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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 21

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Things in the Bible not really in the Bible...and a few surprises

Oops of the Day

Job’s wife told him to curse God so God would just finish what he started and go ahead and kill him.

Job 3:11 –  Job 10:1  –  Job 1:3  – Job 29  –   Job 2:9

Fact of the Day 

No!  Job himself had wanted to die. He said it many times. Often, in extreme circumstances, we say we wish a certain thing would happen, but we do not really mean it.  If, for example, we disagree with someone, we might say, “Oh, just go jump in a lake.”  But if they really did it, we would get upset.  Job was a chief or a shiek.  He really did want things to return as they were, but, in his misery, he believed it was impossible. 

The Hebrew verb used by Job’s wife (that has been translated as “curse”) is barak and is used over 325 times in the Old Testament. It is most often translated “to bless.” This is the meaning of barak in the words of Satan to God about Job: “You have blessed (baraked) the work of his hands.”   

What decent human being would actually advise their spouse or anyone to curse God?

In so many situations in life, when one spouse sees their mate suffer terribly, they, in a sense, give them permission to let go and die.  I myself did that with my spouse and with my mother.

She was telling her husband basically, “You are suffering so much. It’s okay to die. I will be okay.”

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 20

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Oops of the Day

No one knows when and where Job of the Bible lived

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

Fact of the Day 

No!  Job lived in Uz.  Uz was named after Uz, a son or grandson of Shem whose father was Noah. Uz became a part of Edom.  Jobab was the King of Edom. Edom means red and was founded by Esau, son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham.  Abraham had been 58 years old when Noah died, so also knew Shem.  Abraham’s and Job’s lives overlapped.

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SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ October 18

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Surprise of the Day

Nehemiah served as cup bearer to King Artaxerxes, probable son of Queen Esther. History tells us Xerxes’ son, Artaxerxes, became king after Xerxes died.

Nehemiah 1:1-3  –  Nehemiah 2:1-10  –  Esther 1-2 – Timeline of 2 days ago

Fact of the Day 

6 Then the king, with the queen sitting beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you get back?” It pleased the king to send me; so I set a time.

7 I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may I have letters to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, so that they will provide me safe-conduct until I arrive in Judah? 8 And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the royal forest, so he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple and for the city wall and for the residence I will occupy?” And because the gracious hand of my God was on me, the king granted my requests. 9 So I went to the governors of Trans-Euphrates and gave them the king’s letters. The king had also sent army officers and cavalry with me.

They were in the palace at Susa (remember from yesterday’s post?) in Persia (today’s Iran near today’s Iraq).  Notice, the queen is sitting next to the king when the king granted everything Nehemiah needed to re-build the walls and gates of  Jerusalem that had been left in rubble 70 years earlier by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.    

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SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ October 17

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Surprise of the Day

A former slave in the Bible saved the Jews from extermination

Esther 9:1-32 – Esther chap. 1

Fact of the Day 

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.

Later, he made this little slave girl his bride.  But she did not tell him she was a Jew,  So, when Esther asked King Xerxes to spare her people from extinction, she was taking a big chance.  She had to admit she was a former Jewish slave. With all that against her, Xerxes honored her wish and saved the Jews.

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

Oh, and the remains of her magnificent palace in Susa still reign in Iran.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Darius_in_Susa

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 16

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Daniel was still alive when Esther married Xerxes (Ahaseurus), emperor of the Persian Empire, and her grandson was King DARIUS, son of Xerxes (Ahaseurus) 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! It seems like a strong possibility since Esther and Daniel were both in Persia.  So,when Ezra wrote an account of these events, he was meticulous with his dates.

  • DANIEL b. c. 610 BC into Jerusalem’s royal family.
  • To Babylon with the rest of the royal family 594 when he may have been age 16?
  • King XyaXARES of Media was Darius the Mede’s grandfather.
  • KING DARIUS I (THE MEDE), reigned 522-486 using the Law of the Medes and Persians. 
  • In 520 when Daniel had the vision, he was c. 90 years old.
  • Esther’s Artaxerxes was much later.
  • KING XERXES I reigned 486-who m. ESTHER d. 464
  • King Artaxerxes I:  reigned 464-423 (her son?)
  • His grandson was Darius II, who reigned 424–404 BC

DANIEL WOULD HAVE BEEN 186 YEARS OLD IN DARIUS II’s 1ST YEAR.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 15

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Job was covered with boils.

Job 2:7-8 –  Job 2:11-13  –  Job 7:4,5  –  Job 17:1  –  Job 19:17-20  –  Job 30:17,18 & 27-30

Fact of the Day 

No!  The Hebrew root word is to burn and was translated sometimes as boil and sometimes as leprosy. 

The disease Job had was elephantiasis, a marked and strongly developed form of leprosy. This disease creates an intense HEAT, a burning and ulcerous swelling. It is leprosy in its most terrible form, taking its name from the appearance of the body, which is covered with a knotty, cancerous bark like the hide of an elephant.  He was so deformed by his disease, his friends did not recognize him.

Read about this disease in dictionaries and compare it with the scriptures where it describes his disease, as noted above.

Here are some pictures of people with this form of leprosy: 

No wonder Job wanted to die.


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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 14

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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

Oops of the Day 

No! 

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

Satan is a coward – James 4:7

He cannot read our minds – Isaiah 40:28; I Kings 8:39;
Only God can read our minds – Psalm 94:11; Matthew 9:4
God has placed a fence around each believer to protect them from Satan. – Job 1:10; I John 5:18

God gives him permission and uses him to test people (like lifting spiritual weights) 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 gives Satan’s followers permission to punish God’s followers, then punishes the punishers.

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SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ October 13

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Surprise of the Day

When did the released Jewish slaves rebuild Jerusalem and the temple?

Ezra 6:14-15  –  Nehemiah 1:1-3

Surprise of the Day 

The temple rebuilding was completed in 514 BC. Jerusalem itself with protective walls was not rebuilt until 445 BC, 69 years (2 more generations) later.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 12

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Ezra must have put the future or Israel at risk by making so many put away their pagan wives.

Ezra ch. 2 and Ezra 10:18-44

Oops of the Day 

No! Even though Ezra made 106 Jewish men separate from their pagan wives, the population was 42,360 men.  So they accounted for only .0025 of the Jewish men.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 10

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Around 520 BC, the Samaritans wrote King Artaxerxes, Esther’s son, to force the Jews to stop rebuilding the temple, and Esther’s son made them stop.

Ezra 1:1-4  – Ezra chapters 7-10

Fact of the Day 

No!  That was not Esther’s son.  Ezra was a chronicler and always cited dates for accuracy.

King Cyrus became king of Persia in 559.  He conquered & absorbed Media in 549.  He didnot conquer and absorb Babylon with its JEWS until 539.

King Darius said in his “Behistun Inscription” that he fought 19 others who claimed to be king before he ascended the throne in 522. He did not name the kings, but we can assume one of them was 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)

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