WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.880 Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.880 --> 00:00:09.400 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:12.280 Is God a bad God or is God a good God? 4 00:00:12.280 --> 00:00:16.080 Well, when the Bible says that God had this community or this people group 5 00:00:16.080 --> 00:00:19.600 completely destroyed, was he being good or was he being bad? 6 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:23.680 Let's answer the question. 7 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:28.520 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com 8 00:00:28.520 --> 00:00:30.280 slash podcast. 9 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:35.040 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 10 00:00:35.040 --> 00:00:39.440 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 11 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:42.920 To us, that's like saying amen or yes. 12 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:46.040 Then that rating will encourage others to listen. 13 00:00:46.040 --> 00:00:49.360 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. 14 00:00:49.360 --> 00:00:52.320 Here is Jack Hibbs. 15 00:00:52.400 --> 00:00:57.640 Hey, getting questions and we love this and this is a great one. 16 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:00.360 It's an ancient question. 17 00:01:00.360 --> 00:01:07.040 It is applicable to all of us and I have to be honest with you. 18 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:15.320 If you heard about the Bible or if you've had a little bit of Bible, 19 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:24.160 then you're going to have this question and you have quite a bit of criticism 20 00:01:24.160 --> 00:01:31.280 regarding who God is and what God is if you don't know him. 21 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:36.560 You could know him by reading his letters to you. 22 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:39.040 The Bible is the unfolding. 23 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:43.800 Yes, of course it deals with Israel and it deals with Moses and it deals with Noah 24 00:01:43.800 --> 00:01:48.280 and it deals with Adam and Eve and it deals with cultures and it deals with continents 25 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:54.760 and it deals with, frankly, both the created universe and the eternal spiritual realm. 26 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:56.080 Yes, it's the Bible. 27 00:01:56.080 --> 00:02:04.880 God's word demand covers everything that we need to know regarding the wise, 28 00:02:04.880 --> 00:02:09.680 why are we here, why do I exist, those things. 29 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:13.680 But if you don't read the full counsel of God, the Bible completely, 30 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:19.600 then you're going to miss what we're going to be talking about and I don't want you to miss it. 31 00:02:19.600 --> 00:02:22.560 Do you want to yourself to know the truth about this? 32 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:28.720 Now I got to tell you, this is a particular topic that when I first got saved as a believer, 33 00:02:28.720 --> 00:02:33.680 started reading and it really bothered me so I did a deep dive right from the beginning 34 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:39.000 and once you do deep dives with God, you get the answers and there's no longer an issue. 35 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:41.320 It's so fun. 36 00:02:41.320 --> 00:02:47.720 It's really the answer when God says, if you want me, pursue me with all of your heart, come after me. 37 00:02:47.720 --> 00:02:50.360 And you do that and you'll be pleasantly surprised. 38 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:53.720 Here's one of those things. 39 00:02:53.720 --> 00:02:58.320 What's this thing about God in the Bible and the Old Testament? 40 00:02:58.320 --> 00:03:03.960 About God just killing people, destroying cultures, destroying cities, 41 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:12.400 destroying tribes or groups or certain peoples. 42 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:14.040 What's with God? 43 00:03:14.040 --> 00:03:19.040 The temptation is for us to criticize God and to assume that he's doing something wrong. 44 00:03:19.040 --> 00:03:24.160 And I get the assumption, but you shouldn't live by assumptions. 45 00:03:24.160 --> 00:03:29.080 So let me kind of set this up, question to you. 46 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:32.920 Does God do good? 47 00:03:32.920 --> 00:03:34.400 Has God done good? 48 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:37.200 Is God doing good right now? 49 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:44.520 The question to you is, is there anything that's good in your life in this world? 50 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:46.560 What you see, what you hear? 51 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:48.600 Is it a symphony? 52 00:03:48.600 --> 00:03:50.800 Is it a flower? 53 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:52.400 Is it the ocean waves? 54 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:54.320 Is it mountains? 55 00:03:54.320 --> 00:03:59.840 Of course, obviously the answer is, of course, he does good. 56 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:07.800 So if God then does good, does God do bad? 57 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:09.400 Well, what do you mean by bad? 58 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:12.200 Because you mean sin? 59 00:04:12.200 --> 00:04:13.600 No, he can't do that. 60 00:04:13.600 --> 00:04:16.160 You mean can God do evil? 61 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:19.920 No, he cannot do that either. 62 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:29.880 So if God does good and we can observe it, then how do we explain the evil and the bad 63 00:04:29.880 --> 00:04:32.160 that's in the world? 64 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:43.040 Or how do we explain God when it looks like he's doing bad or doing evil, meaning this? 65 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:48.360 When you read, for example, in the Old Testament, you see God destroying cultures. 66 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:57.320 You see God destroying complete people groups, utterly destroying them. 67 00:04:57.320 --> 00:05:03.760 And you would come to the conclusion, yikes, wow, I don't want to know a God like that. 68 00:05:03.760 --> 00:05:05.760 That's horrible. 69 00:05:05.760 --> 00:05:09.560 I would agree with you if that's the kind of God he was, but that's not the kind of God 70 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:10.560 he is. 71 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:12.640 You need to read your Bible completely. 72 00:05:12.640 --> 00:05:16.680 So for example, Noah, have you ever heard of Noah? 73 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:22.600 Noah in the ark, Noah, the famous man who God saved from off the earth? 74 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:25.920 Noah's flood, Noah. 75 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:31.280 The Bible tells you exactly what's going on and there's no question to it. 76 00:05:31.280 --> 00:05:38.560 God says there that before the flood came, the entire earth was full of evil. 77 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:52.640 And what people were doing were horrifically dangerous, sensual pagan of acts that were 78 00:05:52.640 --> 00:06:02.760 so bad that the Bible tells us that Noah was the only man found perfect in his generation. 79 00:06:02.760 --> 00:06:04.880 And the word perfect doesn't mean sinless. 80 00:06:04.880 --> 00:06:09.400 The word perfect means Noah was not tainted. 81 00:06:09.400 --> 00:06:14.840 So in all of the generation that was living, Noah was the only one who was untainted. 82 00:06:14.840 --> 00:06:18.000 Isn't that an interesting word? 83 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:22.440 What in the world was going on for God to say Noah? 84 00:06:22.440 --> 00:06:28.800 We're down to the last man that I'm going to work with. 85 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:36.000 He's the only one and for his sake and for the human race, I'm going to save him. 86 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:47.240 Yes, Mrs. Noah, she gets to come off spring and spouses, they get to come eight total. 87 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:48.240 They can come. 88 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:51.840 Nobody else can come, all are tainted. 89 00:06:51.840 --> 00:06:55.320 And God said, I'm going to destroy the world that that is. 90 00:06:55.320 --> 00:06:56.320 I'm going to destroy it. 91 00:06:56.320 --> 00:06:59.080 I'm going to drown it in water. 92 00:06:59.080 --> 00:07:02.400 I'm going to flood it. 93 00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:04.800 And you think God is what wrong in doing that? 94 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:06.160 You think God's bad in doing that? 95 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:07.400 Why would you think God's bad? 96 00:07:07.400 --> 00:07:08.400 I'm so curious. 97 00:07:08.400 --> 00:07:14.920 Why would you think that God is bad if God looks around it all of the people but the eight 98 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:20.600 and even the seven, the seven, I believe we're actually saved by the eighth guy, the eighth 99 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:29.080 guy's Noah, Noah's untainted and God allows him to bring his family with them. 100 00:07:29.080 --> 00:07:36.400 But all the rest are so tainted that they are to be washed away, destroyed. 101 00:07:36.400 --> 00:07:40.640 You don't like to hear this, but I want you to ask yourself this question, I don't like 102 00:07:40.640 --> 00:07:43.000 to hear it, but why is it happening? 103 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:50.920 That says, all of the people are corrupt, a corrupt beyond hope, wow. 104 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:53.040 So let's file that over here for a moment. 105 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:54.720 That's Noah. 106 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:59.200 You come to the book of Deuteronomy and God tells Moses to tell the children of Israel. 107 00:07:59.200 --> 00:08:06.400 When you come into the land that I've promised you to inherit, the promised land. 108 00:08:06.400 --> 00:08:15.280 By the way, there's no guess the land, the layout of the land was given to Abraham. 109 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:18.000 This way before Moses shows up. 110 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:29.160 This is after Noah, but before Moses is Abraham and God tells Abraham and shows Abraham 111 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:36.280 and gives him the borders of the promised land and it is massive. 112 00:08:36.280 --> 00:08:39.720 It goes all the way down to the Nile. 113 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:43.640 It goes all the way up into Syria and Lebanon. 114 00:08:43.640 --> 00:08:48.320 It goes all the way over to the Tigris and the Euphrates River. 115 00:08:48.320 --> 00:09:05.000 It goes all the way down to the Suez Canal area or the Red Sea and then back over toward 116 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:12.640 the Mediterranean north part, the northern tip of Egypt, it's massive. 117 00:09:12.640 --> 00:09:18.080 By the way, that is the realm, that is the promised land given to Abraham. 118 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:22.680 The man Solomon, King Solomon came the closest to reigning over that region. 119 00:09:22.680 --> 00:09:28.800 No one ever has and no one's going to until Jesus returns and the thousand year reign 120 00:09:28.800 --> 00:09:35.680 of Christ will be the fulfillment of the promised land given to Abraham. 121 00:09:35.680 --> 00:09:42.520 God tells Moses, when you come into that promised land, I want you to go to these people 122 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:47.640 and I want you to destroy them completely. 123 00:09:47.640 --> 00:09:54.200 Listen, destroy men, destroy women. 124 00:09:54.200 --> 00:10:01.400 You have to destroy the children even to the infant and you must destroy the sheep, 125 00:10:01.400 --> 00:10:14.840 the camels and the donkeys, all living things you shall destroy in this group. 126 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:25.440 If it's a malachites or hitites or Jebiusites or Canaanites, stop for a moment and think, 127 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:32.960 if God destroyed the world in Genesis, because all of humanity was tainted, something was 128 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:41.760 wrong with them and Noah was the only one pure, untainted yet he's a sinner. 129 00:10:41.760 --> 00:10:49.480 The people outside the ark was, they were sinners, Noah in his family, their sinners, 130 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:50.920 what's going on here? 131 00:10:50.920 --> 00:10:58.560 Even a group is tainted, at least one person we know for sure, Noah is not tainted, 132 00:10:58.560 --> 00:10:59.560 so what's happening? 133 00:10:59.560 --> 00:11:04.680 You fast forward to God saying, destroy everybody in these villages, destroy everybody in this 134 00:11:04.680 --> 00:11:10.360 people group, they have to be not only destroyed, many, many times God will say, when you're 135 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:14.240 all done killing them, burn it all, you got to burn it all. 136 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:18.400 You think God has lost his mind, you think God is out of control, you think God is just 137 00:11:18.400 --> 00:11:22.720 woke up on the wrong side of the universe and he's just angry that day. 138 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:28.880 No, there's a lot of God's out there with lowercase G, but the God of the Bible, the real 139 00:11:28.880 --> 00:11:33.080 God, the one in living God is not that way. 140 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:35.800 So then Jack, what is he doing? 141 00:11:35.800 --> 00:11:38.200 Isn't it interesting and here's what he's doing? 142 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:41.400 In fact, I'll preface it by asking you this question. 143 00:11:41.400 --> 00:11:46.160 What does God have against donkeys? 144 00:11:46.160 --> 00:11:50.760 How upset can the creator of the universe be at sheep? 145 00:11:50.760 --> 00:11:52.920 He says, kill them all. 146 00:11:52.920 --> 00:11:56.400 Well, what about camels? 147 00:11:56.400 --> 00:11:57.880 Nope, kill them. 148 00:11:57.880 --> 00:12:00.720 Why would he do this? 149 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:05.440 He makes camels and donkeys and then he's all upset and he says, destroy them? 150 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:12.560 No, no, no, no, no, only destroy the animals that are in association with this particular 151 00:12:12.560 --> 00:12:13.560 people group. 152 00:12:13.560 --> 00:12:14.560 Why? 153 00:12:14.560 --> 00:12:16.640 It all comes down to this. 154 00:12:16.640 --> 00:12:19.040 What were their worship practices like? 155 00:12:19.040 --> 00:12:23.360 What did they do? 156 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:27.680 Those people, for example, that you see in the Bible where it says, God says to either 157 00:12:27.680 --> 00:12:32.800 Moses or God says to Joshua, you had to kill them all and burn everything, burn their 158 00:12:32.800 --> 00:12:38.200 houses, burn the ground, burn the animals, burn the bones, burn it all. 159 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:43.680 For those of you who have any experience in the medical industry, you know what the word 160 00:12:43.680 --> 00:12:46.120 autoclave means. 161 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:47.520 So thank God, right? 162 00:12:47.520 --> 00:12:54.600 Thank God that before you go in and get stitches or surgery or scalpel or sutures or clamps 163 00:12:54.600 --> 00:13:00.680 or if they're going to open up your chest for open heart surgery, thank God they take 164 00:13:00.680 --> 00:13:07.400 all of those stainless steel tools and they autoclave them before they put them on you. 165 00:13:07.400 --> 00:13:08.400 Because why? 166 00:13:08.400 --> 00:13:12.360 Because earlier that day they were being used on somebody else's body. 167 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:14.080 Why would they do that? 168 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:19.320 Why would they take the scalpel that was used on that guy's liver surgery? 169 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:21.640 That was at 9 a.m. this morning. 170 00:13:21.640 --> 00:13:28.160 Why would they take this and put it in an autoclave chamber, press the button and then when it's 171 00:13:28.160 --> 00:13:34.320 all done going through that cycle, bring it out and they reseal it and then they get 172 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:39.960 it ready for your gallbladder surgery which is scheduled at 3 o'clock the same day. 173 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:40.960 Why would they do that? 174 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:41.960 You know why? 175 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:42.960 Don't you? 176 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:44.720 You're starting to get the answer. 177 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:46.960 God says there may be contaminants. 178 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:52.640 I mean the doctor says there might be contaminants from that guy's body. 179 00:13:52.640 --> 00:13:55.960 We can't cross contaminate. 180 00:13:56.040 --> 00:14:05.080 We have got to destroy every possible poison, blood cell, disease, everything, anything 181 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:07.040 must be completely dead. 182 00:14:07.040 --> 00:14:08.200 So they autoclave it. 183 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:09.200 What is that? 184 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:15.040 They put it into a chamber, they shut it, secure it and they turn it on and it uses a 185 00:14:15.040 --> 00:14:16.040 series. 186 00:14:16.040 --> 00:14:19.880 Think about a super glorified dishwasher. 187 00:14:19.880 --> 00:14:21.200 It goes through cycles. 188 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:22.200 There's humidity. 189 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:23.200 There's dryness. 190 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:24.200 There's extreme heat. 191 00:14:24.520 --> 00:14:26.320 I'll wash. 192 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:33.840 There's all of this to deliver it to you perfectly without being tainted. 193 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:35.920 And then it can be used. 194 00:14:35.920 --> 00:14:43.480 When God said to Joshua or to Moses or to whoever, David, destroy them all. 195 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:45.000 Make sure you throw the animals in there too. 196 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:47.120 You got to kill them all and burn it all. 197 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:56.080 Because all of those worship systems used animals and children in their pagan practices, 198 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:57.520 everything was contaminated. 199 00:14:57.520 --> 00:14:59.200 There was contaminated blood. 200 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:07.440 There was contaminated biology and chemistry and all of these pagan worshiping practices. 201 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:11.720 They had, listen, what do you think God says I condemn bestiality? 202 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:17.160 If anybody engages in bestiality, listen to this. 203 00:15:17.160 --> 00:15:19.440 Are you listening? 204 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:26.720 That man or that woman must be killed immediately and so must the animal be killed immediately. 205 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:28.760 Why? 206 00:15:28.760 --> 00:15:37.080 Because that human or that animal are contaminated by now, I'll put it this way nicely 207 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:40.480 by the act of paganism. 208 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:44.960 So God, listen, so many people who think they know God, they don't know God at all, they 209 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:47.840 say, oh, I can't believe in the Bible because God said to do that. 210 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:54.920 How mean, how brilliant it was of God that when the children of Israel were coming into 211 00:15:54.920 --> 00:16:02.120 an area that somebody who was contaminated was sexually transmitted diseases, we're not 212 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:05.960 only killed, they had to be killed. 213 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:13.080 Their bodies were burned, their homes were burned, the dirt was burned because it all had 214 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:14.080 to be autoclaved. 215 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:18.320 It had to be purified before the children of Israel could take the promised land because 216 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:23.000 of the pagan practices that were so diseased. 217 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:27.480 So it sounds cruel, it's not cruel at all, it's an act of mercy. 218 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:33.680 If they didn't do that, then the children of Israel would eventually die of these poisonous, 219 00:16:33.680 --> 00:16:36.240 miserable diseases. 220 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:41.360 So the truth of the matter is, folks, God is not losing His temper, He's not out of His 221 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:47.880 mind, He's not doing bad, He's not doing evil, He's actually doing good. 222 00:16:47.880 --> 00:16:55.200 Righteousness, friends, righteousness and justice can be a brutal thing when it's executed 223 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:56.960 by God Himself. 224 00:16:56.960 --> 00:17:02.400 We have no authority to do that because we're tainted, we're messed up. 225 00:17:02.400 --> 00:17:09.160 But it's quite remarkable to realize that when we think God's doing something odd and 226 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:13.400 weird, we should pause right there and do a Bible study on it. 227 00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:17.680 And if you do a good Bible study on it, that Bible study is going to also take you into 228 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:19.400 history. 229 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:22.000 And you're going to study cultures. 230 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:25.960 And you're going to learn all about, you can go to that, I think the British Museum of 231 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:30.400 history online or you could, I don't know, there's resources. 232 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:36.180 There's bar, the biblical archeological review, you could do, you could go there and read 233 00:17:36.180 --> 00:17:44.200 all about, oh my goodness, this, this group, they, they practice their worship with animals 234 00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:47.640 and with children and then with each other. 235 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:48.640 And they're all poisoned. 236 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:55.640 They're all, to use, they all, I'm going to use modern day current diseases. 237 00:17:55.640 --> 00:18:00.280 They've got gonorrhea, they've got syphilis, they've got AIDS, they've got all these 238 00:18:00.280 --> 00:18:07.000 things that come out of sexual, aberrant, sexual union. 239 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:09.760 And God knows how to fix things. 240 00:18:09.760 --> 00:18:16.000 And so please understand that your perception of what God's doing, you immediately jump 241 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:20.480 to the bad side of the, or God lost his mind, I understand that, it's because we don't 242 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:21.480 know him. 243 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:28.120 But when we find out him in the Bible, we realize, wow, I didn't see that coming. 244 00:18:28.120 --> 00:18:33.400 I see what he was doing is an act of mercy to actually prolong life because in the lives 245 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:39.840 of those who are already contaminated, they were, they were diseased and infected. 246 00:18:39.840 --> 00:18:42.040 And wow, you know, you don't have to go that far back. 247 00:18:42.040 --> 00:18:44.680 I don't know if you're aware of this or not. 248 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:51.960 But even during the colonial period in the United States, the punishment, did you know 249 00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:59.440 that George Washington, General George Washington, and the same with General Howell and his brother 250 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:02.920 Admiral Howell, both of the brothers for the British Empire? 251 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:09.560 Did you know that both the colonial forces of America and the British forces? 252 00:19:09.560 --> 00:19:21.560 Did you know that those generals demanded that when and if a soldier raped someone, they 253 00:19:21.560 --> 00:19:36.800 were not only examined, but many of them were actually put to death for doing that. 254 00:19:36.800 --> 00:19:41.680 But some of the reasons is that they were put to death because it was found out that 255 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:48.080 they had sexual relationships with prostitutes. 256 00:19:48.080 --> 00:19:59.320 And Washington ordered a soldier that if he had sexual prostitute, the guy was killed because 257 00:19:59.320 --> 00:20:02.760 his disease would spread through the camp. 258 00:20:02.760 --> 00:20:03.760 England did the same thing. 259 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:06.200 See, man, that's harsh. 260 00:20:06.200 --> 00:20:07.200 It is harsh. 261 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:10.640 Sometimes it's got to be harsh because if you're not harsh on that one guy, it could 262 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:12.840 spread to 500 guys. 263 00:20:12.840 --> 00:20:17.360 Man, tough stuff, right? 264 00:20:17.360 --> 00:20:21.840 Unusual topic, unusual conversation, but it's one that you thought about. 265 00:20:21.840 --> 00:20:27.320 Why does the God of the Bible have his people go into this land and kill all those people? 266 00:20:27.320 --> 00:20:30.280 Oh, look, he's killing all the innocent people. 267 00:20:30.280 --> 00:20:31.840 First of all, the people are not innocent. 268 00:20:31.840 --> 00:20:37.060 The children have been used, raped and abused, and the animals have been vandalized and 269 00:20:37.060 --> 00:20:43.320 victimized by the perverse humans because they're poisoned and tainted. 270 00:20:43.320 --> 00:20:44.720 They've got to be eliminated. 271 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:52.360 And then the area has got to be purified by fire, which leads me to the closing remarks. 272 00:20:52.360 --> 00:20:57.760 The Bible says in first and second Peter that God is going to once again judge the 273 00:20:57.840 --> 00:21:03.240 earth and he's going to destroy it just like he did it says in the days of Noah. 274 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:07.120 See, when he didn't destroy the earth, oh, yes, he did destroy the earth. 275 00:21:07.120 --> 00:21:08.120 He destroyed the earth. 276 00:21:08.120 --> 00:21:09.280 He flooded it by water. 277 00:21:09.280 --> 00:21:12.000 You see, well, I mean, it was still the earth. 278 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:14.560 Oh, I see what you're thinking. 279 00:21:14.560 --> 00:21:15.960 He flooded the earth. 280 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:21.080 God says he destroyed it, but you're thinking, well, it's still round or for some of you 281 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:24.240 discurs, it's still flat. 282 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:30.760 Well, okay, here's the thing, it's still, it's the same, but it got scrubbed by water. 283 00:21:30.760 --> 00:21:31.880 He scrubbed it with a flood. 284 00:21:31.880 --> 00:21:33.880 Are you with me? 285 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:36.960 When God created the heavens and the earth, when the Bible says he's going to create a new 286 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:42.600 heaven and a new earth, don't think that he's going to dissolve this earth in its entirety. 287 00:21:42.600 --> 00:21:46.520 The Bible says he's going to burn it up. 288 00:21:46.520 --> 00:21:51.040 It's going to stay the ball that it is, so is the sun and so is Jupiter. 289 00:21:51.040 --> 00:21:57.840 He's going to burn them with fire and scrub the universe, starting with the earth by fire. 290 00:21:57.840 --> 00:22:01.640 He's going to autoclave it. 291 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:07.880 When God at the end of the thousand year reign of Christ, when the thousand year reign of 292 00:22:07.880 --> 00:22:16.120 Christ is over, God is going to create a new heaven and a new earth, a new heavens, 293 00:22:16.120 --> 00:22:18.000 a new earth. 294 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:19.080 How's he going to do it? 295 00:22:19.080 --> 00:22:24.840 The Bible says he's going to scrub it, not with water, but with fire next time. 296 00:22:24.840 --> 00:22:31.120 He's going to burn autoclave the earth and he's going to start over and this is so cool. 297 00:22:31.120 --> 00:22:33.360 It's consistent with his nature. 298 00:22:33.360 --> 00:22:37.800 What he creates, he redeems. 299 00:22:37.800 --> 00:22:43.120 He's going to redeem this old worn out earth, he's going to redeem it, he's going to make 300 00:22:43.120 --> 00:22:45.000 it new. 301 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:52.160 The universe, the stars, he's going to scrub them with fire and he's going to make them 302 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:53.160 new. 303 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:54.160 He's going to restore them. 304 00:22:54.160 --> 00:23:02.020 I hope that you allow in your life the love and the power of God to do that same scrub 305 00:23:02.020 --> 00:23:08.320 as it were on your life that you might be redeemed and restored and made new. 306 00:23:08.320 --> 00:23:14.960 Listen, when we become Christians and followers of Jesus, he doesn't kill us and 307 00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:21.680 create a brand new person to live in this world with our name. 308 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:27.120 There's no redemption in that, there's no reconciliation with that, there's no restoration 309 00:23:27.120 --> 00:23:28.360 in that. 310 00:23:28.360 --> 00:23:36.680 Our God is a restorative God, our God is a redeeming God, our God is a recreating God. 311 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:44.120 And so he takes us who are fallen, puts a new heart in us and he begins to work his will 312 00:23:44.120 --> 00:23:49.640 out from the inside out and the ultimate, ultimate act of redemption for us. 313 00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:58.360 Now who trust him and believe in him is when our lives, I should say our bodies, think 314 00:23:58.360 --> 00:23:59.360 about it. 315 00:23:59.360 --> 00:24:05.720 Our bodies are turned to dust, interesting, right? 316 00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:09.160 And he resurrects us, resurrection. 317 00:24:09.160 --> 00:24:14.280 He's going to reassemble the dust that our bodies disintegrate in the grave or in the 318 00:24:14.280 --> 00:24:16.360 crematorium by. 319 00:24:16.360 --> 00:24:22.520 He's going to reassemble the dust in the resurrection because he redeems all things. 320 00:24:22.520 --> 00:24:25.200 He doesn't flush anything down the toilet. 321 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:29.760 He redeems that which is destroyed because he's a redemptive God. 322 00:24:29.760 --> 00:24:32.360 I hope you know him that way. 323 00:24:32.360 --> 00:24:53.520 And until next time, God bless you tremendously.