Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy 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 ten 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 be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

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

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

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

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 light of the definitions of life and death

just one to three of the Bible and in light of the one that are developed that humans can exist

in a state 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 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

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