🎧 08:05 - 09:43 (01:38)

Water, provided by God, is essential for life in the Garden of Eden. However, for human life, a heavenly source is needed, which is represented by the spirit or breath from God. The biblical poets and prophets use the analogy between water and breath/spirit to describe the spirit as liquid life, even though the spirit is traditionally associated with breath or wind. This connection between water and spirit in the Garden of Eden story lays the foundation for the liquid metaphors used to describe the spirit throughout the Bible.

Tim Mackie: Yeah, that's right. In other words, in the Garden of Eden, God provides the water from the ground that irrigates the dirt. One, so that the form of the human can be made out of the mud and then so that the plants can grow up. So, water of life is key for the growth of life. But for human life, you need more than just the earthly source, the water watering the dirt. You need a heavenly source, and that's what the spirit or the breath is from God. And so water giving life and the spirit bringing life to humans become joint images. And that's foundational because that pairing or that analogy between water and breath or spirit from god is fundamental to how the biblical poets in the psalms and the prophets and the new testament all talk about the spirit as liquid liquid life

Jon Collins: which is actually kind of a weird way to think about the spirit because the spirit is breath or wind right yeah and so why would you start talking about wind or breath with the metaphor of liquid?

Tim Mackie: It's like clearly not liquid. Yeah, totally. It's like fundamentally not liquid. Yeah, that's right. But metaphorically, there are ways of thinking about each other. The effects of water are like and compared to the effects of the spirit in the Garden of Eden story. And so that connection in that story provides the foundation for why the Spirit is described as liquid throughout

Jon Collins: the rest of the Bible. be on you. You could be filled with the Spirit. These are liquid metaphors. That's So, the

Tim Mackie: association of water and Spirit is like images. And then,

🎧 11:52 - 12:32 (00:39)

The insight of this snip is that the term 'anti-Christ' means the 'anti-anointed one'. It is derived from the Greek word 'Christ', which means 'anointed one'. The snip explores the rivalry between the first anointed king, Saul, and how he becomes the obstacle to the anointed king that God wants to raise up, David. Saul is referred to as the first anti-anointed.

Tim Mackie: what we're going to focus on right now is actually the rivalry between the first anointed king, Saul, and then we're going to see how he becomes the anti-anointed, the antichrist. Oh, yeah. Anointed means Christ. Yeah, anointed. The Greek word Christ is the Greek word for anointed one. Oh. So the anti-Christ means the anti-anointed one. And what's interesting is the first anointed king in Israel's history actually becomes the biggest obstacle to the anointed king that God wants to raise up, that is David, his replacement. So Saul becomes the first anti-anointed. And that's what we'll talk about right now, shall we?

🎧 23:21 - 23:52 (00:31)

The number three in the Bible symbolizes a test or ordeal. It is often used to represent the belly of the whale or the start of a revival. Later biblical narratives are designed to follow the pattern set in the early chapters of Genesis.

Tim Mackie: it's good in your eyes. So the next day, Saul put together all the soldiers in how many divisions? Three. Three divisions. This is part of how the motif of the test or the ordeal.

Jon Collins: Yeah, three symbolizes a test.

Tim Mackie: Yeah, often when you're getting to... The ordeal, I like

Jon Collins: that. The ordeal.

Tim Mackie: In other words... The belly of the whale. This is how the Hebrew Bible melody works. So later biblical narratives are designed in order often to be patterned after the order of the early chapters of Genesis. And

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