Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Welcome to our July Reflections and Corrections episode.

Let's start with the reflections.

Tomorrow we will finish our 22nd book of the Bible, and we're currently working our way

through three others.

So let's get the 30,000-foot view on where we are in the chronological timeline of the

Bible's overall meta-narrative.

The Bible is one unified story.

Way back in Genesis, God set out to build a relationship with one particular family,

but things go terribly wrong when they fracture the relationship through sin.

But their sin doesn't surprise God.

He already had a plan in place to restore this relationship even before it was broken,

and he continues working out that plan immediately, undeterred and unhindered by their rebellion.

He sets apart a man named Abraham to be the patriarch of the family God calls the Israelites.

There are a bunch of busted people who lie, cheat and steal.

God blesses them despite their sin, but sin still has its consequences.

One of the long storylines of consequence is of the 400 years they spent enslaved in Egypt.

God sends a man named Moses to demonstrate his power to the Egyptian ruler, who reluctantly

agrees to let the Israelites' slaves go.

They flee to the desert, led by God and his servant Moses, and then little by little,

God gives these people the basic rules of how to have a stable society.

There are a bunch of uncivilized, ungrateful people who have only just met God and Moses,

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