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What does the Bible say about the end times? In this episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron and Jennifer Smith approach an often anxiety-inducing topic with faith and hope rather than fear. They survey the four main views, dispensational premillennialism, historical premillennialism, postmillennialism, and amillennialism, and explain why they lean toward a literal reading with Christ reigning a thousand years. They distinguish the rapture, drawn from 1 Thessalonians 4 and the Greek word harpazo, from the second coming, when His feet stand on the Mount of Olives, and share why they hold a pre-tribulation view based on how...

Who is the Antichrist, and could he be alive today? In this episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron and Jennifer Smith contrast Jesus the Christ, the anointed King and High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, fully God and fully man, with the Antichrist. Aaron walks through the four references to antichrist in 1 and 2 John to show the term first describes a spirit of apostasy: those who deny that Jesus came in the flesh or that He is God. He then turns to Daniel 7, the seventy weeks of Daniel 9, 2 Thessalonians 2, and Revelation...

What is the connection between the Jewish temple and the church? In this episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron and Jennifer Smith trace the history of God's dwelling place, from the tabernacle in the wilderness to Solomon's temple and Herod's temple, and show how each echoed the Garden of Eden and foreshadowed the church: believers built together as living stones into a holy temple. Drawing on Genesis 3:15, God's promise to Abraham, Hosea, Isaiah 56, and Joel 2, they show that Gentiles were always part of God's plan, grafted in by faith and adopted as His people. They...

Bible prophecy is history written in advance, and the life of Jesus proves it. In this episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron and Jennifer Smith explore Old Testament prophecies about Jesus' ministry, death, and resurrection that He could not have engineered: the messenger preparing the way, His ministry of good news to the poor from Isaiah 61, read in the Nazareth synagogue where He stopped before the day of vengeance, His entry into Jerusalem on a donkey's colt from Zechariah 9, betrayal by a close friend from Psalm 41, mockers wagging their heads from Psalm 22, and bones...

The Old Testament prophecies about the birth of Christ are some of the strongest evidence for our faith. In the first episode of their Jesus prophecy series, Aaron and Jennifer Smith explain what biblical prophecy is, a person speaking exactly what God told them, with near and far fulfillments that build trust, and why more than 300 prophecies about Jesus could never have been manufactured. Using resources from Answers in Genesis, they cover the virgin birth in Isaiah 7:14, His birth in lowly Bethlehem in Micah 5:2, being called out of Egypt in Hosea 11:1, John the Baptist as the...

The words parents speak shape how children see themselves, their family, and God. In the final episode of their words series, Aaron and Jennifer Smith share seven words every parent should speak to their child: purpose, peace, belonging, imperfect, truth, reconciliation, and hope. They open by asking their five kids which words they love, which they want to hear more, and which they never want to hear, and share MIT research showing that back-and-forth conversational duets physically grow a child's brain. You'll hear why children have purpose simply as image-bearers, apart from achievement, why they assume their children believe rather...

Words in marriage can build trust or tear it down. In this episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron and Jennifer Smith share seven words every spouse needs to hear, simple phrases that carry weight far beyond their length. They open up about seasons when words were misused in their own marriage, Jennifer shares a personal confession, and they talk about the joy of rediscovering harmony together. You will hear why affirming that your spouse is not your enemy, expressing unconditional support, and practicing forgiveness become stepping stones to deeper intimacy and unity. They also share about navigating the...

What you say to yourself shapes how you think, act and love your spouse. In this Marriage After God episode, Aaron and Jennifer Smith share seven powerful words from the Bible that every believer needs to speak over themselves: believe, loved, do not fear, forgiven, free, provided for, and needed. They anchor each word in Scripture, including John 14:1, Romans 3:21-22, 1 John 4:16-18, Galatians 5:1, 2 Peter 1:3 and 1 Corinthians 12:27. Aaron shares a friend's testimony of Holy Spirit-led transformation and freedom from addiction, and why 'love Jesus and do what you want' was the worst advice he...

When fear and doubt are the weapons used against you, whose words will you trust? Continuing their series on the power of words, Aaron and Jennifer Smith walk through two Bible stories about words used as weapons. First, King Hezekiah faces the Assyrian Rabshakeh, whose taunt 'On what do you rest this trust of yours?' was meant to break Judah's faith (2 Kings 18-19). They show how the leaders guarded the people's ears, how Isaiah answered 'do not be afraid,' and how Hezekiah laid the threatening letter before the Lord. Then Jennifer shares Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego's 'but if not'...

The words you receive and believe will direct the course of your life. In this episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron and Jennifer Smith continue their series on the power of words, teaching that words only take root when we move from simply knowing them to truly receiving and believing them. Drawing on Proverbs, James 1 and Jesus' parable of the seeds and soil, they share how believing certain words led them out of debt and into writing their book, Marriage After God. Aaron recalls a jiu-jitsu defeat and a missionary who once called him lazy, and Jennifer...