InGrace with Jim Scudder

What did a tarnished green strip of copper reveal when it was cut open years ago? The Copper Scroll sits in a museum in Amman, Jordan, in a place where pictures are not wanted.

Which three groups of people stand far off and weep in Revelation 18 as Babylon burns? Her judgment comes in one hour, and an angel throws a stone like a great millstone into the sea.

Why does an angel cry out that Babylon the great is fallen, not once but twice? Revelation 18 says the earth was lighted with his glory, and Jim Scudder gives two reasons for the repeat.

Revelation 17 counts seven kings, and an angel says five of them have fallen, so which empires were they? That angel says one reigns in John's own day, and Jim Scudder explains the seventh and the eighth.

A woman in purple and scarlet, holding a golden cup, rides a seven-headed beast. Revelation 17 puts a name on her forehead, and Jim Scudder follows that name back to Babel.

A shepherd boy looking for a goat threw a rock into a cave and heard a clink, not a bleat. That cave is at Qumran, and the final Seas of Israel episode goes on to a Dead Sea sinkhole.

How does Jesus defeat all the armies of the world that the Antichrist gathers in Israel? That war is Armageddon, a word the Bible uses only once, and Jim Scudder calls the battle very, very short.

In Revelation 16, the third bowl of God's wrath turns every river and fountain of water to blood. Jim Scudder follows the first three bowls and gives his reason they fall within days, not weeks or months.

Why does a crowd in heaven sing a song that Israel sang on the Red Sea shore? Revelation 15:3 puts the song of Moses in their mouths, and Jim Scudder follows it back to Exodus 15.

How can people who were killed have the victory over the beast, standing on a sea of glass with harps? Jim Scudder reaches Revelation 15:2 and explains how a martyr's death differs from a soldier's.

Which one of Jesus' seven I am statements goes with the bronze basin of water in the tabernacle? At a tabernacle replica in Timna, Jim Scudder matches the furnishings to things Jesus said about himself in John.

An angel preaches a gospel to the whole world in the tribulation, and it is not a gospel of salvation. Revelation 14 calls it the everlasting gospel, and it is one of three gospels the Bible describes.

How many years of Daniel's 70-week prophecy ran from the call to rebuild Jerusalem's walls to the coming of Jesus? Jim Scudder places Revelation 14 inside the last stretch of that prophecy, the part still waiting to be fulfilled.

Why does the number that goes with the Antichrist's name come out as 666 and never as 777? Revelation 13 ties that number to a mark for buying and selling, and Jim Scudder explains what that number means.

What does a beast with two horns like a lamb sound like once he speaks? Revelation 13 has him calling fire down from heaven, and Jim Scudder shows which person of the Trinity he imitates.

How do you move a 2,000-year-old wooden boat out of lake mud when its wood is very soft? Conservator Orna Cohen tells how it was saved after two young men spotted it in a drought-dried lake.

A beast in Revelation 13 has one head wounded to death by a sword, and the wound heals. The whole world wonders at it, and Daniel 7 and 2 Thessalonians 2 point to the same ruler.

What strikes a statue of gold, silver, bronze, iron, and clay and brings the whole thing down? Jim Scudder lines up Nebuchadnezzar's statue in Daniel with the beast rising from the sea in Revelation 13.

How does God answer a flood that the serpent pours out of his mouth to carry Israel away? Revelation 12 gives Israel two wings of a great eagle, and Jim Scudder follows it into the wilderness.

What becomes of the list of charges the devil brings against a believer before God? Revelation 12 throws the accuser down, and Jim Scudder reads Colossians 2 to show where that list ends up.

A stone gate the Canaanites built in 1850 BC is 4,000 years old and still standing in Israel. Jim Scudder tours Israel's Mediterranean coast, from the sea caves at Rosh Hanikra to an underwater look at Caesarea's harbor.

What did Satan not know at the moment he thought he had won at the cross? Revelation 12 shows the dragon after the child, and the episode traces his attempts from Haman to Jesus' temptation.

Who is the woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of 12 stars? Revelation 12 shows her giving birth, and Jim Scudder traces the clues to Joseph's dream in Genesis 37.

Why will every believer stand before the judgment seat of Christ when a place in heaven is not decided there? Revelation 11:18 points to two different judgments, and Jim Scudder explains who stands before each of them.

What do the great voices in heaven announce when the seventh angel sounds his trumpet? Revelation 11:15 records their words, and Jim Scudder follows them back to the devil's offer to Jesus in Matthew 4.