880 --> 00:16:13.120 temptation and the suffering and all those things, God didn't let Job 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:14.400 ultimately fall. 00:16:14.400 --> 00:16:20.320 So that's comforting to us because most likely our temptations most right 00:16:20.800 --> 00:16:24.720 are not going to be as bad as Job because we aren't 00:16:24.640 --> 00:16:29.120 going to have Satan personally trying to ruin our lives. 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:30.080 Generally speaking. 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:33.360 Maybe that's going to be an exception for some individuals, but generally 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:36.800 speaking, you're not going to be tested to the same degree as 00:16:36.800 --> 00:16:39.200 Job. And if God gave Job the 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:43.040 stand up under that sort of testing, he can certainly do the 00:16:43.040 --> 00:16:43.600 same for you. 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:46.720 So it you can read the story of Job as a gospel 00:16:46.880 --> 00:16:49.680 promise. It is comforting for Christians. 00:16:50.880 --> 00:16:54.240 But yes, it's certainly you're going to be tested in this life, 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:59.840 right? It's very clear that God disciplines and tests and prunes, right? 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.840 The plant metaphor, prunes those who are his so they produce more 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:07.360 fruit. It's ultimately for your good, like it says in scripture, all 00:17:07.360 --> 00:17:10.640 things work together for the good of those who are called. 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:11.120 Right. 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:16.800 I see someone asked the same one of the questions that I 00:17:16.800 --> 00:17:19.280 did notice in the comment to a video 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:23.520 to that one now and hopefully remember that I answered it when 00:17:23.520 --> 00:17:24.960 I see it later. 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:30.880 There's no way to mark anything in Anything as answered in YouTube's 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:36.480 interface. So the only thing you can do is you can reply 00:17:36.560 --> 00:17:40.320 and then you can filter by reply, but you can't just I'm 00:17:40.320 --> 00:17:43.600 not going to reply, like if you've answered it previously. 00:17:43.600 --> 00:17:45.120 It's not a great design. 00:17:45.120 --> 00:17:46.880 It's very obnoxious. 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:49.680 Same problem for Stone Choir and everything else. 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:53.280 But question four What is your take on the members of Hitler's 00:17:53.280 --> 00:17:56.480 party who betrayed and tried to assassinate him. 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:59.360 He says he's thinking of the German general Irwin 00:18:01.760 --> 00:18:04.240 Traitors deserve to be hanged. 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:06.640 That's just how that goes. 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:11.600 Now obviously that comes with the sort of huge caveat that the 00:18:11.600 --> 00:18:13.520 person has to be a traitor, right? 00:18:13.520 --> 00:18:18.160 It has to be someone whose betrayal would in fact be treason. 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:18.480 And 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:25.120 Example, right let's say you're living under one of the extremely wicked 00:18:25.120 --> 00:18:31.600 communist governments, torturing Christ Christians, burning monasteries, just generally being as bad, 00:18:31.600 --> 00:18:34.160 as evil, as wicked as possible. 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:37.680 Would turning against that government be treason? 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:38.960 I would say no. 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:39.440 Because 00:18:40.800 --> 00:18:44.880 we pointed out in Stone Choir, I pointed out elsewhere, Romans thirteen 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:50.640 is polemical because Romans thirteen actually lists the qualifications of what a 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:52.720 rightful government will do. 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:55.840 And incidentally when you list what something will do, you're also listing 00:18:55.840 --> 00:18:56.960 what it will not do, right? 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:00.720 Just like the Ten Commandments are both positive in the sense of 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:02.240 there's an inverse of it. 00:19:02.320 --> 00:19:05.360 You know, if you're not supposed to do X, then you do 00:19:05.360 --> 00:19:08.560 the things that avoid X, stuff like that. 00:19:08.560 --> 00:19:12.880 So in the case of a truly wicked and evil government, it 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:15.840 would not be treason, it would not be morally wrongful to oppose 00:19:15.840 --> 00:19:16.640 that government. 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:19.040 That starts to get back into you know, Magdeburg 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:23.440 go look at listen to that episode or read the transcript, whichever 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:24.160 you prefer. 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:29.600 But in the case of the National Socialists, yes, those who were 00:19:29.600 --> 00:19:32.800 trying to assassinate him were definitely in the wrong. 00:19:32.800 --> 00:19:36.160 They had a very wrong-headed opinion about the whole thing. 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:41.120 They thought that they could topple their current gun and surrender to 00:19:41.120 --> 00:19:43.120 the Allies and get good treatment. 00:19:43.120 --> 00:19:46.640 And we all know what happened to the Germans who surrendered to 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:47.200 the Allies. 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:48.880 Many of them were starved to death. 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:50.560 So they were very clearly wrong. 00:19:50.560 --> 00:19:53.760 Granted that's hindsight, but I think it was also pretty obvious at 00:19:53.760 --> 00:19:59.680 the time considering the behavior of the Allied powers. 00:20:00.080 --> 00:20:03.440 Question from X here, question five. 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:05.120 Let me copy and paste that. 00:20:05.120 --> 00:20:08.560 Is it better to go to a reformed church that confesses true 00:20:08.560 --> 00:20:12.800 things about race and society or a Lutheran church that preaches against 00:20:12.800 --> 00:20:15.920 them but believes true things about the sacraments? 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.640 I would probably go to the Reformed Church, just go ahead and 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:19.360 give the 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:25.280 Would not partake of the sacrament, most likely. 00:20:25.280 --> 00:20:28.480 And the reason that I say most likely, and I know some 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:32.080 Lutherans will bristle at that, but m you go ahead, have fun. 00:20:32.080 --> 00:20:34.800 And the reason that I would say most likely is I think 00:20:34.800 --> 00:20:40.560 there are two ways you can look at participation in the sacrament. 00:20:40.560 --> 00:20:43.280 And I do think the context matters. 00:20:43.280 --> 00:20:45.760 So for instance, if you were at a Lutheran church, a Lutheran 00:20:45.760 --> 00:20:49.280 church should have closed communion because of what Lutherans believe about the 00:20:49.280 --> 00:20:53.600 sacrament, and we believe it is actually harmful for individuals to come 00:20:53.600 --> 00:20:58.960 to the sacrament with wrong beliefs about the sacrament because it is 00:20:58.960 --> 00:20:59.120 to 00:21:00.080 --> 00:21:02.240 feigning the body and blood of the Lord. 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:05.120 So we practice close communion. 00:21:05.120 --> 00:21:09.920 However, there is also you can look at it, for instance, as 00:21:10.080 --> 00:21:12.880 and this is how Lutherans generally look at it, particularly in the 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:17.280 Lutheran case, we are saying that those who participate in the sacrament 00:21:17.280 --> 00:21:19.360 are giving a public confession 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:24.320 things. And so that's why we have closed communion, because you should 00:21:24.320 --> 00:21:27.840 believe the same things if you are going to participate in the 00:21:27.840 --> 00:21:30.560 Lord's Supper at a Lutheran church. 00:21:30.560 --> 00:21:32.080 That's one way you can look at it. 00:21:32.080 --> 00:21:34.160 The other way that you can look at it, and I would 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:36.640 say that I would be inclined to look at it this way 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:39.040 in some cases, from my 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:46.000 probably certain among the Reformed and maybe certain Anglican churches I think 00:21:46.080 --> 00:21:48.800 would be the ones that would initially come to mind for me. 00:21:49.520 --> 00:21:52.720 You can look at it as a confession that these individuals are 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:54.000 Christian brothers. 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:57.440 And if I am confessing that these men are Christian brothers, even 00:21:57.440 --> 00:21:59.360 if I believe they are in error with regard to 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:05.920 then I wouldn't necessarily object to participating in the sacrament with them. 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:08.800 I would not admit them to the table in a Lutheran church, 00:22:08.800 --> 00:22:12.080 but if they invited me to the table in their church, I 00:22:12.080 --> 00:22:16.400 wouldn't have that immediate necessary no response to that because I think 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:19.520 that second argument, that second way of looking at it 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:23.680 in confession they are Christian brothers, is a legitimate way to look 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:24.560 at it. 00:22:24.560 --> 00:22:25.760 So most 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:31.200 Lutheran teachers are probably going to say they would just not participate 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:35.840 in the sacrament in a non-Lutheran church because of the differences in 00:22:36.080 --> 00:22:38.480 theology, the difference in doctrine. 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:38.880 But I think 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:42.400 to some of them, they would see both sides of that. 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:42.720 So 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:47.280 But definitely these days I would pick the church that is least 00:22:47.280 --> 00:22:50.880 likely to call the police on you, which in this hypothetical is 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:54.560 going to be the Reformed Church that teaches correctly on race versus 00:22:54.560 --> 00:22:59.040 the Lutheran Church that in this hypothetical teaches against these things might 00:22:59.040 --> 00:22:59.200 very 00:23:00.560 --> 00:23:05.680 So even if you don't participate In the Lord's Supper, if you 00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:09.600 don't go to the sacrament of the table at the Reformed Church, 00:23:09.600 --> 00:23:12.000 and you know your conscience obviously is going to lead you as 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:14.560 well. If your conscience is bothered by doing that, then by all 00:23:14.560 --> 00:23:17.520 means don't participate. 00:23:17.520 --> 00:23:19.200 Even if you don't participate in 00:23:20.080 --> 00:23:26.000 you're no longer having that regularly, you still hear the word, you 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:29.360 will still hear the fact that you are forgiven, you will hear 00:23:29.360 --> 00:23:30.560 the gospel. 00:23:30.560 --> 00:23:33.680 You don't actually have to have the sacrament every Sunday. 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:36.400 It is better to, it is best to have it at least 00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:37.280 every Sunday. 00:23:37.280 --> 00:23:39.120 That's how it should be. 00:23:39.120 --> 00:23:44.720 But with ideal conditions and under not ideal conditions, I think you 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:48.080 just go for the best thing that is currently available. 00:23:48.080 --> 00:23:58.960 So in the hypothetical, go to the Reform Church. 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:05.120 Sort of a follow-up question here to the earlier question about the 00:24:05.120 --> 00:24:09.680 dispersion across the world after the Tower of Babel or the Tower 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:12.560 of Confusion, whichever name you want to use there. 00:24:13.520 --> 00:24:18.560 And that is did Noah and Japheth speak Pi, which for those 00:24:18.560 --> 00:24:21.680 who don't know is Pro, which is the 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:24.720 more or less hypothetical 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:29.760 parent language of all of the Indo European languages, the ones that 00:24:29.760 --> 00:24:32.160 are under that large family tree. 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:36.400 It's reconstructed because obviously there are no speakers of it still. 00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:39.280 It is reconstructed from what we know 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:43.040 and obvious what we have from archaeology and things like that. 00:24:43.040 --> 00:24:45.120 It's mostly philology. 00:24:45.120 --> 00:24:45.440 But 00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:49.360 I don't know if they spoke Pi. 00:24:49.360 --> 00:24:52.720 I think there's a pretty strong argument that Japheth probably spoke something 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:54.880 that was roughly like Pi. 00:24:54.880 --> 00:24:57.680 I don't know what happened in Noah's case, right? 00:24:57.680 --> 00:24:59.600 I don't know if Noah was suddenly 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:02.800 to a bunch of his grandchildren. 00:25:02.800 --> 00:25:04.240 That may have been the case. 00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:07.120 Or you know, Noah may not have been around, depending on the 00:25:07.120 --> 00:25:09.200 exact timeline here. 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:09.280 But 00:25:11.120 --> 00:25:14.560 I think it's pretty likely that J Fith spoke something roughly like 00:25:15.120 --> 00:25:18.640 pi or what pi would be if we were able to reconstruct 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:20.080 it perfect. 00:25:20.080 --> 00:25:21.840 I think that's a strong argument. 00:25:21.840 --> 00:25:25.440 Obviously it's not in scripture, you aren't bound to believe this, but 00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:27.120 I think there's a very strong argument for it. 00:25:27.120 --> 00:25:30.400 I think it is correct to conclude that 00:25:56.400 --> 00:25:59.440 A follow-up question 00:26:01.520 --> 00:26:01.840 about 00:26:04.320 --> 00:26:07.360 let's see related to the question about Job. 00:26:07.360 --> 00:26:08.320 So question seven. 00:26:08.320 --> 00:26:12.400 Is James 113 in conflict with the idea of God allowing Satan 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:13.840 to tempt us? 00:26:13.840 --> 00:26:16.480 So let's pull up James 113. 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:33.120 Let's get logos to there we go. 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:35.920 So I think we'll just go ahead and read 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:40.640 that paragraph I think is sufficient. 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:44.080 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he 00:26:44.080 --> 00:26:47.360 has stood the test he will receive the crowd of life, which 00:26:47.360 --> 00:26:49.440 God has promised to those who love him. 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:52.480 Let no one say when he is tempted, I am being tempted 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:56.160 by God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself 00:26:56.320 --> 00:26:57.440 tempts no one. 00:26:57.440 --> 00:27:01.120 But each person is tempted when he is Christ by his own 00:27:01.120 --> 00:27:05.760 desire. Then desire when it is conceived gives birth to sin, and 00:27:05.760 --> 00:27:09.040 sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. 00:27:09.040 --> 00:27:11.360 So I think the answer to your question there is really in 00:27:11.360 --> 00:27:12.400 the subsequent verse, right? 00:27:13.600 --> 00:27:18.000 You're ultimately tempted by your own concupiscence, your own original sin, your 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:19.200 own inward desire 00:27:20.320 --> 00:27:23.200 evil. The only exception, of course, being Adam, who was in a 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:27.120 state of State of perfection, and so his will is not tarnished 00:27:27.120 --> 00:27:28.480 in the same way that ours is, right? 00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:32.320 Human will exists in a number of different states, and that would 00:27:32.320 --> 00:27:35.680 be you know Adam before the fall, and then us after the 00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:38.240 fall before regeneration, us after the fall, after. 00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:41.600 After regeneration and the Eternity, right? 00:27:41.600 --> 00:27:48.240 We're dealing with Christians after the fall, so regenerated, but not perfected. 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:52.080 And so we still have concupiscence, we still have that desire to 00:27:52.080 --> 00:27:54.320 sin, and Satan plays on that, right? 00:27:54.320 --> 00:27:56.160 We have sinful desires. 00:27:56.160 --> 00:28:00.080 Satan fans the flames and tries to cause problems there. 00:28:00.080 --> 00:28:04.400 God doesn't tempt anyone, right? 00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:07.920 But God will permit you to be tempted, permit you to be 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:12.720 tested. God is not going to say, Hey, you should sin. 00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:14.320 That's not what God is going to do. 00:28:14.320 --> 00:28:18.240 But he does permit the devil to do that, and God is 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:18.960 in control of 00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:21.840 has him on a leash. 00:28:21.840 --> 00:28:24.880 He's only allowed to do as much as God permits him to 00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:27.920 do. So I don't think those there's no real conflict there. 00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:30.800 It's saying that God is not the cause of sin, which we 00:28:30.800 --> 00:28:34.400 know that God is neither the cause of sin nor does he 00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:36.000 cause others to sin. 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:39.120 So he's not the source and he doesn't cause you to sin. 00:28:39.120 --> 00:28:44.000 That man that's just the standard teaching of basically well it is 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:46.400 the standard teaching of all Christian denominations. 00:28:46.400 --> 00:28:49.680 Some are a little wobbly on exactly how they interpret that interaction 00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:51.280 and how the human will works, right? 00:28:51.280 --> 00:28:54.080 The it's the bondage of the will question and how far that 00:28:54.080 --> 00:28:57.040 extend how far How far that extends or does not extend? 00:28:57.040 --> 00:28:59.920 How much free will you have? 00:29:00.080 --> 00:29:03.280 The quick rundown of that, the Lutheran answer of course, and I 00:29:03.280 --> 00:29:07.520 believe the correct answer according to scripture, with regard to spiritual things, 00:29:07.520 --> 00:29:10.880 before you're regenerated, you have no free will, because you're dead in 00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:13.760 your sins and your trespasses and corpses don't act. 00:29:13.760 --> 00:29:19.760 After regeneration, you cooperate with the Holy Spirit in sanctification. 00:29:19.760 --> 00:29:24.880 Justification in your regeneration, it's monergism, you play no role, it's God 00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:27.280 alone. Monergism just means monogism 00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:29.760 only one actor, right? 00:29:29.760 --> 00:29:31.360 God is the only actor. 00:29:31.360 --> 00:29:36.640 Synergism means that working together, acting together. 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:40.240 Because it's just with plus work. 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:40.560 So 00:29:41.600 --> 00:29:45.120 with sanctification you are working with the spirit. 00:29:45.120 --> 00:29:50.640 With justification, it is God alone mono working, mono ergos. 00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:50.960 So 00:29:54.560 --> 00:29:57.600 let me make sure I put that one in the show notes. 00:29:57.600 --> 00:30:04.720 Okay. I think I got the current questions from chat, so let 00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:10.560 me turn to some of the other questions I have here. 00:30:10.560 --> 00:30:15.520 Let me have YouTube Studio Refresh so that I lose where I 00:30:15.520 --> 00:30:16.240 had them. 00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:17.360 That's helpful. 00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:38.320 I think I will probably go through the comments and try to 00:30:38.320 --> 00:30:40.560 get to those perhaps Weak. 00:30:40.560 --> 00:30:42.240 I just answered this one. 00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:43.040 I found this one. 00:30:43.040 --> 00:30:45.920 And there's still no way to flag it as having been answered. 00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:46.240 So 00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:55.120 I think I've actually got most of those questions. 00:30:55.120 --> 00:30:58.960 So I'll pull up my backlog here that I have on the 00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:03.280 forum and get through some of those unless something else comes in 00:31:03.280 --> 00:31:04.080 in the chat. 00:31:04.080 --> 00:31:07.440 I don't know if I'll go the full hour necessarily 00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:12.560 Tomorrow's a holiday, let people go early, right? 00:31:12.560 --> 00:31:22.320 Let myself go early. 00:31:36.560 --> 00:31:40.960 I'll pick a hard question just because it happens. 00:31:41.360 --> 00:31:42.800 Question eight. 00:31:42.800 --> 00:31:46.400 How do we reconcile a love of country with the reality of 00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:47.840 the nation we live in? 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:50.080 Can we do so? 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:54.160 And that's an important question. 00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:58.800 Because obviously we currently live in a wicked country, right? 00:31:58.800 --> 00:31:59.200 Perhaps as 00:32:00.560 --> 00:32:04.640 considering tomorrow is the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United 00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:08.000 States, for anyone who is listening from the rest of the world 00:32:08.080 --> 00:32:11.360 but doesn't doesn't happen to know that I feel like you probably 00:32:11.360 --> 00:32:11.920 have by now. 00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:13.600 You've probably seen in the media. 00:32:13.600 --> 00:32:16.000 At any rate. 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:19.120 I think part of it is the distinction here between country and 00:32:19.120 --> 00:32:22.800 nation. And you use both terms, but those terms should not be 00:32:22.800 --> 00:32:25.760 used interchangeably because they're not equivalent. 00:32:25.760 --> 00:32:29.840 And so your country is the political entity. 00:32:29.840 --> 00:32:32.960 Your nation is your race. 00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:36.240 It's blood and soil and and myth, which I've gone into that 00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:40.000 before. Your nation you cannot choose. 00:32:40.320 --> 00:32:43.280 You kind of can a little bit, because obviously you could emigrate, 00:32:43.280 --> 00:32:45.680 you can immigrate, there are things like that. 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:50.000 Without touching on the morality of whether or not you should, right? 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:53.760 And so you love your nation because your nation is a gift 00:32:53.760 --> 00:32:54.800 from God. 00:32:54.800 --> 00:32:58.160 You are what you are intrinsically because that is how God made 00:32:58.160 --> 00:32:59.360 you. Your people are 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:03.040 they are yours, the same as your parents are yours because they 00:33:03.040 --> 00:33:06.480 gave birth to you, your mother gave birth to you, your father 00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:08.400 was involved earlier, right? 00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:09.200 So 00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:14.000 your nation you must love because your nation are the people who 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:17.440 are closest to you, the people God has entrusted to your care, 00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:19.040 and those who do not care for 00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:23.600 your own family and your nation's an extended family, and particularly those 00:33:23.600 --> 00:33:26.240 of their own household, are worse than an unbeliever. 00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:29.440 So you don't want to run afoul of that, certainly. 00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:32.720 But when it comes to sort of the it's really kind of 00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:34.240 a patriotism question, right? 00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:37.680 But with regard to the country. 00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:38.800 And even that's a 00:33:40.080 --> 00:33:43.600 Because patriotism is derived from the Latin for father. 00:33:43.600 --> 00:33:48.880 And so to love your patrimony is to love your forefathers, is 00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:51.200 to love your nation, is to love your race. 00:33:51.200 --> 00:33:54.560 But in the usual sort of lay sense, as it were, the 00:33:54.560 --> 00:33:57.680 generic use of the term patriotism with regard to a country. 00:33:57.680 --> 00:33:59.120 So the United States. 00:33:59.120 --> 00:33:59.360 Do you 00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:05.760 I think you love your nation insofar as it is a It 00:34:05.760 --> 00:34:10.320 is a representation or an outgrowth of your people, and you do 00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:13.680 the best you can to try to improve it. 00:34:13.680 --> 00:34:17.200 That doesn't mean that you can't critique your country when it does 00:34:17.200 --> 00:34:17.840 evil things. 00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:19.120 In fact, it's often 00:34:20.160 --> 00:34:22.320 to do that as a Christian man, at least if God has 00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:24.800 put you in a position to do that. 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:29.360 And so I don't think given the current set of conditions that 00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:32.640 we necessarily have to love the United States, because the United States 00:34:32.640 --> 00:34:35.680 has done an immense amount of evil, it is still doing an 00:34:35.680 --> 00:34:36.960 immense amount of evil. 00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:39.360 It is bringing in hostile foreigners, every 00:34:40.240 --> 00:34:44.960 destroy us, destroy our nation, make our lives more difficult, make the 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:47.680 future significantly more difficult. 00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:48.480 And so 00:34:50.160 --> 00:34:53.360 we can love the good things about our country and the good 00:34:53.360 --> 00:34:55.440 things in the history of our country. 00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:57.920 And even the good there are good things that exist today, right? 00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:01.200 There's there are good things about the United States bad. 00:35:01.200 --> 00:35:05.520 But ultimately the focus of our care our concern should be our 00:35:05.680 --> 00:35:10.800 nation and bringing the country, the political entity back in line with 00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:14.400 being an expression of the will and something that seeks the good 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:17.680 of the nation, of the race. 00:35:17.680 --> 00:35:19.360 So can we 00:35:20.560 --> 00:35:24.160 a love of country in sort of the absolute sense with what 00:35:24.560 --> 00:35:26.800 our country is currently doing? 00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:28.320 Probably not. 00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:33.120 But ultimately our allegiance isn't to our country first, it's to our 00:35:33.120 --> 00:35:34.640 nations, to our people. 00:35:34.640 --> 00:35:39.200 Because that's created by God and and the country is just 00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:44.640 so obviously the creation of God has to stand, it's more important. 00:36:02.720 --> 00:36:05.520 There's a difficult question here that I don't know that I necessarily 00:36:05.520 --> 00:36:09.360 want to get into tonight, but maybe I will because it's an 00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:09.920 important question. 00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:11.520 I think it should be answered. 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:14.800 So 00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:19.120 And it's one of those questions where it seems like the right 00:36:20.240 --> 00:36:24.160 is easy, but at the same time it's not easy because of 00:36:24.160 --> 00:36:26.720 the the consequences of it. 00:36:26.720 --> 00:36:29.120 And I don't think an appeal to consequences is always wrongful. 00:36:29.120 --> 00:36:30.640 But anyway, question nine. 00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:34.000 There is a transgender person at my workplace and I am being 00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:36.320 forced to use its pronouns. 00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:41.200 What is the Christian thing to do here? 00:36:41.200 --> 00:36:48.240 The issue with this is that ultimately speaking, transgenderism is part 00:36:48.560 --> 00:36:55.360 of the pernicious wicked anti-Christian religion that we could perhaps class under 00:36:55.520 --> 00:36:59.520 the umbrella of Marxism in the sort of broad sense 00:37:01.040 --> 00:37:02.960 ultimately it's Satanism, right? 00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:07.360 But Marxism sort of captures the idea better for most people. 00:37:07.520 --> 00:37:14.560 And so the question then is that is this a participation in 00:37:14.560 --> 00:37:16.640 that wicked religion? 00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:19.280 I think the answer is yes, because 00:37:20.240 --> 00:37:24.880 confession because it is a confession against reality, it is a confession 00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:29.200 against God's good ordering of creation. 00:37:29.200 --> 00:37:33.440 And also there's you know the psychology of it you're building up 00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:37.760 and feeding into the delusions of someone who will probably eventually do 00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:39.120 something violent to 00:37:40.320 --> 00:37:44.080 else, as the statistics clearly show. 00:37:44.080 --> 00:37:46.560 So I don't think as a Christian that you are in fact 00:37:46.640 --> 00:37:48.320 permitted to do that. 00:37:48.320 --> 00:37:52.080 Because I think it would be counted as something even worse than 00:37:52.160 --> 00:37:54.960 say the pinch of incense to Caesar, right? 00:37:54.960 --> 00:37:57.840 Because there were Christians went to the lions in order to avoid 00:37:57.840 --> 00:37:59.360 that. I think this is a This is a 00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:01.680 than that. 00:38:01.680 --> 00:38:07.120 And so I would say that practically speaking, because there obviously there's 00:38:07.120 --> 00:38:08.880 a consideration the theology, right? 00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:11.280 The theology answer I think is pretty easy. 00:38:11.280 --> 00:38:15.920 Don't participate in the evil religion of the world. 00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:19.200 But the practical considerations obviously are more difficult, right? 00:38:20.720 --> 00:38:24.080 You are we'll take the extreme example, as it were, right? 00:38:24.080 --> 00:38:26.960 Let's say you're a father and you have a whole bunch of 00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:30.160 young children, you really need this job, it'd be difficult to get 00:38:30.160 --> 00:38:30.880 a new job. 00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:33.920 So it's the worst case scenario, and you're going to get fired, 00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:38.320 right? If you stand up and do anything about this. 00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:43.360 scenario. And so does wisdom play a role? 00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:44.480 I think the answer is yes. 00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:47.760 Wisdom has to play a role because in that case there are 00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:50.240 those who have been entrusted to your care. 00:38:50.240 --> 00:38:56.480 So if you can just avoid the problem, I think that's permissible 00:38:56.800 --> 00:39:01.280 in those circumstances where you are trying trying to preserve what God 00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:04.400 has entrusted to your care, etc., etc. 00:39:04.640 --> 00:39:08.960 But But obviously less of an issue if you don't have those 00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:10.880 considerations. So 00:39:13.200 --> 00:39:16.320 the way you can avoid it, right, is you don't necessarily have 00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:18.640 to use pronouns 00:39:20.640 --> 00:39:22.240 You can talk around that. 00:39:22.240 --> 00:39:23.840 That's perfectly possible. 00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:26.880 In fact, just like you don't ever have to use another person's 00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:29.280 name when you are talking to or about the person. 00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:32.160 I have friends that probably haven't said their names in years because 00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:33.520 you just you know just talk to the friend. 00:39:33.760 --> 00:39:38.000 You don't have to announce that you're talking to that person. 00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:42.720 So if you can get around exercising wisdom but not participating in 00:39:42.720 --> 00:39:46.000 the evil, I I think that is a permissible way if you 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:50.160 have those sort of countervailing concerns. 00:39:50.160 --> 00:39:52.320 The alternative, right? 00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:54.800 If you think that that is going to be viable in your 00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:57.440 case, I don't know even where you are in the world. 00:39:57.440 --> 00:39:59.280 So I don't I don't know you're 00:40:00.160 --> 00:40:02.800 not giving legal advice, despite the fact that I'm an attorney, you 00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:05.120 know, the usual caveat. 00:40:05.120 --> 00:40:08.080 You may be able to go to your HR department and say, 00:40:08.080 --> 00:40:10.240 This is against my religion. 00:40:10.240 --> 00:40:13.920 This is a violation of my religious rights, which you probably have 00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:17.360 wherever you are if this sort of thing is happening, right? 00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:17.680 And 00:40:18.560 --> 00:40:19.280 there's some 00:40:20.160 --> 00:40:21.360 protection for that. 00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:24.080 I would go to an attorney first. 00:40:24.080 --> 00:40:28.080 Have the attorney give you the exact language you're going to want 00:40:28.080 --> 00:40:29.920 to use with HR. 00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:32.000 You're building a paper trail. 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:34.720 And the reason that you're building that is that if they fire 00:40:34.720 --> 00:40:34.880 you 00:40:40.080 --> 00:40:43.680 The attorney versed in your local laws would be able to give 00:40:43.680 --> 00:40:46.320 you better advice on that because he would know what sort of 00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:48.560 case you need and what evidence you need. 00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:52.240 I think that's probably the wisest way to proceed if you can't 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:54.640 avoid the issue. 00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:57.520 And who knows, maybe it it may actually turn out to your 00:40:57.520 --> 00:40:59.840 benefit if you get a wrongful termination. 00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:04.960 because if they just blatantly violate the law, those suits are usually 00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:07.600 pretty easy and they usually get you a decent check. 00:41:07.600 --> 00:41:11.280 So maybe you can find some way to punish them for trying 00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:13.120 to get you to make a false confession. 00:41:13.120 --> 00:41:14.880 There's nothing wrong with that. 00:41:30.160 --> 00:41:32.880 Pull another question here from X. 00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:35.280 Since I see there's some questions in the chat, I'll try to 00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:37.280 get to those. 00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:38.560 This is question 00:41:40.640 --> 00:41:40.960 now 00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:49.440 I left a comment a few days ago about my cousins and 00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:53.440 his wife adopting a Mexican child, so I assume that's typo there 00:41:53.600 --> 00:41:54.960 on the plural. 00:41:54.960 --> 00:41:58.640 Would you say that I have a duty to my blood being 00:42:00.720 --> 00:42:04.560 I think there's a typo there being over my disdain for him 00:42:04.560 --> 00:42:07.760 and his wife's poor choice to aid in the displacement of 00:42:09.200 --> 00:42:10.960 my children and his. 00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:13.840 So I assume that means he has other children in addition to 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:17.680 the one that he's adopted. 00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:19.440 This is one of those cases 00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:23.760 because of this is sin, I'll just go ahead and say it's 00:42:23.680 --> 00:42:24.960 sin. You should not be doing that. 00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:28.560 When you have your own people are in dire straits, there are 00:42:28.560 --> 00:42:31.680 many children of your own nation who should be adopted, and you 00:42:31.680 --> 00:42:35.440 are going out of your way to adopt the foreigner instead, you 00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:39.280 are failing to rightly care first and foremost for those 00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:42.240 care, and that is sin. 00:42:42.240 --> 00:42:45.280 So what he did was sinful. 00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:48.000 And you know, a a Mexican child should be in Mexico with 00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:49.120 Mexican parents. 00:42:49.120 --> 00:42:52.240 Uh you shouldn't be adopting random children from other parts of the 00:42:52.240 --> 00:42:55.520 world. Just like I don't believe people should be adopting Chinese children 00:42:55.600 --> 00:42:57.840 or Russian children, doing stuff like that. 00:42:57.920 --> 00:42:59.120 They should be cared for by 00:43:00.160 --> 00:43:03.040 What you're doing is removing them from their own country. 00:43:03.040 --> 00:43:05.360 You're doing harm to your country and their country. 00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:12.320 Because you're doing it for the approval and the praise of the 00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:15.920 wicked world that says this is a good thing because we all 00:43:16.080 --> 00:43:17.360 we all know ultimately why. 00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:21.280 The goal is the destruction of the distinct nations that are God's 00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:24.960 good creation, because Satan hates God's creation and he will do anything 00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:27.200 he can to try to destroy it. 00:43:27.200 --> 00:43:29.840 So in this case, I'm going to say it's going to be 00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:32.480 fact-specific, as it were. 00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:37.280 Because if there are other children in this picture, right, you still 00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:38.720 want to be 00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:43.840 whatever I don't know what the exact blood relationship is here, so 00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:46.960 you're the equivalent of an uncle, basically, because you basically call any 00:43:47.120 --> 00:43:50.240 other male in the family who's not a grandpa or something, an 00:43:50.240 --> 00:43:50.720 uncle, right? 00:43:50.720 --> 00:43:52.960 You all wind up being called an uncle. 00:43:55.040 --> 00:43:55.360 So 00:43:56.240 --> 00:43:59.200 you still care for those other children as best 00:44:00.080 --> 00:44:04.640 and that doesn't mean that you're going to treat this child poorly 00:44:04.640 --> 00:44:08.960 or single them out for bad treatment because the reality is 00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:14.320 your family, your cousin, has left you in a position where you 00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:17.840 don't have a perfect course of action, so you take the best 00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:20.080 one that you can. 00:44:20.080 --> 00:44:23.440 This is their only child, then you don't have to have the 00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:26.480 same concerns because there are no other children in the picture, you 00:44:26.480 --> 00:44:28.320 don't have the same duties. 00:44:28.320 --> 00:44:31.680 You have you know in theory at least, spoken your peace, told 00:44:31.680 --> 00:44:34.560 him this was wrongful, you should not have done this, this was 00:44:34.560 --> 00:44:36.800 deeply unwise, you've caused problems. 00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:39.280 You are increasing the harm to our nation by what you 00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:41.120 and then 00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:44.800 to some degree you can cut that person out of your life. 00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:48.400 I'm not saying, you know, cut and dry, we're done forever, right? 00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:51.200 But you can sort of withdraw, you can draw back. 00:44:51.200 --> 00:44:54.640 That is something that is morally permissible when a family member is 00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:58.320 is doing something that is sinful and refuses to stop, which in 00:44:58.320 --> 00:44:59.360 this case they've created a 00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:02.960 where there's no good solution, right? 00:45:02.960 --> 00:45:07.600 Now if we had a wise and righteous government, they would be 00:45:07.600 --> 00:45:11.040 deporting people back to their home countries, and then there would be 00:45:11.040 --> 00:45:13.600 a solution, this would be more easily resolved. 00:45:13.600 --> 00:45:17.600 But because of the circumstances under which we currently live, there's no 00:45:17.600 --> 00:45:19.520 good solution for you here, right? 00:45:20.240 --> 00:45:24.080 Mess, but it's a mess that he's created and you don't have 00:45:24.080 --> 00:45:26.400 to suffer because of that mess. 00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:29.280 Except for the fact that it looks like based on your wording 00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:30.640 at least I'm going off. 00:45:30.640 --> 00:45:33.520 It seems like there's those other children in the picture. 00:45:33.520 --> 00:45:38.800 And so continue to be the best uncle that you can, particularly 00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:39.120 for the 00:45:40.480 --> 00:45:44.160 And I don't think it's necessarily wrong to preference those other children. 00:45:44.160 --> 00:45:47.120 Don't you know be mean to this adopted child. 00:45:47.120 --> 00:45:50.240 Don't go out of your way to make his life miserable. 00:45:50.240 --> 00:45:54.160 But showing a preference for those who are your own blood is 00:45:54.160 --> 00:45:55.840 actually what you're supposed to do. 00:45:55.840 --> 00:45:58.400 So there's nothing wrong with doing that, assuming that there are these 00:45:58.400 --> 00:45:59.120 other children in the 00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:01.200 future. 00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:17.200 Tea would be nice, but I think it's still 90 degrees outside 00:46:17.200 --> 00:46:19.520 here, so I do not want tea. 00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:32.880 Question eleven is from YouTube. 00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:34.720 I'm glad the plugin is working again. 00:46:34.720 --> 00:46:35.920 It aggregates everything for me. 00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:36.960 It's quite nice. 00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:38.000 Question eleven. 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:42.640 How can we combat Bible apps or sites like Bible Hub that 00:46:42.640 --> 00:46:47.760 present anonymous translations and commentaries as the word. 00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:54.560 I'm actually not super familiar with exactly how that pans out because 00:46:54.800 --> 00:46:58.480 most of the time when I've used something like Bible Hub, I've 00:46:58.480 --> 00:46:59.120 seen 00:47:00.160 --> 00:47:04.160 the commentaries and such have said the name of the author. 00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:07.200 So I don't know. 00:47:07.200 --> 00:47:08.320 I I don't use it that much. 00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:11.760 I mostly use Logos, so I use an app. 00:47:11.760 --> 00:47:12.880 I don't know 00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:16.080 if they've added that feature or something. 00:47:16.080 --> 00:47:18.960 Let me just look at Bible hubier real quick. 00:47:23.120 --> 00:47:23.440 So 00:47:29.680 --> 00:47:32.560 at least for my say I'm not signed in, so I don't 00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:35.920 have any custom settings or anything, but it didn't pop up anonymous 00:47:37.520 --> 00:47:39.120 commentary, so I 00:47:40.240 --> 00:47:42.160 exactly what you're asking. 00:47:42.160 --> 00:47:45.120 If you can ask a follow-up question that might be helpful here. 00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:49.520 Insofar I can answer the sort of the more general question. 00:47:49.520 --> 00:47:52.480 Don't read random anonymous commentaries. 00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:55.520 It's good to know something about the author because author because you 00:47:55.600 --> 00:48:00.000 at least want to know probably the denomination and the tradition, right? 00:48:01.200 --> 00:48:04.320 Presbyterian you probably mostly want to read Presbyterian authors. 00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:08.400 It's good to read from other sometimes from other denominations too. 00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:11.840 I read the Reformed, I read Roman Catholics, I read others, I 00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:16.160 don't just read Lutherans, but you have to be careful what you 00:48:16.160 --> 00:48:19.440 read. that's not just for scripture, not just for common 00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:23.040 and excuse me. 00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:26.160 Maybe that's something that women need to hear more than men sometimes 00:48:26.320 --> 00:48:29.840 because of the current state of women's will be c will be 00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:32.160 charitable, so-called literature. 00:48:32.240 --> 00:48:32.560 But 00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:40.720 certainly don't go reading random unattributed commentaries on the taking them at 00:48:40.720 --> 00:48:42.160 face value. 00:48:42.560 --> 00:48:44.080 That goes without saying, right? 00:48:44.080 --> 00:48:46.960 Because you have to compare everything against the Word of God and 00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:49.200 make sure that it is consonant with the word of God. 00:48:49.200 --> 00:48:51.360 Which is why I encourage people any time I say something about 00:48:51.520 --> 00:48:55.200 scripture, go read it for yourself, see if what I said is 00:48:55.200 --> 00:48:57.120 in agreement with the word of God. 00:48:57.120 --> 00:48:58.480 If it is, great. 00:48:58.480 --> 00:48:59.440 If it's not 00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:04.000 The same thing is true here. 00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:08.960 I think most of the apps like BibleHub and others, the individuals 00:49:08.960 --> 00:49:11.600 behind them usually seem like they're well-intentioned. 00:49:11.600 --> 00:49:15.600 They're just sort of of the libertarian mindset of 00:49:22.560 --> 00:49:29.840 the caseism and someone on X X, who has deleted her 00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:34.400 his, I don't know, account at this point, partly because of something 00:49:34.400 --> 00:49:35.520 I said. 00:49:35.520 --> 00:49:38.880 But the comment was, you know, go read all of the Marxist 00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:43.200 literature. In theory the argument is you'll be convinced, and I've read 00:49:43.200 --> 00:49:44.480 a bunch of it, right? 00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:48.320 It's insane to think that the literature is, but my comment is 00:49:48.480 --> 00:49:51.680 it's insane to think that anyone would read all that stuff, synthesize 00:49:51.680 --> 00:49:53.360 it, and then come up with a refutation. 00:49:53.360 --> 00:49:54.720 You don't need to do that. 00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:57.520 The same with regard to the Word of God. 00:49:57.520 --> 00:49:59.280 Commentaries are useful 00:50:00.240 --> 00:50:05.200 place, but the core of the Word of God is obvious on 00:50:05.200 --> 00:50:05.920 its face. 00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:10.480 There are many doctrines where you don't need a commentary to explain 00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:11.520 it to you. 00:50:11.520 --> 00:50:14.240 There are things that are more complicated, there are things that are 00:50:14.240 --> 00:50:14.800 more difficult. 00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:18.480 You know, if you're talking about the communication of attributes to the 00:50:18.800 --> 00:50:23.280 person of the two natures in Christ, something like that, okay, yes, 00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:26.800 a commentary is going to be helpful, that's more complicated, insofar as 00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:29.920 you're going to look into that and research, as it were, to 00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:31.440 study that, right? 00:50:31.680 --> 00:50:35.040 But for many things in scripture you don't need a commentary. 00:50:35.040 --> 00:50:38.160 That doesn't mean they're not useful, because they certainly are. 00:50:38.160 --> 00:50:38.720 But you know 00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:43.040 read it with a grain of salt. 00:50:43.040 --> 00:50:46.480 But what can be done about done about them under existing law 00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:48.720 and existing government nothing. 00:50:48.720 --> 00:50:53.520 Under an ideal Christian government, things that are open heresy would be 00:50:53.520 --> 00:50:55.520 burned. They would not be permitted. 00:50:55.520 --> 00:50:58.800 Blasphemy laws and anti-heresy laws are a good thing. 00:50:58.960 --> 00:50:59.280 There are 00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:04.320 just be open and free to do whatever they want. 00:51:23.360 --> 00:51:27.360 Looking at the chat for the next question here. 00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:48.480 Guess I'll answer this one since it's sort of r related to 00:51:48.720 --> 00:51:50.640 the holiday tomorrow, right? 00:51:50.640 --> 00:51:53.600 On a related note, do you or woe plan to do a 00:51:53.600 --> 00:51:57.920 breakdown of your critiques of the American Revolution or is that already 00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:02.080 scattered across your corpus of work? 00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:03.200 So 00:52:04.080 --> 00:52:07.680 I don't know that either one of us necessarily intends to do 00:52:07.680 --> 00:52:10.560 a sort of full breakdown of the American Revolution. 00:52:10.560 --> 00:52:14.560 I have some things that I'm writing that are related to it, 00:52:14.560 --> 00:52:18.880 but more focused on the problems we face today and where we 00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:20.480 need to go. 00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:22.800 Because that's more relevant right now, right? 00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:26.000 And so I know there's a pending question about like the French 00:52:26.080 --> 00:52:27.120 Revolution and some stuff like that. 00:52:27.120 --> 00:52:30.960 I've commented on that a little bit before, and the American Revolution 00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:34.560 was similar to the French Revolution, except it did not go as 00:52:34.560 --> 00:52:37.120 far. It was a it was Satan A B testing again, and 00:52:37.120 --> 00:52:39.360 it turns out the American Revolution was the much 00:52:41.040 --> 00:52:42.640 So I don't think 00:52:43.520 --> 00:52:47.040 overall that the the American Revolution obviously was not ideal. 00:52:47.040 --> 00:52:49.360 I can certainly say that just bluntly. 00:52:49.360 --> 00:52:53.360 Was it warranted is a more nuanced, complicated question. 00:52:53.360 --> 00:52:54.800 I don't want to get into the full answer. 00:52:54.960 --> 00:53:01.600 Here's not even the question necessarily, but just sort of an overview. 00:53:01.600 --> 00:53:06.000 Was the taxation bad enough to warrant revolution? 00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:09.600 No. I'm just going to go ahead and say bluntly, no, the 00:53:09.600 --> 00:53:11.280 taxation was not. 00:53:11.600 --> 00:53:11.920 Was 00:53:13.200 --> 00:53:19.680 the support the British Crown gave to the Amerindians who were raping 00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:26.560 raping and murdering and causing other mayhem, the colonists warrant for revolution. 00:53:26.560 --> 00:53:28.160 There I think yes. 00:53:28.160 --> 00:53:33.360 And so was there sufficient warrant for what happened in the American 00:53:33.360 --> 00:53:36.080 Revolution? I think there was. 00:53:36.080 --> 00:53:38.720 Was that the best way to solve the problem? 00:53:38.720 --> 00:53:39.440 I don't think 00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:45.200 I think that they should have tried politics and diplomacy first. 00:53:45.200 --> 00:53:47.840 And they should have done more of it than they did. 00:53:47.840 --> 00:53:49.120 I recognize they did some. 00:53:49.680 --> 00:53:51.600 There were petitions, all of that stuff. 00:53:51.600 --> 00:53:53.360 I recognize that took place. 00:53:53.360 --> 00:53:57.040 I don't think they tried hard enough with that. 00:53:57.040 --> 00:54:04.400 Because anytime you're talking about war, you need to have extremely solid 00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:11.120 warrant, not just, you know, sufficient warrant because you want to avoid 00:54:11.120 --> 00:54:12.560 it if at all possible. 00:54:12.560 --> 00:54:14.720 There are times where it's unavoidable, right? 00:54:14.720 --> 00:54:17.760 There are times where you absolutely must go to war, you have 00:54:17.760 --> 00:54:18.880 no choice. 00:54:18.880 --> 00:54:19.200 And 00:54:20.080 --> 00:54:23.360 sort of situation in which we find ourselves today. 00:54:23.440 --> 00:54:28.640 I don't necessarily think that things were bad enough yet for that 00:54:28.640 --> 00:54:29.520 to happen. 00:54:29.520 --> 00:54:35.360 I think that probably the clearer line would have been, you know, 00:54:35.680 --> 00:54:39.600 call up militias in the colonies, go to the 00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:43.920 problem, and then gauge your response to the British based on the 00:54:43.920 --> 00:54:47.040 British response to what you did. 00:54:47.040 --> 00:54:51.200 But as for going in depth into the American Revolution, I don't 00:54:51.120 --> 00:54:52.800 know that I'll necessarily write that. 00:54:52.800 --> 00:54:58.000 I'm there are plenty of things that have been written about that. 00:54:58.000 --> 00:54:59.200 And that that answer 00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:03.520 sort of the thirty thousand foot view of What I believe about 00:55:03.520 --> 00:55:04.000 it. 00:55:30.720 --> 00:55:33.600 Have a question about collective punishment. 00:55:33.600 --> 00:55:35.440 I think I I'll go ahead and answer that. 00:55:35.440 --> 00:55:38.800 I was tempted to put that off until next week, but I'll 00:55:38.720 --> 00:55:40.000 go ahead and answer. 00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:48.240 Question thirteen Was Genesis thirty four twenty five through thirty one prescriptive? 00:55:48.240 --> 00:55:53.120 What legitimizes collective punishment outside specific justified racial annihilation? 00:55:53.120 --> 00:55:57.280 How should Christians view Tulsa, Rosewood, and such massacres? 00:55:57.280 --> 00:56:01.840 So I don't know that I'll comment on the historical incidents. 00:56:01.840 --> 00:56:05.680 By and large, they're generally blown out of proportion by modern media 00:56:05.680 --> 00:56:09.520 because they've sort of become leftist totems, right? 00:56:09.520 --> 00:56:15.200 They're used to attack whites and lie about Americans, which I of 00:56:15.200 --> 00:56:16.640 course mean whites. 00:56:16.640 --> 00:56:20.000 So that's the general thing you should think about though. 00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:24.480 Those cases are complete nonsense or they were completely justified, as is 00:56:24.480 --> 00:56:29.280 the case with some of the historical we'll call them extrajudicial killings, 00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:32.800 because that probably will not get this video banned. 00:56:32.800 --> 00:56:36.320 But of course the passage about which he is asking is the 00:56:36.320 --> 00:56:39.680 so called rape of Dina, and it's worth noting first off that 00:56:40.080 --> 00:56:42.800 we call rape is not what happened here. 00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:47.440 This is more like the previous episode where I spoke about those 00:56:47.440 --> 00:56:51.840 verses about a man who lies with a virgin, you know, out 00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:55.200 in the field and then has to marry her unless her father 00:56:55.200 --> 00:56:56.560 objects, right? 00:56:56.560 --> 00:56:58.240 This is what's happening here. 00:57:00.240 --> 00:57:04.080 the term because it's something very specific in our culture and particularly 00:57:04.080 --> 00:57:04.720 in our laws. 00:57:04.720 --> 00:57:07.600 And the laws have informed what our culture believes about it because 00:57:07.600 --> 00:57:10.000 that's there's a feedback loop there. 00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:12.960 I don't read the passage because everyone's familiar with it, right? 00:57:12.960 --> 00:57:16.800 You have Dina goes out, wanders around, does things a woman's not 00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:19.360 supposed to do in a strange city, a man sleeps with her 00:57:20.080 --> 00:57:23.040 and then says, I love her, I want to marry her, and 00:57:23.040 --> 00:57:27.200 they say, Only if you are circumcised, and so they get circumcised 00:57:27.280 --> 00:57:31.600 and then they slaughter them all when they're sore from being circumcised. 00:57:31.600 --> 00:57:31.680 So 00:57:33.920 --> 00:57:38.720 Israel later on, Jacob, renamed Israel later on, when he is 00:57:39.840 --> 00:57:43.040 Flash prophesying about his sons, because not everything he says is a 00:57:43.040 --> 00:57:46.240 blessing. He condemns them for this. 00:57:46.240 --> 00:57:48.000 He condemns them for it here as well. 00:57:48.000 --> 00:57:50.880 He says that they've created a stink among the people. 00:57:50.880 --> 00:57:55.760 So clearly he is He's a mixed bag, so he's not necessarily 00:57:55.760 --> 00:57:58.800 always a source of absolute truth, right? 00:57:58.800 --> 00:57:59.360 But he's 00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:04.880 when he is speaking about the future of his sons in Egypt. 00:58:04.880 --> 00:58:05.520 And so 00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:11.360 in that case, it's pretty clear that this is not what you're 00:58:11.360 --> 00:58:13.040 supposed to do. 00:58:13.040 --> 00:58:18.000 They overreacted and the problem again that we have is we don't 00:58:18.000 --> 00:58:18.880 use that term. 00:58:18.880 --> 00:58:19.280 We don't 00:58:20.160 --> 00:58:22.960 in the same way that they do. 00:58:22.960 --> 00:58:27.440 And in fact it's not even necessarily called rape here, right? 00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:30.160 So if you have that mindset, you think, oh well then what 00:58:30.640 --> 00:58:33.920 they were doing was probably still a little excessive, right, because they 00:58:33.920 --> 00:58:37.360 killed everyone in the city, not just the responsible party and you 00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:41.200 know, maybe his father who was involved and this is the king's 00:58:41.120 --> 00:58:43.920 son, so on and so forth. 00:58:43.920 --> 00:58:46.240 They went too far. 00:58:46.240 --> 00:58:49.360 What they did was not morally permissible. 00:58:49.360 --> 00:58:53.360 We're not looking at the same sort of situation today because we're 00:58:53.360 --> 00:58:57.040 looking at an invasion by foreign armies. 00:58:57.040 --> 00:59:00.960 This is not Because these are cousins here. 00:59:00.960 --> 00:59:05.920 You're not totally different situation, so it's not prescriptive, it's descriptive, which 00:59:05.920 --> 00:59:09.040 is to give the short answer to your question there. 00:59:09.040 --> 00:59:12.080 The difference between the two, for those who aren't aware, is prescriptive 00:59:12.080 --> 00:59:16.640 passages are saying God wants you to do this, they're commanding you 00:59:16.640 --> 00:59:19.280 to do something or not to do something depending 00:59:20.400 --> 00:59:23.520 are just describing history. 00:59:23.520 --> 00:59:28.720 There's lots of descriptive stuff in scripture that is definitely not something 00:59:28.720 --> 00:59:32.720 you should do, because there are descriptions of human sacrifice. 00:59:32.720 --> 00:59:36.720 There are descriptions of worshiping idols, there are plenty of descriptions of 00:59:36.720 --> 00:59:42.240 prostitutes. There are many things in scripture described that are not prescribed 00:59:42.320 --> 00:59:44.960 because they are not something you should do. 00:59:44.960 --> 00:59:46.880 This is descriptive. 00:59:47.040 --> 00:59:50.000 It doesn't mean that we shouldn't punish those who do these sorts 00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:50.960 of sorts of things. 00:59:50.960 --> 00:59:55.520 Certainly we can punish them, but you don't usually annihilate a city 00:59:55.840 --> 01:00:01.600 because someone didn't go through the proper channel to ask to marry 01:00:01.600 --> 01:00:03.360 your sister. 01:00:03.360 --> 01:00:05.680 Because that's really what's going on here. 01:00:05.680 --> 01:00:06.000 So 01:00:06.880 --> 01:00:10.240 they're condemned very clearly by a prophet in scripture. 01:00:10.240 --> 01:00:12.320 So no, this is not prescriptive. 01:00:15.600 --> 01:00:20.880 But insofar as like I said, viewing historical extrajudicial of those were 01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:23.520 absolutely justified in the American context. 01:00:23.520 --> 01:00:26.880 And if you read the actual factual accounts of what those individuals 01:00:26.880 --> 01:00:31.360 did before their life was cut short, they deserved it. 01:00:39.920 --> 01:00:42.720 Person who said sorry about the typos mobile app is terrible, I 01:00:42.720 --> 01:00:44.160 absolutely agree. 01:00:44.160 --> 01:00:48.800 And that's why I usually check things three times to try not 01:00:49.120 --> 01:00:54.000 to have weird typos when I post on X. 01:00:54.000 --> 01:00:55.760 Doesn't always work out. 01:00:55.760 --> 01:00:59.280 I have few typos, but they exist. 01:01:05.280 --> 01:01:11.280 Someone asked me about speaking at an RTTL event. 01:01:11.280 --> 01:01:14.080 You can go ahead and just have Arville 01:01:15.200 --> 01:01:16.240 message me. 01:01:16.640 --> 01:01:20.800 we've spoken before, so if if that's something he can go ahead 01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:28.080 and just let me know. 01:01:32.560 --> 01:01:37.040 The question is specifically about the Berean Study Bible or Berean Standard 01:01:37.040 --> 01:01:39.120 Bible. I actually don't know which actu 01:01:40.320 --> 01:01:43.280 I had no idea what that was until someone told me they 01:01:43.280 --> 01:01:43.840 used it. 01:01:43.840 --> 01:01:46.000 The funding is very opaque. 01:01:46.720 --> 01:01:48.480 I've heard mixed things about it. 01:01:48.480 --> 01:01:49.920 I don't know enough about it personally. 01:01:49.920 --> 01:01:50.720 I don't use it. 01:01:50.720 --> 01:01:52.000 I don't have a copy of it. 01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:54.240 I have a PDF, but that hardly counts. 01:01:54.240 --> 01:01:57.120 I have it in Logos, but I don't really use it, so 01:01:57.120 --> 01:01:59.200 I don't have a firm opinion on it. 01:01:59.200 --> 01:01:59.280 I 01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:01.040 one way or the other 01:02:02.080 --> 01:02:04.240 because I just don't know enough about it. 01:02:04.240 --> 01:02:04.560 So 01:02:05.440 --> 01:02:10.640 if you find that something about it pricks your conscience, then go 01:02:10.640 --> 01:02:11.440 ahead and avoid it. 01:02:11.440 --> 01:02:13.200 There's no reason you have to use that one. 01:02:13.200 --> 01:02:16.320 There are plenty of good study Bibles out there. 01:02:16.320 --> 01:02:20.640 The Lutheran study Bible is excellent. 01:02:20.640 --> 01:02:24.160 There are some things with which I disagree in the footnotes, but 01:02:24.160 --> 01:02:28.480 very few and usually minor and nothing about core doctrines. 01:02:28.480 --> 01:02:34.320 The footnotes, the essays, explanatory materials are generally quite good. 01:02:34.320 --> 01:02:37.600 So I can definitely still recommend that one. 01:02:37.600 --> 01:02:38.640 And I would actually recommend 01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:43.120 volume as well, which I thought was on my desk. 01:02:43.120 --> 01:02:48.400 Maybe it's not, because it has explanatory essays and information about the 01:02:48.400 --> 01:02:52.000 history and things like that that a modern reader will not have 01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:55.840 as part of his information his knowledge store because we're not living 01:02:55.840 --> 01:02:59.120 in that context and so that's very helpful for a modern reader 01:02:59.120 --> 01:03:01.920 to those explanatory materials. 01:03:01.920 --> 01:03:05.760 So if you want to read the Apocrypha, I would definitely say 01:03:05.760 --> 01:03:08.720 grab the study version from CPH. 01:03:08.720 --> 01:03:13.120 Better if you can get it secondhand so it's actually reasonably priced. 01:03:13.120 --> 01:03:15.680 But it's also fairly well made, which is nice. 01:03:15.680 --> 01:03:19.120 Because not everything from CPH these days is as we know with 01:03:19.120 --> 01:03:19.280 every 01:03:20.320 --> 01:03:22.160 have sort of a hierarchy of volume. 01:03:22.160 --> 01:03:23.440 Some are good, some are crap. 01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:33.440 Answer uh a few more questions I think and then call it 01:03:33.440 --> 01:03:36.000 a night so people can go out and enjoy the early fireworks 01:03:36.080 --> 01:03:38.880 I'm sure are starting I can hear them starting here. 01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:39.040 I 01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:42.640 go check on my dogs and see. 01:03:42.640 --> 01:03:43.840 He's not in the 01:03:44.880 --> 01:03:47.840 study with me right now and he hates fireworks. 01:03:47.840 --> 01:03:48.160 So 01:03:50.240 --> 01:03:53.040 sort of been a two for one for him tonight because we 01:03:53.040 --> 01:03:55.760 had a little bit of thunder and lightning earlier and now we 01:03:55.760 --> 01:03:59.920 have fireworks and he likes neither of those things. 01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:04.720 sixteen question fifteen, rather I should answer that one first. 01:04:04.720 --> 01:04:09.520 Should we be mourning as Nineveh did this weekend. 01:04:09.520 --> 01:04:12.000 I think we should do that in the future. 01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:14.640 This weekend is the two hundred and fiftieth. 01:04:14.640 --> 01:04:19.280 I think it is right to celebrate our nation, focus on celebrate 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:23.040 our nation is older than two hundred and fifty, right? 01:04:23.040 --> 01:04:25.520 Because it's the United States, it's two hundred and fifty. 01:04:25.520 --> 01:04:31.200 Our nation was here significantly before the Declaration of Independence was written 01:04:31.200 --> 01:04:32.400 and signed. 01:04:32.400 --> 01:04:35.120 But no, I think go ahead and celebrate. 01:04:35.120 --> 01:04:40.480 There are times you know, think of Proverbs and Ecclesiastics, right? 01:04:40.560 --> 01:04:43.040 There are times to mourn and times to celebrate. 01:04:43.040 --> 01:04:45.440 This is a time to celebrate, not a time to mourn. 01:04:45.440 --> 01:04:45.760 So 01:04:46.880 --> 01:04:49.680 I don't think focus and dwell on the bad right now. 01:04:49.680 --> 01:04:52.400 Go ahead and focus and dwell on the good and enjoy time 01:04:52.400 --> 01:04:55.600 with family and friends and fireworks and all that stuff. 01:04:55.600 --> 01:04:57.840 That's what should be done this weekend. 01:05:02.480 --> 01:05:03.920 A follow-up question. 01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:08.000 Someone asked about my answering of a question on adultery. 01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:08.800 Did I answer that one? 01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:10.720 I did answer that in a previous episode. 01:05:10.720 --> 01:05:12.480 I don't remember which episode. 01:05:12.480 --> 01:05:13.840 I think it's an old enough one. 01:05:13.840 --> 01:05:17.200 The transcript should be up on the website so you can go 01:05:17.200 --> 01:05:21.040 ahead and search and it should easily. 01:05:21.040 --> 01:05:23.280 Also it will be list it should be listed. 01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:24.400 I won't say will. 01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:28.080 It should be listed in the show notes where I have the 01:05:28.080 --> 01:05:29.360 questions listed. 01:05:29.360 --> 01:05:32.320 I know I don't know the all the questions from last week. 01:05:32.320 --> 01:05:34.480 That was earlier than that. 01:05:34.480 --> 01:05:38.560 Because my draft got lost because the browser crashed. 01:05:38.960 --> 01:05:39.280 But 01:05:40.480 --> 01:05:41.600 that one I did answer. 01:05:41.600 --> 01:05:44.480 I answered about what should be done with adulterers and how they 01:05:44.480 --> 01:05:49.680 should be punished. 01:05:49.680 --> 01:05:51.680 Someone is asking about zoos. 01:05:51.680 --> 01:05:54.080 That has actually come up a number of times recently. 01:05:54.080 --> 01:05:56.800 I had someone ask me about that in person recently too. 01:05:56.800 --> 01:05:58.960 I like zoos. 01:05:58.960 --> 01:06:04.400 I think that they should definitely be improved in many cases. 01:06:04.400 --> 01:06:09.200 I was a member of the San Diego Zoological Society for many 01:06:09.200 --> 01:06:12.320 years and San Diego has an excellent zoo. 01:06:12.320 --> 01:06:13.360 It actually has two parks. 01:06:13.360 --> 01:06:16.720 There's the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Safari Park, which 01:06:16.720 --> 01:06:20.960 is out where it is unbelievably hot. 01:06:21.040 --> 01:06:24.480 Beautiful area, great for a lot of the animals out there. 01:06:24.480 --> 01:06:28.960 Because of the breeding program at that zoo, at those two parks, 01:06:28.960 --> 01:06:32.880 not just the one park, there are animals that we probably wouldn't 01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:35.440 have today without those programs. 01:06:35.440 --> 01:06:39.920 Now the obviously problems in the wild that we should perhaps solve. 01:06:40.160 --> 01:06:43.440 Zoo is at least a stopgap measure, and I think it's one 01:06:43.440 --> 01:06:46.320 of the only real ways that you are going to get the 01:06:46.320 --> 01:06:51.120 mass of people exposed to these animals, to nature, to learn about 01:06:51.120 --> 01:06:56.240 these things, and to have that developed care for the natural world. 01:06:56.240 --> 01:06:58.080 So I think it's good for children to go to zoos, but 01:06:58.320 --> 01:06:59.280 the animals should be treated well 01:07:01.040 --> 01:07:04.880 designed by those who understand the animals and try to build something 01:07:04.880 --> 01:07:09.360 that is, if not obviously entirely natural, at least doesn't cause the 01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:11.360 animal stress is good for the animal. 01:07:11.360 --> 01:07:15.120 They should be treated well according to you know what you do 01:07:15.120 --> 01:07:17.360 and do not permit visitors to do. 01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:19.920 People shouldn't be throwing things at them. 01:07:19.920 --> 01:07:22.240 There are some very bad zoos in the world, but there are 01:07:22.320 --> 01:07:23.120 also some very good ones. 01:07:23.120 --> 01:07:26.080 So I I definitely think zoos are overall a good thing. 01:07:43.760 --> 01:07:48.800 Someone asked two related questions about evolution so I think I'll just 01:07:48.800 --> 01:07:53.120 go ahead and answer those generally instead of specifically. 01:07:53.120 --> 01:07:58.720 Let me go ahead and paste those into the show notes first. 01:07:58.720 --> 01:08:02.080 So the question is how did we get from 01:08:04.720 --> 01:08:11.920 Adam and Eve, right, to the wild differences among humanity today? 01:08:11.920 --> 01:08:14.400 Or really more accurately, how do we go from Noah to the 01:08:14.400 --> 01:08:15.840 wild differences. 01:08:15.840 --> 01:08:18.400 It doesn't actually take that long for 01:08:20.320 --> 01:08:24.880 in the sense that evolutionists mean because obviously that's a very specific 01:08:24.880 --> 01:08:28.240 thing and it's not what we generally believe. 01:08:28.240 --> 01:08:33.280 Now can you get to the point where two members obviously not 01:08:33.280 --> 01:08:36.560 the members themselves, but their progeny down the line, are so far 01:08:36.560 --> 01:08:39.440 distant from each other that they can no longer interbreed and produce 01:08:40.640 --> 01:08:46.000 In theory that could happen, but I think the degeneration necessary for 01:08:46.320 --> 01:08:49.440 the distance to be so great that they would no longer be 01:08:49.440 --> 01:08:53.440 able to reproduce would mean they wouldn't be able to reproduce anyway, 01:08:53.440 --> 01:08:57.440 because they would be too degenerate, too corrupted genetically. 01:08:57.440 --> 01:08:59.280 But to answer the the c 01:09:00.960 --> 01:09:04.080 I said, it does not take that long for these things to 01:09:04.080 --> 01:09:06.960 entrench. You can get From 01:09:10.800 --> 01:09:12.560 I don't know how far I want to go into this question 01:09:12.640 --> 01:09:16.160 because it gets not complicated, but it takes a while to explain. 01:09:16.160 --> 01:09:20.880 I think probably go listen to the episode that we the episode, 01:09:20.880 --> 01:09:24.640 the series that we did, on race for Stone Choir, particularly the 01:09:24.640 --> 01:09:27.360 episode about the fundamentals and genetics and all that things, how that 01:09:27.360 --> 01:09:32.480 works, because that's a longer explanation instead of taking the time to 01:09:32.800 --> 01:09:34.880 restate that here. 01:09:35.440 --> 01:09:40.640 It's through information loss, which is the fundamentally important point to information 01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:41.120 gain. 01:09:43.200 --> 01:09:47.920 And it's also theoretically impossible, but without getting into that philosophy. 01:09:47.920 --> 01:09:52.080 You start off with an individual or individuals, because it's Adam and 01:09:52.080 --> 01:09:55.760 Eve, right, who have they're pluripotent as it were. 01:09:55.760 --> 01:09:58.800 They have the possibility in their genome to create all of the 01:09:58.800 --> 01:09:59.600 offspring 01:10:01.280 --> 01:10:06.480 modulo some harmful mutations that have occurred along the way and corruptions 01:10:06.480 --> 01:10:11.440 that end in things like you know, cancer and missing limbs and 01:10:11.440 --> 01:10:12.000 things like that. 01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:16.400 Because obviously that's not evolution in the sense of something changing and 01:10:16.400 --> 01:10:19.920 getting better, that's just a loss of information, right? 01:10:19.920 --> 01:10:23.520 If your genome no longer produces your left arm, you're not You're 01:10:23.520 --> 01:10:25.200 not better off. 01:10:25.200 --> 01:10:25.520 So 01:10:26.640 --> 01:10:30.160 what happens is that loss of information, this is how God designed 01:10:30.160 --> 01:10:34.000 it, you have the parents of the species start off with all 01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:38.240 the possibility, and then because of selective breeding down through the generations 01:10:38.320 --> 01:10:44.720 and the loss of information, have certain attributes that entrench certain phenotypes 01:10:44.800 --> 01:10:49.520 being an expression of the genotype that express themselves in and entrench 01:10:49.680 --> 01:10:52.320 in certain subpopulations. 01:10:52.320 --> 01:10:56.320 To give a concrete example that's easier to grasp than the explanation 01:10:56.320 --> 01:10:59.520 itself, abstracted out, European 01:11:00.400 --> 01:11:01.840 Africans are not. 01:11:01.840 --> 01:11:04.560 That is due to that loss of information. 01:11:04.560 --> 01:11:07.680 You are not going to go from an African to a European 01:11:07.840 --> 01:11:09.920 no matter how many generations you have. 01:11:09.920 --> 01:11:12.800 You're not going to go from a European to an African no 01:11:12.800 --> 01:11:14.480 matter how many generations you have. 01:11:14.800 --> 01:11:19.120 Because that loss of genetic information is what created those distinctions and 01:11:19.120 --> 01:11:19.280 then 01:11:20.240 --> 01:11:22.240 those populations. 01:11:22.240 --> 01:11:27.520 Adam and Eve had the genetic potential for both. 01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:28.640 That's how that happened. 01:11:28.640 --> 01:11:30.800 And it happens quite quickly. 01:11:30.800 --> 01:11:34.880 And the best way to look at how quickly it can happen 01:11:34.880 --> 01:11:39.200 would be to look at professional dog breeding programs 01:11:40.160 --> 01:11:45.520 of created, obviously just through selective breeding, God created the material, but 01:11:45.520 --> 01:11:49.600 we have selectively bred dogs over a course of only a couple 01:11:49.760 --> 01:11:53.920 centuries in some cases, to be wildly different breeds. 01:11:53.920 --> 01:11:57.280 So So this is not something that takes a great deal of 01:11:57.280 --> 01:11:59.360 time. It is certainly something that is possible 01:12:00.400 --> 01:12:06.480 scale presented in scripture. 01:12:06.480 --> 01:12:10.320 But the key part, bear in mind, like I said, one way 01:12:10.320 --> 01:12:14.560 street. You are not going from a Pomeranian, my dog that's downstairs 01:12:14.640 --> 01:12:18.960 probably unhapp about the fireworks, back to whatever the proto-dog was on 01:12:18.960 --> 01:12:22.240 the arc That was a one-way trip. 01:12:22.240 --> 01:12:26.320 That's just how God designed it, because obviously he designed the species 01:12:26.320 --> 01:12:28.560 to do exactly what he wanted us to do. 01:12:28.560 --> 01:12:31.680 Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth. 01:12:31.680 --> 01:12:36.400 And so that loss of genetic information leading to those specializations and 01:12:36.400 --> 01:12:39.120 differentiations among the subspecies 01:12:40.240 --> 01:12:45.040 made them fit for different niches along different parts of the planet. 01:12:45.280 --> 01:12:48.800 It all fits in with God's design. 01:13:00.080 --> 01:13:03.120 This one because someone just has thoughts on the LCMS selection. 01:13:08.080 --> 01:13:12.160 Like I've said, all of the currently existing denominations are going to 01:13:12.160 --> 01:13:15.360 go under and we're going to have to build new churches, new 01:13:15.360 --> 01:13:18.640 bodies, and there's nothing wrong with that. 01:13:18.640 --> 01:13:23.120 These things this point they are too corrupted, they're too far gone. 01:13:40.560 --> 01:13:42.320 I think I will answer 01:13:43.920 --> 01:13:47.680 one more question for tonight since we're we're basically at the the 01:13:47.680 --> 01:13:48.640 hour mark now. 01:13:48.640 --> 01:13:50.720 So a little little bit over, but I I tend to run 01:13:50.720 --> 01:13:52.000 just a little bit over. 01:13:52.800 --> 01:13:56.320 And if there are any additional questions that pop up in chat 01:13:56.320 --> 01:13:58.720 between answering this one and the end, I'll try to put them 01:13:58.720 --> 01:13:59.360 in for 01:14:00.320 --> 01:14:01.200 one. 01:14:03.920 --> 01:14:05.120 Question 18. 01:14:05.120 --> 01:14:07.760 At what point do you think it is a good idea for 01:14:07.760 --> 01:14:11.520 someone to move, seeing the massive influx of foreigners in parts of 01:14:11.520 --> 01:14:15.680 America, Dallas in this case, I have lived, that I have considered 01:14:15.680 --> 01:14:16.720 moving to Poland. 01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:18.400 Any thoughts? 01:14:19.040 --> 01:14:19.360 So 01:14:20.720 --> 01:14:23.600 I guess there are really two things here, right? 01:14:24.960 --> 01:14:31.200 There's the when is it wise to move question based on the 01:14:31.200 --> 01:14:36.000 invasion, changing demographics, things like that, problems in wherever it is that 01:14:36.000 --> 01:14:38.000 you live. 01:14:38.000 --> 01:14:40.080 I'll answer that one first. 01:14:40.400 --> 01:14:42.080 the Poland question as it were. 01:14:47.920 --> 01:14:51.200 I think that it is a matter of wisdom. 01:14:51.200 --> 01:14:53.120 And obviously I moved, right? 01:14:53.120 --> 01:14:54.480 I lived in Southern California. 01:14:54.720 --> 01:14:57.040 Yeah, I now live in East Tennessee, so I did move. 01:14:57.040 --> 01:15:02.560 I moved granted, I moved back then for three hundred years or 01:15:02.560 --> 01:15:04.240 something here in the hills, but 01:15:05.680 --> 01:15:08.800 I think there are times where it is the wise call, it 01:15:08.800 --> 01:15:12.000 is the wisdom call which you are commanded to exercise as a 01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:15.600 Christian, the measure of it that God is entrusted to you to 01:15:15.600 --> 01:15:19.280 use on behalf of yourself and others, and of course his word 01:15:20.240 --> 01:15:21.040 for you. 01:15:21.120 --> 01:15:24.960 There are times where that demands that you move from an area 01:15:24.960 --> 01:15:27.920 because it is no longer safe for you, for your family, whatever 01:15:27.920 --> 01:15:29.440 it happens to be. 01:15:29.440 --> 01:15:32.160 I think that was the case when I moved from Southern California 01:15:32.240 --> 01:15:35.280 because it was just kept getting worse. 01:15:35.280 --> 01:15:36.880 California has its own problems. 01:15:36.880 --> 01:15:39.760 Southern California has massive demographic problems. 01:15:40.160 --> 01:15:40.720 Getting better. 01:15:40.720 --> 01:15:42.320 They were going in the wrong direction. 01:15:42.320 --> 01:15:46.240 This is a better place to be because of the reality on 01:15:46.240 --> 01:15:47.360 the ground. 01:15:47.360 --> 01:15:47.760 So So 01:15:48.880 --> 01:15:52.880 if areas like Dallas, and I know some parts of Texas are 01:15:52.880 --> 01:15:58.560 certainly having massive problems, if those areas are becoming untenable to live 01:15:58.560 --> 01:16:02.800 there and your duty to your family, and you have duties to 01:16:02.800 --> 01:16:04.560 yourself as well, right? 01:16:04.560 --> 01:16:07.040 God does command you take care of yourself. 01:16:07.040 --> 01:16:10.720 Then I think that wisdom would say you should move somewhere else. 01:16:10.720 --> 01:16:12.240 Should it be Poland? 01:16:12.240 --> 01:16:13.760 I think the answer is no. 01:16:13.760 --> 01:16:16.960 Because in theory, if you're asking me this question, you are an 01:16:16.960 --> 01:16:19.120 American and so you should 01:16:20.240 --> 01:16:22.320 America is your homeland. 01:16:22.320 --> 01:16:25.280 Now if you're asking about Poland because you know your parents are 01:16:25.280 --> 01:16:28.480 Polish immigrants and you're first generation here in America, okay fine, you 01:16:28.480 --> 01:16:29.440 can move to Poland. 01:16:29.440 --> 01:16:31.040 In your case, that makes sense. 01:16:31.040 --> 01:16:33.920 I don't get that feeling from your question though. 01:16:33.920 --> 01:16:37.760 So I don't think that you should abandon the United States. 01:16:37.760 --> 01:16:39.200 I don't think that that is 01:16:41.280 --> 01:16:44.160 be clear by the United States, I mean our territory and our 01:16:44.160 --> 01:16:47.920 people. I don't think the United States as a political entity is 01:16:47.920 --> 01:16:50.320 going to survive the next twenty years. 01:16:50.320 --> 01:16:53.680 At least not in any recognizable form, right? 01:16:53.680 --> 01:16:54.000 So 01:16:55.120 --> 01:16:58.640 no you shouldn't move to Poland if you are an American, but 01:16:58.640 --> 01:16:59.280 you can move 01:17:00.160 --> 01:17:03.840 in American territory to get away from those problems as best you 01:17:03.840 --> 01:17:07.760 can under present circumstances, I don't think that's an unwise or an 01:17:07.760 --> 01:17:10.320 impermissible thing to do. 01:17:10.320 --> 01:17:15.360 But making the the wild leap of moving to a truly foreign 01:17:15.360 --> 01:17:17.840 country, let's say in this case you're not right, a first generation 01:17:17.840 --> 01:17:19.840 Polish person living here. 01:17:20.080 --> 01:17:22.720 Think that that is what you should be doing. 01:17:22.720 --> 01:17:24.400 Because you're not Polish. 01:17:24.400 --> 01:17:26.480 Why would you be living in Poland? 01:17:26.480 --> 01:17:27.840 And should they even admit you? 01:17:27.840 --> 01:17:29.680 They probably shouldn't even admit you. 01:17:29.680 --> 01:17:34.720 Because the same as we shouldn't be admitting foreigners here, they shouldn't 01:17:34.640 --> 01:17:36.240 be doing it there. 01:17:36.240 --> 01:17:41.520 And granted, you know there's the small influx some of our European 01:17:41.520 --> 01:17:44.160 brothers is fine, that's a different thing. 01:17:44.160 --> 01:17:48.480 But we shouldn't be letting random foreigners come here and live here 01:17:48.480 --> 01:17:50.560 and just pretend that they're American. 01:17:50.560 --> 01:17:54.480 And the Europeans shouldn't be doing that with their countries either. 01:17:54.480 --> 01:17:56.240 And j the Japanese shouldn't. 01:17:56.240 --> 01:17:57.280 The Koreans shouldn't it. 01:17:57.280 --> 01:18:01.600 People have their own lands entrusted by God who set the boundaries 01:18:01.600 --> 01:18:06.720 in the times of the nation, so geographical and chronological boundaries, and 01:18:06.720 --> 01:18:09.440 those should be respected and defended. 01:18:09.760 --> 01:18:13.040 So if you want to move somewhere else in America to get 01:18:13.040 --> 01:18:15.840 away from some of those problems because they're becoming too much of 01:18:15.840 --> 01:18:19.680 a problem to continue living there, by all means go ahead. 01:18:20.560 --> 01:18:22.480 And we're not saying that just because it's Poland, right? 01:18:22.480 --> 01:18:25.840 If you asked about France or Russia, I'd say the same thing. 01:18:40.320 --> 01:18:40.640 I 01:18:41.840 --> 01:18:44.320 I'll answer two more questions just because they're here. 01:18:44.320 --> 01:18:46.800 We'll run over a little bit, it's fine. 01:18:46.800 --> 01:18:49.040 People can watch this whenever they want or tune out if they 01:18:49.200 --> 01:18:50.640 are done for the evening. 01:18:50.640 --> 01:18:51.600 Question nineteen. 01:18:51.600 --> 01:18:55.200 You have mentioned Jews must repent of their blood. 01:18:55.200 --> 01:18:59.600 Do non whites or those who are mixed not need to do 01:19:00.320 --> 01:19:03.440 the current time or in their current state. 01:19:03.440 --> 01:19:03.760 So 01:19:05.120 --> 01:19:07.840 the short answer to your question is no. 01:19:07.840 --> 01:19:11.680 You don't need to repent of being African, right? 01:19:11.680 --> 01:19:16.480 You don't need to repent of being Korean or half Korean, half 01:19:16.480 --> 01:19:17.120 African, right? 01:19:17.120 --> 01:19:18.320 You don't have to repent of that. 01:19:18.320 --> 01:19:18.960 That's 01:19:20.000 --> 01:19:23.680 I have said, and Woe has said, and the reason that we 01:19:23.680 --> 01:19:28.480 have continued to teach that Jews have to repent of being Jewish 01:19:28.560 --> 01:19:35.120 is because Jewish identity is rejection of Christ that has become so 01:19:35.120 --> 01:19:39.200 central to who and what they are that you can't pop 01:19:40.320 --> 01:19:45.280 Christian without ceasing to be a Jew as far as is possible. 01:19:51.280 --> 01:19:54.080 I'm not saying they get to live here once they repent of 01:19:54.080 --> 01:19:55.840 that and become Christian. 01:19:55.840 --> 01:20:00.080 They're still alien, they're still foreign, they shouldn't be here. 01:20:00.080 --> 01:20:03.920 But in order to become a Christian, which is certainly better for 01:20:03.920 --> 01:20:06.960 them, and what they should do, and what I would prefer that 01:20:06.960 --> 01:20:10.080 they do, virtually none of them will, but what I would prefer 01:20:10.080 --> 01:20:15.360 that they would do is repent of being Jewish, turn away from 01:20:15.360 --> 01:20:18.880 the wickedness of their people, because they have made their racial identity 01:20:20.720 --> 01:20:28.240 and just become a Christian who has Hebrew ancestry or Israelite ancestry, 01:20:28.240 --> 01:20:29.360 whatever they want to call themselves. 01:20:29.360 --> 01:20:32.240 I think Hebrew is probably the fine term to use. 01:20:32.240 --> 01:20:35.840 Or you want to say Palestinian, that's not an accurate either, because 01:20:36.080 --> 01:20:38.160 they're pretty closely related. 01:20:38.160 --> 01:20:38.480 So 01:20:40.240 --> 01:20:45.680 repent of being that is because their identity as a race is 01:20:45.680 --> 01:20:49.040 the hatred of Christ, is the hatred of God. 01:20:49.040 --> 01:20:54.480 And you have to reject that, pretty obviously, to become a Christian. 01:20:54.480 --> 01:20:57.680 You can't hold on to hatred of Christ as sort of a 01:20:57.840 --> 01:20:59.440 core part of who and what you are 01:21:00.320 --> 01:21:01.280 to be a Christian. 01:21:01.280 --> 01:21:03.520 At least not without being a liar. 01:21:11.600 --> 01:21:15.440 And the final question is sort of a quick question as he 01:21:15.440 --> 01:21:18.720 says. And it's one of those ones where I almost want to 01:21:18.720 --> 01:21:22.320 give the easy answer, as it were, but I'll go ahead and 01:21:22.320 --> 01:21:24.400 give the the longer answer. 01:21:24.400 --> 01:21:28.000 I won't do the the full exegesis here because that takes a 01:21:28.000 --> 01:21:31.440 while and actually have that in some notes when I finally get 01:21:31.440 --> 01:21:34.240 back to my class that I was working on for the old 01:21:34.240 --> 01:21:36.080 testament, hopefully soon. 01:21:36.080 --> 01:21:37.040 But question twenty. 01:21:37.040 --> 01:21:39.200 Given that God cannot will evil what 01:21:40.320 --> 01:21:44.960 is the one who hardens Pharaoh's heart during the plagues. 01:21:45.040 --> 01:21:45.680 My first 01:21:46.800 --> 01:21:49.440 answer to that, and the initial way that I always answer that 01:21:49.440 --> 01:21:52.960 one that comes up and it comes up relatively frequently, or at 01:21:52.960 --> 01:21:55.120 least it has in the past. 01:21:55.120 --> 01:21:58.720 Go read the narrative. 01:21:58.720 --> 01:21:59.200 Who 01:22:00.080 --> 01:22:03.280 Pharaoh's heart first? 01:22:03.280 --> 01:22:04.400 Pharaoh does. 01:22:04.400 --> 01:22:06.560 Pharaoh hardens his heart. 01:22:06.560 --> 01:22:09.360 God confirms him in his wickedness. 01:22:09.360 --> 01:22:14.160 And that is entirely God's right to do because the regeneration, the 01:22:14.160 --> 01:22:15.200 repentance, right? 01:22:15.200 --> 01:22:18.400 Back to the earlier question, the earlier answer, monarchism. 01:22:18.400 --> 01:22:21.760 God is the one who gives you the free gift of faith. 01:22:21.760 --> 01:22:26.080 God is the one who renews, who regenerates you, and that is 01:22:26.080 --> 01:22:27.920 God's action alone. 01:22:28.960 --> 01:22:31.120 Pharaoh hardens his heart. 01:22:31.120 --> 01:22:35.440 God simply says, Fine, that's who you want to be, that's what 01:22:35.440 --> 01:22:36.400 you want to do. 01:22:36.400 --> 01:22:39.680 I will go ahead and confirm you in your wickedness. 01:22:41.760 --> 01:22:46.400 God is not the one who in some cases some people will 01:22:46.400 --> 01:22:49.520 try to say that you know oh well God didn't let Pharaoh 01:22:49.520 --> 01:22:53.520 repent and it God damned him and he was right people try 01:22:53.520 --> 01:22:56.160 to make it into a double predestination sort of thing, and the 01:22:56.160 --> 01:22:59.520 narrative, the text does not support it. 01:23:00.400 --> 01:23:04.880 Does is confirm Pharaoh in his wickedness, lets Pharaoh continue on his 01:23:04.880 --> 01:23:08.640 merry way, dancing along down the road to hell. 01:23:08.640 --> 01:23:13.600 God isn't the one who says, You're Pharaoh and I damn you 01:23:13.760 --> 01:23:16.480 because your number came up wrong or I flipped a coin. 01:23:16.480 --> 01:23:18.080 That's not how it works. 01:23:18.080 --> 01:23:19.360 Pharaoh sins 01:23:20.240 --> 01:23:22.160 is sin Does God harden his heart? 01:23:22.160 --> 01:23:23.360 Yes he does. 01:23:23.360 --> 01:23:26.800 And there are times where that happens, just as you can sear 01:23:26.800 --> 01:23:29.760 your conscience or you can harden your own heart. 01:23:29.760 --> 01:23:30.080 So 01:23:31.280 --> 01:23:32.400 don't do that. 01:23:32.400 --> 01:23:36.080 It's one of the reasons that I We'll many times point out 01:23:36.080 --> 01:23:39.200 to people, don't try to do the like deathbed conf 01:23:40.400 --> 01:23:43.760 like get out of jail free card, oh I'll live a dissolute 01:23:43.760 --> 01:23:45.760 life and be a horrible person and do all this stuff and 01:23:45.760 --> 01:23:48.720 then I'll repent on my deathbed and I'll get into heaven. 01:23:48.960 --> 01:23:51.440 You could die tomorrow. 01:23:51.440 --> 01:23:54.640 God could stop giving you chances to repent. 01:23:54.640 --> 01:23:57.360 God doesn't have to give you an infinite number of chances to 01:23:57.360 --> 01:23:59.040 repent. So 01:23:59.920 --> 01:24:02.960 don't try to game the odds like that. 01:24:02.960 --> 01:24:08.160 The same as I've often described things in terms of use hiking 01:24:08.160 --> 01:24:13.840 metaphors, but if you are hiking along a cliff, you don't hike 01:24:13.840 --> 01:24:15.360 right on the edge. 01:24:15.360 --> 01:24:17.680 You don't get as close to the cliff as possible. 01:24:17.680 --> 01:24:20.080 You stay back from it. 01:24:20.080 --> 01:24:21.520 Safety buffer. 01:24:21.520 --> 01:24:26.240 The same thing with regard to sinful behavior and things like don't 01:24:26.160 --> 01:24:29.200 come as close to the sin as you possibly can without committing 01:24:29.200 --> 01:24:33.440 it. Because eventually you're going to stumble over that line. 01:24:33.440 --> 01:24:36.400 So don't try the deathbed confession. 01:24:36.400 --> 01:24:39.040 Don't harden your heart like Pharaoh did, because maybe God 01:24:40.000 --> 01:24:42.320 giving you additional chances to repent. 01:24:42.320 --> 01:24:43.760 God doesn't have to do that. 01:24:43.760 --> 01:24:46.080 It's not required of him. 01:24:46.080 --> 01:24:46.800 Pharaoh 01:24:47.680 --> 01:24:51.040 heard the word of God from Moses and said, Nope, no thank 01:24:51.040 --> 01:24:53.440 you. That's on Pharaoh. 01:24:53.440 --> 01:24:55.600 He's the one who made the choice. 01:24:55.600 --> 01:24:56.240 He chose 01:24:57.360 --> 01:24:59.120 he chose damnation. 01:24:59.120 --> 01:25:03.120 And is unfortunate because he had a chance. 01:25:03.120 --> 01:25:03.440 He 01:25:04.400 --> 01:25:06.800 God does not begrudge anyone 01:25:07.760 --> 01:25:13.520 faith. God does not begrudge anyone the chance to be regenerated. 01:25:13.520 --> 01:25:16.560 I'm obviously a Lutheran, I don't believe in double predestination. 01:25:16.560 --> 01:25:20.720 God does not make anyone for the purpose of damning him. 01:25:20.720 --> 01:25:23.440 Men are damned because of their own sin, because of their own 01:25:23.440 --> 01:25:27.600 impenitence, because of their own hardened hearts, not because God did not 01:25:27.600 --> 01:25:28.800 desire that they would be saved. 01:25:28.800 --> 01:25:32.400 Because Scripture is abundantly clear God desires that all men would come 01:25:32.400 --> 01:25:34.000 to repentance and be saved. 01:25:34.000 --> 01:25:37.680 And that means all men. 01:25:37.760 --> 01:25:39.600 So I think that will be 01:25:40.560 --> 01:25:42.480 for this week. 01:25:42.480 --> 01:25:44.720 I'll just go ahead and answer this last question because I see 01:25:44.720 --> 01:25:46.160 it briefly and I answer quickly. 01:25:46.160 --> 01:25:48.480 Are you making a class on the Old Testament? 01:25:48.480 --> 01:25:53.600 Before COVID hit and I moved, I was teaching a class on 01:25:53.600 --> 01:25:55.200 Genesis at my church. 01:25:55.200 --> 01:25:56.800 So I have a bunch of notes for that. 01:25:57.040 --> 01:25:59.440 I got through I think chapter forty in my 01:26:00.800 --> 01:26:03.440 You know, I was pretty much done. 01:26:03.440 --> 01:26:08.320 And I had some work to do on some things, but at 01:26:08.320 --> 01:26:12.560 this point, I do want to refresh the notes because I was 01:26:12.560 --> 01:26:15.600 not relying on the Septuagint at the time, which I certainly should 01:26:15.600 --> 01:26:19.120 have been doing, but I hadn't I hadn't done Stone Choir yet. 01:26:19.120 --> 01:26:19.360 I had 01:26:21.200 --> 01:26:25.120 and my notes are still pretty well solid, but there are some 01:26:25.120 --> 01:26:28.240 things where I would like to note some differences that should be 01:26:28.240 --> 01:26:29.600 there in my notes. 01:26:29.600 --> 01:26:29.920 So 01:26:30.800 --> 01:26:33.600 I had the class on Genesis that I was teaching, those notes 01:26:33.600 --> 01:26:35.840 were largely done, but like I said I want to go through 01:26:35.840 --> 01:26:37.120 those, refresh them. 01:26:37.120 --> 01:26:39.440 Hopefully I will get the time to do that and then start 01:26:40.080 --> 01:26:44.000 recording sort of short lectures as it were, one per chapter perhaps. 01:26:44.000 --> 01:26:47.280 And I'll just put those on YouTube and my site and elsewhere. 01:26:47.280 --> 01:26:48.240 That's the goal. 01:26:48.240 --> 01:26:51.360 And I did have a little bit of Exodus already done as 01:26:51.360 --> 01:26:53.920 well. I didn't just start with Genesis. 01:26:53.920 --> 01:26:55.840 I was working on both the same time. 01:26:55.840 --> 01:26:58.640 Hopefully I do get back to that when I have the time 01:26:58.640 --> 01:27:00.320 to do so. 01:27:00.320 --> 01:27:04.240 But at any rate, that is it for this week. 01:27:04.240 --> 01:27:06.720 Thank you to those who submitted questions. 01:27:06.720 --> 01:27:08.800 It's always good to be able to answer these. 01:27:08.800 --> 01:27:11.360 Thank you for participating in the chat. 01:27:11.360 --> 01:27:16.480 And if I missed your question, by all means, please ask it 01:27:16.480 --> 01:27:19.120 again. Go ahead and put it on the 01:27:20.000 --> 01:27:23.280 always the best way because it's my site. 01:27:23.280 --> 01:27:26.080 And then I can keep the show notes and things updated. 01:27:26.080 --> 01:27:28.800 Anyone participating on the full On the forum, who has been participating 01:27:28.800 --> 01:27:31.040 for a while, can edit the show notes. 01:27:31.040 --> 01:27:33.360 So if I miss something, please feel free to add it. 01:27:33.360 --> 01:27:34.320 Go right ahead and do that. 01:27:34.320 --> 01:27:37.280 That's why it's editable as a wiki. 01:27:37.280 --> 01:27:40.160 But if you don't want to sign up for the forum, completely 01:27:40.240 --> 01:27:42.720 fine. Again, it's my site, so you're not giving your information to 01:27:42.720 --> 01:27:43.680 some random third party. 01:27:43.680 --> 01:27:44.640 It's just me. 01:27:44.640 --> 01:27:46.960 And I don't care if you use fake information. 01:27:46.960 --> 01:27:48.800 Have fun. 01:27:48.960 --> 01:27:49.280 But 01:27:50.320 --> 01:27:53.280 if you don't want to use the forum, go ahead and ask 01:27:53.280 --> 01:27:56.560 on Telegram or X or in the chat or the comments and 01:27:56.560 --> 01:27:57.760 hopefully I will notice it. 01:27:57.760 --> 01:27:59.520 If I do notice it, I have an 01:28:00.720 --> 01:28:05.520 topic slash thread on the forum for the pending questions. 01:28:05.520 --> 01:28:07.040 If it's there, I noticed it. 01:28:07.600 --> 01:28:10.160 If it's not there, I probably missed it. 01:28:10.160 --> 01:28:13.440 Like I said, I have tons of notifications, some things just slip 01:28:13.440 --> 01:28:15.840 by. If I missed it, please ask it again. 01:28:15.840 --> 01:28:18.160 It's not that I'm avoiding it, I just didn't see it. 01:28:18.160 --> 01:28:19.440 Or in the case of 01:28:20.320 --> 01:28:23.920 X last week I had some people ask questions on a thread 01:28:24.000 --> 01:28:24.800 and then X 01:28:25.920 --> 01:28:28.000 sent them into the void. 01:28:28.000 --> 01:28:29.280 These things happen. 01:28:29.280 --> 01:28:32.880 At any rate, I hope that you all have a great 4th 01:28:32.880 --> 01:28:36.720 of July and I will give my usual caveat that I give, 01:28:36.720 --> 01:28:40.720 the sort of warning, useful for those who are watching Perhaps too 01:28:40.720 --> 01:28:43.600 late for those who are not watching the stream. 01:28:43.600 --> 01:28:46.640 Try to have the same number of fingers when you go to 01:28:46.640 --> 01:28:49.920 church on Sunday that you have right now. 01:28:49.920 --> 01:28:51.840 Fireworks are great. 01:28:51.840 --> 01:28:53.120 Fire is fun. 01:28:53.120 --> 01:28:54.880 I'm not saying don't have fun. 01:28:54.880 --> 01:28:58.880 Just you know, wear eye protection if necessary and some gloves and 01:28:58.880 --> 01:29:00.160 be careful. 01:29:00.160 --> 01:29:02.400 God doesn't want you to hurt yourself. 01:29:02.400 --> 01:29:05.200 It's better for your people if you have all your fingers when 01:29:05.200 --> 01:29:06.560 you're done with the weekend. 01:29:06.560 --> 01:29:07.280 But have fun. 01:29:07.280 --> 01:29:09.520 I have fireworks, I'm gonna go set some off. 01:29:09.520 --> 01:29:13.920 Not right now, but tomorrow modulo keeping the dog away from the 01:29:13.920 --> 01:29:18.880 explosions. But do be careful and arrive at church on Sunday and 01:29:18.880 --> 01:29:19.360 you should go 01:29:20.480 --> 01:29:23.200 with the same number of digits you have now, whether it's ten 01:29:23.200 --> 01:29:26.160 or fewer, depending on your on your past history as a woodworker. 01:29:26.160 --> 01:29:29.920 At any rate, have a great weekend and God bless until next 01:29:29.920 --> 01:29:32.080 week. I will see you all then.