PLMN008 - It's De-Greekifying Time
The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast
Matt Whitman
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Philemen, yeah, |
| 0:10.2 | Philemen, yeah. |
| 0:15.3 | Hey, everybody, it's Matt. |
| 0:16.7 | This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and today we're doing Jewish Braveheart, or maybe |
| 0:20.7 | Braveheart is Scottish Maccabees. I don't know, here's what I'm driving at. Remember yesterday when I was like, hey, you know, those movies where the bad guy comes to town, the oppressor, and they do something bad, and then a hero has to rise up and resist the oppressor, and it's really easy to root against the bad guy. Well, today we're |
| 0:38.0 | into that part of the story. We're working on the stuff that happened between the Old Testament and |
| 0:42.3 | the New Testament. We talked a few days ago about early Rome, the kingdom of Rome, the Roman |
| 0:48.7 | Republic. We carried that story all the way up to the Emperor Caesar Augustus, the first emperor, the one who was in |
| 0:55.2 | charge and called for the census that caused Mary and Joseph to go to Bethlehem. So that's where we have |
| 0:59.7 | things on pause with Rome. Then we spent a little bit of time talking about the fate of Persia |
| 1:05.3 | and Greece after the Old Testament and how they fought for a while but then kind of mushed together a little bit |
| 1:12.5 | and then in the 3 30s and 320s BC they did a lot more than mush together the one completely |
| 1:19.6 | trampled over the other and everything became Greekified and that is where we left off yesterday. |
| 1:25.9 | It's a pretty sad story. Alexander the Great was a young man, |
| 1:29.3 | 32, 33 years old, and I think it would have been a very different outcome in terms of how |
| 1:33.8 | the whole world turned out if Alexander had lived to a ripe old age. Who knows what he would |
| 1:40.1 | have done or how he would have led. Remember, he was descended of the greatest |
| 1:44.4 | intellectual family tree of one of the greatest intellectual people groups of all time, |
| 1:50.4 | the classical Greeks. Socrates taught Plato, Plato, taught Aristotle, |
| 1:56.8 | personally tutored Alexander the Great, and then Alexander the Great came to the throne |
| 2:02.3 | at a young age when his dad, Philip the second for whom Philippi, is named. And he went on a giant |
| 2:06.3 | march of conquest, but then he died young in Babylon. Alexander the Great does not have an heir. He has |
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