Hey everybody and welcome back to I Just Want to talk about the Bible.

If this is your first time joining us, then let me just welcome you and say that I am so glad that you're here with us today.

My name is Christian Keeter and I live in the southeast of the United States of America with my amazing,

beautiful, godly wife, Lacey, and our two wonderful daughters, Felicity and Serenity.

So let's begin today in the book of Nehemiah. Specifically, we're going to be in Nehemiah

Chapter 6. Now, Nehemiah, let me just quickly, we've talked about this before and previous episodes of this podcast, but let me just kind of frame up a little bit about when in history exactly the book of Nehemiah takes place.

So backing up quite a bit, of course we know that God calls Abram and whom he later

renames Abraham and Abram leaves his home and everything like that and he goes down to the land

of Canaan, which his descendants are going to inherit later under the leadership of Joshua.

So if there's Abraham, then we know that Abraham couldn't have children.

He and Sarah, his wife, could not as she was barren, and they were both old and unable to bear children.

But then God miraculously provided a son for them.

And his name was Isaac.

And then Isaac had Jacob and Esau.

And then Jacob had his 12 sons.

And this is getting near the end of the book of Genesis.

And then they all go down to the land of Egypt.

And the descendants of Abraham, the Hebrew people continue to multiply and they over the next four centuries or so but then there was a pharaoh

who didn't know Joseph or you know care anything about his ancestors.

And he was threatened by the Hebrew people.

He enslaved them.

They cry out to God.

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