Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. We're working through the book of Matthew a little bit every day.

Right now we are on a quick historical detour through the Old Testament to understand as we get ready to move into the home stretch of Matthew starting in chapter 24

we're trying to really understand the story of the temple what it is a metaphor for

what happened to it the burden that Jesus original audience

that Matthew's original audience would have carried around in their

heart with the story of the temple the role they would have imagined that the

temple played in their lives that they play in the ongoing story of the

temple it's a big, a way bigger deal than

your relationship with pretty much probably any building you've ever encountered

ever. So we're trying to really understand that before we move forward.

And yesterday we started working on the part of the story

where the first temple has been destroyed,

but there's this indication that something is still coming,

that maybe there's gonna be another another temple maybe it's going to be

rebuilt somewhere in the 500s BC and it all revolves around this character named

Cyrus that's what we're in packing right now I have Jeff play a little bit of music

and we'll pick it up right where we left off last time. So this Cyrus guy comes up actually quite a bit throughout the Old Testament.

We just looked at Second Chronicles.

We just looked at Ezra 1 in Jeremiah 25 as well as 29 that's what's being referenced there by

Ezra to fulfill what was said by the prophet Jeremiah but he's also

mentioned heavily in the book of Isaiah in chapter at Nope. Chapter's 44 and 45, excuse me.

At the end of Chapter 44 in Isaiah, which holds itself out as predating the Persian

...