This is John from the Bible Project and today on the podcast we're going to continue our conversation on the Day of the Lord.

This is the third episode in the series. If you haven't listened to the first two, I'd highly recommend it.

But if you don't mind jumping in the middle, by all means, let's jump in together.

In the story so far, we've seen the city of Babylon and the ancient city of Egypt as images of corrupt human societies that are antagonistic to God's view of justice.

In the book of Exodus, God rescues Israel from Egypt and tells them to be a nation set apart, a counter Babylon, so that the world can see what God is like.

In this episode, we're going to talk about what happens to the ancient nation of Israel.

They're journeyed from being oppressed in Egypt to oppressing other people.

And to dig into this transition, we talk a lot about a man named Solomon, who started out great, but takes an interesting turn.

The pattern is human kingdoms rise to power. They begin to see themselves as God and they redefine good and evil.

The poor suffer as a result. And God's commitment is to bring about the downfall of these kingdoms.

And God does so through the rise and fall of empires, raising up one empire to take out the other one.

What the prophets, at the very least, want every generation to do is recognize that any kingdom I happened to inhabit, even if it's God's own covenant people can still become Babylon.

So what happened with Solomon? How did Israel become like Babylon? And what does that mean for us today?

Also, Tim and I are going to be in Nashville, Tennessee this coming Tuesday, April 25th, and we are hosting a meetup.

We'd love to meet you if you're in the area. It's going to be at the Horton Building, April 25th from 7 to 10pm.

We're going to actually premiere our video on the Day of the Lord. We'll have some food. We'll have some gifts. And we'd love to just say hi.

You could RSVP on our Facebook page or you can just show up. If you have any questions, can email us support at jointhebawlproject.com.

And here's the episode. Here we go.

Alright, so this is a continuation of our conversation on the Day of the Lord. And let's do a really quick recap.

We've talked about Babylon, Tower of Babylon, being Babylon. And that is the culmination of what it looks like when a civilization has rebelled against God, created evil.

What's God going to do about it? We then see what God's going to do about it is use this kind of maverham and his family somehow.

But then they end up enslaved and oppressed by Egypt, who's the new Babylon, who's described much like Babylon.

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