Rabbit Holes & Meditations - Christian Bible Study

The Berean Teacher - LAUNCHED!

This is exciting for us! Today, we launched The Berean Teacher so our listeners can access the same tool we use daily to understand the Bible and find answers to scripture that are supported by scripture. We will be refining this tool to adhere strictly to Berean standards, supporting scripture with scripture, avoiding interpretive traps and doctrine. The tool is not meant to flatter or affirm the user’s ideas; it is meant to correct and teach appropriate scripture based strictly on what the Bible says. The Berean Teacher can be accessed at https://www.RabbitHolesAndMeditations.com [https://www.RabbitHolesAndMeditations.com] by clicking “Berean Search” in the top right. We hope our listeners get as much out of using this tool as we have. There is a comment section below the tool for your feedback. We’ll be using that to help us refine the tool. We want you to challenge the tool. Come with your deepest questions and determine if the response you’re getting is appropriate to what scripture has to say on the subject. Download The Berean Teacher Guide [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/5mdmc3rcr4gubgc6/Why_We_Built_The_Berean_Teacher6086m.pdf] Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-berean-teacher-launched/ [https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-berean-teacher-launched/]

The Spiritual House of Mirrors

We’ve talked a lot on this podcast about how the internet and AI can lead you astray with one simple strategy: affirmation. Your social media account, all the places you’ve visited online, all the videos you watch, all of it is a reflection of you. Jump into an AI chat, tell it what you're thinking, even if it’s completely wrong, and you’re likely to get the most amazing support to the point where you’re convinced that you could never be wrong on this. It’s worse when there are multiple, but unprovable, opinions on the same topic. Put those people in the same room and tell them the subject is something each has divergent opinions on; give them access to AI and the internet and a debate stage, and they can all stand up at the podium and defend their position with vigor, and some even with animosity. We all want to be right. But that is not solely the purview of AI, the internet and social media. Today, we look at the church. What we discover is not a new phenomenon, but something that has been happening to mankind forever. AI and the internet are just new ways to develop tribal support for a particular ideology or opinion. But we don’t need electronic media to see inside the house of mirrors. Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-spiritual-house-of-mirrors/ [https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-spiritual-house-of-mirrors/]

Before the Beginning - Humanity as the Instrument of Spiritual Warfare

I know the questions. I was a staunch atheist before I ever took the bible seriously. These will throw any Christian off his game: Where did the dinosaurs come from? Why aren’t pyramids ever mentioned in the bible? Our science dates the earth millions of years before Genesis… how does the Bible explain that? There are monolithic structures that not only pre-date the bible, they pre-date humanity if you consider the biblical timeline of 6000 years plus or minus. How was that possible? That’s just the tip of the iceberg. You don’t approach this by debunking science. You’ll dig a very deep hole if you do that. Instead, I think the correct approach is to let science have it’s points and see if we can harmonize the bible with science. I didn’t expect this temple study to resolve these questions. Honestly, the study didn’t answer the questions, the answers to the questions instead defined the first chapter of this study: Before The Beginning. Notes for Before the Beginning [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/m2mvbkgnzumxhbz9/before_the_beginning_v2.pdf] Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/before-the-beginning-humanity-as-the-instrument-of-spiritual-warfare/ [https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/before-the-beginning-humanity-as-the-instrument-of-spiritual-warfare/]

Brands and Logos - The Envy of Identity

Well, I started right where I should have in our journey tracing events in the bible where God has lived among men. The Israelites are about to construct the first human-built dwelling for God to live among them. I started today with Exodus 25 and didn’t get very far. I got to thinking about the last commandment (thou shalt not covet), about everything God is doing in this moment. I chased those thoughts. So today’s podcast isn’t not about the place where God lives … but then, as I think about it, that is exactly what today’s podcast is about. Offerings for the Tabernacle Exodus 25:1-8 The LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from everyone whose heart prompts them to give. These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze; blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair; ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather; acacia wood; olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece. “Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. 9 Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you. Notes for the Envy of Identity [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/h6dh6d4bd5rukb68/the_logo_we_wear.pdf] Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/brands-and-logos-the-envy-of-identity/ [https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/brands-and-logos-the-envy-of-identity/]

The First Supper

Typically when you embark on a journey to study end times in the bible you’re are bounced between Revelation, Daniel, Ezekiel, Zechariah with a little Matthew 24 and 24. Here, though, in season 5, As we walk through the Bible landing where God interacted with His creation, we are way back at the beginning and whatever the temple of the day was, we’re still seeing the connections leap off the page straight through the cross into Revelation. Honestly, we were hoping this would happen. We wanted to take this approach because if you understand the beginning, you can almost predict the end, without ever having read it. What we did not expect to see was how soon the clues start dropping into plain sight. Notes for The First Supper [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/cbrn89jvt68v69gd/The_First_Supper.pdf] Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-first-supper/ [https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-first-supper/]