In this episode, Jack Beck focuses on the Matthew 4 account of Jesus’s temptation after fasting for forty days and forty nights. Jack explains how we are forgiven because Jesus lived the perfect life in our place. ABOUT THIS SERIES: “Wilderness is not just an ecosystem—it’s a season of life.” — Jack Beck Some of the Bible’s most familiar and powerful stories took place in the wilderness. The Israelites spent forty years in the wilderness. Jesus fasted in the wilderness for forty days, before He was tempted by Satan. Even the beloved “Shepherd Psalm,” Psalm 23, may have been inspired by the wilderness. In fact, the wilderness is mentioned more than three hundred times in Scripture. Now, host Jack Beck ("The Holy Land: Connecting The Land With It's Stories") highlights the easily overlooked truths of the wilderness—both the harsh, threatening ecosystem in which Bible people sometimes found themselves and the difficult seasons of life in which we often operate. By showing what the wilderness meant to people in Bible times, Jack also provides guidance for our own experience in barren times and places. In "Land without Borders", Jack Beck will lead you on a journey of discovery, using the Bible’s physical landscape to heighten your spiritual experience. SUPPORT THE MAKING OF FUTURE SERIES: https://donations.ourdailybread.org/int55.html MORES VIDEOS HOSTED BY JACK BECK The Holy Land: Connecting The Land With It's Stories Season One: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPOUA7GLxXIEovaV6UNKlINBZycJ8kwtY Season Two: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPOUA7GLxXIFuNdZ17dWdzJ_l2936fQXe Along The Road: How Jesus Used Geography To Tell God's Story: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPOUA7GLxXIHK4lzVD62YLtb8XVIMW_4x OTHER RESOURCES BY JACK BECK Land Without Borders (Paperback): https://amzn.to/3nD1vD0 Along the Road (DVD): https://amzn.to/2Lmzksn Along the Road (Paperback): https://amzn.to/2ZRZpTY The Holy Land for Christian Travelers: An Illustrated Guide to Israel: https://amzn.to/2nSLfVt ABOUT YOUR HOST Dr. John (Jack) A. Beck is a scholar, educator, and writer with extensive experience in biblical geography. He has a PhD in theology and Old Testament from Trinity International University and is an adjunct faculty member at Jerusalem University College in Israel. His passion is to make the wisdom of the Bible understandable to Christians, and he has been writing on the topic of biblical geography for more than sixteen years, both within and outside of the Middle East.
