Hey, it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. And do you remember in Lion King when Mufasa and Simba

are sitting up on that ridge looking over the kingdom

after Simba got in trouble.

Mufasa's giving him a little talking to

about what it is to be king.

Mufasus is something like, all of this land out here,

like this is our kingdom, but one day the sun is gonna set on my time as king

and rise on your time as king and then all

of this everything the light touches it's going to be yours. Now when you watched

that I promise you whether you saw it as an adult or a kid for the first time,

you got what was being said because the most natural way to understand Mufasa's words are a monodai, then you're

going to have to become king and you will be king over everything the light touches.

That will be your responsibility.

Nobody in 1994, I think that's when it came out or since, would watch that and be like, no, I think

the most natural read is that the sun is going to rise on some future

generation and Simba isn't really in view here. Mufasa was saying this for the benefit of somebody who would

later hear secondhand what Mufasa was saying to Simba and then they would

need to interpret that in light of modern religious sensibilities and modern social political

theological circumstances to understand that what he meant by saying you will be king over everything the light touches was really

somebody else far far far down the road from now will be king it's just an unnatural

read and sometimes when we work through, especially prophecy, but some of the more cryptic stuff in the Bible,

the temptation can be to latch on to the most unnatural read to make things fit together in a way that feels good with our presuppositions or

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