Lecture 4 - Israel in Egypt

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Resumen

TLDRIl video fa parte di una serie chiamata "Il piano del Padre", condotta da Jeff Cavins e il dottor Scott Hahn, e si concentra sulla disamina della Bibbia per comprendere il piano di Dio per l'umanità. Viene spiegata l'importanza di leggere la Bibbia in ordine cronologico e vengono esplorati diversi concetti teologici, tra cui il peccato originale di Adamo ed Eva, visto non solo come un atto di ribellione ma come una mancanza nel ruolo di Adamo di essere protettore e guida della famiglia umana. Si discute anche delle alleanze con Abramo e di come queste siano fondamentali per il piano divino, culminando nel sacrificio di Isacco, prefigurazione del sacrificio di Cristo. L'episodio tocca la storia di Mosè e l'importanza dell'Esodo, l'incidente del Vitello d'Oro e le sue conseguenze sul popolo di Israele. Hahn spiega che questa ribellione portò a nuovi complessi rituali e a una relazione modificata tra Dio e Israele.

Para llevar

  • 📖 Approccio cronologico alla Bibbia per una comprensione più completa.
  • 🌿 Adamo come re e sacerdote, il suo peccato origine di molti mali.
  • 🐍 Il serpente simbolo di inganno e minaccia spirituale.
  • 🕊️ Alleanze di Dio con Abramo fondamentali per la storia biblica.
  • 🔑 Mosè come figura chiave nella liberazione e guida di Israele.
  • ⛪ Cambiamento della relazione con Dio dopo il Vitello d'Oro.
  • 🚶‍♂️ Avventura spirituale attraverso la lettura della Bibbia.
  • 📜 Le complessità e le ricchezze delle leggi mosaicche.
  • 🌳 Il sacrificio di Isacco prefigurazione del sacrificio di Cristo.
  • 📚 Importanza delle scritture per conoscerti e crescere spiritualmente.

Cronología

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    L'introduzione introduce Jeff Cavins e il dottor Scott Hahn che discuteranno del piano di Dio nella Bibbia, con un focus sull'ordine cronologico e sui concetti teologici, iniziando con Geremia 29:11 per sottolineare la speranza offerta da Dio.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Il dottor Hahn spiega l'importanza di Adamo come re e sacerdote e come il suo peccato di orgoglio sotto circostanze difficili nel Giardino dell'Eden ha avuto conseguenze profonde, collegando questo alla sua responsabilità matrimoniale.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    La discussione continua esplorando come Adamo avrebbe dovuto affrontare la tentazione del serpente, identificato come Satana, con un parallelo alla risposta redentrice di Cristo nella sua passione e morte.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Il dottor Hahn parla dell'espiazione di Cristo come secondo Adamo, indicando come la sua morte salvifica corregga il fallimento di Adamo e offra amore e sacrificio perfetto come risposta alla paura e al peccato originali.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Si esamina Abramo e le promesse di Dio in Genesi 12, sviluppate in tre alleanze separate, che preludono alla benedizione di tutte le famiglie della terra, con la promessa finale dopo il sacrificio di Isacco che prefigura Cristo.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Il segmento sottolinea come le successive alleanze tra Dio e Abramo conducono alla creazione di un grande popolo, una dinastia e infine una benedizione universale per tutte le nazioni attraverso la discendenza di Abramo.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    La narrazione biblica passa a Israele in Egitto, il suo esilio e la promessa di liberazione attraverso Mosè in Esodo, con la Pasqua che simboleggia il principale evento salvifico, paragonato al ruolo di Cristo come Agnello Pasquale.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    La ribellione e il ritorno agli idoli dell'Egitto durante l'episodio del vitello d'oro in Esodo 32 interrompono il piano di Dio, portando alla necessità dei sacrifici animali per rovesciare il peccato attraverso un culto rinnovato.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:00

    Dopo l'idolo del vitello d'oro, il ruolo del tabernacolo e il sacerdozio levitico emergono come chiusura simbolica tra Dio e il suo popolo, evidenziando la perdita di intimità diretta e richiedendo un culto strutturato.

  • 00:45:00 - 00:51:46

    La Levitico viene spiegato come codice sacrificale per riscattare Israele dai suoi peccati idolatri, mentre l'Esodo presenta una narrazione di transizione dal peccato alla redenzione attraverso un culto ritualizzato.

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Preguntas frecuentes

  • Chi era Melchisedec?

    Era il re di Salem e sacerdote del Dio Altissimo, spesso visto come figura di Cristo.

  • Chi conduce il programma?

    Il programma è condotto da Jeff Cavins e il dottor Scott Hahn.

  • Quali sono i temi principali trattati?

    Lettura cronologica della Bibbia, il peccato originale di Adamo ed Eva, le alleanze di Abramo, il significato del Vitello d'Oro.

  • Cosa si intende per "piano del Padre"?

    Si riferisce alla comprensione e al progetto di Dio per l'umanità come illustrato nella Bibbia.

  • Come spiegano l'incidente del Vitello d'Oro?

    Come un momento critico che ha portato alla perdita di privilegi sacerdotali per le altre tribù, mantenuti poi dai Leviti.

  • Qual è la struttura del programma?

    Il programma discute parti della Bibbia in ordine cronologico per aiutare nella comprensione teologica.

  • In che modo Mosé è importante nella storia biblica?

    Mosé guida gli israeliti fuori dall'Egitto e riceve le leggi di Dio, rappresentando un mediatore tra Dio e il suo popolo.

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    we want to welcome you to our Father's
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    I'm Jeff Cavins along with dr. Scott
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    Hahn and in this series we're taking a
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    look at God's Word program is called our
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    for you and we're discovering it in the
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    specifically I'm teaching how to read
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    the Bible in chronological order and dr.
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    Hahn is looking at some theological
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    concepts going a bit deeper into these
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    theological concepts I just like to open
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    today's program by reading a scripture
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    from you that hopefully will give you
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    some hope because your father wants you
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    to have hope comes from Jeremiah chapter
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    29 and verse 11 for I know the plans
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    that I have for you declares the Lord
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    plans for welfare and not for calamity
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    to give you a future and a hope dr. Hahn
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    last program you said some very
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    interesting things about Adam and I
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    wanted to begin today's program by
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    reviewing a little bit about Adam and
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    his relationship to Eve can you give us
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    just a little synopsis of what you
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    talked about last time okay for
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    background think of it this Genesis 1
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    describes creation as a sacred home or
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    temple then in Genesis 2 it follows that
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    the Garden of Eden is being described in
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    unique terms that reflect the sanctuary
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    or the holy of holies that implies that
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    when God creates Adam he's not just
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    creating the founding father of the
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    human family he's creating Adam to be
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    our King and High Priest and so in
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    Genesis 2 Adam discovers that God is
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    putting him on trial in a way that God
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    is going to test his faithfulness as a
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    son so when you move into the Temptation
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    narrative of chapter 3 you recognize
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    that Adam's sin is a sin of pride but
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    it's a sin of pride that is being
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    committed under challenging
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    circumstances you might say and the text
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    in Genesis 2 sets the stage for that in
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    certain ways for instance we see a tree
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    of life we might wonder why is there any
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    need for a tree of life if Adam is
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    already immortal it suggests or it might
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    imply that there's going to need there's
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    a need for something to seal and protect
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    his
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    mortality likewise Adam is commanded to
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    guard the garden not just cultivated and
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    and in the term there implies that there
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    might be something to guard it from and
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    then when the the bride is presented to
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    Adam he meets Eve for the first time it
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    describes how they come together in
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    intimacy and how the man and his wife
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    were both naked and not ashamed and in
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    the very next verse the opening verse of
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    chapter 3 the serpent is introduced as
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    being more subtle and the Hebrew word
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    for subtle is almost identical with the
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    Hebrew word for naked implying for most
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    interpreters that the serpent is
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    entering the garden in order to test in
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    order to challenge the human couple in
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    their you know their naked marital
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    harmony and bliss but also in their
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    vulnerability so I would suggest my
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    intriguing proposal is that that Adam is
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    being tested not just in some generic
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    sense but specifically in terms of his
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    covenant or role as husband as the
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    mediator of a marital covenant is he
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    going to be the provider the protector
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    that his bride needs him to be and what
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    is so provocative then is not the fact
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    that the woman is you know being
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    interrogated by the serpent or that the
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    woman is sort of fumbling in her words
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    as she answers the questions raised by
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    the serpent but what's so loud what's so
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    noisy is Adams silence the fact is he's
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    there but he's quiet that's what was
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    intriguing to me is that you seem to be
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    implying that Adam was a silent while
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    his wife was being interrogated well
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    yeah because the Hebrew word for serpent
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    isn't just you know pointing to a little
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    snake hanging from a tree branch or
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    something the the term Nahash is used
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    elsewhere in Scripture to define to
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    describe Leviathan this great dragon in
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    revelation 12 verse 9 it's used to
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    describe Satan the ancient serpent this
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    great dragon with seven heads and ten
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    horns and in fact pope john paul ii gave
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    catechesis on this material on original
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    sin and he describes how Adam was
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    confronted by the tempter by the devil
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    in the form of the serpent and he quotes
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    revelation 12:9 to suggest that this was
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    no mere snake the
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    serpent is a life-threatening symbol and
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    so we have to take we have to factor
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    that into our interpretation now I would
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    suggest that when the serpent begins
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    interrogating the woman he begins with a
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    question he says did God say so there's
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    no lie there and then when she answers
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    he comes back and says you will not die
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    now professor Moberly over in england
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    wrote an article entitled did the
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    serpent get it right and he made the
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    intriguing observation that when they
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    ate they didn't die no wait a second
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    does that mean that the serpent got it
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    right and that God got it wrong no
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    because what God was speaking of was not
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    instant physical death that took place
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    centuries later
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    he was talking about spiritual death
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    mortal sin the day that you eat of it
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    you shall die that is to say our
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    covenant bond will be severed and
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    shattered but when the serpent says you
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    will not die there's a sense in which
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    it's true the purpose of the statement
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    however is deceitful to tempt to test
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    the serpent said of the woman you will
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    not die for God knows when you eat of it
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    your eyes will be open and you will be
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    like God knowing good and evil and once
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    again when God enters the garden at the
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    end of the chapter he says behold they
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    have become like us knowing good and
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    evil
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    so the serpent is the really good liar
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    he uses the truth to deceive but I would
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    suggest to you that when the serpent
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    says you will not die something more is
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    going on and that is an implied threat
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    he's saying in effect if you eat this
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    tree you won't die in other words read
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    my lips if you don't eat this tree I a
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    serpent I a murderess Satan am going to
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    see to it that you pay a price for
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    obedience in other words this is what
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    the scholars call a trial by ordeal Adam
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    should be stepping in at this point and
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    saying you know Satan you ought to go to
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    the pit they thought it prepared for you
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    oh that's my thinking my question is
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    here is Eve being interrogated
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    what should Adam have done in this in
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    that situation yeah III think you know
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    the best way to win
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    Herbert this particular response is to
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    see it in light of what Christ later
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    does we'll get to that in a minute but I
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    think he should have said you know step
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    forward and said hey you know a serpent
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    you have no business in here in the name
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    of God begone and you know what would
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    have happened at this point if this
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    serpent is really Satan as the as the
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    Scriptures tell us what would he have
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    done what do you just suck his tail
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    between his legs and gone off whimpering
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    to the hell fires I doubt it it suggests
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    that there may well have been a kind of
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    struggle mm-hmm now man is immortal you
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    know and if he doesn't sin he is going
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    to enter glory but I would suggest to
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    you that Adam is being challenged by a
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    test of faith here he would size up the
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    situation and say wait a second now I'm
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    supposed to be immortal but here's a
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    life-threatening force in the form of
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    this serpent I'm supposed to have
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    dominion over the beasts and yet here is
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    a beast with murderous capacities and
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    looking at things by my natural reason
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    and judging from my own natural position
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    over nature I should be able to eat this
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    tree because it's a tree and I'm allowed
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    to eat trees moreover as it says the
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    tree is good for food it's a delight to
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    the eyes and the tree was desirable to
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    make one wise so why can't I eat it and
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    if I don't eat it the serpent seems to
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    be implying something that if we don't
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    eat this if you do eat it we you won't
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    die well that could be you don't mean
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    that if we don't eat it he's going to
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    spring into action so Adam is is really
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    being called upon to make a decision
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    he's being called upon to give consent
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    to his own self offering he is to enter
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    into a kind of spiritual warfare with
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    the serpent with the devil to destroy
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    the works of the devil from the very
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    foundation of the world and he looks and
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    he sizes up the situation but instead of
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    walking by faith instead of just simply
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    saying I don't know why we can't eat the
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    tree I don't know why my immortality
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    seems to be threatened but nevertheless
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    I have to obey my father who's in heaven
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    I have to be willing to lay my life down
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    for my bride after all as Jesus says
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    greater love hath no man than to lay
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    down his life for
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    is beloved so Adams love is being tested
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    here his love for Eve his trust in God
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    the Father and he fails that see I think
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    this approach builds upon the early
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    church fathers this approach also builds
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    upon what I've read in the Catechism and
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    it avoids these two extremes I think
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    most people who interpret this tend
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    toward one extreme or the other
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    they either trivialize the sin by making
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    this couple just a bunch of bumbling
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    fools who's like you know look at the
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    tree Wow great fruit you're right
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    serpent thanks you know and they take it
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    and eat it on the other hand you can
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    exaggerate the sin by making Adams act
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    an expression of rebellious defiance
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    that just doesn't befit the initial sin
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    I mean that kind of sin we know where
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    Adam would look and say yes I am the the
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    master of my fate I'm the captain of my
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    soul and he takes the fruit and he eats
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    it and says you know God I will be the I
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    will be my own God you know that sort of
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    defiant gesture that takes place only
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    after years of a bitch'll sin so we
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    either trivialize the sin or we
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    exaggerate it but in fact you know
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    Hebrews 2 verses 14 to 16 quoted by the
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    Catechism describes how Christ died and
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    through his death he defeated the devil
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    who has the power of death and because
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    of this power of death at the devil
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    possessed it says in Hebrews 2 that we
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    were subjected to lifelong bondage to
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    the one who has the power of death why
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    through fear of death through fear that
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    brings up one last question I'd like you
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    to address real quickly and that is you
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    you talked about Adam being afraid of
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    suffering
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    how could Adam be afraid of suffering
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    before he sinned that's a good question
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    that's a good question I would say quick
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    you know quickly and simply that God
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    issues the commandments saying if you
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    eat this forbidden fruit you'll die now
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    if Adam does not dread death and that
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    prohibition and threat would mean
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    nothing to him likewise if you look at
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    our Lord Jesus he is in the Garden of
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    Gethsemane and he is sinless and yet
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    when faith with the prospect of
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    suffering he is sweating blood he is on
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    his face he is praying to his father
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    that this
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    of suffering be removed and so it isn't
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    true to say that apart from sin we would
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    have no dread of suffering Adam would
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    have had a healthy dread of suffering
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    now we can't go into all of this but I
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    would say that the key to interpreting
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    what the first Adam did and what he
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    should have done is by looking at Christ
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    because he is the second Adam that's how
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    he's described throughout the New
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    Testament and here is the second Adam he
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    also is tested he also goes to the
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    garden and there he is tempted and then
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    he goes to the tree and there at the
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    tree he lays his life down for the bride
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    for his church and he has assumed the
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    curse of Adam upon himself the curse of
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    sweat the curse of thorns he sweat blood
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    he bore the crown of thorns and there at
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    the at the cross the tree of life as the
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    early church fathers called it he laid
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    his life down and from Adams side
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    remember from the deep sleep of Adam
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    came forth Eve well the second Adam go
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    through the tree and in the deep sleep
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    of death came forth from his side blood
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    and water the water of baptism the blood
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    of the Eucharist as the early church
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    fathers interpreted the very stuff the
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    sacramental material from which the new
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    Eve the church the Bride of Christ is
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    formed it reminds me of the scripture
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    perfect love casts out fear exactly that
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    beautifully you know I I was thinking as
  • 00:13:15
    you were talking and we were talking a
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    little bit earlier quote from Mother
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    Teresa and is right along these lines
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    and Bute I just beautifully puts kind of
  • 00:13:24
    a closure to this she says that we
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    cannot decide to become Saints without a
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    great effort of renunciation of
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    resisting temptations of combat of
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    persecution and of all sorts of
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    sacrifices it is not possible to love
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    God except at one's own expense oh
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    that's good it is not possible to love
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    God except at one's own experience see
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    God calls us to love like the Trinity
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    loves the father pours his life out
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    generate the son the son image is the
  • 00:13:56
    father by pouring that life that gift
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    out and he gives it back to the Father
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    which is the spirit God calls us to
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    enter into that life but we can't unless
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    we give
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    sent to the gift of self beautiful the
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    self-sacrifice is beautiful what a
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    challenge but it really is indeed let's
  • 00:14:14
    move ahead just a little bit in
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    Salvation history to Abraham we talked
  • 00:14:18
    about the three promises in Genesis
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    chapter 12 and what I'd like to ask is
  • 00:14:22
    how does the call of Abraham relate to
  • 00:14:24
    the three covenants that were mentioned
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    in Genesis 15 17 and 22 okay good
  • 00:14:30
    Abraham's called in Genesis 12 by God
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    his father and it comes right on the
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    heels of the Tower of Babel in Genesis
  • 00:14:37
    11 at the tower Babel the human family
  • 00:14:40
    was scattered and divided from the
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    father's perspective in heaven you might
  • 00:14:44
    think oh now all the hopes of family
  • 00:14:46
    unity are lost but no God calls Abraham
  • 00:14:50
    specifically for a long-term plan to
  • 00:14:53
    reunite the human family of God but he
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    can't do it right away the effects of
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    sin take a long time to overcome and so
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    the call of Abraham is really divided up
  • 00:15:03
    into three parts you can see it in
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    Genesis 12 verses 2 & 3 he says first of
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    all go to this land so that I can make
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    of you a great nation because without
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    land there can be no nationhood so the
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    first promise is that God will make of
  • 00:15:16
    Abram a great nation I will bless you
  • 00:15:19
    and then the second promise comes
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    closely in the heels and I will make
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    your name great that's a Hebrew
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    expression for a dynastic Kingdom that
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    is not only will I draw forth a nation
  • 00:15:30
    from you but I will make your name great
  • 00:15:32
    I will give you a dynastic Kingdom so
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    that you will be a blessing I will bless
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    those who bless you and him who curses
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    you I will curse and here comes the
  • 00:15:40
    climax by you all the families of the
  • 00:15:43
    earth will be blessed all the families
  • 00:15:46
    of the earth will be blessed now in
  • 00:15:47
    Genesis the blessing is what the father
  • 00:15:49
    passes on down to the son so through
  • 00:15:52
    Abraham God is going to pass down the
  • 00:15:55
    fatherly blessing to the entire human
  • 00:15:58
    family so that the human race will be
  • 00:16:00
    the family of God by becoming the
  • 00:16:03
    spiritual family of Abraham now those
  • 00:16:06
    three blessings those three promised
  • 00:16:08
    blessings represent three stages one
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    sort of long remote the other one would
  • 00:16:15
    be more proximate and the third would be
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    ultimate this first one the remote
  • 00:16:19
    blessing nationhood
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    is upgraded to a covenant in Genesis 15
  • 00:16:24
    in Genesis 15 we see God taking the
  • 00:16:28
    first promise blessing nationhood and
  • 00:16:30
    land and swearing a covenant to Abram in
  • 00:16:35
    Genesis 15 we have the Covenant that God
  • 00:16:37
    makes with Abram regarding a vast amount
  • 00:16:40
    of land that stretches all the way from
  • 00:16:42
    Egypt to the Euphrates that covenant was
  • 00:16:46
    fulfilled not only through the
  • 00:16:47
    Israelites but through the Ishmaelites
  • 00:16:50
    through the Arabs because Ishmael is a
  • 00:16:52
    son of Abraham at this point in the
  • 00:16:54
    Genesis narrative so the covenant with
  • 00:16:56
    Abram makes all of the gnash all the
  • 00:17:00
    natural seed of Abram heir to this
  • 00:17:03
    initial promise so they get this vast
  • 00:17:05
    chunk of land from Egypt all the way to
  • 00:17:07
    Babylon now the second promise is
  • 00:17:10
    upgraded to a covenant in Genesis 17 but
  • 00:17:14
    that covenant is made between God and
  • 00:17:16
    Abraham he changes his name from exalted
  • 00:17:19
    father Abram to father of a multitude
  • 00:17:22
    Abraham and at this point and only at
  • 00:17:25
    this point does God specifically state
  • 00:17:27
    that Canaan is going to be the land for
  • 00:17:31
    the seed of Abraham - the name change
  • 00:17:34
    there exactly and the land is narrow -
  • 00:17:36
    it isn't just from Egypt to the
  • 00:17:38
    Euphrates it's now specific it's
  • 00:17:40
    specified as Canaan moreover it isn't
  • 00:17:43
    just nationhood now in Genesis 17 he
  • 00:17:46
    says kings of people shall come forth
  • 00:17:49
    from Abraham and Sarah there in verse 16
  • 00:17:52
    so this covenant actually points beyond
  • 00:17:55
    it points to what is ultimately
  • 00:17:58
    accomplished in the Davidic covenant but
  • 00:18:00
    still this is something that is
  • 00:18:02
    penultimate it's second-to-last because
  • 00:18:04
    God's ultimate plan for his family is
  • 00:18:07
    not simply to make of a natural seed of
  • 00:18:10
    Abram a great landed people or even to
  • 00:18:13
    make of the people of Abraham a strong
  • 00:18:16
    secular Kingdom instead he wants to make
  • 00:18:19
    them the means of blessing all the world
  • 00:18:22
    so in Genesis 22 we see the last and the
  • 00:18:26
    greatest of the promised blessings that
  • 00:18:28
    through you all the families of the
  • 00:18:31
    earth will be blessed in Genesis 22
  • 00:18:33
    God's where's Anne
  • 00:18:35
    to Abraham after Abram after Abraham had
  • 00:18:39
    had had offered up Isaac his only
  • 00:18:42
    beloved son as a holocaust there at
  • 00:18:44
    Moriah God stops the sacrifice right
  • 00:18:48
    before it takes place and says Abraham
  • 00:18:50
    Abraham Here I am and he says because
  • 00:18:52
    you have not withheld your only beloved
  • 00:18:54
    son from me
  • 00:18:55
    what will your reward be I swear an oath
  • 00:18:59
    I swear by myself that through your seed
  • 00:19:02
    all the families of the earth will be
  • 00:19:04
    blessed this is just tremendous this is
  • 00:19:06
    momentous because for the first time in
  • 00:19:08
    history God explicitly puts himself
  • 00:19:11
    under oath he puts himself under a
  • 00:19:14
    conditional self curse as hard to
  • 00:19:16
    believe it really is and it's not only
  • 00:19:18
    something that God verbalizes that is I
  • 00:19:20
    swear this covenant oath I will bless
  • 00:19:23
    all the nations and make them your
  • 00:19:25
    family and my family through your seed
  • 00:19:28
    God also pre in acts he he almost
  • 00:19:32
    represents he he displays to the world
  • 00:19:35
    centuries before the coming of Christ
  • 00:19:37
    what will have to take place in order
  • 00:19:40
    for this covenant blessing to be
  • 00:19:42
    realized namely God will say in effect
  • 00:19:45
    Abraham you know I'll pick up where you
  • 00:19:47
    left off I am a faithful father like you
  • 00:19:50
    Abraham and I will take my only beloved
  • 00:19:53
    son the same phrases used in John's
  • 00:19:55
    Gospel Jesus who is the son of Abraham
  • 00:19:57
    and I will offer him as a holocaust as
  • 00:20:00
    well there on Calvary which was part of
  • 00:20:03
    the mountain range of Moriah and thereby
  • 00:20:06
    God will provide the lamb that will take
  • 00:20:10
    away the sins of the world and remove
  • 00:20:12
    the impediment that prevents the
  • 00:20:15
    blessings of God the Father from
  • 00:20:17
    reaching the whole human family this
  • 00:20:18
    covenant with with Abraham in a sense is
  • 00:20:21
    sort of like a safety net all throughout
  • 00:20:23
    salvation history yes yeah it's sort of
  • 00:20:26
    like mankind is walking across a
  • 00:20:27
    tightrope but in a sense God's merciful
  • 00:20:30
    provision is even greater than a safety
  • 00:20:32
    net god foresees our fall and he makes
  • 00:20:35
    provisions in his wisdom and mercy and
  • 00:20:37
    and the same thing that he puts under
  • 00:20:39
    the highwire is the Covenant but instead
  • 00:20:42
    of just being a safety net when we fall
  • 00:20:44
    into his covenant mercies we discover
  • 00:20:47
    that the safety net is
  • 00:20:48
    more like a trampoline yeah it's
  • 00:20:50
    something that bounces us back to the to
  • 00:20:53
    the rope from whence we fell in fact in
  • 00:20:55
    a certain sense you could say that when
  • 00:20:56
    Jesus Christ comes and offers himself as
  • 00:20:59
    a sacrifice
  • 00:21:00
    we are raised even higher that's been
  • 00:21:03
    from Winston Farrell you know this is a
  • 00:21:05
    deep subject and it's something that we
  • 00:21:06
    use it's not that we need to learn more
  • 00:21:08
    about can you tell our viewers is there
  • 00:21:10
    a tape series that you have that you
  • 00:21:11
    might suggest that goes into this deeper
  • 00:21:13
    yeah I've done a tape series on Genesis
  • 00:21:15
    1 to 22 that's available through st.
  • 00:21:17
    Joseph's communication you can just call
  • 00:21:19
    them up their number is 1-800-543-8242
  • 00:22:00
    and the challenge for us is to break
  • 00:22:03
    down those 73 books into a system where
  • 00:22:07
    we can read the Bible in chronological
  • 00:22:08
    order and that's what we're attempting
  • 00:22:10
    to do so we broke down the Bible into 14
  • 00:22:12
    historical books and by historical books
  • 00:22:15
    we mean keep the narrative moving and to
  • 00:22:18
    help us memorize those 14 historical
  • 00:22:21
    books and the twelve periods of Bible
  • 00:22:23
    history we have a little memory device
  • 00:22:25
    here that we can make available to you
  • 00:22:27
    through EWTN if you'll write a call
  • 00:22:28
    we're on our third bead on this program
  • 00:22:31
    it's the tan bead and our card tells us
  • 00:22:33
    that the tan bead stands for Israel in
  • 00:22:36
    Egypt and that's our third period and we
  • 00:22:39
    just left the patriarchal period started
  • 00:22:41
    with the history of the early world
  • 00:22:43
    moved on to the patriarchal period now
  • 00:22:45
    we're in Israel in Egypt the period of
  • 00:22:47
    Israel in Egypt is an intriguing period
  • 00:22:50
    one sixth of the Old Testament is
  • 00:22:53
    dedicated to this period this period it
  • 00:22:56
    comes on the heels of Joseph finding
  • 00:22:58
    himself down in Egypt you may remember
  • 00:23:01
    from the
  • 00:23:02
    last program during the patriarchal
  • 00:23:03
    period that God made three promises to
  • 00:23:06
    Abraham and the first of those promises
  • 00:23:08
    was that Abraham was going to receive
  • 00:23:10
    land that his descendants would receive
  • 00:23:12
    land but he said in Genesis 15 in verse
  • 00:23:15
    13 that first before they received that
  • 00:23:17
    land that his descendants would spend
  • 00:23:19
    400 years in slavery in a foreign land
  • 00:23:22
    and we know that land to be Egypt so we
  • 00:23:26
    move into our next historical book we're
  • 00:23:28
    moving out of Genesis and now we're
  • 00:23:29
    moving into Exodus our second historical
  • 00:23:32
    book you can look on the chart behind me
  • 00:23:34
    here the fourteen historical books we
  • 00:23:37
    just moved out of Genesis and now we're
  • 00:23:40
    moving into Exodus the second of our 14
  • 00:23:44
    historical books the book of Genesis
  • 00:23:47
    picks up with the children of Israel in
  • 00:23:49
    slavery in Egypt and they had been
  • 00:23:50
    slaves for 400 years the star at this
  • 00:23:54
    point the individual that God points out
  • 00:23:56
    is the leader is Moses Moshe a young
  • 00:24:00
    Moses he is born and the Egyptians try
  • 00:24:03
    to kill Moses but God ends up saving
  • 00:24:06
    Moses and God uses Moses to deliver the
  • 00:24:09
    children of Israel out of bondage now
  • 00:24:13
    this story of the deliverance of the
  • 00:24:15
    children of Israel will become very
  • 00:24:17
    important for understanding the rest of
  • 00:24:19
    the rest of the Bible there's a lot of
  • 00:24:21
    things that take place during the book
  • 00:24:23
    of Exodus if you've tried to read
  • 00:24:24
    through the book of Exodus before and
  • 00:24:26
    got confused a little bit later on the
  • 00:24:28
    program dr. Scott Hahn is gonna be with
  • 00:24:30
    us and he's going to clarify some of
  • 00:24:31
    those those rumble strips some of those
  • 00:24:33
    difficult areas during the book of
  • 00:24:35
    Exodus up until the book of Exodus the
  • 00:24:39
    blessing was passed on through the
  • 00:24:41
    firstborn through the patriarchs and in
  • 00:24:45
    during the book of Exodus we see that
  • 00:24:47
    God is raising the entire nation they're
  • 00:24:50
    sort of growing up the 400 years have
  • 00:24:52
    been boot camp for the children of
  • 00:24:55
    Israel but they're growing up and Exodus
  • 00:24:58
    4 in verse 22 God calls Israel his
  • 00:25:02
    firstborn Israel is God's firstborn and
  • 00:25:07
    they have a responsibility to be that
  • 00:25:11
    vehicle to bring the blessing to all of
  • 00:25:13
    the nations but they need to be formed
  • 00:25:15
    they need to be developed and this is
  • 00:25:18
    what takes place during the book of
  • 00:25:19
    Exodus Moses and Pharaoh collide Moses
  • 00:25:26
    and Pharaoh collide you see God speaks
  • 00:25:28
    to Moses in a burning bush and tells
  • 00:25:31
    them Moses I'm gonna use you to deliver
  • 00:25:32
    my people out of bondage but you're
  • 00:25:34
    gonna have to go to Pharaoh Moses
  • 00:25:36
    doesn't want to do this really
  • 00:25:37
    reluctantly he does and he's very
  • 00:25:39
    successful we have at this point during
  • 00:25:42
    the book of Exodus the ten plagues now
  • 00:25:46
    it's on the tenth plague the death of
  • 00:25:48
    the firstborn that the Exodus takes
  • 00:25:50
    place the Exodus takes place in the
  • 00:25:53
    Passover Pesach in Hebrew the Passover
  • 00:25:57
    is the principal event in the Old
  • 00:25:59
    Testament it's the event that speaks of
  • 00:26:02
    deliverance Jesus is our Passover lamb
  • 00:26:05
    and he brings deliverance to our lives
  • 00:26:09
    the children of Israel make a covenant
  • 00:26:12
    Moses and the seventy elders they make a
  • 00:26:14
    covenant with God at Mount Sinai in
  • 00:26:18
    Exodus chapter 19 and God gives them his
  • 00:26:22
    law he gives them Torah the minute we
  • 00:26:25
    talk about Torah what do we think of a
  • 00:26:27
    lot of times we we think of right and
  • 00:26:29
    wrong yes no stop signs and so forth but
  • 00:26:33
    you know to the ancient Jews Torah was a
  • 00:26:34
    good thing and David said oh how I love
  • 00:26:37
    thy Torah how I love thy law the word
  • 00:26:41
    Torah comes from a Hebrew word yaaaaah
  • 00:26:44
    which is a archers term it means to hit
  • 00:26:48
    the mark you see God wants his people to
  • 00:26:51
    hit the mark and so he gives him
  • 00:26:54
    direction he gives him law to hit the
  • 00:26:57
    mark something takes place on the heels
  • 00:27:00
    of this covenant at Mount Sinai and that
  • 00:27:03
    is the Golden Calf incident in Exodus
  • 00:27:06
    chapter 32 now dr. Hahn is going to be
  • 00:27:08
    with us in a few moments to discuss this
  • 00:27:10
    and and I would encourage you to stay
  • 00:27:12
    tuned because this is very very
  • 00:27:13
    important because in Exodus chapter 32
  • 00:27:16
    something takes place with the worship
  • 00:27:18
    of the golden calf that is going to
  • 00:27:20
    completely change God's plan with man
  • 00:27:25
    completely change it we come up with a
  • 00:27:27
    temple or tabernacle
  • 00:27:29
    we have additional laws we have a the
  • 00:27:31
    Levitical priesthood and if you're like
  • 00:27:33
    me and you've read through the book of
  • 00:27:35
    Exodus you come to all of the sacrifices
  • 00:27:37
    and you come to the tabernacle and Moses
  • 00:27:40
    and you you get confused I know I have
  • 00:27:42
    four years and we hope to sort that out
  • 00:27:44
    in a few min a few minutes after the
  • 00:27:47
    Golden Calf incident we have a Levitical
  • 00:27:51
    priesthood and dr. Hahn is going to
  • 00:27:53
    explain that makes sense of the Book of
  • 00:27:55
    Leviticus so we're gonna return in just
  • 00:27:58
    a few minutes and we're gonna look at
  • 00:28:00
    the book of Exodus and we're gonna look
  • 00:28:01
    at the the Golden Calf incident and a
  • 00:28:04
    couple of other incidents during the
  • 00:28:05
    book of Exodus but if you're reading
  • 00:28:06
    along with us I encourage you read
  • 00:28:08
    Genesis 1 through 11 for the history of
  • 00:28:11
    the early world and to the chart to my
  • 00:28:13
    right shows these periods of history
  • 00:28:15
    read Genesis 1 through 11 for the
  • 00:28:17
    history of the early world and then
  • 00:28:19
    after you're done reading 1 through 11
  • 00:28:21
    move on to your next period the
  • 00:28:24
    patriarchal period Genesis 12 through 50
  • 00:28:27
    after Genesis 12 through 50 which talks
  • 00:28:30
    about the four patriarchs Abraham Isaac
  • 00:28:32
    Jacob and Joseph you will enter the
  • 00:28:35
    period called Israel in Egypt when you
  • 00:28:38
    move from your first historical book
  • 00:28:39
    which is Genesis to your second
  • 00:28:42
    historical book which is Exodus that's
  • 00:28:45
    your second historical book if you would
  • 00:28:48
    like to obtain this as I said earlier
  • 00:28:50
    the beads and the card and a complete
  • 00:28:52
    package to telling you how to read
  • 00:28:54
    through the Bible with some charts just
  • 00:28:56
    give us a call at ewtn or write and they
  • 00:28:58
    will let you know how you can obtain
  • 00:28:59
    that package we'll be back right after
  • 00:29:01
    this with dr. Scott Hahn we're gonna be
  • 00:29:03
    looking at some more theological
  • 00:29:04
    concepts on our fathers plan
  • 00:29:09
    [Music]
  • 00:29:16
    want to welcome you back to our Father's
  • 00:29:18
    plan well we have entered a new book a
  • 00:29:21
    new period of history history we moved
  • 00:29:23
    out of the patriarchal period into
  • 00:29:25
    Israel in Egypt we moved from the book
  • 00:29:27
    of Genesis into the book of Exodus give
  • 00:29:31
    us a little bridge how do we get from
  • 00:29:32
    the patriarchal age into Israel and
  • 00:29:34
    Egypt move from the two books yeah it's
  • 00:29:36
    important that we build a bridge because
  • 00:29:37
    so often people were done with Genesis
  • 00:29:39
    they just put it aside and begin reading
  • 00:29:41
    Genesis Exodus but the two really
  • 00:29:43
    interpret each other for instance we see
  • 00:29:45
    in Exodus the beginning of the
  • 00:29:47
    fulfillment of God's covenant with
  • 00:29:49
    Abraham regarding Abraham's seed
  • 00:29:51
    blessing the nation's for instance we
  • 00:29:54
    have in Exodus for 22 the verse you just
  • 00:29:57
    discussed a few minutes ago this
  • 00:29:58
    important statement that God makes to
  • 00:30:00
    Moses go tell Pharaoh Israel is my
  • 00:30:04
    firstborn son
  • 00:30:05
    well that doesn't that doesn't imply a
  • 00:30:07
    monopoly of God's favor on the part of
  • 00:30:10
    Israel what that really points to is the
  • 00:30:12
    fact that Israel as a nation is sort of
  • 00:30:14
    like God's firstborn son but that means
  • 00:30:17
    all the nations including Egypt are at
  • 00:30:20
    least potential members of God's family
  • 00:30:22
    younger brothers of Israel younger sons
  • 00:30:25
    of God the Father that's an important
  • 00:30:28
    it's an important point to make because
  • 00:30:29
    a lot of people think that the Bible is
  • 00:30:32
    just about Israel and it's not just
  • 00:30:34
    about Israel is it it's about everybody
  • 00:30:35
    exactly and another part of the bridge
  • 00:30:38
    between Genesis and Exodus is the idea
  • 00:30:42
    of the firstborn son because in the
  • 00:30:44
    patriarchal period before the Levites
  • 00:30:47
    became priests the firstborn sons were
  • 00:30:50
    supposed to assume royal priestly
  • 00:30:52
    Authority so in effect throughout
  • 00:30:55
    Genesis you have firstborn sons slated
  • 00:30:58
    to receive royal Priestly Blessing but
  • 00:31:01
    what Genesis indicates it's so important
  • 00:31:03
    for grasping Exodus message is that
  • 00:31:06
    beginning with Adam and then moving
  • 00:31:07
    through Cain moving through ishmael esau
  • 00:31:11
    reuben and all of the other firstborn
  • 00:31:13
    sons except for noah's firstborn son
  • 00:31:15
    Shem every other firstborn son in
  • 00:31:18
    Genesis fails to obtain the blessing
  • 00:31:22
    and has to be bypassed by the father so
  • 00:31:24
    that the blessing goes from the father
  • 00:31:26
    not to the firstborn but to the second
  • 00:31:28
    or the third born the fourth and so on
  • 00:31:30
    so by the time you get to exodus 422
  • 00:31:33
    God's announcement Israel is my
  • 00:31:35
    firstborn son that's a mixed signal on
  • 00:31:38
    the one hand it's good news you know
  • 00:31:40
    Israel is to be a kingdom of priests as
  • 00:31:43
    Exodus 19:6 says but on the other hand
  • 00:31:46
    looking at Genesis you recognize that
  • 00:31:49
    every other firstborn son except for
  • 00:31:51
    Shem was a failure
  • 00:31:53
    so this calling from God the Father to
  • 00:31:57
    Israel his firstborn son is a
  • 00:32:00
    conditional calling you'll have to be
  • 00:32:03
    faithful if you hear my voice if you
  • 00:32:06
    keep my covenant then and only then will
  • 00:32:08
    you be a kingdom of priests so you know
  • 00:32:11
    in effect Israel is to the nations in
  • 00:32:14
    Exodus what Adam was to all individual
  • 00:32:18
    human persons in Genesis Adam is the
  • 00:32:21
    firstborn son who falls in Genesis
  • 00:32:24
    bringing sin to all persons Israel is
  • 00:32:28
    God's firstborn son nation in Exodus and
  • 00:32:31
    when Israel Falls of the golden calf it
  • 00:32:33
    brings calamitous confusion to God's
  • 00:32:36
    family plan it really suspends certain
  • 00:32:39
    aspects of that plan as well as we'll
  • 00:32:41
    see in a minute you know dr. Hahn I have
  • 00:32:42
    read the Bible for 20 years now and I
  • 00:32:46
    know that in trying to read through the
  • 00:32:48
    Bible as many of our viewers are trying
  • 00:32:50
    to do with us read from Genesis through
  • 00:32:52
    Exodus and on it seems that from Genesis
  • 00:32:55
    to Exodus it's a very simple story right
  • 00:32:57
    and then suddenly you come to Exodus and
  • 00:33:00
    you come to the the Passover the Exodus
  • 00:33:02
    and the Passover and the Mount Sinai
  • 00:33:04
    covenant and all the sudden things
  • 00:33:06
    become so complicated things become so
  • 00:33:09
    confused we have a tabernacle we have
  • 00:33:11
    the Levitical priesthood we have all
  • 00:33:14
    these sacrifices that we don't we don't
  • 00:33:16
    really identify with what has happened
  • 00:33:18
    in the book of Exodus that seems to have
  • 00:33:21
    ruptured this this beautiful streamline
  • 00:33:23
    planned into a confusing plan to us yeah
  • 00:33:26
    that's a very good question
  • 00:33:27
    if you keep that bridge in mind you're
  • 00:33:30
    able to travel into Exodus and I think
  • 00:33:31
    make more progress because Israel's
  • 00:33:33
    God's firstborn son
  • 00:33:35
    and God commands Pharaoh to let him go
  • 00:33:37
    to serve me or else I'll slay your
  • 00:33:39
    firstborn sons that sets the stage for
  • 00:33:41
    the Passover where the firstborn sons of
  • 00:33:43
    Egypt are slain so that God's firstborn
  • 00:33:46
    son can be redeemed and given this royal
  • 00:33:49
    priestly mission to all of the younger
  • 00:33:51
    brother nations but why slay the lamb
  • 00:33:55
    that's the interesting thing
  • 00:33:56
    why does God call Israel out of Egypt
  • 00:33:59
    over to Mount Sinai to offer up animal
  • 00:34:03
    sacrifices in this covenant making
  • 00:34:05
    ratification ceremony in Exodus 24 the
  • 00:34:09
    key to that the secret is found in
  • 00:34:11
    Exodus 826 where Moses announces to
  • 00:34:15
    Pharaoh God's initial plan plan a plan a
  • 00:34:19
    was simply let Israel go for three days
  • 00:34:21
    out to cyanide to sacrifice and then
  • 00:34:24
    they'll return and begin working again
  • 00:34:25
    and then God of course told Moses it's
  • 00:34:28
    not gonna happen Pharaoh's gonna harden
  • 00:34:30
    his heart and so I'm gonna have to
  • 00:34:31
    liberate you completely but Moses says
  • 00:34:34
    you know Pharaoh says okay go fine
  • 00:34:37
    sacrifice to your God but do it in this
  • 00:34:40
    land don't go out in the water nurse
  • 00:34:42
    because how do how do I know you're even
  • 00:34:43
    to come back but Moses said it would not
  • 00:34:47
    be right to do so for we shall sacrifice
  • 00:34:49
    to the Lord our God offerings abominable
  • 00:34:51
    to the Egyptians if we sacrifice
  • 00:34:54
    offerings abominable to the Egyptians
  • 00:34:55
    before their eyes will they not stone us
  • 00:34:58
    hmm now what does that statement imply
  • 00:35:00
    well the ancient rabbis the early church
  • 00:35:02
    fathers understood it very clearly so
  • 00:35:04
    did st. Thomas that what God required of
  • 00:35:07
    Israel was for Israel to slaughter
  • 00:35:09
    animals that the Egyptians venerated the
  • 00:35:13
    idols that were worshiped in Egypt were
  • 00:35:15
    worshipped under the form of cattle
  • 00:35:17
    sheep and goats
  • 00:35:19
    those were the three animals deemed
  • 00:35:21
    sacred by the Egyptians they sacrificed
  • 00:35:24
    many other animals but never those three
  • 00:35:26
    and in fact they would sacrifice their
  • 00:35:29
    other animals to their gods on the form
  • 00:35:31
    of cattle sheep and goats and so God an
  • 00:35:34
    effective saying in order for you to
  • 00:35:36
    make a clean break from the idolatry of
  • 00:35:39
    Egypt
  • 00:35:40
    I want you Israel to slaughter
  • 00:35:43
    symbolically the gods the idols of Egypt
  • 00:35:46
    by sacrificing cattle she
  • 00:35:48
    and goats to me at Sinai when you
  • 00:35:51
    repudiate the gods of Egypt you can have
  • 00:35:54
    me as your God once again
  • 00:35:56
    this echoes in Joshua 24 the opening
  • 00:36:00
    verse is also in Ezekiel 20 verses 5 to
  • 00:36:03
    26 were you hear elsewhere in the Bible
  • 00:36:06
    that Israel had been in Egypt for so
  • 00:36:09
    long that they'd actually absorb the
  • 00:36:11
    idolatrous ways of the Egyptians and
  • 00:36:14
    they had to make a clean break and
  • 00:36:15
    renounce this idolatry so this initial
  • 00:36:18
    sacrifice and that's spoken of here in
  • 00:36:20
    chapter 8 is really to to get Egypt out
  • 00:36:24
    of Israel yeah the the Exodus the
  • 00:36:26
    liberation is not only political its
  • 00:36:29
    spiritual that is I want you to be free
  • 00:36:31
    from the idolatrous bondage of Egypt not
  • 00:36:35
    just the political slavery of Egypt they
  • 00:36:38
    were enslaved Egypt not only externally
  • 00:36:41
    but internally in order for Yahweh to be
  • 00:36:44
    the God of Israel they had to renounce
  • 00:36:46
    and actually symbolically slaughter
  • 00:36:48
    sacrifice the gods of Egypt which they
  • 00:36:51
    did in the Passover in the form of the
  • 00:36:52
    lamb and then they do it Mount Sinai in
  • 00:36:55
    Exodus 24 in the form of cattle sheep
  • 00:36:57
    and goats so in effect this whole
  • 00:37:01
    ceremony is restoration through
  • 00:37:05
    renunciation Israel is making this break
  • 00:37:08
    from the ways of Egypt and in that way
  • 00:37:10
    they're being reunited to God to Yahweh
  • 00:37:14
    as father so they can begin fulfilling
  • 00:37:16
    their royal priestly mission as God's
  • 00:37:19
    firstborn son nation to all the other
  • 00:37:22
    nations okay so the children of Israel
  • 00:37:24
    are at Mount Sinai and God makes a
  • 00:37:27
    covenant with Israel at Mount Sinai what
  • 00:37:29
    does this mean well in Exodus 19 he
  • 00:37:31
    offers them the Covenant he says in
  • 00:37:33
    effect if you keep my covenant you'll be
  • 00:37:35
    a kingdom of priests which follows from
  • 00:37:37
    their firstborn status as a nation in
  • 00:37:39
    Exodus 20 the Ten Commandments are given
  • 00:37:42
    that summarizes the the law the wisdom
  • 00:37:45
    of the father firs first firstborn son
  • 00:37:47
    if you live this law and break from the
  • 00:37:50
    idols of Egypt and if you live out my
  • 00:37:53
    own fatherly wisdom all the nations will
  • 00:37:55
    see your obedience see your prosperity
  • 00:37:58
    see our covenant intimacy and desire it
  • 00:38:01
    and in Exodus 21 22 and 23 additional
  • 00:38:04
    laws are given to kind of help Israel
  • 00:38:07
    gradually make that break the final
  • 00:38:11
    covenant is ratified however in Exodus
  • 00:38:13
    24 that's where the cattle sheep and
  • 00:38:16
    goats are all slaughtered the blood is
  • 00:38:18
    thrown upon the altar representing God's
  • 00:38:21
    side of the Covenant earth and then the
  • 00:38:23
    blood is also thrown upon the heads of
  • 00:38:24
    the people that symbolizes the fact that
  • 00:38:26
    Israel likewise is bound by covenant
  • 00:38:29
    oath to the Lord
  • 00:38:31
    they're both now bound by covenant oath
  • 00:38:33
    to each other now when reading through
  • 00:38:35
    the book of Exodus would you agree that
  • 00:38:37
    chapter 32 the Golden Calf incident is
  • 00:38:40
    the critical chapter in understanding
  • 00:38:43
    really the whole the sacramental system
  • 00:38:45
    the Levitical system the tabernacle
  • 00:38:47
    precisely now we can see I think more
  • 00:38:49
    clearly why that's the case in Exodus 32
  • 00:38:52
    Moses is atop Mount Sinai for 40 days of
  • 00:38:55
    fasting during that time Israel gets
  • 00:38:58
    Aaron to build a golden calf in other
  • 00:39:00
    words they've returned to the gods of
  • 00:39:02
    Egypt the bowl is a sign of APUs one of
  • 00:39:05
    the great gods of the Egyptian
  • 00:39:07
    idolatrous religions and so though they
  • 00:39:11
    have come out of Egypt Egypt has not
  • 00:39:14
    come out of them and up until the golden
  • 00:39:17
    calf all of the fathers of the twelve
  • 00:39:20
    tribes of Israel had a priestly role all
  • 00:39:22
    of the firstborn sons of Israel also had
  • 00:39:26
    a kind of royal priestly calling every
  • 00:39:28
    Israelite family could have been like a
  • 00:39:30
    little church a little tabernacle only
  • 00:39:33
    after the golden calf when the Levites
  • 00:39:36
    slaughtered the 3,000 idolaters does
  • 00:39:39
    Moses ordain the Levites to be priests
  • 00:39:41
    instead of all the father's and the
  • 00:39:44
    firstborn sons from all 12 tribes before
  • 00:39:47
    the golden calf then every family is
  • 00:39:49
    sacred every father's like a high priest
  • 00:39:51
    every firstborn son is like a deacon or
  • 00:39:54
    a priest under the Father so that every
  • 00:39:56
    family meal would have been sacred
  • 00:39:58
    sacrificial God would have been dwelling
  • 00:40:00
    in every Israelite family after Israel
  • 00:40:04
    goes back to the gods Egypt they forfeit
  • 00:40:07
    that royal priestly privilege and it's
  • 00:40:09
    given exclusively to the Levites because
  • 00:40:11
    only the Levites obey the Lord at Sinai
  • 00:40:14
    taking their swords at Moses command and
  • 00:40:16
    slaughtering 3,000 of the worshippers of
  • 00:40:19
    the Golden Calf he said today you've
  • 00:40:22
    ordained yourselves to be priests in
  • 00:40:24
    Israel you see that makes understanding
  • 00:40:26
    the book of Exodus it's so much more
  • 00:40:28
    clear yeah it really does it's it's
  • 00:40:31
    amazing go ahead okay well before the
  • 00:40:33
    Golden Calf and we have this situation
  • 00:40:35
    where the law is relatively simple we
  • 00:40:37
    have the Decalogue and sacrifices take
  • 00:40:40
    place in Exodus 24 but in the Ten
  • 00:40:43
    Commandments there are no requirements
  • 00:40:45
    for daily offerings up until the golden
  • 00:40:49
    calf you could offer animal sacrifices
  • 00:40:50
    if you wanted to after the ratification
  • 00:40:53
    ceremony but you didn't have to was
  • 00:40:55
    optional it was voluntary discretionary
  • 00:40:57
    but after the golden calf God says you
  • 00:41:00
    will offer every morning and evening
  • 00:41:02
    these animals that you have been
  • 00:41:04
    venerating secretly in this idolatry so
  • 00:41:08
    that in effect God is saying you said at
  • 00:41:11
    the oath that you would break but then
  • 00:41:13
    at the golden calf you return to the
  • 00:41:15
    gods of Egypt now that you've returned
  • 00:41:18
    I command you every day to break with
  • 00:41:23
    those gods it's sort of like those are
  • 00:41:25
    the sacrifices exactly the animal
  • 00:41:26
    sacrifices then every day require Israel
  • 00:41:29
    to renounce idolatry it's sort of like
  • 00:41:32
    if a wife was married to an alcoholic
  • 00:41:34
    and she said look Tom you know 10 times
  • 00:41:37
    now you have repudiated alcohol and I
  • 00:41:41
    believe you every time but no more what
  • 00:41:43
    I'm going to require of you every
  • 00:41:45
    morning and every evening if we're to
  • 00:41:47
    stay together here and she hands him a
  • 00:41:48
    bottle of Jack Daniels he says you must
  • 00:41:51
    smash that bottle in the sink this
  • 00:41:53
    morning and again this evening if I am
  • 00:41:55
    going to stay with you because I see
  • 00:41:57
    that this bottle is your God and you
  • 00:42:00
    must break with the God in effect and so
  • 00:42:02
    God is saying to Israel in effect every
  • 00:42:05
    day you must slaughter the gods that you
  • 00:42:07
    had been secretly worshiping if you're
  • 00:42:09
    going to have me as your true father and
  • 00:42:11
    Lord so before the Golden Calf incident
  • 00:42:15
    there seems to be a level of intimacy
  • 00:42:17
    between God and His people at least God
  • 00:42:20
    desires there to be a level of intimacy
  • 00:42:22
    that when sin comes the Golden Calf
  • 00:42:24
    incident takes place the intimacy the
  • 00:42:28
    Misha's between God in His people and
  • 00:42:30
    that's what sin does yeah before the
  • 00:42:32
    golden calf there was no reason why
  • 00:42:33
    God's Spirit would not dwell in all of
  • 00:42:36
    the tents of the 12 tribes of Israel but
  • 00:42:38
    in the Golden Calf incident all of that
  • 00:42:40
    is lost if all 12 tribes were priestly
  • 00:42:43
    before only the tribe of Levi is
  • 00:42:45
    priestly afterwards if sacrifices could
  • 00:42:48
    have been offered in all of the the
  • 00:42:49
    tents of the 12 tribes before after the
  • 00:42:52
    golden calf only in the tabernacle that
  • 00:42:54
    is erected right after the golden calf
  • 00:42:56
    and Aaron is installed as the high
  • 00:42:59
    priest so you have a whole load of
  • 00:43:02
    additional ceremonial laws that revolve
  • 00:43:05
    around animal sacrifice Aaron's high
  • 00:43:08
    priesthood the tabernacle in other words
  • 00:43:11
    at this point
  • 00:43:12
    God is withdrawing from Israel now you
  • 00:43:15
    might say that doesn't seem fair but the
  • 00:43:17
    only reason God is doing it is because
  • 00:43:19
    Israel had already withdrawn from the
  • 00:43:21
    Lord God is just simply honoring their
  • 00:43:24
    request he's saying I called you to come
  • 00:43:27
    an intimacy you said yes but your
  • 00:43:29
    actions said no and so I'm just going to
  • 00:43:32
    basically respond to your actions
  • 00:43:34
    because your actions speak louder than
  • 00:43:36
    your words but I'm not gonna let you go
  • 00:43:38
    I'm not going to let you return to those
  • 00:43:40
    gods I'm gonna make you slaughter those
  • 00:43:42
    gods not just once at Sinai but once
  • 00:43:45
    twice a day every day for centuries for
  • 00:43:49
    over a thousand years until finally I
  • 00:43:53
    rode out of your hearts the hardest I
  • 00:43:56
    rode out of your eye i uproot the heart
  • 00:43:59
    of stone as he says in Ezekiel 36 and
  • 00:44:01
    I'll give you a new heart so not until a
  • 00:44:04
    future covenant is made will Israel's
  • 00:44:07
    real spiritual problem be resolved talk
  • 00:44:11
    just for a moment about the tabernacle
  • 00:44:12
    the tabernacle is it can seem very very
  • 00:44:14
    complicated there are many many chapters
  • 00:44:16
    in the Bible that are dedicated to the
  • 00:44:18
    description the building of it all the
  • 00:44:20
    different instruments in the tabernacle
  • 00:44:21
    what is the role of the tabernacle now
  • 00:44:23
    in Israel's history yeah at this point
  • 00:44:25
    in time the tabernacle is God's dwelling
  • 00:44:27
    place in Exodus 33 the tabernacle had to
  • 00:44:30
    be pitched outside the camp of Israel
  • 00:44:32
    because the camp was defiled so God
  • 00:44:34
    wants to dwell in the midst of his
  • 00:44:36
    people so he has to add all these laws
  • 00:44:38
    to make it possible what are the laws he
  • 00:44:40
    says okay
  • 00:44:41
    we're gonna put my Tabernacle back in
  • 00:44:43
    the middle of the twelve tribes but it's
  • 00:44:46
    gonna have to be cordoned off surrounded
  • 00:44:48
    by the four clans of the tribe of Levi
  • 00:44:51
    price of sin exactly the cushioning of
  • 00:44:53
    the Levites then is the result of the
  • 00:44:56
    golden calf whenever we sin we distance
  • 00:44:58
    ourselves from God but God is never
  • 00:45:01
    going to abandon us but he will allow
  • 00:45:03
    our sins to have their effects he will
  • 00:45:06
    manifest those effects to us he will
  • 00:45:09
    allow us in fact he will force us to
  • 00:45:11
    accept the consequence of her sin which
  • 00:45:13
    is this greater distance between
  • 00:45:15
    ourselves and God and so the tabernacle
  • 00:45:19
    represents God's own loving presence in
  • 00:45:22
    the midst of his family but the
  • 00:45:24
    Levitical tribe that surrounds the
  • 00:45:26
    tabernacle is a constant reminder to
  • 00:45:29
    Israel of their fall the rabbi's used to
  • 00:45:31
    say that what the forbidden fruit was to
  • 00:45:33
    Adam the golden calf was to Israel as
  • 00:45:36
    Adam forfeit of his royal priestly
  • 00:45:39
    authority to transmit blessings to every
  • 00:45:42
    person to all of his progeny by eating
  • 00:45:44
    the forbidden fruit so likewise Israel
  • 00:45:47
    forfeit of the royal priestly privilege
  • 00:45:50
    as a firstborn son nation to freely
  • 00:45:53
    transmit God's blessing salvation to all
  • 00:45:55
    the nations instead the Levites became
  • 00:45:58
    the priestly conduit to transmit God's
  • 00:46:01
    blessings back to the twelve tribes who
  • 00:46:04
    would hopefully bless all and be a
  • 00:46:06
    blessing to the nation that's right this
  • 00:46:08
    is the key to understanding the
  • 00:46:09
    Levitical laws that follow the Golden
  • 00:46:11
    Calf you see in the Golden Calf we have
  • 00:46:13
    Exodus 32 to 34 and then at the end of
  • 00:46:16
    Exodus 35 to 40 we have the instructions
  • 00:46:18
    concerning erecting the tabernacle and
  • 00:46:21
    consecrating Aaron as the high priest
  • 00:46:23
    then Leviticus begins boy when people
  • 00:46:26
    read them what are you about to say I
  • 00:46:27
    could read your thoughts well you know
  • 00:46:29
    when you read through the Bible you have
  • 00:46:30
    these Bible reading programs where you
  • 00:46:32
    start in January and you go through when
  • 00:46:33
    do people stop they stop in March
  • 00:46:35
    because they're in Leviticus and that's
  • 00:46:36
    right I think this does this is not
  • 00:46:38
    edifying me in my daily devotions right
  • 00:46:40
    along with the March rain and the March
  • 00:46:42
    mud comes the book a little bit and you
  • 00:46:44
    get bogged down in all of the details
  • 00:46:46
    describing the sacrifice explained the
  • 00:46:48
    Book of Leviticus where does this fit
  • 00:46:50
    well once you see the significance of
  • 00:46:52
    the golden calf as the hinge on which
  • 00:46:53
    the Covenant now turn
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    you can recognize that Leviticus is
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    neatly divided into two parts Leviticus
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    1 to 16 is the priestly code Leviticus
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    17 that for who is the priestly code for
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    okay the first half of Leviticus is a
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    guidebook to train the Levites in their
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    new task of getting the 12 tribes back
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    on track with God okay
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    the second half love Leviticus 17 to 27
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    is known as the holiness code the second
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    half of Leviticus the holiness code
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    consists of the instructions that the
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    Levites must pass down to the twelve
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    tribes to rehabilitate them in order to
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    get them back on track so you have two
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    books in the in Leviticus in effect you
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    have the priestly code to train the
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    priests in their new Levitical duties
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    and then you have the holiness code so
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    the Levites know what they're to teach
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    the twelve tribes as the new teacher of
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    Israel is sort of like they're almost
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    like babysitters if you will they have
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    to be super strict in overseeing and
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    administering the twelve tribes to keep
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    them from returning to the idols the
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    gods of Egypt now when you approach the
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    book of love the Leviticus that way
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    you'll recognize that all the animals
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    that God requires Israel to sacrifice he
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    has no need for he takes no delight in
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    these animal sacrifices but he does
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    recognize that Israel needs to sacrifice
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    those animals in order to constantly
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    make that clean break from idolatry and
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    then all of a sudden the sacrifices of
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    Leviticus become an educational tool
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    tutor for the father to teach his
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    wayward son his rebellious
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    that's what Paul says doesn't he exactly
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    why then the law it was added because of
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    transgressions or in Hebrews 7 verse 12
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    where there is a change the priesthood
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    there is a change in the law the change
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    in the priesthood from the firstborn
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    sons to the Levites a change in the law
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    from the simple Ten Commandments and the
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    covenant code to all of the additional
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    burdensome penitential regulations and
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    sacrifices and ceremonies by which God
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    in effect slowly rehabilitates dr.
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    Hodges read your teaching has made
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    reading the Bible
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    a lot of fun because it puts everything
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    in perspective as we start reading
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    through the scriptures and our viewers
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    are reading with us they started in the
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    book of Genesis and then they come to
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    the book of Exodus and right there in
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    chapter 32 you can start reading
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    Leviticus and you read it in context
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    knowing what it's about who it's
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    addressed to and what the purposes of
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    the of the book are and by the ways it's
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    I'm flattered that you say it's my
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    approach but it's really a very new old
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    approach it's the approach as you know
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    it you make it simple yeah you know it's
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    it's reflected in the targum the ancient
  • 00:49:40
    Jewish Bible that was used probably some
  • 00:49:42
    form of it in Jesus day the targum czar
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    the aramaic translator right exactly
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    we also find it in the rabbinic writings
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    we find it in the early church fathers
  • 00:49:49
    st. Thomas Aquinas takes it for granted
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    in the Summa Theologica the Prima
  • 00:49:54
    Secunda section 102 he just describes
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    all these ceremonial sacrifices as a
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    penitential addition because of the
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    golden calf even Martin Luther who
  • 00:50:06
    inherited so much through his training
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    as an Augustinian monk took all of this
  • 00:50:10
    for granted and interpreting the Bible
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    it's really been in the last two
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    centuries or so that a lot of this is
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    lost through the misuse of certain
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    historical critical tools and methods
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    that's wonderful I have I enjoy talking
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    to you about this you know there's
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    nothing as exciting as reading the Bible
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    and you know that I really mean that
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    it's an adventure when you pick up on
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    the book of Genesis and you read you
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    read all the way through about our
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    fathers plan it really is an adventure
  • 00:50:34
    our next book that we're going to be
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    looking at is the Book of Numbers we're
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    going to travel from Genesis to Exodus
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    and you can read Leviticus in the
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    context of Exodus we're going to move on
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    to the Book of Numbers and so read up on
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    numbers before our next program this is
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    our Father's plan Jeff Cavins and dr.
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    Scott Hahn with you we're looking
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    forward to seeing you next time
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