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Son of Athanasius

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00:26:42

Matthew 12.5 Jonah, Demons Return, and Jesus' Family

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2026/03/06

What is the sign of Jonah? Was it just one thing as Jesus articulates or is there more? He alludes to the third sign of Jonah and what that will be. We turn to St. Jerome and St. John Chrysostom to get insight. Is the return of the unclean spirit associated with the sign of Jonah? Next Jesus describes His true kindred as being those who do the will of His Father. In this statement, is He possibly rebuking His own mother? Was the one designated to be the Mother of the Word Incarnate somehow

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00:20:55

Exodus 8 Frogs, Gnats and Flies

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2026/03/03

God sends Moses to Pharaoh to demand, on behalf of God to let His people go to serve the Lord God. God gives Pharaoh a choice, let my people go or the Nile will bring forth frogs. Pharaoh says no and the frogs come forth. But the magicians of Egypt did the same. Then the gnats from the dust of the earth. The magicians fail. Snakes from sticks, Nile water into blood, frogs from the Nile; all duplicated by the Egyptian magicians. God brings gnats from the dust, the magicians fail and say,

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00:23:39

Matthew 12.4 The Spirit, the Tree and Its Fruit

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2026/02/27

Jesus shows us the way in which to be meek and gentle, even when we are being attacked. However, as the Pharisees continue the false accusations this time reaching a point to which they have committed the unforgivable sin; the sin against the Holy Spirit. What is this sin that will not be forgiven in this age or the age to come? How can we know what this is to avoid it?

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00:21:56

Exodus 7 Pharaoh's Hard Heart

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2026/02/24

God hardens Pharaoh's heart. Pharaoh hardens his heart. Pharaoh's heart was hardened. So which is it? Who is hardening Pharaoh's heart? How can we decipher what is happening to Pharaoh's heart? In the first plague the waters in the Nile become blood. Why blood? What is God doing in these plagues on Egypt? Who is God executing judgment upon with these plagues.

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00:23:00

Matthew 12.3 Who is it that Binds the Strong Man?

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2026/02/20

Matthew shows us a facet of Jesus as the warrior king, the goel, who comes to rescues His people; to take back that which belongs to Him. Jesus in demonstrating that which Isaiah wrote foreshadowing the anointed of God, the Messiah who would rescue the people from the tyrant, announces to His accusers, the Pharisees that He is that one. In doing so Jesus declares that, "if it is by the power of God, i.e. the Holy Spirit, that he "binds the strong man," then the kingdom of God is upon

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00:21:18

Exodus 5 and 6 Setting the Stage

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2026/02/17

We are introduced to the coming conflict between God and the gods of Egypt. Pharaoh, representing the tyrant of the devil responds to the modest request of a three days journey to enter into a feast, or liturgical sacrificial worship of God. Pharaoh does not know God and therefore intensifies the work required so as to consume all of the time of the Hebrews so that they cannot be idle. The worldly see time in rest (Hb. sabat) looking forward and back (Gen.2:3) as a time for rest in the Lord to

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00:23:03

Matthew 12.2 Lord of the Sabbath

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2026/02/13

What is the proper understanding of the Sabbath Rest? Is it lawful to do good or evil, to save life or kill? In the Gospel of Mark, we see in the same event as recorded in Matthew 12. But why does Jesus ask this question? The reference interestingly enough is in the Old Testament. We look at Jesus equation of Himself with the Temple and as such He is the Lord of the Sabbath. We look to the Fathers to understand how all of this not only reveals Jesus' divinity and at the same time causes the

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00:20:24

Exodus 4.2 Moses' Journey Back to Egypt

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2026/02/10

First God calls Moses to go to Egypt to Free His people, then God was going to kill Moses on the over-night stay. How can we explain this? What was the reason for God's seemingly turn around from calling Moses to intending to kill him? Why is Zipporah doing the circumcision? Why does God call Israel His "first born son"? What is the significance of the first born son?

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00:22:21

Matthew 12.1 Hints at the New Priesthood

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2026/02/06

Jesus makes reference to King David and his men from 1 Kings 13 and also Leviticus and Deuteronomy in refuting the Pharisees' accusation that He was breaking the law of the Sabbath. Jesus first insults his accusers by asking them, "have you not read...?" Certainly they had, but Jesus is pointing out once again, that their interpretation of the law was legalistic, in the same manner in which Lucifer uses Scripture. What does the law (of Moses) say of healing on the Sabbath? Jesus

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00:22:32

Exodus 3.2, 4.1 God's Essence and Moses Mission

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2026/02/03

We continue in our discussion of the Essence of God as revealed to Moses, and the significance of giving someone your name. God sends Moses on a Mission and Moses objects. God answers Moses' objections and provides the necessary ezer (in Aaron) grace and tools to carry out the mission God gives to Moses. How one of these signs is repeated in the book of Kings and Jesus repeats the sign of His own word in the Gospel of Mark and thus declaring that He is the God that spoke to Moses!

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00:22:14

Matthew 11.4 Jesus Thanks His Father

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2026/01/30

Jesus prays to His Father. Does this mean that He is a being less than the Father? However, Not only the Fathers, St. Augustine, St. Chrysostom and St. Hilary, but Dr. Edward Sri agree, Jesus' prayer is conversation with His Father and they all confirm that Jesus is of the same divine substance as His Father, yet a different person. Jesus ends this prayer with the image of being yoked to Him, for the burden is light. We look back to the prophet Isaiah and the Book of Sirach to understand the

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00:23:19

Exodus 3.1 I AM Who AM

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2026/01/27

Moses the prince of Egypt becomes a shepherd and while tending the flock of his father-in-law, the Priest of Midian, he sees a burning bush. From this apparition of this unusual sight, Moses hears the Lord and for the first time in Scripture reveals His name. What is in a name? If it is God's name, a great deal. We learn what the Fathers drew from this and the significance of the name, I AM Who I AM.

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00:23:12

Matthew 11.3 Everything Has a Season

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2026/01/23

We complete Jesus discussing John the Baptist, as Jesus brings out that John and Jesus' arrival are fulfilling the prophecy of Malachi. Jesus shifts to examining those that have seen his miraculous healings and heard His teachings and yet remain unrepentant. Jesus puts before him that in John they saw asceticism and in Jesus celebration, and yet didn't respond to either call to repentance. What is the fate of those that hear the Word of God, and more so have seen the supernatural wonders He has

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00:20:29

Exodus 2.3 Reuel the Jethro of Midian

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2026/01/20

We go into detail about Moses fleeing into Midian. Where is Midian, and why is that location called Midian? Why would, in God's providence have Moses wind up in Midian as opposed to somewhere else? Who is Reuel, the priest of Midian. Was he a priest of some polytheistic pagan religion or something else? God's thread of his holy ones meeting their wives at water wells continues with Moses as it had with Issac and Jacob.

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00:22:16

Matthew 11.2 John the Baptist, the New Elijah

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2026/01/16

How is it that John points out Jesus as the Lamb of God, the Bridegroom, and One whom he is unworthy to even untie His sandals and yet sends two of his disciples to ask Jesus if He is the One to Come, the Messiah promised to Israel? Who was John and why was he eating locust and wild honey and wearing camel hair clothing? Why was he at the Jordan River at the crossing near Jericho, north of the Dead Sea? Why did Jesus call him the greatest born of women? We turn to Biblical Scholars, Dr. Scott Hahn,

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00:22:32

Exodus 2.2 Moses: A Type of Christ

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2026/01/13

We here from St. Cyril of Alexandria who gives us a typological sense of the book of exodus and sees the actions of Moses, the taskmasters and Pharaoh as types of Christ, the demons and Satan respectively. St. Cyril goes beyond the historical setting and literal meaning of the text, but sees Exodus in the broader sense of the entirety of salvation history.

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00:21:35

Exodus 2.1 Moses

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2026/01/12

Exodus Chapter 2 introduces us to Moses. Who is Moses and where did he come from? We look deeper into the origins of Moses and his upbringing. We look to Josephus, Haydock's Biblical commentary and the Catholic Ignatius Study Bible by Dr. Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch.

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00:21:24

Matthew 10.3 The Church 11.1 Messengers from John the...

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2026/01/09

Jesus begins laying down the hierarchy of the Church and the laity. We here from St. Ignatius of Antioch (A.D. 107) the second successor from St. Peter as the Bishop of Antioch. Of course we quote St. Jerome and also Dr. Edward Sri and Curtis Mitch. We end the second discourse of Jesus and begin Chapter 11 and decipher why John the Baptist sends his disciples to ask Jesus if he is the One or should they look to another. Did John not know that Jesus was the Messiah? We turn to the prophet Isaiah and

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00:21:35

Exodus 2.1 Moses

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2026/01/06

Who was Moses? How was he saved despite the edict of Pharaoh to kill all the male children? The continuity of Exodus with Genesis is displayed in the ark of Noah and the ark which saved Moses. We look to Josephus, Acts of the Apostles, and Ian Shaw (author of "The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt") and the Catholic Study Bible by Ignatius Press. Using these sources, we can understand how the Hebrews (Abiru) went from Joseph who was exalted to being enslaved. Moses' rescue is seen in

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00:26:40

Matthew 10.2 The Price of Discipleship

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2026/01/02

We look to the book of Wisdom, the Psalms and Micah to gain understanding of the price of living accoding to the commandments of God and disciples of Jesus. We hear from St. John Chrysostom, St. Jerome and Bishop Hilary of Pointers to gain insight into the division that Christ speaks about.

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