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Speaker 3: Welcome back truth seekers from around the world. It's time
for a special Sunday Night edition of the fact Under podcast.
I'm your host is always George Hobbs. I hope everybody
is doing well and you had a great weekend. Sunday
Night is usually allocated for our classic audio series, but
I'm going to start alternating a classic audio series and
then we're going to insert some more faith based podcast
and the one I wanted to focus on tonight, Excuse me,
is you know a lot of these YouTube theologians, you
know the newest thing is the God of the Old
Testament is not the God of the New Testament. I
wanted to address that today and kind of combine it
with Genesis twenty two, which I think is probably the
most misunderstood story in the Bible. So let's jump right
in it. It's only going to be about a thirty
or forty minute episode, but I want to address why
some people question whether the God of the Old Testament
is the God revealed in Christ right, and why that
claim really collapses when you look at honest biblical reading.
So we will walk through Genesis twenty two, will trace
the powerful theme from the Ram to the Lamb, the
name of the podcast tonight, showing how Abraham's test on
Mount Moriah points straight to Jesus. Then we're going to
jump ahead to the moment Jesus entered Jerusalem writing toward
the cross while the crowds laid palm branches before him.
And then we're going to connect that event to a
prophetic marker four hundred and thirty years earlier, in thirty
eight years earlier, pardon me, and that's going to set
the stage for the Messiah's arrival. So this is a
full circle look how God's plan never changes in how
every page of scripture points to the same savior. Thanks
again for joining us. If you enjoy this podcast, I'll
ask you to please share it with other folks. So again,
it's been interesting I've noticed over the last several months,
maybe a year now, between YouTube TikTok and a little
bit on Facebook, it seems like every self appointed theological voice.
And you know, I'm not trying to be demeaning or anything,
but I should mention a lot of these things that
we talk about. Whether you know people call in Paul
a heretic. You know, these things have been going on
for a millennial, right, but it's considered a second century heresy.
But people today are presenting it in some groundbreaking revelation, right,
the claim that the God of the Old Testament and
the God of the New Testament are not the same being.
So the first question I have to ask myself is why,
all of a sudden is this thing catching on? Right?
Why does this argument appeal to so many people who
claim to be you know, spiritually awake for lack of
better words, Right, The thing is, I believe people today
aren't rejecting the Old Testament God because they read too
much scripture. I think that the issue is they're rejecting
him because the modern imagination has been trained to tolerate
everything except that God who can judge, confront and correct.
I think a lot of the culture today preaches autonomy
as the highest god. So any god who draws a
line automatically becomes the villain. So we'll call it the
YouTube theology crowd. They try to create two gods, right,
the violent God of the Old Testament and you know
the soft therapeutic Jesus who simply wants everyone to feel
seen and validated. But the fact of it's a false dichotomy.
But I think for many people it's emotionally convenient, right.
I think what the real issue is people want a
God who won't interfere with their will.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: We talk about Aleister Crowley and do what thou wilt? Right?
And the fact is the Old Testament God confronts ego,
exposes human sin, rebellion, idolatry. The Old Testament shows a
God who actually runs the world and doesn't outsource his throne.
And I think that's one of the big reasons that
makes a lot of people uncomfortable. And I've preached on this.
Discomfort is one thing that many people today cannot endure spiritually.
I don't like to be uncomfortable. So the quickest solution
is to divide God in half, right, make Jesus the
pr department, and make Yahweh the outdated problematic relative. We
keep in the addict, right, But if you read scripture,
the Bible does not give you that option. And the
easiest way to just knock this out of the park
is Jesus identifies himself with the God of the Old Testament.
And if some of these YouTube theologians would simply open
the book they claim to preach from, they would run
into unavoidable moments of unity. Right, Jesus says before Abraham
was I Am. He doesn't just reference Yahweh. He claims
the divine name. Jesus quotes the Sama right, the central
proclamation of Israel's God, and affirms it without hesitation. Jesus
says all of Scripture testifies of him, and Jesus claims
he will sit on the throne of judgment, the very
thing they say the Old Testament God shouldn't do. The
fact of the matter is you cannot separate the son
from the Father without rewriting the entire New Testament, and ironically,
the Jesus that these online teachers claim to prefer, you know,
the gentle one, the peaceful one. Remember that's the same
Jesus in Revelation, whose eyes are like fire, and who
judges the nations. Look. If these folks look in the mirror,
they'll understand. The problem isn't the Bible. The problem is
selective reading the Old Testament. God isn't mean he is holy.
But you know you have to remember that holiness has consequences.
And when you look honestly at the Old Testament, you'll
find a God who was slow to anger, but he
was rich in mercy. He delivered slaves, protected widows, defended
the vulnerable. He was a god who keeps his promise
even when his people failed him, and we continue to
fail him every day. Honestly, this is a god who
repeatedly offers forgiveness before judgment ever falls. People don't reject
the Old Testament God because he is different from Jesus.
I think they reject him because he exposes the human heart. Now,
this surgeon heresy is a symptom of I think what
is a deeper crisis. This trend isn't theological, it's psychological.
It's not about scripture. It's about discomfort and a lack
of understanding. It's not about doctrine. It's about a generation
trying to find a god who asks nothing of them. Right,
the God of the Old Testament demands repentance, He draws boundaries,
and he actually cares how you live, how you treat others.
And that's the rub right there. A god who commands
holiness is inconvenient. A god who judges nations. That's intimidating,
and a God who set standards is unwelcome in an
age where personal autonomy is the final idol. Right, Scripture
does not split God in half. When you step back
and you trace the story from Genesis to Revelation, you
see one continuous narrative, one consistent character, one unchanging God.
Not to not opposites. Okay. The God who provided a
ram for Abraham is the God who became the lamb
for the world. The God who's pardon me, The God
who toppled idols is the God who overturned tables. The
God who thundered from Sinai is the God who whispered
to Elijah and who walked among fishermen. The two Gods
theory doesn't collapse under emotional arguments. It collapses under the
weight of scripture itself. Now we're going to talk about
the most probably the most misunderstood Bible story period, and
for that, don't start with YouTube. Start with Genesis twenty two.
You have Abraham Isaac mount Mariah, a father of a son,
and a knife on the surface. Again, one of the
hardest stories in the Bible to read. God tells Abraham
to take his only son, Isaac, whom thou lovest, and
offer him as a burnt offering. And that's when most
people stop reading. That alone makes people today slam the breaks.
What kind of God would even ask that? That's the point.
If you just stop there, you miss the entire setup.
This isn't just about Abraham. This is about God revealing
something about himself. Okay, think about what Abraham's being asked
to do here though, right, Isaac is the miracle child,
he is the promised lineage, he is the future, and
God is telling him to lay him on the altar.
And again, from a human standpoint, this looks like just
the biggest contradiction. God promised a nation through Isaac, and
now God tells Abraham to kill him. In our language,
we'd say this makes no sense, this is cruel, this
is abuse. But scripture lets you know, and it lets
you in on Abraham's inner logic. Later in Hebrews eleven,
Abraham believed that God could raise Isaac from the dead
if necessary. In other words, Abraham trusted the character of
God more than he trusted his own understanding of the situation.
That doesn't make it any easier, but it makes it
trustful at the highest level. So here's Abraham building the altar.
He lays the wood in order. He binds his only son, Isaac.
He lays him on top. And at this point there
are only two ways this is going to endither Abraham
disobeys or Isaac dies. But the ever trustful Abraham raises
the knife, and Heaven breaks in. Abraham, Abraham lay not
thine hand upon the lad God stops him. The knife
never comes down. And in that pause, in that split
second between obedience and action, we see what God was
really doing. He's staging a preview. Just then, Abraham looks up.
He sees a ram caught in a thicket by his horns.
He offers the ram in the place of his son.
Do you get it? A substitution, a life for a life,
a sacrifice is instead of the one who should have died.
From that day forward, Abraham named the place the Lord
will provide, and he says, in the mount of the Lord,
it shall be seen, not just God provided. Back there,
God will provide future tense, prophetic, open ended. That's the
Ram to the lamb. And here's the bigger picture. God
won't ask what he won't do himself. This is the
part people miss. God will not ask us to walk
into something he is not willing to walk into himself.
In fact, he goes further. What happened on Mariah was
not God flirting with child sacrifice. It was the opposite,
pagan God's demanded that you give your children to them.
The God of Israel steps in and says, no, I
myself will provide the offering. Abraham lifts the knife and
God stops him. Centuries later, another father gives his son right,
and this time the knife is not stopped on Mariah.
A ram dies so Isaac can walk down the mountain alive.
At Calvary, the lamb of God dies so that a
world of Isaac's, that's us can live. Abraham walks to
the top of that mountain, willing to give his son.
But you see, God walks to the top of that
mountain and actually does it. And it says so in
Romans eight, he that spared not his own son, but
he spared Isaac. So when God asked Abraham to offer Isaac,
he wasn't playing games. He wasn't being dramatic for no reason.
This is what he was saying. This is what it
will cost this is what I myself am willing to do.
I will walk this road further than any human father
ever could. And there is another detail that people kind
of miss right that phrase. So they went, both of
them together. Abraham and Isaac climbed the mountain side by side.
The father carries the fire and the knife, the son
carries the wood, and Isaac asked the obvious question, right, hey, Dad,
where's the lamb? And Abraham answers with one of the
most powerful statements of the entire Bible, my son, God
will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. God
will provide himself a lamb, meaning God will supply what
he requires. God will provide himself as the lamb, which
is exactly what happens with Christ. And on another day,
not too far from that ridge line, another father and
another son walk together. The son carries the wood again,
this time has crossed And when the moment comes and
the nails are ready, there is no voice from heaven
saying stop, because this is the moment. Genesis twenty two
was pointing towards from the ram to the lamb, from
the shadow to the substance. So here's where this blows
up the whole YouTube nonsense that says the Old Testament
God and the New Testament God are different. The God
who tested Abraham is the God who fulfilled that test
in himself. The God who provided a ram is the
God who became the lamb. The God who demanded a
sacrifice is the God who offered himself as that sacrifice.
This is a God who steps into his own storyline
and pays his own price. When people say I can't
believe in a God who would ask Abraham to do that,
they're missing the point. This is not about what God
demanded from Abraham. It's about what God was preparing to
do for us. Right in Genesis twenty two, God is
pulling back the curtain and saying, this is how far
my love and justice will go. I will not crush you.
I will carry the knife myself. So no, the God
of the Old Testament is not different from Jesus. Genesis
twenty two says the opposite. The cross is already there
in the shadows, just centuries earlier. Now, I want to
add one part to this, and that is the four
hundred and thirty eight year countdown to the King. Okay,
let's pivot. Let's pivot from Mariah to Jerusalem, from the
ram caught in the thicket to the lamb riding on
a This kind of encapsulates everything, right from the shadow
on the mountain to the moment the shadow becomes the
flesh and steps into history. Many people have no idea
that when Jesus entered Jerusalem on what we call Palm Sunday,
he was stepping directly into a prophetic countdown that began
four hundred and thirty eight years earlier. That number is
not random, it's not symbolic, but it's in the text.
And to see it, we're going to go to one
of the most important prophetic passages in the Bible. No,
not from Revelation, from Daniel nine. And in Daniel nine,
God tells the prophet that a specific period of time
weeks meaning sets of seven years would count down to
the arrival of the Messiah. This is not vague prophecy
that a YouTube theologian can manipulate. This is God replace
I should saying, this is God placing a time stamp
on the appearance of his anointed one. So the prophecy says,
from the going forth of the Commandment to restore and
to build Jerusalem. Onto Messiah the prince, a decree would
go out to rebuild Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile, and
from that moment a divine stopwatch would begin. And that decree,
the one historians can actually date, was given by anti Artaxerxes.
Pardon me, in four forty five PC. Now do the
math build into Daniel sixty nine weeks, sixty nine time
seven four hundred and eighty three years adjusted for prophetic years,
which was the three hundred and sixty day years. And
of course the calendar transitions that lands remarkably close to
Jesus riding into Jerusalem presenting himself as king. So where
does the four thirty eight years fit here? Remember Artaxerxes
installed Nehemiah as governor and issued the rebuild decree in
his seventh year. From that decree to the era immediately
preceding Jesus' arrival, four hundred and thirty eight literal years
pass on the civil calendar before you enter the final stretch,
the decades that bring you to Palm Sunday. This is
why the crowd laid down the palms, not just because
they loved Jesus, but because prophecy was happening before their
very eyes, and whether they understood every detail or not,
the timing matched the expectation. So just picture it. Jerusalem
is mobbed, the pilgrims have flood in for passover, the
city has swelled to triple the size, and here comes Jesus,
the Lamb of God, riding on a donkey, exactly as
Zachariah nine nine foretold. Remember, behold thy King cometh unto
thee lowly and riding upon a donkey. But this wasn't
just fulfillment of Zechariah. This was the arrival Daniel prophesied
the revelation of Messiah the Prince. This is why Jesus
stops on the mount of Olives, overlooking the city and says,
if you had known even thou at least in this
thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace, this
thy day. That is a prophetic phrase. The king had
arrived on schedule, according to a timeline set hundreds of
years earlier. Every palm, every shout, every hosanna, it all
lined up with a plan older than the Empire of Rome.
So this is the part almost no one connects. The
ram Abraham found caught in the thicket, lightly died, likely
died on the same mountain range where Jesus would be crucified.
Mountain morale Tayah isn't simply symbolic. It's geographical. Abraham said
in the mount of the Lord, it shall be seen
future tents, and now, four hundred and thirty years after
the prophetic clock began ticking, the Lamb rides towards the
same place where the knife fell on him instead of Isaac.
From Genesis twenty two to Daniel nine to Matthew twenty
one one unbroken line. The God of the Old Testament
wasn't mean he was preparing the stage, painting the backdrop.
He was building the timeline. He was shaping events with
such precision that no human could orchestrate. Same God, same story,
same mission. Palm Sunday wasn't the beginning of defeat. It
was the public unveiling of a victory already written in
the world's foundation. The Lamb wasn't ambushed, wasn't caught off guard,
wasn't a victim of political forces or religious leaders. He
was fulfilling a timeline. He himself said, the same God
who spared Isaac and provided a ram now provides himself
as the Lamb. The same God who gave Daniel the
countdown stepped into the countdown. And the same God who
promised redemption kept that promise down to the year, to
the day, and to the hour. And when Jesus rode
into Jerusalem, he wasn't heading toward defeat. He was marching
to the throne. Remember, the cross wasn't a loss, the
tomb wasn't a setback. The Lamb was the lion in disguise,
and the victory was guaranteed before the palms ever touched
the ground. That's the message the YouTube theologians missed. That's
the message YouTube cannot algorithm away. And that's the message
every believer must reclaim. And that is the God of
Abraham is the God of Jesus. And the plan he
started he finished, and the plan he finished he will complete.
From the ram to the lamb, from the mountain to
the city, from prophecy to fulfillment, it ends in victory.
It always has. So before we close, let me speak
directly to you as an individual. If you've listened this far,
are if something in this story has stirred your heart,
that's not by accident. The same God who provided for
the ram for Abraham, the same God who became the
Lamb for us. That is the same God calling you
right now. You don't come to Christ by polishing yourself
up or pretending to be better than you are. You
come admitting what we all know in our quiet moments,
that we need him. We need forgiveness, we need to repent,
we need mercy, We need a savior who went up
the mountain for us because we could never make it ourselves.
If you already, or I should say, if you are
ready to trust him, not religion, not a rich will,
not a self help book, but Jesus, then talk to
him right now. Tell him you believe in him. Then
he died on the cross for your sins, and you
accept him in your heart as your personal Lord and savior.
He died for you, he rose again. Tell him that
you're ready to follow him wherever he leads. You don't
need fancy words, you need a willing heart. And if
today is that day for you, then welcome. Your story
is an ending. It's finally beginning. And if any of
you need help getting hold of a Bible or anything,
you can email me. It's the fact Hunter at me
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you need a King James version Bible, I will get
one in the mail to you. We have a decent
supply here through some good people local and a few
people around the country who we've connected with, and we
don't ask for any money, and I hope you'll take
this time because again we're not prophesizing here, but the
Bible says Jesus is going to come like a thief
in the night in a nanosecond, and there's only two
places you can go, and you can accept Jesus in
your heart as your Lord and savior, and the other
option is hell the lake of fire, and a lot
of people don't like to hear that, but that's the truth,
and I hope you'll consider that, and I pray for
all of you and these interesting times we're living in. Right,
We've got a great podcast Tuesday night. We're gonna look
at the LDS, the Mormons, and boy, since I mentioned that,
I've gotten probably fifty or six, fifty or sixty emails
a few people who were involved with them thoughts on them.
And it's probably gonna have to be a two parter
because it's quite a story. It is quite a story.
So there you go. Have a great Monday. If you're
listening shortly after this is released. The next podcast will
be released Tuesday night, eight pm Eastern Time. And God
bless each and every one of you. Keep your head
on a swivel and Christ in your heart. And until
we meet again, my friends, we will see you in.
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and footsteps in the dust adulters.
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Speaker 5: Every shadow, Hugh said, speaks the truth you've always known
from the realm that was provided to the Lamb upon
the throne.
Speaker 2: It was trembling on the mountain.
Speaker 4: There was mercy in the air.
Speaker 2: When a father raised the knife.
Speaker 4: You show the world you care.
Speaker 1: In that moment of surrender.
Speaker 4: Love was written in the sky, a reflection of the
promise when the Holy One would die, and I hear
the echo calling.
Speaker 3: Through the wilderness of men.
Speaker 5: A melody of mercy that will never fade again.
Speaker 2: From them to the Lamb, story flows the river. Every
page of the Promise hill together forever. From the wood
on the altar to the cross on the hill. You
fulfilled every whisper.
Speaker 6: Of the fathers with From the land to.
Speaker 4: The land, you redeemed a still.
Speaker 2: Through the centuries of wading through the silenceding, every prophet
saw your shadow, and.
Speaker 4: The sacrificial flame, and the hoofs of every nation gathered
quietly that night, when the word became the answer, and
the darkness met the light in the heaven sank in
wonders redemption to get standing for the one who bought
the promise was the spotless holy land, from the realm
to the lamb, the crimson friend never and every sacrifice
before you was love that descended from the feet of
Maria to the.
Speaker 1: Storm road away.
Speaker 2: You complete the promise on the third day, from the.
Speaker 4: Realm to the land you have made the way. I
hear your voice inside the wind, a sound.
Speaker 2: That calls my name again, the blood that speaks a
better word than.
Speaker 4: All the broken things I've.
Speaker 6: Heard across these across the sand, your mercy took me
by the head.
Speaker 3: And every tea.
Speaker 4: And every scarm you carried from the starm.
Speaker 2: All from the realm to the lamb, every prise serrises,
every mystery is answer in the love. The surprises.
Speaker 6: From the knife that was halted to the veil that
was torn, you turned to him, to big tree on
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Speaker 4: We are forever born. In the quiet of the night,
I still hear the story scene from the realm that
was given.
Speaker 2: To the lamb who is.
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