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Welcome to the NECKED Bible Podcast of Episode 51, Acts 15.

I'm your layman, Trace Dirkland, and he's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heizer.

Hey, Mike, how you doing this week?

Very good. Very good. Glad to be back.

Oh, good. Me too. I'm ready for Acts 15.

You know, Acts 15 today, and what I'm going to do, this is going to be a little different.

At the beginning, it'll feel the same. I'm just going to read through the whole chapter.

But my aims for this particular episode are a little different.

This chapter has a pretty important citation of an Old Testament passage that really has implications for hermetic generally.

Specifically, since it's dealing with prophecy, how prophecy does work, at least in some cases, in the New Testament.

And that, in turn, has implications for how we should think about prophetic fulfillment in the future to ourselves.

Now, the passage is going to be familiar. And what I've said isn't new. I've said that before on blogs, you know, and different presentations about how, you know, the whole concept of literalism, you know, just needs definition in and of itself.

And it's a lot more complicated than people think in terms of, you know, literal interpretation of prophecy.

So what I want to do in this episode is I'm going to try to not be overwhelming, but I'm going to try to illustrate how complicated this stuff gets.

And I'm going to take listeners into a bot, what I'd call maybe 10, 15% of the complexity in this episode.

And I'm going to be referencing articles written by different people. The tray will have those posted with the episode.

So that people who are interested, and frankly, you're going to need a little bit of Greek and Hebrew, at least for one of them.

People who are interested can go up and look and sort of get exposed to the other 85% of why this stuff is so complicated.

But I want to try to, again, overwhelm you a little bit in the episode, but not too much. Just try to give you a sense of prophecy, the whole discussion about fulfillment or not, and how we should understand prophecy now.

It's just so much more complicated than your prop prop, excuse me, your popular prophecy teachers will will impress upon you.

It's just light years beyond what they're telling you. And again, I just want listeners to have some appreciation for that and to understand why, you know, why does Mike roll his eyes when he hear, you know, when somebody says something about, oh, well, this passage talks about the twin towers or, oh, I, you know, I'm reading this in my newspaper.

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