Our guest, Dr. Ken Johnson, has written 28 books. And I'm holding number 28 in my hand right now.

It's called Ancient Testaments of the Patriarchs.

Ken Johnson, welcome to Prophecy Watchers.

Thank you.

I appreciate your writing style.

I would call it accessible.

You know, a lot of academic literature is just, you know, it has Greek quotes, it has Hebrew quotes, it has Latin quotes, it has sections and subsections and paragraphs on top of each other and you

say, oh, boring. And you close it up. Not true. When you read ancient Testaments of the

Patriarchs, I guarantee you you're going to have, as I did, you're going to have an emotional experience.

And the reason for that is because we have real people writing real letters to other people

in just the way your family would write a letter. This is amazing to me.

Right. A lot of those, when I first read them, I wasn't too sure they should be published.

They're very, very personal.

But then you see the prophecy behind them, and it's pretty important.

And so you're talking about the patriarchs.

Who were they? When did they write?

How do we have their letters saved in order to be able to read them?

Well, it's an interesting story because the church fathers, the Jews of today from the

stories in the Talmud and the Dead Sea Scrolls all tell this legend about how Adam, in

the lineage given in Genesis, Adam through Noah, Shamm down to Abraham, Isaac Jacob, Levi, Kohath, Amram, and Aaron.

This lineage were all basically all prophets, they all wrote Testaments, which is kind of

like a last will in Testament. So it's what you would want to tell your kids. Don't make my

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