There are many prophecies in the Bible that come from ancient sources, and they're rarely studied.

And they're rarely studied. But here today is someone who does study them and has written several books about the ancient prophecies of the end times.

Dr. Ken Johnson, Ken, always good to have you back.

It's good to be here. And we're going to spend the next half hour or so talking about those ancient prophetic sources

that up until recently have been sort of left alone. They have lain there in the dusty cupboards and cabinets and

lockers of history and you found them. You pulled them out. And you've written a book about

Ezra. Now let's talk about the Ezra of the Old Testament and Esdras, ESDRAS, as he appears in the apocryphal books. And by the way,

we're going to be talking about the apocrypha quite a bit today. Well, Ezra was the priest

that came back from the first exile. And Ezra and Nehemiah, we have that in our Bible. So what we have is Ezra is in the Greek

version, like the Septuagint of those Bibles, and then the Latin form, is Ezris. They just

spell it differently. So we have first Ezra in the Greek text, which is basically Ezra,

or sometimes it's Ezra and Nehemiah put together.

But second Ezra, or the apocalypse of Ezra, is actually a secondary book on prophecy.

Now I have here a facsimile of the 1611 King James Version of the Bible and I open it up and lo and behold,

right in the middle between Old and New Testaments are the books of the Apocrypha. And this just fell open to second

Esdras, which we're going to be talking about today. And in fact, you have a first

Esdras and a second Esdras, and we're going to talk about how those work and why there's

a one and a two. And what Esdras says to us that's really, I think, fascinating. And that

leads me to this question. You've looked at lost manuscripts,

as they are called. You've done a lot of work on Enok. You've done a lot of work on,

you recently talked about Gad the Seer. And you sort of probe into areas that

other people have left alone. And what I want to know is how did you get started doing this?

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