Hey everybody. I'm Tim Mackie, and this is my podcast, exploring my strange Bible. I am a card-carrying

Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you

have. On this podcast, I'm putting together the last 20 years worth of lectures and sermons where I've

been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites us into the mission

of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can all be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts and classes about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find all those resources at Bibleproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

All right, we are continuing in this four-part series on Heaven and Hell. It's a lecture series I did a number of years ago.

In this third lecture, we're going to be exploring

in light of the definitions of human life and death on pages 1 through 3 of the Bible,

and in light of the way those concepts are developed, that humans can exist in a state of

death, of living death. And the goal of God's rescue mission is to take people out of living

death and to transfer them into a mode of eternal life here in the present. And so there's two ways

to be a human being right now, according to the biblical story, to be among the living dead or to be among

the truly living because of what Jesus did. And so in light of that, we're going to move on to a

new part of the story, which is the Old Testament vision of final justice, of why God has to bring some kind of culminating act of justice on human

evil. And then second, what is the Old Testament hope about what comes after God's final justice?

It's the idea of new creation and resurrection in particular. And all of this is really necessary to help us go back

to the New Testament and to read texts that may be familiar to some of you, but ultimately,

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