What you believe about the beginning shapes what your hope is for the end in significant ways.

The Bible ties the two together remarkably.

Dr. Tom Eger making the case for the biblical account of creation at the 2025 issues, etc. making the case conference.

The Bible confesses the God of Israel and confesses Jesus Christ as the first and the last,

the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end.

And what we believe about how he brought about the beginning, I think ultimately

shapes or impacts our confidence and proclamation of what to expect about the beginning. I think ultimately shapes or impacts our confidence and proclamation

of what to expect about the end. For an online contribution of $300 by Holy Cross Day, September 14th,

we'll send you a link to video and audio recordings of Dr. Eggers' teaching and all of this

year's conference presentations. Find out more at issues

etc.org or by calling 618223-83-85. It often happens when someone determines that they want to read the entire Bible from cover to cover,

that they start out pretty strong.

Genesis, Exodus, lots of interesting stories in those two books.

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus.

Well, then you get into some of those laws, and those are interesting in their own way.

Then you get to numbers, and you wonder whether you're going to make it all the way to the end of the five books of Moses,

because numbers can boggy down.

Because it is, in a lot of ways, a lot of numbers.

It has a few narratives, but it's difficult sometimes at the

first reading to know what it's really about. Welcome back to Issues, etc. I'm Todd Wilkin.

Joining us to begin a series on the book of numbers, Dr. Reed Lessing. He's Edwin F. and Esther Lash,

chair of Old Testament Studies at Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota, author of The Issues,

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