0:00:00 - 0:00:24 OK. So this is going to be part two of this series of thoughts about Moses. And in the other video, I mentioned how it's really important to tie these things to our daily lives. And so now we're going to do that. So I'm going to flip the phone around. Um Here we have how it was in Ancient Israel. So 0:00:24 - 0:00:54 Moses everybody else. OK? And maybe we can put Caleb here and Joshua somewhere around there, right? Roughly speaking, I'm not trying to quantify this but huge difference, smaller difference, larger difference, everybody else. OK. And so what I want to talk about right now is this is this idea of gospel 0:00:54 - 0:01:19 egalitarianism that we have in the world today. So, um we have this system, it doesn't matter what church you belong to or go to or came from. The model is that it's one of two things. One, it's everybody's the same and we take one from our midst to make them the pastor because they feel inspired to 0:01:19 - 0:01:38 do that or whatever. And now we're going to pay them so that we can all have normal lives and they can take that burden on themselves like some kind of inverse scapegoat. Then the other model is the authority model where so and so ordained. So and so, and here we are today with, with this person who 0:01:37 - 0:01:59 has this congregation and some special authority. Um But that authority is without any signs, there's no power in it. But trust me, if you do what they say you'll go to heaven, right? Those are the two models and I want to focus on the first one a little bit. So coming back to this, basically, what that 0:01:59 - 0:02:24 looks like is um there's no Moses today. So this is where we all are. One of us is the same as any other. And so we can all just have our best idea about how it goes and we all read the same scriptures, we have different ideas and that's that we'll see how it goes in the afterlife. And so not surprisingly 0:02:24 - 0:02:44 , there's not much faith in that because there's not much reason to believe anything more than anything else. Um So now I want to talk a little bit about the end times. So there will be a Moses figure in our day and instead of reading scriptures about this and making a case for that, I'll leave that 0:02:43 - 0:03:12 for another time. I want to describe how this works. So here I, I cut Moses off, cut Israel off, I guess here there was no hierarchy. I mean, you could say the priests, you know, are here. But the fact is it was just Moses. So um II I know there's the 70 elders and whatever, but none of those people 0:03:12 - 0:03:34 came up to anything, right? Because Moses and the people, this is actually one of the reasons why Moses failed to build Zion. Now, it's not his fault. He did what he was told to do and there was a reason for God to do it that way and he was a faithful servant in what he did and his, his ministry is not 0:03:34 - 0:03:55 over. It will continue in our day again, topic for another day. But I want to talk about this. Um This is how Zion will be built in a hierarchy. The dot dot dots here means I'm not drawing the lines under this because there would be too much. So this is just going to go on. And basically what happens 0:03:54 - 0:04:25 is you don't know what this looks like because holiness is hidden. But if we, if we erase Moses over here and we were to draw um that distribution of people which I have a better drawing of this, but this will do for now you see lots of people here. So that's my squiggles are, I'm not drawing that many 0:04:25 - 0:05:02 stick figures and then it thins out very rapidly and that's what you get. OK. So this is light and this is the number of people. Got it. There you go. OK? So the problem is you take these people and you mix them all up and you scatter them through the earth. They will not be organized like this and they 0:05:02 - 0:05:25 will not be organized like this. This might be the guy at the grocery store. This might be your next door neighbor. This is some dude in Nigeria. This is, you know, whatever, whatever, whatever they're all scattered. So any slice of people is actually let's switch colors is actually going to be something 0:05:25 - 0:05:52 like this needs to be more narrow. But you get the point if that was his pink, that pink box is going to be like the people, you know, and actually more accurately, it's going to be like like the oh jeez like this. Sorry to butcher my own drawing here because these people are so rare. Odds are you don't 0:05:52 - 0:06:19 even know one. OK. Um Could talk more about that but I'm just trying to hit you with something hard and fast here. OK. So this is how it will end up but it's not how it is because when this happens, these are all people and sometimes there's a bunch of people in one of these nodes, but these are relationships 0:06:18 - 0:06:46 where you know somebody and we'll leave it at that. OK? It's knowing someone. So these are people knowing each other. This is the end result. That's what there is. This is the end result I describe what there is now. So how does it get from how it is now to this, given that well, wherever you are on 0:06:45 - 0:07:12 this, this is you, this looks like some kind of weird Southwest cave painting, but just bear with me. These are your options in any moment. This is the very best thing you could do. Everything else leads you away from God. That is a point worth describing in more detail, but I'm not doing that right 0:07:12 - 0:07:42 now. Um These things below the line lead you strictly away from God because they move you backwards. These, there should be arrowheads on these, these things sort of leads you towards God, but not as directly as you could otherwise go. This is the one you want. Ok. In every option, you choose an arrow 0:07:42 - 0:08:13 , your choice of an arrow moves you around this graph. That's basically all there is to it. Every choice moves you in this. Ok. So what does this have to do with everything I said in the last video, you do not have to worry about this. That's the difference. I erased my ancient Israel. All they worried 0:08:12 - 0:08:38 about and should have worried about was that this guy and me? And how much am I like that guy? And how much am I obeying what this dude teaches from God in our day? That's not the way it works. What matters is that? So it's interesting with all the end times doctrines, they're all super dangerous because 0:08:37 - 0:08:56 anything this is, this is how risk works. Any opportunity has an equal and opposite danger, right? If you want to play it safe, you're not going to go very far. But God being all wise, he builds in bumpers like when you go bowling and they put those inflated things on the side, so the kids can't, can't 0:08:56 - 0:09:23 lose. Um He puts in bumpers and the bumper is for this doctrine is this, this is all that matters. So, don't worry about that. Look in your immediate surroundings and look for the greatest sources of light that you can find. And that is holistic scriptures. God's revelation to you, your job, your family 0:09:22 - 0:09:47 and any other resources you might have like books that people write or videos, people put on youtube or whatever else. And in all things, your decision space is everything right before you. It's not these grand mysteries. It's what are you doing today and why? And tomorrow and the next week. So this 0:00:00 - 0:00:24 OK. So this is going to be part two of this series of thoughts about Moses. And in the other video, I mentioned how it's really important to tie these things to our daily lives. And so now we're going to do that. So I'm going to flip the phone around. Um Here we have how it was in Ancient Israel. So 0:00:24 - 0:00:54 Moses everybody else. OK? And maybe we can put Caleb here and Joshua somewhere around there, right? Roughly speaking, I'm not trying to quantify this but huge difference, smaller difference, larger difference, everybody else. OK. And so what I want to talk about right now is this is this idea of gospel 0:00:54 - 0:01:19 egalitarianism that we have in the world today. So, um we have this system, it doesn't matter what church you belong to or go to or came from. The model is that it's one of two things. One, it's everybody's the same and we take one from our midst to make them the pastor because they feel inspired to 0:01:19 - 0:01:38 do that or whatever. And now we're going to pay them so that we can all have normal lives and they can take that burden on themselves like some kind of inverse scapegoat. Then the other model is the authority model where so and so ordained. So and so, and here we are today with, with this person who 0:01:37 - 0:01:59 has this congregation and some special authority. Um But that authority is without any signs, there's no power in it. But trust me, if you do what they say you'll go to heaven, right? Those are the two models and I want to focus on the first one a little bit. So coming back to this, basically, what that 0:01:59 - 0:02:24 looks like is um there's no Moses today. So this is where we all are. One of us is the same as any other. And so we can all just have our best idea about how it goes and we all read the same scriptures, we have different ideas and that's that we'll see how it goes in the afterlife. And so not surprisingly 0:02:24 - 0:02:44 , there's not much faith in that because there's not much reason to believe anything more than anything else. Um So now I want to talk a little bit about the end times. So there will be a Moses figure in our day and instead of reading scriptures about this and making a case for that, I'll leave that 0:02:43 - 0:03:12 for another time. I want to describe how this works. So here I, I cut Moses off, cut Israel off, I guess here there was no hierarchy. I mean, you could say the priests, you know, are here. But the fact is it was just Moses. So um II I know there's the 70 elders and whatever, but none of those people 0:03:12 - 0:03:34 came up to anything, right? Because Moses and the people, this is actually one of the reasons why Moses failed to build Zion. Now, it's not his fault. He did what he was told to do and there was a reason for God to do it that way and he was a faithful servant in what he did and his, his ministry is not 0:03:34 - 0:03:55 over. It will continue in our day again, topic for another day. But I want to talk about this. Um This is how Zion will be built in a hierarchy. The dot dot dots here means I'm not drawing the lines under this because there would be too much. So this is just going to go on. And basically what happens 0:03:54 - 0:04:25 is you don't know what this looks like because holiness is hidden. But if we, if we erase Moses over here and we were to draw um that distribution of people which I have a better drawing of this, but this will do for now you see lots of people here. So that's my squiggles are, I'm not drawing that many 0:04:25 - 0:05:02 stick figures and then it thins out very rapidly and that's what you get. OK. So this is light and this is the number of people. Got it. There you go. OK? So the problem is you take these people and you mix them all up and you scatter them through the earth. They will not be organized like this and they 0:05:02 - 0:05:25 will not be organized like this. This might be the guy at the grocery store. This might be your next door neighbor. This is some dude in Nigeria. This is, you know, whatever, whatever, whatever they're all scattered. So any slice of people is actually let's switch colors is actually going to be something 0:05:25 - 0:05:52 like this needs to be more narrow. But you get the point if that was his pink, that pink box is going to be like the people, you know, and actually more accurately, it's going to be like like the oh jeez like this. Sorry to butcher my own drawing here because these people are so rare. Odds are you don't 0:05:52 - 0:06:19 even know one. OK. Um Could talk more about that but I'm just trying to hit you with something hard and fast here. OK. So this is how it will end up but it's not how it is because when this happens, these are all people and sometimes there's a bunch of people in one of these nodes, but these are relationships 0:06:18 - 0:06:46 where you know somebody and we'll leave it at that. OK? It's knowing someone. So these are people knowing each other. This is the end result. That's what there is. This is the end result I describe what there is now. So how does it get from how it is now to this, given that well, wherever you are on 0:06:45 - 0:07:12 this, this is you, this looks like some kind of weird Southwest cave painting, but just bear with me. These are your options in any moment. This is the very best thing you could do. Everything else leads you away from God. That is a point worth describing in more detail, but I'm not doing that right 0:07:12 - 0:07:42 now. Um These things below the line lead you strictly away from God because they move you backwards. These, there should be arrowheads on these, these things sort of leads you towards God, but not as directly as you could otherwise go. This is the one you want. Ok. In every option, you choose an arrow 0:07:42 - 0:08:13 , your choice of an arrow moves you around this graph. That's basically all there is to it. Every choice moves you in this. Ok. So what does this have to do with everything I said in the last video, you do not have to worry about this. That's the difference. I erased my ancient Israel. All they worried 0:08:12 - 0:08:38 about and should have worried about was that this guy and me? And how much am I like that guy? And how much am I obeying what this dude teaches from God in our day? That's not the way it works. What matters is that? So it's interesting with all the end times doctrines, they're all super dangerous because 0:08:37 - 0:08:56 anything this is, this is how risk works. Any opportunity has an equal and opposite danger, right? If you want to play it safe, you're not going to go very far. But God being all wise, he builds in bumpers like when you go bowling and they put those inflated things on the side, so the kids can't, can't 0:08:56 - 0:09:23 lose. Um He puts in bumpers and the bumper is for this doctrine is this, this is all that matters. So, don't worry about that. Look in your immediate surroundings and look for the greatest sources of light that you can find. And that is holistic scriptures. God's revelation to you, your job, your family 0:09:22 - 0:09:47 and any other resources you might have like books that people write or videos, people put on youtube or whatever else. And in all things, your decision space is everything right before you. It's not these grand mysteries. It's what are you doing today and why? And tomorrow and the next week. So this 0:09:46 - 0:10:04 is going to clock in, in under 10 minutes. I've given you a lot to chew on here and intentionally. So I'll lay these things out in much greater detail in books, but I'm giving you tidbits, they can help you progress a lot further in less time. And now we're over 10 minutes.