This lesson concerns the first written account of war in NOT JUST the Bible, but in all ancient literature! Interestingly, this first recorded war in history involved an attack on five kings of the Dead Sea area of ancient Canaan (Israel) by a coalition of four kings from territories that, to this day, remain hostile to Israel! The invading kings were led by a man from Elam (part of modern-day Iraq). He was called the "Ravager of the West". 85-year old Abraham was the hero of this story! (This w...
May 08, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 20
It would be difficult to imagine the resurrected Lord not mentioning Abraham or the covenant God made with him in His "Unrecorded Emmaus Road Sermon". He very likely taught His two despondent disciples how the promises, blessings, and fulfillment of that covenant center on Himself (although His identity was not yet revealed to the two). The Lord's initial call to Abram of Ur of the Chaldees (a Gentile!) was analogous in importance to the divine summons to Moses at the burning bush and to Saul on...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 19
Babel was the first "global" attempt to elevate man to God's level by way of the religion of self-effort. It was the first experiment of man to have a world government and a one-world religion. Disobeying God's way of salvation, which was to believe on His Promised Saviour, the Seed of the woman of Genesis 3:15, the Tyrant Nimrod (a picture type of the future Antichrist) introduced the world to Cain's alternate "works' approach" to Heaven and even replaced God as the Object of worship and Source...
May 04, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 18
Learn truths about the Noahic Flood and the Ark you likely never knew before! Not only do we mention 15 ways Noah served as a prophetic type of Christ, but we include 16 ways the Ark was a also a picture of Him! Did you know the Ark came to rest on Mount Ararat on the very day Christ, centuries later, would resurrect from "the waters of death"? Did you know the Gospel message is hidden in the Hebrew meaning of the first 10 men of Christ's lineage (Adam to Noah)? Don't miss the boat! Hear this me...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Why did God accept Abel's sacrifice and not Cain's? This lesson explains, and it is vital to understand the answer! Cain's problem is the problem of religious people all over the world who attempt to approach God "the way of Cain" (Jude 11), which is by their own works (fruit). What made Abel's offering "a more excellent sacrifice"? It pointed to Christ. Isn't it interesting that Cain, who was too "dignified" to offer a blood sacrifice, quickly and angrily shed the blood of his own brother? Cain...
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 17
God's first proclamation of the Gospel message is recorded in Genesis 3:15, called by theologians, "The Protoevangelium". It is a foundational matter to understand this amazing prophecy about a coming Saviour Who would defeat Satan. That Promised Victor would be born of a woman's "Seed," and since women do not have "seed," this was a long ago "clue" as to Christ's virgin conception! The two despondent Emmaus Road disciples were upset because the One in Whom they had placed their faith and hope w...
Apr 28, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 16
Have you ever thought about the fact that although God created man sinless and innocent, he was not righteous? That may sound strange, but think it through. Righteousness is innocence maintained in the presence of temptation! Adam failed to maintain his innocence in the face of indirect temptation (he was not directly tempted by Satan; Eve was Adam's temptation - Eve herself, not the fruit in her hand). The Last Adam, the Lord Jesus, fully resisted all Satan's direct temptations. totally maintai...
Apr 26, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 15
"WOW!" is what the response has repeatedly been to those who listen to this very first lesson on finding Christ in the Old Testament, beginning with the Creation account! Learn about the abundant "tri-une" evidence of the Tri-une Godhead throughout His creation! Enlighten yourself about fascinating subjects the majority of Christians have never heard about: the Jewish Targums, the "Memra," and the hidden "aleph's" and "tav's" in the Scripture! Evidence to refute evolution? This is it. YOU NEED T...
Apr 25, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This is the introductory lesson for an in-depth study of Old Testament Christology (finding Christ in the Old Testament). The "springboard" for this study comes from the Lord's unrecorded teaching in "The Emmaus Road Sermon". To two disheartened disciples, returning from Jerusalem to their former, pre-Jesus lives, the "incognito" resurrected Lord cheered them up to the point of "spiritual heartburn" (Luke 24:32) by teaching why "the Christ" HAD to suffer (and die) before entering into His glory....
Apr 24, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 6
After the Lord Jesus commended His spirit into His Father's hands, there was immediately a series of four responses. There was God's response by way of three miraculous phenomena: (1) the Temple Veil Tore from top to bottom (SO MUCH SIGNIFICANCE), (2) the earth quaked (HEAVEN'S "AMEN" TO CHRIST'S FINISHED WORK), and (3) certain select graves were opened (FOR THOSE INSIDE TO COME FORTH, LIKE LAZARUS, ON RESURRECTION SUNDAY AFTER CHRIST AROSE). These were amazing miracles to testify of the magnitu...
Apr 23, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 50
In the first part of this lesson (see Lesson #181a), we discussed "The Victor's Declaration" (John 19:30a); we conclude with this lesson on "The Victor's Death". Included in this great, great study is a look at Christ's final (of seven) cross saying, which, as the first saying, was a prayer. It was significant, not only because it was His last word before He died, but because His use of the term, "Father," tells us He was back in communion/fellowship with His heavenly Father! The "cup" He had be...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 49
For a number of lessons prior to this one, we have been looking at the apparent "tragedy" of Calvary, but, with this lesson, we turn to the reality of the situation: it was a victorious triumph! To the unbelieving world, it seems as though Jesus of Nazareth was the victim of a cruel, but unplanned (by Him) crucifixion. The truth is so very different. Jesus (the Saviour promised the world since Genesis 3:15) was both the Designer and Orchestrater of the entire out-working of events and circumstan...
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 48
"The Ninth Hour Thirst" - Matthew 27:47-49; Mark 15:35, 36; John 19:28, 29. This lesson is divided into three parts: The Devious Deception, The Divine Desire, and The Davidic Drink. Learn of a centuries' long debate about the motive of those who said the Lord was crying out to Elijah when He said, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" ("My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?"). It is an interesting debate; likely the misunderstanding intentionally originated with Israel's religious rulers as a dev...
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 47
Why did the Apostles not believe the report of the resurrection of Jesus they received from the two groups of women who had been to the empty tomb and talked with angels? One of those two groups even met Jesus Himself in His glorified body - yet, the men did not believe them. They thought they were full of "silly talk"! Nor did the men believe the report that came later Sunday afternoon from the two disciples who met the resurrected Christ on the Road to Emmaus! In fact, they did not even believ...
Apr 20, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 510
In-depth commentary/study books to ACCOMPANY EVERY STUDY on our podcast are available through Amazon.com and scripturetruth.com (Search under Katherine Caldwell Commentaries) This passionate one-hour study is on the many and often confusing events and circumstances concerning the Sunday when Jesus Christ rose bodily from His tomb three days and three nights after His death - just as He had predicted and promised on at least seven Biblically recorded occasions! You will hear nuggets of truth you ...
Apr 20, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 509
This lesson begins our discussion of the Lord's second three hours on the cross (from noon to 3:00 p.m., or was called the sixth to ninth hours). This time frame began with an eerie, mysterious darkness over the land, and an intense darkness over the Lord Himself as He was separated, for the first and only time ever, from fellowship with the Father. What were God's reasons for the darkness that shrouded the suffering of His Son from human eyes for three hours? If Jesus is Deity (and He is), then...
Apr 20, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 46
"Love: A Personal Concern" - John 19:25-27. John's gospel record of the crucifixion of Christ immediately ushers his readers from the Lord's foes to His friends! He is the only one of the four gospel authors to record Christ's third (of seven) saying from the cross, which was about His mother's care. To the end, the Lord Jesus obeyed the Law, for He honored His widowed mother by providing (as her eldest Son) for her future care. He not only obeyed the letter of the Law, He displayed the spirit o...
Apr 19, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 45
The sub-title for this concluding lesson on our mini-series, "It is Finished" (What Jesus Did for You) is, "Faith: A Penitent Criminal". The conversion of one of the two thieves dying with the Lord is a wonderful demonstration of His triumphant victory over the wicked forces of Satan's principalities and powers even when He was seemingly at His weakest (He was really at His strongest). This is the true account of a sinner who experienced the transforming power of God's grace. There are some very...
Apr 19, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 35
The title of this fifth lesson of our "It is Finished" series concerning Christ's cross-work is "Hate: A Provoking Crowd". As Satan was in the very process of bruising the Saviour's heel (Genesis 3:15), he was also seeing to it that representatives of each First Century "people group" voiced hatred and scorn at his age-old enemy, God's Son (the One Who cast him like lightning from Heaven). The events of this lesson occurred during the Lord's first three hours on the cross, before it became eeril...
Apr 18, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 34
This is the continuation of Lesson 175a on the Lord's crucifixion. Repeatedly, throughout His earthly ministry, Christ's enemies sought to destroy Him, but they could not. HIS predetermined "hour" had not come. But finally it did, and their desires were granted by the will of God Himself. The Lord Jesus, Prince of Life, willingly yielded Himself into their hands. At any minute - even hanging nailed to a cross - He could have used His power to escape, but He did not. He was fully surrendered to c...
Apr 17, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 33
In-depth commentary/study books to ACCOMPANY EVERY STUDY on our podcast are available through Amazon.com and scripturetruth.com Search under Katherine Caldwell Commentaries) In this lesson, we engage in the unpleasant task of describing the suffering of the cruelest, most disgraceful death instrument depraved mankind ever invented. We discuss a four-point outline in this two-part study of "The Crucifixion": the Pain of Crucifixion, the Prayer of Christ ("Father, forgive them, for they know not w...
Apr 17, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 32
https://podnews.net/podcast/1500410875/episode-links In this lesson, we discuss the Lord's final week of His public ministry on earth. It is commonly referred to as His "Passion Week," and it began on Palm Sunday. We briefly talk about the events of each day of that most significant week, but the primary emphasis of this study is on the day of His crucifixion. There are three main views on this debate. They are the (1) Wednesday view, (2) the Thursday view, and (3) the Friday view (of which ther...
Apr 15, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 113
The original Passover was the Gospel in living illustration! God's primary purpose of the Passover in Egypt was to prophesy of the True Lamb of God" to be slain on Passover day. It is the oldest, continuously observed holiday in human history, having been celebrated for some 3,500 years by Jewish people the world over in obedience to God's command of Exodus 12:14. The Passover celebration has a distinct "order" to it; the Hebrew word for "order' is "seder". In this lesson, we proceed through "Th...
Apr 11, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 27
Daniel chapter 12 is both the crowning and the concluding chapter of the book. After a three-chapter long "vision" (series of revelations) that presented a lot of "gloom and doom" to the old prophet about his beloved Israel and a long line of egotistical, fighting Gentile kings, the last part of his fourth and final God-sent revelation told him (and Israel) there is light at the end of the tunnel! There is "Hope for Tomorrow"! There is the sure hope of resurrection and everlasting life in God's ...
Apr 10, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 320
Daniel 11:32-45 Learn about the vile Syrian king named Antiochus Epiphanes, who committed an abomination of desolation in Israel, on her Temple and God's Holy of Holies in the Second Century B.C., and how that event led to the rise of the Maccabees and the Maccabean Revolt (and, subsequently, the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah). The reason Scripture presents so much about Antiochus Epiphanes is because he served as a prophetic type of the future Antichrist. Because so much of the Book of Daniel eith...
Apr 09, 2025•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 319
The Babylonian Captivity of Israel in the days of the Prophet Daniel was only the beginning of Israel's chastening process. As a nation, even after 70 years in captivity, she had not genuinely repented of her continual disobedience of God. It would be a long time before her ultimate "Time of Restoration" in the Millennial Kingdom would occur. In Daniel chapter 11, Daniel receives a very long and detailed prophecy about a "parade of fighting kings" (Persian kings, Greek kings, Seleucid and ptolem...
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 318
For all Caldwell Commentary study books go to scripturetruth.com or mazon.com This important lesson, from Daniel 10:1 to 11:1 presents the prelude to Daniel's final vision, which sweeps over the time in history from Daniel's day to the Second Coming of Christ at the end of the Great Tribulation. Daniel received a special visit from the pre-incarnate Christ, which tells us that the prophetic vision Daniel would receive is of great importance. The appearance of the Lord caused Daniel to be so stun...
Apr 04, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 317
The saddest tragedy to ever occur for Israel was when she missed the prophetically foretold day of her long awaited Messiah's arrival. It was not the day of His birth in Bethlehem. It was not the day of His baptism in the Jordan. It was not even the day He officially began His public ministry by suddenly appearing in Jerusalem, going straight to the Temple, and single-handedly cleansing it (another clear fulfillment of Messianic prophecy). None of those events were specifically predicted to the ...
Apr 02, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 57
Did you know Jewish rabbis do not want their people reading "The Great 70 Weeks' Prophecy" of Daniel 9:24-27? Listen to the words of an ancient rabbinic curse (Talmudic Law p. 987, Section 2, Line 28; also Talmud Sanhedrin 97b, Soncino ed, p. 659), "May the bones of the hands and the bones of the fingers decay and decompose, of him who turns the pages of the book of Daniel, to find out the time of Daniel 9:24-27, and may his memory rot from off the face of the earth forever". Pretty harsh words ...
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 56
Prayer is the believer's amazing privilege to get involved in God's program for man and history. In Daniel's powerful prayer of chapter 9, he teaches by his example great truths about effectual, fervent prayer. Learn how Daniel's entire prayer - his confessions, his praises, and his petitions - were all in complete harmony with Who God is. He did not express any opinions or bring up any issues or needs that contradicted God's Person or purposes. God's messenger angel, Gabriel, told Daniel he was...
Mar 29, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 125
