WWUTT 2330 Q&A Top 10 Videos of the Year

Year-End Countdown of the Top WWUTT Videos

We're counting down the top 10 most watched what videos for 2024 and responding to some of your comments. Are eclipses a sign of the end? Did Trump publish a Bible? Where did the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary come from?

The answer is when we understand the text.

This is when we understand the text, a daily Bible commentary to help encourage your time in the word. Thank you for sharing our podcast and videos with others. You can find all our resources online at www .utt .com.

And once again, it's Pastor Gabe.

Thank you, Becky.

You're welcome.

Welcome, finally, to our year-end countdown of the biggest what videos of 2024.

We're only a couple weeks late.

Three. Three weeks. How long have we been in? No, it's not been three weeks. 17 days.

Yes. Not quite. A few days shy.

Where have we been?

Everywhere.

Everywhere. It's been busy. We're both teaching.

Stomach bug, ailments.

We've both been sick. Kids have been sick. We've had to cancel groups and reschedule groups and move groups.

It's been quite crazy.

All kinds of things going on.

But the Lord is good and he got us through.

So, sorry, we're a little bit delayed on this particular episode, but we still want to go through the videos you watched the most.

Yeah.

In 2024. We actually doubled our views in 2024 compared to how many views we had in 2023.

Oh, that's awesome.

Part of that, I think, is actually the algorithm.

Oh, yeah?

Because I did not do as many videos in.

Oh, that's true.

In 2024. But I think the algorithm just kind of swung in our favor a little bit more last year.

You didn't do as many in 2024?

No, I didn't.

Oh, I thought you did more in 2024.

Nope. I did more videos in 2023 than I did last year, but we had more views in 2024.

Nice.

Than we had the year before. So let's get to our top 10 videos. We're splitting this into two parts, obviously, this first half of the episode, which airs on some Christian radio stations. You're only going to get five videos.

So if you want to hear the top five, you're going to have to listen to the podcast, which you go to www .utt .com to get those other five videos, which will be in the second half hour.

Oh, gotcha. So we're doing the bottom five first.

This is the bottom five.

All right.

10 through number six. And we'll start here with number 10, which was one of the bigger events to happen in 2024. This was also on my list of the big news happenings of the year. So this was back in April, and this video got so many views because Justin Peters boosted it for me.

Oh, awesome.

It was featured in one of his videos. So here we go. This is the 10th most watched video of last year. Hey, remember those four blood moons prophecies in the 2010s? John Hagee wrote a bestselling book.

There was even a theatrical film. And what happened? Absolutely nothing. Did a single false prophet lose their job after that? And here we are again with another eclipse and more wannabe prophets saying Jesus is coming soon, even though the Bible already says that.

Let's just put this to rest right here. Natural solar eclipses are never mentioned in the Bible. They are not prophetic signs of anything. And don't let the YouTube and TikTok prophets tell you otherwise, no matter how many millions of views they have.

But Gabe, haven't you heard that the great solar eclipse of 2017 passed over seven cities named Salem, which is short for Jerusalem? So what? Jerusalem is in the Middle East, not the United States, and neither that eclipse nor this one are visible there, or by most people on the Earth.

But Gabe, haven't you heard that the great solar eclipse of 2024 is going to pass over seven cities named Nineveh? Not true. The total eclipse is going to pass over two cities named Nineveh, and it will be partially visible from another five.

By the way, the eclipse will be at least partially visible everywhere in the US. But Gabe, haven't you heard that both eclipses cross over a town called Rapture, Indiana? No, it's an unincorporated town called Rapture, and the total eclipse was not seen there in 2017, but will be in 2024.

And this has no prophetic significance. Again, solar eclipses are naturally occurring. An Ohio newspaper from 1970 reported the eclipse in 2024. We can calculate when they will happen. But Jesus said no one will know the hour or the day of his return.

Enjoy an eclipse for the beauty that it is. For Psalm 19 .5 says that the sun runs its course with joy as God made the sun and the moon to run like clockwork. This is not a sign of the end. But you do still need to repent and turn to Christ, for judgment will come at an hour you do not expect.

When we understand the text. Yeah, big surprise that the solar eclipse was so big among the false prophets.

Yeah.

I'm surprised there's not more push on the one coming up on the 25th.

The 25th?

Yeah, it's not a solar eclipse, but it's where all the planets line up.

Oh, yeah, I saw Mars right next to the moon.

Okay, so Mars is supposed to be the biggest within every 26 months, apparently, or something like that.

Okay.

And so that happened just a few days ago.

Yes.

And so it's still pretty astounding, like right in our view. And it was where Mars went directly behind our moon, which apparently doesn't happen very often.

Yeah, well, it can only go behind the moon.

Well, no, I mean, like directly, directly behind the moon.

It was like eclipse behind the moon, almost.

Yeah, almost. Yeah. But then, oh, that was earlier this week. And then just a couple of days ago was the Mars was the closest again. And then it won't be that close until 26 months later.

Interesting.

And then the 25th is when all of the planets line up. And you should be able to see it after sunset.

That's interesting. Okay, I'll have to do that.

All across North America, if I'm not mistaken, you can see at sunset all of those planets. Like some of them you can see with a telescope, but most of them you can see with your naked eye.

No one's claiming it's going to create this shadow that will unleash the Titans from the middle of the Earth or something.

I haven't heard anything like psycho anything. So I'm kind of, I'm still waiting around for it, you know, kind of curious who will come up with what story.

Yeah, I can't remember which night it was that Annie had play practice that went late. And so I took Bubz with me to go pick her up. And as we were leaving the neighborhood, we're driving right toward where the moon is coming up.

And you could see Mars like right next to it. I mean, it looked like you're looking at a planet with its own little moon around. It was almost the way that it looked. I was like, oh my goodness, there's a planet right next to the moon there.

Kind of a Star Wars feel, you know?

Yeah, I hadn't even heard about it. And then I'm pulling it up online and finding out Mars is in some sort of alignment or whatever else.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't follow astrology, so.

I only do for my class. That's how I know.

Well, astronomy.

Astronomy.

I'm talking astrology.

Okay, fair enough. Yes, I did get that confused.

I saw somebody posted a great meme that said, Stop blaming yourself. Learn astrology and start blaming the planets.

Okay. That sounds like they're repentful.

Yeah, right, right. It's a joke.

I know.

Don't be so hard on yourself. Blame the planets.

Somebody else's problem.

That's right. All right. Well, that was the 10th most popular video of the year. Yes. This next one is, it was actually debunking a common myth.

Okay.

There were some people that were saying that Donald Trump had come up with a Bible.

Okay.

Did Donald Trump release a Trump Bible in 2024? Well, this video will set you straight here. Did Donald Trump just come out with a Trump Bible? No, he did not. The God Bless the USA Bible is actually sold by Lee Greenwood, the guy who wrote the song of the same name.

God Bless the USA, which came out in 1984. Former President Donald Trump has endorsed the Bible and urged his supporters to buy a copy for Easter. But it's not Trump's Bible, nor is it a new Bible, as it's been in print for a few years.

In addition to the King James version of the text, it also contains the U .S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Pledge of Allegiance, and of course, the lyrics to Greenwood's famous song.

Now, some conservatives genuinely believe that the U .S. Constitution is divinely inspired like the Bible.

We were a nation founded upon not the words of our founders, but the words of God, because he wrote the Constitution.

So, it's probably not a good idea to print the Constitution in the Bible. But that aside, this is not the first time someone has published a Bible like this. The Geneva Bible Patriots Edition includes a prayer by George Washington, the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, as well as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

There's also the Patriots Bible, which includes a bunch of articles about the history of the United States. You can also find the Young American Patriots Bible, the Founders Bible, and the American Woman's Bible.

Various ways to market a Bible with patriotism. While it's good to remember America's Christian roots, do not confuse these national documents with sacred scripture. Only those 66 books that make up the Bible are breathed out by God, given by his Holy Spirit, and contain the words of eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord, when we understand the text.

So, that quote in the middle there was Dan Patrick, who was the Lieutenant Governor of Texas.

Okay.

And he was the one that made the comment that God inspired even our nation's documents, such as the Constitution. As if God had given those words of the Founding Fathers the same way he gave the New Testament to the Apostles.

That was... He made that quote at a CPAC in 2022, I believe is when it was.

I don't think everybody who signed those documents were saved.

No, not everybody was.

But who wrote it?

The vast majority of them were God-fearers.

Even God-fearers, it's not the same.

They would not have said...

No.

None of the Founding Fathers would have said, God inspired me to write this.

No.

This is God-ordained. I mean, it was ordained by God. It just wasn't...

They would probably be beside themselves if they lived in today's culture, versus when they...

Yeah, right.

...came over.

Well, it's the same with the King James only-ists. The editors of the King James Bible would not have said, this is the only divinely-authorized English translation of the Bible.

Yeah.

You have the same arguments that come in there.

Yeah.

Some of the comments on that video about the Trump Bible, Paul said, praying that Trump-supporting non-believers will buy the Bible, read it, and that God would save many of them by grace, through faith in Christ for his glory.

Amen.

Just as long as they don't confuse the divinely-inspired verses, then...

Yeah, the founding documents are not divinely-inspired. Cammy said, it's a little weird to include the Constitution in the Bible, but as long as people know it's not God's Word, and the Bible is, then it's fine, which this might give people who don't know any better the false belief that it is.

The Constitution has amendments, God's Word is unchanging, and therefore needs no amendments.

Amen.

Amen to that. And this comment from Stephen, Trump may have endorsed the Bible, but I don't know if he's ever read it.

Touche.

I have to agree with you there. Hey, praying for Trump and his cabinet, as Donald Trump is going to be inaugurated.

Oh yeah, very soon.

President of the United States this coming Monday.

Lord willing, yeah.

So pray that he will surround himself with God-fearing men, and even some women, that will help direct his course in a way that is right and honoring of God, and according to his Word.

Amen, yes.

More likely that we were going to have a God-fearing administration under Trump, than we would have had under Kamala.

Yes.

Now with this next video, I cheated on it a little bit. Let me go ahead and play this here, and then I'll tell you how I cheated on this video.

Okay.

Okay. At the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo, there is on display the remains of a pharaoh named Amenhotep II. If you were to walk up to the glass and look into the face of that man, you may be looking into the face of the same pharaoh whom Moses stood before, when he said, thus says Yahweh, let my people go.

Now what makes us think Amenhotep II may have been the pharaoh of the exodus? Well, we know the exodus occurred in 1446 BC. A key verse to calculating this is 1 Kings 6 .1, which says that Solomon began building the temple 480 years after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt.

This was in the year 966, plus 480 years gives us 1446 during the 18th dynasty in Egypt. The Jewish historian Josephus writing in the first century referenced an Egyptian historian named Manetho, who said the pharaoh of the exodus was named Aminathus.

Well, Aminathus happens to be the Greek name for Amenhotep. With other details we know about pharaoh from the book of exodus, it was more than likely Amenhotep II rather than the first or third. For example, as Pharaoh did not die during the 10th plague, he could not have been a firstborn son.

Indeed, Amenhotep II had an older brother who died before he could assume the throne. And we know Amenhotep II's firstborn son did not become pharaoh, which is expected if Amenhotep II is the pharaoh of the exodus and his eldest son died in the 10th plague.

Now, though these mummified remains are a pretty cool relic from biblical history, if indeed Amenhotep II was the pharaoh of the exodus, the fact remains that Pharaoh, who thought he was a god, is a dusty old corpse in a museum.

Jesus Christ, who is actually God, is risen from the dead and reigns on high. All who believe in him will not perish, but have everlasting life when we understand the text. Okay, so this video has never been seen on YouTube before.

Okay.

You are getting it on this podcast for the very first time. So why is it that the video could be included in my top 10 most popular videos for 2024?

Yeah, that's what I'm wondering.

Because it's a slightly longer version than the original video that I had posted, which was a clip of me teaching in my Sunday school class.

Ah, okay.

On the date of the exodus. And I had featured it as one of the short videos, where if you make a video on YouTube that's under 60 seconds, it'll post it as a short video. So I made a longer version of it in our minute and a half format, and that's what that video was.

So the short one was super popular, got a ton of views, but I didn't want to include the short video in my most popular videos of the year. I still wanted to keep the usual what format.

Okay.

So I cheated a little bit with that one.

Fair enough.

And you're hearing it for the first time now, but it will soon be uploaded to YouTube, and it will be its own video.

I suppose I'll let you have it.

Okay, all right.

No, actually, that's funny, because our youngest girl, she is learning about when Moses went to Pharaoh right now.

Oh, really?

Uh-huh, on one of her Bible cards.

So, yeah.

So she's learning about it according to exodus, or she's learning about it in like where it occurred in history?

I believe in history, because it's a timeline. But it's, you know, like biblical timeline, so.

Yeah, makes sense. Now, I'll do a follow-up to that one, and I'll talk about why, like how do we know that 1446 is the year that the exodus occurred?

Okay.

And that's a little bit longer argument. I made a little bit there in that video, but there's a deeper explanation to how we've come to that date.

Okay, awesome.

So there you go. That was the eighth most popular video for 2024. Who was the Pharaoh in the exodus? That was part of the kind of a short archaeology series that I did in my Sunday school class over the summer.

Yeah, that was really fun.

All right, number seven. Here's the seventh most popular video of the year.

Was it really the summer?

Yeah, that was back in the summer.

Oh, my goodness.

Number seven. Leading up to season five of The Chosen, creator and director Dallas Jenkins hosted a live stream online. There were behind-the-scenes looks, he sold a bunch of merchandise, and he gave a sneak peek of a scene between Jesus and Judas who would betray him.

Judas believed the time was right for Jesus to claim the throne of David. Jesus disagreed, so Judas said,.

Why won't you take my advice? Am I not here to help you?

I've never asked you for your advice.

Then what am I here for?

Then Jesus said to him,.

You have a choice to make, Judas. I'm listening. Who has your heart? And I've had it before.

That's not what the Bible says. John 6, 64 says, Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe and who it was who would betray him. In verse 70, he called Judas a devil. And in John 17, 12, he called Judas the son of perdition or the son of destruction.

The heart of Judas was never after Jesus. And Jesus knew this. Judas's destiny was always to betray him in fulfillment of prophecies made about him. Let's continue.

You followed me willingly.

Jesus never said this to Judas. Would Jesus have prayed that Judas would make a different choice and not betray Jesus? Then God's word would be wrong and you and I would not be saved. Psalm 22, 41, 69 and 109 and Zechariah 11 all contain prophecies about a wicked man who would betray the Lord's anointed, even for 30 pieces of silver.

That was Judas, whom Jesus called to fulfill this purpose. In John 13, Jesus washed his disciples feet and said, do just as I have done to you. I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but the scripture will be fulfilled.

He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me. Beware those teachers who twist the scriptures, especially for the fields, for entertainment and for profit. When we understand the text. That was not the only video that I did on the chosen in 2024.

Yeah.

So it may not be.

We had quite a few.

Yeah.

It may not be the only one on this list either, but that was the, what was that? Seventh most popular video. The sneak peek of season five that they've already released, which comes out in March.

Season five.

Season five.

It's still going.

I think they have six seasons altogether. I can't remember if Dallas Jenkins says he's doing six or seven. Six or seven seasons. But get this, the actor who plays Jesus is 50.

Oh, okay.

How old was Jesus when he died?

32 or something.

33.

33.

Generally we think of him as being 33 years old.

Oh, okay.

So the actor playing him looks 50, by the way.

Well, there's AI and all that, you know, you can alter and make up.

I thought of that years ago when I was watching.

What is that? Bee pollen or not bee pollen, but the bee poison.

Bee poison? Yes. What are you talking about?

They like do it to their lips and make them all poofy and stuff. So you can like do that to your wrinkles.

I thought that was a joke. Like, cause their lips look so fat and fluffy.

I don't know if it is or not. That they bee sting. They're selling like lip gloss with stuff in it that makes your lips like poof.

Yeah.

They actually make that to make your lips pucker. I thought they had like fat injected in their lips or something like that.

Well, probably that too.

What else do they stick in there? Anyway, it doesn't matter. But anyway, I thought this about Jonathan Rumi, the actor who plays Jesus. I thought it years ago the very first time. I think it was even that I saw him playing Jesus.

I looked at him. I was like, that guy's not in his young 30s. And when I looked up his age, I think at the time was, you know, 44 or 45. I'm going, okay, how long are they going to keep this going? Cause he's already looks like he's got more miles on him than Jesus would have had.

Well, who knows? You know, I mean, Jesus didn't have the easy life.

So I think it was, I can't remember which early church father it was. Irenaeus. It might've been who thought that Jesus actually was 50 years old when he died. So maybe they're going with the Irenaeus version.

And it comes from the reference, the crowd makes in John, where they say of Jesus, you're not even 50. And so Irenaeus took it as meaning he's almost there.

Yeah.

He's almost there. He's almost 50 years old. That was how Irenaeus read it. So a couple of comments that we got on that video. Zimmy said, Jesus literally asked Nicodemus in season one, what does your heart tell you?

The heresy has always been there. We made a God in our own image. I think we speaking very generally, because I didn't have anything to do with making the show, but yeah, hand a man said, I watched five minutes of this show and thought that something wasn't right.

This is a mockery of scripture. Laura said, I've never watched the chosen and never will. You're not missing anything. I watch it. So you don't have to. That's the way Becky sees it, too. I don't have to watch this show.

Scott said, this is the problem with people saying crazy things like, oh, God told me to make a movie or write a book or make him famous. These same people do not know him or his word. There's no fear or reverence for the God of the Bible.

Therefore, they take liberties with the truth of God's word and profit off of their false teaching. See, that's the impression that I get from the show as well. There is not a high reverence for the source material.

However, much Dallas Jenkins wants to say.

It's a story.

It's still based in the Bible. We still encourage you to go and read the Bible. It's not the Bible that you love here. It's your own story that you're telling.

It's like they've used the Bible as just a story that they can maybe get ideas from.

That's Lord of the Rings for us. So we're creating our own version of that world building.

But they don't say that.

Well, he does give a disclaimer. I will say there's a disclaimer at the very beginning of the first episode of season one. It's one of those, this is based on events. Some of the events that you see here may not have actually happened, but we're trying to take creative liberties here or something like that.

And then more and more and more.

More and more creative liberties. Yeah, it just keeps right on going. Now, there are some that have completely written off the show because they will say any depiction like this is a second commandment violation.

I'm not trying to take that angle on it because I think you can just look at the substance of the show and see that none of this is biblical.

Right.

This is not the biblical Jesus that they are that they are portraying in The Chosen. So like I said, there may be another video coming up here, but let's get to our sixth most popular video of 2024. Our Lady of Fatima is a Roman Catholic title given to Mary, the mother of Jesus.

After three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, witnessed what was believed to be an apparition of Mary, a bright vision of a lady only three feet tall, told the children to pray the rosary every day to bring peace to the world and an end to the war.

This was in 1917. And altogether, the vision appeared to them six times between May 13th and October 13th. During that last appearance, many thousands of people claimed to have witnessed the miracle of the sun in which the sun appeared to dance or zigzag in the sky.

Thousands of others, even among believers, said they saw nothing at all. The lady prophesied to the children, telling them of future events. She said two of the children would soon be taken to heaven.

And indeed, the two younger children died a couple years later of the Spanish flu. She said World War I would soon end. But if people did not stop offending God, a second worse war would come. And she gave them a prayer and a vision of hell.

The thing is, though, these so-called prophecies were not revealed until long after they happened. Lucia, the oldest of the children, grew up to become a nun, and she did not reveal these secrets until the 1940s.

Lucia herself wrote that she first believed the apparitions were of the devil. And no wonder, Scripture says, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Italian priest John DeMarchi wrote a book called The Immaculate Heart, the true story of Our Lady of Fatima.

And though he celebrated the story as miraculous, he revealed this false prophecy. The children insisted that the lady told them World War I would end on October 13, 1917. But it did not end for another 13 months.

Whatever Our Lady of Fatima was, it was not Mary. For the real Mary would not prophesy falsely, nor would she ever tell anyone to pray to her or build her a shrine. But millions of people journey every year to visit the sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima.

And the legend has had a huge influence on Marian worship. Jesus said, it is written, you shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve. When we understand the text. Now, this fellow named Thomas made this comment.

He said, I'm not speaking as an agitated Catholic here. But Our Lady did not say that the war would end by October 13, 1917. She said the war would end soon. Probably she said it on that date. And that may be the source of confusion.

No, I got the fact in the video exactly right.

Oh, yeah.

She did say it on October. At least the children reported that this apparition said on October 13, 1917, that it would be that day that the war would end. World War I would end.

Yeah.

And the priest that they told this to ask for clarification. Are you sure she said that? Because the war is still going on. And the children reported, yes, that's what she said. And the war did not end for over a year later.

So, yes, it was actually on that date. And the apparition said it would be that date that the war would end. False prophecy, false apparition, wasn't Mary. It was instead something demonic. And the more I've looked into these Marian apparition stories, the more I'm 100 convinced that almost all of them are demonic apparitions.

They're pretty spooky. It's like reading ghost stories. It really is when you read the details of these things.

Gives me goosebumps.

Yeah.

So pray for the truth to be proclaimed, that the gospel of Jesus Christ would break through to folks who have been fooled by some of these false miracles and ghost stories. For it is only through Jesus Christ that we can have the forgiveness of our sins and everlasting life.

And he shares his glory with no one, not even his own mother.

Yeah.

Although these apparitions are not actually Mary. So, yeah, just to make the distinction there. Well, there's the first half of our list.