The nineteenth century New England poet Emily Dickinson began her brief poem with this quip:

“I’m nobody; who are you?”

So many of us can identify with Miss Dickinson’s self-recognition, noting that there are seemingly disadvantages being “a somebody,” of whom there are far fewer than “the nobodies,” though sometimes we might like to try it for ourselves!

The Gospels introduce us to twelve men who could certainly be considered “nobodies,” but who were used in extraordinary ways after meeting Jesus and being called and prepared by Him.

In this next series of six studies we will consider six of the twelve apostles, the ones to whom there has been given little attention, but who must be included in the group of “nobodies” mightily used as Jesus’ human instruments to “build His Church.”

And in this there is great encouragement for all of us “nobodies” as we move into a series entitled, “Six REALLY Ordinary Men: The Overlooked Half of the Apostles,” with this first study we call “Getting To Know the Nobodies.”

Thank you for listening to Ancient Words, Modern Message. You can expect episodes twice a month on Monday. Ancient Words, Modern Message is supported by Hebrew Christian Fellowship. To learn more about our ministry, or to ask a question, contact HCFellowship4819@gmail.com. We might just answer your question on a future episode of Ancient Words, Modern Message. If you know a person that you think would benefit from this teaching, please share it with them. And if you’d like to support Ancient Words, Modern Message, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your input helps us make the podcast even better and reach new listeners. Ancient Words, Modern Message is produced by Studio D Podcast Production and hosted by Rev. Roger Wambold, Director of Hebrew Christian Fellowship.

At a time when so many nations and individuals are turning away from Israel and vilifying the Jewish state and the Jewish people, it is both remarkable and refreshing to hear from those who continue to have “a heart for Israel.” Such a one is Paul Valerio, an American Gentile who, along with his young wife Traci, decided to visit Israel for three weeks and ended up living and working there for eighteen years!

I recently had the privilege of sitting down with Paul during a few days with us in Pennsylvania as a stop between his home in Georgia and a visit with family (and running in a half-marathon) in Connecticut where he grew up.

With each of us enjoying a cup of coffee and a bagel with a “shmear” of cream cheese, I asked Paul to share how he and Traci surprisingly ended up in Israel and to describe the development of his deep interest in, and love for, Israel and the Jewish people which continues to this day. I also asked him to share from his heart his concern and hope for both the Jewish State and its citizens.

I believe you will be blessed and challenged as you listen in on this conversation which is this next Bagel-side Chat in an episode with the intriguing title, “Three Weeks, Two Back-Packs, Plus Eighteen Years.”

Thank you for listening to Ancient Words, Modern Message. You can expect episodes twice a month on Monday. Ancient Words, Modern Message is supported by Hebrew Christian Fellowship. To learn more about our ministry, or to ask a question, contact HCFellowship4819@gmail.com. We might just answer your question on a future episode of Ancient Words, Modern Message. If you know a person that you think would benefit from this teaching, please share it with them. And if you’d like to support Ancient Words, Modern Message, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your input helps us make the podcast even better and reach new listeners. Ancient Words, Modern Message is produced by Studio D Podcast Production and hosted by Rev. Roger Wambold, Director of Hebrew Christian Fellowship.

Over these past months at various times you have been invited to join me, Roger Wambold, Director of Hebrew Christian Fellowship, for an informal conversation about matters related to Israel, the Jewish people, and how they fit into God’s plan and purpose for the world as revealed in His Word, the Bible.

Loosely modeled after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (FDR’s) “Fireside Chats” in his radio addresses to the American people from 1933 to 1944 during the Great Depression and World War II, these talks have a “Jewish flavor” (read that “Bagel-side”) to them.

In this eleventh “Bagel-side Chat” I focus on the example of the Ten Boom Family in the Netherlands during the terrible time of the Holocaust and its connection to what lies ahead for the Jewish people as foretold by the Old Testament prophets and Jesus Himself in the Olivet Discourse.

In this present time when so many nations and individuals have turned against the State of Israel and the Jewish people, it is especially important to ponder how Jesus would have us respond in practical ways to the circumstances and needs of “His brethren.”

So, settle in with a beverage and a bagel with a “shmear” for this eleventh “Bagel-side Chat” entitled, “Corrie’s Tree and Me.”

Thank you for listening to Ancient Words, Modern Message. You can expect episodes twice a month on Monday. Ancient Words, Modern Message is supported by Hebrew Christian Fellowship. To learn more about our ministry, or to ask a question, contact HCFellowship4819@gmail.com. We might just answer your question on a future episode of Ancient Words, Modern Message. If you know a person that you think would benefit from this teaching, please share it with them. And if you’d like to support Ancient Words, Modern Message, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your input helps us make the podcast even better and reach new listeners. Ancient Words, Modern Message is produced by Studio D Podcast Production and hosted by Rev. Roger Wambold, Director of Hebrew Christian Fellowship.

Of the five supernatural revelations recorded in the Old Testament Book of Daniel, the prophet’s vision described in chapter 8 is certainly one of the most astounding, astounding in its specificity in predicting future events, covering a span of over five hundred years and beyond.

Two vitally important truths emerge from an understanding of Daniel’s vision:

• Every earthly kingdom, no matter how seemingly indestructible, will fall as surely as it arose. . .with one notable exception.
• If all of Daniel’s predictions were correct, with the exception of the one yet unfulfilled, surely that one will be fulfilled, as well, though sometime in the indefinite future.

With these truths in mind, we turn to Daniel 8 in this last in a six-part series entitled, “When Worlds Collide: Studies in the Book of Daniel,” an episode we call “Precision Prophecy.”

Thank you for listening to Ancient Words, Modern Message. You can expect episodes twice a month on Monday. Ancient Words, Modern Message is supported by Hebrew Christian Fellowship. To learn more about our ministry, or to ask a question, contact HCFellowship4819@gmail.com. We might just answer your question on a future episode of Ancient Words, Modern Message. If you know a person that you think would benefit from this teaching, please share it with them. And if you’d like to support Ancient Words, Modern Message, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your input helps us make the podcast even better and reach new listeners. Ancient Words, Modern Message is produced by Studio D Podcast Production and hosted by Rev. Roger Wambold, Director of Hebrew Christian Fellowship.

There is a “slogan” of sorts heard often in years gone by: “I don’t know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.” While the gist of this statement is correct, the first part of it should have an asterisk attached, directed toward the qualification that God has given us in His Word through the prophetic scriptures a glimpse of some of the general movements of the future.

Such is the case with a dream Daniel had in the middle of the sixth century B.C., a dream with content similar to the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream some fifty years earlier. Both dreams outline the flow of world history through four great empires—all of which eventually crumble—and its culmination in a fifth empire, which will last forever.

So we can know something of what the future holds through careful Bible study, challenging as it may sometimes be. However, what is most encouraging of all is that we indeed know Who holds the future.

With that in mind, let’s roll up our sleeves and dive into Daniel chapter 7 for this fifth episode of a six-part series, “When Worlds Collide: Studies in the Book of Daniel,” an episode entitled, “A Frightful Dream with Forever Details.”

which are not just stories, but accounts of actual events, there is an overarching theme of the book of which these various accounts are a demonstration. That theme is summarized in verse twenty-one of chapter two: And he [God] changeth the times and the seasons; he removeth kings, and setteth up kings; he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to those who know understanding.

“The wise” are those who look around them at current events in the world and ask the question, “Who’s in charge here?” And “the wise” are those who realize the correct answer to that question: “GOD is in charge here!”

Especially in this present time the words of the hymn, “This Is My Father’s World,” are particularly relevant, comforting, and encouraging: “This is my Father’s world, O let me ne’er forget that though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.”

Thank you for listening to Ancient Words, Modern Message. You can expect episodes twice a month on Monday. Ancient Words, Modern Message is supported by Hebrew Christian Fellowship. To learn more about our ministry, or to ask a question, contact HCFellowship4819@gmail.com. We might just answer your question on a future episode of Ancient Words, Modern Message. If you know a person that you think would benefit from this teaching, please share it with them. And if you’d like to support Ancient Words, Modern Message, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your input helps us make the podcast even better and reach new listeners. Ancient Words, Modern Message is produced by Studio D Podcast Production and hosted by Rev. Roger Wambold, Director of Hebrew Christian Fellowship.

While the Old Testament book of Daniel contains numerous fascinating stories which are not just stories, but accounts of actual events, there is an overarching theme of the book of which these various accounts are a demonstration. That theme is summarized in verse twenty-one of chapter two: And he [God] changeth the times and the seasons; he removeth kings, and setteth up kings; he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to those who know understanding.

“The wise” are those who look around them at current events in the world and ask the question, “Who’s in charge here?” And “the wise” are those who realize the correct answer to that question: “GOD is in charge here!”

Especially in this present time the words of the hymn, “This Is My Father’s World,” are particularly relevant, comforting, and encouraging: “This is my Father’s world, O let me ne’er forget that though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.”

Thank you for listening to Ancient Words, Modern Message. You can expect episodes twice a month on Monday. Ancient Words, Modern Message is supported by Hebrew Christian Fellowship. To learn more about our ministry, or to ask a question, contact HCFellowship4819@gmail.com. We might just answer your question on a future episode of Ancient Words, Modern Message. If you know a person that you think would benefit from this teaching, please share it with them. And if you’d like to support Ancient Words, Modern Message, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your input helps us make the podcast even better and reach new listeners. Ancient Words, Modern Message is produced by Studio D Podcast Production and hosted by Rev. Roger Wambold, Director of Hebrew Christian Fellowship.

The Old Testament is “chocked full” of great stories of fascinating characters and dramatic events. However, it is important to recognize that the Bible is not just another story-book, but that, in fact, the “stories” it contains are not fictional stories, but they are the record of things that really happened. Time and time again the veracity and authenticity of the record have been supported by archaeological discoveries over the centuries.

One of the most exciting and intriguing “stories” in the Old Testament is found in the fourth chapter of the Book of Daniel which is the first-hand account by Babylon’s greatest king, Nebuchadnezzar, of an astounding event in his life and reign.

The story is that of how one who could correctly be called a pride-filled narcissist was brought low in order that he might become a humble worshipper of the One True God.

And so, in the third episode of this series, “When Worlds Collide: Studies in the Book of Daniel,” we consider this fascinating and ultra-dramatic story, an episode entitled, “How the Mighty Has Fallen!”

Thank you for listening to Ancient Words, Modern Message. You can expect episodes twice a month on Monday. Ancient Words, Modern Message is supported by Hebrew Christian Fellowship. To learn more about our ministry, or to ask a question, contact HCFellowship4819@gmail.com. We might just answer your question on a future episode of Ancient Words, Modern Message. If you know a person that you think would benefit from this teaching, please share it with them. And if you’d like to support Ancient Words, Modern Message, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your input helps us make the podcast even better and reach new listeners. Ancient Words, Modern Message is produced by Studio D Podcast Production and hosted by Rev. Roger Wambold, Director of Hebrew Christian Fellowship.

Certainly most of us have had the experience of waking up in the morning and asking: “Where did that dream come from?

Maybe the bed-time snack of three slices of pepperoni pizza, but more often than not, we simply do not know where those far-fetched and bizarre dreams come from.

However, we do know where the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream came from, a strange dream reported in the second chapter of the Old Testament Book of Daniel. Thanks to the divinely inspired insight of a young Jewish exile, Nebuchadnezzar also knew where the dream came from—more correctly from whom it came—and its meaning, as well.

While the great majority of dreams defy explanation and understanding, this particular one was deep in its meaning and broad in its scope, so broad, in fact, that it covered a span of 279 years and beyond, outlining in amazing detail a major period of world history.

With this in mind, let’s open our Bibles to Daniel 2 for this second in the series we have named, “When Worlds Collide: Studies in the Book of Daniel,” an episode with the intriguing title, “279 Years in Just One Night!”

Thank you for listening to Ancient Words, Modern Message. You can expect episodes twice a month on Monday. Ancient Words, Modern Message is supported by Hebrew Christian Fellowship. To learn more about our ministry, or to ask a question, contact HCFellowship4819@gmail.com. We might just answer your question on a future episode of Ancient Words, Modern Message. If you know a person that you think would benefit from this teaching, please share it with them. And if you’d like to support Ancient Words, Modern Message, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your input helps us make the podcast even better and reach new listeners. Ancient Words, Modern Message is produced by Studio D Podcast Production and hosted by Rev. Roger Wambold, Director of Hebrew Christian Fellowship.