Hope: Waiting, Stretching, and Trusting

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Advent E1 — Over the next four weeks, we’ll be exploring the four key words associated with the Advent season: hope, peace, joy, and love, starting with hope. The Hebrew words often translated as “hope,” yakhal and qavah, are rooted in images of waiting and being stretched, like a cord pulled tight. From Noah waiting for the flood waters to recede, to Israel longing for God’s loyal love, to Jesus followers ultimate hope in the new creation, the Bible presents hope as an active trust in God’s character. In this episode, Jon and Tim explore how the biblical story reframes hope as active waiting, a practice that keeps us moving toward God’s promises.

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0:00.0	Hey Tim.
0:07.1	Hello, John.
0:08.1	Today we're going to do something new.
0:10.9	We're going to spend four weeks in the words related to the Advent season.
0:17.9	Exactly.
0:18.3	The four words are hope, peace, joy, and love.
0:23.8	Okay.
0:24.3	Advent, it's typically four weeks leading up till Christmas, marked by four Sunday worship gatherings,
0:32.6	and those are the four Sundays of Advent.
0:35.3	And the whole theme is about waiting, developing the virtue of patience
0:41.3	and waiting for the fulfillment of God's promise and sending the Messiah. And for us, it's just a chance
0:47.9	to dive into four really profound, meaningful, biblical.
1:00.8	I guess I won't say words because many of these words actually have multiple Hebrew or Greek words underneath them.
1:04.0	So they're kind of like idea, topic studies.
1:04.4	Okay.
1:08.1	Hope, peace, joy, and love.
1:09.6	And we're going to first look at hope.
1:09.9	Cool.
1:10.7	Okay. It's been a while since I've begun with a Bible first look at hope. Cool. Okay.
1:13.9	It's been a while since I've begun with a Bible trivia question, John.
1:14.1	No.
1:21.8	If I were to ask you, who's the first person in the story of the Bible who has to wait?
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