Alright you are officially my favorite KZreadr for referencing "all your base are belong to us" in 2022 in a video about the Bible.

“All your base are belong to us!” lol Classic

1. Getting plundered by women is the ultimate humiliation, unrepeated in the ancient world to my knowledge. 2. No stone monuments, but myriad Biblical references to God's mighty hand taking His people from Egypt. Also, still celebrated in the Seder meal today. 3. Was hoping you'd explore the possibility that the gold they plundered wound up in the golden calf.

I really wish I could like this a second, third, and fourth time. First of all, thank you so much Matt for presenting Biblical passages in an extremely approachable way. I was introduced to 10 minute Bible hour by my dad and then proceeded to binge listen to the entirety of podcast in a matter of 3 months. While I myself will fully admit to being a Christian who agrees with Matt and many of his views, what I appreciate most is his ability to engage with those who might be outside of his "in group" and not only treat them with the respect and dignity that any human deserves, but welcome them and THANK them for taking the time to try and relate to a viewpoint that they might not agree with. Than you so much Matt, for bringing such a formidable book to the general populace and presenting it in the way it was meant to be consumed; by curious people who might not know all the stuff, but are willing to take a listen, and thank you even more for respecting and loving them as humans, even if after hearing what you have to say they ultimately disagree with the conclusions you have come to.

“All your base are belong to us” applied to Exodus. You are a true gem of internet theology.

This was a banger! On top of the theology and history of this being super interesting, this video held my attention really well and was very engaging. The whole bit about being offended by an ancient god destroying people's manhood was hilarious. I really liked the format of this, and I learned a lot from the content.

Honestly had never thought about this before, amazing job. Thank you!

Always love your stuff, it really makes me think. I wrote a short sermon once on this same passage in Exodus. However I talked about how they walked out into to the wilderness with just today's bread and seemingly useless trinkets. That in the natural it made no sense to set out equipped like that. I mean who sets out to carry dolphin skins into the desert. But God was faithful to meet their daily needs. Their ministry was to carry the makings of His Tabernacle even if they didn't know it at the time. Because our lives are not about our needs but His glory and worship. I love in this short passage there are so many stories to tell from so different angles. Thank you for thoughtfulness and loving insights into the Word. I love that you so show real empathy to people in the passage, and don't fall into the trap of treating them like characters in a fairy tale. Huge fan of your ministry, brother.

Went to church today feeling kinda down. First, it's a Catholic church and I'm Protestant - I go there because the fiancée is RC. We moved here to Quebec - the French province of Canada last year after she retired - because she's French and much of her remaining family live here. So the service is all in French - might as well be Latin as I don't speak either. Anyway, sitting there God reminded me 'it's not about me but about Him'. The homily was about the rich man who accumulated so much wealth to feel absolutely secure but his soul was required of him the next day. Then I come home and find this on my YT notice. How appropriate. And I got my service in English ta boot. Thanks Matt.

@annettebeckett4671

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Hi from South Africa. I am RC. Please do not worry over the language of the service. The exact same Mass is said all over the world. So I attend the English Service. What you can do is to buy Sunday Missal in English. That way you can read along.

@peterfox7663

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Do you have plans to convert? Or does she? You really don't want to go into a marriage being spouses of different faiths. It's a form of being unequally yoked.

@annettebeckett4671

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@@peterfox7663 depends on the couples understanding and communication. My mom Anglican dad Catholic. Most people didn't know she was Anglican. Married 60 yrs. Myself married a Methodist wont convert as he can't wrap his head around transubsiation. Nonetheless always involved with church stuff. 22yrs married. So we shall see

@thor1063

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My wife is now a Christian but comes from a RC background , you do not want to be unevenly yoked to a non Christian. The mass which I have attended repeatedly with her family is a denial of the blood of Christ and a restitution of the old covenant sacrifices . Once she became a Christian she realized the constant contradiction between RC practices and the Bible .

You nailed it with the analogy of loss. I lost my sister too soon and felt the same. I wasn’t Christian then but now I get it.

@baldmaggots

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Sorry for your loss. Great to see there's still some good people on the Internet.

1:39 "You just got completely owned, you got dunked on." We should probably go ahead and make a Rosetta stone for the slang phrases of our time. Help future historians out. 😂

@hollydingman7455

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It’s called the urban dictionary 😂👍🏼

Thanks for this. You do such an excellent job of digging down into the details and giving us much more to think about. Love your insights brother!

Great stuff Matt. I'm preaching on Exodus in a couple of months. Your videos and podcasts are always a component of my sermon prep.

Just want to say that I really like your channel. You don't speak with judgment or condemnation, or shy away from the hard questions. I grew up in a Christian home and still consider myself Christian, but the way I think about specific things has changed over the years and in some ways are very different than the more, shall we say, "traditionally conservative" beliefs of my family, and it makes me feel more like a black sheep than I have previously. Your videos are helping me understand my faith better, and I want to thank you for that.

Meanwhile, Atheists: "Well, Egypt didn't record this massive loss so therefore it probably didn't happen."

@kristaklumpenhouwer7914

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Since nations love to brag about those sorts of things. . .

@Thoham

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Are you really an atheists?

@christopherflux6254

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Why would they want to write it down? It’s embarrassing, so Egypt wouldn’t want to record it.

@iwontliveinfear

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Even a modern nation-state would try to cover up any evidence of such a thing happening. There is also the fact that Egypt 4k-5k years ago didn't record everything in stone. They already had papyrus, and most of that wouldn't have survived to today.

Saw this notification seconds after finishing the chapter about this

This was really nice to contemplate with you. Thank you for sharing it.

Thank you Matt. I had never put much thought into that. I guess my take is that they were probably, "take whatever you want. Just stop this madness of the last while." And I can kind of understand that currently

I ❤️ the TMBH podcast and these videos just feel like a bonus. Thanks, Matt!

@jsharp3165

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I'm the other way around!

Thank you for sharing, especially your context on the grief context.

Really interesting, thank you! We studied Exodus at our church's Bible Study but kind of glossed over this portion so I am so appreciative of your comments and it all makes so much more sense now! (So sorry about your brother).

Wonderful video, Matt! Very informative!

Your channel is a blessing, very edifying.

Very insightful, Matt. Thanks for this excellent episode. Made me think of Ken Medema's song "Moses" from the early '70s.

You break this down in ways I would not have thought of. This is well thought out and very fascinating.

New to your channel. You got me because of the videos describing difference denominations. These talks keep me coming back. Love your demeanor and curious nature. Keep it up!

Thank you!! This was great 👍love this stuff 😊 this was my favorite video since the coptic orthodox video. So interesting!

This is such a refreshing channel.

"Why is Egypt crying?" "CAUSE THEY JUST GOT DUNKED ON!"

@mugfan9779

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I ain’t even lying! Yeah they just got dunked on!

Love the video!

another home run man! well done

Good insight. Thank you.

Great video. Always fun to think about really specific details from the Bible you usually just miss when you’re looking at the larger story

That was like Biblical sociology and I’m here for it!!!

Great video, Matt--love the mental calisthenics. I have often wondered why there is the assumption that the death of the Egyptian firstborn means only babies. A 50-year-old, 80-year-old, etc. can also be a firstborn. Is there something about the Hebrew word that implies baby/child?

Very interesting! I'm reading through Exodus now so more please!

If you're doing Old Testament, I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts on Ecclesiastes! I know you said you have more planned for Exodus, but do you have any plans to tackle the wisdom books?

@coolmaster121

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Bible Project has a good video on this book among proverbs and job books

@NathanJ2124

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@@coolmaster121 Thanks for the recommendation! That overview video was really well put together

Someone has done some serious thinking. Very much enjoyed this

"All your base are belong to us." Wow. I can't believe you worked that in!

It’s great to see that out of this plundering, God asked the people in Ex 25:1-9 to give an offering in order to build the tabernacle. So not only He humiliated the Egyptians by taking all their goods, but provided the materials for His own dwelling place. He's got everything under control!

It always stood out to me how the Hebrew women found favor in the eyes of the Egyptians despite the animosity between the two peoples.

Talk about a good morning, prechurch Matt

Man God bless you.

20:25 Yup

Great video Matt. Can I ask what bible that is that you have open on the desk?

WATCHING FROM INDIA

Great video and insight as always.. if you never watched josh gates expedition unknown.. they are looking for the tomb of Moses.. so cool when archeology and faith meet!❤️ (he also looked at the most recent dead sea scrolls and the cross that St Helen found.)

Heh. I don't remember that bit. That's awesome.

You are good, Matman. Unusal but interesting. Excellent diagnoses. After listening all I just see better how God is great, how small my faith sonetimes is, how great events that were and ... I will have greater worship in Lord supper today from thankfulness of my heart for how great he is when he leads the hostory to his ways, glory and purpouse.

"the cut of your blue jeans means something different than the cut of the cowboy's blue jeans" = subtle racism

I dont really see #3 as an option as slavery was pretty common at that time and continued afterwards. Not sure on the gulit factor for the same reason. But certainly #1 & #2 for sure.

You know in all these years I've never noticed that the killing of the firstborns by the angel of death is a reflection of the killing of hebrew babies. Man is there so much symmetry

Matt, I have a question. Maybe it's not that important, but, I've been following your channel for several months and I'm curious as to what denomination or church you belong to or most align with.

@robertdelisle7309

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He is of the Evangelical Free Church

Press conference when King Rehoboam and his friends got Judah and Israel into a bloody civil war and a posthumous loin measuring contest with his dad who was famously able to satisfy a harem of c. 700-1000 women

Except that there's no archeological or historical record of any of the events in Exodus having taken place.

I like the contrast between the arrogant Akkadian king that you mentioned and what God did through the Israelite women to make sure that His people wouldn't boast in themselves 👌🏾👌🏾

Thank you, makes me think of Josephs bones returning to the land of Canaan. This is thinking outside the box a bit but... What if the plunder was getting Josephs bones and plundering the riches in there. Not to mention the people of Egypt handing their jewelry over as they left. Maybe another reason why Pharoh had a change of heart and set out after the Israelites after he let them go. Could this be another way to look at it?

Have you noticed that Moses was raised as the Prince of Egypt. Presumably in a form of ruling. He would have had speach classes and lead your people classes growing up... And yet he says he's not qualified...

All your base are belong to us. LMAO. I remember that video! xD

Was that a reference to Molly Shannon from SNL?

Lots of love for India Nagaland

What's interesting about how this played out as well. If anyone was going to brag about plundering it would be the Israelite women. Which time and again God shows in His Word that He is willing to us the person or people you would least expect. So why not use the slave women, a people group least likely to pillage ( especially understanding women's role in society back then compared to today) and take and give themselves all the credit for their own greatness. God once again taking the unlikely side character and making them the main character.

I sure as all heck don't want my manhood to be attacked and I be made like a woman. I ain't taking no chances y'all better keep that tablet clean and pristine.

Thank you for being unequivocal that believers will not stand for racism in America. How could that thinking or behaving be loving one’s neighbor?

Hey

They needed the gold... so they can make the golden calf a few chapters later (spoiler alert).

"all ur base r belong to us"

I am definitely in camp of #4. I think the other explanations do too much to take G-d out of the story.

Race isnt skin colour. Sorry for that comment but there was nothing else in the video i didnt agree with or I could have expanded upon. 18:22 Except california where they repealed equality with ACA5 so they actualy can discrimminate again.

Hmmm reparations to slaves and their families? Sounds like good stuff

Does it matter to you at all that the story of Exodus is mostly or entirely mythical? That, in simple English, what you're reading is more or less a work of fiction? It seems to me that these questions should be the absolute starting point for studying the text but I don't see you addressing it anywhere. Foundational myths can be meaningful to people groups, but they're still just that - myths. Doing what you are here, like trying to "get inside the heads" of the characters of the story, seems like kind of a pointless exercise to me.

@robertdelisle7309

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Obviously he doesn’t think Exodus is a myth but a historical narrative. What evidence do you have to show Exodus is a myth? There are many archeological discoveries that support the Exodus narrative: Hebrew slaves in Egypt, Egyptians losing their slave population, the Pharaohs first born son not succeeding him but his second born son becomes Pharaoh, nomadic Hebrews wandering in the desert worshiping a God called Yahweh. Look up an archeologist Dr. Titus Kennedy who explains these connections.

@ptk8451

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NoI dont think Exodus is myth