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

Welcome to our October Reflections and Corrections episode.

Let's start with the reflections.

We recently started in the New Testament and are currently working our way through four

books, 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.

In Genesis, God sets 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 Abraham to be the patriarch of the family God calls the Israelites.

There are a bunch of sinners just like all of us.

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 spent enslaved in

Egypt.

God sends Moses to set the Israelites free from slavery.

They flee to the desert where, little by little, God gives these people the basic rules

of how to have a stable society.

They're uncivilized people who have only just met God and Moses, and they're not keen

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