Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast.

All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles.

This is an introduction episode to a long series Gary and I have prepared for you called Our Guide to the Apocalypse.

And this is just an introduction, short introduction episode to get us all acclimated to what we're trying to do in this series. And we want to talk about why talk about the apocalypse? Why would two guys from

opposite sides of the planet work on a series for close to a year about the apocalypse?

That's true. When we started this, I was a young man.

Now I'm an old-age pensioner.

And many seasons have changed.

People have reached the moon, and a lot of things have happened.

We're inching towards the apocalypse.

The series has been so long in the workings so that you can enjoy it.

And we just wanted to talk about why you would

want to listen to us. How are we remotely qualified to talk about this topic? We're not

remotely qualified. No, we have no qualifications whatsoever, but that won't stop us.

And just more, we're going to maybe talk about some of our conclusions that we've made.

It's interesting that we're doing the introduction at the end of us actually making the podcast

series.

So I think that might help you understand a little bit more where these episodes are coming from

and how they developed.

So, Gary, why do you think, why the

apocalypse? Why should people talk about the apocalypse and why should people learn more about it?

People think of the apocalypse as a single event, but in fact, there's a huge body of literature

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