This is the Baymont podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we are bringing our study of Torah to a close by exploring the book of Deuteronomy.

Examining its call to remember our stories.

Yes, this is Boy Session 1. We're coming to a close here. This is Ed as far as studies go. We're going to have a Capstone podcast next week to kind of really close up Session 1 formally before we start Session 2.

Should we tell our listeners about Session 2? It's going to be its own unique podcast for anybody that's good point.

Session 2 is going to be a separate podcast. If you're somebody that has subscribed to this podcast and automatically dumps and downloads into whatever podcasting app you use.

The next session, which will be Baymont podcast Session 2, profits and writings. That's going to be a separate podcast that you're going to want to subscribe to. It is not going to automatically download into your phone or other mobile device.

Be aware of that. Brent will be posting instructions for that on the website and adding that to our repertoire, if you will.

If all goes according to plan, I think we will have that available next week when Episode 32 posts. So you can subscribe to the new one.

Awesome. That'd be great.

So yeah, it'll all be there. But today we wrap up our study portion and because of that, because of what's coming next week with the Capstone review, I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time reviewing today.

But maybe a little bit of review because I can't help myself because it's always good to remember. So it's good to remember.

So yeah, we have been, obviously we've walked through Genesis. We met the family of God. We entered into the narrative that God is telling and the story of the Exodus and the Passover.

So God rescues his people. He leads them to Sinai where they enter into a covenantal relationship that the text often portrays as a marriage wedding that they had at Sinai.

And then after that, we built the tabernacle, which led to a whole lot of questions about what's this big tent in the desert for and this call to be a priesthood.

You know, what does it mean when God says be a priest? What does that look like? And so we looked at the book of Leviticus and we understood what priesthood looked like, at least in God's world and God's economy.

We looked at the four roles of priests and then they had to go learn and they had to go learn what that meant. I mean, they got, they got rescued from Egypt. They went to Mount Sinai. They had a wedding and they got married.

But what would come next after the marriage ceremony, Brent? Oh, we have to have honeymoon. We've got to have a honeymoon, especially in their culture because in their culture of arranged marriages, you don't, there's a good chance you don't even know your groom.

So there has to be a period here where you get to know your groom. In this case, their groom is God and Israel has to go get to know who God is and what God is trying to teach them. They need to, they need to be shaped as a, as a partner, as a bride.

God's going to take them out into the desert. He's going to mold them and shape them into the people. He wants them to be.

It's going to be a crucible. And so we walked all through the book of numbers and we looked at images of the deserts and we talked about shepherds, we talked about trees, we talked about mineheim and ingeti and wadis and just all that kind of stuff to try to understand how God shapes us in our own deserts.

We, of course, wrapped up the discussion last week of Moshe and striking the rock and the promised land.

It springs up this wonderful point had one of our listeners, one of our usual contributors, Christie wrote me a message about an hour after we recorded the podcast last week. Of course.

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