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Announcer: Welcome to Watchman on the Wall, a daily outreach of Southwest Radio Ministries and swrc.com. God is still on the throne, and prayer changes things. Defending the faith, understanding Bible prophecy, uncovering the mysteries of scripture. Today on Watchman on the Wall, Josh Davis welcomes four special guests for a fascinating preview of our biggest conference of the year, Prophecy in the News Live happening this week at Exit 7 in Bristol, Virginia. A great conversation is straight ahead this Thursday. The countdown is almost over, and your opportunity to attend Prophecy in the News Live in Bristol is slipping away.

October 22nd through the 24th, three incredible days, three powerful themes. Thursday, apologetics. Friday, Bible prophecy. Saturday, mysteries of the Bible verse. If you haven't registered, don't put it off. This is our final conference of the year, and seating is limited. Pick up the phone right now. Call 1-800-652-1144 or go immediately to swrc.com and secure your seats. Don't wait until the opportunity is gone. Register today, and we'll see you Thursday in Bristol. Friends, how do we defend what we believe, understand what the Bible says about the future, and approach some of scripture's most intriguing mysteries? On today's program, four guests join Josh Davis to explore three fascinating areas of biblical study, Christian apologetics, Bible prophecy, and the mysteries found in God's word.

Join swrc for its biggest conference of the year at this week's Prophecy in the News Live event in Bristol, Virginia.

Josh Davis: Greeting, friends. This is the special week when we have Prophecy in the News Live. It's our largest conference of the year. It's coming to Bristol, Virginia, and we are so excited to welcome many of our dear friends from across the country who are traveling in to be a part of this special weekend, three full days with a specific focus for each day. All day Thursday, October 22nd will be about Bible apologetics. How do we know that we can trust the word of God? How do we know that Jesus is God? What about creation versus evolution?

All those kinds of topics will be addressed this Thursday. Then on Friday, the whole day is focused on Bible prophecy as we discuss the pre-tribulation rapture. What about dispensationalism? What about Israel in God's redemptive and prophetic plan? And so we're going to be talking about that all day Friday, October 23rd. And then on Saturday is a very special day, and I have a special guest joining me to describe that. It's our host of Marginal Mysteries, Micah Van Huss. Micah, thank you so much for joining me.

Micah Vann Huss: Thank you for having me, Josh, and I look forward to seeing folks out at the Mysteries of the Bible Verse, which is the third day of our three-day conference. On Saturday, we've got a couple of new speakers this year, Doc Brown and Tyler Gilreath. Doc Brown will be speaking at 10:15 in the morning, and he will be speaking on the biblical Bigfoot, Esau, and what really was Esau. He'll also be talking a little bit about the giants. Tyler Gilreath, he is an author and a speaker, and he is going to be speaking on the transfiguration mystery, Moses, Elijah, and the Forgotten Revelation Beyond the Veil.

These two gentlemen are very nice gentlemen. They've got some good content online. We also have Mac Dominick speaking for us at the Mysteries of the Bible Verse, and I will be speaking not only on my previous book, Angels Eternal, I will also be speaking on my brand new book, Mythologies Decoded, Echoes of the Bible. This is our third Mysteries of the Bible Verse. We always have a good time talking about God's mysteries. So we're going to be talking about the weird stuff, and you know, a lot of folks are sensitive to that, but I promise you for my part that I will filter everything through the Bible.

That's the way I look at my life, I look at the world, I look at my studies. There's a lot of weird stuff out there, and I have an open mind, but I don't ever let it contradict the Bible. If you've read any of my books, you know that's the way it goes. So we're going to have a good time talking about the mysteries of God 's creation on Saturday.

Josh Davis: Yes. Yeah, you're always very good at delineating those things and showing that scripture is our standard. It's all for naught. What's the line that you say about believing in Jesus?

Micah Vann Huss: Jesus Christ is the central point of history and the central point of scripture, and it's all for naught. You can study the weird stuff all day long, but it's all for naught if you don't know Jesus Christ as your personal savior.

Josh Davis: Yes. Amen.

Micah Vann Huss: Now for my part, I believe that God has called me to study the mysterious. A mystery is a mystery by definition because the answer is not readily available. So you have to study, you have to study history, you have to study not only modern writings from modern authors, but ancient writings. We don't take any of these writings, even what I write, we don't take any of this as inspired other than the 66 books of Canon. But you know, some things are mystery because the answer is not there. So we do have to to study in artifacts and and different things.

It's been definitely a fun. I guess I've been at it four or five going on five years now. And I love doing this. What God's called me to do. And honestly, I'd rather talk about the mysteries of the Bible than the latest football game. And you know, some folks like I don't talk about giants, I don't talk about this, and that's fine. You know, folks don't want to talk about that, that's fine. But I'd rather talk about that than than the latest sports scores or anything else. Yeah, so we're going to talk about the weird stuff from a biblical perspective.

Mac Dominick's talking about Jesus versus the old gods. And that is a bit synonymous with my Mythologies Decoded, talking about the gods of old, the gods of mythology. And so I will also be talking about my Angels Eternal Realm of the Dead. Scripture mentions the giants that are in hell. Three different places at least. Four actually, four different places now that I've found another one. You know, that's that's a weird mystery. Giants in hell, what does that mean? What does it mean for our future? So we're going to be talking about that one. That's the first presentation on Saturday at 9:00 a.m.

My second presentation is Angels Eternal War of the Princess, which is the three reasons that Jesus came to the Earth. And we'll get into that on Saturday.

Josh Davis: Yeah, very good. Each day we will have six sessions. That means across the three days, 18 total sessions plus a lot of opportunity for Q and A with the speakers one-on-one in between the sessions. And it's just going to be a an a jam-packed weekend filled with all kinds of great ministry, whether it's Christian apologetics, Bible prophecy, or the mysteries of the Bible verse Thursday, Friday, Saturday. We would love to see you there. You're going to hear from some more of our speakers as this episode continues, but I want to take just a second and tell you how you can register for this conference.

You can give us a call, 1-800-652-1144. That's 1-800-652-1144 or go online, swrc.com. That's swrc.com. Also joining us at the upcoming Prophecy in the News Live event in Bristol, Virginia is our good friend Dr. Lonnie Shipman. All day Thursday is about Bible apologetics. How do we know that we are believing the truth? And he's going to be helping us shore up our knowledge of the scriptures, Bible understanding and Bible proofs. But also on Thursday, he's got a very unique session called Majestic Piano Praise. And Dr. Shipman will also be back with us on our Bible Prophecy Day.

That's Friday, October 23rd. He's speaking right before lunch about Israel's future temples and Israel's future wars. Dr. Shipman, we are so excited to have you join us at the conference coming up this week. You have some very unique sessions that you're going to be speaking and giving us these messages, but also the Majestic Piano Praise. Could you highlight a little bit of of the kinds of things you're going to be sharing at the conference, including the music and the messages?

Lonnie Shipman: Oh, certainly. Yes, sir. It's a great honor to be with you all again in Southwest. We sure appreciate all of your great ministry for many many years. And part where we do Bible understanding and Bible proofs cover how to understand the Bible, different segments of the Bible, what are the genres, how you understand prophecy, how you interpret the Bible, and how to study the Bible in different ways. So we'll cover that rather thoroughly as well as proofs the Bible is true. Sometimes people deny certain things of the Bible. Uh we have in our book one thing for instance they deny is Trinity, and we show how they believe in the Trinity very very early.

Some people try to claim the Trinity wasn't included till about 500 years ago, sort of made up by a Catholic guy. However it was already mentioned in writing by other people in the 200s and the 300s, 400s, 500s. And that even these verses they try to try to claim that were later written and added to the Bible were already in the Bible in the very very early years. And all the copies we have include the Trinity verses.

Josh Davis: Yes. Mhm.

Lonnie Shipman: There are proofs the Bible has not been changed. We still have the complete word of God and then other evidences in archaeology and things. So those are the in Bible interpretation or our understanding I might say and Bible proofs. Then in music, I was trained as a concert pianist and won international competitions in piano, first place in the world six times as a teenager, then traveled the world wide, then was called to preach at 15. So then I now I'm now taking use of my own arrangements of the hymns, sometimes with classical show pieces. And I've done 31 international tours to 27 countries.

And so I sometimes combine these songs, these hymns, Amazing Grace, things like this with classical pieces. Sometimes we don't. Just do it in a beautiful manner. So this is begun as a majestic piano concert of hymns. And we also tell the story of the impact of the gospel through the hymns while we're doing the concert. The next day we'll cover prophecy. And there I have two works that we'll deal with in that. One is dealing with the treasure in the coming temple of God, really the search for the Ark of the Covenant and the rebuilding of the Jewish temple for the tribulation period and another temple for the millennium.

There'll be two coming temples, not just one. One of the Antichrist will basically great destroy, one where Jesus will reign. And they're built differently, in different sizes. And so we'll talk about the differences and why there are two coming temples and what it'll be like, where it might stand. Then we also there's many people who discuss these different wars. We of course have a current war in Iran. We discussed it, was that a possibility? This book was published right before this book called Israel in Crisis before this war started. Then we talk about the millennium after that.

So this all be covered in the prophetic hour, the coming temples and the coming wars that are biblical. Is there a war of Psalm 83? Is that actually a future war or what if happens in these other things? We lay out what these things come about biblically.

Josh Davis: We are very much looking forward to that and a lot of great resources and information. So friends, we invite you to join us on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, October 22nd through the 24th in Bristol, Virginia at the Delta Hotel. It's Prophecy in the News Live Thursday emphasizing Bible apologetics, Friday emphasizing Bible prophecy, Saturday emphasizing Bible mysteries. And we would love for you to join us for one day or all three days and be our special guest. You'll get to meet Dr. Lonnie Shipman and check out all the wonderful resources that he was just mentioning. So we would love to see you there this Thursday, Friday, Saturday, October 22nd through the 24th.

Dr. Shipman, thank you so much for joining me.

Lonnie Shipman: Thank you so much. God bless you. Look forward to seeing everyone.

Josh Davis: Friends, I'm joined with another speaker that's going to be at this upcoming Tri-Cities Conference this weekend. It's Larry Stamm. Larry, so great to be with you again.

Larry Stamm: Josh, great to be with you.

Josh Davis: On Monday of this week, we had a whole episode where we discussed your forthcoming book, which is also the basis for the prophecy conference presentation you're giving on Friday, Satan's Long War on Israel. Could you take just a couple of minutes and explain what is this book about? What is your presentation about that they can come and hear this coming Friday?

Larry Stamm: In response to the October 7th terrorist attacks, the Hamas-led terrorist attacks of 2023, the world has been in an uproar. It's amazing that the perpetrators they were lifted up and the victims were vilified. It is remarkable how anti-semitism has exploded since that time. And to me, this idea of anti-semitism just historically, currently, and biblically, it's not a complicated issue. I believe at its core it's spiritual in nature. And so the book really is entitled it's obviously entitled Satan's Long War on Israel, but the presentation and the book really talk about the fact that what we're seeing today, this chaos and pandemonium in the Middle East is a manifestation of spiritual war.

Why? Because God has future plans for Israel and the Jewish people, i.e. Romans chapter 11 verse 26 where Paul will write, all Israel shall be saved. And so in the book I chronicle from the garden to the cross in part one and from the cross to the kingdom in part two of the book, and I unpack this longest hatred because if Satan can eradicate the Jews in Israel from the face of the Earth, he would render God a liar, unfaithful to keep covenant promises. And so Israel is at the center of God's redemptive plan. And so the book is really a gospel teaching centered around Israel and the Jewish people's place in God 's redemptive plan and Satan's opposition to all things related to that redemptive plan, salvation found in Christ.

Josh Davis: Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. And there is so much in today's world and even in Christian circles, this seems to really be a a key key issue. And I'm so glad that you're going to take it head on with your book and also with this conference presentation. It's something that Christians need to really understand and gain a biblical perspective on. And and that 's why I'm so glad that you are tackling this subject with your unique background and with your unique perspective. And I 'm looking so forward to that. Friends, we're talking with Larry Stamm just highlighting a portion of what you're going to hear this weekend at Prophecy in the News Live.

There is still time for you to join us in Bristol, Virginia. Visit swrc.com and register today. Our website again is swrc.com. Click on events, click on this particular event. You'll see all the details, who's speaking, when they're speaking, what they're speaking about. All day Thursday is geared towards Christian apologetics, defending the Christian faith. Friday, that's when Larry's speaking. I'll be speaking on Friday as well. It's all about Bible prophecy. And then Saturday is Micah Van Huss hosting his Marginal Mysteries called Mysteries of the Bible Verse. And so we would love to have you with us.

And you say, well I can't be there in person. Never fear. We have a professional film crew who is coming to film these episodes or should I say these sessions as soon as they're edited and ready to go, we'll be telling you much more about that right here on Watchman on the Wall. So stay tuned. Larry, I 'm looking forward to the fellowship, looking forward to the conversations, and looking forward to hearing your message this Friday afternoon at the Prophecy in the News Live. Josh, it's going to be a privilege to bring this presentation and also to share highlights from this important and timely book, Satan's Long War on Israel.

Friends, last but not least we are privileged to be joined by another one of the speakers at this week upcoming Prophecy in the News Live event. It is our good friend Mac Dominick. Mac, thank you so much for joining me.

Mac Dominick: Oh, thank you Josh for having me. It's always a pleasure.

Josh Davis: Well you have the unique distinction at this particular conference to be the only speaker speaking on all three days. You have such a a unique background and you've researched a wide breadth of issues related to the Bible that we felt very confident in having you speaking on every single one of these days. Even though they're diverse topics, we know that you can do a wonderful job at these topics. And we're so glad that you're going to join us for this upcoming conference later this week.

Mac Dominick: I appreciate the confidence. I don't really know if it's a case of jack of all trades and master of none or just the experience from teaching Sunday school for 50 years.

Josh Davis: Well I I think it is the latter definitely because you have taught God's word for decades as you just said. And when you do that, you come into contact with all kinds of different avenues of learning. That's the thing of being a pastor and a youth pastor. And myself, that's something that I have challenged and studied, whether it be science and the scripture as we're going to get into for your first presentation and then Bible prophecy and all the different aspects of scripture. When you study from Genesis to Revelation as you have, then you understand the the great breadth that's encompassed in God's word.

And so on Thursday we're focused on apologetics, defending the Christian faith. And you have a unique title, Physics or Faith, Choose Wisely. Can you tell us a little bit about what this is discussing?

Mac Dominick: I'm actually very excited about this. All in all over the years I have taught a lot on creationism versus evolution. In the last few years I've taken courses, secular courses in physics such as Einstein's relativity and classes like that. I'm not a science expert by any means, but it's really interesting when you start taking secular courses along these lines of the mantras that are expounded by secular professors that just go completely against the scripture. And it provides in a venue such as ours, it provides a really good baseline for someone like myself that studied the Bible and studied the secular sciences, a good opportunity to make a comparison and reveal some things hopefully to folks that haven't studied in the secular realm some things that that will really enlighten them on what's actually being taught and what is believed by folks who really view a universe without a creator.

And that's really what it boils down to. I am really excited about it. I'm just hoping I can get through all of it. You know how it goes.

Josh Davis: Yes, yeah. Especially when you're talking about science and scripture. I I've taught on that like I said with our teenagers at church quite a bit. Actually going back this summer, I spent about two months just talking about that and didn't get much further than Genesis chapter one. That's very exciting. We're looking forward to that. Then on Friday all day is Bible prophecy. And you've got a special message, The War on Dispensational Theology. I just want to say thank you Mac for addressing this topic because we have seen this just really explode in the last handful of years.

Mac Dominick: It's really been a travesty from my perspective that the greater evangelical community, if we want to put it that way, is turning their back on dispensationalism. And dispensationalism has basically become a a dirty word. It's become like nationalism and and other things that were commendable in the past. And all of a sudden you're a pariah if you believe or teach that. This presentation is based on my new book. It's really the concluding part of the book as to everything I write about and where it's going to lead to is a war on dispensationalism not outside the church, but from within the church.

And we see this happening because of you know, there are cultural aspects, there are international aspects such as the the war that was started by Hamas against Israel and the reaction to that which was was absolutely unexpected and inexplicable in that Israel is seen to get all the blame for 1,200 of their people being tortured and massacred. It's absolutely incredible, but all of this ties in the Christian community comes back and ties in to dispensationalism versus covenant theology or reformed theology, whichever label you want to give it, because we live in an age of the mega church.

And mega church pastors are not big on teaching doctrine, they're not big on teaching theology, they're not big on teaching prophecy because that doesn't fit into the seeker sensitive mode. People that are born again, saved individuals in the evangelical community that have no clue as to what we're talking about when we talk about a war on dispensationalism or dispensationalism versus covenant theology. I believe it is a vital, critical thing that we get this message out to everyone in the Christian community that will listen.

Josh Davis: Yes, there is a real need for a solid biblical teaching on that particular subject. And I'm so glad that you are taking up that mantle and and helping to address this very essential issue. Then on Saturday it's The Mysteries of the Bible Verse hosted by our branch here at swrc, Marginal Mysteries with Micah Van Huss. And Mac is such an essential part of that as well. You'll be speaking Saturday afternoon on Jesus versus the old gods. Could you spend a couple minutes just previewing that presentation for our listeners today?

Mac Dominick: Absolutely. That is from my current book, the one that was introduced last year at at this same conference, Shadows of Evil, The Rise, Rule, and Return of the Old Gods. And part two, the book is in separated into four parts. And part two is of that title, Jesus versus the Old Gods. And basically we're going to look at the life of Jesus and the things that he did that seem to be very strange to us, why he went certain places, why he did certain things. And we will determine that is because when Jesus presented himself as the son of God, he was placing himself in a cultural confrontation with the Roman gods and the Greek gods and even some of the Canaanite gods.

We are products of the age of reason. But Jesus did not live in that time. Those people during the time of the life of Christ looked at the supernatural and what was happening when an empire conquered a people, the logical conclusion was that their gods must have been a lot stronger and more the true gods than the god worshiped by the conquered people. I hope I made that clear. The gods of the conquerors were superior to the gods of the conquered. And let's just put it that way. And in the case of the land of Judea, of course they worshiped Yahweh.

Jesus presented himself as the son of Yahweh to the Jewish people there. He was thrown into a one-upmanship battle with the Roman gods and even with the Greek gods because they had conquered Judea somewhere around 322 or thereabout BC. So about about 280 or so years earlier. So you have all these foreign gods that are demanding in the culture that they are superior to Yahweh. Jesus was thrown into that. And there are many things that Jesus did to show these people that he being the son of Yahweh makes Yahweh superior to the gods that actually conquered the nation.

And so we're going to look at that and we're going to try to get into the things that happened after the crucifixion, between the crucifixion and resurrection. And we should learn a lot about the gods that rule the land, how Jesus stood up to them, how Jesus proved his superiority, and how Jesus will win in the end when it's all said and done. I'm also you can probably tell I'm very excited about speaking on that as well.

Josh Davis: Oh yes, absolutely. That's a wonderful topic of course. And we always emphasize the fact that Jesus does win. And that's the what the end of the scripture emphasizes that he is the victor. So Mac, we're looking forward to having you with us. And friends, if you're able to come, there's still time to register. Visit swrc.com. That's swrc.com or give us a call today to register for the Bristol, Virginia conference toll free, 1-800-652-1144, 1-800-652-1144. Mac, I look forward to seeing you later this week and I hope that we'll get to see several of our friends there as well.

Mac Dominick: I'm really excited about it.

Josh Davis: This Thursday the countdown is almost over. And if you haven't registered for our Prophecy in the News Live conference in Bristol, Virginia, now is the time. October 22nd through the 24th Southwest Radio Ministries brings you our biggest and final conference of the year. Three days, three incredible themes, one unforgettable event. Thursday apologetics, Friday Bible prophecy, Saturday Mysteries of the Bible Verse. Here Josh Davis, Micah Van Huss, Mac Dominick, Mark Linsted, Larry Stamm, Dr. Kenneth Hill, Tyler Gilreath and more. This is your last chance to make plans. The conference begins Thursday at the Delta Hotel on Exit 7 in Bristol, Virginia.

Don't wait another minute. Pick up the phone and call 1-800-652-1144 or go to swrc.com right now and register. This Thursday through Saturday, Bristol, Virginia, three days that could deepen your understanding of God's word, so don't miss it. 1-800-652-1144 or visit swrc.com. Watchman on the Wall is a production of Southwest Radio Ministries and is supported by faithful friends like you. Please visit swrc.com.