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Whole Bible in 2 Years – Intro
Our church is reading through the Bible together over the next 2 years. I’m going to journal my thoughts (for your reading enjoyment). If you’d like a schedule to read along you can download it for free here: This is not my first trip through the Bible. Far from it. But it is the first…
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Zechariah 5-6
THE VISION OF THE FLYING SCROLL 😐 The KJV calls it a “flying roll.” ☝🏼🤓 I went to a restaurant once that has flying rolls. This isn’t that kind of flying roll. 😐 I’ve heard of a flying nun… Would you two stop it. We need to focus. Zechariah sees a HUGE unfurled scroll flying…
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Zechariah 1-4
There are 3 dated sections in the book of Zechariah: This is a lot to cover. Let’s get started. THE CALL TO RETURN – 1:1-6 Zechariah’s first message is a call to the people to return to the LORD. Some of the people had returned to the land but not to the LORD. There’s a…
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Haggai 1-2
This book is tiny but mighty. And it only covers a period of time from late August through December of one year. If Haggai had lived today, perhaps it would’ve looked like an email thread… (Be sure to notice the dates. They are accurate.)
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Ezra 5-6
If you’re following the reading schedule you’ll notice that Psalm 137 is on the schedule for today. I covered it back with the fall of Jerusalem in Jeremiah 39. It just made more sense to me to put it there. So… on we go to Ezra 5-6. This is such a happy story! And it…
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Ezra 3-4
“Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.”Ezra 3:2 ESV This rather unassuming verse…
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Ezra 1-2
Ezra-Nehemiah was originally 1 book in the Hebrew Bible that recorded the “post-exilic” history of Israel. To recap – here are the major epochs of Israel’s history that we have read so far: The Return starts with Cyrus releasing the Hebrews from all of the provinces in the newly formed Persian Empire to return to…
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Daniel Bonus
The Apocryphal Stories There are 4 stories in the Septuagint version of Daniel that do not appear in most Bibles used by Protestants. They are included in both Catholic and Orthodox Bibles. And they are FANTASTIC stories. I thought I’d share them as a kind of bonus. You can, of course, read them in full…
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Daniel 10-12
CHAPTER 10 In Daniel 10 we king of get a “backstage tour” of the unseen realm. This is the chapter where we get “The Daniel Fast;” where one eats a bland vegetarian diet for 21 days. 🥕🥬🥦🥒🥑🍠 Daniel has been fasting and praying and mourning (that part usually gets left out) for 3 weeks. And…
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Daniel 9
Daniel’s Prayer & The 70 Weeks The interpretation of this vision is in chapters 10 through 12. So today I will look only at chapter 9 and in the next post I will do 10-12 all together. “It was the first year of the reign of Darius the Mede, the son of Ahasuerus, who became…
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Daniel 7-8
Visions: 4 beasts & The Ram and Goat These two visions take place while Belshazzar is king. These are the kinds of chapters where some good commentaries can be helpful. There are historic events that may correspond to prophecy – events that fulfilled prophecy – that we simply don’t know about. I mean, how many…
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Daniel 6
Daniel And The Lion’s Den 🦁 This event happened much later in Daniel’s life. The reading schedule includes Chapter 7 today, but it goes back several years and is focused on a vision so I’ll deal with it separately in the next post along with chapter 8. “That very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was…
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Daniel 5
The Handwriting On The Wall Millions of native English-speakers understand the idiom “the writing on the wall” to mean a sign, indication, or harbinger of something bad. I’ll bet most of them don’t know that it came from a supernatural incident in ancient Babylon. Robert Lewis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, and many other English…
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