Every Rosh Hashanah, Orthodox Jews walk to the water's edge and cast bread into the waves, picturing a promise written centuries earlier: a God who tramples sin underfoot and hurls our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

That promise comes from Micah 7:18-19, and it's the hinge of this episode. Rob unpacks the ancient Jewish ritual of Tashlikh and traces it straight back to Micah's own words about the character of God.

But mercy isn't the whole story. Rob walks through Micah 6, where God puts Israel on trial — laying out specific charges of theft, fraud, deceit, and violence — and asks the question underneath it all: why can't God simply overlook sin? Drawing on Romans 9, Matthew 7, and the work of author Joshua Ryan Butler, Rob shows how the same God who judges is the God who delights to forgive — and why that's actually good news.

This episode also traces the doctrine of the remnant, from the Israelites who returned from Babylon to the disciples who walk Christ's narrow road today, and lands on the reason Jesus came to earth in the first place: to take the punishment for sin so the remnant could be saved.

Next week, we head into Habakkuk to ask how — and why — the righteous live by faith.

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