Prophesy — Romans 1

0:00 Well, good afternoon, everybody. It is a real privilege to be here, to see, the saints and to be with the saints who have a like precious heart. Probably the most difficult thing to talk about out of the Bible is prophecy. There are a lot of, the reason why I would say this, a lot of cults have been born out of a misunderstanding, a misrepresentation, or just a deliberate diluting of prophecy and issues of prophecy. So when you get up and talk about prophecy, you got to check your p's and q's and make sure that everything's right.

0:39 So I, this week, have been checking a lot of commentaries to see if they were right. Because if they don't agree with me, they're not right. But I think I turned out all right. So we're going to look at the matter not so much of trying to educate you on the prophecy in the Bible. First of all, that would take us forever.

1:01 But more just a basic construct so that anybody can come along and using some of the things that we'll talk about, some of them are certainly not new to you, make sure that you're on point, constantly on point. So I want you to turn in your Bibles to the book of Romans chapter one. And I want to just give you some things that pointed out. You remember what I believe Luke wrote the book of Hebrews, I used to believe that Paul wrote it because it was in my bible that Paul had written Hebrews. But I believe that Doctor.

1:33 Luke wrote Hebrews and he said in chapter one verse one, he said, God who in sundry times and diverse manners spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken to us by son. The word his is inserted, but by son. Not so much saying that Jesus is the only son that existed, but he's the only son, the only monogenes huios of God. So it is an assigned position as well as a relational position. It is an authoritative and official position to be the son of God.

2:06 So as before, it official to be the prophet of God. Now he's saying that God is no longer speaking among the prophets or by the prophets, he's speaking by son. And that revelation and that relationship is relevant for the believers today. So when you turn to the book of Romans, we're going to just follow the three methods God used and only highlight prophecy, but God used three methods to talk to the fathers. And look what it says in verse number one, Paul a servant, for those of you who are Greek students, doulas of Jesus Christ called echo, which called out or specifically targeted to be separated.

2:46 The word there is Aporizo, Ap, A P O, means apart from. Horizo is the word where we get the word horizon, apart from horizon, destined to do things that have eternal weight to them, separate into the gospel of God. Now notice the next statement is a parenthetical statement. Notice following here, there's three aspects, three ways God talks, and notice what he does. First of all, which he promised.

3:09 The Old Testament is fraught with promises. That's one thing god used. Now, a promise is a direct word of god to an individual or a people without the agency of a human element. So, when god went to promise David something, he did not send a prophet to David. He said, to David, he says, thou will not leave my soul in hell, neither will let this only one to see corruption.

3:30 The Lord is at my right hand, he's always before my face. So God gave David a promise, was directly from God to David. The second way is, notice what it says, which he promised before by his prophets. So the second means is prophecy. Now, we're going to talk about prophecy and its definition in a minute.

3:47 And then it says, in the holy scriptures, that's God's precepts. So God used promises, prophecy, and His precepts to communicate to His people. That's what God had used. There was no other agency. God was not speaking to people with faces of God in the water or whispering on the wind or through a bowl of ketchup, nothing like that.

4:11 God found three means that we see that we could depend on. He used his word precepts, promises that he made to people, and also prophecy. When God spoke to Abraham and told him he'd have a son, it wasn't a prophecy, it was a promise. It was a promise, and that's what Hebrews six said. When God spoke to Abraham, he did it through two immutable facts.

4:32 Then one, God cannot lie. It was a spoken word from God to Abraham. Was a promise. You're going to have a son through the agency of your wife, Sarah. So that's God's means of talking to people He is very deeply related to.

5:09 And we're gonna go into detail with that and give some examples of apocalyptic prophecy. And the other one is conditional. Conditional prophecy, based on how mankind reacts. Conditional prophecy will always have an if in it somewhere. If could, if my people which are called by thy name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their head away, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sins and heal their land.

5:33 That's a conditional prophecy. So it's relative to how man responds. The pressures of the situation, does it call man to give up on God or to trust God? So we're gonna look at those two basic major categories of prophecy. Apocalyptic, that's absolutely certain, nothing changes, nothing can change it, and conditional prophecy.

5:53 So there are more apocalyptic prophecies in the Bible than there are conditional prophecies. But let's take that apart. Apocalyptic prophecies usually, usually portend something. An apocalyptic prophecy is a certain unconditional fact for future events. Now, that's what a prophecy has got to be.

6:16 It's got to be an accurate, verifiable prediction of future events through the agency of prophets. Now, I'm going to give you some scripture and if you get to it first, I want you to speak out real loud or stand up and read it. Someone find Amos chapter three verse seven. Amos chapter three verse seven. Amos chapter three verse seven.

6:45 It's in that clean section of your bible that you never turn to. Okay. Yes sir.

6:53 Surely the Lord God does nothing unless he reveals his secret to his servants, the prophets.

6:58 Now, that's absolute validatable scripture. That's black print on white paper from the word of God, God's mouth. Surely, the Lord God will do nothing except he reveal it into his servants, the prophets. Okay? God will do nothing.

7:12 Now that's amazing. God covenants with him, with his people that nothing's gonna happen unless my man talks about it first.

7:18 What was that reference again?

7:20 Sorry. That was Hezekiah nine eleven. Go ahead. No, it's Amos three:seven. Amos three:seven, okay?

7:29 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, and that's an apocalyptic statement right there, he will do nothing except he revealed the secret to his servants, the prophets. Now, here's the problem with apocalyptic prophecies. Apocalyptic prophecies can be, here's our first sub point, dualic in nature. Dual in nature. Now, when you have a dual fulfillment of prophecy, it is for a purpose.

7:56 It is a purpose that, and here's the definition of a dual fulfillment of prophecy, it is a prophecy that is presented with a present, tense and reality, as well as a future tense and reality. The present tense has a relevant context for the audience of the day, unique to their immediate needs and situation, and a future tense which reveals a messianic absolute revelation of God's life and his ministry. Now I said a lot, but understand something, a dual fulfillment of prophecy is something that has real time relevance to the people of that generation. In other words, their generation will not pass until the aspects, the certain and absolute aspects of that prophecy as it relates to them is revealed. But it also portends something that will happen in the future that always has messianic context to it.

9:50 Okay, here are the words and we'll come back and deal with them. Virgin, conceive, son, and Emmanuel. Four words, four pivotal words. Virgin, conceive, son, and Emmanuel. So first of all, let's do our homework.

10:10 Who's the prophet that's speaking right here? Isaiah. Now what what was Isaiah's job in the on the scheme of the history of Israel? What was Isaiah's job? What what was his, the role of his ministry in the life of Israel?

10:26 He was a prophet.

10:27 Yeah, he was a prophet, but there was a bunch of prophets. Which, what was, each prophet had a specific ministry for the day and age that he was in. What was Isaiah's job? If I were to take you, an old testament survey, you take all the prophetic books, and especially ones named after men, and you'd have to give me a synopsis that identified the uniqueness of this book, and ergo, the uniqueness of the prophet. So, as much as you know about Isaiah, tell me some things you know about him and what type of ministry, spoken ministry did he have.

11:00 What did it cover? Yes ma'am.

11:02 Prophesied about the Lord Jesus Christ.

11:03 He was singularly given more information of the Lord Jesus Christ than all of the other major prophets combined. That's a fact. His kingdom reign, the millennial reign, His suffering, His passion, resurrection, His ministry, all of that's covered in the book of Isaiah. So Isaiah was the only prophet who saw the high end, what did he see? He saw him, saw the...

11:36 I saw the Lord high and lifted up, and he saw the grand throne room of heaven. Okay? Here is Isaiah. He's given this this assignment. He is probably revered more than all the other major prophets, and all of them were great, but Isaiah's prophecy was so uniquely specific, there's no doubt in your mind that he was talking about the Lord Jesus Christ.

12:03 Okay? Now that's that's Isaiah's job and Isaiah did this over the span of how many kings? Anybody know? And who the kings were? Who are the...

12:12 Okay. Who are the four kings? Right. Alright, dude, read Isaiah chapter one. You...

12:18 Right. His job was to prophesy over the life and reign of four kings. Now, some kings lasted only a couple of years, some lasted several years, but Isaiah's job was to keep in the mind of Israel. Remember, Israel is slowly moving to an apostate position, and on his watch, he has to deal with Hezekiah, he has to deal with Ahaz, who else has he deal with? Uzziah.

12:41 Uzziah, and who else? One more person. Who's that? Jotham, J O T H M. Now, he had the job of keeping the sense of the nationality of Israel in two portents.

12:55 One, their role as Jews nationally, as a people, but also Israel as a religion, as a faith. He was trying to keep them cohesive because you know, Israel was slipping off every now and then and going dating with Baal and Ashtaroth and so on and so forth. And he had to keep Israel's mindset on the thus saith the Lord. That was his point. So here, God has to give in Isaiah's prophecy something that the people of Israel can validate that this is Jehovah God talking.

13:29 This isn't one of the other prophets whose God never speaks, he's just afraid of him because of what he might do, but this is the God who speaks and things happen. So this is a dual fulfillment prophecy. Why do say that? Well, let's look at our pivotal words. First of all, virgin.

14:26 It could be translated that way. Nowhere in the Old Testament it is. So when Rudolf Boutman said that this passage does not talk about the virgin birth, he was absolutely wrong because nowhere in the Old Testament is it translated, and when we get to Matthew chapter one verse 21, the Bible says a virgin shall conceive and shall bring forth a son and his name shall be called Jesus. That's the word there that's absolutely one thing, a virgin, a woman who's never known a man. So that's very, you have to be very careful that when you look in the future tense, the word is translated accurately.

15:00 A woman who has never known a man sexually. But here, the Holy Spirit, the genius of the Holy Spirit wants the word alma to be used because of the dual fulfillment of prophecy. What do you mean, Dwight? You keep saying this over and over again. Because the scripture is talking not just about the Lord Jesus, it was also talking about Isaiah's wife.

15:20 She's going have a son in chapter eight, his name is going be Mehrshalahazbaz. Say that three times without stopping. Mayor Shalahazbaz. And it's talking, notice how can you tell that? Look at what it says in verse number 15.

15:33 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that thou abhorst shall be forsaken of both her kings. He's talking about the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom. So that has real time relevance to it. It can't be talking about the lord Jesus Christ because He's some thousand years down the line.

15:57 It's got be talking about something in present tense reality. So in that present tense reality is this fella, Mayor Shalahazbaz, going to be before he gets to be of age where he, what we call the age of accountability, where he knows good and evil, both of those kings are gonna be gone. So our first pivotal word is the word virgin. Yes, it is never translated in the Old Testament to mean anything but a woman who's never been in sexual contact with man, but it can be. And in this case, it is opened up for dual fulfillment.

16:29 Yes, there's going be somebody who's going to have a child, that's going be the prophet's wife, Isaiah, but in the future, it's going be someone named Mary, and she's going bring forth a child. That's going be the Lord Jesus Christ. Our second pivotal word is the word sun. Sun. Now, for those of you who care, the big word for us in the Greek is the difference between and technon.

16:54 Now, someone says said to me in an argument several years ago when I was debating at Harvard, he said, if Jesus is God and he's the son of God, and then you say, you became a Christian, now you're a son of God, what's the difference? Are you God too? Well, the person didn't know the difference in the Greek words. The Greek word for someone who is brought in and adopted and treated as though they were God's own is the word technon. However, the monogenes we ask, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, the phrase that God has reserved in eight places in scripture to only describe His son is the word huios, h u I s.

17:31 That's one, the term means born out of His own bowels. Jordan is the monogenes huios. He's the only begotten son of Ray. Okay? That's what it means.

17:40 And Lord Jesus is the only one who has that phrase about him. Whether you see it in Isaiah chapter eight or in Zechariah chapter 12, no matter where you see it, it means one thing. It's specifically assigned by the Holy Spirit, the genius of God, to only be talking about one person. And this word here, Isaiah's gonna have a son, he's gonna be the monogenes we ask, his name is Meir Shalahazbaz. So if you take your Greek lexicon and look at the Septuagint, the Old Testament reference in Greek, you'd find the word Huyas.

18:17 That word is specific to both aspects of prophecy. Meriach El Hazbaz in the present tense reality and the Lord Jesus Christ in the future. Here's the next one. The word conceive. The word conceive.

18:30 Now the word here conceive, we would love it. We would love it to mean born without the agency or use of a man. That's not what it means. It means that this child will open the womb. That's exactly what it means.

18:45 This child will open the womb. It's giving more information that the person that's going to be born of Mrs. Isaiah and in the future tense of the Virgin Mary will open the womb. And remember what this Bible says about the firstborn child that opens the womb, the symmetric is dedicated to the Lord. That's exactly what's happened here.

19:01 Our last word, our pivotal word here is the word Emmanuel, God with us. And yes, the prophecy given here is about both the Lord Jesus Christ and Mayor Shalahazbaz, Their his coming shall be proof, the fulfillment of prophecy that God is with us, and that is a agitival point of view from Mayor Shalahazbaz, but it is a proper name when we talk about the Lord Jesus Christ, and his name shall be called God with us. Whereas his name here, Meir Shah Hazbaz, this is proof that God hasn't given up on the people of Israel. Dual fulfillment of prophecy. Okay, something that has real time relevance to the people of the day and something that has future value for the people in the future.

19:43 Okay? That's why so many times when Jehovah Witnesses or Islam, people of the Islam faith, even Mormons, bring Christians back to the Old Testament, they can't argue the point because they don't understand how something could be talking about Jesus seemingly at one point but it has real time relevance to it. You have to understand, you have to make a difference where the Holy Spirit makes and God gives us clues like that. So let me, that's one example. Let me give you another one.

20:35 Now you got to read all five verses there to get a grasp of it. I want you to find out what the pivotal words are, who the audience is, who the prophet is, and see how well you do and how quick you pick this up. Second Samuel chapter seven verses 12 through 17. Now you guys said, who was the smartest? He is?

20:56 You're the... Okay. Wants to be the smartest? Okay, you got to answer one of the questions I gave you. Get to reading.

21:03 You to be the smartest? You said you're smartest because you're Indian.

21:07 I was joking.

21:08 You were joking? I was not. So you got to find answer to one of those questions. Okay, okay, you only got a minute. We gotta hurry up and do this.

21:22 You only got a minute to find out what the pivotal words are, who the prophet was, and who is his audience. Second Samuel chapter seven. You should know this one anyway. Okay, wait wait till I ask the question. Wait till I ask the question.

21:55 Okay, You ready? Everybody ready? Okay. First of all, who is the prophet? Who is it?

22:08 Nathan. Nathan is the prophet. Okay. Who's his audience? David.

22:14 David. David. Okay. Now, question. If this is a dual fulfillment of prophecy, who are the two individuals that are being talked about in this passage?

22:31 What's that? Solomon and Jesus. How do we know that? Do we know? Solomon's not mentioned anywhere in this passage, neither is Jesus.

22:42 How do we know?

22:43 Solomon because he will build my house.

22:46 Uh-huh. And Jesus because

22:48 your throne will be established forever.

22:50 Okay, I want you to hear this. Solomon because he's going to build the physical on earth representation of the temple in heaven, and Jesus because he's going to build what? His everlasting kingdom. Okay. How do you know that the everlasting kingdom is not being talked about Solomon?

23:09 Solomon's not going live forever. So you have both a human aspect and a divine aspect. Alright, what are your pivotal words?

23:22 What are your pivotal words?

23:27 Seed. Seed, yes.

23:30 What

23:30 else? Kingdom. Kingdom. I'm gonna show you something. Here on my notes, have exactly in that order, where is it at?

23:41 Seed, kingdom, forever. This guy's a genius. Okay.

23:46 He's our local genius.

23:48 Alright. You need to go national. Okay. So our pivotal words are seed, kingdom, and forever. How do we know which things point to it being Solomon?

24:03 What what phrases? Find the phrases that that are making exclusively talking about Solomon. Find the phrases. Verse five.

24:13 Are you the one who should avail me of house of dwelling? So there's reference of Solomon there.

24:18 Okay. You went outside the scriptures I gave you, that's cheating. Okay, and when the day should be fulfilled, then thou shall sleep

24:29 with thy fathers, I will

24:30 set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom, and notice that he's absolutely right, he's not talking about the Lord Jesus Christ specifically there, why? Because he says, when thy day shall be fulfilled and thou shall sleep with thy fathers, will I set up thy seed after you. So specifically, he's talking about Solomon. What other things do we see? Yep, here's your chance to be shined.

24:56 Either going be a genius or a dummy. No pressure, go.

25:05 Really? Excellent, excellent. The Lord Jesus Christ cannot sin. Very good. I'm going give you a gold star to put on your forehead.

25:12 Okay, so notice there's a discussion of sin, iniquity, okay. Somehow or another this person will have the ability to in his humanity to do wrong. Lord Jesus Christ can. Okay, what else do we know about Solomon? Yes ma'am.

25:27 It says in verse 15, my loving kindness will not depart from him as it did from Saul.

25:33 Okay, explain.

25:36 Well, when Saul sinned, the Lord removed his spirit from him and went to David, his loving kindness would never leave his son, the Lord Jesus.

25:47 Right. Exactly. Okay. Now, give me more scriptures to talk about exclusively the Lord Jesus. More aspects or phrases in this passage that point only to the Lord Jesus.

26:03 Okay,

26:07 I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. What else? Notice, I will be his father. God can't say that about Solomon. He can't say that about the Lord Jesus Christ.

26:21 And he will be my, there's the word again, my son. One coming out of my own nature, my own character, my own essence. That's very important people. That's very... Please don't lose that.

26:34 That's beyond the first tier biblical understanding. That's going down to deeper stuff. That where God is saying, this is... He's gonna have the same divine essence that I'll have. That's why the Jews got upset, remember, in in John seven, where he said, you make yourself the son of God and make yourself equal with God.

26:49 This is based on stuff like this, this passage. Okay. What else do we see that connects it only to the Lord Jesus Christ?

27:00 Okay, and

27:06 thy kingdom shall be established forever before thee, thy throne shall be established forever. Now hold that, that's all pivoted on one word, one of the pivotal words, seed. Follow me. Where do we first see that word seed in the bible? Genesis what?

27:26 Three what? Three fifteen. Somebody quote it or read it, what does it say? I'll bring enmity between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, you shall bruise his heel.

27:43 Okay? When's the next time we see it? Genesis chapter 15. Abraham. Abraham.

27:55 The word is seed, singular. Same thing what he says to Isaac, same thing he says to Jacob. The next time we see it is when he talks to David, and the whole aspect and character of that phrase seed is left at the door of David. So what do we have here? We have established a pivotal point in history, both eternal history and human history.

28:17 In human history, David's son, who's going to follow him on the throne, will have divine seed. So it can't be talking about Solomon. Let me show you why. Turn to Jeremiah. Jeremiah chapter 22.

28:45 Jeremiah chapter 22. Now the Greek way of saying this man's name is Jeconiah, but his Hebrew, the way you say his name in Hebrew, is the word Kanaya. Okay, let's look at verse number 28. It says this, as this man Canaiah despise broken idol, is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? Wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and they are cast into a land which they know not?

29:17 Oh, earth, earth, earth. Whenever God says something three times, you know trouble is coming. Okay? Remember in in Revelation chapter eight, woe, woe, woe unto the inhabitants of the earth for the reason of the three trumpets that are yet to sound. Whenever God says something three times, look, go hide.

29:31 Okay? This is a very important statement God's making here. Hear

29:37 the word

29:37 of the Lord, thus saith the Lord, write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days, for no man of his seed shall prosper sitting upon the throne of David and ruling anymore in Judah. Now this man here, Kanai, in the Greek, he's Jeconiah, is in the direct line of Solomon. I want you to look in two places. First, go to Matthew chapter number one, lick your thumb, we're going do some running here. Matthew chapter one.

30:09 And what is given here is the lineage of Joseph. And I want you to follow me here. Notice what it says. This is the book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. And you just follow down here and look at what it says in verse number five, and Solomon begot Boaz of Rehab, and Boaz begot Obed of Ruth and Obed, we got Jesse and Jesse, we got David, the king, and David the king begot Solomon of her that had been the wife of Uriahs.

30:38 Now, you read all the way down, get down to verse number 11 and Josiah's begot Jechoniah and his brethren about the time they were carried away to Babylon. The last king to sit upon the throne in Israel, in Jerusalem, was a fellow by the name of Jeconiah, and God prophesied in Jeremiah that none of his kids will sit on the throne. So Jesus can't be in the line of Joseph because Joseph's line through Jeconiah was cursed. If you keep on reading, you'll find out this is Joseph's line in verse number 16. Jacob begot Joseph, the husband of Mary of whom was born Jesus who was called the Christ.

31:17 So we know this is the line of Joseph and that line is cursed. So Solomon's seed can't sit on the throne. Now turn to Luke chapter three. Luke chapter three. Now remember that the reason why this says that this is Joseph and his lineage is because a woman's lineage could not start, it cannot start with her name.

31:38 It has to start with her husband's name. Even though it was understood by the way it was written, it was her lineage. Because remember, the woman, the virgin had to conceive, so they kept the record of the woman. That's why when you keep reading first and second Chronicles, which is a view of the temple from the vantage point of the sons of the kings, that the bible has mentioned who his mother was. His mother was so and so.

31:58 His mother was so and so. And that's when they began to chronicle in the temple the names of all the sons of the kings through the line of their mother. So here, this is how it would be written. They would talk about who the husband was, but it was written in such a way that you understood it was the mother. And this is the lineage, look at what we do, we pick up this story in verse number 22 of Luke chapter three.

32:23 I'm sorry, verse 23. And Jesus himself began to be about 30 years of age, being as it was supposed the son of Joseph, who was the son of Heli. You notice that the difference here is a different set of names. And we'll read all the way down and you'll get down to verse number 31, which was born of Meleah, which was born of Menan, which was the son of Mathitha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David. Nathan was David's third son, his third son.

32:51 He is older than Solomon, but from David's direct body, he had a son named Nathan, and Nathan never became king, so the next person to sit through this lineage of David was the Lord Jesus Christ. No other king in Jesus' lineage but David himself. He was great David's greater son. And that's the dual fulfillment of prophecy. That's what you be very careful.

33:57 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men, though it be not a man's covenant, yet it be confirmed, no man disannulleth or addeth thereunto. Now the to Abraham and to his seed, singular, were the promises made. He saith not, and to seeds as many, but as to one and to thy seed, is Christ. There it is. Yes, you have the fulfillment of prophecy in the present tense, and that is through Solomon, and there are certain keys and triggers that let us know that he's talking about Solomon, but then there in that same passage, the wonderful genius of the Holy Spirit, future tense, dual fulfillment prophecy found to only talk about one person, the Lord Jesus Christ.

34:36 So when you talk about apocalyptic prophecy, you have to see things in a dual fulfillment. There's times when God will use the opportunity through His prophet to talk about two things at once, a present tense reality and a future tense reality. And there are several of these throughout the scriptures. So, as you're highlighting your study of prophecy, just remember that you have several categories of prophecy. You just can't say it's prophesied.

35:04 You have to be able to make a difference where the Holy Spirit makes a difference. Okay? So we see that usually, almost 99.9% of the time, whenever it's a dual fulfillment prophecy, there's present tense reality that has to deal with the situation, but the future is usually talking about the Lord Jesus Christ. There is one or two instances where it's talking about present Jerusalem and the new Jerusalem. But most of it is about the messianic aspect of prophecy, talking about the Lord Jesus Christ.

35:31 Does anybody have any questions? Did I talk too fast? That's too bad. Are we taping this? Yeah, we are.

35:39 We're taping this. Okay. Alright. But if it... Stop me.

35:42 If you got a question or you need clarity, now's the time to get it because I... Even though you might get the CD or tape whatever, I can answer probably better than the CD can. Any question? No one? Yes.

35:59 You had your hand up. Great David's greater son?

36:05 Yeah. I've

36:06 read that recently. Yes. You're talking about the Old Testament or New Testament? New Testament. Turn to Revelation 22.

36:29 And look at verse 16. And Jesus, I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David and the bright and morning star. Okay? Jesus says, I am before David, I'm after David.

36:45 I'm still related to David. So that's Jesus being the seed of David. Anyone else? He's talking about the the New Testament husband of, Mary. Is this two Josephs?

37:28 Yeah, because I got a

37:31 whole lot left.

37:42 We better stop here. We better stop here. Okay. I got

37:46 another thirty minutes of rhetoric that I don't wanna break. Well, why don't we stop there? And then after we do the podcast, we'll come back.

37:52 Yeah. Okay.

37:52 Okay. Christian, would you pray for the