The Sovereign and the Witness
Holy Ghost Stories
Justin Gerhardt
4.9 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
When Daniel has questions about Yahweh's plans, angelic emissaries shock him with answers.
Text: Daniel 9-12
Players:
- Yahweh
- Daniel
- Gabriel
- The Man in Linen
What's Spooky:
- Not much—this one should be just fine for younger audiences
Credits:
Research, Writing, Narration, Sound Editing: Justin Gerhardt
Manuscript Editing: JL Gerhardt
Production: Hazefire Studios
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is he up to? Why does he wait? Has our sin hidden his face forever? |
| 0:12.0 | Has he forgotten? As he moved on? Are we on our own? |
| 0:19.0 | These questions are not born from faithlessness. |
| 0:23.4 | They emerge because we're human. |
| 0:28.3 | This is a story about a man who wondered, |
| 0:31.7 | not about God's justice of that he was certain. |
| 0:35.4 | He wondered about the Almighty's grace, |
| 0:38.8 | daring to ask aloud if perhaps what was undeserved |
| 0:42.1 | might be offered anyway. |
| 0:45.4 | It's a story about that petition |
| 0:47.6 | and about the incredible things that happened next. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm Justin Gerhardt. |
| 0:55.6 | Welcome to Holy Ghost Stories. His skin is like tree bark, |
| 1:33.5 | corrugated, ridged, a complicated topography bearing witness to the footfall of decades. |
| 1:42.9 | Light streams in through the window, the sun illuminating the old man's face, his desk, |
| 1:50.4 | the scrolls. |
| 1:52.2 | Every once in a while a swift darts past, its echoed cries drifting through the aperture. |
| 1:59.2 | A breeze zephyrs in, |
| 2:01.6 | brushing its eyelashes against his cheek, |
| 2:04.6 | rustling the parchment like an angel |
| 2:06.6 | stirring a pool of miracle water. |
| 2:10.6 | The smile lines on the man's face grow deeper |
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