Yeah. QUESTION I couldn't find the answer to Dan. Oh god
I didn't hear the first part of your quick did who do try the tribe of Dan. My word
they were kind of known as the worst tribe like and actually when you go to Dan now they've still got temple setup over there you can see where they're you it's one of the high places that Solomon set up so So yeah, there they eventually were part of the northern kingdom that is going to be kind of done away with after Solomon but they already showed signs of not being a very faithful followers. Early on, right. Is that what you're asking? Yeah, yeah, there's some confusion on the tribes and when they're listed in numbers and at the end in the beginning, and sometimes they're known by different names and it's it's a it's confusing. So I'm going to say 12 tribes which tribes
I can go back to the 13th century. On my my ancestry, but yeah, that's a good good question. They probably don't have DNA for the for that but yeah. So we are with Joshua and judges. You know, we the people were delivered out of Egypt and Exodus and they had some wanderings they had to do Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Moses preaching sermons, all of it is prepping for them to go into the land. That God had promised them that God had promised Abraham and live as God's faithful people in that land, obeying the 10 commandments, basically worshiping God alone. So they had three books of the Bible of you've got to figure this out. And you need to be obedient and then with Joshua they go in and cross into on dry ground. A lot of of remembering, being delivered out of Exodus on dry ground crossing into the promised land on dry ground, another miracle. And Joshua, known as a good news book, they go they enter into the promised lamb, and then by judges, what in the world is going on, you know, what's all this bad news, you know? So, with conquest, we're I'm going to spend a little bit of time talking about the judges but we wanted to open it back up what stood out to you in the video you might have watched, or the overachievers that read the chapter and all the verses and everything. What stood out to you in the conquest chapter of Joshua and judges
did not ever cheat. That's
okay. That's okay. Watch the video though. You already admitted to that so
did when when the video starts Hayes, reviews the whole story and does a really good job of that typical Hayes fashion. So Hayes was my professor. So I wonder why I like him so much. So.
Observations, questions, anything stood out in conquesting.
Good, good. Give me a lecture, Dave. lecture me. You got a great story of Rahab in and pay haste does a good job of contrasting Rahab with a king. You know, Aiken was an Israelite and goes off and basically disobey is a Rahab was not an Israelite and yet she was able to help the spies coming in and and basically like, Hey, we're gonna I'm gonna link up and become a part of what I would say is true Israel. She shows more faithfulness to God, then I can does you know,
if she's a prostitute? Again, it goes back to it's not our action. God cares about our actions, but not as much as we think. It's our heart and our faithfulness because humans are messy, like even those with the best heart and the best intentions. We see that again and again and again. And I think it's really it's not just that she's like, not in Israel. She's she's a prostitute. Like she wasn't even valued in her people. And yet she saves her entire fate, her faith saved her entire family. That's such a powerful story. And it bookends. It's the beginning and the end. I mean, God didn't want us to miss that. And he gave her a name like we know her name. We don't know either Pharaoh's name
we never know like, that's
a prostitute. God is the Goddess. I love it. I love it. How He redeemed you redeemed things about
the lifestyle is about the heart. Yeah. And her harvest and and right like this idea of what she was in.
Like as we are about to see, I'm kind of jumping ahead but was saw. It's like our messiness, like with David, it's like he was instantly once he realized what he had done and really owned it. He did, he apologized, and I think God honors that and you see the opposite with Saul. It's like, if you if you have a rebellious heart and you are like saying, I know better I know better than the Prophet I know better than God. Like you can't do anything with a rebellious heart, but people that are prone to sin, like you can work with that you can help them if you have a teachable heart but people that have a, you know, a rebellious heart like that. It's like you can't do anything with that. And sometimes we can discern that but God can always discern that and that's why he chooses who he chooses. And we don't always understand we don't always like that, because sometimes the people he chooses we were like not her, not him, you know? It's like because their heart is in it. And sometimes we don't see with the eyes that God sees.
It's like Deuteronomy is obey God, trust Him. He will bless you, and then remain faithful. To him, and then they go into the Promised Land and it's a question mark, right? Are they going to depend on the Lord? There's no more mana. You're going to depend on the Lord and obey the commandments that he told us and be blessed. You're going to trusting or the other option, you know, and so that's kind of the pattern that we see repeated here so so
anyway, people are doing well you know, he's following what God is asking him to do and all that and then when they conquered the major enemies in the in the Promised Land, no, he didn't. He says, y'all finish moving on that. oxidized in his land, yet not obedient. unravelling form.
We see we're gonna see that again. I mean, even with us putting these two chapters together, we see the same kind of pattern operating with David and with Solomon. You know, definitely with Saul. We kind of leave him off the list, but yeah, there so there's a you hear Joshua this resounding gong of meditate on the Book of the Law, keep the law before you trusting God following God doing what what he's asking us to do. And then I get in, we get into the time of judges and it's just not good. We'll just say it that way. You know, so, it's kind of the same people. It's basically God's people, and then you've got these Canaanite groups that are worshipping Canaanite Gods especially but all you we remember all from even dealing with Exodus and dealing with work worshipping this golden calf, I think, by all is at play there too. Well here in the Canaanite land, but all was fertility god. So now that they've got to transition from being wandering to kind of start settling they got to start farming and they want you know, the God of the storm but all brings rain, that waters our crops, you know, and so that so that's kind of the the temptation there is, hey, if I can maybe start worshipping this idol, maybe I will be more successful in my land will be more fruitful, and I'll get the crops that I need. And so as they're kind of transitioning to more stability, which they eventually get to with David in Jerusalem, that kind of starts to get more city like you know, but but as they're moving that way, you see why the all worship is a true temptation for them and are they going to trust not God, basically. They're wondering, so page two there, I believe I've got the cycle of judges. So and Hayes does a good job with this. His is a little bit simpler. I made it a little bit more complex. but each each of the major judges that are mentioned kind of flow through this same cycle, and it starts with number one. Eventually, Israel rejects God and turns to serve these false gods. So there is a rejection point where they're like now I'm going to trust somebody else except for commandment number one, you know, God gets angry with this idol worship. And so he basically, in a sense, let's the oppressors come in and up. oppress the people. He hands Israel over to the oppressors of her enemies. And so they kind of it's like it's a different group different name group that comes in. There's a time of repentance with number four Israel, repentance cries out to God for mercy. God raises up a judge to rescue Israel from her enemies. So there's a there's a deliverer that's raised up. There's a time of rest. It says the land rested, which again, you hear overtones of creation of, hey, we're worshiping the Lord. And then eventually there the judge dies. And Israel eventually returns back to their rejection of number one. So and then the cycle repeats with different with another judge, same kind of language is even used throughout which I kind of have on the top of the next page. We don't have to get bogged down with a table. But I got this book in the mail this week, and I liked it and I'm like, Oh, let me snag that table. But you see, this has got the Scripture references with the major judges across the top and and almost like the verbatim phrase Israel did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh. Yahweh gave him over Israel cries out again Yahweh raises up a deliverer. There's this time of rest throughout. But with each cycle and each judge, it seems like it gets worse. So that's the bottom illustration was I took my little, my little cycle chart here, and just as it repeats Now, granted there's some overlap here. So it's not beautifully perfect every single time. You know, there's some overlap some judges or some minor judges that are thrown in here and there, but every time this cycle repeats, it gets worse and worse and worse and worse to where, by the end of judges, Israel is fully canonized. II, they're no different than any of the Canaanites that are in the land at all. And so, you know, judges is not a pretty book, you know, there's not a whole lot of revival happening, so to speak, you know, they are Canaanites, in a sense, you know, no different. The only thing that's interesting was there's some of the some of the oppressors that come in the Moabites under Etihad and Midianites under Gideon the Amorites that are Jeptha Moses already subdued those subdued those groups. So it's almost like hey, Moses took care of that, but then they kind of come in and kind of have to have influence, you know, kind of again, irony I don't know if that's the best word but just like it's sad you know, but it's like here's somebody that's coming in that had already been taken care of sort of speak you know, they were
letting into I mean it let's where we get like in the New Testament, like the in the world but not of the world and that's so hard. And that's where like that's why he was like, Do not intermarry do not like God was trying to keep them away from that. Because it was it was gonna be so tempting. Because they were going to be the minority, some not always but sometimes they were, most of the time they were the minority. And when you're in the minority, and everybody else is living like he's talking about the other idols, it's like it's hard not to say, Well, that seems to be working for them. Maybe that's what we need to do. And don't forget that that's explicitly what God told us not to do. And so I think it's just so tempting for them to slip into those ways. And yeah, yeah. Right out I mean, yeah, as they got bigger, I think that was
kind of dispersed a little bit, you know, maybe. I mean, I think, from the narrative wise, yes, they kind of become, like even, not very well associated tribes. They're kind of spread out and they're not unified at all. You know, so I think not until David, where, you know, the chapter is like, David's the one that completed the conquest, you know, so that's a high point in the history. So yeah. So all right, so the next chapter, which I believe is on page four of your notes should say crown at the top because I'm a rebel. I have a rebellious personality and I like that title better than crumbling of the kingdom. So or creation of the kingdom out grumblings later creation of the kingdom crown just as a good summary word because the high point of the story is King David and give us a king will give you King David. So what stood out to you what we're gonna we're gonna just simply flow through the five main characters. But what stood out to you in this chapter here is this chapter six now,
Yep, that was chapter five, y'all. I'm like like 20 minutes. There you go. Good job. Less than 20 minutes
this book is actually just go kill on this on an avant garde. Radio. Young God's mercy. Grace yes to David. And when they mess up. My goodness what they did you know, yeah, I mean, we've like we've done some just like we did something a lot less than that. Yeah, that Oh, God. But look, who are you? How are you forgetting? Bad things that I did.
I loved Hayes analogy of we go from HBO to the Hallmark Channel. Why are you so a love story a sweet love story rising middle i love
the channel. Like that. Let's change the channel. Now. We're watching the route.
But isn't it interesting? Because you know, sometimes there's a little pearl clutching when things that are going on in our world and we're just aghast and there truly is nothing new under the sun. I mean, you have like, like gang raping, chopping up concubines bodies and sending them to the tribes is like oh my god. Just a horror movie of all horror movies like Can you can you imagine getting a body part delivered to your leader? Like butter, we kind of band together and like this is how you told me like with a body part like yeah, and then a war ensues. I mean, it's just there's yeah, like I always say this nobody crazier than God. Like it's not a god's crazy but his people like for sure. And he the way he allows them and gives them freedom.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So we've come to Ruth, who, again, if if you haven't studied Ruth apart, I mean the love story. Absolutely. But the the fidelity, yes. The Yeah, it's like you have again, people that loyalty point people that are not supposed to be following God, sort of, you know, that are able to say, hey, you know, yes, I'm gonna you know, absolutely in. And again, these are characters that we ought not to have in our Bibles. Much less a whole book named after Ruth right, the MOBIKE Moabites descendants of Mary, now descendants of your grandmother bytes on ancestry.com.
Yeah, I was at one point where I was married to somebody that
I come back to and this is where I'm at this close relationship with me on one tour and they took everything away from me. Yeah. Yeah. character in the Bible.
Yeah. So you kind of have like getting living out of the Promised Land is not good. And so it's like, oh, no, let's get back to where we're supposed to be, you know, but you have these Moabites which are a descendant of lot, right. So it's again I included a beautiful family tree for you. Because we like to charts and family trees, right. Yeah. So Ruth as we know, so it's like, why do we have Ruth it's, I guess there's a contrast with judges, but it's also an introduction to David Wright, that we're gonna get into with. If you look on the far right there you have salmon, which his name was probably Salmaan. But you know, in Arkansas, you say Salmaan people are gonna be like ordering it off the menu. So let's just call him Sam and right. Who Salmaan was probably from rehabs family, right. If you look at Matthew chapter one and the lineage of Jesus, you have, you know, Rahab, to bow as to Ruth, to Obon to Jesse to David and eventually down to Jesus, you know, so, so that's where the Rahab story from Joshua connects with the Ruth story is and we begin, which is pretty amazing if you think about it, but you also have like I mentioned a character that ought not to be the one who teaches us how to be faithful to God sort of speak, you know, and the loyalty and that kind of stuff, but she's in the lineage of Jesus,
and God can redeem even the worst family tree.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. If you haven't seen that of any biblical lineage and family trees yet. Yeah, look at Jesus's you know, we're Rahab and Ruth are not the worst characters that are mentioned in the lineage of Jesus. You know, we're just not going to get into some of those that are a little higher up. But influence Yeah, yeah. Yeah, where you go, I'll go that kind of that that verse that's often on Hallmark Cards. Yeah, yeah. what else what else stood out to you about Ruth? I kind of tried to do a little bit of a deep dive of the kinsman redeemer because Redeemer language is what we know of as salvation. You know, Jesus is our Redeemer. But we kind of have foe as redeeming Ruth, you know, and that kinsman redeemer language. Again, I'm fascinated by it. I wrote down a note, research this a little bit more you know, and then if we zoom out again, even more when we lump include the Solomon, I'm gonna throw all my cards on the table. Solomon who we know of as greatest, wisest person in the Bible, right? According to the story, Ruth is a greater character than Solomon. And I'll make that argument in the notes as Hayes did in the chapter. But Ruth is more important in my opinion, and Solomon, so I'll let y'all crunch that so let's get there. So eventually, Hannah again, another amazing powerful story, Hannah gives birth to a son named Samuel. Samuel serves as kind of a transitional character in that like the last judge. Also Prophet eventually are also priest eventually Prophet, you know, so, Samuel, which again, amazing character. I wish we had more than two books in the Bible, from Samuel, you know, but even though that was one scroll as you read about, but eventually with Samuel come in, we get the early, early on, we get a lot of rumblings of, hey, we need a King who's going to help us in light of how horrible it is with the end of judges. Samuel enters the thing is enters the scene and eventually is going to anoint a king and kind of given to the people but I wrote down in my notes in First Samuel eight, it's almost in Alex brought up this question last week. And it's an amazing question of when you're saying give me a king. What are you really saying? Yeah, give us a king that can lead us into battle fighter battles for us.
They wanted to be like everybody else.
Give us a king like everyone else has a king
they didn't like it was weird. Like they were the only ones that didn't have the physical key and they were like everybody else has a king we want to and we want to
Yeah, yeah. So it's it's a it's an anti faith statement antitrust statement of when you're chanting give us a king. You're basically saying God is not enough of a king force. Right? And we think I mean, every sermon I heard grown up King was good. You're like yes, we you need a king like everything was pro king. But if when you read Samuel and you go through, there's just a much language of saying no, you don't be the king gods are king. He's your Creator. He's your Sustainer he's the one that deliver you out of Egypt. He's the one that took care of me in the wilderness. Wanna he's the one that that showed you his name. He's the one that gave you this promised land. He's the one that you crossed dragon. He's your king. And you're asking for a human king. And that's that's the tension that's in First Samuel nine Yes. Give us a king First Samuel 10. No, First Samuel 11. Yes. First Samuel 12. No, you know, it's back and forth tension of them trying to figure out like, hey, we give us a king. We want one. One thing I don't understand is why did God say okay? Give him a king. And then when he does it get Saul? Like, not the worst King we're gonna get some worse kings coming, but not a good king. You would think like first king, you know? Yeah, it's
saw you start. There was a honeymoon period. He started out good. Yes,
and there's and then he does have God's anointing. And so yes, but it is to Saul and he's out looking for his last donkeys. The stinky, smelly, stubborn. Israel, donkeys. You know? So contrast it with David who's out tending the sheep in the pasture, right? He's appointed. But you see God regretting this right? Because Saul was disobedient. similar language to Genesis six, six, were right before the flood. He's like, ah, what did that why did I make these people? It's kind of the same with what lies on the king. You know, he's not anything and then eventually, David gets anointed Now Saul is not willing to give up the throne. So there's tension salts out trying to kill David David could have killed Saul a couple of times, but doesn't you know, again, shows you a little bit of the difference of character. And so maybe Saul's kind of set up kind of as a foil to let us know how great David was. And so and again, the verse in First Samuel 16 Saul by outward appearance should have been fantastic king with his size and his military oath. But it says man looks at outward appearance, but God looks at the heart. Just like Tara was saying, and you know, God looks at our hearts. So David was a man after God's own heart, by Second Samuel seven bill got a house we get a vision for a temple where and God says, you know, you're asking for a house for a temple. I'm going to build a dynasty greater than the chiefs. I don't know what dynasties are resonating right now, you know, oh, they're a dynasty now. You know, like, I don't know, but anyway, I'm too old school for that, you know, but give us we're gonna build a house for God and God's like, I'm gonna build a dynasty. And so we get this Davidic covenant, which is interesting, because it's right when Nathan is coming to confront David for the Bathsheba incident. So we reach a high point David's able to unify the people he gets a vision buys this land which you mentioned where the temple is going to go. He establishes Jerusalem as his throne and we have the nation unified. The Conquest has been completed it's the high point of the story. And you know here we're gonna slip over here pretty quick right but she but comes on the scene. Nothing in the story makes any sense. You know, people are out fighting David just kind of hanging out on a rooftop. You know, it's a case against retirement. It's a what what trouble you can get yourself and so he definitely sins on several fronts, you know, and then eventually Nathan's coming to confront him, which is an amazing encounter, but during that encounter, you also have the establishment, the Davidic Covenant, guess what, this kingdom is never going to end. So we have another one sided, unilateral, everlasting covenant to David. That again, is going to drive the story. The but the consequences still happen. They're still there is you know the story with his sons. It's not great. Eventually, there's more fighting, more killing. And then there's a time where David leaves Jerusalem weeping when I was standing on the Mount of Olives, about to talk about Jesus. Having the disciples look up as Jesus ascends to the clouds to go to heaven to rule. It's the same spot where David left the city that Jesus came into the city, and then eventually comes out when he's resurrected and ascends to heaven. So it's all in the same kind of place. You're looking and seeing all of this through history happening back and forth. But David has to leave weeping in disgrace not a happy transition to Solomon. But Solomon definitely continues to establish a lot of connections with all the areas around. But the question is, David, and God both encouraged Solomon to keep the Law of Moses and Worship God alone. What is King Solomon known for? His wisdom Yeah, we already threw that card out what else builds the temple and God feels that temple. Yeah, amazing. Yeah, again, same as I'm like, really? But yeah. Very few extracurricular activities wives and concubines lots we don't we let's not go there. They got TV shows. This they just got like two wives. You know? What's less 200 wives? Yeah. Is wealth Yeah, lots and lots and.
Yeah, and horses. The chariots.
Where you said he went, Oh,
yeah. Yeah, yeah. So this this this part in the chapter was mind blowing to me. And I heard Hayes do this. And I was like, I don't know about this Danny Hayes, but now it's in the book and I've read it and so I included it on page seven of your notes here. There's a lot to me. 17 gives us a criteria for the kings to live by. Really three explicit things the kings are supposed to do. A King is not to acquire a great number. of horses, especially chariot horses, especially chariot horses from Egypt. Number two, a king must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold. Emphasis on gold. Silver was not as popular gold was what everybody wanted. The king must not take many wives do not want to be 1717 implied is that you cannot have any serious relationship with Egypt. That's where God delivered you from. Why in the world would you want to be buddy buddy with Egypt? We get the first Kings chapters for nine and 10 and 11. We got time. Listen quickly. First Kings 10. When the Queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, she came to challenge him with difficult questions. She arrived in Jerusalem with a great display of pomp bringing with her Campbell's King spices a large number of gold precious gems. She visited Solomon to discuss with him everything that was on her mind. Solomon Solomon answered all of her questions. There was no question too complex for the king. He's a smart guy. When the Queen of Sheba soft herself Solomon's exquisite wisdom the palace he had built the food is banquet hall, his servants and attendants are robes is cut bears the brunt offerings, which he presented in the Lord's temple. She was amazed she said the King, the reporter heard him out country about your wife's things and insight was true. I did not believe these things until I came and saw them on my own eyes. Indeed. I didn't hear even half the story. Your wisdom and wealth surpasses what was reported to me. Your tenants who stand before you at times and hear your wife saying they're truly happy? May the Lord your God be praised because he favored you by placing you on the throne of Israel? Because of the Lord's eternal love for Israel. He made you king so that you can make Justin right decisions. She gave the king 120 talents of gold bunch of spices lots of Jim's timber that is used to support the Lord's temple. King Solomon gave the Queen everything she requested. She left returned to home with attendance. Solomon received 666 tonnes of gold a year. Besides what he collected from the merchants, traders, Arabian kings Governors of the land King Solomon made 200 large shields have hammered gold 600 measures of gold were used for each shield. He also made 300 Small shields of hammered gold, three minions of gold that were using the shield the king placed him in the palace of the Lebanon fourth forest. The King made a large throne decorated with Ivy overlaid with pure gold. Six steps leading up to the throne and the back of it was round on the top. The Throne had two armrests of the statue of a line on each side 12 statues of line and six steps one on each side. There's nothing like it in any other kingdom. All of King Solomon cups were made of gold household items and the palace of lemon forests are made of gold. No silver audience for silver was not considered very volume in Solomon's time. That's a interesting verse. Along with the harems fleet the King had a fleet of large merchant ships that sailed from the sea once every three years the fleet come into port with cargoes of gold, silver, ivory, apes and peacocks. Exotic and I don't know where those came from, but they bring in apes and peacocks. Solomon acquired chariots and horses 1400 chariots 12,000 horses, kept them in the cities in Jerusalem silver was plentiful and Jerusalem. Cedar was plentiful Sycamore figs in the lowlands he acquired horses from Egypt. They paid 600 silver pieces for his chariot from Egypt. 150 silver pieces for each horse. They sold chairs and horses to the kings of the Hittites, one of the enemies and the kings of Syria. So first Kings 10 interesting chapter in the Bible because you're not going to shave we're going yeah, you are pretty smart. And then you have all these references to chariots and gold, and apes and peacocks, like what in the world is going on here? So criteria of the king turned it to par. Twice scenario states that that there's 1200 12,000 chariots horses of Solomon many of them from Egypt, abundance of silver and gold, many wives 300 wives or 700 wives, 300 concubines. He married, he marries Pharaoh's daughter. So, if you rained down on me 17 You read first Kings about Solomon, you're gonna have to help me understand how Solomon was the wisest person in all the way against everything goes exactly against what Deuteronomy says for the criteria of a king. All over the place, evidently. Yeah, yeah, that's how they just found some stables of Solomon stables. What they call it again. Yeah, they're probably all over the place. Yeah, so every time they build a road road over in Israel, they find something like, Oh, here's some places to store some some horses when you think, you know. Yeah. And the critique that the prophets have is they talked about not marrying foreign wives. And it's not that they're foreign. It's that when you marry him, you're basically saying, I'm totally cool with your God in your foreign god. You know, so Solomon, the Lord of the irony, the Lord appears to him directly twice. It saw I'm going to still disobedient not known for following the Lord all those high placement his wives wanted him wives. Yeah, he had to, but he also is clearly disobedient because he's wants to be buddy by the Egypt. And he wants all this gold, and apes and peacocks. I don't know. Yeah. So this is where Hayes Hayes is interesting.
Well, I think we read it with our Western ears. Yeah. And they would have heard all of this like, I mean, it's like if we said that the President was affirming waterboarding to get information or conspiring with Russia to do like, we would be like, oh, you know, but there was like, oh, but he's powerful. And he's doing and it's like, no, it's like,
gonna have our best interest in mind. And look at this amazing temple he's built for the Lord. Yeah,
like, it's just yeah, how your ears hear it, and they would have heard it as you know that. Oh, that's not what the king was supposed to
do. Yeah. God actually, I guess he probably did warm up because to Solomon because God didn't he didn't initially slept song right, right. David and Bathsheba pushed him on to be the king.
It says when he was born, that God was pleased with Solomon. And God was pleased in many ways with Solomon and again, the rate I read Solomon is and we all have people that we know that are of exceptional potential, and they fall short you know, for their and usually it's their own doing like they get sucked into some lifestyle. And, you know, for him, it was it was the power it was the power and the women and you know, he just got sucked into all of that. So I think Solomon, just like Samson, it's like that's such a tragic story in many ways because they they have such great potential, and God bless them. And they squandered those blessings of the Lord that God gave Solomon wisdom, but it was lost on him, ultimately. I mean, I think he did do a lot of good and you can see that there was favor. And I think that's a lesson for us like when we see great leaders like this feels like it's happening all the time. It's probably happening before we it was probably just we didn't have you know, the kind of access to information before. But you know, these leaders and churches and religious organizations that are falling hard, that are going through things and it's it's just shakes the body, you know, and it adds fuel to those that are opposed to us. And I think that that's what happens with Solomon. It's like he, he did he had the personality, he had the wisdom, he had the power he had the means to do all of this stuff. And I think he probably did do a lot of good things because he got to build the temple that his dad was told specifically, who was like a man after God's own heart like David and that's who like even the Israelites content, like still celebrate, you know, David, the Davidic Covenant, you know, that's where we get King Jesus through that lineage. I mean, we we forget that like Solomon came after his dad like Jesus came through Solomon. Nobody says that so they didn't celebrate that they knew. He fell far from the tree. Like he wasn't like his dad. But again, it's the same thing with so it's like it wasn't all bad. It was really good. And you see that with like Mega preachers and stuff like that, where it's like there's a lot of good and people are coming to the Lord and God's words being proclaimed and God's showing up, he's present. But it doesn't take much to soil and taint that, you know, because holiness with God is sacred and we don't mess with it. And we always do because we can't help our human cells like we just can't and it seems like sometimes our blessings and our strength sometimes can be our biggest undoing. And I think that was for sure Solomon and Samson, you know, because I think that Samson didn't think that he could be undone. Like, I really think that he told her that why? Because it seems foolish, because I don't think he really thought it would happen. Like I think he was so prideful, that I'm God made me strong and I will always be strong and this woman that I love, she can't foil me. And yeah, like and it's the same thing with Solomon like he's like, I'm so wise I can figure this out and I can handle all these women and I can handle their gods and I can still rule because I'm open minded and I can do this and it's like, he couldn't handle Yeah, he couldn't handle it. His
dad was so yeah, so yeah, he wanted to be so loved and this is the way maybe
the money and, and David did it in such a humble way. And like he fought and like you continue to put his life on the line, you know, in his early days, and God bless that. So yeah, absolutely. I mean, there probably was some of that it's gotta be hard. To be in the shadows. That's your dad like.
So he's kind of wraps up and says while the the story appears on the surface to be praising Solomon, the text is suddenly criticizing him for his failure to be faithful to the terms God gave Israel. So in First Kings, eight Solomon prays and God's presence fills the temple. three chapters later, first Kings 11 Solomon has turned away from God to worship other gods, even building worship sites to these pagan gods, two of which Molik and Shemesh require child sacrifice. First Kings 11 So about three chapters later, so I'm I'm still processing it, but I just wrote down Solomon seems more like Pharaoh more like Pharaoh than his dad, David. More like Pharaoh than Ruth. I don't know. But the Yeah, and I think that's a I don't know, it's worth thinking about. It can be debated. But I think you know, we just need to be cautious of praising the wisdom and the wealth of Solomon. Like sometimes that can easily take you away from trusting God and doing what and worshiping Him and keeping your focus on him. So alright, so the last concept that we need to discuss is Messiah. This is the basic covenant from Second Samuel 713 1416. He shall build a house from our name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be a father to him. He will be a son to me, your throne will be established forever. So this is that build God a house And God's like I'm building a dynasty out of your lineage. Your king, this kingdom will last forever. So we kind of get introduced to Messiah language, which Messiah means anointed one. In Hebrew Messiah Anointed One and in Greek, it's Christos, Christ. That is Messiah that is a title for Messiah. So So David, Yahweh enters into a special relationship with David. This house in his name becomes a temple, this throne forever as this covenant loyalty kind of on steroids so to speak. And that that covenant still has implications today. Because we know King Jesus, Son of David Wright. This Messiah was going to be the ideal King that's going to deliver and establish God's Kingdom on earth and be God's represent representative in an earthly kingdom. And so you have language like the Spirit of God coming on David mightily. There's kind of a, an intensification of this anointing of the Spirit of God. That's on David. Psalm 89 talks describes David as God's son so you have this, this lineage kind of language that we lean into. And again, you know that we look at David's accomplishments of uniting the tribes and bringing everyone together. Like I said, it's definitely the high point of the story from Bathsheba down, it starts to go back spiral back downhill, you know, a sort of speak, I found this one website that had 17 elements of David, with scripture references there in my notes, but not yours. David is God's son David sits at God's right hand in the shadow of God's wings and the some of these are from Psalms. David occupies the throne of God's Kingdom he's worshipping along with God, David is worshipped along with God and First Chronicles 29 I didn't read that one. David is is God is his representative representative or ruler David's regal glory reflects God's glory. David is God's Messiah Anointed One. David is God's servant Shepherd. David is like God's angel David as a priest, he's a prophet he rules the nation by the Torah he will rule the entire Earth Psalm two verse eight, his throne or his rule will endure forever. So there's the Zionist psalms that basically are like sitting on a hill that cannot be destroyed. You know, I will sing this as I go up to the house of David, as I go up to the temple is like so it's basically like a David is what kind of allows us to because he's the Messiah, he's the one that is uniting us, you know. And so I think there are still people over there waiting for a David like Messiah to come and restore Israel and bring it back and they can worship in the temple again, and again. It's a Zionist nationalism kind of thing at play there. So it's like you can read the scriptures and really get some you can take it a little bit too far with some interesting applications. I'll just say it that way. But David points us to Christ. And I think that's the missing element that's not completely mentioned here. Now, these are all Old Testament, but it's like, our understanding of who Christ is as Christ is our king. We understand that because of David, you can go back and look at what David did and read the scriptures that help us understand what kind of Messiah the Anointed One, David was and what God's presence played in that so. So I think that's kind of the, the, the introduction of when we say Jesus Christ, that Christ is a title, Messiah. And it points us back to King David. And it points us back to this deliver. Represent representing God here on Earth. And that's what the temple was. It's where heaven and earth met Holy of Holies the tabernacle moves into the temple. God's presence feels you know, so we went from wandering tent around to now we've got a capital city that is, forgot to be worship. So when you read the New Testament, you read the gospel, and you start summarizing the gospel. There's a lot of phrases that are like David son, lineage of David from the tribe of Judah from the stump of Jesse, a shoot or rise up, you know, so all these references to Jesus, come to us through David and again, even through the the lineage stuff, so All right, I did include a map of timeline at the very end, because now we're starting to get nice and confused, right? So if we start at the top with creation, and we go through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph gets him in Egypt. Moses gets us out of Egypt. Exodus, the Lord, Joshua, Judges, and then you got King Saul, King David, King Solomon, the temple being established. And now look, we're about to split. So when we get into some of the details of first and second Kings, First and Second Chronicles, we have the kingdom divided. So this is page 12.
Pages. You gotta keep turning
page 12 Page numbers are on there. Yeah, page. Last page. Yep. So it I included it as an appendix but yeah, so but I want you all to have a timeline just so you can start to kind of see where we're going to flow because when we get into the profits and some of this other stuff can kind of be hard to see where we're at that kind of stuff. But and this is
hopefully what y'all are memorizing. So like where you're able to like think that and that's why they do all see so it's a problem. You've got creation, you know, like so it's like it helps you remember like the and you can even write those out there on the side of the timeline if that helps you like however you learn it. So that again, you don't have to say a lot you could say like a sentence or you could say more depending on how you want to articulate it, but you want to be able to articulate this story. All the way through. And the idea is hopefully, like, each week, you're practicing and you're thinking over and like something like this would be good to look back over. Like you're adding to it and kind of you know, saying it and thinking through it. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, you have this too. But if you're more visual like this might help you.
Questions on these two chapters. Timeline, the story.
I'm writing my time limit. I don't know if I'd be able to say it without
well that's okay. And you don't have to talk. Well, that's okay. That's okay. You can have a choice. You know, when guys
get in there and you can just be like, Hey, let me practice the story real quick.
It'd be fun to do with your grandkids. It'll be fun to do with your grandkids. Yeah, like say hey, like Yeah, I mean, I
think, you know, we were
we were probably raising Bible nerds like it. These are the things that are so Lula's totally into this kind of stuff. We were
talking and we're like, you know, this, this is for us this this is important because I mean, just even for anytime you're in a Bible study, knowing where you're at in the story is important. But being able to share the story is super important to me. It's way of sharing the gospel, you're eventually going to get to Jesus, and how he's a fulfillment of all the law and the prophets, how he is the Messiah, and how to use the Anointed One, how he's the Christ. And so all that's going to make sense when we because we know that, you know, God created people and put them in a garden, one, a perfect relationship with them, and then they blow it and then the rest of the story is him trying to figure out how to be with his people and get these people to be faithful to him and he just stays on it relentlessly. He's faithful you know so so yeah, these the see devices are helpful creation covenant calling out commandments, conquest, crown, because that's my word. Instead of what is it? The creation of the kingdom? Come on. Anyway, Crown people. Anyway. Use whichever one you want the title of the chapter, my word but but yeah, I think that this this gets to where I want to say well, we're gonna the narrative is going to slow down a little bit. You know, so a lot of the the wisdom literature the Psalms, Ecclesiastes. Job, a lot of them are written during this time of the wilderness wanderings during this time of, of them going in the Promised Land and so, so we're going to add some more content, but our narrative is not going to get super. We're not going to move as fast as we had from creation. to Egypt back to promised, you know, so we're going to kind of stay in the same area for a little bit.
And I think, anytime we can have a high aerial view of Scripture, like because all of Scripture can be summed up in its God reconciling his people to Himself from Genesis to Revelation. That's the Bible in like one statement, like, boom, but we know like, we can take it down, you know, to create, like, kind of what we're doing and like higher than that, and more grainy than that, but I think once we start zooming and like y'all are in the Revelation class, it's gonna be really cool as we go through this, how you're going to start synthesizing that because as you're zoomed in, and hopefully for those of you that were in Exodus, even you start to see that we got into the nitty gritty and really pick these verses apart and there's so much to learn and to glean from that. But when we come back up, then we see the whole purpose we get a little bit of a God's eye view of like, Exodus. Yeah, there was all these nuances and all these players and all these different things that were happening so many cool miracles and incredible stories. But then we see oh, this is God, calling the people we're in oppression and he's calling them out. He called Moses and through Moses, he called his people and you get the set up of like Sabbath even as we know it today, like all these 1000s of years later, Old Testament to New Testament to here we are as Gentiles practicing this. And so that's the part where hopefully this class helps you do that. Even if you haven't gotten into the nitty gritty, it's so that you have this big overview. So even as you go through the rest of your day studying and you dive down, you can always come back up and say okay, I like I appreciate all the nuances and these are the things I glean and learn from this book. But I see in God's big story. And it reminds us that like our lives that can seem small and maybe not significant are significant. Because we could be like a midwife, that if not for our little job, like it might have changed the story, you know, and God would have had to move in a different way because the people didn't participate as they should. And so sometimes, I think it's really, that's why I love the Old Testament is my favorite because of all the stories of people, messy, prickly people that get it wrong, but yet God loves them and he works through them and he continues to say the divine and the human and it's all tangled up together. And God is all tangled up with us if we allow him and I think that's really beautiful, as we see that. So it's a lot, but I think I think whenever you start getting it, it just will click. It's still early, so it's okay if it seems like a lot now fire hydrant. I think by the end, you will have you know, get to where you can do that a little bit more
