Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at Talbot School

of Theology here at Biola University.

I'm your co-host Sean McDow, Professor of Apologetics at Talbot School Theology

Biola University.

We're here with our special guest today, Dr Mark Sossi, who is professor of systematic theology here at

Talbot and also son of Biola's eminent theologian Dr. Bob Soecy who taught on

the faculty for more than 50 years here. This is a case of the apple not falling

far from the tree because Mark is an incredibly insightful theologian and we've asked him to speak

to one particular area of theology today

known as eschatology. So this is this is going to be marked for theology

101 for our listeners related to the field of eschatology. So to our listeners

don't let the term scare you because one of the things Mark is especially good

at is taking complex theological subjects and making them accessible to people who may not have a lot of theological education.

So that was a passive aggressive way of saying you better tone it down here for us on eschatology.

Put the cookies on the lower shelf here.

Yeah for sure and happy to do that but I got to give a disclaimer that you know my father

was the real Dr.

Soi I'm kind of the apple falling far from the tree I'm not so sure I'm in that

league well I I think your students might say something a little different

than that well we'll do our best.

Well, Mark, I think first of all, for our listeners who are not familiar with the term,

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