00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:18 4th of July Reflections

02:37 Technology and National Security

04:01 Bible Reading: Kings and Chronicles

04:43 Jehoash's Reign and Temple Repairs

08:52 Elisha's Final Prophecy

10:29 Grave Soaking and Miracles

11:58 Chronicles' Detailed Account

17:18 Conclusion and Next Episode Preview

Hey, Hey, welcome back to another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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We are glad that you joined us again

for a, another bit of reading here,

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spending time in Kings and Chronicles.

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Yes.

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And so, uh, we're back, we're back.

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Pastorates here.

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And he is he's right there.

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There he is.

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I am.

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Yeah.

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It's July 5th.

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So 4th of July, some of you late nighters

out there watching fireworks last night.

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Uh, because you like to watch fireworks on

the 4th of July and that we probably got

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some people out there that are like that.

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Purist, if you like, it's the people

that open presents on Christmas Eve.

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Versus Christmas day,

it's kind of that thing.

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Yeah.

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Well, that one makes a little

more sense to me that, that one.

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I feel like the flexibility is

kind of built in Christmas Eve.

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That that makes sense

that you would do that.

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I also understand the 4th of

July because that's the day that

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we celebrated our independence.

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July 1st just happened to work

for us this year because of the

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prosper pride parade did pride.

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The

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pride of country.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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The pride of, is that what that is?

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The pride of country?

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I, yeah, it's national pride, like

national proud to be an American

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for at least we know we're free.

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Right.

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That's.

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And I won't forget the men who

fought and gave that right for me.

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That's the thing I'll gladly stand up.

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Nice to you just sing it.

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Okay, but, but here's one that I

heard about out here that, that D.

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I cringed a little bit.

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Apparently some of these cities

around us, they celebrated theirs

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last Saturday, which was lots of Lena.

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It was not even July.

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Like Selena.

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Yeah.

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Your home city.

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Was that on Saturday?

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Yes, it was.

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That's crazy.

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You can't do that.

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That's June.

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Yeah, but.

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So here, here's, uh, my understanding

of why they do it that way.

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I think they're trying to cooperate with

other cities and say, well, let's, let's

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coordinate so that people can go to the

events and not have any competing events.

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Uh, to make it too difficult.

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So I was thankful for that.

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But who goes to multiple firework shows.

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I guess these people.

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I guess the people here, people

who love America, pastor PJ, well.

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Yeah, fair I won is enough for me.

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Um, after one I'm with you, I'm just

saying there's other people that might

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be okay with their multiples and.

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That's great.

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More power to you.

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Let us know, let us know.

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Chose.

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Talk to us.

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Tell us, do you go to multiple

fireworks shows or just one?

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Or do you even like fireworks shows

some people are doing drone shows now.

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Yeah, I've heard of those.

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I've seen some of them.

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They're pretty cool looking.

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I mean, I haven't seen one in person,

but I've seen the videos and I'm

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impressed by their ability to, to make

it look so interesting and exciting.

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Yeah.

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It's, it's pretty amazing what

they're able to do with that,

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that, that technology is a.

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It's interesting for sure.

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Coming.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it is.

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Right.

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When the AI takes over, I feel

like the drones are going to be

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a pretty big part of their army.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Oh man.

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That's stuff is all crazy.

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Technologies is advancing

at such a rapid pace.

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It's.

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I'm reading a book written by a

Senator, Tom cotton on, uh, Arlington

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national cemetery, the old garden.

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Third infantry.

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I did not see that on your good reads,

by the way, I haven't updated it.

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I need to, I need to get

in there and update it.

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But, uh, yeah.

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It's fascinating.

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In, he was just talking

about in there, the.

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The, um, The fact that they're doing far

less funerals these days at Arlington

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national cemetery than they would

have done in years past in wars gone

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by because so much of the fighting is

carried out by these unmanned vehicles

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and soldiers aren't necessarily put in

danger as much as they weren't once were.

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And that's just good.

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That's a good thing.

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Yeah, that's great.

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But some of the technology

is pretty frightening.

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I was just reading an

article where apparently.

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Last year or the year

before, something like that.

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Russia had a nuclear sub that was just

patrolling around the Gulf of Mexico.

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And their subs are so quiet that it

went totally undetected until it left.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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That's that is frightening.

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It is.

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So the whole thing is unmanned.

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Is that the implication.

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Well, the sub isn't, the sub has, you

know, the sub has people in it has people

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in it, but they're why do you need that?

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Their technologies insanely.

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It's quiet.

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And so our, our radar sonar can't pick up.

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The soaps.

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Yeah.

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But so there you go sleep well.

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Knowing that that Vladimir is out in

the waters off the coast of Texas here.

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Cutting cake, cutting internet lines.

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Right.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Anyways.

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Hey, let's jump into our text for the day.

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All right.

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Second Kings 12 and 13 and

second Chronicles, 24 now.

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Uh, if you've already read it

and you're listening to this

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afterwards, then good on you.

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And you know what we're about to say,

but if you haven't read it yet, Uh,

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pay attention because this is a prime

example of how Chronicles and Kings.

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Are really complimentary of one another.

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They're there like pastor rod

said, I think yesterday's episode,

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he was talking about sometimes

it's just a parallel account.

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Sometimes you're reading almost verbatim

what you read in the other, but there's

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other times, and today, and also tomorrow.

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Uh, great examples of how the two

different accounts work together to give

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us a fuller picture of what we're seeing

take place in these, uh, these situations.

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Right?

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So in second Kings chapter 12, we

have a new, uh, situation here.

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You've got, uh, Jehoahaz.

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Ash Jehoahaz Jehoahaz rains

40 years there in Jerusalem.

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So he's reigning they're in.

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Judah and follows the Lord in many things.

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Yet he falls short in,

in a couple of places.

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Now, Joe Ash, you may be wondering

who's your hogwash, Joe Ash is Joe Ash.

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So you'll remember you had.

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Uh, at the light, I wanted to destroy all

of the, the, uh, the, the descendants,

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all of the heirs to the throne.

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And Joe Ash was hidden,

was kept away from her.

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And so Joe Ash or Joe Ash, as

he's called here is who this is.

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And so he takes the throne.

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And he's going to rain for 40 years.

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He does largely a good job, except

he, he does not finish strong in.

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We're going to see that, especially

I think in the Chronicles account.

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But verses four through 16, then.

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Uh, Jewish orders of the repairs

should be made to the temple.

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And here it's just kind

of a general summary.

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He's saying, Hey, the temple is in

disrepair and it needs to be fixed.

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And so, uh, Jehoiada, who is a key

character in the life and reign

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of Joe, of Joe, Ash of Joshi.

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Last year, as long as

Jehoiada is on the scene.

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Then Joe Ash is going to be doing well.

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And so Jehoiada or Jehoiada, uh, suggest

that they create this box and the box

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is going to be placed outside the gate.

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They're going to, people are

going to willingly donate funds.

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Those funds are going to be used to the.

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Uh, work that needs to be

done to repair the temple.

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Uh, you may be wondering

what happened at the temple.

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Stick a pin in that.

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We're going to find that out later.

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Second Kings then 12, 17 through 18.

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You've got Hazael.

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Remember Hazael, the king of Syria.

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And he's going to now prove

to be a problem for Judah as

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well as it appears that he was

ready to lay siege to Jerusalem.

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But here you've got Joe Asher, ho Ash.

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Uh, taking the gold and the gifts

from the temple and the palace.

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It's sending them to wholesale.

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Uh, which, uh, for a time sufficed

to deter the Syrian king from

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continuing with his plants again.

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Second Chronicles 24, which we're

going to get to in a minute.

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It gives us so much more detail.

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That's super helpful because

this is just kind of rapid fire.

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And we're going through here not

really fully getting an understanding

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of why this is taking place.

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Why was the template disrepair?

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Why was.

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Uh, Hosea wanting to

attack Jerusalem there.

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We don't get the full picture

here in this chapter, at least.

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Right.

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So you're gonna have to

suspend your suspense until we

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get there, but I wonder why.

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Y the King's account doesn't contain that.

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It seems like that would be

really helpful information.

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Given the fact that we know

Chronicles comes afterward.

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Whatever the case is, we don't know,

but God in his Providence preserved it.

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And it's going to be very

helpful for our reading.

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It will.

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Yeah.

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As chapter 12 ends Joe, Ashmita an

ignominious end as his servants conspire

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against him and assassinate them

after 40 years of reigning over Judah.

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So not a strong finish for Joe Ash.

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And again, you may be wondering,

well, why did they assassinated?

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Why did they conspire against him?

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We're going to get the stay tuned.

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We're going to get them.

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Uh, chapter 13, then 13 one through nine.

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You've got Jehovah has

raining now in Samaria.

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So this is the Northern

kingdom we're flashing back

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and forth in the book of Kings.

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So he's back up in the Northern kingdom of

Israel and he's going to rain for 17 years

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and all of the Israelite Kings do evil.

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So this guy as well, Does evil, just

like all those who had come before

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him and in response, the load is going

to make Syria just a constant thorn.

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In his side, he has a brief

period of repentance in verse

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four, there of chapter 13.

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Uh, but then again, the people after

that returned to their idolatry.

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And so during this period, Israel's army

is going to be decimated by the Syrians.

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Uh, leaving them in a pretty

precarious in vulnerable position

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that they're going to be left.

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Uh, in a situation nobody

wants to be in after this.

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Their army is almost completely

wiped out and it's not a good

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situation for them at all.

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Verses 10 through 13 there, Joe Ash.

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Uh, then takes the throne in

Israel after Jehovah has and did

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what was evil in the Lord's sight.

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So here you have Jehoahaz show.

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This is where things get confusing

because you've got Joe Ash in the south,

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which UDA and Joe Ash in the north with

Israel, different Kings, different people.

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So bear that in mind who common names,

just like you might have king John in one

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place in king, John and another place.

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You've got KingJoe Ash in the

north and KingJoe Ash in the south.

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This is the Um, as a, as Ariah,

as a head, rather at Yahara as

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arise situation all over again.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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It's so hard.

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You need a graphic for this.

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I'm going to go to the grapes that

you just need a graphic to see

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this because it's so confusing.

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Yes.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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So that's super important

to keep that in mind, Joe.

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Actually, this is the Northern

Jehoahaz shit he's going to do

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what is evil the whole time?

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Uh, 16 years, he's going to rain.

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He's doing what is evil

in the Lord's sight.

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Uh, but during this time, And this

is where the rest of the chapter.

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Comes into, into play

in verses 14 through 21.

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Eliza provides one last prophecy for

Israel before dying as Joe Ash, a

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visual goes to him on his death bed.

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It's interesting.

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Again, the relationship of a

license to the Israelite Kings.

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Uh, they had a love, hate relationship

with kid and with Alicia cold at

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hunt and Elijah for that matter.

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But here it's Alicia and the king goes

to him and he's distraught over the

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thought of losing him in Elijah prophesies

through an object lesson with the king.

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He says, Hey, let me.

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Put your, your bow in my hands.

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And, and let me shoot the arrow with you.

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And he shoots an arrow of victory

saying, God's going to give

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you victory over the Syrians.

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And then he says, Hey, Uh, take

an arrow and strike the ground.

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And he does so three times, Joe Ash does.

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And.

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And he's mad and yeah.

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And allows you to do.

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Seven times.

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You should've known.

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So if anyone gives you a stick and

says, hit the ground, I'm doing it, man.

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Don't only do it through.

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I'm yelling, keep going until he tells.

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Jumpers like we got it.

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Don't worry about.

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Yeah.

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So Alicia says you're only going

to have three victories and

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then it's going to end for you.

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And that's what happens in the

rest of the chapter verses 22

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through 25, the fulfillment

then of Alicia's dying prophecy.

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Speaking of dying when he dies and someone

falls on his body and comes back to life.

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What on earth do we do with that?

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Yeah, that was crazy.

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Again, and I mentioned this

yesterday or the day before.

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I think this was once more, God

validating the authority of Elisha

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because this message is going to

reverberate beyond a lifetime.

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And in the future, people are

going to say, Elijah said in the

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life of prophesied and Alicia told

you just like we're sitting here

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today, doing all of these things.

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People were going to do that in the,

over the course of Israel's history.

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And so even in his death

to be reminded, Hey.

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Hey, did you hear the story of

what happened even after he died?

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God was, this was a man of God.

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And here's what happened after he died.

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This man hit his bones

and came back to life.

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Does this provide any support

for the idea of grave soaking?

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I've heard this there's certain churches.

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Uh, let's, let's use Bethel since I know

they're one of the guys that practice,

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this they'll go to a grave of a famous.

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Apostle prophet or so-called prophet

or so-called apostle and they'll

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lie on the grave or a line near the

grave and soak in the, the anointing.

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Is there based on this, is there

anything that you would say.

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Or any place in scripture where it

makes sense this place included.

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Yeah, no.

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Um, Uh, and it kind of

factors into the rest of the

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cessationist conversation, right.

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About our, do we expect to walk up

to somebody who's handicapped today

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or crippled today and be able to say.

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I don't have.

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Arms for you or fruit for you, but this is

what I have in the name of Jesus Christ.

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Stand up.

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It'd be made.

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Well, just like Peter to.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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Um, the, the answer is no,

we're not going to do that.

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Uh, that that's not what the

point of this miracle was.

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The point of the miracle was not

to say, okay, Because we don't even

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know who this guy is like this guy,

we don't even know that he benefited

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other than the fact that he's alive.

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Now that he's dead.

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This doesn't mean that this guy,

all of a sudden became a righteous

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prophet and absorbed some of Elisha's,

you know, spiritual elements.

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He just was brought back to life.

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Right.

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It's more about who Elijah was,

then what this guy gets from it.

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Okay.

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So don't do that then.

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So don't do that.

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No grave soaking.

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All right.

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That's also just an awkward.

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It's a weird name.

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It's a weird name.

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And it probably is a weird practice.

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Yeah.

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Let's just say it is a week of practice.

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Alright.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Second crop.

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Helpful though, conversation,

because you may hear about it come

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up and you may think what is that?

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Oh, you'll hear about it.

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Yeah.

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Second Chronicles 24.

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And so this is where we

get more information.

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So we got the bullet

points there in Kings.

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This is where we get more information.

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So the first 14 verses here.

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This whole section provides more

detail on the start of the temple

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repairs under Joe Ash or Joe Ash,

the king of Judah in the south.

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Okay.

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So this section now tells us that

Jewish was restoring, uh, the temple

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tax or the tax, not the temple tax, but

the tax that Moses had had in place.

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For the upkeep of the tent of meeting.

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So he's saying, look, this was neglected.

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It needs to be brought back.

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And so he's restoring that.

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So there's precedent.

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In other words, Uh, Joe Ash, didn't just

wake up one day and say, okay, the people

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need to pay to have the temple repaired.

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He knew the word and knew that,

that this, there was precedent

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here that had been neglected.

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And so he said, we need

to bring this back.

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And so he.

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It says in this account, it tells us

that he has the idea to take the, the

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chest and put it outside the gate.

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And the people are going

to bring the money to it.

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But it also tells us why

this needed to happen.

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Look at verse seven for the sons

of athelete the wicked woman.

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She's, she's not, she's

losing even after death.

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Like she's just continued

to take the ELLs.

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Yeah.

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Well, the name.

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She doesn't deserve much more than that.

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No, she doesn't.

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Uh, but the sons of Appalachia had

broken into the house of God and

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it used all the dedicated things of

the house of the Lord for the bales.

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So this is why the temple

needed to be repaired.

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It was physically damaged by her sons.

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And it probably just had fallen

into a state of district tear

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disrepair over the years.

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But again, second Chronicles, 24 giving

us information that we didn't get

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back in second Kings as he goes on.

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It also tells us in the section that the

king orders, the box to put there, it

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also tells us as a joyful response to

the people who willingly bring their dues

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and contribute them to the repair of the.

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At temple look at verse 10,

the princes and the people

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rejoiced in brought the tax.

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And so we here, we see that the

people are excited about this.

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And this is good.

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And then it also adds this point that

the, that when all the repairs were

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finished, there were leftover funds used

to replace the vessels and instruments

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of worship, which were probably

again to file by athelete as sons.

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And that was a little bit more difficult

because back in second Kings chapter

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12, it said that they were killed.

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Well, not, not that, not just that,

no, but back in second Kings chapter

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12, it said that they didn't use any

of this money for the vessels or the

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instruments or anything else like that.

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And so now it's saying they did use that.

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And I think the key is when all

the other repairs were done.

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I think in second Kings, he saying

that the money was used to repair

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the temple, but I think what the

chroniclers noting is, Hey, there

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was leftovers even after that.

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Why?

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Because the people were joyful about this.

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And so they were giving an abundantly.

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And so once all that was done, they

had the money left over the money

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should be used for the temple.

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They needed new vessels because

the other ones were to file.

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And so they use that towards that purpose.

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What you just did is something

called harmonization.

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That's a really helpful approach to

understanding the scriptures and.

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Uh, taking it at face value and

saying, obviously the chronicler

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knew that King's was written.

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And so he's not deliberately contradicting

him in saying something utterly false.

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Uh, and what, and what you're doing is

assuming the best about the writer and

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assuming that there is clearly context and

content here that made this make sense.

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Yeah.

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If you find that I know Andy caught

something not too long ago, right?

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She was saying, why this number over here?

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This number over there.

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Um, that kind of approach is helpful.

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That's that's showing humility when we

come to scripture and there's things

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about it that we say, well, why is it

say that when it says this over here,

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It's something like that is an easy

solution to what might appear to be a.

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Uh, an apparent a hundred.

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Apparent contradiction.

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It's the cash in it.

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You are hitting.

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And then hitting the mic.

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Verses 15 through 19.

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Then we come back to this guy, Joe

Hoya, and remembered your hood.

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It was a steadying

influence in Joanna's life.

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And so when Jehovah dies, which

he does here, Uh, after his death.

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Toyota or Joe Ash, rather, Kim, Joe Ash.

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Uh, demonstrates a total lack of

discernment and wisdom here and allows

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the people to, uh, go after idols and, and

idolatry, which is going to draw the wrath

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of God, but also his mercy in sending

prophets to warn them of their error.

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Um, but, but here's what happens.

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And now we get into some sad

understanding of why Hazael showed up

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from Syria and what happened there.

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But, um, You're in, we see Zechariah

comm Jehovah's son in stands up and calls

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the people to repentance one last time.

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But, but Joanne is so hard

and so gone at this point.

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That he kills his mentor's son.

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He kills his priest friend.

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Jehovah's son.

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He had to have known him.

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Right.

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He must've.

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Yeah.

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And he knew this guy.

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This was family.

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Yeah.

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Cause this was, he was

raised by this guy's dead.

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They, they, no doubt knew each other.

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Yeah.

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But the darkness is super sad.

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Yeah.

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It's agreed.

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Agreed.

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Well, the, the result of this is after

this, this is why the Syrians are brought

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against Israel and the Syrians begin

to, uh, we get more information here.

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We learn that prior to Jewish

giving that Hazael, all the gifts

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and everything else, that golden,

everything the Syrians had been issuing.

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Great defeats to Judah.

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Threatening to wipe them out completely.

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They were making these raids and they

were winning and they were killing people.

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And so the king said, okay,

I've got a, I've got a.

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I've got to appease them before they

come after me and totally wiped us out.

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So that's why all of a

sudden he's giving Hazael.

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Uh, gifts because as ale had been coming

after him because of his disobedience,

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because of Judah's disobedience.

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And their idolatry.

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And I think this also gives us a glimpse

into the why behind the assassination,

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because things were not going well there

in Judah and the people were not pleased.

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The people wouldn't have been pleased

to see all of the gifts in the

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gold from the temple and the palace

go to a foreign king like this.

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They're going to hold Joe Ash

personally responsible for this,

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and they're going to go after him.

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So again, second Chronicles, 24

gives us so much good information

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that helps us supplant and

supplement rather not supplant.

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But settlement.

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No, it's a plant.

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It don't replace supplement supplement.

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Uh, what we read about in

second Kings 12 and 13.

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Amen.

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So there you go.

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We're going to get a little bit more

of that again tomorrow in our reading.

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Uh, second Kings 14 and

second Chronicles, 25.

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So keep reading your Bibles in

tune in again tomorrow with us.

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We'll see that.