Coming up in this episode on Follow Him.

You see him do different things in these different states, and if we're so focused on just

the Gospels for our understanding of who Jesus is and what he's like and what he does,

we are going to miss a much bigger picture that we can get when we see him in his Old

Testament role.

Hello, everyone. Welcome to another season of Follow Him. My name is Hank Smith, and I am your host.

I'm here with my Old Testament loving co-host, John, by the way. Now, John, you are not my old co-host. You are my Old Testament-loving

co-host. I was talking with Methuselah just the other day. I'm excited to go back to the Old Testament

again. Every time we've done it, we've learned more. This is going to be great.

John, I have found that each book of scripture when you understand it contributes to your

understanding of all the others. I don't think I realized that years ago, that if I understand

the Old Testament more, I understand the Book of Mormon more. That happened to me four years ago.

If you really want to understand the Book of Mormon, you stay with us this

year in the Old Testament, all the way through to Malachi. That is exactly what happened. It was like,

oh, oh, I had a lot of those oh moments. Look at the backstory here. Look at the parallels. Oh my goodness.

If we're supposed to read the scriptures again and again, let's go through them again and again. Let's do it again. John, thinking of oh, wow moments, Old Testament year, it was our guest for Second Kings 17 through 25, and he's back with us today. Dr. Josh Sears. Josh, welcome back. Great to be here. We are so excited

to have you. It's been too long. You've been out of the country. Yep. Our family spent the last year

living in Israel, so it's been an adjustment, but we're happy to be home. You were prepping for follow

him. Preparing for this. That's right. I had to go back there and do some field research. Josh,

give us a little overview of what are you hoping the listeners are going to feel today?

Well, and Come Follow Me this year, they added a new lesson that wasn't here four years ago,

introducing the Old Testament. Yeah. Rather than jumping right into the creation,

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