Heaven, Depa-Sode, and Heaven, Depa-Sode.

The Ten-Minute Bible, our podcast.

Heaven, Depa-Sode, and Heaven, Depa-Sode.

The Ten-Minute Bible, our podcast.

Hey, my friends, it's Matt.

This is the Ten-Minute Bible, our podcast.

And as I record this, we are inching up on Christmas this year.

And the last couple of Saturdays we've done a bonus episode to anticipate together the

celebration of the arrival of the King.

We've been looking at this grand text, this age-old book of Matthew that gives us a description

of how gigantic Christ's arrival is to not just that moment, not just this book, not

just this religion, but like everything.

The Bible holds that out as being the pivotal moment in all of the history of existence

and the rest of the book of Matthew walks us through how it all played and why it is

that pivotal moment in the history of existence.

But Christmas for centuries and centuries now has been a time of year that we kind of

arbitrarily picked to celebrate this and to reflect on this key pivotal moment of all

of history.

And so the last couple of weeks, we've spent some time looking in the Old Testament at

stuff that was meant to build that sense of anticipation toward the arrival of the Messiah,

the one who was going to straighten everything out.

The one who would be this pivot point, centerpiece character, centerpiece actor in God's redemptive

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