Hannah’s Poem and Power Reversals – Firstborn E6

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Hannah was an oppressed woman, scorned by her husband’s rival wife because of her barrenness. But the way she prayed and trusted Yahweh through this hardship became a remarkable example of how God works through the lowly to subvert human notions of power and status. In this episode, join Tim and Jon as they trace the theme of the firstborn in the scroll of Samuel.

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0:00.0	We've been tracing the theme of the first born in the storyline of the Bible.
0:10.6	It's a theme about power.
0:12.1	It's a theme about how God chooses to work with the least likely people.
0:16.4	In today's episode, we'll continue this theme in the scroll of Samuel, where we'll find
0:22.1	two rival wives.
0:23.4	They're not siblings, but they're pitted against each other in a very similar way.
0:28.8	Samuel focus in on Hannah.
0:31.3	She's the favored wife of her husband, but she's unable to have a child, and so she makes
0:36.8	a promise to God.
0:38.2	If God bless her with the sun, she will give her first born son back to serve God.
0:44.1	Now this should remind us of Abraham, and how God asked of Abraham to surrender his first
0:50.1	born son Isaac as a test.
0:53.0	And in the story of Hannah, she's promising to pass the test even before God gives her
0:57.9	a son.
0:58.8	The twist here is God had to force the surrender of Abraham's son Isaac.
1:03.8	Here, she's so amazing.
1:05.8	She could respond a lot of ways here.
1:07.7	When what she immediately does is she goes to the tent, and she surrenders.
1:11.9	Her life, her future, the fortunes, and says, even if you give me a son, I will surrender
1:17.8	him to you.
1:18.8	So she's like Abraham when he finally passed the test.
1:21.4	God gives Hannah a child, and she sings a poem in celebration, a poem about how God loves
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