The Importance of Understanding the Old Testament (with Dr. Andrew Swafford)

Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)

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🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In order to fully comprehend what Christ did for us, it is essential that we also understand the Old Testament. Today, Mike is joined by Dr. Andrew Swafford to discuss the importance of studying the Old Testament in order to deepen our knowledge of Christ and become more effective in evangelization.

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You’ll never fully appreciate Jesus until you see him as bringing about the fulfillment and culmination of this great story that has gone on since the beginning of time.

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0:00.0	And so as you move from the old to the new, you move from imitation to participation.
0:05.4	So the earthly liturgy now is a share-in.
0:08.2	We worship with the angels and saints.
0:10.6	And so it's not a given way of priested liturgy, sacrifice, temple.
0:14.5	It's going from the earthly to the heavenly. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to every knee shall bow, your seasonal Catholic
0:36.4	podcast on evangelization and discipleship.
0:39.4	My name is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I am not joined today by Dave Van Vickle.
0:44.4	Unfortunately, Dave, every single time for the past four weeks when we have tried to get together and schedule recordings and shows and interviews, His wife has had to do doctor's appointments
0:55.6	literally all over the country. I think right now he's in Nashville. And so keep Dave and Amber in
1:00.6	your prayers. Also keep Dave's mom in your prayers because I learned while I was in the Holy Land
1:04.7	that his mom got diagnosed with cancer as well. So his wife and his mom. So please, please, please
1:10.2	keep the whole Van Vickle clan in your prayers.
1:12.7	But today, uh, we are very lucky. We get to interview Dr. Andrew Swofford, doctor who is a full
1:18.5	professor of theology at Benedictine College. Uh, I have known Dr. Swofford since he was a,
1:26.4	I think you were, you were an undergrad when you came in to take that
1:29.9	intensive ancient Greek class. And I should have failed it. And I think he lost, I think he lost my
1:35.2	midterm. So he just gave me all the credit for it. And then, yeah, so I got an A minus in the class.
1:40.9	Definitely should have failed. That's not true. Definitely should have failed. How you doing, Dr. Swofford?
1:44.4	Oh, it's great to be doing with you.
1:46.6	I literally sat in the middle of the,
1:48.5	I sat in the middle of the five of us so that I would have when we would do our homework in
1:54.4	the morning, right?
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