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Don't Believe Treacherous Words, Even if They Sound Good
2022-08-04 16:08 1 Maccabees 7:8-11. This is the beginning of the passage I blogged about in There is No Truth or Justice in Them. Here we learn that King Demetrius chose Bacchides to find Judas Maccabeus and all his ...
There Are Times We Must Put People Out of Our Camp
2022-08-03 07:49 Numbers 5:1-6. God tells Moses to tell the people to put out from the camp any leper, anyone who has a discharge, and anyone who is unclean through having had contact with the dead. All of these, whet...
When People Can't Hear They Have to See
2022-08-02 11:39 Luke 18:31-34. Jesus says to his apostles that they are going to Jerusalem where everything prophesied about the Son of man will be fulfilled. Jesus says He will be delivered to the Gentiles, mocked, ...
We Are Fickle, and God Knows That
2022-08-01 08:22 Song of Solomon 5:5-6. "I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, upon the handles of the bolt. I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned an...
Prepare, There is Great Distress Coming
2022-07-31 09:16 1 Maccabees 9:23-27. After the death of Judas Maccabeus, lawless men emerged in all parts of Israel. There was also a great famine at that time, and the people of the country deserted with the lawless...
When God Acts, He Goes Big!
2022-07-29 09:08 Isaiah 41:14-20. Again, God tells Jacob to "Fear not," just like yesterday! I have had verses 14 to 16 before, in which God promises to make a threshing sledge of Israel and they will go thresh the mo...
We May Be Slouching Towards Bethlehem, but Fear Not!
2022-07-28 07:44 Jeremiah 46:27-28. God tells Israel, his people, to fear not, He will save them from their captivity. They shall return to their land and have quiet and ease, and none shall make them afraid. "Fear no...
Contemplating His Majesty
2022-07-27 09:10 1 Timothy 6:11-16. Paul advises Timothy to shun worldly things and to "aim at righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness." He says to fight the good fight of the faith and take h...
God Removes Uncertainty
2022-07-26 06:53 2 Chronicles 2:1-4. I have had these verses before in the context of a longer reading. In just these four verses we learn that Solomon, the new King of Israel, "purposed to build a temple for the name...
Leading Our Children to Slaughter
2022-07-24 15:26 Hosea 9:10-14. When God came to Israel they were like grapes in the wilderness, like the first fruit on a fig tree in its first season. But they turned away and consecrated themselves to false gods, t...