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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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Obadiah
(Two posts today! I’m also doing a separate post on Jeremiah 48) NOW it’s finally time for the little, 1-chapter book of Obadiah. It’s a short book with a simple message so I’m gonna keep this blog post short and simple too. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND It’s a bit of a challenge to date because there is…
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Jeremiah 48
Two posts today. If you didn’t see the one on Obadiah, it also dropped today. Have you ever heard of “poetic justice?” Professor Google explains it like this: “Poetic justice occurs when characters receive a fate directly tied to their actions, often through irony, such as villains being undone by their own methods.” Perhaps you…
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Jeremiah 46-47
Egyptian wins and losses… I put some links in today’s post to a couple articles about the history in these chapters. They’re pretty interesting if you have a couple extra minutes to read them. Remember how King Josiah went out to battle Pharaoh Necho II and lost? That wasn’t the only battle Necho fought. The…
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Jeremiah 44-45
Did you ever hear the story about the city slicker who helped the farmer pull a calf? The farmer was out in the field with a cow that was struggling to birth a calf. The back legs were out but the rest was stuck. A guy from the city was driving by on the country…
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