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 is about Jude.

When I was a kid, if my brother or sister, I said literally anything, my parents, who

were both music majors and did show tunes and stuff, would always come up with a song

that connected to whatever we just said, and then they would start singing it and everything.

And as a kid, you're like, knock it off.

Now I look back on it and I miss it.

I liked when my mom and dad used to sing to me, inspired by literally anything I said.

If you've ever known anybody who is a reference person, that is if you bring up anything,

they can come up with a quote from a movie or a book or a song or whatever, then you are

going to feel tremendous familiarity with what is going on in the book of Jude, which pound

is got more references to other stuff than probably anything else in the Bible.

It's unbelievable how many other things Jude references in what is effectively one page of texts.

A teeny tiny little book of the Bible.

It's a letter, it's written by Jude, who we know from a passage in Luke and a passage in Mark

was one of the brothers of Jesus and like the other brothers of Jesus.

They didn't really see it while Jesus was alive and doing stuff.

But after the resurrection, they came around and James, whose letter we looked at a few pages

back and now Jude became significant leaders in the church.

And as I mentioned a second ago, apparently this Jude fellow was someone who liked to

dive deep into the Old Testament, but not just the Old Testament, also the peripheral books

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