40 Minutes In The Old Testament - Episode 128 (Leviticus 25:23-26:46)

Episode Date: August 9, 2018

Chad and Daniel are back after being on the road for a few weeks! In this episode they discuss the Year of Jubilee, everything it is pointing to and how it's all about Jesus. They then discuss the threats, consequences and promises of God. What happens when we reject God and disregard His promises? Exactly how long will God work to bring His people back? Have a listen! 1517 Podcast Network CHF Hattiesburg 

Welcome to another episode of 40 Minutes in the Old Testament. 40 Minutes in the Old Testament is a 1517 Podcast Network podcast. this means we're part of the network of podcasts over at 1517 legacy you should go over there check out all the stuff there's a bunch of stuff that you can put in your ears covering a wide range of topics so find one besides this one that suits your fancy i'm guessing there is one chad we've been on a little hiatus because we both were traveling a whole bunch summer vacation well some of it was working vacation but yeah yeah it was it was nice gotta get away a little bit right I'm sure people missed us, though.

A little break. A little break. We did. I just want you guys to know we made an attempt to do this even on the road, but you can't trust some internet, and it just didn't work. Technology was not cooperating that day. It wasn't. So we tried.

It didn't work, but we love you enough to try. But, hey, there is something coming up in just over a month. By the way, we just got done with a great city event out in New Jersey, so thanks for all the people who came out to that. The content from that should be up in the next week or so, so if you weren't able to make it, you can check it out. And if you live in the South, me and Chad both are going to be in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on September 15th. And so you can go over there.

The thing about this event is it's free. It's at St. John's Church in Hattiesburg. you can go over to christholdfast.org go to the events page you can get all the information but me and Chad are going to be there Scott Keith's going to be there Cindy Koch is going to be there

Blake Flatley and Jared C. Wilson that's the lineup and we're going to talk about how Christianity fights against hopelessness and so I think it's going to be a relevant theme I think the scriptures have a little bit to say about that they do they do have some stuff to say

so you should come out If you're around, if you're in Louisiana or Mississippi or Alabama, it's a free event. So we made it free so that even if you have to drive a little ways and grab a hotel room, you're not paying anything for the event. So, you know, why not do it? Go over there. We'd love to hang out with you. Chad, where are we at in this gospel according to Leviticus?

We are smack dab in the middle of chapter 25. We talked, I don't know, five or ten minutes last episode about the Sabbath and the Sabbath year and the Jubilee So that's kind of where we're going to pick up We're pretty close to verse 23, 25, something like that About halfway through the chapter So just to recap a little bit and then wrap up what is remaining here in this chapter. So it starts out here with a discussion of what's called the Sabbath year. So every seven years, every seventh year, rather, the land gets a rest.

So just like every seven days, people get a rest. So every seven years, the land's going to get a rest. and there's no sowing, there's no harvesting, at least not the kind of harvesting that people usually do. Instead, people are going out to the fields and to the vineyards simply to glean what has grown on its own. So that's the first seven verses. And then picking up there with verse eight and then going on for the rest of the chapter, really. It's all about what's called the Jubilee. jubilee is related to a hebrew word for for horn because the jubilee began with the the blowing of a horn or a trumpet on on the yom kippur the 10th day of the seventh month so which which i think is

is significant and if i remember correctly it's been been a while but i think we we talked about that connection, that on the Day of Atonement, in which there is a declaration of the forgiveness of sins for all of Israel on that day in which sinners are released from their sins, there's also all other kinds of releases as well. So it's a fantastic calendar connection between Jubilee and the Day of Atonement. So the Day of Atonement, which is really a day of repentance. It's a day of fasting. It's a day of mourning over one's sin. Besides that one side of it, there's this other side of it, that it's also a day of rejoicing because of the gifts that God gives through the sacrifices appointed. And every 50th year, which is when the Jubilee is,

every 50th year you have an extra occasion for for rejoicing because of the unique the unique gifts that are given to the israelites during during this particular year so i just kind of run through those uh run through those briefly if if you have in the years prior to this say that your family had a had a really bad year or several bad years and you were uh impoverished and didn't have enough to eat, and we're just basically in dire straits, then you could do a couple of different things. You could sell your land, or you could actually kind of sell yourself into servitude to a fellow Israelite as a way of taking care of your family. I mean, if you have other options and you got to eat, you got to take care of your loved ones, then you do what you got

to do. So, uh, this, this would happen sometimes, but what would, what would, what would transpire is that when this Jubilee year came around this, uh, this 50th year, then your land would be restored to you and your freedom would be restored to you and your debts would be forgiven. And, and basically it's, it's, it's kind of like, excuse me, it's kind of like a day of new creation is the way I like to think of it. It's like you start afresh. Your property is restored. Your family, if they were separated for some reason, they're brought back together. Your property is yours. You start without debts. It's like you sort of go back to Genesis 1 and you're able to stand back on your feet and hold your head high and look toward the future

with hope instead of being bogged down by servitude and loss of ancestral lands and all the other negative, dark aspects of life in a fallen world. So it was a great institution that God designed in order to take care of the needs of his people. But it also had, And besides these very tangible benefits for the Israelites themselves, it also had a completely different side to it. And that was what you might call a prophetic side, because the year of Jubilee not only was for the benefit of the Israelites in their life together as families and as neighbors and as a nation, And the, uh, the Jubilee was also prophetic of, of the, the, the, the ultimate Jubilee that was to come at the, at the advent of, at the advent of the Messiah. Those of you who are regular listeners to, to 40 minutes might remember, if you have

a good memory, might remember that last year, last October, when we did the live recording of this podcast at the here we still stand event in in san diego we talked about a passage from from isaiah and we talked about a passage from the gospel of luke where uh in the gospel of luke where jesus gives his sermon in his hometown and as he does he picks up uh the scroll of the prophet isaiah and he and he reads this section and i'll read it to you now he says the spirit of the lord is upon me because he anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor he has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind to set free those who are downtrodden to proclaim the favorable year of the lord or to proclaim the year of the lord's favor

you can translate that a couple of different ways. And he closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, sat down, and while everybody was looking at him, he gave probably the shortest sermon that's ever been preached. He says, today, the scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. Now, the reason that is so significant in relationship to what we're talking about in Leviticus is that Isaiah is basing his prophecy upon the promises of the Jubilee way back in Leviticus. And then Jesus, in reading these words of Isaiah that are based on Leviticus, is saying of Leviticus and Isaiah that the year of Jubilee and all the promises connected to it And the prophecy of Isaiah based on the year of Jubilee, all of that, all of those good gifts of God are now fulfilled in the one who's standing before you.

So Jesus proclaims himself to be the fulfillment of the year of Jubilee. He's like the year of Jubilee incarnate, if you will, or personified, because what we have in him is the prophetic fulfillment of what Isaiah prophesied and what Leviticus was really pointing toward. So he's the one upon whom the Spirit anoints, alights, in order that he might proclaim this release to those who are held in captivity, to give sight back to the blind and to break the chains of those who are enslaved and to proclaim this favorable year of the Lord or to proclaim this year of Jubilee. I think it's a great example of the interconnected nature of the scriptures. I was listening to Dan and I listen to Jordan Peterson on occasion. I think we both have reason to appreciate many of his insights. I don't know if you've ever heard him talk about this, Dan, but he talks a lot about the Bible. And he used an image the other day, which I think fits very well with the scriptures and with this example we're talking about now.

He talked about how the Bible is a hyperlinked text and how just like when you're reading something online, you'll come across a phrase or an article title or some reference that's hyperlinked. So you click on it and it takes you to another article online. And he says, well, the Bible is like that, too, because you have everything is like hyperlinked to each other. So like you click on Leviticus 25 and it takes you to Isaiah 61 and then you click on Isaiah 61 and it takes you to Luke 4 and then you click on Luke 4 and it's hyperlinked back to Isaiah and to Leviticus. And so if you could see a copy of the scriptures online where it was truly hyperlinked, well, the whole thing would be underlined because in one way or another, everything refers to everything else. So there's this complex web of interconnections between the Old Testament in and of itself, because you have prophets referring back to earlier material and earlier material, foreshadowing later material in the Old Testament itself. But then, of course, when you add the New Testament to that, which is, of course, built on the Old Testament, then everything in it is hyperlinked back to the Old Testament. So you have this fantastic, almost playful interconnection between all of these various sections.

And so you really, you can't understand anything fully in an isolated verse. Instead, you have to see how it is in one way or another alluding to quoting, prophesying. It's got some kind of connection anyway to the rest of the scriptures. And the year of Jubilee is just a fantastic example of the hopper-linked nature of the Scriptures. Yeah, yeah. I mean, yes, the whole Bible is that way. I mean, like Genesis 1 is linked to John 1, linked to Romans 5, and that's how the whole thing works. The year of Jubilee is interesting because, you know, obviously they did this not just once. this happened uh over and over again because things get set right and then things get

messed up again right like so so it wasn't like hey one time we're gonna have this thing where like where where redemption happens and everything gets made right and we're gonna do that one time uh that that wouldn't work what you need is this to happen over and over again but in christ he's he's sort of the jubilee and the end of jubilee because in him you don't just you don't just like get reset um you get to stay there in that in that uh restored state you get to stay like he is uh redemption and jubilee and so you and if you live there there's no need to ever do it again unlike the unlike the thing that comes before it which is pointing to him which has to happen over and over again because uh this is why it's important that you don't look at

uh jesus as an opportunity to have like a like a do-over or or to just merely have a clean slate right like uh or or god being the god of second chances uh that jubilee is a lot like that um but the fulfillment of jubilee is is different in the sense that you you get to remain there It's the fulfillment of Jubilee And the end of it at the same time Yeah, and I think a lot of us I mean, I know I've found myself thinking this way too We tend to think

Of what Christ has done Almost in terms of This repetitive Jubilee of the Old Testament I mean, how many times have we Kind of thought of our relationship with God In the sense of To use that image of a clean slate It's like, okay, Jesus comes along

And we become a believer We're converted we're baptized and like this this huge huge uh marker board that has all of our sins on it jesus comes along and he erases all of them and then uh then we write all this other stuff up there you know and then jesus comes along and he he erases all that again and it's like this this repetitive thing where jesus is constantly we're filling the board up again and jesus comes along and he constantly erases so we always need this restart this reboot uh this this ongoing jubilee kind of kind of situation i think i think the best way to think about this is that what

christ has done is he has brought all the benefits of the last day of the the end of all things he's already ushered that into the here and now so i mean that's why those it's why that weird stuff happened when jesus was resurrected like you know people popping out of the graves that weird story from matthew because it's like the end of the world is here That's what Jesus' death and resurrection ushers in. So it's already a done reality. It's already completed. Everything is finished.

And so we stand forgiven. And the marker board is forever erased. Now, of course, that doesn't mean that we're somehow magically going to quit sinning, nor does it mean that God is going to stop forgiving us. but what it means is that what he has accomplished is a one once for all act it's perfect it's complete it's already as good as the last day and that is the reality that we live in and he continually gives that to us of course he continually gives us life and forgiveness and salvation and peace and everything that we need but it's based upon a completed act that

that doesn't have to be repeated we we just basically keep receiving the same the same Unfinished and perfect gift Over and over Because once Christ said it is finished It really is What it is Is that you live In the jubilee of Christ

So you don't You're not waiting for the opportunity To have everything made right again To have everything restored again Or to have everything forgiven again Since you're living in it It's as if as you're writing The sin up on the board

is erasing behind you so you're not you're not stopping that but you're not like man i've really filled this up so when jubilee gets here i'm gonna really need that again you're just you're like it's as though you are living in a constant state of jubilee so as you are writing it is being erased there's no like man i've really tallied up a bunch so when jubilee gets here it's going to be really good for me again you know uh sold myself into slavery again as we know it's it's just this constant this is the now and not yet kind of thing too so it's you are um constantly being forgiven just all the time being redeemed being saved um it doesn't stop yeah yeah i guess the way one of the reasons we think the way we tend to think the way we do about this kind of repetitive

jubilee is that's that's generally how we live our lives right i mean you just take uh new year's resolutions as an instance. New Year's is like our annual jubilee. We make all these promises to ourselves. We're going to lose weight. We're going to live healthier. We're going to do better money management. We're going to be better in our relationships. We're going to do whatever is on our list of New Year's resolutions. It's kind of like that's our fresh start. We tend to translate that same thing into our lives with God, too. Like we need this annual New Year's or annual Jubilee in order to get things rolling again, get motivated, make things right in our lives. But that's just the age-old approach of the old Adam, where he brings everything back to what

he's got to do, right? Remain in control so that he is able to accomplish what he sets out to do, even if that's forgiveness and salvation. So the Jubilee is a great corrective to that, especially the fulfillment of the Jubilee in Christ, because it says that everything's out of our hands, that it's not like we set ourselves free. Christ comes along and sets us free. We don't pay our debts, He pays them. We don't get our land back, He gives it back. So He is the ultimate giver, and then we are the ultimate receiver. And therefore, we have every cause to be thankful and prayerful toward Him, because He is the one who has bestowed all these gifts upon us, which is really how the chapter ends. The chapter ends with this verse. It says,

for the sons of Israel are my servants. They are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God, which is a great way to end this particular chapter, because the chapter is all about servitude and losing things to other people, like your freedom or your property. But God comes along at the close of this and says, look, I'm the one who redeems Israel, and they are my servants. I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I freed them from slavery. to the egyptians and i have become their their lord and their god and now they reside on my land i give it to them i lease it to them if you will i'm the owner and uh because of that they are they are my servants and really they're our servants of of no one else so it's a that

particular verse is a great summary for the real reason that the chapter exists to begin with. It's the Lord saying that we will not be slaves of anyone else, instead we are his chosen servants, whom he has redeemed. It's good stuff. Yeah, yeah, good stuff. So that I think is probably enough to talk about with Jubilee. There's a lot of good stuff there. We are really nearing the end And now, in fact, this next chapter is in some ways kind of the culmination of the whole book. It brings together a lot of what we've been talking about, but it summarizes it in what we might call law and grace or law and gospel categories. So we're going to spend some time here in chapter 26 talking about threats and promises, warnings and consolations, repentance, things of that nature. So it's a rather long chapter. It's 46 verses, about three different divisions within the chapter.

There's the first 13 verses, and then there's 14 through 39. That's the next major section. That's where you get a lot of threats about disobedience and rebellion. And then from verse 40 through the end of the chapter, so 40 through 46 is the final section where God again returns to the promises and to his covenant faithfulness to the house of Israel. So the way it starts out is by reference to a few of the commands that God has given to the Israelites. First, second, third commandment kind of stuff. So he starts out by saying, don't make any idols. So don't make idols or set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar. He says, don't place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it.

So this is first and second commandment kind of stuff here. Of course, you shall have no other gods. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, both of which are calling for us to to fear love and trust worship god alone to revere his name to treat his name as a sacred and for the israelites what this meant practically speaking what this meant really uh in in a in a worship sense was not to try and mix their worship of Yahweh with the worship practices of the pagan religions around them. So what we see most of the time in the Old Testament is not outright apostasy from Yahweh and full allegiance to

one of the other gods. What we see most of the time is what we would call syncretism, where you take the worship of Yahweh and you put it in a blender and you mix it with the worship of Baal or Asherah or one of these other gods of the ancient world. And the way this usually happened, practically speaking, was you would claim to be worshiping Yahweh, but you would do so in front of one of these visible signs

of the pagan religions, like an actual physical idol. an image a pillar or a sacred stone or something like that that happens all over the place in the old testament uh if you read the book of kings for instance first and second kings as well as as well as samuel first second samuel but especially in kings you see israel doing this repeatedly so with their mouth they will say we believe in yahweh we worship yahweh but then with their body, they will bow down in front of an image of Baal or Asherah or one of these other liturgical, physical idols that were connected with the pagan religions. So God says, don't do that. I alone am the Lord, your God, and I alone am going to be worshiped in the way that I have

given to you to worship. So I've told you how I want to be worshiped all through Leviticus, And that's the way that it's going to be, because if you don't, otherwise you're going to be bringing lies and falsehoods into my worship, which like leaven will work its way all through the loaf of your worship and will pollute it. So then he says, verse two, in addition to that, you shall keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary. So we've just talked about the Sabbath. That's what really the Jubilee is all about. it's it's the year after seven sabbath years so seven times the the sabbatical years you get 49 the year after that is the 50th year so keep my sabbath that's the weekly sabbath that's the sabbath year and that's the that's the jubilee year because god has given that gift of rest to

Israel. And revere my sanctuary, he says. That is, treat my holy place as holy. And then he says, I am the Lord. Then he continues. He says, if you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments so as to carry them out, then, verse four and following, I'm going to do all of these wonderful things for you. There's a whole list of these in verses four and following. And a lot of this is It's just simply stuff related to daily life and to the callings of the Israelites. Of course, many of them are farmers or they have livestock. And so they needed, for instance, the rain, which he talks about in verse 4. He says, if you do this, I'm going to give you rain.

The land will yield its produce. And it's going to be so good, in fact, verse 5. He says that you're going to have so much wheat and barley to harvest that you won't even finish taking care of all of it before it's time to gather in the grapes. And you're going to have so many grapes to gather in that you'll still be gathering them by the time it's sowing time again in the spring. So you've got this overlap. the message is basically that you're going to have so many crops that you have a super abundance of food. And not only that, but verse six, he says, I'm going to grant peace in your land so that you can lie down with no one making you tremble. So there's no threats, no warfare. He says,

I'm going to take a harmful beast out of your land. No sword will pass through your land. verse 7 he says that you'll chase your enemies they'll fall by the sword in fact if there's 10 000 of your enemy then all it's going to take is a hundred of you to chase them to chase them off and then he goes on uh in verses 9 through through 13 to basically emphasize emphasize the fact that he's going to be their god he's going to make them fruitful and multiply he's going to to keep his covenant with them. He's going to keep his dwelling place among them. He says, my soul will not reject you. I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be my people. And then he references Egypt once more. He says, I'm the Lord your God who brought you out of the

land of Egypt so that you should not be their slaves. And I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect so there's this beautiful image of the israelites being like a beast of burden they got a yoke around their neck when they're in egypt and god breaks that yoke so that they're actually able to stand up straight to hold their to hold their head up straight and walk in the freedom that god has given to them now so that's first 13 verses now having heard all of that all these promises of god it would seem as if there would be absolutely no problem whatsoever keeping the commandments that he mentions at the first because all these wonderful things that god has promised to give give to the israelites but what we have in verses

14 through 39 are the threats that are going to accompany the rejection and the disobedience of the commands that God gives. So he starts out here with all these promises, but now he's going to make his threats if the Israelites are obedient, if the Israelites are disobedient, rather. And this gets pretty nasty I don't know if you just listen to the podcast Or if you follow along with the scriptures themselves But you can look through verses 14 through 39

And the threats that God levels against the Israelites Are very bad I mean, it's not just like a reversal Of what he promised in the opening verses But it gets even to the point where, let's see, verse 29, he predicts a time when the Israelites will rebel, and then they'll rebel some more, and they'll rebel, they'll entrench themselves even more in rebellion, even though they're suffering the repercussions of their sins. It'll get so bad to where it says, you shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters, so they will resort to actually cannibalism. And this actually happened. You can read stories in Kings about how Israel was reduced when they were surrounded by enemies and had no more food left in the cities. They resorted to cannibalism. So this wasn't just an empty threat. This actually happened among the Israelites when they continued in the rebellion. and included in this whole list are things like the land not being fruitful the land not yielding

produce and enemies coming in and uh overpowering the israelites and setting up their own rule and authority there yeah you see a bunch of this in uh lamentations yeah the same the same kind of threats the same kind of yeah you see the cannibalism and and lamentations uh the being overcome like i mean you see like all this stuff like play out and uh i think a lot of a lot of ways it's like this is what you know some of it's like oh man is like god doing this um most of the time the judgment of god is it's just like take like taking his hand off you in a way and letting you destroy yourself um essentially what you have i think in all this is is like hey this is what sin does unchecked uh this is what happens when you remove yourself from like my promises

that things get real real nasty yeah and the thing about one of one of the aspects of of this section is that that really that really i guess amazes me just from a kind of an objective point of view is that it would be so much better for the israelites just for themselves to forsake the rebellion and return to God. And yet, even though it would be better, they still don't. It's like they continually make things worse for themselves. So there's kind of a progression as the chapter goes on. And God will say, for instance, if you rebel, if you don't keep the commandments, I'm going to set my face against you. And then verse 18, he says, but if after these things, you still don't obey me, then I'm going to punish you seven times more for your sins.

And then he goes on in some other verses, well, if that doesn't work, then I'll punish you seven times more for your sin. So it would seem that people would get to the point where they would realize, hey, we're just making things worse and worse for ourselves. We should return to the Lord our God. But, I mean, almost every person who's honest with themselves has been in a situation where their lives parallel what's happened with the Israelites. Yeah, it's almost like there's something in all people, including the Israelites, that loves sin and hates God. Yeah, even though the repercussions— And by almost, I mean absolutely there is. Yeah, I mean, it's one of the strange aspects of the sinful life that we will willfully continue in that which we know is to our own detriment.

You would think that being selfish creatures that we are, we would actually want to do those things that are good for us, but that's not the way it works. We tend to go in the opposite direction. And so we begin a rebellion and things get worse. And so we just entrench ourselves in that and things get even worse and worse and worse. And to the point to where we end up oftentimes destroying ourselves and those around us, rather than simply returning to God and confessing our sins and receiving the forgiveness that comes from him. But that is the way that sin works. It stubbornly pushes us down this path of self-destruction. And really, until we finally get to the point to where we do hit bottom and we're, in essence, dead.

And then God does bring us back to life by means of his grace and forgiveness that he promises to us. But sometimes that takes us a long time to get there with a lot of destruction along the way. One of the things that is clear in Lamentations, which is one of the books where you see this play out, sort of the great refrain, the thing that we pulled out of Lamentations that we say all the time, is great is thy faithfulness, right? This is right in the heart of Lamentations. So in the midst of all of this just horrific suffering on account of your own sin, I mean, you brought this on.

there is still this idea that God is going to be faithful to his promises in spite of your faithlessness, that his call to return to him is fairly unconditional. It really is just come back to me, and we see that in Lamentations, that God is not casting away his promises or turning his back on his own faithfulness, but that people like sheep have gone astray and that he is beckoning them back. And not just beckoning them back, but he'll actually be the one who initiates and goes and gets them back. Yeah, we see that same promise here in Leviticus, too, that's echoed in Lamentations, Because one of the threats is that God will send his people into enemy nations.

But in verse 44, he says, yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking the covenant with them, because I am the Lord their God. But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt. So, yeah, God is saying, despite all of the horror that you may be enduring as a result of your own decisions, I'm going to be faithful, and great is my faithfulness, and I will not break my covenant. You can break the covenant, but I will not break the covenant. I will remain faithful to you. I will be devoted to you. I will be the one who doesn't turn my back on you because my ultimate goal is to bring you back to myself,

to bring you to repentance, to bring you to forgiveness, to bring you really back to the land of promise. Yeah, this is really essentially what the whole book of Hosea is about. Yeah, God being married to the unfaithful bride, right? Israel is Gomer, the prostitute who gets back into prostitution, and yet God keeps taking her back. Not only taking her back, but buying her back. Yeah, redeeming her, yeah, buying her back,

paying the money to have as his wife the one who has been unfaithful to him. So that's Israel, and that's all of us. That's humanity, right? It shows the extent to which God will go in order to make sure that we are his own again. He pays the price for our sins. He pursues us. He resurrects us. He does all of this work in order that we might be his again, because his greatest joy, of course, is is our salvation.

And along the way, he he warns us about what will happen when we when we stray from him. And then he follows that up with the promise that even when we do, even when we become that that lost sheep who isn't just lost, but like running the opposite direction of the shepherd, he'll still pursue us. And eventually he will bring us he'll bring us back home. Yeah, bringing it full circle, God makes these promises. He issues these threats, knowing exactly how this will play out. But in the end, it will be him who jubilees the straining, rebelling Israel. Yeah, that's it. I think we're out of time.

That's it. That's a perfect ending. That is it. We're out of time. You know, Chad, I think next week we will probably wrap up Leviticus. I think we can do it. Oh, yeah. One more chapter to go. We'll do it. So come back next week for the epic conclusion of Leviticus,

and then we will be on to Numbers, which I know is the one that you guys have really been tuning in from the beginning for. But you know what? Numbers might be more interesting than you think. Don't be surprised. I think it is. So, hey, go over to ChrysleFast.org. Check out all the things we've got going on there, especially the city events. We'd love to see you out in Hattiesburg on September 15th.

Me and Chad will be there. We'd like to hang out with you. Chad, we will see you next week. All right. See you then, Dan. Thanks.