 Good evening, good afternoon. Hope you all are doing well. This is our Saturday morning Bible study. The only difference is not on Saturday because of weather and so forth, but we're happy today. We'll be back to our regular schedule on this upcoming Saturday. But anyway, before we go back into it and pick up where we left off, it'd be kind of wrong to do so after taking what, a month or so off. And so I wanna kind of, the last thing we did was we had a pop quiz. And so now we wanna just kind of do a recap of everything. Now remember, the problem that we have in the body is not all the things that we talk the most about. It's not charismatic or continuationist versus cessationist versus Calvinist versus dispensationalist versus Armenian versus provisionist versus whomever. That's not the issue. The biggest issue that we have is not using properly the one thing that God gave us. The one thing that God gave us all and that we all have in common is the word of God. Even if you're not a Christian, we all have the word of God. And so the issue is gonna be how we read it. And I've been saying this until, and I'll keep saying until the cows come home. I've been saying this and saying this and saying this. And that is we need to have a consistent way of reading the scriptures as consistently as possible. Hopefully there's a unified way of doing so. In other words, that we all aren't reading the Bible in different ways. And I say this and I'll say this until someone in the chat or someone in the comments or someone on YouTube or someone at some seminary or someone somewhere will show me a better way unlike the way we naturally read everything else. Why read comic strips and menus and directions and everything else? Why read it one way and then read the Bible differently? As though God expected you, expected me, expected us to read it differently with spiritual eyes. Think about it. Is God asking us to read the Bible with spiritual eyes on? Well, if that's the case, how then does the person who's not a Christian read the Bible? He can't. And then how do people who didn't have the Holy Spirit early on who these words were spoken to and written to, how do they understand it? Cause the question's gotta be, are we understanding it differently than the person who said it, who wrote it and the audience who heard it? That's the question. And so, and I think that 90% of the way that we read the Bible is the correct way. And I don't think we need to deviate from how we read it if it, unless it matches up with our doctrine. And I say this over and over again, but guys, let me just say this and I'll keep appealing it to this. It's worse when the solid brothers and sisters in the Lord read the Bible incorrectly versus those who are out there on the fringes and there are all these videos made about these people for doing things crazy because we expect that from certain people. There are certain people that we expect to behave a certain way, act a certain way, preach a certain way, teach a certain way. But then there's others who we expect to rightly divide and handle the scriptures. As a matter of fact, every last one of you in the chats, every last one of you that will listen to this video later, you are expected to handle the scriptures properly. There's a level of expectation. I think personally that I have with you guys and of myself, then I do with some of these people that we see online. And so if we go back to the beginning, and there's only really one way that you can cause everybody to kind of read everything and take away their preconceived notions, take away their doctrinal leanings and so forth, take away the way they were taught the Elijah. There's really only one way to do so. To take away what grandma, grandpa said what your church pastor said. There's only one way. As we're reading it, deal with just that text, okay? And so what we wanna do is how we said in the very beginning and sometimes because we said it early on, we've forgotten about it because it worked well for us when we were in Genesis. It worked well for us when we were at the earlier part of the study when we were in Genesis. Even going through Genesis one, two, 12, 15, 17, 18, even getting access, we were all pretty comfortable. But as things began to unfold, there was a natural tendency to wanna let what we believe creep in and let that interpret the text that we're reading, okay? So let's think about the first 3,000 years of the Bible. It doesn't seem like we've gone that far, but we have literally gone 3,000 years into the scriptures. Let me go ahead and put this Old Testament timeline up and let's just look at all the things that we've covered. Now some things we did not cover as in depth as others and we won't. Now we'll have some Bible surveys and go over different books and so forth later on, but think about where we started. We started off in Genesis, went through to Job as the complimentary books. We have the chronological books, which are Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, and first and second Samuel. Those are the chronological books. But then we also have the complimentary books such as Leviticus and Deuteronomy and then we have Ruth. We have first and second chronicles. We have not gotten to the wisdom books, the writings and we have not gotten into the prophets. We'll look at the prophets very, very soon, but to see the order of things, that kind of helps out a lot. But going back to Genesis, there's some things that we can see already. There's some things that we can kind of glean and gather from what we've read thus far. And so before we go back to that, let's start off with where we left off. Where we let off was in David being spoken or being told about this covenant that God is making with him. How did we get there? And thinking about how we got there, we're gonna kind of recap some very important points that are stated in scripture that are clear. And I wanna let's try to read it the way that the Charismatic, the Pentecostal, the Methodist, the Church of Christ, Church of God and Christ, the Baptist, Southern Baptist, National Baptist, whomever, let's try to read it and understand it the way that everyone else will as well. Just kind of in this plain, normal understanding. Now I employ a literal, grammatical, historical hermeneutic. You employ yours and matter of fact, see if you can employ yours as we do this recap and then let's then see if you get the same understanding. Not that I would get, but as all of Christianity has always gotten because in most of these things, it's pretty cut and dry, okay? And you'll see where some folks even try to kind of valorize or spiritualize certain texts when it comes to God and his deity. Because I think 99% of you all will agree how we see God in these scriptures. So going back to the very beginning, oh, by the way, let's just lay it this way. We are at a point where David is being told about a covenant but where did that come from? These things didn't just pop up out of thin air. These things didn't just, the decision for David to be the one that God makes his covenant with didn't just come out of nowhere. So let's go back to the very beginning. Let's go back to where we at Genesis. Obviously, Genesis, let's go to Genesis one and a couple of things that we wanna read. And I want you to notice a few things from the very beginning. As a matter of fact, from the very first word that we see in the Bible, we have to look at it, how it says in the plain reading of this. The first word in the Bible is better sheet in beginning. And we've talked about this before. It's not in the beginning, in the absolute definite beginning of everything. That's not what this is saying. It's not the definite article, but it's there. It is better sheet, which is in beginning of beginning. The reason why this is important is because there was something before this rock was there. This rock, this earth was not there in the beginning. As a matter of fact, even looking at this rock, this earth, we're not even talking about the beginning of this rock. Someone asked a question. How did you get unsubscribed? Let me stop there for a second because there are a lot of folks who are seeing that now. YouTube does this thing. I don't know what it is. I have no idea where people have been who have been subscribed and then all of a sudden get unsubscribed, it's not us. I can't subscribe or unsubscribe you. It's something that YouTube does. They do things that kind of, there's a problem with a lot of people on YouTube who have these issues where they are maybe doing some of the various things, what have you. And so they just do this thing where they just start scrubbing. I don't know if it's inactivity. I don't know what it is. No one can understand this. And I've seen larger creators and other channels say the same thing and other people have no idea. So guys, make sure if you are not getting your alerts and things like that, make sure you're still subscribed. YouTube will, for whatever reason, I have no idea people who are legitimately subscribed haven't got any issues, any warnings. So it's just, I don't know. I've seen it happen with channels that I even watch and subscribe to. I'm like, hey, I'm not subscribed to this channel. And I've been watching channels. So it's just one of those things. I'm glad you said that because other people have been saying that this week and I've seen it in other channels. I don't know if something's going on with YouTube or not. But anyway, I didn't mean to interrupt that, but that needed to be said because a lot of folks are starting to see that. Anyway, let's go back to it. So back to the very beginning. This is not the beginning of everything. As a matter of fact, it's not even the beginning of the rock. How do we know? Because our plain reading, and this is why we harp so much in the very beginning and we spent weeks, I don't know how many sessions we spent on the first chapter of Genesis. We're not gonna spend that much time a day, but it's vitally important that we understand how we read it. We're gonna say what it says and nothing more. Okay? And so in the beginning, well, there's something that was there before he says, let there be light. The rock was there, this earth with water over it. That was there. We don't know when he put that there. We don't know how long the water was sitting on the rock on this earth. I have no idea. Was it there for one minute prior? Was it there a second prior? Was it there a trillion years prior? We have no idea, but guess what? It's not that important because it's not germane to the point that we are trying to make. So he says, in the beginning, and then he says the third word that's used, better she's bought up, created he Elohim. So we can stop there. In the very beginning, we're going to see God. And I want you to notice something that we've covered throughout the scriptures. And just to look at, even again, through our regular, just boring, normal, Johnny Apple seed, what have you, plain Jane way of reading the scriptures, we see God interacting with creation and we see different names or titles ascribed to God. For example, in Genesis, we see this word here, put it back on the screen, Elohim. Now there are different ways that a person can say, or even not a person, but the Bible can even say, God. A couple of ways. One, because we see his identity very on. God wants us to know a couple of things at the onset, excuse me, and we'll cover that in just a little bit, but excuse me. The first way he identifies himself is Elohim. That is the plural form of the word. We're not gonna draw any conclusions from that. We're not gonna go into some sort of doctrinal point there. We are not even going over doctrine. Remember, all we can go over is only the passages that we've covered, okay? Yeah, this, I don't know what's going on, I'm all choked up. The Lord has me choked up. There's other ways though, that the Bible also describes God. Now Elohim is the plural form in Hebrew. There's three ways you can number. You can number with the singular, you can number with the dual, and you can number with the plural. The plural necessarily means three or more. It can be 50, it can be 1,000, it can be four, it can be 27, but three or more. That's the plural in Hebrew. Dual is two, and then singular, obviously one. There is a singular form of the word God, of the word Elohim, which is the word El. We see that in scriptures as well. We also see God described himself as the Lord God. We're gonna see that in Genesis 2.4. We're gonna go to there in just a second. The Lord God, we see the term the Lord Yahweh. We see that being described of who he is. We see the word Adonai, either as Lord or my Lord. We even see the word Yah in the scriptures as well. We see the angel of the Lord. We see the angel of God. We see him calling himself as Eche, Eche, which is I am who I am, and then Yahweh. So there are different ways that we see that. Oh, by the way, we even see another, and I ought to throw in there, we see in Deuteronomy 32, 39, where he calls himself, I am he, I need who, which is also, we see that reflected in the New Testament. We won't get there yet, because we don't even know of a New Testament just yet, but just to make the point, we see God being described or given these titles or these names all throughout the scripture, and they all refer back to him. And we see him interacting with people and the people themselves, whether we wanna agree or disagree or not, we see that the people called him God. We see different counts where he is with Abraham. As a matter of fact, even when they fall, we see the Lord God walking in the garden and them hiding themselves from him. Someone could say that's not necessarily the pre-incarnate Christ, that's not the Lord in physical form, seems like it, but fine. But we see him in physical form in other places, in Genesis, where he's speaking to Abraham, and he calls him God. As a matter of fact, as he's getting ready to go and destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, we see him pleading with him. And he's called God, and he's called the angel of the Lord. We see him speaking to Hagar in Genesis 16. She calls him God. We see Jacob wrestling with a man whom he calls God. He says, I've wrestled with God. I've seen him face to face. We see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, all of them being before God. We see Gideon. We see Josh. We see all these men that we've covered thus far having an interaction with God. We see Moses interacting with God. We see Moses in Exodus three. We'll go over that in just a little bit, but we see, as a matter of fact, before I, let's just go ahead and go through it. Moses in Exodus three, we see him interacting with God, and notice what's there. And we don't have to be super intelligent. We can just see what it says. As a matter of fact, whenever I'm speaking with someone who wants to find out the identity of God, I'll go to Exodus three and I'll ask them, who does the Bible? Not me or anyone else. Who does the Bible say this is? Now, this is Moses giving an account and he would know he was there. He says, then, I'm sorry, the angel of the Lord appears. And the word that's used here is Malak, which is angel. And in Hebrew, there's no word for of. It's what we call the Hebrew construct, but we see the Lord here, and we see it used as a tetragrammaton, the Yahweh. We see him showing up, so the angel of the Lord appeared to him. That necessarily means that's God, but we're gonna find out that it is because it says the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of the bush. So it's pretty easy to understand who is in the midst of the bush, the angel of the Lord. That part is pretty easy to understand. Then Moses says, I'm gonna turn aside to see what's going on, why this tree is not burning up. And so verse four says, when the Lord, so now we've got a different name, title, whatever you wanna say, is ascribed to whoever it is in the midst of the fire, the Lord. First, we have the angel of the Lord. Then we have the Lord saw that he turned aside a look. Then just that quickly, we have this word again, Elohim. God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, Moses, so we see God, we see the angel of the Lord, we see the Lord. And it's easy to understand the Lord because due to runomy four, 35, 39, both say that the Lord is God, there is no other. There is no other Lord, there is no other God. And so who calls from the midst of the burning bush? God, who calls from the midst of the burning bush? The Lord, who calls from the midst of the burning bush, the angel of the Lord. And then as we drop down, he says in the very same chapter, excuse me, he says, then Moses said to him, behold, I am going to the sons of Israel and they will say to me, I will say to them, the God of your fathers, Elohim, actually, I'm sorry, this word that's right here is not Elohim, this word is Elohei. So it's the plural form of God. And so Elohei, the God of your fathers has sent me to say to me, if they say, what is his name, what shall I say? And what does God say? Elohim, to him, to Moshe, to Moshe, says, echyeh, esher echyeh. The circle's a little bit off because I've changed kind of the size of the, there it is. Now that didn't help either, there it is. I think that didn't even help either. I tried to fix the circles that I have around it, but anyway, he says, I am who I am. And he says it from the first person's standpoint. I'm saying it, that's how I would say it. But when Moses wants to say it, he has to say Yahweh the Lord, the Lord, your God, verse 15, the Lord Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has sent me, the God of Abraham, the God of Abraham. So the same God is called echyeh, esher echyeh, or Yahweh. Which by the way, if we go back to Genesis one, and this is very important guys because we see him show up, not just as Elohim in the very beginning. We keep seeing that, but then we also see in Genesis 2.4, let's go to Dr. Elohim in Genesis 2, and he says, this is the count of the heavens of the earth when they were created in the day that the Lord God made the heavens. Well, first of all, who made the heavens and the earth? Well, Genesis 1.1 says that Elohim made the heavens and the earth. But Genesis 2.4 says the Lord Elohim, Yahweh Elohim, same person, okay? The reason why that's important is because we're gonna see these names, these titles, ascribed to the very same God, the Lord, the Lord God. However you wanna look at it, even Yah, someone asked, I think, a matter of fact, my wife asked before about people saying Yah or Jah. Sometimes you might go to the Cribbians and you'll hear someone say Jah. Is that some foreign God, some God that is not of the Bible? Well, no, that's not true. Now they do have some that may call him Jah and not referring to the God of the Bible, but there are a lot of people who call him Jah or Yah, and they're referring to the God of the Bible, okay? So this is where they get that from. This is not something that just made up this is where that comes from, all right? So now that being the case, and the reason why that's important is because we see God involved. Why is that important? And I wanted to make this clear. A couple of things. If God, and I've asked before, when God states what he is going to do, or when he states that something is gonna happen, the question is, is God guessing? Is he predicting? Or is he decree, declaring? And here's a bad word that some folks don't want to hear, but it's just the truth of it. Or is he determining things that are gonna happen? I'm not saying that God determines every single thing that happens. In other words, he determines, I'm gonna wear this black sweater. He determines that the fly is gonna go that way versus that way. He determines that all the, no, I don't think that he's doing that. As a matter of fact, I don't think he's determining everything that we are going to do, but let's be clear. There are some things that he does determine. There are some things that he causes to happen. We'll look at that in a second, but there's a statement that we always bring up. There's a statement that we always bring up, and I've said this before. Guys, what is rule number one? Rule number one is above all else, God is sovereign. Above all else, God is sovereign. Put it on the screen, above all else, God is sovereign. Don't ever let that leave you. Above all else, God is sovereign. What does that mean? That means he's God with or without you. That means he can do what he wants to, as I say, to who he wants to, whenever he wants to, just because he wants to. Now he has more reasons than just because he wants to, but the point is, he's God. You're not. And him being God and him doing what he does is not predicated upon us understanding it, accepting it, or even liking it. That does not determine that it's not moved God. Where in the Bible does God say, hey, let me ask you a question. What do you think I should do about this? God does not consult us. As we read with Job, he says, where were you when I formed us? Get yourself together like a man and let's counsel together. Where were you? Can you determine this? Can you determine that? Do you know why the seas only go but so far? And Job is sitting there thinking, I should have never opened my mouth. I'm a fallen, wretched person, because now I'm standing before God. I'm not standing for these other three jokers before who had an idea as to what was going on. No, I'm standing before God. And once he says it, listen, you talking about having someone to shut you up or a might drop moment no matter what he does, what he says, it's true, it's good, whether you understand it, whether you believe it, or whether you like it. Now, the reason why I make this point is because early on in Genesis, God shows and determines or tells us that he is decreeing something to happen. What's the first thing, the most important thing that God tells us is going to happen? You can even call it the very first promise. Well, let's go to it. Genesis 3, and this is one of the more important passages that we'll ever see because from there, everything begins to flow. Now, we don't have a full understanding of what's happening here, but in Genesis 3, 15, after he has spoken to, he's got them all lined up, Adam, Eve, and the serpent. And he says after he pronounces his curse on the serpent, part of that he says, and I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. How can he put enmity between her seed? Her seed is not yet. She didn't have a seed yet. There are no children born to Adam and Eve at this time. So how can he make that point? How can he say that? How does God even know? Well, because he's God. That's how, and notice what he says, I will put enmity between your seed and her seed, and he shall bruise you on the head. How can God make this statement? Now, obviously we know who he's talking about. How can God make that statement? Well, he's not Las Vegas. He's not predicting he is decreeing this to happen. Everything is gonna happen to the praise and to the glory of our God, amen? And so whatever he says is gonna happen, it is gonna happen. As a matter of fact, let's go to a passage that it's in the passage that we've read thus far. Numbers 2319. God is not a man. He's not like us. God is not a man that he should lie. So whatever he says, it is going to be. He's not a man that he should lie, nor a son of man that he should repent, or change his mind. I have a little do not change. He says, and look what he says, has he said and he will not do it? Think about that for a second, guys. I think this is vital and important. I think we need to, this would help us so much, even if we don't understand it. He says, notice what he says, has he said and will he not do it? Is there anything that he said he will do that he won't do? Or has he spoken and will he not make it good? Nothing that God says that he will do will, it won't happen. Everything that he says is gonna happen is going to happen. Even if you don't think so. Even if you don't, I don't see how this is gonna be, Lord. I'm failing to understand your plan. Wait a minute, Lord. You mean tell me you're gonna destroy the earth with water? Well, what about the plan that you made? What about the promise that you made about, about the seed of woman crushing the head of the serpent? How's that gonna be if you're gonna destroy the world? Well, all I need is one man and one woman, or in this case, three young men and three young women. And through them, all of the descendants of the earth shall flow. And so it's vitally important to understand who God is, what God is doing. God is in control, amen? And so we see that in creation. God is not figuring things out. He just simply when he says, at the beginning, let there be, it came to be. Everything, as a matter of fact, the only creatures that we know that don't obey his word is us. We're the only ones. Why is that? Why would God even use us? Why couldn't God just decided he's gonna go ahead and get glory out of turtles and out of frogs, out of birds, out of bears? They are far more obedient than we are. I think God, now this is just me pontificating, but I think God wants to show the power and the glory because there's two things that we're gonna see about God. There's two things that we have to see and some things that we have learned as we go from Genesis to Second Samuel as we go through the first 3,000 years. We're gonna learn a couple of things. One, as we said, God is sovereign, but he's also just and loving. He's got all these attributes. We've talked about it before, that there are these communicable and incommunicable attributes. A communicable attribute is one, an attribute that he communicates with us. An incommunicable attribute is an attribute of God that he does not communicate. For example, a communicable attribute, love. We also love. Now, none of us love or the attributes that he shares with us. We don't do them as perfectly and as well as he does, but we still have those, okay? An incommunicable attribute, an attribute that he does not share is that he is omnipresent. We are not, he's omniscient. Even though we think we are, we are not. He's all powerful, everywhere, all knowing. That's not us. He didn't share that with us. There is an attribute that we often use that we're not supposed to, but we do have that attribute as well and that is the ability to be jealous. Now we can't actually have that in a righteous fashion, but he can. And that being said, we're gonna see him use that particular attribute to bring about what he just said in Genesis 3.15. But he's just meaning he keeps his word to both to punish and to bring about blessings. He keeps his word to punish and to bring about blessing. And by the way, because he's loving, he loves people who do not deserve it. Even to people who are not direct physical descendants of the people that he's working with at that time, meaning it's not just a juice. I'll come over to that in just a second. I'll come back to that in a second, but then we also see man. So what we've learned thus far in these first 3,000 years, we've seen how God is. Oh, by the way, he's powerful. The Bible tells us when these two men, these two boys, these two brothers, approached him and they were burned up with fire from heaven. They were told, or the father was told that anyone, anyone that would approach me, they, you must regard me as holy. You must regard me as holy. Now, our problem is we don't always act that way. And that's one of the things we've learned about man from the very beginning to the next 3,000 years for the next 3,000 years. And that is that we are no good. We keep messing out. We are rotten. We are horrible. Think about this. Oh, by the way, guys, if you have questions over what we've covered in the first 3,000 years, feel free to put a Q and a question only over those things. But in the best situation, the best set of circumstances, man still failed, man still failed. Adam and Eve, in the best situation, failed. And it wasn't like they didn't know any better because when the serpent approached Eve, she literally told the serpent what the rules were and what they could and could not do. And Adam knew that as well. He was told first. And they still, they still were disobedient. What God is after is people to be, matter of fact, let's put it on the screen. Dude, the writer in 1.32 tells us this. He says, but for all this, you did not trust the Lord your God. All he's after is for us, for mankind, to trust Him. Meaning faith, believe, have confidence in, to follow, to obey, to trust. That's all he's after. That is how a person becomes righteous before the Lord. Trusting Him, obeying Him, having faith in Him, that's it. How do I know? Because in Genesis, had Adam and Eve done just that, we'd still be walking around. Now we would have been closed on it. We wouldn't bother us. Can't enable. One brother was faithful, trusted, obeyed, the other did not. What about Noah? Where about he not? What about Job? All of them have the same thing in common. They had faith. They trusted God. They believed God. Even while there were times where a part of them did not fully trust Him. Are there times where righteous people cannot trust God fully? Sure, think about Abraham. The Bible says that he believed God and it was accounted to him as righteousness, but he didn't believe God initially early on. This is Genesis 15. He tells him back in Genesis 12 what to do and Abraham is still doubting. Even going further, Abraham still has some doubt. Remember, twice he tells someone that, hey, listen, or he tells his wife, pretend like you're my sister so they don't kill me. Doesn't sound like Abraham is doing a whole, exhibiting a whole lot of faith, but all God wants is for you to trust Him. Amen. How is God the father of spirit and the Holy Spirit a spirit at the same time? I cannot answer that question right now. I cannot answer the question right now. Well, let's put it this way. Let's put it this way. And there's more to be stated about it later because remember, remember Sharice and everyone else, what we're doing is we could only cover thus far what we know, what we've seen, okay? Because remember the vast majority of what we've covered thus far, we don't even see the term Holy Spirit. But to answer your question as best I can, God is a spirit, but the fullness of Him dwells in heaven. But then there is this spirit of God that is also on the earth. The spirit of God can be in our presence, but the fullness of God, the father who is a spirit, we can't be in His presence. So there is a veiling to some degree between the spirit of God who is God and intentional veiling versus the full glory, the fullness of God that resides in heaven. Does that make any sense? So now the spirit of God that hovered over the earth during that time in Genesis one can't really say what, if there was any sort of veiling or what have you, because again, there was no sin there at all, okay? So now we're gonna get this issue about, about, people say about being jealous. We're gonna deal with this in just a little bit, but so I can keep going. Notice though that since God is a loving God, He extends His love not just to those who, as we see going forward, because a lot of this picture that we see is Him dealing with the children of Israel, but it's not just the children of Israel that He's concerned with. Anybody who wants to follow the Lord, anyone, I want you all to understand this, anybody even at that time, even after the law who wanted to be, or who wanted to be in right standing, this was open to everyone, even non-Jews. How do I know? Well, what about Rahab? What about Ruth? But even more than that, what about Caleb? Yeah, Caleb whose Hebrew name means dog, he is not a natural Jew. He did live, he did kind of stay with the tribe of Judah, but that's not his natural, that's not his natural lineage. So the point being is God is open to anyone who wants to trust Him, but He's going to use, He's using this nation of people to bring about a blessing, but anybody if they want to can get on board. Anyone, as a matter of fact, we look at what He's doing as far as atoning for sin, we see that being open for everyone. And so now, why do we have to atone for sin? Well, because man failed. And even in the very beginning, notice what the first thing God does when man falls. Two things, one, He covers them. He fixed them. He does something to make them feel better. They're the ones that sin, but He covers them because they were naked in the shame. And so what does He do? He covers them. But then as we see, God has brought them away where they can be reconciled by way of offering. And so if they obey Him, and obviously there's ways to go about doing it because He tells Cain, if you don't do it the right way, well then sins at your door, there's a right and a wrong way to do it. Just do it the right way. Obey me. It's not too difficult. There's the beauty about it. Being right before the Lord is not difficult on our part. He's not asking us to do anything too terribly difficult. Just trust me. Believe me. I've shown you all the paths that I brought up. Look, go back to it again. Deuteronomy 132, He says, but for all this, you did not trust the Lord. What? For all what? Well, He talks about how He brought them out of Egypt and showed them all these different things. And you guys still don't trust me. Again, we are the worst kind of creatures to see all these things and to know all these things and not trust. But look at all the animals. They have no clue that we know of and they obey God. Whatever they're supposed to do, they do it. Not us. Not us. It's almost like the more education we get, the better off that we think we are. The better off that we think we are. So now, so we're learning a couple of things so far that one, man is horrible. Man is horrible, but he means to bless man. And so how do we know that? Well, let's go to Genesis. Back to Genesis and let's start in sort of 315. Let's go to where the story picks up in Genesis 12. And we're gonna see God declare something that he's going to do. Now we normally associate this passage with a covenant. This is not the covenant, but it's kind of giving us a glimpse as to what this covenant is gonna be about. It says, now the Lord told Abram, go forth from your father's country and from your relatives and from your father's house to a land which I will show you. And here it is. And I will make you a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing. And I will bless those who bless you and the one who curses you, I will curse. And in you, all the families of the earth should be blessed. Now this is the reason why we cover this over and over again. You may get tired of me going over Genesis 12, 2 and 3. Again, tattooed on your body. Put sticky notes somewhere. This is the important verse. This is the verse where everything flows out of. Cause what is it gonna do with Israel and what is he going to do with those who are not Israel? Couple things, there are a couple of elements that we see here. One, we see there's a land element because he says I'm gonna take you to a land that I shall show you. There's gonna be the people, there's an element of people to this because he says that I'm gonna make you a great nation and implicit in that there's a kingdom. We don't fully see all of these show up immediately but we're gonna see the kingdom part. As a matter of fact, where we are right now with David, that's the kingdom part being brought to fruition, okay? It took a little time to get there. But again, if God says it, wanna come to be and so it's coming to be with him. Now a couple of things I wanna show you in this though. He says I will make you a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing and I will bless those who bless you. If he says it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen and I will curse those who curse you, every single person so far and I want you all and this is what I want you guys to think about. As we've gone through the Bible thus far and we're only in chapter 12, everything that he says, he literally says and carries those things out. He is not. And this is the point that I want you guys to get. And this is why I am really, really passionate about people fixing their hermeneutic. Hermeneutic is just a nice fancy word that just describes the method of how you read the Bible. Again, I employ a literal grammatical historical hermeneutic. What does that mean? Literal means I take the Bible literally until I can. That mean that I don't account for figures of speech and similes and metaphors and idioms, I do. I absolutely, you have to because we all do. As a matter of fact, there's never been a society in the history of the world that did not speak with a literal grammatical historic hermeneutic. No one spoke, no community ever that we know of thus far ever spoke completely in idioms and similes and metaphors and figured no one did because you'd never understanding the one. I said I want to marry you, but what I really meant was I want to beat you up. Words have meaning. And so this is where this hermeneutic comes in. I've taken what it literally says. There's a historical aspect because there's time to it. And then there's grammar to it. There's words have meaning. And so the reason why I say that is because he's literally making these statements about what he's going to do. The question is, will he do those things? Well, sure he will. Now let's go forward again all the way to where we are now. In 2 Samuel, we see this, we see what's being brought. Matter of fact, where is that? Let's go to 2 Samuel. This Davidic covenant that's brought up in 2 Samuel, chapter seven. This is where we left off at guys, starting in chapter seven. Let's go to, you know, let's go to verse one. In verse one, he says, now came about when the Lord, I'm sorry, when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies. The king said to Nathan the prophet, see how, see now I dwell in the house of seated above the ark of God dwells within 10 curtains. Nathan said to the king, go do all that is in your mind for the Lord is with you. This is not, as some would say, Nathan giving a false prophecy because he didn't say the Lord said, do this or that. He just says, yeah, listen, the Lord is with you. As a matter of fact, other people in the Bible have used that very same term, God is with you. As a matter of fact, David uses that very same term. As a matter of fact, even pagans use that same term to describe the men of God. The Lord is with you. That's a prophecy. So I just want to mention that also, but now I'm going back to it. But in that same night, here's a prophecy. The Lord came to Nathan saying, go and say to my servant David, thus says the Lord, are you the one who should build a house for us to, for me to dwell in? For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought you up. I'm sorry, I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt even to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent, even in a tabernacle, wherever I have gone with the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one tribe of Israel, which I commanded to shepherd my people Israel saying, why have you not built me a house? I've seen another word. I didn't ask you to build one. Stop worrying and think, don't start thinking for me, let me do the thinking for you. I never asked you to build me a house when I want you to build a house. I'll tell you. Here we go, verse eight. Now therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, thus says the Lord, a host, I took you from the pastor from following the sheep to be ruler over my people Israel. Again, my people Israel, we're gonna have this literal way of reading it until we have a reason not to. My people Israel, I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you and I will make you a great name. Where did we get that from? Where did we hear that before? I will make you a great name. Oh, I know from Abraham. He makes the same thing with Abraham, like the names of the great men who are on the earth. I will also appoint a place for my people Israel. So we see who he's speaking of Israel. We'll come back to that in a second and I will plant them that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again, nor will the wicked afflict them anymore as formerly even from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel and I will give you rest from all your enemies. Now he's not going to all of a sudden go from speaking about Israel to now. So you know what? I didn't really mean Israel. I meant Chinese people. I meant the people who speaks why no, he means his people Israel, but it's not just Israel that will be blessed, but he does have a promise for them. We've covered this just recently about how he has promises for not just Israel, but in many of these promises are also promises for us as well. We're not after thoughts or forgotten about, but he is going to do what he said again. Going back to what we said in numbers 2319, he says, has he said and will he not do it? Or has he spoken and will he not make it good? He is not a man like us. He's not a man that he should lie. He does not change his mind. I the Lord do not change. That's who he is. So going back to where we had going back to this particular covenant, verse 12, I'm sorry, the end of that. The Lord also declares to you that the Lord will make a house for you. When your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, here it is, I will raise up your descendants after you who will come forth from you. And there's a reason why he sent them who come forth from you because they will come out of his actual lineage and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. Now he's speaking about two people here. He's speaking about obviously his son, Solomon, but he's also speaking about Jesus. Who by the way, we don't know the name Jesus just yet because we haven't gotten that far yet. But when he says forever, that's his point. I will be a father to him and he will be a son to me. Obviously speaking about Solomon, when he commits aniquity, that's not Jesus. I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the son of men, but my loving kindness shall not depart from him as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. Your house and your kingdom shall endure before me forever. Your throne shall be established forever. And so now this is him giving this Davidic covenant. Now before I go forward, I want to talk about these different covenants. We have certain named covenants in the Bible. Here they are on the screen. We have the Noaic Covenant, we have the Abrahamic Covenant, we have the Old or the Mosaic Covenant. Now we see the Davidic Covenant. Coming up in the future, we are going to see the New Covenant. Now someone may say, well, what about the Adamic Covenant? Is that an actual covenant? If someone wants to say it's a covenant, I have no problem with that. However, it's just not a named covenant. And now I even heard someone say, well, wait a second, wasn't this covenant named in Hosea? Well, no. So let's, and I want to use this for the sake of understanding how we ought to read. Because the whole point of this Bible study isn't to give you information. That is not the point of what we're doing. The point of what we're doing is to make sure that we discipline ourselves in how we read. So is there a named covenant called the Adamic Covenant in the Bible? No, there is one where someone might think this is speaking of an Adamic Covenant in Hosea 6-7. And the way you come up with that is you have to be looking for it to be a covenant. Here we go. In Hosea 6-7, even though we are violating the rules because we haven't gotten to Hosea just yet, but like Adam, they have transgressed the Covenant. They have dealt treacherously against me. Some versions don't say Adam. Some versions say man. The reason why, the reason why is because it's the same word. Now here's how you know that this passage should say, but like men versus, but like Adam. Let's go back to the passage. And I want you all to think about this. Why, what's the key here? How do we know that verse seven should not say Adam? Now the same word is used there. This is key, which is like Adam. How do you know it's not about Adam, the man Adam, versus men or mankind? Is there anyone that can tell us why this is clearly not Adam, the man, but mankind? And I just want you to think about this for a little second. I want you to put on your smart Christian thinking cap and see if you can come up as to why this could not be referring to the first man ever created. Why, let me read it, put it back on the screen again. But like Adam, they have transgressed the covenant. And someone say, well, see that's the Adamic covenant. No, there they have dealt treacherously against me. Is there anyone? Well, I'll show you how you can know. If we go back to it, going back to the screen, this is how you know it's man. First of all, he says there they. So the antecedent of this is back to Adam question. If there is an Adamic covenant, what is the covenant? What is the covenant that he makes with Adam? And this is why it's probably best to even say there is no Adamic covenant. Because the question is, there is what covenant did he make with Adam? He didn't make a covenant with Adam. And if he did make a covenant with Adam, well, then how did Adam the man break that covenant? How did Adam the man transgress that covenant? Okay. There is no such thing. Now, if a person will say, well, that was a covenant. Yeah, but let's go back to Genesis one. Who was the covenant made with? He didn't say, Adam, I'm making this covenant with you. Think about it for a second, guys. What is a covenant? Let me go to my notes and put out, I've had this on the screen. We've covered this before. I think I still have it on here. Let's, here we go. There are different types of covenants. We see the unilateral and bilateral, there's conditional and unconditional. And then we're gonna see, well, I don't even have to say, but what a covenant is, it's this word buried, which is, it's a cutting, a shedding of blood, a passing through a flesh and a shedding of blood. And the best example without being too vivid is the marriage covenant where there is, when the man and the woman get together, both of them should be unbetrothed and undefiled, then you see this cutting, this passing through a flesh and the shedding of blood. That's what a covenant is. Now, the first time we see this happening, vividly for us in the Bible is in Genesis, in Genesis 15. Now, the question is, and I see Chaplain Pastor Trey say it was a conditional covenant of works. How so? Let's go back to Genesis. And I know why he says that. Ladies and gentlemen, the reason why, I would submit to you that this is our doctrine, because without him saying so, we can see that this is a covenant of theological framework that he's speaking out of. Well, this covenant of works, does it say so? He says, and I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. Well, who, how was this a covenant with Adam? Where's the covenant being stated? And it's certainly not conditional. It's certainly not, this is him stating what he is, where's the, so you would have to say if it's conditional, where is the condition? There is no condition. He just states what he is going to do. He didn't say, if you do this, or if this happens, then I'll put enmity between the seed of woman and the seed of serpent. He didn't say so. You say Genesis 2.15, okay, let's go to Genesis 2.15, no problem. Then the Lord God took man and put him in the garden. So you're speaking about when he violated what the terms of him being in the garden. The problem is, after he states that, then comes Genesis 3.15. This is why that could not be a covenant. That's the point. If Adam violated a covenant, this is Genesis 2.15, he states what's going to happen. Then in Genesis 3.15, then if this is the covenant in Genesis 3.15, well, that's after what Adam did. So one Adam didn't violate any covenant or didn't violate this so-called Adamic covenant. Are you guys with me? There was nothing that God, what was the covenant that Adam broke? That's not named there. But what God is stating in Genesis 3.15 is that he is going to cause the seat of woman to be at odds with the serpent and that this seat is going to crush the head of the serpent. That's it. The reason why, and I'm glad, and I love you brother, but what you're doing is you are taking a covenant of theological framework and reading it in because you got the covenant of works and the covenant of grace, which, by the way, the Bible doesn't say that. You want to call it that? That's fine, but if we are going to be, as we say, Sola Scriptura about the scriptures, well, then where do we find that? There is no covenant here, a named covenant. The Bible doesn't even call it a covenant. Interestingly enough, all of the other covenants, the Bible literally names and calls them a covenant. We have a covenant that he makes before Noah and then we have a covenant that he makes with Abraham. And that particular covenant is the covenant whereby every one of our blessings are going to flow, whether you be Jewish or whether you be Gentile. He is going to bless us through that. Now, going back to Genesis, let's go to Genesis 15. We see some of the things are going to happen in this particular covenant, but the covenant is not actually ratified. So in Genesis 15, one, after these things, the word of the Lord came to Abraham in a vision saying, do not fear Abraham, I am a shield to you. Your reward shall be very great. Abraham said, oh Lord God, what will you give me since I am childless and the heir of my house is Eleazar the Damascus? He said, since you have given me no offspring to me, one born of my house is my heir, then behold, the word of the Lord came to him. Look at what he says. This man will not be your heir, but the one will come forth from your own body. He shall be your heir. And he took him outside. Here it is. And now look towards heaven and count the stars. And if you're able to count them and he said to him, so shall your descendants be. Then Abraham believed, then he believed the Lord and he reckoned to him as righteousness. And he said to him, I am the Lord who brought you up out of the earth of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess it. So now here he is. He is actually going to make this covenant. What did we say the covenant is? What is a covenant? It is a breaking of flesh, a passing through a flesh and a shedding of blood, a cutting, passing a flesh and a shedding of blood. So what happens? In Genesis 15, that's exactly what happens. It takes these animals, cuts them in half, and rather than him and Abraham, or Abraham passing through it, Abraham is set to the side while the Lord God goes through, walks through the middle. And so God makes this covenant. And we know it's a covenant. How do we know? Verse 12. Now, when the sun was going down a deep sleep fell upon Abraham and behold, terror and great darkness fell upon him, God said to Abraham, and this is important by the way, know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in the land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for many years. But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve and afterwards they will come out with many possessions. So far, hold it, let's stop for a second. Let's pause. What he just said. Ladies and gentlemen, here's my question to you. Did everything that he said, oh, by the way, everything that he said thus far, has everything that he said thus far and what he's saying now, did it come to pass? Did it happen just like or did it happen literally like God said it was going to happen? The answer is yes. Everything that he said is that it was going to happen, that he's saying is going to happen, happens literally. There's no figurative way to look at this. This happens literally. The reason why I'm making this point is as we get further and we begin to start developing our own theological or doctrinal framework, we end up making things fit our doctrine and we end up spiritualizing or allegorizing what the text says. No, he's not saying that in 400 years there's going to be some other group. No, he's speaking, the nation is going to enslave you. I'm going to deal with them. You're going to come out with great wealth. I will punish them. You'll be there for 400 years oppressed, but I will also judge the nation whom they serve and afterwards they will come out with many possessions that happens literally. Then as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace. You'll be buried at a good old age. That literally happens. Then in the fourth generation they will return here and the iniquity of the animal rights is not yet complete. We covered that before. I won't go into that. Look what it says. It came about when the son had said that it was very dark and behold, there appeared a smoking oven. This is God and a flaming torch which passed between the pieces. Here it is. On that day, the Lord made a covenant with Abraham and notice what he says to your descendants. I have given you this land from the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the River of Ephraim. There's a couple of things. One, he literally means that. Oh, by the way, Israel to this day has never enjoyed all of the full boundaries of what God has stated. Never. Not all of them. They have never enjoyed all of that boundaries. Plus, they've never had all the peace that God says is going to go with them on that. Now, the problem is though, as Abraham does this, there's a promise that God makes. The reason why God, and you've heard me say this before, the reason why God makes his promise is because Abraham had a question. A little bit of doubt. How do I know? I'll tell you how you're going to know that what I say is true. I'm done because I'm God. Knucklehead. And you're supposed to take what I said without question. But fine. Since Abraham, you want the question. You don't fully believe. I get that's fine. I understand. Here's how you'll know your descendants. Does he mean his little descendants or some sort of other set of descendants? No. These are literally his descendants physically that are going to come from Abraham's loins and they will be enslaved. 12 kids from his grandson will go to Egypt. Why? Here's how we can go back to the very beginning. When God says that he is going to have this person, this seat of woman, to crush the serpent, he is going to bring that about. God is not sitting there waiting on circumstances. He's not predicting anything. He is. This is where the time, there are times where God causes things to happen. Here's my question. Let me ask you guys this question. Do you all believe that God causes things to happen? I'll go ahead and put it on your comments on the screen, the chats on the screen. Let's ask this question. Do you all believe that at least some things God causes to happen? If you say no, we've got a huge problem. If you think there aren't some things, and by the way, there are some people who say no, that don't believe that God doesn't cause some things to happen. Question, who's got this earth spinning? Who's keeping us in the right proportional orbit? Not CBS, not CNN, not the Republicans or Democrats, not China, no God. Who's giving you air to breathe? Who's causing that? Who's causing the sun to heat you? I know it's cold right now, but who's causing that? It's God. He does cause some things to happen. When people start saying God doesn't determine certain things, yes, he does, and you better be glad that he does, even if you foolishly think that he doesn't, because he does. Again, he gives life, he takes life. Who does that? No, and we actually did a video today about that. Now, if I want to kill you, I can want to kill you, I may or may not be successful. If I am successful, it's only because God has granted that. He gives life if a person is shot. There are people with bullets in their head, in their arms, in their chest that are still living. There are people with cancer. Been living with cancer, coming back and on, leaving, coming back, leaving, coming back, decades. If God has determined, as he says, your years, that's him, not you, not me, not your good health, you got a treadmill in the basement, that's not what's doing it. Now, your quality of health can be better, but God has determined your beginning and your end. If he has determined your beginning and your end, has he not also determined everyone else's beginning and end? Yes. And he has determined this glorious hope that's in us by this seed of woman. Why is that important? Because going back to this promise that he's made, he is going to cause these people to be enslaved. The reason why that's important, also staying in Genesis, because something interesting happens. In Genesis, Israel is facing this famine. The reason why this famine is happening is because a boy had a dream. A boy had a dream that was given to him by God. God causes this young boy to have a dream. This boy of Jacob's favorite wife has a dream. His favorite son has a dream. We know it's his favorite because he gives him this special coat that he didn't get the others. He has a dream about what he's going to do. He doesn't really fully understand this dream, but everyone is jealous. Even Jacob to some degree is bothered by the Bible says that he just pondered that he's, huh, let me think about this for a second. Why does Joseph have this dream? Well, the reason why Joseph has a dream is because his great-granddaddy Abraham had a question. Abraham had a question, God had an answer, and the proof of the answer will be in this boy's dream. They sell him out of their jealousy, because again, we don't exercise jealousy the right way. Out of their jealousy, sell the boy to Egypt, or he makes it with Egypt. He's there, and because he's there, he becomes, the Bible says the Lord was with him. Notice what it says in the beginning while he's there. He says, and God was with him, and God was with him, and the Lord was with him, and the Lord caused him to gain favor. Who's doing that? No one else, because think about it. Of all the people that can have favor there, it could have been anybody but Joseph. But Joseph has favor. Now the reason why Joseph is in prison is because Joseph is a good-looking young man. I'm pretty sure he's bald with glasses. I'm pretty sure that's what it was. And so Pharaoh, not Pharaoh, Potiphar's wife has a crush on him, and so he ends up, because he's righteous, he's not gonna do anything. He's up in prison, further in prison. And the Bible says the Lord is still with him. Why is the Lord with him? The Lord is with him because Abraham had a question. And the only reason why Abraham had a question and God wants to fulfill it is because God wants to do what he said he's gonna do way back in Genesis 315. And so while he's there, he gains favor, and he becomes the number two man in Egypt. That means absolutely nothing, though. How does that relate to these boys, these other children of Israel, of Jacob? How does that get them there? Well, who controls the wind, the waves, the temperatures? Well, that's God. And so what does God do? God causes a famine. The devil didn't do that. Man didn't do that. God does that. God causes a famine. Why? Why does God cause a famine? Again, because Abraham had a question. And the proof of the question, Abraham, is that your people will be, sojourns will be oppressed in a foreign nation with a foreign nation for over 400 years. Here it comes. So, what is going to happen? You can share it, Aunt DeBaptist. That's a nice name. What is going to happen is he's gonna bring his people into Egypt and they're gonna be oppressed for 400 years, but they're gonna gain great wealth and be brought out. Oh, by the way, this is how great God is. This is how great God is. Who also leaves Egypt. Other foreigners leave Egypt with the Jews. They become a pretty large group, but it's not just the Jews that leave Israel. I'm gonna leave Egypt. It's also these foreigners. And then people join in. Why? Because God is still going to bless not just Israel, not just the Jews, but other people. And so, moving right along before they leave, while they're there, something happens. Something happens, and here it is. Jacob makes a statement that he only gets from God because it doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense in Genesis 49-8. He says, Judah, your brother shall praise you and your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's son shall bow down to you. Judah is a lion's wealth. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He couches, he lies down as a lion, and is a lion who dare rouses him up. Here it is. That's what he says. He says the scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet until Shiloh comes. Interestingly enough, he has some other statements. He says he ties his foal to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine. Here is my question. Here is my question. Answer your question, not gonna be done. So here's answer question. Notice how literal and precise this is. He says the scepter shall not depart Judah. What scepter? There is no kingdom. Wait a second though, going back to Genesis 12. In this prophecy, he states that there necessarily, there has to be people, land and a kingdom. We don't see this kingdom show up until first Samuel. What is this kingdom? In first Samuel, notice what happens, chapter eight, verse one, and it came about when Samuel was old, that he appointed his sons judges over Israel. Now the name of the first son was Joe in the second, Abidja. We won't worry about that, but they don't want his sons to be judges or prophets over them because why have they preferred the justice? But look what he says. Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel, and the Romans said, behold, you have grown old and your sons are horrible. Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations. We want kings like everybody else. That's what we want. And what is God's response? God's response isn't like, wow, what am I gonna do? God is not saying, hmm, that caught me off guard. God is not saying what on earth can be done, these people know. God already understands. He says they haven't rejected you, but they rejected me. Now, why is this important? Why is what he said, what he's saying important? God has already determined how some things are gonna shake out. Again, I don't think that God has planned and apportioned and determined every single thing that mankind does, but it's gonna work together to glorify him. Appoint us a king. Well, wait a second. There has to be a king. If the scepter is not gonna depart Judah, because who is gonna have a scepter? This is speaking of a kingdom who the leader is going to king. The king is gonna have to come through this tribe of Judah. We don't have a kingdom yet. We don't have a king yet, but you will when, after you come out of Egypt, after a little further, there is going to be this king. We're gonna find out who this king is gonna be and guess what it refers back to? It refers back to Genesis 3.15. Again, violently important, so let's go back to Genesis and I want you to notice something else that's there. This is just how precise it is. By the way, let's put it back on the screen. God's not a man that he should lie, nor a son of man that he should repent. And here it is. He says he has said, I'm sorry, has he said and will he not do it? As we say, won't he do it? Then he says, or has he spoken and will he not make it good? And will he not make it good? So what he says is gonna happen is going to happen. Why are you saying that? Because in Genesis 3, I'm sorry, Genesis 49, we speak about the scepter. That's a rulership, that's a kingdom. But then, then, oh, by the way, he says until Shiloh comes, by the way, this is all taking place in Shiloh. Verse 11, he ties his fold to the vine and his donkey's colt, by the way, yeah, and his donkey's colt, this colt. This colt, thought I'd throw that in there, to the choice vine. Let me pause for a second. This is how absolutely awesome and precise and oh, by the way, how literal God is. Y'all do recall that there comes a point in time in Luke when we haven't heard this thing before, but let me just pause, time out, and go and leap forward to what we haven't read yet. He says, go into the town next door and there will be a colt that has never been ridden. Untie him and bring him to me. And if anyone asks you why, it just says the Lord has need of the colt. Well, where's that come from? This is not just something that's happening. This is taking place, this is spoken of. Guys, this is actually taking place 4,000 years prior. I'm sorry, not 4,000 years prior. 2,000 years, 3,000 years prior, I'm sorry. 3,000 years prior, bring this colt here. That's what he's speaking of. This is how awesome and precise the Lord is. Amen. Now, as he brings them out, these are horrible people just like you and I. They are wretched just like you and I. And so what does he do? He is going to, by the way, we see how he brings his people out because he himself, God is interactive with his people. He brings his people out on his own. That's why he says, I will lead them out. God says so in Exodus. Now, there's a couple of passages I wanna go through in Exodus 12, what is Exodus 12 something? 1212, I'm sorry. Exodus 1212, for I will go to the land of Egypt on the night and I will strike down all the first born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment. I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. So, who is doing so? The Lord is doing so. Amen. Now, I also wanna show you something in Exodus. In Exodus 23. 23, where in Exodus 23? I want to go to, towards the end, I think it's, yeah, Exodus 23, 22. And I wanna read something. Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared, which I have prepared. Thank you, chaplain. Be on guard before him and obey his voice. Do not be rebellious towards him for he will not pardon your transgression since my name is in him. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait up, wait a second. Do be on guard before him, obey his voice and do not be rebellious towards him for he will not pardon your transgressions since my name is in him. Who is he speaking of? Who could he possibly be speaking of? But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries for my angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Emirates. Well, who do we know that's going before them? This is the Lord. Now, I want to drop down, I want to drop down, but you shall serve the Lord your God, verse 25, and he will bless your bread and your waters and I will remove sickness from your midst. There shall be no one miscarrying or barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days. Now, they don't do what's right and so they won't get this. Now, he's giving them the tenants of this covenant. He is making a covenant with them. Drop all the way down to chapter 24, verse one, then he said to Moses, come up to the Lord and you and Aaron, may they have an Abihu and the seventy elders of Israel and you shall worship at a distance. Moses alone, however, shall come near to the Lord, but they shall not come near, nor shall the people come up with him. Then Moses came and recounted to the people all the words that the Lord and all the ordinances and the people answered with one voice and said all the words which the Lord has spoken, we will do. They said we're going to do everything you said, we're going to do it. So in this case, in this covenant, this is unlike the Abrahamic covenant or the Noahic covenant. This is not an unconditional covenant. This is a conditional covenant. You do this and I'll do that. If you don't do this, then I'll do that. They say, yes, we accept. There's an offer and acceptance. However, we know they won't keep it because this covenant is unattainable. God didn't expect them to keep it. Wait a minute, Cory, are you sure God doesn't expect them to keep it? We're going to look at it in a second. God does not expect. Matter of fact, he tells them, you're not going to keep it. This is for, this is national and ethnic Israel. This is not a covenant that he's making with us. Now, if a person wants to join, fine, they can. But this covenant is made specifically with Israel for a specific people, for a specific land. So far, everything that I've covered thus far is literal and oh, by the way, precise. Now, they have this covenant. Matter of fact, let's go to Leviticus. Because the problem, and by the way, let me go ahead and put this back on the screen. Remember, I had this for you guys to look at. This is where we are. So right now, as we look at this, we are in Exodus and that's the chronological book, but right below it, we have these two complementary books, Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Leviticus and Deuteronomy actually complementary books to Exodus and Numbers. And so now we've got a venture over and we're almost finished. We're almost finished. We're just gonna move pretty quickly. But notice, in the complementary books, we have to go through, if he's given the law, we've gotta see aspects or tenets of the law. And so, and I won't read this because we've covered this before, but in Leviticus 16, we see how God wants to reconcile with his people, bring them there. God is a good God, but he also is not a fake God. He's not a phony God. He's not like us. And he just can't keep looking over the fact that man, we are horrible. We are right. We're dirty. We stink. But I want you to be in right standing before me. You can't do it, but I'll fix the way. Here's how we'll do this. I will appoint priests for you. And out of a particular lineage, they will come before me after also having their sins atoned for. He will come before me and he will make atonement for you. How will he do so? Well, first of all, he will take the sins of all of you people and confess them on the head of a lot of the scapegoat and send those sins away. Secondly, he will take the other animal and shed his blood. Shed his blood on the altar. I will accept that it done properly. Oh, by the way, it's only beneficial to you if you do one thing. If you afflict yourself, humble your soul, afflict your soul by not working and not eating. That's it. You come in a humble fashion. I'm going to provide the sacrifice or you all are going to provide the sacrifice. It's going to be shed. I will accept it before my glory and you will be in right standing for one year. For one year. Now, we'll do this every year. Every, so this atonement or salvation, if you will, is temporary. But I the Lord want to be with my people. God has stated how he is going to or what he wants from his people to be reconciled so that the sin that they committed is no longer before him and the price for the debt is also paid. He's not going to ask for a debt to be paid and then come back and say, not nevermind on second thought. I don't think you paid enough. No, you told us what to pay. We paid it and so accepts it. But in Leviticus, 1711, we covered this before. We won't cover it now. But in Leviticus, 1711, he goes one step further and says, I will provide, I myself, God will provide the blood. How is that possible? We won't cover it now, but suffice to say it's going to happen. Cause again, if he said it, won't he do it? As the scripture says. So now that being the case, I want to cover something though. There's other aspects of this law, of this agreement. He covered a lot of what they had to do in Exodus. But I want you to notice something that he says in Leviticus and it's 23. No, no, no, I'm sorry, 25. 25. Is it 25? Let me make sure. I want to make sure that I've got the right numbers. There's a few pastors that we need to get 25 one. And then in 26, the Lord then spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai saying, speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, when you come to the land, which I shall give you, the land shall have a Sabbath to the Lord. Six years shall you sow your field and six years shall you prune. So work six years, the seventh year at rest. There's also a Sabbath for you all to observe. Now here's a question, especially for some of my other brothers. Is he speaking of six literal years or six figurative years? By the way, have we covered anything thus far that is not literal? Have we covered anything thus far that is figurative, that is allegorized, that is spiritual? No, so far everything is literal. And we should expect the exact same thing going forward. So for six years, and on the seventh year, you will give the land and Sabbath. What is this entailing? This necessarily means there has to be a trust of God. Remember, what does he say? He says, but for all this, you do not trust the Lord. You guys do not, do not trust the Lord. No, you cannot come on the live stream. You do not trust the Lord. You do not trust the Lord. Why is it important? For six years, I am going to bless your crops so much so that you'll have enough for the seventh year, where the land is in the Sabbath. And then the eighth year, the next set where you're growing the crops again. So you're gonna have enough, trust me, but you don't. And so how many times, Dutch, do they violate this? Dutch said it earlier. They violate this land Sabbath 70 times. Why is that important? Well, we'll cover the 70 times in a little bit, 70 times seven. They violate the sevens 70 times. We'll cover that a little later on. And then even with this person, Jesus, we don't know yet. We're gonna see Jesus and he's gonna be asked a question by some Jews. And they're gonna say, how often should you forgive your brother if he says against you? 70 times, 70 times seven. Why is that? He doesn't just pick that number out of thin air because of this. They are, and oh, by the way, when they're exiled, how many years? 70 years. But also, they don't keep this. Let's continue in Leviticus 25.1, but then let's go to Leviticus 26. And let's go to 33. Notice what he says. You, however, wait a second, the tone changed. The tone changed all of a sudden. You, however, I will scatter among the nations and we'll draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate, your sins become waste. Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of desolation while you are in your enemy's land. Wait a minute, hold on. Wait a minute, we're gonna be in our enemy's land? Yeah, but wait a second. We haven't even gone into the land yet. That's what's, we haven't even gone into the land that you promised to put us into. And now you're telling us, you're gonna take us out of that land. Yep, cause you're hard-headed. He says, all the days of its desolation, it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your Sabbaths while you were living. Was this literal or figured it was literal? And notice what he says. All the days of its desolation, it will observe the rest. So you guys owe me 77s. The land is going to get its 77s. Does the land get its 77s? It's 77s. It sure does. Why? Not cause I trust you, you guys are horrible. So I gotta put you out of the land, just so this land that didn't do anything to you can get its seven. How accurate and precise this guy cause he does just that. But then even more so because he's gotta bring us in. God wants to bring us in. And how does he do so? Let's go to Deuteronomy. Couple of things in Deuteronomy. First of all, he makes a statement. I won't cover it, but in Deuteronomy 10, he tells us how we ought to approach him, approach the Lord. But in Deuteronomy 32, well, he says we ought to approach him as though he is holy, but Deuteronomy 32. 32, I'm sorry, 30, I'm sorry, 30. I'm sorry. In Deuteronomy 30, he says, so it shall be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessings and the curse, which I set before you, before who? Before Israel. He says, and call them to mind in all the nations where the Lord, your God has, wait a minute, the Lord God is going to banish Israel? Yes. And that's what he said. That's what he did. And you return, wait, and they're going to return. And you return to the Lord, your God and obey him with all your heart and soul according to all that I command you today and your sons. Question, has that, now this wouldn't leap forward, has that happened? Has Israel come back and obeyed him with all their heart, all their soul? Has that happened? No, it has not. Has everything else that God said is going to happen, happen? Yes. So do we have an expectation to believe that this won't happen? He could not be talking. Ladies and gentlemen, he could not be saying, I'm going to literally take you out of the land, but then spiritually bring somebody else to me. Well, that's two different people. I'm going to take you Jews out and I'll make the Chinese folks come to me. I'm going to take the Jews out and make the Jamaicans come to me. I'm going to take you Jews out and then make the Germans come to me. That's not, no, he didn't have to do that. He's not like us. Let me see if I can figure out how to make this work. That's not how God works. So now look what he says. Then verse three, then the Lord your God will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and will gather you again from all the people where the Lord your God has scattered you. So I'm going to bring you out, bring you back and then I'm going to have compassion upon you. If you're outcasts or at the end of the earth from there the Lord your God will gather you and from there he will bring you back. The Lord your God will bring into the land which your father's possessed and you shall possess it and he will prosper you and multiply you more than your father's. Moreover, the Lord your God will, here it is guys, he will circumcise your heart and with all your soul so that you may live. Question, has this happened yet? No, it has not. A part of this has, the beginning of this has happened. The beginning of this has happened where they're brought back into the land but then making the nation come back to him? No, some Jews have, but not all. So if this is what he said he's going to do he is going to do it to who? To them and they will be free from all of their enemies. Amen. Now moving forward, if he says he's going to do it we move forward they are in this new land to fulfill the covenant that he makes with Abraham. Remember this covenant he makes with Abraham is an unconditional covenant. He didn't say Abraham do this, this, this, this and this and if you do that then I'd know. He does so because he, by the way he says he's going to keep remembering his promise is not because you're great, not because you're wonderful because of the promise that I made remembering his unconditional covenant and God is not going to ever go back on his word. Why is that important? Because as us having our salvation in him our salvation, think about this guys our salvation is not rooted in us our salvation is rooted in his promise our salvation is rooted in his word. Is he going to go back on his word? I hope not. Do we have proof that he never goes back on his word? Yes we do. Do we have proof that he will never alter his word? He says he will never alter or change his word kind of make it fit. He won't do that. And so because I'm his, I'm his forever. Now continuing we've got this new kingdom where we've got a king. The kingdom starts off with Samuel, I mean with Saul who was of the tribe of Benjamin so it could not work with him. But God knows about his disobedience. What does God do? God brings a spirit upon him. God brings his spirit upon Saul, temporarily and then at some point in time Saul now Saul benefits from that and so to the children of Israel. But then Saul takes his spirit off of him sends a distressing spirit on him and puts his spirit on David because unlike Saul David is a man that God chooses with his heart. Then somebody says actually Corey God repents in the Bible many times. No he does not. I'll tell you what I'll do. If we see that God repents, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll send you a microphone. My wife said I cannot say that I'll give you the channel anymore. She didn't let me send that. We've covered this before. God does not repent. The word that you use there doesn't mean that it means he was sorry. So was God, God's sorrowful? Sure in many cases did God ever change his mind about what he plans to do? No. If he plans on punishing someone if they sin and they don't sin well then God's not gonna punish them. I've used the example of if my child or grandchild or whatever is gonna touch the light cycle or run out in the street and I say I am going to spank you and they stop and come back to me. Am I gonna spank them? No, did I change? No, they changed. And so why would I give them this punishment that they don't deserve for violating them? That's what happens. Now back to this. As we have this kingdom that's led by now someone out of the tribe of Judah. So now we go back to what he says the scepter shall not depart Judah but even more so in 2 Samuel. In 2 Samuel he says, your house and your kingdom shall endure before me forever and your throne shall be established forever. The scepter shall not depart Judah and he uses the same verse where he brings or the next verse where he brings about him coming in on this cult and remember this all goes back to what? To what was stated in Genesis 3 and then even more to the point even more so because we see progressively revealed to us in Genesis 12 what he's going to do through this lineage. He's going to bring about a blessing to Israel but he's also going to bring about a blessing to the rest of the world. Those of us who are going to be in him. So now this is where we are so far. Right now Israel is being led by David. David is going to die soon and then we're going to see his son Solomon show up and that's what we're going to pick up on next week. We're getting real close to seeing this. I want to put this on the screen for you guys. We're getting real close to seeing the prophets show up. Okay. Especially when we're going to see a whole lot of drama as we go into 1st and 2nd Kings and then there we're going to see a lot of issues with Israel being taken out of the land and so forth. We're going to see the wall being built and so forth then being captive and we're going to see the other prophets show up and as I said before, we don't call our... I know people do so, I get it. But we don't... The Bible didn't call them minor or major and we won't either. What we're going to do is we're going to refer to the prophets in their proper context. We're going to have prophets to the northern kingdom. We're going to have prophets to the southern kingdom as you see. We're going to have prophets during the exile. We're going to have prophets during the restoration and we are going to have the three prophets to the nations. And so I want you to think about it in that regard because if you can think about which prophets are prophets to the northern kingdom, which prophets are prophets to the southern kingdom during the exile, during the restoration, then it'll help you to understand what they're prophesying about instead of being like some folks and say, well, this prophet said so and so and this wouldn't know, look what he's prophesying to. Why he's prophesying, amen? Because we want to apply the scriptures perfectly the way they were intended. If the meaning that you come away with the scriptures is different than what the person who said it or the people that they're saying it to came up with. In other words, if you see what was being stated from a Jews perspective at that point in time or from Jeremiah or from Isaiah, then you are now isogeating passages. You are allegorizing and spiritualized. They know who they're speaking to and what they're saying. All of these things don't apply to us and they don't have to. God has promises for us and none of his promises are so lacking. I want y'all to think about this. None of God's promises towards us are so lacking and so bothersome and are so weak and are so low that we've got to go find somebody else's promises to make our inadequate promises adequate. No, our promises are all adequate, amen? So that being the case, ladies and gentlemen, that's what we're standing off right now. So this Saturday coming up at our regular time at 11 a.m., Lord, everything will, all things be willing. God said the same. We'll be back at 11 a.m. Central time this Saturday. I hope to see y'all, all you guys there. Oh, by the way, we're adding more. Somebody might have asked, what are these books back here behind me? These are just books for two classes. There's just two of them right now. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. This book isn't for seven, but this is every single, every single Greek word, every single word that's in the Greek New Testament. All of these, I gotta read all of these books. So, but guess what? All of these books are gonna be, are all of these courses we're gonna cover in some way, shape, or fashion on Patreon. Patreon is free if you want it to be free. You have to pay for it, but we're gonna cover these. Now, by the way, they don't make you read everything from cover to cover. Where's this book right here? This is, this book is ridiculous. This is what, 600, 800 pages? I'm sorry, 400 something pages. You have to read all of these. You have to read all of these pages. They'll say read this chapter and that chapter and then write a paper on that. So, what religion am I? I'm a believer in Christ. I'm a Christian, someone else. So, anyway, all right guys, love you so much. I look forward to seeing you all guys tomorrow. I got a little bit of drama to take care of. So, I will see you all tomorrow. In the meantime, be blessed.