Jim Bakker Show - Missed Meanings of Popular Bible Stories
Aired: 2015-06-25
Duration: 05:18


=== Two Young Men (05:10) ===

[00:00:00]  And the Holy Spirit plays games with you.
[00:00:03]  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.
[00:00:16]  Let me give you an example.
[00:00:17]  Can I give you a simple example?
[00:00:19]  Yes.
[00:00:19]  You remember Rahab shields the two spies.
[00:00:24]  She gave them sanctuary.
[00:00:27]  And so she suggests that they shouldn't go back to their camp.
[00:00:32]  They should go in the mountains until the search is over.
[00:00:35]  And she's going to lower them outside the window, and they should go hide till the search is over.
[00:00:42]  They say, okay, good.
[00:00:43]  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.
[00:00:53]  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.
[00:01:06]  Just happens at pun.
[00:01:08]  When they refer to, this is about verse 15 and chapter 2 of Joshua.
[00:01:13]  When they refer to the line, they use a different word.
[00:01:19]  They don't use chebel, they use tikbah, which is a word that can mean a line, but it also can mean hope.
[00:01:26]  Ha-Tikbah is the national anthem of Israel, the hope, right?
[00:01:32]  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.
[00:01:45]  Now, why did she say three days?
[00:01:47]  I don't think she knew.
[00:01:48]  But the Holy Spirit had her three days.
[00:01:51]  Why?
[00:01:52]  There's three days between the trauma of the cross and the hope of the resurrection.
[00:01:59]  And if you know the language, you suddenly see the Holy Spirit playing games there.
[00:02:05]  Now, some people say, Chuck, you're making too much of that.
[00:02:09]  I don't think so.
[00:02:10]  And I can give you example after example of that kind of thing.
[00:02:13]  As you're sensitive, the higher you place your respect for the text, the more those things will come out at you.
[00:02:22]  And we all know the story of Abraham offering Isaac, right?
[00:02:29]  And we all know he went up the hill, and Isaac said, here's the wood.
[00:02:33]  Where's the lamb?
[00:02:35]  And Abraham's in verse 7, chapter 22, he says, the Lord will provide himself a lamb.
[00:02:42]  And I always thought, well, he's just stalling the kid until he gets up on top of the hill, right?
[00:02:47]  They left the two young men at the bottom, Abraham and Isaac are going up the hill.
[00:02:52]  God will provide himself.
[00:02:54]  Who?
[00:02:56]  God will provide himself.
[00:02:57]  That's what he's saying.
[00:02:59]  We know from Hebrews 11, verse 19, that Abraham knew he was acting out prophecy.
[00:03:06]  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.
[00:03:15]  So Abraham's problem, that's God's problem, not his.
[00:03:18]  And of course they go up there and there's a last minute substitution.
[00:03:20]  You all know the story.
[00:03:22]  When you get down to verse 19 of chapter 22, it's something very strange.
[00:03:26]  The lamb's been substituted and so forth.
[00:03:29]  Abraham goes down and that he and the two young men go home.
[00:03:34]  Well, where's Isaac?
[00:03:37]  He's not mentioned.
[00:03:38]  Now he obviously went down with Abraham, so the four of them went home.
[00:03:43]  That's not what it says.
[00:03:45]  The name of Isaac is edited out of the record.
[00:03:50]  From the time he's offered until he's united with his bride.
[00:03:54]  Two chapters later.
[00:03:59]  You follow me?
[00:04:00]  Yes.
[00:04:02]  At the well of the Hiroi is where Isaac meets his bride.
[00:04:06]  But the person of Isaac is edited out of the record until that encounter.
[00:04:10]  Two chapters later.
[00:04:12]  The first thing is in chapter 22.
[00:04:13]  It isn't in chapter 24, verse 64, that Isaac is with his bride.
[00:04:18]  So you see the Holy Spirit, I almost see him with his tongue in his cheek.
[00:04:23]  He's playing with the text by making those subtle changes.
[00:04:27]  Obviously, Abraham, when he went down the hill, picked up the two young, they went home, Isaac was with him.
[00:04:32]  But that's not what it says.
[00:04:34]  Isaac's added out of the record, so it fits the model, if you follow me.
[00:04:39]  When you read Hebrews chapter 11, verse 19, Abraham knew he was acting out a prophecy.
[00:04:46]  He received him in a figure.
[00:04:48]  How long was Isaac dead to Abraham?
[00:04:52]  From the commandment until he's restored, or substituted?

=== Seven Days, Six Others (00:22) ===

[00:04:56]  Three days.
[00:04:57]  It's another one of those places.
[00:04:59]  There are seven different places in the Old Testament where there's three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection.
[00:05:06]  Not just the sign of Noah, that's a sign of Jonah.
[00:05:09]  That's just one of them.
[00:05:10]  There's six others.
[00:05:12]  And I usually get the students tracking that.
[00:05:14]  Oh, my goodness.
[00:05:15]  I want to learn all of this.