Why is it frightening when high-placed people ridicule God's Word under the name of scholarship?
Such ridicule is frightening because influential voices in spiritual high places lend credibility to scoffing at what is known to be the truth of God's Word. This aligns with satanic powers in high places and with false teaching, not merely with government, making the rejection of God's Word appear scholarly and respectable.
Les explains that this is what is so frightening: when people in high places come out and ridicule the things we know are the truth of God's Word under the name of scholarship. He connects it to his earlier comment about satanic powers in high places, clarifying that he did not mean government but spiritual places. He notes that God's Word is being ridiculed and scoffed by and large. Yet he insists that if people take time to study it, as in his classes, it is not impossible to believe; it is valid and logical, with nothing more logical than what is laid down in the book. He also warns that there is so much false teaching. He mentions a Biblical Archaeological Review article that explicitly said what he was talking about, which he wanted to share with the class and television audience.