Hello, welcome back to the Scriptures Are Real.

I am your host for today, Lamar, and this is my good friend, Carrie.

Hey, how are you?

God, I'm doing well.

It's Christmas time.

You've got your Christmas acutremone behind you. I've got my holly in the ivy. It's actually more bamboo in the ivy. Anyway, that's close enough. This little one right here was actually painted by my daughter. That's a little nativity scene where the angels are like the stars. My daughter painted for us. I love it. But anyway. Very good. it is Christmas time. And you just finished up the book of Revelations with some of your great guests. And, uh, yeah. Well, we have one more episode of Revelation to go with Nick, Nick, right? He's coming. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'll be excited to hear that one. Um, yeah, I've been really enjoying some of your guests on there. And, um, uh, it Jason? Yeah, Jason Combs. Oh, yeah, Jason, yeah. He has some super cool things to say. I didn't know that a locust had a, had a five-month lifespan, and it ties in with, I mean, he has some pretty cool tidbits that I thought was just really great. Yeah, I had no idea about that either or catching on. I don't know why. I never did the math that all these numbers are different ways of saying three and a half. Yeah, and three and a half is kind of just a weird number. Yeah. You don't hear the ancient world going in half. These ancient world uses full numbers. But anyway, I thought that was very clever. Anyway, so if you haven't caught those episodes, go back and listen to Revelations. It will make, it'll be a revelation to you. It's pretty awesome. There's some big stuff in there. So, well said. Now, so, wait, before we get started, you have some sponsors that have been so helpful and kind and helped us out.

Tell us a little bit about who's helping us out with the show.

Well, this one is kind of a specific episode for Spark,

the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Cultures that we want to clue people in on.

And he was our guest last year in January, my friend, an archaeologist named Jeff Chadwick. And he just did a long

lecture about what things were like in the time of Christ and the birth of Christ for Spark that I

thought was really, really wonderful. So I just wanted to make our audience aware that if they go to

Sparkproject.org, and that's with the C, S-B-A-R-C, Sparkproject.org. And if you join Spark there, then you could listen to Jeff's lecture as part of your Christmas, and then there are a whole bunch of other lectures you could listen to. And he has a book out about the manger and things about it's called stone manger you can get it

it's an audible or i think it's a kindle anyway it's only electronically that you can

get it but you get it through amazon it i i found it very fascinating if you want to listen

that episode it's in january so he's still got his christmas things up but but it's in january and uh it's in January so he's still got his Christmas things up but

it's in January and it's beginning of this year and we've talked about the Christmas

episode and it's fantastic he has some really interesting things about what the

inn was really like and what the what the manger would have been like and and you know, some more archaeological things, which

rounds out the story to me.

I thought it was great.

He had some really good things.

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