The 100-Foot Beast an Early Christian Saw in Visions (Shepherd of Hermas) – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

Early Christians read it in church beside the Gospels; a fourth-century Bible bound it in after Revelation. Then it vanished. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli open the Shepherd of Hermas — a tower, a beast, and a question about forgiveness.

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Chapters:

0:00:12 – Intro
0:01:44 – The Lost Scriptures series
0:02:52 – What kind of book is the Shepherd?
0:04:00 – Who was Hermas?
0:07:09 – When was the Shepherd written?
0:08:18 – Who called it Scripture?
0:11:14 – The Muratorian Fragment
0:13:25 – How long is the Shepherd?
0:14:11 – Vision 1: Rhoda and the elderly woman
0:22:33 – Vision 2: The little book
0:28:08 – Who is the elderly woman?
0:29:45 – The Sibyls and the Sibylline Books
0:33:29 – Clement, Grapte, and the dating clue
0:35:43 – Vision 3: The great tower
0:43:01 – Why the tower is built on water
0:45:03 – The stones and what they mean
0:54:58 – The seven women who hold up the tower
0:57:56 – A sermon aimed at the rich
1:00:25 – Why the woman grows younger
1:01:00 – Vision 4: The hundred-foot beast
1:08:15 – The four colors of the beast
1:09:24 – Vision 5: The Shepherd appears
1:13:30 – Thank you to Patrons
1:14:02 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
1:14:45 – Sponsorship opportunities
1:15:29 – Reason Perspective: Dating the book early
1:17:08 – Why the Muratorian Fragment doesn’t fit
1:19:43 – Is Hermas greeted in Romans 16?
1:22:59 – The odds it’s the same Hermas
1:28:41 – Faith Perspective
1:29:22 – Forgiveness after baptism
1:37:42 – Is the Shepherd private revelation?
1:39:52 – Bottom Line
1:41:43 – Further Resources
1:42:25 – Mysterious Feedback: #421 What Mary Knew, God’s Choices, Autism, and Names in the Afterlife
1:42:45 – Feedback: Buzzards really do puke in flight
1:44:07 – Feedback: Did Jesus work a miracle before Cana?
1:45:18 – Feedback: The white stone and the new name
1:47:47 – Feedback: Climate science
1:50:32 – Your mysterious feedback
1:51:06 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
1:51:11 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
1:52:09 – Next Time: Patron questions
1:52:45 – Share the show, write a review
1:52:55 – Get your Mysterious merch
1:53:03 – Show notes
1:53:11 – Become a Patron
1:53:23 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
1:53:38 – Outro

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