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0:02Well, welcome to our excursion called "Learn the Bible in Twenty Four Hours."
0:07It's ... one of the most exciting adventures I've ever had, and we certainly hope it will
0:13be for you, too, and whenever we take on something like this of course, the first thing we should
0:17do, is take it to prayer. So let's bow our hearts for a word of prayer.
0:24Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, we come before You this day in awe and thanksgiving
0:31for the opportunity to discover the extremes that You have gone to on our behalf.
0:38We acknowledge our need to learn the real truth about You, the real truth about Your
0:43creation and the real truth about ourselves.
0:48We seek and solicit Your Holy Spirit to open Your word to us and to open us to your word
0:54and to guide us as we explore this adventure between the miracle of our origin and the
1:00mystery of our destiny.
1:03May Your will be accomplished in each of us as we listen to these words and seek Your
1:08eternal truth.
1:09As we commit ourselves into Your hands, in the name of Yeshua, our Lord and Savior, Jesus
1:16Christ.
1:17Amen.
1:18You know they say, no person's education is complete if they do not know their Bible, and
1:24this essential completeness has been outlawed in our government schools.
1:28Many of our children are actually in enforced paganism, so it's a real challenge before us,
1:34and one of the things we need to do is repair our own illiteracy about the Bible, and to
1:40assist those around us to really understand how far God has gone on our behalf.
1:46You know, George Washington said, "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."
1:55The veneration of the word of God characterized the earlier leadership which established our
2:00precious heritage.
2:02Abe Lincoln also said, "I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.
2:08All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book."
2:13You know, it's sobering to really acknowledge the preciousness of our heritage that has
2:19come to us at such a high price and yet, how tragically we have fallen.
2:25Patrick Henry said, "The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed,"
2:32and for the past two thousand years, it is a treasure that millions willingly died for,
2:40and yet we all tend to take this for granted.
2:44Even Napoleon said, "The Bible is no mere book, but it is a Living Creature, with a power
2:50that conquers all that oppose it."
2:53See, even secular leaders have acknowledged it's uniqueness.
2:56In fact, Napoleon was technically correct if you look at Hebrews 4:12.
3:01It is alive and powerful.
3:02You know, there's another quote that is so often misquoted, many of us have heard the phrase,
3:08"Jack of all trades, master of none."
3:11That's attributed to Ben Franklin but it's actually a misquote.
3:14That's not what he said.
3:16He actually said, "Jack of all trades, master of One."
3:20His whole concept of education was that a cultured person is one who knows something
3:26about everything, and everything about something, and for a Christian, of course, his specialization
3:35has to be the word of God, the Bible itself. And your presence here in this project is
3:42a key step in correcting our Biblically illiterate times.
3:47Daniel Webster said, "If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on
3:53prospering and to prosper, but if we and our posterity neglect it's instructions and authority,
3:59no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound
4:05obscurity."
4:07We are on a treacherous precipice, more treacherous than we can possibly imagine.
4:14You know, we do have authority crises, take your pick - whether it's parental authority,
4:19marital authority, political authority, academic authority or ecclesiastical authority.
4:23Do your own analysis and assessment.
4:27You know, if we look at the leading cultural indicators of the past thirty years, population has
4:32increased forty one percent, gross domestic product has increased by three hundred percent,
4:36social spending has increased by five hundred percent, and yet, there's been a five hundred
4:43and sixty percent increase in violent crime, four hundred percent increase in illegitimate
4:48births, four hundred percent increase in the divorce rate, a three hundred percent increase
4:52in single parent homes, a two hundred percent increase in teenage suicides and a seventy
4:57five percent drop in SAT scores.
5:01Why?
5:02What happened?
5:03Since 1963, the divorced rates, the break up of family units, the acceptance of homosexuality,
5:09the teenage pregnancies, the murder of inconvenient babies and crime rates have all escalated
5:15off the charts.
5:17What happened in 1963?
5:19Up until then, these things were improving, pretty much, but from that point on, they've
5:23all taken a ... sharp move to catastrophe.
5:28In 1963 we outlawed the Bible from our schools.
5:33Well, what's ahead?
5:35What's in front of us in this project, is what I call the ultimate literary adventure, and
5:42we hope that this brief excursion will result in a practical grasp of the entire Bible,
5:48a perspective from which you will be able to navigate your personal adventure through
5:54the rest of your life time and more.
5:56We're going to reach far beyond the earth's prehistory, behind the myths of legend and
6:01folklore, to discover the greatest drama of all time and of all literature.
6:08We're going to encounter the greatest evils, betrayals, revenge, deceptions and the ultimate
6:14Prince of Darkness.
6:16We'll also encounter the greatest good, the highest achievements, the noblest courage,
6:24the most demanding sacrifices.
6:25In fact, the ultimate sacrifice, the Kinsmen Redeemer of all mankind.
6:29We're going to find ourselves in the greatest romance, a courtship between a sovereign God
6:36and his rebellious offspring.
6:39We will also explore the ultimate ironies of all literature, with hidden surprises on
6:43every page.
6:45We will experience the rise of great empires, as well as their fall through dreams, visions
6:50and secret encrypted messages. Great leaders will discover letters written to them personally
6:55from extraterrestrial sources outlining their careers and achievements in advance, and giving
7:01them instructions as to how to proceed.
7:04We will thrill to heroes seizing victories against impossible odds, betrayals of thrones
7:09and retributions and vendettas and conspiracies tumbling proud empires.
7:15We will probe the greatest mysteries ever to confront mankind, the nature of time, the
7:20paradox of predestination and free will, the purity of God and the frustrations of man
7:26in the search for good amidst the reign of evil and the nature of evil.
7:30Where did it come from and why?
7:32We will discover this ancient record anticipates the very latest scientific discoveries of
7:38particle physics, cosmology, of hyperspaces and time travel.
7:43The discovery that we are dwelling within a virtual reality that is transcended by a
7:48larger one.
7:50And we will stagger in awe of the biography of an actual superman, His origin,
7:55His mission and His manifest destiny.
7:57His understated powers, His betrayal which was even under His own control by which He
8:03was to accomplish His mission impossible.
8:06The creator Himself entering His creation to repair the damage introduced by a dark
8:12intruder who had previously ruled the planet Earth.
8:15We'll discover that we are, in fact, in a cosmic war. We are in possession of an integrated series of messages
8:24from an extraterrestrial source that describe the origin, the career and the destiny of super
8:31beings which are behind the scenes of our physical universe.
8:34A universe which scientists now discover, is actually a digital simulation contained within
8:38a much larger reality.
8:41The field of particle physics has totally altered our conceptions of reality.
8:45Scientists now tell us that our universe consists of at least ten dimensions.
8:49There are some investigators who believe that much of what we call paranormal phenomena
8:53are simply trans-dimensional episodes intruding from a larger reality.
8:58And we find that each of us are both the pawns and the prize in this cosmic warfare.
9:05Yet, this isn't fictional entertainment, it will be the determinant of our own personal
9:11destinies.
9:13This is our ultimate adventure.
9:16It's the ultimate love story, written in blood on a wooden cross that was erected in Judea
9:21some two thousand years ago.
9:23We're going to undertake the ultimate adventure involving each of us, in this interval, between
9:29the miracle of our origin and the mystery of our destiny.
9:33If this series is successful, it should ignite a passion, perhaps even an obsession that
9:39will inflame a lifetime of adventure, excitement, insight and satisfaction not available through
9:45any other pursuit.
9:47This excursion is intended to be an enticement and a broad background against which, to undertake
9:52detailed studies, with a verse by verse commentary of each book, in a lifetime hobby that is the
9:57gateway to eternity.
9:59We've presumed to take on this ambitious project because of our unique advantage.
10:06That's based on two discoveries.
10:09We have sixty six books that we call the Bible, and even though they're penned by over forty
10:15different people who didn't even know each other, over a period of virtually two thousand
10:19years. We discover are an intricate,
10:24skillfully designed, integrated message system, and I don't simply mean that the theme of
10:30the Old Testament is fulfilled in the New.
10:31No, much more than that.
10:33We discover every number, every place name, every detail in the text is there by deliberate
10:38design, and once you discover that for yourself, that leads you to the second discovery, and
10:43that is, that this design, you can prove had to have it's origin from outside our space
10:50time, that is outside our time domain.
10:52You say, "you can't prove the Bible?"
10:54Yes, you can when you discover it's the ... the integrity of it's design, and then recognize
10:59that it had to have it's origin from outside the dimensionality of time altogether.
11:05One integrated design.
11:06The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed, and the Old Testament is in the
11:10New Testament revealed.
11:11Now, a few caveats before we go on.
11:16We do have to recognize that the word of God is inexhaustible.
11:19You can't learn everything about it in twenty four hours.
11:22Twenty four years would be insufficient, but we do hope you can gain a navigational, strategic
11:28view of it all, and the truth is in the details.
11:31The difficulty of a survey like this is, we need to have a grasp of the details to understand
11:36the integrity of that design.
11:38Every detail in the Scripture, every place name is connected with every other.
11:43Our goal is a strategic grasp of the entire design.
11:48We hope that you will gain a conceptual grounding in the major truths, but also have a navigational
11:53awareness so you can fit it all together.
11:58We have some advantages that were not available in the past.
12:02Many of the skeptical theories that pervade our culture have been disproven.
12:07The historicity of the patriarchal accounts is now well established.
12:11People have denied there was writing in Moses day, that's nonsense.
12:14We have substantial evidence of it being established much earlier.
12:18The Gospels and the Epistles have been dated to the Second Century, nonsense.
12:21The recent discoveries have made them contemporaneous with the Apostles.
12:26Much to be ... learned by the refutations that come from archaeological discoveries,
12:31recent documentary discoveries, and competent analysis of that which we have, so the facts
12:36and the science and the evidence is on our side.
12:40Some preliminaries.
12:41First, one of the things we always have to do in undertaking a ... study like this
12:46is to blindfold our prejudices.
12:48We somehow need to shed the baggage of our preconceptions and our misconceptions that
12:53we can be bringing to the table here.
12:55The only sure barrier to truth is the presumption you already have it, so you want to set aside
13:00the myths and legends that have misled us, and ... go at this with a fresh look.
13:05Twentieth century science has vindicated the Biblical perspectives of reality.
13:11The more you know about the frontiers of science, the more comfortable the creation account
13:17in Genesis reads, and we'll show you some of that.
13:20See, we know today that we live in a finite universe.
13:24That's the great discovery of twentieth century science, is that we ... the universe is finite.
13:29We also are indebted to Doctor Einstein and other discoveries in discovering that time
13:35is a physical property.
13:36The discovery of the nature of time is an essential foundation to really understand
13:41much of the Biblical truth.
13:44And the realization of hyperspaces. That there are spaces of more than three dimensions we
13:47directly experience.
13:49That's been proven in the laboratory, and is fundamental to really understanding much of
13:52what the Bible has to say.
13:54We have finite boundaries.
13:55We know that the universe had a beginning.
13:58That's what leads scientists to speculate in what the so called Big Bang models and
14:02so forth.
14:03Scientists also know that it's all winding down.
14:05Ultimately, our thermodynamic universe will eventually wind down and they have, they speak
14:10of what they call a heat death. So they see the universe as having started at the singularity
14:14they call the Big Bang, and it goes to an ultimate wind down.
14:18We are in a finite universe within a finite span of time.
14:22I want to talk a little bit before we get into the actual study, some background things
14:27about the nature of reality, and I want to give you a quick glimpse of what we call in
14:31mathematics, a hyperspace.
14:33Let's go back and recall what we may have learned in high school or college in trigonometry.
14:38You may recall that when we had a triangle that had three angles, if we added up the
14:43angles of a triangle, it added up to what?
14:45A hundred and eighty degrees.
14:46No matter what triangle we took, it was always the angles would add up to
14:51a hundred and eighty degrees.
14:52Well suppose we were confronted with a triangle in which the angles add up to more than 180 degrees.
14:59What would you conclude? That we had an error?
15:01No, not necessarily.
15:03That simply means we have encountered the curvature of the earth.
15:06If we go out into a large field, and layout a very large triangle
15:10and we bring in the figures, and we add up the angles that we measured,
15:14and we discover that they add up to more than 180 degrees,
15:16your first reaction might be that, gee, we've made a mistake.
15:19No.
15:20No, we simply have encountered the curvature of the earth.
15:24This little rule that we all learned, that angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees
15:29is only true for a universe of two dimensions, and when you find a rule
15:34like that being violated, it's a hint that we may have encountered an additional dimension.
15:39And that's exactly ... for an example, if you take a course in navigation, part of that course
15:45will include some elements of spherical trigonometry, in which you can have ninety degrees in each of the angles.
15:53In fact, you can also, if you encounter a triangle that has less than 180 degrees,
15:57you've encountered a hyperbolic paraboloid.
15:59Now, most of us aren't going to be concerned with that, but the point is, these little rules
16:03are true of a universe of only two dimensions.
16:06That's why they call it plane trigonometry or plane geometry.
16:09Well, it was those kinds of insights that gave Doctor Einstein his insight when he was,
16:14... grappling with the nature of space.
16:16His special theory of 1905 dealt with the relativity of mass, velocity, and time, relative
16:24to the velocity of the observer.
16:25That's the special theory of relativity, but that led, ten years later, to his general theory.
16:29The general theory of relativity by Doctor Einstein
16:32is that there's no distinction between time and space.
16:35That we don't live in three dimensions, we live in at least four, one of those is time.
16:40We call it the theory of relativity, but it's been confirmed over fourteen different ways
16:45to nineteen decimal places, so for practical purposes, it's ... well established.
16:50But we need to understand the nature of time because it will undergird so much of what
16:54we're going to encounter as we get into our Bible studies.
16:58Let me give you another example.
16:59There are atomic clocks that are accurate to better than one second in a million years.
17:05There's one of these located at the National Institute of Standards and Technology at Boulder,
17:08Colorado.
17:09There's an identical clock, virtually identical clock, at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich,
17:13England.
17:15Both of these are very elaborate, scientific devices that are incredibly accurate.
17:18They are accurate to better than one second per million years.
17:22I'm always reminded, whenever I encounter this, when I was on the board of a company that
17:26was acquiring a company that made cesium clocks in Boston.
17:30When we were in this acquisition, the proud President was presenting to our board the,
17:35... fact that they made these clocks that are this accurate, and I asked ... "I only
17:39have two questions as an acquiring director.
17:40How do you know? (laughter) and who cares?"
17:43Well, the way you know is from the resonance of the cesium atom and I won't get
17:46into that all here, but as to "Who cares?"
17:48The accuracy of your measurement of time determines the accuracy of your navigation, and these
17:55clocks, this kind of clock, makes the global positioning satellite system possible.
18:01But the point is, these two super clocks in, ... Boulder, Colorado and at Greenwich, England,
18:08are differing every year by five micro seconds.
18:12The one at Boulder is five micro seconds a year faster than the identical clock at Greenwich.
18:17The question is, which one is correct?
18:20The answer is - they both are.
18:22The clock's are not inaccurate.
18:24Time is different.
18:25You see, Boulder, Colorado is at fifty four hundred feet altitude above sea level.
18:29In Greenwich, England, it's eighty foot above sea level and time is actually different at
18:35those two ... places because of a difference in gravity among other things.
18:40These atomic clocks ... If I had an atomic clock here on the platform, and raised it one meter,
18:44it would speed up by one part in ten to the sixteenth.
18:47In other words, ten with sixteen zeroes after it.
18:49Not much, not enough to change your schedule but it's predictable and it is measurable
18:53and they actually did this.
18:54They sent aircraft around the world eastward with such a clock and one at rest at the Observatory
19:00and they also sent one around the world westward and they gained and lost exactly what Einstein's
19:04theory would have predicted due to the relative motions and so forth.
19:08But another example that perhaps will get this across, if you read a physics text book
19:12in this area, they almost always talk about two hypothetical astronauts, and ... we're
19:17going to leave one right here and we're going to send the other one to the nearest star.
19:21If you go out to the night sky, there is a star called Alpha Centauri.
19:25It's four and a half light years away.
19:27A light year's a measurement of distance. And we're going to send one of these imaginary
19:31astronauts to Alpha Centauri and back.
19:33Well, Alpha Centauri is four and a half light years away, so if we send him there at half
19:38the speed of light, it'll take nine years to get there and nine years to come back,
19:41it's an eighteen year deal.
19:44That's on earth time.
19:46If he takes a clock with him, he'll discover something strange.
19:50On his clock, his clock because of the ... travel and so forth will speed at a different,
19:55... rate and since he's traveling at ... fifty percent of the speed of light, you can
20:00apply the Lorenz transformations to make that correction, and you'll discover that when he
20:03gets back, he will end up being two years, five months younger than his twin brother.
20:09Here are two astronauts, born at the same instant.
20:13One goes on this trip, and when he gets back, he'll be more than two years younger than
20:17his twin brother, and if that doesn't bother you, you weren't listening carefully.
20:21This is an example of what we call the dilation of time.
20:24Time is a physical property.
20:26It varies just as length, mass and other things vary, due to Einstein's theory of relativity
20:32and so let's dramatize this further.
20:34Suppose we could send him, assume we could send him at almost the speed of light, say
20:3999.99 percent speed of light.
20:40Four and a half light year trip, round trip would be nine years on our clock.
20:46On his clock, it would be thirty three days, so that gives you a feeling for ... It should
20:50help you understand that time is not an absolute, it's a variable.
20:55It's not uniform.
20:57Time is a physical property.
20:59It varies with mass and acceleration and gravity among other things, and this is an insight
21:05that is profoundly useful as we approach some of the subjects we're going to talk about
21:10in this study.
21:11You and I, we now know, exist in more than three.
21:15In fact, the experts tell us we live in ten dimensions.
21:19See, all of us think of time as being linear.
21:22When we were in school, the teacher went to the blackboard and wrote a line starting at
21:25the left and going over to the right.
21:28The left end of the line was the birth of the famous person, the founding of an empire,
21:33what have you, and the right end of that line would be the death of that person, or the
21:36fall of that empire.
21:37All of us have made timelines in school.
21:40Well, because of that background, it's natural for us, when we encounter the concept of eternity,
21:45we tend to jump to the conclusion that it's sort of like a line that starts at infinity
21:49on the left and goes to infinity on the right.
21:51In other words, we think of eternity as having lots of time.
21:55Well, that's good poetry, makes a nice verse in Amazing Grace, the fourth verse and what
22:00have you, but it's ... bad physics.
22:03Because ... Let me ask you a question, "Is God subject to the restrictions of mass or acceleration
22:11or gravity?"
22:12Hardly.
22:13He is not simply somebody with "lots of time" as we tend to imagine eternity, but He's rather
22:21outside dimensionality of time altogether and that is His uniqueness and He uses that
22:28to authenticate His messages to you.
22:31That's what Isaiah means when he says, "Thus sayeth the High and Lofty One that inhabiteth
22:35eternity."
22:36Now, since God has the technology to create us, He certainly has the technology to get
22:43a message to us.
22:45The challenge is, how does He authenticate His message?
22:49How does He let us know that the message is really from Him and not some kind of contrivance
22:53or a fraud of some kind?
22:55Well, one of the ways He authenticates it, and there's several ways, one of the ways,
23:01He declares the end from the beginning and from ancient times, the things that are not
23:05yet done.
23:06In other words, He writes history before it happens.
23:10We call that prophecy.
23:12Many people ask me, "Chuck, what do you, what's your profession?"
23:13I say, "I'm a history teacher."
23:15I teach history in advance and of course, I'm being a ... only a little bit facetious
23:20there.
23:22The geometry of eternity - If I take this line that we have on the screen here, and if I bring
23:27it out to you in three dimensions, imagine this curved line as coming out at you from
23:31the screen.
23:32It's a line, and we are at a point in this line that we'll call the present.
23:37Behind us is the past, ahead of us is the future.
23:41For us, life is a sequence of events.
23:44We can move forward and we can look back. We can't look forward or move back,
23:50but that's a whole 'nother discussion for another time.
23:53For someone who is outside the dimension of that linear length of time, say in eternity.
24:00That person that's outside that line can see the past, the present and the future simultaneously.
24:07Let me give you an analogy.
24:09Suppose you're watching a parade, the Rose Parade at the first of the year or whatever
24:13your hometown might have.
24:15For you as you're sitting on the curb, around the corner comes the marching units, the bands,
24:19the floats, the whatever's or.
24:21For you, the parade is a sequence.
24:23They come around the corner, they go by you, they go around the next corner.
24:26So that's like life is, it's a sequence, but for someone who is not in the plane of that
24:32parade's existence, say in a helicopter above the parade, they can see the staging area
24:37where all the floats are get, getting prepared ready to start.
24:40They can see the whole parade route, and they can also see the other end where they disband.
24:44They can see the beginning and the end simultaneously.
24:48A clumsy analogy but it gets the idea across I think.
24:51My favorite quote from Doctor Einstein says, "People like us who believe in physics know
24:57that the distinction between the past, the present and the future is only a stubbornly
25:02persistent illusion," and indeed it is.
25:06So the point I want to get across with all this, is it's important for you to really understand
25:09that the nature of time, it's a physical dimension, and it varies with mass, acceleration
25:14and gravity.
25:15As a footnote, I'd like to add here a little bit about some architecture.
25:20I'm obviously using a computer here that consists of micro circuits and a memory and all kinds
25:24of hard wire, wires and resistors and all kinds ... of electronic parts.
25:29Also, inside the computer is software.
25:31There's an operating system, there's ... all kinds of languages and messages going around
25:37and so forth.
25:38If you knew everything there is to know about every piece of hardware in this computer,
25:44could you predict it's behavior? And the answer is of course not.
25:47It's ... simply an environment within which the software operates.
25:52It's behavior, how it responds to things is a function of the software that's in it.
25:58Now let's talk a little bit about software.
25:59You see, the physical equipment is equivalent to ... our physical bodies, our flesh, bones,
26:06our circulatory systems and all of that, but that's all what I'll call hardware.
26:11Our real self, call it soul, spirit, mind, thoughts, whatever, we use those words pretty
26:19loosely, as I look out at the audience here, my frustration is I can't really see you.
26:24It's not because the lights are so bright, I can't see you because I can only see
26:28the temporary residences that you're in.
26:31The real you, as I say, call it soul, spirit, what have you, that's vocabulary, is software,
26:36not hardware.
26:37Now here's the point, let's talk a little bit about software.
26:41If I take a little diskette, you all have seen one of these little diskettes in our
26:45current computer age, if I take a blank cassette and put it on a postal scale, it will weigh
26:51about seven tenths of an ounce.
26:53But if I load that blank diskette, I spend over, I've spent hundreds of dollars and load
26:59it with a million bytes of software and then put it on that postal scale, what will it
27:05weigh?
27:06Seven tenths of an ounce.
27:07In other words, software has no mass.
27:09A light switch weighs the same whether it's on or off.
27:12It carries one bit of information but a computer registers the same thing ...
27:16the information in it doesn't have weight.
27:18It has no mass.
27:19In fact, I could even send it through the airwaves.
27:22The big thing today is wireless because these messages do not require embodiment.
27:29They can exist in their own right, so software has no mass.
27:34Now what does that mean?
27:35If time is a physical property, and software has no mass, it has no time dimension.
27:42What that really means is the real you, the real you is eternal whether you are saved
27:48or not.
27:49The issue is, where are you going to spend it?
27:51I want to talk also, a little bit more about hyperspaces.
27:54That's just a fancy word mathematicians use for spaces of more than three dimensions.
28:01Most of us have been brought up in school with what we call Euclidian geometry but one
28:05of the most important lectures in mathematics was given on June 10th of 1854 when George
28:09Riemann invented a thing called metric tensors.
28:13It took sixty years for ... until Einstein could use that mathematics to develop his four dimensional
28:19space time ... that underlies the theory of relativity.
28:24Einstein went to his death frustrated because he couldn't resolve some other issues which
28:29if he'd gone to one, another level up, they would have yielded and Kaluza and Klein
28:34did that in 1953 by using more than four dimensions and reconciled light and super gravity in
28:39the field of physics, and in 1963, Yang and Mills, another duo, resolved electromagnetic
28:46and both the nuclear, both the weak and strong nuclear forces, by recognizing the additional
28:51dimensions, and since about 1984 onwards, people in this, that the deal in these things, are
28:58now exploring the ... apparent ... reality of super strings.
29:04That we now live ... we begin to understand we live in ten dimensions.
29:08I always find that rather interesting because there's an ancient Hebrew sage by the name
29:13of Nachmanides who wrote in the 12th century.
29:15Nachmanides by simply studying the Hebrew text of Genesis chapter one concluded that
29:22the universe has ten dimensions.
29:24In his vocabulary, only four were knowable, the other six were, in his terms, not knowable.
29:30I find that rather interesting, because we've spent millions of dollars on atomic accelerators
29:36that have caused particle physicists to conclude that we live in ten dimensions.
29:39Four are directly measurable, the three spatial dimensions we know in time.
29:43Six are curled and less than ten to the minus thirty three centimeters and thus are inferrable
29:46by only indirect means and I think that's fascinating that the leading frontier of quantum
29:53physics is now caught up to where Nachmanides was in the 12th century.
30:00There are only two kinds of people that seem to be able to deal comfortably with hyperspaces,
30:06spaces of more than three dimensions - and that's mathematicians with special training
30:10and small children.
30:12If I was going to try to communicate to you aspects of four dimensional or five dimensional
30:16space, we'd both be having a tough time because it's outside our direct experience, but we
30:22can get some feeling for hyperspaces by going down a dimension.
30:28Let's, as three dimensional people, let's examine a two dimensional universe with two
30:33dimensional people living in it.
30:35I want to introduce you to two friends of mine, Mr and Mrs Flat.
30:38I want you to be kind and compassionate here, because they have a very serious handicap.
30:44They only live in 2 dimensions. ... Mr. and Mrs. Flat live in a two dimensional world.
30:50We are three dimensional beings.
30:51I want you to notice some of the advantages that we have over Mr. and Mrs. Flat.
30:56First of all, we can, no matter where Mr. And Mrs. Flat are within their two dimensional
31:01universe, we can be more intimate with both of them simultaneously than they can be with
31:07each other.
31:08I could put my finger in theory one millionth of an inch away from Mr. Flat and one millionth
31:13of an inch from Mrs. Flat, no matter where they are, I can have intimacy with both independent
31:16of their spatial relationships, because I enjoy that extra dimension.
31:20Furthermore, if I should thrust my finger through their two dimensional universe, the
31:26only thing that they would be sensitive to, they would see what?
31:29Not my finger.
31:30They would see a ring.
31:31They would see a circle.
31:32They would see a two dimensional representation of this three dimensional person that's intruded
31:36into the universe.
31:38If a sphere tumbles through the universe, they would see it as a point that would expand
31:42to a circle and then shrink to a point as it disappears.
31:46So we begin to realize that the communication of a three dimensional object to the two dimensional
31:52people has some challenges.
31:55How would we go about that?
31:56How would you communicate a three dimensional object to these two dimensional people?
32:01By a two dimensional projection is one suggestion so we could try to project say a three dimensional
32:06cube to get it into two dimensions to help them understand it.
32:09That would probably be less than satisfactory.
32:12How would we see a three dimensional representation of a four dimensional hyper cube?
32:17There are such things, and you can go on the internet and see them and play with them, but
32:21the more you play with them, the more you realize there's no way you'll understand them from
32:25a three dimensional vantage point without special tools.
32:27It's not very useful.
32:30Another way you might unravel a three dimensional object in a two dimensions to communicate
32:35to Mr. and Mrs. Flat, would be to unravel it.
32:37We take our three dimensional cube and flatten it and that would be one way, but again, it
32:41wouldn't be too useful.
32:45That's actually been done with a four dimensional cube.
32:48A four dimensional cube that's unraveled into three dimensions is called a tessaract, or
32:54hinton cube.
32:55There's only one place I've ever encountered it as being useful, and it came in, and I found
32:58it in a very (laughter) surprising place.
33:01Salvador Dali uses a hypercube in his ... famous painting Corpus Christi.
33:10I was actually astounded to discover that Salvador Dali was that sophisticated mathematically
33:14to really understand the implications of a four dimensional cube in a three dimensional
33:18space, but ... we'll move on here.
33:20Ephesians.
33:21I have to call your attention to Paul's writing in Ephesians.
33:25Ephesians, chapter three, verse seventeen through nineteen.
33:28Paul says that, "Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith that ye, being rooted and
33:32grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length
33:38and depth and height and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge that ye might
33:42be filled with all the fullness of God."
33:44A familiar passage, but I want you to notice something.
33:47I want you to notice something.
33:48How many dimensions is Paul talking about?
33:50"With all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height?"
33:55In the Greek one of those terms is the term for time by the way.
33:58We got four dimensions here.
34:00Four dimensions in the text, I think that's fascinating.
34:03I'm not necessarily insisting that was Paul's intention, but I'm fascinated at the Holy Spirit
34:07in guiding him kept him physically on his toes.
34:12We find examples of that all through the scripture in some ways that will surprise you.
34:17Jesus goes on to give us some further instruction about understanding the text
34:22When I first, I should mention something, when I first visited Israel, I remember a
34:28rabbi pointing out to me.
34:29He says, "We really won't understand the text until the Messiah comes, but when the Messiah
34:33comes, he will interpret the passages.
34:36In fact, he'll interpret the very words, the very letters.
34:39In fact, he'll even interpret the spaces between the letters."
34:42When I first heard that, I dismissed that as a colorful exaggeration until I read once
34:48again Matthew five, verse 17, 18 where Jesus himself says, "Think not that
34:52I come to destroy the Torah or the law or the prophets.
34:55I come not to destroy but to fulfill for verily I say unto you, 'till heaven and earth pass,
35:01one jot, one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law 'till all be fulfilled.
35:05A jot or a tittle.
35:07See, a jot is one of the twenty two Hebrew letters that you and I would mistake for an
35:13apostrophe.
35:14It looks like a little blemish on the paper, just a little mark.
35:17A tittle is the little decorative hook on some of the letters.
35:22This is a Hebraic way of saying, as we might say, not the crossing of the T or the dotting
35:27of an I.
35:28Not one jot or one tittle shall pass from the law.
35:31I take this as a call to taking the text literally, and now that leads to another area that
35:37I want to just touch on because it will give us ... we're not gonna try to get into too much
35:41detail here, but I want you to have a respect for some of these topics that are in themselves
35:46perhaps pretty controversial.
35:47Are there hidden messages in the Bible?
35:50Well, the Bible says there are.
35:52In Proverbs 25:2 it says, "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing and it's the duty
35:57or honor of kings to search out a matter."
36:01Rabbit Cordevaro in the sixteenth century records that the secrets of the Torah, that's
36:07the Hebrew term for the five books of Moses, are revealed in the skipping of letters.
36:13There are lots of hidden messages in the scriptures but we're gonna just focus on one, called the
36:18Equidistant letter sequence.
36:20What on earth is an equidistant letter sequence?
36:22Well, let me give you a contrived example here to get the idea across.
36:27Ripps is one of the scientists in this area by the way but anyway, Ripps explained that
36:30each code is a case of adding every fourth letter to form a word.
36:34Now in this particular contrived example, if you take every fourth letter, an R, an
36:39E, an A, a D, a T, H, E, C, O, D, E. It spells a message itself.
36:47It says, "Read the code."
36:48Now in this case, it's just a simple contrivance, but to get across the idea that you can have
36:53a message embedded in another message that is hidden.
36:58It has to be found by knowing what spacing to use and so forth.
37:02Now with a computer, that's easily, you can try all spacing to see if there's a message
37:05there, to see if ... something's going and that's exactly what they've done.
37:08I want to share with you a discovery, I should say a re-discovery by Rabbi Wisemandell who
37:14was between World War I and World War II.
37:17He made some discoveries in his study of the Hebrew text, which is the rediscovery of things
37:21that the ancient rabbis knew long before.
37:24He noticed some footnotes in some ancient documents he looked at, chased them
37:27down and discovered something interesting.
37:29This is the Book of Genesis, the opening passages of the Bible.
37:35Now realize that the Hebrew goes from right to left.
37:40We would look at it as going backwards.
37:42You should understand that all languages flow towards Jerusalem.
37:48Countries that are west of Jerusalem go from left to right.
37:52Greek, English, German, Russian, whatever.
37:58Countries that are east of Jerusalem go from right to left.
38:01Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit and others, but the main point is, ... I don't know what you do
38:06with that piece of information I just threw out 'cause I think it's colorful.
38:10But the word for Torah, the Torah, the law in Hebrew, it's four letters.
38:16One letter, it's equiv- it's, it's equivalent to our T-O-R-H.
38:20If you go to the first tau, which is like their T and then count forty nine letters,
38:26you come to a vav which operates sort of like an O, and then you count forty nine letters
38:31and you, again, you get a resh, and then you count forty nine letters again and you get
38:36a heh.
38:37That's tau, vav, resh and heh which is equivalent to our spelling it T-O-R-H, that English transliteration
38:46of that would be torah.
38:48And again, the Hebrew goes from right to left, English goes from left to right.
38:51Now you say, "Gee, that's curious.
38:53Uh, forty nine letter intervals.
38:54That's a, it's curious," and then you don't make much of that.
38:57It's just a ... many people argue, "Well, that's just an accident of statistics.
39:00It could have happened any number of ways."
39:04Okay.
39:05You go to Exodus, and you discover the same thing happens.
39:08You go to the first tau, and then you count forty nine letters.
39:11You get a vav, count forty nine letters, you get a resh and then you get forty nine letters
39:16and you get a heh, and again, it spells torah and you say, "Well, that's really a little
39:22more than coincidence 'cause it obviously seems to be designed, it happens again in
39:26Exodus."
39:27The chances of those happening by chance start to become astronomically ridiculous.
39:32You go to Leviticus and you're sort of relieved when it doesn't happen at all, but you go to
39:36Numbers, something even stranger happens.
39:38You go, you find a heh, a resh, a vav and a tau.
39:42You find torah spelled backwards.
39:44(laughter) I don't know how they discovered this.
39:46This sounds like they had time on their hands, but the point is, again we have forty nine
39:49letter intervals spelling out torah, but backwards this time. And you go to the next book, Deuteronomy.
39:54You have essentially the same thing again occur with forty nine letter intervals.
39:59Well, so you stand back from all of this and say, "That's kind of strange.
40:04Forward and forward and then Leviticus ... Let's take a look at Leviticus a little more closely."
40:09And we notice, not forty-nine which is seven squared, but seven letters we find a, at intervals
40:14of seven, we have a jot, a heh, a vav and a heh and the jot, heh, vav, heh is the unpronounceable
40:22name of God in the Jewish community.
40:25And now you stand back from this whole design.
40:27You've got Genesis and Exodus going forward and Numbers and Deuteronomy going backwards
40:32and you discover that the torah always points to Yahweh or Jehovah or jot heh vav heh.
40:41is the way some rabbis would deal with that.
40:44Interesting.
40:45Now, the question is, did this all happen by accident?
40:50Hardly.
40:51Is this evidence of design?
40:53Yes. What does it prove? I'm not sure,
40:55but there's so many of these things that are so profound, that increasingly,
41:01they've come to be regarded as authentication.
41:04You try to draft some text with these kinds of properties, you'll discover it's getting,
41:09... it's nearly impossible.
41:11It's much more difficult than it looks to contrive these things.
41:15Let me shift to another ... since we're talking about information sciences in effect here.
41:18I want to ... acquaint you with another parallel that's rather provocative.
41:22There is a thing called holography. It's a form of lensless photography.
41:27If we take a ... three dimensional image and, arrange a photographic plate in such a way
41:33that a laser illuminates that plate, and that same laser illuminates the three dimensional
41:38object, so what the plate ... records - there's no lenses here - and in the sense
41:43that it's not like a camera here.
41:44That plate will record the interference between the direct light and the reflected
41:50light, and what gets on the plate is something, that when you develop the film, looks
41:56like a darkroom mistake.
41:57It's cloudy, indistinct. It looks like something you'd throw in the waste basket.
42:02Looks like a mistake.
42:04Yet, if you illuminate that developed plate, by the laser that created it in the first place,
42:10you get a three dimensional window into the space that was in front of it.
42:15We call the image on there a Fourier transform.
42:18It happens to be a mathematically Fourier transform of the image.
42:21It has some very peculiar properties I think you'd be, I think you might be interested in.
42:24If we take that plate, it's as if, if we have a, some objects out there, no matter how you
42:30look through that window, it's as if you're looking into that three dimensional space.
42:35Let me give you an example.
42:36I have a tie on.
42:37Let's assume it was a tie with a distinct design of some kind.
42:40If I held my Bible up and you took a photograph of me, you couldn't tell what kind of a tie
42:44I'm wearing.
42:45If you took a holograph of it, you could move your eye and look around my Bible and see
42:48my tie.
42:49In other words, you've captured in a hologram a three dimensional space, not just a two
42:53dimensional representation of a three dimensional space.
42:55That's what makes the hologram rather provocative for many reasons, but it's a Fourier transform.First
43:00of all, it requires proper illumination.
43:03It's useless in natural light.
43:05It has no form or comeliness that you would, you would desire it.
43:08The information that it contains is spread over the entire surface.
43:12It's not like a photograph where I could cut a part of that photography out.
43:16If I had a photograph of three people, I could cut one of the people out and give you two
43:20of them.
43:21If it was a hologram, you could look around the hole and see all three.
43:24See, the information, all the information is spread over the entire surface.
43:29There's no loss from dropouts.
43:30In other words, ... if you cut it, or if I cut two holograms and give you both,
43:34you both have a complete copy.
43:35It may not be as sharp as the earlier one, so it's resilient to specific interference.
43:41It's as if it anticipates hostile jamming.
43:43Now what's interesting, the Bible is like a hologram.
43:46It has some Fourier transform properties.
43:48It is transcended to parallax and some other things.
43:53Have you ever noticed in the Bible that there's no chapter on baptism?
43:56There's no chapter on salvation?
43:58Every truth of God is spread through the whole book, and that has a property.
44:04If you were a communications engineer designing a communications system in anticipation
44:09of hostile jamming, one of the things you do is spread your message over the entire
44:13spectrum.
44:14That is exactly the way the Bible is designed.
44:15There's some number of interesting parallels between properties of light and the attributes
44:21of God.
44:22The light we're talking about is laser light, has no parallax and it's as if it's located
44:27at infinity.
44:29It's velocity is constant which is suggestive of a constant source of power.
44:34The photons lack locality.
44:37All photons are immediately connected with all other photons in the universe.
44:40That sounds bizarre but they've just recently discovered that.
44:43That's, it's astonishing. And, of course, light is the primary means of revealing other things,
44:51and those are mathematically equivalent to the primary attributes of God, as if He,
44:56He's infinite, infinite power, omnipresent and omniscient so you can play with that a
45:00little bit.
45:01But it's interesting that these things are intentional.
45:03We find even in James, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and cometh
45:07down from the Father of Lights with whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning."
45:11That would variableness in the Greek is parallaxis which is the term from which we get parallax
45:16for implying the very culmination that the lasers have.
45:21So, just as a hologram needs to be illuminated with the light that created it, it's useless
45:28in natural light, the information spread over the entire bandwidth.
45:32There's no loss from dropouts, it's resilient to interference.
45:35That's also true of the Bible.
45:38In natural light, it looks like a collection of myths and folklore.
45:40When it's illuminated by the Holy Spirit, it gives you an image.
45:44The image of the One that we have to do, Jesus Christ.
45:49Incidentally, if you illuminate the hologram with a laser of a different frequency, you
45:52get a false image, and if you illuminate this with the wrong light, you'll get a false image
45:56there too.
45:57The information's spread over the entire Bible, it's designed that way, and as if it anticipates
46:02hostile jamming, and that's exactly what Isiah says in Isaiah twenty eight.
46:06"By the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon
46:11line, line upon line.
46:12Here a little, there a little and so forth."
46:15It's deliberately spread.
46:17Well, I've just touched on some of these things.
46:20You may find that interesting.
46:21It's not critical but I thought it's provocative to those of you that have an interest in those things.
46:25We've talked a little bit about the nature of reality, the nature of time.
46:28We put a little insert there about the nature of software. We'll talk a little more about that later.
46:32We talked a little bit about hyperspaces, because that's what we'll find ourselves dealing with,
46:36as we get into the scripture.
46:37We talked a little bit about the fact that there are some hidden codes.
46:40I will show you some astonishing ones as we go through
46:44not to get into the details, but to give you a respect for the total package.
46:47The hidden codes are not to establish doctrine, they're simply there as, among other things,
46:51as a means of authentication.
46:53And, of course, I talked a little about the holographic model.
46:56But now let's talk about an overview of where we're headed.
46:58The Old Testament, of course, is the story basically of a nation.
47:02... to set the stage for the New Testament which is the story of a person - the person of Jesus Christ.
47:07And the Old Testament ... I want you to understand something that's very important ...
47:11that most people don't understand, the Old Testament is incomplete.
47:14The Old Testament
47:16is full of unexplained ceremonies.
47:19Sacrificial rituals that in and of themselves would seem to make no sense at all.
47:24It is full of unachieved purposes.
47:28The Covenants and so forth, many of which are yet to be fulfilled.
47:32The whole challenge in the Middle East today is the world's attempt
47:37to disavow the Abrahamic Covenant. We'll talk about that when we get there.
47:42The Old Testament is full of unappeased longings.
47:45The poetical books are full of these as just an example.
47:50And, of course, it's also perhaps paramount in importance it is full of unfulfilled prophecies.
47:56And those are ... we're going to be looking at those in some detail.
48:01These are all explained for you in John 5:39 where Jesus Himself challenges you
48:07He says, "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they
48:11which testify of me."
48:13And one of the secrets we're going to share with you
48:17is what do you do ... How many of you have read the Bible and found something that made no sense?
48:21Found something that seemed to contradict itself. Something that just
48:25was not understandable. How many of you have done that? Anyone that doesn't have their hand raised up
48:28has not been studying their Bible seriously.
48:31The next time you find something in the scripture
48:35that you don't understand, I want you to rejoice because you have an opportunity
48:40to conduct a laboratory experiment in the supernatural.
48:44I want you to get a journal. Go get a journal - you girls know what I'm talking about, the men have no idea.
48:49You go to a stationary store, you can buy bound books that are blank and it's called a journal.
48:53And what I want you to do is get one and vow that no one will ever see it but yourself
48:57And I say that so you'll be honest with yourself.
48:59No one's ever going to see this thing, it's your own private treasure - it will be when you're finished here.
49:03The next time you come across a passage that you don't understand
49:07enter it in your journal. Put the date down. Put the reference down and try to describe
49:11in your own words in ink - not in pencil - why its puzzling - why it doesn't seem to make sense to you.
49:18Once you've done that, I want you to go to prayer, go before your Father
49:23and remind Him that He promised that the Holy Spirit would teach you all things -
49:27not most things, all things.
49:29Lay claim on that promise.
49:30Say, here's a passage in Your word, Father, I don't understand, and I commit it to you
49:34to illuminate my confusion.
49:40And commit it to the Lord, Jesus Christ in your own way.
49:44Now it won't happen necessarily in the next ten seconds,
49:47but I tell you what will happen.
49:48Something will cross your path that will make that clear.
49:52It might be a sermon you hear that Sunday. It might be something you happen to read.
49:55It might be a conversation you overhear in a restaurant.
49:58It might be something you hear on a radio broadcast while randomly tuning.
50:02I have no idea what'll happen, but ...
50:04what will happen
50:05is something will come across your path
50:08that will make that passage that confused you, clear.
50:11I want you to go back to your journal. Enter the date. Document what it means.
50:20And you say, Chuck, that sounds exciting, but why all the paperwork? I'll tell you why.
50:25Because the days will come, when you'll traverse the valley of doubts. There will be times when
50:29you'll just go through a valley of despair.
50:32I want you to be able to pick up that journal and recount the footprints of the Holy Spirit
50:38as He taught you the scripture - not Chuck Missler or whoever your favorite Bible teacher
50:43might be.
50:44But the Holy Spirit.
50:46And that will become a treasure that will be unique to you that won't make sense to anybody else, but
50:52it'll be very important to you.
50:53Every time you find a passage in the scripture that you don't understand, I will predict
50:58that it will unravel to you. And when it does, it'll always involve some aspect of the person of Jesus Christ.
51:07His role. His mission. His accomplishments. His destiny. Some aspect.
51:12If you have a troubling area, put Christ right in the middle of it and watch what happens.
51:16And we'll show you examples of that as we go through this study.
51:19We're going to undertake a Panorama of all History.
51:23We're going to start from the Creation, to the Fall of Man, through the Flood to Abraham
51:29All the way to the Exodus. That's the Book of Genesis - a major portion of history that Genesis spans.
51:36Genesis ends and then, the Book of Exodus.
51:39And after Exodus, from there we'll get into the Monarchy, the Life of David, up to The Exile
51:46when the House of Israel is captive in Babylon
51:52The rest of the Old Testament will take you from The Exodus to The Exile
51:55There is a 400 year period between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning
52:02of the New Testament.
52:04Some people call it the silent years.
52:06That's unfortunate, because those years are detailed for you in the Bible.
52:12They're in Daniel 11, in advance. Many people don't realize that.
52:16Then, of course, we have the New Testament.
52:19The Old Testament spanned virtually 2000 years.
52:22The New Testament spanned one lifetime.
52:25And many of the documents are contemporaneous ... they're scraps that we have are contemporaneous.
52:29Obviously, the nation Israel after the crucifixion of Christ, experienced the diaspora.
52:35But the Bible talks about, and we're watching
52:37the restoration, the beginning of the restoration of Israel.
52:41And people say, why are we studying the Bible now? Let me give you a big reason.
52:44I'm going to put something on the screen that I hope you will doubt.
52:46I want you to challenge this preposterous statement I'm going to put on the screen.
52:52We believe that we are being plunged into a period of time about which the Bible says more
52:58than about any other period of time in history including the time that Jesus walked the shores of Galilee
53:03and climbed the mountains of Judea. Now that's a preposterous statement.
53:07But we believe it.
53:09We believe that you and I are being propelled into a period of time about which the Bible says more
53:14than it does even about the Gospel period.
53:17Now, I hope you don't accept that. I'm counting on you to challenge that.
53:20To challenge that you got to do two things - you've got to find out what the Bible says.
53:23Not what Chuck Missler says or whoever. Find out what the Bible says.
53:27The second thing you've got to do is find out what's going on.
53:30And I'm going to suggest the more you know about what's going on in Israel, in Europe, in China,
53:35in technology, you name it. The more you know about what's going on on our strategic horizon,
53:40The more you'll see it dovetail with the classic Biblical scenario that was written thousands of years ago.
53:45Well, let's take a look at where we're headed.
53:47The Old Testament, of course, consists of the Torah. Some people would call it under the Greek,
53:53the Pentateuch. The Jews would call it the Torah.
53:56The five books of Moses. The first five.
53:58The most venerated part of the Old Testament to the Jewish community.
54:01It's followed by 12 historical books which really chronicle the history of Israel.
54:07Then, the literature of Israel. The poetical books. The Psalms, the Proverbs, and others.
54:13Five of those. Then we have 17 books called the Prophets.
54:17Writings that were inspired by God that talk about the future and God's plan in overview.
54:25It happens that 5 of those are large ones, that's why they're called major prophets.
54:3012 of them are called minor prophets, but that's misleading, that's a librarian's designation.
54:35It has nothing to do with content. Some of the most priceless little gems are in the so called minor prophets.
54:40But in any case, we have 17 books, prophets, which add up to a total of 39 books making up the Old Testament.
54:47And, of course, the Torah is where we're starting. Genesis literally means the Book of Beginnings.
54:54Then the Book of Exodus which deals with the Birth of the Nation Israel. That's where it begins as a nation.
55:00The Law of that nation is codified in a Book called Leviticus.
55:04They Wander in the Wilderness for virtually 40 years
55:07called the Wilderness Wandering before they enter the land.
55:10And Deuteronomy is the last three sermons by Moses
55:15in which he reviews the laws and gives them guidance because he passes the baton to Joshua
55:19as they enter the land. So that closes the Torah.
55:22And the Book of Joshua follows, because Joshua is the successor.
55:26And handles the conquest of the land of Canaan.
55:30And, of course, in the next session, we will undertake a beginning of the Book of Genesis.
55:36We're going to devote a substantial portion of time to Genesis
55:40and also to Revelation - both ends - because everything in the Bible that has a beginning, begins in Genesis,
55:46and has its climax in Revelation - they're the bookends to the whole thing.
55:49So, the Book of Genesis, of course, covers all the way up to The Exodus.
55:54We'll be focusing next time on the Creation, and the predicament of mankind.
56:00And how that all started.
56:01We'll actually take, in the next hour, the first 3 chapters.
56:07The Creation itself and the Fall of Man.
56:11Then we'll finish what they call prehistory - we often regard the first 11 chapters of Genesis as prehistory
56:19as it's called by some scholars.
56:22The Flood, The Tower of Babel, and all that.
56:25We'll spend an hour on the patriarchs - the rest of the Book of Genesis.
56:30Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph and why they are important to every one of us today.
56:36This is not just a question of Jewish history, it's a question of really understanding what God is doing
56:40and how He's doing it.
56:42So, we just hope you really enjoy this adventure
56:47I predict it will be the most challenging thing you have ever undertaken
56:51and the most rewarding, the most exciting thing you've every done.
56:53So, go at it prayerfully, and we'll see you next time.

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