Keith Wilson, Fiery Serpents, and Our Commute to Be with God (week of May 9, second to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Keith Wilson and Kerry explore the story of the fiery serpents who bit the children of Israel in the wilderness. They discuss the theme in the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon and what it may really have been like and how it applies to us.
Thanks to our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and to Kaleb Muhlestein for editing this episode, and to Rich Nicholls for composing and playing the music.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Scriptures A Real podcast. |
| 0:20.7 | This is the podcast where we talk about times where the scriptures became real to us. Hello and welcome to the Scriptures A Real podcast. |
| 0:24.9 | This is the podcast where we talk about times where the scriptures became real to us because we believe that there's great power in the scriptures |
| 0:27.8 | and it becomes even more powerful and applicable to us when we feel how real they are in our lives. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm your host, Carrie Mulesstein, and I'm so excited to have with me today my good friend |
| 0:38.3 | and colleague, Keith Wilson, who I've taught with here at BYU for a long time. I don't want to say like really long time because it makes us both sound old, but for a long time. So welcome, Keith. Good to have you with us. The truth of the matter, Kerry, is we are old. Uh, well, strike that from the record, but no, all right, fair enough. |
| 0:57.9 | So, Keith, would you just tell us a little bit about yourself? |
| 1:01.5 | Sure, I'd love to. |
| 1:03.4 | I've been teaching here in ancient scripture now for some four decades. |
| 1:09.0 | Oh, you are old. |
| 1:10.4 | Three of which were full-time. One was part-time. And I hail from |
| 1:16.5 | Southern California, but the lousy part down by Barstow on the desert. My dad was an engineer |
| 1:23.6 | for the Navy, but it was a weapons testing station down there, and so that they could |
| 1:28.7 | set off bombs in the desert, nobody could get uptight. So that was... I don't think we've ever |
| 1:34.9 | talked about that, but that was in my mission, actually. But... Was it really? Yeah, we were out in a place |
| 1:40.2 | called Ridgecrest or China Lake. Oh, yeah. I've been in Ridgecrest, yeah. |
| 1:44.5 | I think if you got sent there, you'd probably done something wrong with your mission president. |
| 1:49.4 | Actually, we had a counselor in the mission presidency that lived in Ridgecrest, so I went out and did some stuff with him a couple times. |
| 1:55.6 | Yeah, so that was where I was raised out in the desert. |
| 1:58.1 | I came up to BYU and really found myself here and my sort of a niche. |
| 2:05.4 | My brother and I going through our undergrad after I served a mission in Austria, we started a |
| 2:12.3 | diamond business and it kind of took off. But all along, I knew that I wanted to teach. |
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