WELCOME to Talk 4 of our series, HOW DID WE GET HERE? Making Sense of Life When Everything Falls Apart—A Bible Study on The Exile.  

Before the Exile,  the Jews lived in Jerusalem, Israel, part of the Promised Land,  the land God awarded to Abraham. But in 587 B.C., the superpower of the time, Babylon, invaded their city.

So far, we talked about…

Talk 1: The Waiting Room

Talk 2: The Gift of Lament

Talk 3: Reframing Your Life

The Israelites faced two ways to respond to the Babylonian conquest:

• Rebel
• Compromise

But in Talk 4, we talk about the The Third Way: Follow God yet bless their enemies. Because they did not obey the king, three of the leaders were thrown into a fire. But the King saw the three men unharmed, walking around the fire with a fourth man who “looks like a son of the gods.”

        The key message? God is in the fire.