Okay, we're ready to get started and I got it recording now and we'll go from there. Let's pray and we'll talk a little bit about homework and try to encourage you a bit, even if you didn't finish it. And we'll go from there, all right? Thank you, Father, for the blessings you've given to us in your word because as we're learning skills and digging into it, we can draw closer to you because we can understand what you've revealed to us and not based on and musings of men, but on what you yourself have had written down that we might know you. Tonight, as we start digging into developing skills toward this, keep us encouraged, because it is a wonderful thing to be able to learn these tools, even if we're a little hesitant at the startup. In Jesus' name, amen. Okay, we're gonna, Let me tell you a little bit about the homework, because I now understand that most people did not finish everything except one person. Two people? Did you finish everything? I'm going to lie. OK. That did not tell me if you finished everything. Let it be ambiguous. He's remaining ambiguous. He doesn't want to admit it. So at least one person did everything. One person did almost everything. And that's fine. The goal here is to advance. Gain skills you don't have, or improve skills you do have. That's what we're trying to do. So even if you don't even get any homework done, it is still worthwhile. Come to class, Zoom, do the Zoom, whatever it takes, because it's simply moving forward. It's sort of like if you set a goal to read the Bible one year, and you get behind schedule, what should you do? Just continue. If it takes you two years, are you a failure? Absolutely not. The goal actually is to read the Bible. The time element is not the issue. The goal is to learn and grow. So some of it's going to be by watching. Hopefully you're an audio visual learner, and you'll gain a little bit more when you get some time to start doing it. But just as you start seeing it being done, you will pick up things. Some of you are learning some computer programs. There's a learning curve to that. There's no question about it. What are you using, Danielle? Well, no, I tried on my phone. I was going through the links that you sent via email. I was going through those. 15, 20 different programs on it. So pick one. Otherwise, you're going to be like, I can't remember which one does what. So pick one. Or you can download. eSort is pretty easy. Several people doing that. You're using Logos, right? No, I have eSort. You have eSort. Nancy's going to be our eastward expert. Hardly. Hardly. Okay, because I use it once five years ago. I had Jim Zeger come. I might have to have Jim Zeger come in and do it again, which is that how to use the sword logos. You're using your dad's No, I have it. You have your own I took Wow, I am impressed. Yeah, I have my own now. When I opened it again. So the last thing I don't really know how to use it. We will be learning. You're using a sword. Using blue letter Bible, a little bit too. To get some other references. Maybe I was using a computer program. I actually use logos faster and accordance. So Sam's got my house. All right, there's several people doing that. We'll probably end up just offering like a Saturday seminar or something on how to use some of these programs. How many people actually tried to find some books or had some books, like hard copies? Because you probably have it from when you were in college, right? Back in the last millennium. Well, not quite. I got a Nelson's Bible dictionary. OK, that's helpful. Well, we're going to go through some of this stuff. Some of the references. I'm gonna do this kind of the same thing we did last time by just marching through how we're you can do this. Even if you don't have like blog us or which is really nice because you just move the cursor and click on her thing. If you set it up right and here's all this information, your dad can help you set it up. Because he's he's gotten really good, good at it. These are the same thing. It's not quite as easy, but it's still fairly easy to be able to just do a couple clicks and the verses are there. One of the nicest things about all the Bible programs is it will list a reference and it's easy to pull up the whole verse rather than here's a reference and you're flipping through your Bible. It can cut hours out of your study time, which doesn't mean that you have extra time now to go do something other than that. What it means is your study is more productive. So you set aside a few hours, you're actually getting a whole lot more out of it. That's one reason how I do push it's going to be a viable program for your computer. Okay, eSort is downloadable, so it stays on your computer, which is nice if you lose your internet connection. Logos has a lot of different versions. They have some that are very simple starter versions, and you just add slowly the few things you need. You don't need to spend thousands and thousands like I have over the years. But I actually have more in my Logos library that I think I have upstairs. So it's nice to be able to search that. OK? So don't be discouraged. If you didn't get everything done, you're learning. And that's what you're after, right? OK. So let me go to some of the homework that we had. And it was these. Get the right thing here. Like that. Reference book exercises. All right, let me go to, back out of that. You can read that real well? Yeah. Nope. Getting better. Better? Okay, we see it a little bit, right? So I asked you to look up, just start using things, and notice I gave you a lot of options there, okay? You're going to look up sorts. You're reading, and Peter had this sort. Well, what was it? Right? What kind of sword? As you start looking, there's a lot of different kinds of swords. So that would be, how would you do that? Well, there's a lot of options. You can look in a Bible dictionary or an encyclopedia, and you can just look up, what are swords? OK? And then eventually, you'll probably find some reference that tells you something about Peter and what he had. The other thing you could do is you could look up the verse, since we're talking about Peter and his sword. I can look up sword, and this is just a concordance, and it has different places. So Genesis, a flaming sword which turned every, okay. So this is the sword the angel had. So in the Hebrew, here's the connection to the Hebrew number. Now we'll go down. All right. So I look up that number 2719 in the back. Hebrew word for it in Hebrew and a transliteration and how you might be able to say it would just kind of help right grab and then it lists the various ways of translating including sword. Okay, I guess a little information. That's just what the angel had right Then I can look Simon Peter up. So if I in my concordance. I look and look under sword until I find the pastor. I'm looking for. So in John records. I'm a Peter having a sword drew it And it's going to give me the number. Now, dittos mean I have to go up here. So I got 3168. That's the Strong's number. I can trace the Strong's number in all sorts of different tools. So I can go to the back of the dictionary and the back of Strong's. And there it is. OK. What's Ira? Zoom, et cetera. Dagger, judicial something. Dagger. Well, that's interesting. Or a dirk. Anybody know what a dirk is? Okay. It's Irish. Yeah, it's a short stabbing instrument. Okay? So that already gives you a clue. It's probably not one of these, you know, long two-handed broadswords like the knights in shining armor use. It's something else. But if I go to a Bible dictionary, This is Greek. This is the other word that comes up here someplace. It's like just barely visible on the right column. Should we go down a little more? Go to that side? Yeah. There we go. Okay. Frontaia. So this one is a different number referring to something else. You can look back and see where that's used. Notice this is a long and broad weapon, so two different kinds of swords. Now that's just using a concordance. So that's the simplest way to do it. So remember, dictionary is your first thing to look at. English dictionary, because you speak English, so grab that. If you speak another language, you can look it up in the other language. Concordance can tell you which word is being used, and that's really helpful. It gives you a strong sense that you can start using these other tools. Now, Vines, which I showed you, I can look up the word, and it gives me both the Greek words. This is Vines, a dictionary of New Testament words. So I can look up it in English, which is nice for us, and then it lists the different words that are used in scripture. Gives us quite a few of the different references here where it is used. And then it gives a description. So that's a helpful thing to do, right? OK, if I look up in a Bible dictionary. OK, this is in a Bible dictionary. I think that's encyclopedia, because that's the same word I got from using encyclopedia. Encyclopedia will give you the same thing. A dictionary is basically a very short encyclopedia. Encyclopedia has long articles. Dictionary is just very short. So I'm going to look it up. But here, I had to look up in Armor to find, OK, there's offensive weapons. There's defensive weapons. Then I had to start looking through to see how it's used. But I had to kind of think through, well, where am I going to find a sword? What would that look like? All right. So that gives me the whole article. And finally, I get down here. Old Testament armor and arms. Offensive weapons. So now I have a whole article that goes over different things. It even has pictures in there. So this is from Encyclopedia. This dictionary doesn't have that much. Shoulder's main weapon. So finally, I come. There's the Hebrew word. And he gives me an article there, and I keep coming down, and I'm going to learn much more about all the kinds of swords there are than maybe I want to know. Okay? So that's the advantage of encyclopedias, dictionaries. There's many ways to get to your information. So you don't have to have everything. If you have something, you can start getting an idea of what's in there. Now, why would that make a difference? Peter pulls out his sword, and it says he took off Malchus's ear. Now, if it's a broadsword, you know, how did he miss the whole head? You know, and if he whacked his ear with a broadsword, I think Malchus is going down for the count anyways, because it's so big. But if it's a short sword, how close does he have to be to Malchus? He's really close, right? So, this is up close and personal. So, it gives you a little more idea of what's going on within the text and what's happening. So, put it away. So now we know Peter isn't walking around with the sword dragging on the ground or something. He's got a dagger, a short sword. And so now he's going to defend him. Now that gives you a little bit more idea about Peter. He's got a whole contingent of Roman soldiers there. He's got this little bitty sword. I'll take you all on, right? But hey, it's not bad because he just saw Jesus go, I am. And they all fall down. So if I get in trouble, Jesus is just going to say that again, and I'm good. It does give you a little quite a bit more about what's going on the text. Just understand it a little bit more. What does the word meaning is a much better idea of it. Okay. So that was sword. So there is a example. Now I gave you some others. Let's see what we can get out and let you guys talk. We get out of this one. And next one was mystery. Okay, Ephesians 1. Okay, Ephesians 1. The question was, Paul often uses the word mystery in his letters, such as Ephesians 3, 4, that gives you a place to go. What does the word mystery mean as it's used in the Bible? So Bible dictionary, encyclopedia, concordance, you can look that up at Strong's number. What did you come up with? Any volunteers? Or will it remain a mystery? All right, Hannah. A hidden thing or something secret. A hidden thing or something secret. Now, where did you get that out of? That was from Logos. Oh, from Logos in there. I searched it, and then I clicked it, and then it popped up. It popped up. So that was probably a very brief concordance dictionary. Yeah. OK. So what did you come up with, Danielle? Hidden truth, secret. Okay, something hidden, something secret. Anybody on Zoom want to jump in? Okay, Ronnie. Number 3466, and the Greek word is mysterion. Okay. M-U-O means to shut the mouth. A secret or mystery through the idea of silence imposed by initiation. Okay, what did you look that up then I'm sorry. What did you look it up in The Greek in strongs and strong. Okay, so that I don't have. I don't have any software yet. I'm using books. So here it is. And looking up and strong. Well, that's big. Siri on and then here's what Ronnie was just talking about. So this is the back 3466 and so it gives you a bit more. So that's, that's a little bit of more information right Look up in any and like a Bible dictionary just look in the Bible dictionary. What'd you come up with Jason? It said something I don't accept for divine revelation Sometimes they have like more it wasn't commentary it was I think it was like an extent some sort of an extended concordance who said it As Paul uses it here, it's the will of God that is hidden from the ungodly, but is plain to those to whom God has revealed through salvation. OK, that gives you a lot more information, right? So something hidden, but now as Paul's using it, which is what our goal is, right? So the general word means this one thing, something hidden, something secretive, et cetera. Paul keeps using it. So what does Paul mean by that? What's he talking about? So now you're looking at something that gives more information about that usage. So this is Vines, so it's a, again, it's a lexicon for English speakers. So you look up the word mystery in English, usually Greek, and then it gives you some, you know, comments about its usage in different passages. So that's Vines. So there's all these different tools that are available to you. A lot of them are in the software. So that sheet I gave you that talked about Bible-setting tools, refer back to that to see which, you know, kind of reference you should be using. Okay? Just even a simple Bible dictionary like what Jason has is very helpful. Because it gives you a little more information. That's what you're after. I'm trying to understand what he means by this mystery. So it's not something that remains hidden, but something that gets revealed. Okay? There's another one. This is out of a Bible Dictionary, so looked up mystery. It didn't just sound like what you just said. Maybe that was it. Okay. So that's in a Bible Dictionary. All right. So there's a lot of these tools are available to you, but it gives you more of an understanding of what's in there. Because you're just going to go, mystery of, I don't know what, you know, mysteries are in literature, right? You want to understand what Paul means by that. So that's how you're going to find that information. OK, here's new Bible dictionary ones, history in the Old Testament, the New Testament. So in the New Testament, notice how long he gives you background on the Greek, what the word means, how it got into Latin and English, and then in the Zondervan Encyclopedia. Let's shorten that a bit. Okay, great. He gives you a longer one. Look, so this introduction that uses LXX, anybody remember what that is? Septuagint. Septuagint. Okay, so that's 70. Septuagint is for the 70 who translated it. So an introduction, how it was used in the Old Testament, the background, the issues, secular and pagan usage of the word, then you goes on interpretation, significant passages, goes on and on. He finally gets and he starts talking about its usage in particular books, Romans, First Corinthians, Ephesians. Ah, that was what we were looking at, right? So obviously, an encyclopedia just has a whole lot more. And it keeps going on. That's what, four or five pages? OK, so different tools give you a lot more information. So it kind of depends on what you're after. If you're just trying to understand something simple as you're trying to get the flow of the text, you're not necessarily going to read the whole encyclopedia article. But if it's something you're really trying to, if it's a question you have and you're wrestling with it, you probably would look it up, right? So these are good tools. The library is open to you if you pass all the junk in there to find the book. But it is available to you to dig into some of these tools, okay? We also have Logos on the church computer. So if you need to, you can always come in and just fool around with that. Okay? Okay, that's a mystery. Next, I had, I didn't, I don't have a sheet on this, so I was hoping that we could talk about that. Jesus refers to the heart in Matthew 15, 18, and 19. What is he referring to? The inner self. The inner self. The volition, the mind, the desire. How else is the word kardia used, which is the Greek term for it? What did you look up in? This is a lot of fun. A lot of fun. But which tool? You know? You don't know. Couldn't tell you. OK. I don't know what tool I'm using. It's a strong dictionary. OK. Strong dictionary. Just the simplest thing. Yeah. OK. So anybody else look it up? Okay, so how can the heart be the mind I mean, this is the heart in the mind, right? Okay, he did it five years ago So heart cardiac in Greek, refers to the pumper, okay? That refers to your physical heart, but it is used metaphorically, the same way we do in some sense, except in English when you're saying, you know, something with all his heart, what are we talking about? Generally our emotions, okay? We use the reference to heart in an emotional sense. The Greeks didn't do that. And that's one reason to look it up. When he says, looking it up, it's not your emotions. It's the seed of your will. How do you know what your will is? You gotta use your mind, right? So that's why some will translate it as mind. Although there's another Greek word they'll use for that. So now I'm starting to understand that I should be careful when I'm reading English that I may not know what that word actually means. Because I'm reading through it. I'm to love God with all my heart. It doesn't mean emotion, does it? Not when I'm looking into either the Hebrew or the Greek words. So this is very important. One of the reasons I said, last week, we were just doing an overview. You look up words, even if you think you know what they are. You may be surprised. It doesn't mean the same thing you think it does in English, because we use words metaphorically differently than the Greeks do many times. Okay? So that's one reason I put hard in there as an example. Okay, the seed of moral nature, spiritual life, according to Vines. Springs of personal life, Vines comments on it. All right, Mark 6, 48, the text says disciples were straining, the American standard, and I also put the King James, toiling. Why do you think I put two different versions in there, translations? Because it's a different word, so it might cause you to actually go look up, it's being translated differently, so what do, So that's exactly why I did that. One of the first ways to really start digging in is compare different translations. If they're using different English words, you know, you may need to be digging in to try and find out what exactly are they, what are they trying to bring out here? Okay? So what does that mean? They're straining, they're toiling. What does it tell you about the disciples? What were they experiencing? So that's what you're trying to get. What was going on with these guys, OK? They're out in a boat. It's windy. And they're straining. They're toiling. What's the situation for them? Very strenuous. Very strenuous. So why would they have to be so strenuous? Could be a storm. Could be a storm. Probably kind of adds to the idea that when it gets a little later, they're afraid for their lives. Yeah, they're doing everything they can to try and make sure we can make it to shore. So that's what's toiling, straining. It gives you more of that idea that it's a, that's, that's going to, that's going to need so. In the active sense, it's to test by touchstone. Actually comes to question by torture. Ooh, that sounds kind of nasty. In the passive sense, it means to be harassed, stressed. It's in Mark 648. So they're rowing hard. They're getting tossed by the wind waves. They're not getting very far. So tired, frustrated, worn out physically. It gives you more, again, of a sense. So just looking up simple words. All right, 1st Timothy 6.8 refers to covering, NAS, raiment, in the Old King James. What in the world is that? Schizopasma, okay, from schizopazo means to cover. First Timothy 6, 8. Didn't get that far. Okay. Well, one person did. Okay, it's a covering, exactly. Strictly, it's a roofing than any kind of shelter or covering. So it's interesting how we ended up with a word that meant originally a roof over a house, and now it means clothing. So pretty simple clothing, just something covering your body. Nothing designer there. Okay, so that means for Simplistic Safe, it's pretty simple, right? You got something to cover yourself, you can be content. That's not too good for the fashion industry. So it's food and clothing, not food and shelter. Yeah, it actually is just a covering. Any kind of covering. It doesn't have to be a shelter of like a building. I mean, I think that's one of those places that people misinterpret. Well, it just means it's a little more simple. I mean, it could certainly mean you have food and shelter. But what kind of shelter? It doesn't have to be a structure with a roof on it. It could be. But also, it ends up being used as simply a covering of any type. Interesting enough, in 1 Timothy 6, 8, it's in the plural, food and coverings. Maybe that means you need socks. I don't know. What I find from that, it just means it's a whole lot more simple to be content than what we might think it is. I don't have to have a physical structure, you know, that can withstand the wind or something. I just have something that covers me. Some protection. I've got something to eat. I have some protection. It may not be much, but I can be content. So that really kind of hits me a little hard with, like, I don't need a whole lot to be content, do I? Okay? And even if you wanted to say a structure, it doesn't mean it has to be much, just anything over your head. All right, so let's go to, which is interesting, that's why King James has raiment. It's an old English word for clothing. Okay, NAS, trying to be more general, just a covering of any sort. All right, 1 Timothy 6, 9 uses the word snare. So what does this word mean? What's Paul's analogy? Again, Bible Dictionary, Encyclopedic Concordance, look it up. What's a snare? A trap, okay. Anybody, do you reckon anybody ever been interested in trapping? No? Could be any kind of survival course, how to snare a rabbit or something so you can have at least something to eat. At least hopefully a rabbit, you don't want to get a buzzard. That's really poor eating. Okay, it's a trap. Okay. Predicts, literally a trap for animals, figurative, the allurement to evil by which the devil ensnares one. First Timothy 6.9. Seductions to evil which ensnares those who desire to be rich. So there's this context. So it's an interesting analogy. And this is one reason why a broad education has actually helped them understand the Bible. Because if you've never read anything about how to catch an animal, you'd be like, I don't know what that is. There's many different kinds of traps. What's he referring to? You might get more into it. How would you do it? So you've got a snare. There's got to be some means by which you track the animal to get in the snare. And she looked at what he's saying. And now I can start using a background knowledge about how to catch an animal to, ah, now I know what Timothy's talking about. Because he's referring to something in the real world. There's a metaphor being used, but it's referring to something in the normal course of life. They would use snares to catch animals, so they have something to eat. My knowledge of it only comes from survival training stuff I had in Boy Scouts and ROTC. You're out there, and you get dumped, and how are you going to survive? How are you going to build some kind of trap? How are you going to get the animal in there? So my trapping has more to do with catching varmints in my garden. have a more sophisticated trap. But it's still the same basic idea. So that gives me an idea of what's going on in Scripture. So broad knowledge really helps. All right, Book of Ruth, Redeemer. I do have something on this one. So I go to Book of Ruth. Look up redeem Redeemer redeeming Find it all listed here of all these different times. It's in a roof Wow. It's used quite a bit, right? All in chapter 4 A lot of times the King James I think it was Kinsman Redeemer. Yeah, my New Paging says that. Was it Kinsman Redeemer? Relative Redeemer? I'll look it all up. All right, so again, going to different versions gives you a little more idea. All right, so Kinsman Redeemer actually fits very well with Ruth, because it starts talking about someone specific who was eligible, all right? And that starts getting in all sorts of cultural things. In American culture, even in our subcultures, no one ever talks about, I redeemer. My kinsmen redeemer. I'm in trouble. Who's going to bail me out? Right? In some subcultures, you're looking to your family, but you're not thinking it in the same way that it's particular people. So, this is actually going to force you to understand something about Jewish culture. So, there's a whole lot of stuff that gets into that. So, anybody look this up in the psychopedia? Nope. I don't know how far we got. I mean the best that we got was possibly referring to the brother who marries his brother's widow. Okay, that's one reference. And I got to be next of kin. Next of kin. So there was a whole series of who's the closest relative that would have the right to redeem. Now why would it be important to redeem Ruth? because of just Ruth as like. What's the value of Ruth? Well, she's in alignment. Wasn't at that time. Well, she wasn't at that time. They wouldn't know that. I'm going to marry her because eventually. Property. I mean, there's property we have. All right, Jerry. Property comes with property. All right. So my expert on Jewish culture. Okay, so in, according to Mosaic law, how are property rights distributed generationally? Well, I mean, they're passed down to the eldest. I mean, the eldest gets a double portion. Boy or girl? Boy. Boy. Boy. Okay. So it would first go to the boy. If there are no boys, then what? Then I get it. And you get it, right? Well, no. Then your husband gets it. Ronnie gets it. All right. The husband gets it. The husband of the daughter gets it. I said, I get it. Your husband gets it, Ronnie. Stop. All right. So there's a whole line. And this is all intertwined in the Mosaic Law. So where would we find out all that information? Well, I can listen to sermon audio and eventually find somebody who talks about it in Ruth, and I can do it that way. Or I can start looking things up. So I started looking about, you know, what it is, Oriental law, next of kin, and as such, to buy back a relative's property. Well, that's sort of the, okay, there's something else. Buy back a relative. What's that all about? All right. So if I get into other tools, so I can look it up in the Hebrew. So remember, you don't know Hebrew, right? But you got the Strong's number. So I go to the back of the theological word book, the Old Testament, and I find the Strong's number. It gives me the theological word book of the Old Testament number. I look that one up and he has actually a whole lot more here, right? This is a really good book, perhaps the best known instance. For Ruth and he goes through and he actually starts explaining all this Okay, how this all all happens? Nelson's Bible Dictionary Okay, Redeemer, huh? Nelson's just a dictionary Yeah, so just depends on the tool some dictionaries are better than others yeah Now, Theological Word Book Field Testament, it's a two-volume set, and one reason I really like it, they're going to deal with the word, meaning of the word, but they give you a lot more of usages of it, so you get a better sense of the word. So, in some ways, it acts better than just a concordance lexicon. So, almost like a dictionary rather than just a lexicon, because they're trying to give you more. Bible Dictionary, so it gives you a look at Redeemer and starts talking a little bit about what Redeemer is and redemption is. So he ends up talking about Ruth because Boaz functioned as Redeemer for Ruth, well known, as is Job's resurrection hope in God, his Redeemer, so he gets in all that. He's Zondervan, this is an encyclopedia, so a lot more information, so Redeemer, redemption, biblical data goes through this, reference to Ruth here, back up on the other side of the page. Okay, closely related to this custom was the leave right marriage. Brother-in-law or other near kinsmen of someone who had died without leaving a male heir was obliged to marry the widow of the deceased in order to preserve the family name and property rights. That's actually what's going on here, because remember, so Naomi and her husband, they go to Moab because there is a famine, and they have their sons with them, and their sons die, and their widows are there, And Opa goes back to her people, and Ruth says, no, I'm going with you. She is the widow of the heir. So the property rights would follow her. So in order to claim that property, she's going to have to be married. But also to fulfill this whole thing about leverite marriage is to raise up a son in the name of the deceased who then inherits the property. And that way, the property stays within the family throughout the generations. So there's a whole system within Judaism. So that's a redeemer. So that starts giving us a better idea when you see these Old Testament examples when it talks about Christ the Redeemer. Because there is a parallel that's going on here. So some simple studies start giving us a whole lot more idea about things that are very important. So it's not just, oh, I'm interested in historical things and cultures and ancient times. I would be most people are not. But this application now, when I start seeing what a Redeemer really is, that's pretty cool. OK? So according to that, Boaz wasn't the Redeemer. His son born to Boaz. No, he's the Redeemer. Boaz is the Redeemer. OK? Well, actually, Boaz isn't the Redeemer. Boaz says there is the closer relative. The closer relative, but he knows that if he does this, it is going to compromise his own inheritance. So Boaz is the next one who's eligible to be the Redeemer. So he is the one who redeems and their son of Boaz and Ruth inherits the land that belonged to the deceased husband. All right? As well as he would inherit land that comes from Boaz if he's the eligible one for it. And just like two generations later, David gets it all. That's right. Regardless if the other person has a family already? Well, that was probably the problem. We suspect that was a problem with the other one. He had a family, and it would confuse things. So he passed on it, and Boas then took the position. So he would take the position. They're going to raise a child up in the name of Ruth's first husband, who would have the rights to that land. Okay, so Do we understand everything that went on with it? No because we don't have all the information and we get bits and pieces though, but starts giving us some ideas So you can see different tools give you more information So certainly if you're trying to understand a concept Bible Dictionary and Encyclopedia does a great job Commentaries can be very helpful. If you had a commentary on Ruth all of are going to go into all this detail so That's another way to grab some information. Okay? I think that's all I had on that. All right. Next. Redeemer. First Kings 19, Elijah flees from Jezebel. Would his subsequent trip be considered ordinary or extraordinary? Where does he start? Where does he go? Where does he end up? How far apart were each of these places from each other? What kind of terrain did he have to travel through? How long did it take him? Okay, it's not like, okay, I walk from here to fish kill All right. But how would you know that if you've never heard of these places. Look it up. So let's look at a map. All right. Oh, here's our upside down map. That I'd say that reverse, but it reverts again. Let's see. But we can start wherever he was to begin with. He was here at Mount Carmel, right? And he'd gone down to Samaria, into the Shechem area. So he'd gone from here, down here. Now, this is a nice little map because it gives you a little bit of idea. Now, this isn't a very good terrain map. I mean, you can really get into it. Start looking at Google Maps and seeing like that. Right. But you can see there's a rich amounts that come through here. So we had to come down here down through a plane. Well, actually, it's just real where you went right Pull that up. So from the Mount Carmel area. It's probably right in here where that all happened. There's a little Stream that comes down here and here and that's probably got the water. So right up in here is where he was. Goes and prays. He can look out here. He sees a little cloud, and it's going to rain. And OK, he gets down to Jezreel. And now he's threatened, and so he's going to flee. So you go from here. Here's your scale. There's 40 miles. But where does he go? Well, he goes down, down, down, down, down. And I'm trying to recall, somewhere out in the, Wilderness, right? There are Shiva. OK, so that's down here. So that's a pretty good trip. Right? So knowing something about the geography to Jezreel, if he was smart, he probably cut over here and took the King's Highway that runs along the ridge. So it's up and down, up and down, and up and down. Either that, or he could have come from Jezreel. Let's see, go back up here. Here's Jezreel. Could have come back through the passes here, worked his way down to the plains, and come down this way, which is flatter, and then cut over to Beersheba, over the low-lying hills to here. Problem is, right in this area, it's swampy. You get your risk of mosquitoes and malaria. But it gives you an idea, right? One thing that's really helpful to have is even the atlas in the back of your Bible, if you have a study Bible, when you're reading some of these narratives, just flip over and start seeing if you can trace it. The more interesting it is to you, the more you'll probably dig into a better atlas and try and get a sense of where they're going or, hey, go to Israel. See it for yourself. And you start realizing, no claims. no cars, no motorcycles, motor scoot, not even paved roads. Okay. I mean, it's a rough hike and that it's not really nice, you know, holiday ends or something along the way or modest or wherever you'd like to stay. Definitely no Ritz Carlton's. Uh, there's not even McDonald's along the way to grab something to eat. Was that especially for me? For what? McDonald's? Ritz Carlton. Ritz Carlton. Sorry. Well, you would probably be the only one that here that probably really understand. Well, I guess, Chloe would understand Ritz. The rest of us is I know it's supposed to be fancy. I've never I'd have looked up online with the cost. That's as far as ever gotten. But that's crazy. So, It's quite a journey. So suddenly, it makes a little more sense as you're following these narratives, what they went through to understand it. What's the terrain like? And you like, well, Brian does hiking sometimes, right? Like hiking. You like hiking, Chloe? John hikes. John hikes. That's right. You hike. So it's the difference between going through, walking along the river bank and going up over the Catskills. Well, that's what you're looking at. Different climates. It's hot and dry there. You get thirsty. It gives you a whole lot more sense of what's going on in the narrative if you just do some simple stuff like looking this stuff up. All right, so there's a Bible Atlas question. Next one, Psalm 19.5, the son is described as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber. What does the chamber refer to and what significance does this have in the wedding celebration? How would a bridegroom leave such a place? And Jerry, this is going to be yours since you set something up like that already. Set it up. Are you watching being set up. I watched it being set up. So, Okay. They look it up. That's right. Yes. Yes, spit at it. My cat just ran away when I said that. It's a canopy, a chamber, a closet. In the Greek, kataluma, a guest chamber, a lodging place. So since we're looking up at Psalm 19, we'll look at the Hebrew. So you get the word. There's the number. Follow the number down. There it is. OK. Krupa. OK. Canopy chamber. You can look it up in theological wordbook, the Old Testament, 710b. Come back down here. Here it is. OK. Here it is here. Gives you different definitions. Canopy chamber. He talks about it, et cetera. The other part of the page. Twice related to a wedding. and Joel. Bedroom, inner chamber, bride is instructed to go from her bedroom, et cetera, et cetera. Some question whether the canopy was a special tent where the marriage was consummated, or whether it was a protective covering over the wedding ceremony itself, which is kind of how it's done in Jewish culture now, right? Right. Right. It is. If there's a wedding, you have to have one of these. Right. It's more ceremonial and decorative. Psalm 19.5, and you have to think of Psalm 19.5, The son rises forth like a bridegroom coming from his chamber. Okay, how does a groom look when he's leaving that chamber? If he's picked well, or if his arranged marriage, his parents picked well. Okay, there's a picture of me when I'm exiting with my wife. Brand new, I'll tell you, it's a big smile. I'm happy. Radiant, we would use the term, right? The sun is radiant. It's bright. That's the whole idea. So it's an interesting little phrase there. But unless you're going to dig around a little bit, you're like, well, I don't know, what is he talking about? So again, here's the New Testament New Bible Dictionary as a whole thing. And it goes into all the different ways this word is used, but finally gets here to bride chamber. This room or say the canopy or tent and then he's a Greek word, which Ronnie already mentioned Still used among Jews today as a canopy under which the bride and bridegroom sit or stand during the wedding ceremony. Okay Okay, Zondervan has a long thing. This is a Bible dictionary various cultural traits and marriage marriage formality ceremonies and then finally get down to here and withdraw all the way down through all this stuff about marriage and There it is, marriage formalities and ceremonies, and gives you this whole thing about what it is and the particular, here we go, two, the actual wedding ceremony, et cetera, et cetera, and gives you a whole thing about. So if you didn't know anything about Jewish culture, you'd learn something about it. Or you'd have to go talk to Jerry or Ronnie and find out something about it. Yes, but does this now fall under tradition instead of law? And it's really irrelevant. Well, the phrase is, the son comes forth as a bridegroom from his chamber. That's supposed to give you an idea of what the son's doing. But if you knew nothing about Jewish weddings, you know, and like, I don't know what that is. You know, because you need to probably start thinking chamber, okay, it's dark in a chamber, right? It came out and this is not what it's talking about. Okay? So understanding something about the cultures then start is very helpful to understanding any text. All right, Matthew 14, 17, we're told that the only food present was five loaves and two fish. What kind of fish would these most likely be? How big are they? And what kind of bread would this probably be? Now, we're saying probably because we're not told specifically, but if we can find out what the word for fish is here, and then have to dig around, well, what kind of fish would they be catching in the Sea of Galilee? What was the common bread in which, you know, there's a lot of different kinds of bread, right? We have- Yeah, but since these were Jewish people, it was bagels and lox. Somehow, I don't think in Matthew's record they had invented bagels yet. Or challah. That came later. Because the essence of the miracle is going to be related to that, OK? So if it's five loaves and two fish, well, how big are these loaves? What if it's these giant, you've seen these 20 foot long sub loaves, right? Is that what we're talking about? No. Probably not. I mean, this kid's got him in his lunch pail. So, and then two fish. I mean, we're talking like, you know, a marlin, swordfish, tuna. No, probably not. Okay. So what's, I had to find out something about what's in the Sea of Galilee. Okay. The little fish that's in there now goes by St. Peter's fish. This is common name. So again, I can look up all that stuff. So anybody find out any information about that. Okay, like a sardine type of fish bigger than a sardine. Sunny Like a sunny. Okay. Now, how do I find that out. Well, I'm going to start looking around and trying to find dictionary and psychopathy is something to tell me about the Sea of Galilee. Or I might even go to modern things that describe to me, well, what kind of fish are in there? So it turns out there's 22 species of fish in the Sea of Galilee. Most are the size of a sunfish. The tilapia species, also called St. Peter's fish. So, you know, about that big or so. It's a very popular item there. They usually serve them either fried or baked with the heads on. and get used to that. And it's like, here, this is what they fed everybody. But now you're like, and what are the loaves? Specific thing, barley loaves. And they're carried by a lad. Thayer writes, the Israelites made it from a form of an oblong or round cake as thick as a thumb, the size of a plate or platter. So it's a flatbread. So it's not very big. Now, you've got five of those, and you've Brim. It's how many? Okay. Gives you the scale of the miracle. All right. It's not even like a, you know, one pound or a pound and a half loaf. It's more like a roll, a flat roll. Well, it's it's interesting in this in the in the blue letter Bible into linear It says it's the same bread that Jesus used at the Lord's table at the oh, so You know again, you know, it's on it's an unleavened bread that that was used for you know for the for communion Lunch It's a kid's lunch OK, it just adds to it. We get a sense of the miracle from that. All right, how about mustard? All right. Matthew 13, 31, 32, Jesus talks about a mustard seed that grows to a plant so big that birds nest it in its branches. What kind of plant would this be? How big would it get? OK, that means we have mustard around here. I don't see it get so big that birds are nesting in it. I've seen some big mustard in California, but what is this mustard? What is mustard? No, we're not talking about what you put on your hot dog and hamburger. You derive it from that, but okay. So I could look up in a dictionary, what is a mustard? So this one gives me the name of it. So actually came to what it is, a specific thing. And uh, what is known as black mustard. Spring, it splashes, make that a little bigger. Uh, gatling in the spring is splashed with vivid yellow mustard groves. Travelers have reported riding through such groves, and the plants powered over a horse and rider, and in which the birds actually did build a nest. The seed produced oil as well as mustard. The only case the mustard seed are mentioned are when our Lord compared it to the kingdom of heaven and the faith, and goes on. So there's mustard. If I go to a Encyclopedia gives me more, five times, where it's there, most Bibles in. What is it? The black mustard goes on the same thing. Gives you some idea about height, up to 10 feet. That's the big plant. So now I can start understanding what Jesus is saying, because before, I'm just relating mustard, and I'm relating to the mustard plant I know here. I'm like, that doesn't make sense. The mustard just doesn't get that height. It's only about like that. I've seen up six feet, but this is huge, right? You won't know that unless you start digging in. This is why you want to do it. Let's see. The last one, Lydia. So you've got a person. How are we going to know something about that? If you look that up in Strong's report or something, it's like, well, the name of the person is every place. She is. If I start looking up in a dictionary again, do you find this in your dictionary? Like I said, it just defines the word. It doesn't give a whole lot about it. Different dictionaries are better for different things. So this one gives a little bit about her, where she was. It says she was a trader in purple, so that's kind of nice to actually deal with that. So Lydia was a trader in purple. Well, what's this purple stuff you're talking about? So now I get a background about this lady. Why was this important? You know, it turns out she's probably fairly rich. Once you start finding out she was a seller of purple and what purple is and how lucrative that is as an industry. It's on her encyclopedia again. She was a seller of purple like all of Lydia. The attire was noted for a dyeing industry, production of purple dye garments, which was food price and very costly. That's why purple was the color of kings. Came from a muscle, like a clam or something. They'd just get a little bit of dye out of each one of them. It was extremely expensive. So there's quite a bit here about it. So even You know, gives you some ideas. We just not mentioned looking in letter. Why not. Okay. Maybe she left. Maybe she knows there's some ideas. Okay. Well, here's the area of Lydia. This sheet named after this Lydia as our purple named after region. And actually, this is the main area where they're getting this purple die from Okay. So it gives you a lot more background. All right, we're going to take a five-minute break. Yeah, that's modern Turkey, but this is the regions when it was under Rome.