I just realized how lonely it is to be a bible nerd in the mainstream Church-ianity. So... God bless you all whoever watched this video. And thank you, Tim!

I literally paused the video and said ‘ Thank you Father for giving us Tim’. Man, this was eye opening. Love from India.

Tim “are you with me” Mackie

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." - John 16:33

At first, Tim seems so "bookish," a nice guy, but quirky. The lecture is so measured, somewhat simplified, studious, and unassuming, yet certain points hit like a hammer! This is remarkable teaching! Thank you dear Lord for this man and his work!

I thank God for this man.

My son recommended your podcasts to me. He shared what a good job you do and that you are easy to understand. I acknowledge this as an answer to my recent prayers. Thank you Lord for Tim Mackie. I've been a Christian for many, many years. However, I've never felt comfortable with my ability to share what and why I believe as I do. Your teaching me how to. I'm so grateful. God bless you.

It's nice to see that Tim emphasize on covenant whereas most denomination focus on church doctrines and they forgotten God's love through the covenant

Thank you for starting the Bible Project! Trying to read and understand by myself I miss so much of the nuances. It's like cooking a meal and forgetting to use salt, pepper or other spices; missing the full flavor. It has helped me understand my journey of being a Christian more rapidly.

What this Weirdness means to most people: Netflix binging and panic buying. What it means to me: Let's dive deep into the Bible Project and all the Tim Mackie archives.

Ppl can laugh at me and call me old fashioned for believe in Jesus Christ but I want my name in the Lambs book of Life.

Brother Mackie, what a blessing is your ministry to me. I rejoice in the Lord for all his servants like you.

I’m back again Sir Tim .. after 5 years?? I feel nostalgic listening to this again. Lost my way in the journey.. but found the way home. Thank you Sir. Godbless you and your family. May the good Lord protect you and continually motivates you in spreading the Word.

Thank you for making this available at no fee.

I’m interested in what he has to say about the Bible. My 14th great grandpa was William Tyndale . Congratulations on your beautiful journey with your family! God continue to bless you and your family. God Bless you all.

I am officially a Bible nerd 🤓🤣. 30 years of long documentaries and explanations of the making of the bible. This man in 45 min had the most exciting, clear explanation I've seen. Those documentaries can be brutal and the commercials 😩🤣😂🤣. Totally can tell he's a professor " are you with me", I love how he keeps your attention and feeds into the together we are uncovering something. I got excited with finger print 🤣🙏🏾💖

Excellent. Now I can sleep at night and stop worrying about the Bible and now I can spend my time learning from it.

what up fellow bible nerds

Honestly, Tim is the person who helped me get closer to God a year ago and gave me confidence that faith and reason go hand in hand. He has brought me so close to God, and I am thankful for that. Excellent work!

We are with you. Thank you for your passion to study and to teach.

An avid reader of student of Scripture myself, I've really enjoyed watching the Bible Project's short videos on different books and topics. But really have liked having a great resource to show my wife and daughter. Thank you.

I was with you! :) I knew there were many authors, but in fact there were way more authors and still the Bible is consistent about God, his people and about Jesus Christ. Hallelujah!

What an amazing video Tim! Since I found the Bible Project my understanding about the Bible changed so much and also the way I understand and follow Jesus. Everything became less heavy than it use to be and I can say that I am learning for the first time in a much deeper level! God bless you life and all involved in this amazing project!

Dr. Mackie, your teaching is so thought provoking, so revealing. I'll watch this a few more times, taking notes.

Dog, you're they only person that has every really taught me the correct meanings of the Bible. I dig your personality and down-to-earthness. I also love the fact that you're a skater, cause I was when I was younger too. There's so many false prophets out there, so obviously I don't feel them. I respect you cause you're real homie, and real recognize real, know that. Peace, and God bless bruh. Keep it up for people like myself because we really need you. ✌️

The clearest contemporary articulation of the holiest book...The Word of God. May the Lord bless brother Tim!

I could watch this a million times. The more geeked out Tim goes, the more excited I get. Thank you on behalf of those who need your ability to break the information down for us. May you get to go back and study until your hearts content. 💕

This is so enlightening. A lifetime of reflection❤️. Loved the Ezekiel bread story! Thank you for providing this insight.

One of the DOPEST videos I’ve watched on this platform. Period.

Thank you Tim for sharing. You are a true vessel the Spirit of God is using to spread the Good News. We appreciate you and your family for sharing you with us. What a blessing you all are!

Glory to Jesus, it was really clarifying and eye opening for me. From the beginning of my journey with The Bible, I had problems with different translation and I heard a lot about the differences between Antioch and Alexandria's Bible versions. Thank you. Truly Truly His Word is inspired and preserved so that we can believe that Jesus Christ is The Son of God and was crucified on the cross for my iniquity so that I can have Salvation through His Precious Blood.

Wow amazing Saturday Sabbath service! I am deeply encouraged by this and will share this message with others!

Saturday is Shabbat.. studying the Bible is the best thing you can do on the Saturday.

I love Tims Enthusiasm and truth be told it is soooo motivating to dive deeper and deeoer again and again into scripture.

I’ll have to watch this 50x or so.

It was Aaron and Hur who held up Moses' arms after they sat him down on a stone :) Great teaching video. I learned so much, and you have great down-to-earth communication skills. The Bible Project is one-of-a-kind and my all time favorite animated series. I am looking forward to all of your teaching videos and more from TBP!!

The Seal of Baruch, Wow the thumb print is just so personal too, thank you for this study

Tim and associate's, Thank you all for your work and preparation to teach this most excellent study of Life. It has completely inspired me to keep searching for Jesus. 🙏✝💖 🌹 Rosemary Saved by His Grace.

Love all this information! Was not academic during my school years but now I’m retired, I’m getting a thirst for this kind of knowledge! Thanks Tim.

Using this material in Sunday school class at my church in grass valley, CA. We are finding it to be very interesting and valuable for clarification and understanding . I also loved your podcast on book of Jonah. I now can make sense of that book.

You have a gift for making learning about the Bible fun. Thanks for sharing. Are you with me?

When Tim showed the artifact of Buruk my jaw dropped?!!! So fascinating how God uses people for his purpose! Glory to God for life on earth! Praise God.

Dr. Tim. I'm so glad I happened upon this video in my search for material on how the scriptures were constructed. I was captivated by your presentation. Your passion for this is contagious. You're brilliant and articulate. Thank you for your commitment and enthusiasm. The Lord bless you and keep you.

I am so grateful for Tim Mackie! Best teachings I've ever heard

What a great resource! Tim, thank for being a "Bible Geek"! You have a gift of synthesizing all the doctoral platitudes into insightful and easy to understand points. May the LORD continue to grow in your faith as you help others with theirs.

Why did I only find this now this year wow 🤩 thank you for this

“Half of our problems, in public squares, in American Culture, come from our fundamental misuses of the Bible. Trying to get it to say things that it’s not fundamentally saying. This is a divine word and human word, for what. To make us WISE. It’s God-spirited, GOd’s spirit. It’s this. GOd’s spirit in the Bible, always works in and through with human beings. “

This was amazing. It just makes it that much more simple to understand and believe. It comes down to you either believe or you don’t. Everyone is going to have an excuse as to why they don’t believe. Or not liking how God handled things. At the end of the day God is God and you either believe or you don’t. It’s amazing how it all comes together

What a gem. Thank you for uploading & preserving it!

May God blesses Tim and his family for all the work he does

Tim, thank you so much for sharing your hard earned knowledge with us all. My ex. Wife was telling me all about the Bible project and how great it was and that she got a lot from it. We were both in reformed churches about 10 yrs. I really learned the bi b le in those churches. God has mellowed me out thru many many severe trails. Would love to meet you someday, before that great day!! Sincerely Paul

Thanks Tim... your passion of and joy for the Scriptures is evident, and your teaching here is so prescient for the post modern Church. Really really enjoyed it! .... are you with me? 😉😁

I wish Tim would come and preach this in my Church. I have been trying to teach Old Testament Survey in my Sunday School class and gave them a little bit on how we got our Bible and will give them some more, unfortunately it is just way too much to give it to my Sunday Morning Church. These days you only get one sermon on Sunday, and you get the cream of the crop in Sunday School and what they should be learning at their age in Christ is way over their heads. Sunday sermon to the congregation, you don't get the cream of the crop, just the crop. Its a lot harder to bring it down to their level, especially when your Pastor doesn't know it because he never bothered to get training from a Bible College or Seminary and he is threatened by those of us who have any formal training so we are not allowed to preach.

So great, awesome and edifying. God bless you and keep you in Jesus Name 🙏

Excellent teaching/ teacher. God bless!

I really appreciate learning from someone with passion and true interest in what he teaches!!

I don’t know how this came in my feed on you tube last night, but I heard your voice and immediately recognized it from the Bible project book overviews we listen to as part of the Bible recap podcast. This was so interesting. I was listening to it in my sleep. I had such a headache but was trying to focus on what you were saying. You’ve now caused me to learn such interesting stuff in my sleep!

I actually finished the entire Bible in a year thanks to the "Read Scripture" app. And I'm reading through it again. The app and your illustrative videos help so much! Thank you! I didn't know you had a channel. Glad I'm here.

I’m here!! Realizing I’ll be studying this book forever

Beautiful family! Thank you for all you do and your team! God bless you all!

This was amazing. Thank you so much for sharing this! This helped me greatly!

You're so amazing, Tim! I thank God for you and your work! God bless you and your family!

I am half way through this as a result of it just auto playing from other videos I was watching. Maaaan, I freaking love this guy!! I absolutely LOVE his passion because it's so infectious. To see his excitement about that fingerprint from the scribe made me giddy inside 😂. I def plan to watch this at least 2 more times. What an incredible teaching and gift from God.

Pastor Tim gives excellent presentations! In-depth, intelligent and humerous. The Bible from a perspective totally different from a usual Sunday sermon. I'm with you Tim!

That was awesome, well done and much needed... very succinct and beautiful

Yes!! "Something is broken in the system of western churchianity." Nailed it! I haven't found many people who see this issue. They just swing in extreme directions.

Saturday is the Sabbath. We meet every week and study the word. It's the Sign of God's true people!!

Love your teachings they have been a blessing to me. God bless you !

God bless you! You are brilliant! I am learning a lot from the your videos!

May God bless you and your beautiful family,for making your content,teachings,free ,you are an admirable man of God,thank you Jesus.

The amazing thing about Jesus is soooo many people have awesum stories of how they came to accept Him as the Son of God 💙🙏🏻💙🙏🏿💙

I love your passion for the Bible and all things about the Bible. Your passion ignites a passion inside of me for it as well. Thank you.

I want to thank you for this video.

Tim are you the narrator of all the Bible books? You are fantastic! You've helped me when Seminary has not! Your courses are so clear, concise, humorous and I get it now! Thank you!

Thank you for your interpretations, for your perceptions, I hear you. Im with you, and have been inspired by videos of yours. Again thank you for your time to put this information out “there”. Bless you❤️

I like this guy...Tim. What I can appreciate about him...is one...his clarity. But even more so, his way. He comes across as humble, sincere, and genuine. Which in my mind...is the exact way Christ Hinself, came to teach the people. I was brought up in a strict religious cult, who preached vehemently, that there was such a thing as 'God's Governement'. And its teachers, which were called 'ministers', were the leaders in charge. There was an authoritative aura about them. One that could easily be abused. To the point where they told people who they could marry, what clothes to wear, and what type of diet to have. They were to be feared. And they were feared. I don't remember Christ ever acting that way. Nor...any of the disciples. I can truly appreciate Tim's approach. It is a learning lesson, that comes across...as showing love. And we all know...God literally claims...to be Love.

This was truly eye opening and overwhelmingly amazing. I loved every second of it and feel so grateful I came across this video. Thank you so much for this. I am so grateful. Just subscribed to the Bible project website and your channel. God bless 🙏🏻

Was really helpful Bro.Tim

Thank you for this truly insightful message. Your words help me so much.

WOW!!! Absolutely brilliant! Thank you, Tim Mackie.

I can tell you have such a burning passion for Christ and his word. Thank you for sharing.

Lord, thank you for Tim Mackie and the gifts you have bestowed him with.

I have only listen to the first 20 minutes and this is so good, praise God! Thank you for doing this presentation and making it available to everyone!

Praise the for the gift God has given you guys!!!! The ability to take hard subjects of the Bible and explain it in ways to be understood for every one!!!!!

I’m going to watch this as many times as it take me to understand every single part of it . No shame in my game

Glad to find this! Good info for all!

Thank you so much! Finally information that I will rewatch, with the LORD's help, because it has answered some of my confusion. The LORD bless you, and enable you to continue. The LORD bless you, and all of your loved ones.

The story in Exodus 17 of Moses' arms being held up has gotten me through so much in my life. When I can't do something myself, others can support me - I am a caregiver and it applies so often. I know I personalized it, but that's how we all use the Bible, isn't it? Thank you so much for your teachings...

The main point of the Bible is Jesus and how He will rein. He will be exalted and God the Father with the Holy Spirit giving Him His Bride.

I wish I could have that kind of understanding. Maybe one day.

Outstanding. Gifted and blessed teacher. This really connected the dots and removed some barriers. Love Tim (and John Collins) work.

Always enjoy Tim’s sermons and lectures

I'm surprised Mackie doesn't know this: "How can you trust the Genesis account if it was written by Moses thousands of years after the events allegedly took place"? The Book of Genesis was not necessarily written by Moses. Moses most likely edited, revised and compiled several previously existing books of generational, accounts of genealogies into what we call, "the Book of Genesis". Genesis actually means, "genealogies". So when we say, "the Book of Genesis", we're actually saying, the "Book of Genealogies" or "The Book of Generations". The Book of Genesis was most likely compiled together from 10 previously existing books/texts/manuscripts which had been written and handed down from Adam. These 10 parts are known as the "Toledot" in Hebrew. Tol'dot, Toldos, or Tol'doth תּוֹלְדֹת - is the Hebrew word for "generations" or "descendants". Each time that Genesis reads, "These are the generations of...", this is, more than likely, a different author signing off. For example: Genesis 2:4 KJV “These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,” Some scholars believe that the 1st chapter of Genesis was actually written by God Himself and then given to Adam so that he could add his story to it and then pass it down to his children who would add their story to it and so on and so forth. In fact, The first chapter of Genesis refers to the Creator as, "God" but starting in chapter 2 it begins referring to Him as, "Lord God". It seems that there is not only a difference in the title for God, having added more reverence to the title after the start of chapter 2, but also every time that the phrase, "These are the generations of..." appears, the style of writing itself changes and it is often very dramatic and noticeable. Consider this: When Moses edited and compiled these 10 texts together, he left Adam's "signature-off" still reading like this, "This is the BOOK of the generations of Adam". Genesis 5:1 KJV "This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;" We see this phrase used 8 more times in the book of Genesis and again once more at the beginning of Exodus. Genesis 6:9 “These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.” Genesis 10:1 "Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood." Genesis 10:32 These [are] the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. Genesis 11:10 These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: Genesis 11:27 Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. Genesis 25:12&13 Now these [are] the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham: And these [are] the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, Genesis 25:19 And these [are] the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac: Genesis 36:1 Now these [are] the generations of Esau, who [is] Edom. Genesis 36:9 And these [are] the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir: Genesis 37:2 These [are] the generations of Jacob. Joseph, [being] seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad [was] with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report. When the Book of Exodus starts off, Moses (the author) had not yet even been born. He obviously must have received the information contained in the beginning of the Book of Exodus, which is that of his geneology from Levi onward to himself, as well as what had happened in the years just prior to and leading up to his birth either orally, or more than likely, from previously existing books/scrolls/texts/manuscripts which contained it, which had been perfectly copied and handed down from generation to generation starting with the Creator-God (YHWH) and Adam. Exodus 6:16 And these [are] the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi [were] an hundred thirty and seven years. Notice that this verse tells us that the information in the verse is, "according to their generations"; meaning that this information was taken from a book of generational accounts of geneologies. I suppose it is possible that Moses could have received all of this information directly from God (YHWH) because the Bible says that Moses talked to God face to face as a man talks to his friend; and who could possibly be a more reliable or credible source than the Creator Himself, Who cannot lie? However, I personally believe that these were all eyewitness accounts which were handed down starting with the Creator-God (YHWH), Who had planned from before the very beginning to bring about the Bible. It appears that God started the book and passed it onto Adam, who passed it generationally down to Noah. Noah would have taken the books of each generational account onto the Ark and after the flood he would have studied and copied them over and over for each child that was born, or at least the sons, unless there were only daughters born to a particular individual. They would have then been copied and passed down from generation to generation. From Noah to Shem, all the way down to Terrah, then Abraham; then Isaac; then Jacob, who would have given copies to each of His 12 sons, one of them being Levi whom Moses is descendant from. However, more notably, a copy would have been also given to Joseph, who after being sold into Egyptian slavery by his jealous brothers, was elevated to the second highest seat of rule in all of Egypt after accurately interpreting the Pharaohs troubling dream, which symbolized 7 years of abundance followed by 7 years of famine. As the person with the most authority in Egypt directly under the Pharaoh, Joseph most likely would have added copies of these family history books to the public and royal Egyptian libraries and schools; where Moses was eventually brought up, also as Egyptian royalty. To me this makes the most sense because God promised in the very first prophecy in the Bible, that the seed of the woman would bruise the head of the serpent. God understood that His people would need to trace the Messiah's family tree all the way back to Adam so that we could clearly see that Jesus was indeed the seed of the woman from the Genesis 3 prophecy. Jesus was the Son of Man and the Son of God. However, He referred to Himself as the Son of Man more that anything else. It required the Son of Man to save man. I don't take any credit for this, this is solely the work of the Holy Spirit which drives me to study and the Bible commands in II Timothy 2:15 that we must, "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" . The Bible also commands in I Peter 3:15 that we should, "Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear". And King Solomon wrote in Proverbs 18:13, "He that answereth a matter before he hears it; it is a folly and a shame unto Him" While Proverbs 1:5 tells us that, "A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:" Proverbs 1:7 says, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Finally, Jesus said in Matthew 10:16, "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."

I'm with you 👍🏻 Amazing thanks!

Thank you for your excellent teaching on the importance of knowing and understanding the Bible and it’s rich history. Thank you for the Bible Project ministry.

Thank you father for your word and the understanding for the little bit I have comprehended it means everything to me never knew I could love the word of God so much “FOR THE RIGHT REASON”…always wanted to but it was a challenge now it’s a blessing. God bless you all

Learning from you feels like I am ready for my MA then Phd.

Okay last comment. The portraits of the messiah was an amazing illustration.

Thank you so much for sharing this incredibly helpful resource!

Thank you for your the Bible Project, for the "How to Study the Bible" series, and especially this video. It confirmed and fleshed out thoughts and beliefs I began developing about 20 years ago when I returned to the Church, as an adult, after two decades away, and decided to very carefully study the Bible as whole. I did my best to follow the axiom, "the best guide to what the Bible has to say is the rest of the Bible", which meant to me set aside all preconceived notions, (But both subsequently and simultaneously, I also watched for the chapters and verses from which the various faith traditions I had studied in Comparative Theology derived their distinctive tenets, so as to better understand their perspectives.) I have grown tired of people telling me things like, if you don't believe: "… about 6000 years ago God created the the universe in exactly 144 hrs and then rested for exactly 24 hours…” or "It had never rained anywhere on Earth, then God instructed Noah to build an enormous floating barn, fill it with hundreds of thousands of different species from everywhere on the Earth and then flooded the entire planet to a depth of at least 1000 ft above sea level… [or even 30,000]" or "God dictated every letter of Torah to Moses in 40 days on The Mountain and the current Hebrew text is of Torah is almost identical to that (and that the origin and transmission of the Nevi'im, Ketuvim, Gospels, Acts, Letters and the Revelation to John of End of Days Prophesies are similar…" then "you can't be a Christian" or "you are an apostate". You have reassured me and many, many like me. I hope you are reaching both Christians at large and "the world outside our doors".