Ezra 3-4 I noticed a familiar pattern in the tactics of the people who opposed the rebuilding of God’s temple. When they first came to the Jewish exiles, they offered to help with the rebuilding, ...
Day 339 – Ezra 1-2; 1 John 4Day 339 – Ezra 1-2; 1 John 4
Ezra 1-2 I wish I knew the back story of Cyrus king of Persia. What did God do in Cyrus’ life to position his heart to make the declaration that he did during his first ...
Day 338 – Ez 47-48; 1 John 3Day 338 – Ez 47-48; 1 John 3
Ez. 47-48 The land portions that God allotted to His people were important to Him. There were many laws about not moving the boundaries or taking someone’s inheritance away. There were also provisions, such as ...
Day 337 – Ez 45-46; 1 John 2Day 337 – Ez 45-46; 1 John 2
Ez. 45-46 Gotta say, I’m still at a loss with all of this temple stuff. And I’m still curious as to why all of these structure and service details were supposed to make the house ...
Day 336 – Ez 42-44; 1 John 1Day 336 – Ez 42-44; 1 John 1
Ez. 42-44 Wow – I really have no idea what this whole temple vision is all about. It seems, however, that I am not alone. I did some very brief research on it, and there ...
Day 335 – Ez 40-41; 2 Pet 3Day 335 – Ez 40-41; 2 Pet 3
Ez. 40-41 I am willing to bet that for anything described with this much detail, there is significance in all those details! Sadly, I have no clue as to what any of it means. I ...
Day 334 – Ez 37-39; 2 Pet 2Day 334 – Ez 37-39; 2 Pet 2
Ez. 37-39 Once again, there is much that I don’t understand about all of this prophecy. But I know the end result. God will gather all of His people to Himself, and He will be ...
Day 333 – Ez 35-36; 2 Pet 1Day 333 – Ez 35-36; 2 Pet 1
Ez. 35-36 God had gloriously redeemed His people out of slavery to Egypt. He then led them through the wilderness and gave them possession of a great land occupied by other nations, miraculously driving out ...
Day 332 – Ez 33-34; 1 Pet 5Day 332 – Ez 33-34; 1 Pet 5
Ez. 33-34 We read about watchmen and shepherds today. I’m no prophet, and I’m not a leader of Israel, so what do these chapters have to do with me? Likely far more than I can ...
Day 331 – Ez 30-32; 1 Pet 4Day 331 – Ez 30-32; 1 Pet 4
Ez. 30-32 There is a lot of prophecy against Egypt and Pharaoh too. I wish I understood some of the deeper meaning behind these prophesies. To me, it all just looks like an extremely long ...
Day 330 – Ez 27-29; 1 Pet 3Day 330 – Ez 27-29; 1 Pet 3
Ez. 27-29 God’s declaration of His coming judgment for the nations seems to have shifted. What was first due to their treatment of Judah is now due to their pride. And a good portion of ...
Day 329 – Ez 24-26; 1 Pet 2Day 329 – Ez 24-26; 1 Pet 2
Ez. 24-26 Ezekiel must have understood, as Paul stated in Philippians 3, that any loss for God in this life would be for eternal gain. Not only did God take Ezekiel’s wife, whom he loved, ...
Day 328 – Ez 22-23; 1 Pet 1Day 328 – Ez 22-23; 1 Pet 1
Ez. 22-23 The house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver.” (Ez 22:18). Bronze, tin, iron, ...
Day 327 – Ez 20-21; 2 Tim 4Day 327 – Ez 20-21; 2 Tim 4
Ez. 20-21 God is God. We cannot make Him what we want Him to be. We can’t expect Him to be there for us when things aren’t going our way and to leave us alone ...
Day 326 – Ez 18-19; 2 Tim 3Day 326 – Ez 18-19; 2 Tim 3
Ez. 18-19 This proverb mentioned in Ezekiel 18:2 was also mentioned in Jeremiah. “The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge”. It seems that’s a way of saying that ...
Day 325 – Ez 16-17; 2 Tim 2Day 325 – Ez 16-17; 2 Tim 2
Ez. 16-17 Each of these chapters gives an analogy of Israel’s faithlessness to her faithful God. I feel like some of the detail carried deeper meaning in the culture of the day. However, you still ...
Day 324 – Ez 14-15; 2 Tim 1Day 324 – Ez 14-15; 2 Tim 1
Ez. 14-15 God stated several times in chapter 14 that His people had “taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces.” (Ez 14:3a). In thinking about ...
Day 323 – Ez 11-13; 1 Tim 6Day 323 – Ez 11-13; 1 Tim 6
Ez. 11-13 There were a few things of interest to me in this reading of Ezekiel. 1 Tim. 6 Interesting, how the selfish ambition of man corrupts his every endeavor. As Paul pointed out, some ...
Day 322 – Ez 8-10; 1 Tim 5Day 322 – Ez 8-10; 1 Tim 5
Ez. 8-10 In Ezekiel chapter 9, God told a man clothed in linen to go throughout Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of all who remained faithful to God and grieved over the ...
Day 321 – Ez 5-7; 1 Tim 4Day 321 – Ez 5-7; 1 Tim 4
Ez. 5-7 God had a purpose in the destruction He wrought on His people. Three times in chapter 5 He declares, “I am the LORD”, and seven times in chapters 6 and 7 He says ...
Day 320 – Ez 3-4; 1 Tim 3Day 320 – Ez 3-4; 1 Tim 3
Ez. 3-4 Curious, that a scroll filled with “lamentation and mourning and woe” (Ez 2:10), would be sweet as honey in Ezekiel’s mouth. God told Ezekiel, “…go to the house of Israel and speak with ...
Day 319 – Ps 137; Ez 1-2; 1 Tim 2Day 319 – Ps 137; Ez 1-2; 1 Tim 2
Ps. 137 I remember from reading in Jeremiah recently that God told His exiled people to settle in Babylon. They were to live their best lives and work and pray for the welfare of their ...
Day 318 – Dan 11-12; 1 Tim 1Day 318 – Dan 11-12; 1 Tim 1
Dan. 11-12 I did a brief search on Daniel 11. It seems that there is fairly firm agreement on the historical fulfillment of the first 35 verses. So much so, in fact, that some have ...
Day 317 – Dan 8-10; Phlm 1Day 317 – Dan 8-10; Phlm 1
Dan. 8-10 Can’t say that much of this stuff in Daniel makes any sense to me. But God opens our eyes and gives us understanding over time, so perhaps there is yet hope. I do ...
Day 316 – Dan 5-7; Titus 3Day 316 – Dan 5-7; Titus 3
Dan. 5-7 God blessed Nebuchadnezzar greatly and the king’s heart grew very proud. He was then brought low in a way that could not be attributed to anything but the hand of God. Restoration followed, ...
Day 315 – Dan 3-4; Titus 2Day 315 – Dan 3-4; Titus 2
Dan. 3-4 Nebuchadnezzar is one of the few people in the Bible on whom God uses some extra persuasion to turn toward Him. Paul is another. Are there people who could have experienced what King ...
Day 314 – 2 Chron 36; Dan 1-2; Titus 1Day 314 – 2 Chron 36; Dan 1-2; Titus 1
2 Chron. 36 Zedekiah was clearly given over to pride. He would not listen to God’s prophets and he rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar after having sworn his allegiance by God. So he wasn’t simply rebelling ...
Day 313 – Lam 3-5; Heb 13Day 313 – Lam 3-5; Heb 13
Lam. 3-5 Lamentations 3 is quite the journey! It starts off with, “I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath” (Lam. 3:1). I assume “his wrath” is referring to ...
Day 312 – Lam 1-2; Heb 12Day 312 – Lam 1-2; Heb 12
Lam. 1-2 All of the idols and nations and things that God’s people turned to failed them. But as for God, “The LORD has done what He purposed; He has carried out His word which ...
Day 311 – Jer 43-44; Heb 11:20-40Day 311 – Jer 43-44; Heb 11:20-40
Jer. 43-44 Pride is a dangerous and powerful thing. It skews our perspective and drives us to rationalize and justify our choices any way that we can. This remnant of Judah had likely already made ...