Welcome to the 10-minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one is about first dawn.

The book first dawn was written by John, and there's a couple people who have that name

in early Christian history, but the early church fathers, including people who knew him

and new people who knew him, say that this is John the beloved disciple, John the son

of Zebedee, John who wrote the gospel of John, John who also wrote second and third John,

John who wrote Revelation, and John who was the one disciple who didn't die of violent

martyrs death, but who, instead, according to tradition, goes to the area around Ephesus

and sets up shop there and lives out his life doing Christian ministry and writing stuff.

So we think it's that John, we got good reasons for thinking it's that John, what we can

definitely, definitely even more so say for sure, is that first, second, and third

John are all written by the same guy.

It's in the exact same voice, and it's a dealing with the exact same problem.

What is that problem?

Well, I'm so very glad you asked.

It looks like the deal is this.

A bunch of false teachers, I know it's always the false teachers.

They're always shown up and they're always causing problems, well, that's the deal here

again.

A bunch of false teachers showed up, and these are teachers whose particular issue started

with the divinity of Christ.

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