Oops of the Day

All Samson ever did was show off his muscles and chase women.

Judges  16:31 – Judges 15:8

Fact Of the Day

No!  Samson judged the Israelites for 20 years.  Most of that time he lived in the cleft of a rock (cave) and judged from there.  

Oops of the Day

There was only one Joshua in the Bible.

Numbers 13:16  –  Joshua 1:1,2  –  Zechariah 3:1-10  –  Matthew 1:21

Fact Of the Day

No!  The aide of Moses was Hoshea, meaning one who saves; Moses changed his name to Joshua meaning Jehovah saves, then made him the leader to take his place after he died.  The prophet Zechariah (around 520 BC) had a vision of a Joshua wearing the crowns of both the high priest and king – a prophecy of Jesus, the Messiah.  Joshua is the Hebrew pronunciation of his name.  In English it is pronounced Jesus.  The angel told Joseph:  “She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

Surprise of the Day

How frightened was Joshua to lead the Israelites into the Land of Giants?

Joshua 1

Fact Of the Day

God appeared to Joshua in the form of a warrior.  The warrior told him to take off his sandals because he was standing on holy ground.  Joshua bowed down to him   Then THREE TIMES God told Joshua:  

Be STRONG

Be COURAGEOUS

 

 

Surprise of the Day

Are you embarrassed to read Song of Solomon?

Song of Solomon aka Song of Songs

Fact Of the Day

I wrote a book with a modernized paraphrase of S of S.  It has 500 FOOTNOTES relating it to the church. Can be used privately, in a classroom, or as a beautiful wedding gift.  Look for it on Amazon, Walmart, and other book sellers.

Love Letters of Jesus and His Bride, Ecclesia

Surprise of the Day

Are people born with the instinct to believe in God?

Ecclesiastes 3:11

Fact Of the Day

There is a God-shaped emptiness in the hearts of all mankind.

Surprise of the Day

The Boomerang Effect: What we do to others happens to us.

Psalm 18:24-26 – Proverb 1:18 – Proverb1:26-32 – Proverb3:34 – Proverb 8:36 – Proverb 11:27 – Matthew 7:2

Fact Of the Day

What we do to others eventually backfires onto us.   It’s all through the Bible.

Surprise of the Day

Psalm 78 is a warning about  5 generations addressed to 5 generations

PSALM 78

Fact Of the Day

• Generaton 1:  “our fathers have told us” –their parents  (v. 3)
• Generation 2:  “not conceal from their children” – their brothers and sisters. (v. 4a)
• Generation 3:  “tell to the generation to come” – their children (v. 4b )
• Generation 4: “the children yet to he born”- their grand children (v. 6a)
• Generation 5: “to their children” – their great grandchildren (v. 6b)

This chapter reminds us of  how Jacob had betrayed his brother and was given the blessing of being ruler instead.    This chapter recalls the story of Jacob’s descendants who became slaves in Egypt.   God had freed them from their slavery but…

1 – …the former slaves kept the mentality of complaining slaves.  They betrayed God and gave credit for their freedom to a golden calf.   So, over 40 years of wandering in the wilderness with no country of their own, they all died.  (Generation 1)

2- …the children of the former slaves betrayed God after he gave them a land to settle in;  they gave credit to false gods .  So the children of the slave children down to their grandchildren all died. (Generation 2-4)

3- – Therefore, God took away the throne of Jacob’s oldest son by his favorite wife – Joseph & Ephriam –  and gave it to Judah, the oldest responsible son of Jacob’s hated wife – Judah. (generation 5)

Surprise of the Day

Sometimes David doubted God even existed.  

PSALM 42

Fact Of the Day

When sometimes David doubted God even existed (it happens to everyone sometimes), he debated with himself.  His heart comforted his soul.

• .“Where is your God?”
• “Why are you in despair?”
• “Why have you forsaken me?”
• “Why are you in despair?”

And he answers his own doubts::

• “Hope, for I shall yet praise him.”
• “I remember.”
• “Hope in God.”
• “His song will be with me.”
• “For I shall yet praise him.”

This is a beautiful psalm and Christians today sing the first part of it:  “As a dear pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for you, O God.”

Did you recognize how Jesus repeated David from the cross?  “My God, why have you forsake me?”  But Jesus never asked a question he did not know the answer to.  Just before he died, Jesus said “God, I’m coming home.”

Surprise of the Day

Based on ways Job said he was suffering, what was his disease?

Job 2:7,8  –  Job 2:12  –  Job 7:4,5  –   Job 17:1 –  Job 19:17-20  –  Job 30:17,18  –  Job 30:27-30

Fact Of the Day

The term “boil” comes from a Hebrew word meaning to boil, to burn.  Job’s diseases was a form of LEPROSY called  ELEPHANTIASIS NOSTRAS  VERRUCOSA, a marked and strongly developed form of leprosy. This disease creates an intense heat, a burning and crusty ulcerous swelling, night mares, a low ghost-like voice. 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.  Job was so deformed by his disease, his friends did not recognize him.

Oops of the Day

Job’s wife told him to curse God and die.

Job 3:11  –  Job 10:1  –  Job 2:9

Fact Of the Day

No!  Job himself had wanted to die. 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  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.”  She was telling him what many have told their loving spouses throughout the centuries:  “You are suffering so much. If it’s God’s will, it’s okay to die. I will be okay.”