WEBVTT - #176 Do We Worship a Narcissistic God? 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:05.640 My purpose is to glorify God. How narcissistic must he 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:10.239 be if he creates beings and then their purpose is 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:14.200 to glorify him, like when you first look at it 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:16.439 on the surface, that's what it sounds like. I don't 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:30.120 really want to worship a god like that. What's up, guys, 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:33.440 Welcome to the podcast, Episode one hundred and seventy six, 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:36.280 And this is a special one because we got back 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:42.040 an amazing guest of mine, multi multi timer, and back 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:46.479 Bernie Calcote. And if you're watching on YouTube, you'll notice something. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.120 If you're not, if you're listening on Spotify or Apple 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.239 or something, you won't notice. But he is now a 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.440 mountain man. Yeah, he's got a beard. I'm embracing my 0:00:55.720 --> 0:01:01.360 inner Will Brown, no haircut, not shit, you are that guy, 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:06.039 I do remember. You'd be friends now the way you look. 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.040 You'd be friends with my friend Marv, who's a pastor. 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.240 He's a mennnight pastor in South Carolina and he listens 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:16.280 to this podcast every Monday. Really really good dude. And Marv, 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.240 yeah his name is Marvin. You're starting to look like 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:23.960 a midnight pastor with this beard. Shout up to what 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.640 we do on this podcast with Bernie. He helps me 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:30.959 a lot because we just answer your questions. And Bernie 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.200 has been answering my questions for about twenty years. When 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.120 I have a problem, I reach out and I'm like, hey, birds, 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.520 I got a problem, or it doesn't even have to 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.919 be a problem, just just a scenario walking through life, 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.319 walking through life. And so that's what we do with you. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.440 And you email me Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.240 We're gonna get to this inbox. I told Bernie, I 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.880 have no idea what's coming up like that. There's no planning, 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.560 there's no notes flying blind, we don't have no special 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:02.720 quotes that we're just gonna out there. Our minds are 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:07.800 empty right now. Yeah, all right, So first question, Brenda 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:11.000 gets it and it says this, Hey, granger I really 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:15.160 enjoy your podcast. I'm from West Virginia. I was married 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.079 in two thousand and six, got divorced in two thousand 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:22.600 and eight. My ex husband died in twenty twenty. I 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:27.480 consider myself single, not divorced. Now. I have a relationship 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.480 with God and I've been praying for a godly man. 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.440 Can you please tell me what to do? There is 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.280 not a singles group in our church. I don't know 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.560 what I could do. Thank you for everything to do. God, 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:45.760 bless Brenda. Brenda from West Virginia, married, married in six, 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.240 got divorced in eight. He died in twenty. He died 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:54.480 in twenty twenty. So she considers herself single, not divorced. 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:59.720 Now that's just a mentality she's going with here. But 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.639 the question, it sounds like, is how do I get 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:09.119 a man? She's lonely? Yep, because two thousand and six 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:13.440 a long that's a long time. Or two thousand and 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.040 eight when she divorced. Oh sorry, I got divorced two 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.920 thousand and eight. Still okay, So still we're talking a 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:24.960 long time, sixteen years something like that. Fifteen years. So 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.880 I have a relationship with God, she says. I've been 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.840 praying for a godly man, she says, And then she 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.760 asked me, and you, Bernie, but what can I do? 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.680 There's not a singles group at church. I don't know 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:47.760 what to do. Okay, what you got for Brenda Brenda? 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:54.520 So again, we don't prepare for these questions. I'm just 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:59.160 kind of praying beforehand that hey, Holy Spirit, give us 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.480 the words, bring to mind the things you want. These 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.920 people to hear and us to hear as well through 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:08.040 this because I think this podcast ministers to Griz and 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:13.160 I both so. Pastor John Piper says that God is 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.960 most glorified through us when we are most satisfied in Him. 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.280 If you have a relationship with God and you are 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.400 in his word and you read that the purpose of 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:28.000 our life is to glorify God with our lives, right, 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:34.080 and if that is the most evident when we are 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:40.240 most satisfied in Him, I think maybe that not that 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:46.279 having a partner, and you know, a companion is a 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:51.000 bad thing by any means, but maybe just kind of check, like, man, 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.400 am I most satisfied in him? Is he fulfilling? Is 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:59.000 his grace sufficient? Is he enough? Or am I looking 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:03.440 to fill a part of that with this companion? Maybe 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:08.760 you answer, yes, God is enough. He's sustaining me. He 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.760 sustained me for the last however sixteen years or however 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:16.440 long it's been. But you know, you do feel this 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:21.039 loneliness and you desire for companionship, which can be a 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.680 godly thing and can be a great, you know thing. 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.680 As far as the practical, how do I do that? 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.120 I've just been so out of the game so long. 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.159 I have no I have no idea how you do 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.120 it these days. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it, 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.479 and I want to kind of reinforce what you said, 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.280 because that's not that's not the first thing that came 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.040 to my mind when you went to the piper, most 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.000 glorified thing. I love that, and I think that's a 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.400 that's a great answer kind of for anyone with any question. 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:52.680 And so let's look, let's kind of dissect that and 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.479 see what that looks like. Because to some people that 0:05:55.640 --> 0:06:00.320 comes across is like, my purpose is to glorify godd 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:06.120 How narcissistic must he be if he creates beings, and 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:10.599 then their purpose is to glorify him, Like when you 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:12.320 first look at it on the surface, that's what it 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.800 sounds like. I don't really want to worship a god 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:19.200 like that, that a narcissistic god just wants attention, literally 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.640 creates people so that they will give him attention. I 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.640 don't I don't like that. I don't like that thought. 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.560 That's what some of you might be thinking. So let's 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.480 unpack it and see what, like where that goes, and 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.400 maybe dig deeper into what that could mean for our lives, 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:37.880 because the ultimate, the ultimate gift that you get from 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:43.920 that is your own joy and hope and love and peace. 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.839 These are fruits that you get as a result of 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:52.120 your worship to your creator. Okay, so let's unpack that 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.720 a little further. I've told I did a sermon one 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:59.159 time and looked at it like this. I grew up 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.280 a huge George Strait. You know that, Bernie, Yes, So 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.000 imagine I used to go to these concerts by myself 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.280 when I was a teenager, and I would sit in 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.000 the very center of the second row, right in the middle, 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.320 and just I would go there, and I would camp 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.920 out the night before to get the tickets, and then 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.880 I would wait in these ridiculous lines and I would 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.440 get in at noon. George Strait didn't go on till 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:25.800 about eight pm, and I'm there in the building at noon, 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.360 and I would go there. So imagine this scenario, and 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.080 we're going to play this out. Imagine I go in there, 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.400 do all that, and I get there and there is 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:39.000 a camera stand right in front of my seat, and 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.840 George Strait comes out, and I'm just like, well, this 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:47.200 is not what I expected. So I started daydreaming kind 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.080 of lose my interest in the concert, and what am 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.520 I going to do? There's a camera right here, George 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:57.120 Strait in front of seventy thousand people. He's playing to everyone, 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.640 and he looks at me and he says, you move 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:05.160 the camera so you could see me. Look to me, 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:11.240 focus on me. That's why you came, that's why you're here. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.800 So in that scenario, then would George Strait be narcissistic 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.320 to say that to me? Would he be some evil, 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.720 creepy guy that is just wanting to get glory from everyone. No, 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.760 that's actually the most selfless thing he could do. In 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.840 that scenario, when all these people are there, he looks 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.080 to me and goes, I'm gonna give you glory by 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.320 you giving me glory, I will give you hope, I 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.079 will give you peace. I will give you unbelievable joy 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:45.120 in this concert. Look to me, move all obstacles out 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:49.200 of the way. So that's what happens. God does that 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.640 so that we could be we could share in that glory. 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.520 He doesn't need any more from us, but he wants 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.640 to selflessly give it back to us so that we 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:02.199 could share in it as adopted kids. That's unbelievable. If 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.439 you unpack it that way, that's the depth behind what 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:10.760 Bernie is saying. God is most glorified in us when 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:15.480 we are most satisfied in Him. So, Brenda, that starts 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.959 the whole conversation, that starts probably every question we have today. 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:24.200 Can you say that, are you satisfied in Him? Because 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:28.679 if you are, then you go, God, I'm single. I 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:33.240 want somebody. But if that's not in your designs, that's 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.760 not in your plan for me. Let me just focus 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.960 on you. Let me just continue to glorify you, regardless 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.920 of who else is in my life. Okay, that's that 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:47.040 part that's done. Now let's get practical, Brenda. You say, 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.240 I've been praying for godly man, can you tell me 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.560 what to do? There's not a singles group in our church? 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:57.480 Is that the only church? First question? Yeah? Is it 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:03.839 the only church? But also like, surely there's other ministries 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:09.760 within that church. Surely there's other kind of hobbies, desires 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.320 and gifts that God has given you to be able 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:16.360 to serve your community or whatever. Go do those things 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:21.880 and just you know, listen to that still small voice 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:26.719 that's saying, Hey, there's this orphan care ministry that I'm 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:28.720 gonna lay on your heart and you're gonna like start 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:33.000 to push into that and you respond one day at 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:34.800 a time, you say, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna serve here. 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.400 I'm gonna serve here. It could be you know, like 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.040 some running group, or it could it could be anything 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.000 that you just listen to that voice and you walk 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.080 in the spirit in that and then all of a sudden, 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.000 this dude shows up and he's he's kind of listening 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.280 to the same spirit, and you guys are all of 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.880 a sudden kind of walking next to each other, not 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.440 in order to find each other, but in order to 0:10:57.920 --> 0:10:59.839 listen to the voice of God and walk in it. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.400 But then you realize you're walking right next to each other, 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.120 and then it's like, Hey, I have a companion in 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.079 the work that God has put before us. I think 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.800 a lot of times these relationship questions can really be 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:20.200 just self focused, and relationship be self focused instead of Hey, 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.040 what if we found somebody that would co labor with 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.120 us in the work that God puts in front of us. 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:33.240 That's that's what it's about, So maybe give that a shot. Brenda. 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:35.720 Start looking around at those opportunities, like what is God 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:37.520 put in front of you and then start doing, and 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.199 then look to your left and right and see who's 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:43.120 with you. So good, reach out, serve others. Don't get 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.440 caught sitting on the couch waiting for your church to 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:50.120 provide you with a singles group. Right, all right, next 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:55.960 question here, Well we can go to this one. I like, guys, 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:57.400 I have no idea what these are about to say, 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.360 but it says easy question. Hey, my name is Joseph. 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:04.440 I'm fifteen. I live in Port Angelus, Washington. Thank you 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.600 for helping me get through when I broke my leg. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.560 I was listening to your podcast in the hospital. I 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:11.840 was wondering if there's a way to make your voice 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:18.800 deeper or higher pitched. What kind of exercises are there? Yeah? Ye, 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.880 God blessed. So fifteen is a time that's kind of 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.160 the time you start asking me. You're like, hey, man, 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.959 everyone's got a deep voice, but me, what do I do? 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:34.840 Hey Grader? Yeah, yeah, Hey, that's his nature, isn't it? Like? 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:36.920 I don't know at some level, Joseph, if you're the 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:40.600 voice pro like just gonna happen. If you're talking about singing, 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.560 maybe you're talking about singing. That's a little different. But 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:46.440 if you're talking about speaking, that's just gonna happen. You. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.320 Have you heard yourself in a while. I have listened 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.840 to you from old tapes, But have you heard yourself 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:56.680 talk from twenty five years ago? No, I've listened to 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.839 you two or five years ago recently, because there's one 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.199 on one of your albums. Oh no, is that one 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.520 where you're out talking? Oh? Yeah, yeah, what's a homeless guy? Yeah? Yeah, 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.839 So when you listen to yourself twenty years ago, all 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.120 of us our voices are different. It's almost not even 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:16.280 the same person. It's weird. Harrison Ford. I was listening 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.360 to him talk the other day. That guy's voice is 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.920 so deep now and it wasn't necessarily like that when 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.520 he was han solo. Wow, so we change, Joseph, your 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.199 voice is going to change naturally. The more you use it, 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:33.439 the more that muscle gets stronger. And uh, just don't 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.480 worry about it. If you're talking about singing, you exercise it. 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.640 Just like you want to be a runner, you would 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.320 exercise your legs. If you want to be a singer, 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:44.520 you exercise your vocal cords. Oh, look at this one 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:51.000 subject line, mark of the Beast. Hey, grangem twenty nine 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.600 years old, live in Indiana. So we're sitting around a campfire, 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:55.760 and I'd like to hear your thoughts on the Mark 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.160 of the Beast. Revelations thirteen explains it how the end 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.640 of times will be near and nobody will be able 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.839 to buy or sell without worshiping the anti Christ. The 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.560 number is sixty six six also plays a role in 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.440 the end times. And it's all a little confusing to me. 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.800 I'm young. I have a hard time comprehending comprehending revelations 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:16.839 with an s on the end. Would love to hear 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.880 your thoughts. God bless and that is Did he say 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:25.960 his name? He just said he's twenty nine. Yeah, email 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:31.840 says jer So we'll call you Jeremy. Jeremy. Okay. It's 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.520 actually really nice that Bernie's sitting here because he could 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.840 go a totally different direction. And you're you're open to 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:39.920 I'll let it. Let you do whatever you want to 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.920 do here. This is not my special okay, Okay, Well 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.560 then we'll just walk through this together. Here's the deal, Jeremy. 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.440 There was actually was a time when I was in 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.160 high school. I was really into this stuff, Like I 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.200 would get into it, and I would listen to these 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.080 they left behind, Yeah, like the left behind times that 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:02.640 was around that that era in the nineties. But what 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.840 I have come to learn over these years, especially the 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:11.320 recent years, of really diving into the New Testament, diving 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:16.920 into Revelation, diving into Daniel and Isaiah and the different 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:23.440 apocalyptic stories, the apocalyptic narratives that we see in the Bible, 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.240 And what I'm about to say is probably going to 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.680 make you. Maybe it's going to make some people not 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:33.680 want to listen to the podcast anymore because it's boring. 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.440 But at a lot of modern day scholars will say 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:41.160 that a lot of that stuff that was prophesied in 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:48.120 Revelation has already happened, that that Nero was part of that. 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:54.240 All this plan when Jerusalem was that the the Israelites 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:58.600 revolted in sixty six AD right against the Romans because 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.480 of the oppression, because they were taxed heavily. It was 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:07.280 it was a terrible environment in the sixties AD. And 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:11.560 so the Israelites got together with all these revolutionists and 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.880 they revolted, and Rome crushed them over the course of 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.560 four years, and in seventy a d the temple in 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:26.440 Jerusalem was demolished, just like Jesus prophesied. The religion was crushed. 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.280 They built a pagan temple on that mount right there 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.480 where the where the Jerusalem Temple was, where the Second 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:38.480 Temple that Solomon was. They they then kicked everyone out 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:44.400 that wanted to worship the Yahweh God. They they they 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:49.600 made it illegal to sacrifice, illegal to obey the Sabbath, 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:55.960 illegal to circumcise. Jews were dispersed, It was completely crushed. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.000 In fact, there was one more small revolt in one 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:03.880 thirty five a d. When that was crushed, Israel no 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:09.280 longer was a state. They're gone until crazy nineteen forty three. 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.920 All this time goes by, right, so two thousand years 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:18.240 go by. Anyway, Most modern day scholars now will say 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.560 that all this mark of the Beast stuff, all this revelation, 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.439 end of times, all that stuff that John was talking 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:28.919 about the apostle was already fulfilled. And the destruction of 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:32.080 the temple, destruction of Israel, the dispersion of the people. 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.320 That is really boring because so many of us want 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.440 to just be like, oh, this mark of the Beast, 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.320 here's it come, here it comes. I remember when they 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.240 said it was credit cards you know when that first 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.040 came out. Now it's all you know, it's the vaccine 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.439 that was it for a while. And we know this. 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:49.040 I could tell you this about the end of times 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:54.000 for sure. When Jesus came, the end of times began. 0:17:54.400 --> 0:18:00.280 Then he ushered in the end of times phase this, 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:04.240 this is the last of days. When Jesus came, right, 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.639 he became the new Covenant, he became the once and 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.320 for all sacrifice. So no longer that people have to 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.399 kill lambs and dove and lay them on an altar 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:18.720 and cook them and oxen. Jesus became the once for 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:23.920 all sacrifice for all humans that would receive him as 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:29.320 their lord and savior. So, Jeremy, if we just focus 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:33.040 on that and stop digging into maybe what was six 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.359 six six market the beast to buy and sell and trade? 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.240 What if that already happened, and you need to be 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:42.359 focused on the savior that made the once and for 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.440 all sacrifice in the end of times, which is right 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.520 now that we're living in. People say we're living in 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:50.320 the end of Times. Yeah we are. We always have 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.560 been for two thousand years. Once again, so boring like 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:58.280 this doesn't get any clickbait on a podcast. No, that's 0:18:58.320 --> 0:18:59.960 not what people want to hear. People want to say. 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.800 They want me to say, yeah, I heard that President 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:08.879 Biden might be the anti Christ. At the end of 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.200 the world is coming when you lie seventeen yeah, yeah. 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:16.280 So I'm sorry that burst some bubbles and that might 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:20.359 actually create some people talking and wanting to fight against 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.639 me on that. And you're totally welcome to I'm not 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.240 totally right about this. This is all speculation. No one 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:32.639 really knows, but modern scholars really believe that this stuff 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.760 that John's talking about already happened. I can tell you 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:39.160 this for sure. And I'm not talking about the apocalypse 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:41.840 and the end war. I'm not talking about that. I'm 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:46.760 talking about six sixty six. What we need to know 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:53.399 is this, and this is the truth. For thousands of years, 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.240 people have thought maybe their generation is the last one 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:59.080 and that the rapture is coming. If you believe in raptured. 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:05.920 There's people that don't believe in rapture. But ninety nine 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:10.840 infinite percent chance you will die, Jeremy before any of 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.720 this happens, and me and Bernie and everyone listening to 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.280 this podcast will die a human death and not be 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:21.760 raptured because it's not our time. So if that's the odds, 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:23.960 if that was a Vegas odds, I would say, if 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.120 that's my Vegas odds, I'm putting all my bets on 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.120 Jesus as my savior that I will meet him after 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:35.960 an earthly death, and I put my trust in him 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:38.720 as the once and for all sacrifice. And I'm not 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:42.600 looking to the sky for some crazy apocalypse burning that's 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:49.520 gonna happen. Not yet. Yeah, dude, that is impressive. Let 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.680 me just say, did y'all know that he knew all that? 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:56.159 Like that's I knew you were a history buff, but 0:20:56.200 --> 0:21:01.399 you're like, you know and once again, and dude, that's impressive. 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:05.000 I didn't know that stuff. So Jarre, thank you for 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:08.480 putting the question so Gris could enlighten us a little. 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.560 This podcast is brought to you by Fabric by Gerber Life. 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:21.440 You know, sometimes I'm traveling so much with my job 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:24.080 and I think to myself, what if I never made 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:27.440 it home, would my kids and my wife be okay? 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:31.199 Are they covered? And then some of you might be 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:34.160 thinking that, and you think, well, that whole insurance thing 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:37.280 that's too complicated. 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