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Welcome to Wise Counsel, a daily five-minute devotional hosted by RM Smith. Each episode dives deep into biblical scholarship and Ancient Near Eastern context, offering concise insights into Scripture to illuminate its timeless truths and practical applications. Join RM Smith as he explores the cultural and historical backgrounds that enrich our understanding of God's Word, equipping you to navigate life's challenges with wisdom and discernment. Tune in for your daily dose of spiritual nourishment!
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to Wise Counsel, a daily five-minute devotional hosted by RM Smith. Each episode dives deep into biblical scholarship and Ancient Near Eastern context, offering concise insights into Scripture to illuminate its timeless truths and practical applications.
Wise Counsel is hosted by RM Smith. The show has published 126 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "How First-Century Christians Read Revelation: Ditching the Newspaper for the Ancient Lens" (29 October 2026, 46 minutes), "Will the New Jerusalem Have a Sun? The Cosmic Light of the New Creation" (29 October 2026, 54 minutes), and "240. The Fire That Purifies Without Consuming" (28 October 2026, 36 minutes).
Wise Counsel publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 37 minutes across 126 episodes.
Booking probability for Wise Counsel is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Wise Counsel requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Wise Counsel's contact route on record: public web form.
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RM Smith hosts Wise Counsel, a religion podcast with 126 episodes published.
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What if everything we think we know about reading the Book of Revelation is built on modern assumptions rather than ancient reality? For generations, popular approaches have treated John’s apocalypse like a...
What will the physical reality of the New Jerusalem and the New Earth actually look like? Will we need a physical sun, moon, or starlight, or is something far greater taking place in the biblical text? In this episode...
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Throughout Scripture, fire is one of the most prominent metaphors used to describe the holiness, presence, and transformative work of God. While human or destructive fire consumes and destroys what it touches, divine...
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This episode tackles the common fringe theory that Ezekiel 1 describes an ancient alien spacecraft or UFO encounter. By analyzing the passage through ancient Near Eastern iconography, sacred temple furnishings, and...
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This episode explores the divine council worldview, examining how ancient spiritual rebellions—such as those at Genesis 6 and Babel—led to God placing nations under corrupt lower gods ( elohim ). It investigates the...
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This episode examines the background of apocalyptic imagery in the Book of Revelation and the event of Pentecost through ancient Near Eastern and Second Temple Jewish contexts. It details how the four horsemen and...
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A central question running throughout biblical literature concerns the ultimate governance of the present world. On one hand, Scripture repeatedly declares that God is the supreme, absolute Sovereign over all creation...
Walk the sun-drenched streets of the mid-eighth century B.C. and you will find a society at the absolute pinnacle of its material power under the forty-year reign of King Jeroboam II, complete with high-walled urban...
Step into the sun-drenched streets of the mid-eighth century B.C., a society at the absolute pinnacle of its material power and geopolitical prestige. Beneath the glittering veneer of this unprecedented economic boom...
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The Book of Job presents one of the most intense theological narratives in biblical literature: a systematic, multi-layered "stress test" engineered in the heavenly court (Job 1–2). Satan ( The Adversary ) asserts that...
In this deep-dive study, referencing the file named "Biblical Scholarship", we open the first chapter of Micah to explore the terrifying cosmic and historical realities behind the prophet's opening words. If you were to...
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What happens when a national agricultural crisis escalates into an end-time, cosmic confrontation? In this deep-dive episode, we explore the concluding vision of the book of Joel ( Joel 2:28–3:21 ), tracing the...
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What happens when a national agricultural disaster transforms into a terrifying apocalyptic crisis? As the second chapter of Joel opens, the prophet commands the blowing of the shofar on Mount Zion, warning that a...
Welcome back to the podcast. Today, we are dissecting the terrifying and urgent alarm sounded in the opening chapter of Joel, drawing heavily from the file "Biblical Scholarship". To grasp the gravity of Joel's message...
Welcome back to the podcast. Today, we are looking at the shocking, unresolved cliffhanger of Jonah's story, drawing directly from the file "Biblical Scholarship". Most people assume the narrative ends with a massive...
What happens when God shows grace to the people you detest most? In Jonah 3, after being vomited back from the subterranean depths of Sheol, the reluctant prophet receives a second chance—and a command to march directly...
Forget the sanitized Sunday School imagery of a friendly marine mammal; to ancient audiences, the sea was an untamable, otherworldly realm symbolizing dread, destruction, and the chaos of death. When the prophet Jonah...
When God calls Jonah to go to Nineveh, Jonah does what many of us are tempted to do when faced with a hard assignment: he buys a ticket in the exact opposite direction. In this episode of [Podcast Name], we kick off our...
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In this episode, we explore the terrifying vision oracles and explosive narrative confrontation in Amos 7:1–8:14. Set during the mid-eighth century B.C. under the prolonged reign of King Jeroboam II, the Northern...
In this episode, we draw from the insights found in the file "Biblical Scholarship" to explore the striking finale of the prophet Amos. We navigate the catastrophic altar judgments and the ultimate hope of a restored...
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Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies, Westmont College
Mary Grace Wilson Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, Duke University
professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Wheaton College, Wheaton Graduate School
Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University
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