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 story lines 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 Israelite 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. They're a bunch of uncivilized, ungrateful people who have only just

met God and Moses, and they're not keen on obeying either of them. But in the midst of their

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