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A Priest Forever, in the Order of Melchizedek
2021-06-08 14:39 Hebrews 7:1-3. Another continuation of a reading I've had before - this time my reading follows directly on the one that I did in "An Anchor for Our Souls." Paul here discusses Melchizedek, the ki...
Pray for Our Priests (a Sequel to How the Mighty Will Fall)
2021-06-07 14:48 Lamentations 4:6-18. This is a continuation of the same passage I had a few weeks ago. The same lessons apply here - Zion has been punished in a long, slow, starvation and death. Her once ruddy, healt...
Blessed are the Poor, but Also Sometimes the Rich
2021-06-06 16:43 Sirach 31:8-11. Sirach is another wisdom book and is not included in many versions of the Bible, or is sometimes lumped in with Ecclesiastes. I do not know the reasoning for this - another thing for m...
Watch Out for That Pit You've Dug
2021-06-05 10:52 Proverbs 26:18-28. Some proverbial warnings against deceit, stirring up trouble, and manipulation: the man who deceives his neighbor and then says "I was only joking!" is like a madman throwing firebr...
Keep Work in its Proper Place
2021-06-04 12:15 Ecclesiastes 2:18-23. Ecclesiastes is one of the wisdom books. The author is called Qohelet (which translates as preacher), but the first line identifies the preacher as the son of David, King in Jeru...
This Evil Generation
2021-06-03 10:41 Matthew 12:38-45. Some scribes and Pharisees ask Jesus for a sign, but he tells them "An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophe...
Take the Win
2021-06-02 09:55 1 Samuel 14:24-30. After battling the Philistines to the point where they all fled and Israel was delivered from them, King Saul is still vengeful and says "Cursed be the man who eats food until it is...
When Do We Reach Bottom?
2021-06-01 10:15 2 Maccabees 9:5-12. The punishment of Antiochus. Antiochus IV, the king of Syria, which controlled Israel at that time, continued his father's Hellenization of the Syrian empire, including Israel ...
Why So Much Suffering?
2021-05-31 11:31 Job 36:5-12. Part of Elihu's speech to Job. Elihu here says God does not despise anyone, and never withdraws his eyes from the righteous. They will, eventually, be seated with kings forever. God d...
Don't Get Caught in the Weeds
2021-05-30 11:19 1 Timothy 1:3-11. Paul is charging Timothy to remain in Ephesus and help certain people who are trying to teach the faith, but are being pulled astray by "myths and endless genealogies" and "vain disc...