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Two Young Men
00:05:10
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| And the Holy Spirit plays games with you. | |
| The Holy Spirit will diddle the text so that there'll be puns in there that you will miss unless you've really put it in a very high regard. | |
| Let me give you an example. | |
| Can I give you a simple example? | |
| Yes. | |
| You remember Rahab shields the two spies. | |
| She gave them sanctuary. | |
| And so she suggests that they shouldn't go back to their camp. | |
| They should go in the mountains until the search is over. | |
| And she's going to lower them outside the window, and they should go hide till the search is over. | |
| They say, okay, good. | |
| What we will do, we'll take that cord, and that'll have your family come and we'll give you sanctuary as quid pro quo here. | |
| Well, it's interesting if you study the text in the Hebrew, when she speaks of the line, she uses the word chebel, which can mean a cord, but it's also a word that can mean pain, suffering, and trauma. | |
| Just happens at pun. | |
| When they refer to, this is about verse 15 and chapter 2 of Joshua. | |
| When they refer to the line, they use a different word. | |
| They don't use chebel, they use tikbah, which is a word that can mean a line, but it also can mean hope. | |
| Ha-Tikbah is the national anthem of Israel, the hope, right? | |
| So you begin to realize that between her using the word chebel and their using the word tikbah, she suggests that they should hide in the hills for three days. | |
| Now, why did she say three days? | |
| I don't think she knew. | |
| But the Holy Spirit had her three days. | |
| Why? | |
| There's three days between the trauma of the cross and the hope of the resurrection. | |
| And if you know the language, you suddenly see the Holy Spirit playing games there. | |
| Now, some people say, Chuck, you're making too much of that. | |
| I don't think so. | |
| And I can give you example after example of that kind of thing. | |
| As you're sensitive, the higher you place your respect for the text, the more those things will come out at you. | |
| And we all know the story of Abraham offering Isaac, right? | |
| And we all know he went up the hill, and Isaac said, here's the wood. | |
| Where's the lamb? | |
| And Abraham's in verse 7, chapter 22, he says, the Lord will provide himself a lamb. | |
| And I always thought, well, he's just stalling the kid until he gets up on top of the hill, right? | |
| They left the two young men at the bottom, Abraham and Isaac are going up the hill. | |
| God will provide himself. | |
| Who? | |
| God will provide himself. | |
| That's what he's saying. | |
| We know from Hebrews 11, verse 19, that Abraham knew he was acting out prophecy. | |
| So he knew that if he's supposed to offer Isaac, God has a problem because he's going to have to resurrect Isaac to give them the children he promised. | |
| So Abraham's problem, that's God's problem, not his. | |
| And of course they go up there and there's a last minute substitution. | |
| You all know the story. | |
| When you get down to verse 19 of chapter 22, it's something very strange. | |
| The lamb's been substituted and so forth. | |
| Abraham goes down and that he and the two young men go home. | |
| Well, where's Isaac? | |
| He's not mentioned. | |
| Now he obviously went down with Abraham, so the four of them went home. | |
| That's not what it says. | |
| The name of Isaac is edited out of the record. | |
| From the time he's offered until he's united with his bride. | |
| Two chapters later. | |
| You follow me? | |
| Yes. | |
| At the well of the Hiroi is where Isaac meets his bride. | |
| But the person of Isaac is edited out of the record until that encounter. | |
| Two chapters later. | |
| The first thing is in chapter 22. | |
| It isn't in chapter 24, verse 64, that Isaac is with his bride. | |
| So you see the Holy Spirit, I almost see him with his tongue in his cheek. | |
| He's playing with the text by making those subtle changes. | |
| Obviously, Abraham, when he went down the hill, picked up the two young, they went home, Isaac was with him. | |
| But that's not what it says. | |
| Isaac's added out of the record, so it fits the model, if you follow me. | |
| When you read Hebrews chapter 11, verse 19, Abraham knew he was acting out a prophecy. | |
| He received him in a figure. | |
| How long was Isaac dead to Abraham? | |
| From the commandment until he's restored, or substituted? | |
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Seven Days, Six Others
00:00:22
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| Three days. | |
| It's another one of those places. | |
| There are seven different places in the Old Testament where there's three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection. | |
| Not just the sign of Noah, that's a sign of Jonah. | |
| That's just one of them. | |
| There's six others. | |
| And I usually get the students tracking that. | |
| Oh, my goodness. | |
| I want to learn all of this. | |