The wilderness is a common place that many characters enter into throughout the Bible, from Adam and Eve to the children of Israel. The day of atonement, with an exiled scapegoat, then brings the theology of the wilderness to greater light. Jesus himself enters into the wilderness in order to undo the failures of humanity. Though the wilderness is a desolate place, the Bible often paradoxically shows God creating an Eden in the desert. Listen with us as we explore the Biblical theme of the wilderness traced throughout the Bible.