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Daniel 1-2
I am SUPER excited for this book! We all love Daniel. If you grew up in church, the stories from the book of Daniel were some of the first Bible stories you heard. What Sunday School child doesn’t know about Shadrach, Meshach, & Abednego in the fiery furnace or Daniel in the Lion’s den? I…
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Joel 2-3
First off… it’s not this kind of trumpet. 🎺 It’s a shofar. (Click to hear a clip of a shofar blown in Jerusalem). When I was a kid, we used to sing this song based on Joel 2:1, 9, and 11. It’s very catchy but rather strange to me (now) that people were singing a…
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Joel 1
One of the challenges with Joel is, we don’t know when it was written. Scholars estimate (based on clues in the text) that, it was either written some time in the 800’s BC, (which would make him one of the earliest prophets), or the 500’s BC (possibly around the time of Jeremiah and Ezekiel). Those…
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Ezekiel 48
The Temple Vision – Part 7, The Land We have arrived at the end of Ezekiel. I feel a bit as though we have been on a journey through the center of the earth. I honestly had NO idea how much I would discover when we started reading. I feel like we have walked alongside…
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Ezekiel 47
The Temple Vision – Part 6, The River Guess what’s going through the East Gate that is shut and never to be opened because Yahweh entered through it? A supernatural stream. We know it’s not a natural stream because natural streams flow like this: Ezekiel’s river has no tributaries. It has one source and inexplicably…
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Ezekiel 45-46
The Temple Vision – Part 5 The Portion, The Prince, and The People Every bit of ground inside this vast space is HOLY. This was probably shocking to the original hearers. Think back to when we read through Leviticus and all the ways a person could become ceremonially unclean during the course of a normal…
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Ezekiel 44
The Temple Vision – Part 4 – The Priests Who is “the Prince?” In this chapter and the ones coming up, the LORD speaks of “the prince” doing various things in and around the temple. The Hebrew word for prince, (nasiy) shows up a lot in Ezekiel. It doesn’t strictly mean “king’s son” as we…
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Ezekiel 43
The Temple Vision – Part 3, The Glory Returns ✊🏼😄 The wheely-throne is back! Ezekiel falls on his face as usual. And if you saw something like this, and didn’t hit the dirt, I’d question your sanity. 🤓 That’s a really cool picture. Where’d you find that one? It kinda makes me think of inline…
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Ezekiel 41-42
The Temple Vision – Part 2, The Temple In this chapter Ezekiel is shown the Sanctuary proper; the holy place (v1-2) and the most holy place (v3-4). And it’s quiet. Too quiet. And rather…plain. All of the walls are paneled with wood that has a repeating, wallpaper-like pattern carved into it: a 2-headed cherubim (lion…
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Ezekiel 40
The Temple Vision – Part 1 Here ya go. Brought ya a pair of swim floaties. We’re gonna need them. This is the deep end of the pool. 😅 Ready? Here we go… 💦 Think back to what you were doing 13 years ago. Now, if you’re old enough… What were you doing 25 years…
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Ezekiel 38-39
The Prophecy Against Gog If you are a fan of the Anne of Green Gables books by Lucy Maud Montgomery, you may recall that in the book Anne of the Island, Anne and her university friend Philippa Gordon discover a quaint house which they later are able to rent from the elderly ladies who live…
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Ezekiel 37
The Valley of Dry Bones In the previous chapter – the prophecy to the mountains of Israel – the LORD repeats the promise of the New Covenant that He gave earlier through Jeremiah. It’s not a verbatim quotation, but both describe the same thing: a whole new approach to God’s law. “For this is the…
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