JOHN033 - Zechariah Has Had Nine Months to Work on This, Let's Hear What He Has to Say

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey, my friends, it's Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and this little arc that we've
0:04.0	been working on, which is now almost two weeks long, it comes to an end today on the advent of
0:10.0	John the Baptist, who this guy is, where he came from, the miraculous events surrounding his story,
0:15.7	and particularly the excitement that is easily lost on us as modern viewers, but this arc that we've been on
0:23.7	setting down the Baptist gets us back in touch with the excitement that the original audience
0:28.0	would have felt to the idea that God was with them again.
0:32.9	Or maybe God never left, but now we're seeing him again.
0:35.5	The physical manifestation, the physical presence of
0:38.0	God is back. Ah, ha! I knew he was real. I knew this thing was always meant to be timeless. I knew he would
0:44.7	show back up. I knew it. And Zechariah got so excited that, you know, he didn't handle everything
0:51.1	perfectly, and he hasn't even been able to talk about it for months.
0:54.6	Mary has been able to talk about it.
0:56.3	She nails it.
0:57.0	Elizabeth's able to talk about it.
0:58.7	She nails it.
1:00.2	But on the whole, this arc that we've been exploring in Luke chapter one, this little subquest for our series on John, if I could put it in a word, it is exuberant.
1:11.0	I'm going to put it in another word now.
1:13.3	Celebratory.
1:14.6	This is good news, the best news.
1:17.7	Not just for the people at this time, not just for the people Luke was immediately writing to, John was immediately writing to.
1:24.1	This is good news for us.
1:26.5	This applies to us. And I thank you in advance of this last
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