DAY 43 (Exodus 10-12): Now that Yahweh has Egypt's undivided attention, He prepares two more terrible plagues as judgement for their abuse of His people: a deadly swarm of locusts, followed by three days of inky darkness. However, these two plagues are only prologue the a final and most devestating judgment upon Pharaoh and his people: the death of the firstborn.

DAY 42 (Exodus 7-9): Exodus 7 marks the beginning of the ten plagues that God inflicts on Egypt as part of His plan to free the Israelites from their enslavement. In this chapter, God calls Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh and commands them to perform miraculous signs to convince Pharaoh to let the Israelites go. Despite these signs, Pharaoh remains stubborn and refuses to release the Israelites, which sets the stage for the plagues that will follow.

DAY 41 (Exodus 4-6): Moses, exiled to the deserts of Midian on the Arabian Peninsula, encounters the great Yahweh Himself, who wants Moses to return to Egypt and demand that Pharaoh let his people, the children of Israel, leave Egypt to worship their God. However, Moses is not confident that he can answer Yahweh's call.

DAY 40 (Exodus 1-3): When we concluded Genesis, Abraham's grandson Jacob, whom God renamed Israel, had fled from famine in Canaan to settle with his twelve sons and their families in the fertile lands of Egypt. There they lived under the protection of Pharoah and Jacob's second youngest son Joseph, who, after he had been sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, had ascended to become governor over all of Egypt.

DAY 39 (Job 40-42): Job stands humbled before the majesty of God, understanding the futility of questioning His rulership over earth. God then takes this moment to give Job and his companions a taste of what it would mean to be ruler over earth, to have authority to bring down the wicked and the proud, to have even the power to create new forms of life.

DAY 38 (Job 38-39): At long last, Almighty God Himself appears before Job and his companions, but surprisingly, Yahweh offers His audience more questions instead of answers, and in so doing, takes us on a grand tour of creation. As you listen, notice that this account of creation is quite a bit different from the six-day sequence described in Genesis chapter 1, also different from the Garden of Eden narrative described in Genesis chapter 2. It seems Yahweh had been up to quite a lot even before He famously declared 'Let there be light.'

DAY 37 (Job 35-37): The young Elihu is offended that Job accuses God of wrongdoing. He's also offended that Job would question the need to obey God, asking what's in it for me? After all, what's in it for God? Is God harmed by Job's disobedience, or helped by Job's righteousness? How does Job have any right to demand a personal appearance from God?

DAY 36 (Job 32-34): Job and his three companions had reached an impasse. Job insisted that he had done nothing so wrong that it deserved the punishment he got, and none of his friends could pry out of him a confession of wrongdoing. Now a fifth person, named Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, enters the debate, impressed by no one, and takes the argument in a new direction.

DAY 35 (Job 29-31): When people experience deep tragedy, does it draw them closer to God, or does it widen their separation? With Job, his immediate reaction was to bless Yahweh, but as the reality of his situation sunk in, he found himself drifting away from his faith, and we can see that Job's spiritual darkness is even more tragic than his material losses. And yet, Job took care never to curse God directly, even while knowing God was responsible for his suffering. Now, we will see Job expressing hope for the future by looking backward towards past glory.

DAY 34 (Job 24-28): Job, having put God on trial for His many injustices, now makes his closing argument before his three companions, describing a fallen world with no divine intervention, where the mighty are wicked, the poor are wretched, many turn to criminality, and all are equally cut down by death in the end.