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SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ October 25

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

Surprise of the Day

  • Jesus never asked a question he did not know the answer to. 
  • So what about “My God!  My God!  Why have you forsaken me?”?

Psalm 22:1-23  –  Psalm 22:24 & 26  –  Psalm 23

Fact of the Day 

 He was quoting Psalm 22: 1.   What follows are detailed prophecies of what Jesus would go through 1000 years after this psalm was written.

In verse 24 is his answer:  “He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of his afflicted, nor has he hidden his face from him.  For when he cried to him for help, he heard.”

And verse 26 is the conclusion:  “Let your heart live forever.” 

In fact, the very next chapter – 23 – is all about our shepherd Lord who walks with people through the shadow of death.

And the very next chapter after that – 24 – is the magnificent anthem, “Raise your gates that the King of Glory may come in. Who is the King of glory?  The Lord strong and mighty!”

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SURPRISE OF THE DAY ~ October 22

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

Surprise of the Day

In one of his psalms, David debated with himself whether there really was a God. 

Psalm 42

Fact of the Day 

He asked himself: 

“Where is your God?” 

“Why are you in despair?”

“Why have you forgotten me?”

“Why are you in despair?”

He also answered himself: 

“Hope, for I shall yet praise him.”

“I remember.”

“Hope in God.”

“His song will be with me for I shall yet praise him.”

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

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

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

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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