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🗓️ 3 October 2021
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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 | Yesterday we read Luke's account of the birth of Jesus and today we get more information |
0:17.0 | from Matthew's account. |
0:18.8 | Jesus is born in a village called Bethlehem in a kingdom called Judea. |
0:22.3 | At the time he's born, all of Judea is under Roman rule and occupation. |
0:26.8 | A large and powerful country takes over the country where you live, station soldiers |
0:31.6 | in every major city is involved with every level of your government and makes you pay taxes |
0:36.1 | to support that occupying army. |
0:38.8 | That's what's happening here. |
0:40.4 | Rome is in charge of things and they put again in here the great in charge of Judea. |
0:44.7 | Herod is a great builder making port cities and aqueducts and even renovating the second |
0:49.5 | temple complex so that it's much bigger and more magnificent. |
0:53.4 | For a while he's even the president of the Olympics but in his later years he becomes |
0:58.1 | jealous and paranoid. |
1:00.1 | For instance, he spends six years building a massive fortress in the middle of the desert |
1:04.6 | in case enemies attack and never spends a single night there. |
1:08.6 | He kills his sons so they won't take over his throne and he even kills his favorite |
1:13.2 | wife then mummifies her in honey when he later regrets it. |
1:17.6 | He is driven by fear which prompts him to try to control everything around him which is |
1:22.8 | where we find ourselves today. |
1:25.1 | We're at Herod's palace and some foreign wise men show up on his doorstep and say hey, |
1:29.6 | we're here to see the new king. |
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