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He Reaps Where He Did Not Sow
2023-11-29 06:05 Deuteronomy 16:2. "And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place which the Lord will choose, to make his name dwell there." This is just one...
Basking in His Attention
2023-11-27 07:54 Psalm 139:5-6. "Thou dost beset me behind and before, and layest thy hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it." David is proclaiming his joy and wonder that...
The Time of Justice is Coming
2023-11-26 10:24 Jeremiah 19:7. "And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life...
My Body, My ... Oh, Wait
2023-11-25 13:08 1 Corinthians 7:4. "For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does."   This sounds like a record scratchi...
Tainting Good Works With Judgment
2023-11-24 08:38 Job 5:6. "For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground; but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward." This is Job's friend Eliphaz essentially tellin...
Save Us From Pestilent Men (and Women)!
2023-11-22 11:05 1 Maccabees 10:61. "A group of pestilent men from Israel, lawless men, gathered together against [Jonathan Maccabeus] to accuse him; but the king paid no attention to them."    Maccabees, again! The...
The Fate of the Righteous and the Wicked
2023-11-21 12:23 Proverbs 10:30. "The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land." This proverb is one way we can tell that this world is not truly our home, since in this world, the ri...
The Divine Physician is In-Network
2023-11-20 08:25 Matthew 9:32-33. "As they were going away, behold, a dumb demoniac was brought to him. And when the demon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke; and the crowds marveled, saying, 'Never was anythin...
Game of Thrones, Maccabees Edition
2023-11-19 11:18 1 Maccabees 15:37. "Now Trypho embarked on a ship and escaped to Orthosia." I have been doing these Bible readings for four years now, and I still, like today, get a name sometimes when I'm like "...
Prophecy Often Takes a While to Kick In
2023-11-17 08:37 Matthew 4:13-14. "[A]nd leaving Nazareth [Jesus] went and dwelt in Capernum by the sea, in the territory of a Zebulun and Napthtali, that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled". Yes...