Episodes

I was just watching the news this morning and wondering what the world would be like if we consumed our Bible like we do the news. Soundbites curated by those hearing the news and changing the channel or switching to a different feed when the news doesn’t just fit what you believe to be true. I think we live our daily lives in our own curated state of delusion sometimes. So today, you are confronted with the debate of the Christian and the Muslim. You switch to the proper channel that feeds you...

A genuinely good person can be one of the hardest people to approach. We tackle this subject straight on with the person (either an non-practicing believer or even an atheist) who says: "I'm a good person. If God is a Loving God, and I believe He is, then I'll see you in heaven." I'm A Good Person Article Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/im-a-good-person/

We recently discussed two corrections associated with modern Biblical prophecy. The Holy of Holies of Bible Prophecy, and The Continual were discussed in previous podcasts deconstructing the text in Daniel 9 and in Daniel 12 respectively. This podcast posits the theory that there are two deceptions running concurrently. There is the false religion which details the Islam religion. It is not just a counterfeit to Christianity, it’s end times eschatology mirrors Christian end times even with a cas...

You have heard this one preached as encouragement. Be salty. Shine bright. Make a difference. That is not what is happening on that hillside. Look at who is standing there. Matthew tells us exactly who came. The sick. The tormented. The demon-possessed. The lunatic. The palsied. They came from Galilee and Decapolis and Judaea and from beyond Jordan. Matthew names their afflictions and he names where they came from. He names no rulers. No elders. No men of standing. And two verses earlier He h...

What if the moments that feel like your life is falling apart are actually the moments when God is closest? Most of us want spiritual growth to happen on our terms — when life is calm, predictable, and under control. But Scripture tells a very different story. Again and again, God meets people when the map has burned up: Abraham leaving everything familiar, Hagar alone in the wilderness, Mary surrendering the future she expected, Paul blinded on the road to Damascus, and the disciples walking t...

A man can go forty years without doing the thing he wants to do. Fear will hold him. Reputation will hold him. Consequence, conscience, the people who'd be hurt — all of it holds. And every one of those holds the hand. Not one of them touches the wanting. He isn't free. He's a man leaning on a door that never stops pushing back. This episode is about what it would take for the pushing to stop. Article for The Regression of Sin Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-reg...

In our last study, we asked a single question about Daniel chapter nine, verse twenty-seven: where does the text say that the one who confirms the covenant is the Antichrist? The answer was that it doesn't. The identification is supplied. But an alert reader has a comeback ready, and it's a good one. It's three chapters later. Daniel twelve, verse eleven — the daily sacrifice taken away, the abomination set up, twelve hundred and ninety days counted from that moment. That's the end. That's futu...

A well-known pastor recently laid out thirty-seven numbered events of the end times in under an hour — the rapture, the treaty, the temple, the mark, Armageddon, the kingdom. Rapid-fire citations. Confident delivery. And one instruction repeated to his audience: don't listen to me — go check the Bible yourself. So we did. What we found wasn't heresy. It was something more interesting. All thirty-seven points hang from a single word in Daniel 9:27 — the pronoun "he." Who confirms the covenant wi...

He asked a question he already knew the answer to. A man who studied the law for a living stood up in a crowd and asked Jesus what he had to do to inherit eternal life. Jesus sent him back to the book he had spent his life inside. And the man answered perfectly — love God with everything, love your neighbour as yourself. Word for word. Nothing missing. Jesus told him he was right, and to go do it. That should have been the end of it. It was not. Luke tells us exactly what happened next and ex...

You think it was about the ones the tower fell on. It was never about them. It was about you — the one still standing. Jesus is not preaching to a crowd of seekers here. Someone in the crowd hands Him the news: Pilate has butchered Galileans at the altar, their blood mixed with their sacrifices. And underneath the report is the oldest comfort in the world — they must have had it coming. They were worse. We’re fine. He takes it away twice. “Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above ...

You think watching means waiting. It doesn't. Picture the servant most people imagine when Jesus says watch. Standing at a window. Scanning the dark. Nervous. Counting signs. Guessing the hour. That servant has already misread the command. And Jesus is not talking to the crowd here. He is talking to His disciples — men who already call Him Lord, who have already left their nets, who already believe. This is not an altar call. It is an examination. He gives them two pictures. A master comes ho...

Jesus warns a crowd about covetousness. Then He tells a story where nothing is coveted. Read it again. No neighbor’s field. No brother’s portion. Nothing stolen. Nothing envied. The rich man deals entirely in what is lawfully his — my fruits, my barns, my goods. If covetousness means wanting what belongs to another man, this parable misses its own point. It doesn’t. You’ve been carrying the wrong definition. A man interrupts Jesus mid-sermon: Master, speak to my brother, that he divide ...

You have prayed your whole life. You still might not know how. The men who followed Jesus prayed constantly. Shema at dawn and dark. The eighteen benedictions, three times a day, every day, from childhood. They had more prayer in a week than most of us have in a year. And they watched Him pray, and said: teach us. We do not know how to do that. Sit with that. The most prayerful men alive asked a carpenter to teach them to pray. Because they had always prayed from the outside. God as King. God...

Ask any Christian for a who’s who as it relates to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and you’ll get a straight-up answer. But flip the script and ask about Satan, the Beast, the False Prophet, the Image of the Beast, and you start raising an eyebrow or two. In this podcast, we want to clear up some of that confusion. Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/mapping-the-unholy-trinity/

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 ...

For three thousand years the prophets mocked the idols of the nations with a single taunt: "They have mouths, but they speak not... there is no breath at all in the midst of it" (Psalm 115:5; Habakkuk 2:19). Every idol in history was silent. Then Revelation 13 describes the day the silence ends — an image made by human hands, given breath, that speaks, deceives, and enforces worship. This podcast highlights a study that builds from the ground up, the way a Berean would. Four footings, poured ...

A seed you could lose in the crease of your palm. A tree so large the birds of the air move into its branches. And a quiet, centuries-long argument over what those birds are doing there. Jesus told the Parable of the Mustard Seed to the crowds, and three Gospels carry it. He explained the Sower. He explained the Wheat and the Tares figure by figure, in private, at His disciples’ request. This one He never explained at all. He handed the picture over — seed, man, garden, tree, birds — and moved ...

Jesus explained this parable Himself. Symbol by symbol. And His explanation dismantles the chart on your church wall. The crowd got a story: a man sowed good seed in his field, and while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. The disciples got more. They came to Him privately, in the house, and asked. And He answered with a key no other parable receives. The sower is the Son of man. The field is the world. The good seed are the children of the kingdom. Th...

I won't lie, this gets heavy. I almost didn't publish this episode but decided that this podcast, as much as it is about Christianity and biblical truth, is also about a journey... mine obviously. So I hope it's provocative and mind-bending. For me, going through this was convicting. When I created the article (in the notes), I decided not to push that personal experience into the background. I think it's important to see a real person behind what is produced in this podcast. Let’s face it, we ...

There is a verse that makes people close their Bibles. Jesus, explaining why He teaches in parables: that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them (Mark 4:12). Read it plainly. It sounds like He tells stories so people won't understand. So they won't repent. So they won't be forgiven. It sounds like concealment by design — and the design sounds like damnation. M...