Video: Oliver Anthony Shares Powerful Bible Verse Before Grand Ole Opry Debut
Amid global strife and domestic tyranny under President Joe Biden, the feel-good story of 2023 has made a timely reappearance.
Oliver Anthony — the overnight country and bluegrass music sensation whose hit song and video, “Rich Men North of Richmond” went viral in August — debuted Saturday at Nashville’s iconic Grand Ole Opry.
As he has done on past occasions, Anthony opened his show with a brief Bible reading.
On country and bluegrass music’s biggest stage, he chose Jesus’ fig-tree parable from the Book of Matthew. And he quoted the Lord’s words — almost verbatim — from the Bible’s New International Version.
“Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as it twigs and gets tender and its leaves come out,
