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SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ December 8

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

Surprise of the Day

One of the last messages of God at the end of the Old Testament was

“I will send you my Malachi.” 

BOOK OF MALACHI

Fact of the Day

     The very last book of the OLD Testament – Malachi –  was written about four centuries before the birth of Jesus (which occurred at the beginning of the NEW Testament).  Through Malachi, God sent the world the above final message of hope.  Soon now (considering the age of the world) the promised Messiah (“Anointed One”) would arrive.  But how will the world know him when he gets here? 

     Don’t worry.  God explained…  

“I will send you my Messenger.” 

     Huh?  What messenger? You just said you were going to send your Malachi. Now you’re saying you are going to send your Messesnger. You’re taking us in circles!

     Well, Malachi’s name means “messenger” and as a prophet, he “delivered messages” from God.

     Ohhhh.  Was God planning for the prophet Malachi to live another four hundred years to introduce the Messiah (Anointed One) to the world?   That’s what it looks like.  Didn’t God just say…

“I will send you MY Malachi”

      Oh! He will send someone else who will be HIS Malachi!

     Well, my friends, if your head isn’t swimming with this play on words in the Bible,  hold that thought.  In a few days, the answer to this divine riddle will become clear to you.

     See you tomorrow!

You’re smart.  Read the Bible for yourself.  Find out for yourself.

SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ December 1

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

Surprise of the Day

When people hold back from giving to God,

they lose more than their contribution would have been.

Haggai 1:1-11 and Haggai 2:19

Fact of the Day

  • 538 BC – King Cyrus allowed his enslaved Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their temple and city.  They completed the foundation amid enemies.
  • 520 BC – King Darius I defended the Jews to their enemies and gave them what they needed to finish their temple.
  • 518 BC – The Jews had done nothing.  So prophet Haggai stepped in on behalf of God.
  • 516 BC – They finally  finished rebuilding their 2nd temple.

 

  • THE JEWS:  “It is not time to finish the temple”.  
  • GOD:  “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”
  • THE JEWS:  “We’re earning wages, but put them in purses with holes in them.”
  • GOD:  “What you brought home, I blew away.  I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”
  • THE JEWS:  “Why?”
  • GOD: “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.”
  • THE JEWS:  “We’re sorry.”
  • GOD:  “Give careful thought to your ways.  Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,

So, two years later they finished building the temple.  And what did God have to say then?

“‘From this day on I will bless you.’”

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ November 27

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

Oops of the Day

It is sinful to ever question God.

Habakkuk

Habakkuk 1:1-4  – Habakkuk 1:5-11  –  Habakkuk 2:19  –  Habakkuk 1:14-17 –  Habakkuk ch. 2


Fact of the Day

Yes and No.  We must not be rebellious and haughty to make ourselves superior to God, then decide God is powerless and does not really exist at all. That is the stuff that atheists are made of.

But, if we actually want to know the answers to our questions, YES.

HABAKKUK felt both anger and  defeat.   

First, he demanded to know why God allowed so many bad things to happen to his people, the Jews.  The enemy was invading them.  So God answered.

Second, he demanded to know why God delayed stopping evil from happening to people, so God answered.

It ends with Habakkuk’s verdict:  What evil we do to others will be done to  us. The ways the Israelites had been treating God and others were  returned onto them. 

Boomerang.

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SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ November 25

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Surprise of the Day

Events surrounding the birth and death of Jesus and the birth of the church on the Day of Pentecost were foretold 800 years before.

 Joel 2:10  –  Joel 2:16  –  Joel 2:28-29  –  Joel 2:31-32  –  Joel 3:2  –  Joel 3:9  –  Joel 3:14

Fact of the Day 

(The birth of Jesus was covered yesrerday from Joel)

BLOOD:  At crucifixion of Jesus, the Christ (Luke 23:33)

EARTHQUAKE:  At Jesus death and at his bodily resurrection. (Matthew 27:51 and 28:2)

SUN & MOON DARK:  At Jesus’ crucifixion (Mark 15:33)

FIRE:  “Tongues of fire” on apostles from Holy Spirit so they could speak in the language of every nation

SMOKE:  Holy Spirit when it entered the temple, and later Christians at baptism (I Kings 8:10-11 and Acts 1:38-39)

THE BRIDEGROOM:  Jesus (Ephesians 5 and Revelation 19)

ALL NATIONS: On the annual event of Pentecost (Acts 2:5)

DAY OF DECISION: (Acts 2:42)

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SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ November 24

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Surprise of the Day

Events surrounding the birth of Jesus were foretold 800 years before he was born.

 Joel 2:28  –  Luke 2:35-38  – Matthew 2:10-12  – Luke 2:8-14 

Fact of the Day 

“Sons and daughters will prophecy” – SIMEON and ANNA prophecied about Jesus’ future when Mary and Joseph took him to the temple for a special ceremony on his 8th day.

“Old men will dream dreams” – the WISE MEN (MAGI) from the east were warned by God in a dream that Herod was looking for baby Jesus to kill him, so to return home a different way.  

“Young men will see visions” – JOSEPH saw a vision of Gabriel telling him that Mary’s pregnancy was miraculous.  The night Jesus was born, the SHEPHERDS saw a vision of angels appearing in the sky and announcing Jesus’s birth.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~

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

Oops of the Day

The Jews were required to give a tithe to the temple every year.

Deuteronomy 14:22-28

Deuteronomy 26:12  –  Leviticus 1-5  –  Leviticus 27:2  –  Numbers 21:2  –  I Samul 1:11  –   II Samuel 15:7-8  –   Psalm 22:11, 25  –  Psalm 66:13  –  Psalm 76:11  –  Psalm 116:8,14,18-19  –   Job 22:27  –   Jonah 1:7-9

Fact of the Day  

Yes and No!   It was much more. A good Jew gave about one third of his income, not just one tenth. (1) The Jews had to give an extra tithe every three years for their welfare program. (2) They had to pay for their vows, which in many cases were really special prayer requests.  (3) They had to buy animals for sacrifices for intentional sins, unintentional sins and sins requiring restitution.  (4) If they wanted to thank God for anything special, they had to buy grain for a sacrifice  (5)  If they didn’t have mney to buy the animals or grain, they had to take them out of their own supply, thus depleting their own “pay check.” (6) And every time one of their flocks or herds had a first-born “first-fruits”, they had to sacrifice it ~ another depleting of the “pay check.”  

Still want to follow the Law of Moses to get people to give more?

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SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ November 23

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Surprise of the Day

I think we have all wondered about this through the years: Who does God consider faithful?  For the factual answer, see below.

Ezekiel 28:24-29

Fact of the Day 

On the Day of Judgment, a formerly righteous man who becomes bad at the end of his life will be condemned.  So, if I have been a faithful gospel preacher and missionary, and converted tens of thousands of pagans to Christ for the first fifty years of my life, but lose my faith and drop out of the church the last year of my life, God considers me unfaithful.

But on the Day of Judgment,  a formerly bad man who becomes righteous at the end of his life will be saved.  So if I went around torturing and killing other people all my life until I am 82, but I become a Christian and live a faithful life during my 83rd year when I die, God consideres me faithful.

Look it up.  Think about it.

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SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ November 21

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Surprise of the Day

The Bible has two books that explain the deep joy or grief we cause God.

 Song of Solomon and Hosea

Ephesians 5:22 to end  –  Revelation 21:2  –   Revelation 22:17 & 20

Fact of the Day 

The Song of Solomon is about a bride and groom and their unquenchable love for each other, always longing to be together.

It is also symbolically about Jesus and the sacrificial time and attention he gives HIS BRIDE, THE CHURCH to rescue us from hell.

On the other hand…

…the book of Hosea is about a prophet who rescues and marries a prostitute and her ingratitude and betrayal by always running back to former lovers.

IT IS ALSO ABOUT ADULTEROUS CHRISTIANS and the selfish time and attention they give their former LOVES – their worldly interests – instead of their husband who is trying to save us from hell.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ November 19

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Oops of the Day

Bethlehem was a little village, just as the Christmas carol said, calling Bethlehem a little town.

Micah 5:2   –  Matthew 2:6 – II Chronicles 11:5-10

Fact of the Day 

No! Micah 5:2 says that Bethlehem was a small clan within the Tribe of Judah.  Matthew 2:6 says Bethlehem was not even close to being the least among the leaders of Judah (Matthew 2:6). Bethlehem was a fortified, walled city and had been since the time of Solomon’s son, Rehoboam (II Chronicles 11:5-10).

 

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SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ November 17

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Surprise of the Day

530 years before Jesus’s birth, the exact year the Messiah (the crowned one) would begin his public ministry was predicted

Daniel 9:24-27  –  Numbers 4:47

Ezra 1:1-2  –  Ezra 4:4-7  –  Haggai 1:1,14  –  Haggai 2:1  –  Ezra 6:13-15  –  Ezra 7:7-10  –  Nehemiah 3:16-32  –  Isaiah 11:1  –  Zechariah 6:11-13

Fact of the Day 

Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, destroyed and burned both Jerusalem and the temple. Years later, Persia absorbed Babylon into its empire.  That was during the time when Prophet Daniel lived in Babylon and Persia. One day while praying, Daniel saw a vision.  The angel Gabriel told him exactly when the “Messiah” (the anointed/crowned priest-king) would begin to openly declare who he was.     It was predicted the Messiah would appear after 70 “wks” = 70 x 7 = 490 yrs.

Again, the Messiah would appear 490 years after the Persian King’s decree to restore & rebuild Jerusalem   (62 “wks” x 7=434 yrs + 49 “wks” = 493 yrs ) .

But 493 years is too long.  If you check the prediction, it says the Messiah will be “cut off”  (die) in the middle of 62 “wks” = 3 yrs.

520 BC – 30 yrs = 490

THEREFORE,  490 years from the time of the order to REBUILD/repair Jerusalem, Jesus began his ministry at age 30.

SOME EXPLANATIONS:

  • *Priests entered service at age 30. Zechariah said the Branch will be both high priest and king.
  •  *Often symbolism was used in the Bible to disguise its true meaning from the enemy.  Daniel lived in Babylon which eventually was part of Persia.

King Cyrus II – 550-530 BC – (He said to BUILD THE TEMPLE (II Chronicles 36:23)
King Cambyses II – 530-522 BC DARIUS HIS COUSIN
King Darius I: 522-486 BC – (He said to REPAIR AND REBUILD JERUSALEM in 520 BC (Daniel 9:25)

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