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We're going to leave a couple of links right there in the description, so you can do just that. Ryan, it's happy Tuesday, my friend. Happy Tuesday. Taco Tuesday is today. Taco Tuesday. Yeah, Taco Tuesday. Taco's the week of Thanksgiving. That actually does sound good. Yeah, Taco's the week of Thanksgiving, because you know you're going to be eating turkey and ham and potatoes and all that stuff for the next like week or so.
So I just had, literally as we were talking about this, just had this thought. Have you ever done the Thanksgiving leftover sandwich? Like the moist maker? Yeah.
No, I've never actually done it in real life. My sandwich. My sandwich.
Shout out to Ross from Friends. But as you were talking about that, I just thought like, what if you did a Thanksgiving taco? Oh. So like tortilla. Okay, yeah, yeah.
But turkey. Uh-huh. Stuffing. Right. Maybe. Uh-huh.
You can get wild. Maybe put some mac and cheese in there or something. I genuinely think that would be disgusting. Oh.
No, I'm just joking. Would you do it? Yeah, oh yeah. Would you do it here on the show? Sure, I'd do it on the show. Well, we've only got a couple days until Thanksgiving.
Maybe we can, maybe we can make something happen. Thanksgiving tacos. Thanksgiving taco. Taco giving. I'll see if we can get us a Thanksgiving taco. Taco's giving. Hey, listen, I got a question for you.
Okay. Million dollars. This million dollar, we usually do million dollar Monday, but this is million dollar Tuesday. Million dollar Tuesday. Trillion dollar Tuesday. Trillion dollars. Just kidding.
No, a million dollars. But you basically, speaking of Thanksgiving, you never, and this is really going to be bad on Thanksgiving. You never can have a hot meal or a hot drink ever again. It will always be room temperature or below.
Oh. So even if it comes like, like imagine that turkey coming fresh out the oven. When you put it in your mouth, it is room temperature or below. It's room temp at best. Now here's the thing. For food, I think I'd be okay. Really? I think I'd be fine.
It's a nice hot steaming pizza and you put it in your mouth and it's like room temperature at best. I think I'd be fine. Okay.
I think I'd be fine. It's the drink. So most drink you want cold. I can't ever, I can't ever have a hot cup of coffee.
Never, never. Hot tea, hot chocolate. Have you ever.
Hot apple cider. Right. Have you ever come back to a cup of coffee you forgot about and you drink and it's not like ice cold, but it's like that kind of gross. Every day. Yeah, that's. Every single day.
Like if you go to a diner and they pour you a steaming piping hot cup of coffee, that's the temperature. That's a sticking point for me. I can get by with food. It's like, yeah, whatever. I wish it was warm, but nah. Okay. Yeah. But the drink is a sticking point. But only the hot drink. Is this forever? This is forever. This is for life.
You'll just never have a hot meal or a hot drink again. And how much do I get? Million? Million dollars. Yeah, yeah. I'll do it. I think I would also. I'll take it. I think I would also do it too.
I'll take it. I wouldn't like it and I'd probably gripe about it, but I would take it. So I think I would come off coffee. That wouldn't be easy, but I think I could get rid of coffee.
I could, I could. Or just drink, like you said, iced coffee. I could probably do that although I don't really love iced coffee, but I also think that to me it's the food. I think things that should be hot not being hot is going to be a sticking point for me, especially like steak. Imagine like biting into a nice steak and it's supposed to be like a piping hot steak with a, or a piping hot baked potato. You're telling me you're going to eat room temp baked potatoes and be okay with it? You know what makes it taste better? What?
Million dollars. That seasoning helps a little bit. And when it comes to stuff like that. I think I'd be okay. I think that's where I would, I would, I've eaten my fair share of kind of room temperature or less meals because we have so many kids trying to take care of the kids and get them all fed and everything.
Not so much anymore because they're pretty self-sufficient now. But when they were growing up, I mean it was regular that I had a meal that was room temperature or below. I'm going to pull Dr. Shaw in this conversation because I know, I don't, I don't know if that's something that would really be a sticking point for him. I also don't think he doesn't really eat in a timely manner. Like he will leave his food on the table and then come eat it when he has a chance. So I don't know. And he don't, and I don't really see him reheat stuff. Yeah.
There are some times where I'm just like, eh, food is food, whatever. All right. Let's ask him and see what he says. Run in and let us know if you would take that deal, two five two five eight two five zero two eight. Or you can visit us online at clearviewtodayshow.com. Stay tuned. We'll be right back. Hello Clearview family. I'm Nicole.
And I'm David. And we want to talk to you today about the Clearview app. You know, there are so many churches out there that put their sermons on YouTube and their announcements on Facebook and their prayer lists on Periscope.
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If you have any questions or suggestions for new topics, send us a text to 252-582-5028. That's right. And we're here once again in the Clearview Today studio with Dr. Abbadon Shaw, who's a PhD in New Testament textual criticism. Dr. Shaw, we're going to give you a million dollars right now on the show.
Cash in hand, my friend. But the only bugaboo is you will never have a hot meal or a hot drink again. So you can drink coffee, but it will always be room temperature or below. Your tea will always be room temperature or below. Any meal that Nicole cooks, it'll always be room temperature or below.
So like, have you ever, has she ever made something and left it out all night? And then you, so even if you heat it up, it'll be that temperature. And this is how much do I get? You get a million. How long do I have to do this? I'm going to say, I said for life in the intro, I'm going to say 10 years.
This is a 10 year commitment. I'll do it. You'll do it. I'll do it.
You can eat some cold food. Yeah, I think I could do it too. I do it for 10 years.
For life, I don't, life might be tough, but for 10 years I could do it. I don't think the meals would be that bad. I think that having a cup of coffee is going to be really dreadful. You just switched to iced coffee. I guess so, but man. Yeah, there you go.
That's what I was thinking. It's iced coffee, iced tea. But isn't there something about going and sitting down at a diner at like eight o'clock in the morning and just getting a hot cup of coffee?
Isn't there something about a million dollars? I mean, I can trade off. I don't know what I would do, but anyways, I'll take a hot bath. I think I'd take a hot bath with your lukewarm beverage. But I say, if you try to drink the water, it's going to be cold.
It's going to turn lukewarm. Yeah, I'm not going to drink that water. That's pretty desperately thirsty.
Dr. Shaw, I also want to say thank you. You brought us these mango drinks, these Swat. Speaking of mango drinks. So by the way, Swat means taste. And it's a company called Swat. I did not have this company, mango drinks growing up, but there were mango drinks around.
Right, right. We did a segment a few weeks back talking about all the drinks and sodas that India has. And then lo and behold, I came in, I looked at the fridge and I said, where did all these drinks come from? I started pulling them out.
I started pulling them out. I was like, I don't recognize any of these brands. And I was like, thumbs up soda.
Where have I heard thumbs up soda? I said, oh my goodness. I thought David did. I was like, David, did you get all these Indian sodas? He said, no, Dr. Shaw went out and got them. What do you think? Where did you get them from?
I went from Indian store up in Cary. Wow, I do like it. There you go. I got some nice amount of tons of sugar in it. It says water, mango pulp, sugar. Those are the first three ingredients. It does taste good.
It really does. I remember trying mango when I was, gosh, I was probably middle school and I really did not like it. But people told me it was because I had a bad mango.
Like I have not like it just didn't have a good taste. It tasted a lot like, you drank it all. I drank it all. I liked that.
That was really good. You already drank the whole thing? During summer time, this is the drink.
You get it nice and cold. And a mango drink during the summer is like elixir from the gods. We had a mango tree in our yard. So mango comes in many different varieties and some mangoes are like this. Some are more tart. I mean, it's all kinds. The one we had in our church yard was more tart side of things and it was used to make pickle, mango pickle.
Very, very popular in India. But don't forget pickles as like our pickles here, like in water and all, you know, just kind of preserved. This is pickle with spices and everything.
I think Nick has had that before and it's really good. The one I remember trying, now, granted, this was growing up in South Carolina, so not really mango country. The one I remember trying tasted a lot like a pine tree.
Like almost like this. We would think of smell of a pine tree. That was the taste of the mango.
And I was like, this is not. Is it like a pickle you pick up in here? Is it like a sauce? Like a like a preservative spread?
Yeah, probably that ladder you put it. So you put it on your food on the side and then you kind of take it a little bit at a time. Yeah, that sounds really good. Yeah, that's that's I mean, that does look kind of good. I mean, I love those mango pickles so much. Yeah.
Okay. So back in the day, this is back in the early 80s. Grandma was like the cook. I've never met anybody cook Indian food like she did. As they say in the south, your tongue beat your brains out trying to get to her food. Never heard that, but I did now.
Yeah. And she would make these mango pickles, mango pickles. And some of those mangoes were coming from our tree.
Some of them my dad would buy because they were not enough on the tree to make all this. And big old jars, big jars. They almost look like those milk jars, even those old fashioned from the 30s, 40s, a big milk jar. Oh yeah, the big jugs.
That's how big they were. And they were and they would make this and it was so good, so good that we would actually just dig in there and just take it, take out like a whole bowl of just nothing but mango pickle. Was she cool with that or did she want you to eat it with your food?
It's supposed to be eating with the food, but it's like my parents didn't know what was happening and we would like go in there and we just get some out. Just have some of this. Yeah. And it was, it was, oh my goodness.
One of my, one of my favorite things in the world is that no matter where you are in the world, grandma's cooking is always on point. Oh man. Yeah. I love that. Yeah.
Yeah. I heard about recently and we need to move on with the show, but I heard about recently there is this restaurant, I think it's in New York and it's only, it's only open on the weekends and they have no menu because the chefs are grandmothers who come in there, they come in there and they just make their signature dishes. So it's always different. You never know what you're going to have when you go in there.
It's only open on the weekends, but it's just grandmothers from around the community, around the world and they have all their signature dishes. So for our viewers, Dr. Shah, which one looks the most like home? Okay. So if you want to find the one type in beriker, which is B E right next to it, right next to it. B E D E K A R space and click. Yeah, that's it. And now since then they have really modernized things. That's not what they look like.
In fact, a lot of Indian folks try to bring this from India and the jars are never properly sealed for real. Oh yeah. Oh no.
And their clothes are forever oily and stained. What is chunda? Is that a, it's a, it's a kind of a mango. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. All this is, all this is mango stuff.
Wow. That sounds really good. So is it spicy? It depends on what kind you get.
If you get like super spicy, it can be, if it was hot, it can be so good. Oh my goodness. Wow. Maybe we should have some on the show. Some mango pickles.
Let's do it. You changed my mind about mangoes. You like mangoes? Change my mind. That was delicious.
I could get on, I could get on board with that. The verse of the day today is coming to us from Nehemiah chapter two, verses four and five. Then the King said to me, what do you request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said to the King, if it pleases the King, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my father's tombs that I may rebuild it. There's there's so much Nehemiah became one of my favorite books in the old Testament, primarily because when I came to Clearview in 2013, Dr. Shaw, you were preaching a series to the book of Nehemiah and I'm ashamed to say I had never, I didn't even know Nehemiah was a book.
The, the churches I had been in, you know, they do Romans, they'll do Philippians, they'll do Galatians. It's not one that you hit often. I didn't even know. I mean, I knew it was somewhere in there, but it was not a story. If someone had come to me in 2013 and said, tell me the story of Nehemiah, I said, I had no clue. But there's so much that can be garnered from that. One of the things I love about that verse that Ryan just read is like, if the King, if like I'd been summoned before the King and he's like, Hey, tell me what you want.
I'd be like, Oh man, I got my laundry list ready. But I love how he goes and says, I need to pray before the Lord. Right. Even though he knows what he wants to do, he goes to God first. Right. Right. Well, Nehemiah, quite an amazing character.
If you want to jump in, let's talk about him. I love it. He was a Jewish man living in the Persian capital of Shushan.
Sounds like shoe shine, but it's not Shushan, which is modern day Iran. Wow. Yeah. And you know, God's people had been taken into captivity. There's a first one, which is the Assyrian. The second one is the Babylonian. This is the Babylonian captivity and they were under Nebuchadnezzar for a while. And then the Medo Persian empire took over the Chaldean or the Babylonian empire and overnight they became Medo Persian.
Right. And Nehemiah was born in Persia, born in Babylon that became Persia. And so he grew up away from the promised land. He probably, I may be wrong, but he probably never visited his homeland. He has Jewish roots, but no Jewish like memories. Right. Or memories of living in Judah or Jerusalem or Israel. I mean, he had no connection there. Right. And no reason to. Why would you go back over there?
I mean, your life is here. And a lot of research is coming out that the Jewish people who were living in Babylon, after the first little bit, the first little bit of adjustments, they settled very well. I mean, because God told them.
I mean, it was a prosperous, yeah Babylon was a prosperous empire. Right. Yes. So they were told, bloom where you planted. That's the verse we use all the time. You know, my purpose is not to hurt you or what is it?
How does it go? But to give you a future and a hope and a hope. Yeah.
So guess what? God's people obeyed and they began to marry and give in marriage and they began to plant veneers. They began to build homes and they began to teach their children the things of God.
At the same time, they began to teach them. He's smiling. I thought the secret word was coming. I was waiting.
I was like, do you have a word? No, this is your day. Oh, okay. I thought you were the one. I was waiting for it.
No, no, no. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's going to come. I got you.
Not as you expect. I'm with you. I'm with you. Yep.
I gotta, I gotta really work on my poker face. Yeah. So, I mean, it's kind of an anodyne thing because their, their whole life was uplifted. That's the secret word. You give me such a complicated word. I'm like, how am I going to do that?
Some of them are so like encumbered. Like, okay, I can work that in the conversation. What was the word? Anodyne. Anodyne.
I was like, that's not, we don't talk like that. What does anodyne mean, David? Anodyne. You don't even know. Well, well, find it. I'll find it.
I think it means serving to alleviate pain. Yep. I'm like, anodyne.
But don't worry. I gave you that word, but trust me, I'm not going to do like easy words for these two. It's going to be a whole different word of the day. We forgot to mention David is now, now that Dr. Shuff's playing the game, David is the arbiter of the secret words. He's the one handing out the secret word. So no longer can we choose words. The stakes have changed a little bit too, because we're going to try to work them in as many times as possible. And it's points for each one, each time you work a day.
If you get away with it, we'll celebrate at the end how many times you were able to get with it. So anodyne means to alleviate pain. So you can tell people you work in the hospital that I'm here to anodyne you. Yes. Prepare to be anodyne. That's actually my name.
My first name is Anna and my middle name is Dine. Yeah, absolutely. You're a pain reliever. So anyways, going back to this. So they listened to God and they began to plant themselves. So Nehemiah grew up in relatively good life. And so we tend to think of them living in exile like, are they all chained up half the time working as slaves? No, they were doing fine. And we have evidence. A lot of scholars have done research and they have evidence of how they own property. They were, they had businesses. So it was like, go back to what Judah and be hammered by the Egyptians to the south and the Hittites or the Assyrians to the north.
No, we're good. Yeah, why would I do that? Why would you do that? Especially for a land that I've never known. Right. You know, if it was like, oh, I got taken from my home, maybe, but I was born here. You know what I mean? Yeah, right.
That's the thing that always struck me about Nehemiah. I try to put myself in his shoes. How would I feel if I heard about this in my, like my homeland, but do I even really feel about this? Like it is my homeland because my entire life is here. So would I pack up and go back and try to rebuild a city that I've never known? I can sort of relate to that because I mean, like my, not my father, but my grandfather was born in Greece and came here to America. But if there was some catastrophe going on in Greece, I mean, like I would feel bad, don't get me wrong, but the last thing I would do is be like, I need to pack up my family and go over there because those are my people. I don't feel that way.
I'm an American citizen. So, you know, I think that's something that's kind of lost, maybe not lost, but I think people don't talk about that, about the Nehemiah story enough. Right, right. So initially there were people like Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, you know, who had to go inside a fiery furnace or Daniel was thrown into the lion's den. Then, you know, things like that would happen or Esther, under Esther's, you know, the book of Esther, you hear how there was a massive decree to kill all the Jewish people. So time to time, things like this would happen, but overall things were quite peaceful, right? Not a problem. So he had no reason to go back and other people had gone.
Okay. There was not a massive exit when Cyrus said, hey guys, I'm the new king. You can go home. It was not like all the Jewish people got up and said, okay, thank you so much, dear king. We've been here too long.
We're headed home. In fact, many did not. Oh, that's right. Because Nehemiah is not serving under the Babylonian king. He's serving on a Persian. The, the Jewish people are already able to go home.
Oh, yes. I've been going home for, so to give you a little timeline here, let's do that for a moment. So 587 BC is when Nebuchadnezzar came against Jerusalem and destroyed everything. The temple, the walls got the people out of their homes and he had been doing this for some time, but 587 BC was his final assault and it's done. Now you have 70 years into exile and that's when Cyrus came to the throne. And after Cyrus comes to the throne, he sets the people free and people began to slowly trickle back into the promised land.
Okay. So Nehemiah's book is about 444 or 445 BC. So do the math from 587 to 444. How many years is that? Hang on, let me get my calculator right here. 587.
So I should be able to do that faster than I can. So I mean, you're talking about close to what, 140 some years? That they've been, that they've been allowed back in.
No, no. 142. That they've been gone from, that they've been gone from. Gone from the land.
Got you. And then from, I think they were set free, what, 537 something like that, I think it is. 38 to 444. Shouldn't be quite a hundred. That's a 94. 94. 94 years. So think about it. A hundred years, a hundred years that they have been free to go back.
Yeah. That's a, that's a great point. That leaves a lot of context to it. Cause you, cause you think the way you hear the story is they're allowed to go back.
Nehemiah himself is like, nah, I'm what you'll hear. But really it's been a hundred years since that point. Yeah. Several generations have gone by and many went back. Ezra has already come back. The temple has been rebuilt.
So by the time it's Nehemiah's time, it's like. Like there've been many generations since then who've chosen not to go back and keep themselves in Persia. By the way, just a quick history lesson. Up until very recently, couple of decades ago, Jewish people were still living in Iran. Wow. There's still one Jewish person left who is, I don't know how he survives, but he is, he's sort of like in politics there and all that is the only one, but he's anti Israel. I mean, or at least he has to be, I don't know how that works. Yeah.
I don't even know if he's still there. Wow. Yeah. That's one left.
That's incredible. That does give more context to the story because it's not just this pile of rubble that's abandoned. It's God's people have been moving back there and the temple is rebuilt and yet the walls are still destroyed. So people are coming against besieging the city and it can't quite gain its footing because there's just this constant stream of attacks. And yet Nehemiah feels this call to go back to his homeland that he's never known.
He's living, he's not just a guy working in Persia. What does it say about him? It's if you go back here in Nehemiah chapter one and verse one, it says, then it came to pass in the month of Kislev in the 20th year, as I was in Shushan, the Citadel, which was like the, like the capital, that Hanani one of my brethren came with men from Judah. And I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who has survived the captivity and concerning Jerusalem. And they said to me, the survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down and its gates are burned with fire. So it was when I heard these words that I sat down and wept and mourn for many days. I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven. So what you see here is he is getting a report while he is at work and what kind of work does he do?
Well, great point. Shushan is the capital city of the Persian empire. It's about 150 miles north of the Persian Gulf.
If you, if you want to get some information on that. Winter time, it was wonderful. And the Persian kings made it their winter home. And this is also where, by the way, Esther was crowned as the queen of Persia.
In Shushan. And Nehemiah 1.11 tells us that he was king's cup bearer. Does not mean he was the king's dishwasher or waiter. Cup bearer means one who gives something to drink. That's a literal meaning. Now, what does that mean? It means he, he is much more than just a guinea pig.
He is the king's most trusted friend. Yeah. Cause if you, if someone's directly handing you something to drink, you have to trust that person, especially if you're a king in those days. People think it's just the taster. Like, like if it's poisonous, okay, you try it first.
I wouldn't put the best of the best person to try. Yeah. Try something. To try some poison. No. Poison. Every time.
Try it on like a prisoner or something. Right. Yeah.
I'm sure they did that too. Yeah. Probably.
You drink this. Yeah. Yeah. But I think he was the most trusted person the king knew. Kinda crazy, right?
It is. A Jewish person. The most trusted person for a Persian king. And so there's more to that.
A cup bearer was not only somebody who just was the most trusted person, he was also the keeper of the signet and in charge of the administration of the accounts. We get that from Tobit. This is an extra, extra biblical work.
Tobit 1.22. He was also in charge of the administration of the accounts. So he was a very important person. Oh yeah.
Extremely. Over and over and over again throughout the time of exile. And even, you know, Nehemiah, after the people had started to go back, you see Jewish people elevated to a position of leadership, position of prominence.
You've got Daniel, you've got Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, you've got Esther, you've got Ezra, you've got people who, Nehemiah of course, who people who are, that is not their homeland. And yet they are put in positions of power and of influence. Well, it's a fulfillment of God's promise that if you bloom where you're planted, you will, you will well and truly bloom. You know, it's not that you're just, and I love that it's, and maybe it's a message for us too. It's not this that you're going to survive this. You're going to thrive this.
I'm going to make, I'm going to turn this around and work it together for good. And I would say that's what's happening in America. Even through the exile period, we have sort of thrived. It's been tough, very, very stressful. But now we see there's a shift, a major, massive shift that's going to be seen in history books as, as positively as a 9-11.
Yeah. I think, I think about that parable that Jesus gave about, you know, the, the, the one that hit, went away and hid the money, hid the talent, because it's like, I think a lot of churches did that. And a lot of Christians did that too, where it was like, they felt that times were against them, but it's like, let's just hunker down and do what we can to survive. And there's not going to be any blessing in that. But you know, I think about the way that you handled this entire last four years, Dr. Shaw, and everything since the pandemic, it's like, we're going to, it's going to be tough and there's going to be hard times, but we're still going to give 120%.
And because of that, God has blessed us. We weren't focused on surviving. Right. And, and our mentality was not that, you know, so as much as we are facing this time of stress and how terrible it is, that's, that's, that's what we got to do. Well, what if the times shift as the times are shifting now in a positive way?
Well, change with the time. That's right. Exactly. 100%. Exactly.
Get the lay of the land. That's right. Don't, don't lose sight of the gospel. It's about the gospel of Jesus Christ.
It's about the word of God, the truth of God, but be willing to change. And that is, and that's what we're going to do. That's right.
That's right. If you guys enjoyed today's episode, write in and let us know 252-582-5028, or you can visit us online at cleerviewtodayshow.com. Don't forget, you can partner with us financially on that same website. Scroll to the bottom, click that donate button and let us know what's coming from our Clearview Today Show family. John, what do you want to leave our listeners with? I want to let you know about Dr. Shaw and Nicole's book, 30 Days of Praying for America.
These are daily devotions to heal our nation. You can get it on Amazon right now. We're working on the audible version as we speak. Also, we want to let you know about our debut album, Heaven Here and Now.
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