PLMN011 - These Hellenistic Kings Are All Jerks, but the Bought and Paid For High Priests in Jerusalem Aren't Any Better
The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast
Matt Whitman
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🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Fahliemen |
| 0:03.0 | Fahliemen, yeah |
| 0:15.0 | A Farliemin, yeah |
| 0:18.0 | Fah limon, yeah. |
| 0:23.6 | Phileven, yeah. |
| 0:26.8 | Philemen, yeah. |
| 0:30.1 | Hey, everybody, it's Matt. |
| 0:34.0 | This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast where we are working on the tiny little New Testament book of Philemon that was written by the Apostle Paul probably in the early |
| 0:38.1 | 60s, AD, which is just a little ways into the grand era of the Roman Empire. And in order to |
| 0:47.0 | understand this very complicated letter that is dealing with a tremendous set of tensions, |
| 0:53.4 | legally, theologically, morally, relationally, socially. |
| 0:57.8 | In order to understand this, we got to understand the world into which it was written. |
| 1:02.2 | So before we unpack this letter, we're taking some time on this podcast to try to |
| 1:07.4 | understand that world. |
| 1:09.1 | And anytime you try to understand the world of the New Testament, |
| 1:11.3 | the big question is, how the heck did we go from how things were at the end of the Old Testament |
| 1:18.5 | to, then you just turn one page. If you're using a simple Bible, you turn one page like this, |
| 1:24.2 | and everything's different. How do we go from how it was at the end of the Old Testament to how it is |
| 1:27.8 | here at the beginning of the New Testament? The Old Testament leaves off around 440 BC. The Persians are in |
| 1:34.0 | charge. They're really nice to the Jews. The Jews are allowed to build their second temple and |
| 1:39.7 | build a wall around it and they knock it off with the idolatry and marrying between different people |
| 1:46.3 | groups who worship different gods. They're just, I mean, it seems like things are going pretty well. |
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