Day 346: 1 Chronicles 1-3 | Read The Bible In A Year | Bible Study & Commentary by Dr. Manny Arango — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
2. 0:02Orango. Welcome to the Bible department
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8. 0:24family. Welcome to day 346. WE ARE IN
9. 0:28OUR FINAL BOOK OF THE BIBLE. THAT'S
10. 0:30RIGHT. CHRONICLES, BABY. IT'S OUR LAST
11. 0:33BOOK. That's right. You didn't hear me
12. 0:35wrong. It's our last book of the Bible.
13. 0:37That's because in the original Hebrew
14. 0:39Bible, first and 2 Chronicles are one
15. 0:44book. And so, of course, we're going to
16. 0:46look at them as two books. But in the
17. 0:49same way that Luke and Acts are part one
18. 0:51and part two of each other, in the same
19. 0:53way that Samuel and Kings are not
20. 0:56separated in the original Hebrew Bible,
21. 0:58Chronicles was not separated. Okay? So
22. 1:01we are in the final book of the Bible,
23. 1:06first and 2 Chronicles, which we are
24. 1:09going to effectually f refer to as
25. 1:12Chronicles. So I'm so excited at this
26. 1:15point. Like if you've been on a streak,
27. 1:18you are probably going to hit day 365.
28. 1:21Uh which means you have spent or you're
29. 1:23on the verge of spending a year in God's
30. 1:27word. And I'm so so so so proud of you.
31. 1:30Now, I'll say this. I'll say the same
32. 1:32thing that I say every day. If you have
33. 1:34not read, if you have not done the
34. 1:36reading for today, then how about you
35. 1:39stop the video, pause the audio, go get
36. 1:411 Chronicles 1, two, and three read.
37. 1:44Now, here's a heads up. It's a
38. 1:47genealogy, okay? And I know, I know, I
39. 1:50know, I know most of us Westerners, we
40. 1:52hate genealogies, but I'm gonna try my
41. 1:56best to get you to appreciate this list
42. 2:00of names. All right? And heads up, the
43. 2:03first nine chapters of Chronicles,
44. 2:06that's right, the first nine chapters
45. 2:09are are going to all be genealogy. All
46. 2:11right? And so, uh, our first 3 days of
47. 2:16Chronicles is really going to be, you
48. 2:18know, focused on this genealogy that we
49. 2:21have at the beginning of the book, which
50. 2:23gets us immediately in context clues.
51. 2:25Okay? There's a reason that Chronicles
52. 2:28get skipped. If you're a Christian, you
53. 2:30know, there's certain books like some
54. 2:32minor prophets and then books like
55. 2:34Chronicles that most of us skip. All
56. 2:36right? And that's is no shame, okay? No
57. 2:39judgment zone. Most of us are going to
58. 2:41skip these books. And the reason is
59. 2:43because in our English translations,
60. 2:46Chronicles is going to come immediately
61. 2:49after Kings. So in most of your Bibles,
62. 2:52unless you have a Hebrew Bible, unless
63. 2:54you have like a Tanakh running around
64. 2:56here somewhere, all right? Uh your Bible
65. 2:58probably is going to have 1 2 Samuel, 1,
66. 3:002, Kings, 1, 2 Chronicles. And once you
67. 3:04begin to start, if you get through the
68. 3:06genealogy, you then realize that a ton
69. 3:09of the content that you just read in
70. 3:12Samuel and Kings is here again in
71. 3:15Chronicles. And so it feels like a
72. 3:17repeat. However, this our big context
73. 3:19clue for the day. It's not a repeat.
74. 3:22Like simple stuff like when Chronicles
75. 3:25talks about David, it is going to
76. 3:28completely omit the story of David
77. 3:30murdering Uriah and taking Bashibba to
78. 3:33be his wife. It's going to omit a bunch
79. 3:36of things that make David look bad.
80. 3:38Okay? So Chronicles is going to be very
81. 3:41very pro-David. Whereas Samuel is going
82. 3:45to actually tell you the truth about
83. 3:46David, Chronicles is going to give you
84. 3:49an angle on David that makes David uh
85. 3:53what I would say David in the book of
86. 3:56Chronicles is going to be the one who
87. 3:58really like is is even more so than
88. 4:02Solomon is really responsible for
89. 4:04building the temple. And that is because
90. 4:07Chronicles is written by our guy Ezra.
91. 4:11Okay. So, if you've been rocking with us
92. 4:12for the past couple of weeks, we've gone
93. 4:14through Ezra, we've gone through
94. 4:15Nehemiah, you know that Ezra is part of
95. 4:19the process of God's people returning to
96. 4:22Jerusalem after exile. So whereas Kings
97. 4:27Samuel and Kings has a perspective on
98. 4:31historical moments that are going from
99. 4:34the the present linear into the future.
100. 4:38Ezra has a perspective on these
101. 4:41historical events that are also covered
102. 4:43in Samuel and Kings, but it's looking
103. 4:46back on the past. And so, I'll I'll read
104. 4:49it for you. I'll I kind of read it how
105. 4:51it is in my notes. Uh, and this our big
106. 4:53big big context clue for the day. Okay.
107. 4:56Ezra is writing his story, but he
108. 4:59doesn't just tell the story of his and
109. 5:02Nehemiah's return from exile. Okay. To
110. 5:04give the story context, Ezra is going to
111. 5:07begin the story that he's telling with
112. 5:10Zerubbable's return and the rebuilding
113. 5:12of the temple. Okay? Because the temple
114. 5:14is everything for Ezra. Then Ezra is
115. 5:18going to tell his story. So he's going
116. 5:20to tell Zerubbable's story. Then he's
117. 5:21going to tell his story. Then Ezra is
118. 5:24going to tell Nehemiah's story. Okay? So
119. 5:27I want you to kind of track how Ezra is
120. 5:29telling the story in his present time.
121. 5:32He's gonna couch his life in between
122. 5:36Zerubbable and Nehemiah. All right? And
123. 5:39then Ezra tells their joint story which
124. 5:43ends with him teaching the people the
125. 5:45Torah and their history. It is in that
126. 5:48context, the renewing of the festivals,
127. 5:51the restoring of the temple, the
128. 5:53organizing of the Levites, the choirs,
129. 5:56the priests, the refocus on the Torah,
130. 5:59the great reset that will lead the
131. 6:01people into the second temple period.
132. 6:04Okay? Ezra is is the leader ushering
133. 6:08people into the second temple period.
134. 6:10What was the first temple? Solomon's
135. 6:12temple. What's the second temple? the
136. 6:14temple that Jesus is going to actually
137. 6:16walk in. And so when we think about the
138. 6:19second temple period, when we think
139. 6:21about the the Judaism that Jesus
140. 6:24actually engaged with, that is actually
141. 6:27referred to as second temple Judaism.
142. 6:30Okay, this is an entire period of time.
143. 6:32Okay, it is then that he tells the
144. 6:35people the story of the first temple. So
145. 6:39first and 2 Chronicles or Chronicles is
146. 6:42the story of how important the temple
147. 6:45is, how important the line of David is,
148. 6:48how important the Messiah is, how
149. 6:50important the Davidic kingship is. And
150. 6:54so if that's your point, then why would
151. 6:58you include stories about Beth Sheba or
152. 7:01uh David not being a good father or him
153. 7:04killing Uriah? There's no need to have
154. 7:06negative stories in Chronicles. So for
155. 7:09anyone who's kind of like, h I read
156. 7:11Kings, I read Samuel, this stuff in
157. 7:13Chronicles seems like a repeat. It's not
158. 7:16a repeat. First of all, it's not being
159. 7:19told as if it's in the present marching
160. 7:23towards the future. It's actually being
161. 7:25told to a generation that is 600 years
162. 7:30removed from the events being talked
163. 7:32about. And we're looking back at the
164. 7:35past. And so what is Ezra's big point
165. 7:39for writing chronicles? It's this. If we
166. 7:42are going to steward this second temple
167. 7:45well, then we need to learn how the
168. 7:48first temple was lost. Okay? How can
169. 7:52Ezra's generation and following in the
170. 7:56than the generations that are going to
171. 7:57follow, how can they learn from their
172. 8:00mistakes that they made with the first
173. 8:02temple and never lose the temple again?
174. 8:06That's the point of Chronicles. All
175. 8:08right. Now, and like a good ancient
176. 8:12ancient Jewish book, that's going to
177. 8:15start with a genealogy. All right. So,
178. 8:18let's get into our nerdy nuggets. Okay.
179. 8:20I want to help us to kind of wrap our
180. 8:22minds around what is going on with these
181. 8:25genealogies. Genealogies are about two
182. 8:27things. Okay? Number one, genealogies
183. 8:30are about identity.
184. 8:33Identity. The second thing that
185. 8:35genealogies are about are rights. Okay?
186. 8:38Genealogies are big on rights. Yes, it's
187. 8:41their story. Okay? But these lists or
188. 8:45this list proves who they are and that
189. 8:48the land, the city of Jerusalem, this
190. 8:52temple, this priesthood, this covenant
191. 8:54is theirs. Okay? It's all right. It's
192. 8:58funny because there's this church maybe
193. 9:01like 30 minutes away from from, you
194. 9:04know, where we're planting our church,
195. 9:05the garden in Houston. And uh this
196. 9:08church is like 158 or 159 years old. And
197. 9:13uh the this church was founded in the
198. 9:151800s by former slaves by by people who
199. 9:20had been formerly enslaved. And you know
200. 9:23they they built a church on two acres of
201. 9:26land that they bought from the owner of
202. 9:29the plantation. So they literally the
203. 9:31the the man who was a slaveholding
204. 9:34plantation owner sold two acres of his
205. 9:38land of his plantation to these formerly
206. 9:41enslaved people. They built a church.
207. 9:43Well, guess what? 10 ancestors removed
208. 9:47from those original freed enslaved
209. 9:49people and the the original plantation
210. 9:53owner who sold them that property. By
211. 9:55the way, they sold the property. They
212. 9:56sold them two acres of land for $84.
213. 10:00$84 for two acres of land. Well, today
214. 10:05those acres, that acreage is worth
215. 10:08almost over a million dollars per acre.
216. 10:10And so the great great great great great
217. 10:14grandson, okay, the 10th ancestor
218. 10:17removed has now sued this church. Okay.
219. 10:21And because they've sold the whole
220. 10:23plantation over the year, it's obviously
221. 10:25no longer a plantation. They've sold off
222. 10:28the land to subdivisions and to
223. 10:30developers and they've built
224. 10:31subdivisions all around it. And now this
225. 10:34little church is a problem because we
226. 10:37could sell this 2 acres and build more
227. 10:40homes on it. And the it's funny, they
228. 10:43literally went to court and it's like
229. 10:45they are bringing a deed of sale from
230. 10:49the 1800s to court. They're bringing
231. 10:53court records to court. Like like these
232. 10:57ARE NOTORIZED PAPERS FROM THE 1800S.
233. 11:00WHY? Because genealogies
234. 11:03don't just tell you a story. A genealogy
235. 11:07tells you your rights. And of course, a
236. 11:10judge here in Houston in the last couple
237. 11:13of months just made a ruling that the
238. 11:16church has rights to the acreage based
239. 11:20on the deed that they signed in like
240. 11:241860 whatever. So when you think about
241. 11:28these genealogies, the genealogies that
242. 11:30we have here in the book of Chronicles
243. 11:32is actually telling the people in Ezra's
244. 11:36generation the rights that they have to
245. 11:38the land, the rights that they have to
246. 11:41the building of the temple, their
247. 11:43rights. This is not just about their
248. 11:46identity or finding sto their story or
249. 11:50couching their identity in the
250. 11:52narrative. No, like this is 100%
251. 11:56connected to their rights. And honestly,
252. 12:00I think that Christians can learn a lot
253. 12:02from our Jewish brothers and sisters.
254. 12:04Like because they're so connected to
255. 12:07their history, they know their rights.
256. 12:10And honestly, whether and I'm not trying
257. 12:12to make a political statement. promise
258. 12:14you whether you're pro- Israel or not
259. 12:17pro- Israel, that's not my that's not
260. 12:19I'm that's not my place to dictate where
261. 12:21you stand on the nation state of Israel.
262. 12:24I don't care. Okay? That that's just not
263. 12:26what I'm here to do. I'm here to just
264. 12:27teach the Bible. But I will say this
265. 12:30that Jews today, like Jewish people
266. 12:33today, their whole argument for saying
267. 12:36that they have a right to their land is
268. 12:40based on genealogies like this in 1
269. 12:43Chronicles. And so it is very very very
270. 12:46powerful for a group of people to know,
271. 12:50no, I know exactly who my father is. I
272. 12:52know who my grandfather is. I know who
273. 12:53my great-grandfather is. I know who my
274. 12:54great great-grandfather is. I know who
275. 12:56my 10th ancestor removed is. I know who
276. 12:58my 20th is. Wow. Like, it doesn't just
277. 13:01give me identity. It also gives me
278. 13:04rights to begin to say, "Yeah, I know we
279. 13:06haven't lived in this land for over 100
280. 13:08years, but you know what? We we believe
281. 13:12we have the right to displace
282. 13:16Palestinians because the covenant says
283. 13:19that we have a right to this land." So
284. 13:22if you just want to understand the
285. 13:23psyche of what's even happening in
286. 13:26Israel, it would be really really
287. 13:28important to understand why someone like
288. 13:32Ezra would include super long
289. 13:36genealogies in books like Chronicles.
290. 13:39And again, I'm not trying to get you to
291. 13:43believe one thing or the other when it
292. 13:45comes to current political issues.
293. 13:47That's just not my place. It's none of
294. 13:49my business. My job is to give you nerdy
295. 13:51facts so that you can understand the
296. 13:53world around you. Okay? And Chronicles,
297. 13:57when you read Chronicles as a Western
298. 13:59person and you just go, man, name after
299. 14:02name after name after name after name
300. 14:04after name, what you're really saying is
301. 14:08you don't understand why these names are
302. 14:10important. And these names don't just
303. 14:13give people identity. These names give
304. 14:16people the authority to fight for the
305. 14:19rights that they have as Jewish people.
306. 14:23All right, here we go. Let me give you
307. 14:25uh a couple more nerdy nuggets. Okay,
308. 14:27chapter one of this genealogy is going
309. 14:30to take you from Adam to Abraham. Okay,
310. 14:33chapter two of this genealogy is going
311. 14:35to focus on the tribe of Judah. Chapter
312. 14:38three of this genealogy is all about the
313. 14:41line of David to Zerubbable. All right?
314. 14:45So, if you just kind of want to organize
315. 14:46the genealogy, chapters one, I'll say
316. 14:49that again, chapter one is all about
317. 14:52Adam to Abraham. Chapter two is going to
318. 14:54focus on the tribe of Judah. In chapter
319. 14:56three is going to be all about the line
320. 14:59of David all the way down to Zerubbable.
321. 15:02All right. Now, couple more nuggets that
322. 15:05I want to give you and then we'll get
323. 15:07into our timeless truth for the day.
324. 15:09These genealogies are very important and
325. 15:13they're going to trace two specific
326. 15:15lineages. One, the line of the promised
327. 15:18messianic king. Okay? The the the
328. 15:21entirety of the Hebrew Bible, but for
329. 15:23sure Chronicles, is to lead you and I
330. 15:27and anyone to have a hope for the
331. 15:30Messiah. Okay? it. David is going to get
332. 15:33set up as the ideal king, but really
333. 15:36we're going to get down to the end of
334. 15:38Chronicles and go, we need another king
335. 15:40like David. Well, who's that king like
336. 15:43David? That's right, the son of David.
337. 15:45His name is Jesus. So, the whole goal of
338. 15:48Chronicles is to tee up the messianic
339. 15:51king, the son of David. And that's what
340. 15:54the genealogies are doing. Number two,
341. 15:57the descendants of Aaron. That's right,
342. 15:59the priest. the priesthood. And that's
343. 16:02the beautiful thing about Jesus. He's
344. 16:03not just king, but he's also priest. And
345. 16:06so, these genealogies are going to focus
346. 16:09on the kingly line from David, but also
347. 16:12the priestly line from Aaron. If you
348. 16:15want to know how Chronicles, first and 2
349. 16:18Chronicles really map on to the books of
350. 16:21Samuel and Kings, I'll give you this,
351. 16:23okay? 1 Chronicles is going to be
352. 16:26parallel in terms of the history that it
353. 16:28covers to 2 Samuel. Okay? So, 1
354. 16:31Chronicles and 2 Samuel is covering the
355. 16:35same story, the same narrative. Now,
356. 16:37Chronicles is going to add things that
357. 16:40second Samuel doesn't have, and
358. 16:43Chronicles is going to omit things that
359. 16:452 Samuel does have. So although they're
360. 16:48covering the same story which is a aka
361. 16:51the life of David, they're going to add
362. 16:54things and omit things from one another.
363. 16:57Second Chronicles then is going to cover
364. 16:59the same period as both first and 2
365. 17:03Kings. But if you can remember when we
366. 17:05studied first and 2 kings, remember when
367. 17:07we were in the book in first 2 kings, we
368. 17:10would look at the northern kingdom of
369. 17:11Israel, the southern kingdom of Judah,
370. 17:12the northern kingdom of Israel, the
371. 17:14southern kingdom of Judah, north, south,
372. 17:16north, south, north, south. There's
373. 17:18going to be a focus on which one? That's
374. 17:22right, the southern kingdom of Judah.
375. 17:24Why? Because David is from the tribe of
376. 17:27Judah. Okay? and the Messiah will be the
377. 17:30line of the tribe of Judah. And the
378. 17:33temple is in Jerusalem and Jerusalem is
379. 17:35in Judah. Okay, so Chronicles where
380. 17:39first and 2 Kings is going to focus on
381. 17:41the northern tribe of Israel and the
382. 17:42southern kingdom of Judah. Chronicles is
383. 17:45really, really, really going to
384. 17:46emphasize what's happening in Judah.
385. 17:49Okay? All roads lead to Judah. All roads
386. 17:52lead to Jerusalem. That's where the
387. 17:53temple is, and that's where the rightful
388. 17:56heir of the kingship is. Not the
389. 17:59northern kingdom of Israel, but the
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415. 19:02episode. uh when we see this genealogy,
416. 19:05most westerners just see a list of
417. 19:07names, but I actually want to propose
418. 19:10that this is not just a list of names,
419. 19:12but this is a great cloud of witnesses.
420. 19:16That these are people that have gone
421. 19:18before us and we Gentiles have been
422. 19:21grafted in to this lineage. That really
423. 19:25when Paul says, "Who's the true Jew?
424. 19:28that person who's circumcised outwardly
425. 19:31or the person who's been circumcised in
426. 19:33their heart, I I I want to let you know
427. 19:36that until you as a Christian kind of
428. 19:39begin to see like, no, no, no. The same
429. 19:41way that this genealogy gives identity
430. 19:44and rights to the Jewish people, as a
431. 19:47believer, it gives me spiritual identity
432. 19:50and spiritual rights. I believe that I
433. 19:54am the seed of Abraham. Come on. You
434. 19:56remember Sunday school, father Abraham
435. 19:58had many sons and many his sons had
436. 20:00father Abraham. Come on, what's the next
437. 20:02part? I am one of them and so are you.
438. 20:05So we are connected to this story. We're
439. 20:09connected to the story which gives us
440. 20:11identity, but it also gives us rights. I
441. 20:13don't just walk around believing that
442. 20:15I'm not blessed. I believe I'm I'm a
443. 20:17blessed person. And I'm blessed not just
444. 20:20because of who I am, but because of who
445. 20:23my dad and grandfather and
446. 20:25great-grandfather. And I know in the
447. 20:27west we tend to get identity from
448. 20:30individual achievements. So like your
449. 20:32job and your education, but in an
450. 20:35eastern world, your identity really does
451. 20:37come from the family you come from, from
452. 20:41the group. And I'm not saying one of
453. 20:42those is good or bad or right or wrong,
454. 20:45you know, or good or evil. What I am
455. 20:48saying is I actually think a healthy
456. 20:50merge of both is really, really good.
457. 20:53And you got to see yourself as part of a
458. 20:56bigger divine story. It's funny. On
459. 20:59Thanksgiving this past year, 2025,
460. 21:02I ran a turkey trot. That's right. I ran
461. 21:04a 10K for the first time. I did it in an
462. 21:07hour and 8 minutes. I'm pretty proud of
463. 21:09myself, actually. I I would not consider
464. 21:12myself a runner, but man, I I ran on
465. 21:15Thanksgiving. And the way that the
466. 21:17Turkey Trot here in Houston works is
467. 21:20that you're literally just running
468. 21:22straight down one long road and at the
469. 21:243.2 mile mark, you just make a U-turn
470. 21:27and run straight back the other way.
471. 21:30It's just one long line down and a long
472. 21:32line the other way. And and so I we were
473. 21:36maybe at mile two, maybe one and a half
474. 21:40running one way and all of a sudden I
475. 21:43start seeing people who are at the front
476. 21:45of the line flying past me. At first I'm
477. 21:49thinking to myself, they're running the
478. 21:50wrong way. What are they doing? And then
479. 21:52I realize, oh no, they are ahead of the
480. 21:56line. Like I finished in an hour and 8
481. 21:58minutes. These people are about to
482. 22:00finish the entire race in like 30
483. 22:02minutes. It's like this is nuts. And you
484. 22:04want to know at first I began to see
485. 22:06them and I was confused, maybe even
486. 22:08discouraged. And then you want to know
487. 22:10what real what I realized? I started to
488. 22:12get pumped up cuz I began to realize, oh
489. 22:15wow, you have been where I am right now.
490. 22:21And you running past me means that
491. 22:24you're ahead of me. And you running past
492. 22:26me means that what I'm doing is
493. 22:29possible. And then I just begin to see
494. 22:31in the spirit that Abraham has gone
495. 22:33before me. Oh man, that David has gone
496. 22:37before me. That Moses has gone before
497. 22:39me. That there have been Christians who
498. 22:41have been martyed that have gone before
499. 22:42me. That John has gone before me. That
500. 22:45Paul has gone before me. That Peter has
501. 22:48gone before me. That I'm not the first
502. 22:50person to take bold risks for God. I'm
503. 22:52not the first person to try to do
504. 22:54something crazy for God. I'm not the
505. 22:56first person to experience any kind of
506. 22:58social persecution for God. I'm not the
507. 23:01first person to stand up for truth. No,
508. 23:02no, no, no. I belong to a long lineage
509. 23:05of spiritual ancestors who were fed to
510. 23:08lions in the coliseum. I belong to a
511. 23:10long list of spiritual ancestors who
512. 23:12have like the freed slaves that were
513. 23:15here in eight in the 1800s got their
514. 23:18freedom and and got enough money to buy
515. 23:22two acres of land to build God's church.
516. 23:26I'm not doing something that's novel or
517. 23:28new. Nope. I'm just building God's
518. 23:30church. And guess what? I'm connected to
519. 23:32a long line of people who have been
520. 23:35building God's church. And you know what
521. 23:37the enemy wants to tell you? You're by
522. 23:38yourself. You're the first person who's
523. 23:40ever done this. You're the first person
524. 23:42who's ever broken generational curses.
525. 23:43You're the first this. You're the first
526. 23:45that. And you're not. You may be the
527. 23:47first in your family, but actually
528. 23:49you're connected to the family of God,
529. 23:51which means you're not the first. And if
530. 23:54they've run the race, you can run the
531. 23:57race. And as people started to fly past
532. 23:59me, I started to run faster. I started
533. 24:01to get excited because I began to see,
534. 24:04you know what, these people who are
535. 24:06running ahead of me have actually proven
536. 24:09that there is nothing that's new under
537. 24:13the sun. No temptation that has seized
538. 24:15you except that which is common to man.
539. 24:17If they overcame, I can overcome. And
540. 24:20that's not just true for Ezra. That's
541. 24:22not just true for Nehemiah. That's not
542. 24:24just true for David or any of the
543. 24:26characters in the book of Chronicles.
544. 24:28That's true for you. That's true for me.
545. 24:31That's a timeless truth. All right,
546. 24:34FAMILY. TOMORROW WE GOT DAY 3:47. We're
547. 24:37going to be looking at 1 Chronicles
548. 24:39CHAPTERS 4, FIVE, and six. Uh, you know,
549. 24:44I will tell you right now, I'm going to
550. 24:46give you a heads up. We got, you know,
551. 24:48let's see, I'm going to go to CHAPTER 4.
552. 24:50WE GOT MORE GENEALOGY ACTIVITY, but I
553. 24:53hope that you can read these names and
554. 24:55like be excited about the names that
555. 24:57you're reading. Love you. So proud of
556. 24:59you, especially if you're on a street.
557. 25:00Let's continue our trek to the Book of
558. 25:02Chronicles tomorrow, same time, same
559. 25:04place. I'll see you right here. Peace.
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