Welcome to Bible Mysteries.

What if there are secrets in the Bible the world doesn't want you to know?

You're listening to Episode 282, 400 Years of Silence, Part 2, why the Apocrypha was excluded.

Now here are your hosts, Scott and John.

Thank you. Now here are your hosts, Scott and John. Hello, welcome once again to Bible Mysteries podcast. I am Scott Mitchell. I'm John Potts,

and this is the show that talks about things in the Bible. The world doesn't want you to know.

John, today we're going to continue with part two of the 400 years of silence, so we should be diving

into things the world doesn't want you to know for sure. That's awesome. People had to wait a whole

week to hear the second part.

The first part was great.

Yeah, I enjoyed it.

And we really had to use a lot of examples last time to prove a certain point.

But today we're going to dive in a good bit deeper, and it's going to be really interesting.

Looking forward to it.

I think things are lining up in a way that makes me think that part of the

deception of the end times is trying to prove that Second Temple literature was intentionally

excluded from the canon of scripture, almost like a conspiracy to keep it out of the word of God, that it should be part of the word of God.

And for me, that casts doubt on God's ability to preserve his word perfectly as he said he would.

So I think there's a reason why we need to go over this information.

Well, that's great, because I think a lot of people have that, and justifiably so,

right? People are always, I guess, questioning everything. But like you said, if we start questioning

the word of God, we're questioning whether or not God has the ability to preserve his word,

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