Is it TRUE that Noah’s Ark Has Been DISCOVERED “100% Confirmed”? (ft. Jeremiah Johnston) | Live Free with Josh Howerton

Every two days, some new viral thing about the Noah's Ark has definitely been found thing comes out of it. It's the most exciting time ever to be a Christian. What's not at stake in this is the trustworthiness of the Bible, but what is at stake is your trustworthiness as a witness? They went down four to five meters and then the drill bit broke because they hit something so solid and they're concerned in a good way that they had go for wood. Well, hey, a live free nation. Before we jump into the episode, this podcast is recorded right here at Lake Point Church in Dallas, Texas, but the live free nation is spread all over the country and all around the world. So if you've been watching and thinking, man, I wish I could be part of something like this. We want to invite you to take a simple next step and that is join us for church online every weekend. We stream our services live on YouTube, Facebook and our church online platform and it's more than just watching a service. There are live hosts in the chat prayer teams ready to stand with you and people all around the world worshipping together in real time. And so whether you're exploring the faith coming back to church or just looking for a place to start church online is a great way to jump in and experience what God is doing here at Lake Point. We would love to see you in the chat this weekend and now enjoy the podcast. Well, hey, welcome back to another episode of the live free podcast. My name is Carlos Arraso and today I'm excited because I'm here with the one and only pastor Josh Hardton and the epistle missile Chad G. Paul C a K. A Paul County half boom and we're about to prove Noah's arc 100% confirmed my goodness. Listen to it. So we are. So let me give listeners a heads up. We recorded the back part of this episode before the first part. We just finished a dead gum mind blowing hour with the Indiana Jones correspondent of live free Dr. Jeremiah Johnston on the whole Noah's arc discovery that dude is deep dive this thing is going to blow your mind. Honestly, a blow our mind so much that we spent a bunch of time on it because we can stop talking. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to like rapid fire the front end of this thing because what you want to get I guarantee you is you want when we start talking Noah's arc found stuff here in a second. So that's going to be great. That's the heads up. We're going to go. I say 58. What does it mean to be a repair of the breach because we are a pastor Josh in a new sermon series called into the breach. Hey, can't say where I got it. Why did you get it? So shout out. I hope he hears this. So go comment on his stuff and tell him we talked about him. So this is a legit where I got this. I don't know. I'm flying on a plane. Yeah, I've never told you this. I said 5812 is now like a life verse for me. And I'll read it here in a second. I'm flying on the plane on a plane back for I can't remember where I was. I was preaching somewhere. And this dude that is kind of big online. He's a younger preacher. His name's Kenan Clark. You know, Kenan. Yeah. Kenan text me like we've only texted like two or three times. And he essentially is like, hey dude, I was sharing with him a difficult thing I was going through. And he essentially text me a prophetic word. And he's like, man, I think this is who God's raising you up to be in our generation. And I'm on a plane and he texts me Isaiah 5812. He says this. And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt. You shall raise up the foundations of many generations. You shall be called the repair of the breach, the restore of streets to dwell in. And dude, I'm on his plane. And my start leaking. There's two things. My start leaking real fast. Jan and Jesus. And you know, sometimes when God speaks to you, he'll take a verse and personalize it. And it was one of those you just tattooed itself myself. All that came from a text from Kenan Clark that he probably doesn't even remember. Shout out to God moment. That's amazing. Well, I think we're in a very special season in our church right now. And so here in just a second, I want to ask you about it. But hey, every single week would love to do a giveaway. So if you're on YouTube or Spotify, go ahead and comment hat. We kind of want to get rid of these because this is the first edition. Yeah, this is the first edition. And by the way, which means that if you have not gotten it yet, it's iconic. It will become vintage classic, which means the value goes up. Colors is personally signing everyone that we sell. That's Chatsy Paul. See, actually, he said that he wanted to do that. So I was like, okay, you can do that. So comment hat. And then you can also text the word had to 2 0 4 1 1 or go to live free that shop to purchase them. Uh, Pastor Josh here gets all that. That's a joke. Yeah, personally, all the money. That's a job stuff. I stopped. See, according to the internet, that's what happens. Good, clarify that. Thank you for subscribing and liking. Did you see how uncomfortable Paul got when you started making it? Like, no, no, they're going to literally isolate that clip and now very rebroadcast. I think that just came out. And I was like, wait, no, it's out. Oh, that's why I stopped it. Also to download the lake point app, you can get the daily Bible reading plan plus the weekly sermon, plus an early release of this episode, especially this one's going to be amazing. And the discipleship guide takes to word up to 2 0 4 1 1 or go to Apple or Google Play Store at Pastor Josh. I have a question. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not that one. I have a different question. All right. I want to get back to this. I want to ask you. Yeah. So into the breach new sermon series. Tell me about it. So it's kind of a big deal. Uh, first of all, I've been prepping these messages for about a year. I think they're, uh, I'm pretty, I'm doing all five week series. Uh, I honestly think they're the five best messages I can preach. Wow. Um, and they all came out of this thing where God just tattooed it on my soul. So I'll do the whole. It's come. It's the start of a two year discipleship journey that we're taking the entire church series. We got, you know, big discipleship. Notebook, you actually you can go to the lake point, uh, website and you can get our 21 days of prayer guide. Like we're kicking. We're starting the beginning of the series sinking up with 21 days of prayer. We got devotionals from me. Janna, some of the people sitting in this table, the elders of the church leading up to that. So I'm going to crush into it and counter. Um, but what's also happening is we're starting, uh, into the breach initiative. We're really excited about. So bro, all in this is the most significant thing our church has ever done. Um, this is kind of big. I'll just roll it out. So I've been waiting to be able to tell people that it's for a long time. Yeah. So five new campuses. By the way, one of them, dude, this is nuts. One of them public announcement for the first time. Uh, Lucas campus. Uh, in the F2B area. Yeah. Brothers and nuts. So, uh, so Lucas campus coming. We also announced, uh, McKinney. Okay. Future college campus. Yeah. Greenville campus. Yeah. And then, uh, there's one more. Oh, uh, North Rockwall. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I don't want to. I don't know. One of these. That's a lot of campuses. Yeah. Yeah. But dude, this is amazing. So I'll just shout out, uh, Lucas campus. It was a church that was, you know, they were like, Hey, man. Uh, uh, having a harder time. Um, I do proud of this church. They were like, Hey, we don't want our church to become a strip mall or a mosque. So they reach out to us. Dude, we haven't even announced this thing before every even public announcing it over 550 people. It's amazing. Head already signed up to be on the launch stand. So by the way, I don't even know where Lucas was. I'd look at it on a map. Like somebody was like, Hey, Josh Lucas Texas. For literally, they were like, Josh Lucas called and I was like, I played in their murals with him. Like, Lucas. What they were like, no, Lucas. They do Texas. Texas has a name for like a city for everything. Like Paris, Texas, uh, Greece, Texas. It's crazy. Yeah. All the things. Yeah. Lucas. So anyway, if you live anywhere close to Lucas, text the word launch to the number 2041. Yeah. We want to just storm that city for Jesus. So we're doing that. I'll just do these real fast because I want to actually teach people out of the Bible here in a second. Uh, honestly, the one I'm most excited about. Um, we will be, uh, Lake Point will be personally quarterbacking the first in the in human history translation of the Bible into the heart language of the Braj Basha unreached people group in India. We are personally quarterbacking that. I just want to let that sink in as a Bible teacher. That sends a chill down my spine. There has never in human history been a Bible translation in the heart language of the Braj Basha people. By the end of this thing, there will be. That's crazy. That's awesome. So we're doing that. Um, two special needs ministries. Again, that stuff makes your eyes wet. Uh, scaling up rock wall launching one at East Dallas. Um, honestly, kind of our goal. I'll just cards on the table. We want that to long term become like that's the reputation of Lake Point church in DFW. Yeah, I'll just say it in a real straightforward way. That's the church that all the kids people told the parents they should have awarded those kids. That's the church that says, Nope. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. You should know that full well before a war before you were formed in your mother's whims before a word was on your lips. He knew all those things. Amen. So we're going to we're going full bore at that deal. Um, one, we're calling a more than us center on the back end of this property. Um, food pantry and clothes closet. Um, so that everybody from Lake Point, they can just all the all the heat housewives can take all the clothes. You got too many. And we can put them all there and help people. So this guy's going to be a spot. And they do it. I'll just this is what we've been waiting to tell people about this. Um, we're getting a Lake Point Bible teaching into every correctional facility. That's another word for a prison in America to 1.2 million. Wow. Prisoners. Wow. We'll now have access to Lake Point Bible teaching. We cheated and we went ahead and did it before the initiative. So we're trusting in faith that our people are going to pay for it. We're generosity. We're already getting letters from prisoners. I'm going to talk about the internet. It's incredible. I get handwritten letters. I get handwritten letters thanking us for it. I need to share more. It's a handwritten letters. Of course. I think you know. So dude, this is I got the data. I got this data. Dude. I mean, let's see, people want to hear about them. Let's get to teach people about them. - Yeah, yeah. - I looked at this yesterday. So we just pre went ahead and did it. Already, it's 1.2 million views and correctional facilities already. Over 500 people have indicated a first time decision to follow Christ. And bro, this is the thing, I did at the end of the sermon. This is the thing that's like, make your eyes sweat. So this guy shows up at the Roy City campus. It was like two months ago, never been before. And they're like, hey, Matt, how'd you hear about it? His daughter is serving a life sentence in prison. She starts hearing like point Bible teaching. By the way, if you're that daughter, we love you, we are for you. It is an honor to be your brother in Christ. And she starts telling her dad that she's quote unquote, going to church for the first time. God's moving in her life, life sentence in a correctional facility. Wow, he is a dad shows up to Roy City. Like, why'd you come? He tells him that story. And here's what he says with tears in his eyes. He says, because today is the first day that me and my daughter are going to church together. Oh, he's like, he's like, she's watching this in her cell block. And I'm here to worship with her. And we're going to talk about it. I'm happy. First of all, I love this with all these things, just to help understand like, man, with this, with this initiative we're doing all these things, it's not about building our kingdom. We're simply saying, guy, would you let us be a part of seeing your kingdom come and your will be done in earth. This isn't heaven. And it's an honor that we get to be a part. 'Cause I actually got to be there and meet that man. Did you really? And in that moment, you're just like, God, why would you use us? That's right. Just thank you that you're using us. And God, yeah, we just want him to get all the glory for all the good he's doing. First time. So it's going to be real clean. That's a lot of some series. That's a lot. Hey, Carlos, before you dig in. Yeah, hold on, before you ask me that. No, no, no, I'm not. I'm doing a different thing. Wait, I just want to tag in something about the into the bridge, because we are excited. There's one thing that we do as a church coming up in November that I want to let people know. So we pick one night and it's a special night of worship and prayer and responding to the vision God has given us in the season called Encounter. This is Encounter, Advanced Commitment Night in November 4. This is an in-person only. And so I just want to attack it. That's something we're excited for that it's coming up soon. So it's going to be great. It's a big deal, man. That's a prayer worship night. That's like, people of the little joke is like when it's pressed back to Costal. And that's the night we lean into the Costal. And we see, dude, all the things. Prayer for healings. Paul, it's that nice, awesome day. It's amazing. Now, all right, we have to do this fast because we need to get to know his arc stuff. That's right. Okay, so let me do this. I do just want to point out, I think we got our coolest podcast endorsement ever. Oh, you know where I'm going with it. I have an idea. So this is what if you're seeing before, before I think she is video, you guys were familiar with Granny Bibbons or not? I was not familiar. So, bro, Granny Bibbons, I've been following Granny Bibbons for a minute. She's a, I think across all platforms. She's got like three to five million followers. I saw that. Yeah, dude, I'm just insane. And so I've been following for a minute. So then one day my phone starts blowing up. Granny Bibbons. Granny Bibbons just talked about live free. And this, this is the greatest endorsement we've ever received. Paul, they're dead. Oh, that's a bad one. And yes, agree with Granny Bibbons. And B. You did free with Josh Howard. Hey. Oh, he's really good. I think I'll give him an A. Oh, that's enough. Granny, listen, listen. Hey, man, that's the second time we beat Rogan. [LAUGHTER] We'll play. Yeah, that's, that's Granny Whism right there. We got Granny Bibbons. Oh, wow. That's high praise. High praise. High praise. Shout out. All right, before I get in and talk about the Bible, Carlos, you read anything good in the Word this week. Thank you for asking. Oh, I guess. Owl out, by the way. Yeah, man, we're always trying to help people read their Bible a little bit better. This is something that I think a lot of Christians don't know when they're reading the Bible, especially the Gospels. So the four Gospels in your Bible are actually much more different than people realize. And when you understand how it really changes, how you read it, and it helps you understand what they're saying. So first of all, people need to know each gospel was written by real people with their own personalities. And each one of them has their own purpose and their own audiences in mind. So they're different. They're not the same. For example, Matthew, who ironically was a text collector, he was hated by the Jews for that reason. He writes his gospel primarily for a Jewish audience. And this is why he includes over 60 references to the Old Testament. And he organizes the teachings of Jesus into five different discourse, which parallels the five books of Moses and the Torah. And his purpose is basically to show the Jews, hey, Jesus is the greater Moses. And so Moses gives us a law written in stone. And Jesus gives us a new law written in our hearts. So that's Matthew. Then we have Mark. Mark is the shortest gospel. Many people believe that Mark's primary audience were the Roman Gentiles, or non-Jewish people. And we know this because when you read Mark, what you'll see is that he'll explain things that Jewish people would know that non-Jewish people would not know. And so he's trying to help him understand. Romans at the time were also obsessed with power and status and authority. And so here comes Mark and he says, hey, Jesus is a king with power, authority, and status. But the way he exercises that authority is by being a servant. So that would have been extremely radical for his audience. Next, we have the gospel of Luke, which was primarily a Gentile Greek audience in gospel in mind. So he's writing for Gentile Greeks. And Luke was a professional, his profession was a doctor. That's right. So what you need to know is a doctor can be very detailed and organized. So Luke puts so many details in his gospel. Luke is actually the longest gospel. And it's also the longest individual book in the New Testament. So question and funny. Do you know what the second longest book in the New Testament is? - Acts. - Is the book of Acts, which was also written by Luke. And Acts is the sequel to the gospel of Luke. Luke is given as all these kind of details. And for example, he is the only one that gives us both the birth narrative of Jesus and the narrative of the birth narrative of John the Baptist and gives us details that only Luke has. And no other gospel has. And Luke also places a special emphasis on the marginalized women, poor, the Samaritans, and his point is, hey, salvation goes beyond the religious, social, and ethnic boundaries people have set up at the time. And the last one, we have John is one of my favorite gospels. John is Jesus' closest friend. Or so as he describes himself very humbly, he says, I am the disciple that Jesus loved. Which I love. Traditionally, it is believed that John could have been the youngest disciple. And maybe possibly a teenager when he was called by Jesus. And John, his purpose, he actually tells us what the purpose of his gospel is in John 2031. He says, hey, I just want to tell people about Jesus. I just want people to know who Jesus is and be saved by Jesus. And so when you look at this gospel, 90% of the content in the book of John, it's actually, you will not find it elsewhere. So it's unique to John. In other words, I think John is basically saying, hey, I knew Jesus intimately and personally. And the reason I'm telling you about him is because I want you to know him personally and intimately as well. Bottom line is, man, these are not four different stories. It is one truth seen from different angles. And it all points to the same person that is King Jesus. So that's it. Hold that. What's interesting, hold that thought because we're going to come back to a couple verses from the Gospels, this is quite a deep cut, by the way. We're going to explain why here in a second. There is only one gospel that records when Jesus was raised from the dead, other people were raised from the dead at the same time, temporarily. And it's like a super deep cut on, it's something called, I'm going to give way the cards, the Christus Victor. It dovetails into the Christus Victor atonement. Not, if they say atonement theory, why do they call it theory? I hate that phrase. I like to call it facets of the atonement. There you go. Jesus can chew gum and walk at the same time. They can accomplish multiple things on the cross at the same time. So we're going to come, there's only one that records this, really interesting that comes back to that. So my favorite, I didn't know you're going to talk about that. My favorite, so when people, the John thing can throw people off, why is it so different? The best analogy I've ever heard is like, hey man, you turn on the news, one event happens. And you, you got to basically, Fox, NBC, CNN, and even though they got different biases, they're generally going to cover generally the same events. But then you flip over to C span. And they're covering the same things happening. But they're like, ah, let's show the angle from inside the Senate. And it's like something that nobody else, it's the same thing, different angle is that John's like that. John's like the C span of the Gospels. That's great. Also, I didn't know you're going to talk about this, but it is, I just find it hysterical. Personal theory, I think John and Peter like had like frenemy beef. So do this, if you were noticed, I think I know you're going through the race, the race, there's two things, hilarious. So in the Gospel of John only, we didn't plan to talk about this. It's just really fun thing. In the Gospel of John only, if you read the Gospel, you'll notice, it's like every two chapters, he's finding a way to get a dig in at Peter. So like, and there's my two favorite examples. So when all the guys come to arrest Jesus, and you know, somebody cuts off the Roman guards ear, and all the other Gospels, they're like, "Ah, you know, it's really not important who it was." Well, you know, really not because Jesus rebukes whoever tried to cut off the guy here. Really not important who did it. You know, we don't need to, one of the disciples tried to cut off his ear, you get to the Gospel of John, and he's like, "Peter, it was Peter." And then, and then, this is hilarious. And then the Gospel of John is the only one Where Jesus raised Him and He did and and and John specifically records there were two of us that took off running and we were running as fast as we could. And John got there first. I love it. Just so you know, it's like just like frenemy beef. Real people. Real people. That's amazing. So now, past with Josh, I do have a question for you now. I will allow it. What are you going to make it do this? Okay, let me do this fast because there was a lot. But so actually this is a great example. The C span angle of Isaiah 58 didn't make it into the sermon. So let me do this real quick. So again, Isaiah 5812, shout out, Keenan Clark. Now here's what you got here. This is obviously Isaiah 5812. A little trivia question. Isaiah 5812 is in what book of the Bible? Isaiah? All right. So Isaiah, I just like pointing this out to people. A lot of Bible scholars. Interestingly, they call Isaiah the Romans of the Old Testament. You probably heard that before. It's the interesting thing is Isaiah is one of the major prophets. By the way, major doesn't mean more important. It means longer. Isaiah by far contains really the most prophetic doctrine of any book in the Old Testament. And most Bible scholars would say it's by far the most Christological. Like basically all the famous Jesus prophecies, not all, but you know, the ones you read at Christmas in Easter, a whole bunch of them. They're all Isaiah. So it's Romans the New Testament or Old Testament. When, let's do a little Indiana Jones stuff here real quick. When Isaiah prophesied in Isaiah 58, he's prophesying 150 years before the Israeli exile into Babylon. By the way, this can be important here in a second. Bookmark this in your head. Old Testament Babylon was roughly equivalent to what is now the modern day nation of Iraq. Okay. Part of it in Iran, I think, but mostly Iraq. What's interesting is he's prophesying 150 years before Israel is judged and disciplined by God for their covenant unfaithfulness, taken as captives into Babylon. That's Nebuchadnezzar and Darius and all the things. Okay. I'm going to get to that here in a second. Then Israel is in exile for 70 years. Just all this can be important here in a second. They're in exile for 70 years. If you get this stuff in your head, the Old Testament just starts to make a little more sense. If you can kind of get the big rocks in your head, 70 years of exile. What Isaiah is doing in Isaiah 58 is he's giving what's called a post-exilic. This is very interesting actually. So 220 years before Israel will come out of exile, Isaiah is giving a quote unquote post-exilic prophecy about, hey, you're going to go into exile and be under the judgment of God for 70 years in Babylon. On the back end of it, I'm going to go ahead and give a prophecy of hope. Here's what's going to happen. Your ancient ruins will be rebuilt. You're going to raise up the foundations of many generations. You, and I wonder who the you is. It's interesting. You will be called the repair of the breach, the restore of the streets of Duela. Now, let me go a little layer deeper because this is, I will say, I work to get this into the sermon because it blew your mind a little bit and it really frustrated me. There was no way I could do it my timer. So let me just do this real quick. This is, Paul's talked about it before on here. This is what's called a census pleinier prophecy. What does I mean? I know what it? What does census pleinier mean in the meaning? Oh, sense. Full sense or full meaning. It's a lot. And so there's the idea that it can have one meaning, but there's also a greater fuller meaning that it can point to simultaneously. It can be, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Chengchipal sea. So what a census pleinier prophecy for you, if you're like for you guys who like the hunt or whatever, here's the best analogy. When you're taken, you know, let's say you're sighting in a rifle and you got, you got the, the front sight. That's a little, if you don't know what that is, that's a little steel thing on the very end of the barrel. That's part of an iron sight. You got the front sight. And when you're taking aim, you're looking at that front sight. Okay. That's one thing you're looking at. But then way past that is the actual target your aim and at big juicy deer. I hope. And you're trying to get it right back here with you're looking at two things. That's right. Okay. And both are aligned up with the same thing. The front sight you're looking at, but way past that as a target. There are certain prophecies in the Bible that are very obviously that's a census pleinier prophecy. There's something that's a near fulfillment. That's usually a, a historical event that happens in the Old Testament. And then there's the way out there is the full fulfillment and the target that it's aiming at. That's right. Isaiah 5812 is a census pleinier prophecy. So I'll go ahead and give away my cards. Neum, what happened in the book of Neumaya is the front side. It's the near fulfillment. Okay. That generation of Jewish people come 70 years later. You in some ways, you could kind of go like Neumaya and those people where the repairs the breach, the restores the streets, dwell in as we're in Neumaya, rebuild the walls and the temple. But then what's very, here's where, here's where things get a little interesting. And you got to put on your little tinfoil hat because there's a, there's a far fulfillment. Yes. Okay. Now, here's, here's where you start in a little interesting. Okay. So they're taking a captive into Babylon. Okay. Now, if you go read the book of Daniel, Daniel and his buddy, Shadrach Meshach and Abednego, Daniel's roughly 13 to 15 years old when they're taking captive into Babylon. He's POW's March 700 miles away as a victim of human trafficking, taking into captivity. Now, now, all this is going to matter here in a second. So just stick with me. Let me, let me describe the nation of Babylon. You know, why are you talking about this? It's all going to make sense here in a second. Okay. So Babylon, that they're taken captive into largest civilization in the world at the time, zenith of civilization, largest city in the known world. It was both a empire in a city, modern day Iraq, the city, 2500 acres, massive walls, walls 80, 80 feet thick, 320 feet high, 56 miles long, by the way. I just want to point that out. That's kind of a big deal. There's actually a picture of it. Go ahead and toss that up there. Somebody reconstructed what was called the Ishtar gate in in Babylon. That was one of the entrances to the city of Babylon. That's it. It was a big, big, big deal. And this was also Babylon was the empire that had the Zigerats that she studied in high school. And these are, by the way, for people that don't know, these are like temples. Correct. That's right. Honestly, what, what they honestly were, if you think about this, they were almost trying to recreate the tower of Babel, trying to reach God higher. They were, they viewed the Zigerats as the intersection point between heaven and earth. And it was man's attempt to build his way up to God. So it's very interesting spiritually. So you got that. Okay. Now here's what Babylon's known for. All this come matter here in a second. Wealth, greed, extreme violence. Yes. Sexual confusion. You actually got, like, they would never have used the word transgender or non-binary, but a massive castration of males culture in ancient Babylon, power and domination. Okay. Now again, all this is going to make sense here in a second. I'm going to apply it to you. You just got to stick with me and be a Bible nerd for a second. The weird thing about Babylon, the Babylonian empire is other empires would do domination. They would do persecution. It's like, hey, we're just going to wipe out who we conquer. Interestingly, Babylon did the opposite. Babylon was not, they did assimilation. So they would conquer your Christian family and your Christian family. They would take your kids and they would go, we're not going to kill you and your kids. We're going to brainwash your kids and indoctrinate your kids. And we're going to make your kids worship our gods and believe our things and do our ethics and turn you into a Babylonian. Now again, just stick with me. Here's what they would do. All this going to make sense here in a second. They would, number one, they would separate the children from the family. Okay. So they would say things like this, hey, man, instead of honoring your father and mother, you should cut off your father and mother. You know what you may need to do. It might be good for you to go no contact with your father and mother. They didn't do education. They did indoctrination. Go read the book of Daniel. He was quote unquote educated for three years in Babylon. So like, hey, man, they weren't doing education. They were doing indoctrination. Yeah. Let's, let's get you to deconstruct all your beliefs about the one true God. And then we're going to import all of our beliefs about our Babylonian false gods and get you to do our thing. And then they would do a incentivization. So you read the book of Daniel and how they get all these generations to like become little Babylonian pagans is we're going to give you choice food. We're going to give you a big job. We're going to give you a big salary. And essentially, it was kind of this vibe. If you'll just adjust your life and celebrate what we celebrate and affirm what we affirm, well, then you can keep your job. But if not, man, you really can't work here. And we're going to have to fire you and de-platform you and cancel you. So now it doesn't seem like that. Let me ask this question. If you're listening to that, and you're going, huh, why is all that stuff still happening today? Well, I have a great answer for you. Very interestingly, Bible scholars have noticed the New Testament pulls on this thread of exile in Babylon. And it looks looks at it from the camera angle of the spiritual realm and the New Testament starts going exactly what was happening in Babylon is happening in every nation. Now I'm gonna give you two Bible verses and make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. So this is first Peter 5/13, okay? It says this. Peter's writing to Christians in the New Testament and he says she who is in Babylon. Chosen together with you since her greetings and so does my son Mark. Now this is interesting. Why does he say Babylon? The Babylon Empire don't even exist anymore. He goes, hey, you're in Babylon. Nice, he's talking about Rome, but he calls it Babylon. Huh, why would he do that? Okay, now fast forward to Revelation 14. Okay, Revelation chapter 14. Now remember, Revelation, if you're a red revelation and you get it and you're like, man this dragon's eating babies and you know, metal angels and you're like, you know, why didn't know they dropped acid in ancient Rome? People, the book of Revelation is not primarily revelation about what's gonna happen in the future. Although there is that. It's primarily revealing what's going on behind the scenes in the spiritual realm all throughout human history, okay? Now what I'm doing, we're connecting the whole Bible together. I'll look back to Isaiah 58, just to stay with me. Revelation 14.8 says this. A second angel followed and said fallen. Fallen is Babylon, the great. Which made, listen to this language. All the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries. Now if you're reading that and you're a Christian you're like, oh my man, Babylonian empire don't even exist anymore. Why is Peter calling Rome Babylon? Why is Jesus revealing in Revelation that all these nation and empires, he calls them Babylon. What's going on, okay? Well, here's what's going on. Remember when Jesus rebukes Peter at Cessary of Philippi when he goes, okay, you remember. Oh, I'm never gonna, you know, Jesus we're never gonna let you do that. And Jesus looks at Peter and says, get the behind me. Satan. When Jesus says that, he's not addressing the person. He's addressing the spirit behind the person. Watch, here's what the New Testament's doing. It's not addressing the nation. It's addressing the spirit that is at work behind every nation. Here's the point. There was a nation called Babylon and the New Testament seems to be saying there is also a demonic spirit named Babylon that is at work in all of the nations. Now, bro, look at, look, I gotta do this quick and then we can talk about the art. You go alert, Uber, bro. And you start looking at things that have happened in great empires throughout human history. I'm just gonna tell you, it'll start making a hair on it back here next stand up. Like what I'm getting ready to show you right now is gonna make the hair on it back here next stand up. All right, so you got this. We just read in the New Testament, there's some spirit at work behind all the nations that is anti-Christ that tries to get you to assimilate into their thing, be conformed to the power of the world, called it Babylon. Now, remember in angels chapter three, what did the king of Babylon build and then try to get everybody to bow down to you? Do you remember 90 foot golden statue of the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, okay? Now, bro, if you start looking at what has happened in dictatorial nations throughout human history, you're gonna notice some things that sound real familiar when you read about Babylon and your Bible, okay? Let me show you some stuff that will make the hair on it back here next stand up. Show that first picture. What you got right here, that's in North Korea. Remember, in Daniel three, you got a golden statue, you better bow down or else, okay? Okay, that's in North Korea. That is a very Babylon-like empire. It is anti-Christ. It is overtly demonic. It has a ruler that rules within Iron Fist. Builds a golden statue of himself and demands that everybody bow down to it. That's number one. Number two, show this next one. That's Turkmenistan. Now, if you don't know where Turkmenistan is, aren't you looking at a map? You got Iraq, which is where Babylon was. Next, you got Iran. Right after that, you got Turkmenistan. Now, bro, this is what they got in Turkmenistan, an image of, which I get this out. A king, a golden statue of a king, writing in on a horse to set up a kingdom. Now, bro, I'm gonna say this dude. If you know your Bible, that's copyright infringement. That's our thing. Yeah, that is right. We got a king that's writing in on a horse to set up a kingdom. This dude sets up a golden statue of himself and there's everybody, you got to celebrate this thing. I was just gonna say, I also sounds like an antichrist. Sounds a little bit like that, okay? I'll do one. Let's keep going. That next one, that's in China. Golden statue of the ruler. Are you starting to see a pattern? Yeah. Okay, now I'm gonna explain why this. See how small that guy is. Yeah, look at the dude in the bottom. Yeah, massive golden statue. You see this over and out. You see, watch. Here's what I'm trying to point out and I'm gonna answer it at the end. You see the same thing happen in anti-Christ nations all throughout history. Go to this next one. That's a picture of Saddam Hussein who ruled in Iraq, built a massive golden statue of himself. Where was ancient Babylon? In the modern day nation of Iraq. Bro, now this, Chagee Balsi, I'm gonna stump you. I figured out before this you didn't know this. Dude, this is the kind of thing that will start just freaking you out, man. So Saddam Hussein famously had a weird fixation with the ancient civilization of Babylon. So in 1988, this is, bro, this is, puts you in full hat on, okay? In 1987, Saddam Hussein, evil demonic man, all the things. In 1987, he commissions them to rebuild the city of Babylon. They started it, go and show that next picture. They started it, rebuilding, like he's literally saying. I want to rebuild ancient Babylon. So he starts doing that after sort of the image in the pattern of ancient demonic Babylon. He did the same things that Nebuchadnezzar did when he built Babylon. He's, go to the next one, he stamped the bricks. Now they didn't do Arabic and ancient Babylon, he did his own language. He modeled the stamping of the bricks with things praising him as Saddam Hussein. He modeled it after what Nebuchadnezzar, the demonic leader in the Old Testament did that. And then, bro, he literally would say things like this. This is direct quote from his administration. He would say things like, yesterday, Nebuchadnezzar, today, Saddam Hussein. Hey, bro, let me just, if you look at that stuff and you're like, man, why is it that the same things are still happening? Because the same spirits are still working. There was the nation of Babylon. And then the New Testament says there is now a demonic spirit of Babylon. This at work behind all the nations. A lot of the same things keep happening because the same spirits are still working. But greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. And all this stuff is happening. Now, you loaded all the way back to Isaiah 58 and what you get is Isaiah's, let's do the census plan here. So there was a near fulfillment in Nehemiah. Hey, you're going to come out of exile. There's going to be a day when you come out of exile. And it's going to be that generations job to look at the walls and find where the enemy break down the walls. I want you to go right to those places and I want you to rebuild them. The New Testament now, it's like Jesus is the greater Nehemiah. He is the one who's rebuilding. He's building the kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. That's what he's going to do. We get to join him as co-laborers at what is the New Testament Christian's job. Our job is to find the spots on the walls throughout this world where the enemy's broken in and there's chaos and destruction. And it's our job to be convictional, courageous, men and women of God who run right at. That's the whole point, right at those things. And we go, hey dude, it's my turn. Hey man, I'm going to run right at that thing and I bring the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven and go right at it. Now, I didn't get to do any of that in the sermon and it killed me. It killed me, dude. So we have a podcast. Yeah, me too. Now real quick, I don't want to just point this out. Any time we talk about like spiritual realm and all this stuff, which is very, very real, I do think sometimes you got to do it fast because we need to know about Noah's Ark. I do think that a lot of times, Christians, especially people who don't come from charismatic backgrounds, theological charismatic backgrounds, we really don't even understand like, ah, so what is the cross and Jesus have to do with the defeat of demonic path? So there's generally five, they call them, quote, they call them theories of the atonement, Paul and I both hate that because it's not a theory. It's what he did. He did it. Yeah, we're going to call it fast as the atonement. Yeah. I will say for people who have come from cultures that are not basically white western cultures, they are way more aware of spiritual realm and spiritual realities, way more sensitive to it, which is by the way way more biblical. And they, a lot of times, have a better grasp on what the cross did in the defeat of demonic spirits and that kind of thing. Paul, can you just give a real quick synopsis of what theologians have historically called the Christus Victor aspect of the atonement? So you'll hear the word atonement. And really when we say the word atonement, we just mean what did Christ accomplish on the cross? So usually in our tradition, and I say most people, if they're watching this, probably their tradition to huge emphasis on substitutionary. a ton at Pino substitutionary atonement. The idea of Christ absorbed the Pony Farsim, which is true, by the way, yes. But then a neglect of part is that in addition to that, he also on the cross kicked in the teeth of Satan, all of his demonic forces, and defeated them decisively. They still have a measure of power and influence on this earth, but he defeated them. So you actually see these both side by side in Colossians 2. It says, "You who were dead in your trespasses, God made a life together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses by cancelling the record of death that stood against us with this legal demands." So that's where he canceled the penalty of sin. So he was a substitutionary atonement far since, but then he goes on, it says this. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame by triumphing them over them in him. The imagery that's pulling from is that when Romans would go off and conquer a land, they would lead the people they had defeated and leave them back through the streets and publicly humiliate them. So the imagery is that not only did Jesus die for the penalty of our sins, but he defeated Satan on the cross and then led him in shame and mocking him. And then I love to your point, even a while even, no one has to be afraid of much. I hadn't planned to pull this in, but as you were talking, it came to me in Ephesians 1, which is very similar to all the book of Ephesians as Colossians. It talks about how, after the death and resurrection of Jesus, it said that God exalted him to the right hand in the heavenly places far above every rule and authority and power and dominion, where that's important is that is often a reference to the Spirit, including demonic spirits. And above every name that is named, and he put all things under his feet, that she used to feed and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him, it feels all in all. So not only are the evil spirits in Satan under Christ's feet, according to Ephesians 1, they're under us as well, that we have authority over them, that we get to now go and do damage to the kingdom of darkness in Jesus' name. That's what going to the breach is about. So I get excited when we start talking about this. Here's the little deep cut that people miss. So here's the Easter egg I was pointing to earlier. So only the gospel of Matthew points out that when Jesus is, so remember what it said, it said that he leads us in triumphal procession. That's a throwback to who was Matthew written towards? Joyce people. So it's a throwback to an ancient Rome, which all the way, all the Jewish people are in ancient Rome at the time. It's a throwback to when the Roman people would conquer an enemy. What they would do is, a lot of times, if they wanted to kill them, they would just cut off their head. And then whoever was the general of the commanding army would literally hold up the dude severed head, march it through the city and be like, is that your guy? That's a statement. Yeah, that's your guy. Okay, yeah, like for instance, if you go outside of the Roman Colosseum today, I think it's the arch of Tiberius is what's there. And a lot of those arches in ancient Rome are where they would lead the triumphal procession. It's right into the Roman forum. You need to go see it. So they would march under that commemorate it with the little arch and then march it right through it. Holding up a dude severed head, defeated enemy, or if they kept him alive, they would actually store it. They would cut off his thumbs and his big toes, cut off his thumbs as if to say, it's dudes been disarmed. Yep, never going to hold a sword again. That specifically said he disarmed the rulers in the authorities. Cut off his thumbs. He's been disarmed. Cut off his big toes. Never going to walk again. Never going to do anything again. What those passages are saying is that the only weapon that Satan the accuser had was our condemnation before the law that all of us were guilty. And when Jesus goes to the cross and takes the penalty for our sin, he goes, hey man, that's the only weapon you had against my children gone. I'll take that now. I'm going to cut off your thumb. You've been disarmed. How are you going to attack my kids anymore when I've already taken the penalty for their sin? What are you going to accuse them of? That's right. And then so deep cut, you go to Matthew and it's like, man, why when Jesus raised from the dead, did all these other dead people raise too? What some Bible scholars think is that's the on earth triumphal procession. Yes. That literally hears his little parade and he's like, I'm, I'm like, essentially, he's dunking on the enemy Satan, the death and going, I conquered this enemy. These people are parading with me. This is the triumphal procession. I want everybody to see, bro. This is it. This is it. And then he does it in the spiritual realm because we have those verses about how he went and preached to the spirits of the dead in both things. And that, my friends, is the Christus victor aspect of the atonement. She's like, I'm. Yeah. I'm like, wow. Yeah. Well, and what's amazing. And I'll do this really fast. In Colossians, it says that Jesus Christ is the fullness of deity or he was supposed to be on earth. That word fullness is play Roma. It's the exact same word here, use it with the churches for Christ. That we are the four. So Jesus Christ was the fullness of the on earth. We are the fullness of Christ. In other words, what Jesus accomplished on the cross and what he started, we now continue. I'm all mad. We now continue. We're called to run into the breach. It's a few trebles on my victory. I've got to be careful. I'm getting like, I am so proud now. I'm going to stop. I will stop. Yeah. You got to get to the ark here in a second. So, uh, anything else you have there? I mean, there's so much. There's a lot to talk about the ark. Yeah. Well, here's all I did. Here, let's go talk about the ark because your mind's going to be blown here in a second. Uh, so what I would say is practically this is live free, not learned for you. Amen. So we're trying to make actual disciples. Men, I'm going to ask you to join me on this discipleship journey. You can get the 21 days of prayer guide on the lake point website. You'll see a little link to it as soon as you go to the website, lakepoint.church. Um, here's all I'm asking everybody to do. There is probably some area in your life. I preach by this from Isaiah 58 because what he does in Isaiah 58 is he's like, Hey, man, you guys are like fasting. And you're doing this whole thing where you're like weeping and prayer and fasting. But, but you're mistreating everybody around you and you're pressing the poor and you're lying to people. And what he's doing is going, Hey, man, before you fix the breach in the world, there's probably a breach in your heart and in your family. Yeah. And I'm going to rebuild that. Mm-hmm. And then as I rebuild that, I'm going to make you into a person who can go rebuild this stuff out in the world. Here's what I'm asking every single person to do is we want to take you on this journey is to ask the question, where is the one spot in my life or my family's life? Where if I'm honest, the enemy, he got a foothold that turned into a stronghold. And honestly, now he's got me in a bit of a chokehold. And I want you to know what that is because I think we're going to take you on a journey to repair that breach. Come on, man. That's my thing. I want you to get the answer to that question and come on this journey with me. We are done with this part of the podcast. Let's hear about the arc. Hey, live free nation. Let's have fun with this and swing some elections in all seriousness. Midterm elections are obviously coming up in November. In the state of Texas, there's an estimated 16 million Christians and the midterm elections coming up in November will be decided by a predicted actually about 300,000 votes. So what this means is if Christians do their job as salt and light in the world, good things really easily happen. So what we've done on a live free nation is we actually built a website to help mobilize Christians to do our job as salt and light in society. So you can simply text the word vote to the number 2041, text the word vote to 2041. And we have built a website all at our own expense to help Christians remember to vote leading up into the midterms because the number one reason that Christians don't vote, especially in midterm elections is they just forgot. So with one text vote to 2041, you will get one text, which is a link to the website where you can put in your address. We do not keep any of the information and it will tell you where the polling location is for voting in your area when to come and what in your area you need to bring. Again, we keep absolutely none of the data and we will send you that text and then only one other reminder text right before midterms. So let's have some fun with this text vote to 2041 and we'll see what live free nation can do. Indiana Johnson, welcome back. It is so great to be back. I'm the live free archaeologist correspondent, self-proclaimed. Yeah, we agree. We agree. Yeah. So for this Jeremiah Johnson, by the way, did we decide he was our first ever 1 million view episode? Pinky was. In fact, I think this is I think you're the first guest Jeremiah who's been here three times. That's true. I think we've ever had a different zest. That's true. It's true. Because Barton's been twice, right? Yep. Yeah. The DJ in the house. Thank you, man. Come on, man. The Nicholas Cage of Biblical Archaeology. Even better than Indiana Johnson. Okay. All right. Here's what we're going to do. We honestly, at first, I was like, I don't want to do an episode on this. At first, I was like, I don't want to do an episode on this. Right. And then honestly, dude, it's like every two days, like some new viral thing about the Noah's Ark has definitely been found thing comes out. I'll be honest. I'm excited. I'm going to lay my cars on the table. I've been hearing about this since elementary school. And I keep seeing this stuff. You know, I'm a dumb pastor for rural Kentucky. I don't know what's true and what's not. And so it's exciting to me. And I was like, let's get somebody on and actually pin this thing down. Let's go. I love it. All right. So first, and by the way, for listeners, if you have not listened to the first Shroud of Turin episode, you need to put, can we put that in the little sub the little thing? Yes, we can. You need to go listen to that. That was our Easter episode. Bro, it crushed. Yeah. And it reached so many people for Christ. And I brought a gift for you. I had something made for you. Okay. So did you make me a bathrobe? - It's not a bathroom, but it's, it is. - I can't get that in the jail. - I'm not gonna say jealous because I can't give away my sources, but you know, I want you to always know how much God loves you, Pastor Josh, because God is raising you up. I'm just celebrating the work of God in your life. And so I commissioned something for you. And I'm gonna reach back. - I hear it's dangerous. I'm gonna give him space. - Stop, what are you talking about? - What are you talking about? - Bro, are you serious? - This is my gift to Pastor Josh Howardton and live free. That is Spinos Christus. That is grown on the eastern slopes of the Mount of Olives. I'm actually growing it in my backyard right now, but I wanted it to have this scarlet hue to it. That's why I'm jealous. So I just want you to have that in your ministry to be reminded every day how much God loves you. And thank Romans 5.8 every time you see it, God keeps demonstrating His love for us. - Wow. - Jeremiah, dude. That is a, if that doesn't go on this set, that is going in my office where I write my sermons. - Am I fine? - For people-- - Be careful with it. - For people who did not listen to this shroud episode, will you explain real quick what we're looking at for them, because this is like a little mind blowing, and then we'll get into Noah's Ark 100% confirmed found. - John 19, okay, thank you. John 192 says that they fashioned a crown of thorns and they put it on his head. And we've all been so influenced by medieval Christian art that we thought it was something like a sweatband, a wreath, a little cutesy thing. No, this is a shrub, the Spinos Christus shrub. It will grow to 15 feet in Jerusalem. My colleague was just there and snipped off a branch and brought it home. That's how we're growing it in our backyard right now. My boys helped me take care of it. And so this was readily available, and you would have taken these branches and truly as the Bible says in 192, "Folded them together, twisted them together." And when these Spinos Christus nails dry, as you can see, these are as sharp as nails. - True, true. - And they put that on our Lord's head, and this is at the point where he's been flagged, Pilate brings him before the mob, and he uses a Latin etch-o-homo, behold the man, and this is when everyone begins to yell, crucify him. And so for me, Pastor Josh, I had studied a lot on resurrection. I've given my life to study the resurrection. I had never seen this because I'd been so influenced by medieval Christian art. And the first time I saw an actual Jerusalem-grown, thorn, crown, helmet took my breath away. - Wow. - Yeah, 'cause I mean, until you did that episode, I always just thought of like that. - Everyone, hello. - Right, tight thing. - But can you imagine the agony? And the reason that tracks with the Shroud episode is we have 50 puncture wounds on the crucified man of the Shroud on the scalp, the forehead, and especially the back of the head. That's where the pooling of the most amount of blood is. And so. - If people didn't, first of all, that, honestly, is a lot to take in. Dude, honestly, it'll be really, I know I already know where I'm gonna put it. It'll be really meaningful. That's gonna sit on the desk where I write sermons. - Praise God, praise God. - Well, what a reminder. I mean, and by the way, years is cooler than mine. So I'm jealous already, but mine was kind of an old school one. And I just, we all need that reminder. And Romans 5.8 is in the continuous. It's like a movie that never ends. It's one of two passages. And what I mean by continuous for audiences, God keeps showing our love for us. His love for us. By when we look back at the cross, it's a reminder every second of every day. And I need that reminder in my life. - Amen, man. - So if you didn't listen to the Shroud episode, you really need to. The reason I'm saying it, like make that your next listen. The reason I'm saying that is this, I already know a little bit of where this is gonna go. This is gonna be really interesting. The Shroud episode for people who didn't listen to it, I was a literally, I had you on. Because I saw you do an interview and I was like, bro, this guy's ridiculous. This is like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I was like, you know, all on it. Yes, like totally out. This, you know, cat or whatever. I was like, this is ridiculous. And bro, you came on, it's like, there's too much. - Yeah, I can't explain. - It walks like, if it quacks like a duck. I got one other cool thing to show you. So I'm an artifact guy, Indiana Johnston, that work here. So listen, what does Elvis Presley have to do with the Shroud of Turner? Are you ready to have your mind hold on? - I know the answer to this. I'm not saying, okay. Elvis dies in August of '77, okay. And do you, and he dies? I know a lot of dudes watch this, so forgive me. He dies on the commode. It was a way to go. And do you know what book he is reading? Well, he dies on the commode at Graceland. He's dead by 230 at Graceland. Dude, this book is so hard to find. I could only find two of them. It cost me four digits to buy it because I wanted it signed by the author. And so check this out. This is a scientific study for the face of Jesus. But check it out. It's signed by the author, the year of Elvis's death. - Wow. - '19, '77. So Elvis, and just, you know, I'm a huge Elvis fan. I don't know if you guys are. He only, the King of Rock and Roll only won three Grammys for all of his gospel music and his hymns. He never wanted the gold Grammy for Rock and Roll, even though he's the King of Rock and Roll. - I had no idea. - And yet, Carl is you, Elvis's. - I have heard of him. (laughing) - I do know who Elvis is. - No. - No. - Well, there's, I don't think it's El Salvador. 'Cause, you know, he's no one worldwide. I think it's more of a generational thing. (laughing) - Wow. - I hate you. - That was the first time I was going to say it. - I was going to say that. - It's not that I immigrated here. It's that you're old. (laughing) - He did the background music for the Godfather. If he didn't know. - Yeah. - I said that because he's never watched the Godfather either, so he wouldn't know. - I know of it though. - But in that, that's amazing. - So, I got my hands on it, and so that's now part of the exhibit. 'Cause, you know, when you bring Elvis with the shroud together, the algorithm loves it. - It's meant to. - I've been showing this on a podcast, yeah, 'cause I just got it. - Come on, man. - All right. - Let's talk arc. - All right. - Noah's arc. - Let me set this up for people if they don't know where to talk them out. So, Trini, will you go ahead and toss that first? Okay. So, bro, you've like, like, deep, deep, deep, dive this thing. Like, we don't come in the end to send it for no reason. - Yeah. - And I brought my shirt, you guys. - I know. - Looks like real. - Yeah, nothing like a little joke about the world-wide damn day. Okay, so I started hearing about this. I remember being at elementary school. And hearing rumors that, hey man, they found something in, and I'm gonna give away some cards in modern day Turkey. I start hearing about this in elementary school. So, for people who don't know, let me set this up. So, Genesis 8, I'm gonna read the passage. Genesis 8 says this is Genesis 8. This is kind of 1 through 5, I'm gonna read part of it. It says, at the end of the 150 days. So, this is when Noah is in the art. The water's had abated in the seventh month, on the 17th day of the month. By the way, that didn't sound like a myth to me. - No, exactly. - So, we're gonna come back to this year in a second, about worldwide in, like, virtually every major culture in the world. This is fascinating. There are some, quote unquote, myth about a catastrophic flood that one family is safe from. We're gonna come back to that. It's a little interesting, but not the Bible. The Bible's like happened on this day, in this month, in that year, that it no myth, that it no myth. So, then it says this, the art came to rest on the mountains of Error Rat. I'm gonna come back to that in a second. And the waters continued to abate until the 10th month the top of some mountains were seen. Now, so, what you're looking at right here, I'm setting all this up, I'm gonna kick over to you. This is, how do you pronounce that form? - De Runapar. - Say it one more time. - De Runapar. - De Runapar. That is the name of the captain in the Turkish military who was taking aerial photographs of the region of Error Rat. And he takes a picture and thinks that looks man-made. That looks, that doesn't look like a mountain range. That looks like a boat to me. And so, we have actually known, Pastor Josh, about this site since Captain De Runapar took that photo in 1959, as we're recording this right now, 67 years ago. - I know, and he sent an art out before. - Right, so they see this. - Correct. - That is on, now when people, a lot of people don't know this. When the Bible says the mountains, it says this translation says, yeah, notice this, it says mountains of Error Rat. A lot of people don't know this. That's not one mountain, that's a mountain range. So, it's similar to me going, hey dude, like in college, I hiked all over the Appalachian, I try to do the whole Appalachian Trail. This similar to somebody going like, hey man, we went to the Appalachians. It's not one mountain, it's a range. - Great point. It's like saying it came to rest in the Rockies. - Exactly, just like that. So, that's that formation that I just learned about. I'm going to show our viewers, by the way, this is one you really need to watch on YouTube. This is going to help you a lot. We got a lot of show until here. Here's another angle of the, am I saying the right, De Runapar? - And perfect, yep. - Okay, formation. So, they've known about this for 60 plus years. Now, real quick, I just, I think I know the answer to this. I'm going to say some more stuff, just quick answer. It's in modern day Turkey, right? - Correct, Eastern Turkey. - Okay, and one question, so I think I know the answer. Why haven't they just dug the thing up yet? - That's a great question. I wish they would. - You don't know the answer? - If you have a half million dollars, I'll go there and start excavating today. Carlos gotcha. - Yeah, thank you. - I gotcha, bro. - I'll go find me. I'll go start digging. I mean, that's really, that's the next step. - So, I thought. I thought it was. Tell me if I'm wrong. I thought it was because I've visited Turkey for the Seven Churches in Revelation. And what I understand is the Turkish government does not like Christians excavating sites that have any chance of contradicting the crew. - Very true. - So is that why? Do you know, does that have anything to do with it? - Absolutely, they don't want. It's Islamic because they want you to go to Konia and see the whirling with dervishes. They want you to go see Muhammad's beard and cry over that. We've been there and seen all of that. So there is a resistance from the government to anything that would confirm the biblical narrative for Christianity and Judaism. - Is that, has to play into a 100 percent? - Yeah, so much props to the people that are actually getting the rights to do this, going through those channels. I'm sure that there's been bribery. There has to be in that part of the world. I'm sure they've had to pay a few people off just to get the exceptions to do it. That's a great point. - Now, here's, we've got, actually-- - There's a geopolitical implication of digging there. - Big time. - Now, we've got like lots of, we're gonna go through, I think at least 13 reasons that some people think, bro, that's it. - Exciting. - I'm gonna give you just a couple reasons that, and dude, we did not talk before this episode about this. I have no idea what you're gonna say. Here's this stuff that, as a dumb rural Kentucky pastor. - I don't believe this dumb Kentucky pastor. (laughing) It's a nice trope, but I don't believe it. - I think you're the smartest guy in the room right now. - That is definitely not true. That's all I said. That's definitely not true. - Paul's very silent over here. (laughing) - You know what Paul did? - Paul's like, you said that, and Paul's like just-- - Yeah, I am. - I've seen him here again. - He almost choked up the water. - He wrote me on the floor. - He wrote me on Paul G.P.T. - He has to talk to me. - He's gonna be Paul T. - Good job. - Paul T.P.T., I agree. That's AI for those that don't know. All right, so here's this stuff that is a lay, yeah, I'm not a layman, but in this field. Okay, number one, I'll point a couple interesting things out that have made people go, hey dude, this could be legit. Number one, you got the length. Trinity, go and toss that back up. The first, yeah, all right. So number one, you've got the length. So Genesis 6.15 says that when God gives the instructions to the ark, he says 300 qubits long. Now Jeremiah may correct some things I'm about to say. I'm just gonna run through all this with no interruptions, and I'm gonna kick to Jeremiah. We're gonna do you dive this thing. So Genesis 3.15, God gives the instructions to build a 300 qubits long, 50 qubits wide, 30 qubits high. Now, from what I understand, from my little research, 300 qubits, depending on which form of qubit you use is the recommendation. 300 qubits could either be anywhere in between 450 and 515 feet long. What's interesting is interesting, that formation is exactly, from what I understand, 515 feet long. Then some people have pointed out the width of the thing, okay? Obviously God commanded it to be built 50 qubits wide, that would range anywhere between 75 and 85 feet. Now, you're gonna talk about this a little more. For some people they say, actually that's a problem, because the Draupinar, do I say that right? Formation, is wider. Now, what they've said is, hey man, anytime you take a ship with a rounded hole, and you put a bunch of mud and thousands of years on it, the sides will display outward. So like, hey man, actually, if you took a displayed outward side, it would be similar to this formation. Then obviously you got the boat shape. It's seeming, can you go to that other one again, Trinity? You got the boat shape. I mean, I'm just a guy, looks like a boat to me. So, it's got a boat shape. Number four, and we've got way more than this, but these are just top of the funnel here. Location is obviously Errat Mountains. - Right. - Yes, obviously confirmed by the scriptures. Then, and I know nothing about this, you're gonna go a little deeper here. I guess nearby there were found ancient pottery fragments that might have some correlation. And then somebody, and bra, I don't know anything about this. Somebody said that there were some unique stones close-- - Anchors is what they call them. - Yeah, they call them anchor stones. They say, hey, around that time. - Yeah, we got a pick of them, yeah. - Oh, you do have a pick of them? - Yeah, we've got a pick of them. - Can we go and show them? - Yep, can we do that? - Okay, let's try that out. - Is that any red arrow? - Yeah, it's one of a few anchor stones. - So, and you see, I've never seen that before. - Yeah. - So the little eyelet would be where they would slide some-- - Exactly, that's the claim. - All right. - From Ron Wyatt. - So those were from Ron Wyatt, the comedian? - No, Ron Wyatt, who-- - Oh, Ron Wyatt, yep, who found-- - Yeah, we're getting into it. - The archaeologist. - Makes a lot more sense. - I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. - Yes. - No, that was my word of nodding around. - I heard not saying that you did. - All right, so you know, and those were found close by. Some people say, hey, those could be anchor stones. - 'Cause they think the rope went through that eyelet right there. - Yeah. Now, even that raises a question for me, and you're, I'm sure you're gonna come like a rope. Would you do that? I don't know, I mean, we'll come back to that. So, and then you'll get into this a little more. I guess recently, there's an organization called Noah's Ark-- - Skands. - Skands with an anchor. Noah's Ark scans. - Correct. - That they've started doing groundwork, and I, and I will get into specifics later. Something about soil testing that they say, there appears to be a concentration of, I don't know, stuff that could be like decomposed wood, and then they claim that, I guess they've done, was it sonar? Something like that. - Yeah, like geometric features under it, it looks like rooms and corridors. - Ground penetrating radar. - All right, which is good 'til you do. - That they say, you know, look like corridors that might correspond to the thing. Now, all this, here's where this blew up, okay. All this led to, go ahead and show that headline from the Daily Mail, this was a few weeks ago. Noah's Ark resting place quote, 100% confirmed. - That got my attention. - That's a lot. - After 4,300 years as astonishing quote, man-made structure is detected, buried deep underground. And did you say that drill? - There's something about that drill, what is that? - So they're drilling, they're wanting to get down, they went down four to five meters. So they go down and the drill bit broke, because they hit something so solid that the drill bit broke, and they're concerned in a good way that they hit go for wood. - Okay. - Fossilized go for wood, I guess. - Fossilized mineralized is what you would call mineralized wood that could have been part of the ship. - Okay. - And it broke the drill bit. - Okay. - And that wasn't the only headline. There's another one that you can get. - Yeah, let me go. - 100%. - Oh, oh, there was another one there was another 100%. I think we had. - I don't have that one. - So, I will point this out. So then Daily Mail did that. Now, first of all, we'll just point this out. I want to get this, like Daily Mail is like just barely not a tabloid. I will just kind of point that out. Sometimes Daily Mail can sort that out. - But this is the science and technology reporter, Stacey Libertor, who actually does great work. So she is a real seeker of truth. So Daily Mail has all kinds of- - And the article's quoted somebody. - Right, yeah. - It's quoting somebody saying it. - That's right. - This is quoting the lead of Noah Zark's scans who said it's 100% confirmed. - So then they posted that headline. - 4.7 million views. You can see just that. So they blew up. And then after they posted the headline, Noah Zark scans their ex account. I'm gonna read it for people who can't see it. They quoted it and said we are 100% sure that the Daily Mail will come under fire for this headline. But knowing what we know now, we are also 100% sure that they are not going to have to issue a retraction. We will be releasing more information soon. The last thing I'll say, and then I'm just going to kick it over to Jeremiah. Let him do it. His Indiana Johnson thing is from what I understand, they've taken hundreds of soil samples that are still being processed from what I understand and scans. So I don't know if they have access to information, the general public doesn't, but they feel very confident. Now Jeremiah, I literally just told you everything I know about the thing. I don't know nothing else. I just want you to take it from here. What's interesting to you about this? What are all, there's a million details we have not just shared that you know about. I just, here you go. What do you think? Anything that gets a secular world to be interested in the biblical narrative excites me. So I'm super excited that in on secular media and all of our algorithms right now, our kids, skeptics, people that visit your church, like, dude, have we found Noah's Ark? Like, because they're not aware of the history of the site. And so to be able to see that, that excites me that people are excited about corroborating the Bible's accuracy. So I give them total props for that. And they even say that the date fits Noah. I mean, they say that. They say the pottery is proof of a pre-flood race that was there living there. They say that this will rewrite the textbooks. This is another thing that their lead fundraiser of Noah's Ark scan says. The people fundraising, Lauren is her name, said that the findings could force universities to rewrite their curriculum and challenge Darwin's theory of evolution. Now, that claim is about consequences not evidence. I want to see what all of the evidence actually has to say. And so, A, I'm all for digging, I'm all for finding it. I hope that we find parts of Noah's Ark someday in our lifetime. I don't know if I said it on this show, but I believe we're living in a time thanks to technology where there is a controlled revelation based on technology where God is using the stones to cry out that totally authenticate the word of God. Dude, it feels like legitimately. It feels like every two weeks. There's some new thing. It's like not even questionable, like a legitimate verification of some biblical fact. I was with a pastor two days ago who had, third generation pastor like you, he had, but he had deconstructed his faith. He preached social justice, made fun of conservative, born again, Bible preaching, Christians like us until he went to the land of Israel, went to Capernaum and saw that within Jesus' lifetime, on the walls of Capernaum, they're writing Christ, God's Son. And that changed the game for him, and now he's in Houston preaching, you know, fire-breathing Bible sermons. And so that is the payoff of why we need to watch this whole episode because I wanted to create a metric of when we hear about these things because my kids are all into it. They're like, "Dad, I heard from my class, we found Noah's Ark." And I'm like, "Oh, that's a really interesting claim. How do we think about that?" So I'm all for finding Noah's Ark. I think it's a, I think I commend them for doing that. I love it that a secular world is opening up to the truth claims of the Bible, but we got to ask some questions about why we want to year. We got to have discernment. I love this because the scriptures tell us, and I wrote this down in my Bible, first Thessalonians 5-20 says, "Prove all things." And that is a message to us, modern believers, that we need to prove all things and we need to attach to what is good. And so here's what rises and falls of this Pastor Dosh. We want our testimony to be such that we don't sensationalize that we don't exaggerate the evidence. I have ran into this with the shroud. I never wanted to go beyond what the evidence said or about the James Aushwari. I want to say, and then the way where I was trying to have him on to talk about the James Aushwari. He's going to bring that. That's coming. I'm going to DNA test the bones of the half brother of the Lord. Are you serious? Are you serious? If I get invited a fourth time, which would, you know, we'll consider it for the first moment. I'm going to DNA test. That was in an article last week, so that's coming. By the way, just for listeners, I don't want to get sidetracked on James Aushwari. The James Aushwari, that's the brother of Jesus James. And there are an increasing number of an Aushwari, if you were seeing a little picture, there's like a little stone bone box, no very particularly Jewish men in. And for multiple reasons, there are people and I think you're one of them. They're like, bro, no, that's the legit one and not just me, the epigrapher who studies the incise marks. There's patina that goes back 2000 years. This is just a preview for another live free, hopefully around Easter time because we have the two greatest artifacts. We have for Easter, the Shroud outside of the Bible, of course, are the Shroud of Turn and the James Aushwari because we have recovered 900 Aushwari's from the Herodian period. This was Israel's subtle way to push back against the iron fist of Rome that, hey, you may take our lamb, but you're not going to take how we bury our loved ones. And incised in this are five words, 55 characters that say James, son of Joseph, brother of Yeshua. And according to a Jewish non-Christian scholar and the University of Tel Aviv, there is a 99% chance based on population of that time because people will at me, go ahead and at me in the comments, hey, Yeshua is a common name, Joseph, Jacob, Jacob, James, these are all common names. But to have those three together on Aushwari, 98% chance based from a secular, peer-reviewed journal that it's Jesus of Nazareth. Bro. Okay. So we need to talk about that. But that's what we got to do that. So I'll try to focus on that. So I love this. But again, we tested those claims one in an Israeli Supreme Court. It's hard to beat the government. And my guy, oh, dead go on, beat the government, because they were just basically, he wouldn't mind me saying this, just trying to steal the Aushwari back from him, claiming forgery. They wanted a back because no Aushwari has left the land since 1978. I know where it is. It's in the United States right now. So dude, so I'm all about this. I mean, this conversation is relevant to your people. It's real. I get, I was asked last night at church, are you sure about the Noah's Ark? I mean, I really need to know what you think about this. I mean, this is very exciting. And they're asking like, should I donate to this? I mean, these are great, fine Christians who want to know about it. And so that's the claim, that's the claim they're making and it's an exciting claim. It looks like a boat, but here's some of the butts. And so the other night, I was laying in bed, often fall asleep with my laptop out. My wife will tell you, I love to write at night. That's when we get the five kids to bed. It's a hostage negotiation to get the triplets to bed. And then finally, I can write. I'm not about threats and bribes. I don't know. Go watch the equalizer in the other room. We'll do this. We're going away. And so I put together a scorecard of what I would, what the questions that I would ask. If I could go to Deroonaparm, by the way, if you want to invite me, Noah's Ark scans, I'm very happy to go join you and see this because you have criticized me saying, well, why don't you come over here? I'm happy to. I've been to Turkey many times. I'm happy to. We will pay for your flight. Okay. Okay. We will pay for Indiana Johnson. Business round. Indiana Johnson goes business class. We'll pay for part of your flight. Go ahead. Go ahead. Okay. So here's a couple of things that we're going to bring up on the screen. So I want to just update our audience that even though this is in the zeitgeist of today, even though it's all of our algorithms, this is not a new discovery. It goes back 67 years, as we've said, Deroonaparm is named after the captain that saw it. He went back in 1960 to Deroonapar and studied it with geologists who concluded that it is a freak of nature. It is a natural geological formation, not Noah's Ark. And then 1987, 1980s, actually before that-- Do you know what made them think that? Yeah. They studied all the soils. Same exact things that you're saying, but they actually tested it in labs, independent laboratories, and they came back. Because this is in a valley. Let me-- can I set the-- Please do. I don't know anything about it. If we could time travel or just get on a plane and instantly take our audience there, the mountains, as you very-- air you tightly pointed out that this is a mountain region. The Bible says it came to rest in the mountains of Ararat. That means as the waters are receding, which took 150 days for the mountains to recede, it does say it's actually a cognate of Shalom. It's Noah, the boat comes to rest on the peaks of Ararat. So what is the elevation of that boat-looking picture? That is in a valley of the mountainous region. The elevation is somewhere between 6,400 feet and 6,500 feet. Here's the issue with that. It would have taken many weeks, if not months, for the water to recede from the peaks of Ararat, which are actually taller than the Rocky Mountains, did you know that? So Mount Ararat is 18 miles north, the peak of Mount Ararat. And so if we're just thinking like scientists, then logically, if we were on one of the eight on the boat, we're not going to come to rest unless Noah had a fleet of ships, which I know of only one ark and Noah's ark, it would have come to rest on a taller peak. Are you guys with me or are you guys with me out there? Yeah, I'm like slay. You too bland. That's what I was wondering. That's why it's a slide, no, it would have come. Why do you know? How do you know I did? Where are you at? Where are you at? The scripture says, right here. I'm a Bible guy. The ark came to rest. That means it ceased movement. That's why it's a cognate of Shalom. It stopped right there. That's where he begins to send out the Ravens and the Dubs. My good friend, Randall Price, and I'm infected with knowledge about these things, who is also an archaeologist, has made many trips to the peaks of error at looking for Noah's ark at the 14,000 feet level, and he can't find it anywhere. So there's an elevation issue, so it is in a volcanic valley. Here's the second thing, and I want to make sure our people know this. Archaeology is a full contact sport, okay, like it is what it is so competitive to get an archaeologist to agree with another archaeologist is a miracle. The one thing that 100% of credentialed archaeologist agree on is that Darunapar is not the site of Noah's ark. Oh, seriously? And I'm not exact. Really? I'm not just conservative Christian one, all archaeologists based on all the based on my scorecards that I'm going to jump through. So we've gone through why it's called Darunapar, we've gone through the things that, and there seems to be with Darunapar claims before they're being tested, and then the claims totally collapse. And so what I would encourage is caution. Take all of your findings by all means, have an independent group, an independent lab tested. If you think you've found fossilized gopherwood, test it by all means, and I will come on and say, wow, that score just changed. But I put together a scorecard of 10, and right now I'm at a negative one, and we're not playing golf. So minus one thing is, now he's going to run through a scorecard, and then we're going to try to, you know, reverse it and be like, prove him wrong. So the one test that would help that has not been met is the test that really matters. It's not the soil. It's not radar. It is wood. If they actually found fossilized or what we call mineralized gopherwood, now the problem is gopherwood, yeah, if you scroll down to, let's see here, the pad, and if this is expandable, so please use this. the very free hand, can we put it up to our like he can walk through it visually so that people who are watching can see if you hit one train it. Yeah. So if you scroll down and go to where it is. Yep. That's the keep going keep going now. Keep going. There you go. Wood at that. Yeah. So if you expand these what I've done for the benefit of our audience because I know I get a lot of hate on this and that's fine as I've also added all the sources there. So if you even plus sign that you're going to see the sources. So that's great. Here's the bottom line of what would change this to the one category for me. Show me wood cell structure under a microscope from an independent lab then we'll talk. I'm happy to change my mind. Now can I ask a question? Yeah, but I thought I had read that in the soil samples they were like hey man there's increased some some thing. Right. They were like this would be evidence of decomposed wood. No. And that's where I want to caution people like here in Texas. We have all kinds of weird stuff in the soil here in Texas as well. And that is the same in turkey. That's the same anywhere you go. And so saying that we have unique things and dirt is not unique. Yeah, to my but you said they were drilling and at some point it hits something hard enough. So they could be. Yep, they would about that. Yeah. So first wood. Now here's the course number two. This is disputed. This is the bat. This is their best new point and I'll grant that it is a very interesting claim. Jones who leads Noah's arc scans says that the core drilled at 17 locations and did not find what we call bedrock. Now here's what and again, why would that be significant for a layman? That would be significant because if you found bedrock that would just say hey this is a mountain. You know, this is just a rock formation naturally a rock. It's a mountain. But here's the problem with with a error at mount error at mount. And again, this is interesting for me to agree with everyone, whether it be answers in Genesis, ICR, Heurus, reasons to believe, these are Christians. Okay, these are not skeptics. And again, this is where we got to get beyond the this sound bite and get into the skeptics. These are Christian organizations. I mean, you can go see Noah's arc at at at at at Kenham's place. And even he says it's his opinion. I give him all the credit that this Mount Errat is a volcano that formed after the flood from lava rock. He thinks that specific formation is or the entire valley, including the peak came post flood because it is a volcano. It is not a mountain. It is a volcano. Therefore, this interesting geographical anomaly and it is an interesting geographical anomaly is formed over time after the flood through flowing lava. And that's the opinion of ICR Institute of Creation Research answers in Genesis and Henry Morris. I'm going to get to this. He spent 13 trips there. So in 1988, cores were found. They hit basalt solid rock, six to seven meters in the northern part of the boat shape. And that just simply came out that the data was wrong and it actually was solid rock. What are cores? Termine cores would be they're hitting actual mountain. They're hitting solid rock. They're not hitting a they're not hitting wood. The smoking gun here is if you get one, then we're going to have a conversation at a whole different level. So that would honestly that you're going to keep going through this. But with that that would be you're saying that would be one thing to change things big for you game to find evidence of wood. Then we need to have a whole nother podcast because I and I will be the first to say praise God. Thank you for doing it the way that scholars do it. We don't go public before publication. The goal of archaeology is always publication, not sensationalism. And I was going to connect the doubt for average person of why you're saying produce the wood or test it in your opinion lab is that if you're going to make claims based on a particular science, you have to play by the rules of that science field and a huge thing in this area is peer-reviewed and independent lab testing. Exactly. And so if you really believe we have as legit, you would submit those to that. So basically what you're saying is if they're not doing that, it actually shows that it probably or at least is they are and I'm going to take them at their word. Okay. And because one thing I learned in Oxford was you have to present your opposition in the best possible light. They are saying they're going to have it tested. Here's the issues some of the issues that I'm having is they're coming out with results before they actually have it tested. They're saying things like they are 100% not going to have to have a retraction. I wouldn't do that because you just don't know. We're not omniscient. So release the core logs whole by whole and put them next to the 1988 logs that are peer-reviewed. Again, our sources are here for our audience and then tell me how they're different. That will help me. And again, just to kind of help people remember I was a huge skeptic of the shroud of turn until I read the 102 academic disciplines, physicists, scientists, rocket engineers who published and peer-reviewed journals. And then and only then were we able to conclusively say the shroud isn't man-made. Same with the pickerfers with the James Osherry. This is how archaeology works. So that's where I want to help believers and pastors and young men, young women who are watching families. These are the questions I'm asking. So number three, the big thing that we hear about is this radar. In fact, if you know you never picture the radar scan. Yeah, we do. So really cool. Would they come up with this? Trinity, go photo number two. So basically I was going to ask you about this. So they did these GPR ground penetrating radar surveys and they found these like straight lines, right angle intersections, layered structures. And in their words, possible voids, which means that they interpret as corridors, compartments and multiple decks. So again, some of these like shifts in colors and these straight perpendicular lines is kind of what they're concluding. There's a there's a boat in here. Yeah, what about that? Yeah, where are you having seen these? So here again, forgive me for being infected with knowledge. So GPR is notoriously erroneous in mountain regions. I use GPR in the dry sands of Egypt and Oksarinkus if I'm going through a trash heap to find ancient biblical fragments or ancient fragments that have survived for 2000 years. That's where GPR is really that's where I use it. But but GPR produces what most archaeologists thinks these are dikes or sink lines. And I'm quoting the Collins, which I brought all the receipts for you, Josh. I actually have the peer-reviewed journals from 1998 where Collins and his colleague who did believe in the shroud or excuse me did believe in the ark. Thank you did believe in the ark actually came back and under oath recanted based on the findings and said, this is not Noah's ark. So again, that's all in here. So can I follow up question? Yes, please. So what are those things? If it's not it is you use the keyword. All we can do with GPR is interpret it. Yeah, this is why we have to dig. Yeah, this is why we have to actually get down into the stratus. So that could be something where it's like, hey man, you're going that proves nothing. But I, you know, it might be interesting. Yeah, might be not conclusive. Exactly. It's an interpretate. I would not base it on GPR. GPR is interesting. I might want to dig those might be the stratus where I want to start digging because obviously there those could be water lines. They could be they could be sediment. We don't know. We that's where you have to dig. Gotcha. And something is not drilling, by the way, because that destroys the material culture. Digging is where you actually dig by hand where I where we've done. So so here's the bottom line. Hand the raw data to three independent geophysicists without telling them where it came from. If they draw a ship, I'm listening. So again, I'm not against this. Like that, that's another another phase. So and then as I already mentioned, I have the Collins paper, a pure reviewed lab work that is still unanswered. And this is where I would caution those arc scans. They produced an 83 or an 87 page paper and never answered any of their interlocutors, never answered any of the peer reviewed geologists who had already published. They just published their findings. And so like for the shroud, every time something comes out that doubts the shroud, I'm always publishing back saying, well, here's how we interpret that. Here's how it's actually not been reproduced. So you've got to deal with those that are objectors, what I would say, and their paper does not deal with it. It's a great fundraising paper, but it doesn't deal with any of this other. So if you just read that and weren't aware of the history of this interpretation, you know, and you say publicly bedrock, then well, what is it? So which of Collins thin sections is wrong? You have to answer that. So that is a peer reviewed. Number five, peer reviewed press releases and TV interviews only. That's all I'm hearing right now. Okay. I'm hearing on every new major news channel, everything. And you know, we have to, again, we have to prove all things. First, Thessalonians 521, peer review is where a claim goes from being tested by people who don't need it to be true. They don't have a dog in the hunt. So this one hasn't gone there yet. Even sympathetic coverage notes that findings haven't been independently verified in a peer review. And just for the sake of our audience who's never, you know, published a boring academic paper, peer review is where I send in a document to an editorial board. It may or may not even have my name on it. And a editorial board who are experts in the field read over it and say, Hey, this is Max of authenticity or no, this is way off. And then they choose to publish it in that journal. That's what it is. So publish it in a journal where where reviewers don't know the author, that's exactly what Collins did when he came out and said, this is a geographical formation, okay? So number six. - Can I have something? - Yeah, absolutely. - So like, have you already said this and it went over my head? 'Cause, Trini, can you show the formation one more time? The first picture. So like, maybe you're gonna get this in a second. Like, what's the theory? If you go the other way and you're like, hey man, naturally occurring formation. That's a weird, naturally occurring formation. What's the theory on the other side? It's not the arc that would have caused that. - Because we have 11 more that look like it. - Are you gonna use this? - In the Valley of Era. - Yeah. - We have 11 more that look just like that. - So I never heard that. All right, let's keep going. - I have the journal that has all the pictures on it. So this is not the only boat looking shape in the mountain region of Era. - It looks exactly like that. - They look very similar. - They're all kind of this boat. And that's what lava does, friends. That's what volcanoes do. They have very weird. And when you look at this, I mean, it's grassy. And so what I would love to do, pick off one of those sides of the ship, the port, the bow. I don't care. And start digging and tell us what you're finding. So, scientists ran those dates. They said they didn't show a ship. And right now I have to take them at their word. These are the peer-reviewed findings from 2023. So, let's keep going on this scorecard. - You brought up something really cool about the qubits, okay? And I don't want to bore anything with the bore people, but we do need to be bothered by the footnotes. Cubits were not ubiquitous in the time of NOAA. We have an Egyptian qubit that's up to 22 inches long. We have qubits that are 17 inches long. It could be the side. And a qubit, just for the benefit of our audience, is the measurement from your elbow to your wrist. That is an ancient qubit. So, we have different size lengths of arms. So, are they going off the Egyptian qubits? Are they going off the Mesopotamian qubits? - Carlos' qubit is longer than that. - Yeah, well, your qubit is longer than my qubit. - That's right, literally, so. And if you do that times 500 feet, you're gonna have a huge variance there. And so, one of the issues is, too, with me, is that the 300 qubits, it's well short of the formation that's roughly 164 feet. The width doesn't fit ether. So, it is wider, but as you said, it could have expanded over time. So, that, but again, that's something we need to answer. The only way their measurement works is if you use the Egyptian qubit, which is the longest qubit in our red. So, that's, so the bottom line is Genesis Describe, oh, the other big thing is this Hebrew word Tbah, Tbah. And I have that right there. That's how you say it, Tbah or Tbah, Tbah. That means, and this is kind of cool, 'cause we can get to this in the spiritual part. That is used in only one, it's used a bunch in the flood account and used one other place in scripture. You know where that term is used? It means chest. And that is the exact term that's used for Moses when he is put in a Tbah and passed down the Nile River. There's not an interest there, not an interest. So, it's chest. It is not a boat. And so, we really don't know if it looked like a modern ship with curves. Again, what I am is a textualist. What I am is, you know, I know the languages. Let's skip ahead and say something. I'm gonna get to this at the very end of the episode. So, when we're done, I'm gonna give to like rock solid proofs that, you know, that confirm the no-aic flood story. Bro, one of them, some, I'm gonna give away some of my cards, is the existence of these flood stories in virtually every, which is-- - You put a compelling-- - There's 12 of them. - Yeah, compelling. - There's a minimum of 12 in cultures all around the world. And I'm gonna get to that at the end. Bro, what's really interesting, I didn't know that. What you just said, one of the stories revolves around someone being saved in a chest. - Yes. That's very interesting. It gives me chills. - It's very interesting. - Totally gives me chills. So, you keep going. - One of a kind, the boat shape repeats in the same mud flows. So, I've said this, you know, the Turkish Air Force released a photo showing three similar boat shapes in mud flow on the lower slopes near lesser mount aircraft. So, we have others, the Snelling reported this in 1992. Again, a geologist. I'm quoting geologists, just like I was quoting physicists for the shroud and the pig refers for the James Oshwery. We need geologists to speak to this. Who do this for a living? So, let's talk about the anchor stones, though, 'cause that was really an interesting thing. So, again, I appealed, I source all my stuff 'cause I get fact checked and hate it on every time. So, Randall Price has seen all of the, quote unquote, anchor stones, okay? And Fossiled who said that these were hung from the ark, but yet when they actually looked at the lab reports, these were the first astronomical observatories that go far back. They were actually looking through those holes up into the sky in the stars. These are not anchor stones. There is no sign of tension inside those eye holes that they would have somehow waited down. Something with the weight. So, you're saying, if those were anchor stones, when you say no sign of tension, what he's saying is, man, if that was a legit anchor stone, you could see some sort of rubbing at the very top of the island. 100%. What about these little cross-shaped etched into it? Were those original or do those come later? Those come later. Those are incised later. And so, and again, we have incised, and this isn't the only one. This is, there are some that are found close to Jerunopar, then there are some that are hundreds of miles away. And how old are these? Oh, they go back to, they go back to right after the flood. I don't know. These are people that are doing astronomy, astrology. They're looking to the stars through the, they're like the first observatories. What about the, what about the telephone pole? Is that original? Yeah, I think so. I think they may have had Twitter backs on it, too. So, and again, my, my site is Randall Price, who is, I mean, you know, he found one of the cum wrong caves. So, I mean, again, I'm quoting archaeologists here. The whole show, nowhere from, nowhere marks from ropes, and the stones could not support their own weight, if used as anchors. That's another key. So, they're not anchors of, they're, they're not. But you put that together, you put this together, and it seems like, oh, wow, we're onto something here. And again, here's where, okay, I've got to say something, and this, this will get your comments going, okay? The man that made this site famous, okay. Here's why I actually want people to do legitimately. If you're reading stuff, and you're like, hey, but what about, or hey, but what about, I legitimately want you to put it in the comments. - I will go through and answer them, too. - Oh, come on, look at that. - I think commitment. - Hey, bro, we get thousands of comments. - I know, it's just, you know what I'm saying, that's, okay. - So Jeremiah, Jeremiah, Jeremiah will, okay. So, if you're seeing stuff, you're like, but what about, or I read, put it in the comments. - They're already doing it. - Thank you, too. - That's good. - And then we'll try to respond to what we can in crowdsources to keep going. The fullest study of these hold stones by an Armenian from 1994 to 1997, again, we've known about these for years, concluded the holes were for looking at the sky. And I'm happy to put all of the sources in there. So they'll say the others lack the same internal features, fine, then the shape proves nothing and the internal features are the weakest evidence, but they don't simply have the weight to be actual anchors. So that's a key. So again, not met. So this is where I'm still O for 10 right now. And this is how I want believers to think about this. Notice I'm, as Christians, I can appeal to the scientists to corroborate the biblical record. And we see that in so many other great discoveries that we've found. So what about results others can reproduce? This is number nine. The original radar couldn't be repeated. So we, this is not the first GPR renderings that we have of ARRET, even though it sounds like it in the news. This sounds in it. And by the way, they're using what they call a proprietary. We don't really know. They're calling it proprietary. It's all very secretive. And that is not how science is done. That's not how we use normal methods. We're very clear about the methods that we use. And we give credit to these wonderful-- I'm right now at University of Kentucky. I was just there. There's a computer. I'm a wildcat. Amen. I was there. I got my Wildcat shirt and mug. But there is a computer scientist professor there who is reading the scrolls from Herculanium that were destroyed during the eruption of Vesuvius and Pompeii. And he's actually able to read those scrolls. He's not a Bible scholar. He doesn't have a theological axe to grind. But he's able to use technology to read what's inside these amazing scrolls from Herculanium, 60 minutes to the story on it. And so when I say that there's a controlled-- but we know who he is. We know his methodology. But Noah's Ark scans the saying, we have this proprietary GPR. We're not going to tell you what it is and get ready because it's going to be exciting. So-- Do you-- and like, you know, I'm not a-- I don't like doing character hits. But you kind of have to ask this question. Like, I don't know anything about these people. Who are the Noah's Ark scans people? What's their deal? I want to give them the benefit of every doubt. I don't even know if they're believers. I hope they are. I know that there is a massive fundraising campaign, which is why I gave it a negative one, which I'm going to talk about here in a minute. But if I can-- finished this past. So they haven't released any raw data. So science is all about repeating the scientific method to make to make sure it's repeatable. So when we study the blood on the shroud, it's already keep going back to that. But again, scientists, hematologists are involved. We can study the blood. We can study patina from epigraphers in the James Aushwari to show that it's not fraudulent. And so I don't like when I hear, now this is our proprietary secret GPR rendering. And so that gives me caution. And so I want to see you repeat the scans that Tom Fender did in 1987, where he tried to reproduce what Ron Wyatt said. So we have to use this name and and Ron Wyatt has a cult following. Ron Wyatt made this site very famous because he said he had found Noah's Ark. He also said he had found the Ark of the Covenant. He said that he had found the Ethiopia thing. No in Jerusalem. He called the Ethiopian things interesting. But he claimed that he found. Yeah. Can I ask what we come sides right? What do you think about that? Absolutely not. You don't think so, the Ethiopian thing. We'll never find it. Well, if you, if you know all about this, there's a there's a there's a there's a there's a is it a tribe. There's a group of people in Ethiopia, a Coptic Christians, which I love. They go way back. These are Coptic, I mean, it was yeah, they go back thousands of years later, leave to the book of Acts, probably Acts 10. They claim the Ethiopian unit. They claim that the Ark was carried to their area. I'll get the details wrong here many years ago. And they they claim. Actually, I think this is true. That they have a group of people. This almost like it's like their version of like the Knights Templar. Yeah. It's like a school and bone society. It's like a super secret, super secret. They claim they have the Ark. And dude, for what I understand, we didn't plan to talk about this. For what I understand, there's like one guy whose job in every generation is to personally visually oversee the Ark until he dies. And from what I understand, people who have gone over there and talked to the one guy, I never talk about this stuff because I'm like Jeremiah. I don't like talking about stuff that gets believers like all hyped. Yeah. And actually we look like morons. Right. Because we look like I saw I talk about this stuff, but we should hear someone ask you. We should do I get asked about the Ark all the time. So supposedly there's one guy whose that's his job. And from what I understand, people who've gone over there, whoever that one guy is, there's always like some sort of cancer or cataract on his eyes. And this is a lige. I watched it just the other day that what that guy says is because it is an object of fire. And so I never talk about it because I'm like, yeah, seems comic bookie to me. What do you think about it? I think Nebuchadnezzar is still good in 586 BC. And I think he melted it down and used it for gold. I don't think we'll ever find you can you can quote me on that. We'll never find the Ark of the Covenant. I don't think we'll either. Yeah. And I saw I mean, Herod couldn't so so we don't so science that can't be repeated isn't evidence yet. It is a claim. So what we're hearing right now from Noah's Ark scans are a lot of exciting claims and I give them benefit maybe too much for that. But I'm not seeing the scientific method play that where we can say we have found Noah's Ark. Therefore dot, dot, dot, dot. So number 10 surviving the experts who already checked it. Believers tested it and walked away. This is a really interesting point that I just learned this week. The great Henry Morris founded ICR, which is now based in Dallas in the Dallas, Metropolis Institute of Creation Research. His son is a is a geologist engineer. So he has his doctorate is PhD in geological engineering. So this is his jam. This is his expertise. And John Morris visited Errat 13 times at his own expense and said Darunapar is not the site. And this is a great Bible believing Christian. Okay. So that's something to be said in 2008 a review in the proceedings of the international conference on creationism. Another geologist by the name of Snelling and we cite all this on here concluded that Darunapar quote has now been debunked as the site of the art quite thoroughly by not theologians not by influencers by geologists because they were saying the geologists study the formation. Yes. And they're just saying this is lava. Errat probably didn't even exist the way it does now after the flood because it's a volcano. And then the Turkish government, which again, they may have had some bias. We all do in 2025 published a paper explaining the formation is from a landslide from lava. So again, to change my mind, or the bottom line is young earth creationist who want the art to be real looked at this and said, no. Okay. That should tell us something. Yeah. Now. So before and now we're going to finish. I want Carlos. I want you to rapid fire the, but what about? Okay. The penalty though of why I said negative one. Yes. And I'll and bring all the hate to me and not live for you. Okay. No, it's we never get it. My superpower is hate and rejection doesn't bother me at all. So Noah's arc scans right now on every page of their website has a donate button. Okay. And they are selling three five and 12 day tours to the site for thousands of dollars per adult trips in July, August, October, 2026, while the excavation is still going. That is not how we do archaeology. We don't sell it. Now we get volunteers that get up at 3 30 in the morning and work their tails off till about two in the afternoon, but we don't sell trips to it. And we're not trying to race. They're trying to raise 600 grand right now. So I'm not questioning their sincerity. I'm asking for independent verification. That's the standard that I hold myself to when I went to check out the shroud. Man, I did it all in my own dime. When the 33 scientists went to check out the shroud physicists in 1978, they did it on their own dime. Okay. Yeah. I have a friend who is from Argentina who went and what did he see the arc? He went to the site and I know he did find the arc. He did not find it, but he did say there was nobody there. And so it was like just a little little house that you know, people show out, but you can barely tell it's like a quote unquote tourist site. It's it was really paid thousands of dollars to do that. So that's why I gave it a negative one. It's like stop selling, you know, feel scammy. Yeah, it feels like no, it's our scams. So before Carlos, because I'll be honest, dude, I want it to be a thing. Yeah, I do. And there's some stuff that we haven't talked about. Bring it all to me. Yeah, bring the pottery. So before we do this, before this, where are you? Which of these three categories would you say? And one of them we know is not you, but which of these three? Are you in the this has been totally proven untrue? This has neither been proven true nor untrue. Or now that's it. It's been proven true. I know you're not number three. Are you one or two proven untrue? I am between one and two because again, based on geologist, I'm not one. I don't pretend to be, but I read peer review journals based on all of the science of Bible believing Christians. This is not the site of Noah's arc. It's too low. However, I'm happy to be proven wrong if they peer review it and find wood. The big thing is you got to find wood. You got to find some kind of gopher wood that, you know, it looks like a, you know, it looks like a boat on the side, but does that just lava rock? All right, Carlos. Yeah, real quick. That's a sync line. Let's wrap it for us. You address most of these. So real quick, a 2024 soul survey. Jeremiah found about three times more organic matter inside the formation versus outside of it. What about that? People hanging out there doing things. What about that? Yeah. I mean, people, people litter people hang out and do things. I mean, not a litter. Yeah, I mean, they're saying it's not a lot of litter. 6,500 feet. I mean, this is, this is, this is, you know, again, India, Armenia. These were travel routes. Again, it's like saying we have a lot of, we have a lot of foot traffic here at Lake Point, you know, as the Noah's arc out here in the parking lot, we just don't know. I mean, that doesn't say anything to me. Okay, they found some samples that were analyzed in 2023 that were data back to 3,500 to 5,000 years old, which coinsights with the time of Noah's arc. 23, 48 is my date of the arc. Okay. So it's actually much older than that. What's the difference in the two dating? So that is, well, first, they're giving us nearly 2,000 years of human history saying that they have found, did you say pottery? So it's a sample. Samples. Okay, so unclear. So people live before the arc, before the global flood, and we have some evidence of that. Okay, but they've also found pottery, right? And actually, we have a photo. So, I think it's 13, 20, ostracus, what we call it. So these are two, not that one, the one above. 11, there you go. So these are two researchers examining the pottery fragment. So some of these materials at the site in 2026. One foot. I know. I've got my motorcycle endorsement, by the way. Neither here nor there. So they actually found pottery in two spots. One on the road near Darunapar, and then they did find some pottery at the site itself. So, pastor Josh, if I'm going to dig up in your backyard, and I found this, you guys make the best Americanos here at Live Free. Thank you for this. Thank you. And I find this in your backyard. Should I assume that you have a roastery at your house, that you make coffee at your house? - I mean, I do make coffee, but I don't have a roastery. - You know what I mean, like that's the logic. Like if you find a Coke bottle and the dumpster here, that's 2000 years a great artifact because it was in your dumpster of your church, is that mean you were making Coca-Cola here? That's the logic. So I want to, again, help people finding pottery means really nothing to me. And then if you get like Scott Strypling my man here, with Austria, that's pottery everywhere. It was like the styrofoam of the ancient world. It was paper plates. So we have that all over the ancient world. So because you have pottery, does not mean you have an ark. It means you have humanity. - All right. - Is that helping? - Thank you, Dr. Jeremiah Johnson. - Yeah. - So, that's all we got. - That's all we got. - You addressed all the young ones? - Yeah, I just give a thought. And you're about to tell us why we can trust it. You guys just give me a bit of a pastoral thought 'cause you've done such a great job. It basically tell people, be very slow. Don't immediately believe everything you hear and see. And I just want to give a pastoral word, especially for those who are on social media. Not only to be careful, not to immediately believe everything you hear and see, but also be careful not to immediately share it. And here's why, here's what's not at stake in this conversation is the trustworthiness of the Bible. You're gonna get into that here in just a second. So what's not at stake in this is the trustworthiness of the Bible, but what is at stake is your trustworthiness as a witness to the Bible. - That is really your credibility. - Your credibility. So that if you're always sharing all these things you've seen, you just immediately share it, but that if then it is later disproven. And the people that are on your feet that are unbelievers, they're gonna come to not believe you 'cause you're the boy who cries wolf. So that's why I would just give a pastoral warning to just be careful not to immediately share stuff you see. 'Cause again, what's at stake is not the trustworthiness of the Bible is your trustworthiness as a witness, especially as the one word I wanted to get. - I'll just add a few other kind of gas on the fire. Captain Durinapar himself on the team gets forwards hardly worth mentioning. I guess that's three words that he said, hardly worth mentioning after he studied it in 1960. So again, the bottom line to change my mind, a case that skips the strongest evidence against it isn't a critical review. It is a brief for the defense. Answer Collins, and this is my shout out to Noah's arc scans. Answer Collins, answer Fener, answer the 1988 core samples. And then you might change my mind. - Okay. Now, I wanna finish with actually what is very interesting proof for the event of the NOAA flood. So I wanna do two things. First of all, an encouragement. And then I wanna do a very interesting proof. First of all, encouragement. There's one little, you guys may have seen this before it. There's a little detail about the Noah's arc, a little mystery, honestly, about the Noah's arc narrative that when most people read that passage, they just totally miss it. So I used to, when I would look at it, I used to think Noah was safe in the arc because of stuff like, oh, it's the strength of the Gofer Wood or it is the architectural plans that God gave, or this pitch that God told him to use to keep water, okay. But everybody misses its Genesis 7, 16 washes as this. The animals going in were male and female of every living thing as God commanded Noah. And then one translation says it like this, then God shut him in. Now watch, watch, watch, don't sleep on this. Even after Noah built the arc, it was the very hand of God himself that shut him in in order to shut out the waters of the flood. So there's one translation that says like this, it says the Lord sealed them inside. Now let me apply it. Listen, do your job, but from heaven's perspective, it's not the fact that you locked your front door, that kept you safe last night, it's not the surgeon's hand, that keeps you through the procedure, it's not the perfect planning, that protects you from financial ruin. Listen, only God can shut you in and shut out the enemy trying to steal, kill, and destroy you. Unless the Lord builds the house or seals us in, they labor, invade, and you build it. There's just an encouragement there. The Lord sealed them in. - Can I add one more pastor or a least? - A faith lesson from this. I love this when God gives him the dimensions of the ark. He says there's one door in. There was only one door in, and he would shut that door and seal it. And he kept the door open seven more days, and I want to remind people, what is the gospel? God brought judgment on evil humanity, but he still provided a way of escape through one door. And so let's make sure that we think about the gospel of Jesus Christ. I actually paginated this because I want to read a passage in John 10, what did Jesus say? I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pastor. I get chills when I read that. And then when I read here too, that he was put, this is, 'cause the Noah narrative plays a prominent role. Noah's in the Hall of Fame, and Hebrews 11, but I love one Peter three. He was put to death in the flesh. He was made alive by the Spirit. This is the resurrection, in which he also went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, who in the past were disobedient when God patiently waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared. And again, Jesus brings it up in Matthew 24 as well. - I'm gonna put that in a second. - Yeah. - Yes. - To add to that, you know, a lot of people when they hear the story of Noah, they're like, oh man, how could God do something so awful? Such a barbaric story, and they'll see this story as something pejorative or negative about God. And like you said, Jeremiah, it's just a story about the gospel. Like ultimately, one door in the ark, God's judgment was avoided through the ark that God provided. At the cross, God's judgment was absorbed through the cross that Jesus was in. In the ark, God saved Noah and his family by trusting in the wooden ark. And at the cross, God saves all today who put their faith in Jesus, who died on a wooden cross. - That's right. - And so the whole story screams the gospel. - Totally. - And that's the point of all of this. I mean, we're not doubting the flood, we're not doubting the narrative, we're actually enriching it through this Bible study. - All right, so let's finish, let's finish with, 'cause this is, it is honestly, it's really interesting. It's one of the most interesting extra-biblical things about the whole Noah story. So I'll just go on record. I got two proofs that Noah's flood that actually happened. Okay, one of them is seeing that book right there. That's the most important one. - I agree. - Isn't that book right there, though? Here's the other one that honestly, dude, if you're not a Christian, I don't know what you do with it, okay? This is very interesting. There are actually 12 examples. I'm only gonna give a few. In virtually every ancient culture that exists, there is some, they call it a myth. They may call it a legend. There is some story about a catastrophic flood that generally the God or God's worn one dude or one family about that person is saved through some form of a boat or a chest or something that floats. And that person is then used to repopulate their earth, by the way, by the way, usually as a result of judgment on moral degradation. Bro, just, if you're listening, I want you to think about this. 12 different ancient cultures all have this one little thread. I'm gonna give you some examples. So you got the story and I'll butcher the names but I'm gonna do it anyway. You got this story of, I'm gonna do Saniton Dharma is what they call it. The story of Manu and Matsya. Matsya warns Manu about, listen to the similarities, about a catastrophic flood. He builds a boat, saves human life, repopulates the earth. Number two, you had to read it in high school. Mesopotamian culture, the epic of Gilgamesh. I'm gonna do my very best. But not, not Pish team. Yep, okay, yep. Is worn by the gods of a coming flood. Builds a huge boat, loads his family and animals into it. Cocked it with pitch, as well. Cocked it with pitch, releases a, this is insane. Releases a dove, a swallow and a raven. In ancient Mesopotamian mythology, the boat comes to rest on a mountain. There you go, ancient Chinese culture. There's a story of you, the great, that saves humanity from a catastrophic flood. In ancient Grecian culture, the story of, I'll get the, I'll butcher the name, Ducalion, Ducalion, and Pyra. Zeus sends a flood to cleanse the world. Prometheus warns Ducalion, who survives with his wife in a chest, we had that earlier, that comes to rest on a mountain. They repopulate the earth, all even do another one. You go all the way over here to the Western Hemisphere, indigenous tribes in both the Americas and the Pacific. Multiple traditions describe floods, destroying a previous world, survivors on boats, survivors on mountains, now watch. Here's what unbelieving people do. They look at that and they go, "Oh, you dumb Christians. Don't you know all the book of Genesis is?" Is there just reshaping all these ancient myths? That's all Genesis is. I would just pause and say this. Or if a flood actually did happen that was judgment on the earth and God preserved humanity out of His great love for humankind by saving one family through a boat that he prescribed. And that family was saved on a mountain and repopulated there if that actually happened. Guess what you would find all over the world. what you would find is that every single human culture which, oh, by the way, All of them would have to descend from that one family whose parents told the kids, who told the grandkids, who told the great grandkids, and all the way down, what you would find is you would find oral traditions of that story that would be in every human culture on earth. That's what we have. And they would be a little memory trace of the actual event that actually happened, and oh, by the way, that is exactly what we have. So let me just point this out, y'all. The Bible actually happened. That's right. The real Jesus. Dot on a real cross for the real you, and if you give him your life, he can really change it forever, and I'll finish with a warning, because just like you pointed this out earlier, the warning is Jesus told us exactly about this, and he said in the book of Matthew, just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. People were eating and drinking and marrying up until the day that the rain came and took them all away, so it will be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man. Be prepared. I love that. Be prepared. Amen. Indiana, Johnston, will you pray for us, please? Absolutely. Absolutely. Lord, thank you for your grace that we see the silver lining in this amazing conversation, Lord. I've been so fired up by God. Thank you that your word is true. Your word is enduring. All these other stories we know are dependent on the truth of Scripture, Lord God. We thank you, Father, for the privilege that it's been to have this discussion and to do it with a critical eyes, but also through the eyes of faith. I pray, as Paul pointed out, Lord, that we would not be given to sensationalism, that we would be careful with our testimonies. We'd be cautious with our testimonies. And God, I do pray that we would major on the majors. I pray that all the people getting worked up right now about the Noah's arc scans would be far more worked up to give the gospel to their neighbor and bring them to Lake Point Church this weekend, rather than argue about something that we're really not for sure about. Lord, help us to major on the majors and not get distracted. But thank you, God, for the opportunities that the Bible's greatest friend is archeology, that we can have these discussions that other religions cannot, that prove again and again the veracity of your word. And Lord, we do pray if there's anyone here who's not walked through that door of salvation. Jesus said, "I am the door. I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life." If we forget to read the next part, no one comes to the Father except for me. I pray that people, even in the comments now, would be saying, "Yes to Jesus. I want to go through the door of grace and Jesus' name." Amen. Amen. Jeremiah. Thank you very much. It's been awesome to play. Thank you, dudes. Good morning, brother. Good to come. Well, hey. Thanks so much for listening. Lake Point Church is a movement for all people in no Christ, live free, and change a world for God's glory. If you're already a member of a local church, we want you giving there, but if you'd like to make a donation to help this message go further faster, it genuinely helps us boost getting out to more people. 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