The 10 Week Bible Study Podcast

Haman had just a little less than a year before his plan would come to fruition, so he quickly got to work. He paid to have his decreed holocaust printed, translated, shipped and delivered to every corner of the vast Persian Empire. When he had finished what was probably a week or two of picking out fonts, graphics and colors, he took a well-deserved break to sit down and have a drink.  As the mes...

Haman was incredibly methodical and deliberate with his planned holocaust. He wanted enough time to mobilize the people and resources it would take to actually annihilate a people that were scattered throughout an ethnically and geographically diverse empire. He cast lots for the month and day of the proposed holocaust.  Lots were generally pieces of pottery with the answers you want on them cast...

Hitler didn’t decide to try an annihilate the Jews because he had a bad encounter with one of them. They were one of his scapegoats. He had several groups of people he blamed the Germans’ problems on, and the Jews were always front and center. There may have been some individual encounters Hitler had, but he tapped into a growing antisemitism that was already alive and well in Germany.  Many have...

“Mordecai didn’t bow because Jews aren’t allowed to bow before anyone but God!”  This is one of the most popular and oft-repeated ideas about why Mordecai wouldn’t bow, but it’s not even remotely true. The Rabbis of Judaism soundly reject this notion, as nothing in scripture says that we are to bow before no one but God. In fact, we can see many people in the Bible bowing low before humans, and th...

The Bible goes to great lengths to paint a picture in the book of Esther. Calling out Haman as an Agagite multiple times is very interesting, and also very easy to miss. We can get so used to reading names that end in “-ite” in scripture that we get used to breezing right past them. This isn’t one we should breeze past. Agag was the evil king of the Amalekites mentioned in 1 Samuel 15. God told Sa...

Esther is simultaneously a victory and a tragedy. In some ways, If you look at it through a modern lens, it should be called the Victory of Mordecai and the Tragedy of Esther. Esther loses her parents and then is taken into the harem of a despotic king to be used as he wishes. Mordecai ends up, like Daniel, a very high official and ruler in his expatriated land.  This will be a great study of Esth...

Esther is simultaneously a victory and a tragedy. In some ways, If you look at it through a modern lens, it should be called the Victory of Mordecai and the Tragedy of Esther. Esther loses her parents and then is taken into the harem of a despotic king to be used as he wishes. Mordecai ends up, like Daniel, a very high official and ruler in his expatriated land.  This will be a great study of Esth...

Esther is simultaneously a victory and a tragedy. In some ways, If you look at it through a modern lens, it should be called the Victory of Mordecai and the Tragedy of Esther. Esther loses her parents and then is taken into the harem of a despotic king to be used as he wishes. Mordecai ends up, like Daniel, a very high official and ruler in his expatriated land.  This will be a great study of Esth...

Esther is simultaneously a victory and a tragedy. In some ways, If you look at it through a modern lens, it should be called the Victory of Mordecai and the Tragedy of Esther. Esther loses her parents and then is taken into the harem of a despotic king to be used as he wishes. Mordecai ends up, like Daniel, a very high official and ruler in his expatriated land.  This will be a great study of Esth...

Esther is simultaneously a victory and a tragedy. In some ways, If you look at it through a modern lens, it should be called the Victory of Mordecai and the Tragedy of Esther. Esther loses her parents and then is taken into the harem of a despotic king to be used as he wishes. Mordecai ends up, like Daniel, a very high official and ruler in his expatriated land.  This will be a great study of Esth...

Esther is simultaneously a victory and a tragedy. In some ways, If you look at it through a modern lens, it should be called the Victory of Mordecai and the Tragedy of Esther. Esther loses her parents and then is taken into the harem of a despotic king to be used as he wishes. Mordecai ends up, like Daniel, a very high official and ruler in his expatriated land.  This will be a great study of Esth...

Esther is simultaneously a victory and a tragedy. In some ways, If you look at it through a modern lens, it should be called the Victory of Mordecai and the Tragedy of Esther. Esther loses her parents and then is taken into the harem of a despotic king to be used as he wishes. Mordecai ends up, like Daniel, a very high official and ruler in his expatriated land.  This will be a great study of Esth...

Esther is simultaneously a victory and a tragedy. In some ways, If you look at it through a modern lens, it should be called the Victory of Mordecai and the Tragedy of Esther. Esther loses her parents and then is taken into the harem of a despotic king to be used as he wishes. Mordecai ends up, like Daniel, a very high official and ruler in his expatriated land.  This will be a great study of Esth...

Esther is simultaneously a victory and a tragedy. In some ways, If you look at it through a modern lens, it should be called the Victory of Mordecai and the Tragedy of Esther. Esther loses her parents and then is taken into the harem of a despotic king to be used as he wishes. Mordecai ends up, like Daniel, a very high official and ruler in his expatriated land.  This will be a great study of Esth...

Esther is simultaneously a victory and a tragedy. In some ways, If you look at it through a modern lens, it should be called the Victory of Mordecai and the Tragedy of Esther. Esther loses her parents and then is taken into the harem of a despotic king to be used as he wishes. Mordecai ends up, like Daniel, a very high official and ruler in his expatriated land.  This will be a great study of Esth...

1st and 2nd Timothy are two short books, but very powerful. They’re also controversial. The topics covered here are things that need to be revisited with each new generation so that we can view ourselves and our culture in light of scripture. I’m excited to jump into another one of Paul’s epistles. If you’d like to check out the previous series on other epistles of Paul, head over to 10WeekBible.c...

1st and 2nd Timothy are two short books, but very powerful. They’re also controversial. The topics covered here are things that need to be revisited with each new generation so that we can view ourselves and our culture in light of scripture. I’m excited to jump into another one of Paul’s epistles. If you’d like to check out the previous series on other epistles of Paul, head over to 10WeekBible.c...

1st and 2nd Timothy are two short books, but very powerful. They’re also controversial. The topics covered here are things that need to be revisited with each new generation so that we can view ourselves and our culture in light of scripture. I’m excited to jump into another one of Paul’s epistles. If you’d like to check out the previous series on other epistles of Paul, head over to 10WeekBible.c...

1st and 2nd Timothy are two short books, but very powerful. They’re also controversial. The topics covered here are things that need to be revisited with each new generation so that we can view ourselves and our culture in light of scripture. I’m excited to jump into another one of Paul’s epistles. If you’d like to check out the previous series on other epistles of Paul, head over to 10WeekBible.c...

1st and 2nd Timothy are two short books, but very powerful. They’re also controversial. The topics covered here are things that need to be revisited with each new generation so that we can view ourselves and our culture in light of scripture. I’m excited to jump into another one of Paul’s epistles. If you’d like to check out the previous series on other epistles of Paul, head over to 10WeekBible.c...

1st and 2nd Timothy are two short books, but very powerful. They’re also controversial. The topics covered here are things that need to be revisited with each new generation so that we can view ourselves and our culture in light of scripture. I’m excited to jump into another one of Paul’s epistles. If you’d like to check out the previous series on other epistles of Paul, head over to 10WeekBible.c...

1st and 2nd Timothy are two short books, but very powerful. They’re also controversial. The topics covered here are things that need to be revisited with each new generation so that we can view ourselves and our culture in light of scripture. I’m excited to jump into another one of Paul’s epistles. If you’d like to check out the previous series on other epistles of Paul, head over to 10WeekBible.c...

1st and 2nd Timothy are two short books, but very powerful. They’re also controversial. The topics covered here are things that need to be revisited with each new generation so that we can view ourselves and our culture in light of scripture. I’m excited to jump into another one of Paul’s epistles. If you’d like to check out the previous series on other epistles of Paul, head over to 10WeekBible.c...

1st and 2nd Timothy are two short books, but very powerful. They’re also controversial. The topics covered here are things that need to be revisited with each new generation so that we can view ourselves and our culture in light of scripture. I’m excited to jump into another one of Paul’s epistles. If you’d like to check out the previous series on other epistles of Paul, head over to 10WeekBible.c...

1st and 2nd Timothy are two short books, but very powerful. They’re also controversial. The topics covered here are things that need to be revisited with each new generation so that we can view ourselves and our culture in light of scripture. I’m excited to jump into another one of Paul’s epistles. If you’d like to check out the previous series on other epistles of Paul, head over to 10WeekBible.c...