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

Welcome to our March R&C episode. We're aiming to do an episode like this at the end of

each month offering some reflections and some corrections. Let's start with the

reflections and look back at all we've covered so far.

We just finished the book of Joshua, our seventh book, so let's get the 30,000 foot view on where

we are in the chronological timeline of the Bible's overall met a narrative.

The Bible is one unified story.

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

but things went terribly wrong when they fractured the relationship through

sin. But their sin didn'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 this 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 consequence is of the 400 years they spend enslaved in Egypt.

God sent a man named Moses to demonstrate his power over the Egyptian ruler who's enslaving them,

and eventually he reluctantly agrees to let the

Israelite slaves go. They flee to the desert, led by God and his servant Moses.

Little by little, God gives these people the basic rules of how to have a stable society.

All they've ever known is slavery under a cruel dictator.

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