Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Tanya Wilmoth.

When we open up the pages of Chronicles, we start with a long list of names, and this may at first be a total turnoff.

But when we look at those names, we find something that begins with Adam.

A list that traces our lineage from the Garden to the Return from Exile in the last chapter of the book. And this is our family tree. It's a

description of our family heritage and it actually establishes our roots in the family of

God. So when we read Chronicles, we get to encounter all the

Saints and Centers that have come before us and remember who we are as God's

people. Now a lot of us have skipped right over Chronicles because in our modern Bibles it's not only a list to begin with,

but it comes right after Samuel and Kings, and it repeats a lot of content from those books.

But in the Jewish Bible Bible it comes at the

end and it acts like a summary. We're not completely sure who the author is some say

it could be Ezra but it was written after the Hebrew people returned from exile, and the author

had time to look around and see that things weren't going, as everyone hoped.

See after being released from Babylonian captivity, the people were beginning to assimilate back into

the region known as Judah, the home of Jerusalem and the temple. Except the temple still wasn't restored it wasn't finished the economy was sagging

and the people were having to guard themselves against their pagan neighbors who were involved in idle worship.

And there was just an overall lack of cynicism that what was hoped for hadn't come to

fruition even though the people were no longer in exile.

The author of Chronicles sets out to even though the people were no longer in exile.

The author of Chronicle sets out to remedy the main problem with the people,

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