Hi, Gary Steerman Time for another update from Prophecy Watchers in studio with us today is Ken Johnson. And Ken, good to have you here.

Good to be back.

Ken's brought another new book. And, you know, this one, Ken, I think it's a little controversial. We'll talk about some

of the controversy, but it's really interesting because it provides yet another window on

Bible prophecy. It's called the ancient apocalypse of Ezra. And of course everybody's heard

of Ezra, right? Ezra at Nehemiah that came back after the Babylonian

captivity. We're involved in rebuilding the temple and so forth. And Ezra is considered a valid

biblical prophet. But the ancient apocalypse of Ezra is called second Estrus in the King James Version of 1611,

which I have right here.

It's the Apocrypha.

That little collection of books right in the middle of the Bible that the King James Version had in it.

And Ezra is really he opens that segment, first and second, Esdras, as it's called.

And what did you find there of great interest?

Well, it's interesting. I studied that in seminary, but it gives a prophecy about how the Roman Empire falls and connects it with Daniel's fourth beast.

And it gives a detailed analysis of how many Caesars there are and when they are

and their relation to each other in years between the fall of three, well, the split of the kingdom in 3.95, rather,

and the fall of the kingdom in 476. And it's exactly perfect. The oldest

script of that that we have dates from about AD 200. And so to have an actual prophecy a few

hundred years at least, if not further back, before the events happen, is pretty amazing.

But it goes on to talk about the Roman Empire fragmenting into three large empires,

which we know from history to be Rome that fell in 476,

the Byzantine Empire that fell in 1453,

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