The temple is a conduit of the Abrahamic blessing to the nations.

Jim, agree or disagree?

Agree. Go ahead, Jen. I was just going to add that...

Hold on. It sounded like a butt was coming and I was interested. Agree, and I would say that

there's a difference between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant again here, because

this aspect of the old covenant

is clearly a come see. The nations are being drawn to the temple to see Yahweh. Solomon is not

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My name is Alex Duke, and with me are my two friends, Sam and Lottie, Jim Hamilton.

It's actually the 119th episode, by the way.

Why did you say 118? I'm a fallible man. Okay. Okay. So, guys, it's been a few weeks. Sorry,

friends, for a little bit of a wonky release schedule, you know, every week and then every other

week and yada, yada, yada. We've had some travel. Sam was in the Middle East. I was, you know, on the West Coast. Jim, what were you doing?

I've been in Houston. I've been coaching baseball. Yeah, so, but we're, you know, the summer's upon us. The goal here is to, just so you know, a little administrative tidying up. We're going to release episodes as normal as best we can until the end of First Kings 10, and then we'll take our standard break over the summer

and then we'll release sometime when college football begins we'll start re-releasing episodes

we're not going to give you a month we're just going to say when college football begins

well you know that's that's how I that's how I roll so sometime in the college football season

at the beginning of it we will start re-releasing week-by-week

episodes. Sound good, guys? Great. Sounds great. Okay, so guys, last episode, we discussed

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