The Messiah

Transcript (English)

Jon: Theres his crazy story in the beginning of the bible we have Adam
and Eve. And they are in the Garden of Eden.

Tim: And everything in the garden is great. Its exactly as it should be,
except theres this one tree that theyre told by God not to eat from
because its dangerous and it will kill them.

Jon: So thats it, just avoid this fruit and we are fine?

Tim: Right, it seems pretty simple. But in this garden theres a snake
starts telling a different story. It says that if you eat of this tree it is not
going to kill you. In fact its going to make you become like god.

Jon: And Adam and Eve they believe the snake and they eat the fruit.

Tim: And because it is this goodness of the garden is tragically lost and
evil and death enters into Gods good world.

Jon: Now, why is there a talking snake in the garden? I mean this thing
is a problem.

Tim: Yes very strange, and even more strange is the fact that the bible
doesnt say why or how this thing even got there. It just presents the
snake as this creature whos in rebellion against God and want to get
other people to doubt Gods goodness and lead them on a path toward
death. And so whatever this snake it, its the source of evil that
pervades our world and our lives, even still today.

Jon: But there is some hope because right here in the story God make
this really interesting promise to Adam and Eve.

Tim: That someone is going to come in the future, a son of Eve, and
this guy is going to crash the serpents head and destroy evil at its
source. However during this battle the serpent is going to bite this
guys heal

Jon: So its like a mutual destruction

Tim: Yes. Its this very strange and beautiful promise and just hanging
there until the next key moment in the story . . . when God singles out
this guy named Abraham and says that through his family goodness
and blessing is going to be restored back to all of the nations of the
world. And as we follow this family we get the one of Abrahamss great
grandsons, this guy named Judah. And he received this promise that a
king is going to come from his line and that the whole world is going to
follow this king, and hes going to bring peace and harmony and there
will be lots of food and wine and milk in vineyard and its going to be
awesome.

Jon: The first kind that we meet from the line of Judah is guy named
king David and hes a hero maybe he is snake crusher.

Tim: But it turns out that David is infected with the same evil as the
rest of humanity. He never crushed the snake, just the opposite.
However, God makes a promise to David that this king is going toe
eventually come from his line. But as you go on in the story one by one
each generation of his sons, theyre just total chumps. They give in to
the snake and they choose evil. They go after money and sex and
power and following other gods.

Jon: Things get so bad that they run the nation of Israel right into the
ground and the big bad empire of Babylon just takes them out.

Tim: So now there are no more kings to even fulfill this promise.

Jon: So it seems like the whole plan is lost.

Tim: But during these dark days theres these crazy group of guys
called prophets and they kept talking about this coming King and
reminded us of the promise that hell come. He will defeat evil and
restore the garden. Now one specific profit Isaiah he tell us more about
why this kind is bitten. Isaiah says that the promised kind receives this
wound because of humanitys evil, and that it kills him. But then all of
a sudden he comes back and Isaiah says that is because he suffered
this wound that he can now became a source of healing to other
people.

Jon: But the Old Testament ends and the snake crushing kind that
everyones been talking up never shows up.

Tim: And that is why when the New Testament begins it introduces us
to Jesus of Nazareth. Not as much as some random guy but as
someone who comes to fulfill theses specific ancient promises.

Jon: Yeah we learn that hes from the line of David, Judah, and
Abraham.
Tim: And he goes around Israel announcing that the goodness of Gods
kingdom is here now and he begins confronting the affects of evil on
people by healing them and forgiving them of their sins and evil.

Jon: Now many people are now believing that this is in fact the
promised king.

Tim: But Jesus began telling his closest followers that he was going to
become king and bring peace by taking the full effect of humanity evil
into himself.

Jon: That fatal snakebite wound.

Tim: Exactly, and so it seems like the serpent wins and this story
actually would be a tragedy except for what happens next. Jesus rises
form the dead.

Jon: And now Jesus has the power over evil and death for himself.

Tim: So the rest of the New Testament is then making this claim the
Jesuss power over evil and death has now become available to us to
begin confronting the effects of evil in our own lives.

Jon: But even still, death and evil are a real problem in our world allow
around us.

Tim: And so the story of the bible ends by describing this future day
when Jesus come back and he finished the job. He destroys the snake
once and for all, and he restores the goodness at the garden here on
earth