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Watchman on the Wall - Tri-Cities Conference - On the Horizon (Part 2) · KNEO Podcast

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SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Watchmen on the Wall, a daily outreach of Southwest Radio Ministries and SWRC.com.
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SPEAKER_01: God is still on the throne, and prayer changes things, defending the faith, understanding Bible prophecy, uncovering the mysteries of Scripture.
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SPEAKER_01: Today on Watchmen on the Wall, Josh Davis welcomes four special guests for a fascinating preview of our biggest conference of the year, Prophecy in the News Live, happening this week at Exit 7 in Bristol, Virginia.
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SPEAKER_01: A great conversation is straight ahead.
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SPEAKER_01: This Thursday, the countdown is almost over, and your opportunity to attend Prophecy in the News Live in Bristol is slipping away.
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SPEAKER_01: October 22nd through the 24th, three incredible days, three powerful themes.
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SPEAKER_01: Thursday, apologetics.
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SPEAKER_01: Friday, Bible prophecy.
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SPEAKER_01: Saturday, Mysteries of the Bible verse.
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SPEAKER_01: If you haven't registered, don't put it off.
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SPEAKER_01: This is our final conference of the year and seating is limited.
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SPEAKER_01: Pick up the phone right now.
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SPEAKER_01: Call 1-800-652-1144 or go immediately to SWRC.com and secure your seats.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't wait until the opportunity is gone.
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SPEAKER_01: Register today.
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SPEAKER_01: And we'll see you Thursday in Bristol.
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SPEAKER_01: Friends, how do we defend what we believe, understand what the Bible says about the future, and approach some of Scripture's most intriguing mysteries?
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SPEAKER_01: On today's program, four guests join Josh Davis to explore three fascinating areas of biblical study Christian apologetics, Bible prophecy, and the mysteries found in God's Word.
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SPEAKER_01: Join SWRC for its biggest conference of the year at this week's Prophecy in the News Live event in Bristol, Virginia.
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SPEAKER_02: Greeting friends, this is the special week when we have Prophecy in the News Live.
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SPEAKER_02: It's our largest conference of the year.
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SPEAKER_02: It's coming to Bristol, Virginia, and we are so excited to welcome many of our dear friends from across the country who are traveling in to be a part of this special weekend three full days with a specific focus for each day.
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SPEAKER_02: All day Thursday, October 22nd, will be about Bible apologetics.
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SPEAKER_02: How do we know that we can trust the Word of God?
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SPEAKER_02: How do we know that Jesus is God?
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SPEAKER_02: What about creation versus evolution?
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SPEAKER_02: All those kinds of topics will be addressed this Thursday.
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SPEAKER_02: Then on Friday, the whole day is focused on Bible prophecy as we discuss the pre-tribulation rapture.
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SPEAKER_02: What about dispensationalism?
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SPEAKER_02: What about Israel and God's redemptive and prophetic plan?
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SPEAKER_02: And so we're going to be talking about that all day Friday, October 23rd.
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SPEAKER_02: And then on Saturday is a very special day, and I have a special guest joining me to describe that.
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SPEAKER_02: It's our host of marginal mysteries, Micah Van Hust.
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SPEAKER_02: Micah, thank you so much for joining me.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for having me, Josh.
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SPEAKER_00: And I look forward to seeing folks out at the Mysteries of the Bible verse, which is the third day of our three-day conference on Saturday.
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SPEAKER_00: We've got a couple of new speakers this year, Doc Brown and Tyler Gilrith.
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SPEAKER_00: Doc Brown will be speaking at 10.15 in the morning, and he will be speaking on the biblical Bigfoot, Esau, and what really was Esau.
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SPEAKER_00: He'll also be talking a little bit about the giants.
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SPEAKER_00: Tyler Gilreth.
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SPEAKER_00: He is an author and a speaker, and he's going to be speaking on the Transfiguration Mystery, Moses, Elisha, and the forgotten revelation beyond the veil.
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SPEAKER_00: These two gentlemen are very nice gentlemen.
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SPEAKER_00: They've got some good content online.
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SPEAKER_00: We also have Mac Dominic speaking for us at the Mysteries of the Bible Verse.
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SPEAKER_00: And I will be speaking not only on my previous book, Angels Eternal, I will also be speaking on my brand new book, Mythologies Decoded Echoes of the Bible.
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SPEAKER_00: This is our third Mysteries of the Bible verse.
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SPEAKER_00: We always have a good time talking about God's mysteries.
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SPEAKER_00: So we're going to be talking about the weird stuff, and you know, a lot of folks are sensitive to that.
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SPEAKER_00: But I promise you for my part that I will filter everything through the Bible.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the way I look at my life.
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SPEAKER_00: I look at the world.
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SPEAKER_00: I look at my studies.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of weird stuff out there.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: And I have an open mind, but I don't ever let it contradict the Bible.
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SPEAKER_00: If you've read any of my books, you know that's the way it goes.
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SPEAKER_00: So we're going to have a good time talking about the mysteries of God's creation on Saturday.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you're always very good at delineating those things and showing that scripture is our standard.
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SPEAKER_02: It's all for naught.
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SPEAKER_02: What's the line that you say about believing in Jesus?
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus Christ is the central point of history and the central point of scripture, and it's all for naught.
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SPEAKER_00: You can study the weird stuff all day long, but it's all for naught if you don't know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: Now for my part, I believe that God has called me to study the mysterious.
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SPEAKER_00: A mystery is a mystery by definition because the answer is not readily available.
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SPEAKER_00: So you have to uh study, you have to study history, you have to study not only modern writings from modern authors, but ancient writings.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't take any of these writings, uh even what I write, we don't take any of this as inspired other than the sixty-six books of canon.
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SPEAKER_00: But you know, something's a mystery because the answer's not there.
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SPEAKER_00: So we do have to to study in artifacts and and different things.
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SPEAKER_00: It's been uh definitely a fun, I guess I've been at it four or five, going on five years now.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, wow.
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SPEAKER_00: And uh I love doing it, that's what God's called me to do.
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SPEAKER_00: And honestly, I'd rather talk about the mysteries of the Bible than the latest football game.
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SPEAKER_00: And you know, some folks are like, I don't talk about giants, I don't talk about this, and that's fine.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, folks don't want to talk about that, that's fine.
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SPEAKER_00: But I'd rather talk about that than than the latest sports scores or anything else.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so we're gonna talk about the weird stuff uh from a biblical perspective.
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SPEAKER_00: Mac Dominic's talking about Jesus versus the old gods, and that is a bit synonymous with my mythology's decoded talking about the gods of old, the gods of mythology.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and so I will also be talking about my Angels Eternal Realm of the Dead.
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SPEAKER_00: Scripture mentions the giants that are in hell.
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SPEAKER_00: Three different places at least.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh four, actually, four different places now that I've found an another one.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, that's that's a weird mystery.
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SPEAKER_00: Giants in hell, what does that mean?
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SPEAKER_00: What does it mean for our future?
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SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna be talking about that one.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the first presentation on Saturday at 9 a.m.
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SPEAKER_00: My second presentation is Angel's Eternal War of the Princes, which is the three reasons that Jesus came to the earth.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh, and we'll get into that on Saturday.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, very good.
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SPEAKER_02: Each day we'll have six sessions.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh that means across the three days, eighteen total sessions, uh, plus a lot of opportunity for QA with the speakers one-on-one in between the sessions, uh and it's just gonna be a uh uh jam-packed weekend filled with all kinds of great ministry, whether it's Christian apologetics, Bible prophecy, or the mysteries of the Bible verse.
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SPEAKER_02: Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
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SPEAKER_02: We would love to see you there.
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SPEAKER_02: You're gonna hear from some more of our speakers as this episode continues, but I want to take just a second and tell you how you can register for this conference.
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SPEAKER_02: You can give us a call 1-800-652-1144.
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SPEAKER_02: That's 1-800-652-1144, or go online swrc.com.
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SPEAKER_02: That's swrc.com.
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SPEAKER_02: Also joining us at the upcoming Prophecy in the News live event in Bristol, Virginia is our good friend Dr.
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SPEAKER_02: Lonnie Shipman.
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SPEAKER_02: All day Thursday is about Bible apologetics.
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SPEAKER_02: How do we know that we are believing the truth?
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SPEAKER_02: And he's going to be helping us shore up our knowledge of the scriptures, Bible understanding, and Bible proofs.
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SPEAKER_02: But also on Thursday, he's got a very unique session called Majestic Piano Praise.
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SPEAKER_02: And Dr.
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SPEAKER_02: Shipman will also be back with us on our Bible Prophecy Day.
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SPEAKER_02: That's Friday, October 23rd.
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SPEAKER_02: He's speaking right before lunch about Israel's future temples and Israel's future wars.
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SPEAKER_02: Dr.
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SPEAKER_02: Shipman, we are so excited to have you join us at the conference coming up this week.
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SPEAKER_02: You have some very unique sessions that you're going to be speaking and giving us these messages, but also the majestic piano praise.
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SPEAKER_02: Could you highlight a little bit of the kinds of things you're going to be sharing at the conference, including the music and the messages?
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SPEAKER_04: Oh, certainly.
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SPEAKER_04: Yes, sir.
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SPEAKER_04: It's a great honor to be with you all again at Southwest.
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SPEAKER_04: We sure appreciate all of your great ministry for many, many years.
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SPEAKER_04: The part where we do Bible understanding and Bible proofs, I'll cover how to understand the Bible, different segments of the Bible, what are the genres, how you understand prophecy, how you interpret the Bible, and how to study the Bible in different ways.
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SPEAKER_04: We'll cover that literally, as well as proof the Bible is true.
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SPEAKER_04: Sometimes people relieve certain things in the Bible.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_04: Trinity, that we should have a believer the Trinity very, very early.
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SPEAKER_04: And the even these verses they try to try to claim that were later written to the Bible.
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SPEAKER_04: In the very, very early years, we have included the Trinity verses.
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SPEAKER_04: And then other evidences and archaeology and things.
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SPEAKER_04: So this would be in Bible interpretation or Bible understanding, you might say, in Bible proofs, in the music, you were trained as a country pianist, and international competitions and piano, first place in the world, six times as a teenager, worldwide, it was called to preach at 15.
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SPEAKER_04: So then taking these arrangements of the hymns, sometimes with classical show pieces, and 31 international tours to 27 countries.
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SPEAKER_04: And so I sometimes combine these songs, these hymns, amazing grace, things like this, with classical pieces, sometimes we don't, just do it in a beautiful manner.
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SPEAKER_04: So this is because it's a majestic piano concert of hymns.
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SPEAKER_04: And we also tell the story, the impact of the gospel through the hymns while we're doing the concert.
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SPEAKER_04: The next day we'll cover prophecy.
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SPEAKER_04: And there I have two works that we'll deal with in that.
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SPEAKER_04: One is dealing with the treasure of the coming temple of God, the church for the Ark of the Covenant, and the rebuilding of the Jewish temple for the tribulation period, and another temple for the millennium.
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SPEAKER_04: There'll be two coming temples, not just one.
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SPEAKER_04: One of the Antichrist will design destroyed, one where Jesus will reign, and they're built differently in different sizes, and so we'll talk about the differences in why there are two coming temples and what it would be like, where it might stand.
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SPEAKER_04: Then we also there's many people who discuss these different wars.
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SPEAKER_04: We of course have a current war in Iran.
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SPEAKER_04: We discussed it.
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SPEAKER_04: Was that a possibility?
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SPEAKER_04: This book was published right before this book uh called Israel in Crisis before this war started.
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SPEAKER_04: Then we talk about the millennium after that.
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SPEAKER_04: So this will all be covered in the prophetic hour.
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SPEAKER_04: The coming temples and the coming wars that are biblical.
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SPEAKER_04: Is there a war of Psalm 83?
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SPEAKER_04: Is that actually a future war or what this happens then?
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SPEAKER_04: And these other things.
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SPEAKER_04: We lay out when these things come about biblically.
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SPEAKER_02: We are very much looking forward to that and a lot of great resources and information.
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SPEAKER_02: So, friends, we invite you to join us on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, October 22nd through the 24th in Bristol, Virginia at the Delta Hotel.
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SPEAKER_02: It's Prophecy in the News live Thursday emphasizing Bible apologetics, Friday emphasizing Bible prophecy, Saturday emphasizing Bible mysteries.
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SPEAKER_02: And we would love for you to join us for one day or all three days and be our special guest.
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SPEAKER_02: You'll get to meet Dr.
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SPEAKER_02: Lonnie Shipman and check out all the wonderful resources that he was just mentioning.
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SPEAKER_02: So we would love to see you there this Thursday, Friday, Saturday, October 22nd through the 24th.
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SPEAKER_02: Dr.
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SPEAKER_02: Shipman, thank you so much for joining me.
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SPEAKER_04: Thank you so much.
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SPEAKER_04: God bless you.
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SPEAKER_04: Looking forward to seeing everyone.
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SPEAKER_02: Friends, I'm joined with another speaker that's going to be at this upcoming Tri-Cities Conference this weekend.
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SPEAKER_02: It's Larry Stam.
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SPEAKER_02: Larry, so great to be with you again.
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SPEAKER_02: John, it's great to be with you.
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SPEAKER_02: On Monday of this week, we had a whole episode where we discussed your forthcoming book, which is also the basis for the prophecy conference presentation you're giving on Friday, Satan's Long War on Israel.
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SPEAKER_02: Could you take just a couple of minutes and explain what is this book about?
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SPEAKER_02: What is your presentation about that they can come and hear this coming Friday?
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SPEAKER_03: In response to the October 7th terrorist attacks, the Hamas-led terrorist attacks of 2023, the world has been in an uproar.
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SPEAKER_03: It's amazing that the perpetrators, they were lifted up and the victims were vilified.
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SPEAKER_03: It's remarkable how antisemitism has exploded since that time.
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SPEAKER_03: And to me, this idea of anti-Semitism, just historically, currently, and biblically, it's not a complicated issue.
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SPEAKER_03: I believe at its core it's spiritual in nature.
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SPEAKER_03: And so the book really is entitled, it's obviously entitled Satan's Long War on Israel, but the presentation and the book really talk about the fact that what we're seeing today, this chaos and pandemonium in the Middle East, is a manifestation of spiritual war.
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SPEAKER_03: Why?
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SPEAKER_03: Because God has future plans for Israel and the Jewish people, i.e.
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SPEAKER_03: Romans chapter 11, verse 26, where Paul will write, All Israel shall be saved.
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SPEAKER_03: And so in the book, I chronicle From the Garden of the Cross in Part 1 and From the Cross to the Kingdom in Part 2 of the book, and I unpack this longest hatred.
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SPEAKER_03: Because if Satan can eradicate the Jews in Israel from the face of the earth, he would render God a liar, unfaithful to keep covenant promises.
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SPEAKER_03: And so Israel is at the center of God's redemptive plan.
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SPEAKER_03: And so the book is really a gospel teaching centered around Israel and the Jewish people's place in God's redemptive plan and Satan's opposition to all things related to that redemptive plan of salvation found in Christ.
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SPEAKER_02: And there is so much in today's world and even in Christian circles, it seems to really be a key, key issue.
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SPEAKER_02: And I'm so glad that you're going to take it head on with your book and also with this conference presentation.
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SPEAKER_02: It's something that Christians need to really understand and gain a biblical perspective on.
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SPEAKER_02: And that's why I'm so glad that you are tackling this subject with your unique background and with your unique perspective.
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SPEAKER_02: And I'm looking so forward to that.
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SPEAKER_02: Friends, we're talking with Larry Stam, just highlighting a portion of what you're going to hear this weekend at the Prophecy in the News Live.
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SPEAKER_02: There is still time for you to join us in Bristol, Virginia.
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SPEAKER_02: Visit swrc.com and register today.
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SPEAKER_02: Our website again is swrc.com.
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SPEAKER_02: Click on events.
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SPEAKER_02: Click on this particular event.
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SPEAKER_02: You'll see all the details.
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SPEAKER_02: Who's speaking, when they're speaking, what they're speaking about.
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SPEAKER_02: All day Thursday is geared towards Christian apologetics, defending the Christian faith.
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SPEAKER_02: Friday.
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SPEAKER_02: That's when Larry's speaking.
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SPEAKER_02: I'll be speaking on Friday as well.
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SPEAKER_02: It's all about Bible prophecy.
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SPEAKER_02: And then Saturday is Micah Van Hust hosting his marginal mysteries called Mysteries of the Bible Verse.
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SPEAKER_02: And so we would love to have you with us.
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SPEAKER_02: And you say, Well, I can't be there in person.
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SPEAKER_02: Never fear.
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SPEAKER_02: We have a professional film crew who is coming to film these episodes or should I say these sessions.
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SPEAKER_02: As soon as they're edited and ready to go, we'll be telling you much more about that right here on Watchmen on the Wall, so stay tuned.
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SPEAKER_02: Larry, I'm looking forward to the fellowship, looking forward to the conversations, and looking forward to hearing your message this Friday afternoon at the Prophecy in the News Live.
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SPEAKER_03: Josh, it's going to be a privilege to bring this presentation and also to share highlights from this important and timely book, Satan's Long War on Israel.
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SPEAKER_02: Friends, last but not least, we are privileged to be joined by another one of the speakers at this week's upcoming Prophecy in the News live event.
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SPEAKER_02: It's our good friend Mac Dominic.
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SPEAKER_02: Mac, thank you so much for joining me.
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SPEAKER_05: Oh, thank you, Josh, for having me.
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SPEAKER_05: It's always a pleasure.
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SPEAKER_02: Well, you have the unique distinction at this particular conference to be the only speaker speaking on all three days.
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SPEAKER_02: You have such a unique background and you've researched a wide breadth of issues related to the Bible that we felt very confident in having you speaking on every single one of these days.
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SPEAKER_02: Even though they're diverse topics, we know that you can do a wonderful job at these topics, and we're so glad that you're going to join us for this upcoming conference later this week.
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SPEAKER_05: I appreciate the confidence.
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SPEAKER_05: I don't really know if it's a case of jack of all trades and master of none or just the experience from teaching Sunday school for 50 years.
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SPEAKER_02: Well, I I think it is the latter, definitely, because you have taught God's word for decades, as you just said, and uh when you do that, you come into contact with all kinds of different avenues of learning.
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SPEAKER_02: That's a thing of being a pastor and a youth pastor myself.
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SPEAKER_02: That's something that I have challenged and studied, whether it be science and the scripture, as we're going to get into for your first presentation and then Bible prophecy and all the different aspects of Scripture.
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SPEAKER_02: When you study from Genesis to Revelation as you have, then you understand the the great breadth that's encompassed in God's Word.
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SPEAKER_02: And so on Thursday, we're focused on apologetics, defending the Christian faith, and you have a unique title, Physics or Faith.
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SPEAKER_02: Choose Wisely.
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SPEAKER_02: Can you tell us a little bit about what this is discussing?
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SPEAKER_05: I'm actually very excited about this.
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SPEAKER_05: On and off over the years, I have taught a lot on creationism versus evolution.
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SPEAKER_05: In the last few years, I've taken courses, secular courses in physics, such as Einstein's relativity and classes like that.
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SPEAKER_05: I'm not a science expert by any means, but it's really interesting when you start taking secular courses along these lines of the mantras that are expanded by secular professors that just go completely against the scripture.
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SPEAKER_05: And it provides in a business secular, it provides a really good baseline for someone like myself that studied the Bible and studied the secular sciences, a good opportunity to make a comparison and reveal some things, hopefully, to folks that haven't studied in the secular realm, some things that that will really enlighten them on what's actually being taught.
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SPEAKER_05: And what is believed by folks who really view a universe without a creator, and that's really what it boils down to.
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SPEAKER_05: I am really excited about it.
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SPEAKER_05: I'm just hoping I can get through all of it, you know how it goes.
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SPEAKER_02: Yes, yeah, especially when you're talking about science and scripture.
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SPEAKER_02: I I've taught on that, like I said, with our teenagers at church quite a bit.
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SPEAKER_02: Actually, going back this summer, I spent about two months just talking about that.
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SPEAKER_02: It didn't get much further than Genesis chapter one.
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SPEAKER_02: That's very exciting.
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SPEAKER_02: We're looking forward to that.
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SPEAKER_02: Then on Friday, all day is Bible prophecy, and you've got a special message, the war on dispensational theology.
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SPEAKER_02: I just want to say thank you, Mac, for addressing this topic because we have seen this just really explode in the last handful of years.
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SPEAKER_05: It's really been a travesty from my perspective that the greater evangelical community, if we want to put it that way, is turning their back on dispensationalism.
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SPEAKER_05: And dispensationalism has basically become a dirty word.
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SPEAKER_05: It's become like nationalism and other things that were commendable in the past, and all of a sudden you're a pariah if you believe or teach that.
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SPEAKER_05: This presentation is based on my new book.
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SPEAKER_05: It's really the concluding part of the book as to everything you write about and where it's going to lead to is a war on dispensationalism, not outside the church, but from within the church.
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SPEAKER_05: And we see this happening because of you know, there are cultural aspects, there are international aspects, such as the war that was started by the mosque against Israel, and the reaction to that was absolutely unexpected and inexplicable in that Israel is seen to get all the blame for 1200 of their people being tortured and massacred.
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SPEAKER_05: It's absolutely incredible that all of this time in the Christian community comes back entirely in to dispensationalism versus covenant theology or reform theology, whichever label you want to give it, because we live in an age of the megachurch, and megachurch pastors are not big on teaching doctrine, they're not big on teaching theology, they're not big on teaching.
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SPEAKER_05: Prophecy because that doesn't fit into the seeker-sensitive mode.
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SPEAKER_05: People that are born again, saved individuals in the evangelical community that have no clue as to what we're talking about when we talk about a war on dispensationalism or dispensationalism versus covenant theology.
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SPEAKER_05: I believe it is a vital, critical thing that we get this message out to everyone in the Christian community that will listen.
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SPEAKER_02: Yes, there is a real need for solid biblical teaching on that particular subject, and I'm so glad that you are taking up that mantle and and uh helping to address this very essential issue.
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SPEAKER_02: Then on Saturday, it's the Mysteries of the Bible verse hosted by our branch here at SWRC Marginal Mysteries with Micah Van Huss and Paul.
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SPEAKER_02: Mac is such an essential part of that as well.
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SPEAKER_02: You'll be speaking Saturday afternoon on Jesus versus the old gods.
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SPEAKER_02: Could you spend a couple minutes just previewing that presentation for our listeners today?
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SPEAKER_05: Absolutely.
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SPEAKER_05: That is from my current book, the one that was introduced last year at this same conference: Shadows of Evil, The Rise, Rule, and Return of the Old Gods.
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SPEAKER_05: And part two, the book is separated into four parts.
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SPEAKER_05: And part two is of that title, Jesus versus the Old God.
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SPEAKER_05: And basically, we're going to look at the life of Jesus and the things that he did that seem to be very strange to us, why he went certain places, why he did certain things, and we will determine that it is because when Jesus presented himself as the Son of God, he was placing himself in a cultural confrontation with the Roman gods and the Greek gods and even some of the Canaanite gods.
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SPEAKER_05: We are products of the age of reason.
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SPEAKER_05: But Jesus did not live in that time.
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SPEAKER_05: Those people, during the time of the life of Christ, looked at the supernatural and what was happening when an empire conquered a people, the logical conclusion was that their god must have been a lot stronger and more the true gods than the God worshipped by the conquered people.
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SPEAKER_05: I hope I made that clear.
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SPEAKER_05: The gods of the conquerors were superior to the gods of the conquered.
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SPEAKER_05: Let's just put it that way.
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SPEAKER_05: And in the case of the land of Judea, of course, they worshiped Yahweh.
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SPEAKER_05: Jesus presented himself as the son of Yahweh to the Jewish people there.
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SPEAKER_05: He was thrown into a one-upmanship battle with the Roman gods and even with the Greek gods, because they had conquered Judea somewhere around 322 or thereabout BC.
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SPEAKER_05: So about 280 or so years earlier.
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SPEAKER_05: So you have all these foreign gods that are demanding in the culture that they are superior to Yahweh.
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SPEAKER_05: Jesus was thrown into that, and there are many things that Jesus did to show these people that he, being the son of Yahweh, makes Yahweh superior to the gods that actually conquered the nation.
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SPEAKER_05: And so we're going to look at that and we're going to try to get into the things that happened after the crucifixion, between the crucifixion and resurrection, and we should learn a lot about the gods that ruled the land, how Jesus stood up to them, how Jesus proved his superiority, and how Jesus will win in the end when it's all said and done.
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SPEAKER_05: I'm also, you can probably tell I'm very excited about speaking on that as well.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh, yes, absolutely.
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SPEAKER_02: That's a wonderful topic, of course, and we always emphasize the fact that Jesus does win, and that's the what the end of the scripture emphasizes, that he is the victor.
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SPEAKER_02: So, Mac, we're looking forward to having you with us and friends.
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SPEAKER_02: Mac, I look forward to seeing you later this week.
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SPEAKER_02: And I hope that we'll get to see several of our friends there as well.
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SPEAKER_05: I'm really excited about it.
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