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But before we get into the big topic today, PJ, we got two questions submitted by listeners.

Yeah.

So first one was, how do I study through the book of Ezekiel?

Yeah, so anytime you hit one of the major or minor prophets, or anytime you hit one of the apocalyptic books in the Bible, one thing is absolutely key, and that is you have to know the historical context of what's happening here.

So you got to find out the questions to the answers.

What is happening in the life of Israel right now? What kind of king are they under? Are they currently in exile? Are they out of exile? And most importantly, what are they doing wrong? Because 99% of the time with the prophetic books, they are doing something wrong.

They're either denying social justice, they have denied their God, they have accepted the prophets, especially the prophets of Baal.

There's all kinds of different things that are coming up, and each of the prophets are addressing a certain issue to those people.

So if you don't understand the historical context at the time, your understanding of the book is really going to be skewed.

So in the book of Ezekiel, I would tell you to just do some Googling, do some research and see what the historical context is.

And then the second question was.

Why is the book of Revelation the last book that was written? And why aren't we writing more of the Bible today? That's a good one.

That's a good question, brother.

So essentially, long story short, the apostolic age ended when the apostle Paul John died, who wrote Revelation.

And honestly, Revelation covered from pretty much when Jesus died all the way to when we go back to... heaven with them.

I mean, what else more is there to cover? But one of the reasons why they're not adding more is because the people who wrote the books in the Bible, especially in the New Testament, were apostles who witnessed Jesus' death, witnessed his resurrection.

They were his brothers.

They were disciples, whatever.

All except for Paul, who wrote a majority of the New Testament, but he was brought in from the apostles, called by Jesus.

So he has been allowed to write the New Testament books.

but one of the reasons why that's the case is because anybody could just write anything at any time about jesus and say it's a book of the bible which you're you're probably thinking i'm being a negative nancy but i specifically remember in colorado when i was driving i got cut off by this dude and on the back of his like he cut me off so bad and on the back of his window was a decal that said like it just gave like an Instagram handle.

And I was like, okay, I, I've never done this, but I got to see who this clown is that I, if you're going to cut me off, I'm going to go to your Instagram.

And he was a dude who was handwriting a whole new Testament.

And it was interesting because like he, he clearly had, I'm trying to not to sound rude.

I mean, I don't have much respect for the guy, but he clearly had like an eighth grade, education because the writing was atrocious and everything was taught was like God talking to us about this guy who cut me off being almost like the new Messiah.

But before we get into the big topic today, PJ, we got two questions submitted by listeners.

Yeah.

So first one was, how do I study through the book of Ezekiel?

Yeah, so anytime you hit one of the major or minor prophets, or anytime you hit one of the apocalyptic books in the Bible, one thing is absolutely key, and that is you have to know the historical context of what's happening here.

So you got to find out the questions to the answers.

What is happening in the life of Israel right now? What kind of king are they under? Are they currently in exile? Are they out of exile? And most importantly, what are they doing wrong? Because 99% of the time with the prophetic books, they are doing something wrong.

They're either denying social justice, they have denied their God, they have accepted the prophets, especially the prophets of Baal.

There's all kinds of different things that are coming up, and each of the prophets are addressing a certain issue to those people.

So if you don't understand the historical context at the time, your understanding of the book is really going to be skewed.

So in the book of Ezekiel, I would tell you to just do some Googling, do some research and see what the historical context is.

And then the second question was.

Why is the book of Revelation the last book that was written? And why aren't we writing more of the Bible today? That's a good one.

That's a good question, brother.

So essentially, long story short, the apostolic age ended when the apostle Paul John died, who wrote Revelation.

And honestly, Revelation covered from pretty much when Jesus died all the way to when we go back to... heaven with them.

I mean, what else more is there to cover? But one of the reasons why they're not adding more is because the people who wrote the books in the Bible, especially in the New Testament, were apostles who witnessed Jesus' death, witnessed his resurrection.

They were his brothers.

They were disciples, whatever.

All except for Paul, who wrote a majority of the New Testament, but he was brought in from the apostles, called by Jesus.

So he has been allowed to write the New Testament books.

but one of the reasons why that's the case is because anybody could just write anything at any time about jesus and say it's a book of the bible which you're you're probably thinking i'm being a negative nancy but i specifically remember in colorado when i was driving i got cut off by this dude and on the back of his like he cut me off so bad and on the back of his window was a decal that said like it just gave like an Instagram handle.

And I was like, okay, I, I've never done this, but I got to see who this clown is that I, if you're going to cut me off, I'm going to go to your Instagram.

And he was a dude who was handwriting a whole new Testament.

And it was interesting because like he, he clearly had, I'm trying to not to sound rude.

I mean, I don't have much respect for the guy, but he clearly had like an eighth grade, education because the writing was atrocious and everything was taught was like God talking to us about this guy who cut me off being almost like the new Messiah.