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

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

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.

All right, guys, well, today let's begin in the Old Testament book of Naim.

Now, Naim is probably not going to be the book that you're going to hear somebody say they've

been studying or reading recently.

But just because it's not a popular book

necessarily as far as one that people are frequently spending time in, doesn't mean that it's

any less important than the other 65 books in the scriptures. As we know, all scripture is God

breathed. And like Jesus said, you know, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

So, Neum, everything from Genesis to Revelation is important, and we should be studying the Bible as a whole.

So we're going to start in the book of Naam, and it's one of the what we call minor prophets.

And the minor prophets refer to these 12 books that are short, relatively speaking, compared to the what we call minor prophets, and the minor prophets refer to these 12 books that are short,

relatively speaking, compared to the what we call major prophets sometimes. And the major

prophets are going to be Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and then you have these 12. They are also

referred to as the book of the 12. And some of the contents of the book of the 12 is better known

than other. For example, many people are familiar at least in part with the story of Jonah,

and Jonah is one of the 12 prophets that you're going to find here. But Neum is one of the more

obscure ones as far as people's awareness goes and the very first

line tells us what's going on there's this guy named naam and this is a you know this book is

the prophecy that god spoke through him concerning neneva the capital city of Assyria. But we are still in this

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