This is the Bible Project Podcast, and we've been walking through a big theme in the

Bible the day of the Lord.

It's a phrase the biblical writers use to describe moments in human history when God

intervenes to stop corrupt human societies and rescue as people.

So in earlier episodes we discussed the big moments in this theme like the Tower of Babel,

which is really the Tower of Babylon, Israel's Exodus from Egypt, and even Israel itself being

led into exile into Babylon.

In this episode we finally get to Jesus.

Now during the time of Jesus, Israel was being occupied by a new type of Babylon, a brutal

military power, the ancient Roman Empire.

And so Israel is hoping still for the day of the Lord to be set free, to be set free from

Rome.

The possible accounts of Jesus introduced him with David Lord vocabulary, and so we're

led to anticipate that this man will somehow bring the day, bite against Rome and rescue

Israel.

But he doesn't.

Instead Jesus goes to war with something else entirely.

What Jesus confronts is an entity that he believed existed, that many modern people don't

even believe exists, which is a beings or forces of spiritual evil.

So today we're going to look at Jesus, the spiritual evil, and the upside down nature

of true power.

Here we go.

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