Speaker 1: We should read our bibles as men dig. You for
Speaker 1: bury treasure, one of.
Speaker 2: The most high game with the nations their inheritance. When
Speaker 2: He divided mankind, he fixed the borders of people's according
Speaker 2: to the number of the sons of God.
Speaker 1: In those days and for some time after, giant Nephilites
Speaker 1: lived down to the earth. For whenever the sons of
Speaker 1: God had intercourse with women, they gave birth to children
Speaker 1: who became the heroes and famous warriors of ancient tides.
Speaker 2: Take no pardon the fruitless steeds of darkness, but yet
Speaker 2: expose that though a.
Speaker 3: Thousand fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying
Speaker 3: around you.
Speaker 1: These ears will not touching.
Speaker 4: Lives of garden man.
Speaker 3: You gotta dig it.
Speaker 4: Hell, old fellow treasure hunters, Welcome to the excavation side.
Speaker 4: I'must in alongside and when we got Ben Steve even
Speaker 4: in Chad will be your guides on this excursion. Hope
Speaker 4: you brought your shovel in your compass, because we got
Speaker 4: the map. Hey, everybody, welcome back.
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 2: Guys? How you being?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, as good as I can be. I ain't better.
Speaker 1: I'd be sick of myself.
Speaker 3: It's been a long week.
Speaker 1: True story.
Speaker 3: We've had a lot.
Speaker 2: Of octane fueled fun past few weeks. We me and
Speaker 2: being half Steven got in on it this weekend too.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I don't know how many jeeps you can
Speaker 1: see before you said you've seen all the jeeps.
Speaker 3: Hold on, let me turn around. We got some beautiful
Speaker 3: I see two back here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had a jeep fest in our hometown. About
Speaker 2: three hundred jeeps lined up and lots of good, clean,
Speaker 2: family fun, good food and ducks everywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But unfortunately the man here with all the jeep,
Speaker 3: the jeep man, I didn't even know anything about it.
Speaker 1: You know it was you. I told you.
Speaker 3: Was at the Bristol Dragstrip. Oh yeah, my father's day.
Speaker 3: Oh go ahead, top fuel drag racing. Oh it was
Speaker 3: good boys for the first time.
Speaker 1: My favorite thing about the whole jeep show, though, was
Speaker 1: the hummer that said on the dashboard. Set on the
Speaker 1: dashboard like a jeep, but for men.
Speaker 3: I've ridden in plenty hummers. I'm pretty sure my jeep
Speaker 3: go place is over.
Speaker 1: Will go.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The week before last I went to a show called
Speaker 2: a Mopar Meet in the mountains. It's all mopar show,
Speaker 2: so there's a lot of jeeps and challengers. There's actually
Speaker 2: like over three or four hundred cars, and like one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty six or fifty eight was all challengers.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of hard to stand out in that crowd.
Speaker 2: Didn't get no hardware from that one. But we did
Speaker 2: some racing. Now, that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you as to me about it.
Speaker 2: I think I found it.
Speaker 3: In the parking lot. Oh yeah, parking lot racing with cones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they called it the what was it? I think
Speaker 2: they call it solo racing or auto cross?
Speaker 3: Auto cross?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, my car ain't built for that, but
Speaker 2: it's still fun getting sideways around the corners.
Speaker 3: Well, like I was saying, if you, you know, if
Speaker 3: you're going in there to win at trophy or something
Speaker 3: and you don't your little heart broke. If you're just
Speaker 3: going there to have some fun, then who cares about
Speaker 3: trophies or your time? Really?
Speaker 2: Just maybe the tires and gas.
Speaker 3: Well, these days you do have to put that.
Speaker 2: In accounts, right, Well, I guess the subject matter this
Speaker 2: week is the Mark of God and the Mark of
Speaker 2: the Beast six sixty six. A lot of stuff throughout
Speaker 2: the entire book, probably a lot of people look over.
Speaker 2: We're hoping to maybe set off a few light bulbs
Speaker 2: with you, get you digging. I guess we'll start off
Speaker 2: with the prayer, Father, thank you for all the many
Speaker 2: blessings we especially when say Happy Father's Day to you, Father,
Speaker 2: the Father of fathers. We just pray that you continue
Speaker 2: to bless the podcast and grow our insights and perspectives
Speaker 2: on your Word. And we pray that the people listening
Speaker 2: dig into their Bibles and enjoy it, because we know
Speaker 2: we sure enjoy it. If you know, if anything else
Speaker 2: is sitting around going through your Word and bouncing ideas
Speaker 2: off each other, it's a lot of fun. We get
Speaker 2: a lot of enjoyment out of it. But we just
Speaker 2: pray that this message goes through today smooth and you
Speaker 2: reveal some things to us and hopefully get people digging
Speaker 2: into their Bible and maybe figure out a couple of
Speaker 2: new things on their perspectives to Father Jesus name Amen, Amen.
Speaker 2: So mark, what I guess we could start with what
Speaker 2: is a mark?
Speaker 1: Well, it depends because if you're talking about I mean
Speaker 1: a mark, you could say is just something that's put
Speaker 1: on you, but a seal. And when we talk about
Speaker 1: a seal, and it talks about God's seal too. Was
Speaker 1: always a kingly thing, right, that was always something that
Speaker 1: you knew when he put his seal on top of something.
Speaker 1: When he put it on, it came from the king.
Speaker 1: It was a signet on his ring he put down
Speaker 1: in that wax. It was not to be open. It
Speaker 1: was from the king, and you knew that. So I
Speaker 1: think that when you have the seal of God on you,
Speaker 1: everybody knows it's from It's from God.
Speaker 3: Other words, what we're saying is it's like you can't
Speaker 3: be yes, oh, the king gave you this letter. Well,
Speaker 3: where is the.
Speaker 2: Seal validation stamp?
Speaker 3: Exactly?
Speaker 2: And what's cool too, is the word mark in our
Speaker 2: English Bibles when you go to the Greek is charagma,
Speaker 2: which means imperial seal for documents, money, coin, stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So what a segue? I know, that was beautiful.
Speaker 2: And beautiful segue. So I guess since we've established, I
Speaker 2: guess what a mark is. Where do we first see
Speaker 2: a mark in our Bible? If you go to Genesis,
Speaker 2: chapter four, verse fifteen. Now, this you know is right
Speaker 2: after the incident with Kane and abel Kine is quote
Speaker 2: unquote marked, it says. Then the Lord said to him,
Speaker 2: not so if anyone kills Caine, vengeance shall be taken
Speaker 2: on him sevenfold. And the Lord put a mark on
Speaker 2: Cain least any who found him should attack him. You know,
Speaker 2: this is the last that we hear of Cain, other
Speaker 2: than the lineage in genealogy. Some say that this mark,
Speaker 2: you know, cursed him to live forever. You guys ever
Speaker 2: heard that or seen some of the Hollywood movies and
Speaker 2: stuff like that.
Speaker 3: You know, he's a wrestler, I mean.
Speaker 2: But that I mean, I don't know if I really
Speaker 2: sold on it or not. You know, the mark was
Speaker 2: for nobody to kill Cain. You know, God doesn't want
Speaker 2: Cain to go before his time. You know, he wants
Speaker 2: him to fully experience the pains of life, and I
Speaker 2: guess quote unquote serve his time. You know, that's just
Speaker 2: my opinion. You though, but maybe give him an opportunity
Speaker 2: to change his heart, who knows, you know. But interestingly,
Speaker 2: this is the first spiritual mark of the Bible. You know,
Speaker 2: we know of two marks, God's mark and the Beast mark.
Speaker 2: And I think it's to say safe to say who's mark?
Speaker 2: This is but one thing I find interesting. God's mark
Speaker 2: in the Bible was for protection in this case, you know,
Speaker 2: that's what this mark does. It protects kin from being murdered.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, it doesn't prevent people from
Speaker 2: murdering because you know, God plainly says for those that
Speaker 2: do vengeance will follow a man sevenfold. So obviously it
Speaker 2: could still be killed. But it's weird that the mark
Speaker 2: that God gives is kind of you know, protecting Cain
Speaker 2: seems like. But another time that we see this and
Speaker 2: I guess I'm trying my best to keep it chronological,
Speaker 2: but was in Exodus chapter thirteen three through sixteen. Now
Speaker 2: this talks about the feast of uneleven bread. Now, Ben,
Speaker 2: do you want to read along with us?
Speaker 3: Chapter thirteen, Yeah, verse three.
Speaker 2: He's just got his logos and he's finally starting to
Speaker 2: figure it out. It's his virgin tour here, Yeah, Maiden
Speaker 2: voyage Exodus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right. Some Mode said to the people, this
Speaker 3: is the day you remember forever, the day he left
Speaker 3: Egypt with the place of your slavery. Today the Lord
Speaker 3: has brought you out of the power of his mighty hand. Remember,
Speaker 3: eat no food containing yeast on this day in every
Speaker 3: spring in the month of a Bib. I guess that's
Speaker 3: they said that a bib you will have been set free.
Speaker 3: You must celebrate this event and this month each year.
Speaker 3: After the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites,
Speaker 3: hed Hittites, Amrites, Hates, and jimpy sites. He swore to
Speaker 3: your ancestors that he would give you this land and
Speaker 3: the land flowing with milk and honey. For seven days,
Speaker 3: the bread you eat must be made without yeast. Then
Speaker 3: you excuse me. Then on the seventh day, celebrate a
Speaker 3: feast to the Lord. Eat bread. Hold, I'll eat bread
Speaker 3: without yeast during those seven days. In fact, there must
Speaker 3: be no yeast in bread, or any yeast at all
Speaker 3: found within the borders of your land during this time.
Speaker 3: On the seventh on the seventh day, you must explain
Speaker 3: to your children, I am celebrating what the Lord did
Speaker 3: for me when I left Egypt. This annual festival will
Speaker 3: be a visible sign to you, like a mark branded
Speaker 3: on your hand or your forehead that sounds familiar. Let
Speaker 3: it remember you always to recite these teachings for the
Speaker 3: Lord with a strong hand. The Lord rescued you from Egypt,
Speaker 3: so observe the decree of the festival at the appointed
Speaker 3: time each year. This is what you must do when
Speaker 3: the Lord fulfills the promise he swore to you and
Speaker 3: your ancestors when he gives When he gives you the
Speaker 3: land there where the Canaanites now live, you must present
Speaker 3: all firstborn sons and first born male animals to the Lord.
Speaker 3: That's hard to be due. Present your firstborn.
Speaker 2: Sons, get your first fruits, yeah, to the Lord, for
Speaker 2: they belonged to him.
Speaker 3: The firstborn donkey may be brought back from the Lord
Speaker 3: by presenting a lamb or young goat in its place,
Speaker 3: but if you do not buy it back, you must
Speaker 3: break its neck. However, Yeah, however, you must buy back
Speaker 3: every firstborn son. Well, that's good. You thought this was
Speaker 3: going darky, that that'd be kind of hard to do
Speaker 3: because they got two boys. I don't think I give
Speaker 3: up any of them.
Speaker 1: I'm glad.
Speaker 3: Yeah. In the future, your children will ask you what
Speaker 3: does this mean? Then you will tell them with the
Speaker 3: power of his mighty hand. The Lord bought us, brought
Speaker 3: us out of Egypt, the place of our slavery. Pharaoh
Speaker 3: stubbornly refused to let us go, so the Lord killed
Speaker 3: all the first born males throughout the land of Egypt,
Speaker 3: both people and animals. That is, you know, that is
Speaker 3: why I now sacrifice all the first born males to
Speaker 3: the Lord, except that the firstborn sons are always brought back.
Speaker 3: This ceremonial, or this ceremony will be like a mark
Speaker 3: branded on your hand or your forehead. It is a
Speaker 3: reminder that the power of the Lord, the Lord's mighty
Speaker 3: hand brought us back out of Egypt. Okay, so we
Speaker 3: saw some correlations here, so we break them down. One
Speaker 3: thing I thought stood out. You know, it says.
Speaker 2: It's in verse one where it says, for by a
Speaker 2: strong hand, the Lord brought you out of this place.
Speaker 2: You know, the strong hand, you know, the right hand.
Speaker 2: You know when you read to your Bible talking about
Speaker 2: the strong hand, you know it was a right hand
Speaker 2: dominant world, you know. So the right hand was the
Speaker 2: strong hand, the hand of action, you know, the right
Speaker 2: hand of the father, you know, and so on.
Speaker 3: It's your sword hand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, then you go down. You know a beb talk
Speaker 2: about the month of a bebe. You know that's the
Speaker 2: month of passover, but it's also the time of the
Speaker 2: ears of barley harvest. And the green growing season. But
Speaker 2: when you go down, you know, to verse nine, it says,
Speaker 2: and it shall be to you as a sign on
Speaker 2: your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that
Speaker 2: the law the Lord may be in your mouth, for
Speaker 2: with a strong hand there it is again the Lord
Speaker 2: has brought you out of Egypt. So now we have
Speaker 2: the correlation with the It's the same as the mark
Speaker 2: of the beast, the right hand, the strong on hand,
Speaker 2: and the forehead right. You know, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: symbolism here. You know, the sign on your hand, the
Speaker 2: strong hand that you were delivered. You know, the right hand,
Speaker 2: the hand of action. Then between your eyes, you know
Speaker 2: your frontal cortext. You know some people, you know new
Speaker 2: agers call the third eye. You know that's where all
Speaker 2: your decisions are made. You know, these signs are marked
Speaker 2: where you make your decision, your mind, and where your
Speaker 2: actions your hand comes from. This is God's mark that
Speaker 2: Revelation talks about. And the bottomless pit is opened. It
Speaker 2: shows that six sixty six. You know Marcus Satan's but
Speaker 2: you know it's just an imitation or counter counterfeit mark.
Speaker 2: That's what Satan does. It takes things God's created and
Speaker 2: manipulates it, and.
Speaker 3: He tries to make everyone believe he's God.
Speaker 1: Or to corrupt everything. Yeah, yeah, I mean his goal
Speaker 1: is to corrupt everything God created.
Speaker 2: And then when you go down the verse fifteen, it says,
Speaker 2: for when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the
Speaker 2: Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
Speaker 2: both firstborn man, firstborn animal. Therefore, that's wise sacrifice to
Speaker 2: the Lord, all the males that first opened the wound.
Speaker 2: But the first born of my sons I redeem. It
Speaker 2: shall be as a mark on your hand front, or
Speaker 2: the fretles between your eyes, you know, by the strong
Speaker 2: hand you was brought out of Egypt. You know, the
Speaker 2: Law was said to have been a tutor or guardian
Speaker 2: until Christ came. You know, this was a foreshadowing of
Speaker 2: the Cross. The Law is now fulfilled, now no one void.
Speaker 2: We no longer know, We no longer require sacrifices. You know,
Speaker 2: Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice. Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice,
Speaker 2: the lamb without spot or blemits, you know, he redeemed
Speaker 2: us all.
Speaker 3: You know, back then, the perfect lamb.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had to sacrifice lambs to redeem their sons. Well, God,
Speaker 2: you know, came in the flesh Jesus Christ, and that's
Speaker 2: how he redeemed us. And we're free from that now.
Speaker 2: You know. Jesus, his blood covered and slash redeemed us.
Speaker 2: You know the sting of the second death.
Speaker 1: Listen, if he hadn't done that, I'd be guarding my
Speaker 1: farm a lot. I'm coming for them goats before durned,
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: You know they ain't killing my boy, I tell you
Speaker 3: that much.
Speaker 2: But you know this first one was was a carnal saving.
Speaker 2: You know, the second was a spiritual saving. You know,
Speaker 2: just as you know Moses carnally saved Israel from Egypt,
Speaker 2: Jesus saved us spiritually from death and sin.
Speaker 3: You think the ls use chickens instead of the goats.
Speaker 3: I got enough, Well, I got plenty of chickens.
Speaker 2: You'll let those go before your kids, Huh.
Speaker 3: I'll kill like.
Speaker 1: Twenty of them, But twenty one that's too much.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean whatever I was just you know, I'll
Speaker 3: kill them all. It'd be hard to kill little Brusie.
Speaker 4: See.
Speaker 2: Then again we go down to you know, the later book.
Speaker 2: It's Deuteronomy, chapter six, verse one through fifteen. It says
Speaker 2: this is the greatest commandment. It says, now, this is
Speaker 2: the commandment, the statutes, that the rules that the Lord
Speaker 2: your God commanded me to teach you. That you may
Speaker 2: do them in the land to which you are going
Speaker 2: over to possess it. That you may fear the Lord
Speaker 2: your God, you and your sons and your son's sons,
Speaker 2: by keeping all the statutes and his commandments which I
Speaker 2: commanded you, all the days of your life, and that
Speaker 2: your days may be long. Here therefore, oh Israel, and
Speaker 2: be careful to do them, that it may go well
Speaker 2: with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord,
Speaker 2: the God of your father's has promised you. And the
Speaker 2: land flowing with milk and honey. Here o Israel, the Lord,
Speaker 2: our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the
Speaker 2: Lord your God with all your heart and with all
Speaker 2: your soul, and with all your might. And these words
Speaker 2: that I command you today shall be on your heart.
Speaker 2: You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall
Speaker 2: talk of them when you sit in your house, and
Speaker 2: when you walk by the way, and when you lie down,
Speaker 2: and when you rise. You shall bind them as a
Speaker 2: sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets
Speaker 2: between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts
Speaker 2: of your house and on your gates, you know. So
Speaker 2: it says, you know, this is the the greatest commandment.
Speaker 2: You know, you're to teach it to your children when
Speaker 2: you're sitting in the house, you're walking on the road
Speaker 2: at night, when you put them down the bed. So
Speaker 2: obviously this was very important, you know.
Speaker 3: And they said that.
Speaker 2: You bind it as a sign to your hands in
Speaker 2: your forehead, you know, once again, going back to the
Speaker 2: the imitation mark of the beast. So I mean that
Speaker 2: shows you it was God's greatest commandment. It was just
Speaker 2: very important to him. And then when you in the
Speaker 2: same book, when you go down to Deuteronomy eleven eighteen,
Speaker 2: it speaks on it again. It says, you shall therefore
Speaker 2: lay up these words of mine in your heart and
Speaker 2: in your soul, and you shall bind them as a
Speaker 2: sign on your hand, and they shall be frontlets between
Speaker 2: your eyes. Once again, I mean, it's just the correlations
Speaker 2: of all that stuff. You know. This this mark is
Speaker 2: also on your you know, right hand, in your mind.
Speaker 2: So it's like you always have dualism in the Bible.
Speaker 2: You have literal and you have a lot of symbolic stuff,
Speaker 2: you know, So it's like you judge the tree by
Speaker 2: its fruit. You know, if you're saying that, you know
Speaker 2: you are you know your God's Yeah, you're gonna be
Speaker 2: making godly decisions with your with your mind, with your mind,
Speaker 2: and your actions with your right hand. It's gonna be godly.
Speaker 2: So that you know it's a it's a spiritual I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's probably literal also, but you can't ignore
Speaker 2: the spiritual side of it. Also, there's always dual meanings
Speaker 2: in your Bible. And what's really crazy, and forgive me
Speaker 2: for laughing, but you know, we always have pure literalists everywhere,
Speaker 2: and you know, the fair season stuff and the Bible,
Speaker 2: they were so literal and focused on the law and
Speaker 2: everything else. You know, they took it so literal.
Speaker 3: They miss they missed kind of what it was telling them.
Speaker 2: Oh, they missed the Christ right in front of their eyes.
Speaker 2: But one thing they would do is they would literally
Speaker 2: wear a box on their heads with the laws written
Speaker 2: down inside of them called philacteries.
Speaker 3: So that's quite literal.
Speaker 1: So that that is something that still goes on today
Speaker 1: in the Jewish faith. But they do that right before
Speaker 1: they're bar mets for their bot mitzvah. Depending if you're
Speaker 1: a boy or a girl, but you wear it, you
Speaker 1: wear it. I guess it's only Jewish Men that wear them.
Speaker 1: But you wear it. It's called a teflin and you
Speaker 1: wear it on your wrist or you wear it on
Speaker 1: your forehead, and Jewish men wear it before their bar mitzvah.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of a it's kind of a symbolic
Speaker 1: and it actually has four texts written on a single
Speaker 1: parchment strip, and it has four different compartments with a
Speaker 1: single text. And he but it's it's there. It's their
Speaker 1: way of kind of you know, following that literally what they.
Speaker 2: Said their greatest commandment.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy to different stuff you can find, you know,
Speaker 2: because I mean, you know, we're not Jewish, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, if we didn't actually dig and look
Speaker 2: into that stuff, we would miss it, you know. I
Speaker 2: mean that's why I think it's so important to dig
Speaker 2: a little deeper and find out the whys and all
Speaker 2: that stuff and the roots. Yeah, you know, and also
Speaker 2: in Exodus, you know, where you know, he comes down
Speaker 2: to Sinai and gives the the commandments, you know, and
Speaker 2: he says you know, he'll make them a nation of priests,
Speaker 2: and he will be their god, you know, and to
Speaker 2: give them, you know, the Ten Commandments.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I read this in a book bearing the name
Speaker 2: by Carmen somebody I can't remember, and that's where I
Speaker 2: kind of got some of this stuff from. But have
Speaker 2: you guys grew up in church, you know you've always
Speaker 2: heard don't take the Lord's name in vain?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: What have you been taught that means.
Speaker 3: Don't say g D yeah right?
Speaker 2: Or don't you know in anger use God's names and
Speaker 2: stuff like that. Well, this, this woman, you know, brought
Speaker 2: it into a whole new light for me. She was
Speaker 2: saying that when they went to mout Sinai, you know,
Speaker 2: he said, you know, keep my statutes, you'll be my people.
Speaker 2: I'm calling you to be a nation of priests. So
Speaker 2: they were going to bear his name, you know. So
Speaker 2: she was basically making the point that to take the
Speaker 2: Lord's name in vain is basically just don't be a hypocrite.
Speaker 3: Because if you're.
Speaker 2: Saying, hey, I'm God's chosen people, right, but with my mark,
Speaker 2: my mind in my hand, I'm doing worldly things and
Speaker 2: not godly things, then I'm a hypocrite. You're taking exactly,
Speaker 2: I've taken the name fame.
Speaker 3: You're saying you're a Christian or a godly follower, but
Speaker 3: you're not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, your fruits say otherwise.
Speaker 3: Yeah that makes perfect.
Speaker 2: Yeah it did to me, you know, it said, so
Speaker 2: you know and what And that's in Exodus nineteen six
Speaker 2: where it says he'll all you to be a nation
Speaker 2: of priests. They said, but then again, ask yourselves, well,
Speaker 2: what did the priests have on their heads? Exodus twenty eight,
Speaker 2: verse thirty six to thirty eight talks about a gold signet,
Speaker 2: a mark that should stay on his forehead that he
Speaker 2: may be accepted before the Lord. Okay, so if you're
Speaker 2: taking the Lord's name and you are going to be
Speaker 2: a nation of priests like he's called them to do,
Speaker 2: be you will have a signet or mark of gold
Speaker 2: on your forehead, and that makes you acceptable to the
Speaker 2: Lord because you are bearing his name. You're taking his name,
Speaker 2: okay on your forehead. Yeah, it says. So, it says,
Speaker 2: we are called to be a nation of priests, and
Speaker 2: we are told here not to take the Lord's name
Speaker 2: in vain. You know, people misinterpret this all the time.
Speaker 2: This doesn't mean not to cuss with the Lord's name,
Speaker 2: which of course you mean you don't want to do that,
Speaker 2: right of course. Still yeah, but taking it in vain
Speaker 2: this means you don't.
Speaker 3: Be a hypocrite, after mean in hypocrite, And.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't be a bad imagure of God exactly, don't
Speaker 2: claim to be his child and bear his name and
Speaker 2: misrepresent it, you know. To do that is to take
Speaker 2: the Lord's name in vain.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: So what do priests us, what we're called to be,
Speaker 2: have on our heads a golden pure signet or mark
Speaker 2: so that we will be acceptable to the Lord.
Speaker 3: Pretty cool, hunh.
Speaker 2: So, whether we realize it or not, we're bearing the
Speaker 2: mark of God.
Speaker 3: Even though it's not a signet exactly, a spiritual marking whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but that also makes you think I need to clean
Speaker 3: my world might act up? Oh yeah, if you look
Speaker 3: at it the way taking the Lord names in vain
Speaker 3: like you just described.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And what's really cool when you break down the name.
Speaker 2: The name right in Hebrew is a shim, so the
Speaker 2: name is hush him Stephen. I'm gonna pass this to you.
Speaker 2: I want you check this out. Read this excerpt. And
Speaker 2: this is from the great Michael Heiser. It breaks down
Speaker 2: great the name, and this is the little arrow that
Speaker 2: goes to the next page.
Speaker 1: Biblical writers, I love.
Speaker 2: Hearing him read. He just sounds scholarly.
Speaker 3: He does.
Speaker 1: Michael Heiser sure does sound scholarly.
Speaker 3: We're talking about you, babes.
Speaker 1: Thanks buddy, he just get some hair.
Speaker 2: Hey, lowball, low ball.
Speaker 1: That's sorry, that's taking my name in vain. That's not cool.
Speaker 3: Sorry, all right.
Speaker 1: Biblical writers often refer to Yahweh, the God of Israel,
Speaker 1: as the name, a usage that the contemporary Conservative Jews
Speaker 1: practice today, referring to God's special divine name yah Wah
Speaker 1: or Yahweh without using it Yeah, however, occurs in the
Speaker 1: Old Testament nearly seven thousand times. So Biblical writers did
Speaker 1: not you it was Hashem to avoid using the divine name. Rather,
Speaker 1: it was a supplementary way to refer to Yahweh. In addition,
Speaker 1: these writers cast the name as an embodied person, identifying
Speaker 1: the phrase as an important part of the Godhead. Thinking
Speaker 1: in ancient Israel, that New Testament carries on the name
Speaker 1: theology of the Old Testament, applying it in subtle ways
Speaker 1: to Jesus, thereby making a strategy for New Testament writers
Speaker 1: to identify Jesus with Yahweh. Isaiah thirty twenty seven through
Speaker 1: twenty eight uses the name Hashem as a substitute for
Speaker 1: Yahweh and cast the name in terms of the personhood. Behold,
Speaker 1: the name of Yahweh comes from Afar, burning with his
Speaker 1: anger and in his thick rising smoke. His lips are
Speaker 1: full of fury, and his tongue is like a devouring fire.
Speaker 1: His breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up
Speaker 1: to the neck to sift the nations with the sieve
Speaker 1: of destruction, and to place the jaws of the people's
Speaker 1: a bridle that leads astray. Similarly, Psalm twenty reads, may
Speaker 1: Yahweh answer to you in the day of trouble. May
Speaker 1: the name of God, the God of Jacob, protect you.
Speaker 1: Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we
Speaker 1: trust in the name of Yahweh, our God. The Psalmist
Speaker 1: encourages the Israelites to trust in Yahweh, proclaiming he is
Speaker 1: who he says he is, and he can do what
Speaker 1: he says he can do. It goes on a little further,
Speaker 1: but that's pretty much the you want to keep going
Speaker 1: to the hole.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, that's fine. I mean, that was definitely
Speaker 2: the gist. But basically, you know what it says, you know,
Speaker 2: I think it's in Proverbs. It says a good name
Speaker 2: is to be held higher than precious gold and jewels.
Speaker 2: You know, it ain't saying your name, it ain't being literal.
Speaker 2: The name is representation right your character.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Just I mean, like the old saying, you know,
Speaker 3: a man's only as good as his word. It it's
Speaker 3: kind of the same application.
Speaker 2: I guess it'll be a good name bearer, have a
Speaker 2: good reputation. So all this stuff you hear about the name,
Speaker 2: the name, the name, it's the reputation right of the name.
Speaker 3: So supposed to be good, godly people. We're representing God,
Speaker 3: so we got to do it in a favorable manner
Speaker 3: the whole.
Speaker 2: You know, the power in the name exactly, you know,
Speaker 2: is power in your actions. You're thinking the reputation, the representation,
Speaker 2: the image of God that you are portraying.
Speaker 1: I think there's a big part of that though, when
Speaker 1: you look back throughout the Bible when it asks, you know,
Speaker 1: like they ask, well was it Moses was talking? I
Speaker 1: think it was to God and you say, who should
Speaker 1: I say sent me? And he says, I am sent you.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not saying yahweh sent you. It's not
Speaker 1: saying yah. You know, no, I am meaning just it's
Speaker 1: everybody knows. It's in me. It's in me. It's definitive.
Speaker 3: It's God, that's in the Bible. It talks about all
Speaker 3: the names he goes by. That's my favorite, the great
Speaker 3: I Am.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I mean that's it.
Speaker 3: How you describe I am you can't. It's everything.
Speaker 1: It's everything, and it's just I'm over here, Tyran Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: I got just a couple more. I'll power through and
Speaker 2: then we'll get to the mark of the beasts. And
Speaker 2: this is where these guys are really excelled in. They're
Speaker 2: going to take the steering wheel here. But Ezekiel chapter nine,
Speaker 2: verse four through six. It says, and this is basically
Speaker 2: where you know, God's talking to this Ezekiel here and
Speaker 2: showing him all the abominations that you know, a woman
Speaker 2: is crying at the steps of the temple for Tamuz,
Speaker 2: you know, the sun god worship, and that people were
Speaker 2: turning their backs to the temple and bowing to the
Speaker 2: Sun you know that, So this is just right after
Speaker 2: all that, you know. So it says, and the Lord
Speaker 2: said to him, pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and
Speaker 2: put a mark on the foreheads of the men who
Speaker 2: sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed
Speaker 2: in it, and to the others. He said, in my hearing,
Speaker 2: passed through the city after him, and strike your eye
Speaker 2: shall not spare, and you shall not show no pity.
Speaker 2: Kill old men outright, young men, maidens, little children, and women,
Speaker 2: but do not touch the one whom is the mark.
Speaker 2: And it began at my sanctuary. So they began with
Speaker 2: the elders and who were before the house. So here
Speaker 2: we go, we see this mark again. So my commentary
Speaker 2: notes I got over here. It says they put a
Speaker 2: mark on the foreheads. The mark was probably the Hebrew
Speaker 2: letter tav, which an ancient script, was shaped like an
Speaker 2: X or a plus. The tav was the last letter
Speaker 2: in the Hebrew alphabet, and Jewish groups in the Second
Speaker 2: Temple period and late antiquity continue to use it as
Speaker 2: a mark of righteousness until it's similarly with the Christian cross,
Speaker 2: made it unpopular in Judaism, because you know, they don't
Speaker 2: believe the whole, you know, Jesus' Messiah thing. So they
Speaker 2: stopped using the tav. The tav, they said, they believe
Speaker 2: that's the mark that was used. It looks like a cross. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so that's the mark that they were putting on everybody's head.
Speaker 2: The tav is the last letter in the Hebrew alphabet. Well,
Speaker 2: in the Book of Revelations, was he say, He said,
Speaker 2: I am the Alpha and the Omega, right, the beginning
Speaker 2: and end, the beginning and the end. But when you
Speaker 2: look at the symbolism, the first letter in the Hebrew
Speaker 2: alphabet is the alph It's the symbol for God. It's
Speaker 2: the silent letter that starts everything. You know, he was
Speaker 2: the creator of all, He existed before everything. So and
Speaker 2: then the last letter, you know, he says, I'm the
Speaker 2: off of the Omega. Well, the Omega was the tav.
Speaker 2: So he's the Alpha to the Omega. He is the
Speaker 2: alph which is God to the tav, which.
Speaker 3: Is the cross.
Speaker 2: He was saying, I am the God that's coming to
Speaker 2: the cross for your salvation.
Speaker 1: As the symbolism.
Speaker 2: And you know what the middle letter is. The middle
Speaker 2: letter is the men. So when Bosso by saying that
Speaker 2: he says, you know, he's the alph to the tav alph.
Speaker 2: The first letter is symbol for God. Then you have
Speaker 2: men right in the dead center, and then tav. So
Speaker 2: when he's saying, I am the alpha of the omega.
Speaker 2: When you put those three letters together, you know a
Speaker 2: Hebrew word that makes truth. I am the way, I
Speaker 2: am the truth, I am the life. You shall know
Speaker 2: the truth, and that truth shall set you free.
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