The Wilderness Q+R (E13) — Is Adam being formed outside of Eden a prototype of the wilderness pattern? Are the biblical authors linking David and Nabal to Jacob and Laban? And does Jesus experience a wilderness testing moment in the garden of Gethsemane? In this episode, Tim and Jon respond to your questions from our series on the wilderness. Thank you to our audience for your thoughtful contributions to this episode!

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CHAPTERS

1. Intro (0:00-1:40)
2. Is Adam being formed outside of Eden a prototype of the wilderness pattern? (1:40-15:24)
3. Is the cherubim’s fiery sword at the entrance of Eden purification imagery? (15:24-26:03)
4. Is there a hyperlink between Nabal and Laban—and therefore, between David and Jacob’s wilderness stories? (26:03-37:14)
5. Why is there wilderness imagery in the Lord’s Prayer? (37:14-46:07)
6. Does Jesus have a wilderness testing moment in Gethsemane? (46:07-1:02:35)

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REFERENCED RESOURCES

• The Art of Narrative Analogy: Identifying and Interpreting Parallel Passages in the Bible by Seth D. Postell
• The Testament of Moses, also known as The Assumption of Moses, is a pseudepigraphal Jewish text from the Second Temple Period.
• Check out Tim’s extensive collection of recommended books here.

SHOW MUSIC

BibleProject theme song by TENTS

SHOW CREDITS

Production of today’s episode is by Lindsey Ponder, producer, and Cooper Peltz, managing producer. Tyler Bailey is our supervising engineer, who also edited today’s episode and provided the sound design and mix. JB Witty does our show notes, and Hannah Woo provides the annotations for our app. Our host and creative director is Jon Collins, and our lead scholar is Tim Mackie.

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The Wilderness Hyperlink Episode (E12) — In every theme study, we try to isolate a biblical topic and trace its appearances in the biblical story. But it's important to remember that biblical themes all harmonize and play off of one another, like instruments in an orchestra. That’s why as we went back through our library of episodes, the wilderness setting came up often. How did Moses fail his test in the wilderness? How did Jesus succeed in the wilderness? How does the wilderness lead us all into final Sabbath rest? In this hyperlink episode, we’ll listen to clips from previous podcast series where the theme of the wilderness came up in Jon and Tim’s conversations.

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CHAPTERS

1.  Why Couldn’t Moses Enter the Promised Land? (0:00-19:37)
2. Jesus With the Wild Beasts (19:37-33:35)
3. Hebrews: The Quest for Final Rest (33:35-41:52)

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REFERENCED RESOURCES

• Clip 1 is from “Why Couldn’t Moses Enter the Promised Land?”, episode 6 in our 2022 series, Numbers Scroll.
• Clip 2 is from “Jesus With the Wild Beasts,” episode 7 in our 2019 series Son of Man.
• Clip 3 is from “Hebrews: The Quest for Final Rest,” episode 14 in our 2019 series Seventh-Day Rest - Sabbath.
• The Last Adam: A Theology of the Obedient Life of Jesus in the Gospels by Brandon Crowe
• You can view annotations for this episode—plus our entire library of videos, podcasts, articles, and classes—in the BibleProject app, available for Android and iOS.
• Check out Tim’s extensive collection of recommended books here.

SHOW MUSIC

• “milk & honey.” by Lofi Sunday, PAINT WITH SOUND
• “Cool Breeze” by Lofi Sunday, Tbabz
• BibleProject theme song by TENTS

SHOW CREDITS

Production of today’s episode is by Lindsey Ponder, producer, and Cooper Peltz, managing producer. Tyler Bailey is our supervising engineer, who also edited today’s episode and provided the sound design and mix. JB Witty does our show notes, and Hannah Woo provides the annotations for our app. Our host for today is Michelle Jones. Our creative director is Jon Collins, and our lead scholar is Tim Mackie.

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The Wilderness E11 — After his death and resurrection, Jesus sends his disciples out into the world to share the good news of the Kingdom and make disciples. These disciples, also known as apostles, plant churches across the Roman Empire and write letters to congregations made up of Jewish and Gentile believers. And their letters often wrestle with the tension of living in the new age of Jesus’ reign while also living in the old age of idolatry, corruption, and injustice. To talk about the overlap of these two ages, the apostles use a familiar metaphor: the wilderness. In this final episode of the series, Jon and Tim discuss how the New Testament authors use wilderness imagery to encourage and warn followers of Jesus to stay close to their good shepherd through the danger and deception of this present age.

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CHAPTERS

1. The Wilderness Pattern in 1 Corinthians 10 (0:00-27:00)
2. The Wilderness Warnings in 1 Corinthians 3 and 5 (27:00-37:08)
3. More Wilderness Warnings in Hebrews 3-4 (37:08-52:43)
4. Concluding Thoughts on the Wilderness (52:43-1:00:21)

OFFICIAL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

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REFERENCED RESOURCES

• First Corinthians: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching by Richard B. Hays
• Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul by Richard B. Hays
• The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
• In chapter 1, Tim mentions our video Eternal Life, which you watch here.
• You can view annotations for this episode—plus our entire library of videos, podcasts, articles, and classes—in the BibleProject app, available for Android and iOS.
• Check out Tim’s extensive collection of recommended books here.

SHOW MUSIC

• “familydinner” by Lofi Sunday, Cassidy Godwin
• “Cruise” by Lofi Sunday, Just Derrick
• “Silver N Gold” by Lofi Sunday, Yoni Charis
• BibleProject theme song by TENTS

SHOW CREDITS

Production of today’s episode is by Lindsey Ponder, producer, and Cooper Peltz, managing producer. Tyler Bailey is our supervising engineer, who also edited today’s episode and provided the sound design and mix. JB Witty does our show notes, and Hannah Woo provides the annotations for our app. Our host and creative director is Jon Collins, and our lead scholar is Tim Mackie.

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