Michael Lawinger

Hear God’s Word

Religion EN ↓ 100 episodes

In this podcast, we study & dissect the Bible in detail; whether you're a skeptic, a scholar, everyday reader, or whether you've never really considered checking out what the Bible has to say. We go into word studies, context, history, science and philosophy, yet come back to the basics. So, follow along if you'd like to hear what God has to say.

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Michael Lawinger

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Religion

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Latest episode

Jun 25, 2026

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Episodes

S1 E71 | 3 Guests - Human or Divine Visitors? (Genesis 18:1-15) 11.03.2025

After finalizing the covenant, Abraham was sitting at his tent door when God appeared to him, but when he looked up, he had three visitors. He prepares food for them and God and one of the visitors confirm that they would come by again in a year when Sarah has her kid. Considering her age Sarah thought this was a joke.

S1 E70 | Abraham Follows Through - Everyone Gets Circumcised (Genesis 17:23-37) 16.02.2025

Our Shortest Episode Yet! The end of Genesis 17 covers Abraham’s follow through in performing the sign of the covenant that God had asked him to do to show he and all his house were committed.

S1 E69 | The Covenant Is With… Sarah (Genesis 17:15-22) 09.02.2025

Abraham and God are finalizing their covenant. Now God finishes the conversation with him by telling Abraham that he’s going to have a son with his wife Sarah even though they are 100 years and 90 years old respectively.

S1 E68 | The Sign: Circumcision (Genesis 17:9-14) 01.02.2025

God is finalizing the covenant with Abraham. The sign is circumcision.

S1 E67 | Abraham’s Name Change - God Appears to Finalize the Covenant (Genesis 17:1-8) 24.01.2025

God appears again to Abram. Who wants to fully get the covenant up and running because they had some unsettled business. God re-promises people in land. He also a name change. From now on Abraham is Abraham.

S1 E66 | Hagar in the Desert - The Angel of Yahweh (Genesis 16:7-16) 10.01.2025

After Hagar runs away from her mistress Sarah, she is pregnant and traveling down south out of the borders of Canaan and into the desert between Canaan and Egypt. That’s when the angel of Yahweh showed up. We discuss who this mysterious “angel” (or messenger) is. Is it a heavenly being, a human messenger or is it God Himself?

S1 E65 | Abram, Sarai & Hagar - An Ugly Love Triangle (Genesis 16:1-6) 01.01.2025

Abram and Sarai still haven’t had children to this point and they had moved back to Canaan 10 years ago. Sarai comes up with the bright idea to have her husband sleep with her servant… let’s see how it turns out.

S1 E64 | Finalizing the Covenant & A Dark Terror (Genesis 15:7-21) 06.12.2024

God makes a covenant with Abram. He asks Abram to make a sacrifice. After preparing the sacrifice and night came, a dark terror came over him… The BEMA Podcast breaks down this passage really well: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bema-podcast/id1148115183?i=1000378470297

S1 E63 | The Word of the LORD - Questions & Faith (Genesis 15:1-6) 29.11.2024

In this episode the word of Yahweh comes to Abram Innovision. We talk about what the word of the LORD is and what what some different meanings of that and vision are. This episode in the passage in Genesis 15 is all about Abrams faith and trust in God, despite the questions he raises.

S1 E62 | Dividing the Spoils - Abram’s Wisdom (Genesis 14:20-24) 22.11.2024

When Abraham was still with the two kings, the king of Sodom asked if he wanted to keep the spoils and possessions, but Abram turned down the offer.

S1 E61 | Melchizedek: The Man. The Legend (Genesis 14:17-20) 15.11.2024

There’s a lot of controversy around the legendary man Melchizedek. He was a king and priest. Yet Psalms and Hebrew say more about him. Is he someone more, or did he just have an interesting story backdrop potentially like that from 2 Enoch: https://youtu.be/sj3IIxpnPlY?si=mAH0c3R3pUdV1_7h Here’s a map of Abram’s route and that of the kings through Chapter 14: http://ad2004.com/Biblecodes/matimages...

S1 E60 | Abram’s Night Ops Invasion (Genesis 14:13-16) 02.11.2024

In this episode, Abraham chases the four Kings from the far east up north east and takes back his nephew Lot, the hostages and the possessions that were raided. It’s also helpful to know that he invaded during the night so it was innocence a clever, sneak attack.

S1 E59 | The Conquest & Raid of the World Powers - Falling Into Tar Pits (Genesis 14:8-12) 27.10.2024

In this episode, we cover the 4 vs. 5 alliance. The four kings from the near east dominated the Keena Knight tribes in the Valley and rated and pirated their belongings, including even taking hostages, one of them, including Lot.

S1 E58 | The Eastern Kingdoms vs. Southern Canaanites Wars (Genesis 14:5-7) 06.10.2024

In this episode, we cover how the king of Elam, and the other three kings in his alliance conquered and destroyed much of the southern Canaan tribes around the dead Sea valley.

S1 E57 | The 1st Near East World War (Genesis 14:1-4) 29.09.2024

In this passage of scripture that we cover, it introduces some world power alliances of that day. It’s also the first mention of war and I call it the actual First World War (at least mentioned in the Bible). We cover the Akkadian Alliance and the Dead Sea Valley Alliance, as I like to generally term them. The Elamite, Akkadian, Assyrian Empires at the time were the dominating threats of their day...

S1 E56 | Abram & Lot’s Land Dispute (Genesis 13) 22.09.2024

In this episode, we recap Abrams Journey to the point where he comes back from Egypt and settled in the area between Bethel and Ai with his nephew lot. However, they become so wealthy and possessions. There’s not enough land and resources for the both of them so they split off and go their separate ways. God also expands on the promise that he gave to Abraham!

S1 E55 | Abram in Egypt - The Deceptive Duo (Genesis 12:10-20) [Feat: Michael Mueller] 16.09.2024

This episode, my friend Michael Mueller joins as we discuss Abrams life and journey down south to Egypt while there was a famine. Unfortunately, Abraham and Sarah, both end up being deceptive to the Egyptians and nearly are separated from each other. However, God steps in makes the pharaoh who took his wife violently sick. Abram and Sarah I end up getting kicked out of Egypt, but not before gainin...

S1 E54 | God Promises Land & Abram Build Altar(s) to God (Genesis 12:7-9) 01.09.2024

In this episode, we follow Abram’s journey from Shechem down to the area of Bethel, where he builds an alter to Yahweh. Since Yahweh appeared and spoke to him and promised him land, it was a special moment in Abram’s life, and he built an altar while he was there however he continues south into the southern desert territory after a bit of time.

S1 E53 | Abram’s Journey - Great People (Genesis 12:1-6) 25.08.2024

Abrams Journey finally begins. We cover God, speaking to him and telling him to leave his family’s home and set off to a place that God would show him. It contains the first round of blessings and promises that God gives him. Abraham listens, seemingly immediately and travels out to Canaan. The BEMA Podcast hits on the early life of Abram in a simple and concise way: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/...

S1 E52 | From Shem to [H]Eber[ew] - Lamech’s Family Story (Genesis 11:10-32) 09.08.2024

In this episode, we continue the genealogy of Shem. However, it backtracks to him only to diverge into another family line: Eber (the Hebrews), which all of it was to lead to Abram.

S1 E51 | Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) [Feat: Pat Lawinger] 09.08.2024

The ancient city and the story of the Tower Babel. 1 of the most infamous stories in history. In this episode me and my father Pat Lawinger tackle the CONFUSING story of this ancient city and people. I'll provide some notes and resources below:Links:- A video outlining the possible appearance and location of the tower: [Watch Video](https://youtu.be/cYc_VgjJfw8?si=86edTw2dNUxJ1_RJ)- The documentar...

S1 E50 | More Than Genealogies: Family Tree of the World (Genesis 10) 25.07.2024

In this episode we cover the genealogy of chapter 10 from Noah until Babel. It is one of the most overlooked goldmines to understanding how the Bible and the generations of this world work. Here is also a link to maps of the "sons of Noah"/tribes and where they settled. This is just an image search, as my suggestion in the episode is to take in all the data and put together the pieces as there's a...

S1 E49 | Noah Gets Drunk & Canaan’s Family Gets Cursed (Genesis 9:18-29) 25.07.2024

In this episode, we talk about how a hero of the faith Noah gets drunk after everything. Good that he just did and how it results results in humiliation from his son. He ends up cursing his son’s son.

S1 E48 | The Rainbow: God’s Sign (Genesis 9:8-17) 27.06.2024

In this episode we focus on God’s sign of His promise to world to not destroy everything again: The Rainbow! This episode also has been recorded during National Pride Month, and since the rainbow flag is the sign; I did this episode in honor of the rainbow, not for pride, self-love, or sexuality, but to celebrate God’s Sign of Love and commitment to the world.

S1 E47 | A Renewed Blessing - The Value of Life & Blood (Genesis 9:1-7) 23.06.2024

In this episode we talk about how the world is getting a new start. The people get a renewed but unchanged blessing from God and receive the same instructions as before to be fruitful and multiply. One other note is how the word blood in Hebrew “dam” is inside the word human “adam”

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