Spotify Christian Podcast Chart Pt 3

0:02 Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good evening everyone. It is Wednesday. I was going to say January, which just because right before I went live, I was talking about January, so I think I should probably give you the correct month, right, Good evening everyone. It is Wednesday, February the fifth, twenty twenty five. I don't even know the day. I don't even know the year. I don't know anything anymore. Good evening everyone. It is Wednesday, February the fifth, twenty twenty five. It is currently six fifty three pm Central Time, and I'm coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas.

0:50 So what should we talk about tonight? Well, if you see the metadata, you have a pretty good idea what we're going to talk about. Let me explain kind of how we got here, and then we're going to just jump right in this this kind of series where this episode will be placed. It really kind of it kind of started with the idea, Look, there are there's like a million Christian podcasts out there. There are so many, So what I'll do Because I listened to podcasts after podcast after podcasts after podcasts. There will be times I will find a podcast, then I'll turn on the microphone and kind of turn the spotlight on and go, hey, everyone, here's this podcast. Let's go listen to it. Here's what it's about, and then you can decide if you like it, if you don't like it, if you want to subscribe, if you don't want to subscribe, and just help you find other content out there that you may find interesting, you may find challenging, you may disagree with, but you feel like you need to keep up with it for whatever reason. So it kind of started off as the idea of turning the spotlight on other podcasts and doing what I can as I go from you know, podcast app after podcast app, searching for all the different Christian philological, Bible based podcasts, and that's kind of how it started.

2:05 There was there was we won't go through everything that happened in this series. There was a lot of stops and starts and starts and stops, and you know, there was some chaos that kind of happened early on. We won't go back and recount all of that. So that's kind of how it started. And then that kind of transitioned into what we did all of twenty twenty four, all of what we did on twenty twenty four. Instead of turning my turning the spotlight on other Christian podcasts, I decided to kind of narrow the focus and turn the spotlight on other broadcasts and other sermons and other broadcasters and churches on the sermons two point oh app alone.

2:47 So I told everyone to download the sermons two point oh app. We did the Sermon's two point oh app challenge. I tried to have everyone find a random sermon every single day for all of twenty twenty four, and that by the end of twenty twenty four we would have listen to at least one sermon per day taken directly from the Sermon's two point oh app. You would find different churches, different speakers, different broadcasters. Hopefully you would find the ones you liked the ones you didn't like. I listened to sermon after sermon. We did review after review after review. Yes, sometimes those reviews turned negative and a lot of people didn't like that. But I mean, when I do our review, I don't listen to something first. We listened to it in real time, so I have to respond and whatever happens. It's always kind of like I don't know what's going to occur. And I think that that was it was. I think it was beneficial.

3:35 I hope. I think it was somewhat interesting. It definitely it definitely led to some interesting reviews. Let me tell you that it also led to a lot of frustration, which kind of led us to our entire series from Isaiah chapter forty through Isaiah chapter fifty five, which we're going to be working on I don't know for the next twenty five years because of some of the things we discovered. So we kind of did that. Well, now that it's twenty five, if I know which year it actually is, I'm like, well, this year, we're going to kind of just you know, I told you I had a notebook here underneath the microphone, and that the notebook was going to remain empty, and we're not going to have a complete strategy or are like we're going to do this. We're going to kind of just wherever things lead us. And late last night Spotify contacted me, sent me some information about our podcast on Spotify, some analytics, and we found some interesting things. And so I talked about earlier today, Hey guys, Theology Central is available on Spotify.

4:35 You don't have to subscribe to Spotify to use Spotify as a podcasting app. Go use it as a podcasting app and look for Theology Central and give us five stars and follow us and all of those types of things. And one of the reasons we talked about that is because Spotify has these charts, these podcasting charts. They may not mean anything to you, but when it comes to a chart dealing with Christianity, religion, spirituality, you should want want to know what are people listening to. You should want to know that, right, because that kind of tells you. It gives you some kind of idea of the spiritual climate that we currently live in, right, So you want to kind of keep track of that just for your own information. Where you can go, Oh, it seems like people are going in this direction spiritually and this direction, and Spotify is a good place to pay attention because it is the number one podcasting app and the world it is, especially if.

5:37 You're talking about audio podcasts. If you're talking about video podcasts, then YouTube would rule the world. But when it comes to audio podcasts and Spotify is trying to move into the video podcasting market, but they dominate the world. So what's going on there is giving you some idea. Now you may look and go, this is crazy what is happening, But that's telling you what is going on. Now. When I see the chart, I always get bothered because of the things I see on the chart, And I'm like, are you telling me that there is no more Bible based, philologically sound churches out there producing podcasts that can make it on the chart? Are you telling me there's no one out there? Why do we have Joyce Meyer, Why do we have Joel Ostein, Why do we have Stephen Ferdick. Why are they ruling the podcasting world where the rest of the churches aren't, Like what are we doing? And so I always get bothered by that, And it's not even about my podcast, it's really anyone. And I'm always like, come on, churches, if you put if you put your sermons online, make it into use the RSS feed, make it into a podcast, make sure it's everywhere, and have people trying to listen to it.

6:46 Because the more people who listen to. Solid a solid biblical theological podcast on Spotify, that for and that almost forces the algorithm for Spotify to pick up that particular broadcast, that church, that podcast and then start recommending it, or it may even show up on the chart, and then more people will find it, and then they will find they're going to find something. If they're out there looking for something biblical, spiritual, they're going to find something. And the question is what are they going to find? Well, the algorithm pushes what is being listened to, what what's getting people's attention. So I'm always trying to say, we've gotta, we gotta. It's not even about me again, it's about any any good broadcast out there.

7:29 So we talked a lot about that today, and so once again I was looking at the Spotify podcasting charts. I haven't looked looked. I have not looked at them in a while, and I decided to take a look today. So I've got to Spotify app open right now, I'm looking at podcast charts. I went to category and I pulled up top Religion and Spirituality podcast. Right. We talked about this in the last broadcast, so I'm just going to go through. Number one is a Catholic podcast, The Bible in a Year, Father Mike Schmidz. If you look at the top fifty. Catholicism basically dominates. Catholicism dominates. I don't know. If Catholics just listen to more podcasts than non Catholics, I don't know. But Father Schmids and everything that they do with Ascension, they dominate the podcasting charts.

8:19 It's just that's the way it is. Number Number one, I mean, number one is the Bible in a year. If you go down to number six again put out by Ascension, it's the Rosary and a year. Uh. If you go down to see where they show up again, A number twenty two the Father Mike Schmidz Catholic podcast. If you look at number twenty four, Padre, it's a it's another uh. Catholic podcast. I'm looking. I'm just looking at all the numbers. If you look down here, if you go a little further down, you see here. If you look another further down you have the Sunday Homilies with Father Mike Schmitz. Another one, you have the Exorcist files that number forty eight. All of those are Catholic. So and it's basically one one Catholic group that's that's dominating that. So I find that interesting.

9:11 Number two on the chart is Girls Gone Bible. We've reviewed it. It's a thiological train wreck if I've ever heard one in my life. I think it's a mess beyond I mean, I don't even know what to say. It's still number two. It's been dominating. It's been in the top five or ten. It seems like forever they figured out a formula, people love it. That's where people are going for. I guess Bible right. Number three is the Bryce Crawford podcast. I have no idea who he is. He clearly kind of markets himself. It's the Bryce Crawford Podcast. He's marketing himself. It's supposedly about the Bible. I think he did a long series on the Gospel of Luke. I wanted to review one of the episodes. I was having problems getting in in the format I needed to upload to my software. I think I have to convert it to something else. But when I started listen to one, the first thing I noticed was, Hey, before we get started, go buy some of my merch and he sells merchandise.

10:08 So I guess that's okay. I mean, you can, you know, you can say however you feel about that. So that's number one. Two and three, The Bible in a Year, Girls Gone Bible, and the Bryce Crawford Podcast. Right then, number four caught my attention because I've never seen number four on the chart ever. I don't think i've ever so man, it's been a while since I've looked. It's not like I don't use Spotify all the time, so yeah, a lot of times I don't see it. Sometimes I use it as a podcasting app. Sometimes I forget about it, you know, and so well, I looked at him, like. What is this. The first thing that caught my attention was, well, it's numbers. It's two, eight, one nine Church, twenty eight nineteen Church, twenty eight nineteen Church. And then the last broadcast, I kept saying, twenty eight nineteen, twenty eight nineteen. I wonder what that's it, And all of a sudden it hit me, Oh, come on now, it's.

11:00 Matthew twenty eight nineteen. It's the Great Commission, the idea that they were a great Commission church. Okay, I'm like, that's clever. They got me a twenty eight nineteen Church. So I clicked on it, and if you look at it right now, they have one hundred and seventy seven ratings. One hundred and seventy seven people have given it a star rating, and they have a star rating of five point Oh that's perfect, ladies and gentlemen. We don't eat we have like a four point two or three or something like that. We've only had like I don't know, fourteen people give us a star rating, so they have one hundred and seventy seven.

11:42 Now you say, well, that seems pretty insignificant. That's not insignificant because it's hard. I think you think it would be easy. It's hard to get people to go. No, actually give it a thumbs up. No. Actually, that's why in every YouTube video, please don't forget to hit that button and subscribe and hit the bell and do this, because they know how difficult it is to get someone to actually become a committed listener. People just they're like in a buffet. Oh, well listen to that. I don't like that. I listen to that. Hi, maybe maybe not. Who cares. They got a million things to choose from, and I can understand that. So that's pretty pretty significant. I haven't looked. Let's look here. Since we're talking about it, let's look here.

12:25 I'm gonna go I'm gonna look at their rating twenty eight twenty eight nineteen Church Podcasts. I think they're a listen notes sing on. I'm gonna go to where we get all of our information about our podcast their podcasts. WHOA, Okay, it's in the top one point five percent. Okay, they they they're up there, ladies and gentlemen, we're in the top five percent. That when you get to the top one point five person, they're in a whole different universe. Okay, that is a lot of people listening to them. So I've never even heard of this church. Have you ever heard of twenty eight nineteen church? If I have, I don't have any. I have no information here about the podcast is what it says. Welcome to the official podcast for twenty eight nineteen Church. The podcast features powerful and life impacting messages from Philip Anthony Mitchell and guests communicators.

13:31 As you listen to these sound biblical messages, you can expect to be challenged, stirred, matured and inspired in your faith walk with God. For more information, visit us at twenty eight twenty eight nineteen Church DOTRG twenty eight nineteen Church dot Org. It's updated every twenty one hours. According to this, they've only been I guess doing a podcast since January two, twenty twenty five. So this is a relatively new podcast and they're already and the top one percent. That is insane. They've got eighty three episodes out so far.

14:12 And yeah, I mean, there they came did Where did these guys come from? Where? I don't even know. I mean if you were familiar with them, then I blame you for not letting me know. Okay, so where did they come from? They're already what was it on the on the Spotify chart? Their number? Let me go back here, they're number four. They're already number four. They're number four in the chart. They've basically been around since January. There's something going on here. So I clicked on it and I'm like, okay, what's going on here? So the newest episode is called Entry and End Times Disruptive Action. All right, I'm like, and it says an episode two of Entry and End Times. I'm like, okay, well, then where's episode one?

15:04 So that I went to the next episode, Entry and End Times. The beginning of the end Matthew twenty one one through eleven, and the premiere of our new series, Entry and End Times, Philip Anthony Mitchell walks us through the first significant event of what we call the Passion Week of Jesus Christ found in Matthew twenty one to one through eleven. Now, I think see now when I call it. When I saw it called Entry and End Times, I was like, oh, oh, this is it's gonna deal with eschatology. Sounds like maybe it will not sounds like it's going to be dealing with If you're Matthew twenty one, it's going to be Jesus triumphant entry into Jerusalem, right, I think that's what that's going to be. So well, let's review it. Let's review it. Let's just jump in and review it. I don't know how far we'll get.

15:53 Let's see. We listened to just a few seconds of this in the last episode when we're talking about Spotify and the podcasting charge. Yeah, well, you can draw your own conclusions whether you like it don't like it. But I don't. I don't think i've heard Is this the new up and coming church? Is this I mean not new and up and coming, as they probably have been around for a while, but they're just now gaining this podcasting notoriety. I mean, top one point five percent. All right, so let's see let's let's let' see what we can discover about them. Here we go. We're going to go to twenty eight nineteen church. I think it's in Atlanta.

16:36 I think it's in Atlanta. And this is from January the twenty seventh is when it was at least uploaded. It's only thirty three minutes long. So here we go. And now today is week one of our brand new series. Entry to Okay, I gotta stop it there. I need. I need that whenever I stand up at church and say, hey guys, we're going to start a new series, and I just everyone starts ap plodding and and I got music, and I need that. I need, I need to start doing it. Whenever I announce a new series here for the podcast, I'm gonna.

17:29 Have to have some like yeah, I want, I want. I don't know, I know it's a it's more of a preference. I know it's more of a preference. You can't really say that's necessarily wrong. It just feels like a big show. It feels like a lot of hype. But you know, maybe their messages are so good that it deserves that kind of intro a. Right, I mean, maybe pastors need you wanted the best, you got the best, the hottest preacher in the land. Well, I'm borrowing from how kiss used to be introduced way back in the day. Okay, all right, we won't we won't go into music. But hey, you wanted the best, You've got the best, the hottest preacher in the land. And then you scream his name, and then the band goes and everybody starts applouting, and I get what do they hold up their lighters? Okay, I mean, all right, it just seems so okay, but it's also a preference thing. So then we get to regulative normative principles. We won't get into all of those theological issues. Let's just see ultimately what matters is not the style in which it's delivered. It's not even really worth about the esthetic and all the other things tools they use. I mean, we can have a conversation about that.

18:44 It really comes down to how is the text going to be handled? Because look, now this is very important. Even though I'm having a little bit of fun, this is important. I've heard churches sometimes who have all of this like Is it a concert? Is that a nightclub? Is it? Is it a stage presentation? Is this a Broadway show? What is going on? But they actually handle the text better than some church where it's it's reverent, it's respectful, it's open the Word of God. They read it, they preach it. But the actual handling of the text is a total and complete train rag. So what you have to do is not allow the blinding lights or no lights and no drama and no dramatic anything.

19:33 You can't either one impact you. What you have to do is put away whether it's bright lights and loud music or whether it's nothing but it looks it feels more reverent you've got. You can't let either of that influence you when you're listening to see how the text is handled. So all we really care about is if this is going to be a Matthew twenty one, how is the text going to be handled? We're about to find out. And now today is week one of our brand. New series Entry.

20:22 Today is week one of our brand new series Jury and End Times. Okay. In this series, we're going to be walking through Matthew chapter twenty one through twenty five. Okay. In this series we will marvel. At the final acts of Jesus in the last week of his earthly ministry before he departed this world, and we will be awakened at the words of Christ about what is coming for the world in the end times. Okay, our text to is coming from Matthew chapter twenty one, verses one through eleven.

21:07 Now I can get very nervous how he's gonna say that we're gonna get to seeing what's coming in the end times, Because if he's referencing Matthew twenty four, then you already know, ladies and gentlemen. We have a massive problem. Matthew twenty four is primarily about what was coming in seventy a d. And to ignore that, I mean his scriptural malpractice. All Right, if you go to Matthew twenty four and you make it all about the end times, the end times, and. Then we got a problem. But it sounds like he's starting in Matthew twenty one. So it looks like in this series maybe they're gonna go Matthew twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, and then the grand finale will be Matthew twenty four. So you can get to the entry and the End Times clever entry and End Times that's pretty clever. Go from Matthew twenty one to twenty four. I do like adding further context that I do applaud that, I do applaud that everyone in the church seems very hyped for it. I mean, he just gave the text are going to go through and everything's like yeah, yeah. I wish I could say open your Bibles to Isaiah and everybody just starts going crazy again. It's just a cultural preference. I mean, you know, you can you can say whether it's good or bad. Well, I just want to know how Matthew twenty one is going to be handled. So Matthew twenty one one through eleven and he's going to cover these eleven verses in about about thirty minutes.

22:34 So you know, now, what are we gonna do? Is he gonna is this? Well? All right, there's a lot of questions I can ask. I won't ask any questions. Let's just go. Okay, Eternal Garden of a Wise Father, Lord, we thank you for the miracles you have performed for us this week. We thank you for your faithfulness to us as a church, and we thank you, God Lord for just the opportunity you've given us to come together and to open this sacred book and to proclaim this holy Gospel. It shall not be hindered. And I just pray, with the minutes I have left, that you would help me in my weakness to preach the truth of these scriptures to these your sons and daughters and to the unbeliever. I asked us in the mighty and the majestic and the matchless name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen and Amen.

23:48 And now we can talk all day. The music. And the praying is that emotional manipulation? And I don't know. I know this. I get sick and tired of pastors praying for God help me preach the truth. Because if God is helping us preach, then ladies and gentlemen, there wouldn't be fifty bazillion different denominations and nobody would agree on any interpretation we saw just the other day. And listening to a sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, nobody can agree who even the audience was for the sermon on the Mount. So if God is helping us, you think we can be able to figure out by now what is the proper mode of baptism. Who's supposed to be baptized the Lord's Supper? Close, closed, open, I mean the gospel, how do we understand it? And as a reformed way, non reform way, free will way, our many.

24:41 I mean I could go on. Do we understand scriptures from a law gospel dynamic or from a lordship perspective? I mean we could go on and on and on. There is literally no agreement about anything, but every preacher always seems. To not only do they pray it. To me, I always. Feel that prayer is somewhat manipulation. Right. Everyone will focus on the music there being manipulation, but I always focus on this prayer. Hey, Lord, you speak through me, Lord like you hide me behind your cross. Let my words be true. Let me well when whenever you or you tell the congregation, you either pray that way or you tell the congregation. God gave me this message the minute you do that.

25:24 Whether it's the I'm not saying it's intended, but what's clearly implied, whether whether people understand it or not, is you can't criticize this sermon because I mean, the pastor prayed for God to speak through him and help him speak the truth. So I mean, obviously God wouldn't let him speak alive if he pray, so obviously it's got to be true. I mean God gave him the message. Obviously it has to be true. I mean, I don't know. I know Christians don't seem to have a problem with that, but whenever I hear that, I just want to get up and walk out because that basically I'm being told that this message comes directly from God. So we just basically better understand that pastor as being a part of the magistral authority of the Roman Catholic Church.

26:05 Because they claimed that. Authority that their interpretation their sermon comes directly from God. You cannot question it, you cannot challenge it. I know pastors may not mean it that way, but that's how it comes across. If the sermon was given to you by God and God told you what to preach, then I can't question it. And if you're the one saying, God, let me what I speak is true, then either God is not answering your prayer, or maybe God doesn't answer that prayer, because if he answered that prayer, we wouldn't have all these different denominations. The whole thing drives me crazy. But let's get to the text. Let's get to the text, amen. I'll figure out a title later. This is just the beginning of the.

26:49 End a family and our human experience. No one actually knows the day or the album which they will depart this life. For there is nobody listening to me right now that knows the exact day that they will die. But there are some circumstances. In this life when a doctor may tell a terminally ill person that they have a certain set amount of time to live, and they may be able to do that with some measure of accuracy. And it's in those circumstances I just want to lean on your mental faculties for just a moment, that if a person knew exactly when they was gonna die, how much more significant becomes the final words of that person or the final actions of that person as they knew there was coming to the end of their life. Interer the Lord Jesus Christ, who knew exactly when he was going to die, He knew exactly where he was going to die, he knew exactly how he was going to die, and she knew when he would return to the Father.

28:12 The year is a d thirty three. Okay. The city or the place is the Holy City of Jerusalem. The month is the month of Nissan on the Jewish calendar April for you and I. The city Jerusalem is in a time a festival passover at the point in time. Now, I'm just gonna jump in just for clarification, you know, for clarification purposes. The exact year of jesus crucifixion, I don't know. I know you're gonna be shocked by this.

28:54 It is debated, I know, I know, because there's no agreement on anything, all right. The two most common proposals is eighty thirty not AD thirty three, and the second one is AD thirty three. While the Bible does not give a specific year, scholars attempt to determine the date based on historical and astronomical data. So there's a lot of speculation going on here. The key factors in dating jesus death one would be Ponscious Pilot's governorship. Jesus was crucified under Ponscious Pilot, who governed Judea from eighty twenty six to AD thirty six, according to Josephus. Now, some people even question the historical accuracy of Josephus. We won't get into all of that, but that's twenty six to thirty six, so I mean he's saying it very dogmatic. The year is thirty three, the month is I mean, he's saying it authoritatively and dogmatically. Again, it's a lot of times things are preached from the pulpit and an authoritative and dogmatic way in five minutes of research, and you're kind of like, I don't know if that's as a authoritative as it ever is. The second factor is to passover in the day of the crucifixion.

30:05 The gospel seemed to indicate Jesus was crucified on Friday during Passover week Matthew twenty six two, Mark fourteen one, John eighteen twenty eight. Astronomical calculations suggest that passover Nissan fourteen fell on Friday in both A D thirty and then, which would be April seventh and AD thirty three April third, So you have two possibilities there. Jesus public ministry duration, The gospel suggests jesus ministry lasted around three to three point five years based on the number of passovers mentioned in John. Since John the Baptist began his ministry around twenty eight or twenty nine Luke three one through two, referencing Tiberia Caesar's reign. This suggests a crucifixion date of AD thirty or AD thirty three. Okay, why Some scholars favor AD thirty fits well with the estimated start of jesus ministry around AD twenty seven and aligns with a passover on Friday, April seventh, AD thirty Some early Christian sources seem to support this date. So we do have some early Christian sources who seem to support April seventh, AD thirty right. Others seem to favor AD thirty three.

31:21 It fits well with Jesus ministry lasted closer to three point five years, starting around eighty twenty nine. This is matches a Friday passover in April third, eighty thirty three. Some argue that aligns better with historical details about Pilots governance. There is no. Absolute certainty, but AD thirty and AD thirty three are basically the strongest candidates. Many scholars lean towards AD thirty while others argue for AD thirty three. So he made it very dogmatic. This is the year and just know that it's it's not that. As soon as he said it, I was like, Oh, I've been in too many classes where we argue this. Okay, I've been I think in I think maybe one Bible college, maybe a Bible institute.

32:10 I have to go back and try to remember where we had to do a whole thing about making your arguments pro and con Was it thirty or thirty three? All right, So here we go. The biggest festival on the calendar for the Jews. And it was in that festival where. The Jews would remember, listen, or commemorate they had great deliverance from four hundred years of Egyptian slavery. Where the people were crying out for freedom. God is talking to Moses. Side note, they're crying out for freedom. God is talking to Moses. They're crying out for help. God is talking to the answer. They're crying out for help. God is talking to the answer. Not because God is silent, that doesn't mean he's not talking to your answer. And as in their try, the Lord gives them a word that he will send a death angel through all of the cities of Egypt, and they are to.

33:12 Slay a lamb. And take the blood of. The lamb and put it over the doorposts of their house, and when the Death Angel passed by that house, the Death. Angel would see the lamb over the house. And will pass over that house, symbolizing the coming of Christ. And so every year it pass over, they would slay lambs and spill the blood to remember that time when they would deliver it from Egyptian slavery. The Lord, now, knowing he's coming down to the end of his life, how much more significant are his final words.

33:53 And his final actions. History tells us that on this day in history, in the months of Nissan, in the month of April, in the y A D thirty three, we know that accurately that there was some two hundred and fifty thousand lambs that was slain that week in Israel. Okay, he's making another claim. Okay, do I'm gonna I'm gonna do search here. Do we know accurately that two hundred and fifty thousand lambs were slain in A D thirty three April? I think he said. I think he said April third. That's typical the date. If he said a different day, then it becomes all more complicated. Good I'm gonna do a search here and see. I don't know how you would know the Okay, here's what we know. Okay, so I figured this was the case. The claim that two hundred and fifty thousand lambs were slain during the passover and AD thirty three comes from an ancient estimate, but is not a precisely verified historical fact.

35:20 Of course I. Should have known, right the sources of The primary historical source for large numbers of passover lambs being sacrificed is, of course Josephus. That's typically where people go the War of the Jews. Josepha states that during one passover, possibly around AD sixty six, not AD thirty three, two hundred and fifty six thousand, five hundred lamps were slaughtered in the temple. Please note AD sixty six, not AD thirty three. His estimate that each lamb represented about ten people, implying over two two point five million people were in Jerusalem for the feast. Now, why would he want to establish how many people are in Jerusalem and sixty six AD Because Josephus is going to talk about the destruction of the temple in seventy a d. This has nothing to do with thirty three AD.

36:15 He says, we know accurately, so he's made it a dogmatic assertion that it's thirty three, which is not historically verified. He made a historical stating that it was factual. So so far we are just a few minutes into this sermon, and we were wrong about two hundred and fifty thousand lambs being slaughtered in AD thirty three or AD thirty It was sixty six according to Josephus. Secondly, he said that it was AD thirty three, and we don't know if it was actually AD thirty three that Jesus died. Ai says many historians believe Josepha's number was inflated, either to impress the Roman audience or due to unreliable reports logistical issues. Sacrificing two hundred and fifty thousand lambs in a single day from three pm to sunset would require an extremely high rate of slaughter, perhaps thousands of lambs per minute, which seems very unlikely. Temple space limitation. The Temple Mount, even in its expanded form under Herod, would have struggled to accommodate such a massive operation. We do not have a specific, verifiable record for the exact number of lambs sacrificed on April third. Josepha's number, if accurate at all, applies to a later time, possibly before the Jewish revolt eighty sixty six to eighty seventy, not necessarily to jesus crucifixion year. However, it is reasonable to assume tens of thousands of lambs were sacrificed in Jerusalem during Passover, given the large number of Jewish pilgrims. But it was

37:46 not two hundred and fifty thousand. It's just factually wrong. We do not know if it was eighty thirty three when Jesus died. We just don't know. I know preachers love to stand behind pulpits and say all kinds of things in an authoritative and dogmatic way, but it's twenty twenty five, ladies and gentlemen. Pastors can't do that. They should have never done that. They should have been worried about accuracy and truth of fifty years ago, one hundred years ago. But pastors used to get away with this nonsense. Used to drive me crazy when I would hear claims, and in many cases I would know the claim was false. But back in the day, I would have to. Drive to a library, it'd have to go try to research and have to try to look up and then sometimes try to go back. Anytime I've ever gone back to a pastor going this is not right, this is not they never care.

38:32 They always get irritated. They always get mad, and they just and most cases will not do anything to correct it. Well, it's twenty twenty five. You can be corrected in five seconds. I could correct all of that in five seconds using any AI program that's even worth anything. That's just maddening. But this is the number four podcast on Spotify. It's in the top one percent of all podcasts globally. We're absolutely getting fraudulent historical data so far. I mean, so did he even read Josephers? Did he just look it up online? Where did he get the information? He didn't give us a source, but he says, we accurately know, Well, if we accurately know, give me the source that supposedly is accurate.

39:31 One land for every family gives us a number of maybe over two million people packed into. The city of Jerusalem. Matthew and Chat to twenty one records for us, the beginning of the end of the public life of the Lord Jesus Christ, and Matthew writes for Us and Matthew chapter twenty one, and this small periscope of scripture. The very first significant event in what we call the Passion week of the Lord Jesus Christ. Matthew writes in Matthew Chapter twenty one and beginning in verse one.

40:11 Now, when they, that is Jesus and his. Followers drew near to Jerusalem, there is two million people there. They came to a town called Bethphage to the Mount of Olives. I've stood on top of that mountain. Then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tiede and a cult which is the baby of a donkey with her Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says. Anything to you, you shall say the Lord needs them.

40:52 And he will send them at once. So, family, I just want to draw your attention to this parera scope of scripture. Okay. He also made the claim there were two million people in Jerusalem for Passover in eighty thirty three. Well, once again, I just looked it up based this is based on some ancient estimates. Please note these are based on estimates. He's stating this like it's factual, just like you know, we dug up a book and it had all of these information just for us, and it doesn't work that way. Okay. According to AI, this is most likely an exaggeration. Again, Josephus comes into play. A lot of this is based on Josephas. Josephus states that the census taken for passover and later in a later year, I counted two hundred and fifty six thousand, five hundred lamb sacrifice, estimating ten people per lamb, leading to a total of about two point seven million people. But once again, that's a D sixty six. That's not AD thirty three. So if you're gonna say two million people, why is he pulling numbers from eight sixty six? I'm putting to eighty thirty three. Tacitus, a first century Roman historian, is a Tacitus.

42:07 I think it's Tacitus, first. Century Roman historian, wrote that Jerusalem had a population of six hundred thousand, but he was referring to the total resident population, not passover numbers. Right, we have another source that describes large crowds that pass over, but this is not given exact number, So the problem with the two million estimate. Josephus number most likely exaggerated. Many scholars believe he inflated figures to emphasize the city's significance jerusalem size at the time, Jerusalem's estimated size was about one square mile with a normal population of eight eighty thousand to one hundred thousand. Even if temporary shelters and camps outside the walls expended capacity, fitting two million people in and around the city would have been nearly impossible food and water limitations. Providing food, water, and sanitation for two million people in the ancient city would have been extraordinarily difficult.

42:58 Temple logistics. Scrificing lambs for two million people and one day would have been required would have required an incredibly fast and efficient slaughtering process, which seems unlikely. A more realistic estimation estimate estimate modern Many modern historians suggest pass over a crowd of three hundred thousand to five hundred thousand, with some estimates maybe reaching one million. But again, that's basically sixty six AD not thirty three AD. Why does he keep taking so you see what happens in a sermon when you start off making dogmatic assertion. And remember what he said, he prayed, Lord, make sure you know help me speak the truth? Well, where is God helping him speak the truth? When it's factual error after factual error after factual error.

43:45 What we're up to? What three factual. Errors he's borrowing somewhere? He got confused that Josephus was speaking about sixty eight sixty six AD and is referencing that to thirty three AD. That's not the same year. And not only that, we don't even know if it was thirty eighty or thirty three AD. Oh man, But see, this is the podcast it's going to get that's getting all the attention. This is the podcast that you see Why I get so irritated when I see the podcasting charts. It's not about me. There's plenty of people out there who can do a far better job than I can do. Let's find their podcast, get them to number one, so that people at least have the option to go Catholicism twenty eight to nineteen church where all kinds of historical facts have been stated in about a ten minute period. Or here's this other church that will handle the text more accurately. Remember, I said, it's not about all of the other things that happened at the beginning, the esthetic, the music, It's about how the text was going to be handled. Well, we haven't even got into the text, and we already have massive historical and factual errors.

45:00 Heems very insignificant on the surface, but right here in these verses we have the beginning of the first major event in the life of Christ. In the final week of his life. Matthew tells us that Jesus and his followers is drawing near to the city of Jerusalem. They stop at a place called Bethphage, and he tells us that the Lord is getting ready to enter the city of Jerusalem. Listen, for the very last time in his life, and he tries to enter the city, or he does into the city, Listen with a special request. He's not gonna walk in. He wants to ride in. Now, Watch what do we know in history up into this moment. Listen to what we know. We know based on Matthew's records, the Lord has walked with his followers from northern Israel, net Capernaum, Cesarea, Philippi, Galilee.

45:55 Watch all the way down to the south to Jerusalem. We know from him history. That the Lord walked a hundred miles, stopping every night for rest where his followers all the way down to Jerusalem. We know on his way to Jerusalem he rolls through a city called Jericho, where he wins to the faith a rich. Man called Zachias, who gave away half his goods. We know as he's on his way to Jericho. He stops at a city called Bethany, where he hung out with a few friends, a woman named Mary, a woman named Martha, and a man he had raised from the dead named Lazarus. We know on his way to Jericho he stops at this. Town called beth Phage. Watch rich is a suburb.

46:37 Of Jerusalem, like Henry County, or like filling the blank county around Atlanta. Now watch, he travels one hundred miles and he stops at Bethage. Okay, here we go again. He keeps stating these numbers as if he just dug this up in a Hey, we're doing an archaeological dig. Look, here's this book. It gives us dates, gives it. We don't have anything like that. Was Jesus wearing a watch keeping track of how many miles he walked. Now we don't know the exact number. One could argue it's reasonable. It's a reasonable estimate that he traveled one hundred miles over the course of a three year ministry, including his final journey to Jerusalem. We can look at some of the key locations Nazareth, Copernaium, Jerusalem, Bethany, Jericho, Caina, tire Sidon, Cesarea Philippi, Cesa Philippi, and beyond. Now, the most direct route from Copernium to Galilee is about eighty to ninety miles. Many Jews avoided traveling through Samaria, taking a route through Peria, which was which was longer about one hundred, one hundred and twenty miles. Jesus made multiple trips to Jerusalem, not just for his crucifixion, but also for Jewish feast. The estimated total miles and his ministry, some scholars estimated that if you look the total miles that he walked was actually have been three thousand miles for his entire ministry. I don't know why you would even get caught up in this. If Jesus traveled from

48:10 Galilee to Jerusalem for his final passover, he could have walked about one hundred miles depending on the route. We don't know. There's all kinds of there's all kinds of speculation. When do you start the hundred miles? When he walked from here to here? Like, Oh, he's. Throwing out numbers in a dogmatic, assertive way, and in many of these are just factually incorrect, and some of these it's just it's just an estimate. Well, I don't understand the purpose of doing this other than to sound like I've got the authority. I know all of these details, so then everything I'm going to say is going to be accurate. It seems almost more like you're building a case.

48:53 You're trying to demonstrate your authority by knowing all of these facts and figures. But you're not demonstrating your authority if your facts and figures are either one not even confirmed, just an estimate, or you're taking numbers and dates. You're taking numbers and facts about eighty sixty six and applying them to eight thirty three, you destroy any authority or credibility. And when he gets there, he asks for a donkey to be watch. He asked for a donkey to be given to him. You know where I'm going older. Watch. Watch the Lord chooses not to walk the last mile into the city. He's surrounded by crowds that have been following him for miles.

49:35 Now, listen to me. We have no record of Jesus ever writing an animal anywhere in the scriptures. Right, so watch. He's not asking for the donkey because he's tired. He's not asking for the dog. Man got someone yelling in the background, or I don't know what. Someone just got excited. Hey, he didn't need the donkey because he was tired. I don't know what that was. I don't know what that was. Is that woo? I mean, man, Jesus was riding a donkey for another purpose. Okay, all right, I guess people are getting Hey, it's good to get excited.

50:17 It just seems like a weird place to start yelling. But okay, all right, donkey Watch because he's weary and he can't walk the last mile. No, what the Lord does, watch this is arrange and public. Display of him walking into or riding into the city of Jerusalem sitting on that donkey. Everybody around him would see this man riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. And he arranges this public display for everybody to see. Now he's being. Intentional about his entry into the city. He coming into the city on two legs. He's coming into the city on this animal. Now watch, up until. This point, the Lord who was famous did nothing to unnecessary attention to himself, like he's operating low key.

51:04 Why all of a sudden, now would the Lord. Do something like this, pull off a stunt to draw all this attention to himself. Is he insecure? Is he trying to get likes on social media? Then? Why would he pull off this elaborate stunt for two million people to see him rolling into the city. Oh he's not. We don't know there's two million. Why are you saying these numbers that are not right now? The point he's making here, though, is very good. Why is Jesus doing this? That's that's a great question. I've got another question. This guy's dynamic and he's speaking. He's dramatic and he is speaking. He's got the audience right there in the palm of his hand. He's a great speaker.

51:47 You can see why from that perspective, why this is the number four podcasts you know on Spotify. You can see why. You can see why he gets such a crowd. Okay, you can see why he's a great communicator. Now it's been factually wrong a lot, but let's see what his answer. I know, I'm pretty sure I know where his answer is going. Unless this takes a mate. We're getting ready to get swerved here, and I'm gonna be like, wait, what just happened? I think you know he's gonna do for prophetic reasons. He's gonn feel fulfilling a prophecy, right right. I think let's see if that's where he goes. Well, Matthew tells us why in verse four this took place to fulfill gosh. I like that word what was spoken by the prophet saying quote say to the daughter of saying, behold that is watch and take notice. Your king is coming to you, humble and mounted on a donkey on a colt, the fall of a beast of bird And pause.

52:54 Matthew in hindsight. Now that he's old, it's looking back, and he remembers that Gesus pulled off this elaborate stump because he was fulfilling a prophecy from a man named Zachariah. Who lived five hundred. Years before Christ was born, and five hundred years. This is so powerful. Watch this. Five hundred years before Christ was born, a man named Zachariah writes a prophecy, Watch that a day is coming when the Son of God would roll into the city of Jerusalem, sitting on a donkey. The King is coming to you, Jesus. Now watch this.

53:39 Knowing biblical prophecy, Gosh arranges for this elaborate entry into the city so that the words. Of God does not fall to the floor. Watch. Watch, I'm coming for you. Next, watch, and the prophecies doesn't stop there. In Daniel chapter nine, there was another obviously about seventy weeks, in sixty nine weeks, and a man took it upon himself to do the mathematics about those seventy weeks talking about years, And there is a prophecying Daniel nine. Go read it for yourself. When a king named Arta Xerxes declared the rebuilding of Jerusalem when it was formally destroyed, that math tells us four hundred and eighty three years from that decree that the Son of God, the Prince, the Anointed One, would roll into the city in the month of Nissan. And according to history, it is believed that exactly watched.

54:35 Us four hundred and eighty three. Years to the month and day Jesus rolls into the city of Jerusalem on this donkey. The Lord now doing this fulfills two major prophecies to make sure the word of God doesn't fall to the floor. And family, when I read that, man, three things sticks up in my heart for me. Hopefully for you. Number One, God looks after his word to make sure so that it is properly performed. Now, y'all don't want to talk to me. You got other religious books that have never said anything about the future. You and I have the only religious writing in the history of the world that has hundreds of prophecies that have been accurately unfolded, and that Christ was the only human in history to fulfill these prophecies.

55:23 It reminds me that when God speaks, he watches over his word through history to make sure his word. Does not fall to the floor. Watch See. That may not mean anything to you, but that means something to me, because it reminds me that everything that God has spoken over me, He's gonna watch over his He's gonna watch over his word to make sure that everything he spoke over you, and everything he spoke over me, will come to pass away. He tells me, my name is written in a Lamb's book of life. I don't have to be afraid of death because I have confidence and what God has said to me.

56:07 I'm okay. Well, he goes all crazy here, and there is some good application what God has said in his word. He will fulfill right now when he says what God has spoken over me. Now, I gotta be a little concerning if he's now, if he's only related to what the scriptures that apply to me he's going to fulfill then okay. Now, if he's saying God spoken to me outside of scripture, then we would have a problem. But he's connecting Matthew twenty one four through five to Daniel nine twenty four through twenty seven. He told everyone to go read it for themselves. He said, someone figured out the math and it's the exact day. Again, he makes these major dogmatic assertions. Let's go let's go through.

56:50 Here, all right. Matthew twenty four or Matthew twenty one four through five is not necessarily a direct fulfillment of Daniel nine, right, So let's just go ahead right there. Daniel nine contains the prophecy of the seventy weeks, a timeline revealed to Daniel by the Angel Gabriel regarding Israel's future and coming of the Messiah. Daniel nine twenty fourth through twenty seven. The six purposes of the prophecy, including atonement for sin and bringing in everlasting righteousness. That's Verse twenty four twenty five, a timeline from going forth of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince. Those should be seven weeks in sixty two years, a total of sixty nine weeks or four hundred and eighty three years. Now, there's a lot of like, how do we figure out the timing of this Daniel nine twenty six. After the sixty nine weeks, the Messiah will be cut off or kill, and the city and the temple will be destroyed. Daniel nine twenty seven. A final seventieth week often interpreted in relation to eschatology and in times. The prophecy predicts the timing of the Messiah's arrival and the death. Now the connection to Matthew twenty one four through five. Matthew twenty one four through five describes Jesus' entry into Jerusalem presenting him as Messiah, the Messiah, the King, fulfilling Zachariah. Chapter nine Daniel nine twenty five through twenty six predicts the coming of Messiah the Prince, who will later be cut off and crucified. Many scholars believe that Daniel's prophecy points to the exact timing of jesus ministry, and the Triumphal Entry marks the moment Jesus publicly presents himself as Israel's king.

58:18 Now in is Matthew twenty one fourth through five, the fulfillment of Daniel nine Well, some would say yes. In terms of timing, the Triumphal Entry falls within the prophesied sixty nine weeks of Daniel, which points to the Messiah's arrival. In terms of presentation, Jesus publicly declares himself as king at the Triumphal Entry, which does align with Daniel nine twenty five. In terms of a fulfillment of Daniel nine twenty six speaks of the Messiah being cut off, which refers to the crucifixion, not to his arrival. So they're saying, there's some of this that would be applicable, some of this would not. That makes sense, So at least what he's saying here. Many would somewhat agree with. Now he said the exact day and time, and I don't. Daniel does not.

59:01 Some say that they figured out the math. I'd have to do a little bit more research to see if the math is supposedly exact on the exact day. I think that maybe a little over. That's probably stating it far more than it is. But it seems that there would be at least some connection between Matthew twenty one four through five. So he does seem to be correct there. But please note, I see how skeptical I was. I was so skeptical because of all the other factual errors. So I'm gonna I am gonna ask Ai, this, does the math of Daniel nine twenty four through twenty seven lead us to the exact year and year and month for the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem in Matthew twenty one.

1:00:20 All right, we'll see if we get this. He said it. He made it very clearly, Ai says. Many scholars argue that Daniel nine twenty fourth through twenty seven provides an exact prophetic timeline that leads directly to Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Using historical mathematical calculations, many believe that Daniel's prophecy pinpoints the very year and possibly even the exact day of Jesus' arrival is Messiah the Prince. Okay, it goes through this. The prophecy breaks the timeline into basically seven weeks, forty nine years, sixty two weeks, four hundred and thirty four years. Total. Sixty nine weeks equals four hundred and eighty three years until Messiah the Prince appears, determining the starting point. The Decree to Rebuild Jerusalem Daniel nine to twenty five states that the countdown begins from the going forth of the command to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem. There are several decrees that could fit. The Decree of Cyrus five thirty nine to five thirty eight BC permitted Jesus to return but did not focus on rebuilding Jerusalem permitted Jews to return but did not focus on rebuilding Jerusalem. Darius Decree five twenty BC reinforced temple reconstruction. Art Exerxes first decree focused on religious reforms, not rebuilding the city. Art Exerxes second decree, the most widely accepted date as Nehemiah was given permission to rebuild the walls. Many scholars count calculate from art Exerxes decreed in Ford forty five BCS. Please note there was a number of decrees, so then you have to pick which decree. Now you see how you

1:01:52 can get into a little game here, right, Okay, does this decree work? Well, no, we're short that year. Now, okay, this decree. Then you picked the decree that seems to work. Well, that's I mean, come on, now, we gotta at least be honest with that, right now. Calculating the sixty nine weeks, sixty nine weeks equals sixty nine times seven years forty eight four hundred and eighty three years. Biblical prophecy often uses a three hundred and sixty day prophetic year, as seen in Genesis seven to eleven, and then name some passages. Four hundred and eighty three years then would be three hundred and sixty days, which which would equal four hundred and eighty three years times three hundred and sixty days. It's all math, right, equals one one hundred and seventy three thousand, eight hundred and eighty days. Converting this to the solar calendar three hundred and sixty five point twenty five days per year one hundred and seventy three eight hundred and eighty days divided by three sixty five point twenty five equals four hundred and seventy six solar years.

1:02:49 See all the gay all the mathematical things you have to go through to try to supposedly figure this out. Starting from four to forty five BC, adding four hundred and seventy six years brings us to eighty thirty two or AD thirty three. Now, please, no, we don't know if it was eight thirty or AD thirty three. But if you say AD thirty two or AD thirty three, you're not exact. The way he's making it. It's exact. It's it's not now arriving at Jesus triumphal entry. If we began from Nissan one four forty five BC or March fourteenth, four forty five BC and the Julian calendar and count one hundred and seventy three eight hundred and eighty days, it brings us to Nissan ten, AD thirty two or AD thirty three. That's not exact because we don't know if it was AD thirty or AD thirty three, and if you throw in AD thirty two, well then it's not exact. Nissan ten was the day when the passoverland was chosen, which aligns with Jesus presentation as King of Matthew twenty one. Many scholars believe that April six, eighty thirty two, or A or April third, eighty thirty three, depending on calendar adjustments you got to adjust calendars was the exact day of Gus triumphal entry. Does the math work exactly right? This is what AI says, And of course AIS going all in, breaking all that mathematical you know, calculations down the traditional calculation using March fourteenth four to forty five BC as the decree in April six, eighty thirty two, as Jesus entry, fits remarkably well.

1:04:20 So if you go with AD thirty two, it fits well. But he's already dogmatically asserted that it was AD thirty three, and then he borrowed numbers from AD sixty six. So see, the whole thing is not. Everyone's yelling and screaming and hollering, but nobody wants to stop it. Go Wait a minute, wait a minute, we got a how does all of this fit together, because we got a lot of factual errors here. However, many scholars argue that Jesus was crucified in eighty thirty, which slightly shifts the math. Lunar calendar adjustments and historical uncertainties mean we cannot be one hundred percent certain of the exact day, but the timeline strongly supports Jesus entry into Jerusalem as a fulfillment of Daniel nine twenty five. All right, so there you have it.

1:05:03 It's not as exact, it's not I am i saying, well, this means if we don't trust any of it. I'm saying that this means that in this sermon we have been given things stated in a dogmatic, assertive way, which is not Either it's not as as factual as stated, or in many cases it's just completely factually in error. Oh deep. Or when you have received watch a ram a word from a credible source, you can have confidence that the Lord would watch over. That word to perform it. It doesn't matter how much time elapse between declaration and manifestation.

1:05:45 Oh no, Now, if we receive a ram a word from a credible source, So if someone comes up to you and supposedly gives you a word from God. So now we have God speaking outside of the Bible. Oh man alive, here we go. I should have known that the chart is filled with Catholicism and charismatic So now we got God speaking outside. Of the Bible. So if who's a credible source? While I'm there, are incredible source, they said this word over to me, Well, you know God's gonna fulfill it because he fulfilled prophecy and Matthew twenty one. And so because Jesus fulfilled prophecy in Matthew twenty one, then you know He's gonna fulfill some prophecy that someone speaks over you by some supposed incredible source. That is ridiculous. The God speaks to us through his word, and his word alone.

1:06:35 I can have confidence in my heart that God will watch over his word. It's like my son Malachi, when my wife and I was saved for like two years. We was in a church in North Carolina. Sitting on the front row. Malachi is six months old. A prophet is visiting the church that day. She's up on the platform. She looks down at Lena sitting on the front row. She said, this child right here. Bring him to me. We'll go up there with the child. He takes the child into arms, and she says to She says, this child six months old, he will be musically inclined, he will be musically gifted. He will write. Songs, and he will sway people into the Kingdom of God.

1:07:16 Six months Oh. Lena and I take that prophecy and we hide it in our heart. We say nothing to anyone. Watsh this? We said nothing to the child? Twelve years old? Malachi and the computer in the kitchen stumbles into an app called garage Band. Started making music. He makes his first track, He makes his first beat. He making all this trap music. Okay, no problem, He making all this trap music cool. Then he makes a score. Then he makes a worship track, then a worship instrumental. Then he picks up a guitar, plays it. He picks up a bass, plays it. He picks up a piano, plays it, picks up the drums, play it. Now he's singing all that stuff.

1:08:09 Now he's twenty and walking in the manifestation. Of what God's spok what God. Wouldn't it be nice if one of those prophets would walk into a church and go, that child is gonna be molested by a person six months from now. Keep that child away from that person. Wouldn't it be great? Then all those children have been molested and abused in church, wouldn't that be great if God would say something more than. This child's gonna be musically gifted. Okay, this is. The typical charismatic stories. I get so tired of them, so tired of them, tired t Wouldn't it be great if the prophet would have said, I don't know, people, don't get on this airplane and you won't die.

1:08:53 Hey, there's gonna be a pandemic. Hey, this is the cure for cancer. Maybe something worthwhile than this typical charismatic stories. Oh, and then I get ticked off. That's what happens. Then I get tired of it. Yeah. So we've been factually inaccurate when it came to actual facts, and now we just go to here's this story. Hey, a long time ago, I didn't tell anybody this story, didn't even tell the child. But now I get to tell the story after the fact. I didn't tell anyone of the story before the fact. I don't have any video of it. I don't have any evidence of it. But bu buh buh bu. But hey, hey, hey this happened. Trust me, we didn't tell anybody. We didn't tell anybody.

1:09:35 But now after the fact, now we're gonna tell everybody. Hey, when I was when I was seventeen and I was in a church, this prophet came to me and said, you're gonna be in the military. You can almost die, and you're gonna have a seizure disorder. Look what happened. It happened. I mean, I can make up any story, right, I can die, I can make up anything. Now, Usually the stories are always positive. It's never bad. It's never bad. It's never Hey, your parrot, your mother is going to die, your father's going to die. You're gonna be real, You're gonna be abused. No, you don't.

1:10:15 You only it's only positive stuff. It's only positive. Hey, God doesn't tell someone. Hey, your child's gonna be murdered when they're seventeen. You may you may want to do this to protect No, no, no, it's just gonna give you some great information, like your child's gonna be musically gifted. Now what does any of that have to do. I see what he's trying to do well, Matthew twenty one it was fulfilled. So now, but see you note how we went from scripture now to nonscripture. We went from God's actual revelation. And his word to now anything someone says to you, if it's from. A credible, credible. Source, it's in line with scripture. See charismatics always trying to claim, oh, it's not the same, Oh no, that would be the same. If God says it, it will be fulfilled as certain as Matthew twenty one, four through five.

1:11:06 Then you're putting it on the same level as scripture. So stop telling me that it's different. You believe that extra biblical revelation is on par with scripture. So therefore, whenever you get this extra biblical revelation, it should be written down in your Bible and it should be treated as scripture. All right, Well, we'll stop there because we're at seventy one minutes and it's already after eight o'clock. All right, there we have it, ladies and gentlemen. We've been listening to the number four podcast on the Spotify podcasting chart. The name of the church is twenty eight nineteen Church. It looks like It looks like they've only been podcasting since January. They're already in the top one point five percent of all podcasts globally four I don't know much about them. You may be able to point, you know, what they come from this and they come from this pyllological stream. Somebody may want to chart it all out. I don't necessarily want to, but I don't know.

1:12:11 You know, are they going to be there for a while then disappear? Are they here to stay? Are they going to become one of the most influential Remember we used to we did a lot. We had that chart of the fifty most influential churches in America, and we were reviewing sermons from the most influential churches in America. At ah Man, those sermons were so much, so bad. Is this going to become one of the most influential churches in America? I don't know. I don't know. Do we need to watch it, do we need to pay attention? I don't know. But there you have it. So I don't know what to say. I will say this whenever pastors say things that are dogmatic, and they say it in a dogmatic, assertive way as being a fact and my experience, the facts typically aren't the facts as they state.

1:12:59 The facts are extremely different then they state them. They say things with certainty, many cases things are not as certain as they put forth. They say something is this, and many cases it's not. Many things he said about thirty three e D are just not right, I mean just factually in error and in some cases not certain. And when people start saying, well, it. Comes down to the exact day they did the calculations. And then we start looking at the calculations, you're like, well, the calculation works if you start here and then you divide by this, and then you go from solar calendar not lunar calendar. And then you well, if I do five hundred different little you know, manipulations, I can get the numbers to line up. Whoa, we really we prove that we can go back and manipulate numbers to get the numbers to line up. Whooo wow, that really proves something.

1:13:51 But we don't state it that way in church, do we? We stay? Oh, you do the math right, it's perfect. Does anyone in the church go, well, wait a minute, can I see the math? Can I can I see how we? So? Wait? Are we starting the date here. Wait, so how do we know that's that's that many days in a year if we use the solar but we use the lunar here. Wait, and then we have to divide by this, and then we drop this, and then oh oh, and then wait, and then we end up with thirty two a D, which is not even the thirty three a D that you said in the first place. It stuff drives me crazy, man, it's stuff. Just ah. We say it's such a die and everybody's okay, man, this is great, and then they go on social media claiming it's all accurate.

1:14:32 And then someone does the math and oh, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? Oh but I read it in a book. I heard it in a sermon. Now, I'm not saying that that doesn't make how close it gets it still makes it amazing. I'm not denying that. I'm just saying, well, you gotta be careful. If you're gonna make the claim, then you're gonna have to say that it was thirty two a D. Well, if it was thirty two a D, does that correspond with the pass of Oh wait, are we going to run up with another problem? Well, if we make it thirty three, Well, then the math doesn't gets us to thirty three. So if we make it thirty where some people, well then that really doesn't work. So is it thirty is a thirty two? Is it thirty three? It's okay to acknowledge when things don't quite line up perfectly. It's okay to say, I don't know if this was It's okay, and I know Christians can't accept that, but sometimes it's okay to go maybe we just can't quite have this dogmatically asserted.

1:15:36 We can just say the prophecy still fits, Jesus entering in still fits. All right, Thanks for listening, everyone, Have a good night, God bless