The Abomination of Desolation
A View from the Bunker
Derek Gilbert
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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THE SO-CALLED silent centuries between the books of Malachi and Matthew in the Bible were not as quiet as we’ve been told.
Award-winning screenwriter and best-selling novelist Brian Godawa (Godawa.com) joins us to discuss the latest entries in his Chronicles of the Watchers series, Judah Maccabee Part 1: The Abomination of Desolation and Judah Maccabee Part 2: Against the Gods of Greece.
Brian tells us why he chose this period of relatively unfamiliar Jewish history (unfamiliar to Christians, anyway) to dramatize spiritual warfare, explains why the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament is relevant to Christians, and reveals where in the Apocrypha we find accounts of angels fighting against the Greeks for the Jews.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a view from the bunker. |
| 0:03.4 | Now, here's Derek Gilbert. |
| 0:08.0 | The so-called silent centuries between Malachi and Matthew aren't quite as silent as we've been taught. |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome to A View from the Bunker. I'm Derek Gilbert. |
| 0:17.3 | If you're watching us on YouTube, thank you. Please subscribe, share, click that bell for notifications. |
| 0:21.3 | Hit the like button, you know the drill. |
| 0:23.7 | And then please stick around after the break, tell you out of guarantee we never get canceled, |
| 0:28.2 | because on this program, that is a risk. |
| 0:31.0 | Joining us to discuss his new novels, which explores that period of time between the end |
| 0:36.9 | of the Old Testament and the beginning of the new. |
| 0:39.3 | The new novels, Judah Maccabee, Parts 1 and 2, Abomination of Desolation and Against the Gods of Greece, |
| 0:45.7 | which goes along with his nonfiction book that shows all the research, |
| 0:49.5 | reveals all the research that went into the novels, the spiritual world of ancient Israel and Greece. |
| 0:54.8 | We welcome back to the program award-winning screenwriter, best-selling novelist Brian Godawa. |
| 0:59.6 | Brian, thanks for joining us. |
| 1:01.5 | Thanks for having me, Derek. |
| 1:02.8 | You are always the first guy I call when I'm ready to start doing interviews. |
| 1:06.5 | You know, I consider that high praise because I first heard about you on issues, et cetera, in St. Louis, as you were a regular guest there with Todd Wilkin, who he's a Lutheran pastor, but I got to say, he's one of the best talk show hosts out there, bar none in any format. And so he was a regular listen to me for me on the way home from work every day when I was back selling steel pipe in St. Louis. |
| 1:31.6 | But heard you talking about social issues from your perspective as a Hollywood screenwriter. |
| 1:36.8 | And since then, you've got several series of novels out there that explore spiritual warfare in a very real sense. And I think give people an opportunity |
| 1:46.7 | to see in their mind's eye what these conflicts look like, what these small G gods, the fallen |
| 1:53.2 | angels who've rebelled against their creator, are up to and what they might be trying to accomplish |
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