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🗓️ 15 October 2025

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What is prophecy? Do you have doubts about spiritual realities? Do you trust the word of the Lord? In today's episode, Jensen shares how 2 Kings 9:14-29 encourages us to root our lives in the truth of God's word. If you're listening on Spotify, tell us about yourself and where you're listening from! Read the Bible with us in 2025! This year, we’re exploring the Historical Books—Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 2 Kings 9:14-29

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.9	I'm Jensen Holt McNair. When you think about prophecies, what comes to mind? Maybe you think of the backlash
0:18.3	against childhood books like Harry Potter for including divination, prophecy, and magic. Maybe you think of the backlash against childhood books like Harry Potter for including divination, prophecy, and magic.
0:24.3	Maybe you think of street preachers on the corner prophesying the end of the world.
0:28.9	Maybe you think of cult leaders or online bloggers.
0:32.3	Whatever you think, if you're anything like me, I'd guess that your beliefs hold a bit of skepticism in them. You see,
0:40.3	the logical nature of the Western world, the self-deterministic nature of our time, leads
0:45.4	most people to focus on the material world in front of them, and to hold a certain belief that
0:50.6	they're in control of their destiny. And this worldview often casts doubt on or
0:55.6	disregards entirely the immaterial, the spiritual, the divine. It makes things tricky for Christians
1:02.9	who believe in the divine but swim in the waters of the West. We often come to a mixed bag of
1:09.7	belief surrounding things in the Bible that seem
1:11.9	too immaterial, too implausible, maybe too spiritual. Like we believe in God, we go to church, we read
1:19.7	our Bible, pray, try to be good people, dot our eyes, cross our teas, but we often lack a certain
1:25.8	recognition of the spiritual powers of God at work in our
1:29.4	world. We sometimes doubt the miraculous. We question healing. We second-guess stories of God at work in
1:36.7	powerful ways. And at times, for good reason, there are many who try to use these sorts of stories
1:42.7	to manipulate and control people.
1:46.0	But oftentimes, we can let our skepticism keep us from believing in the power of God.
1:53.4	Today's passage from 2 Kings 9 makes us face the reality of the prophetic word of God.
1:59.6	In it, we have Jehu, the commander of Israel's armies,
2:02.6	who has just been anointed king by Elisha in fulfillment of a prophecy of God. And in our passage,
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