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in the show notes. All right, we are on to chapter 2 of the book of Matthew and we've got a whole bunch of talk about regarding

Herod the Great, one of the weirdest most enigmatic characters in the history of the Bible.

So let's get after it. After Jesus was born in Bethlehem and Judea during the time of King Herod,

Magi from the East came to Jerusalem and asked,

where's the one who's been born king of the Jews?

We saw his star in the East and we've come to worship him.

All right, again, this is a Christmas story, but we're not going to handle this like a Christmas

story. There's some serious deep water to get into historically to even understand

who on earth this Herod guy is, right?

You imagine that you're reading the Bible straight through and you get to the end of the

Old Testament and you're like, okay, we do this Malachai thing.

Let's see what happens at the end of the Old Testament.

Oh, wow, burning, furnace, see I will send

the Prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their

children and the hearts of the children to their children and the hearts of the children to their

fathers or else I will come and strike the land with a curse.

Okay, so it's more that blessing and curse language.

That last verse also kind of sums up the hope language that we see in the Old Testament.

Historically, contextually, this is happening a little bit before the time of

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