 Hello and welcome to part 2 of our reading of the Book of Tobit. If this is your first time joining us, I will place a link to part 1 down in the description box below. I would highly suggest starting with part 1 as there is a backstory to the Book of Tobit and what was historically happening with the Assyrian conquest of Israel. As always, this is a recap of what we read through on the Dark Outpost yesterday. If you would like to join the Dark Outpost platform, there is a link down in the description box below. We go live on Tuesdays from 1 to 3 pm east coast time. Because we are live, usually there is a phone number available for you to call in if you would like to join into the conversation regarding the book that we are reading through. With all that being said, let's get started with the book of Tobit. We are going to be starting with chapter 2. Now when I was come home again, and my wife Anna was restored unto me with my son Tobias in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared to me in which I sat down to eat. And when I saw abundance of meat, I said to my son, Go and bring what poor man soe'er thou shalt find out of our brethren, who is mindful of the Lord and lo, I tarry for thee. But it came again and said, Father, one of our nations is strangled and is cast out in the marketplace. Then before I had tasted any meat, I started up and took him up into a room until the going down of the sun. Then I returned and washed myself in eight meat and heaviness, turned into mourning, and all your mirth into lamentations. And after the going down of the sun, I went and made a grave and buried him. So just a brief reminder, guys, that Tobit and his wife Anna and his son Tobias are living in exile in Nineveh. And Tobit has kept the duty going to continue to bury his brothers, his Hebrew brothers and sisters in the traditional way of burying the Hebrew people. This was a bit of an issue in the first chapter with the emperor, but now we've got a new, a new reign, a new king in this area who is friends with Tobit's nephew. And so he's kind of been excused of his troubles from chapter one because of his connections to the king. It's all about who you know in this world. So therefore that's why this is such an important note that his son found a person who from their nation, from the Hebrew people, who is, who had passed. And so therefore he came to get his father to carry out the proper burials. So this brings us to verse two, eight. But my neighbors mocked me and said, this man is not yet afraid to be put to death for this matter. Who fled away and yet low, he buried the dead again. So again, as I said, he got into a little bit of trouble with the prior king. Now he has some good standing with the current king because of his nephew. But there is also that looming stress that they're going to get in trouble for continuing to practice their Hebrew traditions. The same night also I returned from the burial and slept by the wall of my courtyard. Being polluted in my face was uncovered. And I knew not there were sparrows in the wall and mine eyes being open and sparrows muted warm, dug into mine eyes, and whiteness came into my eyes and went to the physicians, which they helped me not. Moreover, our cadetius did nourish me until I went into Elameas. And my wife Anna did take women's work to do. That's funny. And my wife Anna did take women's work to do, so I imagine housework. And when she had sent them home to the owners, they paid her wages and gave her also besides a kid. Okay, so she's obviously doing work for people in household services. And when it was in my house and began to cry, I said unto her, From whence is this kid? Is it not stolen? Render it to the owners for it is not lawful to meet anything that is stolen. And a kid obviously means a baby lamb. But she replied unto me, It was given for a gift more than the wages. How bet I did not believe her, but bade her render it to the owners. And I was abashed with her, but she replied unto me, Where are thine alms and thy righteous deeds? Behold, thou and all thy works are known. And this brings us into chapter three. Then I, being grieved, did weep in my sorrows, prayed, saying, O Lord, thou art just and all thy works and all thy ways are mercy and truth. And thou judges truly and justly forever. Remember me, look on me, punish me not for my sins and ignorance, and the sins of my father who have sinned before thee. For they obeyed not thy commandments, wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil and unto captivity and unto death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed. So once again, this is when all of the tribes of Israel, the ten tribes of Israel went missing. We covered this last week. This was when the Assyrians conquered it. So he's talking about this. He's talking about how all of the tribal people of the Hebrew nation, Israel, and of course, eventually the land of Judah as well, the twelve tribes of Israel, were shot out throughout the world because, again, of the Assyrian conquest. So verse three, five, And now thy judgments are many and true. Now with me according to my sins and my fathers, which we have not kept thy commandments, neither have walked in truth before thee. Now therefore deal with me as seeth best unto thee, and command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved and become earth, for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false repurchases and have much sorrow. Command therefore that I may now be delivered out of this distress, and go into the everlasting place, turn not thy face away from me. So he's basically praying to be taken off the earth plane right now, because of everything that has happened in this Assyrian conquest. I can't imagine how much trauma and PTSD there would have been there. It came to pass the same day that in Iqabatayn, a city of media, Sarah, the daughter of Ragul, was also reproached by her father's maids. As that she had been married to seven husbands, whom Asmodeus, the evil spirit, had killed before they had lain with her. Thus thou not know, they said, that thou hast strangled thine husbands. Thou hast already seven husbands, neither was thou named after any of them. So basically now we're skipping to another city in media. This is Sarah. So Sarah, I think we kind of spoke about this in last week's episode. She has basically been engaged seven times, but her husband's have all, or fiance's, have all passed away before she was able to consummate the marriage, which consummation of the marriage was extremely important back then, because that's what really made the marriage. Now I kind of laugh at this, because there was a woman today who had seven fiance's leave the earth plane before the marriage. She probably would be on Dateline, or the show Snapped. Here we're going to learn that this was kind of paranormal. This wasn't her doing it. I don't know if that would be a good defense today though. You couldn't really say like, oh, you know, the spirits did it. Wherefore dost thou beat us for them? If they be dead, go thy ways after them. Let us never see of thee either son or daughter. When she heard these things she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have strangled herself, and she said, I am the only daughter of my father. And if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto his grave. So both Sarah and Tobit are having like, come to Jesus' moments in the sense that they're walking out on the ledge. They're kind of ready to go, because so much bad things have happened to them. Then she prayed toward the window and said, blessed art thou, oh, Lord, my God, and thy holy and glorious name is blessed and honorable forever. Let all thy works praise thee forever. And now, oh, Lord, I set my eyes and my face toward thee. And say, take me out of the earth that I may hear no more of that reproach. Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man. So she's never been with man. And that I never polluted my name nor the name of my father in the land of my captivity. I am the only daughter of my father, neither hath he any children to be his heir, neither any near kinsmen, nor any son of his alive, to whom I may keep myself for a wife. My seven husbands are already dead, and why should I live? But if it please not thee that I should die, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, that I hear no more reproach. So the prayers of them both were heard before the majesty of the great Lord. And Raphael was sent to heal them both, that is, to scale away the whiteness of Tobit's eyes, and to give Sarah the daughter of Ragrul for a wife to debias the son of Tobit. And to bid, as modious the evil spirit, because she belonged to Dobis by right of inheritance. The self-same time came to Tobit's home and entered into his house, and Sarah, the daughter of Ragrul, came down from her upper chambers. This brings us now to chapter four. In that day, Tobit remembered the money which she had committed to Gabel in rags, in media, and said to himself, I have wished for death. Wherefore do I not call for my son Tobias, that I may signify to him of money before I die? And when he called to him, he said, My son, when I am dead, bury me, and despise not thy mother, but honor her all the days of thy life, and do that which shall please her and grieve her not. Remember, my son, that she saw many dangers for thee, when thou wast in her womb. And when she is dead, bury her by me in one grave. My son, be mindful of the Lord our God, all thy days, and let not thy will be set to sin or to transgress his commandments. Do uprightedly all thy life long, and follow not the ways of righteousness. For if thou deal truly thy doing shall prosperously succeed to thee, and to all them that live justly. Give alms to thy substance, and when thou givest alms, let not thine eyes be envious, neither turn thy face from any poor, and the face of God shall not be turned away from thee. If thou hast abundance, give alms accordingly, if thou have but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little. For thou layest up a good treasure for thyself against the day of necessity, because that alms do deliver from death, and suffereth not to come into darkness, for alms is a good gift unto all that give it unto the sight of the most high. Beware of all whoredom, my son, and cheaply take a wife of the seed of thy fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife, which is not of thy father's tribe, for we are all children of prophets. Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That's funny. Beware of whoredom, my son. Remember, my son, that our fathers from the beginning, even that they all married wives of their own kindred, and were blessed in their children and their seed shall inherit the land. Therefore, my son, love thy brethren, and despise not in thy heart thy brethren. The sons and daughters of thy people, and not taking for in pride is destruction and much trouble, and in the lewdness of decay and great want, for lewdness is the mother of famine, let not the wages of any man, which hath wrought for thee tarry with thee, but give it to him to hand, for if thou serve with God, he will also repay thee. Be circumspect, my son, in all things thou doest, and be wise in all thy conversation. Do that to no man, which thou hatest, drink not wine, to make thee drunk it. Need to let drunkenness go with thee into thy journey. Give of thy bread to the hungry, and of thy garnets to them that are naked. And according to thy abundance, give alms, and let not thine eyes be envious when thou givest alms. Pour out thy bread on the burial of the just, but give nothing to the wicked. Ask counsel for all that are wise, and despise not any counsel that is profitable. Bless the Lord thy God all way, and desire of him that thy ways may be directed, and that all thy paths and counsels may prosper, for every nation hath not counsel. But the Lord himself giveth all good things, and he humblyeth whom he will, as he will. Now therefore, my son, remember my commandments, thee to let them be put out of thy mind. And now I signify this to thee, that committed 10 talents to Gabel, the son of Gabrius, at Rages and Media. And fear not, my son, that we are made poor, for thou hast much wealth. If thou fear God, and depart from all sins, and do that which is pleasing in his sight. So now Tobias is heading out on a journey. We know that God is answering the prayers of both Tobit and Sarah. He's going to make Tobit blind, and obviously Sarah is going to meet her actual husband of inheritance, the her soulmate basically, in, we know it's gonna be in Tobias. So this brings us to chapter five. Tobias then answered, and said, Father, I will do all things which thou hast commanded me. But how can I receive the money, seeing I know him not? And he gave him the handwriting, and said unto him, seek the man which may go with thee, whilst yet I live, and I will give him wages, and go and receive money. Therefore, when he went to seek a man, he found Raphael that was an angel. But he knew not, and said unto him, canest thou go with me to Rages and knowest thou those places well? To whom the angel said, I will go with thee, and I know the way well, for I have logged with our brother Gabel. So this is the archangel Raphael that is now coming into human form to help the situation. And we've talked about this before. Beings of the light can create. And I do believe that angels can take human form with knee-be. So this brings us to chapter five, seven. And Tobias said unto him, tarry for me till I tell my father. And then he said to him, go and tarry not. So we went in and said to his father, behold, I have found one which will go with me. Then he said, call him unto me that I may know of what tribe he is and whether he be a trusty man to go with thee. And so we called to him and he came in and they saluted each other. Then Tobias said unto him, brother, show me of what tribe and family thou art. To whom he said, dost thou seek for a tribe or family or a hired man to go with thy son? Then Tobias said unto him, I would know, brother, thy kindred and name. And they said, I am Azarius, the son of Aeneas, the great of thy brethren. So this is, if y'all remember from last week, this was one of the reasons why some people claim that this book is heresy because Raphael lies to Tobit. But I don't think that that necessarily makes this heretical because we know that angels don't scare people. So I don't have a problem with him like making up a lineage for the human form that he's in in order to ease Tobit's nerves on the journey that he is about to embark on with his son Tobias. So that brings us to 513. Then Tobit said, thou art welcome, brother, be not now angry with me because I have inquired to know thy tribe, and thy family, for thou art my brother of an honest and good stock. For I know Aeneas and Johnthus, son of the great Sammias, as we went together to Jerusalem to worship and offer the firstborn and the tents of the fruit, and they were not seduced with air of thy brethren, my brother, thou art of good stock. But tell me, what wages shall I give thee? Wilt thou a drench a day and things necessary as to mine my own son? Like what do I gotta pay you to take care of my son? Ye more ever if ye return, I will add something to thy wages. And so they were well pleased. Then he said to Tobias prepare thyself for the journey and God sent you a good journey. And when his son have prepared all things for the journey, his father said, go thou with this man and God which dwelleth in heaven and prosper your journey and the angel of God keep you company. So they went forth both in the young man's dog with them. But Anna his mother wept and said to Tobit, why hast thou sent away your son if he is not the staff of our hand and going in and out before us? Be not greedy to add money to money, but let it be refused in respect for your child. For that which the Lord have given us to live with doth suffice us. Then said Tobit to her take no care of my sister he shall return in safety and I shall see him. For the good angel will keep him company and his journey shall be prosperous and he shall return safe. So it's interesting now angel here is not capitalized so I don't know if he's referring to Raphael as an angel as in a pet name or if he actually knows that it's an angel. So this brings us to 522 then she made an end of weeping. This brings us now to chapter six. And they went on their journey. They came in the evening to the river Tigris and they lodged there. And when the young man went down to wash himself a fish leaped out of the river and would have devoured him. Then the angel said unto him take the fish and the young man laid hold of the fish and drew it to the land. To whom the angel said open the fish take the heart and the liver and the gall and put it up safely. So the young man did as the angel commanded him and when they had roasted the fish they did eat it. Then they both went on their way till they drew near Equitaine. Then the young man said to the angel brother Azarius to what use is the heart and the liver and the gall of the fish. And he said unto him touching the heart and the liver if a devil or an evil spirit trouble any we must make smoke there off before the man or the woman in a party shall be no more vexed. As for the gall it is good to anoint a man that hath lightness in his eyes and he shall be healed. Which is basically what happened to his father Tobit he went blind, right? And when they were come near to Rhaegis the angel said to the younger man brother to the day we shall lodge with Raghuul who is thy cousin he also hath only one daughter named Sarah I will speak for her that she may be given thee for a wife. For at the death right of her appearance seeing thou art only her kindred. And the maid is fair and wise. Now therefore hear me and I will speak to her father when we return to Rhaegis we will celebrate the marriage for I know that Raghuul cannot marry her to another according to the law of Moses but he shall be guilty of death because the right of the inheritance doth rather appertain to thee than any other. Then the young man answered the angels I have heard brother Azarius that this maid hath been given to seven men who all died in a marriage chamber. So she's got a bit of a reputation, right? Like I said, this is like dateline. And now I am the only son of my father and I'm afraid at least if I go in unto her I die as the others before for a wicked spirit loveth her which heardeth nobody but those which come unto her wherefore I also fear least I die and bring my father and mother's life because of me to the grave with Sarah for they have no other son to bury them. I'd be kind of afraid too if I was supposed to marry someone that had that kind of a reputation with their past people. Then the angel said unto him, dost thou not remember the precepts which thy father gave thee that thou shouldest marry a wife of thine own kindred? Wherefore hear me, O my brother, first she shall be given to thee a wife and to make thou know reckoning of the evil spirit for this same night shall she be given to thee in marriage. When thou shalt come into the marriage chamber thou shalt take the ashes of perfume and shalt lay upon them some of the heart of the liver and fish and shall make a smoke of it and the devil shall smell it and flee away and never come again any more but when that shall come to her rise up both of you and pray to God which is merciful who will have pity on you and save you fear not for she is appointed unto thee from the beginning and thou shalt preserve her and she shall go with thee. Moreover, I suppose that she shall bear thee children. Now when Tobias had heard these things he loved her and his heart was affectionately joined to her. So this brings us to chapter seven. And when they were come to acpetain they came to the house of Ragool and Sarah met them and after they had saluted one another she brought them into the house. Then said Ragool to Edna his wife, how like is this young man to tobit my cousin? And Ragool asked them from whence are you brethren to whom they said we are the sons of Nephtalam which are the captives of Nineveh. And he said to them, do you know Tobit, our kinsmen? And they said, we know him. Then he said, is he in good health? And they said, he is both alive and in good health. And Tobias said, he is my father. Then Ragool leaped up and kissed him and wept and blessed him and said unto him, thou art the son of an honest and good man. But when he had heard that Tobit was blind he was sorrowful and wept. And likewise Edna his wife and Sarah his daughter wept. Moreover they entertained them cheerfully and after that they had killed a ram of the flock. They set store of meat on the table. Then said to Tobias and Raphael, brother Azaria speak of those things which thou distalk in the way and let this business be dispatched. So he communicated the matter with Ragool and Ragool said to Tobias, eat and drink and make merry. For it is made that thou shouldest marry my daughter. Nevertheless I will declare unto thee the truth. So at least Tobias and Sarah aren't first cousins. It sounds like they're second cousins. So I guess that's a little better than marrying your first cousin which we've seen in many of these old books. I have given my daughter into marriage to seven men who died the night that they came into on her. Nevertheless for the present to be married. But Tobias said I will eat nothing here till we agree and swear to one another. And Ragool said then take her from henceforth to the manor for thou art her cousin and she is thine and the merciful God give you good success in all things. And then he called his daughter Sarah and she came to her father and he took her by hand and gave her to be wife to Tobias saying, behold take her after the law of Moses and lead her away to thy father and he blessed them. Anne called Edna his wife and took paper and did write an instruction of covenants and sealed it. Then they began to eat. After Ragool called his wife Edna and said unto her sister prepare another chamber and bring her tither. Which when she had done as he had bitten her she brought her tither and she wept. And she received the tears of her daughters and said unto her be of good comfort my daughter the Lord of heaven and earth give thee joy in thy sorrow be of good comfort my daughter. I mean we joked earlier about a woman having seven men that she was supposed to marry that had all passed away. And in this story it's because there's a demon that's like attached to her is what I gather. But literally in modern times this would have been like a forensic files. You know a snapped episode, a date line of like a black widow having all these men behind her. But I can't understand again Tobias's hesitation even though he knows that she is his kid's man and therefore it is his duty to marry her to keep the bloodline pure of this tribe of Naftali but literally her reputation did precede her because of how many people she's left in her tracks. So this brings us to chapter eight. And when they had supped so after they ate dinner they brought Tobias in unto her and he went and he remembered the words of Raphael and took the ashes of the perfumes and cut the heart and the liver of the fish thereupon and make a smoke therewith. The witch smell when the evil spirits had smelled he fled into the utmost parts of Egypt's and the angels bound him. So this was kind of like a modern day concoction to get rid of evil entities which I know a lot of modern day Christians would have an issue with this but this is common down here in the south as well like there's concoctions people put in their houses to rid themselves of evil spirits. It's like when we smudge, I know I'm sure everybody listening knows someone who smudges their house or you maybe smudge your house for a lot of cultures here in the south that have a lot of influence from African religions they'll put like red clay at the door so anybody that means to harm you or doesn't have good intentions for you literally can't enter your home. We have a mask here where I'm recording in my living room it's a mask from India and it's this like face this very horrific face that they put outside of their houses on India to scare away demons. We didn't put it outside of our house because we live in Atlanta Georgia and it might have been very strange to our neighbors but we do have it on the inside of our house. So this is like normal stuff for old customs and still common modern customs as well to do these things to try to kind of exercise the space around you from any spirits or things that have ill intention for you. So this brings us to eight four and after they were both shut in together Tobias rose out of the bed and said sister arise and let us pray that God would have pity on us. And then began Tobias to say blessed out there, oh God our father and blessed is thy holy and glorious name forever let the heavens bless thee and all thy creatures thou madeest Adam and gave him Eve his wife for a helper and stay and then came mankind thou has said it is not good that a man should be alone let us make unto him an aid like unto himself and now a Lord I will take not this my sister for lust but uprightly therefore mercifully ordained that we may become aged together and she said with him amen. And so they slept both at night and Raghul arose and went and made a grave. Oh, okay so her dad is doubting that Tobias is gonna survive the night because her father went and just went ahead and made a grave. They say you a way you can predict the future is by the past so I guess he was definitely expecting Tobias not to not to survive. Saying I fear least he also be dead but when Raghul came into his house he said unto his wife Edna send one of the maids and let her see whether he be alive if he not then we may bury him and no man know it so basically they're gonna help her hide the body if he didn't survive. So the maid opened the door and went in and found them both asleep and came forth and told them that he was alive. Then Raghul praised God and said oh God thou art worthy to be praised with all pure and holy praise therefore let thy saints praise thee with all thy creatures and let all thine angels and thy elect priests be forever. Thou art to be praised for thou hast made me joyful and that has not come to me which I suspected but thou hast dealt with us according to thy great mercy. Thou art to be praised because thou had had mercy of two that were the only begotten children of their fathers grant them mercy oh Lord and finish their life in health with joy and mercy. Then Raghul made his servants to fill the grave and he kept the wedding feast 14 days. For before the days of marriage were finished Raghul had said unto him by an oath that he should not depart till the 14th day of marriage were expired and then he should take half of his goods and go in safety to his father and should have the rest when I and my wife be dead. This brings us to chapter nine which is a very short chapter. Then Tobias called Raphael and said unto him Brother Azarius take with the asservant and two camels and go to the ray of media to Gabel and bring me the money and bring me to the wedding. For Raghul has sworn that I shall not depart but my father counted the days even if I tarry long he will be very sorry. So Raphael went out and lodged with Gabel and gave him the handwriting whom brought forth bags which were sealed up and gave them to him and early in the morning they went forth both together and came to the wedding and Tobias blessed his wife. So basically Tobit is expecting them back at a certain time but his cousin Raghul is keeping them longer because he doesn't know if Tobias is going to perish by the curse of his daughter so Tobias the son wants to let Tobit the father know he's okay and he's coming back henceforth while why Gabriel excuse me, why Raphael is being sent to carry the message. So this brings us to chapter 10. Now Tobit his father counted every day when the days of the journey were expired they came not. When Tobit said are they detained or is Gabel dead is there no man to give him the money therefore he was very sorry. Then his wife said to him my son is dead seeing he stayed long and she began to well and he said no I care for nothing my son since I have let thee go in the light of thine eyes to whom Tobit said hold thy peace and take no care for he is safe. So mom's freaking out Tobit is like no it's cool I just know it's cool but she said hold thy peace and deceive me not my son is dead and she went out every day into the way which they went and did not eat no meat on the daytime and ceased not whole nights to bewail her son Tobias until the 14 days of the wedding were expired which Raghul had sworn he should spend there then Tobias said to Raghul let me go for my father my mother look no more to see me but his father-in-law said unto him tarry with me and I will send thy father and they shall declare unto him how things go with thee but Tobias said no but let me go to my father then Raghul arose and gave him Sarah his wife and half his goods servants cattle and money and he blessed them and they and sent them away saying the God of heaven give you prosperous journey my children and he said to his daughter honor thy father and thy mother-in-law which are now thy parents and I may hear good report of thee any kester and not also such Tobias the Lord of heaven restore thee my dear brother and grant that I may see thy children of my daughter Sarah before I die and I may rejoice before the Lord behold I commit my daughter unto thee of special trust and where do not entreat her evil? And this brings us to chapter 11 after these things Tobias went his way praising God that he had given him a prosperous journey and blessed Raghul and ended his wife and went on his way till they drew near unto Nineveh then Raphael said to Tobias thou knowest brother thou dist leave thy father let us haste before thy wife and prepare the house and take in thine hand the gall of the fish so they went their way and the dog went after them now Anasat looking towards the way for her son and when she aspised him coming she said to his father behold thy son cometh and the man that went with him then said Raphael I know Tobias that thy father will open his eyes there he's gonna get a sight back basically therefore anoint thou his eyes with the gall I'm being pricked there with he shall rob and the whiteness shall fall away and he shall see it's kind of like Jesus healing the blind in the New Testament and we talk about this with the Gospel of the Holy 12 as well where there was a, no sorry it wasn't the Gospel of the Holy 12 it was the Acts of Philip where Philip when the other band or had a, one of the other band or heretical books of the Bible Philip also is able to heal the blind as he was taught how to do it by Jesus it sounds like this is a very common tactic used to heal the blind then Anna ran forth and fell upon her neck of her son and said unto him seeing I have seen thee my son from henceforth I am content to die and they wept Tobit went forth towards the door and stumbled but his son ran unto him and he took hold of his father and he strayed the gall of his father's eye saying be of good hope my father and when his father's eyes began to smart he rubbed them and the witness piled away from the corners of his eyes and when he saw his son he fell upon his neck and he wept and said blessed out there oh God and blessed is thy name forever and blessed are all thine holy angels for thou hast scorched and hast taken pity on me for behold I see my son to biased and his son went in rejoicing and told his father the great things that have happened to him in media when Tobit went out to meet his daughter-in-law the gate of Nineveh rejoicing and praising God and they which saw him go marveled because he had received his sight but Tobias gave thanks before them because God had mercy on him and when he came near to Sarah his daughter-in-law he blessed her saying thou art welcome daughter God be blessed which hath brought thee unto us and blessed be thy father and thy mother and there was joy among all of his brother-ins which were at Nineveh and Arcadius Nespius his brother's son came and Tobias's wedding was kept seven days with great joy and this brings us to chapter 12 then Tobit called his son Tobias and said unto him my son see the man have his wages which went with thee and thou must give him more and Tobias said unto him oh father it is no harm to me to give him half of those things which I have brought for he hath brought me again to thee in safety and made whole my wife and brought me the money and likewise healed thee the old man said it is due unto him so he called the angel and said unto him take half of all that ye have brought and go away in safety and he took them both apart and said unto them blessed God praise him and magnify him and praise him for the things which he hath done unto you in the sight of all that live it is good to praise God and exalt his name and honorably to shoe forth the works of God therefore be not slack to praise him it is good to keep close the secret of a king but it is honorable to reveal the works of God do that which is good and no evil shall touch you prayer is good with fasting and alms and righteousness a little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness it is better to give alms than to lay up gold for alms doth deliver the dead and shall purge away all sin those that exercise alms and righteousness shall be filled with life but they that sin are enemies to their own life surely I will keep close nothing from you for I said it was good to keep close the secrets of a king but that it was honorable to reveal the works of God now therefore when thou dost pray and Sarah thy daughter-in-law I did bring the remembrance of your prayer before the holy one and when thou dost bury the dead I was there likewise and when thou dost not delay to rise up and leave thy dinner to go and cover the dead thy good deed was not hid from me but I was with thee and now God hath sent me to heal thee and Sarah thy daughter-in-law I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels which is present to the prayer of the saints and which go in and out before the glory of the holy one so this is it guys, this verse 12, 15 I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels which presents the prayer of the saints and which go in and out before the glory of the holy one this is the crux of this book and why we read this book before moving forward with other books this is where it blatantly says that there are seven archangels again in most of the Christian denominations today we're not taught about the seven archangels we're taught about Michael and basically Gabriel and that's like it so now we know there's Michael Gabriel Joel which we read about in the Apocalypse of Abraham and now Raphael so now we have four of them so there are gonna be three more angels that we are hopefully gonna meet in some of these banned books and it's no wonder that they banned these books that gave us this type of information how much more powerful are we when we know that there is seven archangels and not just one or two and then they were both troubled and fell upon their faces for they feared but he said to them, fear not for it shall go well with you, praise God therefore basically they had an anxiety attack and they realized that this stranger was not a human at all but an angel that had been watching over them for not any favor of mine for the will of our God I came wherefore praise him forever all these days I did appear unto you but I didn't either eat nor drink but he did see a vision now therefore give God thanks for I go up to him that sent me but write all things which are done in a book so he didn't, he's basically telling them like you saw me as the vision of a human being but I never ate anything or drank anything I didn't do the things that humans have to do because basically he was like a hologram of a human as we would say in like modern language he wasn't a human he was just appearing before them as a human as to not scare them and I do believe angels do that a lot so they don't scare us and then they arose and they saw him no more and they confess the great and wonderful works of God and how the angel of the Lord had appeared unto them so this brings us to chapter 13 then Tobit wrote a prayer of rejoicing and said blessed be God that liveth forever and blessed be his kingdom for he death scorched and half mercy he leadeth them to hell and bringeth up again and neither is there any that can avoid his hand confess him before the Gentiles ye children of Israel for he hath scattered us among them there declare his greatness and extol him before all living for he is our Lord he is the God of our Father forever for he will scourge us for our iniquities and he will have mercy again and will gather us out of all nations among whom he hath scattered us if he turned to him with your whole heart and with your whole mind and dealt uprightly before him then will he turn unto you and will not hide his face from you therefore see what he will do with you and confess with him with your whole heart and praise the Lord of might and extol the everlasting king in the land of my captivity do I praise him and declare his might and majesty to a sinful nation O ye sinners turn and do justice before him who can tell if he will accept you and have mercy on you I will extol my God and my soul shall praise the king of heaven and shall rejoice in his greatness let all men speak and let all praise him for his righteousness O Jerusalem the holy city he will scourge thee for thy children's works and will have mercy again on the sons of the righteous give praise to the Lord for he is good and praise the everlasting king and his tabernacles may be build in thee again with joy and let him make joyful there and deed those that are captives and love in thee for ever that there are any miserable many nations shall come from far to the name of Lord God with gifts in their hands even gifts to the king of heaven all generations shall praise thee with great joy cursed are all they which hate thee and blessed shall all be which love thee forever rejoice and be glad for the children of the just for they shall be gathered together and shall bless the Lord of the just O blessed are they which love thee for they shall rejoice in thy peace blessed are they which have been sorrowful all for thy scourges for they shall rejoice for thee when they have seen all thy glory and shall be glad for ever let my soul bless God the great king for Jerusalem shall be built with sapphires and emeralds and precious stones thy walls and towers and battlements with pure gold and the streets of Jerusalem shall be paved with barrel and carbonate and stones of ophir and all her street shall say alleluia and they shall praise him saying blessed be God which hath exalted for ever and this brings us to chapter 14 which I believe is the last chapter of the book. So Tobit made an end of praising God and he was eight and 50 years old when he lost his sight which was restored to him after eight years and he gave alms and he increased in the fear of the Lord and praised him. So it was 58 years old when he went blind and that blindness lasted for eight years. So that was he was 66 when he got his sight back when he got his sight back but I believe that and I could be wrong I'll have to double check this but I believe the 66 number which we always think the six is together is a bad number but I believe in the good gemantria it just means human he became human again. And when he was very aged he called his son and the sons of his son said to him my son take thy children for behold I am aged and I'm ready to part out of this life go into media my son for I surely believe those things with Jonas the prophet spake and Nineveh and I shall that it shall be overthrown and that for a time peace shall rather be in media and that our brethren shall lie scattered in the earth from the good land and Jerusalem shall be desolate and the house of God and it shall be burned and shall be desolate for a time and that again God will have mercy on them and bring them again into the land where they shall build a temple but not like the first one until the time of that age be fulfilled and afterward they shall return from all the places of their captivity and build up Jerusalem gloriously and the house of God shall be built in it forever with glorious buildings as the prophets have spoken thereof and all nations shall turn and the fear the God Lord truly and shall bury their idols. For shall all nations praise the Lord and his people shall confess God and the Lord shall exalt his people on all those which love the Lord God in truth and injustice shall rejoice showing mercy to our brethren and now my son depart out of Nineveh because that those things which the prophet Jonah spoke shall surely come to pass but keep thou the law and the commandments and show thyself merciful and just that it may go well with thee and bury me decently and thy mother with me but tarry no longer at Nineveh remember my son how Amon handled Arceleus that brought him up and how out of the light he brought him into darkness and how he rewarded him yet again yet Arceleus was saved but the other had his reward so he went down into darkness. Menaces gave alms and escaped the snares of death which they set for him but Amon fell into the snare and perish where for now my son consider what alms doeth and how righteousness doeth deliver and when he had said these things he gave up the ghost in the bed being 108 and 50 years old he buried him honorable so Tobit lived to be 158 years old which is super interesting because I've been doing some work on the side with some other people that are doing some deep dives into this biblical stuff and I think that there's definitely gonna be some information that our age we know from Jubilees it talked about in Jubilees how we lived these long lives but our lives were shortened over time and as we come into the age of Aquarius our lives are gonna be lengthened again well apparently the shortening of the lives is a more recent thing some of these biblical characters actually lived longer than we think they lived so that makes sense to me hearing Tobit lived 158 years old that makes sense that kind of validates some other research that we've been doing so just an interesting side note and when Anna his mother was dead he buried her with his father but Tobias departed with his wife and children to Ekbatang, to Raguil, his father-in-law where he became old with honor and he buried his father and his mother-in-law honorably and he inherited their substance and his father Tobit and he died in Ekbatang in Medea being 107 and 20 years so he was 127 years old but before he died he heard of the destruction of Nineveh which was taken by Nebuchadnezzar and as serious and before his death he rejoiced over Nineveh so that ends the book of Tobias guys let me know what you think down in the comment section below I think the next book that we're gonna be reading is the Ascension of Isaiah I'm pretty sure that's the next book we're gonna be reading but if something changes and there's another work we need to look at first I will let you guys know in the community tab just so you know where we're going next I find that very fascinating so we know again we have validation that people lived long lives even up into the 8th century BC and we also now have confirmation again of the seven archangels of God so interesting, right? All right guys, thank you to Josh Backe for doing our music if you would like to purchase the opening song there is a link down in the description box below and thank you again to Todd Frodrick for helping me get this video out to you all today I hope you're having a wonderful day and I will talk to you soon, bye