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🗓️ 31 July 2024
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:07.0 | Today we finished finished our 22nd book of the Bible. I know that's only a third of the way |
0:17.4 | through the number of books in the Bible. There are 66. But as far as word count is |
0:22.2 | concerned, we're well over halfway through our trip through |
0:24.8 | scripture together. |
0:25.8 | Okay, let's wrap up Isaiah. |
0:28.6 | In chapter 64, we encounter a section that I've misunderstood for most of my life. |
0:33.7 | It's in verse six and it says, |
0:35.8 | we have all become like one who is unclean |
0:38.4 | and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. |
0:42.0 | For years I thought this meant that all my God honoring works |
0:45.2 | were still tainted by my flesh and displeasing to him. By the way that phrase |
0:49.9 | polluted garment is actually the Hebrew phrase used in ancient times to refer to a woman's |
0:55.5 | menstrual rag. |
0:57.0 | So that's a pretty intense comparison if that's what all our righteous deeds are like. |
1:01.1 | That's not just humbling, that's actually demotivating. But that's exactly |
1:05.8 | why context and culture are important to remember, because they help us understand something |
1:10.1 | in this verse that might not be immediately obvious. |
1:13.4 | In ancient Israel, people who are unclean, |
1:16.2 | like this first mentions, couldn't enter the temple |
1:18.6 | without first being purified. |
1:20.7 | And when women were having their period, they weren't allowed in the temple either. |
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