Does Israel matter today in God’s plan?

Are there any prophecies about Israel that must be fulfilled before Jesus comes back?

Is the rebirth of the modern nation of Israel a construct of God, or is it a sinister deception of the devil?

And do our theological beliefs about these things necessarily need to affect our opinions on foreign policy?

We’re going to talk about all these things, not because Tucker Carlson is asking these questions, not because Candace Owens is asking these questions, but because the book of Zechariah asks these questions- and, I believe, answers these questions.

Including one more that we’ll look at today: Does God have a weakness?

You’ll find out today on the God and His Prophets podcast.

Watch these episodes at my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LukeTaylorPodcasts

Need to get in touch with me? Reach me at GodAndHisProphetsPodcast@gmail.com

If you’re looking for a Bible study podcast that goes deep into the major and minor prophets, God and His Prophets offers a verse by verse Bible study through these powerful Old Testament writings. Each episode explores the prophecy in the Bible, from the Book of Ezekiel study and later in Zechariah, helping listeners in understanding prophetic books and seeing their relevance today. We also connect the prophets’ words to end times Bible teaching and highlight connections to Revelation, giving you a Christian Bible commentary that equips you for spiritual insight and growth.

So what are the 4 horns and 4 craftsmen of Zechariah’s second dream? You’ll find out today on the God and His Prophets podcast.

Watch these episodes at my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LukeTaylorPodcasts

Need to get in touch with me? Reach me at GodAndHisProphetsPodcast@gmail.com

If you’re looking for a Bible study podcast that goes deep into the major and minor prophets, God and His Prophets offers a verse by verse Bible study through these powerful Old Testament writings. Each episode explores the prophecy in the Bible, from the Book of Ezekiel study and later in Zechariah, helping listeners in understanding prophetic books and seeing their relevance today. We also connect the prophets’ words to end times Bible teaching and highlight connections to Revelation, giving you a Christian Bible commentary that equips you for spiritual insight and growth.

Some people are asking if Donald Trump is the antichrist because he created a peace deal with Israel in the middle east this week.

But that’s ridiculous guys, listen. The Bible says the antichrist is going to be loud and boastful.

The Bible says the antichrist is going to claim great things. And that the world will marvel after him and question who can make war against him.

The Bible says the antichrist is going to suffer a head wound that looks fatal, yet he will survive it-

Wait.

Watch these episodes at my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LukeTaylorPodcasts

Need to get in touch with me? Reach me at GodAndHisProphetsPodcast@gmail.com

If you’re looking for a Bible study podcast that goes deep into the major and minor prophets, God and His Prophets offers a verse by verse Bible study through these powerful Old Testament writings. Each episode explores the prophecy in the Bible, from the Book of Ezekiel study and later in Zechariah, helping listeners in understanding prophetic books and seeing their relevance today. We also connect the prophets’ words to end times Bible teaching and highlight connections to Revelation, giving you a Christian Bible commentary that equips you for spiritual insight and growth.

Have you ever had someone tell you about their dream? It’s just about the most excruciating thing to sit and listen to because it’s just a bunch of random gobbledygook that someone’s brain came up with.

One of my pet peeves is when someone comes to me and wants to tell me about their dream that they had the night before, and I have to sit there and act interested for the next five minutes while they recount a story that never happened full of things nobody actually said and none of it means anything at all or has any application to anyone’s life.

Now let’s read about the prophet Zechariah’s dreams. Why? Because unlike when your coworker stops by your desk to tell you about her ex-boyfriend who flew an elephant into a tornado and turned into a butterfly- Zechariah’s dreams actually mean something.

The things that happen, no matter how crazy they sound, actually symbolized something true and mean something that God wants us to know.

They meant something to his original audience, and they can also mean something to our lives right now today.

And you’ll hear all about his first dream today on the God and His Prophets podcast.

Watch these episodes at my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LukeTaylorPodcasts

Need to get in touch with me? Reach me at GodAndHisProphetsPodcast@gmail.com

If you’re looking for a Bible study podcast that goes deep into the major and minor prophets, God and His Prophets offers a verse by verse Bible study through these powerful Old Testament writings. Each episode explores the prophecy in the Bible, from the Book of Ezekiel study and later in Zechariah, helping listeners in understanding prophetic books and seeing their relevance today. We also connect the prophets’ words to end times Bible teaching and highlight connections to Revelation, giving you a Christian Bible commentary that equips you for spiritual insight and growth.

Remember a few years ago when we were using this phrase “social distancing.” We were told to stay six feet away from other humans when out in public. That you were endangering people if you got too close. That for safety reasons, we must stay six feet away at all times.

Well what if I told you that God respects social distancing. If you want God to stay six feet away, God will stay six feet away.

If you want God a hundred miles away, God will stay a hundred miles away.

And if you want God up close and personal God will be up close and personal.

What am I talking about? I’m talking about a principle we see in James 4:8, Proverbs 8:17, and what we’ll be looking at right here today in Zechariah 1.

How close do you want God? How can you get more of God in your life?

I’ll help you figure that out today on the God and His Prophets podcast.

Need to get in touch with me? Reach me at GodAndHisProphetsPodcast@gmail.com

If you’re looking for a Bible study podcast that goes deep into the major and minor prophets, God and His Prophets offers a verse by verse Bible study through these powerful Old Testament writings. Each episode explores the prophecy in the Bible, from the Book of Ezekiel study and later in Zechariah, helping listeners in understanding prophetic books and seeing their relevance today. We also connect the prophets’ words to end times Bible teaching and highlight connections to Revelation, giving you a Christian Bible commentary that equips you for spiritual insight and growth.

Here are some facts about the book of Zechariah:

• Lots of Zechariahs in Scripture- at least 25, maybe 30
• The most prominent are the author of the Book of Zechariah, and the father of John the Baptist.
• It’s the 11th minor prophet, and 38th book of the Old Testament- second to last book of the Old Testament
• Chronologically, the OT closes with a Zechariah, the NT opens with one
• He is the most “major” of the minor prophets, with 14 chapters
• He uses the phrase “Lord of Hosts” more than anyone else in the Bible- 50 times in 14 chapters
• Zechariah has the most Messianic prophecies of Jesus of all the minor prophets
• In fact, he probably has the most prophecies about the Second Coming of Jesus, not just the first. We are going to talk A LOT about the future as we study this book, because Zechariah is the next verse-by-verse Bible study we’re undertaking on the God and His Prophets podcast.

Need to get in touch with me? Reach me at GodAndHisProphetsPodcast@gmail.com

If you’re looking for a Bible study podcast that goes deep into the major and minor prophets, God and His Prophets offers a verse by verse Bible study through these powerful Old Testament writings. Each episode explores the prophecy in the Bible, from the Book of Ezekiel study and later in Zechariah, helping listeners in understanding prophetic books and seeing their relevance today. We also connect the prophets’ words to end times Bible teaching and highlight connections to Revelation, giving you a Christian Bible commentary that equips you for spiritual insight and growth.

Are you ever reading your Bible when God suddenly just stops you and says, “look at this”?
Well, that happened to me earlier this summer. I was reading through I Kings and I got to chapter 19 where God gives Elijah some instructions. God says to Elijah
In verse 15
“Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
Verse 16
And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.”
So that’s well and clear. Anoint Hazael and Jehu and Elisha. Cool.
But then verse 19 says this:
So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him,
Wait, what? He skipped the first two and went straight to Elisha.
In fact, Elijah didn’t anoint Hazael at all. He never anoints Jehu either. He just anointed one of the three, and totally ignored God’s command about the first two guys.
And so my question as I read this was: did Elijah sin in this chapter?
And if so, why?
And what were the ramifications of all this?
And if Elijah did sin, then why does God take him on up to heaven in a fiery chariot without dying just a few chapters later?
What we’re going to find is that Elijah was supposed to learn a lesson in this chapter, and he failed to get it. He was so busy feeling sorry for himself that it went right over his head.
But if you listen all the way to the end, we’ll answer all those questions I laid out, and maybe you and I can receive what Elijah missed. You’ll get all of that today on the God and His Prophets podcast.

Hey everybody, it is Luke Taylor of the Cross References podcast, thanks for hanging in there. The relaunch, reboot, reset of this podcast is underway.

So you probably saw this in your podcast lineup and you thought: what’s this? I don’t remember subscribing to this podcast???

This is the Book of Ezekiel: A Cross References Bible Study. Or, that’s what was, but earlier this year, we finished the book of Ezekiel. And many of you encouraged me to keep this going but to dive into another book of Scripture, another prophet. Which means the name of the podcast needed to change.

So here it is: God and His Prophets. Because I really like teaching the prophets of the Bible. I don’t think they get enough attention. There’s a lot in these books that I don’t know about and that I’d like to discover. And so I’ll let you take a front seat on the ride with me.

So starting in September, the first Monday after Labor Day- which is September 8, 2025- we will start back into this podcast with a prophetic profile of Elijah. It’s just a one-and-done. I might not even do it, but I just feel that the Lord has been showing me something this summer from the life of Elijah. If I can collect my thoughts on it, I’d like to share them with you.

Then on September 15, we’ll start into my favorite of the Minor Prophets: Zechariah. And from then on, the regular format of this podcast will be going verse-by-verse through various books of the Bible. It will go at about the pace that my Ezekiel study this past year. It’s gonna take us 3 or 4 episodes just to get through chapter 1.

And also like my Ezekiel study, we may take a week here and there to examine an issue that relates to what we’re studying in Zechariah- or whatever book we find ourselves in in the future.

So that’s the plan. If you liked how the Ezekiel episodes have gone the past year, that same basic format will continue in the future for more books.

That’s the plan, anyway. James 4 tells us, 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

So, if the Lord wills, that’s the plan for the future of this podcast. If God wants to interrupt my plans with the rapture, that’s fine, too. I won’t complain. I even kinda hope that’s the case.

In the meantime, I continue to produce new episodes of Weird Stuff in the Bible. If you’re subscribed here, I’m assuming you already like the Bible. So if you don’t mind me making it a little weird, you can go check out the Weird Stuff in the Bible podcast.

But if the Lord wills- if Jesus tarries- I’ll be back right here as well, September 8, with a fresh look at some ancient prophets- and my prayer each time will still be that the Bible makes more sense to you after every episode.