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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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Jeremiah 42-43
The camels are packed. 🐪🐪🐪 Everyone is ready to go. Oh- maybe we should pray before we leave… The little band of misfits… 🤓 And princesses! Can’t forget them! Yes. And the princesses. 👸🏼 They tell Jeremiah to pray and ask God where to go. They certainly don’t think they can’t stay in Judah because-…
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Jeremiah 40-41
We continue the saga… Jerusalem has fallen… We last left our friend Jeremiah in Judah in the home of Governor Gedaliah. King Nebuchadnezzar himself gave instructions to Captain Nabuzaradan to find Jeremiah, keep him safe, and give him whatever he needed. The Captain found Jeremiah chained up among the others who had been captured and…
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Habbakuk
His name sounds kinda like: Have-a-book 📕or Have-a-Coke. 🥤 But the Hebrew is most accurately pronounced like: Cob-a-kook. 😐 Cob-a-kook? Are you serious? That sounds like a roasted corn stand 🌽 at a circus 🎪 . Ok. That’s enough. Let’s try to be more scholarly. 🤓 Yeah, knucklehead. Scholars act professional. They don’t laugh at…
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Psalms 74 & 79
(April 11) Both of these psalms are attributed to “Asaph.” But this is definitely not the Levite Asaph who was one of the chief musicians and singers appointed by King David to worship before the Ark at the Tabernacle of David and who was at the dedication of the Temple of Solomon. The name Asaph…
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