InGrace with Jim Scudder

Worship isn't just the song service, and this episode opens the throne room of heaven to prove it, where four creatures covered in eyes guard a covenant God made with Noah, and where a strange encounter at Qumran leaves Jim Scudder asking whether we're nothing more than mammals.

From Israel, with guests Joel Rosenberg and Jerusalem's Menno Kallisher, Jim Scudder reaches the vial judgments — a woman in travail, a dragon waiting to devour her child, a protected remnant — who is the woman, who is spared, and what happens when the war of Armageddon finally dawns?

Two airline pilots got so absorbed in their new iPads that they drifted out of radio contact with air traffic control and flew past Minneapolis before a flight attendant noticed — what does that have to do with the throne room of God and crowns cast at His feet?

John is called up through an open door and sees a throne, a rainbow that circles it, and a voice like a trumpet — but before the description begins, Jim Scudder asks what three W's ought to hold up every believer's day, and it isn't the World Wide Web.

Tucked into Daniel chapter 9 is a prophecy of seventy weeks that Jim Scudder says settles the question of whether the church faces the tribulation — but why does he compare Israel to a pan moved to the back burner of God's stove — still waiting for the meal?