Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

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

And this one is about the whole New Testament.

Hello, my friends.

Last time around, we did a great, big picture gigantic overview of the Old Testament.

And this time around, we're going to do the same thing with the New Testament.

The Old Testament doesn't lead right over into the New Testament, though.

There's that in between time that we talked about at length in a bonus episode.

And the simple version of that time is this, the Persians are on the scene at the very end of the Old Testament,

but then Alexander the Great and his Greek-ish armies conquer Persia and bloodlessly conquer Jerusalem.

And then Alexander the Great dies young, his generals divide up his massive empire.

And after a little bit of passing things around, the salucid empire, a Greek empire,

comes to control the Jewish people in Jerusalem and what would later be called Judea.

That does not go well.

And the Jews finally are like, we've had enough of the idolatry and everything else,

and they throw off their Greek overlords.

And they establish their own kingdom that runs from the mid-160s BC into the mid-60s BC.

And for that 100 years, we get one more reminder that we are in need of a new paradigm

and that humanity cannot get out of its own way.

It's a corrupt mess that kingdom does not go well.

And eventually it goes so badly that they have to invite this new upstart empire

from way out west, the Romans, to come in and settle things down.

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