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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...
Learning Heaven's Language
2023-11-16 06:17 Acts 10:32. "Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who is called Peter; he is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the seaside." This is Cornelius, a gentile centurion who had become devout...
The Time for Collective Repentance is Passing (If Not Past)
2023-11-15 10:17 Jeremiah 34:21. "And Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes I will give into the hands of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of the army of the king of Babyl...
God Doesn't Send Prophets to Tell Us What We Want to Hear
2023-11-14 13:53 Jeremiah 28:6.  "[A]nd the prophet Jeremiah said "Amen! May the Lord do so; may the Lord make the words which you have prophesied come true, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of th...
The Fame Lag
2023-11-13 09:07 Judith 16:23 "She became more and more famous, and grew old in her husband's house, until she was one hundred and five years old. She set her maid free. She died in Bethulia, and they buried her i...
Give People, and God, the Chance to Forgive You
2023-11-12 10:14 1 Chronicles 19:6. "When the Ammonites saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, from...
Don't Be the Source of False Teaching or Bad Example
2023-11-11 10:07 Titus 2:1. "But as for you, teach what befits sound doctrine."   Paul is advising Titus to teach sound doctrine in Crete after expounding on the many so-called teachers of the faith who are "insubor...
Stand By Him, and Be Not Afraid
2023-11-10 08:38 2 Chronicles 32:7. "Be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him; for there is one greater with us than him."   This is H...
Building Back Without Turning Back Is Futile
2023-11-09 07:02 Malachi 1:4. "If Edom says, 'We are shattered but we rebuild the ruins,' the Lord of hosts says, 'They may build, but I will tear down, till they are called the wicked country, the people ...