You're listening to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast, where we do fast, fun, free, daily

deep dives into books of the Bible.

And right now, we're going through Esther.

Hey, everybody, I'm Matt, and if you were with me for the last series or the last season,

whatever you want to call it, of this podcast, then if you're listening in real time, you're

probably still pretty fresh on the big picture of the Old Testament and the New Testament.

Because we went through the whole thing, one book per day, and I don't know about you,

but I found that to be very helpful.

The story all hangs together better in my brain than it did before we went through that

exercise.

And I think it'll probably make it a little easier for us to remember where Esther fits

in the grand story of the Old Testament as we talk about that for the next few minutes

right now.

So very big picture for everybody, whether you've been around this or not before, the Bible

is divided into two big sections.

You get the New Testament, that covers the stuff about the life of Jesus in the early

church, and then you got the Old Testament.

There's about a 400-year gap between the Old Testament and the New Testament, and the

last history books of the Old Testament are Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, which are all

set in Persia.

So when you and I are processing through the book of Esther, we are right at the very

end of the whole narrative part of the Old Testament.

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