Thanks to people like Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Bart as well as the gift of the internet and youtube, so many people are becoming critical thinkers and reclaiming so many lost years. I remember being the last one at school to be picked up several times and having panic attacks thinking the rapture came and I was left behind. No child should grow up like that (worse, I attended a christian school from K2-12 grade + had a religious family so it was hard to escape.)

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

9 ай бұрын

Ugh. I was in a Christian school too from 4 - 12 grades and it left me with so much baggage to unpack. Glad to be on the journey with you, thanks for watching.

@KLmoxie

9 ай бұрын

@@WhatIfProjectPodcast It's good to know someone else can relate to the christian school experience - it's psycho! My school was just as traumatizing as my abusive household. Thank you for helping others. All the best & wishing you continued success and prosperity.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

9 ай бұрын

@@KLmoxie ah, I'm sorry to hear you went through that at home too. Sending love as you continue to unpack the baggage. It's a hard journey, but well worth it. Thanks for dropping by 🙏🏻

@GraemeMarkNI

7 ай бұрын

Haha

@hollyhawx9481

5 ай бұрын

I can relate. If no one was home after school, I got scared thinking everyone in my family was raptured except me.

I also grew up being told that Apocalypse means the end of the world and that Revelation was meant to be matched up to current events. I have a slightly different take because in the meantime i became a historian. When people think that a document was written looking to a future audience, its called The Whig Interpretation of History. A common example is that the Magna Carta was looking forward to the Declaration of Independence when "all men" would be free. But that is like saying that the Declaration was written looking forward to the Independence of Norway. No one would think that. Instead, Norway used our Declaration and Constitution as a model, looking backward. I now understand that Revelation was for the people of the time not the future. It gave me a great deal of relief.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing and for listening!

@pavelshalnwv8494

6 ай бұрын

Except, the book itself says, that it's all about things that should come in future

@charlesco7413

6 ай бұрын

​@@pavelshalnwv8494 "soon to come to pass." (Yet we are still waiting 2000 years later.) Hmm?

@timshanks6729

2 ай бұрын

It's exactly the same thing as Matthew 24 It's for people who are living then and for people who are alive now right before the second coming. The mark of the beast is for our time and it never happened before. We have the system and RFID chip already here. I don't worry about it because everyone dies and I have to die because of Jesus that I okay with me.

Such a Reasonable Explanation! I can't believe we were conned the whole time to buy pastors books and watch their sermons on tv.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

3 ай бұрын

So true!

Thank you Bart

Great conversation! So much respect for Bart Ehrman and Glenn Siepert!👏🙌

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

11 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏻 and thanks for watching! ❤️🙏🏻

I absolutely think Bart Ehrman is the best. I was a full-on Christian for decades and am so happy and free now that I've escaped. Also, there is no need for any apologists, the minute you have one shows how there is not good evidence for that particular deity.

Good stuff. Good job on the interview.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Randi! ❤️🙏🏻

One of the most interesting and enjoyable of the Ehrmann discussions, with an excellent t interviewer. I look forward to the ebook edition.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Harold - and thanks for the encouraging words!

Thanks for the share ..... take care ✝︎

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

10 ай бұрын

Back at you ✌🏻

I Love the music

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

11 ай бұрын

Some people love the music, some hate it haha. Can’t please everybody I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤣

@AngelRoseAngel1980

11 ай бұрын

@@WhatIfProjectPodcast ❤️

Wow! There are some seriously indoctrinated Christians in this comment section. Not one of them has offered anything intelligent but they all seem very passionate about their beliefs in myths and legends. Another excellent interview by Mr Ehrman. He has so much intelligent insight to offer Biblical studies.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening! And yes, the comment section is wild haha

@PropheticPlaces-rm9lp

4 ай бұрын

I'm Glad To Be One Of The Great Multitude Of Gentiles Who Won't Die. But Come Out Of The Great Tribulation Alive To Marry The Lamb Before God's Throne. In White Robes With Palms In Hand. - Revelation 7:9

Is this book available in italian language as it is my first language?

It's important to note that Revelation only barely made it into canon. How different things would be, had it been omitted.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

5 ай бұрын

Very true!

@dariolemos4583

2 ай бұрын

Though for many early critical thinkers, Revelations is an eye-opener amongst so much brain-washing narrative

❤

Love your summation at 48 min mark The reason the book was finally allowed in it was precious. What's hilarious is : (paraphrasing. )all of the torture, and savagery and the out right temper tantrum of this vicious alien creature was fine, just no having a good time like eating a seven course dinner. Lol!!!

It’s amazing how much bunk there is out there with this apocalypse and rapture nonsense and how easily Bart is able to debunk it.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

10 ай бұрын

So true - it takes him 30 seconds to debunk what took 40 years to get drilled into my head haha

@PropheticPlaces-rm9lp

4 ай бұрын

Bart Doesn't Believe. But I'm Glad To Be One Of The Great Multitude Of Gentiles Who Won't Die. But Comes Out Of The Great Tribulation Alive To Marry The Lamb Before God's Throne In White Robes With Palms In Hand. - Revelation 7:9

You mentioned op eds which might easily be applied to your presentations. Kudos to you. i have a real hunger for an "op ed" that deals in length with the effect that constantine's melding of church and State had upon christianity. Specifically, creating a christianity that would become clothed in wealth, power, and blood, and at the same time, a much smaller - dare i say remnant church - that would refuse any association with the sword and the monetization of faith it would bring. Like the Anabaptists, for instance. i am an atheist, former christian, former "bloodied" soldier of Vietnam vintage, and an expat of everything herd-like. And iyam curious about the bifurcating of the church after the Milvian bridge, and the all-pervading, "constantinian" apostasy that has been masquerading as christianity ever since. There is something here to exposit, but not by a heavy handed expat like myself. Whomever jesus actually was, he was decidedly not a war monger, bristling with swords, armies, and nukes. Butt🍑.........constantinian christianity is just so. If there does exist a "remnant" church, one composed of "expats," sojourners and strangers, why is it never spoken of, never referenced by scholars, never ever compared with the mock christianity that has so expertly supplanted it? The only christianity the world acknowledges is a counterfeit, and they are presently, diligently working to transform democracies into autocratic theocracies. A coming rapture? Really? The entire concept of gods and raptures is fantasy, yet it is constantly exposited as if were a reality. The undermining of democracy by constantine's fallacious "church," however, is no fantasy - it's a fright!! Is there any place within scholarly notations for an unveiling of the monstrous masquerade that constantine unleashed upon the superstitious? Me thinks that there should be, and that that history alone, would fill volumes. There may not even be a "remnant" church of mythicists stumbling around out there somewhere. But there is an apostate church that, in it's own way, is as powerful today, as the catholic church that sired them was centuries ago. They may also be mere mythicists, but they are very real, and very dangerous mythicists. It would be nice if someone with scholarly cred would take the time to outline the change that constantine affected in the history of christianity when he made it a prosperous, State religion. A change that literally rewrote the sermon on the mount to read more like an edict of war; unilateral, first strike war!! Anybody up for expositing the 1,700 year history of apostate, carnal christianity? --🤔

My understanding is that Revelation was written to assure the believers of the time that their oppressors would be punished and tortured for eternity.

@Samuelh777

10 ай бұрын

It was written to comfort the oppressed churches of Asia Minor. According to the futurist view of End-times Eschatology, everything from Revelation 4 and onwards is still future. The 7 seals, the 7 trumpets and the 7 bowls of Wrath are yet to happen. Daniel 9:24-27 is the foundation for understanding the overall timeline. The Antichrist will confirm a peace covenant with Israel. Then the two witnesses will preach for 1260 days. Then the abomination of desolation will be set up in the third temple by the Antichrist. After that, the Antichrist will reign for 1260 days and persecute Israel and every believer. (1260 + 1260 = 7 years). At the very end of the 7-year Tribulation is the second coming of Christ to Earth where He judges all the nations. This is followed by the Millennial reign of Christ.

@LyleFrancisDelp

5 ай бұрын

Exactly! And it only barely made it's way into canon.

I agree that the comparison of the two men & women in Matthew 24:40-41 has nothing to do with the Rapture. Indeed the Rapture is not taught or described in the Olivet Discourse. “According to Matthew 24:40-41, ‘Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one will be left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one will be left.’ Because at the rapture, believers will be taken out of the world, some have confused this with the rapture of the church. Here, however, the situation is the reverse. The one who is left, is left to enter the Millennial kingdom of Christ; the one who is taken, is taken in judgment. This is in keeping with the illustration of the time of Noah when the ones taken away are the unbelievers.” “In Matthew 24-Matthew 25 the expositor should, therefore, understand that the program of God for the end of the age has in view the period ending with the second coming of Christ to the earth and the establishment of His earthly Kingdom, not the church age specifically ending with the rapture. Both the questions of the disciples and the answers of Christ are therefore, keyed to the Jewish expectation based on Old Testament prophecy, and the program of God for the earth in general rather than the church as the body of Christ.” However, when it comes to other passages like 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, I respectfully disagree with Bart Ehrmen. The Rapture of the Church is primarily found in countless places like John 14:3; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15:50-58; Titus 2:13; Philippians 3:20-21; Revelation 3:10 and Revelation 4:1. However, as Bart already mentioned, Revelation 4:1 is more an image or a Type and shadow of the Rapture. The Rapture obviously didn't happen when the book of Revelation was written (A.D. 95). The idea of the 7-year Tribulation originates from Daniel 9:24-27 (The famous 70 weeks prophecy). The book of Revelation can't be understood without the book of Daniel. Around 278 verses in the book of Revelation allude to the Old Testament. The Old Testament lays the foundation: Daniel is the basement and Revelation is the ceiling. Revelation won't make much sense when we throw Daniel out of the equation. The Rapture is an eschatological position held by Christians who take the Bible at face value and rely on the grammatical-historical interpretation of scripture (which is a modern Christian hermeneutical method that strives to discover the biblical authors' original intended meaning in the text). Please do some further study on Pre-tribulational (dispensational) Premillennialism. It must be stressed that the Rapture and the 2nd coming of Christ are two seperate events. Bart Ehrman conveniently left out the fact that the book of Revelation provides very specific day counts. The 7-year Tribulation isn't just some modern invention. It is the natural and exegetical conclusion of those specific day counts. 👇👇👇 Revelation 11:3 = 1260 days = 3,5 years = FIRST half Revelation 12:6 = 1260 days = 3,5 years = SECOND half Anyone who knows basic math knows that 1260 days + 1260 days equals 7 years. Furthermore, Bart Ehrman conveniently left out the famous 70 Weeks Prophecy (490 years) in Daniel 9:24-27. This passage provides a highly accurate math formula in order to calculate the FIRST coming of Christ in A.D. 33. 👇👇👇 1 Week = 7 years 70 Weeks = 490 years 69 Weeks = 483 years 483 prophetic years = 173'880 days (483 x 360) Every timeline needs a starting point. 👇 - The twentieth year of King Artaxerxes = 444 B.C. 444 B.C. + 173'880 days = A.D. 33 Since the first 69 Weeks (483 prophetic years = 173'880 days) have expired between the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes (444 B.C.) and The Triumphal Entry of Christ (A.D. 33), there are mathematically only 7 years left on the prophetic clock. This is basic math. Not too difficult. It must be stressed that Daniel 9:27 is the entire foundation of the 7-year Tribulation, which is further described in Revelation 6-19 in more detail.

@bestillandknow5307

8 ай бұрын

Where in Daniel is there a “pause” or “parenthesis” on the 70th week?

@Samuelh777

8 ай бұрын

@@bestillandknow5307 As you know, the 69th week of Daniel ended on Palm Sunday, AD 33. 👇 444 BC + 69 weeks = AD 33 Because the Jews rejected their Messiah, God paused the 70 weeks clock. Between Da 9:26 and Da 9:27 there is a hidden 2000 year gap, known as the Church-age. Between Da 11:35 and Da 11:36 there is a hidden 2000 year gap, known as the Church-age. As you know, the famous "parenthesis" (Church-age) exists only because the Jews crucified their own Messiah. We are living in a gap of grace.

@Samuelh777

8 ай бұрын

@@bestillandknow5307 Let me elaborate: According to Daniel 9:24, six prophecies need to be fulfilled at the end of the 490 years. 1.) finish the wrongdoing 2.) make an end of sin 3.) make atonement for guilt 4.) bring in everlasting righteousness 5.) seal up vision and prophecy 6.) anoint the Most Holy Place Obviously not all of these prophecies have been fulfilled in the first century AD. In summary, the first 3 things are fulfilled in principle by the first coming of Christ, but completely only at his return. The last 3 points are fulfilled at his second coming. In Da 9:26b we read about the horrible siege of Jerusalem in AD 70. 👇 the people (the Romans) of the prince (Titus Caesar Vespasianus) who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary (AD 70). -------- But when we move to Verse 27 it suddenly skips the entire Church-age into the book of Revelation. Clearly meant is the end of the age as well as the judgment at the second coming of Christ, for the establishment of righteousness did not occur 7 years after the death of the Messiah nor does the destruction of Jerusalem fit into this 7-year period (which did not occur until 37 years later in AD 70). It is the 7 future years that end with the final judgment on sin as well as the righteous reign of Christ; meaning His return and the taking up of His reign. These 7 years form Daniel's 70th week of years.

Only I have claimed "no 7 years tribulation" mentioned in the Revelation... just those that came out of Great Tribulation. The Treaty shall be broken = 3.5 years of the tribulation of the saints that will prepare a peculiar people to meet their God, whichever One they serve.

43:50 - ".. massive feasts and power and glory .. great banquets.." IOW, the next world will be a reward of creature comforts - all of the things that were so lacking, for so many, in ancient times. In retrospect, it stuns me just how shallow this all is. All that's missing are the 72 eternal virgins.. for you to parade around on the streets of gold.

I LOVVVE READING REVELATION 😊

I first heard of the rapture in 1975 and it sounded way out there to me. Charismatics at that time believed it would happen in 1980, citing 1973 as a very prophetic year and the beginning of a 7-year countdown to the rapture. The war in the middle east, the oil crisis, more earthquakes than normal, and unusual snowfall in Georgia and the Carolinas while the north was snowless in the winter of '73 were some of the "signs". So, this has been going on for a very long time. The date of the rapture has been moved so many times that people don't pay attention any more. I think when Jesus didn't return in 2000 that was the last straw for a lot of people.

Episcopalian Church never mentions the rapture .

The Rapture is so much BS

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

11 ай бұрын

100%

I'm an atheist, but I believe in the rapture: We can see that Christians are starting to disappear.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

11 ай бұрын

Some are leaving the faith, others are waking up to realize one doesn’t need to believe in a rapture or a variety of other doctrines in order to claim the label. Thanks for watching ✌🏻

@cochetah4339

9 ай бұрын

@QuinArt I also see where God has raised me outside of fundamentalists as I see they do not want to follow Yeshua as at as ll but have divised their own god in him that allows them to go scottfree and not take responsibility to God who is of judgement but his own love that is not manmade but just. I am chastised now by messianic Rabbi who does not want to see he had the answer in God all along. R.Jonatham Cahn is right on with his book of Return of the Gods as exactly who is running stuff....God wants us to test Him, but something went on before Constantine that made Yeshua like the Oracle we liked having...God asked us if we wanted a King. Here ya go. I am chastised for questioning. Too bad.

@ranilodicen4460

8 ай бұрын

bart ehrman and the internet is the start of the decline and eventual demise of the christian faith.. and islam! eventually all gods die!

@cochetah4339

8 ай бұрын

@@ranilodicen4460 they have bastardized and added and subtracted so much it is not how God intended nor do they want to follow His Commandments but make their own and eat cake.

@BigDan21.

6 ай бұрын

This is actually only in countries like U.S.Canada, France etc... If you look at studies worldwide Christianity is actually increasing!

Jeremy Duncan studied John's Revelation for his thesis and developed a non-violent interpretation in his recent book Upside-down Apocalypse. He sees it contrasting human desire for a vengeful God resembling imperial power with Christ who wins by the "sword" of his words and his own blood, not that of his enemies. The instances of divine violence are fantastical hypothetical images of what would happen if God answered the prayers of the martyrs, concluding that this approach is ineffective: "they did not repent". In the end, the kings of the earth who had been slaughtered are still around, bringing their wealth into the city. Those thrown into the lake of fire are also still around outside the city. While nothing unclean will enter, the gates remain permanently open, hinting perhaps that the option to repent remains.

@lepidoptera9337

6 ай бұрын

Dude, you can read whatever you want into the words of a narcissistic madman. The only problem with Revelation is that some fourth century idiots decided to put it into the bible. It doesn't belong there. It goes against absolutely everything that modern Christianity pretends to be. The trivial solution to it is for the Vatican to issue an order that accepting Revelation into the canon was a mistake and that future editions of the bible will remove it. That will force Evangelicals and other kinds of nutcases to either change their theology or admit that they aren't Christians by heart.

Glad To Be One Of The Great Multitude Of Gentiles Who Won't Die. But Comes Out Of The Great Tribulation Alive To Marry The Lamb Before God's Throne In White Robes With Palms In Hand. - Revelation 7:9

You said you have a copy of the book by Tim LaHaye Revelation Unveiled and you talked about what LaHaye said about Pseudo - Ephrem . I also have a copy of the book . You were speaking about what LaHaye wrote on page 110. Did you notice that for some unknown reason Bart choose not to explain the quote on page 110 that says:" All the saints in elect of God are gathered together before the tribulation which is to come, and are taken to the Lord, in order that they may not see at any time that confusion which overwhelms the world because of our sins."I really wanted to know how Bart would explain this. Evangelical Christians quote this passage not the passage that Bart read. Why did he do this ? I was let down that Bart did not try to refute this specific quote that anybody can google for themselves and find Christians using it to prove that Darby was not the first Christian to teach that the elect of God are taken to the Lord ( 1 Thess 4) before the tribulation. As you know LaHaye did not quote from Pseudo - Ephrem anything other than the quote I provided on page 110. Why didn't you quote to Bart what was on page 110 from Pseudo Ephrem?

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

5 ай бұрын

No specific reason ... I just didn't. Only so much can be covered in 40-ish minutes.

@bradmyers7109

5 ай бұрын

@@WhatIfProjectPodcast Why did Bart quote a passage that Evangelicals do not use for proof of their pre-trib rapture ? Why did't he explain in context what this really means ? :" All the saints in elect of God are gathered together before the tribulation which is to come, and are taken to the Lord, in order that they may not see at any time that confusion which overwhelms the world because of our sins." Does this passage in Pseudo - Ephrem written decades before Darby sound a lot like what Evangelical Christians teach now ?

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

5 ай бұрын

@@bradmyers7109 I don't know, when I have him on again I'll ask him :)

@bradmyers7109

5 ай бұрын

@@WhatIfProjectPodcast Bart said he actually read what LaHaye wrote in this book that you mentioned. Did he really read pages 110 -111 of the book that we both have ? Is is REALLY true on page 111 that LaHaye did not mention any other person other than Pseudo - Ephrem that believes the church would depart from the earth before the wrath of God ( Rev 16) ?

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

5 ай бұрын

@@bradmyers7109 I have to go back and listen. From what I remember I read from the book and Bart expanded by quoting directly from Pseudo Ephrem, Bart wasn't reading from LaHaye's book unless he was reading from a scanned page that I sent him prior to our recording.

Like Bart, but the music is a little...odd given the content

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

11 ай бұрын

Can’t please … everyone 🤷🏻‍♂️

I see a lot of Darbyites here 🤣🤣😂😂

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

👀 😂

I never thought the Book of Revelation was about indulging in the flesh at the end. We're going to be the "bride of Christ"? The feast is the "wedding feast of the lamb"? The only way that can be interpreted is spiritual. The symbolism in Revelation in conjunction with Matthew 22:30 is used to argue that we won't have mating partners in eternity. That dualistic, anti-flesh mentality is one of the problems with Christianity.

If the dead are raised to meet the Lord in the air (1Thess 4:17), then what kind of body will they have? Paul answers in 1Cor 13:35-58 that the body will be a spiritual body, like Jesus in heaven, and not an earthly body. So will the old earth be destroyed at that moment, and a new spiritual earth (creation) replace the old in which everything is spiritual, including those who are saved? One can hardly expect spiritual beings to escort the spiritual Lord back to an old earthly city with rats and sewers. So that is why we always assumed the Lord would rapture us out of this corrupt world before it is destroyed. 2Cor 5:8 has another view of Paul where to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Some may have believed differently than Paul, and expected the Lord to come to rule this old earth and the nations with a scepter of iron, perhaps for a thousand years. And there does seem to be two camps. Paul's camp, and the camp of the Book of Revelation.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

The overall point, though, is that Rapture theology is a relatively new theology and even the more orthodox Christian needs to admit that it wasn’t really a thing though out Christian history. If it was original to Paul or other biblical writers, I think something so important would be explained a bit more thoroughly (in at least one ancient text) with more clarity than a couple of out of context sentences that more than likely don’t allude to such an event.

@user-em8zx6pb9p

6 ай бұрын

Agreed. I read James Tabor's "Paul and Jesus," and Paul had an idea of a "cosmic transformation" at the Parousia . But Revelation has no general rapture, but only ruling the earthly nations (Gentiles) with a rod of iron. Josephus and Tacitus said this idea of an earthly Messianic rule is what most motivated the Jewish nation to revolt against Rome. I suspect instead that a small minority of zealot rebels ended up taking over the whole nation of Judea. And once in power, there was not much that could be done after that. Apparently they believed with God's help they could defeat the Romans.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

@@user-em8zx6pb9p I haven't read much of Tabor, but I've been wanting to dig into some of his stuff. Thanks for sharing.

@dirtypickle77

5 ай бұрын

After studying the OT in Hebrew, I found the jews to be correct and the entirety of Christianity to be false. Revelations to be a secretive letter to those expecting God to destroy Rome in their lifetime.

@user-em8zx6pb9p

5 ай бұрын

Dr. Tabor has pointed out that early Jewish Christianity mainly grew out of book of Daniel, being repurposed from resistance literature against Antiochus Epiphanes to resistance literature against Rome. In 4Maccabees 17:21 (written about 40AD) the martyrdom of a righteous one functions as a ransom for the sins of the Jewish people. But the martyrs would be raised from the dead (or raptured) at the end of the age. And the end of the age was close, and Jesus became the first fruits of the dead. This was probably how the Jerusalem church saw the martyrdom of Jesus, and was kind of an apology for Jesus' failed bid to be the Davidic king in his lifetime. But they believed that Jesus would come again to fulfill that role. Paul took a similar message to the Gentiles, saying that Jesus was a ransom for them also. But some in the Jerusalem church did not like the last and the least (Gentiles) being made equal to the first (Jews), so some apparently rejected Paul's Gospel, expecting the Gentiles to convert to Judaism. Also, they believed that Paul was teaching Jews not to follow Moses. Mark therefore portrays the pillars of the Jerusalem church in a negative way, wicked husbandmen who could not watch one hour for the fullness of Paul's Gentiles to come in, and who denied and betrayed Paul's Jesus (meaning Paul). So Mark's Gospel is mainly a parable (or allegory) about Paul as pointed out by Gustav Volkmar in 1857 "Die Religion Jesu". And because they rejected Paul's Jesus Christ and Paul's gospel and instead chose Barabbas of Revelation, and they could not watch nor wait, that is why the lord of the vineyard destroyed those husbandmen. This was not strictly true why Jerusalem fell, but that was Mark's apology to his church for the destruction of the Temple and the Jerusalem church. So Mark's Gospel centers around two apologies, one for the failed bid of Jesus to be the Davidic Messiah, and the other for the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem church, apparently for following or acting out something like Revelation. And you are correct that Revelation is a somewhat coded "letter" and resistance literature that the Romans could not have been happy about, because it wanted to burn their city with fire.

Blood to the horses bridle... now that's alot of blood

Stars are gonna fall to earth, lol.

Revelation has 2 events pointing to rapture. But first, what does rapture mean? Strong's 726 Harpazo- to seize, catch up, snatch away This has happened to Enoch, Elijah, Yahusha, Phillip, Paul, John, and the two witnesses. It really doesn't matter what Ehrman thinks, it's about what Paul tells us, he's in the bible, Ehrman is not and that's how I approach higher criticism on this subject. Now in Matthew 24 did not Yahusha say not to believe that he was in the desert, or in the high place? Did He not say that the time of the end was not yet but it was the end of the "age"? Did He not tell his deciples that every stone would be thrown down? Yes, He warned them before and yet they didn't understand just like when He told them that He'd be killed. The deciples had different expectations at that time and could not see or put the stories in the Torah together to realize what was happening. This wouldn't happen until the Wave Sheaf Offering was made on the 1st day after His resurrection and He explained it to them on the road and the upper room. Now the only reason that people date the book of revelation late is because of the word "that". They assume Clement was referring to the book itself or John himself was seen in those days of Domision, but yet fail to recall the fact that Clement himself called the it "the ancient book". Also, Revelation never has any mention to the destruction of the Herodian temple meaning it was most likely written before 68AD. Daniel also said that prophecy would be sealed up during this period. The imprisonment of John to the island of Patmos also points to the fact that Nero was still in charge at that time. These things most certainly contradicts most peoples eschatology because they have been programmed to this just the opposite in most cases. Like a third temple in Revelation or Daniel 9:24-27 is about the AC. This is conjecture! They somehow foolishly insert an ac and a covenant and oh well we need a third temple for that to happen...its a lie!!! Nowhere in Revelation is there a 3rd temple on Earth. Daniel 9 is ONLY about Yahusha and Titus at the end of the age. The end is not yet, until the fulness of the Gentiles comes in. A rapture will occur either 7 years before the 120th Jubilee or during the jubilee. The falling away is happening now and Israel is now at war. The rapture is meant to bring the Jews to contempt and jealousy, to get them to read the new testament that was made at the last supper. To calculate Daniel's prophecy and finally see what they killed their Mashiach! They will be afflicted until they say blessed is He who comes in the name of Adonia. I have the rapture window between February 25th-May 28th 2024 if its this side of 2029-2030 when the jubilee begins on the day of atonement 2029. We'll see...

@davidkeller6156

5 ай бұрын

Wow! What a bunch of nonsense.

@johnroach4796

2 ай бұрын

He's got it all figured out But be careful how you think or stand les you fall

@annlange2154

Ай бұрын

Tribulation started in2020

@annlange2154

Ай бұрын

Great tribulation starts in 2024

God Shared a dream I Saw WW3! Foreign Military Flight ✈️ Jets In American SKY 12-8-2021

@annlange2154

Ай бұрын

America falls in 2025

I do t care about any other apocalyptic literature outside of the Bible. Revelation is the only book the early church revered as genuine.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

You mean the revelation that almost didn’t make it into the Bible because of how weird it is?

@Sauveguy

6 ай бұрын

@@WhatIfProjectPodcast So true @WhatIfProjectPodcast. Its a really strange book.

The sound quality isn't very good.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

10 ай бұрын

Lol thanks for sharing ✌🏻

Listen closely to what he said…. Bart read the New Testament before going to Moody to prepare for potential tests. He didn’t read the New Testament to find out about God or learn about Christ. Bart said he read the book of Revelation and could not understand it… Of course he would not understand it! The book of revelation is best interpreted with the whole canon not just one book. I also don’t hear his sincerity and seeking God through prayer and humility. He searched the scriptures but not through faith which will never lead to understanding and wisdom of the one true God

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

What books have you read about revelation outside of the fictional left behind series? (Another rhetorical question.) And if you knew anything about Bart outside of the small snippets you chose to listen to you’d know he was an evangelical Christian who had his own born again experience prior to his move to atheism. He’s studied the Bible both as a Christian looking to hear from God and a historian/scholar.

@davidkeller6156

5 ай бұрын

The book of Revelation is just crap. It should never have been included in the Bible. It was just one of many apocalypses floating around at the time, written by someone we know nothing about.

@dirtypickle77

5 ай бұрын

The arrogance of kjv christians boggles my mind. Don't even know their own Christian scriptures are debunked by the Hebrew scriptures in every way possible. The Hebrew speaking Jews are not blind. They just know their own Bible better than English speaking Christians.

It's Easy To Debunk False Church Doctrine. And It's Easy To Believe The Revelation Of Yahshua Messiah.

No Bart just because someone says something is biblical it is the responsibility of the believer to research what is said and pray fully say God to lead them to the truth. I read The Late Great Planet earth but that does not shape ultimately the way God guides our theology. It’s easy to mock but belief in the truth should be based on prayer supplication and acknowledgement even though it goes against what we think personally

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

Lol you should practice what you’re preaching.

The fool hath said in his heart there is no God!

The rapture happens every day

@lepidoptera9337

6 ай бұрын

Are you getting help with that? ;-)

@charlesyoung3795

6 ай бұрын

@@lepidoptera9337 with what?

@lepidoptera9337

6 ай бұрын

@@charlesyoung3795 The delusions. ;-)

I can’t believe Barts poor exegesis on revelation🧐

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

5 ай бұрын

lol please share your credentials, Professor.

Take anything Ehrman says with a grain of salt. He's been mistaken about so much and doesn't give a damn

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

Lol thanks for sharing

@James-ll3jb

6 ай бұрын

@@WhatIfProjectPodcast Any time lol.

@jameswright...

6 ай бұрын

We are all mistaken from time to time. Religious people more often than most. As Bart was once Christian he obviously was mistaken once about quite a lot.

@James-ll3jb

6 ай бұрын

@@jameswright... . The thought habits that allowed his imagination to draw conclusions back then are still operant today: he only hears what he wants to hear.

@jameswright...

6 ай бұрын

@@James-ll3jb Lot's of people only hear what they want, the trick is to think outside that and being willing to be wrong and change your mind That's what he did and is still willing to learn and change his mind. Can you change his mind? Can you change mine? I'm atheist and believe all known gods so far are man made myths and fables with added lies.

When Christ comes the second time, He will not come as He did the first time. He will not come to give Himself a ransom for the sins all mankind, that He did on the cross when He gave Himself once for all. He will not come as a pleading, imploring, loving Savior and Redeemer, but He will come as a Judge. (ACTS 17:31; l l CORINTHIANS 5:10; HEBREWS 9:27)

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

Lol Walter coming in hot on thanksgiving with the bad, I mean good news of Jesus. Love how so many Christians anticipate the second coming of Jesus in judgement because they didn’t like the first coming of grace. Revelation was written by an angry guy who stress ate too much pizza before bed, it’s not meant to be taken literally. When it is, it causes all sorts of problems and wounds all sorts of people.

@walterlahaye2128

6 ай бұрын

@@WhatIfProjectPodcast , The New Testament is Precise!

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

@@walterlahaye2128you didn’t answer the question, but nice deflection.

@walterlahaye2128

6 ай бұрын

@@WhatIfProjectPodcast , Don’t even try to improve on Christ, he’ll win every time! God is not mocked. What you sow, you will reap!

@walterlahaye2128

6 ай бұрын

@@WhatIfProjectPodcast , If you sow to the flesh, you will of the flesh reap corruption. If you sow to the Spirit, you will of the Spirit reap everlasting joy.

Hate those short videos

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

19 сағат бұрын

Eh?

Only one Gospel: The Gospel of Reconciliation. Jesus Christ came into THEIR kingdom to reconcile fallen angels unto Himself. We are the fallen angels (ELOHIM) kept in DNA chains of darkness. If you do not confess being a fallen angel in Lucifer's kingdom, then you are an unbeliever. Unbeliever = those that claim to be made in the image of ELOHIM (gods).

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

Eh?

@qwerty-so6ml

6 ай бұрын

@@WhatIfProjectPodcast Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and SEAL UP THE BOOK, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. This is Daniel's sealed scroll, unsealed. Genesis 1 is Lucifer and the fallen angels making man in their image. Man is an idol, a trap for angels. (tares) Genesis 1 only uses the word ELOHIM. Genesis 2:7 the Lord God forms His representative in THEIR system. (wheat) Genesis 2:4 is where the word Lord God (YHWH ELOHIM) is found. Exodus 20:4 YHWH ELOHIM forbids idols and likeness (embodiment = human host body). Jesus called you a god/angel. John 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? What law? Psalm 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods (H430); and all of you are children of the most High. 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. Strongs H430 Elohim = angels, gods (little g). Right there, he called you a god (angel) that shall die like man, and fall. A fallen angel. Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. No mention of unrepentant man in Matthew 25:41. Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: Pray that your eyes are opened. Video from angel of Church of Philadelphia: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lmmXqLCle7u_ktI.html

@lepidoptera9337

6 ай бұрын

@@qwerty-so6ml Yes, there was a lot of that kind of bullshit around. So what? So nothing. ;-)

Liar, liar, liar…. His beliefs are based on his interpretation of the holy scriptures…. Bart is interpreting the Bible and its truths according to the lens he is looking through…. That lens is atheism (Yes he claims to be agnostic but if you follow his writings and debates and talks he is obviously an atheist) Don’t fall prey to his scholarship nor his sarcastic tone. Read the Bible and sincerely ask God to reveal the truth of the scriptures. Most definitely there were atheists and agnostics before that asserted that the Bible was false and it was found to be true. Example the Hittites, existence of Pilate, David etc… Throughly research EVERYTHING Bart says and inconsistencies and lies will be found

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

Lol how many of Bart’s books have you read? It’s a rhetorical question, we already know the answer. And newsflash: everyone’s beliefs are based on their interpretation of the holy scriptures, even yours.

@davidkeller6156

5 ай бұрын

If you knew anything about historians, whether secular or believing Christians, did their research you’d know that the majority of what Bart teaches is agreed on by other reputable historians.

The guy your interviewing knows nothing. REVELATION 3:7-11.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

His whole book is about the book of Revelation. Maybe try reading something outside of stuff that just tells you want you want to hear 🤷🏻‍♂️

@KLECKFILESdotCOM4TrueJesus

6 ай бұрын

@@WhatIfProjectPodcast I read or bring everything back to only the Bible. If you cannot take it back to the Bible 100% truth then it doesn't matter! God bless!

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

@@KLECKFILESdotCOM4TrueJesus oh because the book of Revelation is so clear, especially when plucked from its 1st century context and forced into the 21st century. … Sounds like an excuse not to read, if you ask me.

@lepidoptera9337

6 ай бұрын

@@KLECKFILESdotCOM4TrueJesus The bible is a random compilation of religious texts from a much, much larger collection that were known in the 4th century. It's not obvious why it should be important in the 21st century. We can make our own selection and it won't be any different than when they made theirs. I for one chose to ignore all that 1st century religious insanity. ;-)

@davidkeller6156

5 ай бұрын

@@KLECKFILESdotCOM4TrueJesusIf the Bible is 100% true why are there so many contradictions in it? Why weren’t the original books preserved exactly as written? Why didn’t God make sure the scribes that copied it didn’t add things or leave things out? In the case of the four Gospels, why didn’t God make sure that we know who wrote them? In fact, one thing that really bothers me, is why didn’t Jesus just write a book telling us what his teachings were instead of relying on people 40 to 70 years later to tell it? It’s entirely possible that Jesus, being from a small town of about 800 people with no synagogue or school, didn’t know how to write. Literacy in ancient Palestine at the time is estimated to be about 5% or less and the people that learned how to read and write were usually either scribes or the upper echelons of society that had the time and money to be taught. I’m not saying he couldn’t write, but the odds aren’t in his favor, being a peasant from a small town where people basically eked out a subsistence living.

I don't trust an atheists to teach bible theology but he is entertaining. Ehrman has been discredited in almost all his book for deing misleading and heretical. So why is he still selling book? 2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

Ай бұрын

lol thanks for the out of context Bible verse … and we weren’t talking about “Bible theology”. Perhaps you should listen to the full episode before commenting.

This guy is one of the biggest grifters of all time. It's astonishing. He's made an entire second career (and, I'm guessing, quite a bit of money) raging against a God in which he doesn't even believe. I do hope he repents soon. Once he's dead or Christ returns, it will be too late. This man has made it his mission to turn people against Christ. That's a huge thing for which he will have to one day answer. The most disturbing part is... he KNOWS all of that because he KNOWS what the Bible says. I find that horrifying.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

Lol tell us what Ehrman books you’ve read … bonus points for the ones you’ve read with an open mind - we’ll wait.

@jameswright...

6 ай бұрын

Can you prove god exists before you misrepresent people?

@davidkeller6156

5 ай бұрын

If you’re e actually read any of Bart’s books you’d know they are well researched. He’s not just writing his own opinions, he’s covering what historical scholars pretty much agree on. He usually has other scholars, who by the way are still believing Christians, proof read his books before sending them to his publisher. The only Christians he has a problem with are fundamentalists who think the Bible is the inerrant word of God.

@Yesica1993

5 ай бұрын

No, all historical scholars DON'T "pretty much agree." All Christians think the Bible is the inerrant Word of God. If you do not, you are not a Christian, by definition. @@davidkeller6156

@annlange2154

Ай бұрын

Jesus appeared to me...

This is sad. I hope no one believes what this man is saying.

@WhatIfProjectPodcast

6 ай бұрын

Lol thanks for sharing.

@jameswright...

6 ай бұрын

Why? The truth to painful?

Context is important, as is audience relevance. Who were the bible writers speaking to? They were speaking to the people of their era. The bible is just a fictionalized history of the ancient Israelites, whose writings included thoughts on who they thought their god was. All the nations surrounding Israel had their gods, Pagan as they were, until the Roman Empire converted to Christianity.