Matthew 1; Luke 1 Part 2 • Dr. Gaye Strathearn • Jan. 2 - Jan. 8 • Come Follow Me 

I could listen to her all day

Much loved and appreciated. Thank you Dr. Strathearn. Wish I knew you personally.

I'm so excited to study the New Testament! This episode I enjoyed listening through it, then going through the transcript and writing points I liked in the margins of my journal edition of the New Testament, then using another color pen for my own insights and impressions

I am so excited to study the New Testament this year! I love this podcast. I also highly recommend reading or listening to the book Jesus the Christ.

Regarding the verb "to wax" that was brought up. It reminds me of the German word "wachsen", to grow. Thank you for all of your insights.

I joined The Church of Jesus Christ as an adult, & had never been to Utah. At age 50, my application to attend BYU was accepted, & one of my first classes was with Dr. Gaye Strathearn (& we were the same age(!)...what a wonderful blessing to have found her on your, my favorite, podcast...GOD truly HAS used Sister Strathearn to greatly bless many; I know because I am one of them...HaPpY 60th (Time Around The Sun) Sister Strathearn:)...(& thank you ALL for your continued support in my education:) - I can't imagine a better group of people to learn from...🌿🌸🌿

Grateful for this podcast. Love the content. Love the attending and confirming Spirit.

What and amazing start, with Gaye, for 2023! I am super excited for the New Testament. I was one of those skeptical readers at the beginning of the Old Testament last year but I stuck with it through the entire year and I loved it! I learned so much, and now I am anxious to see how this year will broaden my knowledge of the scriptures. Thank you for doing these podcasts. They help many more people than you hear from but I talk with people all the time and just common scripture readers are understanding more and Hearing Him because of you both!

Thank you so much again. Great start love her testimony and explanation of gospel principles. 💕💕

Thank ton for your pod casts and great guests .

Absolutely loved this video. Beyond normal academic lectures. Thank you.

This was excellent. This opened my eyes more to the beginning of the New Testament. There was so much that was covered that made me think of the faith and the feelings of Mary and Joseph. It made me think of how hard it had to be for them and the faith that they had. Sister Strathearn is a very spiritual person and I love the experiences that she told about. You have made this very interesting and spiritual. Many insights have come out of it. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. You have excellent quests and I also enjoyed the remarks that you have added. I loved this a lot.

I also love every time I listen to Sis Strathearn. I love her way of teaching. Also love listening to her talk. From a Kiwi

I’m so grateful for your inspiration, knowledge and experience, Bro Hanks and Bro Bytheway, that you share with us each week. I love listening to your discussions and love gaining insights from excellent guests such as Sister Gaye Strathearn! Thank you❤

What a great start to the New Year-and thanks so much to Dr. Strathearn-one of my favorites. One of her gifts is to make everything more clear and lucid. Thank you~

Love this episode and felt the emotions and definitely the spirit was present. Thank you.

Thank you for helping me love the Old Testament and helping me love the New Testament even more. Understanding the scriptures has helped me so much in the past year!

Always love Sis. Strathearn. Great ideas and viewpoint and of course amazing accent. 😊

Awesome. Thank you

I’ve never heard Gaye speak more passionately and powerfully as she spoke of Mary. I was instructed and deeply moved.

I can't tell you both what a profound impact your podcasts have made in my wife and my studies. The insights have sprid many a delightful and enriching discussion between us. This year's first selection has not disappointed us. We are so grateful to add your comments to our personal study. Thank you!

I am so excited to be studying the New Testament again, such a blessing that Come Follow Me has become in my life and my families. My daughter is serving a service mission here at home and I just shared this podcast with her and she has been listening as she is doing her online and person service projects. Stay healthy and cannot wait for next week with my most favorite person in the world.

I loved learning more about the Old Testament, but am really excited about this year!!! All your guests are so awesome…. And so are you! Thank you! ❤🇨🇦

Thank you for sharing this week lesson 👍.

We are all blessed from ALL YOUR EFFORTS… thank you

Always lovely to listen to you. From Cape Town SA

I have been reading “Aaronic Priesthood Through the Centuries” by Lee A. Palmer. It was used as the book of instruction for Priesthood quorums when my husband was young. It was under the direction of the assistants to the 12 and the Quorum of the 12. He said John the Baptist had to be ordained by an angel because he was a prophet and prophets held the higher priesthood and that his mission required the higher priesthood. His father did not hold that priesthood and the office of high priest had been so polluted that only an angel sent by the Father could do the job. This book is highly authoritative and educational and easy to read and understand.

Thank you for this episode. Loved Gaye and her insights along with the fervor of her testimony. Plus her cute accent.❤

I hope Gaye will be with you, every week.🇦🇺👍👍

Awesome and so insightful . Gaye is a fabulous teacher.

I am filled and excited for this year of study! Wonderful stuff ya'll! 👏

A few years ago while serving in the nursery at church I caught ac virus off one of the nursery children and it went to my vocal chords and I was struck dumb. It lasted for six months. I had to have speech therapy to get my voice back... When better, I went back into nursery and the same thing happened again. So I was released from many years of serving in nursery and was called for the first time as a seminary teacher! I think what what I learnt was 1st people treat mute people as stupid and second and most importantly, that when my mouth works my ears stop working 😏. Zacheus disbelieved (understandable) but Mary wondered How the impossible was possible and received confirmation that with God nothing is impossible both were amazing and humbling lessons.

I love listening to Sister Strathearn! Thank you 😊 ♥️

Fenomenal. Thank you so much!

Gaye, Thank You sooooo much for sharing your knowledge but even more, for sharing your heart felt Testimony❣️

Love is the greatest my dear love sister, you are amezing my dear sister, may GOD BLESSED YOU, AMEN AMEN AMEN🙏🙏🙏

I love what Sister Strathern said about always learning from the scriptures. I do hope that these wonderful discussion go beyond the four years... Because we will be on this glorious journey all together of discovery... Ephesians 4:13 so please don't leave us keep on keeping on With these amazing discussions as I'm having a blast studying with the rest of the planet. What a joy to seek Him and seek Him and Seek Him With You All!!!!!

Wonderful conversations,!!!!... Its realy true, 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you!

So Good, I loved this so much.

Hey 👋🤗🙏☮️🕊️🕉️🏳️👍😊 even though I am not 🚭🚫 really able to judge or decide what will happen to Church members this year 2023 anyway!

Yam, also known as Ym and Yaw (YHW), is the Ugaritic god of rivers and the sea. Also known as Judge Nahar ("Judge River"), he is also one of the Elohim or sons of El, the name given to the Levantine pantheon. Others dispute the existence of the alternative names, claiming it is a mistranslation of a damaged tablet. Despite linguistic overlap, theologically this god is not a part of the later sub regional monotheistic theology, but rather is part of a broader Levantine polytheism. He is also known from Egyptian sources, which present him as an enemy of Set (at the time viewed as a heroic slayer of monsters and similar to Levantine and Anatolian weather gods). Yam is the deity of primordial chaos and represents the power of the sea, untamed and raging; he is seen as ruling storms and the disasters they wreak. The seven-headed dragon Lotan is associated closely with him and the serpent is frequently used to describe him. Despite his antagonistic role in myths, Ym was sometimes invoked in theophoric names, indicating some degree of cult, which sets him apart from another similar figure, Tiamat. As Ym's myth is generally believed to be older than the Enuma Elish, it's possible Tiamat was partially patterned after him. Of all the gods, despite being the champion of El, Ym holds special hostility against Baal Hadad, son of Dagon (or El). Ym is a deity of the sea and his palace is in the abyss associated with the depths, or Biblical tehwom, of the oceans. (This is not to be confused with the abode of Mot, the ruler of the netherworld.) In Ugaritic texts, Ym's special enemy Hadad is also known as the "king of heaven" and the "first born son" of El, whom ancient Greeks identified with their god Cronus, just as Baal was identified with Zeus, Yam with Poseidon and Mot with Hades. While Baal Hadad was the lead god in Ugarit, in the Baal cycle it is Ym who is favored by El, and he even briefly rules over the other gods. Baal only rises to power after vanquishing him with the help of his allies Kothar-wa-Khasis, Astarte and Anat. Yam's ultimate fate is unclear, as the text makes references to both death and captivity, and in later sections of the myth Baal talks about Yam as if he was still alive and a possible threat. While in the past researchers, especially those belonging to the myth-ritual tradition, interpreted the myths of Baal, Ym and Mot as a representation of the cycle of seasons and thus related to fertility rites, this view is challenged in more recent scholarship as incorrect or simplistic. His name comes from the Canaanite word Yam, meaning "Sea."

Just a note that if you would like to watch a wonderful 7 part series about Jesus Christ, check out BYU TV’s series entitled, “Messiah: Behold the Lamb of God.” I bring it up here because Gaye Strathearn and many other Biblical scholars are featured in this beautifully-done series. It used to be available on RU-vid, but I don’t see it there now. I know there are quite a few resources out there, but I highly recommend this, along with “Follow Him,” of course.

I’m wondering why they give the lineage of Joseph, when Jesus Christ did not come through Joseph. he is the son of God. Or am I wrong about the genealogy

educational🙂

I wish i get the new tastement book of mornon, 🙏🙏🙏

How can we be like Jesus,??!! If we believe is not complate, mostly religion church only believe with Jesus, or GOD almighty, the father!!!, its only father and the son,!!!. How son to be deliver to this earth without a woman, a mother, GOD HAS A HOUSE, HOUSE OF GOD, (CHURCH). IF ONLY FATHER AND SON,!! WHERE IS THE MOTHER??!! WHY CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS IF NOT BELIEVE IN THE MOTHER!? ".CHRISTMAS IS THE BORN OF LORD JESUS, THERES A MOTHER DELIVER LORD JESUS!!! "...ITS I FEELS NOT COMPLATING, IM TAKING MY LEARNING OF THIS, WE HAVE TO COMPLATE THE BELIEVING, THEN WE CAN GET TROUGH LORD JESUS AND THE FATHER, AS WE, HUMANS, NO ONE WILL GOES TO THE SON FIRST BEFORE RESPECT, HONORED THE MOTHER, THEN THE MOTHER WILL HANDED YOU TO HER SON, 🙏🙏🙏,ITS MY LEARNING, THANK YOU.

Thanx so much for these podcasts. Moses in the Lord’s genealogy: Moses, however important, was not from the tribe of Judah, but from Levi. Secondarily, Uriah the Hittite, we don’t know that he wasn’t a Jew from some dispersed branch of the tribe. He could have been one of those that developed iron or whatever. I think he was a Jew from Anatolia. Ruth the Moabitess, she also came thru the Covenant line as a descendant of Lot. Remember the Lord told the Hebrews to leave the Moabites alone that they were kinsmen. Thanx again for your oodcasts