Imagine there being like a local messiah watch news at that time. BREAKING NEWS: Simon is the messiah! BREAKING NEWS: Simons is not the messiah :( BREAKING NEWS: Athronges is the messiah! BREAKING NEWS: Athronges is not the messiah :( BREAKING NEWS: Theudas is the messiah! BREAKING NEWS: Teudas is not the messiah :( BREAKING NEWS: Jesus is the messiah! BREAKING NEWS: Jesus is not the messiah :( BREAKING NEWS: Wait! Jesus is the messiah! I repeat, Jesus is the messiah!

You're the only person I know who can come up with a biblical lesson just from buying a chunk of synthetic cheese.

@StephensCrazyHour

2 жыл бұрын

As sermon illustrations go, I've heard worse.

@TofuTal

2 жыл бұрын

An important talent! :)

@twoimse

2 жыл бұрын

He's a true Romans 8:28 guy!

Jesus: Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death Fake Cheesus: Truly I tell you, some of you who taste me will die.

@MattWhitmanTMBH

2 жыл бұрын

Lol. That worked on me. Lol.

@Mutantcy1992

2 жыл бұрын

Cheese + communion = a nice picnic meal

@johnalexander4940

2 жыл бұрын

There were some standing there who didn't taste death Which Generation? The Generation of vipers Matthew 12:35 The Generation of adulterers Matthew 12:39-41 The Generation of wicked adulterers. Matthew 16:4

@johnalexander4940

2 жыл бұрын

@@MattWhitmanTMBH brother great video love the topic. ? When can you produce and chronology to highlight Daniel 9:26 with the command the rebuilding of the Temple and its immediate affects today.

@greglogan7706

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnalexander4940 And might we say "whoops"

Merch idea, "Jesus is the real Cheese"

@trickyflyproductions

2 жыл бұрын

I'd wear that shirt. hah

@tylerbasham1491

2 жыл бұрын

The Cheese of cheese

@alexandreiTF

2 жыл бұрын

Jesus > Velveeta

@Ordo1980

2 жыл бұрын

"Blessed are the cheesemakers"

@MrSlm1982

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ordo1980 😂

Cheeses of Nazareth, Pennsylvania (Title of 2003 FIF album)

@jeffelkins426

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Destin Sandlin of Huntsville, Alabama.

@michaelkaiser8694

2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic reference! Hilarious and wonderful album.

@lorenzobattista2530

2 жыл бұрын

Great album!

@Mutantcy1992

2 жыл бұрын

Fancy seeing you here Destin!

@awokecon157

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that album brings me back! FIF and OC Supertones were all I knew of ska, and frankly, all I ever needed to know. For better or for worse. I like to think for the better.

In my eyes, this sheds a lot of light on John the Baptist's question to Jesus about his legitimacy.

@TheECSH

2 жыл бұрын

that's a good point! i've never thought of it or viewed it in this light.

@FrostyIceman

2 жыл бұрын

I always wondered why he did this too because weren’t they related some how?

@mrmcface713

2 жыл бұрын

@@FrostyIceman John The Baptist and Jesus Christ are Cousins

I always know it's gonna be a good one when Matt starts the video with an extremely off-topic story

@MattWhitmanTMBH

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like you understand me.

"Do You Like Goat Cheese? I Love Goat Cheese." The Chosen

@RobbDepp

2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha that was a good moment

@arielriquelme913

2 жыл бұрын

I love these puns.

blessed are the cheesemakers

@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts

2 жыл бұрын

For they shall inherit the kingdom of Gouda.

@carlosbalazs2492

2 жыл бұрын

Blessed are the Greek

@user-dx5bn4yk4f

2 жыл бұрын

@@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts I read this comment with an italian accent

@mcconk2kyt242

2 жыл бұрын

@@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts that was great

@chrisjwilson

2 жыл бұрын

Well, obviously it’s not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.

The one "Messiah" that fits in this video's allegory, is the Messiah Brian. After all he heard blessed are the cheesemakers, but later concluded that it's not meant to be taken literally, it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.

This may explain why the Romans didn't record Jesus, there were dozens of messiah's who keep up?

@MattWhitmanTMBH

2 жыл бұрын

That's an excellent take.

@valeried7210

2 жыл бұрын

especially if it wasn't violent and the Romans never got terribly involved in one location to squash it.

@thejusticeavengers1

2 жыл бұрын

Also why Philo didn’t I’m sure

@mysterymanforu

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard that they probably did at least record his death, but most Roman records were lost in a fire. I think it was on the history of rome podcast. if my memory serves me well.

@markcrawford4239

2 жыл бұрын

@Cirdan your right after reading Tacitus it would seem the Romans had some source knowledge of Jesus

That cheese-like abomination can't even fool me at 144p

A third perspective on Theadus is that Josephus got the date wrong. He has done it in other works.

@StephensCrazyHour

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Luke was considered a very thorough historian so it becomes a game of "who do you trust, Luke or Josephus". Both were writing for very specific reasons.

@pkmcnett5649

2 жыл бұрын

I trust the physician more than the Roman-loving historian.

I'd love to see your take on The Chosen series!

@TiciaM

2 жыл бұрын

YES!

@chaplainpaul5326

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@hurdygurdyman1905

2 жыл бұрын

You mean, The Cheesen series.

@panashejoy7071

2 жыл бұрын

@@hurdygurdyman1905 get out 😭

I think it also helps to explain why Jesus never claimed or denied the title "Messiah" for himself as such. People had a very particular view of what the Messiah was supposed to be, and not everyone's particular view lined up very well with everyone else's particular view of what the Messiah was supposed to be. So some people had in mind exactly what Jesus was when they asked if he was the Messiah, other people had something else in mind.

@jellyfish0311

2 жыл бұрын

That'd be like God sending St. Nick to teach people about charity all over again and they asking him "so, you're Santa Claus, right?" "Not exactly"

@sthelenskungfu

2 жыл бұрын

@@jellyfish0311 That is the most awesome analogy for what I'm trying to say. Can I use that?

@jellyfish0311

2 жыл бұрын

@@sthelenskungfu feel free to use it whenever lol

I believe this is St. Thomas’ forgotten and oft-neglected Sixth Way: the Proof from Cheese

@Kalypso24

2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the cheese cosmological argument

@skyorrichegg

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kalypso24 just add some worms to that cheese cosmology and you can get Menocchio's early modern heresy

Cheesus: "This is my body, broken for you, take and eat." His disciples: "uh....do we have to?" Thanks Matt! That was an interesting dive into the messiah title! Really sheds new light on Jesus saying "they will say to you here is the messiah or there is the messiah, do not go out to them."

Matt, thank you for your commitment to showing the scriptures in light of history. Your videos and podcasts are valuable. Also, I love the cheesy intros.

My new favorite term is "Messianic fatigue"

@danthiel8623

Жыл бұрын

Apocalypse fatigue is another one ☝️🤔 All of history in this particular faith makes mention of the end of the world but also other religions make this claim as well.

Is this what Jesus meant when he said "I am the whey?"

@PatrickKQ4HBD

2 жыл бұрын

🤔🤣

You have to know that me, a big atheist, have started reading the bible, to try and understand the religious POV. And I have to say, I't been very interesting so far

@MathewAlden

2 жыл бұрын

Yo, check out Luke an 1 John; those are some of my favorites!

@rc3088

2 жыл бұрын

Way to go...at your own pace🥰

@AsterixMiguelix

2 жыл бұрын

@@MathewAlden will do!

@AsterixMiguelix

2 жыл бұрын

@@rc3088 yeah :) I'm still on chapter 19 of the genesis

@ohLyln

2 жыл бұрын

Good stuff bro :)

While outside of the scope of this video because of the time period it is also interesting to note characters like Simon Bar Kokhba who was a false Messiah from around a hundred years after Christ. A much more successful (than these mentioned false Messiahs) and extremely violent revolutionary who more closely fit the idea of a Political King coming to cast off the roman empire and restore an earthly kingdom as opposed to Christ who was a suffering servant whose kingdom was not of this world.

The book of Carl clearly states "How does a taco say grace?" "Lettuce pray." I can't wait till Friday so we can all gather and worship messiah Carl at The Applebee's. And all his people said "eatin' good in the neighborhood" Amen.

@austin1470

2 жыл бұрын

Still waiting for his son Carl’s Jr. to arrive in the East

@ryanb1874

2 жыл бұрын

Yes my father's friend, would say, jokingly, " Lett us Pray, common, pray lettuce ",

Been looking forward to this video!

As a european knowing these block of "cheese" actually exist and get bought just hurts my brain.

@knight.paladin1214

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathansoko1085 I have yet to encounter an equivalent in Europe like we had when I lived in the States.

@iwontliveinfear

2 жыл бұрын

Velveeta makes a good cheese sauce, all you have to do is heat and serve. That's literally all it is good for though.

@book3100

2 жыл бұрын

If it's in the store, somebody will buy it. And if one will, there are ten more behind him. Was it Barnum? There's a sucker born every minute.

@brandi8040

2 жыл бұрын

@@iwontliveinfear Yes! Add milk & rotel!

@pkmcnett5649

2 жыл бұрын

There is a fudge recipe using Velveeta.

It’s takes me so long to get through these videos because I watch for a minute or two and it gets me thinking. Next thing I know I look up and I’ve missed five minutes and need to rewind. Doing this four or five times can really increase my viewing time. 😄 Matt, thanks for making such thought provoking videos, I really appreciate it.

it is a great episode Matt. Loved it. I was just expecting some music at the end :). God bless.

Your videos bring so much value to my understanding of Jesus! Thank you, Matt!

Notice about Gamaliel that the text seems to imply that it was primarily the priests and Sadducees that wanted to squash the Way, but Gamaliel was in fact a Pharisee. As we read on multiple occasions in the gospel accounts the Sadducees were scripturally lost. Were the Sadducees expecting a messiah in the first place, or were the Pharisees (as represented by Gamaliel) the ones that were still hoping and longing for the messiah? This is I think something to keep in mind in interpreting the tension in Acts.

@gideonjudges7

2 жыл бұрын

It is also important to note how the Pharisees [literally "pure ones"] and Sadducees [probably comes from "Zadok--ees", allied with the family of Zadok, the high priests] show up in the Gospels (especially Matthew)--major conflicts in Jesus's ministry came from the Pharisees, with one major exchange with the Sadducees. After Matthew 23 (Jesus's diatribe against the "Scribes, Pharisees, Hypocrites!"), no more direct conflict with the Pharisees. But the Sadducees were the party of the leadership--Caiaphas and his family were Saduccees. So, what is another way of reading what happened? The religious reform movement (the Pharisees) had doctrinal conflicts with Jesus, but some did eventually listen to Him (especially after His intense words in Jerusalem). The conflict with the Jerusalem leadership escalated, which led to the leadership party working toward His execution.

Never knew. What a crazy time that would have been. Honestly, I'd probably would have been one of many that just brushed Jesus off as another crazy.

@messyartdesk8141

2 жыл бұрын

Me too

@KDeds21

2 жыл бұрын

That's why he did all those miracles.

"Let me guess: you're gonna get a group of people together and go kill some people and then claim to be the Chosen One." You really make history come alive. LOL.

Love your content and the way you communicate.

Hahaha, that edit showing the Pan’s Labyrinth monster as you held up your hands to display the location of Simon of Peraea was hilarious 😂

A cheese related intro is exactly what I needed to lighten up my day... Thanks Matt! Someone bring me the Pecorino.

I was pretty excited before starting the video. Then when we started with cheese like substances I was hooked. Great video man.

Just wanted to mention I havent thought about your content for awhile and when I decided to look you up realized I wasn't subscribed anymore and had missed a bunch of videos. Ive been noticing that with a lot of channels lately.

Thank you for making this video. I never knew. God bless Sir.

The Pan’s Labyrinth hand-eyed monster image was hilarious. Caught me off guard. lol

Act 21:38 You're not the Egyptian who started a revolt some time ago and led 4,000 assassins into the desert, are you?"

...and so Cheesus sent out his swisstians, telling them to be holy and to teach the whey of the grate Gouda.

@mikewesselhoff439

2 жыл бұрын

what's wrong with you

@rc3088

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha 😂🤣😅😆 all shred the grate gouda

There are lots of them. I mean they even keep showing up in the Philippines. I'll call them "quesos" from now on.

“At a certain temperature and under Certain atmospheric conditions”? So, like, the heat generated by the pyroclastic flow after Yellowstone has just blown?

So in a nutshell, you're saying Jesus is holier than swiss cheese?

Nice work! This was a fun watch but still scholarly.

Amen and amen and amen. I love how an indepth look at history can illuminate so many things that seem lost. Beautiful!

I was really waiting for you to cut the cheese.

Hello brother, nice video. Your introduction reminds me of a Salvador Dalí interview in French where he says, citing St Augustine, "Jesus is cheese", what a coincidence :D

Great video bro

Didn't take much, but the sound it makes when you handled it, cool.

Amazing! Thanks for walking us through the history. Ill have to try reading Josephus

Nicely informative!

Thank you so much for this ✊🏽

Fantastic!! You just preached a great sermon!! Loved it! :) :) :)

Haven’t been here I. A while. Good to be back.

Matt's transitional analogies are always priceless :D :D

@bandie9101

2 жыл бұрын

@@gideonvictor suddenly i could not do anything with this starcraft reference then looked at my avatar... :D

@dustinhanlin

2 жыл бұрын

Build additional pylons.

I've really enjoyed watching the programs where you profile other Christian Denominations outside of your own beliefs. I wonder if you would be willing to check into the Jewish perspective, maybe spotlighting objections jewish believers would have with Christianity and the NT. A possible collaboration with a Rabbi like Tovia Singer might be interesting. Thanks for the great content!......Keep it up

loved the video, thanks

Regarding the cheese metaphor: C. S. Lewis made a similar metaphor regarding butter and margarine! (Paraphrasing from memory, I think from an essay on distinguishing the real from the substitute.) During the war (WW2) we had shortages of lots of things, including milk, so we also had a shortage of butter; for which we had margarine as a substitute. And at first that was great, I couldn't tell the difference, and as far as I was concerned give me the margarine any day over the butter! But by the time the war ended, I could never again accept margarine for butter. Lewis wasn't talking about distinguishing false messiahs from the true one, but no doubt he'd agree with the application! {g}

Good idea for a video. Liked it.

@MattWhitmanTMBH

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

This is excellent. For me, it puts all the prophecies in a new light. Jesus did not show up in a "Messiah vacuum," if you will. It's not like He was the only "candidate." The prophecies about Him were so you could identify the TRUTH, the WAY, the LIFE.

Interesting to learn that Pontius Pilate had to keep Samaria in line. I didn't realize he governed any more than Judea.

Interesting topic and video! I will say that the music cuts you have placed throughout the video were a lot louder than your speaking voice and were super jarring, at least to me. But that's a nitpick. Have a great day!

The Pauses were informative!

ha, another good one... well done man

This is historical gold, this is going on my Critical list.

We call that trash cheese. Best use is for makin' Granny's cheese dip. Add milk, melt down the whole block, stir, stir, stir, then add Rotel. Serve with corn or tortilla chips. Also, that book by Josephus looks like a neat book! Adding to my list! 📚

@BennettSanderson

2 жыл бұрын

Grammatical question: Do you call that trash "cheese"? Or do you call that "trash cheese"? In my circles we call the dip you describe "Rotel dip" or simply "Rotel". When I was a teenager, I thought this was the only known use for a crock pot. Incidentally, you can read Josephus online www.josephus.org/works.htm

This is awesome!

He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy

@shawnfranklin9796

2 жыл бұрын

Okay, from now on I have to call velveeta Brian.

Really good 👍🏾

I can’t lie the smell of that basically cheese sitting there on the table was very distracting

17:30 why couldn’t Josephus be mistaken? He is not always 100% accurate.

@colmwhateveryoulike3240

2 жыл бұрын

@Mind for God. No need to throw him out but Josephus has been known to get his chronologies messed up due to cross referencing his sources.

@colmwhateveryoulike3240

2 жыл бұрын

@Mind for God. I forget now but the example I saw before was authentic but he just accidentally made an event seem to occur twice in history.

@johnalexander4940

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldnt make Josephus my first GO TO because biblical prophecy stands alome in a class by itself. 1) if you doubt God's prophecies pf selection of a small nation of Jews to show forth his Glory. Of you are an athiest then. Contemporary history wont help you lay the the groundwork on attacking the Bible. As the land of Israel today is spitting up more artifacts yearly confirming the Biblical narrative than at any other time in history Archaeology even further affirms what the Biblical auhtors unknowingly wrote about before the time of Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, Josephus and the other Greek and Roman historians. But more so than that only and idiot today would attempt to discount biblical prophecies made hundreds of years before their fulfilment as random chance let alone fantasy. Prophecy speaks of an all Knowing something with predictive powers that no man can attain unless their given from above.

@bendezso7263

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnalexander4940 can you tell me what artifacts have been found that support the bible? Or tell me where to find that?

@johnalexander4940

2 жыл бұрын

@@bendezso7263 Really where do you want to start ? In Jerusalem or another part of the Middle east Iran, Iraq RECENT biblical evidences have been found. Here's one. The Pool of Siloam Jerusalem Hezekiah's Tunnel Jerusalem 4th Century Church Banias Northern lsrael Old Israelite altar 8th century B.C desert stronghold Arad Israel. The Motza temple 900 B.C near Jerusalem The Quran offers nothing to affirm it history. Israel us bleeding with evidence.

The content is great. Can we equalize the volume between content and scene-swap music????

Galilee was not a good place for a prophet to be from: "They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”" (John 7:52) Jesus does not reply, "No, I am actually from Bethlehem."

17:00 The other possibility you didn't mention is that Josephus messed up. That's not just a possibility, though, Josephus is not rock solid when it comes to dating. His accounting of historical events is good and supported, but for reasons, likely having to do with how he sourced and compiled his information, there are numerous places where he very obviously mixed up the dating of the events.

@lorenzobattista2530

2 жыл бұрын

Josephus dating is more accurate than the Masoretic Text.

Thanks for not eating all that cheese, we want you around to make more videos.

Good video.

Very interesting. Here recently I actually was very curious about this exact topic but couldn't find to many sources that explained it as simply as this. Great!

Ah yes The Parable of The Cheeses my favorite. Good video bud.

"Raging against the Roman machine." 😂😂😂

You found Cheesus that day ❤️

Figuring out how to make a decent queso without using that "cheese product" is one of my life goals.

@peterfox7663

2 жыл бұрын

Sodium citrate - you can use any cheese you like to make a creamy sauce

@TiciaM

2 жыл бұрын

@@peterfox7663 thank you! I'll give that a try.

Is it at all likely that Josephus got his facts wrong about the chronology of Theudas?

@colmwhateveryoulike3240

2 жыл бұрын

He did in other cases so I'd say yes.

This was awesome and reminds me of an old but good joke. Did you hear about the new Kraft cheese out of Israel? They call it Cheeses of Nazareth......;)

Melt and add rotel. Most amazing chip dip ever.

So good. Even more reason to think that Jesus intentionally called himself the “Son of Man” from Daniel 7, rather than “Messiah/Christ” - which makes this scene make more sense: Matthew 26:63-65 [63] But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.” [64] Jesus said to him, *“You have said so.* But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.” [65] Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has uttered blasphemy. What further witnesses do we need? You have now heard his blasphemy.

THE SOUND THE CHEESE MAKES WHEN YOU MOVE IT UPSETS ME. I want to hope it's the foil but I cannot not think it's the cheese.

@BennettSanderson

2 жыл бұрын

I suspect those sounds are enhanced/added. But yeah, same.

You've never had Velveeta before!? Queso my brother lol

Speaking of the Messiah, can you tour a Messianic Jewish congregation? And other suggestion: A personal ordanariate Anglican Catholic Church (made up of defects from the Anglicans to Catholic Church).

"mentioned in batch form by historians" - my greatest fear.

Killer Breakdown

@WhenceRed

2 жыл бұрын

The King of The War of Peace Kills Death-Making All the Way Down The War of Peace Wages On Pony Up

pssst -- the image you used for Herod Archelaus is the bust of Augustus Caesar.

There is a television programme called Science of the Bible - Rivals of Jesus (2006)

This is why Life of Brian seems accurate.

Also consider that on Palm Sunday there were crowds of people singing praises to Jesus. But then they realize he's not the military-leader messiah that they were hoping for, and some of them lose interest. But there's also the situation that "Uh-oh, Rome has now arrested our latest messiah", and they'd be thinking about how things ended for all the recently failed messiahs. It'd be very prudent to put a lot of distance between yourself and this newest messiah, even if you weren't looking for a military-leader messiah!

The thumbnail got me 😂

It's funny that you mention that "he's the one we've heard of". I assume you mean of the contemporaries but there are just a many spiritual leaders/prophets/guru etc, if we widen our scope beyond Judea. It doesn't seem to be an uncommon practice to have these people emerge but they often lack the spark, or the correct environmental conditions to set ablaze the population they preach to.

The sound of that cheese 😂

THE SOUND IT MAKES! It's so bad I almost wanna say it's SFX added in post 🤣

Bro, that’s Velveta cheese. Gotta use that in cheese dip, not eating it with a spoon or on a sandwich 😂

“He’s not a Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!!” Monty Python.