Rabbit Holes & Meditations

You think the Parable of the Dragnet is a threat. Look at who heard it. Matthew 13. Jesus sends the multitude away. He goes into the house. The crowd is gone. Only the disciples are left — men who dropped their nets, left the tax booth, walked away from everything. And it is to them, privately, that Jesus tells His last parable of the day. A net swept through the sea. Every kind gathered. Drawn to shore when full. The good into vessels. The bad cast away. Then He interprets it Himself. Nob

I don't get rattled much by what's going on in the world, but the production of this podcast has stirred some anxiousness deep in my soul. Not because of what Revelation says, but because of the plausibility of what we're presenting. Everybody watching the field of AI has no doubt crossed paths with Yampolskiy. We watched an interview with him and then asked a simple question. Can we extrapolate what Yampolskiy is saying and overlay it on the text of Revelation? Just to begin with a guardrail

You’ve heard this parable your whole life. Two verses. A merchant, a pearl, a sale. Simple — until you notice where Jesus said it, and to whom. Not to the crowds. Matthew is explicit: Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him (Matthew 13:36). The Pearl of Great Price was never public teaching. It was spoken behind a closed door, to twelve men who had already sold everything — boats, nets, a tax booth, the family trade. Men who had just spent th

One verse. That is the whole parable. And almost everyone reads it as a sales pitch — Jesus persuading seekers to consider the kingdom. Read the chapter again. The crowds were already gone. Matthew 13:44 was spoken inside a house, after Jesus sent the multitude away. The only people in the room were disciples — men who had already left boats, nets, tax tables, and family businesses to follow Him. This is not an altar call. It is a word to people who had already paid everything. And they ha

You have been told this parable is about corruption. Look again. One sentence. That is all Jesus gave them. The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened (Matthew 13:33). No story. No explanation. He explained the Sower. He explained the Tares. This one He left in silence — and the silence was the point. He was speaking to the multitude. Ordinary people who ate leavened bread every day of their lives. People whose