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It's out now.

You can find the link in today's episode, description.

So you can listen with your kids and talk to them about the Bible.

Now, if we're honest, reading the Bible consistently can be a challenge, but know that it's never

too late to start and we're in this together.

Thanks for journeying with us.

And here's your host, Emma, daughter.

Thanks for joining this Advent season.

We are finishing Year of the Word Strong.

And today we are kicking

off our study on the book of Hebrews. We're reading specifically Hebrews 1 through 6, several

chapters, and I am in the podcast studio with an old podcast guest. He's back. It's Andrew Templeton.

Hey, friends and Watermark family. It is so great to be here again. So good to

have you, Andrew. Are you ready to just jump right in? I'm ready to jump right in, but I'm just so excited for Christmas. Let's be honest, it is my favorite time of year, just the avon of Jesus Christ. I mean, it doesn't get better than that. It doesn't get better. Ten days away. Ten days till we celebrate. Love it. All right, Andrew, we are in Hebrews. Would you just give us brief overview of the book? What do we need to know?

We need to know that Jesus is better. He is the best. That's the headline. That's the headline. The book is all about Jesus is the best. He's better than anything you ever thought, anything's ever been here before. He is the climax, the pinnacle of all expectations. And we don't know who wrote it. That's another thing.

It's one of the books that's been debated. Who wrote this? Some people think Paul, those people throw out Barnabas, I might throw out Apollos as well, but had to be someone who knew the Old Testament, right? Because we use about 40 different quotations from the Old Testament, and they do it from the Greek version about the LXX, which is really fun. And so how to be someone, some Greek knowledge, some Hebrew knowledge,

and who knew the Old Testament, Libidical system.

So that's what we throw out those names. Nobody knows. It was probably written in the late 60s because it's quoted in 95 AD by by Clement of Rome and most likely before the fall of Jerusalem. And who it's written to, we don't know that either. It's one of those books that's like it's not addressed to anybody. It's not addressed who is written by. We don't have too many names in there.

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