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2 Maccabees

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Old Testament · History · 15 studies + Overview · 16 earlier recordings · Total audio: 7 hrs 3 min

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  1. Intro 2 Maccabees - Overview 2 Maccabees joins chastening, faithful witness, restored worship, resurrection, and prayer across death in the hope fulfilled in Christ. 39 min read Earlier recording
  2. 1 2 Maccabees 1 - Letters, Dedication, and Memory in Trouble 2 Maccabees 1 teaches holy memory through letters, covenant prayer, feast keeping, temple purification, and worship that survives trouble. 19 min read Earlier recording
  3. 2 2 Maccabees 2 - Gathering, Hidden Fire, and Holy Memory 2 Maccabees 2 joins the Law kept in the heart, promised gathering, and the careful craft of teaching a people to remember God. 19 min read Earlier recording
  4. 3 2 Maccabees 3 - Heliodorus and the Sanctity of the Temple 2 Maccabees 3 shows holy trust protected, a city at prayer, and Heliodorus humbled and restored through Onias' intercession. 20 min read Earlier recording
  5. 4 2 Maccabees 4 - Jason, Menelaus, and the Corruption of Holy Office 2 Maccabees 4 shows how priestly office collapses when worship is traded for ambition, money, Hellenizing status, and political favor. 21 min read Earlier recording
  6. 5 2 Maccabees 5 - Antiochus, Violence, and the Wounded Holy City 2 Maccabees 5 teaches the wound of Jerusalem under apostasy and imperial cruelty, while refusing both despair and triumphalist violence. 17 min read Earlier recording
  7. 6 2 Maccabees 6 - Eleazar and Holy Refusal 2 Maccabees 6 teaches holy refusal through forced apostasy and Eleazar's choice to die rather than teach the young even the appearance of compromise. 20 min read Earlier recording
  8. 7 2 Maccabees 7 - The Seven Brothers, Their Mother, and Resurrection Hope 2 Maccabees 7 teaches resurrection hope through the witness of the seven brothers and their mother, who suffer torture rather than betray the Law of God. 23 min read Earlier recording
  9. 8 2 Maccabees 8 - Judas, Prayer, and Courage from God 2 Maccabees 8 joins Judas’ prayer and courage to Sabbath thanksgiving, shared provision, and difficult accounts of wartime retribution. 21 min read Earlier recording
  10. 9 2 Maccabees 9 - Antiochus Humbled and the Limits of Blasphemous Power 2 Maccabees 9 shows Antiochus humbled by God, warning that blasphemous power cannot save itself and that fear of judgment is not the same as true repentance. 19 min read Earlier recording
  11. 10 2 Maccabees 10 - Cleansing, Dedication, and Joy Restored 2 Maccabees 10 restores worship through dedication and repentance, then exposes greed and zeal amid the conflicts that follow. 22 min read Earlier recording
  12. 11 2 Maccabees 11 - Mercy, Letters, and Fragile Peace 2 Maccabees 11 joins prayer and shared courage to four diplomatic letters, explaining their concessions and unresolved historical difficulties. 21 min read Earlier recording
  13. 12 2 Maccabees 12 - Victory, Sin, and Prayer for the Departed 2 Maccabees 12 joins the discovery of hidden sin with burial, repentance, and prayer for the departed in hope of resurrection. 23 min read Earlier recording
  14. 13 2 Maccabees 13 - Bethsura, Prayer, and Deliverance under Siege 2 Maccabees 13 reveals providence through judgment, common prayer, wise counsel, practical provision, and a merciful settlement. 16 min read Earlier recording
  15. 14 2 Maccabees 14 - Alcimus, Nicanor, and Razis 2 Maccabees 14 confronts ambition, betrayed friendship, threatened worship, and the difficult death of Razis with Christian sobriety. 19 min read Earlier recording
  16. 15 2 Maccabees 15 - Onias, Jeremiah, and the Defeat of Nicanor 2 Maccabees 15 joins departed intercession, inward prayer, and deliverance with sober judgment and the author’s crafted ending. 21 min read Earlier recording