Hey my friends, it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. You've been to a

wedding, right? Maybe one or two or a lot or maybe you had one of those that you were actually in because you got married in it?

It's a very odd

cultural experience because it's one of the few places in life where all kinds of points of cultural and religious,

traditional folklore connections to our distant past are still in place.

We might not even know what they all mean, but there's just little things that you do at a wedding, that you don't do at a wedding, things that are faux-paws, things that are funny, things that are very important to honor in terms of tradition. If an alien came from outer space to explore our culture

and they learned everything about it except weddings and then one day you're

like all right Roger now we're going to tell you about weddings. They would be very confused because I thought

I had this on lockdown. I thought I understood how you people were, but this is a lot of

weird stuff that you do here. And it would take a lot of explaining to make it all make

sense as to what it means

and how it theoretically sets the couple up for success or if you do this it honors that parent

or this is why the groom side does this is why the bride side does that you know you think hard enough about it, there's a reason for all

a bit and I suppose you could lay that out for somebody or in this case a hypothetical

alien. Well we're kind of the hypothetical alien when we look back at the

traditions of weddings in previous

cultures from previous eras and other parts of the world and so anytime a

wedding comes up in the Bible. We are tourists in a strange foreign land and

there are going to be a bunch of little references to things that are not going to make

any sense to us without a little bit of research and careful thought. For example, at the beginning of Matthew Chapter 25,

which is the chapter that we're in now.

Look what we did.

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