Numbers 25

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[upbeat music] Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Counsel of God. Father Stephen holds a PhD in Biblical Studies and is an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Stephen De Young· Host0:19

[upbeat music] Okay, we're gonna go get started, and we're gonna get started. We're starting at the beginning of Numbers chapter 25. Uh, I already did this in person, but for the people somewhere in the distant future, perhaps all the way in the year 2000 who are listening to this, I know a lot of you are young, but when I was a kid, everything in the distant future was set in the year 2000. So that was the bit. You remember.

Speaker 20:49

Yes.

Stephen De Young· Host0:50

There, you said something on the recording. You've been trapped [laughs]. So- Mm-hmm. So in future da- there, there is going to be some, shall we say, mature content, mature content this evening. In the early part of this evening, at least. So just be prepared for that. But so to get us caught up real quick to where we were, because again, for you listening to the recording, it has been merely a week since the last episode, but for us, it's been a little bit. So we just finished, uh, with a story, the main story involving Balaam, the son of Beor, uh, the