 what we're going to go over in this study. If this doesn't resonate with you, anything out of this, I'm afraid you might not actually be safe. I'm afraid you might not actually be safe because what we're gonna talk about applies to everyone we've all had these in our lives, this situation that comes. As a matter of fact, there's some other things that are gonna be brought up in this. What is going on with this system right here? I'm trying to push the button and stuff it and showing up. But maybe my computers aren't ready for the Bible study, but you are. Why? Because you are the world's greatest YouTube chat. The world's greatest audience, world's greatest group of people on YouTube. It's not even close. That's not even close second. It's not even, there's not even, listen, if you take the second best YouTube channel, the third best, the fourth best with all the chats and moderators combined, it does not equal this one. So, sorry. Anyone else who is upset or bothered by that, take it up with God. He is the one that has anointed this group of chat followers and members. Yeah, he's the one that did it. So, anyway, Robert Tuzzi, who's not, he has the greatest prison name, though he's not in prison. I don't know why I like that, Robert Tuzzi. Thank you for the super chat already. Also, to the greatest set of moderators. Thank you guys as well. Thank you guys as well. This one, we're not gonna go through all of Joshua. By the way, God says something to Joshua. He says something to Joshua that, you know what? If God tells you this, then you're old. God tells Joshua, Joshua, you're old. Now, if God tells you you're old, then you're old. And so, Joshua, you're old, you're old man. The funny thing is about it is that he's not any older than Caleb. They're about the same age. And so, we're gonna see something. He tells Joshua that you're old, and so he's telling them to get them ready to divide the portions of the land up to the people. And so, before he, as he's doing, so I should say before, but as he's doing so, he mentioned something about Caleb. You all remember Caleb. Sometimes we forget about Caleb because he's not mentioned as much as Joshua. Joshua is the one who is now leading the children of Israel after Moses. God has placed upon him, given him, put the spirit upon Joshua to lead the people. And of course, he's leading some hard-headed people just like always, but we forget about Caleb. Caleb was one of the other two who went and spied out the land, Joshua and Caleb, and came back and gave a positive report. We can take them. No guys, listen, I don't know why you're afraid, but we can take them. Why? Because the Lord has given them into our hand. For some reason, the others didn't believe it, but they did. And so Joshua allowed them to come out of Egypt also to go into the Promised Land. And so we forget about Caleb, who is now a part of the tribe of Judah. He's not originally a part of that lineage. He's not ethnically, he's not genetically a part of that unit, but he has been put in with him. He camps, he lives with those in Judah. And the reason why that's important is because I want you to see something about Caleb, and then we're gonna go into the main focus of what we're gonna talk about. And so in Joshua chapter 14, it says, now these are the territories which the sons of Israel inherited in the land of King, which Eleazar, the priests, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of the households of the tribes of the sons of Israel appointed or portioned to them for inheritance by the lot of their inheritance as the Lord commanded through Moses for the nine tribes and the half tribe. Now what's gonna happen is you're gonna see some of the tribes go northward, and then some of the tribes go southward, okay? So that's important. That'll make more of a sense later on, but right now it's not as important, it is important. I don't wanna belittle the point, but it is important, but this is what's happening. So they're dividing up the land for the people. Verse three, for Moses had given the inheritance, the inheritance, the inheritance, wow, I cannot say that word, the inheritance of the two tribes and the half tribe beyond the Jordan, but he did not give an inheritance to the Levites among them. Obviously, they don't have their own land. However, what's gonna happen is, we won't read it, but you should know that there is, amongst all the different tribes, portions of the Levites will have their plot of land or their houses or their dwellings in these other people's lands as well, okay? So now I wanna drop down, though, and I wanna go to, let's start in, let's go to verse six. In the sons of Judah drew near to Joshua and Gilgach and Cali, and Gilgach, and Calip, the son of Jeftuna, the Kintazite, remember, he is a Kintazite and not necessarily a, not of Judah, but he camps with him, he is with him now. He said to him, you know the word which the Lord spoke to Moses, the man of God concerning you and me in Kadesh, Barnea. I was 40 years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh, Barnea to spy out the land and I brought a word back to him as it was in my heart. Nevertheless, my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt with fear, but I follow the Lord my God fully. This is Caleb making a statement. So Moses swore on that day saying, surely the land on which your foot has trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever because you have followed the Lord my God fully. Amen to Caleb. Now, behold, the Lord has let me live just as he spoke these 45 years from the time that the Lord spoke his word to Moses when Israel walked in the wilderness and now behold, I am 85 years old. Listen to what Caleb says. Caleb says, I'm as, I'm still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me as my strength was then. So my strength is now for war and for going out and coming in. Now then give me this hill country, give me this land that the Lord spoke. Give me what God promised me. Listen, I know I'm 85, I get it, Joshua. The God has said who you're the same age as me. God has said, Joshua, you are old. Matter of fact, he says you are very old but we're the same age. But Caleb responds to all of this, this aging. I'm just as strong as I was back then. Yeah, I'm 85, but I'm just as strong. Try me and see. Now give me the land that God has promised me. Caleb was a fighter without questions. Matter of fact, notice what he says. He says, back up a little bit. He says, verse 11, I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me as my strength was then. So my strength is now for what? For war and for going out and coming in. I still, Caleb is saying, I still got it, baby. I still got it. There's an old country song, I guess not. Oh, I'm not sure how it was, but it says I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm good once. Not Caleb, he said, I'm just as good as I used to be. He's don't let the gray hair fool you. Or in my case, don't let the lack of hair fool you. He says, I'm still as strong. He trusts so much in the Lord. His vim, his vigor, he is just, he is all together there. And he says, guess what? Now it's time to give me what I deserve, but I'm supposed to get what God has promised me. Yeah, perfect. He said, out of man. Let's do that. That's exactly what he's saying. So give it to me. Who, oh, Sheila says, who are the Levites? Why did they get left out? They didn't get left out. These, they're their function, they're part of the 12, but their function is unlike the other. They are going to serve perpetually, well, perpetually until Christ comes. They are going to serve as the priest. They're going to serve the, basically the religious and moral needs of the people. And so they tend to the emblems, the vessels of God, they tend to the art. They, these are who they, these are who they are. And so because of that, they won't go out to war. They won't fight, not that they could or couldn't, but that's their task. That's how God has apportioned them to be. And because of that, they won't have their own land. Their land will be amongst the people. Why? They don't need to have people to service the things of God amongst them as well. So that, they didn't get left out. They still have an inheritance. As a matter of fact, we see the Levites show up again, guess where? In Revelation. So we're going to see them again. Goodbye. Anyway, so we're going to see the Levites again. God has not forgotten them. God hadn't left them out. God hadn't done anything with him. God hadn't forgotten about them. He had moved on from them. So anyway, so anyway, so he says, I'm still strong just as strong today as I ever was. And so give me back my land or give me the land. Now look what he says. Now then give me this hill country about which the Lord spoke on that day for you heard on that day that Anakim were there. Who's Anakim? Do you all recall who Anakim is? Or Anakim? With great fortified cities, perhaps the Lord will be with me and I will drive them out as the Lord has spoken. Huh, what's happening? What is, does anyone know what Caleb or who Caleb is speaking of? Does anyone realize, remember who the Anakim is? The Anakim are those same people that we saw that people would say that these are the sentence of men and angels cohabitating, which they're not the result of men and angels cohabitating, these are just big people. And they live in these big cities with these big fortified walls. That's who they are. And they're still there. They were the ones that were there in the land that God stated that he wants them driven out as well. Caleb sees those people. You ever seen the short guy, the small guy, go up to the big guy and say, yep, I can take him. I can take him. That's Caleb. And so Caleb is like, yeah, I'm 85 years old and I'm ready to go deal with them right now. Now Caleb being dumb also. So Caleb makes a statement. He says, so Josh will bless and now Caleb's gonna turn around and say, I won't go through the whole story but Caleb's gonna say, I tell you what I want you to do. Find somebody in my household who will go and drive these folks out and I'll give you my daughter. And so that's what happens. So I won't go too much in it, but Caleb is a fighter and who is he gonna fight? He is going to fight the biggest people. He's the guy. Caleb is the guy through the power of the God, through the spirit of God who will walk in the room and see the biggest bully, see the biggest thug and walk up to him, I got this guys. You know who he reminds us of? Of David. David's a guy who comes, wait a second. Who is this giant, this uncircumcised Philistine who's running his mouth about my God? Let me at him. That's Caleb. That's kind of how maybe we ought to be as well because we don't serve a dead God, we serve a living God. And because we serve a living God, then God's enemies will be defeated. Exactly, that's, Caleb wanted all the smoke. He wanted all the smoke, all the fire. He wanted everything. Bring it to me. And so I thought that was pretty interesting. I think that is, yeah, he is, Robert Walton says, Caleb is that dude. He is that dude without a question. He is 85 years old. I saw a video. You know, I'm gonna see if I can find it and see if I can just share it with you guys one day. But there's a lady, she comes in and she's pranking her father. And her father happens to be either 80 or 85, something like that, in his 80s. I think he's 83, 84, 85, 80. And she says, well, that, now the father is 80 something years old. He's sitting in a chair and he moves slow and he talks like an old person. Like he's 85 years old. And the daughter comes in and she says, there's a young lady out here who is basically talking trash and she wants to fight her and her father. The young lady, her father is old also. And so I said, just wait a minute, let me go get my father. And so let's go, let's go fight him. And the father says, yeah, okay, let's go. And the father starts getting up and the father grabs his walker, getting ready to get up. That's what Caleb reminds me of. Now, not that Caleb has a walker. Caleb is, he says, I'm just as strong as I was then as I am now. And so that's sort of desire to fight. And in this case, fight for what God's promises are than amen. Now, the bulk of what we're gonna talk about and we won't be long today. We won't be long because after this, this is all we're gonna cover of Joshua. And then by the way, let me put it on the screen because I want you all to see how close we are to other parts of the Bible. After Joshua, we've got a few things to cover. Notice what we have. The next chronological book is going to be the book of Judges. In Judges, let's just be honest. The Jews in Judges are a mess, but they're like us. So we have judges to deal with. All of the different judges that we're gonna see as a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, one of the judges that we're gonna talk about is a judge by the name of Othnio. Othnio is the younger brother of Caleb and he's also married to Caleb's daughter but he ends up becoming a judge. And so that's why it's interesting and good to see what's up next. But then also the complimentary book, one of the complimentary books that we're definitely gonna cover is the book of Ruth. Why? Because there is some historical implications in that as well. What are the historical implications that we're gonna see? Well, we're gonna start finding out about some more of the genealogy of this person that's gonna come and down the cross for us. We're gonna find out some more about this person named David. I spoke of that even though we haven't mentioned him and we don't have the right to mention his name because we haven't earned that. We don't know who David is. We don't know who Jesus is. We don't know what the cross is. We don't know about a savior. We haven't earned that yet, but we'll get there. But just so you all know what's coming up in the near future, really next week, and then we'll start covering sounds. Well, we are also going to start dealing with the prophets. We'll start dealing with the prophets in the Northern and Southern Kingdom and so forth. So we're gonna get into a whole lot of stuff. And the reason why we're going, taking our time this way is so that when we get to those prophets, you'll know what's happening, why it's happening. And so, oh, by the way, in looking at this, you'll notice this. You're gonna see the first and second chronicles that are gonna be written. First and second chronicles covers a large swath of time, okay? A large swath of time. And so some of the things that we're gonna talk about, you might even find it reiterated or give an extra detail in first and second chronicles. So first and second chronicles covers a little bit of judges, but mainly first and second kings and first, what's the other one? First and second Samuel and first and second kings. So we are going to see that and then we're gonna get to Ezra and Nehemiah, but in all of that that's happening, in first and second Samuel, first and second king Ezra and Nehemiah, and it's all the things that are chronicle, you're gonna see these prophets pop up and the prophets are prophesied to, as we said just a second ago, there's this division between the Northern and the Southern. And when they have a split, the split is gonna come as a result of this king later, David, after he dies, who steps up in the next portion of succession. So that's why that part is important to understand. We won't need to get into it right now, but we will then. Let's see. Do you have to go through some kind of ceremony in order to be judged? How do these judge come to, won't tell you now, but you have to be selected by God, first criteria. So, but we'll get there next week. So stop, so Cephas, stop jumping ahead of us. We haven't, we don't know what a judge is yet. We haven't earned that yet. Yeah, Sierra says Othniel is the brother and married his niece. Yep. Yeah. Are you telling me you wouldn't do that? Is that what you're saying? Huh, Sierra, are you better than Othniel? I'm kidding. I wouldn't do it either. I would, but it's a different time. I certainly would not. No, no, no. Was Caleb of the line of Judah? No, Caleb is a, let's go back to it. Caleb is a Kenesite. A Kenesite, they are not, they're not even Jewish, but they end up coming into the Jews, with the Jews. And so they intermarry. And so his descendants, so Caleb's descendants certainly will be. His descendants certainly will be. And I think his wife is. And so his daughter is, they are in this line of Jews. But Caleb, Caleb comes in and finds his portion among Judah. So yeah, and the name of Sheila says Caleb is a mutt because his name literally means the word Caleb in Hebrew literally means dog. So, interesting to know about. So let's go into the bulk of what we're gonna talk about now. As they're a portioning land, and this is the part that if you don't get this, I got a problem with you. I got a problem with you. Here's what I got a problem with. Let's go ahead and jump into it. He's a portioning land to the different people, to the different tribes. The reason why is because they're gonna take, they're gonna inherit the different parts of this promised land. And what's interesting to note, they never, they never will get all of, or realize all of the land. They never do. As a matter of fact, some of them don't even put out the people that they're supposed to put out. That's a problem. So I'll let you guys go back and read Joshua. We'll deal with this more in the future why they didn't put these people out because it's gonna become an issue. But they didn't do so. Needless to say, it becomes a problem. But in Joshua 21, starting in 43, 21 verse 43, Josh, I'm sorry, so the Lord gave Israel all the land which he had sworn to give to their fathers. And they possessed it and lived in it. Now, the land they gave, he gave it to them, but some of these folks never went to get it. By the way, these last three that we're gonna talk about, they're sitting around just kind of waiting, just like being nomads. God has given the land but they didn't go and take it. God wasn't getting her to go drive them out on his own. You go and do it. I'm giving you the power to go do it. But if you don't do it, well, then it'll just sit there. So, and they possessed it and lived in it. And the Lord gave them rest on every side according to all that he had sworn to their fathers and no one of all their enemies stood before them. The Lord gave all their enemies into their land. Not one of the good promises which the Lord had made of the house of Israel failed all came to pass. Then, here it is, then Joshua summoned the Rubinites and the Gaddites and the half tribal Manasseh and said to them, you have kept all that Moses, the servant of the Lord, commanded you and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you. You have not forsaken your brothers these many days to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandments of the Lord your God. Now, I want you guys to pay attention to what's happening. I want you guys to listen to what's happening. They are, or he just says, you have been faithful. I see you, and it's important where we're going. I see you and know you as somebody who has been faithful. This is how we see you. This is how all the other tribes of Israel see you. I see you in this regard. Why is that important? Well, we're gonna find out. You have not forsaken your brothers these many days to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandments of the Lord your God. Verse four, and now the Lord your God has given rest to your brothers, that is the other tribes, as he spoke to them, therefore now, therefore turn now and go to your tents to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan, only be very careful to observe the commandments and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you. To love the Lord your God and walk in all his ways and keep his commandments and hold fast to him and serving with all your heart and with all your soul. So Joshua blessed them and sent them away and they went to their tents. Now, he tells them as you're going, these parting words, so to speak, and Josh was told the same thing. Moses was told the same thing. What does he say? Be very careful to observe the commandments and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you to love the Lord your God and walk in his ways. So remember these things as you're going. And so he blessed them and they went. Now, verse seven, chapter 22, verse seven, now to the one tribe, one half tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua gave a possession among their brothers, westward beyond the Jordan. So when Joshua sent them away to their tent, he blessed them and said to them, return to your tent with great riches and with very much livestock with silver, gold, bronze, iron and with very many clothes, divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers, the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned home and departed from the sons of Israel as Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan to go to the land of Gilead to the land of their possession, which they had possessed according to the command of the Lord through Moses. Now, this is where it gets important. Now, so far, so far, so far, I'll answer in just a second. Jakey XXX tornado, I'll answer in just a second. But they have been entrusted by God, told by God, go take your land. You've got this extra spoils, these riches as wealth, take them, divide amongst amongst your brother and then leave the rest of your brother and go to your land. So they are seen as blessed, God has even blessed them even more so, but we're gonna have a problem because God tells them to be faithful, trust the Lord. Well, what tends to happen with Jews? What tends to happen with us? Well, we tend to be unfaithful and sometimes go to turn our attention towards things that we should not turn our attention to. Jakey says, he says, this might sound like a stupid question, it's not. But why couldn't the Jews in the Old Testament receive salvation like those Gentiles? I'm so glad that we don't have to do, yeah. Well, the reason why it just hadn't happened yet. Now, their salvation or their inheritance, those that were saved is just like ours. The ultimate end of salvation is just like ours. They don't get any, their inheritance is no different than ours, ours is no different than theirs. However, how it came about, theirs was as observing the law and the atonement system that was set up then, ours is the same atonement, it's just by different vessels, different high priests, different scapegoat, different substitutionary atonement. In this case, for us, it's all Jesus. For them, it was a high priest, a scapegoat and a goat that was slaughtered and blood sprinkled on the altar. And they had their faith in that after humbling themselves, afflicting their souls. With the repentant heart, which by the way, the Lord generates for us. And so in a sense, it's the same, but it's different, it's carried out different for us because we are in, here's an important word, a different time, economy, stewardship or dispensation. This is how God is working with us, but it's the same thing, it's the same atonement. It's just different blood, better blood, better high priest, better scapegoat are with me. So, and then you're right. Thank God we don't have these animal sacrifices anymore because he says the blood of bulls and goats is not sufficient to take and keep our sin away. So anyway, let's go back to it. So Joshua 22, we've got a problem that's gonna happen. When they came to the region, I want you guys to focus on everything that I'm getting ready to say right now. Verse 22, verse 10, when they came to the region of the Jordan, which is in the land of Canaan, the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Anasah, look what they did, they built an altar there by the Jordan, a large altar in appearance. And the sons of Israel heard it, said, behold, the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Anasah have built an altar at the frontier of the land of Canaan in the region of Jordan on the side, belonging to the sons of Israel. When the sons of Israel heard of it, when the rest of them heard of it, the whole congregation of the sons of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh to go up against them in war. So they heard what this travesty that these three tribes have done, we're going to war, we're going to kill them. Let's get ourselves together. We're getting ready to go to war against them, against our own brothers, against our own people. We're getting ready to go to war. Verse 13, then the sons of Israel sent to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and to the half tribe of Anasah into the land of Gilead, the son of Eleazar, the priest, and with him 10 chiefs, one chief for each father's household from each of the tribes of Israel and each one of them was the head of his father's household among the thousands of Israel. They came to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and to the half tribe of Anasah, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them saying, thus says the whole congregation of the Lord, not thus says the Lord, God didn't say this, but we want to know what's going on. What is this unfaithful act which you have committed against God of Israel, turning away from following the Lord this day and building yourselves an altar to rebel against the Lord this day? Yeah, that's pretty, yeah. Why would you do that? Why would you go after you were blessed and then go and build an altar that is an affront to God? Why would you do so? Verse 17, it says, is not the iniquity of Pior enough for us from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although a plague came upon the congregation of the Lord that you must turn away this day from following the Lord. If you rebel against the Lord today, he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel tomorrow. So what you're gonna do is you're gonna bring a reproach amongst us as well. So it's not just you that you're affecting, you're affecting us. Why would you do this? God has blessed you. Why in the world after being blessed would you so quickly turn your back on God to sin? What's up with you people? If you don't get this right, yet God is gonna deal with us, but before he deals with us, we're gonna deal with you. We're gonna kill you. We're gonna war with you. Verse 19, how if however, the land of your possession is unclean, then cross into the land of the possession of the Lord, where the Lord Tabernacle stands and take possession among us, only do not rebel against the Lord or rebel against us by building an altar for yourselves beside the altar of the Lord our God. Did not Achan, the son of Zarah, act unfaithfully in the things under the ban and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel and that man did not perish alone in hisiquity. In other words, we just had this problem with Achan in the battle of Ai, he did this and people, other folks had to suffer as a result of him. Now he died and others died with him. So why would you do this thing? Verse 21, and here's the problem. And guys, this is how we do, this is how it is today. This represents a big problem amongst us as believers and then see the lesson learned here. Verse 21, then the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribal Manasseh answered his folk to the heads of all the families of Israel. So they heard them, they went to them to find out what's the deal, why would you do such a thing? Verse 22, the mighty one, God, the Lord, the mighty one, God, the Lord. They sound good, they sound good, look what they said. They said, the mighty one, God, the Lord, the mighty one, God, the Lord. Yeah, we should say the same thing. He knows and may Israel itself know if it was in rebellion or if an unfaithful act against the Lord do not save us this day. So if we've done some sort of sin, don't save us, let us die, look what they're saying though. If we have built us an altar to turn away from following the Lord or if to offer burnt offering or grain offering on it or if to offer sacrifice or peace offerings on it, may the Lord himself require. In other words, let the Lord kill us then, let the Lord judge us, may the Lord require of us if we have done something wrong. Look what they said, verse 24, but truly we have done this out of concern for a reason saying in time to come, your sons may say to our sons, what have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel? For the Lord has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you sons of Reuben and sons of Gad, you have no portion of the Lord. So your sons may make our sons stop fearing the Lord. They're saying this reminder to remind our sons what the Lord has done. Therefore we say, let us build an altar not for burnt offering or sacrifice, rather this offer shall be a witness between us and you and between our generations after that we are to perform the service of the Lord before him with our burnt offerings and with our sacrifices and with our peace offering so that your sons would not say to our sons any time to come, you have no portion in the Lord. By the way, it's going to happen. There's going to be this division between the two. It's going to happen. He says therefore, verse 28, we say it shall also come about if they say this to us or to our generation in times of come, then we shall say, see the copy of the altar of the Lord which our fathers made not for burnt offering or for sacrifice, rather it is a witness between us and you. Far be it from us, here it is, that we should rebel against the Lord and turn away from following the Lord this day by building an altar for burnt offering, for grain offering or for sacrifice beside the altar of the Lord, our God which is before us. I'm sorry, before his tabernacle. Now, here it comes. Do you know what they're getting ready to say? Do you know what Phineas and the other people are going to say? They're going to say, oh, okay, that makes sense. Verse 30, so when Phineas and the priests and the leaders of the congregation, even the heads of the family of Israel who were with him heard the words with the son of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the sons of NASA spoke, it pleased them. And Phineas, the son of Eleazar, the priests said to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and to the sons of NASA, today we know that the Lord is in our midst because you have not committed this unfaithful act against the Lord. Now you have delivered the sons of Israel from the hand of the Lord. Now they go back and report this back. Here is the lesson. This was a huge misunderstanding on the part of who? The part of the people, excuse me, on the part of Israel, the remaining tribes. These three did nothing wrong. But by all appearances from others looking in on them, it looked like he did something wrong. They didn't, which tells us a couple of things. One, somebody can look like they sinned and have not sinned. Someone can look like they have turned their back on God and have not turned their back on God. Someone to someone else's eyes can look like they are doing wrong or in wrong and have not. Well, notice it says the word of the people, not the word of the Lord came to them. God didn't say this, which maybe you ought to start inquiring of God before you start hurling accusations. Maybe you ought to start going to the people themselves before you start like they did. They did something that most of us don't do. We wanna cuss and fuss and fight and have fits rather than simply going to them. Now, this wasn't a short trek. This was a good trek. They sent people to find out to inquire, hey, what's up? Before we fight, let's find out. Let's talk first. We don't do that a lot. Now, obviously it's not always possible and sometimes it's not even required. Someone out there is promoting homosexuality. Well, that's different. There's no need to go and, hey, explain yourselves. No, in this case though, you've got someone who is clearly a brother. Clearly a brother. You have called them brother. You understand they are brothers. God has blessed them like God would bless a child of God. And then the moment that something happens and it does not comport with you or you don't think it's right, you want to start a fight. What does that say about you? Northern tribes, and by the way, they're gonna be the first to fall into major sin. They're gonna be the first to fall, but this happens. And guys, by the way, it's not just them that this happens to. It happens with us. It happens with us that we would jump to conclusions. And by the way, C.G. says, very interesting. And I didn't plan for this to happen, but this is just, this is in line with the reading. This is in, this is Joshua. We were going this route. And so Joshua is saying, or not, or the book of Joshua is saying, why in the world, first of all, I could imagine if they would have gathered for war. Now they didn't. Have they gathered for war? Whose side do you think God would have been on? Remember, God gives them, notice God gives them an extra blessing. God gives them an extra blessing. And so I would imagine that there's not gonna be a war. And Joshua's still alive. Had they gone for war? Because they did not inquire of the Lord. They didn't inquire of the Lord. They went on their own. But the good thing about them is that at the very least, at the very least, they decided to go ask him, hey, I got a question. We got a question. We're just curious. Why would you do such and such thing? Why in the world would you do something that looks like it's just an affront to God? What gives? Maybe you're not a child of God. You couldn't be because what you're doing is sinful. What you're doing is, yeah child, they had a zeal. And by the way, having a zeal, having a passion does not absolve you from sin. You can sin with zeal. You can sin passionately. You can be used by the devil. You can be used by the enemy passionately. You can do all these things that you think is right because notice these children of Israel, they thought they were right. However, without acting too hastily, which is a feather in their cap, which speaks against us because often times, and we all do it, sometimes we act too hastily. They went and asked. The son of the priest, Eleazar, his son Phineas, goes with these men and they ask, what's the deal? They let them hear their case and then they explained. After they explained, after they explained, oh, okay. Now, this comes up all throughout scriptures and we're told that if there is an issue, then go to your brother. Go find it, go figure it out. Now, if we found out that you are in sin, well then we're gonna kill you, we're gonna hurt you. We were about to go to war, about to go to war over a huge misunderstanding. Now, how crazy is that? How amazing is that? We're gonna go to war over a huge misunderstanding. Do we do that sometimes? Do we do that sometimes? Yeah, we do that a lot of times. We do that a lot of times. We may, now the issue is though, notice also, notice also they were, hey, okay, you're right. Matter of fact, let's continue reading verse 32. Then Phineas, the son of Eleazar, the priest and the leaders returned to the sons of Reuben and from the sons of Gad, from the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan. By the way, the writers of the Old Testament love giving a lot of detail. We know where they're coming from, but they gotta keep telling us. They could just say it in this verse, they returned. But instead, they returned from the sons of Reuben and from the sons of Gad, from the land of Gilead to the land, they could just say they returned back home. To the sons of Israel who brought back word to them, the word please the sons of Israel, the sons of Israel blessed God and they did not speak of going up against them in war to destroy the land in which the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad were living. The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad were called the altar witness, why they call it witness? For they said it is a witness between us and the Lord. Now I won't go into Joshua's farewell, Joshua's getting ready to die. But guys, that is a testament to how we should be. And again, let's just be honest. All of us to some degree have been guilty of this. All of us to some degree have been guilty, have jumped to conclusions. Sometimes it's necessary, sometimes it makes sense. But I want you to notice who we're jumping to conclusions with. That's why this has kind of been my pattern. If a person has built up the benefit of the doubt and I call you brother, I think you're brother, you look like a brother, others say you're a brother, then I'm gonna treat you like a brother and give you the benefit of the doubt. Can I give you an example? There are people that in the past I have said, hey, listen, what you're doing is wrong. Now, most of them, believe it or not, now you don't all know this, but most of them I've tried to contact and try to get a word through. One guy famously blocked me and then went somewhere else and told me why I made a video about why he blocked me. And then they had a conversation about why he blocked me. Okay, well fine, listen, you blocked me because I was asking you, I literally inquired of you. Why is this? You told me a lie. No, I didn't say that. I think you misunderstood. I then made another video saying the exact same thing that I said and the video was, we are all gods. We are like gods and we have Elohim. We are little Elohims is what he said. I said, well, no, that's wrong. That is wrong, that's heretical, that is ungodly, that's unbiblical. We are not little Elohims, we're not little gods. We don't have that power that God has. And so for that reason, y'all didn't get the chance to hear it, but I got cut off. Okay, but at least what I did was because I had the person's number and the ability to contact him. Hey, listen, what's up with this? Can you explain this to me? So I went to him and now I had made any such video or any sort of anything about him at the time. May no such remark towards him whatsoever, but because I had the ability to contact and talk to him. Sometimes somebody can say something that, wait a second. If a brother in the Lord comes out and says, I've come to realize that Jesus did not die on the cross. I'm not calling you an answer. Now I may call you up though, I'll call you, but at the same time, hey everybody, this guy is a nut job. This guy is off his rocker. This guy is teaching heresy because some things don't require an explanation, but if the person's built up a benefit of doubt, then give it to them. You don't have to, and if they don't answer, they don't respond, we'll fine. But you do, because sometimes when something happens, what God is looking for is sometimes how you handle the situation. Sometimes it's not what they did because God is gonna do, listen, God is not my, whatever you sow, you're gonna reap it, but sometimes it's good for you to see or it's good for us to see how you handle the situation. How am I going to handle the situation? So I think that's a good lesson for all of us. Um, would you say, Charlotte says, unfortunately we don't like confrontation, although the Bible says it's, yeah, it is, it is. We shouldn't have a knee jerk responsibility to go, you know, let me just be confrontatious. Let me just go and start a fight. Let me go, let me just walk in the room and start slapping people because you're slapped the wrong person, then there's another slap or something worse coming back and you might have sinned in doing so. So yeah, that, now we have become a verse of confrontation just even in our own lives. We don't, we don't like anyone to make us feel uncomfortable. And so telling someone what the truth is that you're wrong, that can be uncomfortable for you. And you should be a little bit uncomfortable, but not, but being uncomfortable is not a reason not to do so. Some folks don't mind it. Some folks just like being, um, you know, troublemakers. God has not called anybody to be a troublemaker. God has not called anyone to bring down people. He's called us to warn. He's called us to point out sin, heresy and so forth. He's called us to do that while at the same time spreading the gospel, while at the same time loving on our brothers and sisters, while at the same time restoring someone who may have fallen infallible. That's what we're called to do. But our natural inclination should not be like Peter, get the sword and go to cutting and chopping folks ears off. That's not that. No, Jesus didn't need Peter to do that. Jesus could have, if he wanted to, he could have just, all right, you're all dead, but he didn't want to. He didn't need to. That's not what he was trying to do. And so sometimes we can jump the gun and hurt someone on our own without, because what did they not do? They did not inquire of the Lord. And because of that, there was almost a disaster. So now that being the case guys, that's it for Joshua. The shortest Bible said that we've done. And I think that, I think it's fitting that we, that we end there. If anyone has any questions over what we've covered thus far over these, let's look at the books that we've covered so far. We have covered Genesis, Exodus, Numbers. Now Joshua, we've also covered the complimentary books, Joe, Leviticus and Deuteronomy. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So there are seven books that if we speak about anything, then we have earned the right to speak about those books. Whatever's been written in those books, we can talk about. Are you with me? Now the problem is, so far, we still haven't, we don't know who, we can't bring up Jesus. We cannot bring up Jesus, thank you, child and cat. We cannot bring up Jesus because we haven't heard of Jesus. You know what we haven't even heard of? We haven't even heard the name Holy Spirit yet. Isn't that interesting? Thus far, no, we've heard the spirit of God, or have we, let me make sure, let me make sure we've covered an awful lot of ground. Hold on, hold on, let me make sure before I, yep. The term Holy Spirit has not been brought up yet. So we can't bring up, we can't, but again, do we know who the Holy Spirit is? We know who it's going to be. We know who that's referencing to. Yeah, you can bring up the Lord, which is important. John, I am glad you made that. I'm glad you said that. We can bring up the Lord. Because the Lord, by the way, I, the Lord, do not change. So we can bring up the Lord, this Yahweh, or this Eche, which is, and somebody asked, well, what's the difference between the, when you say the Eche and the Yahweh, what's the difference between the two? It's the same word, the same thing. It's one is saying from the first person standpoint, the other is the third person. Like if I say, if I'm speaking about I, if you speak about me, I'll say I, I am, I, I, I. But if you speak about me, you can't say I, you'll have to say him, are you with me? And that's all it is, that's the him version, the third person version of Yahweh. Or if you say the second person, second or third person, Yahweh. Or if it's Yahweh himself speaking, it's Eche, I. Same, same I am. And we're gonna see this I am again. Will there be a New Testament timeline that you will make? No, Moomstar, I will not make a New Testament timeline because it's already made. Let me go ahead and put it on the screen so you can go ahead and take a snapshot of it. There it is, there's a New Testament timeline. However, obviously we won't get into it for a while, but it's there. So anyone that has not seen it, go ahead and take a, what do you call it, a snapshot or a screenshot? I said snapshot, screenshot. I'm gonna get my tech terms down soon enough. Take a screenshot of it though. But oh, you're asking someone else. Okay, you're asking her. Thought you were asking me, I'm sorry. Yeah, Genesis one says the spirit. All we know is the spirit or the spirit of God or his spirit, that's all we've been told. But we're gonna find out that the Holy Spirit is the spirit of God because when we're introduced to the Holy Spirit, we will be told. Matter of fact, the first time we hear it is your Holy Spirit. And so the Holy part is really kind of given as an adjective to it, but that's who he is. The Holy Spirit, your Holy Spirit, your spirit. So why is it okay to let someone who hurt you or your welfare walk away? Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. It's not a cut and dry thing, sometimes it's not. If what's done is done and they're walking away, then the question would be why would you be going after them? If it's for vengeance, well then no. Now we're speaking of right now. Now if you go after them, there could be the reason to go after them, to further protect your family or someone else after that, right? So someone has done wrong to you, done bad by you, hurt you. But what they're going to do, they're also going after others or they're gonna continue to hurt you or your family or other people. Well then sometimes you do have to deal with it. There are times where you don't just sit and just take what's happening. Sometimes you have to stop what's happening. Someone breaks into the house and you're a pacifist and they got a knife, they got a bunch of knives. There's five guys with knives and you got a gun with a bunch of bullets. What do you do? You can be the pacifist if you want to but at this point in time, yeah, you're broken in the house, you knock my TV over and all this and like that but now you're threatening my family. Okay, we can go ahead and stop that. So there are times where you are allowed to and you should as a matter of fact defend yours. And so because if you're not defending yours and providing for and keeping safe for your family, the Bible says you are worse than unbeliever because even unbelievers would do that. Amen. Oh, what we're talking about. Okay, let's see, are there any more questions regarding this? Did God destroy Shiloh? Don't know. Got to find out. Why are you, you said, you said I'm kind of jumping the gun so we got to find out. We got to find out. Ask your brethren in the chats. Huh, okay, let me answer this question. There are many associate pastors who are awaiting ordination by their pastors. Should they approach their pastors as to when? Okay, this goes into kind of like church governance and so forth and it varies. I'll say this, I've seen a lot of people want to, I can't dig, when can I preach? When can I preach? Hey pastor, when can I preach? When is it my turn? To me, that's a bit of a red flag. You're so in pain. I get there being Simon and Zeal, but sometimes you're so impatient that you're like, you know what, no, I'm not letting you go, you're about to mess up something. So no, sit down. It's a case by case basis because a church may have a good reason for doing so. Some churches do so kind of, it varies. You have to look at it and ask kind of on a case by case basis which by also knowing the landscape of that church in that particular young pastor. So but I saw a question, what was the question I just looked for? And it moved. Yeah, I am too, Jeff. He's excited to get to Samuel. There was a question there. Oh, are the tribes separated North and South? Yes, the Northern tribe we're going to find, that's going to be Israel. They're going to be called Israel. The Southern tribe is going to be Judah. Now they're all Israel, they're all Jews, they're all part of the same 12 tribes. Only the 12 tribes make up the, or the children of Israel make up the Northern and the Southern tribe. Now remember though, we've got these two half tribes and they're the two half tribes of Manasseh. There is no tribe of Joseph. Joseph has two sons and so we've got these two half tribes. We'll get more into that. Matter of fact, we'll go back to how that came about. Remember when Jacob crossed his hands in blessing the two? So that's where that comes about, but that all comes about, the split is made manifest even more so after the death of this guy named David who we don't know anything about yet because we hadn't gotten there yet. So all right, if there are no more, this is a record, less than an hour, what'd you say? Harvest makes a good point. I was curious if anyone goes out and actually just share the gospel with their neighbors, et cetera, seems like we just, a lot, you know what, I will say this, a lot of times we do. A lot of times we do, we are, because we are becoming more isolated people and therefore not even understanding or not interacting with people. Sometimes it's easy to not interact with people and we're called to interact with people and we should. That's how they get the gospel. Now, are you supposed to go out and just, hey, make a plan today between 12 and two? I'm going to share the gospel. No, but it's kind of as you're going with your friends, with your neighbors, with your coworkers. Matter of fact, share the gospel with folks at church because all of them ain't saved. I can promise you that. So yeah, you got a point there. Does the word deacon apply? No, I'm going to show that we haven't gotten the deacons yet but to answer your question, deacons apply to everybody. The office of deacon does not. Deacon is just a servant and so there are female servants, there are male servants but they're not necessarily in the office of and so that's a particular office, a particular role that is just under the elder and truth be told, the deacons, it should be done so with an eye that hopefully eventually that some of these deacons would actually become elders but this office is only for men but women and men that are not in the office but are serving, the term just simply means servant. So yeah, but not as far as an office is concerned. All right, ladies and gentlemen, what do we do next? Next up, let me just put on the screen next week. Next week, we are going to touch on the first part of judges and then after that, we're not going to finish judges. After we touch on the first part of judges, we are going into Ruth. So Ruth in not the next session, the session after that and then we're going to go back into judges. We will not touch on this other but we will not touch on, obviously we're not going to touch on psalms or we're not going to touch on psalms or proverbs, ecclesiastes or song of Solomon until the end, until we get past first and second kings, first and second chronicles until after David and Solomon have died. We won't get to it there. Now, if you want to bring it up, we'll bring up some of the psalms and some of the proverbs and so forth. We'll bring those up just to have a time with just that. And throughout the course that we might go to a few of those as we're going because there are some psalms and proverbs that deal specifically with like David, obviously. So when something happens with David, when David is in exile, when he's running from his own children, his own son, there's a couple of psalms that we'll look to after his sin, there's some psalms we look to. There's some psalms that we look to for some proverbs we look to for him and for Solomon. Okay, so we'll touch on those but it won't be an actual feature like we're doing here. I'm going to just, okay. Thank you too, Jeff. I appreciate that. By the way, Jeff, I shouldn't say that there's another Jeff. I think I may have accidentally unbanned him because I saw you, I was like, how did Jeff get banned? And then, and then Chess Champ said, no, no, no, that's a different one. So y'all be on the lookout for that extra Jeff that shows up. That's my fault. I unbanned him because I thought that who banned Jeff? So that's my mistake. So, and incidentally guys, I unbanned, banned, I unbanned, unbanded. I released a few people who had been banned. More to come on that, but I released a few people who were banned properly and justly so. Monkey moves that you banned that Jeff. Well, he's unbanned now. You loosed him or you bound him and I loosed him. We did what Charismatics do. You banned him. I mean, you bind him. I bind you, I bound you, you bound him and I loosed him. I apologize. I apologize. So, Jeff, be on the lookout for the other Jeff. Be on the lookout for a pseudo Jeff, for fake Jeff. I don't know why people do that. Why do you go around making up names and faces pretending to be that person? That's just, get a life. Get a life. Get a life. Don't pretend to be that person. So, yeah, can't handle both Jeff. One, listen, all we need, it's not that we can't handle two Jeffs. All we need is one Jeff. It's all we need. So, anyway, yeah, and you know what's funny? I'm with you. I do like Samuel a lot. The whole story is things take a big change. I'll take it back, I'll take it back. Really, you know what? I like First and Second Samuel and First and Second Kings. There's a whole lot of something, something's happening going on at that time. There's a whole lot going on. And it's not changing the course of things, but what happens is, what happens is you can see kind of the picture, the shape of the world, the shape of Israel, even the shape of the church being kind of put together. And even there, because remember, there's one big covenant. Actually, I'll take it back. That's not one. There's two big covenants yet to come, but there's one covenant that we never talk about. There's one covenant we rarely talk about and we should. It's the Davidic covenant. That covenant is extremely important, but yes, we don't talk about it. And we will, but we will. We will. So anyway, guys, thank you so much. I have got a bunch to do, got a few more videos coming out. By the way, I got a, I'm about to, I'll tell you all about it, about this possible strike that I may get, I won't get it, but I may get it. I could get it. I might get it, but I'll tell you about that later. But anyway, guys, thank you so much. I look forward to seeing you all again. Until next time, God bless.