Episodes

  • S2E72 Hosea 7:1-16
    May 8 2025

    Hosea 7:1-161 And the injustice of Ephraim will be uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, because they worked falsely. And a thief will enter toward him, a robber stripping him on his way, 2 in order that they may sing together as singing in their heart. All their wickedness I remembered. Now their counsels have encircled them; they have come opposite my face. 3 By their wicked acts they cheered kings, and rulers with their lies. 4 All are committing adultery, like an oven being lit for the cooking of the burning from the flame from mixing of dough until it is leavened. 5 As for the days of your kings —the rulers began to be angry from wine; he stretched out his hand with plagues. 6 Because their hearts were lit up like an oven when they broke in pieces. Ephraim was sated the whole night of sleep. In the morning they were born, he was lit up like a light of fire. 7 All were warm like an oven, and they ate their judges. All their kings fell. There was not one among them who was calling to me. 8 Ephraim was mingling with his peoples. Ephraim was a cake baked in the ashes that was not turned over. 9 Foreigners ate his strength, but he has not learned. And gray hairs flourished for him, and he did not know it. 10 And the pride of Israel will be made low to his face, yet they did not return to the Lord, their God, and they did not seek him in all these things. 11 And Ephraim was like a silly pigeon, not having a heart. Egypt used to be called upon, and they went to Assyria. 12 Whenever they go, I will throw my net upon them. As the birds of the heavens I will bring them down; I will rear them in the sound of their affliction. 13 Woe to them, because they have turned away from me. They are wretched, because they have acted impiously toward me. But I ransomed them, but they have spoken lies against me. 14 And their hearts did not cry to me; rather, they howled in their beds. They used to gash themselves for corn and wine. 15 They were taught by me, and I strengthened their arms, and they devised evils against me. 16 They turned back to nothing. They became like a bent bow. Their rulers will fall by the sword on account of a lack of control over their tongue. This will be the contempt of them in the land of Egypt.”
    Rick Brannan, Ken M. Penner et al., The Lexham English Septuagint, Second Edition (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2020), Ho 7.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • S2E71 Hosea 6:1-11
    May 6 2025

    Hosea 6:1-11A Confession of Trust6 “In their affliction they will rise up early toward me, saying, ‘Let us go and return to the Lord, our God, because he has snatched away, and he will heal us. He will strike, and he will bandage us. 2 He will restore us to health after two days; on the third day we will rise and live before him, 3 and we will know; we will seek to know the Lord. Like the sure-to-come dawn we will find him, and he will come to us like the early and late rain comes to the earth.’ ” Israel’s Transgressions4 “What will I do with you, O Ephraim? What will I do with you, O Judah? Your mercy is like an early morning cloud, and like an early dew that is going away. 5 On account of this, I cut off your prophets; I killed them with a word from my mouth, and my judgment will go out like light. 6 Because I want mercy rather than sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings. 7 But they are like a person breaking a treaty; there he despised me. 8 Gilead is a city doing vain things, stirring up water. 9 And your strength is that of a pirate man. Priests hid the way. They killed Shechem, because they did lawlessness. 10 In the house of Israel I saw a horrible thing. There was the fornication of Ephraim; Israel and Judah were defiled. 11 Begin to reap for yourself when I return the captives of my people, when I heal Israel.
    Rick Brannan, Ken M. Penner et al., The Lexham English Septuagint, Second Edition (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2020), Ho 6:1–11

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • S2E70 Fellowship: Daniel 8:8 & the 2300
    May 1 2025

    Daniel 8:8

    Therefore the male goat grew very great; but when he became strong, the large horn was broken, and in place of it four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven.

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • S2E69 The Transfiguration of Time
    Apr 29 2025


    The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event described in the New Testament where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain. The Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 17:1–8, Mark 9:2–13, Luke 9:28–36) recount the occasion, and the Second Epistle of Peter also refers to it.

    In the gospel accounts, Jesus and three of his apostles, Peter, James, and John, go to a mountain (later referred to as the Mount of Transfiguration) to pray. On the mountaintop, Jesus begins to shine with bright rays of light. Then the Old Testament figures Moses and Elijah appear, and he speaks with them. Both figures had eschatological roles: they symbolize the Law and the prophets, respectively. Jesus is then called "Son" by the voice of God the Father, as in the Baptism of Jesus.


    The real question is if Moses and Elijah time traveled to speak with God...

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    45 mins
  • S2E68 Fellowship: The Male Child & 70 or 72?
    Apr 24 2025

    The seventy disciples (Greek: ἑβδομήκοντα μαθητές, hebdomikonta mathetes), known in the Eastern Christian traditions as the seventy apostles (Greek: ἑβδομήκοντα απόστολοι, hebdomikonta apostoloi), were early emissaries of Jesus mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. The number of those disciples varies between either 70 or 72 depending on the manuscript.

    The passage from Luke 10 in the Gospel of Luke, the only gospel in which they are mentioned, includes specific instructions for the mission...

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    59 mins
  • S2E67 Hosea 5:1-15
    Apr 22 2025

    Hosea 5:1-15The Charge against the Princes1 “Hear these things, O priests, and pay attention, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king, because judgment is against you, because you have become a trap for the watchtower, and like a net stretching out for Tabor, 2 which those who hunt the prey planted firmly. I am your teacher. 3 I knew Ephraim, and Israel is not far from me, because now Ephraim has committed fornication; Israel has been defiled. 4 They did not give their counsels to turn toward their God, because a spirit of fornication is in them, and they did not recognize the Lord. 5 And the pride of Israel will be humbled to his face, and Israel and Ephraim will fall sick by their injustices, and Judah will also fall sick with them. 6 With sheep and calves they will go to seek out the Lord, and they will not find him, because he has turned away from them, 7 because they forsook the Lord, because foreign children were fathered by them. Now the mildew will devour them and their inheritances. 8 Trumpet with a war trumpet upon the hills. Peal it out upon the high places. Make proclamation in the house of Beth-aven, Benjamin was amazed. 9 Ephraim came to destruction in the day of reproof. I showed reliable things among the tribes of Israel. 10 The rulers of Judah became like those who alter boundaries. Against them I will pour out my fury like water. 11 Ephraim has oppressed his opponent, he has trampled the judgment, because he began to follow the vain things. 12 And I am like trouble to Ephraim, and like a goad to the house of Judah. 13 And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his pain. And Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent ambassadors to King Jarim, and he was not able to heal you, and pain has not ceased from you. 14 Because I am like a panther to Ephraim, and like a lion to the house of Judah, and I will snatch them away, and I will go and take them, and there will be no one who rescues them. 15 I will go and return to my place until which time they are destroyed, and they will seek my face.”

    Rick Brannan, Ken M. Penner et al., The Lexham English Septuagint, Second Edition (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2020), Ho 5:1–15.

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • S2E66 Hosea 4_1-19
    Apr 17 2025

    Hosea 4The Charge against the Priests and the People1 “Hear a word of the Lord, O sons of Israel, because the Lord has a dispute with those who inhabit the land, because there is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the land. 2 A curse and a lie and murder and theft and adultery has been poured out upon the land, and bloodshed is mixed upon bloodshed. 3 On account of this, the land will lament and be diminished with all those that dwell in her, with the wild beasts of the field, and with the reptiles of the land, and with the birds of the heavens; even the fish of the sea will come to an end, 4 in order that nobody may either judge or reproach anybody. But my people will be like a priest who is opposed. 5 And he will be sick during the day, and a prophet will be sick with you. I have made your mother like night. 6 My people has become as if it possesses no knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, so I will reject you from being a priest to me. And you forgot the law of your God, so I will forget your children. 7 In accordance with their multitude, thus they sinned against me. I will turn their glory into dishonor. 8 They will eat the sins of my people, and they will take their souls by their injustices. 9 And just as the people will be, so also the priest, and I will avenge against him his ways, and I will repay him his counsels. 10 And they will eat and never be full; they prostituted themselves and did not prosper, because they neglected the Lord, to guard fornication. 11 The heart of my people received both wine and intoxicating drink. 12 They inquired with omens, and they would bring news to him with his rods. They were led astray by a spirit of fornication, and they have fornicated away from their God. 13 They would sacrifice upon the summits of the mountains, and make offerings upon the hills, under an oak and a white poplar and a shady tree, because it is good shelter. Because of this, your daughters will commit fornication, and your brides will commit adultery. 14 And I will not look upon your daughters when they prostitute themselves, and upon your brides when they commit adultery, because the men would mingle with the prostitutes, and make offerings with those who have been brought to an end, and the people who understand would entwine with a prostitute. 15 But you, O Israel, do not be ignorant, And you, O Judah, do not enter into Gilgal, and do not go up into the house of Beth-aven, and do not swear by the living Lord. 16 Because Israel used to be irritated like an irritated heifer. Now the Lord will tend them like a lamb in open space. 17 Ephraim, partaking in idols, set traps for himself. 18 He chose Canaanites; fornicating themselves, they were sexually immoral. They loved dishonor through its insolence. 19 You are a commotion of wind in its wings, and they will be put to shame by their altars.”

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • S2E65 Homily 46.01.26-31 Glory Only in the Lord
    Apr 15 2025

    1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (NKJV)

    26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; 28 and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, 29 that no flesh should glory in His presence. 30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God–and righteousness and sanctification and redemption– 31 that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the LORD.”

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    12 mins