Hey everybody and welcome back to I Just Want to talk about the Bible.

If this is your first time joining us, then let me just welcome you and say that I am so glad that you're here.

My name is Christian Keeter and I live in the southeast of the United States of America with my amazing beautiful godly wife Lacey

and our two wonderful daughters, Felicity and Serenity.

So right at the outset, before we hop into the content, I want to acknowledge that this conversation

that we're going to be having today has been pretty highly and heavily influenced by a couple of things.

One, it was a conversation I recently had with someone who has been investing in me spiritually

for a number of years now.

And two, it was a teaching series that the Bible project did.

I think it was originally recorded back in 2023.

It was on the theme of the dragon traced through the scriptures. And for those of you who don't know, the Bible Project is a

teaching ministry that identifies themes throughout the scriptures, shows how the, you know, seeks to

show how the Bible is a unified whole that points to Jesus. That using some of their terminology and they do some

really incredible work and I've learned a whole lot from them. So having said that, so I just

want to say through a couple of recent experiences through listening to that teaching series

and the conversation with a guy who invests in me. Some things really became clear to me

and really kind of crystallized. And this conversation has been highly formed and influenced as a result

of those things. But having said that, before moving on, that doesn't mean that the content

of this episode was necessarily, how can I say this? It doesn't mean that the content of this episode was necessarily, how can I say this?

It doesn't mean that I hadn't heard of the stuff that we're going to be talking about before

these two things.

I mean, I've heard a lot of what we're going to be discussing many times in many ways over

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