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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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Ezekiel 10 – 11
The Vision of the Idolatrous Temple, Part 2 Let’s not forget what the temple and the city looked like at end of chapter 9. It’s strewn with dead bodies. And now they’re about to be cremated. 🔥 The scribe angel goes in between the cherubim wheels and gets a handful of burning coals – because…
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Ezekiel 8 – 9
Today we’re going to look at the first half of a lengthy vision. And it’s a doozy. 😐🤚🏼 I got a question… Yeah? 😐 Ezekiel said he was sitting in his house and he had house guests. Yeah… 🤔 And then this divine figure grabs him by the hair and hauls him hundreds of miles…
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Ezekiel 6 – 7
“…and you shall know that I am the Lord.”Ezekiel 6:7 ESV This is a KEY phrase in the book of Ezekiel and appears more than 60 times! If we get nothing else from Ezekiel, we should at least notice that the purpose for all of these prophecies is so that the people of Israel will…
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Ezekiel 4 – 5
THE SIEGE MODEL “Now you, son of man, get yourself a brick, place it before you, and inscribe a city on it—Jerusalem. Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, pile up an assault ramp, set up camps, and place battering rams against it all around. Then get yourself an iron plate and set…
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Ezekiel Intro & 1 – 3
Ezekiel is famous for bones 🦴 and flying saucers. 🛸 😲 Flying saucers?!? Just kidding. That’s what the pop YouTube and TikTok “theologians” try to get you to think Ezekiel’s divine vision was. And that’s why we need to know our Bible and be wary of ANY claim that someone has uncovered “hidden” or “lost”…
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Lamentations 4-5
These final 2 laments are thoroughly sad and pitiful. Again, we have a description of cannibalism that happened during the siege and fall of Jerusalem. And it’s not a gang of wild-eyed men killing another man and eating him. “The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the…
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Lamentations 2-3
Chapter 2 is a difficult read. Yahweh is fiercely angry, people die in every other verse, there are tears, starvation, and even cannibalism. One thing I draw from it is that it’s ok to grieve over the just consequences of sin. Judah had been warned this was coming. They’ve had at least of couple of…
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Lamentations 1
Welcome to Lamentations. 😐 Uh… that kinda has a weird ring to it. It’s like saying, “Welcome to my funeral.” Good point. The Lamentations or The Laments are sad songs of grief. 🤔 So… kinda like country music? 🤠 Honestly, I’d say more like the old Negro spirituals. The Laments express sorrow, but also faith…
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Bonus Post – Habakkuk 2:14
We’ve already covered the content of Jeremiah 52 so I’m dropping a short post today with a thought about Habakkuk 2:14. Last week we read the short book of Habakkuk. 🤓 Cob-A-Kook. Right. And there’s a verse in it that I’ve long pondered and felt I wasn’t quite grasping. “For the earth will be filled…
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Jeremiah 51
🤓 This is a lengthy one, folks. Get your caffeinated beverage handy. ☕️ We come to the 2nd half of the prophecy for Babylon. The parallels between this chapter and Revelation 17-19 are so striking that I think we’re meant to understand that John is drawing on Jeremiah (and Isaiah) as he writes about the…
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Jeremiah 50
We have come to the final prophecy from Jeremiah. Sort of. Going by a strict chronology we know that even after the fall of Jerusalem, the Lord gave messages to Jeremiah. To read Jeremiah in a strict chronological order would require a lot of jumping around. Chapters 50-51 are the final prophecy in the book.…
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Jeremiah 49
Chapter 49 is Appendix 5 of 6 in Jeremiah. It includes messages for 5 locations: I’m going to take them one at a time; showing their locations on a modern map and summarizing the prophetic message. Disclaimer: All pictures are from current Google Maps. The highlighting is mine. I’m not an expert in biblical geography.…
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