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  Speaker 1: Moses wrote the book of Genesis. But Moses was born 2,500
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  Speaker 1: years after the creation of the world. He was not
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  Speaker 1: in the Garden of Eden. He was not on Noah's Ark.
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  Speaker 1: He was not standing in the plains of Shinar when
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  Speaker 1: the Tower of Babel fell. So how did he write
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  Speaker 1: the exact historical details of events he never witnessed? The
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  Speaker 1: answer is not a mystical vision. and it is not
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  Speaker 1: a mythical oral tradition passed down through thousands of years.
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  Speaker 1: The answer is buried in a single Hebrew word that
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  Speaker 1: changes everything. The answer is an ancient physical library. To
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  Speaker 1: understand how the book of Genesis was actually written, we
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  Speaker 1: must first dismantle the greatest weapon skeptics use against the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: For centuries, secular, critics, liberal academics, and atheists have attacked
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  Speaker 1: the authority of Scripture using what is essentially the telephone
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  Speaker 1: game argument. They continuously claim that Genesis is nothing more
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  Speaker 1: than a collection of campfire myths, a series of oral
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  Speaker 1: traditions passed down from generation to generation, changing and morphing
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  Speaker 1: over thousands of years until Moses finally decided to write
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  Speaker 1: them down. The argument is simple but devastating to the
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  Speaker 1: uninformed mind. If you play the telephone game in a
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  Speaker 1: circle with ten people, the original phrase is almost always
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  Speaker 1: completely corrupted by the time it reaches the final person. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: The skeptics argue, how can you possibly trust an oral
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  Speaker 1: tradition that was supposedly whispered across thousands of years of
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  Speaker 1: human history, passing through desert nomads, ancient warlords, and enslaved populations?
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  Speaker 1: They conclude that because Moses was not an eyewitness to
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  Speaker 1: the events of Genesis, the text cannot be trusted as
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  Speaker 1: actual empirical history. It must be treated as allegory, myth,
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  Speaker 1: or cultural poetry designed to give the ancient Israelites a
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  Speaker 1: sense of national identity. And unfortunately, the modern church often
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  Speaker 1: responds to this devastating academic attack with a very weak defense.
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  Speaker 1: When a typical Christian is asked how Moses knew what
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  Speaker 1: happened in the Garden of Eden, the most common Sunday
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  Speaker 1: school answer is that Moses simply took dictation directly from heaven.
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  Speaker 1: The popular assumption is that when Moses went up to
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  Speaker 1: the top of Mount Sinai, into the thick, dark cloud
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  Speaker 1: of God's presence, the Lord put him into a trance
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  Speaker 1: and whispered the entire history of the world into his ear, verbatim,
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  Speaker 1: like a divine secretary. While God, in his absolute sovereignty,
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  Speaker 1: is certainly capable of doing exactly that, this theory ignores
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  Speaker 1: the actual structure of the biblical text. and it completely
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  Speaker 1: ignores the way the Holy Spirit has consistently operated throughout
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  Speaker 1: human history. The Holy Spirit does not overwrite human personality
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  Speaker 1: or human training. He breathes through it and utilizes it
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  Speaker 1: for divine purposes. If God simply whispered the entirety of
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  Speaker 1: Genesis directly into Moses' ears, Why does the book read
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  Speaker 1: like an edited compilation of ancient eyewitness reports written with
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  Speaker 1: completely different styles, vocabularies, and perspectives? When you read the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel of Luke, it is obvious that Luke researched eyewitness accounts.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis is no different. The answer to this mystery is
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  Speaker 1: found in the background of the exact man God chose
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  Speaker 1: for the job. God did not pick a blank slate
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  Speaker 1: to write the Torah. He picked a master archivist. In
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  Speaker 1: the book of Acts, chapter 7, verse 22, the martyr,
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  Speaker 1: Stephen delivers a sweeping historical sermon to the Sanhedrin, and
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  Speaker 1: he reveals a crucial, often overlooked detail about the life
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  Speaker 1: of Moses. Stephen states that Moses was educated in all
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  Speaker 1: the wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in words
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  Speaker 1: and deeds. Why is this singular detail so fundamentally important?
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  Speaker 1: We must stop picturing Moses merely as a humble shepherd
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  Speaker 1: holding a wooden staff. Moses was raised in the royal
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  Speaker 1: courts of the most technologically and intellectually advanced empire on
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  Speaker 1: the face of the earth. To be educated in all
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  Speaker 1: the wisdom of the Egyptians meant being trained in the
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  Speaker 1: most advanced literary, architectural and and historical archival systems in
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  Speaker 1: the ancient world. As an adopted prince of Egypt, Moses
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  Speaker 1: did not just learn how to manage armies. He was
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  Speaker 1: trained in the immense scriptoriums of the Egyptian empire. The
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians were culturally obsessed with documentation, hieroglyphics, and the strict,
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  Speaker 1: unyielding cataloging of dynasties and events. Moses had unhindered access
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  Speaker 1: to the greatest libraries on earth. He was explicitly trained
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  Speaker 1: in the compilation of ancient texts, the organization of historical records,
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  Speaker 1: the preservation of fragile documents, and the reading of ancient,
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  Speaker 1: complex languages that had long since died out. He was
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  Speaker 1: instructed in universal law, sacred geometry, military strategy, and state-sponsored
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  Speaker 1: archival maintenance. God engineered the life of Moses specifically so
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  Speaker 1: that he would possess the exact elite intellectual tools necessary
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  Speaker 1: to handle the most important historical documents in the physical universe.
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  Speaker 1: Moses was not just a runaway slave, he was the
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  Speaker 1: greatest structural scholar of his generation. But this specific historical
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  Speaker 1: reality forces us to confront a massive, unavoidable question. If
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  Speaker 1: Moses didn't pull the history of Genesis out of thin air,
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  Speaker 1: and if it wasn't just a mystical dictation session on
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  Speaker 1: a mountaintop, where did the physical historical information come from?
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  Speaker 1: How did a man standing in the barren desolation of
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  Speaker 1: the Sinai desert possess the exact verified eyewitness testimonies of Adam, Noah,
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  Speaker 1: and Abraham? The answer has been staring us in the
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  Speaker 1: face for thousands of years. It is buried in a
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  Speaker 1: single Hebrew word, that has been radically mistranslated and deeply
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  Speaker 1: misunderstood by modern readers. The key to unlocking the book
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  Speaker 1: of Genesis is the Talidoth. If you open your Bible
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  Speaker 1: and read methodically through the book of Genesis, you will
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  Speaker 1: notice a strange, highly repetitive phrase that appears exactly 11 times.
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  Speaker 1: This phrase acts as a structural hinge throughout the entire book,
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  Speaker 1: functioning as a recurring grammatical marker. The phrase, translated into English, is,
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  Speaker 1: These are the generations of. The Hebrew word is Toledoth.
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  Speaker 1: Most modern Christians and even many trained biblical scholars read
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  Speaker 1: this phrase and automatically assume it is a chapter heading.
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  Speaker 1: They look at the way our modern Western books are formatted,
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  Speaker 1: and they instinctively assume the Toledoth is a literary introduction
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  Speaker 1: to the story that is about to follow. For example,
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  Speaker 1: when they read Genesis chapter 5 verse 1, which states,
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  Speaker 1: This is the book of the generations of Adam. They
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  Speaker 1: instinctively assume the text is about to introduce the story
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  Speaker 1: of Adam's life. But this assumption is a massive historical error.
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  Speaker 1: It reads a modern literary paradigm into an ancient text,
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  Speaker 1: and it completely obscures the breathtaking reality of how the
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  Speaker 1: Bible was actually written, authenticated, and preserved. To understand the Toledoth,
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  Speaker 1: we cannot look at modern publishing. We must look at
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  Speaker 1: the dirt of ancient Mesopotamia. In the late 1930s, a
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  Speaker 1: brilliant British scholar, archaeologist, and air commodore named P.J. Wiseman
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  Speaker 1: was deployed to the Middle East. While there, he spent
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  Speaker 1: extensive time excavating ancient ruins in Mesopotamia, the exact region
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  Speaker 1: where Abraham originally lived before God called him to the
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  Speaker 1: land of Canaan. Wiseman was deeply fascinated by how the
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  Speaker 1: most ancient civilizations on Earth recorded their history. We must
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  Speaker 1: remember that ancient Mesopotamians did not write on paper. They
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  Speaker 1: did not have leather scrolls or Egyptian papyrus. They wrote
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  Speaker 1: on wet clay tablets using a wedge-shaped stylus, a writing
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  Speaker 1: system known as cuneiform. When you write on wet clay,
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  Speaker 1: the document is incredibly durable once it is baked in
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  Speaker 1: the sun. In fact, a fired clay tablet is far
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  Speaker 1: more durable than decaying parchment or modern paper. It can
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  Speaker 1: survive floods, fires, and thousands of years buried beneath the sand.
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  Speaker 1: Wiseman discovered something explosive about how these ancient clay tablets
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  Speaker 1: were formatted and archived in the ancient libraries of Babylon, Akkad,
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  Speaker 1: and Ur. Because clay tablets did not have title pages,
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  Speaker 1: and because they couldn't be bound together with glue and
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  Speaker 1: string like a modern book, the ancient scribes had to
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  Speaker 1: find a highly systematic way to identify who wrote the
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  Speaker 1: tablet and what the tablet was about, especially when storing
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  Speaker 1: them chronologically on stone shelves. They accomplished this archival organization
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  Speaker 1: using something called a colophon. A colophon is a signature
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  Speaker 1: statement or a concluding summary. But unlike a modern book title,
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  Speaker 1: the colophon was never placed at the beginning of the text.
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  Speaker 1: Because of the nature of writing on clay, It was
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  Speaker 1: always stamped at the very bottom, at the absolute end
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  Speaker 1: of the tablet. When an ancient king, merchant, or eyewitness
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  Speaker 1: finished recording his history on the clay, he would sign
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  Speaker 1: off at the bottom, stating his ownership or authorship of
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  Speaker 1: the document. Wiseman studied thousands of these ancient cuneiform tablets,
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  Speaker 1: and he realized that the formula for the central Mesopotamian
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  Speaker 1: colophon was almost always the exact same phrase. These are
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  Speaker 1: the generations of, followed by the name of the owner
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  Speaker 1: or author, the Toledoth. The phrase, these are the generations of,
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  Speaker 1: is not a chapter heading. It is an ancient legal
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  Speaker 1: signature at the end of a physical clay tablet. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: Genesis is not one long continuous story written from scratch
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  Speaker 1: by a single man who wasn't there. Genesis is a
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  Speaker 1: highly structured, meticulously edited compilation of 11 ancient physical clay tablets,
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  Speaker 1: each signed by the original eyewitness. Look at the absolute
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  Speaker 1: proof of this hidden inside the text itself. Genesis chapter
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  Speaker 1: 1 and the first three verses of chapter 2 record
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  Speaker 1: the creation of the universe. It describes the separation of
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  Speaker 1: the light from the darkness, the forging of the firmament,
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  Speaker 1: the gathering of the oceans, and the precise making of
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  Speaker 1: man in the image of God. And then, in Genesis
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  Speaker 1: chapter 2 verse 4, the section slams shut with a
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  Speaker 1: definitive signature. These are the generations of the heavens and
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  Speaker 1: of the earth when they were created. That is the colophon.
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  Speaker 1: That is the end of Tablet 1. We do not
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  Speaker 1: know for certain who wrote this very first tablet. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: it was given directly to Adam by God. or perhaps
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  Speaker 1: Adam wrote it under divine inspiration, but the signature legally
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  Speaker 1: proves it was a completed, physical, highly structured document, marking
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  Speaker 1: the exact end of the creation account. Move forward to
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 5 verse 1. The text suddenly declares, This
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  Speaker 1: is the book of the generations of Adam. If you
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  Speaker 1: read carefully, everything leading up to that statement is the
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  Speaker 1: history of Adam's life, his wife, and his children. At
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  Speaker 1: the end of his record, he signs his name. The
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew word used here is sephah, which literally translates to
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  Speaker 1: a written record, a scroll, or a physical book. It
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  Speaker 1: is undeniable, textual proof that writing existed at the very
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  Speaker 1: dawn of humanity. Adam did not rely on campfire stories
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  Speaker 1: or vague oral traditions. He physically wrote down his eyewitness
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  Speaker 1: account of the Garden of Eden, the tragic fall of man,
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  Speaker 1: the brutal murder of Abel, and he signed his name
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom of the clay tablet. The structural perfection
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  Speaker 1: of this ancient archival system continues flawlessly throughout the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the book. Genesis 6 verse 9 states, These are
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  Speaker 1: the generations of Noah. Notice that the text before this
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  Speaker 1: signature is the story of Noah's blameless life leading up
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  Speaker 1: to the flood. Noah signs off on his pre-flood tablet.
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  Speaker 1: In Genesis 11 verse 10, we see the signature of Shem,
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  Speaker 1: marking the end of the post-flood genealogical record. Genesis 11
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  Speaker 1: verse 27. Terah, the father of Abraham, signs off on
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  Speaker 1: his family history, detailing the movement from Ur to Haran.
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  Speaker 1: Even the records of the outcasts were kept perfectly intact.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 25 verse 12 records the signature of Ishmael, signing
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  Speaker 1: off on the brief record of his descendants. Genesis 25
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  Speaker 1: verse 19 logs the culminating signature of Isaac, summarizing the
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  Speaker 1: life of his father Abraham. And finally, Genesis 37 verse
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  Speaker 1: 2 concludes with the signature of Jacob. wrapping up the
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  Speaker 1: intense drama of Esau and the deception of the birthright.
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  Speaker 1: Every single major section of Genesis ends with a legally
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  Speaker 1: binding ancient signature. What you're reading when you open the
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  Speaker 1: book of Genesis is not an allegory. It is the
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  Speaker 1: most pristine, legally verified, unbroken chain of physical eyewitness testimony
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  Speaker 1: in the history of the world. When you fully grasp
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  Speaker 1: the reality of of the tablet theory, the Wiseman hypothesis,
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  Speaker 1: an entirely new dimension of the biblical narrative opens up,
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  Speaker 1: and we are forced to confront and instantly destroy one
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  Speaker 1: of the most toxic academic deceptions in modern history. That
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  Speaker 1: deception is known as the documentary hypothesis, commonly referred to
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  Speaker 1: as the JEDP theory. For over a century, Liberal scholars,
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  Speaker 1: secular universities, and skeptical theologians, led primarily by a German
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  Speaker 1: scholar named Julius Wellhausen in the 19th century, have ruthlessly
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  Speaker 1: attacked the authority of the Bible. They claim that Moses
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  Speaker 1: had absolutely nothing to do with writing Genesis. According to
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  Speaker 1: the JEDP theory, Genesis was written by four anonymous authors,
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  Speaker 1: living hundreds or even a thousand years after Moses during
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  Speaker 1: the Babylonian exile. These liberal scholars claim that these mysterious authors,
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  Speaker 1: labeled the Jehovahist, the Elohist, the Deuteronomist, and the Priestly Source,
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  Speaker 1: simply patched together different cultural myths, Babylonian legends, and Canaanite
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  Speaker 1: stories to create a fake unified national history for the
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  Speaker 1: nation of Israel. The foundational assumption of Wellhausen's theory was
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  Speaker 1: arrogant and historically ignorant. He assumed that writing was so
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  Speaker 1: primitive during Moses' time that he couldn't have possibly written
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  Speaker 1: the Torah, and therefore Genesis is a late political fabrication.
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  Speaker 1: But modern archaeology has absolutely obliterated this assumption. The discovery
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  Speaker 1: of the massive library at Ebla containing over 17,000 ancient
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  Speaker 1: clay tablets dating centuries before Abraham proved that complex writing,
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  Speaker 1: imperial law, and archival documentation were extremely common in the
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  Speaker 1: patriarchal age. The Ebla tablets detailed complex trade routes legal codes,
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  Speaker 1: and historical events proving beyond a shadow of a doubt
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  Speaker 1: that the ancient world was not illiterate. They were obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with written records. And more importantly, the Toledoth signatures completely
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  Speaker 1: and utterly collapse this liberal JEDP theory from the inside out.
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  Speaker 1: The Wiseman colophons legally, linguistically, and archaeologically prove that Genesis
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  Speaker 1: was already physically written, uniquely signed, and structurally completed on
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  Speaker 1: clay tablets long before Moses was ever placed in a
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  Speaker 1: basket on the Nile River. Moses did not invent these stories.
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  Speaker 1: He possessed them. The liberal theory demands that Genesis was
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  Speaker 1: written late. but the internal structure of the text proves
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  Speaker 1: it was written instantly by the people who actually lived it.
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  Speaker 1: The book of Genesis is, in reality, the epic story
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  Speaker 1: of the patriarchal library. It is the story of men
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  Speaker 1: fiercely guarding the physical records of human history against the
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  Speaker 1: most impossible, catastrophic odds imaginable. Imagine the immense, almost crushing
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  Speaker 1: weight of what Seth, Enoch, and Lamech held in their hands.
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  Speaker 1: They possessed the actual clay tablet signed by their father Adam.
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  Speaker 1: They possessed the only written authoritative record of what the
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  Speaker 1: entire world looked like before sin destroyed it. They could
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  Speaker 1: physically hold the original promise of God in their hands.
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  Speaker 1: When the earth became utterly corrupt and the Nephilim giants
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  Speaker 1: filled the land with unprecedented violence, Noah did not just
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  Speaker 1: build a massive wooden ark, to save his biological family
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  Speaker 1: and the animals. He built an ark to save the library.
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  Speaker 1: When the fountains of the great deep broke open with
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  Speaker 1: unimaginable geological force and the waters drowned every breathing thing
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  Speaker 1: on the earth, the physical history of creation was safely
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  Speaker 1: secured inside the pitch-covered walls of the ark. During that chaotic,
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  Speaker 1: terrifying year floating on the water, Noah kept a hyper-specific
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  Speaker 1: nautical logbook. He recorded the exact days the rain started,
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  Speaker 1: the specific months the water began to recede, the exact
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  Speaker 1: mathematical measurements of the ark in cubits, the grounding of
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  Speaker 1: the ship on the mountains of Ararat, and the sending
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  Speaker 1: out of the raven and the dove. When the ark
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  Speaker 1: finally landed and the world began again, Noah signed his tablet,
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  Speaker 1: bringing the library up to date. The chain of custody continued,
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  Speaker 1: perfectly unbroken. Shem inherited the tablets. He passed them down
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  Speaker 1: through his descendants until they reached a man named Terah,
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  Speaker 1: who lived in the idolatrous, technologically advanced city of Ur
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  Speaker 1: of the Chaldeans. When God called Terah's son, Abraham, To
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  Speaker 1: leave his comfortable homeland and travel to a strange, foreign
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  Speaker 1: country he had never seen, Abraham did not cross the
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  Speaker 1: burning desert empty-handed. When he crossed the vast expanse of
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  Speaker 1: the Euphrates River, he packed the heavy clay library. Abraham
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  Speaker 1: was an immensely wealthy man who traveled with a massive caravan,
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  Speaker 1: including 318 trained fighting men born in his own household.
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  Speaker 1: Every time Abraham pitched his tent in the wilderness, he
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  Speaker 1: was camping next to the physical history of mankind, guarded
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  Speaker 1: by a personal army. Isaac guarded the library with his life.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob inherited it, adding his own tablet to the massive collection.
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  Speaker 1: But then history takes its darkest, most perilous turn. A severe,
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  Speaker 1: devastating famine strikes the entire land of Canaan. Jacob and
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  Speaker 1: his 70 descendants are forced to leave the promised land
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  Speaker 1: and travel down into the hostile empire of Egypt just
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  Speaker 1: to survive, because Joseph had risen to become the second
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  Speaker 1: in command in all of Egypt. He had the unprecedented
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  Speaker 1: political power to protect his family and securely integrate their
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  Speaker 1: sacred records. But for the next 400 years, The children
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  Speaker 1: of Israel are plunged into agonizing, brutal slavery under the
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  Speaker 1: whips of the pharaohs who did not know Joseph. They
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  Speaker 1: are entirely stripped of their freedom. They are forced to
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  Speaker 1: make bricks in the burning sun. They are mercilessly beaten,
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  Speaker 1: intentionally starved, and subjected to horrific state-sponsored infanticide. Yet, throughout
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  Speaker 1: four centuries of the darkest oppression in ancient history— the
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  Speaker 1: Israelites fiercely protected their most prized possession. Hidden away in
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  Speaker 1: the mudbrick houses of Goshen, far from the prying eyes
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  Speaker 1: of the Egyptian taskmasters and the pagan priests, the elders
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  Speaker 1: of Israel guarded the patriarchal library. Think about the absolute
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  Speaker 1: miracle of this preservation. The clay tablets survived the global flood.
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  Speaker 1: They survived the barren desert. and they survived 400 years
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  Speaker 1: of systemic imperial slavery. The Egyptians stole their labor, but
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  Speaker 1: they could not steal their history. The tablets were the
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  Speaker 1: singular tie the Israelites had to their true identity and
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  Speaker 1: to the eternal promises of the God of Abraham. God
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  Speaker 1: ensured that these incredibly fragile clay tablets were protected against
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  Speaker 1: the greatest forces of destruction and in the ancient world.
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  Speaker 1: If the God of the Bible is powerful enough to
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  Speaker 1: perfectly preserve the physical record of human history through the
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  Speaker 1: absolute darkest eras of antiquity, overcoming empires, floods, and time itself,
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  Speaker 1: then He is powerful enough to preserve you through the
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  Speaker 1: absolute darkest season of your life. Adam, Noah, and Abraham
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  Speaker 1: were did not guard these tablets simply because they were
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  Speaker 1: archaeologically or sentimentally valuable. They guarded them with their very
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  Speaker 1: lives because tucked inside the very first tablet, hidden in
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  Speaker 1: the curse of Genesis chapter 3 verse 15, was the
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  Speaker 1: only prophecy that could ever save the world. It was
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  Speaker 1: the absolute cosmic promise that the seed of the woman
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  Speaker 1: would eventually come to crush the head of the serpent.
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  Speaker 1: The patriarchs did not just protect a history book, They
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  Speaker 1: protected the prophecy. They guarded the promise of the Messiah
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  Speaker 1: so that one day, thousands of years later, you could
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  Speaker 1: hold its ultimate fulfillment in your hands. Moses compiled the law,
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  Speaker 1: but the ultimate son of David, Jesus Christ, fulfilled it.
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  Speaker 1: The God who preserved the clay tablets is the exact
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  Speaker 1: same God who emptied the tomb in Jerusalem, shattering the
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  Speaker 1: power of sin and death forever. You can trust this
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  Speaker 1: There are more mysteries to pull from the dirt. We
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  Speaker 1: will see you next time. God ensured that these incredibly
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  Speaker 1: enough to preserve you through the absolute darkest season of
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  Speaker 1: your life. Adam, Noah, and Abraham did not guard these
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  Speaker 1: 3 verse 15, was the only prophecy that could ever
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