Dear listeners, welcome to talk five in our series of twelve talks. Today, we present the books in the category of Old Testament history. As noted in talk two, the collective purpose and significance of these books is to track the walk of Israel in its national covenant with God; whether it kept or broke the covenant and the consequences thereafter.

We are living in the end times. The Lord reminds us that our present sufferings and trials are but “birth pains” of a new creation to come. What will happen in the meantime? Paul writes about a great “falling away” (2 Thessalonians 2:3). He warns that “the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,” - 1 Timothy 4:1. The end times are times of increasing darkness and evil.