Five last-days predictions from the Old Testament
- What are the last-days passages pastors rarely preach on?
- What is your worship of Molech?
The hosts work through an article of 'last day's passages that pastors rarely preach on': prophecy touches every person alive, with key New Testament passages named (Matthew 24, 1 Thessalonians, Revelation). The article's five Old Testament predictions: Jacob's blessing (Genesis 49), Moses' warning to Israel about the last days (Deuteronomy 31), Jeremiah's prophecies of Judah's destruction, Isaiah's judgment on old-covenant Israel, and Joel's Holy Spirit prediction (skipped as self-explanatory). Discussion covers whether 'last days' means two halves, whether these were already fulfilled in exile and Jesus, the serpent prophecy of Genesis 3, whether modern Judaism still identifies by tribe (no one claims to be a Benjamite), and a 'four wrestlers of the apocalypse' joke featuring Randy Savage. The application: 'What is your worship of Molech?' -- with Instagram named as a modern Molech. A Samson tangent asks 'What's the message of the story?' ('Never date a woman named Delilah'; 'Give me the strength to pull down the Philistine temple of my life') before the comedy bit: 'I came here to collect foreskins and take the jawbone of an ass, and I'm all out of jawbone.'
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Evaluating the event: Elijah, Josiah, the sign of Jonah, the donuts test
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Does God affirm our struggles or call us to repent of them?
- Does God affirm our struggles or call us to repent of them?
Mike frames two camps: one that says God affirms our struggles as-is, another that says He calls us to repent of what is in our control.
From No. 534 · The Antagonistic Bison
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Is it wrong to keep a potty mouth and chew tobacco?
- Is it wrong to love and follow Jesus while keeping a slight potty mouth and continuing to chew tobacco?
- Does the Bible call gambling a sin?
Third 'is this wrong?' case: can a host love and follow Jesus all his days while keeping a slight potty mouth and chewing tobacco?
From No. 524 · Handshakes and Wrongness
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Ask the pastor: the queen of heaven in Jeremiah 7:18
- What is the 'queen of heaven' in Jeremiah 7:18?
Boova's ask-the-pastor comes from his Jeremiah read-through: the 'queen of heaven' in Jeremiah 7:18 (cakes baked, drink offerings poured 'to provoke me to anger').
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