Church of the Rock: Weekend Messages
Aug 16, 2026 · 38 min · 9 segments
When the spies came out of the promised land, 10 focused on the giants, but 2 focused on the grapes.
Mark HughesHost
So John Steinbeck wrote his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Pulitzer Prize winning novel in 1939.
And so what we have is we have John Steinbeck telling this story, which is a retelling in case you don't know this.
His other book that's quite famous is East of Eden, and that was the story of Genesis and particularly conflict between Cain and Abel.
But the Grapes of Wrath is the story of the coming out of Egypt and through the wilderness and into the Promised Land.
And the tyrants over them are not the pharaohs, but the bankers who take their farms during the dirty 30s.
They have to cross the Colorado River, not the Red Sea, and then they have to travel through the wilderness of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona through the desert until they finally get to California, the land flowing with milk and honey.
So John Steinbeck wrote his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Pulitzer Prize winning novel in 1939.
And so what we have is we have John Steinbeck telling this story, which is a retelling in case you don't know this.
His other book that's quite famous is East of Eden, and that was the story of Genesis and particularly conflict between Cain and Abel.
But the Grapes of Wrath is the story of the coming out of Egypt and through the wilderness and into the Promised Land.
And the tyrants over them are not the pharaohs, but the bankers who take their farms during the dirty 30s.
They have to cross the Colorado River, not the Red Sea, and then they have to travel through the wilderness of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona through the desert until they finally get to California, the land flowing with milk and honey.
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