Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Welcome to our August Reflections and Corrections episode. Let's start with the

Reflections. We just finished our 29th book of the Bible and we're currently

working our way through two others.

So let's get the 30,000 foot view on where we are in the chronological timeline of the Bible's overall

meta-narrative.

The Bible is one unified story.

Way back in Genesis, God set out to build a relationship

with one particular family,

but things go terribly wrong

when they fracture the relationship through sin.

But their sin doesn't surprise God.

He already had a plan in place to restore this relationship even before it was broken.

And he continues working out that plan immediately, undeterred and unhindered by their rebellion.

He sets apart a man named Abraham to be the patriarch of the

family God calls the Israelites. They're a bunch of sinners just like all of us.

God blesses them despite their sin, but sin still has its consequences.

One of the long storylines of consequence is of the

400 years they spent enslaved in Egypt. God sends a man named Moses to demonstrate his power

to the Egyptian ruler, who reluctantly agrees to let the Israelite slaves go.

They flee to the desert, led by God and his servant Moses, and then little by little, God gives these people

the basic rules of how to have a stable society.

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