and Welcome to another episode of 40 minutes in the Old Testament.

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Check out all the other podcast we got going on over there. You guys today is a special day. It's episode

182 now we've done a couple more episodes in that because we've done some live

episodes that weren't numbered and some Christmas specials that were numbered but

officially episode 182 and it is on episode 182 that we will be out

we'll be leaving the Torah into the book of

Joshua so hopefully you know we have some new listeners some people probably

waiting they're waiting to get in you know maybe they heard about this

podcast like well I don't want to jump in the

middle of Deuterotomy now that we're in Joshua I'm good to go so if you're new welcome aboard

Chad are you uh you psyched to be to be in into some narrative again? I am psyched. I've been waiting for this. I mean I love, of course, anybody's

been listening knows I love the Torah. But you know, when you see the finish line and you're so close and you're a little bit closer and you finally get there is like yes we made it yeah and not just a new book but you're like a whole new section of the old testament so yeah I'm I'm psyched ready to go. All right. Well, how about how about we just jump right into it then?

All right, let's do it. Where to begin? I was I was thinking about maybe just kind of giving people a very broad idea as to how to think of Joshua, just kind of structurally within the whole biblical story. I don't know if I came up with this or if I was taught this years ago

but this is this is the way that for many years I've thought of Joshua and I think it's a I've shared this with a few other people and I think it might be helpful for our listeners as well to kind of think of it this way so

Think of Joshua in the same way that you in relationship to the Torah in the same way that you think of the book of acts in relationship to the Gospels

So just like the Gospels of course tell us of the life and ministry of Christ all the way up to his his resurrection and

depending on the Gospel account his ascension but you'veension. But you've got the whole, you've got the whole basically

foundation of the New Testament there. This is the work of Christ on on behalf. And then,

when you get to the book of acts, the very opening verse says,

this is of course the second volume of Luke's writing, and Luke says that in his first account, which is the Gospel of Luke, he says that he wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach, which is very significant. He doesn't say I wrote about everything that Jesus did and

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