Hey my friends it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and we are working in detail on the front end of the

Parable of the 10 virgins of the 10 bridesmaids at the beginning of Matthew chapter 25.

That's crazy like sometimes sometimes, you know,

they say you get like 50 years of history

in just two weeks and it just,

everything goes so fast.

This is one of those places where there is so much payoff, so much allusion to other things

from around the Bible that have been waiting for payoff, and it's all just tucked into like

the first sentence or sentence and a half of Matthew 25. So yeah we are lingering

here a little bit but we're doing it for a reason and I think that what we're

going to find is that as we do this background work on this parable of the

ten bridesmaids or 10 virgins.

What we're going to discover is that this whole parable just neatly falls into place once we've got that,

and I think it is a very important payoff.

So we're going to keep working on that if you didn't listen to

yesterday's episode you're going to want it because it's going to make all of this

going and Jeff's got a little thing that he does and music and then we're right back into

it. Jose is the smoking gun, right? That's a part of the Old Testament that most obviously comes to mind

in terms of this imagery of God as husband to his people.

But there is more, Jeremiah 31.

And this one I did have to look up and write down

because I never would have remembered it was Jeremiah 31 and I did write down the verse it is verse 32 here we go it will not be like

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