How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

It seems like everywhere we look, the world is in chaos.

But can you imagine a world filled with peace and safety?

No traffic, no pollution, just clean air, quiet streets, and children playing freely,

and older generations living with joy and dignity among their families.

Well, that's not just wishful thinking, it's a promise that God makes about the future.

Welcome to Through the Bible, as Dr. J. Vernon McGee walks us through Zachariah Chapter 8, and we get a

powerful glimpse of the coming kingdom, one that echoes the hope first shared by the prophet Isaiah.

I'm Steve Schwetz, and as you grab your Bible and your seat on the Bible bus, Greg Harris and I have really an encouraging and also challenging update on how God is at work through his word in Mongolia.

Steve, one of the things that we try to do in these dialogues is kind of pull back the curtain and let people know what it is that it takes to do this type of

ministry. And we would be less than honest if we said everything was onward and upward and

glorious and golden out. We have lots of amazing, wonderful things to tell. But it's a lot of hard work

for us to keep this ministries on track. Yeah. And as we've said before, it's the Lord ultimately that sets open doors before us and opens those doors. Yes. Sometimes those doors fling wide open. Sometimes they're a little squeaky on the hinges and they don't always open. Sometimes they hit you on the way through. And to continue that analogy, sometimes they open, you go through them and you think you're going to go through another one and that door ends up being closed. And the ministry doesn't go as far as we thought it would. But let's go back to the beginning. And I actually was personally involved in this before I was on staff at Through the Bible. I was the president at F.EBC, Far East Broadcasting Company, one of our great partners. And I was in Mongolia and and I started talking to the team there, you need to get through the Bible in Mongolian.

And finally, when I came on staff, around 2013, 2012, so about 12 or so years ago, we started it.

And the exciting narrative, which was absolutely true, is that in 1990 there were about

four known Christians. And by just another 15 years later, there were almost 100,000. And so,

so the real encouraging thing is that you know how all the New Testament epistles, Paul's basically

correcting bad theology and bad behavior.

And that's the beauty of through the Bible is even when the underlying support organization, if you will, the leaders may change.

As long as the content that is solid and secure and been taught consistently continues to go out. A lot of things that get bent kind of

get straightened back again because Dr. McGee does such a good job taking you back to what the

Word of God says and applies it to your daily life. That is such an important point. And we have

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