Deuteronomy (Chapter 13)

Deuteronomy 13 teaches that faithfulness to God’s Word is the true test of a prophet, not signs or wonders. Even if miracles occur, anyone who leads people away from the Lord and His commands is to be rejected. God calls His people to love Him by keeping His commandments and refusing to follow other gods, no matter who urges them to do so. This chapter shows that truth is measured by alignment with God’s revealed Word and that obedience protects His people from deception.

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Setting The Stage: Deuteronomy 13

SPEAKER_00 0:00

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Why False Prophets Matter

SPEAKER_02 0:26

Hey everybody, welcome back to Teach Me the Bible Podcast. We are working through the book of Deuteronomy, and today we're going to find ourselves in chapter 13. And we've already teased it a little bit in the last episode. We're going to be talking about uh prophets and false prophets and how do you know? And this is a big deal because they're not to go after other gods, uh, nor are they to worship their god like the foreign gods, and they're not to rep misrepresent their gods. So, this is all again, we've been talking about this. This is building into this chapter. Um, but we're gonna pick this up, and and there's a lot here, there's a lot to talk about in this chapter, and so uh I think we're gonna get into some details today. So, doc, if you would pick up where we left off and and guide us through it, we'd be grateful.

Dr. David Klingler 1:12

There's a ton of implications uh for this this chapter. Uh implications for practical application today for what's going on in the church, um scholarly implications uh for how can a New Testament author use Old Testament passages?

unknown 1:32

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 1:33

Um can Jesus change the words of Moses? You know, we'll we'll we'll we'll look at some of that. Um, you know, and and what's the what's the penalty? How how did Israel know if someone was a true prophet or a false prophet? Because there it's not like only true prophets showed up, they had false prophets as well. Peter, uh in uh in uh Second Peter, uh John, you know, all of these New Testament passages are it's so important that we understand this passage because this is kind of the template, this is the standard bearer.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

Yeah, that's good. Yeah, Peter said, just as there were false prophets among them, so there will be false prophets among them.

Jesus And Moses: Perfect Alignment

Dr. David Klingler 2:15

Yeah, there'll be false teachers among you, secretly introduced a struck of heresies, even denying the master who bought them. And so this is the second letter I'm writing, you know, to you people. To remind you about this problem, to remind you to remember the words of the prophets spoken beforehand and the words of the Lord spoken by your apostles. And the point is they match, right? Uh and so when we get to the Gospels, uh Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, what they are articulating, what John, you know, let's take John, for example, uh, the words and works of Jesus match. He is the greater prophet. Uh, it's going to be emphasized throughout the Gospel of John. Um, you know, John chapter 5 is uh just such a uh a cornerstone, central passage. We quote it all the time. This is Jesus uh is in uh discussion with these um uh with these Pharisees, and he says, You search the scriptures, because in them you think that you have eternal life, but it is these that testify about me, and you're not willing to come to me that you may have life. I do not receive glory from men, but I know you that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. I come in my Father's name and you do not receive me. If anyone comes in his own name, you receive them. How can you believe when you receive glory from one another and you do not receive the glory or seek the glory which comes from the one and only God? Of course, this is the one that they were to be looking for. Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses in whom you put your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me. For Moses wrote about me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words? If you don't understand, believe his writings, you know, Jesus is pointed. If you reject his writings, you're rejecting my words because I'm saying the same thing. Matthew.

SPEAKER_02 4:10

Um Yeah, they're gonna claim to know his and to know and to follow Moses' writings, but Jesus is gonna consistently point out, you don't do it, you don't actually believe it, you don't actually do it. Yeah. I I did not come to abolish the law, yeah, but to fulfill it. Not a single Yoda will pass away.

Signs That Come True Still Mislead

Dr. David Klingler 4:30

Yeah, and uh jot or tettle, uh uh you know, and so Christ did not come, in fact, could not come to change what Moses said. Moses wrote what he wrote so that you would identify Christ when he walks onto the scene. Charlie Bayless, one of our old mentors and professors, he used to say the law was written for one man. It was written to identify one man, it was written to reveal the character of God. Uh, and in revealing the character of God, you would recognize you didn't have it. And so it was looking for the one who did. Uh and so the the prophets were writing about Israel's history, um, what would happen, and who would come. Uh, and so when we go back to Deuteronomy chapter 13, such a central passage. Uh, if if I ask, every time I ask this uh in seminary classes, how do you tell a true prophet? Every single time, without exception, 100%, they say, if what he prophesies comes true, I say, turn to Deuteronomy 13. If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or wonder, and the sign or wonder comes true concerning what he spoke. But he says, Let us go after other gods whom you have not known, and let us serve them. You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you. Well, that for Israel is a warning shot, right? Has he tested them before? He they've tested him and he's tested them. Uh, and every time they fail to test, they get disciplined, right? The Lord your God is testing you to see, to find out if you love the Lord your God with all of your heart and with all of your soul. These words which I'm commanding you today shall be on your heart, and you shall speak of them as you walk. We just read that in chapter 11 and chapter 12. The Shema, these words are to be in your heart. You're to impress them into hearts of your children. Uh, and when they ask in time, why do we do these commands? You tell them. It's not because of the miracles. Um, you know, Pharaoh's magicians did miracles, right? Don't be impressed with miracles. Antichrist, when he appears, will do miracles. Oh, yeah. There will be amazing things that happen. Do not be deceived. Uh, you know, Satan's got some ability.

unknown 7:01

That's right.

Dr. David Klingler 7:02

Um so you shall not listen to the word of that prophet or dreamer of dreams. So the Lord your God is testing you to find out if you love the Lord your God with all of your heart and with all of the soul, uh all of your soul, you shall follow the Lord your God, you shall fear him, you shall listen, uh shall keep his commands, and you shall listen to his voice. Well, if one thing has been made clear all the way through Torah, is that the voice of the Lord is revealed through Moses, not through Miriam, not through Arian, not through the sons of they wanted it that way. And and that's how they ask for it, right? Uh, and so to listen to the voice of the Lord is to listen to Moses, to listen to the to keep his commands is to keep the commands given by Moses. And so, rightly, Moses is at the pinnacle of Israel's story, theology, history. Um, in some sense, um, I gotta be careful here in how I say that. In some sense, if Moses doesn't come first, you can't identify Christ. That's right, right? And so Christ doesn't come and say, Yeah, I don't listen to Moses, I'm a bigger deal. He says, I'm the one of whom Moses spoke.

SPEAKER_02 8:06

Which is how some people treat it. That sure is. Don't listen to Moses, I'm bigger. You know, that's how a lot of people read the Sermon on the Mount.

Dr. David Klingler 8:12

Yeah. And Paul doesn't matter, and and you know, what would Jesus do?

unknown 8:17

Right.

Listening To The Lord’s Voice Through Moses

Dr. David Klingler 8:18

Well, what Jesus would do is listen to Moses. He he followed the words of Moses, right? Um you know, we need to explain what that means. You know, he is the fulfillment of Moses' words, and so what we're trying to spell out and establish in this uh in our Torah uh studies is how that actually is the case. Um so you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer of dreams. You shall follow the Lord, you shall keep his commands, listen to his voice, and serve him and cling to him. This is this serve him. I know that you've had some interest in this uh this language, you know, that Israel was to be the servant of the Lord. Moses was the servant of the Lord, but Israel was created to be the servant of the Lord.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

The problem they're redeemed out of out of Egypt to be the servant.

Dr. David Klingler 9:04

Yeah, the problem is they won't serve him. They won't do it. Right. Uh and so as we track this story, as we get into Isaiah, the the servant, suffering servant, has to come and rescue the servant Israel. So the servant Israel will serve him and doing their job. He's gonna buy him back again of serving the Lord and representing him to the nations. And so so all of this uh ties together. You shall cling to him, um, cling to him. This language comes out of Genesis 2, 23 and 224. Um uh, you know, one man, one woman, one wife, cling. That's this this you know, kind of leave and cleave is how we we say this is the language of that. Um but for that prophet, that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death. He's not to be put to death because what he it doesn't matter if what he prophesied come true. It's that's not the words. Do his words match the words of the Lord, the voice of the Lord, which has been revealed through Moses? Do his commands match the commands of Moses? Or are they different, right? Um do they align with what Moses has revealed, how you're to fear and serve and worship the Lord, or do they align with the nations around them, which we just read at the end of the last chapter? You're not to operate as they operate, you don't serve the Lord as they serve their gods, he's not like their gods, right? And so you're to fear him. Um, but that prophet or dreamer of dreams shall be put to death because he has counseled rebellion against the Lord. Let that sink in for a minute. When a prophet, dreamer of dreams, someone who claims and says things contrary to what the Lord says and what the Lord has spoken, let me quote Moses. Uh, they are counseling rebellion against the Lord your God. I can't think of a higher, more terrifying offense, right? Um counseling rebellion, leading the peoples, uh, leading the people astray. Um, I'm reminded of James' words let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that you will incur a stricter judgment.

unknown 11:17

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 11:17

Uh you know, oh you'll be a little rougher. No, uh, you know.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

And those folks are already uh what's the phrase, counseling rebellion. Absolutely.

Serve And Cling: Israel’s Calling

Dr. David Klingler 11:27

And and and so for the for the you know uh James is writing to the twelve tribes dispersed. It's not like, hey, this is a different religion, don't worry about Moses. No, he's gonna quote Moses all through chapter two, to chapter three, through chapter when he gets to chapter five, and you know, all of these words are coming together, right? Uh, and so it's the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed you from the house of slavery, to seduce you uh from the way in which the Lord your God has commanded you to walk. Um, so you shall purge the evil from among you.

SPEAKER_02 12:03

That that's so much like your you mentioned Second Peter earlier that they're enticing with their sensualities and adultery and that in that way. You know, the that's what they're doing. They're seducing them away from the Lord to doing what's good in their own eyes. In their greed. Yes, in their greed.

Dr. David Klingler 12:20

They will seduce you in their greed, despising authority, despising authority, yeah. Let that end their greed. So um I'm reminded back of Exodus in chapter 18, and when uh Jethro, Moses's uh, you know, Moses' father-in-law gives him counsel. He says, Here's here's who you select as elders those who are not um enticed by money, yeah, uh, you know, hungry for gain, um, greedy for gain. Uh it's also a qualification for elder in the New Testament, Titus and first uh first Timothy. Why? Because this is the one thing that will lead you away from the Lord more than anything else. You know, health and wealth now. Um, you know, was Moses persecuted because of what he said? Yep. Wouldn't it have been easier just to tone, hey Moses, tone it down a little bit, you know? You're going too hard on these people, right? Quit telling them the Lord's gonna wipe them out, you know. Tell them the Lord loves them and has wonderful plans for them, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:19

Uh and you know, and yeah, they were ready to kill them and put someone else there and go back to Egypt.

Dr. David Klingler 13:24

Yeah, they were ready to get them from the get-go, right? And so, you know, and so um, so this this false prophet, what makes a prophet a false prophet? Well, what prophets do is they claim to speak on behalf of the Lord, they speak the word of the Lord. If the words that they speak don't align with the words of Moses, it's not from the Lord. And so in Israel, what did you do to them? Well, you kill them. Uh, and so, you know, um this is why they're always trying to, you know, evaluate and stone Jesus. Um, kill Jesus, kill Paul. Your words don't match. They're claiming that they align with with Moses. And of course, when Jesus points out, well, Moses said this, so how's that working for you? Uh, then they actually condemn themselves. You know, I'm thinking here of the adulterous woman. That's a you know, there's a whole uh debate about the canonicity of that passage. But nonetheless, I think that that uh it does uh explain that. But verse 6, chapter uh 13, verse 6. If your brother or your mother's sons, your son, your daughter, the wife you cherish, your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entice you. There's the entice again, saying, Let us go and serve other gods whom neither you nor your fathers have known, gods of the peoples who are around you, neither you uh near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other. Right? Let's or or let's remake God in their image. Let's let's just change his character. That's not what God's like, right? Um, this is your God. You know, your your God is a golden calf. You know, maybe that. No, no. Uh you shall not yield to him, listen to him, your eye shall not pity or or spare or conceal him, but you shall surely kill him. Now that's pretty strong.

Death Sentence For Counterfeits

SPEAKER_02 15:16

So what if the false prophet is your brother or family member? Uh the result is the same.

Dr. David Klingler 15:24

Yep, yep. Uh it goes uh among you, you shall rid the evil from among you, verse five. Now, verse six. Um so let's get this a little closer uh to home, right? Uh but if your brother, you singular, not not a you know, y'all's brother. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 15:47

Your your mother's son.

Dr. David Klingler 15:49

Your yeah, yeah. Um course, you know, this is you know, I'm I'm thinking about Jesus here. You're your your mother and your brothers are outside. No, my brother and brothers are the ones that do the will of the Lord.

unknown 16:04

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 16:05

There's just so many connections here. Um any of them entice you, saying, Look, let us go after the gods. You shall not yield to him, you shall not pity him, you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be the first to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people. So you shall stone him to death because he has sought to seduce you from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Then all Israel will hear and fear, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you. Um, of course, here's the problem. They're not going to do this. They're going to tolerate false prophets, they're going to listen to false prophets. False prophets tell you what you want to hear. Uh, I think about the Jeremiah, right? Jeremiah is thrown in prison because he won't tell the king what the king wants to hear. Hey, king, God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. And, you know, he wants good things for you. And I, you know, it almost sounds like some preachers, you know, that we hear on television today. And um, you know, look, you you're not helping people by telling them what they want to hear. We need to be repeating what the Lord said, which is what we need to hear. And often we don't want to hear it. We we we want to hear what you know that you know, we're right and everybody else is wrong. Um, but that's not that's not the Lord.

SPEAKER_02 17:25

The Lord is you mentioned Jeremiah, you know. I'm reminded of the false prophets right before that, you know, I know the plans I have for you. I mean, that's what they're doing. They're coming along saying, Israel, you didn't do anything wrong. You'll, you know, God will have you back in your land in no time. Oh, yeah. And he's the Lord comes Jeremiah and says, uh, go kill those guys because they are in the and that's this is the point in chapter 13 here. Take them out because that's not what I said. In fact, settle in for 70 years because this is the judgment the Lord's bringing upon the nation, right?

Family Pressure And Hidden Seduction

Dr. David Klingler 17:58

And so uh uh Baal worship with Elijah. I mean, it's the same, it's just the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Old Testament, New Testament, intertestamental times, people will come and they want to tell you what you want to hear. It's always what you want to hear. And you know, we have these self-help, you know, people today. Uh, and we have these people claiming to be speaking from God and hearing from God.

SPEAKER_02 18:21

And such a big issue right now.

Dr. David Klingler 18:23

Oh, it's yeah, and I they're just a new set of prophets and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And and the problem is what they're saying doesn't align with the scriptures.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

And more and more people are figuring that out as they're realizing they're using Chat GPT for their prophecies and all kinds of things like that. And it's going, you know, it's coming out there looking everybody up on social media, trying to get their information.

Dr. David Klingler 18:49

Oh, what a mess. It is a mess. What a mess. So, so, so pretty central passage here. Uh, very important. If you don't know the word of the Lord, you cannot evaluate whether or not someone's words a match. Now, um, think about canon and how canon works. You know, the Old Testament canon. We're not talking about New Testament, you know, is you know, the book of Revelation or Hebrews is it supposed to be in the in the Bible now? We're talking about Old Testament, uh, the the the law, the prophets and the Psalms or uh Torah, prophets, and writings. Um how did um Old Testament Israel know whether or not to listen to a prophet when the prophecies that they were making were not going to come to pass, as you said, for 70 years or even 70 times seven as we get to Daniel. Um how do you know? Well, um do their words align with the words of Moses? It was just that simple, right? What makes Moses the authority? That's the logical question, right? Uh well, read Torah. Go read Torah. Uh and if there's any doubt after you've read Torah, right? Uh, you know, at the end of Torah, there's only one man standing whose words matter. It's Moses, and the Lord kills him because he went against his own words, right? Uh he r rebelled against the Lord, and and so even he uh doesn't enter the land. Uh and so now you're looking for the one who's coming after him who keeps the words of Moses exactly perfectly. I did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it, yeah, right? Uh and so Jesus walks onto the scene. And so if you don't know Torah, uh and if you don't know the prophets who align with Torah or the writings that align with the prophets and Torah, uh then you have no grounds, no means by which to evaluate Jesus. Is he the Christ or is he not? Are you the coming one or are you not? Well, tell them what you've seen.

unknown 20:58

Yeah.

Prophets Who Tell You What You Want

Dr. David Klingler 20:58

The blind see, the deaf hear, the lame walk, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached. All of these things are aligning with the one who the Old Testament scriptures were looking, looking towards. So I can't think of a more important passage, relevant passage.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

So, what would the implications be then? You know, as as you kind of mentioned it earlier, that a lot of uh people take the position that the apostles are changing or or reading something else into the Old Testament to validate that Jesus is the Christ. How would this chapter?

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Apostles Don’t Change The Text

Dr. David Klingler 21:32

If they're doing that, um they are not validating their words in what they're quoting from the Old Testament, they are undermining their words, they're creating something, they are uh proving themselves to be false prophets. If you have to change the text to make Jesus the Messiah, you're not proving he is, you're proving he isn't. Right? Um, Paul commends the Bereans for going back. To see if these things are so. It's not true because Paul said it. Paul said it because it's true. Christ is not the Messiah because he said he was. This is going to be controversial, but you hear this all the time in New Testament studies. Christ is not the Messiah because he walked out of the grave. But if his words and works don't match, and he walks out of the grave, and some people take the Antichrist to, you know, be walk out of the grave as well. Right? So well, what does that prove? No, he's got to do all of it. His words has to, he has to be the exact representation of the character of the Father. Writer of Hebrews. If you do not believe my words, believe my works. John in uh the you know the Gospel of John, Jesus words in the Gospel of John. He is an exact match for what was said. If we believe that that the New Testament writers are changing the Old Testament, then in my mind there's four possibilities. We mentioned this before. One, maybe you don't understand the Old Testament perfectly, and you need to go back and re-look at it. Number two, maybe you don't understand the New Testament perfectly, and you need to go back and look at that. Number three, you don't under don't understand either the Old Testament or the New Testament perfectly, and you need to go look at both of them. Or four, you are the perfect inspired interpreter, and you're seeing they don't match. Right? Uh I I I have been in the four camp, yeah, and I've realized that I'm wrong every time. I was either wrong because of number one, didn't understand the old testament, number two, I didn't understand the new. Most of the time it's because I don't understand either one. If you don't understand the old, you won't understand the new, which means that you don't understand how the old testament is using the new, and you just come up with some kind of a allegorical, typological, you know, it kind of relates, kind of like, similar to thing. Uh that's not what's going on. Not in my experience. It is always straightforward. We just don't understand what the old testament uh is doing, what the new testament authors are saying. Uh and uh and and so I think that this is so relevant to our discussions today and what we are to teach and preach. We've come to this place where you know pre teaching homiletics, you know, preaching. Uh homiletics is you know, it's the you know, we used it we used to call homiletics that's preaching um is creative. It shouldn't be creative. It should be explanatory. Um, you know, I kind of really think it's more like uh, you know, Ezra who breaks open Torah and stands in front of a wooden podium and in the and and he translates, uh reads the scriptures, translating them, making sense of them. So that they and their response was to repent and weep, and oh what what have we done, you know? Um not to come up with some, you know, let me say it, stupid story, ridiculous illustration, blah blah blah, poem, uh yeah, you know, slides, laser light show, you know, uh catchy, you know, little no. Um it was to teach the scriptures. Um, I like what Paul tells Timothy, do not forsake uh the reading and exhortation. Uh the reading, the the just read the scriptures and explain, give exhortation from them, right? And we've turned it into something very different, uh, so that people can sit and listen to a preacher for years and decades and not know the Bible. That is an indictment on that preacher and his uh his ministry and his words, right? So, so uh at the end of our sermons, uh, if we don't know the scriptures, if we cannot exhort in sound doctrine, refute those who contradict, I don't know what we're doing, right? And and so uh the apostles and prophets, you know, the prophets handed down the word, the apostles, disciples witness the word incarnate, um uh and they have revealed the words of the incarnate Christ. And then the uh pastors, teachers, evangelists are to proclaim those, not come up with new, right? And so our people are still perishing because they do not know the scriptures, they don't know the word of the Lord, they're ignorant to it. So anyway, so a chapter 13 we continue. If uh if you hear in one of your cities, which your Lord your God is giving you to live in, saying that some worthless man has gone out among you and has subduced the inhabitants of the city, saying, Let's serve other gods, whom you have not known. Then you shall investigate and you shall search and inquire thoroughly if it is true and establ and the matter is established, that the um uh abomination has uh been done among you. Abomination, leading people astray. You shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it, and its cattle with the edge of the sword. I think about um the these the story uh in uh Judges chapters 18, 19, 20, uh Gibeah, uh, and uh and that's what's happening there. They've distorted the word of the Lord. Then you shall gather all of its booty into the middle of the open square and burn the city, its booty with fire, the whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It shall be a ruin forever, it shall never be rebuilt. Nothing uh that which is put under the ban shall cling to your hand, in order that the Lord your uh that the Lord may uh turn from his burning anger and show mercy to you, and have compassion upon you and make you increase, just as he has sworn to your fathers. If you listen to the voice of the Lord your God, keeping all his commandments, what I am commanding you today, to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God. I mean uh you could if if I I'm assuming, I mean I can see I'm I'm trying to visualize Moses preaching this sermon. If he if he had a pulpit, he's beaten on the pulpit at this point. You listen to my words, all right? If anyone comes after and doesn't agree with them, you kill them, they will lead you astray. If they lead you astray, if if you let me say it this way, if you do not wipe them out, but you listen to their words, then the Lord will wipe you out. So there's your choice, right? So so if you love your brother, right? It's not, well, you know, God loves you in heaven. No, that's not love of brother. The love of brother is to tell him the truth. And he might not like you for it, right? And this is gonna lead us to Proverbs and you know the wounds of a of a brother. And you know, the your enemy always tells you what you want to hear. Yeah, false prophets tell you what you want to hear. Pastors who are trying to build their church are going to tell you what you want to hear, right? Don't listen to them. Uh, and if you're a pastor out there, tell your people what they need to hear and trust the Lord, right? Quit worrying about how big your church is. Right? People are desperate to need to know the word of the Lord. Give it to them.

SPEAKER_02 29:51

Which means you have to know it. Absolutely. You have to learn it, you have to study these words. You gotta know Torah.

Dr. David Klingler 29:57

Torah. And you gotta know the prophets and the writings and and then you can know the gospels, and you'll understand what Paul's saying, and you'll understand the end of the story.

unknown 30:06

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler 30:07

Um, and and so that is the you know, that's what we're trying to do here. Uh, and over the years, as you and you're doing this now, as you're teaching these 66 books over and over and over, you're starting to see they're saying the same thing over and over and over. When we use the uh the scriptures for teaching points, for illustrations, for we're missing it. When we're teaching the scriptures, you can see it. And so that's that's the exhortation for all of us.

SPEAKER_02 30:37

So the the guard against being led astray by false teachers for them was to know what Moses said. For us, it's to know what Moses and the prophets and the apostles said to guard ourselves from it.

Dr. David Klingler 30:53

Learn what a hundred dollar bill looks like. So when you see a counterfeit, it's clear.

SPEAKER_02 30:57

Good. That's good. Well, I'm not gonna add anything more to that. Um, hopefully, this has been an edifying episode to you and and challenge, maybe challenging to you as well, to learn the scriptures so you too aren't led astray. Um, we're gonna pick up next time in chapter 14. And so thank you so much for joining us today. We'll see you next time.

SPEAKER_00 31:18

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