This week’s Prophet reading—traditionally called the Haftorah—is 2 Kings 4:1-37. It accompanies the Torah portion Vayeria (Genesis 18:1–22:24).

This passage relates the moving accounts of two women in great personal distress whose needs are met through divine miracles. Lessons about the powerful effects humility, perseverance, and obedience offer encouragement for God’s faithful children of all ages. Listen to Keith Johnson and Nehemia Gordon as they discover priceless gems in this installment of Prophet Pearls: Exploring Biblical Prophecy for Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.

If you would like to listen to Keith and Nehemia discuss the Torah portions that correlate to the Prophet portions here are the original Torah Pearls programs recorded in 2011-2012.

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I invite you to listen to Day Twenty-Nine of the Proverb Pearls devotional series. We will take a look at all 31 chapters of the Book of Proverbs over 31 days! 

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After getting in to see artifacts that were buried beneath the traditional site of the tomb of Jonah, I heard there was another gate that ISIS blew-up that might give me access inside the walls of ancient Nineveh...you know, the place Jonah tried to run from and was swallowed by a really big fish. I would need a really BIG favor from a new friend and a key to unlock the gate in order to get in. When ISIS blew up the Mashgi Gate in modern Mosul, they actually triggered the resurrection of ancient Nineveh!

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In Hebrew Gospel Pearls #28, Have You Not Heard?, Nehemia and Keith describe a key feature of New Testament manuscripts, discuss how a simple paragraph break can become crucial for the interpretation of the text, and share why the Ten Commandments are read different ways in Hebrew.

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 I invite you to listen to Day Twenty-Eight of the Proverb Pearls devotional series. 

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 I invite you to listen to Day Twenty-Seven of the Proverb Pearls devotional series. 

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When I heard that an ancient site that is connected to one of my favorite stories in the Bible was on ISIS’s list for destruction, I was discouraged. But when I found out what was discovered after the destruction, I was encouraged. When I was determined to see with my own two eyes the archeological evidence that matched the biblical message, I was ecstatic and made my way to Nineveh, in Biblical Iraq.

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In Hebrew Gospel Pearls #26, Another Jesus?, Nehemia and Keith discuss how the standard Greek version differs from the Hebrew, whom the Hebrew Yeshua declared that he would destroy, and why a pious scribe might tamper with the text.

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 I invite you to listen to Day Twenty-Six of the Proverb Pearls devotional series. 

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In Hebrew Gospel Pearls #25, Preserving “the Good Jesus”, Nehemia and Keith detail the untold backstory that ultimately led to their study of Hebrew Matthew, share the amazing account of how copper preserved a sunken ship for five centuries and give a 101 course on the text of the Hebrew Bible.

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