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Episode 08

The eighth episode answers the following question:

Can you please review the entire biblical timeline?

Topics include

Overview of 588-444 BC
Kings of Judah and Israel
Nebuchadnezzar
Verifying through Ezekiel’s 390/396 years
The 480 years
The 430 years
The 2,083 years from Adam to Abraham (aged 75)
Why dates matter

Brief Timeline Overview

457 BC – Decree to rebuild & Restore Jerusalem
536 BC – End of the 70 Years captivity
588 BC – Destruction of Temple
606 BC – Nebuchadnezzar & start of the 70 Year captivity
984 BC – Start of the construction of Solomon’s Temple
1464 BC – Exodus and start of 40 years of wondering
1894 BC – Start of the 430 years (Abraham, age 75)
2321 BC – Flood (approximate)
3977 BC – Creation (approximate)

Episode 07

The seventh episode answers the following questions:

Why is everyone not inbred if the entire planet only came from 2 or 8 people?
How is Cyrus linked to Queen Esther, and was Darius her son?
Has the tomb of Queen Esther been located?
Where did the Persians originate?
When looking at the 70 year captivity, when did it begin and end?
Are you going to talk about timelines or is that another series?

Episode 06

The sixth episode answers the following questions:

What is the difference between Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes?
Did the commandments exist before Mount Sinai?
What are the missing books of the Bible?
If Jesus quoted the book of Enoch does that make it scripture?
I heard somewhere that the Amraphel in Gen. 14:1 might be Hammurabi. What’s your thoughts?
Discussion on Jannes, Jambres, and Jasher
Who could the King of the North and the King of the South be mentioned in the Bible?

Episode 05

The fifth episode answers the following questions:

Why are there fossils of snakes with legs if they lost their legs at the fall, before the flood?
Is Armageddon in Revelation a real place?
The Israelites marched around Jericho for 7 days. One day had to be Sabbath. Wouldn’t that be breaking the Sabbath?
Who was Melchizedek? Was he Shem or Jesus?
In Genesis, Noah got drunk…he curses Ham. Why did Noah do that when he’s the one who got drunk?
How do know that the timeline for Christ is accurate when Herod died before Christ was born?
In the Old Testament…the spies come back with the report of men of great stature, could [these] have been cannibals?

Episode 04

The fourth episode answers the following questions:

How tall were people before the Flood?
Is there any evidence snakes had legs/wings prior to the fall?
Why does the Bible say not to boil a goat in its mother’s milk?
Was Eve created after creation week?
Did Noah have other sons besides Shem, Ham, and Japheth?
Gen. 2:15 says, “Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.” So God made Adam outside the garden and then put him in it?
How do we know that Ham was the youngest son of Noah? Why is Japheth listed last if he’s the oldest?

Bible verses to note for the order of Noah’s sons:

Noah was 500 when he began having sons (Gen 5:32).
He was 600 when the flood began (Gen. 7:11).
Two years after the flood Noah is 602 at the same time Shem is 100 (Gen. 11:10).
Shem was born when Noah was 502 (602-100 = 502).
Ham is called the “younger” (youngest) son (Gen. 9:24).
Japheth is called the elder of Shem (Gen. 10:21).

Episode 03

The third episode answers the following questions:

Where could the Ark of the Covenant be or what happened to it after the destruction of the first temple?
Explain the difference between Jew, Hebrew, and Israelite.
A certain famous podcaster talked about Gilgamesh and Nimrod this week, was he a giant?
Did Noah and Abraham meet?
I have heard there are fossils on top of mountains from the flood, including fossils of whales. Could you dive into this?
Is the eastern wailing wall in Jerusalem part of the second temple or could it be remains of another building?

Episode 02

The second episode answers the following questions:

How many books are in the Bible and where did they come from?
Who’s the most famous Bible character?
Does the pillar of Lot’s wife still exist?
How many bones are in an artifact you have found?
Icy weather makes me wonder how creationists explain the many ice layers?
How old was David when he fought Goliath and where is the evidence?
How would you argue that the Grand Canyon wasn’t created over a slow deposition of rock over 50-70 billion years?
How can we prove that giants in the Bible were not Nephilim in the sense that sons of God were not fallen angels, and the daughters of men did not lie with them?
Was David a redhead and was he short or tall?

Episode 01

The first episode answers the following questions:

When did archaeology become a field of study and who started it?
Are pharaohs and pyramids real? If so, who built the pyramids?
Did it ever snow in the Bible?
What do you like most about being an archaeologist?
Who are the oldest people in the Bible?
Has Noah's Ark been discovered?
Where was the land and Garden of Eden and what evidence supports their existence?
Where are we in relation to Bible timelines?
Where in the world is the modern area of where Babylon was?
Where was the Tower of Babel and is there any remnant of it left?
Was Jesus crucified near the Garden Tomb or the Church of the Holy Sepulcher?
When the Bible talks about travels to Asia and Asia minor where is this area, and does it have anything to do with what we think of as Asia today?
The Bible mentions the behemoth and the leviathan, were they real or symbolic and if they were real at what point did they go extinct?