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I'm Taylor.

And I'm Tyler.

This is Come Follow Me Insights by Scripture Central.

We're going to talk today about the time period leading up to the New Testament.

You know, if you open up your New Testament to Matthew chapter 1, and you look at this

page here next to Matthew chapter 1 and you lift it up and you turn it back, you'll see

the New Testament.

And the page right before that

is Malachi chapter 4 in your print scriptures, your paper scriptures. That one page right there

with no scripture on it, just with some copyright information, that page represents, well, roughly 400 plus years of history

and people and language and cultural shifts and groups forming and people being born that are very impactful for our story once we pick it up next week

with Matthew chapter 1 and Luke chapter 1. So let's talk about some four things that are really

helpful to you as a learner to prepare you to get more out of your study of the New Testament this

year.

And to excuse the American reference here, but imagine the American pilgrims who showed

up in North America in the early 1600s. Just imagine, like somehow they eat a plant and

it puts them to sleep for 400 years and they wake up right

now in today's world of 2023.

Would they be shocked, surprised, bewildered, and confused about all the changes, how language

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