La La La, la, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh a Reason, and thank you for spending this time with me.

The last show I spent some time talking about two things that I saw on Amazon Prime,

the House of David series, two seasons, and also the most reluctant convert, and both of them corresponded with things that I was reading,

one, the mythmakers by John Hendricks about Lewis and Tolkien, and then, of course,

after I saw the House of David, I just devoured the book of First Samuel, and it was so

much richer to me as a result.

But there's a theme that I just mentioned in brief in the last show that I want to expand on just a little bit more

because I don't want you to miss this.

And it's easy to miss when we read scripture because so much of the events there are collapsed.

They're squeezed together.

Do you remember reading in the Book of Acts where it was towards the end and Paul is in Rome?

He's got arrested and he's got to stand before Festus and kind of make his

defense and Agrippa. I get these guys mix up Festus and Agrippa and who's a, and Felix. And in any

event, there's a line there. So he's eventually on his way to Rome, right?

But then there's a line there that says after Paul talked or Festus or Felix, one of those

talked, he left him there for two years.

And then the next first is after the two years.

And you're thinking, wait a minute, what happened during those two years?

He just sitting there for two years?

Well, he was probably making himself useful or being productive in some spiritual sense.

But as far as the narrative goes, okay, we're just jumping ahead two years.

For two years, Paul is in jail on the Jerusalem side waiting for something to happen.

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