Hello and welcome back to the Scriptures Are Real. I'm your host for today, Lamar Newmeyer, and here's

Kerry Mealstein, which you know well, I'm sure. Hey, it's been so long, Lamar. I've missed you. How are you? It's been so long, Lamar. I've missed here's Carrie Mealstein which you know well I'm sure.

Hey how it's been so long Lamar I've missed you how are you?

It's been a while too yeah you I've followed your exploits in Egypt there and and you around there and

and all the different guests that you've had on in the last little while and I've really enjoyed a lot of those talks I wanted to to be there like, oh, that, that was great. I love that too. I love that too. Well, I'm glad to be with you again. You have a way of bringing out the best of me. I hope I have at least some good effect on you, but you have a way of getting my best thoughts coming out. So thank you for that. Well, I appreciate it. I guess I'm just a natural

comedian and, which actually am a comedian and an emcee. So I'll be a good setup guy. I'm really

excited about, I wish we could go back and talk about all the things that you talked about again,

which we're not going to do. But if you are listening to this now, I really encourage you to go

back and listen

to some of the guests. Carrie's wife is on there. And she talked about being in Israel. And

I had those same experiences when I was in Israel. And it was so much fun to listen to that. And Phil,

it was all those people that had really great things to say. If you haven't listened to those,

go back and check them out. There's some really great lessons in there and some good thoughts.

And so you won't be disappointed to go back and listen to it. They're really great things.

I listen to them. When I'm not on, I listen to them. So, well, I'm excited about this.

So let's talk about what we're going to talk about today.

This is probably going to be a shorter transitional type of podcast.

We're going to talk about where we've been already.

Now, we just finished the first five books of Moses, which is often called the Pentateuch or the Torah.

Do you pronounce a Pentateuch?

Yeah, yeah. Okay. Which just means the five books. The five books, yeah, right, Pentateuch or the Torah. Do you pronounce a Pentateuch? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Which just means the five books. The five books. Yeah. Right. Pentate five. So the first five books, which we normally attribute to Moses writing. But we can't really say writing because he wasn't there in Genesis. We probably picture him as a compiler. He compiled these books. Yeah, we served a little bit like Mormon, right, and abridging things. So, I mean, some of it, he saw Moses chapter one gives us the idea that he sees at least the creation and vision. So he's giving us some report of his vision. But then, yeah, he's compiling from writings and, I guess,

inspiration revelation. We don't know what all. He seems uniquely qualified at that time to be

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