Our speakers include Dr. Thurston and his wife , Therese. From 1999 to 2006 they hosted EVIDENCES THINK RADIO! , a Biblical Apologetics live call-in radio program on WRFD AM 880, in Columbus, Ohio, Therese is an accomplished singer, counselor, teacher and speaker. Dr. Thurston is a boarded ER doctor with nearly forty years of medical experience and missions to Guatemala, Haiti, Belize, Honduras, and Mexico. The Thurstons have traveled extensively in the Middle East on archeological missions. Both Dr. & Mrs. Thurston have appeared many times as experts on the top rated television program Encounters With The Unexplained, hosted by Jerry Orbach on PAX TV.
Each of our multimedia topical presentations includes dramatic photographic and scientific evidence for the reliability and truth of the Bible. Any presentation may be tailored to your needs as brief summaries lasting only five minutes to dramatic presentations with music and visual illustrations in half-hour segments up to ninety minutes in length. If you would like to know more about these presentations please contact us at:
Evidences Biblical Institute,
13316 Marietta Road,
Kingston , Ohio 45644
(740) 701-1437, 655-2626
chuck@evidences.net
Selected Speaking Topics:
1. The Scientific Scriptures: The Bible as an Authority on Science because Scripture is one of its parents.
2. Mishkan, The Tabernacle of Moses & David: The Types of Christ Hidden within the Torah & Revealed in an Ancient Wilderness Tent.
3. The Passion Robes, Red White & Blue on Two Purple Mountains Majesty: The Colors that the Law Prophesied of Calvary from Mt. Sinai to Mt. Moriah
4. Divine Dynamite, The Decalogue from Right to Left & Bottom to Top: Why The Ten Commandments are in That Order
5. I, Jesus: The Mind of Christ in the 10th Commandment: Why i's and j's are dotted & the Power to Keep the Ten Commandments
6. Two Wings of an F-15 Strike Eagle and the Woman of Revelation 12. JerUSAlem: Why "We The People" are at War, It’s no about US but it’s all about Israel and a 7-headed Islamic Dragon
7. The Six Days of Creation: So What Really Happened if Evolution Didn't?
8. Jurassic Job: Behemoth, Leviathan & all the Dragons
9. The Three that Bear Witness in Heaven and In the Earth: Father, Son & Holy Spirit: Time, Space & Matter: Solids, Liquids & Gases: Spirit, Water & Blood
10. Oh, Jerusalem! Jerusalem!: The History and Importance of Mt. Moriah where THE Sacrifice was made for us
11. Disease of the Day, A Medical Missionary Devotional: What Diseases & The Bible Teach Us About Each Other
12. The Body of Christ, How all of Our Parts are a Spiritual Parable: Appreciating The Necessary Little Members in Your Local Body
13. Deliver Me From the Body of this Death: Who's driving your bus?: Integrating Spirit, Mind, & Body, the three named mental conditions Jesus healed
14. Sodom & Gomorrah Hidden in Plain Sight: Fire & Brimstone with us unto this day: How did “Eternal” Fire burn out?
15. The Exodus; From Egypt into Arabia: This is Egypt . That is Midian. The True Mt. Sinai in Arabia & the Red Sea Crossing
16. Speaking to the Rock at Kadesh Barnea: Korah, Dathan & Abiram return to their bitter roots
17. A Cross Laid down in the Wilderness: The prophetic encampment of the Exodus
18. The Heavens Declare: The Gospel revealed in the most ancient star names (this is NOT about Astrology)
19. Ezekiel's Wheel, the 4 Evangelists, & The Throne of God: The Ox, Eagle, Lion and Man of the Four Corners of Heaven
20. Between Heaven & Earth, The Alpha-&-Omega Man: The Trinity in the structure of the first 7 words of The Bible
21. The Trinity of Time, Space & Matter in The Very First Verse: The Three Faces of the Godhead revealed in One Verse, a “Uni”-verse, if you will
22. The Stars & Stripes Forever and the Promised Land: American Manifest Destiny & The Tabernacle of Moses
23. Eight Developments at the Birth of the Nation of Israel in 1948: Carbon 14, U.N., UFOs, DNA, ARK, Dead Sea Scrolls, & Nukes
24. Number in Scripture: One is for Unity, Two is for Division, Three in One Trinity
25. The Days of Noah, The Antediluvians: What it was like to live in the “days of Noah” and why it matters for the Second Coming
26. Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
“DNA mentioned in Psalm of David and when does life really begin”
27. The Body Code Series: The image of God reflected in the body
see www.ScienceAndWonders.com
28. THE BODY CODE SERIES: Holy Bones
The Sacred Anatomy of the Human Skeleton see www.thestreamtv.com for video details
Each of the preceding topics are described in more detail below
1. The Scientific Scriptures
"The Bible as an Authority on Science because Scripture is one of its parents."
Modern science is the offspring of the accuracy and testing methods of its father, the Bible. The faith that there is something out there for science to discover and that we are commissioned to discover come from from the mother of science, the Church. Neither parent has anything to fear from this child. There would be no such thing as modern science were it not for the pioneering research of Cathoic monks and priests during the middle ages and Christian believers during the Reformation. It was the freedom to investigate an assumed order to a created universe that impelled faithful men of science to their researches. Men like Frances Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, James Clerk Maxwell, and Louis Pasteur all read the Bible at face value, often in its original languages. They and many modern scientists who followed have found in the ancient so called “pre-scientific” pages of the Bible an amazing wealth of scientifically accurate observations. The water cycle, The First, and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, and even DNA (139th Psalm) are all found in the Bible.
2. Mishkan, The Tabernacle of Moses & David
"The types of Christ hidden within the Torah & revealed in an ancient wilderness tent."
From the specific number of pillars and courtyard posts to the gold, silver and bronze of its construction, the Tabernacle erected by Moses in the Wilderness foreshadowed the Messiah and His sacrifice on the Cross. Jesus was illuminated in the Menorah. He was shown in the sin-free loaves on the Table of Shewbread. These and hundreds of other features are illustrated in a large-scale model of this amazing structure that you can see and touch for yourself.
3. The Passion Robes, Red White & Blue on Two Purple Mountains Majesty
"The Colors that the Law Prophesied of Calvary from Mt. Sinai to Mt. Moriah"
Why did the Gospel writers record different colors for the robes placed on Jesus during his trials? Isn't it wonderful that the red, white, and purple robes along with his own blue clothing were first predicted in the colors of the veil that would be rent in twain at the moment of His sacrifice? Is it a coincidence that all but one of these colors are still to be seen in the modern American flag? What hidden messages do these colors reveal about our redemption?
4. Divine Dynamite, The Decalogue from Right to Left
"Why The Ten Commandments are in That Order"
It is no coincidence that the One God placed the “no other gods before Me” commandment first at number 1. Nor is it an accident that the names of the Trinity should be held sacred by the third commandment. Why is the commandment not to murder mankind, a carbon-based life form, the sixth commandment? Could it be that carbon is the sixth element of the periodic table? This presentation establishes the pattern evident in the Decalogue that makes it possible to obey them because of their order. The last and least of the commandments is about coveting or wanting. It is this little fuse of the will that lights off the progressively more and more powerful commandments of this explosive presentation.
5. I, Jesus: The Mind of Christ in the 10th Commandment
"Why i's and j's are dotted & the power to keep the Ten Commandments"
The ninth and tenth letters of the English alphabet, i and j, are both dotted. This is reminiscent of the smallest Hebrew letter, the yod, from which the English words “jot” and “dot” derive. It is interesting that the ninth commandment against false witness at the judgment seat corresponds with the little i dotted like a condemned man with his little head-dot separated from his standing body. This is a picture of mankind condemned at the judgment seat as I-dots (or idiots, if you will). The little i in the alphabet is adjacent to the j that corresponds with the Tenth Commandment not to covet. j is also the first letter of Jesus. It is the mind of Christ in us that prevents wanting to sin. The little i resting upon the hook of the j forms an ij that resembles a “U” with two dots as heads. Our behavior depends on which of the dots are making the choices; the condemned judgment i dot or the mind of Christ over the j.
6. Two Wings of an F-15 Strike Eagle and the Woman of Revelation 12: JerUSAlem
"Why 'We, The People' are at War. It’s not about US but, all about Israel and a 7-headed once Imperial, but now Islamic Dragon"
The war on terrorism is not about oil or power or bombs. It is all about Israel and whether she will survive to become the complete fulfillment of all of the hundreds of biblical prophecies of her re-gathering. America , as a Bible-based country, has placed itself in harm’s way to support Israel with winged F-15 Strike Eagle fighter jets and golden eagle-winged money against the terror of a many-headed Islamic dragon. These are the two wings of Revelation 12. It is demonstrated that the first verse of this prophetic chapter describes the sky of September 11, 3 BC, the evening of the nativity.
7. The Six Days of Creation
"So What Really Happened if Evolution Didn't?"
If the universe was really created out of nothing in only six days and did not evolve over billions of years then the image we have gathered from the popular media needs to be updated. In this presentation we describe the origins of Time, Space, and Matter on day one and how the physical properties of matter were energized and directed by their Creator. The ordering of the creation and the sudden emergence of life as described in the Bible and confirmed in present-day science fills the rest of the creation week. While this presentation does contain some evidence against ages of evolution, it is rather focused on what actually did happen during the creation week.
8. Jurassic Job
"Behemoth, Leviathan & all the Dragons"
Dinosaurs mentioned in the Bible and many other ancient literature as dragons are illustrated with footprints of humans and dinosaurs and ancient artistic renderings of dinosaurs.
9. The Three that Bear Witness in Heaven and In the Earth: Father, Son & Holy Spirit
"Time, Space & Matter: Solids, Liquids & Gases: Spirit, Water & Blood"
The physical universe is a parable of the Trinity Who created it. The three-ness of the entire universe, a “uni-verse” in verse 1 of Genesis is demonstrated. We live confined in a cosmos with limits in time, limits in space, and limits in matter. Each of those is also a trinity of past, present and future or height, width and depth, or solids, liquids, and gases. At every level these physical realities reveal important attributes of our Creator.
10. Oh, Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
"The history and importance of Mt. Moriah where THE Ultimate Sacrifice was made for us all"
“Moriah” is a Hebrew word that means “Vision of God”. It was on its summit that two sacrifices were offered; the first by Abraham of his son, Isaac, the other by God of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus. The Lord Jesus Christ was raised up in the empty quarry of Gorldon’s Calvary that supplied the stone for all three temples each of which prophesied of Him. The historical events that took place on this one small piece of land all point to the purchase of our salvation.
11. Disease of the Day, A Medical Missionary Devotional
"What Diseases & The Bible Teach Us About Each Other"
There is nothing that takes place in the physical realm that is not rooted in the supernatural spiritual kingdom. All physical phenomena are parables of the spiritual kingdom. This includes diseases and suffering. Each disease illustrates a spiritual principle.
Tuberculosis for instance, while having nothing to do with unconfessed sin as its cause, nevertheless illustrates what happens when sin lies dormant and unconfessed. The Mycobacterium tuberculi infection of a lung may be walled off into a Ghon complex by the body where it rests alive but restrained unconfessed to any medical doctor who might prescribe INH or Rifampin to exterminate it. Unconfessed lust, murder, or theft, that lies dormant never loses power until it is confessed in the open and treated to remove it. The TB infection may break out of its ghon complex when some other disease attacks such as old age, alcoholism, or AIDS. The unconfessed theft or lust may rear its ugly head once debt or lying or some other sin also attacks later in life. Just as alcoholics or patients suffering from AIDS often die from old TB infections that so may the lust or theft destroy a person who never confessed them once even some lesser sin infects their life.
This example and every disease process has a similar parabolic message illustrating Kingdom principles.
12. The Body of Christ, How all of Our Parts are a Spiritual Parable
"Appreciating The Necessary Little Members in Your Local Body"
The 12th Chapters of both Romans and I. Corinthians detail parallels between the human body and how spiritual gifts work. The charity chapter that follows in I. Corinthians 13 is necessary because we fail to understand the physiology of our physical bodies and the spiritual Body of Christ. The physical parallels of various spiritual gifts and their practical application to daily life are presented in medical terms.
13. Deliver Me From the Body of this Death
"Integrating Spirit, Mind, & Body, the three named mental conditions Jesus healed"
Matthew 4:24 "And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them."
In this verse the Lord healed mental conditions listed from the most common “devils” to the less common “lunatick” to the least common “palsy”. This is precisely the reverse order of attention paid by modern medical science to mental disorders. Yet most of our mental health is addressed by physicians who prescribe chemical/physical treatments to our body for disorders that the Lord thought were more often spiritual than physical. Each one of us is a spirit that operates a physical body through the controls of the mind. How the mind-body interface works in lunacy or when operated by another spirit has medical and counseling consequences. Is it possible for a Christian to be demon possessed? What is lunacy and why are those suffering from it so much in contact with ghosts, dead people, angels, devils, and the like? How do we apply biblical principles of the spiritual nature of mental disorders to daily medical practice?
14. Sodom & Gomorrah Hidden in Plain Sight
"Fire & Brimstone with us unto this Day. How did 'Eternal' Fire Burn Out?"
15. The Exodus; From Egypt into Arabia
"This is Egypt . That is Midian. The True Mt. Sinai in Arabia & the Red Sea Crossing site."
16. Speaking to the Rock at Kadesh Barnea
"Korah, Dathan & Abiram Return to their Bitter Roots"
Photographs and video tape of the ruins of the “lost” Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah , the route of the Exodus and the true location of Kadesh Barnea are presented as well as scholarship from Berossus and Josephus to Peter that supports only one authentic location for each.
17. A Cross Laid down in the Wilderness
"The Encampment of the Exodus"
The first three chapters of the book of Numbers is brought to life by diagramming the layout of the encampment of the Children of Israel at the Exodus. By applying the proper proportions to a map of the encampment, a cross-shape appears fleshed-out by 2½ million people as they encamped around the Tabernacle in the Wilderness. The symbolism of their tribe ensigns points toward the crucifixion nearly a millennium and a half into their future.
18. The Heavens Declare
"The Gospel Revealed in the Most Ancient Star Names" ( this is NOT about Astrology)
There are more than a hundred verses of Scripture that make reference to the stars. Psalm 147:4 among others says that God named the stars. Oddly enough, those stars mentioned in Scripture only occupy a very narrow segment of the night sky around the constellation Orion and are the brightest stars in the sky. That particular sky of all Scripture was present over the Crucifixion in the noontide darkness. That same narrow wedge of stars was the midnight backdrop for the angelic host of heaven who announced the Nativity to the shepherds. That same set of distant fixed stars shines down on our present Christmas evenings. This presentation is far more than just the Witness of the Stars by E. W. Bullinger. The 19th Psalm says that the heavens declare the glory of God. This multimedia presentation uses music from Handel's Messiah and computer controlled stars and PowerPoint to demonstrate that the Glory of God was fulfilled at Calvary and predicted by the names that God gave the stars.
19. Ezekiel's Wheel, the 4 Evangelists, & The Throne of God
"The Ox, The Eagle, The Lion, and The Man of the Four Corners of Heaven"
The First and Tenth Chapters of Ezekiel mention the same four creatures that the Fourth Chapter of Revelation describes. These same four beasts are also found on the four corners of the heavens in the constellations and were the ensigns of the closest four tribes encamped around the Tabernacle in the Wilderness. It is impossible to comprehend the prophecies in the Bible without and understanding of these heavenly figures.
20. Between Heaven & Earth, The Alpha-&-Omega Man
"The Trinity in the Structure of the First 7 Words of The Bible"
1Timothy 2:5 “For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;”Is foreshadowed in Genesis 1:1“In the BEGINNING God created (Aleph-Tav) the HEAVENS and (Aleph-Vav-Tav) the EARTH” The 1st letter, Aleph and the 6th letter, Vav, and the Last Letter, Tav in Hebrew bridge Heaven and earth as the Alpha-Omega Man with 6 as the number of man.
21. The Trinity of Time, Space & Matter in The Very First Verse
"The Three Faces of the Godhead Revealed in One Verse, a 'Uni'-verse"
Both of these presentations are based on the first seven Hebrew words of the Bible. No knowledge of Hebrew is necessary. The very first word of the Bible is “Beginning” as the very concept of “time” is spoken into existence. The middle word of this most often quoted and read passage is composed of only two letters, but they are the first and the last letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. They represent the Alpha and Omega of Greek, the first and the last of the Lord Jesus in Revelation. But this middle two-letter word has no English equivalent. Its purpose is to bridge the word before it “God” with the creation of the heavens and the earth that follow it. It is a symbol of all language, the whole word, the Word of the First Chapter of the Gospel of John. How these word pictures made of strange looking Hebrew characters portray the Lord Jesus as Creator is the focus of these two presentations.
22. The Stars & Stripes Forever and our Promised Land
"American Manifest Destiny & The Tabernacle of Moses"
There is a striking parallel between the arrangement of the furnishings and altars of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness of Moses and the settlement and geography of America . Despite their separation by nearly thirty five centuries and half the circuit of the earth the patterns are amazing. Our present day promised land of the free and home of the brave was entered from the east just like the Tabernacle. We encounter the altar of sacrifice in the squarish state of Pennsylvania at the battlefield of Gettysburg where Lincoln noted that soldiers had “given their last full measure of devotion”. In the westward migration of Manifest Destiny we washed our feet in the Brazen Laver of the Mississippi and passed between the Table of Shewbread to the north and the Menorah oil lamp to the south. The northern breadbasket states of Nebraska and the Dakotas for the bread and the oil of Texas for the lamp stand. The Golden Altar of Incense fits near Golden, Colorado on the steaming incense vapors of Yellow Stone. The Veil of the Rocky Mountains near Vail Colorado matches the position of the Veil that hid the Golden Ark of the Covenant. This parallel is developed in even greater detail with music and lyrics from John Philip Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever.
23. 7 Developments at the Birth of the Nation of Israel in 1948
"Carbon 14, U.N., UFOs, DNA, ARK , Dead Sea Scrolls, & 'Nukes' "
At least these seven things were first revealed between the November 1947 UN resolution to establish Israel and statehood on May 14, 19 48 (the eighth event). The battle lines were being drawn on earth even as the war began in heaven at that time. Isn't it interesting that the Dead Sea Scrolls were not found until there was a Jewish State in which to harbor them? Why were there no UFO's ever reported before the Roswell , New Mexico incident at the time of Israel 's rebirth? Did you know that the Doomsday Mountain boat-shaped object in Turkey that is most likely Noah's Ark was exposed by an earthquake at the same time that Israel returned in the late 1940s? How and why these physical manifestations of a celestial conflict came to be all at once is the focus of this amazing presentation.
24. Number Symbolism in Scripture (not numerology)
"One is for Unity, Two is for Division, Three in One Trinity, all 4 you"
The pattern of numbers that blankets the Bible is one of the many watermarks that authenticate it as the genuine Word of God. This presentation is based on many patterns of numbers discovered by E. W. Bullinger's Number in Scripture, James Harrison's The Pattern and the Prophecy, Michael W. Hoggard's By Divine Order, and other well documented solid works. It has nothing whatever to do with numerology or lucky numbers. In fact it is the genuine article that refutes the occult abuse of God's numerical order in both His Word and His Works.
25. The Days of Noah, The Antediluvians
"What it was like to live in the 'days of Noah' and why it matters for the Second Coming"
It has become commonplace to think of the earth in terms of millions of years rather than the six thousand years of both secular evidence and the biblical genealogies. This is true even for Evangelical Christians who read the Bible in the most literal ways. Christian apologetics seems to be focused more against what clearly did not happen but often fails to replace it with what the world before the flood was really like. Imagine a mild climate without storms or high winds where buildings would be optional. What if you and your neighbors lived longer than the trees in the local woods? What would it have been like to walk with dinosaurs? The real world of Noah before the flood is still important because Jesus said that it would be like the days of Noah upon His Second Coming.
26. Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
“DNA mentioned in Psalm of David and when does life really begin”
How God knew you before you were even born from the very foundations (catabole, casting down of the generations) of the world; and how DNA corresponds to the book of Psalm 139:14 where, “In Thy Book all my members were written, when as yet there was none of them”.
27. The Body Code Series: The image of God reflected in the body
see www.ScienceAndWonders.com
28. THE BODY CODE SERIES: Holy Bones
The Sacred Anatomy of the Human Skeleton
From the CALVARIum on the top of the SKULL (from Hebrew G“U”LLgotha “to ROLL away”) to the Os SACRUM (Holy Bone) of the pelvis to the “Soul” of the foot bones the human skeleton is the Kingdom of God within you. The clavicle (Greek for “key”) is the Key of authority that unlocks all gates: of the kingdom or of hell. The clavicle rests on the governmental shoulder and also on the manubrium or handle of the sternum bone sword of power. That sternum is part of a chest cavity composed of four and twenty rib-elders that encircle the throne room of the heart, crowned by the coronary arteries that resemble a crown of thorns. See www.thestreamtv.com for video details.