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0:00Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
0:02Orango. Welcome to the Bible department
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0:24LA FAMILIA, LET'S GO. WELCOME TO DAY 348
0:28here on the Bible department. We're
0:30diving into 1 Chronicles aka just
0:33Chronicles cuz in the original Tanakh
0:36there is no 2 Chronicles. ANYWH WHO 1
0:39Chronicles chapters 7 8 and 9. If you
0:42haven't done the reading then scram. Get
0:44out of here. No, I'm just joking. Stop
0:46the video, pause the audio, go get the
0:48reading done. You may get some
0:50inspiration for like a kid's name or
0:52something. Probably not. But anyway, 1
0:54Chronicles chapters 7 8 and 9 is on the
0:58docket today. And my job, like every
1:01day, is to give you context clues, some
1:03nerdy nuggets, and a timeless truth so
1:06that you can not just hear the word, not
1:08just know the word, but apply the word
1:10of God to your life. I'm excited for the
1:13timeless truth today. With no further
1:16ado, let's dive in. So for our context
1:19today, I'm actually going to give you an
1:21overall structure for the entire book of
1:24Chronicles, 1 and 2 Chronicles. Okay?
1:27Knowing how the structure of the book
1:29works actually allows us to see a
1:32massive theme and uh again, the the more
1:36contextual information that we have, the
1:39better interpretations we can make.
1:41Again, you know, we're still in the
1:44genealogy phase of of 1 Chronicles, but
1:49this genealogy is coming to a climactic
1:51point, and we will talk about that in
1:53our nerdy in our final nerdy nugget of
1:57the day. So, let's look a let's look at
1:59structure, okay? Overall 30,000 foot
2:02structure. What is going on in
2:04Chronicles? Okay, now 1 Chronicles
2:07chapters 1-9, as you've already seen, is
2:10genealogies. You're walking through
2:11those genealogies right now. 1
2:14Chronicles chapters 10-21
2:17is going to focus on David's reign. 1
2:20Chronicles chapters 22-29
2:23is going to talk about we're going to
2:26discuss preparation for Solomon to
2:29succeed David. Okay. Then 2 Chronicles
2:32chapters 1-9 is going to focus on
2:35Solomon's reign. And then the real like
2:39I mean kind of the meat of the book is
2:41going to be 2 Chronicles. What we know
2:43of as 2 Chronicles is going to be
2:46chapters 10 to 36 is going to focus on
2:48the house of David. Now this means the
2:51kings of Judah, the house of David. By
2:54house we mean dynasty. Okay. David as a
2:57person has obviously died. But we're
3:01going to focus on his house, his
3:02lineage, his descendants, his, you know,
3:05like for anyone who may have watched
3:07Game of Thrones, House Lannister, House
3:09Stark, right? Okay, we're going to focus
3:11on David's house. Now, 2 Chronicles
3:1410-36 goes through the story of David's
3:17dynasty. And in it, you can uh observe a
3:22cycle of the temple's decline and
3:24reform. So, what's going to happen is
3:26Rayoboam, the temple's going to go into
3:29decline. Then you're going to get Asa
3:31and Jehoshaphat and the temple's going
3:32to go into reform. [snorts] And then
3:34we're going to get Jehoram and Ahaziah.
3:37The temple's going to go into decline.
3:39And then you're going to see Joash. The
3:41temple's going to come into reform. And
3:42then you're going to see Uzziah and
3:44Ahaz. The temple's going to go into
3:45decline. And then you're going to get
3:47Hezekiah. The temple's going to come
3:48into reform. And then you're going to
3:50get Manasseh. The temple's going to
3:52decline. Quality of the temple. The
3:54centralization of the temple. The
3:56importance on the temple. Okay, the
3:58temple's going to decline. Then Josiah,
4:00we're going to get temple reform. And
4:02then we're going to get Josiah's sons.
4:05And what's going to happen? Temple
4:06decline. So what we're going to see from
4:08chapters 10 all the way to 36 is cycles
4:12of decline and reform. Decline and
4:14reform. Decline and reform. Decline and
4:15reform. Okay? It's important that you
4:18kind of understand. Yesterday we teed
4:20this up that uh if you look at Luke
4:2411:51
4:26Jesus is going to say from the beginning
4:28from the blood of Abel to Zechariah
4:31which is his way of saying from the
4:33beginning to the end from the first to
4:35the last okay from Abel to Zechariah the
4:38innocent blood of the prophets is going
4:40to be on your heads at this generation
4:43you're going to be responsible for it
4:45okay uh now when Jesus is saying that we
4:49we obviously needed to go to 2
4:51Chronicles 24 20-22 to see who Zechariah
4:56even is. Well, he's the last prophet of
4:59the Tanakh. Okay? He's the last prophet
5:01of the Hebrew Bible. Now, another way
5:04that I want you to see just how
5:07Chronicles works as the last book of the
5:10Hebrew Bible is by showing you that
5:13Chronicles in and of itself gives you a
5:17complete overview of everything that has
5:20already happened in the Bible. So if you
5:22go to 1 Chronicles 1. Okay, 1 Chronicles
5:271 verse one, Adam. I mean, how how much
5:31more Genesis can we get? Adam. The
5:34reason that this genealogy starts at
5:37Adam is because Chronicles, 1 and 2
5:40Chronicles, is showing you that it's re
5:45almost like recapping the entire history
5:48of everything that has happened in the
5:50entire Bible up until this point. And
5:53how's it going to end? Okay, 2
5:55Chronicles chapter 36 starting in verse
6:0020. It's going to say he carried into
6:02exile to Babylon the remnant. So, we're
6:05going to get all the way to exile. Okay,
6:07the remnant. And we're going to focus on
6:10that word remnant in a couple of minutes
6:12on this episode. Who escaped from the
6:14sword and they became servants to him
6:16and his successors until the kingdom of
6:18Persia came to power. The land enjoy it
6:21enjoyed its Sabbath rests. All the time
6:24of its desolation, it rested until the
6:2770 years were completed in fulfillment
6:29of the word of the Lord spoken by
6:31Jeremiah. In the first year of Cyrus,
6:34king of Persia, in order to fulfill the
6:36word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the
6:39Lord moved the heart of Cyrus, king of
6:41Persia, to make a proclamation
6:43throughout his realm and also to put it
6:46in writing. So, this is now the return
6:48of the exiles. So in one verse 20 and 21
6:51we get the exile. And then in verse 22
6:53we get the return of the exiles. And
6:56what is the verse that the entire book
6:58of chronicles is going to end on? Verse
7:0023. This is what Cyrus king of Persia
7:03says. The Lord the God of heaven has
7:05given me all the kingdoms of the earth.
7:07And he has appointed me to build a
7:09temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah.
7:14Any of his people among you may go up.
7:17Key words, go up and may be and may the
7:21Lord their God be with them. Done. The
7:24book is done. So what is Chronicles
7:27doing? It's starting with Adam and then
7:30going all the way up to the present
7:32moment. Okay, that's it. That's And what
7:34is and what is this verse charging
7:37everyone to do? Keep going up to the
7:39temple. Remember we talked about this in
7:41Psalms when we were looking at the
7:43Psalms of Ascent. The reason that people
7:45from all around Israel could go up to
7:48Jerusalem is because it doesn't matter
7:50where you are. In order to go to
7:52Jerusalem, you got to go up, right?
7:54Because it's nestled in the hills. So,
7:58the Chronicles as as a whole is ending
8:02with a let's go up. And what are we
8:04going up to? We're going up to the
8:06temple to do what? To wait for the
8:08Messiah. To wait. Because I know we're
8:11all in the habit of just kind of saying,
8:13"Yeah, you know, there's 400 silent
8:15years from Malachi to Matthew." And
8:18really, it there's not it. There's 400
8:20silent years from Chronicles to Matthew
8:23because the book of Chronicles is
8:26actually the thing that's supposed to
8:27get you to the edge of the It's the
8:31cliffhanger. Okay? So, it leaves on a
8:33cliffhanger. You can feel it. That's the
8:36last verse of the entire book that we're
8:38studying right now. This is what Cyrus,
8:40king of Persia, says, "The Lord, the God
8:42of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms
8:44of the earth, and he has appointed me to
8:46build a temple for him at Jerusalem in
8:48Judah. Any of his people among you may
8:50go up, and may the Lord their God be
8:52with them." Done. Like that's it. So, we
8:56start 1 Chronicles chapter 1 with Adam.
8:59That's the beginning. Ezra is going to
9:01recount the entire history of the Jewish
9:04people. and he's going to recount the
9:06entire history of the Jewish people all
9:08the way to the exile. We're going to get
9:10two verses on the exile. Then we're
9:11going to get a couple of verses on the
9:13return of the exile. And then we've got
9:16a cliffhanger. And what should we be
9:18anticipating when we get to the end of
9:20that cliffhanger? Going up to to going
9:24up to Jerusalem to be in the temple. And
9:27we're believing that the Lord God will
9:29be with them. Okay? Will be with them.
9:31My name is Emanuel and it means the Lord
9:34be with you. Okay? God is with us. And
9:38so, how does Matthew start? I'll tell
9:40you exactly how Matthew starts. It
9:42starts, how does Luke start? How does
9:44the New Testament start? It starts with
9:47this couple, Simeon and Anna, waiting
9:50where? Waiting exactly where Cyrus, king
9:53of Persia, set them up to the temple.
9:56They're waiting in the temple. And what
9:57do they behold? the beauty of the glory
10:00of the Lord coming into the temple. They
10:03are waiting. They're they're doing
10:04exactly what the Old Testament has
10:06commissioned them to do. Go up to the
10:09temple and may the Lord your God be with
10:12you. And who is the Lord their God?
10:14Jesus. And what is what does Jesus do as
10:17a baby? He's walked right into the
10:19temple so that he can be with them.
10:21Matthew is going to pick up on this
10:22exact theme. And what is the name that's
10:25given to this baby by Mary and Joseph?
10:27Emmanuel, may God be with you to the
10:30incarnation. So the the cliffhanger of
10:33Chronicles is to set you up to go wait
10:36in the temple and wait for the
10:37incarnation. And so I I just want you to
10:40get this 30,000 foot idea that the Bible
10:44is the narrative arc of the Bible is not
10:47from Genesis to Malachi. The the way
10:50that we have read the Bible is a is
10:53actually how it was designed to go. not
10:56from Genesis to Malachi, not the way
10:59that your English translations are
11:00organized, but rather from Genesis to
11:04Chronicles. And this last verse of 2
11:08Chronicles chapter 36 is leaving on a
11:11cliffhanger. And everyone in the 400year
11:14gap is in that cliffhanger, waiting for
11:18the Lord to be with them as they wait in
11:21the temple. And that honestly is a lot
11:24of the context that we need in order to
11:26get through this book. All right, I'm
11:28going to fly through our nerdy nuggets
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12:50nerd. What you obviously need to know is
12:54that from 1st Chronicles 1:1 to 2
12:57Chronicles 36-23,
12:59the the these two books, aka one book,
13:02cover the entire history of the Jewish
13:04people and sets us up for the New
13:06Testament. It sets us up perfectly for
13:09the second temple period. I'm going to
13:11fly through these nerdy nuggets. Okay. 1
13:13Chronicles 7:es 1-5 is going to focus on
13:16the tribe of Issachar. 1 Chronicles 7:es
13:206-12 is going to focus on Benjamin. Now,
13:24the reason that Benjamin gets a massive
13:26focus because Benjamin as a tribe has
13:29been loyal to David. It's going to be
13:32key. If you're loyal to David, you get
13:35rescued. You get restored. Now, here's
13:37the context in Genesis. Context that we
13:39have in the book of Genesis. If you
13:42remember all the way back in the ending
13:44of Genesis, the situation was beginning
13:46with with the actual brothers
13:48themselves. Judah swore both to Jacob
13:52and to Joseph that he would give his own
13:56life and freedom as a shity for his two
13:59imprisoned brothers, Simeon and
14:02Benjamin. He protected them as his
14:05brothers. and Judah as a tribe still had
14:08Simeon and Benjamin under their
14:11protection. Okay, so what we're going to
14:13see it's playing out in these
14:15genealogies, but it plays out through
14:17all the pages of scripture is that what
14:19happened with the actual brothers, okay,
14:22the 12 brothers that create the 12
14:24tribes, what actually happened with
14:26those 12 brothers is then going to get
14:28played out with the 12 tribes. So Simeon
14:32and Benjamin are going to be insanely
14:35like closely associated and related to
14:39Judah. All right? And that's what this
14:42part of the genealogy is communicating
14:44to us. 1st Chronicles 7:13, we're going
14:46to get a focus on Naftali, just one
14:49verse. and then 1st Chronicles 7:14 and
14:5219. We've already looked at the eastern
14:54half of Manasseh, which didn't get into
14:56the promised land. But these nine
14:58verses, sorry, five verses are going to
15:01focus on the western half of that tribe.
15:04And then 1 Chronicles 7 20- 29, we're
15:07going to get a big focus on Ephraim.
15:10Okay? Now, you may not realize this, but
15:12Ephraim is a huge tribe. Okay? This is
15:16the most important tribe other than
15:18Judah. Okay, Ephraim. This is of course
15:21a southern Judah focused genealogy and
15:24story. Okay, so Ephraim will not get the
15:27space its size and importance should
15:29get. Okay, it was the tribe that
15:32dominated the northern kingdom of Israel
15:35and its territory was Samaria and it
15:38remained the center of the north. So
15:41much so that in scripture, Israel, the
15:44northern kingdom of Israel as opposed to
15:45the southern kingdom of Judah. The
15:47northern kingdom of Israel in its
15:49territory was Samaria. Sorry, it was
15:53referred to as Ephraim. Okay, the
15:55northern kingdom of Israel just referred
15:56to as Ephraim. And outside of scripture
15:59as well, remember there's a cyroephic
16:03war. Why is it called Ephramatic? Well,
16:05the the war is actually with Israel, but
16:08Ephraim is synonymous with Israel
16:11because it's the dominant tribe in the
16:13north. If the roles were reversed and
16:16this was the story of the northern
16:18tribes return from exile, then Ephraim
16:21would have the most space. It would be
16:24Judah. It is the north's version of
16:27Judah. But it was Jeroboam of the tribe
16:31of Ephraim who led the northern tribes
16:34in rebellion against the house of David
16:36and the house of Yahweh. So in many ways
16:39the blame for the loss of the 10 tribes
16:41and how they are removed from history
16:44and this story lies at the feet of the
16:47tribe of Ephraim. Okay. So where
16:49Benjamin is has been loyal to David.
16:52Okay. Ephraim has been the opposite of
16:55loyal to David. I'll say it another way.
16:57Okay. In the eternal war between the
17:00sisters Leah and Rachel, it is Leah who
17:02wins again. It was her son and her heir
17:07that survived to lead Israel. Judah, not
17:11Rachel's. Her heir was Joseph and his
17:15heir was Ephraim. And though this tribe
17:18in the north was important, ultimately
17:21this tribe was lost. And we'll talk
17:23about why this tribe was lost as we
17:27unpack the word remnant. Okay. So then
17:30chapter 7 30 to 40 we get a focus on
17:34Asher. Notice how the tribes of Dan and
17:36Zebulun are missing. But that's because
17:39there's a theological point that these
17:42genealogies are making. Every tribe
17:45doesn't need to be included. That's not
17:46the point. Chapter 8, we're going to get
17:49another focus on Benjamin because we're
17:51going to get Saul's line and the sons of
17:53Benjamin. So, Benjamin is going to make
17:55another appearance. And then in chapter
17:589, okay, we are going to get content
18:01regarding the very first return. Okay?
18:04And here's what it says. Chapter 9, so
18:06all Israel was recorded in genealogies
18:09and these are written in the book of the
18:11kings of Israel. And Judah was taken
18:14into exile in Babylon because of their
18:16breach of faith. The entire story which
18:19will be revisited much later in the book
18:22in one line. And then straight away
18:25here's what we get. Now the first to
18:27dwell again in their possessions in
18:30their cities were Israel, the priests,
18:32the Levites, and the temple servants.
18:35Then the next few paragraphs. Okay. So
18:38the people are backed and there's a
18:40massive theological point being made
18:42that these people that have come back,
18:45these are the remnant. So the whole
18:47point of the genealogy is to essentially
18:50show you a before and after. Okay? Look
18:53at how many hundreds of thousand people
18:54there were and now only this small
18:58little bit is coming back. If the story
19:01started at chapter nine and just showed
19:03you who came back, you'd have no
19:04appreciation for whether it's a lot of
19:07people or a small amount of people, you
19:09you'd have nothing to compare it to. So,
19:12the first eight chapters are not just
19:14telling you the story of the tribes and
19:15their importance, but they're also
19:17telling you how robust of a nation
19:20Israel is and now how lean of a nation
19:24Israel is. But this isn't to be like
19:27discouraging. It's actually to say the
19:29remnant is where it's at. Like like the
19:33remnant is going to become a a badge of
19:36honor. Okay. I I was actually in a youth
19:39group growing up called the remnant and
19:41our senior pastor shut that down. He was
19:43like the reason the youth ministry only
19:4530 kids, it went from like 600 kids to
19:4730 kids. And he's like cuz you named it
19:49the remnant. Like remnant literally
19:51means the leftovers. And he's like, "You
19:54got you can't name the thing the remnant
19:56like and think it's going to grow."
19:58Like, and we had a badge of honor. We
20:00were like, "Yeah, the youth group used
20:01to be 600 kids, but those kids were like
20:03smoking weed and having sex, and we're
20:05like we're we're I kid you not." Like,
20:08in terms of quality, we were strong. In
20:11terms of quantity, not so not not not so
20:13much. So, remnant, I mean, may not be a
20:16fantastic name if you're trying to grow
20:18in quantity. uh because it does mean
20:21those that have gone through the fire
20:23and come back and so that is what we are
20:25dealing with in chapter nine. Okay, all
20:28the the genealogies are all the context
20:32for the people that have returned to the
20:34land. There were 12 tribes, many clans
20:36and families, but now only these remain.
20:40Okay, this is thus the true Israel loyal
20:44to Yahweh and they have survived the
20:47refining fires of exile. So exile is
20:50going to be seen as a refining fire that
20:53the goal of exile was to burn off the
20:55extra. Okay, so that's why remnant is a
20:58badge of honor because we survived the
21:01fire. Okay. But now the these are the
21:04the sorry loyal to Yahweh that has sur
21:08have survived their fighting fires of
21:10exile. The remnant is pure and so the
21:14lists and more significant because it
21:16shows them to be the true Israel
21:18returning from exile in contrast to the
21:21people of the land. Okay, remember we
21:23dealt with this before the people of the
21:25land when we were in Ezra and Nehemiah.
21:28These are the opponents. So, we're going
21:30to get the true Israel coming back from
21:32exile as the remnant, purified, okay, by
21:36fire, refined versus the people of the
21:38land. Why does Ezra have an issue with
21:41the people of the land? I tell you
21:42exactly why. The people of the land,
21:45they are the descendants of those who
21:46did not go through exile and married in
21:49a pagan families. They cannot serve.
21:52They cannot claim the promised land.
21:53They are not pure. Exile has not refined
21:56them. They are not a part of the
21:59remnant. This list ends with mention of
22:02the revival of what will soon what we
22:05will soon read. The choir singing day
22:07and night that David set up for the
22:09temple. This is chapter 9:es 33 to34. It
22:13says this. Now these the singers, the
22:15heads of father's houses of the Levites
22:18were in the chambers of the temple free
22:20from other service for they were on duty
22:23day and night. These were heads of
22:26fathers houses of the Levites according
22:28to their generations leaders. These
22:31lived in Jerusalem. So when the Bible in
22:35Chronicles 9:33 and 34 talks about
22:38revival, it's saying no, the remnant,
22:41this refining fire of going through the
22:44exile has now produced Levites who are
22:47in the temple free from any other
22:49service on duty day and night singing
22:52before God. This is revival. Okay. And
22:56then chapter 9 verse 35-44
22:59is going to give us uh genealogies about
23:01Saul's line. So all these genealologies,
23:05all these lists are actually ultimately
23:10culminating or climaxing in 1 Chronicles
23:13chapter 9. Okay? It's a before and
23:15after. It's funny, you know, um, one
23:18time I was on the road and a gentleman
23:20was, you know, hosting me and I just
23:23thought to myself, not in like a rude or
23:25offensive way. I just thought to myself,
23:26yo, like he's a big dude. And then he
23:30actually told me, he's like, man, I'm
23:32down 200 lb. You just see my before
23:34picture. And I was like, show me the
23:36before picture. And of course, I then
23:38looked at him and realized, oh wow,
23:40yeah, you've you've definitely lost like
23:42200 lb. It's funny how once I saw the
23:45before picture, I looked at him in
23:47reality way different. I was thinking to
23:50myself, "Wow, that's a big guy." And now
23:51I was thinking to myself, "That's a
23:53small guy." Because I put him in context
23:56of who he used to be. So, chapter nine
23:59is showing us who Israel is right now.
24:01And you'll be thinking yourself, "Oh
24:03man, they're a big country. They're a
24:04big nation." But then the genealogies
24:07which is chapters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and 8 is
24:11actually showing you the before picture
24:13telling you no this is just a fraction
24:16of who Israel was. Like this is just a
24:19fraction of who Israel has been. This is
24:23only the remnant. Okay. So that's what
24:25the first nine chapters are doing. Let's
24:28get to our timeless truth for the day.
24:31Okay. I'm going to read Philippians
24:33chapter 3 verse 5 to you. And you may be
24:38thinking to yourself, why are we going
24:39all the way to the New Testament? Well,
24:41it's because in this original genealogy,
24:45which is 1 Chronicles 7 6-12, we focus
24:49on Benjamin. Okay? This is the tribe of
24:52Saul. And uh the tribe that Saul comes
24:56from is going to go through a lot of ups
24:59and downs throughout the Hebrew
25:01scriptures. But one person from the
25:04tribe of Saul, from the tribe of
25:06Benjamin, which is Saul's tribe, is
25:08actually going to get brought to the
25:10forefront of ministry and change the
25:13entire legacy of this entire tribe.
25:15Philippians 3:5 it says this. If someone
25:18else thinks he has reasons to put
25:20confidence in the flesh, I have more
25:22circumcised on the eighth day of the
25:24people of Israel of the tribe of
25:26Benjamin the Hebrew of Hebrews in
25:28regards to the law a Pharisee as for
25:30zeal persecuting the church as for
25:33righteousness based on the law
25:35faultless. This is Paul or rather Saul
25:40who we know as Paul. Okay, Paul is his
25:43Latin name. Saul is his Hebrew name. At
25:46no point does God convert his name from
25:48Saul to Paul. People preach that all the
25:50time. It always makes me glitch a little
25:52bit because the Bible doesn't say that.
25:54But anyway, [snorts] whereas the
25:56original Saul, the Benjaminite, was full
25:59of pride and arrogance, there's a new
26:01Saul who's going to redeem the name of
26:04his tribe. And that is the apostle. The
26:08apostle uh that we know as Paul. Latin
26:11name Paul, Hebrew name Saul or Saul. Uh
26:16so if yesterday I talked about legacy,
26:19the flip side of legacy is restoring
26:21your family or your tribe's name andor
26:24honor. For some of us, we are in the
26:27positions to create great legacy. But
26:29for some of us, creating great legacy is
26:31coming on the heels of restoring a
26:34damaged family name. Much of today's
26:37reading is dominated by Benjamin.
26:39Benjamin's story in scripture is one of
26:41redemption, of how the past, even a
26:44terrible one, does not always have to
26:47shape the future. There's a roller
26:48coaster ride for the tribe of Benjamin.
26:50Benjamin became one of the most hated
26:52tribes in the book of Judges. But then
26:54it rose to the top with King Saul only
26:58to fall again when its most famous son
27:01aka Saul who became king uh was such a
27:05failure. If then became a it then became
27:08a psychic of Judah, a buffer zone
27:10between Ephraim and Judah. But through
27:13Judah, it survived the exile. But
27:16because of Judah, its identity was
27:18swallowed up and Benjaminite became
27:21Jews. Okay, Benjaminites became Jews.
27:24Remember, Jews just means from Judah.
27:27But the story was not yet over. King
27:29Saul was would not be their most famous
27:33son. A thousand years after King Saul,
27:37uh, another Saul would be born to the
27:39tribe of Benjamin, known more by his
27:42Roman name, Paul. Paul the Benjaminite
27:45who was probably who has probably done
27:49more than any other person to shape
27:54Christianity. Our religion in the
27:57fulfillment of Judaism than any other
28:00human being on the planet has forever
28:03changed the world. And man, talk about
28:06redemption.
28:08Okay, being from the tribe of Benjamin
28:11used to not be a badge of honor, but
28:12because of Saul and his life as an
28:15apostle of Jesus, it became an honor.
28:18And that's not just true for the folks
28:20in the Bible. That's true for me and
28:22you. It's a timeless truth. All right,
28:24tomorrow we got day 3:49. We're going to
28:27be diving into 1 Chronicles chapters 10,
28:3011, and 12. I can't wait to see you
28:32right here on tomorrow's podcast
28:35episode. I love you. I'm proud of you.
28:37especially if you're on a streak. See
28:39you tomorrow. Let's go. Thanks so much
28:42for joining us on the Bible Department
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