 Good evening, good morning, good afternoon. Hope you all are doing fine, godly and blessed weekend. We wanna go ahead and jump back into the next session. I think this is, let me check the note. I wanna say this is the 31st or 32nd Bible study session. Bible study class, I'm not sure, but I think this is either the 31st or the 32nd. Not sure, so we've gone through 30 of these. Matter of fact, let me go ahead and do what I always do as we're going through these. I think this timeline is necessary. Here we are, we are still in, we are in First Kings, getting close, getting into Second Kings and what has happened now. We have seen the death of Solomon and then the kingdom has passed to his son, Jeroboam. I'm sorry, not Jeroboam. The kingdom is in split and we've got two kings, Rehoboam and Jeroboam. This is how God is working things out. Vated note, sometimes people can get involved in sin and not realize that God actually does. Even with sin, we'll work that, we'll work through that, we'll work with that. Nothing catches him off guard and he will even take your sin and some sort of way that will lead towards him being glorified, that will still lead toward, I say this way, it will not detract or take away from what he has promised or nor will it take away from his plans and so we have a God who is God. Above all else, God is sovereign. He works things towards his good pleasure, not the other way around and I think we would do well to remember that. Sometimes we get bent out of shape thinking that why aren't things going the way that I want them to go to benefit me but if we could just take comfort and solace in Jesus, even though we haven't, even though, even though, even though we have not earned the name Jesus. Hi Tammy, hi everyone else. Even though we have not earned the name Jesus, we don't know the name Jesus yet and what we're doing is we're putting ourselves in the middle of these people's lives. We're trying to put ourselves there. We have no, we don't know about Jesus. We don't know Jesus, who is that? We do however, because all we've done so far has gone over those books up to First Kings which also includes Chronicles and if you want to go to Proverbs and Song of Solomon and so forth, you can. We'll cover those later but if you just trust in God and that's the whole thing, what God has always been after from Genesis up till now, up till First Kings is just obedience. God wants us to obey him and the reason why you obey is because you do what? You trust him. If you trust who he is and what he's going to do, then you're good. We're going to see a prime example of how you can trust God, how you can see God and then five minutes later walk away and just live or act as though you did not see or did not hear what you just saw or what you just heard. We've covered this chapter, this particular book before. In the past, just covering different topics or covering this whole unbillical phenomenon of false prophecies, people giving these prophecies that are not God, that are not from God and then saying it's okay. Here's a passage that some folks who want to, or this is a chapter where people who believe a prophet can be wrong and still be a prophet. This is a book or chapter where someone who says, yeah, a false prophet is still a prophet. A lying prophet is still a lying prophet. It's still a prophet. Well, we're going to see, we're going to see in a second. Remember, let's just, let's give a little background. A prophet, all that is, is the word prophets or prophesy in this case come from the Hebrew word Nabi. And so someone that is prophesying is just someone that's going to give an utterance. Someone that's going to inform, someone's going to tell. Now, you can be any kind of prophet. You can be a prophet of God. That's a distinction right there. Versus a false prophet, a lying prophet, a prophet of Baal or a prophet of the Ashram. You can be any sort of prophet. But what distinguishes you from any old prophet is, are you a prophet of God? And that's the key. And so we're going to see that the prophets of God were Godly when they got it right. Now, does that mean that God cannot speak to or work with or work through a lying or false prophet? Sure, as a matter of fact, the reason why God, we've covered this before and this is why it's applicable even today. Why would God ever have any dealings with someone who is a lying or false prophet? So let me just ask you guys that question now. I'll put the chat on the screen. Why do you guys think that God would ever use or work with or even speak to a false prophet? Do y'all think that God would ever speak to a false prophet? Is that, have you ever thought about that? So let me ask you guys a question. Yes or no? Would God ever speak to or through a false prophet? Easy question. Might make you think a little bit. There's a natural knee-jerk response. Now, it might be the right response, the knee-jerk response. It might be a knee-jerk, but it also might be the right response. So would God ever speak to or through or move upon a false prophet? Yes or no? I want to see what you guys think. And it's a bit of a trick question, which should kind of give you the understanding. We should give you the answer. Yes, he will. As a matter of fact, we're going to see, we haven't gotten to that chapter yet. It's in Ezekiel and some other places, but God will absolutely use a false prophet or false teacher. He said he would and we see him doing so. Why would he do so? Well, not for the benefit of the false prophet, no, to test you. And he does so. He will, okay, fine. You didn't listen. I get, because what does God expect you to do? What did we just say? To obey. As a matter of fact, let's back up a little bit. Let's go to Deuteronomy, favorite book of a lot of people. Deuteronomy, let's go to 28. Starting verse one. Now it shall be, if you diligently obey. If you diligently obey and notice, he puts this adjective there, if you diligently obey. If you diligently obey. And really the truth be told, it's not really diligently obey. Well, yeah, it is, yeah, it is. It is if you, this word right here is shammum. Here's where we get the word shammah or to obey. But then you have this word, I mean, you know what? Actually, I'll take it back. I'll take it back. Yeah, okay, this is kind of tricky. It actually is the call of it is shammah, which is to obey, but he puts it in here twice. And so the emphasis is in how much, how heartily you obey. So he's stressing this obey pretty clearly, right? So if you diligently obey the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments, which I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the Lord your God. However, what happens if you don't? Now he says, if you bless, now by the way, this is speaking of Israel, but he says that you will be blessed in the city, blessed in the fields, blessed when you come and blessed when you go. Yes, that is a gospel song also, or the words of a gospel song, but it's all in the scriptures. And we wanna apply those to us. Problem is we don't ever wanna apply the other part. We don't wanna finish reading. Because if you don't obey, then you will not be blessed in the city. You will not be blessed, but you'll be cursed. Your children will be cursed. That's what he says. So God only wants you to obey. From Genesis, ask Adam and ask Eve. Just obey. We wouldn't even be in this situation. Who knows, we probably wouldn't. If it wasn't for Adam or you'd be some, we would not take it back now. If they would obey, we wouldn't be in a situation. I ask King. We keep finding ourselves in these situations. God wanted Abraham to obey. God wanted Isaac to obey. Jacob, God wanted everyone. He wants everyone. And still to this day wants us to obey. So obeying is the issue. That's the point. And so as we go to 1 Kings 13, we're gonna find somebody. I'm in the wrong, there we go. We're gonna find someone who is used by God. Here's the word of God. And then, I don't know what happens. I can't speak for this brother. I don't know what happened. And punishment comes, and punishment comes swiftly. Punishment comes swiftly. So let's start in chapter 13, verse one. Now behold, remember now Jeroboam and Reboam, they're both kings now, verse one. There came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the Lord while Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense. Now remember, let's back up. This altar that he has, this is not in Jerusalem guys, remember? So what's happening here, we've got this split kingdom. And what we have is him burning incense and he is doing things in an ungodly fashion. Let's back up and let's go to, here we go, let's go to verse 32. Jeroboam instituted a feast on the, this is chapter 12, verse 32. Jeroboam instituted a feast on the eighth month of the 15th day of the month, like the feast which is in Judah. So what does Jeroboam do? Jeroboam is a horrible wicked person. Jeroboam is ungodly as they can be. And why do I say that? Because look what he does. He actually comes up with a competing festival to the day of Atonement. Now, the day of Atonement is how your sins were atoned for in the Old Testament. So therefore, if you adhere to the day of Atonement, if you place your faith, if your faith and trust is in what God has done, your sins will be atoned for, then you shall, you'll be in rights and with the Lord for one year. Now there are other things that go along with this. And so this is how a person can have their sins atoned for. So what does he do? He comes up with a competing day so that the people will not go to Jerusalem. And so that people will not adhere to the day of Atonement. That's pretty wicked. That's almost like saying someone, even though we haven't heard about Jesus and we don't know about a cross yet, we hadn't seen that. But that's just like us modern day Christians. Someone saying, you know what? Instead of the cross and instead of Jesus and instead of communion and instead of the Bible, I've got an alternative. Can you imagine Christians having an alternative to the Bible, an alternative to the cross, an alternative to communion, an alternative to the Holy Spirit? You don't need the Holy Spirit. You don't need the Holy, all you need is one of those, you remember those old warm blankets, you know, those electric blankets that you plug in, gives you warm, might burn your house down, but it's okay because you're gonna feel nice and warm and comfortable. That's what you need. You don't need the Holy Spirit, you just need that. That's what we have. That's what this despicable person, Jeroboam, is doing. And so he has his own altar. So now when we go to chapter 13 again, it says, now behold, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel. So the man of God is coming, by the way, this is, think about this though. This man of God is coming from where? From Judah. Remember, the kingdom is split now. The kingdom is split between Judah and Israel. The 10 tribes up north and then we've got two down south. And I really shouldn't say 10 tribes, but really 10, but 10 tribes up north and we've got two down south. Judah is still the place to go, but this prophet or this man of God, I should say prophet, this man of God from Judah comes. Well, who sends them there? God does. God still does have concern, even though they're being disobedient and even though he's dealing with them, God is still sending a man from Judah to them. And I think the reason is this, and I'm speculating, but you know what you're never gonna be able to say? You know what you're never going to be able to say no matter what, no matter how angry you get. You're never gonna be able to say to God, I never had a shot. I never had a chance. I never knew. You can never say that to God. You can never say God ain't my fault. I didn't know about this, Jesus. You didn't die for my sins. None of these things, well, you can't say that. So here we've got God sending a man of God from Judah to the north, to Bethel. And so while Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense, he cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, oh, altar, altar, thus says the Lord, behold, a son shall be born to the house of David. Josiah by name and on you, he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you and human bones shall be burned. Now, I won't cover this, except to say, excuse me, that as we get to second Kings, we're gonna see this fulfilled perfectly. He's telling us who this person's name is gonna be, Josiah, and someone's gonna name this man, Josiah, and all of these things are gonna happen, just like it said, continuing. Then he gave a sign that same day, this is a sign which the Lord has spoken. So he says, how you know that what I just told is gonna happen? There's gonna be a sign. Here's a sign. Behold, the altar shall be split apart and the ashes which are on it shall be poured out. Now, when the King, this is Jeroboam, here's this. The saying of the man of God, which he cried against in the altar of Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, season. So Jeroboam saying, seize that man of God who said those things, those dastardly things that he got from God, seize him. And so as he sticks his hand out to say, season, his hand, he could not draw back himself. His hand dried up and withered so he could not draw it back. Uh-oh, my bad, I'm sorry, God. So what do you think he's doing now? After you do something and there's this immediate consequence, which by the way, I'm all for immediate consequences. When you do something wrong, if there's an immediate consequence, you learn your lesson, right? If there is no immediate consequence within according to Ecclesiastes, which we haven't gotten there yet, then the heart of a person of the wicked is set to do even more evil. The more you let bad behavior go, the more the person's gonna want to do so. And when they get in trouble, when they get caught, what happens? They're so hardened to doing bad, to doing evil. Now that's, it's second nature now. And so when you do something and you get caught and get punished immediately, then you tend to change it to, now that doesn't mean that you're gonna change your heart. And so what happens when his hand is withered up? Well, here goes Jeroboam. He says, but his hand, which was stretched out against him dried up so that he could not draw it back verse five. The altar also was split apart and they asked to report out from the altar according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord. So the Lord tells him this. Remember, the Lord tells this man of God. We don't even know his name. We don't know the man of God's name and it's not important. The king said to the man of God, please, I'm sorry, forgive me, please, entreat the Lord, verse six. And the king's hand was, I'm sorry, please entreat the Lord that my hand may be restored. So the man of God entreated the Lord and the king's hand was restored to him and it became as it was. So he did not deserve to have his hand restored, but God is showing him, listen, I am still God. Oh, by the way, I gave you this kingdom. You don't wanna serve me though. Matter of fact, you are in a front to me. That's fine. Verse seven. Then the king said to the man of God, come home with me and refresh yourself and I will give you a reward. But the man of God said to the king, if you were to give me half of your house, I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place. Why is that? Why won't you do that? Well, here's why. He says, for it was commanded to me by the word of the Lord saying, you shall not eat bread, I'm sorry, not eat no bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way which you came. So he went another way and did not return by the way which he came to Bethel. Now, I wanna make sure you guys get the picture, get the understanding. God has told the man of God, you're not gonna eat any food or drink anything as soon as you do what you're told to do, get out, high-tail it, get back to where he's supposed to go. And he knows this because he tells this to the king. What does he say? Even if you were to give me half of your kingdom, I don't care what you give me, that ain't gonna happen. Well, that's tough talk. That's the fine talk. Matter of fact, it sounds like you're pretty secure in what God says. You sound like you really believe the word. I mean, he said it. Said it with his chest. He put a lot of air in some base. I can just hear it. I ain't gonna never. Listen, you can just feel the emotion in this guy. He heard what the Lord said. He said what the Lord said. It was demonstrated the power of the Lord by this man's hand first, being withered. And then in treating the Lord, asking the Lord to heal the man and then the Lord healing him. So he sees this and then he declares, I'm not gonna do what you asked me because God told me not to. Everything sounds so good for this man of God. We don't know his name, which, okay, makes sense, for his benefit. Now an old prophet was living in Bethel. Question, for all of you guys that are taking the seminary style classes, let's just look at this passage right here. First Kings chapter 13, verse 11. I know by the way, your next set of homework assignment is gonna come out just a little bit, but on this. Now an old prophet was living in Bethel. So let's look at this. And his sons came and told him all the deeds which the man of God had done that day in Bethel, the words which he had spoken to the king. These also, they related to their father. There are a couple of things. The old prophet, we don't know his name. Secondly, can anyone tell us if this old prophet is a prophet of God or not? Do we have information or detail to know if this old prophet is a prophet of God? We don't know, do we? Now it may stand the reason that he was or is, we don't know, we don't know his name at all. Because remember, there are also a bunch of false prophets and lying prophets in the land of the world. Remember, we're not talking about the most holy, the most holy Israel. This is a defiant, disobedient Israel. So we don't know who this prophet is. We don't know where he came from. We don't know who he serves or anything, okay? Now let's continue verse 12. Their father said to them, which way did he go? I'm thinking of the cartoons. Which way did he go? Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen the way which the man of God who came from Judah had gone. Then they said to his son, saddle the donkey for me. So they saddled the donkey for him and he rode away on it. Now by the way, you would think, okay, well he should know where he's going. He's coming from, he came from Judah. He's headed back to Judah so there might be an obvious road. But remember, this man of God is taking a different route. This route that he's taken is kind of in defiance. Say, yeah, I'm not going the way you want me to go. I'm not gonna stay in your house eating things. So he goes a different route. And so his sons see that, the old prophets, they see this. So he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak. And he said to him, are you the man of God who came from Judah? He said, I am. Then he said to him, come home with me and eat bread. He said, he repeats what God says. It's one thing to know the word of God, to be able to repeat the word of God and don't do or follow the word of God, which is here it is. He says, I cannot return to you, nor go with you, nor will I eat or drink water with you in this place. For a command came to me by the word of the Lord, you shall eat no bread nor drink water. Do not return by going the way which you came. So you're going a different route. I tell him go a different route and here it is guy comes. Okay, fine. He said to him, I am also, I also am a prophet like you and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord saying, bring him back with you to your house that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied to him. So he went back with him and ate bread and in his house and drink water. So now, so now, it didn't seem to take very much to get this man just to change his mind, did it? It didn't take much of, perhaps, I don't know, maybe he was, cause he had stopped. He was sitting under the tree, he just stopped and this old prophet, this lying prophet, this deceptive man comes up and says, I'm just like you. Maybe because he was old, maybe because his face look, you know, maybe cause he just looked nice because they had a, you know, he spoke well. Who knows? But it didn't take much. You're right, Christa G, it just like, it's happened just like today, just like today. It didn't take much at all. As a matter of fact, notice what the old prophet said. He said, the Lord said. He said, the Lord said, well, and that's what we see today. But guess what? That's also what we've been seeing. We've been seeing people say things like that. Can a false prophet repent if they get convicted or eventually figure out it wasn't from the Lord? Modern day prophets mean, I believe so. Being a false prophet is not necessarily a death sentence. It's a death sentence if you live that way. Because again, there are, there is a sin that's unforgivable, but if you have repented, place your faith in Christ, then there is no sin that you can't be forgiven of. Ultimately, the unforgivable sin is for us is just simply not placing our faith in Christ. So, okay, hold on. You said, no, he said an angel told him. Okay, fine, I have no problem with that. Do angels tell people what the word of the Lord is? So sure, so if an angel comes to you and said the Lord says, who said it? The Lord said it. Okay, six in one hand, half doesn't the other. The Lord said he is lying on the Lord. He believes he's not believing because an angel said it. He's believing because the angel said the Lord said it. That's the whole point. And so he believes that. The fact of the matter is he has the word of God. Just like today, we have the word of God and all it takes is someone say, I've got a vision. Someone told me this, the Lord told me this. I've got a word of the Lord for you. That's what we have today. Because the word of God is not enough. The word of God is not enough. And so, especially if I'm weary, especially if I'm tired. Now, I imagine this man is tired on his journey. And because, remember, he's not stopping to eat or drink anybody else. And I don't know if he has rations with him or not. We don't know. The Bible doesn't say if this man has rations or not. All we know is he's headed back to where he came from. Remember guys, this is not, he doesn't have a car. He's not riding on a highway, okay? So this is a long journey. I'm pretty sure he's tired. I'm pretty sure he's, maybe his feet hurt. Maybe hungry thirst, we don't know. But man, he gave in pretty quickly, did he not? He didn't take much. The man didn't do any kind of really razzle, dazzle, hocus pocus. He just said, well, the Lord sit me. The Lord said, angel came to me and said, so and so and so and so and so. Come on and follow me. Come on and follow me. So let's go back to it, verse 20. Now it came about as they were sitting down at the table, that the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back. So now the Lord is going to use this false prophet and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah saying, thus says the Lord, because you have disobeyed, there's that word that we're not supposed to do, disobeyed, because you have disobeyed the command of the Lord and have not observed the commandment which the Lord your God command. By the way, notice how this particular old prophet, this lying prophet said, he said commanded which the Lord your God, not the Lord our God or the Lord God, which you can say it that way, which we see it written, the Lord God or the Lord our God, but he says the Lord your God. Does that indicate that the Lord God was not this old prophets God? It may, it may very well be that. And it could also mean that he's just kind of, you know, giving it to emphasis. It's supposed to be your God, your Lord and you not. So it can be taken either way, but I just think that that's pretty interesting to note. But verse 22, have returned and eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said, eat no bread and drink no water. Your body shall not come to the grave of your fathers. It came about after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk that he saddled the donkey for him, for the prophet whom he had brought back. Now when he had gone, a lion met him on the way and killed him. And his body was thrown on the road with the donkey standing beside it. The lion also was standing beside the body. Someone told me this story and said this story reminds him of the Detroit lions, how they should have beat the cowboys, you know, cowboys riding on the back of a horse. Had to throw that in there. Now notice this, here's what's really interesting. Look at this rare, look at this. And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown on the road and the lion standing beside the body. So they came and told it in the city where they are. So people are riding by scene. This lion, now there's a lion, a donkey and a dead man. And so it's told to them. Now I'm sorry, cowboy fans, I apologize. That was a cheap shot. I apologize, forgive me. Lord, forgive me. Verse 26, now when the prophet who brought him back from the way heard it, he said, is this the man of God who disobeyed the command of the Lord, therefore the Lord has given him to the lion which has torn him and killed him according to the word of the Lord, which is spoken. Then he spoke to his son saying, saddle the donkey for me. And they sat on, he went and found his body thrown on the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside the body. The lion had not eaten the body nor torn the donkey. So what do we understand? We see this is clearly of God. God is in control of this lion. The lion hadn't heard the donkey. As a matter of fact, they're both, I don't know, I don't know, they're just sitting there. The lion and the donkey, they're just sitting there chilling, having a good time reflecting, having an animal conversation, looking at this body. And so verse 28, he went and found his body thrown on the road, I'm sorry, verse 29. So the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back. And he came to the city of the old prophet to mourn and bury him. He laid his body in his own grave and they mourned over him saying, Alas, my brother, after he had buried him, he spoke to his son saying, when I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried, lay my bones beside his bones. For the thing shall surely come to pass which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria. Now a couple of things we shouldn't see from here. A couple of things. Here Rose might say this is a road kill. Couple of things. One, someone is going to say, see even a false prophet is still a prophet. No, that's not the point. The point that you have to glean from this is the result of following. Of following a false prophet. If you follow a false prophet, what is going to happen? In other words, if you don't obey what is going to happen? There are consequences to not obeying God. Amen? Now with this false prophet, what can even false prophets see? To answer the question previously, can a false prophet repent? Sure they can. Sure you can. And even for the false prophet, everyone still has the ability including the false prophet to see the mighty hand of God. And so this false prophet knows because the word of the Lord came to him and he says that what he says is going to come about for Israel. This is going to happen. This calamity is going to come about for Israel. And so he mourned as well. And so bury me with him. Now how he died, we don't know. Obviously he died. Now what is the result of the consequences of being a false prophet? Well, Deuteronomy 13.5, God has not advocated this word, but that prophet or the dreamer of dreams shall be put to death because he has counseled rebellion against the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed from the house of slavery. So that person should be put to God. I mean, put to death is to put to God. Put to death and we're told not to listen to a word they have to say. Chapter 18, verse 22, when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him. Okay, so we know how what God thinks about those that bring about false prophecies and there are going to be a lot. As a matter of fact, in a few weeks we're going to see and hear of a bunch of false prophets doing what false prophets normally do. Typically false prophets give positive prophecies. God is going to do this. This is, I don't know who you are, but the Lord has told me somebody with the letter A, somebody with a vowel in their name. The Lord has speaking to me. Some of you, you have a vowel in your name, an A, E, I, O, you. Sometime, maybe a Y. You have that in your name. There's somebody with a vowel in their name. You live on a street, paved road. Yes, yes, yes. The Lord is telling, you've got water in your, somewhere in your house, there's water. There's water. Matter of fact, yes, the Lord is telling me he wants to bless you. My Lord, this is your season. This is your season. Yes, this is your season. The sun is going to shine on you. So I don't know who it is, but the Lord is telling me that all he wants, he wants to bless you. Now, Sola C. Sola, he wants to bless you in proportion to the seed you sow. This is your year. How big of a blessing you want? Ah, it depends on how big of a seed you sow. That's me. He's talking about me. Wow, that's me. Somebody with eyeballs, somebody with saliva. He talking about me. The Lord doesn't, girl, the Lord doesn't spoke to me today. Don't say that's a stupid prophecy. But Dutch, tell the truth, shame the devil, that prophecy happens all the time. Don't people hear this prophecy all the time? You fill out a card when you go to one of these meetings, you sign up online, you come in, somebody on the east side of the DFW area, Smith, Smith, Smith, A Smith. So this happens. Let me tell you how I know this. Now we weren't doing this as to be false prophets or to play with the kids. But what we did, well, this was, wow, 20 something years ago. Let me think what year was this? 25 years ago. This is when I was a youth pastor. 27 years ago. And what we did was we passed out some papers for the kids. They didn't know it. There's a mark on every paper. A subtle mark. It might be like a little line. There might be a wrinkle on one page. We knew each paper. There were like 70, 80 papers that were passed out. These were the high schools, something like that. And what we did was we knew everyone. And so we knew who had what paper. We knew who had what paper. We asked them some questions and we turned around and told them what they said. So we could just pray. We could just pray and ask the Lord. And now the kids were, how did you know that? How in the world? Well, because first of all, because you're 15, you're 16 and you're stupid. That's how we knew that. But secondly, because we marked your papers. You guys think that something, sometimes you are amazed by something you don't need to be amazed by. Sometimes, first of all, it doesn't take much to fool you, but you are amazed, but if only you knew. If only you were able to pull back the curtains and see that the Wizard of Oz is some smoke, some bum, and he's taken advantage of you because you want something to be so. So here we have this false prophet and we've got people today who are going to say, yeah, but he was still a prophet. Okay, well, two things. The person that listened to the false prophet is going to die as a result of it. Is that the kind of prophet you want to be? And then two, you'll be buried with him. Is that what you want? Fine, be a false prophet all you want. Be a prophet to the stars. But you're going to, God is going to deal with you. Eventually. Now, continuing, we talked about Jeroboam, whose hand stuck out and was with it, drew it back because it was healed. Let's go back to this guy. After this event, Jeroboam did not return from his evil way. God can just give you a sign. God can just do something for you and you still don't care. But again, he made priests of the high places from among all the people, anyone or any who he ordained to be priests of the high places. Just anybody. Anybody want to be a prophet? Anybody want to be a priest? Anybody want to be a bishop? Anybody want to be an apostle? Anybody want to be anything? Just come on, come on. Listen, I will anoint you and give you a spot. That's what we have today. That's what we have today. Verse 34, this event became sin to the house of Jeroboam even to blot it out and destroy it from the face there. So God decided, you know what? Gave you a shot. Now I'm going to destroy you and your house from the face of the earth. That's what he says. Verse 1 of chapter 14, at that time, Abesha, the son of Jeroboam became sick. Now this is the prophet. Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise now and disguise yourself so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam and go to Shiloh. Behold, he who is the prophet is there who spoke concerning me that I would be king over this people. Take 10 loaves with you, some cakes and a jar of honey and go to him. He will tell you what will happen. By the way, as anyone ever, this is just me when I see these things. Have you ever wondered what these cakes, these loaves actually taste like? I mean, because they, you know, they give these loaves. They give this bread. They give these cakes and this honey. I'm not a big honey eater, but fine. I just wanted this must be some good stuff because it's used like currency. So he says, take this form. Now, why he wants to be deceptive? I don't know, but fine. Jeroboam's wife did so and arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahesia. Now, Ahesia could not see for his eyes were dim because of his age. By the way, I've got good news. Ladies and gentlemen, while I'm thinking about it, I've got some good news. I told you guys that I had to get my eyes checked and fixed. My problem is I've been wearing the wrong glasses. I've got some new glasses and so I can see a little bit better with these glasses, but because they're new, I've got to get used to them. And I'm like Ahesia. My eyes, yeah, eyes ain't working like they used to. The old gray mare, she ain't what she used to be. The old bald guy, ain't what he used to be. So I've got my glasses. I've got three, this is how you know your eyes are bad. I've got three layers. I got the top part, the middle part and this bottom part to see stuff that I can't and I'm supposed to read. So I got, yeah, my eyes are all messed up. If they ever have eye transplants and they work, I'm going to wait till about a thousand posts go through them first and they work. Count me in. I'll take up a special offering to get an eye transplant because these old eyes and what it is, the lady asked me, well, are you watching the screen all day long? Well, yeah, how'd you know that? Because dummy, you can't watch a screen all day and it not affect you. Who knew me? You know, that's, yeah, progressive. I didn't know that stuff. Try focus. I like progressive better, Timmy. I don't like trifocals. Make you seem bad. Make you seem old. Make you seem blind. But yeah, I didn't eat again. 13 years on my federal tour. I didn't, we didn't have a computer screen. We had computer screens at the law library, but not like this. So I'll put these back on and wear them again, but right now I'm still getting used to them. So I'm not going to wear it right now because it's hard for me to see. But if Aesha had my eye doctor, maybe his eyes wouldn't be there. I don't know. But I just want to kind of give you update because sometimes I read and can't Corey read because the reason why I've been, sometimes you'll hit me reading and that's why wrong glasses. But anyway, now the Lord have said to Aesha, behold the wife, why do you try to fool a prophet? This makes no sense. This makes absolutely no sense. He says, but the Lord has spoken to Aesha and said the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son for he is sick. You shall say thus and thus to her for it will be when she arrives that she will pretend to be another woman. Remember, Jeroboam, you just saw the Lord move on your behalf. He punished you and then after that and then after that healed you. Can I ask you a question? And this is outside but also part of this. How many of you all are dumb like me? I'm going to tell the truth. Shame on the devil. How many of y'all have been blessed and helped by the Lord and then five minutes later, forget about it. Come on, let's just be honest. You all have been helped immensely by the Lord. The Lord has done something in your life and then you turn around and act as though he didn't do that. You get saved by the Lord. You get blessed by the Lord and then turn around and God, you ain't did nothing for me in forever. You're like little kids. You don't never do nothing for me. You don't never help. You never bless me, God. Where are you, God? And God is looking at you like you big dummy. You lucky I love you. If I didn't love you, I'd crush you, but I love you. Because could you imagine? We do that all the time. We are, I can promise you, I'm not a prophet. I'm not a prophet, but somebody with eyeball skin and a little bit of hair, somebody, somebody, somebody there with at least one toe is going to complain about what God has not done for them. I prophesied this in the next week. Matter of fact, I prophesied in the next, virtually all, if not all of you are going to say something, complain about something that God has not done for you yet. Forgetting about the fact that he did this, this, this and this. You know, listen, listen. I'm not the smartest person in the world, but I can promise you this is what I know. I know for a fact, I know for a fact that God made sure that nobody came and killed any of you last night. How do I know that the Lord didn't allow anyone to kill you last night? Because you're here. And we don't thank Him for that. We get to thank you Lord for waking me up today, but we don't, we don't thank Him for that. We don't think about our children, but the moment your children isn't, you're crying out, Lord, well, where were you when he was blessing your children? Where were you when he was on all those wonderful things for you and your, and your little snotty bad kids? Yeah, your kids, I said, your kids are bad because I know that my kids are bad too. I'm bad. You're bad. We all bad, all of us. How come we don't ever thank Him and get in line when He does something good? Because I said before, the reason why God allows or even sends the calamity, yes, He does, the reason why is because it's that very tool that makes you cry out to Him. If I was God, I wouldn't, and I'm not even, I wouldn't even make a good God, but if I had a tool, if there was something that kept you coming back to me, why would I get rid of that? So pain, calamity, hurt, yeah. But if you ever learn to praise Him, if that was the tool, if that was the very thing that caused you to come to the Lord, just Him blessing you, you being thankful, because He tells them to do so, but they don't. So God blesses you and you turn around and you want to be deceptive. Okay, so going back to it, for I am, He says, verse 6, when Ahesia heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, He said, come in, wife of Jeroboam, uh-oh. You didn't even have a good disguise. Why do you pretend to be another woman? For I am sent to you with a harsh message. I don't even want to hear what you came for. I'm coming to give you a hard message. Go say to Jeroboam, thus says the Lord God of Israel, because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over my people and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. Yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and who followed me with all his heart to do only that which is right in my sight. You also have done more evil than all who were before you. That's a lot to say. You've done more evil than everybody before you. Put that on your tombstone. You have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images and provoked me to anger and have cast me behind your back. Therefore, look what he says. Behold, I am bringing calamity on the house of Jeroboam and will cut off Jeroboam from Jeroboam every male person, both bond and free. Wow. When your sin affects more than just you and will cut off from Jeroboam every male person, both bond and free in Israel and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam as one sweeps away dumb until it's all gone. Now, first of all, ladies, ladies, here's what we don't have. At this point in time, I want y'all to think about what we just said. Did any of you ladies catch that? Yeah, he said, therefore, I'm bringing calamity and I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, every male person. I don't think there were any women at that time were saying, wait a second, what about us? That's not fair, God. You're treating the males differently. I don't think the women were jumping to you. No, Lord, what about us, Lord? No, no. Thankful to be a woman, then, weren't you? It's not, no, Lord, no, no, no. Haven't you heard, God, that men can be women and women can be men? Yeah, okay. So, every male person. Look what he says, anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city, the dogs will eat. And he who dies in the field, the birds of heaven will eat for the Lord has spoken it. Now, you arise and go to your house. Look what he says, when your feet enter the city, the child will die. Me, as a mama, I'm walking the other direction. I'm not going back to that city. When your feet hit the city, your child will die. All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him. For he alone of Jeroboam's family will come to the grave, because in him, this is interesting what he says right here. In him, something good was found toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. What does that mean? Honestly, guys, don't know. Don't know. We don't know what the good was that was found in him and what it caused, other than the fact that he's the only male of Jeroboam's household to be buried. No one else gets buried. Moreover, the Lord will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day and from now. The Lord will strike Israel as a reed shaking in the water and he will uproot Israel. And now, by the way, this is the reason why we're going to stop right here when we're going full circle. He will uproot Israel from this good land which he gave to their fathers and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River because they made their ashram provoking the Lord to anger. He will give up Israel on account of the sins of Jeroboam which he committed and with which he made Israel ascend. Now, Jeroboam has taken the blame. I'm getting ready to uproot Israel and scatter you. And notice where he says he says scatter them beyond the Euphrates. Well, wait a second. Wasn't that part of our land that was given to us? In other words, the reason why he says beyond the Euphrates because the Euphrates was one of the boundaries for Israel. Again, Israel to this day has still never enjoyed all of the boundaries that God promised them. Question. When God said, I'm giving you all this land and they haven't gotten all of that land. Do you think at some point in time Israel will get all of that land? Yes, they will. He's not a man that he should lie. He's not a man like he's not a man. So why are we stopping here? Well, because again, we're coming full circle because remember, let's not forget this. Let's go back to what he says. Leviticus 26. What's the passage? What's the passage? 26. I think there it is. 42. Yeah, let's start 42. Now, remember, they're supposed to keep this Sabbath for themselves. Okay. The people were supposed to observe the Sabbath. They didn't. The people were not supposed to have any foreign gods. They violated that. The people were not supposed to marry anyone else outside of their own. They violated that. The people were supposed to keep the statues of the law. You guys, I brought this to you. You said we agree all that you said we will do. You agree. Then he says you are supposed to keep this land Sabbath every seven years. I'm sorry. Every six years you work the land the seventh year. You do nothing. Let the land rest and God will supply the need of the people from that land. Those six years will cover how many years worth of a prosper. Those six years, if you obey that those six years will equate to eight years worth of productivity. Why eight years? Well, the seventh year that nothing happens and then in the eighth year while you're growing it you still have to wait a while for the harvest. So you're going to get eight years to go through. Okay? And God is going to bless you with that. But you guys have violated that and so notice what he says. Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham as well. And I will remember the land for the land will be abandoned by them and I will make up for its Sabbaths while it's made desolate without them. They meanwhile will be making amends for their iniquity because they reject it. They reject it. By the way if you look on this on this, let me make this a little bit bigger. Hold on. I'll go on it to me. Okay. Let me highlight that. I'll highlight it. Yeah. I think it's highlighted. Cool. It's highlighted. Now let me make this bigger. Ah. Why isn't... Oh. I'm doing the wrong thing. That's why. Okay. Where is it at? There it is. Okay. You all see the part that's highlighted over there? Let me move this off the screen so you can see it was highlighted. See it was highlighted. That little letter with a little dot there. That indicates that it's plural. Okay. That indicates the plural. So he says who rejected it? They rejected it. So all the people. But who's getting blamed for it? Poor old Jeroboam. He's the one that's getting blamed for it. The whole point about this, the whole point about this is even though Jeroboam may have been the catalyst. And truth be told, he really wasn't a catalyst because the person that actually brought this up who made this happen, was Solomon. But even before then, just all of Israel's disobedience, but God had promised that he was going to do this long before they had even gotten into the land. Remember in Deuteronomy, before they crossed into the land, he gives them, now by the way, Leviticus is also part of this too. They hadn't gotten to the land yet. They haven't gotten into the land yet in Leviticus or in Deuteronomy. And he's telling them I'm going to take you out of the land and I'll bring you back though. Now the only reason why I'm going to bring you back is because I will remember the promise that I made with Abraham, with Isaac and Jacob, but really more than that for his name sake. But he's telling them I'm putting you out of the land. The land is going to be desolate. Meanwhile, he says, they meanwhile will be making amends for their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances and their soul abhorred my statutes. Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so pour them as to destroy them, breaking my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations that I might be their God and I am the Lord. What he says, I will remember, I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of the land. So whose ancestors were brought out of the land? Israel's ancestors were brought out of the land. I'll remember that. Now I'm going to punish them, but not so as to destroy them. They will not be totally destroyed. Now will some of them individually, yeah, will a lot of them individually be destroyed? Yes, a lot of them individually will be destroyed. But God is going to remember, so remember, what God is doing, though you've done some things to be the straw, to be the impetus, to be the catalyst, whatever words you want to use. Ultimately, this is what God is going to do. The reason why you even have kings. Let me ask you guys a question. Class, why does Israel even have kings? That's a good question, Cory. Glad you asked. I had the answer. So here's the question again, guys. Why does Israel even have kings? Where did that come from? Why does Israel have kings? Now I'll drink a sip of my coffee, waiting for you guys to answer this question. In the meantime, Jesus Paul, or Jesus Paul, or Jesus Paul, thank you so much for the Super Chat. Thank you so much. Loretta, thank you. Wow, what a good gift. Thank you. Nita, thank you so much as well for the Super Chat. Thank you guys so much. I appreciate that. Now I answered the question. Why? Okay. Here it is. Let's look at some of the questions. Wendy C. says they won and won. Okay. Because the serpent stumper says, because they voted for it in Samuel 8. Angela, God's judgment. Orange says they want to be like the world. Dutch with the power burns says they wanted to be a me too. So they did. You know, that's a good way to put that too. That is a good way. They were a me too. They want to be like everybody else. They asked for one. OG says, because the people rejected God as King. Yep. Christi G. They asked for King. Miss White. Judgment. Sheila. They asked for him. Let me see some more. Monkey moves. They wanted one. Layla said, God knows we need what we need. Oh Lord, there we go. There we go. There we go. There we go. Guys, you were all right. You were all right. But Neitha was more right. You know why she was more right? You know why she was more right? Before they had asked for King, before they had rejected God, before they wanted to be the me too society, before they wanted to be like everybody else. God said, guys, God said, God spoke about this King. Corey, why do we keep going over the same stuff over and over again? Because I want to see what God said. I want us to know what he's doing. He ain't just doing anything. I'm not playing favorites, Brian. Yep. This is important. This is why we go over this stuff, guys. Let's go back to the text and see what God has said. The prophecy. Genesis 49.10. The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet. What scepter? What king? We don't have a king and he's coming out of Judah. Huh. How is that going to be? Oh, by the way, let's go to another passage in Exodus. No, Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy 28. We talked about when Israel is going to... Yeah, get him, Nita. We talked about when Israel is going to reject. He makes a statement about Israel. If I can find this particular passage of what's going to happen. I think it's somewhere around. Hold on one second. I forgot what this thing was, but I'll find it. Give me a second. Give me a second. I got to find this passage. Lord, there's a lot in this word. There is a lot. Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy. Okay, there it is. Deuteronomy. We covered this, I think it was last week. It might have been the week before. There it is. There it is. I just had to find out where it was. Okay. Remember this little obscure passage when he's speaking about what he's going to do with them? A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your grab. This after they are, if you're disobedient, this is going to happen. A people whom you do not... And remember, they haven't violated anything. They haven't gone anywhere. They haven't done anything. But God is telling them what's going to happen. A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors. And you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually. You shall be driven mad by the sight of what you see. Deuteronomy 38. I mean 28. Now 35. Verse 35. The Lord will strike you on the knees and the legs with sore boils from which you cannot be healed from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. Now here it is, verse 36. The Lord will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known. Now, they don't have a king. But this king whom you said, you at the end of the time you're late, you ask, we want a king like everybody else. However, in Genesis 49, it's prophesied that they will have a king. They don't have all the details, but you will have a king. Why does he want the... Now, here's the question though. Here's the question class. Why is God actually okay with them having a king? Why couldn't God just stop them from getting a king? Couldn't God just, you know what, I'm going to put it into all of this and there won't be a king. Why didn't God say, no, you're not getting a king? He could have. There didn't have to be a prophecy about Judah and the scepter. There didn't have to be a prophecy about a king being tossed away with the rest of you guys. There didn't have to be any of that. But why? As a matter of fact, another pass I need to put up here too. So, why does, why do we have it? Miss White got it. John Long got it because of Jesus. Wayne got it to fulfill the promise. Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine. I got a question though. Where do you get this from? Where do you get this Jesus stuff from? I know we, I'm not saying where you get the name Jesus from, but where do you get the idea that God wants to have this king? Where does that come from? Why? Why? Huh? Jesus wants to have it. Dutch says Genesis. Dutch says Genesis as though there are not 50-something chapters in Genesis. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Sifa's followed up with him. Sifa's followed right back with Genesis. Genesis where? Genesis where? You know what? I can see you. I can see you too. Being in class and a teacher putting you both in the back. Here, you sit in that corner, you sit in that corner. Y'all have teachers like that? Put big old, put chalk on the board. There's a chalkboard, ladies and gentlemen. Some of you, some kids don't know. There's a chalkboard. There's a black chalkboard. Put chalk on that bad boy. A whole lot. Put your nose right in it. So when you get through, you got chalk right there. Put your nose right there. Ms. White and then there you go. There you go. See, see. Genesis 3. But wait a minute. It's not just Genesis 3, but it starts in Genesis 3. Let's go to Genesis 3. Genesis 315. Oh, by the way, this goes out. This record is dedicated to my good friend Mike Signorelli who does not know who the seat of the woman is. This goes out to you and others that want to defend him for that absolutely heretical statement to say that the seat of the woman is a woman. And I will put in the T between you and the woman and between your seat and her seat. And he, this seat, singular masculine seat, and he will bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the heel. So here it is, this male seed. This male seed, but it's not just, it's not just there. It's another passage in Genesis that we need to look up as well. This is why I think it's vitally important that we keep covering these parts over and over again, going to Genesis 12, because as we go through the scriptures we get further revelation as we go. Then he says, verse 2, speaking about Abram, and I will make you a great nation and I will bless you. Now, by the way, how do you make somebody a great nation? You've got to have some people to be a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing and I will bless you, I will bless those who bless you and the ones who curse you, I will curse and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. Huh? That's adding a little bit more. That is that, listen, that is definitely adding a little bit more, but is there more that we can go off of? We need a little bit more revelation, probably. So let's see, let me look at this passage. So let's see if there's more revelation. Now, I want to give a shout out to my man, Jeff. Where is he at, Jeff? Jeff put up a passage, excellent passage. He says, Exodus 19.6. Let's go to Exodus 19.6. He says, and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel. A kingdom? What kind of kingdom? Well, let's go back to Genesis 49 because we didn't finish it. Genesis 49. Can somebody put, I don't know if you can do it. If you can put, I don't know if you can put a moderator in time out. If you can put them in, in school suspension, after school homework. Yeah, Brian says, Jim anyway, Genesis 49. We read part of it and the scepter shall not depart from Judah. So we see this kingdom, this rulership, because implicit in what he says in Genesis 12, there are three elements that are needed. They don't get fully spelled out then, but we see them being progressively revealed as we go. And, and Jeff does hit on this about this kingdom. So there are people in order for you to have a great nation. You got to have people. Well, you got to have people. He's all time now for five man. Thank you. You got to have people, but you also have, in order to have this great kingdom, you have to have land. Because where are you going to put these? It's in a virtual nation. You've got to have land. And there's got to be a government rulership. And there is. You guys thought that you were setting up by asking for a king, but no, God has already already has this in the bag. What he says, the scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the rulers to ask from between the speed until Silo comes. But then look at verse 11. This is kind of weird here. Huh? This is a weird, almost obscure passage. He says he, who's he? Well, this person who the ruler staff from between his feet, this ruler, he says his, he ties his fold to the vine and his donkey's cult to the choice vine. He washes his garments in wine and his robes in the blood of grace. That is a weird statement. Is it not? That's a, that's a really odd statement until we haven't gotten there yet. We won't do it, but until you go to the New Testament and then we see who is this. Jesus, remember the story. One of my favorite stories, by the way, where Jesus says, tells us people go to the town next door over, I mean next town over and get a cult that's tied, a cult that hadn't been rolled, the cult of a donkey, the fold tied to the vine. Bring him back. And when they ask, say that the Lord has neither. Now, by the way, by the way, as he's coming in, Hosanna, glory to God in the highest. When I tell you that God knows what he's doing and he knows how to make things happen precisely, accurately, or as my uncle would say, accurately, accurately or accurately, he, that's God. He is precise. That's why I say when God says what he says, he means what he says. And we don't have to figure this out. We don't have to make it fit when he's speaking about this. He's going to do it. You ain't got to try to figure it out. It is going to happen. Amen. So somebody said, what happened to the old prophet? He died. He died. The lesson learned is twofold. The lesson learned here is twofold because what do we have? We have an actual false prophet, a lying prophet, and we have a true prophet. Well, listening to the lying prophet and the false prophet will get you killed. Not listening to a true prophet or someone with the true word of God will what? Get you killed. Disobedience happens two ways. One by disobeying what you know he said or by obeying something that you know he did not say. And we see that. The result is the same. Two people die. This old man, this man of God, I'm sorry, dies as a result. So if you're going to listen to, ladies and gentlemen, if you are going to listen to someone who calls himself a prophet, you better make sure they are. You better make sure it is the word of God. But thanks be to the Lord. What do we have? We literally have the what do you know? Look at here. We actually have the word of God that we can go to and we can test it and see if what you're saying is so. Yeah, they might say something ambiguous that the scriptures can't say the Lord says he's going to bless you in five days. Well, that's not in the scriptures. Okay, well fine. Guess what? I've got time, but can I give me your number? Give me a way to contact you because I want to bless you. I want to bless you and I want to praise you and I want to praise God with you once this miracle happens. Because if it doesn't happen, I want to call you and I'm going to bless you. I want to let everyone know that you are a false prophet. But before I even hear your words, let me go back and run through the scriptures and look at your truck, not the scripture, but look at your track record. Let me see what other prophecies have you given and then let me also let everybody else knows who is listening to you about giving this vague prophecy today. Well, what about the prophecies he gave last week, last year, last two years? What about those? Not shame on that prophet because he's being used by his father, the devil, not shame on him. He's doing his job, but shame on you guys for sitting there listening to this false prophet. Shame on every last one of you who have discounted the word of God as though it was cheap, as though it didn't measure up. It's not sufficient. The word of God is not sufficient, but this jack leg bootleg prophet, this guy who is unknown in heaven comes to you and smiles and says, an angel of the Lord told me, the word of the Lord came to me. God spoke to me in a vision. God told me in a dream. God said this and you go with it. What will be your judgment? I can promise you this, you will not like it and you have been warned. That's the lesson for this. Now, on next week, on next week we will cover not from Jeroboam, we'll talk about Rehoboam. He is the king in Judah and we're going to start getting into more of these different kings. There's only a few kings. There are only a few kings who are good kings. All of the good kings in this divided nation, they're all in Judah. Some are good kings who mess up from time to time. One king in particular gets 15 extra years added and he does something that he should not do that kind of hurts Israel. So, we're going to look at that. We're going to start dealing more with these with these prophets again every Monday at 5 p.m. The Bible says it will no longer be on Saturdays guys that will be on Mondays at 5 p.m. Cori's standard time that's how most folks get it but CST central standard time Christian standard time so 5 p.m. we'll cover that. Also, let me just say this you get your next homework assignment for those of you all that are taking the seminary style classes if you have not done so guys go ahead to Patreon join it's free. 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Well there's a smart Christian chopper out back I'll get in that bad boy I'll fly the smart Christian chopper to the smart Christian hangar at the airport get in the smart Christian jet put in some smart Christian fuel and fly all the way over there and drop off the Bibles myself we'll partner with other people who actually will deliver it so which Christian youth group have you guys heard of Young Life? that's one so now by the way some we cannot do for everybody but if you know of some this might be a group that you might want to look into supporting let us know it's not like folks have been contributing $50,000 it's not like it's a lot but it's there so good job we are going to be let me go to the screen here hold on wait a second all of the remaining portion excuse me of first kings how many chapters are left how many chapters are left of first kings 22 7 more chapters of first kings that we'll cover we might venture off into 2nd kings we'll probably go a little bit into 2nd kings so go ahead and read the first 5 chapters of 2nd kings as well off topic in Hebrew is the word for Harlan as they describe Rehab the same as Innkeeper let's look it up I don't know Rehab let's look it up and see where is it is it the same as Innkeeper I don't see an example of it being used as Innkeeper let me see I don't see that here I'll put it on screen so you guys can see also so you can see what I'm I don't need to make it so you guys can see also okay let me make it a little bit bigger so you can read it with me so here is the word for I'm sorry right here wait a second is that is also yeah here it is the word for Rehab or Ahab to expand to spread to to become cheerful let's see and by the way this is from the halat this is from the Hebrew Aramaic that's all I'm saying for I don't know I forgot let's see calls open one self wide you know what I can see by some of the definitions how this could be used in terms of an Innkeeper open yourself wide to spread out be generous grasping greedy that's weird generous and in another sense grasping greedy huh let me keep moving I want to make sure that cause there might be a nuance to it or someone may call those let's see Rehab is Rahkob let's see an open place corresponding to what is this okay the Jewish Aramaic Aramaic tradition I don't know what that actually means In Jerusalem a particular more precisely designated designated plaza um I don't know I'm going to be honest with you I haven't heard that term so I couldn't say I couldn't say okay all right ladies and gentlemen we are through for the week again so read those those other chapters and then we'll also deal with the the next homework I mean the yeah the next homework assignment for the little class and in the meantime guys love you all yep yes Jeff you'll be getting the next assignment within the next 20 minutes an hour all right so guys look forward to seeing that uh we will talk about the assignment the other time that you did on tomorrow cause we need to cover that as well so the other part you're going to see you won't have as long well you might have you might take as long as you do but in the meantime guys God bless you and I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow God willing