Author: Inspirations By Katheryn

I am kind of a world traveler. I have lived in Korea, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka, Tokyo, Canada, Afghanistan, India and USA. I remember when President Kennedy was assassinated, watched the first human walk on the moon, Alaska became a state, President Kennedy & Martin Luther King were shot, and the first human walked on the moon. I remember when the first Star Wars movie came out, 900 religiously misguided humans committed suicide in Guyana, when Microsoft was "invented" and the Ayatollah Khoumeini took over Iran, kicked out western companies (employers) and returned his country to the dark ages. I WAS THERE WHEN MOUNT SAINT HELENS BLEW. I remember when the Berlin Wall fell, the Internet was created, the first warm-blooded animal was cloned (a sheep) and the Hubble Telescope was launched - all in the 1980s. And you?

October 24 ~ Things in the Bible not really in the Bible…and a few surprises

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Oops of the Day

Satan has powers to do whatever he wants to people.  

Job 1:9-12  –  Job 2:10a  –  Job 42:5  –  Genesis 15:1-20  –   Genesis 21:5  –  Genesis 22  –  Galatians 3:6-9  –  Jeremiah 27:6 – Jeremiah 43:10 – Jeremiah 50:1 – 51:14

Fact of the Day

No! God gives him permission and uses him to test people (spiritual exercises) and develop spiritual muscles in his people.  Job was strong.  He ended up being stronger.  Same with Abraham who lived close to the same time as Job.

God also gives him permission to direct the punishment of evil countries; then punishes the punisher.  He did that with Babylon who conquered Jerusalem, then was conquered by Persia.

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Satan is God’s inferior  – Job 1:6
Satan cannot tempt anyone without God’s permission – Job 1:12; I Corinthians 10:13
Satan cannot manipulate nature without God’s permission – Job 1:12, 16, 19
Satan cannot afflict harm on anyone’s body without God’s permission – Job 2:2-6
Satan does not know what we dream – Daniel 2:27-28

SATAN IS A COWARD – James 4:7

Satan cannot read out minds – Isaiah 40:28; I Kings 8:39;
ONLY GOD reads our minds – Psalm 94:11; Matthew 9:4

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God has placed a fence around each believer to protect them from Satan. – Job 1:10; I John 5:18

October 23 ~ Things in the Bible not really in the Bible…and a few surprises

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Oops of the Day

Satan fell from heaven at the beginning of the world forever. 

Isaiah 14:4-16  –   Job 1:6  –  Daniel 5:30-31  –  Luke 10:17-18  –  Revelation 12:7-17  –   Revelation 2:8  –  Revelation 22:16

Fact of the Day

No! 

  • Satan was periodically in heaven; i.e., he was there to get permission to tempt Job to deny God.
  • When Jesus’ disciples were out preaching, Jesus said he was watching Satan fall during that time.
  • His final fall was at the crucifixion & resurrection of Jesus.

Isaiah was speaking of the king of Babylon who took credit for being King.  So God punished him by making him live like an animal for a year until he was willing to acknowledge God.  Which he finally did.

 

October 22 ~ Things in the Bible not really in the Bible…and a few surprises

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Oops of the Day

Lucifer is Satan’s name

Isaiah 14:12 – Job 3:9 – Job 38:7 – Psalm 148:3 – Isaiah 14:12 – Revelation 22:16

Fact of the Day

No! Lucifer (Morning Star) is Jesus’ title, not Satan’s.

Job 3:9 morning stars (describes stars between night and dawn symbolically praising God)
Job 38:7 stars of morning (describes symbolic singing stars between night and dawn)
Psalm 148:3 –shining stars (describes symbolic praising stars)
Isaiah 14:12 – day star (describes king of Babylon taking credit away from God for his kingship)
Revelation 22:16 – bright morning star (JESUS describing himself)

4th century AD – A Catholic bishop was named Lucifer.

5th Century AD, – Jerome, a Catholic priest, translated the Old Testament from Hebrew to Latin. He translated Satan as Lucifer and capitalized it to make it a proper name instead of a description, thus giving the devil another name besides Satan.

Since then, the protestants have been following the example of the Catholics – again.

The title belongs to Jesus.

October 21 ~ Things in the Bible not really in the Bible…and a few surprises

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Surprise of the Day

Did Job in the Bible really exist?  If so, who was he and where did he live?

Job 1:1 – Genesis 10:23 – Genesis 36:8, 28 – I Chronicles 1:17 & 44-45 – Genesis 3:34

Fact of the Day

Surprise!  Jobab was a duke, also translated chief and king.  It could also be translated sheikh.

Uz is where Job lived and reigned.  The city was named after Uz, a grandson of Shem. Eventually, the city became part of Edom.

Edom means red and was founded by Esau, red-haired son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham.

October 20 ~ Things in the Bible not really in the Bible…and a few surprises

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Surprise of the Day

To this day, every March, Jews keep a festival to remember how a former slave in the Bible saved the Jews from extermination around 450 BC. 

Esther 1 – Esther 9:1-32

Fact of the Day

Surprise!  Jewish Esther arrived in Babylon as a little slave girl. A while later, Xerxes, king of Persia conquered Babylon, Egypt and many other smaller kingdoms. When he marched to conquer Greece, he had such a temper that, when a storm stopped his advance, he ordered the sea beaten with 300 lashes.  So, when Esther asked King Xerxes to spare her people from extinction, she had to admit she was a former Jewish slave. With all that against her, Xerxes honored her wish and saved the Jews.

Oh, and the remains of her palace in Susa still stand today in Iran.

Susa: a gateway to must-see destinations - Iran Tourism News 2024

 

 

October 19 ~ Things in the Bible not really in the Bible…and a few surprises

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Surprise of the Day

To this day, every March, Jews keep a festival to remember how a former slave in the Bible saved the Jews from extermination around 450 BC. 

Esther 1 – Esther 9:1-32

Fact of the Day

Surprise!  Jewish Esther arrived in Babylon as a little slave girl. A while later, Xerxes, king of Persia conquered Babylon, Egypt and many other smaller kingdoms. When he marched to conquer Greece, he had such a temper that, when a storm stopped his advance, he ordered the sea beaten with 300 lashes.  So, when Esther asked King Xerxes to spare her people from extinction, she had to admit she was a former Jewish slave. With all that against her, Xerxes honored her wish and saved the Jews.

Oh, and the remains of her palace in Susa still stand today in Iran.

Susa: a gateway to must-see destinations - Iran Tourism News 2024

 

 

October 18 ~ Things in the Bible not really in the Bible…and a few surprises

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Oops of the Day

Daniel was alive when Esther married Xerxes (Ahaxeurus), and her grandson was King Darius, son of Xerxes (Ahaxeurus) as mentioned in Daniel 9

Esther 1:1-2 – Daniel 1:1f – Daniel 5:31 – II Kings 24 – II Chronicles 36

Fact of the Day

No! 

610 BC – DANIEL b.  
594 BC – To Babylon, age 16?

                    King XyaXARES of Media was Darius’ grandfather.
522-486     KING DARIUS I (THE MEDE), reigned using the Law of the Medes and Persians. 

520              Daniel had  vision, he was c. 90 years old.

Esther’s Artaxerxes was much later.
486-464     KING XERXES I reigned  – m. ESTHER
464-423     King Artaxerxes I: reigned (her son?)
424-404     His grandson was Darius II, reigned 
DANIEL WOULD HAVE BEEN 186 YEARS OLD IN DARIUS II’s 1ST YEAR,

October 16 ~ Things in the Bible not really in the Bible…and a few surprises

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Oops of the Day

Most of the men who returned to Jerusalem from their captivity in Babylon sinned by marrying pagan women

Ezra 2 and 10:18-44

Fact of the Day

No! Even though Ezra made 106 Jewish men separate from their pagan wives, the population was made up of 42,360 men.  So they accounted for only .0025 of the Jewish men who had married pagan women.  Bad, but not as bad as we thought.

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Oops of the Day

The  Samaritans wrote Persian King Artaxerxes  asking him to force the Jews to stop rebuilding their temple.  That king was Esther’s son.

Ezra 1 – 7 & Ezra 8 – 10

Fact of the Day

No! There were two kings named Artaxerxes.  

  • 559  BC – King Cyrus became King of Persia 
  • 539 BC – King Cyrus also became King of Babylon and freed the Jews his 1st year (Ezra 1:1ff)
  • 537 BC – The Jews began rebuilding the temple in their 2nd year (Ezra 3:8).
  • 522 BC – King Darius became King of Persia after fighting 19 others claiming to be king, among them Artaxerxes I (Ezra 4:4-7).
  • 520 BC – Work on the temple stopped until the 2nd year of King Darius (Ezra 4:24).
  • 514 BC – The temple was completed the 6th year of King Darius (Ezra 6:15)
  • 465 BC – Esther’s Son, Artaxerxes II, son of Xerxes (Aha-xuerus) became King of Persia (Ezra 7:7)
  • 458 BC – Ezra arrived in Jerusalem the 7th year of King Artaxerxes II (Ezra 7:7)

October 11 ~ Things in the Bible not really in the Bible…and a few surprises

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Oops of the Day

God never authorized use of musical instruments to worship him. 

I Chronicles 25:1; II  Chronicles 29:25-30 – II Chronicles 30:21 – II Chronicles 34:12-13 – Nehemiah 12:27-28 & 36 – Ephesians 5:19

Fact of the Day

No! God told Gad David’s seer, and Nathan the prophet to have choirs and a small orchestra.  But only certain instruments were authorized:  Lyres, harps and cymbals. Further, they were to only be played by Levites and had to be played all day every day at the temple/church building during daily sacrifices.  And they had to be supported completely by the temple/church.  Seen any Levites lately?  All this was in Old Testament worship.  In Christian worship we are told to play on the strings of one instrument – our heart. How beautiful.