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An Orthodox Bible study podcast from St. Mark Church in London, hosted by Ehab and Mina. Rooted in the timeless teachings of the Church Fathers, this podcast delves deep into Scripture, offering a rich, traditional perspective on God’s Word while uncovering its profound impact on our daily lives through engaging discussions. Whether you're just beginning your journey or seeking to deepen your faith, discover the beauty of God's Word and how it speaks to the heart of our modern world. Join us every Wednesday for fresh insights and spiritual growth!

  1. 1d ago

    Exodus 16: Bread from Heaven

    It has been six weeks since the Red Sea. The food is running out. And Israel, with remarkable speed, has begun to remember Egypt fondly — the fish they ate freely, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks and garlic. They have forgotten the whips. They have forgotten the mud. What they remember is the food.This is not weakness unique to Israel. It is the human condition: suffering sharpens memory selectively, and comfort dulls it just as fast.God's response to their grumbling is not punishment. It is bread. Each morning, a thin, flake-like substance appears on the ground — "What is it?" the people say, which is exactly what the Hebrew word manna means. Each evening, quail cover the camp. The instructions are precise: gather only what you need for today. Do not keep it until morning. On the sixth day, gather double. On the seventh, rest.This is not merely food. It is a school. God is teaching His people to trust Him one day at a time.In this episode, we explore Exodus chapter 16 and its extraordinary theological depth — including how Jesus draws directly on this chapter in John 6 when He calls Himself the true bread from heaven, and how manna prefigures the Eucharist in ways that the Church Fathers found inexhaustible.Key questions explored:• Why does God restrict how much manna the people can gather — and what is He teaching them?• What is the significance of the double portion on the sixth day and the rest on the seventh?• How does Jesus use the language of Exodus 16 in John 6 to speak about the Eucharist?• What does manna as "bread from heaven" reveal about the nature of the Incarnation?

    Exodus 16: Bread from Heaven

  2. Aug 12

    Exodus 15: The Song of Moses

    After the sea closes over Pharaoh's army, Israel does something that no amount of theological preparation quite prepares you for: they sing.The Song of Moses is the first great hymn of the Bible — a spontaneous eruption of praise from a people who have just witnessed the impossible. "The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation." Miriam takes up a tambourine. The women dance. And the song that erupts on the shore of the Red Sea echoes all the way to the book of Revelation, where the redeemed in heaven sing this same song before the throne of God.In this episode, we explore Exodus chapter 15 in depth. We look at how the Coptic Orthodox Church has preserved this hymn as the first of the Biblical Odes, sung as part of the midnight praises — and traditionally only sung by those who have been baptised, because you cannot sing the song of crossing if you have not crossed. We then travel with Israel to Marah, where the water is bitter and the people grumble, and discover that a tree thrown into the water makes it sweet — a moment the Church has long read as pointing to the cross.And finally, Elim: twelve springs, seventy palms, and rest.Key questions explored:• Why is the Song of Moses sung again in the book of Revelation — and what does this continuity reveal?• How does the Coptic tradition of singing this hymn only after baptism illuminate its spiritual meaning?• What is the theological significance of the tree that sweetened the bitter waters at Marah?• What does it mean that God identifies Himself as "the Lord who heals you" immediately after the miracle at Marah?

    Exodus 15: The Song of Moses

  3. Aug 5

    Exodus 14: Stand Still and See

    The sea is in front of them. The Egyptian army is behind them. The wilderness is on either side. And the people of Israel do what human beings always do in impossible situations — they turn on the person who led them there."Were there not enough graves in Egypt?" they cry to Moses. "Why have you brought us out here to die?"Moses' answer is one of the most extraordinary commands in all of Scripture: "Stand still. And see the salvation of the Lord."Exodus chapter 14 is the crossing of the Red Sea — the defining moment of the Old Testament, the supreme act of deliverance before the cross itself. In this episode, we explore the theology beneath the miracle: why God hardened Pharaoh's heart, how the Angel of the Lord moved to stand between Israel and their enemy, and what St. Paul means when he says that Israel was "baptised into Moses in the cloud and in the sea" (1 Corinthians 10:1–2).The same water that saved Israel drowned their enemies. Baptism is not merely a ritual. It is a crossing over.Key questions explored:• Why did God lead Israel into what appeared to be a trap — with no escape?• What does it mean that God "hardened Pharaoh's heart," and how do we reconcile this with human free will?• How does St. Paul interpret the Red Sea crossing as a type of baptism?• What happened to the Egyptian army — and what does this say about the finality of God's deliverance?

    Exodus 14: Stand Still and See

  4. Jul 29

    Exodus 13: The Longer Road

    God could have taken Israel straight to the Promised Land. The direct route along the coast of Philistia was shorter, faster, and more obvious. God chose not to take it. Instead, He led them the long way — through the wilderness — because He knew that if they faced war too soon, they would run back to Egypt.The God who parts seas also plans routes. And sometimes the longer road is the more merciful one.In this episode, we explore Exodus chapter 13 and the rich theology woven into Israel's departure. The consecration of the firstborn — every firstborn son belonging to God, every firstborn donkey redeemed by a lamb — foreshadows the redemption of humanity by the Lamb of God. The Feast of Unleavened Bread is not just a commemoration of the past; it is a call to live in the reality of freedom right now.And then there is the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night — the visible, tangible, constant presence of God guiding His people. He did not speak from a distance. He went with them.Key questions explored:• Why did God choose the longer route — and what does this reveal about how He leads us?• What does it mean that every firstborn donkey had to be redeemed by a lamb — or have its neck broken?• How does the consecration of the firstborn point to Christ as the firstborn of all creation?• What is the theological significance of the pillar of cloud and pillar of fire?

    Exodus 13: The Longer Road

  5. Jul 22

    Exodus 12 Part 2: Armies of the Lord

    It is midnight. A great cry goes up across Egypt — there is not a house without death. Pharaoh, broken at last, calls for Moses and Aaron in the dark. "Go," he says. "Take everything. And bless me also."Two million people walk out of Egypt that night. They go with silver and gold from their neighbours — the unpaid wages of generations of slavery, given freely in a night. A mixed multitude goes with them. And with every step, they are no longer called the congregation of Israel. They are called the armies of the Lord.This episode concludes our journey through Exodus chapter 12, exploring the Feast of Unleavened Bread as a call to total freedom from sin, the seven-day completeness of the feast, and why the Passover is to be observed "forever." We also explore the stunning detail that not a bone of the Passover lamb was to be broken — a detail the Gospel of John will remember at the cross.Key questions explored:• What does the removal of leaven (yeast) from the home symbolise spiritually?• Who was the "mixed multitude" that left Egypt — and what does this say about the universal scope of salvation?• Why does God insist that the Passover is observed "forever," and how does this relate to the Eucharist?• What does the unbroken bone of the Passover lamb reveal about the crucifixion of Jesus?

    Exodus 12 Part 2: Armies of the Lord

  6. Jul 15

    Exodus 12 Part 1: The Feast of Liberation

    "This month shall be your beginning of months." God doesn't just deliver Israel — he resets their entire calendar. Everything before this moment is prologue. This is where it truly begins.In Exodus 12:1–7, God gives the Passover instructions in extraordinary detail, and almost every detail is a portrait of Christ. The lamb chosen on the 10th day — the day Jesus entered Jerusalem. The lamb kept in the house for five days, becoming part of the family, before being sacrificed — just as we must come to know Christ before we can understand what his sacrifice means. The lamb without blemish, male, in its prime — because Christ died in his prime, offering his very best. And the blood, placed not on the floor (we do not trample the blood of Christ), but on the two doorposts and the lintel — the sign of the cross.We also explore the striking phrase "congregation of Israel" — used here for the very first time in Scripture — and how it mirrors the Church established by the new Passover, the Eucharist. And we tackle the question many have wondered about: if every household had their own lamb, how is it "one" Passover? The same question people ask about the Eucharist being the same sacrifice in every church, in every city, at the same time.Key questions explored:• Why does God say "this month shall be the first of months" — and what does this new beginning point to?• What does it mean that the lamb was chosen on the 10th day, kept for five days, then sacrificed on the 14th?• Why must the lamb be without blemish, male, and one year old — and what does each detail reveal about Christ?• Why is the blood placed on the doorposts and lintel but not on the floor?• How is the Eucharist the "one sacrifice" when it is offered simultaneously in churches all over the world?

    Exodus 12 Part 1: The Feast of Liberation

  7. Jul 8

    Exodus 11: The Last Night in Egypt

    Everything in Exodus has been building to this. Nine plagues, nine opportunities for Pharaoh to repent — and now the final warning is delivered. At midnight, God will pass through the land of Egypt. Every firstborn will die. Except where the blood of the lamb is on the doorpost.In this pivotal episode, we arrive at what many Church Fathers called the pinnacle of the entire Old Testament — and arguably of both Testaments. The Passover lamb is not merely a ritual. It is a revelation. It is God drawing back the curtain and showing us, centuries in advance, exactly what he is going to do through the sacrifice of his Son.We explore the profound theological weight of the blood as sign — the final sign in a progression from rainbow to circumcision. We draw the lines that run from the blood on the doorpost to the blood of the cross, from the angel of death passing over to eternal death passing over all who shelter in Christ.Key questions explored:• Why is Exodus 12 considered the theological pinnacle of the Old Testament?• How does the Passover lamb specifically foreshadow Christ's sacrifice on the cross?• What does the sequence of signs — rainbow, circumcision, blood — tell us about God's escalating covenant with humanity?• How should the knowledge that we are "passed over" by eternal death shape our daily lives?

    Exodus 11: The Last Night in Egypt

  8. Jul 1

    Exodus 10: Not a Hoof Left Behind

    Two plagues remain before the final, devastating blow — and Pharaoh is playing his last cards. As locusts devour what the hail has spared, and a palpable, tangible darkness covers Egypt for three days (while Israel has light in their homes), we watch Pharaoh offer Moses one compromise after another.You can go — but not far. Just the men. Take your children, but leave the livestock. Not a hoof, Moses replies. Not a single hoof.This episode unpacks Pharaoh's four failed compromises as a window into the strategies the enemy uses in our own spiritual lives — and the courage it takes to refuse every partial deal. We also explore the profound three-day darkness: the last Egyptian false god Ra, the sun god, is defeated in his own domain. And we sit with the Father's commentary on darkness as a type of the three days Christ spent in the tomb — and of the resurrection that follows.Key questions explored:• What are the "compromises" in our own lives — the ways we try to serve God partly, not fully?• What does "not a hoof left behind" mean for total surrender to God?• How does the three-day darkness over Egypt point forward to Christ's death and resurrection?• What does it mean that the Israelites had light in their homes even in the middle of Egypt's darkness?

    Exodus 10: Not a Hoof Left Behind
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An Orthodox Bible study podcast from St. Mark Church in London, hosted by Ehab and Mina. Rooted in the timeless teachings of the Church Fathers, this podcast delves deep into Scripture, offering a rich, traditional perspective on God’s Word while uncovering its profound impact on our daily lives through engaging discussions. Whether you're just beginning your journey or seeking to deepen your faith, discover the beauty of God's Word and how it speaks to the heart of our modern world. Join us every Wednesday for fresh insights and spiritual growth!

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    St Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in London
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    47
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