Welcome to the program today. My name is Maudo Gonzalez and I'm here in studio with a special guest, Dr. James Hoffmeier. Welcome.

Hello.

It is great to have Dr. Hoffmeier back for another program and as I mentioned in the previous program,

if you haven't got to see that, you can certainly see it on all of our social media outlets,

YouTube, our app and other places for sure. You can go to our website,

prophecy watchers.com and see it there. But I mentioned last time that Dr. Offmeyer was one of my

main professors in graduate school. And we've been to Egypt together, we've done a lot of things together.

It's been fun. And to have the privilege of having you back, you've written this book,

The Prophets of Israel, walking the ancient paths,

which I think is, it was tremendous because you're addressing really the entire scope of

prophetic ministry, Old Testament and New Testament, which I think is important. So it's very

thorough in that regard. I want to read for you guys this one of the

beginning themes is Jeremiah chapter 6, verse 16, and it's very powerful. Jeremiah says, this is what the

Lord says. Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths. Ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find

rest for your souls.

And I'm sure that most of you remember Jesus' words in Matthew 11, where he talks about

finding rest in your souls with him.

So let's talk a little bit about that in the sense that you've written this book.

I mean, you've been a scholar and an

academic for 40 years. And is this book meant for scholarship or for the academics?

Well, I started teaching undergraduate students, which I did for over 20 years.

And there I taught courses on the book of Jeremiah.

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