This is a honey badger. Who's ever heard of a honey badger before? They're one of my favorite
animals. They're really cool animals. They're small, but they're tough. But most animals in
this family of animals, I forget what they call them, but wolverines are part of this family,
and they're like the biggest badger type. They're the biggest of the badger type family.
But the honey badger, they're a lot smaller than a wolverine, but they'll take on packs of lions
and they're crazy. They'll attack cobras and chase them up trees and bite their heads off and eat
them. If a cobra bites them, they'll fall asleep for a little while, and then they'll wake up and
continue to eat the cobra. They're immune to a lot of... If we got bit by a cobra,
like the video I saw where a honey badger, the cobra got it, but he killed the cobra
before it fell asleep, and it's just laying there like a dog when it's rolled over,
and then just wakes up and just eats the cobra. It's like a 12-foot long cobra or something.
It's huge. These animals are pretty unique in the world. They're small, but they're very ferocious.
Even wolverines, they're small in comparison to bears and other type animals, but they're
vicious. There's a reason why they say, quit badgering me. Stop badgering me, because badgers,
they'll just keep coming. They're very tenacious. You're like, well, why would God ask for a badger
skin? Well, and then it says... I just want to mention this real quick before I keep talking
about the badgers, but also oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and sweet incense.
He's God's asking for precious materials, and one of those precious materials is a badger skin.
The reason why I want to focus on this for just a little bit, and if I don't get to the rest of the
chapter, then oh well, but I want to talk about this because I was told, and I've seen where
people attack the King James over this badger issue. They'll say that it was not badgers,
because badgers did not live in the Middle East at that time. They didn't live in Canaan. Well,
number one, they weren't in Canaan yet when God's asking for these things,
and number two, that's just not true. They did live there. Now, they weren't honey badgers,
they were European badgers, and you're like, well, how do you know that? Well,
just look it up right now on the internet if you want to, if you don't believe me.
What lives in the area of Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula, and even in Saudi Arabia,
which is where they were at this particular time, they're called Euro-Asian badgers,
and they look different than this badger here. They're bigger. They're kind of more flat and
wider, but they do live in that area, but this is what the modern liberal
Bible corrupters will say. They'll find anything to attack the King James over,
and they'll just try to deny and just destroy your faith with something as simple as a badger skin.
Now, the modern versions, they'll say the King James wrong on this, and they'll say badgers
don't live in Canaan. They'll point this out, and they'll say this kind of stuff, but
they do actually live there. It's a fact of history that they've lived there, and they'll
say, well, how would the people in the 1611, how would they know what a badger was? Just let me
tell you this. When I was in England the last time I was there, we stayed with the taverners,
Pastor Taverner and his wife, and they had started keeping chickens at this new place that they're
at, and they were telling me the story about how two badgers attacked their chicken coop in the
middle of the night, and they killed Henny. They murdered one of their chickens called Henny,
and the last thing that they saw, this horrific scene, is one of the badgers walking off with
Henny in their mouth, and Mrs. Taverner's beating them with brooms and trying to get them to stop,
but killed all the chickens except for one, and guess what they were? They were badgers,
and how did they know they were badgers? Because they know what they look like. You know why they
know what they look like? Because they're the European badger, the same exact badger
that's found in this type of area where God was asking them to get the badger skins.
They look exactly the same. So how would these guys in 1611 know what badgers were? Well,
they knew exactly what they were because they were the exact same kind of badger that lived in that
same place, and they still live there today in both places. So that's just, you know, these
people, they come up with the dumbest things to try to disprove the King James Bible, but I want
to read you the modern versions of what they've changed this to.
They'll even corrupt the most nonsensical verses in the Bible. Like, I kind of just have this
feeling that any place we really go in a chapter in the Bible, they're going to change something
and just for a dumb reason. Now, Exodus 25 verse 4 and 5 in the NIV says,
blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and fine linen, goat hair, ram skins, dyed red, and another type of
durable leather, acacia wood. So they even changed the wood to acacia wood, but another type of
durable leather, and this isn't the only version that changes it to that. Another type of durable
leather. They don't want to call it badger skin just because they want to disagree with the King
James. Now, Exodus 24 verse 4 and 5, the new living translation, the NLT, blue, purple,
and scarlet thread, fine linen, and goat hair for cloth, tanned ram skins, and fine goat skin
leather, acacia wood. So now it's just two goats. Now it's goat skin leather. It's not badger.
Look, this is a badger. Do you know what a goat looks like? They don't look like badgers.
Okay, now the American Standard Version, verse 4 says, and blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine linen, and goat's hair, and ram skins, dyed red, and seal skins,
and acacia wood.
Are you kidding me? The King James translators didn't know the difference between a seal
and a badger. Have you ever, who's ever been to the place where you feed the seals at like
seaside? Who's ever seen a badger? Are they alike? No, they're not.
One's annoying and the other one's scary, okay? Seal or really annoying. But anyway,
who was just at the coast? Wasn't it Tony and all those seal were on the dock? Yeah,
punk and everybody trying to keep them off the dock. But yeah, so seal skins,
they change it to seal skins. Now I'm going to show you from the HCSB, the Holman Christian
Standard Bible, blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and linen, and goat hair, ram skins, dyed red,
and manatee skins, acacia wood. So you know what a manatee is?
They must have. Apparently, you know, and then they'll say like, yeah, there's no way
they could have got that many badger skins to make the skins for the tabernacle. Oh,
but they got enough manatee skins? They just went manatee fishing in the Dead Sea or something?
Ridiculous. The new American Standard, the 1995 update, blue, purple, and scarlet material,
fine linen, and goat hair, ram skins, dyed red, porpoise skins, acacia wood, porpoise skins.
So now you got the, you know, dolphins and porpoise look pretty much the same. They're
pretty close. There is a difference, but they're pretty close. They make all the weird noises,
right? A dolphin does not look like a badger, folks. It's not the same animal, okay?
They're skins. Now you might say, well, back in antiquity they made porpoise skin shoes.
Go try to buy a pair of porpoise skin shoes right now. Look it up on eBay.
You're not gonna be able to find them. But you are gonna be able to find leather shoes places.
And so, I mean, why would God use badger skin? Why would he use, why would he even use that?
Hold on, I forgot the message. I gotta get the message in. Tanned rams, skins, dolphin skins,
acacia wood. So, I mean, we got multiple animals here. You wonder why people don't believe the
word of God anymore? Because they want to put all this confusion and make us be confused about what
kind of animal skins did God put up there? Were they dolphins? Was the tabernacle wrapped in
dolphins? Was the tabernacle wrapped in porpoise skins? Was the tabernacle a big giant manatee?
No. It was badger skins. I think that's what the, I think the Bible, the King James is right,
obviously. The ESV has it as more goat skins. It's like they just, they want to disagree with
the King James every time. And that's why you need to throw those false Bible versions in the trash
can.