Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one's about Philippians.

The Book of Philippians is a letter written by the Apostle Paul to a church he founded on

his first missionary journey on mainland Europe, the mainland part of Greece that is in

a town called Philippi.

Now Philippi has got a long, long history.

It goes way back in prominence to the mid 400s BC when the Macedonians, a Greek-ish people

group from up north came down and conquered a bunch of Greek territory under the leadership

of a guy named Philip II.

It took this town.

I was like, I'm going to name it after myself.

So we called it Philippi.

Now Philippi II died shortly thereafter, and his very famous son, after receiving a bunch

of tutoring from Aristotle himself, his very famous son, Alexander the Great, took over

for Philip and he went and conquered the entire known world and scrambled up the whole

map and all the culture of everything.

And so Philippi was a town that enjoyed a role of prominence for a very long time, but

for some reason, and I don't think the fancy people who studied this know exactly why.

It fell out of prominence somewhere in the middle of the 100s BC, but then there was

a gigantic incident there that put it back in the spotlight and thrust it into prominence

and significance right after the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

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