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Judah’s wealthy elite are violent, and the ordinary people are liars, and this is why God has begun to ruin them. 

They will eat but never feel that they have had enough.

They will store up wealth only to have their treasures plundered by enemy soldiers.

They will plant and harvest but never see the fruit of their labour.

Punishment is coming, Micah tells readers, but the good times will return and their enemies will be left in awe of a God who rescues his people.

Micah's book ends and Nahum dials up the poetry with a rant against the Assyrian capital, Nineveh, which will be consumed like fire raging through dry stubble in a cornfield. 

Written and produced by Chas Bayfield

Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music

Original cover art by Lisa Goff

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Incredibly, a man who lives almost two centuries before the Jews of Judah are defeated then exiled to Babylon, has a vision.

In it, he hears God telling him exactly what will happen to his people.

What makes Micah's prediction even more impressive is that he seems to know what happens next.

Not only will a remnant of the Jews survive, they will be given a ruler who appears to be none other than their longed-for Messiah, and who will be born in Betlehem...

Written and produced by Chas Bayfield

Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music

Original cover art by Lisa Goff

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Israel and Judah's leaders hate good and love evil.

They tear the skin and flesh from people’s bones, eat their flesh, smash their bones and butcher them like meat for the pot.

But punishment is coming.

Their ancestral land will be ploughed like a field, Jerusalem will become rubble and the hill on which the temple sits will be overgrown with weeds. 

But Micah's words are not a warning, they are a promise. 

Written and produced by Chas Bayfield

Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music

Original cover art by Lisa Goff

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Given it's one of the most famous stories in the Bible, if not literature, Jonah's story needs little introduction.

But most people who know that Jonah is swallowed alive forget that he not only accomplishes his mission, but brings about the largest mass conversion in the Bible.

Much of it while absolutely furious!

Written and produced by Chas Bayfield

Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music

Original cover art by Lisa Goff

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As Amos' book ends, Israel's renegade Jews are told there is nowhere to hide. God will send a monster to hunt them out of the sea, he will smoke them out of mountain caves and snatch them out of the sky.

Attention then turns to the prophet Obadiah who, it's fair to say, is less than happy with Judah's neighbour, Edom.

Obadiah is a short book but a feisty one, and few diatribes by a prophet against a people are as withering.

Written and produced by Chas Bayfield

Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music

Original cover art by Lisa Goff

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In a morally bankrupt Israel, a priest orders the shepherd-prophet Amos to take his message of doom back to Judah.

“Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there,” he tells him.

The man sees Amos' words as counter-cultural and offensive.

Telling Israel's spiritual leaders that they are wrong is treasonous, he says, as if patriotism trumps actually following God.

It's a powerful message, and proof that truth has been battling ideology for millennia.

Written and produced by Chas Bayfield

Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music

Original cover art by Lisa Goff

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“The swift will not escape, the strong will not muster their strength, and the warrior will not save his life.

The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet-footed soldier will not get away, and the horseman will not save his life.

Even the bravest warriors will flee naked on that day.”

These are tough words from an Old Testament prophet, and the Jews of Israel and Judah have a simple choice: to listen and make positive changes, or to ignore the message and be utterly destroyed. 

Written and produced by Chas Bayfield

Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music

Original cover art by Lisa Goff

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The land may have ben scourged by a locust swarm but punishment will not last, the prophet Joel says.

God will drive the hordes or insects into the Dead Sea and wine will flow from Israel's mountains.

The shepherd Amos then takes the prophet's baton and immediately launches into a withering diatribe against Israel's neighbours.

Woe abounds.

Written and produced by Chas Bayfield

Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music

Original cover art by Lisa Goff

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Given how central Israel is to the Bible, it seems at best avoidant to not attempt to put this ancient nation - and its present day iteration - in context.

No politics or agenda, just a bit of history that allows listeners to understand Israel's biblical origin story, and what happened next.

Written and produced by Chas Bayfield

Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music

Cover art by Lisa Goff

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It's n0t too late for Israel's Jews to turn back to God and abandon the idols and other pagan deities who they have been worshipping themselves.

To help them reach that decision, Hosea paints a terrifying future where Israel faces utter devastation.

He then hands the baton to the prophet Joel whose predictions are even bleaker.

Joel describes a catastrophic locust swarm that will decimate the land, all the more terrifying as it's uncertain whether or not he is being metaphorical.

If it's powerful ,poetic pronouncements of doom that light your fire, you're in for the ride of your life.

Written and produced by Chas Bayfield

Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music

Cover art by Lisa Goff

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