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

Welcome to our June Reflections and Corrections episode. Let's start with the

reflections. We recently finished our 16th book of the Bible and are currently

working our way through two 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,

and he gives this family a name,

the Israelites.

They're 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 consequences 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. All they've ever known is slavery and a cruel dictator.

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