How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent work.

An atom bomb, not very big, but potent and powerful.

Well, that's how Dr. J. Vernon McGee describes the Old Testament book of Joel.

Welcome to Through the Bible. I'm Steve Schwetz, welcoming you to a fascinating study

in what's really a seldom traveled section of God's word.

So as you grab your seat on the Bible bus through the Bible's president, Greg Harris,

and I have got some good news from across the world this time in the country of Ghana and I must admit to everyone

this is a country that you've been to and I have not yes I got one up on you man have not not that we

do this for competitive reasons but we're we're slightly competitive as friends and guys. But I'm really excited that you got

to go to Ghana. I was just there in November of 24. Yeah, it's amazing. And I know you have a lot of

stories. I can tell our listening family, the language is TWA, and we launched production in

2008. So that was a long time ago. Yeah, I like to

to really focus on the fact that this is a long-term commitment. Like most languages that we are in,

I mean, you're talking 16 years if I'm doing my math right. And it was such a blessing to be there.

We got on a plane out of the Capitol and flew to the location

where the radio station, in this case radio, terrestrial radio, works for us in that part of the

world. And they were there having a big gathering of listeners. And I mean, we pulled up on this

street and that place was bumping. I mean, it was so loud.

I wear an Apple Watch, and I'm way over my decibel rating.

It's going warning, warning, warning.

And these people were just joyously celebrating the Lord, and they all listened to Through the Bible.

And it was neat because the host would say, let's listen to Through the Bible, and they would all respond, let's go to Bible school.

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