Tyrant Contra God | Biblical Series: Exodus Episode 1



Thank you for joining us as we journey through the great book of Exodus. We recorded 16 episodes, plus a finale, over two ten-day sessions, one in 2022 and one in 2023, releasing them initially on the DailyWire+ platform. After some careful deliberation, the DW+ executive team and Dr. Peterson decided to make them available to everyone on YouTube. We will therefore release one per week for 17 weeks, each Monday, and then keep them all there for a few weeks, before returning to the paywalled system (although episode 1 will remain permanently available).

In episode one, Jordan and his roundtable explore the themes of freedom against tyranny, God’s allowance of evil, and faith as an adventure within the first three chapters of Exodus. They seek to answer the question of whether one should take the easy path even if it is wrong or do what is right despite it being hard.

Thank you very much to all the participants: Dr. Os Guiness, Dr. Douglas Hedley, Dr. James Orr, Dr. Larry Arnn, Gregg Hurwitz, Ben Shapiro, Dr. Dennis Prager, Dr. Stephen Blackwood, Jonathan Pageau, and Dr. Jordan B. Peterson.

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– Chapters –

(0:00) Intro
(1:24) Welcome to Exodus
(3:42) Guest introductions
(11:56) The structure of priority
(14:00) 1 : 1-7
(16:31) 1 : 8-10
(17:19) 1 : 11
(18:09) 1 : 12-14
(25:03) 1 : 15-16
(50:46) 1 : 17-22
(52:01) 2 : 1
(52:53) 2 : 2-3
(56:47) 2 : 4-5
(1:00:34) 2 : 7-10
(1:07:17) 2 : 11-15
(1:18:42) 2 : 16-17
(1:19:13) 2 : 17-19
(1:19:55) 2 : 20-22
(1:22:03) 2 : 23
(1:24:05) 2 : 24-25
(1:37:28) 3 : 1
(1:38:06) 3 : 2
(1:48:58) 3 : 3-5
(2:14:14) 3 : 5-6

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29 thoughts on “Tyrant Contra God | Biblical Series: Exodus Episode 1”

  1. One of my from childhood to now kind of heroes/teacher – Joni Eareckson, later Joni Eareckson Tada- was asked recently why God allows evil. Or pain.
    Joni's neck was broken when she dove into a lake & she hit her head on the bottom. She has been a quadriplegic since then, she's in her 70s now, went through lung cancer a while ago so she knows pain. But she said "God allows what He hates to permit what He loves". That makes me think of the verse from Genesis – when Joseph (mentioned of course as being forgotten already by the beginning of Exodus) – his brothers were jealous and planned to kill him, one brother had mercy & sold him into slavery. Which of course does not sound much more fun!
    But Joseph ends up in a high places in government, hopefully people know his story – and that wonderful verse, Genesis 50:20 where Joseph tells his brothers, all these years later that what you meant for evil, God meant for good, that many people would be able to eat and survive. I think now we want to know immediately why a bad thing has happened. Why in the world God allowed that awful thing to happen.
    I have no idea what made me think of this & needed to comment 🙂 I stopped the video at 41:03 so something to do with that. That has been true in my life, & listening to Joni, in such terrible pain, still remembering that God sees the past, present & future.

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  2. They end with God revealing himself to Moses in the burning bush in Ex 3:1-6. The burning bush fascinates me. Why would God choose a burning bush to reveal himself. I wonder if this burning bush reveals the most important characteristic of God. I think that what he is revealing is that he is being destroyed by fire the whole time. However, he is not getting destroyed because the fire does not destroy the bush. God is dying the whole time but he never dies. God is being refined the whole time by the fire. That makes God incredibly pure. If you think about it you will realise that humans and animals renew all their cells regularly. Our cells die and new cells are created all the time. After a number of years our bodies have been completely renewed. God pours himself out for us because he is not so concerned for himself. When you are with someone you are influenced by them and become a little like them to be on their wavelength. So, when you are with God who is burning with dying to himself that would be absolutely terrifying. If you need to die to yourself even to a small extent because you are with God then that would tear you apart. This is God's holiness. Again, it is absolutely terrifying. You can't love someone unless you first die to yourself. If you don't die to yourself first then you are focused on yourself. As soon as you die to yourself you focus on other people.

    I find that when we die to ourselves (other people are just as important to us as we are to ourselves – love others as we love ourselves) then we come to life in joy. Not being wrapped up in ourselves means that we are free from ourselves and we can enjoy other people in a way that we couldn't before. Being free from ourselves is getting rid of a burden. We no longer have agendas for what we can get from them. We allow people to be free and we can enjoy the real person that they are. We allow our lives to be burnt like the burning bush as God did. It does not destroy us. Love keeps flowing through us. It makes us beautiful to others. Best wishes.

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  3. Jordan was suggesting God rewards sinners (the adventurous!) NO! God is clear about sin. God needed to use an example of a heinous sinner in the Bible to show that even they can be 'rehabilitated'. And God blessed Trump with gifts not as a 'well done' reward for his sin but because gifts are predetermined from birth. Dont be so foolish to think God is happy with his sins.

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  4. Truth is a fascinating concept to explore. For example to make a building 'work' architecturally, it must have correct spans and measurements to allow light and space etc, which is a kind of truth. The building is correct. It tells a truth. Truth is what makes material things work. So the biblical search for truth is in fact a search for what makes humanity 'work', for what makes humanity optimally functionally perfect, to put it scientifically. In fact the great power and authority of the bible and the Word of God comes form the search fo this truth. To the dismissal and burning away of all else, which by definition must be false and therefore evil.

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  5. As a Christian who loves reading the Bible every day, I am in awe by this amazing seminar. I am beyond thankful for making this available free. I have been longing to read the Torah too. Blessings!

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  6. A lot of these behaviors are egoing in the family unit too… Some members of the family accuse others of hypothetical wrongdoing simply because they are new to the family…and will do things to punish them…

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  7. Where is the black perspective on this panel? Couldn't find one Black, person of color, educated, intellectual theologian for this discussion? Or would that have been too religious? Too Scriptural? since we are talking about the Bible. That's biased. But I'll listen, but I'm disappointed for that lack of perspective.

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