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Speaker 1: time here, we are reading through Lewis and Ginsburg Legends
Speaker 1: of the Jews. This is not canon, this is not scripture,
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Speaker 1: their mythologies, all their different stories and legends, all just
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Speaker 1: people and see what they believe. Man, and a lot
Speaker 1: of this stuff it ties right into the Bible. I mean,
Speaker 1: for me, when I see it's just like a hand
Speaker 1: and glove. But of course, like anything, you know, when
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Speaker 1: And for those that don't know, last time we let
Speaker 1: off or yeah, we signed off. At the selling of Joseph,
Speaker 1: his brothers got tired of his mouth talking about how
Speaker 1: he's going to rule over them and strutting around in
Speaker 1: that priestley E. Fodd saying that the stars of heaven
Speaker 1: even bowed before him, and so will his brothers. So
Speaker 1: they had enough. They're like, okay, now we're gonna throw
Speaker 1: you down in a hole.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: It'll be like Alice in chains, down in a hole. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. So we're picking up here and it's Joseph's
Speaker 1: Three Masters. So I'm assuming, uh, we're now in Egypt.
Speaker 1: We have arrived.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Let me adjust this a little bit. Where you go
Speaker 1: there we go bangor rang ruffe? Oh, mad packs?
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 1: And brother, what's happening? Welcome, welcome, okay, here we go,
Speaker 1: all right, Joseph three Masters. As a rule, the only
Speaker 1: merchandise with which the Ishmaelights loaded their camels was pitch
Speaker 1: and the skins of beasts. By a providential dispensation, they
Speaker 1: carried bags of perfumery. This time, instead of their usual
Speaker 1: ill smelling freight. The sweet fragrance might be wafted to
Speaker 1: Joseph on his journey to Egypt. These aromatic substances were
Speaker 1: well suited to Joseph, whose body emended a pleasant smell.
Speaker 1: And what's kind of funny too, is that kind of
Speaker 1: ties into the garments. If you guys remember in Genesis
Speaker 1: it talks about when Jacob I'm sorry, yeah, Jacob, when
Speaker 1: he goes to deceive his father. It says that he
Speaker 1: puts on, you know, the wooly garment, you know, to
Speaker 1: try to fool his dad, his brother Esau. But then
Speaker 1: it also says that Rebecca goes into Esau's tent and
Speaker 1: takes his special garment. So he takes his special garment,
Speaker 1: which we know from the Book of Jasher is the
Speaker 1: priestly e fod the aka the coat of many colors.
Speaker 1: So he passed it on to his son Joseph. But
Speaker 1: when he went into his father's tent, he even remarks
Speaker 1: about his smell. I've heard some commentators like Joseph, not Josephas.
Speaker 1: Rashi said that he thinks that it was the the
Speaker 1: fragrance of heaven, a sweet smelling fragrance, you know, from
Speaker 1: heaven that was coming off of the garments. So that
Speaker 1: was his opinion of But I kind of pitched around,
Speaker 1: maybe he was just foul smelling, you know, because he said, oh,
Speaker 1: you even smell of the field, my son. You know
Speaker 1: you get the stinky smells from sasquatch. Oh man, thank
Speaker 1: you so much.
Speaker 3: Max.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, bro very very much. We'll give you
Speaker 1: air horn. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 1: So I continue on, but I've just seen that, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring it up. Whose body emitted a
Speaker 1: pleasant smell and pervasive that the road along which he
Speaker 1: traveled was redolent thereof, And on his arrival in Egypt,
Speaker 1: the perfume from his body spread over the whole land,
Speaker 1: and the royal princesses, following the sweet scent to trace
Speaker 1: its source, reached the place in which Joseph was. Even
Speaker 1: after his death, the same fragrance was spread abroad by
Speaker 1: his bones, enabling Moses to distinguish Joseph's remains from all
Speaker 1: the others and keep the oath of the children of
Speaker 1: Israel to enter them into the Holy Land. When Joseph
Speaker 1: learned that the Ishmaelites were carrying him into Egypt, he
Speaker 1: began to weep bitterly at the thought of being removed
Speaker 1: so far from Canaan and from his father. One of
Speaker 1: the Ishmaelites noticed Joseph's weeping and crying, and thinking that
Speaker 1: he found writing uncomfortable, he lifted him from the back
Speaker 1: of the camel and permitted him to walk on foot.
Speaker 1: But Joseph continued to weep and sob crying incessantly. Father Father,
Speaker 1: another one of the caravan, tried of his lamentations beat him,
Speaker 1: causing only the more tears and wales, until the youth,
Speaker 1: exhausted by his grief, was unable to move on. Now,
Speaker 1: all the Ishmaelites in the company out blows to him.
Speaker 1: They treated him with the relentless cruelty and tried to
Speaker 1: silence him by threats. God saw Joseph's distress, and he
Speaker 1: sent darkness in terror upon the Ishmaelites, and their hands
Speaker 1: grew rigid when they raised them to inflict a blow. Astonished,
Speaker 1: they asked themselves why God did thus unto them, and
Speaker 1: upon the road they did not know that it was
Speaker 1: for the sake of Joseph. The journey continued until they
Speaker 1: came to Ephrath, the place of rachel Sepulcher. Joseph hastened
Speaker 1: to his mother's grave, and throwing himself across it, he
Speaker 1: groaned and cried, saying, O Mother Mother, that didst thou
Speaker 1: bear me. Come forth and see how thy son hath
Speaker 1: been sold into slavery, with none to take pity upon him. Arise,
Speaker 1: see thy son, and weep for me over my misfortune,
Speaker 1: and observe the heartlessness of my brethren. Awake, o Mother,
Speaker 1: arise thyself from thy sleep. Rise up and prepare for
Speaker 1: the conflict with my brethren, who stripped me even of
Speaker 1: my shirt and sold me as a slave to a merchantman. Arise,
Speaker 1: o mother, awake from thy sleep. See how thy father
Speaker 1: is with me in his soul and in his spirit,
Speaker 1: and comfort him and ease his heavy heart. Joseph wept
Speaker 1: and cried upon the grave of his mother, until weary
Speaker 1: from grief, he lay immobile as a stone. Then he
Speaker 1: heard a voice, heavy with tears speak to him from
Speaker 1: the depths, saying, my son, Joseph, my son, I heard
Speaker 1: thy complaints in thy groans, I saw thy tears, and
Speaker 1: I knew thy misery. My son, I am grieved for
Speaker 1: thy sake, and thy flick is added to the burden
Speaker 1: of my affliction. But my son, Joseph, put thy trust
Speaker 1: in God and wait upon him. Fear not, for the
Speaker 1: Lord is with thee, and he will deliver thee from
Speaker 1: all evil. Go down into Egypt with thy masters, my son,
Speaker 1: fear not, for the Lord is with thee, O, my son,
Speaker 1: this and much more liking to it. Did the voice utter,
Speaker 1: and then it was silent. Joseph listened in great amazement
Speaker 1: at first, and then he broke out in renewed tears,
Speaker 1: angered thy. Thereby one of the Ishmaelites drove him from
Speaker 1: his mother's grave with kicks and curses. Then Joseph entreated
Speaker 1: his masters to take him back to his father, who
Speaker 1: would give them great riches as a reward. But they said,
Speaker 1: while thou art a slave, how canst thou know whether
Speaker 1: thy father is? If thou hast had a free man
Speaker 1: as father, thou wouldst not have been sold twice for
Speaker 1: a petty sum. In their fury against him increased, they
Speaker 1: beat him and mail treated him, and he wept bitter tears.
Speaker 1: Now God looked upon the distress of Joseph, and he
Speaker 1: set darkness and shrouded the land once more. A storm raged,
Speaker 1: and lightning flashed, and from the thunderbolts the whole earth trembled,
Speaker 1: and the Ishmaelites lost their way. In their terror, the
Speaker 1: beasts and the camels stood still and beat them as
Speaker 1: their drivers would. They refused to budge from the spot,
Speaker 1: but crouched down upon the ground. Then the Ishmaelites spoke
Speaker 1: to another and said, why hath God brought this upon us?
Speaker 1: What are our sins? What is our trespasses? What such
Speaker 1: things befall us? One of them said to the others preadventure,
Speaker 1: this hath come upon us by reason of the sin
Speaker 1: which we have committed against this slave. Let us beg
Speaker 1: him earnestly to grant us forgiveness. And if then God
Speaker 1: will take pity and let these storms pass from us,
Speaker 1: we shall know that we have suffered harm on the
Speaker 1: account of the injury we inflicted upon the slave. You know,
Speaker 1: so this kind of sounds like the story of Jonah.
Speaker 1: Remember he was on the ship and all the storms came,
Speaker 1: and they was like, oh, what is this is happening to us?
Speaker 1: And finally, you know, Jonah comes forwards like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: because of me. I disobeyed God, and now I'm on
Speaker 1: the run trying to run, So just throw me in.
Speaker 1: The Ishmaelites did according to these words, and they said,
Speaker 1: unto Joseph, we have sinned against God and against thee
Speaker 1: pray to Thy God and entreat him to take his
Speaker 1: death plague from us, for we acknowledge that we have
Speaker 1: sinned against him. Joseph fulfilled their wish, and God hearkened
Speaker 1: unto their petition, and the storm was a surged. All
Speaker 1: around became calm, The beast arose from their recumbent position,
Speaker 1: and the caravan could proceed upon its way. Now the
Speaker 1: Ishmaelites saw plainly that all their trouble had come to
Speaker 1: them for the sake of Joseph, and they spoke to
Speaker 1: one another, saying, we know now that all this evil
Speaker 1: hath happened to us on the account of this poor fellow,
Speaker 1: and therefore should we bring death upon ourselves by our
Speaker 1: own doings, let us take counsel together, that is to
Speaker 1: be done with the slave. One of them advised that
Speaker 1: Joseph's wished to be fulfilled and be taken back to
Speaker 1: his father, then they would be sure of receiving the
Speaker 1: money they had paid out for him. This plan was
Speaker 1: rejected because they had accomplished a great part of their
Speaker 1: journey and they were not too inclined to retrace their steps.
Speaker 1: They therefore resolved upon carrying Joseph to Egypt, and seeing
Speaker 1: him there, they would rid themselves of this rid themselves
Speaker 1: of him in this way, and also receive a great
Speaker 1: price for him. They continued their journey as far as
Speaker 1: the borders of Egypt, and there they met four men
Speaker 1: descendants of medin Or meeting the son of Abraham, and
Speaker 1: to these they sold Joseph for five shekels. The two companies,
Speaker 1: the Ishmaelites and the Midian Knights, arrived in Egypt upon
Speaker 1: the same day. The latter, hearing that Potiphar, an officer
Speaker 1: of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, was seeking a
Speaker 1: good slave, repared to him at once to try to
Speaker 1: dispose of Joseph. To him, Potiphar was willing to pay
Speaker 1: as much as four hundred pieces of silver, and a
Speaker 1: high as price was, it did not seem too great
Speaker 1: for the slave that pleased him, and much as Joseph. However,
Speaker 1: they made a condition. He said to the Midianites, I
Speaker 1: will pay you the price demanded, but you must bring
Speaker 1: me the person that sold the slave to you, that
Speaker 1: I may be in the position to find out all
Speaker 1: about him. For the youth seems to me to be
Speaker 1: neither a slave nor a son of a slave. He
Speaker 1: appears to be of noble blood. I must convince myself
Speaker 1: that he is not stolen. The median Knites brought the
Speaker 1: ishmael Lights to Potiphar, and they testified that Joseph was
Speaker 1: a slave, that they had owned him and sold him
Speaker 1: to the Midianites. Potipar rested. Satisfied with this report, he
Speaker 1: paid the price that they asked for Joseph, and the
Speaker 1: Midianites and the ishmael Lights went their separate ways. So
Speaker 1: here we get their their journey down to Egypt, and
Speaker 1: they follow some troubles and they start praying, you know,
Speaker 1: or talking amongst themselves. It's like, oh my god, what
Speaker 1: are we gonna do with this dude? I mean, he's
Speaker 1: got with us all these troubles end up just taking
Speaker 1: him on down and getting rid of him. So you
Speaker 1: get a little extra context to this story. Oh no,
Speaker 1: thank you, Garrett, looking good with them ears lowered.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie. I miss I miss I miss
Speaker 1: having it back there a little bit. I don't miss
Speaker 1: the heat from it, though, So I think it'll I
Speaker 1: have the snowbird hair. I'll keep the mullet short in
Speaker 1: the summertime in the wintertime. I'll let it grow out,
Speaker 1: bring it back for winter. Okay, Joseph's coat brought to
Speaker 1: his father. And just a little tidbit, I'll say this
Speaker 1: where I get started. I find it very interesting. I
Speaker 1: talk about it in the book too, the Epic of Esaul.
Speaker 1: It's like a foreshadowing of Christ almost because a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't realize is that the Jewish people believed
Speaker 1: in two Messiah's. So they believed in the Yosiah ben Joseph,
Speaker 1: which was Joseph, and then the Coming Messiah was the
Speaker 1: you know, supposed to be the conquering king to overthrow
Speaker 1: the you know, their captors and things like that. So
Speaker 1: I think we see though that coat of many colors
Speaker 1: that priestly ephod on Jesus in revelation, and if we remember,
Speaker 1: he comes in on a white horse, and it describes
Speaker 1: this beautiful garment he's wearing it on the thighs is
Speaker 1: the king of King's lord of lords. And then it
Speaker 1: says that there's blood stains, you know, all the way
Speaker 1: up to the bridle, so you know, he's stained in
Speaker 1: blood and trampled all over you in blood. I threw
Speaker 1: out the idea, you know, could this possibly be like God,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to as a last resort, trying to
Speaker 1: show his stiff necked people that don't believe that he's
Speaker 1: the Messiah. It's like, okay, you believe in this. Josiah
Speaker 1: and Joseph and his garment was taken and dipped in
Speaker 1: blood and returned to his father. So now here I
Speaker 1: am the returning king with this garment on and with
Speaker 1: the bloodstains, just like Joseph. Because I think we see
Speaker 1: that even with the Moses, they had Moses in such
Speaker 1: high regard. If you pay attention to the story of Jesus,
Speaker 1: they stacked pretty much everything that Moses did side by
Speaker 1: side with Jesus. But where Moses failed, Jesus succeeded. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of showing them how you put so much
Speaker 1: stock in this dude? Right here, man, Look I'm better
Speaker 1: in every way. For instance, they flee, both of them
Speaker 1: flee to Egypt to be saved because a king is
Speaker 1: trying to kill the first borns, right, So Moses and
Speaker 1: Jesus go to Egypt, and that's how they escape death.
Speaker 1: They both go through the waters. Moses goes through the
Speaker 1: Red Sea and goes into the wilderness for forty years,
Speaker 1: and it's tempted, you know, and tested, and then they
Speaker 1: fell repeatedly. Jesus is baptized, he goes through the water.
Speaker 3: What does he do.
Speaker 1: He goes to the wilderness for forty days and it's
Speaker 1: tempted by Satan, but surpasses every single test. Right, So
Speaker 1: you have these, you know, correlations, and even Moses holding
Speaker 1: up the staff with the bronze serpent. You know, they
Speaker 1: said he's on a pole that's lifted up, just as
Speaker 1: Christ is lifted up on a pole. So I find
Speaker 1: that stuff interesting. I kind of nerd out on that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, but I'll read here it says no
Speaker 1: sooner was the sale of Joseph an accomplished fact than
Speaker 1: the sons of Jacob repented of their deed. They even
Speaker 1: hastened to act the Medianites to ransom Joseph, but their
Speaker 1: efforts were overtaken them. Their efforts to overtake them were
Speaker 1: in vain, and they had to accept the inevitable. Meantime,
Speaker 1: Reuben had rejoined his brethren. He had been so deeply
Speaker 1: absorbed in penance, in praying and studying the Torah in
Speaker 1: expectation of his sin against his father that he had
Speaker 1: not been able to remain with his brethren and tend
Speaker 1: the flocks, and thus it happened that he was not
Speaker 1: on the spot when Joseph was sold. His first errand
Speaker 1: was to go to the pit in the hope of
Speaker 1: finding Joseph there. In that case he would have carried
Speaker 1: him off and restored him to his father clandestinely, without
Speaker 1: the knowledge of his brethren. He stood at the opening
Speaker 1: and called again and again Joseph, Joseph. As he received
Speaker 1: no answer, he concluded that Joseph had perished, either by
Speaker 1: reason of terror or the result of a snake bite,
Speaker 1: and need it into the pit, only to find that
Speaker 1: he was not there, either living nor dead. He mounted
Speaker 1: to the top again and rent his clothes and cried out,
Speaker 1: the lad is not here, and what answer shall I
Speaker 1: give to my father if he be dead? Then Reuben
Speaker 1: returned it to his brethren and told them that Joseph
Speaker 1: had vanished from the pit, Whereat he was deeply grieved
Speaker 1: because he, being the eldest of the sons, was responsible
Speaker 1: for their father Jacob, the brethren made a clean breast
Speaker 1: of what they had done with Joseph. So I guess
Speaker 1: you I mean, they got it off their chest, you know,
Speaker 1: so to speak. And they related to him how they
Speaker 1: had tried to make good their evil deed, and how
Speaker 1: their efforts had been in vain. Now there remained nothing
Speaker 1: to do but invent a plausible explanation for their brother's
Speaker 1: disappearance to give to Jacob. First of all, however, they
Speaker 1: took an oath not to be tray to his father
Speaker 1: or any human being what they had actually done with Joseph.
Speaker 1: He who violated the oath would be put to the
Speaker 1: sword by the rest. Then they took counsel together about
Speaker 1: what to say to Jacob, and was Iscar's advice to
Speaker 1: tear Joseph's coat of many colors and dip it into
Speaker 1: the blood of a little kid of the goats, and
Speaker 1: make Jacob believe that his son had been torn by
Speaker 1: wild beasts. The reason he suggested a kid was because
Speaker 1: its blood looks like human blood. And expect expectation of
Speaker 1: this act, I guess it's just spelt weird, or it
Speaker 1: looks weird to me. In expectation of this active deception,
Speaker 1: it was ordaining that a kid be used as a
Speaker 1: atonement sacrifice. When the tabernacle was dedicated. Simon opposed this suggestion.
Speaker 1: He did not want to relinquish Joseph's coat, and he
Speaker 1: threatened to huge anyone that should attempt to wrest it
Speaker 1: from him by force, because he knew how important it was.
Speaker 1: You know, this was the supernatural garment from the garden
Speaker 1: of God, the birthright. This was the birthright. The reason
Speaker 1: for his vehemence was that he was very much enraged
Speaker 1: against his brethren for not having slain Joseph. But they
Speaker 1: threatened him in turning, saying, if that will not give
Speaker 1: up the coat, we shall say that thou didst execute
Speaker 1: the evil deed thyself, oh blackmailed him. At that Simon
Speaker 1: surrendered it, and nef Talley brought it to Jacob, handing
Speaker 1: it to him with the words, when we were dividing
Speaker 1: our herds homeward, we found this garment covered in blood
Speaker 1: and dust, upon the highway a little beyond. Shechem no
Speaker 1: now whether it be thy Son's coat or not. Jacob
Speaker 1: recognized Joseph's coat, and, overwhelmed by grief, he fell prostrate
Speaker 1: a long lay on his ground, motionless like a stone.
Speaker 1: Then he arose and set up a loud cry, and wept.
Speaker 1: It is my son's coat. In great haste, Jacob dispatched
Speaker 1: a slave to his sons to bid them to come
Speaker 1: to him, that he might learn more about what had
Speaker 1: happened in the evening. They all came, their garments rent
Speaker 1: and dust shone upon their heads. When they confirmed that
Speaker 1: Neftali had told him, broke out in mourning and lamentation.
Speaker 1: It is my son's coat. An evil beast has devoured him.
Speaker 1: Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces. I sent him
Speaker 1: to you to see whether it was well with you
Speaker 1: and well with the flock. He went to do my errand,
Speaker 1: and while I thought him to be with you, the
Speaker 1: misfortune befell there too. The sons of Jacob made reply,
Speaker 1: he came to us not at all. Since we left there,
Speaker 1: we have not seen our set eyes upon him. After
Speaker 1: these words, Jacob could doubt no longer that Joseph had
Speaker 1: been torn by wild beasts, and he mourned for his sons, saying, oh,
Speaker 1: my un Joseph, my son. I sent thee to inquire
Speaker 1: after the welfare of thy brethren, and now thout torn
Speaker 1: by wild beasts. It is my fault that this evil
Speaker 1: chance hath come upon THEE. I am distressed for THEE,
Speaker 1: My son, I am sorely distressed. How sweet was thy
Speaker 1: life to me? And how bitter is thy death? Would
Speaker 1: God I had died for THEE, O Joseph, my son.
Speaker 1: For now I am distressed on thy account, my son, Joseph,
Speaker 1: war art thou, and where is thy soul? Arise? Arise
Speaker 1: from thy place and look upon my grief for THEE.
Speaker 1: Come and count the tears that roll down my cheeks,
Speaker 1: and bring the tale of them before God, that his
Speaker 1: wrath be turned away from me, O Joseph, my son,
Speaker 1: How painful and appalling was thy death? None hath died
Speaker 1: a death like dying since the world doth stand. I
Speaker 1: know well that it came to pass by reason of
Speaker 1: my sins, and thou wouldst returned and see the bitter
Speaker 1: sorrow thy misfortune hath brought upon me. But it is
Speaker 1: true it was not I that created THEE and formed THEE.
Speaker 1: I gave THEE neither spirit nor soul. But God created THEE.
Speaker 1: He formed thy bones, covered them with flesh, breathed the
Speaker 1: breath of life into the nostrils, and then gave thee
Speaker 1: unto me. Then, God, who gave thee unto me, he
Speaker 1: hath taken thee from me, and from him, hath his
Speaker 1: dispensation come upon me. What the Lord doeth is well done.
Speaker 1: In these words, and many others like them, Jacob mourned
Speaker 1: and bewailed his son until he fell to the ground,
Speaker 1: prostrate and immovable. We wept by whistle. When the sons
Speaker 1: of Jacob saw that the vehemence of their father's grief,
Speaker 1: they repented of their deed and wept bitterly, especially Judah
Speaker 1: Griff streaking that's sorry, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean.
Speaker 1: He laid his father's head upon his knees and wiped
Speaker 1: his tears away as they flowed from his eyes, while
Speaker 1: he himself broke out in violent weeping. The sons of
Speaker 1: Jacob and their wives all soought to comfort their father.
Speaker 1: They arranged a great memorial service, and they wept and
Speaker 1: mourned over Joseph's death and over their father's sorrow, but
Speaker 1: Jacob refused to be comforted. The tidings of his son's
Speaker 1: death cost the loss of two members of Jacob's family.
Speaker 1: Bill Ha and Dinah could not survive their grief. Bill
Speaker 1: Ha passed away that very day, whereupon the report reached
Speaker 1: Jacob and Dina soon died after, and so he had
Speaker 1: three losses to mourn in one month. He received the
Speaker 1: tidings of Joseph's death in the seventh month of tissery,
Speaker 1: and on the tenth day of the month. And therefore
Speaker 1: the children of Israel are bidden to will and afflict
Speaker 1: their souls on this day. Furthermore, on this day the
Speaker 1: sin offering of atonement shall be a kid of the goats,
Speaker 1: because the sons of Jacob transgressed with a kid, and
Speaker 1: in the blood of which they dip Joseph's coat, And
Speaker 1: thus they brought sorrow upon Jacob. When he had recovered
Speaker 1: somewhat from the stunning blow which the tidings of his
Speaker 1: favorite of the tidings of his favorite son's death had
Speaker 1: dealt him, Joseph rose up from the ground and addressed
Speaker 1: his son's tears streaming down his cheeks. All the while
Speaker 1: up he said, take your swords and your bows. Go
Speaker 1: out into the field and make search. Perhaps you will
Speaker 1: find the body of my son, and you will bring
Speaker 1: it to me, so that I may bury it. Keep
Speaker 1: a lookout too for beasts of prey, and catch the
Speaker 1: first that you meet, Seize it and bring it to me.
Speaker 1: It may be that God will have pity upon my
Speaker 1: sorrow and put the beast between your hands that has
Speaker 1: torn my child into pieces, and I will take my
Speaker 1: revenge upon it. The sons of Jacob set out on
Speaker 1: the morrow to do the bidding of their father, while
Speaker 1: he remained at home and wept and lamented for Joseph.
Speaker 1: In the wilderness, they found a wolf, which they caught
Speaker 1: and brought to Jacob alive, saying, here is the first
Speaker 1: wild beast we encountered, and we have brought it to thee.
Speaker 1: But of thy son's corpse we saw not a trace.
Speaker 1: Jacob seized the wolf, and amid loud weeping, he addressed
Speaker 1: these words to him. Why didst thou devour my son
Speaker 1: Joseph without any fear of God of the Earth, and
Speaker 1: without taking any thought of the grief thou wouldst bring
Speaker 1: upon me? Thou didst devour my son without reason? He
Speaker 1: was guilty of no manner of transgression, And thou didst
Speaker 1: roll the responsibility of his death upon me. But God
Speaker 1: avengeth him that he is persecuted. To grant consolation to Jacob,
Speaker 1: God opened the mouth of the beat and he spake
Speaker 1: as the Lord liveth who hath created me, And as
Speaker 1: thy soul liveth, my Lord, I have not seen thy son,
Speaker 1: and I did not rend him in peaces. From a
Speaker 1: land far off, I came to seek my own son,
Speaker 1: who suffered a like fate with thine. He hath disappeared,
Speaker 1: and I know not whether he be dead or alive.
Speaker 1: And therefore I came hither ten days ago to find him.
Speaker 1: This day, while I was searching for him, thy sons
Speaker 1: met me, and they seized me, and adding more grief
Speaker 1: to my grief over the loss of my son, they
Speaker 1: brought me hither to THEE. This is my story, And now,
Speaker 1: son of Man, I am in thy hands. Thou canst
Speaker 1: dispose of me this day, as you seeth well in
Speaker 1: thy sight. But I swear unto THEE by the God
Speaker 1: that hath created me, I have not seen thy son,
Speaker 1: nor have I torn him to peaces. Neither the flesh
Speaker 1: of the man, neither the flesh of man has came
Speaker 1: into my mouth. Astonished at the speech of the wolf,
Speaker 1: Jacob let him go unhindered whatsoever he would, But he
Speaker 1: mourned his son Joseph. As before, it is a law
Speaker 1: of nature that however much one may grief over the
Speaker 1: death of a dear one at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: constellation finds its way to the heart of the mourner,
Speaker 1: But the disappearance of a living man can never be
Speaker 1: wiped out of one's memory. Therefore, the fact that he
Speaker 1: is inconsolable made Jacob suspect that Joseph was alive, and
Speaker 1: he did not give entire credence to the report of
Speaker 1: his sons. His vague suspicion was strengthened by something that
Speaker 1: happened to him. He went up into the mountains, hewed
Speaker 1: twelve stones out of the quarry and wrote the names
Speaker 1: of his sons thereon their constellations and their months corresponding
Speaker 1: to the constellations. And this is something you find even
Speaker 1: in the blessings of these children in Genesis.
Speaker 3: I believe it is.
Speaker 1: He compares them to certain animals, and if you look
Speaker 1: at the animals, it's constellations. And it's crazy when you
Speaker 1: read you know, the wilderness wanderings. It gives such detail
Speaker 1: of how the encampment was laid out, and so you
Speaker 1: could imagine it said, you know x amount of people
Speaker 1: on this side, you know x amount of people in
Speaker 1: this certain tribe on this side, x amount of people
Speaker 1: of this tribe on the northern side, and x amount
Speaker 1: of people you know in this certain tribe on the
Speaker 1: southern and have the tabernacle in the center. So I
Speaker 1: first heard this from Trace Smith from Gott in a nutshell,
Speaker 1: and he laid out the numbers and he drew it
Speaker 1: on a whiteboard, and there was even a mount to
Speaker 1: the left and to the right a similar amount up top,
Speaker 1: but then there was like twice as much on the bottom.
Speaker 1: And he said, so you can imagine the holiest of
Speaker 1: holies was in the center. He said, all the campfires
Speaker 1: going on. He said, it's a huge flaming cross moving
Speaker 1: across the desert floor. And he talked about that. He said,
Speaker 1: so you can imagine, even on the day of Atonement,
Speaker 1: he said, the high priest is wearing the ephod, he's
Speaker 1: sprinkling the blood on the mercy seat. And that's when
Speaker 1: that was the only time they were allowed to recite
Speaker 1: you know, the holy you know name of God. You know,
Speaker 1: they had so much reverence. They wouldn't speak it. They'd
Speaker 1: just say Lord or out of nigh. They would not say,
Speaker 1: you know, the the jodhevav Hey the Yahweh, and but
Speaker 1: that was the one time they did. And so Trey
Speaker 1: was like, yo, So you can imagine. He said this,
Speaker 1: all these campfires going, He said, night God. Looking down
Speaker 1: upon the tabernacle, it's this huge cross on the desert
Speaker 1: floor with the holiest of holies in the center, and
Speaker 1: there's the high priest sprinkling the blood, saying the sacred
Speaker 1: secret name of God. And he said, when you break
Speaker 1: down those especially like in the Paleo Hebrew, those letters
Speaker 1: basically say in pictorial form, behold the hand, behold the nail.
Speaker 1: So I mean, he's like that, that's just amazing. Here's
Speaker 1: this cross. They're sprinkling the blood for atonement, and they're saying,
Speaker 1: you know, behold the hand, behold the nail. So it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, another foreshadowing of Christ. But I'll continue. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I get off on tangents sometime, guys. But their constellations
Speaker 1: and their months corresponding to the constellations. A stone for
Speaker 1: a son, thus Reuben, Ram and Nissan, and so for
Speaker 1: each of his twelve sons. Then he addressed the stones
Speaker 1: and bade them to bow down before the one marked
Speaker 1: with Reuben's name, constellation and month and they did not move.
Speaker 1: He gave the same order regarding the stone mark for Simon,
Speaker 1: and again the stone stood still. And he did, respecting
Speaker 1: all his sons, until he reached the stone for Joseph.
Speaker 1: When he spoke concerning this one, I command you to
Speaker 1: fall down before Joseph, they all prostrated themselves. He tried
Speaker 1: the same test with the other things, with trees and
Speaker 1: with sheaves, and always the result was the same, and
Speaker 1: Jacob could not but feel that his suspicion was true.
Speaker 1: Joseph was alive. And that correlates to the story in Genesis.
Speaker 1: If you remember, you know Joseph, I'm sorry, Jacob gets
Speaker 1: the coat, gets the priestly epot from Esau. Right, that
Speaker 1: was that exchange I told you about. Rebecca went into
Speaker 1: Esau's tent and took his special garment and placed it
Speaker 1: upon Jacob, because that was the birth right that went
Speaker 1: to the eldest son, and they were placing the birth
Speaker 1: right upon Jacob. So Jacob had it, and he gave
Speaker 1: it to Joseph, that the child of his old age,
Speaker 1: whom he loved exceedingly, which is the same way they
Speaker 1: described Cush giving the garments to Nimrod. It said Nimrod
Speaker 1: was the child of his old age, whom he loved exceedingly,
Speaker 1: and he bestowed upon him the garments. But the Book
Speaker 1: of Genesis says, or when you'll notice when you read
Speaker 1: that he's kind of a normal kid or guy. He
Speaker 1: puts on this garment, then all of a sudden, all
Speaker 1: kinds of supernatural stuff starts happening. He starts getting dreams,
Speaker 1: he starts getting visions, and he ends up going to
Speaker 1: his brothers, you remember, and he says, brothers, I have
Speaker 1: his dream. And man, he said, the the wheat of
Speaker 1: the field bow before me. And we know all the
Speaker 1: stories and parables of Jesus talking about wheat. You know,
Speaker 1: that's people, humanity. And he says, even the stars of
Speaker 1: heaven bow before me, you know, the angelic hoast, so
Speaker 1: heaven and earth. He's you know, he's favored by all.
Speaker 1: And he says, and even you, my brothers, will bow
Speaker 1: before me. And that's when it was like a hell, no,
Speaker 1: you gotta go, bro, you gotta go. Uh So, I
Speaker 1: thought that was pretty interesting, which I cover that kind
Speaker 1: of in depth in my book The empicabe Saw. But
Speaker 1: I thought that was very very telling. Let me get
Speaker 1: a drink real quick. Sorry, I.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: There was a reason why God did not reveal the
Speaker 1: real fate of Joseph to Jacob. When his brethren soul Joseph,
Speaker 1: their fear that the report of their iniquity might reach
Speaker 1: the ears of Jacob led them to pronounce the ban
Speaker 1: upon any that should betray the truth without the consent
Speaker 1: of all the others. Judah advanced in objection that a
Speaker 1: ban is invalid unless it is decreed in the presence
Speaker 1: of ten persons, and there were but nine of them,
Speaker 1: for Reuben and Benjamin were not there when they at
Speaker 1: the sale of Joseph was concluded. To evade the difficulty,
Speaker 1: the brothers counted God as the tenth person, and therefore
Speaker 1: God felt bound to refrain from revealing the true state
Speaker 1: of the things of Jacob. He had regard as it were,
Speaker 1: for the ban pronounced by the brethren of Joseph, and
Speaker 1: as God kept the truth a secret from Jacob, Isaac
Speaker 1: did not feel justified in acquainting him with his grandson's fate,
Speaker 1: which was well known to him, for he was a prophet.
Speaker 1: Whenever he was in the company of Jacob, he mourned
Speaker 1: with him, But as soon as he quitted him, he
Speaker 1: left off from manifesting grief because he knew that Joseph lived.
Speaker 1: Jacob was thus the only one among Joseph's closest kinsmen
Speaker 1: that remained in ignorance of his son's real fortunes. And
Speaker 1: he was the one I'm sorry, And he was the
Speaker 1: one of them all that had the greatest reason for
Speaker 1: regretting his death. He spoke the covenant that God made
Speaker 1: with me, regarding the twelve tribes as null and void.
Speaker 1: Now I did strive in vain to establish the twelve tribes,
Speaker 1: seeing that now the death of Joseph hath destroyed the covenant.
Speaker 1: All the works of God were made to correspond to
Speaker 1: the number of the tribes. Twelve are the signs of
Speaker 1: the zodiac, twelve the months, twelve hours in the day,
Speaker 1: twelve hours in the night, and twelve stones are set
Speaker 1: upon aaron's breastplate. And now that Joseph had the part
Speaker 1: of the covenant of the tribes is set at knot. Oh,
Speaker 1: speaking of the knot and none, I'll tell you a
Speaker 1: little corny joke I heard the other day, and write
Speaker 1: this down. H Okay, who is the shout out to
Speaker 1: chief Joseph. He's the first person I heard this from.
Speaker 1: But he said, justin you know who the only person
Speaker 1: in the Bible that was said to have neither father
Speaker 1: nor mother. And I looked at him and I was like, hmm,
Speaker 1: I said, malkizedec that said that he's without beginning or end,
Speaker 1: so therefore he had no father or mother. And he
Speaker 1: kind of stopped for me and he's like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess you're right. I didn't think of that. He said,
Speaker 1: but that's not the punchline. I said, what's the punchline.
Speaker 1: He said, it's a Joshua and I said Joshua. He said, yeah,
Speaker 1: that from the con quest he was Joshua the son
Speaker 1: of None. And I was like, okay, that's a cute,
Speaker 1: little corny joke there. Yeah, Joshua the son of none. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll keep going. Sorry. He could not replace the last
Speaker 1: son by entering into a new marriage, for he had
Speaker 1: made the promise to his father in law to take
Speaker 1: none besides his daughters to wife, and this promise, as
Speaker 1: he interpreted it, held good after the death of Laban's
Speaker 1: daughters as well as they were alive. Besides grief over
Speaker 1: his loss and regret at the breaking of the covenant
Speaker 1: of the tribes. Jacob had still another reason for mourning,
Speaker 1: the death of Joseph. God has said to Jacob, if
Speaker 1: none of thy sons dies during thy lifetime, thou mayst
Speaker 1: look upon it as a token that thou will be
Speaker 1: put to be put in Gehinnah after thy death. Thinking
Speaker 1: Joseph to be dead, Jacob had his own fate to
Speaker 1: be well too, for he now believed that he was
Speaker 1: doomed to Gehinnah. His morning lasted all of twenty two years,
Speaker 1: corresponding to the number of the years that he had
Speaker 1: dwelt apart from his parents and had not fulfilled the
Speaker 1: duty of a son toward them. In his morning, Jacob
Speaker 1: put sackcloth upon his loins, and therein he became a
Speaker 1: model for the kings and princes in Israel. For David, ahab,
Speaker 1: Jerome and Mordecai did likewise when a great misfortune befell
Speaker 1: the nation. Let's see how long this one is. It
Speaker 1: ain't too bad. We've got time finished this one. We'll
Speaker 1: lean in, guys, will lean in sully two thirds of
Speaker 1: a pun doc. Leave it to me to spoil a
Speaker 1: good joke. It's like my family and stuff learned really quick.
Speaker 1: You don't watch a movie with me because I spoil
Speaker 1: it every time. And that guy, it's like I can
Speaker 1: see patterns, I can see how stuff's going to happen,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my gosh, is this about to happen? Guys,
Speaker 1: and they're like, did just to shut up? I can't
Speaker 1: help it, okay. Judah and his sons. When the sons
Speaker 1: of Jacob saw how inconsolable their father was, they went
Speaker 1: to Judah and said to him, this great misfortune is
Speaker 1: thy fault. Judah replied, it was I that asked you,
Speaker 1: what profit is it if we slay our brother and
Speaker 1: conceal his blood? And now you say the sin lies
Speaker 1: at my door. The brethren continued to argue, But it
Speaker 1: was thou that didst say, come and let us sell
Speaker 1: him to the Ishmaelites. And we followed thy advice. Hast
Speaker 1: Thou said, let us restore him to his father. We
Speaker 1: had we had heeded these words of thine as well.
Speaker 1: The brethren hereupon deprived Judah of his dignity, for hitherto
Speaker 1: he had been their king, and they also excluded him
Speaker 1: from their fellowship, and he had to seek his fortune alone.
Speaker 1: Through the meditation of the chief shepherd Hera, he became
Speaker 1: acquainted with the Canaanish king of a Delam Bar Shawn
Speaker 1: by name. Though he was well aware of the corruption
Speaker 1: of the generations of Canaan, he permitted passion to get
Speaker 1: the better of him and took a Canaanite to wife.
Speaker 1: And Adlamite king gave a banquet in his honor, at
Speaker 1: which his daughter bath Shua poured the wine, and, intoxicated
Speaker 1: by wine and passion, Judah took her and married her.
Speaker 1: Juda's action may be compared to that of the loin
Speaker 1: who passes a carrion and eats of it, though occur
Speaker 1: preceding him on the way had refused to touch it.
Speaker 1: Even Esau came in the time of acknowledge that the
Speaker 1: daughters of Canaan were wicked, and they Judah must needs
Speaker 1: take one of them to wife. The Holy Spirit cried
Speaker 1: out against Judah when he married the Canaanite woman of Idealamah,
Speaker 1: saying the glory of Israel went down in Dalam at first.
Speaker 1: The firstborn son of Judah from this marriage was named
Speaker 1: Er the Childless, a suitable name for him that died
Speaker 1: without begetting any issue. At Judah's desire, er married Tamar,
Speaker 1: a daughter of Aram, the son of Shim, But because
Speaker 1: she was not a Canish woman, his mother used artifices
Speaker 1: against her and he did not know her, and the
Speaker 1: Angel of the Lord killed him on the third day
Speaker 1: after his wedding. Then Judah gave Tamar to his second
Speaker 1: son onin the marriage taking place before the week of
Speaker 1: the wedding festivities. For Err had elapsed a whole year
Speaker 1: owning lived with Tamar without knowing her, and when finally
Speaker 1: Judah uttered threats against him on the account he did
Speaker 1: indeed have intercourse with her, but giving heed to the
Speaker 1: injunctions of his mother, he took care not to begot
Speaker 1: any children with her. He too died on the account
Speaker 1: of his iniquity, and his name onin means mourning was
Speaker 1: well chosen, for very soon was his father called upon
Speaker 1: to mourn for him. Now Judah conceived the plan of
Speaker 1: marrying Tamar to his youngest son, Sheila, but his wife
Speaker 1: would not permit it. She hated Tamar because she was
Speaker 1: not of the daughters of Canaan like herself, and while
Speaker 1: Judah was away from home by Suah chose a wife
Speaker 1: for her son Sheila from the Daughters of Canaan. Judah
Speaker 1: was very angry at Bathtua for what she had done,
Speaker 1: and also God poured out his wrath upon her, for
Speaker 1: on account of her wickedness, she had to die, and
Speaker 1: her death happened a year after that of her two sons.
Speaker 1: Now that by Shia was dead, Judah might have carried
Speaker 1: out his wish and married Tamar to his youngest son,
Speaker 1: but he waited for Sheila to grow up because he
Speaker 1: feared for his life seeing that Tamar had brought death
Speaker 1: to two husbands before him. So she remained a widow
Speaker 1: in her father's house for two years. Endowed with the
Speaker 1: gifts of prophecy, Tamar knew that she was appointed to
Speaker 1: be the ancestress of David and of the Messiah, and
Speaker 1: she determined to venture upon the extreme measure in order
Speaker 1: to make sure the fulfillment of her destiny. And that's
Speaker 1: something you see a lot in scripture. People get, you know,
Speaker 1: a prophecy or a word from God and they try
Speaker 1: to force it, you know, they do everything in their
Speaker 1: power to make it happen on their timeline. They want
Speaker 1: it now. It's like the JG. Wentworth commercial you know
Speaker 1: it's my money, and I want it now and want
Speaker 1: her birthright now. Accordingly, when the Holy Spirit revealed to
Speaker 1: her that Judah was going up to Timnah, she put
Speaker 1: off from her the garments of her widowhood and sat
Speaker 1: at the gate of Abraham's tent, and there she encountered Judah.
Speaker 1: All the time she lived in the house of her
Speaker 1: father in law, he had never seen her face, for
Speaker 1: in her virtue and chastity, she had always kept it covered.
Speaker 1: And now when Judah met her, he did not recognize her.
Speaker 1: It was as a reward for her modesty that God
Speaker 1: made her to become the mother of the royal line
Speaker 1: of David and the ancestress of Isaiah and his father
Speaker 1: Amos as well, both of whom were prophets and of
Speaker 1: royal blood. Judah passed Tamar without paying any attention to her,
Speaker 1: and she raised her eyes heavenward and said, Oh, Lord
Speaker 1: of the world, shall I go forth empty from the
Speaker 1: house of this pious man. Then God sent the Angel
Speaker 1: that is appointed over the passion of love, and he
Speaker 1: compelled you to turn back with prophetic caution. Tamar demanded
Speaker 1: that as a pledge for the reward he promised her.
Speaker 1: He would leave with her his signet, his mantle, and
Speaker 1: his staff, the symbols of royalty and judgeship and messiah
Speaker 1: ship and three distinctions of the descendants of Tamar from
Speaker 1: her union with Judah. And that's something that I talked
Speaker 1: to Gary Wayne about and he proposed and we talked
Speaker 1: about I can't remember what episode, We've had a few
Speaker 1: conversations already, but we were talking about bloodlines and the
Speaker 1: Dragon Court stuff like that, and I said, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know Mother Hagar, she was from Egypt and she
Speaker 1: was of the Dragon Court, and we kind of got
Speaker 1: to talk about blood lines and how God intervened and
Speaker 1: I had brought up Tamar. I said, yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't realize. I said, that's part of the
Speaker 1: seed war. God, you know, protected Tamar from getting pregnant
Speaker 1: from all the others because she was destined to basically
Speaker 1: start up the bloodline of the coming Messiah. And then
Speaker 1: we brought up the those the staff in the garment.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, is this the supernatural garment from
Speaker 1: the Garden of God and the staff of Moses? You
Speaker 1: know that that's they call it the Rod of Wonder
Speaker 1: And they say those two pieces is like a two
Speaker 1: piece set. I read it in the book of shoot
Speaker 1: Zen Garcia. He wrote a real good book on the
Speaker 1: garments and the staff, and he's like, it's a two
Speaker 1: piece set. One is for kingship, the other is for priesthood.
Speaker 1: So kingship priesthood together, it's a set. And you remember
Speaker 1: earlier we just read Judah didn't want to let the
Speaker 1: garments go and his brothers were threatening him and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So did he ultimately end up getting it
Speaker 1: or did he make like a copy you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, try to make his own. But basically, yeah,
Speaker 1: you see, he's given up his mantle and his staff,
Speaker 1: and we postulated, you know that we could that have
Speaker 1: been the garments you know, from the Garden of God
Speaker 1: and the supernatural rod of Wonder. But when Judah sent
Speaker 1: her the promised reward a kid of the goats by
Speaker 1: the hand of his friend in order to receive the
Speaker 1: pledges from her hand, Tamar could not be found, and
Speaker 1: he feared to make further search of her. Least he
Speaker 1: put to shame. But Tamar, who soon discerned that she
Speaker 1: was with child, felt very happy and proud, for she
Speaker 1: knew that she would be the mother of the Kings
Speaker 1: and the Redeemer. When her state become known, she was
Speaker 1: forcibly dragged before the court in which Isaac, Jacob and
Speaker 1: Judah sat as judges. Judah, being the youngest of the
Speaker 1: judges at the least considerable indignity, was the first to
Speaker 1: give a decision. For thus it is prescribed in criminal
Speaker 1: cases that the prominent judges over awe not the lesser
Speaker 1: and influence their decisions unduly. It was the opinion of
Speaker 1: Judah that the woman was liable to the penalty of
Speaker 1: death by burning, for she was the daughter of the
Speaker 1: high priest Shim, and death by fire is the punishment
Speaker 1: ordained by the law for the high priest daughter that
Speaker 1: leads and unchastate life. The preparations for her execution were
Speaker 1: begun in vain. Tamar searched for the three pledges she
Speaker 1: had received from Judah. She could not find them, and
Speaker 1: almost she lost hope and she would be able to
Speaker 1: wring a confession from her father in law. She raised
Speaker 1: her eyes to God and prayed, I supplicate thy grace,
Speaker 1: O God, Thou who givest ear into the cry of
Speaker 1: the distress in the hour of his need. Answer me
Speaker 1: that I may be spared to bring forth three holy
Speaker 1: children who will be ready to suffer death by fire
Speaker 1: for the sake of the glory of thy name. And
Speaker 1: God granted her petition and sent the angel Michael down
Speaker 1: to secure her. He put the pledges in the place
Speaker 1: in which Tamar could not fail to see them, and
Speaker 1: she took them and threw them before the feet of
Speaker 1: the judges. And the words by the man whose these are,
Speaker 1: I am with child. But though I perish in the flames,
Speaker 1: I will not betray him. I hope in the Lord
Speaker 1: of the world that he will turn his heart. He
Speaker 1: will turn the hearts of the man, so that he
Speaker 1: will make confession thereof Then Judah rose up and said,
Speaker 1: with your permission, my brethren, and ye men of my
Speaker 1: father's house, I make it known that with what measure
Speaker 1: a man meets, it shall be measured unto him. Be
Speaker 1: it good for evil, but happy the man that acknowledges
Speaker 1: his sins, because I took the code of Joseph. Boom
Speaker 1: here it is for I took the coat of Joseph
Speaker 1: and colored it with blood of the kid and then
Speaker 1: laid it at the feet of thy father, saying, no
Speaker 1: now neither it be thy son's coat or not. Therefore,
Speaker 1: I must now confess before the court and to whom
Speaker 1: belong with this signet, dismantle and this staff. But it
Speaker 1: is better that I be put to shame in the
Speaker 1: world than I should be put to shame in the
Speaker 1: other world before the face of my pious father. It
Speaker 1: is better that I should perish in the fire and
Speaker 1: can be exct that can't be extinguished, and then I
Speaker 1: should cast into a hell fire which devourreth other flames
Speaker 1: or other fires. Now, then I acknowledge that Tamar is
Speaker 1: innocent by me. Is she with child not because she
Speaker 1: indulged in illicit passion, but because I held back her
Speaker 1: marriage of my son Sheila. Then a heavenly voice was
Speaker 1: heard to say, you are both innocent. It was the
Speaker 1: will of God that it should happen. The open confession
Speaker 1: of Judah induced his oldest brother Reubens to make public
Speaker 1: acknowledgment of the sin that he had committed against his father.
Speaker 1: He had kept it a secret until then. Tamar gave
Speaker 1: birth to two sons, Perez and Tera, and I talk
Speaker 1: about this too. In the Epic of Esau. There's some
Speaker 1: correlations with the twins once again, like Jacob and Esau.
Speaker 1: One was marked with you know, red. He's covered in
Speaker 1: hair from head to toe like a Harry Kloak, his
Speaker 1: red hair, so that he had red. And don't quote me,
Speaker 1: I can't remember which one it is, but one of
Speaker 1: these Perez or Zarah. I think it's Perez, I think.
Speaker 1: But one of them sticks their arm out or their leg.
Speaker 1: Something's about to come out, and they're like, oh, here's
Speaker 1: the first born. So they took a red ribbon and
Speaker 1: tied it around his limb, but then it went back
Speaker 1: in and then out come the other one first. So
Speaker 1: it's like they did a little switch of roo. But
Speaker 1: once again you have twins, and you have this correlation
Speaker 1: of one being read that I thought was worthy of note.
Speaker 1: But Tamar gave birth to twin sons, Zarah, both resembling
Speaker 1: their father in bravery and piety. She called the first
Speaker 1: Perez mighty because she said, thou dost show thyself of
Speaker 1: great power, and is the meat and proper that thou
Speaker 1: shouldest be strong, for thou art destined to possess the kingdom.
Speaker 1: The second son was called Zarah because he appeared from
Speaker 1: out of the womb before his brother. Okay, it was Zarah,
Speaker 1: but he was forced back in again to make way
Speaker 1: for Perez. These two Peres and Zara were sent out
Speaker 1: as spies by Joshua. And the line that rayhab bound
Speaker 1: in the window of her house, which she tied a
Speaker 1: red ribbon. Also because as a token to the army
Speaker 1: of the Ishmaelites she received from Zarah. It was the
Speaker 1: scarlet thread that the midwife had bound upon his hand
Speaker 1: to mar Kim as a child that appeared first and withdrew.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, and that is the end of this
Speaker 1: this little reading. Uh So next time we will pick
Speaker 1: up the wives of the sons of Jacob. So I
Speaker 1: hope you guys are still enjoying the reading. You're still
Speaker 1: coming up, hanging out, showing out, and enjoying yourselves. I
Speaker 1: am definitely enjoying myself. A lot of this stuff I'm
Speaker 1: reading for the first time. So it's fun. It's fun
Speaker 1: to see a little connective tissue that we find through
Speaker 1: other stories and things like that. It's like a treasure
Speaker 1: hunt to me. I love I love digging for the
Speaker 1: gold nuggets.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I used to kind of, uh kind of playfully perverted
Speaker 1: play around and say, like when we've done the dig
Speaker 1: Bible podcast. I remember we had the intro at one
Speaker 1: time and I was talking about, yeah, we're all searching,
Speaker 1: you know, for those gold nuggets. And I was like,
Speaker 1: so show us your nuggets, my buddy Ben and.
Speaker 3: Steve was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Justin I'm like, ah, hell, you gotta have a little fun, man.
Speaker 1: You can't be so serious all the time, like joker,
Speaker 1: why so serious? You know what I'm saying. But guys,
Speaker 1: thank you for coming out. Man. Like I said, that
Speaker 1: was number thirty. Next week we'll pick up on thirty
Speaker 1: one with the wives of the Sons of Jacob. I
Speaker 1: hope everybody has a blessed, blessed weekend. I hope you
Speaker 1: got rested up and you're ready for the workday. You
Speaker 1: gotta get that, gotta get that time in man. Even
Speaker 1: God rested, you know, on the seventh day. So we
Speaker 1: got to pick a day to chill, relax and recharge,
Speaker 1: you know, for the coming week. Just for a quick reminder,
Speaker 1: I am going to row Grove next week, so this
Speaker 1: coming up weekend there might not be any shows. I
Speaker 1: might make it back in time to do this Sunday
Speaker 1: night at eight Okay, I no promises, but I might.
Speaker 1: It's corn how I feel from flying and all that
Speaker 1: other stuff. But I hope I can, but be sure
Speaker 1: to check us out tomorrow. We are talking to Cameron
Speaker 1: Waters as he dives through some ancient texts and he
Speaker 1: postulates and the theory that God did not condone the
Speaker 1: sacrificial system. That's why Jesus run them out of the
Speaker 1: temple because they were den of murderers and thieves and
Speaker 1: didn't condemn or he condemned eating of meat too. So
Speaker 1: it's an interesting conversation. And personally I like my meat
Speaker 1: and it didn't change my mind. But it's an interesting conversation.
Speaker 1: I know you guys enjoy it, so be sure check
Speaker 1: that out Monday night at six pm Eastern Center time.
Speaker 1: Love you guys.
Speaker 3: They just remember, torch is.
Speaker 2: High, so we steal the fire.
Speaker 3: Not bad.
Speaker 2: So long still frozen around they con They complain abarrasy