Bible Curious (2024)

29/01/2024

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THE COVENANT SEALED (Exodus 22-24): The Book of the Covenant is a continuation of the legal code given to Moses by Yahweh on Mount Sinai. In this chapter, Yahweh provides further regulations that are intended to promote justice, equality, and social order in ancient Israel. These laws cover a wide range of topics, including theft, property damage, social responsibility, and sexual morality.

22/01/2024

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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (Exodus 19-21): The Ten Commandments, though brief in their wording, are considered to be the foundation of the Law of Moses and are still studied and observed by many religious and ethical traditions today. You will notice that these laws begin with Yahweh Himself at the very center, and flow out from this God-centered core to the family unit, then to the rest of society.

18/01/2024

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BREAD FROM HEAVEN (Exodus 16-18): Having crossed the Red Sea and escaped the clutches of Pharaoh's army, the Israelites find themselves wandering in the wilderness of Sin. As their provisions begin to dwindle, they grumble and complain against Moses and Aaron, longing for the comforts of their former lives as slaves in Egypt. In response to their complaints, Yahweh promises to provide them with bread from heaven, which they will gather each day for sustenance. Yahweh also begins to train the Israelites how to be obedient to His law, beginning with the observance of a weekly day of rest.

14/01/2024

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PARTING THE RED SEA (Exodus 13-15): Now that the Exodus has begun, Yahweh is ready to perform one of the most spectacular miracles of the Old Testament: the parting of the Red Sea. The Angel of Yahweh, who was leading the Israelites out of Egypt, wanted to set up a dramatic confrontation between the fleeing Israelites and the armies of Pharaoh, by taking them directly into a dead-end, where all hope would seem lost.

13/01/2024

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DEATH OF THE FIRSTBORN (Exodus 10-12): Now that Yahweh has Egypt's undivided attention, He prepares two more terrible plagues as judgement for their abuse of His people: a deadly swarm of locusts, followed by three days of inky darkness. However, these two plagues are only prologue to a final and most devastating judgment upon Pharaoh and his people: the death of the firstborn.

11/01/2024

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I WILL STRETCH OUT MY HAND (Exodus 7-9): Exodus 7 marks the beginning of the ten plagues that God inflicts on Egypt as part of His plan to free the Israelites from their enslavement. In this chapter, God calls Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh and commands them to perform miraculous signs to convince Pharaoh to let the Israelites go. Despite these signs, Pharaoh remains stubborn and refuses to release the Israelites, which sets the stage for the plagues that will follow.

18/12/2023

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THE ISRAELITES' CRY (Exodus 4-6): Moses, exiled to the deserts of Midian on the Arabian Peninsula, encounters the great Yahweh Himself, who wants Moses to return to Egypt and demand that Pharaoh let his people, the children of Israel, leave Egypt to worship their God. However, Moses is not confident that he can answer Yahweh's call.

10/12/2023

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MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH (Exodus 1-3): When we concluded Genesis, Abraham's grandson Jacob, whom God renamed Israel, had fled from famine in Canaan to settle with his twelve sons and their families in the fertile lands of Egypt. There they lived under the protection of Pharoah and Jacob's second youngest son Joseph, who, after he had been sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, had ascended to become governor over all of Egypt.

30/10/2023

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HE WHO ARGUES WITH GOD (Job 40-42): Job stands humbled before the majesty of God, understanding the futility of questioning His rulership over earth. God then takes this moment to give Job and his companions a taste of what it would mean to be ruler over earth, to have authority to bring down the wicked and the proud, to have even the power to create new forms of life.

23/10/2023

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OUT OF THE WHIRLWIND (Job 38-39): At long last, Almighty God Himself appears before Job and his companions, but surprisingly, Yahweh offers His audience more questions instead of answers, and in so doing, takes us on a grand tour of creation. As you listen, notice that this account of creation is quite a bit different from the six-day sequence described in Genesis chapter 1, also different from the Garden of Eden narrative described in Genesis chapter 2. It seems Yahweh had been up to quite a lot even before He famously declared 'Let there be light.'

05/10/2023

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WHERE IS GOD MY MAKER? (Job 35-37): The young Elihu is offended that Job accuses God of wrongdoing. He's also offended that Job would question the need to obey God, asking what's in it for me? After all, what's in it for God? Is God harmed by Job's disobedience, or helped by Job's righteousness? How does Job have any right to demand a personal appearance from God?

28/09/2023

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I AM YOUNG AND YOU ARE VERY OLD (Job 32-34): Job and his three companions had reached an impasse. Job insisted that he had done nothing so wrong that it deserved the punishment he got, and none of his friends could pry out of him a confession of wrongdoing. Now a fifth person, named Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, enters the debate, impressed by no one, and takes the argument in a new direction.

24/09/2023

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MY STEPS WERE WASHED WITH BUTTER (Job 29-31): When people experience deep tragedy, does it draw them closer to God, or does it widen their separation? With Job, his immediate reaction was to bless Yahweh, but as the reality of his situation sunk in, he found himself drifting away from his faith, and we can see that Job's spiritual darkness is even more tragic than his material losses. And yet, Job took care never to curse God directly, even while knowing God was responsible for his suffering. Now, we will see Job expressing hope for the future by looking backward towards past glory.

05/09/2023

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MAN WHO IS A WORM (Job 24-28): Job, having put God on trial for His many injustices, now makes his closing argument before his three companions, describing a fallen world with no divine intervention, where the mighty are wicked, the poor are wretched, many turn to criminality, and all are equally cut down by death in the end.

30/08/2023

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WHY DO THE WICKED LIVE? (Job 21-23): In the aftermath of Job's astonishing tragedy, a raging debate has broken out between him and his wise friends. Because God is always just, rewarding the righteous and punishing the wicked, it follows that Job's anguish must be proof that he has committed a grave offense against God. When Job protests his innocence, his friends take bitter offense, assuming Job is both lying and insulting God by insisting that God is punishing an innocent man. But Job isn't finished. He will take his argument a step further, pointing out not only does God allow the righteous to suffer, He also fails to punish the wicked.

27/08/2023

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MY REDEEMER LIVES (Job 17-20): Last chapter, Job cried: 'Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high. My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!' Now Job's anguish reaches a fever pitch, as he stands defiant against his accusing friends, promising them that 'upright men' will vindicate him; because without vindication, what hope can there possibly be?

20/08/2023

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IF A MAN DIES, SHALL HE LIVE AGAIN? (Job 14-16): Job sees himself as one unjustly persecuted by God, one whose punishment is completely out of proportion to any wrong he may have committed. Now, Job contemplates the mortality of Man, questioning the finality of death. Shouldn't Man, after he dies, experience life again, as a tree stump sprouts new growth when given rain to drink?

04/08/2023

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CAN YOU FATHOM THE MYSTERY OF GOD? (Job 10-13): Last chapter, Job complained that it wasn't fair for God, who is not human, to judge Man, who is. Why have a relationship with God, if it only condemns us to His judgment? 'For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment. There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.'

02/08/2023

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MY FLESH IS CLOTHED WITH WORMS (Job 6-9): In the depths of his grief, Job concluded it was better not to be born than to live a troubled life. Job's friend Eliphaz responded by saying that all people are sinners, deserving of punishment, but that by turning to God, Job can experience redemption. However, Job will ignore this advice, accusing his friends of callousness, comparing them to streams which only run in the spring, but in the hot summer when men are thirsty, the streams dry up. Shouldn't friends be more compassionate in the face of tragedy?

30/07/2023

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RENOUNCE GOD AND DIE (Job 1-5): The Book of Job is an extremely ancient work of uncertain origin. The name Job derives from the Hebrew 'ayab' which means 'hated' or 'persecuted,' and the Book of Job tells the harrowing tale of a man who loses everything: his property, his family, even his health, all with explicit endorsement from God, and all seemingly due to a bet between Yahweh and Satan.

13/07/2023

BLESSINGS OF ISRAEL (Genesis 47-50): When Israel and his sons settle in Egypt, they must come to grips with their new status as serfs under Joseph and the Egyptian Pharoah. After seventeen years, as Jacob nears his last breath, he summons his twelve sons for a final blessing. Having turned his life over to the protection of Egypt, Jacob no longer had property of his own to speak of, and so this series of blessings would have to serve as his sons' final inheritance.

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05/07/2023

JACOB'S JOURNEY TO EGYPT (Genesis 44-46): After Jacob sends his sons again to Egypt to purchase grain for relief during a great famine, Joseph again recognizes them, and struggles to find the right occasion to reveal to them his true identity. Remember that these are the same brothers who for jealousy had bound Joseph and sold him into slavery many years earlier. Had the intervening years softened their hard hearts? Did they repent of their earlier evil deeds?

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26/06/2023

JOSEPH'S BROTHERS (Genesis 42-43): Famine now engulfed the ancient world, and destiny demands a reunion between Joseph and his estranged brothers, since all available grain lies under Joseph's supervision. How will Joseph respond to this sudden visit from those who sold him into slavery years ago?

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19/06/2023

DREAMS OF PHARAOH (Genesis 39-41): We now embark upon autobiographical material originally written by Joseph son of Israel, who despite living under Yahweh's favor found himself victim to multiple injustices. Confined to an Egyptian prison, Joseph interprets many dreams, leading to a dramatic reversal of fortune.

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18/06/2023

JOSEPH SOLD INTO EGYPT (Genesis 36-38): Jacob and his twelve sons finally settle in Canaan, and his second youngest, Joseph, experiences prophetic dreams which mystify him while his brothers have no trouble at all with their interpretation. In fact, Joseph's brothers find the dreams so disturbing that they take immediate action to prevent them from coming true.

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17/06/2023

HE STRUGGLES WITH GOD (Genesis 32-35): Jacob's impending reunion with his estranged brother Esau understandably makes him nervous, because Esau had vowed to murder Jacob upon the death of their father Isaac. Yahweh had promised to bless Jacob even as far back as the womb, but Jacob still wrestles with his faith -- quite literally -- even to the point of physically assaulting God Himself. Yes, you heard me correctly.

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16/06/2023

TWELVE SONS AND A DAUGHTER (Genesis 29-31): Alone and destitute, Jacob seeks his fortune among his kindred in Paddan Aram in upper Mesopotamia. Once there, he discovers a different kind of fortune: love. The children begotten of Jacob will have very important names echoing through history.

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15/06/2023

JACOB AND ESAU (Genesis 26-28): Previously, Jacob convinced his brother Esau to sell his birthright for a bowl of red pottage. Esau figured that a divine promise about distant descendants wasn't worth very much, because he would be long dead before it would ever matter. Jacob reasoned differently, perhaps because he had a vague awareness of his past lives as Adam, Noah and Melchizidek, and dimly understood that he would still be around to see the fulfillment of Yahweh's promises.

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14/06/2023

ISAAC MARRIES REBEKAH (Genesis 24-25): What follows in this chapter is the marriage of Isaac to a Semite woman named Rebekah. If you listen carefully, you will find the tone strikingly different from previous chapters, with tremendous attention paid to small details in the environment. Moses is now working with a new source. This is the testimony of Rebekah, as recorded by her second son Jacob.

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13/06/2023

ABRAHAM'S SACRIFICE (Genesis 21-23): After a decades-long wait, Abraham and Sarah were finally prepared for the miracle of their lives, the birth of Isaac. However, it would not be long before Yahweh asks Abraham to sacrifice his only legitimate son. What does this heartrending test reveal about Abraham's God?

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