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Issues, Etc.

Covenants in the Bible, Part 2 – Dr. Reed Lessing, 12/17/25 (3513)

Issues, Etc.

Lutheran Public Radio

Christianity, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week on the Word of the Lord endorsed forever, we continue our walk through Genesis

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chapters 46, 47, and just into 48, picking up with Jacob and Joseph reunited.

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Jacob blesses Pharaoh, Joseph in the famine. Pharaoh gets the fifth, and Jacob adopts Joseph's two

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oldest. Join me, Pastor Will Whedon for the Word

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of the Lord indoors forever. Your daily 15-minute verse by verse Bible study on demand. Listen at

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the wordendors.org or your favorite podcast provider. Are the teachings and practices of yoga

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compatible with Christianity? Find out in Craig Parton's

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column for the latest issues that said are a journal.

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We'll send it to you for free.

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Just click the red journal subscription button at Issuesetc.org and enter your email address.

0:49.6

In the Wittenberg Trail feature, Megan Bladle writes about her struggles to understand biblical

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teachings on baptism and the Lord's Supper during her journey from American Hittenberg trail feature, Megan Bladel writes about her struggles to understand biblical teachings

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on baptism and the Lord's Supper during her journey from American evangelicalism to confessional

0:59.9

Lutheranism. The free he makes, often in blood.

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It would have been the blood of the sacrifices in the Old Testament, and it is, of course, in fulfillment of all that.

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The sacrifice sealed in the blood of his son, Jesus Christ, the New Testament, the new covenant made, and fulfilling all the other covenants that had come before it.

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Welcome back to Issues, Et cetera.

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I'm Todd Wilkin.

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Joining us for part two of our series on Covenants in the Bible.

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Dr. Reed Lessing, he's the Edwin F. and Esther L. Lash Chair of Old Testament Studies

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at Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota, author of six Concordia commentaries and co-author

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with Dr. Andrew Steinman of the forthcoming book, Wrestling with God, Understanding Difficult Old Testament

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