Hey, everybody, I'm Matt, this is the 10 Minute Bible Hour podcast, and I'm going to go do something with my family today and I think it's going to be delightful.

However, I do not want to step away from what we're working on. I want to stay on task here and keep moving forward.

And so yesterday we talked about this term generation that Jesus uses at different places in the book of Matthew and that it comes up in a very important way in Matthew 2336.

I'll tell you the truth. All this will come upon this generation. Well, depending on what he means by that word, we could interpret the passage and think of a lot of different timelines that make sense here.

And so to make sense of that and to set us up for what is coming down the pike in chapter 24, I am going to bounce it to my friend Aaron, who's really good at this stuff.

And he works with me on TMBH things and who you've seen probably on 10 Minute Bible Hour YouTube videos, and I'm going to go bum around with my family just a little bit.

So with that said, Jeffrey is going to put some music right here and then enjoy the conversation with Aaron. All right. Catch you soon.

Hey, everybody. I'm Aaron. I'm Philan from At Today on the podcast. Thanks for being with us. We've been talking about the word generation. And as we highlighted yesterday, one of the things that we kind of think of when we hear the word is we think of the baby boomer generation or generation X or millennials or Gen Z or things like that.

One of the things that we do when we think about that is we like to argue over which generation is better or greater than the others.

It's often used in kind of a negative way to pit us against one another and everybody likes to kind of ra ra my tribe were the best.

And I don't know that that's totally helpful, but it's kind of fun to play the game. And one of the ways we do that is we think about our music.

And the music that sort of stamps our generation and gives us an identity.

And I've been thinking about this as I share some of the stuff that I grew up with with my kids. Some of the stuff from my generation just doesn't make sense.

Here's one of the biggest offenders from my childhood. One of the this was a band that I really, really liked as a kid.

This is from Durand Durand and I want to read these lyrics to you and see if you can make any sense out of it at all.

The reflex is a lonely child who's waiting by the park. The reflex is a door to finding treasure in the dark.

And watching over Lucky Clover isn't that bizarre. Every little thing the reflex does leaves you answers with a question mark.

So I really like my generation, but I can also poke fun of it and say, yeah, we sang those lyrics at the top of our voice and they're probably totally nonsensical.

But it illustrates a point in what we're talking about here. How do we really make meaning from things?

How do we listen to conversation? How do we read literature or listen to songs, whether they're from 2021 or 1985?

How do we make sense of those words and derive meaning? We put them together in context.

And in this particular case, there's no context at all to give meaning or try to explain what the reflex is.

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